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Chuck & Buck 7-7 Hour 4: Ryon Healy, Jackson Felts and one last thing! · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: Ryan Healey's deep in thought. I can see it. I
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Speaker 1: can see it on a zoom call. Good morning to you,
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Speaker 1: nine o'clock hour. Here it is chalking back on the
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Speaker 1: morning Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. Jackson Feltz
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Speaker 1: coming up a little bit later this hour to talk
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Speaker 1: about the very disappointing loss to Belgium yesterday for US soccer.
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Speaker 1: So we'll do that at nine point thirty, but Tuesdays
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Speaker 1: at nine o'clock they belong to former Mariner Ryan Healey,
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Speaker 1: who joins us with his insight into this Mariners baseball season.
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Speaker 1: Rot Now, how are you there?
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Speaker 2: I'm doing wonderful. How are you today?
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Speaker 1: I'm all right? How was your Fourth of July? Did
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Speaker 1: you invite Polar over? We haven't heard from your friend
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Speaker 1: Kevin Pollar in a while. You guys hang out during
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Speaker 1: Fourth of July at all?
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Speaker 2: We did it this year. We're actually in Tennessee right now.
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Speaker 2: We've been here for gosh, feels like three years with
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Speaker 2: two toddlers. But yeah, we got here last Wednesday. It
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Speaker 2: spent a journey, but we actually got to spend the
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Speaker 2: Fourth of July on a lake on a boat, and
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Speaker 2: my kids could have been happier.
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Speaker 1: What is in Tennessee that you need to see? You're
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Speaker 1: West Coast guy.
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Speaker 2: I am a West coast guys. So I actually had
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Speaker 2: to get my second round of surgery for my mouth.
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Speaker 2: I have an old ground ball baseball injury from twenty fifteen.
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Speaker 2: So I've had eighteeth pulled from my head since last November.
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Speaker 2: I'm in the process of getting so. I got fourteenth
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Speaker 2: polled last Thursday. I got three implants put in. I
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Speaker 2: got some temporary teeth, and if we get it real
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Speaker 2: frisky on this call, I might pull out the bottom
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Speaker 2: to show you how I fit in in the South
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Speaker 2: all of a sudden with no teeth in the bottom.
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Speaker 1: Well, I didn't know it was that complex. I eve
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Speaker 1: just figured No. I had an old, you know, college
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Speaker 1: buddy that lives down here and we come stay at
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Speaker 1: his mansion every summer. I felt like I pride now
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Speaker 1: into your your personal stuff here hockey hockey.
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Speaker 2: I feel like I feel like I'm an open book
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Speaker 2: with with all my stuff. It's been a journey. But
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Speaker 2: we were actually in East Tennessee and the Greats in
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Speaker 2: the Smoky Mountains for a couple of days. My kids
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Speaker 2: been loving it. Uh So I just asked my wife
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Speaker 2: to kindly take them to the park while I do
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Speaker 2: a little bit of work and then we can get
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Speaker 2: back to the festivity.
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Speaker 1: Very good, Very good. All right, Well, those new Choppers
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Speaker 1: will help you in your burgeoning TV career. Here. They're
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Speaker 1: gonna want they're gonna want you to have those new Choppers.
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Speaker 1: All right. Well, let's uh, let's get into it a
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Speaker 1: little bit here. This team's obviously playing some better baseball
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Speaker 1: here in its last two series. They've won five of
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Speaker 1: their last six. The bats have come alive for the
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Speaker 1: most part, and the pitching has been absolutely dominant here
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Speaker 1: over the last few games. What if anything stands out
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Speaker 1: most to you as to why we're having success here
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Speaker 1: on the baseball field again.
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Speaker 2: I felt like the Mariners ran into two teams that
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Speaker 2: they were supposed to handle business on and for the
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Speaker 2: first time in a little bit, I would say the
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Speaker 2: first time the summer June, there was a lot of
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Speaker 2: teams that the Mariners came across if they should have
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Speaker 2: handled and did it, But this was a week that
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Speaker 2: they really needed to take care of business. It was
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Speaker 2: weird having the date off in the middle of the
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Speaker 2: Angel series, but did a really nice job. The offense
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Speaker 2: did just enough, showed up big in a couple of games.
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Speaker 2: But obviously the storyline here is the starting pitchers dealing
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Speaker 2: with the uncertainty, the ebbs and flows of it. Will
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Speaker 2: there be a piggyback, will there be a six man rotation.
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Speaker 2: There's a lot of things that are still circulating. I
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Speaker 2: hope that, you know, this week allows them to figure
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Speaker 2: that out. Go to the break, everyone can get their rest,
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Speaker 2: and then maybe we have a more concrete idea what
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Speaker 2: this pitching staff is going to do when the second
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Speaker 2: half begins. But I'll tell you the one thing that
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Speaker 2: stood out to me, Chuck was the response after a
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Speaker 2: tremendous outing on Friday when they came across Dylan c
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Speaker 2: s who was just lights out. You're run into pictures
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Speaker 2: like that. But they could have let that defined the
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Speaker 2: entire weekend. They came back, responded really loud on the
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Speaker 2: fourth of Fly on Saturday, and then really finish those
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Speaker 2: series off strong on Sunday. That was really nice to see.
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Speaker 1: You know, It's weird because you talk about like making
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Speaker 1: pitching adjustments rotation adjustments, usually when you're struggling, how do
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Speaker 1: you fix it? And yet it can be just as
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Speaker 1: big a problem when you're going well, Like you would
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Speaker 1: want Logan Gilbert to pitch every fifth time the way
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Speaker 1: he's going, or every sixth game, if you will, But
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Speaker 1: in a five man rotation, you don't want to limit
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Speaker 1: how often you're pitching a guy pitching that well. Same
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Speaker 1: with Emerson Hancock. And yet they've had a hard time
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Speaker 1: trying to figure out how to do this going forward.
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Speaker 1: We're a week away from the All Star break. How
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Speaker 1: do you come out of the gates? I mean, I
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Speaker 1: ask a version of this to you every single week
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Speaker 1: when we have you on, But how do you come
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Speaker 1: out of the gate with this rotation, especially now that
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Speaker 1: it's really clicking again.
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Speaker 2: I think that's the million dollar question right now. And
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Speaker 2: the fact that the Mariners are almost they're almost combating
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Speaker 2: themselves in the media with the answers they're giving and
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Speaker 2: then they're not lining up with the action that they're taking.
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Speaker 2: It's almost like they can't figure out what direction they
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Speaker 2: want to go. And look, I understand it's it's a conundrum,
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Speaker 2: and they've what's been clear to me, I guess what
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Speaker 2: I can say. It's been clear to me that the
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Speaker 2: piggyback is not the direction they want to go because
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Speaker 2: they've now skipped twice the six man. We saw what
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Speaker 2: that looked like with the one really long road trip,
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Speaker 2: but was that just an anomaly because of how many
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Speaker 2: games were played and that's that in that long stretch.
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Speaker 2: Maybe they want to go back to that and give
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Speaker 2: it a shot. I mean, they're gonna have the All
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Speaker 2: Star break and then they're gonna come back and have
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Speaker 2: it looks like six straights, So maybe they run the
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Speaker 2: sixth man out there again, they have a day off.
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Speaker 2: It just looks like the schedule lines up where there's
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Speaker 2: quite a few off days kind of through August, which
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Speaker 2: I think will help. But also we had the trade
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Speaker 2: deadline coming up, so how are they planning on navigating this,
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Speaker 2: because if they are going to move one of the starters,
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Speaker 2: they want to make sure they're still stretched out and
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Speaker 2: not you know, selling a reliever at that point, and
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Speaker 2: I think carry a Poto gave away a little bit
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Speaker 2: as cards thereof it might be a buyer to buy
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Speaker 2: or market with teams out there that need specific pieces,
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Speaker 2: and we know the maritors have a surplus of one
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Speaker 2: specific thing that a lot of teams could use.
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Speaker 1: And yet They've stood firm that we don't really want
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Speaker 1: a trade starting pitching because they live in this constant
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Speaker 1: fear that you the moment you get rid of some
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Speaker 1: you're gonna need it. That's kind of the way they operate. Plus,
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Speaker 1: you got Anderson and Sloan coming.
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Speaker 2: Too, and that's that's the ace in the hole right
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Speaker 2: now that I don't think will be communicated. And I'm
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Speaker 2: really excited to see Anderson and Sloan compete in the
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Speaker 2: Futures Game. I had a chance to do that in
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Speaker 2: twenty sixteen. What an unbelievable experience. I saw the clip
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Speaker 2: actually where the manager Inaa was telling both of them
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Speaker 2: talked about the statistics of that game. I think he
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Speaker 2: said eighty eight percent of participants in the Futures Game
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Speaker 2: play in the major leagues, and then twenty two percent
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Speaker 2: of that eighty eight percent end up being Major League
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Speaker 2: All Stars. So it's a massive deal to go play
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Speaker 2: in this Future's Game, and the fact that those two
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Speaker 2: young arms get that type of exposure well deserved. But
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Speaker 2: also it's be nice to see how they compete on
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Speaker 2: that stage.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Heally is with US Joints every Tuesday to talk
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Speaker 1: some Mariners baseball. Can you explain why Brian Wu so
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Speaker 1: good at home because he's starting tonight on the road
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Speaker 1: and then he can't pitch well on the road, or
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Speaker 1: it hasn't pitched, he usually has that one big blow
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Speaker 1: up inning. I mean, is it just purely psychological? It's
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Speaker 1: hard for me to believe that his stuff is better
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Speaker 1: at home than it is on the road.
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Speaker 2: I don't. I don't think it is either. And I
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Speaker 2: was listening to the broadcast the last time that We'll
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Speaker 2: pitched at home, and you heard Ryan rolland Smith talk
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Speaker 2: about the breaking ball percentage of slightly different home versus
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Speaker 2: the road. But I don't think that makes a ton
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Speaker 2: of difference. And the only answer that we all have
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Speaker 2: for certain is no one knows what it is. And
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Speaker 2: I think the reason why, though, is because Brian Wu
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Speaker 2: doesn't know either. Yeah, I don't think he has a
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Speaker 2: clear cut picture of this is what I'm doing different
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Speaker 2: here versus there, And it can't be you know, it
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Speaker 2: could be something to do with his routine. And then
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Speaker 2: that makes me think, Okay, I'm sure the Mariners have
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Speaker 2: offered every thing they can. I mean, cry out loud.
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Speaker 2: I think Moniois travels with a cat to make sure
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Speaker 2: that he is more comfortable anywhere they goes. So it's
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Speaker 2: not like the team hasn't been willing to assist to
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Speaker 2: make sure that Brian Wu has the same things that
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Speaker 2: he hasn't hauled that he does on the road. And
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Speaker 2: I guess knowing Wu a little bit and seeing how
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Speaker 2: he competes, this might be a statement game for him tonight,
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Speaker 2: Like he might come out here and he might throw
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Speaker 2: seven or eight really strong innings just absolutely shut down
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Speaker 2: this Marlins team and have put some of this conversations
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Speaker 2: behind him as he steps in the second half.
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you this, he's so frustrated right now that
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Speaker 1: if he struggles again, he might be completely open to
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Speaker 1: cat therapy. I think he might even consider it.
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Speaker 2: I think we can see angry fastballs from him tonight
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Speaker 2: in the first inning, So look out for like the
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Speaker 2: ninety seven ninety eights in the first He's gonna look
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Speaker 2: this set the tone.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Heally, our guest here on Chuck and Buck in
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Speaker 1: the morning. And so yes, Brian Wu getting the start
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Speaker 1: tonight against the Marlins, and we are closing in on
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Speaker 1: the All Star break. Only one guy. I think there'll
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Speaker 1: be another one or two added once all the injuries
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Speaker 1: take place. But speak to how well Randy rose Arena
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Speaker 1: has played and earned that All Star bid, And if
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Speaker 1: you could add one other guy off of this roster
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Speaker 1: that you feel should have been an All Star. I
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Speaker 1: am only going to give you one. Give me one
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Speaker 1: other guy that should be going to Philadelphia Tuesday.
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Speaker 2: I can only give you one.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm really, but you have to give me at
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Speaker 1: least one.
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Speaker 2: Two.
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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I'd say Emerson Hancock.
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Speaker 2: Okay, okay, I like that. The original question. Randy, He's
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Speaker 2: been the most consistent player on this team all season long. Offensively,
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Speaker 2: he's been lights out. When you look at Randy as
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Speaker 2: a whole, I think he's one of the most interesting
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Speaker 2: players to watch in Major League Baseball. From a guy
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Speaker 2: that will kind of dog it after your ball in
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Speaker 2: that field, to lose both challenges and very first inning
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Speaker 2: of a game, and then also win you the game
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Speaker 2: within the first half. Like it's just it's a roller
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Speaker 2: coaster emotions watching Randy rose Arena and I'm here for it,
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Speaker 2: really happy for him to get the success. And also
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Speaker 2: the timing he's going into a free agent year, I
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Speaker 2: think that'll bode really well. For him on the open
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Speaker 2: market when he can maximize his value. The one guy
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Speaker 2: All Star wise that I would love to have seen.
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Speaker 2: I think you can throw canzone, he can throw handcock
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Speaker 2: in there. But I'm upset that Cole Young didn't get
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Speaker 2: a better look seeing Travis Bizana get the nod, and
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Speaker 2: it shows me that baseball is has been going the
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Speaker 2: direction of notoriety, growing the game, getting young players the
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Speaker 2: exposure on these stage. But why does a player like
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Speaker 2: Cole Young not deserve to be in this All Star
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Speaker 2: Game with how well he's played defensively, with how clutch
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Speaker 2: he's been offensively runners in scoring position? And then why
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Speaker 2: does a guy like Travis Bozana get the not over
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Speaker 2: him when he has lessed bats way less value defensively
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Speaker 2: war overall, that's one thing, and it's not a knock
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Speaker 2: on the It's just a it's a praise for how
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Speaker 2: good Young has been, and I would have love to
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Speaker 2: see him get the note of riding here.
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Speaker 1: You know what's really odd about it is that the
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Speaker 1: players voted in Bazana, because I would think most of
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Speaker 1: them would think like you would, like, No, I'm not
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Speaker 1: going to give rookies who've only been around a month.
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Speaker 1: They're not getting my vote. I'm gonna go ahead and
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Speaker 1: vote for the guy that's played every single day this year,
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Speaker 1: plays good defense and appreciates all the little things. But
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Speaker 1: it's the players who voted in Bizanna of all people.
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Speaker 2: It's interesting, and I haven't seen a ton of Bazana,
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Speaker 2: but when I have seen him defensively, he doesn't look
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Speaker 2: comfortable at second base. It looks a little clunky Offensively.
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Speaker 2: I think he's going to be a tremendous Major leaguer
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Speaker 2: and already has been. Maybe Cole Young just gets overshadowed
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Speaker 2: in that Mariners star studded lineup and roster of pitching
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Speaker 2: staff and such. He gets overlooked a little bit. But
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Speaker 2: if anyone's watching the Mariners closely this season, they know
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Speaker 2: how valuable Randy has been, and then also cold Young
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Speaker 2: has been.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt. Let's talk about Randy a little bit
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Speaker 1: because I want to know from your how does a
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Speaker 1: guy go over in a clubhouse like Randy, somebody that
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Speaker 1: does make those mistakes that seem like his head's either
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Speaker 1: not in the game on occasion, or maybe he's even
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Speaker 1: acting selfishly on occasion, and yet he does play well
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Speaker 1: and he does come through for you quite a bit,
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Speaker 1: maybe more so than anybody this season. How does a player,
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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure you had all sorts of different
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Speaker 1: characters that you had to play with that weren't necessarily
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Speaker 1: rowing at all times in the same direction with the
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Speaker 1: rest of the team. How does a clubhouse tend to
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Speaker 1: handle a guy like that?
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Speaker 2: First and foremost you and Brason, because he's your brother,
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Speaker 2: He's on your teams and your roster, and you know
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Speaker 2: that when he is happy, that's how the player is happy.
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Speaker 2: He's going to succeed and play well for you. It's
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Speaker 2: going to help you win. So like that's rule number one.
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Speaker 2: Rule number two is, yeah, there's probably some frustration, mostly
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Speaker 2: because that type of player is just naturally or gifted
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Speaker 2: than a guy like me. And you know, it's not
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Speaker 2: so much the work ethic that I would I would
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Speaker 2: complain about. It's like I can't do the things that
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Speaker 2: you do and I'm trying everything, and I watch what
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Speaker 2: you do and you are able to go out there
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Speaker 2: in the game and succeed and just flip the switch, Like,
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Speaker 2: how do I bottle that up and just apply some
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Speaker 2: of that to my game? So there's probably some of that,
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Speaker 2: which could be labeled as jealousy or envy, which I
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Speaker 2: don't think is a positive trait to have in life
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Speaker 2: in general. But we're all humans would probably process that
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Speaker 2: a little bit. And I've been like that. I've played
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Speaker 2: with guys that don't touch a bat or a ball
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Speaker 2: till they show up to spring training, and then they
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Speaker 2: go out there and they bang twenty five home runs
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Speaker 2: in the regular season, and I'm like, I don't get it.
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Speaker 2: There's guys that are just naturally gifted more than others.
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Speaker 2: But I think when you look at the body of
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Speaker 2: work and the value that Randy brings to this team,
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Speaker 2: it's hard to prioritize those type emotions of envy jealousy
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Speaker 2: over like, I just want this guy to roll for
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Speaker 2: us because he's on our team, and probably don't like
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Speaker 2: him when he's on the opposing team, But for right now,
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Speaker 2: if he's our brother, and let's make sure that he's
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Speaker 2: in the best headspace and most comfortable to do what
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Speaker 2: he needs to.
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Speaker 1: Do if there's a hole on this team. We're four
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Speaker 1: weeks away from the trading deadline, and I think we're
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Speaker 1: going to get pretty serious about what roster decisions are
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Speaker 1: going to be made going forward, including the starting rotation.
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Speaker 1: But if there's a hole on this team that you'd
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Speaker 1: like to see addressed before the trading deadline, what would
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Speaker 1: that be.
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Speaker 2: I think everyone would like to see another arm in
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Speaker 2: the bullpen, someone that can come in and really be
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Speaker 2: a stoper. I don't know if it needs to be
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Speaker 2: in a role as chatman, where it's a legitimate closer
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Speaker 2: like that. I know there's a lot of trust in
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Speaker 2: Muno's and has the had the best first half, but
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Speaker 2: maybe he's primed for a comeback in the second half.
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Speaker 2: And then obviously your right handed bap someone that can
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Speaker 2: have some versatility. The challenge, as you know, Chuck, is
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Speaker 2: there's not a ton on the market out there that
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Speaker 2: fit that mold. Hence why I think Jerry Depoto's speaking
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Speaker 2: about buyer buyer market of maybe slapping big league value
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Speaker 2: for big league value to help bolster the team's needs.
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Speaker 2: It's nice to see can Zone getting some more consistent
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Speaker 2: bats against left handed pitching. He deserves that, He's earned that,
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Speaker 2: and I think the bigger piece for me offensively is
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Speaker 2: I want to see what Brendan Donovan looks like when
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Speaker 2: he comes back. What holes does he feel personally, because
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Speaker 2: maybe this team doesn't have to go outside and bring
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Speaker 2: in new bodies. Maybe they have the right components, they
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Speaker 2: just haven't been healthy, and I guess that's a question
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Speaker 2: we won't have answered until the second half starts.
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Speaker 1: They also have a prospect that's at twenty five home
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Speaker 1: runs already this season that might be pushing his way
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Speaker 1: into being considered on this roster as well. So I'm
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Speaker 1: want to run down I did this in our last hour.
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Speaker 1: This is the potential ryan for our pitching staff in
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Speaker 1: the playoffs. So you go to a four man rotation.
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Speaker 1: I mean you could go Gilbert Miller, Hancock and then
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Speaker 1: you could literally go Kirby on the road and Woo
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Speaker 1: at home. You could get that specific if you wanted to.
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Speaker 1: The other one goes to the pen with Castillo, and
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Speaker 1: then you add Anderson and Sloan potentially to the bullpen.
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Speaker 1: And then if you added another piece at the trading
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Speaker 1: deadline and you got brash Back healthy and Munyo, spire
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Speaker 1: Farrer and Bizardo, let me just run through that group
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Speaker 1: that could be our pitching staff for the start of
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Speaker 1: the playoffs. Gilbert Miller, Kirby Hancock, Castillo, Wu Sloan Anderson, Bizardo, Ferrer,
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Speaker 1: Spirea Brash Munjos, and then also an addition that you
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Speaker 1: could make at the trading deadline, I mean that pitching
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Speaker 1: wins a World Series.
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Speaker 2: Ryan, I agree with you. There's no argument that that
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Speaker 2: that thirteen man staff right there can take this program,
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Speaker 2: this organization to places that they've never been before. And
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Speaker 2: I think that does for this team as well as
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Speaker 2: that it removes a lot of pressure, you know, from
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Speaker 2: the offense, because this has been a home run heavy
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Speaker 2: team relying on that. But quite frankly, if if the
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Speaker 2: pitching staffs got giving up runs, then you know, I
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Speaker 2: think there's a there's a feeling offensively that even if
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Speaker 2: you haven't gotten something going that it just takes one run.
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Speaker 2: It takes one run to win that ballgame that day,
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Speaker 2: because you see how the guys are rolling. The bigger
17:26
Speaker 2: piece chucked at all, all touched on for that because
17:28
Speaker 2: the pitching staffs tremendous. I think it has more to
17:31
Speaker 2: do with what do the Mariners do defensively in the
17:34
Speaker 2: second half. How are players able to solidify into positions
17:39
Speaker 2: because JP is still working through some kinks to third base,
17:42
Speaker 2: so to him and Brendan Donovan split time over there.
17:45
Speaker 2: It seems like Colt Emerson is really anchored down shortstop
17:48
Speaker 2: and he looks good. He's made some tremendous plays. I
17:52
Speaker 2: think it's more defensively. How can this team take themselves
17:55
Speaker 2: to the next level so that maybe the offense doesn't
17:58
Speaker 2: feel the pressure when the playoffs comes around, because we
18:00
Speaker 2: know what the pitching staffs capable of. So I would
18:03
Speaker 2: challenge the defense and say that's going to be the
18:05
Speaker 2: Achilles Heels of the World Series win or not.
18:08
Speaker 1: Ryan Heally is with us. Last thing that I will
18:11
Speaker 1: ask you here today, the draft is this weekend. I'm
18:13
Speaker 1: not going to ask any questions about draft picks. I
18:15
Speaker 1: just want to know what Ryan Healey's experience with the
18:19
Speaker 1: draft was. Third round selection? What twenty thirteen you were taken?
18:25
Speaker 1: Was that a good day, good experience or for some
18:27
Speaker 1: people that's a rough one because you're waiting and waiting,
18:30
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18:31
Speaker 1: where you're gonna go. And then some people just ignore
18:34
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18:37
Speaker 1: from you know, you know, fishing, where where they got
18:41
Speaker 1: drafted that day? What was that experience like for you personally, I'll.
18:47
Speaker 2: Touch on the first thing you said. I'm excited to
18:49
Speaker 2: see what the Mariners do in the draft because if
18:51
Speaker 2: it's how great they've been with their their scouting and
18:54
Speaker 2: they're developing and such, So I'm excited for that. My
18:57
Speaker 2: own personal story wasn't super excited. It was day two
19:00
Speaker 2: of the draft pretty early on. Fortunate for me, just
19:03
Speaker 2: got a call from the A scout offered me a
19:05
Speaker 2: X amount of money for that slot, and I'm like, yeah,
19:07
Speaker 2: please get me off the board. I did think there
19:11
Speaker 2: was a chance I could have snuck into Day one.
19:13
Speaker 2: I had a back injury that I was kind of nursing,
19:15
Speaker 2: so I think that hurt my stock a little bit.
19:17
Speaker 2: But it's not as much communication as you would expect.
19:20
Speaker 2: I was at home with my family and we were
19:22
Speaker 2: just watching, and I think there was more frustration watching
19:26
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19:29
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19:32
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19:34
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19:36
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19:39
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19:42
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19:42
Speaker 1: Yeah, would you like to go through the process all
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Speaker 1: over again with your new teeth? Do you think that
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Speaker 1: would help your draft stock?
19:51
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't think so wrong sport for that,
19:55
Speaker 2: and maybek it was hockey would boost my draft stock
19:57
Speaker 2: for baseball. They're like, we don't care.
19:59
Speaker 1: Man, Well you're pretty much we're taking number one on
20:03
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Speaker 1: I mean, you were added to the family now, so
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Speaker 2: I guess I'm in the I'm in the farm system
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20:18
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think you've already gotten a taste
20:20
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Speaker 1: It's kind of supposed to be wrinkled, I think.
20:42
Speaker 2: But I would I would say the same thing Oh I.
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Speaker 1: Did was sleep in it. It's no big deal. A
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20:52
Speaker 3: Yeah, come on, what's what kind of society are we living?
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21:01
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Speaker 1: all right, can't wait? All right? Ryan Healey joining us
21:26
Speaker 1: later He's going to go to Dollywood, but for right now,
21:29
Speaker 1: just joining us to talk some Mariners baseball here. Jackson
21:32
Speaker 1: Feltz will be with us next. Sports Radio ninety three
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21:42
Speaker 4: Richards feeding out of the air freeze. It's got to
21:45
Speaker 4: get there and deal with it. He takes it down
21:47
Speaker 4: off the chest, Casel knocks it away.
21:50
Speaker 1: Tim Reim can't block it.
21:53
Speaker 4: And unless video review says this is a foul from
21:56
Speaker 4: behind on Reem, it is a disastrous story goal to
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Speaker 4: conceive of Belgium.
22:04
Speaker 1: Well, the day would not be complete if we didn't
22:07
Speaker 1: check in with our own Jackson Felts, of course, pre
22:11
Speaker 1: and postgame host for the Seattle Sounders, host of Sounders Weekly,
22:15
Speaker 1: and has really just turned into our soccer officionado right
22:19
Speaker 1: here at Sports Radio ninety three point three KJR FM.
22:23
Speaker 1: And I know, I know he's got a reaction to
22:26
Speaker 1: last night's four to one loss to Belgium, and it's
22:28
Speaker 1: probably a pretty powerful one. Jackson Felts now joins us
22:31
Speaker 1: here on Chuck and Buck in the mornings. How are
22:33
Speaker 1: you How you doing, Chuck?
22:36
Speaker 5: I'm good.
22:36
Speaker 6: I'm actually showing up for the interview. Unlike the national
22:39
Speaker 6: team yesterday.
22:39
Speaker 1: Oh excited to show up for work? Huh? How about that?
22:44
Speaker 5: What a concept? Showing up to do your job?
22:47
Speaker 1: That was a disaster. How can you put this into words?
22:51
Speaker 1: So what went so terribly wrong for this team?
22:55
Speaker 6: They didn't show up? They just they played un inspired.
23:00
Speaker 6: They played like almost I hate to use the words
23:05
Speaker 6: like they just didn't care. But clearly the moment was
23:10
Speaker 6: too big. You had individual mistakes across the board. I
23:15
Speaker 6: can't tell you one player who had a good performance
23:18
Speaker 6: in that game, and frankly, I mean I think you
23:22
Speaker 6: just got to look to the individuals. And I don't
23:24
Speaker 6: know how much I'm really including even the coach, Maricio
23:27
Speaker 6: Pochettino in this equation, because he shouldn't have to motivate
23:30
Speaker 6: players for a World Cup Round of sixteen game in
23:33
Speaker 6: front of sixty five thousand of your stars and stripes
23:36
Speaker 6: wearing fans.
23:38
Speaker 5: The players were not.
23:40
Speaker 6: Up for it, and it's I mean, it's a it's
23:44
Speaker 6: a sad day to be an American sports fan because
23:47
Speaker 6: the team simply was not ready to play the biggest
23:50
Speaker 6: game of their lives.
23:51
Speaker 1: Well, then that, to me does kind of point to
23:54
Speaker 1: the coach. I mean, one or two guys don't show up.
23:59
Speaker 1: Let's blame those one or two guys when the whole
24:01
Speaker 1: collective seems flat and uninspired and poorly executing. And let's
24:07
Speaker 1: face it that I also thought, Jackson, you know a
24:09
Speaker 1: lot more about this than I do. I thought they
24:11
Speaker 1: were out of position for the first twenty two minutes
24:14
Speaker 1: of the match. They were. They were just poorly positioned
24:18
Speaker 1: defensively as well. I think maybe a big hammer does
24:21
Speaker 1: have to come down on the head coach's head.
24:24
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, it's it's funny, right, because you look
24:26
Speaker 6: at the different avenues in which Mauricio Pochettino affects this
24:30
Speaker 6: team tactically. They were just never able to even get
24:34
Speaker 6: out and play a strategic game in which they had
24:37
Speaker 6: likely planned to play. And I think a lot of
24:39
Speaker 6: that is is just the lack of effort, lack of energy,
24:42
Speaker 6: lack of running. You saw from the team that couldn't
24:46
Speaker 6: have that could not have been part of the game
24:48
Speaker 6: plan for them to just give that lack of effort.
24:53
Speaker 6: And then you look at just you know, the inspirational
24:55
Speaker 6: part of it, right, I said the word uninspired, and
24:59
Speaker 6: I know that.
24:59
Speaker 5: You know, we see so.
25:01
Speaker 6: Many movies, right and you think of Friday night lights
25:04
Speaker 6: and the pregame speeches, the halftime speeches, you know, and
25:08
Speaker 6: the raw, raw what a coach can do for a team,
25:11
Speaker 6: and maybe there's something to that. I would say that
25:16
Speaker 6: it's the World Cup, it's a knockout round game, it's
25:20
Speaker 6: in your home country. If you have to give a
25:22
Speaker 6: rousing speech to a group of twenty six men who
25:27
Speaker 6: are about to take the field in Seattle, in front
25:30
Speaker 6: of all of those people, in this moment with revenge
25:33
Speaker 6: on the line against a Belgian tine that beat the
25:36
Speaker 6: US twelve years ago in the exact same amount. If
25:38
Speaker 6: you have to give up and give a big speech
25:41
Speaker 6: to rally your guys, then I'm already gonna be criticizing
25:45
Speaker 6: the mental fortitude of those guys. You shouldn't need your
25:50
Speaker 6: coach to give a rousing speech. You should be up
25:52
Speaker 6: for that game, and they simply weren't. So I'm not
25:56
Speaker 6: putting that part on Mauricio Pochaettino.
25:58
Speaker 1: What about the belt distraction, That's another thing I'm hearing this.
26:04
Speaker 1: I have no doubt that it was a distraction, but
26:07
Speaker 1: there's no way that it could have been the cause
26:09
Speaker 1: for you to play this poorly.
26:10
Speaker 6: Right, No, yeah, exactly, shuck Like listen, it very much
26:15
Speaker 6: was some part of a distraction because Balgan was a
26:19
Speaker 6: shell of himself. He also was part of that crew
26:22
Speaker 6: who didn't show up. He was invisible. Does the game
26:24
Speaker 6: go differently with Ricardo Peppi and there forward? Maybe I
26:28
Speaker 6: don't think so, because you're right, the defense was all
26:32
Speaker 6: out of whack, and the ball watching and the lack
26:35
Speaker 6: of effort and the lack of running and so many moments.
26:39
Speaker 6: Tim Reim, the Charlotte defender who plays for the national team,
26:43
Speaker 6: was just horrific. Matt Freeze, goalkeeper horrific who plays for
26:48
Speaker 6: New York City and MLS. I don't think the Baligin
26:51
Speaker 6: situation has anything to do with those guys not being
26:55
Speaker 6: mentally ready for this game, but for the offense, for
26:59
Speaker 6: the way Balligan played and didn't wasn't a big part
27:03
Speaker 6: of their attacks at all when they got going.
27:06
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that it probably.
27:09
Speaker 6: Did serve as a little bit, even just a tiny
27:13
Speaker 6: bit of a distraction. And you know, got you wonder
27:16
Speaker 6: if if our president didn't get involved, if things would
27:19
Speaker 6: have gone differently.
27:20
Speaker 5: But you know, I don't know.
27:21
Speaker 6: I look at the situation being more of of mistakes
27:25
Speaker 6: on the defensive end, over and over and over, and
27:29
Speaker 6: at the end of the day, that's what cost this
27:31
Speaker 6: team all four of their goals.
27:34
Speaker 1: Christian Polisic had a chance for like a legacy defining
27:37
Speaker 1: night last night, and boy, he defined his legacy. He
27:42
Speaker 1: was invisible, like that, can't be our best player on
27:46
Speaker 1: our in our country right.
27:50
Speaker 6: Biggest game, in the biggest tournament of his life. And
27:54
Speaker 6: he's supposedly Captain America, you're star player, and he just shrunk.
28:00
Speaker 5: I mean, I think Alexi Lawis said it really well.
28:03
Speaker 6: Picked the worst day to have the worst game of
28:05
Speaker 6: his life, and you know the injury. I mean, okay, fine,
28:11
Speaker 6: but overall, you're right, he was just invisible and it's
28:15
Speaker 6: his movement. For a while, I just decided to watch
28:19
Speaker 6: the way he was moving around players, and so much
28:22
Speaker 6: of the time it's not moving at all, it's walking around.
28:25
Speaker 5: It's you know, hero ball.
28:27
Speaker 6: All right, who's gonna step up, who's gonna do something
28:30
Speaker 6: with the ball.
28:30
Speaker 5: At their feet. You look at the build ups.
28:32
Speaker 6: And the shots for the United States, and every single
28:35
Speaker 6: one of their shots that they took towards goal didn't
28:38
Speaker 6: come with more than one pass beforehand.
28:42
Speaker 5: And they played hero ball. They were waiting for.
28:44
Speaker 6: Guys to just you know, have the magical moment and
28:47
Speaker 6: didn't try to create things through passing. Well, that's where
28:49
Speaker 6: Christian Polistic can show up, and that's where he can
28:52
Speaker 6: be a star. He wasn't part of that movement. He
28:55
Speaker 6: wasn't part of those build ups, and in the game
28:58
Speaker 6: where we needed him more than any he was the
29:01
Speaker 6: obvious player to watch. We didn't watch him because he
29:05
Speaker 6: wasn't there.
29:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, didn't feel like he was there, didn't feel like
29:08
Speaker 1: he was involved at all. Couldn't get a clean shot
29:10
Speaker 1: the entire match, didn't even really help others get clean
29:14
Speaker 1: shots throughout the entire match. It was. It was weird
29:17
Speaker 1: to watch. Is there a chance that Belgium's just a
29:19
Speaker 1: bad matchup for the US?
29:23
Speaker 5: Maybe a little? I don't think so.
29:25
Speaker 6: I mean, Belgium played better than they had the entire tournament.
29:29
Speaker 5: I will give them that.
29:31
Speaker 6: And you got to give credit to Rudy Garcia, their
29:33
Speaker 6: head coach. He made some massive moves before the game.
29:38
Speaker 6: He benched three of their key player I mean Romelo
29:40
Speaker 6: Lukaku there forward, he was already playing off the bench.
29:43
Speaker 6: That wasn't a surprise, but he put Kevin de Bruyne
29:46
Speaker 6: on the bench, one of their star best players attacking wise,
29:49
Speaker 6: their kind of magician who pulls the strings through the midfield.
29:53
Speaker 5: He started him on the bench.
29:54
Speaker 6: He started another one of their fast, really talented wingers
29:58
Speaker 6: on the bench as well. Strange decisions, but he knew
30:02
Speaker 6: his squad, he knew exactly the way he wanted to
30:04
Speaker 6: come out and left those guys for potentially you know,
30:08
Speaker 6: big impacts off the bench that he ended up not
30:10
Speaker 6: even needing.
30:11
Speaker 5: But the guys who he.
30:12
Speaker 6: Started, you know, he knew his team, he knew exactly
30:15
Speaker 6: the makeup and mentality of what it would do. Benching
30:19
Speaker 6: those guys and starting some other guys who wanted to
30:21
Speaker 6: kind of really, you know, prove that they deserve more minutes.
30:24
Speaker 5: It worked. So credit to Belgium.
30:26
Speaker 6: They played extremely well, and you know, I'm not going
30:29
Speaker 6: to give him an enormous shot against Spain in the
30:31
Speaker 6: quarterfinals on Friday, but I think that they definitely are
30:36
Speaker 6: making people kind of second guests that are their picks
30:38
Speaker 6: of that game.
30:39
Speaker 1: Well, it felt like up until yesterday at five o'clock,
30:43
Speaker 1: like the US US Soccer, the growth of love for
30:47
Speaker 1: US soccer, the way they played, the way we've hosted,
30:51
Speaker 1: felt like we were getting like an eight plus grade
30:53
Speaker 1: up until five o'clock yesterday, And I wonder how far
30:56
Speaker 1: that letter grade fell for you. I'm an A plus
31:00
Speaker 1: to what by the end of the game. Yeah, it's right.
31:03
Speaker 6: It kind of takes me back to you know, elementary
31:06
Speaker 6: school when you get you know, three a's, I guess
31:08
Speaker 6: four a's in this case maybe three a's and a
31:11
Speaker 6: B plus and then uh, and then.
31:14
Speaker 5: You get the F.
31:16
Speaker 6: And how much does that F bring your bring your
31:18
Speaker 6: total grade down? It brings it down a fair bit
31:21
Speaker 6: for me, Chuck, I mean for me, like I'm on
31:23
Speaker 6: this this tournament now, you still look at it as like,
31:26
Speaker 6: you know, two steps forward, one step back, I think,
31:28
Speaker 6: is what Danny Jackson said, and he's spot on. But
31:31
Speaker 6: but you know, so you do you pass the class,
31:35
Speaker 6: you know you you you met expectations.
31:37
Speaker 5: You probably finished with a B grade total.
31:40
Speaker 6: But God, the fact that the F comes in the
31:43
Speaker 6: last class, the fact that the F comes in the
31:46
Speaker 6: final assignment and leaves you with just the worst taste
31:50
Speaker 6: in your mouth possible. That's that's where uh my mind
31:54
Speaker 6: is gonna be at for quite a long time.
31:56
Speaker 1: Man, Well, thank you for joining us. So we appreciate So.
31:58
Speaker 1: I got a lot of good soccer to want. I
32:00
Speaker 1: still got a fun tournament. But certainly I crash and
32:03
Speaker 1: burn last night, no question about it.
32:05
Speaker 6: I got Argentina down one nothing to Egypt on my
32:08
Speaker 6: TV right now, MESSI had a penalty kick saved, great action.
32:11
Speaker 6: So soccer goes on.
32:13
Speaker 1: Yep, no doubt. All right, man, thank you, appreciate you.
32:16
Speaker 5: Thanks, Chuck, appreciate it.
32:17
Speaker 1: Jackson Felts joining us right here on Chuck and Buck
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Speaker 1: in the morning. You can follow him at Jackson on Radio,
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Speaker 3: Anew, he sounded more upbeat than I thought he would.
32:42
Speaker 3: Thought he might be more deflated. But I don't think
32:43
Speaker 3: he had that high of hopes for Team USA.
32:45
Speaker 1: I think I think his anger fueled him. Yeah that's fair. Yeah,
32:51
Speaker 1: but yeah, we do have Egypt leading Argentina right now
32:55
Speaker 1: by off score of one to nil Egypt thirty nine
32:59
Speaker 1: minutes in. All right, coming up next, we'll close out
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Speaker 3: So after Adam Sandler officiated Taylor in Travis's wedding, he
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Speaker 1: Is that in New York? No, that's Massachusetts.
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Speaker 3: I honestly have no clue. Yeah, okay, oh, I got
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Speaker 3: that right. So he went over to Nantucket and he
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Speaker 1: But apparently he.
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Speaker 2: Plays pretty well.
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Speaker 1: He's pretty well. He plays all the time. Yeah, he's
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35:25
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he played in New York too before the wedding,
35:39
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Speaker 3: these guys in Nantucket.
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Speaker 1: You're not a young man anymore either. No, no, no, no,
35:49
Speaker 1: fifty five years old. He's got to be, yeah, they
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Speaker 1: said to him.
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Speaker 3: They said he had some skills though. They said he
35:54
Speaker 3: had great passing and playmaking, decent lamps, but he did
35:57
Speaker 3: hesitate to shoot the ball.
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Speaker 1: Oh really, yeah, well you never know, they said.
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Speaker 3: He like just pulled up and was like, Hey, I'm
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Speaker 3: just gonna stretch and hop in. Is that cool?
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Speaker 1: They were like, yes, I would love it. They were
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Speaker 1: like no, yeah, no, sorry, man, we are full. Yeah,
36:15
Speaker 1: we already got our teams.
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Speaker 3: Court's taken.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Court's taken. All right. I'm gonna close also with
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Speaker 1: a celebrity that I like. Okay, yesterday Sylvester Stallone turned
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Speaker 1: eighty years old. Oh wow. And I'll just tell you
36:34
Speaker 1: as somebody that grew up with Sylvester Stallone being one
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Speaker 1: of the biggest movie stars in Hollywood, but he was
36:41
Speaker 1: always made fun of for just the grunting and playing
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Speaker 1: dumb guys and stuff like that, and nobody ever gave
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Speaker 1: him that much credit for how good he was at acting.
36:54
Speaker 1: If you have not seen Rocky in a while, I
36:58
Speaker 1: just watched it again this weekend. He is so good
37:03
Speaker 1: in that I mean that's one of the best acting
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Speaker 1: performances you'll ever see. To play somebody who's not bright
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Speaker 1: and is sort of self conscious about not being bright,
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Speaker 1: and yet the girl that he's trying to court is
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Speaker 1: even more self conscious than he is. And how he
37:23
Speaker 1: comports himself to try and get her to trust him. Like,
37:29
Speaker 1: the acting that that guy does in that movie is fantastic.
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Speaker 1: Never has gotten enough credit. I mean, Rocky gets enough credit.
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Speaker 1: Everybody counts one of them. All I hear is how
37:39
Speaker 1: great Rocky is all time. It always gets credit for
37:41
Speaker 1: one of the great sports movies of all time, even
37:43
Speaker 1: one of the great movies of all time. Hella won
37:45
Speaker 1: Academy Award for Best Picture, so it's considered one of
37:49
Speaker 1: the great movies of all time. But what but he
37:51
Speaker 1: always got credit for writing it and directing it and
37:54
Speaker 1: all of that stuff. And I'm telling you, his acting
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Speaker 1: in that movie was fan There was a scene that
38:01
Speaker 1: I went back last night just to rewatch this scene.
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Speaker 1: It was a scene where he's trying to ask Adrian
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Speaker 1: out on a date through a door because she locked
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Speaker 1: herself from the door because PAULI had been mean to her.
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Speaker 1: He is so good in that scene. He's just fantastic.
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Speaker 1: So I love him, and the older I get, the
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Speaker 1: more I love him. And he's another one that really
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Speaker 1: does have a reputation for being a little non Hollywood like,
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Speaker 1: down to earth despite all of his tremendous success, he
38:31
Speaker 1: apparently is just a really good dude. Okay, I love him.
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Speaker 3: I can't vouch for the movie because I still haven't
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Speaker 3: seen it, but you are selling me on it more.
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Speaker 1: You're never gonna watch it. I will know you. We
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Speaker 1: have it at home. I believe you watched it by now.
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Speaker 1: You're not watching.
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Speaker 3: No, We've got a whole stack of movies. We're going
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Speaker 3: through the education of Palmer, so you never know what
38:52
Speaker 3: Palmer's the great we'll want to watch all right.
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Speaker 1: Greg Bell is up next. I bet you he's seen
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Speaker 1: Rocky and he's got you for the next two hours.
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