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Best of Chuck & Buck 5-11 · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Well, rarely can such a little amount of information tell
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  Speaker 1: you so much. But in this case, we kind of
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  Speaker 1: already know who the Seahawks are going to draw on
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday by just the power of deduction. So their season
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  Speaker 1: is going to begin, we know, on a Wednesday at
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  Speaker 1: home in defense of their Super Bowl championship. On September ninth.
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  Speaker 1: This is NFL's schedule release week, and so we've already
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  Speaker 1: gotten a couple of nuggets from the past. And then
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  Speaker 1: just this morning, Adam Schefter gave us the Sunday night
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  Speaker 1: opener of the season. It's going to be the New
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  Speaker 1: York Giants and the Dallas Cowboys taking on one another
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  Speaker 1: in New York. So that'll be the first Sunday night
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  Speaker 1: game of the year. Now we already knew because it's
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  Speaker 1: international and Kyle Shanahan doesn't like it that the forty
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  Speaker 1: nine Ers and Rams are going to open their season
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  Speaker 1: on a Thursday night in Melbourne. It's the reason why
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  Speaker 1: we're playing on a Wednesday.
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  Speaker 2: Which is stupid.
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  Speaker 1: So there's not a lot of information out there, and
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  Speaker 1: yet that amount of information already takes four of the
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  Speaker 1: nine possible opponents that the Seahawks would face in the
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  Speaker 1: because we already know the Seahawks what opponents they will
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  Speaker 1: have this year and whether they will play them whole
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  Speaker 1: more away. So that's the information that we have in
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  Speaker 1: anticipation of Thursday's NFL schedule release, and it's not a
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  Speaker 1: lot of information, but we can pretty much just deduce
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  Speaker 1: who they're going to play based off of that little
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  Speaker 1: amount of information. So you know the forty nine Ers
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  Speaker 1: and Rams, and you know the Giants and Cowboys. That's
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  Speaker 1: four of the nine home games that the Seahawks will
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  Speaker 1: play this year. Four of their nine home opponents that
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  Speaker 1: they're going to play this year. So that leaves the Bears,
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  Speaker 1: the Cardinals, the Chargers, the Chiefs, and the Patriots. Let's
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  Speaker 1: work from the back of the list. There is no
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  Speaker 1: chance in hell that the NFL is going to have
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  Speaker 1: the Mike Vrabel Diana Russini clown show on the first
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  Speaker 1: game of the season. They're not going to launch their
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  Speaker 1: season with the entire pregame show being about whether or
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  Speaker 1: not Mike Rabel should have kept his job or not.
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  Speaker 1: There is no chance they are inviting that into their house.
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  Speaker 3: No, And had that not happened, I would have thought, actually, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: they'll go rematch of the Super Bowl to open up
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  Speaker 3: the next season. There's that is a high possibility of that,
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  Speaker 3: but no, I would agree.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no chance, no chance. So you can take the
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  Speaker 1: Patriots off of the list. Kansas City Chiefs, that'd be
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  Speaker 1: a pretty interesting matchup right there, like inter conference matchup, certainly.
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  Speaker 1: I mean Kansas City Chiefs got Kenneth Walker, great point,
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  Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs have a high profile, is higher profile
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  Speaker 1: out there, Taylor Swift could be in the building. All
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  Speaker 1: of this stuff could go into it. But Patrick Mahomes
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  Speaker 1: had an injury that was supposed to cost him a
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  Speaker 1: significant portion of this upcoming season. There's no way they're
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  Speaker 1: going to start the season with a backup quarterback when
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  Speaker 1: it's not gonna be Seahawks versus the Chiefs and their
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  Speaker 1: backup quarterback. Now, there are rumors that Patrick Mahomes is
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  Speaker 1: so far ahead of schedule that he's going to be
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  Speaker 1: ready for the start of training camp. I mean that
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  Speaker 1: to me seems absurd, but that's the belief that Patrick
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  Speaker 1: Mahomes has done nothing but rehab. He takes his doctor
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  Speaker 1: on the road with him, his trainer on the road
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  Speaker 1: with him when he travels with his family and all
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  Speaker 1: he's done is rehab and they believe he's going to
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  Speaker 1: be good to go by the start of training camp.
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  Speaker 1: But when yours schedule, when you're announcing the schedule this Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: there's no way that you can run the risk of
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  Speaker 1: Patrick ma Holmes not being ready for the start of
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  Speaker 1: the year. You're not going to have all the bells
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  Speaker 1: and whistles so that we see, you know, Sam Darnold
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  Speaker 1: versus Justin Fields on a Wednesday night to start the season.
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  Speaker 1: So I think you can cross the Kansas City Chiefs
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  Speaker 1: off the list, right. The Arizona Cardinals, no chance. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: there's no way. They're in a rebuilding mode. I know
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  Speaker 1: it's a division opponent, but.
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  Speaker 2: It would be the most boring game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're not going to put the Cardinals. So you're
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  Speaker 1: really just down between the Bears and the Chargers. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, I could see them putting the Chargers up
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  Speaker 1: against the Seahawks on opening Night. I think the Charge
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  Speaker 1: is gonna be really good. Got a high profile head coach,
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  Speaker 1: got a high profile quarterback. A lot of people think
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  Speaker 1: that they could be a sleeper in the conversation for
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  Speaker 1: AFC champion this year. Maybe you do have to get
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  Speaker 1: them early in the season before Justin Herbert's beat up
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  Speaker 1: by week six, So maybe you could see that. But
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  Speaker 1: that's if it's gonna be between the Bears and Chargers,
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  Speaker 1: and it's gonna be between the Bears and Chargers. I
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  Speaker 1: think we're going to play the Chicago Bears on a
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday night at home. Caleb Williams in Seattle Bears a
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  Speaker 1: hot ticket right now. Ben Johnson's a hot ticket right now.
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  Speaker 1: So my guess is that's your season opener, Seahawks hosting
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  Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears Wednesday to start the year.
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  Speaker 3: I don't hate that as the opening matchup at all.
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  Speaker 3: I think that would be an exciting one. I would
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  Speaker 3: be I think not just Seahawks fans and Bears fans
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  Speaker 3: would be intrigued by it. I think a lot of
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  Speaker 3: people nationally would be intrigued by that matchup, just given
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  Speaker 3: what we saw from the Bears last year and then
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  Speaker 3: obviously the Seahawks being the raging Super Bowl champs.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I think you can book it September ninth.
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  Speaker 1: Just prepare yourself if you're listening in Chicago, because we
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  Speaker 1: might have talked about this today, go ahead book your.
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  Speaker 3: Flight and also good work, just knowing having your pulse
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  Speaker 3: on what we do and don't talk about.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, all right, headlines. Next, you got your cash
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  Speaker 1: Back's pack for Cole Young.
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  Speaker 6: And on his hands, he popped it up shadow center,
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  Speaker 6: Montgomery calling for it.
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  Speaker 1: He makes the catch and everybody stays anchored.
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  Speaker 6: Two outs and the Mariners out of their final out
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  Speaker 6: today and it is up to Brendan Donovan is. This
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  Speaker 6: crowd rises to its feet and this one coming down
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  Speaker 6: the White Sox win it. They take the series two
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  Speaker 6: games to one, and for the second straight games, the
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  Speaker 6: Mariners are held to one blown run.
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Goldsmith on the call yesterday Mariners TV. Mariners lose
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  Speaker 1: to the Chicago White Sox two to one. Led for
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  Speaker 1: almost the entire game, they scored in the very first inning.
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  Speaker 1: Logan Gilbert was dominant yesterday, left the game well below
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  Speaker 1: ninety pitches. Six shutout innings, was just absolutely on fire.
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  Speaker 1: Dan Wilson saw that he's not gonna make it to
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  Speaker 1: the end. I got a fresh ready to go, rested bullpen,
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  Speaker 1: three guys forer Ara in the seventh, Bizardo in the eighth,
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  Speaker 1: Munos ninth. We're gonna win a one nothing ball game
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  Speaker 1: here today. Didn't happen. The White Sox scored twice in
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  Speaker 1: the eighth inning and they defeat the Mariners by a
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  Speaker 1: final score of two to one, and they take the
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  Speaker 1: series on the South side of Chicago two games to
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  Speaker 1: one as well. And so the Mariners are now nineteen
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  Speaker 1: and twenty two on the young season, and we will
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  Speaker 1: certainly talk about how we got there coming up here
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  Speaker 1: in a little bit. Good morning to you. It is
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  Speaker 1: Chuck Powell and Ashley Ryan with you. Bucky Jacobson still out,
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  Speaker 1: probably not much longer, but still out this week, and
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  Speaker 1: so Chuck and Buck Radio program continues without the Buck
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  Speaker 1: portion here on this Monday. We've got headlines for you,
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  Speaker 1: chance the Seahawks will play the Bills to start their season.
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  Speaker 2: There you go. I was wondering if you were gonna
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  Speaker 2: work in Buffalo somehow into that. So good work.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gonna be the Bears or the Chargers. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I could pretty much definitively stay that.
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  Speaker 3: I think a lot of people agree with you on
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  Speaker 3: the Bear front. A lot of people thinking it will
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  Speaker 3: be dub Bears.
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  Speaker 4: Bear.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get to your frost brewed cores light choose chill headlines.
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  Speaker 1: It is NFL schedule release weeks. That's why we're talking
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  Speaker 1: about this. So Thursday we're gonna know the entire schedule.
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  Speaker 1: But you know how this works. We're gonna get little
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  Speaker 1: leaks here and there. Adam Schefter will be leaking all
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  Speaker 1: over the place.
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  Speaker 2: Get them some depend that's right.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I've learned since Emmett Smith and Dion
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  Speaker 1: Sanders started talking about their leakage so publicly, that it's
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  Speaker 1: depend and it's not depends. I know, I always thought
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  Speaker 1: it was depends like you go, bys, hey, do you
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  Speaker 1: need some depends? No, it's depend I know.
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  Speaker 3: But but I was thinking, but if you're buying more
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  Speaker 3: than one, if you're buying a package that is a
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  Speaker 3: that's multiple depend right, So then it would be depends
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  Speaker 3: maybe because I don't know, I don't like it that
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  Speaker 3: it's depend it bothers me. Yeah, it depends because you
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  Speaker 3: do you need it? Well, it depends, uh huh, and
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  Speaker 3: you do depend on it if you're leaking.
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  Speaker 1: It is strange that, like Dion's just like, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: I'm still gonna be cool. I'm gonna tell everybody my
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  Speaker 1: butt leaks.
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  Speaker 2: I think you right now, I'm gonna.
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  Speaker 1: Be the coolest man in the world talking about.
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  Speaker 2: Tina pants is cool. Consider me, Miles Davis.
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  Speaker 3: I thought you were gonna say, you know what I've
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  Speaker 3: learned with Emtt Smith and Deon Sanders that football players
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  Speaker 3: clearly have a lot of leaking issues.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Adam Schefter is gonna leak all over the place
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  Speaker 1: this week. He's gonna leak whenever you give him an opportunity.
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  Speaker 6: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll be uh, we'll be monitoring the leakage for you.
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  Speaker 1: But I would imagine the Seahawks are going to i think,
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  Speaker 1: face the Bears on Wednesday, September ninth. It's also PGA
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  Speaker 1: Championship week, so you know we're gonna ramp up our
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  Speaker 1: coverage show with that as the week goes along. Uh
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  Speaker 1: you know how we do. So I can't wait to
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  Speaker 1: talk some golf this week and the second major of
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  Speaker 1: the year, Stanley Cup Playoffs. The Montreal Canadians are just
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  Speaker 1: beating the hell out of people right now, and last
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  Speaker 1: night it was the Buffalo Sabres. Six to two was
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  Speaker 1: the final score. The Canadians are up two to one.
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  Speaker 1: Buffalo got a little frustrated, kind of like we saw
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  Speaker 1: with who was it Calina Philadelphia when Carolina was beating
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  Speaker 1: the crap out of them.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah yeah, and just fight, fight, fight, yeah yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there were a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Of them, yep. And so Montreal's up two to one
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  Speaker 1: in that series. It's usually not a good sign when
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  Speaker 1: in game three you're so frustrated because you can't figure
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  Speaker 1: out the opponent that you just start fighting. Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: what my nephews did well it just playing Monopoly.
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  Speaker 3: It just seemed like every time because we had it
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  Speaker 3: on TV three and it was like every.
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  Speaker 2: Time I'd look.
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  Speaker 3: It was like, oh my gosh, another Montreal goal and
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  Speaker 3: another Montreal goal or a fight.
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  Speaker 2: Then the game after that it was fight, Fight Fight.
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  Speaker 1: Two.
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  Speaker 2: In the Western.
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  Speaker 1: Conference, Anaheim four to three over Las Vegas. That series
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  Speaker 1: is even a two games apiece. Colorado will be at
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota tonight NBA plays the Knicks advanced in four straight
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: games against the Philadelphia seventy six ers. The Oklahoma City
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  Speaker 1: Thunder can do the same thing to the Lakers tonight. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: Victor wimben Yama got kicked out of the game yesterday
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  Speaker 1: for throwing an elbow. It was deemed a flagrant two
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  Speaker 1: foul and I thought justified, but it certainly cost the
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  Speaker 1: San Antonio Spurs a better chance at winning last night.
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  Speaker 1: That series is now even at two games apiece. Also,
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  Speaker 1: this evening, the other game, what is the other one?
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  Speaker 1: That is this evening? You've got Cleveland and Detroit are
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  Speaker 1: gonna play tonight at five o'clock with the Pistons up
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  Speaker 1: two games to one in that series. The Storm grabbed
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  Speaker 1: their first win of the year eighty nine to eighty
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  Speaker 1: two over the Connecticut Sun yesterday, and the Mariners are
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  Speaker 1: gonna get Bryce Miller back on Wednesday, he will join
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  Speaker 1: a six man rotation temporary six man rote. It sounds
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  Speaker 1: like Brendan Donovan returned over the weekend. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: good it did us as the Mariners lost two out
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  Speaker 1: of three to the Chicago White Sox. As you heard
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  Speaker 1: the disappointment in Aaron Goldsmith's voice during that highlight. They
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  Speaker 1: are now nineteen and twenty two on the year. They'll
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: be in Houston to Knight's take on the Astros. George
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  Speaker 1: Kirby gets the start for the Mariners. Peyton Lambert will
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  Speaker 1: go for the villain's first pitch is at five to
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  Speaker 1: ten in Texas. So those are your frost brewed corps
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  Speaker 1: like Chew's chill headlines, and it does bleed right into
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  Speaker 1: talking about the Mariners, whose early season frustration continues. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's just sad that this is just the way it
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  Speaker 1: is every single year, that this is the way it is.
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  Speaker 1: I heard a little bit of you know, obviously there's panic,
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  Speaker 1: been panic after every single loss this year, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: finger pointing and blaming and everything else. I just don't
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  Speaker 1: want it to be on the front office. Just to me,
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  Speaker 1: that's you know, you want to blame somebody blame the
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  Speaker 1: players you want to blame. If it needs to be
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  Speaker 1: more than that, I suppose blame the coaches for not
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  Speaker 1: having the players prepared. But there were an awful lot
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  Speaker 1: of people at the beginning of the year that were
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  Speaker 1: a lot more enthusiastic than even me about the Mariners'
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  Speaker 1: chances and forty games into the season, just because the
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  Speaker 1: team's nineteen and twenty two, it has nothing to do
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  Speaker 1: with roster construction. If that's the case, then you don't
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  Speaker 1: know what you're talking about. You know, you the complainer
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  Speaker 1: because you weren't saying that, you know a month and
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  Speaker 1: a half ago. And so to me, this team was
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  Speaker 1: really well built. This team was really well prepared for
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  Speaker 1: a great season, and this team just does not hit
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  Speaker 1: in the first half of the season. I mean, we
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  Speaker 1: have some defensive issues. Something that I pointed out when
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  Speaker 1: other people were ignoring the weaknesses to the roster. They
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  Speaker 1: have defensive issues. There's no question you take two of
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  Speaker 1: the five best relievers out of any bullpen, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to be thin in the bullpen going forward. And that's
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  Speaker 1: where we are in our current state with the bullpen
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  Speaker 1: right now. Yep, Luis Castillo is not the same dude,
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  Speaker 1: and there might have to be some strong consideration of
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  Speaker 1: taking him completely out of the rotation at some point
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  Speaker 1: this season. Pete Woodworth told us on Friday he sees
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  Speaker 1: somebody that is the same old rock to him, just
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  Speaker 1: running into bad luck. I'm not gonna buy that. I
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  Speaker 1: buy a lot from Pete. I'm not gonna buy that one. Nonetheless,
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  Speaker 1: I certainly get why the organization wants to give him
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  Speaker 1: as much rope as possible to try to turn this
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  Speaker 1: thing around. So I sort of understand that. So, yes,
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  Speaker 1: we have some defensive liabilities. We have one of our
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  Speaker 1: five and if Miller's added on Wednesday, one of our
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  Speaker 1: six starters right now is not pitching well. And we
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  Speaker 1: certainly have an injured couple of key bullpen contributors. So
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  Speaker 1: there are a lot of issues. It's not just one
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  Speaker 1: thing that explains why the Mariners are nineteen and twenty two,
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  Speaker 1: But let's be honest about it. The major thing is offense.
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  Speaker 1: Once again, the Mariners cannot score during the spring. It's
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  Speaker 1: been the exact same thing every single year during the
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Depoto era and even before that. It's just a
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  Speaker 1: broken record. And here they sit with a lineup that
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  Speaker 1: was supposed to be its deepest with a heart of
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  Speaker 1: the order that was really well invested in. I mean Naylor,
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  Speaker 1: Cal and Julio, we're all invested long term deals to
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  Speaker 1: lock these guys up. Naylor's kind of come out of it.
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  Speaker 1: He's hitting two fifty five now. Julio's actually off to
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  Speaker 1: one of his better starts of his career. He's hitting
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  Speaker 1: at two seventy two. But cal Rawley's over his last
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  Speaker 1: thirty two. I mean, he's in the one sixty range
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  Speaker 1: right now, and he is a liability. He is absolutely
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  Speaker 1: lost at the plate right now. And when you have
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  Speaker 1: gone Ashley six and ten in one run games, and
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  Speaker 1: you've played three more one run games than any other team,
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  Speaker 1: the second place team has played three fewer one run
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  Speaker 1: games than you, and you're at six and ten. Sixteen
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  Speaker 1: of your forty one games have been one run games,
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  Speaker 1: and you're six and ten in those games, and your
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  Speaker 1: superstar player cal Raley is hitting one sixty. That pretty
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  Speaker 1: much explains why you're at least not five hundred at
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  Speaker 1: this point. Why you're at least not ten and six
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  Speaker 1: in those one run games is when you can't count
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  Speaker 1: on the big dumper to come through. And right now
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  Speaker 1: we just can't count on him to come through.
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  Speaker 2: No, we can't. I mean he hasn't had a hit
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  Speaker 2: since April twenty seventh.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah it is May eleventh.
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  Speaker 6: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: It's not good. And I I don't know. I wish
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  Speaker 3: I could figure out what's going on. I have seen
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  Speaker 3: some absurd things from you know, people's reactions to him
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  Speaker 3: performing poorly. I'm not trying to go into any extreme
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  Speaker 3: extreme thinking of how to fix cal or anything like that.
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  Speaker 3: He's got to fix himself. I think he can fix himself.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not worried that this is going to be his season.
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  Speaker 3: That he went from sixty home runs and runner up
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  Speaker 3: in the MVP race last year to what is it
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: won sixty three. Yeah, I'm not worried about that. But
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: I am getting a little impatient.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: Well, they've already, if you want to call it, dropping
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: him in the order to fourth. I mean fourth used
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: to be like the marquee position. Now more teams second. Yeah,
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: and so they had him in that pivotal second spot
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: in the order position, they moved him down to fourth.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: You know, I don't think it should be an insult
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: to him. I mean, he admitted it after the game yesterday.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: He's just in a bad way right now. And if
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: he could figure it out, he'd figure you know, it's
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: not through lack of effort, No, no, at all. And
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: the same with I mean the same guys that got
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: through to him last year to the degree of him
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: having a legendary one in a unique season. They're the
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: same guys whispering and is here right now that can't
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: figure out how to get him to be productive again.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: But he's just lost. It does happen to even the
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: best baseball players. I do believe that he will come
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: out of it. I'm with you. He's not going to
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: go from sixty homers to crashing and burning the very
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: next year. He just works too hard. But right now
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: they have a blueprint. They're getting him out. I don't
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: see a guy that's going up to the plate with
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: confidence right now. He's a big got to have it.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: He's got to get it fixed. Otherwise this nineteen and
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: twenty two record will feel very real, This sub five
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: hundred record will start to feel very real. I do
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: believe we should have enough offensive talent around him to
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: still overcome this. But when everything's not clicking and there's
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: no way that everything's clicking. Then when you're player, your
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: superstar player is struggling as much as he is, it
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: becomes all that more glaring. So uh yeah, six and
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: ten in one run games. How much different is that
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: if Col's being Col?
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that is the big thing.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: It's those one run games, because I mean you saw
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: on Friday the offensive performance we had was phenomenal, and
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: Luke Rayley was phenomenal. But you're not going to get
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: a twelve eight game all the time, especially not with
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: our pitching staff and especially not with our batters.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's just not how this roster is constructed.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: So you're more likely to get those one run games
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: or those really close games. And if we're not performing
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: well in those, the ones that we're going to see
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: more often, then yeah, we're in some trouble.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: If I had have told you it's May eleventh right now,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: if I had told you March eleventh that they'll both
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: for the most part, be equal amount of health, but
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: our leading home run hitter will be Luke Rayley on
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: May eleventh, would you have bought that?
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: I Mean, here's the thing is, Yeah, I don't know.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: I'd be like Okay, well, that's a pleasant surprise. We
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: must be really good.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: That's not any I mean, he's a kind of a
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: platoon player also, somebody that almost everybody had written off
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: in the offseason. Yeah, he's our home run leader right now,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: over Cal with eight home runs on the season. And
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: it is not just the one thing. It's not just Cal,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: and it's not just struggling against left handers, and it's
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: not just struggling with the runners in scoring position. Those
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: have been hair pulling statistics for us for a decade
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: now when it comes to this baseball team in the
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: first half of the season. But it's not as easy
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: as that. It's everything. I mean. Yeah, we're struggling with
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: runners in scoring position to twenty one batting average, which
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: is twenty eight out of thirty teams in Major League Baseball.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: But we're also twenty fifth leading off an inning, you know,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: twenty with even lower batting average at ten. So we're
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: not doing any better to lead off an inning as
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: we are driving in runners that are in scoring position. Now,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: the OPS is a little higher in both of those
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: categories than the batting average, and that's more important. Twenty
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: first of th runners in scoring position in OPS and
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: seventeenth leading off an inning in OPS. But nonetheless, we're
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: just not getting hits to lead off an inning, and
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: we're not getting hits with runners in scoring position. So
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: it's not like we're just failing in the run production opportunities.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: We're failing at all times. Batting average, Yes, we are
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: twenty eight versus left handed hit left handed pitchers, and
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: it feels a lot worse. There are thirty teams in
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: the league. It feels like we're thirty eighth against left
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: handed pitchers. So we're in the bottom three against lefties
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: so far, but we're twenty seventh overall. So yes, eighteenth
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: versus right anders, but not much better right and so
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: we're just not performing no offensively at this point. Simple yeah,
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: And and yes, I don't know why this team when
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: they face a left he turns every single one of
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: them into Chris Saale, But that's what they do now,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: That's what they've done forever. And teams are certainly trying
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: to throw left handers at us whenever they possibly can
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: to try to get the Rallies and the can Zones
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: out of the lineup, and Raley's finding success despite the
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: jarring you know, two at bats here, won at bat.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: They're kind of games. But can Zone looks as lost
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: as col does right now, and he was showing tremendous promise.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: I was so optimistic about him at the beginning of
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: the year.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: So I can't explain it. I don't know why they
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: get proven right handed hitters who have dominated lefties for
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: almost their entire careers and they get here and they
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: can't perform at all. To be one thing, if they're
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: just average performers, they can't perform at all. I guess
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Connor Joe's been hitting a little bit as of late.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: But suposed to be doing right.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: I don't understand that, and I don't I just don't
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: understand why this team that has been built to be
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: a good offensive team to very good offensive team once
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: again has to be snake bitten by early season woes
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: like every other team that we've seen the last decade.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: I mean we've had some bad teams, yeah, offensively in
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: the last decade. Yes, we have had teams where you're
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: like Dylan Moris hdn't wearing the lineup We've had. We've
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: had those seasons where like Dylan Moore's like getting fifth
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: in the lineup and you know, Nottingham, who is Nottingham?
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: Why is he starting? You know, we've had those seasons.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: This was not supposed to be that season, and yet
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: once again the Mariners can't hit before summer. And it
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: is it's infuriating, sir, pulling.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: And that's that's what's so frustrating, right is it? Because
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: it is the promise you have coming off the last season.
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: And I remember when we broke the drought or end
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: of the drought and made the playoffs, and we had
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: such high promise going into the next season and it
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: was awful. And so then you go all the way
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: to Game seven of the ALCS and you're like, all right,
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: this team's got something. Here we go and we're keeping
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: quite a few of the pieces. Yes, we got rid
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: of Polanco and Suarez, and but you still had a
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: lot of promise coming into this season, and so then
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: you get these extra high expectations and it just feels
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: even more crushing when they're not performing.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Well, that's the bad news. The good news is they
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: always do pull out of it, yeah, you know, or
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: at least I won't say always. They haven't always done it.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: They didn't two years ago. Yeah, but more often than not,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: they do heat up in the summer, and they do
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: go on a run in July and August, and they
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: perform more like the team that we expected to see. Now,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: what we expected to see this year was not just
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: a team that was going to contend for a playoff spot.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: What we expected to see this year was a team
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: that was going to battle the Yankees for the American
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: League title. That's the team that we are still expecting
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: to see. But once again, we're just seeing the same
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: old Mariners in April and May. And it is I
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: get it. It is just highly irritated.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it feels a groundhog day.
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 26:29
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• 26:34
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• 26:37
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  Speaker 1: of cool stuff going on right now. Unfortunately, our baseball
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: team just can't get off the schneid, losing two out
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: of three to the Chicago White Sox over the week
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: and to put them at nineteen and twenty two, and
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: they will take on the Houston Astros over the course
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: of the next four days, which in the past would
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: have been a horrifying operation to participate in. But things
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: have changed a little bit on the Houston front, and
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: we're gonna find out just how much has changed from
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: their beat. Rider of the Athletic Chandler Rome's been covering
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: the Astros beat for quite some time. He's been a
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: guest on the show in the past, and we're happy
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: to have him back here on a Monday morning Channar,
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: what's up all we're doing great. First, before we get
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: into both of the stories about the Mariners and the
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Astros this year, what is the story with you and
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Nick Saban on your Twitter post? Is there like a
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: story that goes with that picture.
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: I don't know if it's a story as much as
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: you know.
• 28:19
  Speaker 7: I saw I covered Alabama before I got ivered, covered
• 28:24
  Speaker 7: Alabama football, and he does his coaches show, he coaches
• 28:28
  Speaker 7: radio show every week and there's a media guest host
• 28:31
  Speaker 7: every week, and I was that guest host.
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: Oh, as a radio host yourself, I can imagine.
• 28:37
  Speaker 7: You know, when you have a co host, you like
• 28:39
  Speaker 7: to interact with them, You like to get them into
• 28:40
  Speaker 7: the conversation. That did not happen. He's he came in,
• 28:46
  Speaker 7: he came in. I think he looked at me twice.
• 28:48
  Speaker 7: I think he shook my hand because he had to.
• 28:51
  Speaker 7: But I was just another nameless, faceless person that he
• 28:53
  Speaker 7: had to sit next to for a couple hours before
• 28:57
  Speaker 7: getting out there.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: Was it an intimidating experience or just did you think
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: less of him when you got done with it? Or both?
• 29:03
  Speaker 7: Well, well they told me so, they said, Look because
• 29:07
  Speaker 7: I asked questions on the show like they have a
• 29:09
  Speaker 7: segment where the media guest host asked questions and I said, look,
• 29:12
  Speaker 7: come with questions prepared.
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: They were like, we're not going to tell you what to.
• 29:16
  Speaker 7: Ask, but also like don't come in asking like why
• 29:19
  Speaker 7: this guy isn't playing, More like this is a coaches show,
• 29:22
  Speaker 7: Like come with some softballs. So yeah, I kind of
• 29:24
  Speaker 7: just throw some softballs and let him kind of say
• 29:27
  Speaker 7: what he wanted to say. But it was I mean, look,
• 29:30
  Speaker 7: it was cool. Like I got that picture out of it.
• 29:31
  Speaker 7: I'll that'll probably be my Twitter header forever.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: But yeah, he looks like he doesn't really have much
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: to do with you in the picture you captured that.
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: That was a perfect encapsulation of.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: I don't mean to laugh, and it is funny. Chandler
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Rome is with us here, Astros beat writer from the
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: Athletic and close personal friends with Nick Saban. All right,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: let's get your opinions on our story in Seattle so
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: far before we dive into the very interesting story of
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: the Houston Astros so far this year. Are you, as
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: somebody that covers the Astros for a living surprise that
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: our Mariners nineteen and twenty two start this year.
• 30:16
  Speaker 7: I mean, on the surface, yes, but I didn't think
• 30:19
  Speaker 7: Cal Rawley would hit sixty homers. Again, I didn't. I mean,
• 30:23
  Speaker 7: Julio has been a chronic slow starter in his career,
• 30:26
  Speaker 7: so Julio's starting slow doesn't surprise me. You know, I
• 30:31
  Speaker 7: haven't watched enough of Josh Naylor to know kind of
• 30:34
  Speaker 7: what you know, kind of how he tends to do things.
• 30:36
  Speaker 7: But again, when you've got all of your when you've
• 30:40
  Speaker 7: got all of your marquee names, guys that have to
• 30:43
  Speaker 7: perform when they are off to slow starts, this is
• 30:47
  Speaker 7: what happens now.
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: I will say this.
• 30:48
  Speaker 7: I was doing a pot I was doing my own
• 30:50
  Speaker 7: podcast last night, and I was going through the probables
• 30:52
  Speaker 7: and I read Luis Castillo, and I just do He's
• 30:54
  Speaker 7: a seventy r What is going on? That kind of
• 30:57
  Speaker 7: surprised me, But you know.
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: I think it.
• 31:03
  Speaker 7: You can have these stretches at any point in the season, right,
• 31:05
  Speaker 7: but when it happens at the beginning of the season,
• 31:07
  Speaker 7: it always looks worse. So am I surprised? Not really,
• 31:11
  Speaker 7: just because that's kind of unless you're the Dodgers. This
• 31:13
  Speaker 7: is just kind of how baseball goes. But I think
• 31:16
  Speaker 7: you know, Cal and Julio and Naylor like when they
• 31:19
  Speaker 7: start to turn things around, you'll see you'll certainly see
• 31:22
  Speaker 7: the Mariners kind of maybe go in a better direction.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: And you might have said that about the Astros in
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: the past after a slow start, you would have after
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: forty games of a slow start, you just expected them
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: to pick it up. Obviously off the way slow start
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: this year in Houston. But is this troubling? Is this
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: speak volumes about the direction that maybe the organization is
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: heading more so than it does just a cold start
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: from the Astros this year.
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: Yeah, this is this is far more troubling.
• 31:54
  Speaker 7: Like I don't see a ton of hope on the
• 31:58
  Speaker 7: horizon with the Mariners, Like I just pointed to like
• 32:00
  Speaker 7: four reasons why they can turn it around, Like I
• 32:03
  Speaker 7: can't do that with the Astros. Look that they are
• 32:07
  Speaker 7: substantially injured, Like they don't have three fifths of their
• 32:11
  Speaker 7: season opening starting rotation is on the injured list. They
• 32:14
  Speaker 7: don't have Hunter Brown, they don't have Josh Hater, Jeremy
• 32:17
  Speaker 7: Panna is on the injured list. Carlos Carreo will not
• 32:19
  Speaker 7: play again this season. Yr Diazer, everyday catcher, is on
• 32:23
  Speaker 7: the injured list. They are very very injured. Do not
• 32:26
  Speaker 7: get me wrong, but just you know, the off season
• 32:31
  Speaker 7: acquisitions that Dana Brown made to bolster the pitching staff
• 32:34
  Speaker 7: just quite front. Well five of the six of them
• 32:37
  Speaker 7: have just been unmitigated disasters.
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: This is not a.
• 32:41
  Speaker 7: Team that has a ton of that. This is not
• 32:43
  Speaker 7: a team that has a ton of depth. They don't
• 32:45
  Speaker 7: have a lot of depth in the minor leagues, and
• 32:47
  Speaker 7: their depth on the twenty six man roster is very thin.
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: So when their.
• 32:52
  Speaker 7: Established guys are either absent or underperforming, they rely on
• 32:57
  Speaker 7: that non exceptent depth to like supplement that, and it
• 33:02
  Speaker 7: just you are seeing the faults in that. And you know, I, personally,
• 33:07
  Speaker 7: I don't know how they get out of this. I
• 33:11
  Speaker 7: you know, you can start to convince yourself that if
• 33:14
  Speaker 7: Jeremy Panna gets back, and if they can get Hunter
• 33:16
  Speaker 7: Brown back, But the problem is, like Hunter Brown's not
• 33:18
  Speaker 7: coming back till June, Josh Hater is not coming back
• 33:21
  Speaker 7: till the end of May, Carls Kray is not coming back.
• 33:24
  Speaker 7: Your Diaz won't come back for at least another six weeks.
• 33:27
  Speaker 7: Like none of this is like on the horizon, and
• 33:30
  Speaker 7: they're already nine games below five hundred. It's gonna be tough.
• 33:35
  Speaker 7: For them to turn this thing around. Not saying it's impossible,
• 33:37
  Speaker 7: but it's gonna be really, really tough for them to
• 33:40
  Speaker 7: turn this thing around.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Chandler Rome is whether this Astros beat Rider at the
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: athletic our guest, we appreciate him joining us here on
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: day number one of a four game series in Houston
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: between the Mariners and the Astros because this is a
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: different Astro scenario that the Mariners have faced in quite
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: some time. And this is also an organization, as you
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: well know, Chandler that's pretty much executed one of the
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: most full scale rebuilds in professional sports history and it
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: ended up being a dynasty. For goodness sake, what they
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: got out of it. So I would think if push
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: came to shove, the Astros would not hesitate pushing the
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: plunger on another rebuild. Is that something that they would
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: consider this year? Is there a chance that at the
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: trading deadline we might see every veteran that can be
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: moved be moved by the Houston Astros if they don't
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: get back in this race.
• 34:35
  Speaker 7: So Astro's owner Jim Crane is famous for something he
• 34:39
  Speaker 7: has reiterated numerous times, and he has said, while I'm here.
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: The window will never close.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 34:45
  Speaker 7: He has reiterated that on numerous occasions. Everybody I have
• 34:49
  Speaker 7: spoken to that is associated with Jim Crane as around
• 34:52
  Speaker 7: Jim Crane is pretty you know, steadfast in their thought
• 34:56
  Speaker 7: that he does not want another rebuild. He does not
• 34:59
  Speaker 7: want another full scale, tear it to the studs rebuild.
• 35:02
  Speaker 7: Now they can reset or step back or whatever vernacular
• 35:08
  Speaker 7: Baseball operations employees want to call this. They can do
• 35:11
  Speaker 7: that without executing a full rebuild. And to answer your question, yeah,
• 35:16
  Speaker 7: I do think if it keeps going like this, they're
• 35:18
  Speaker 7: gonna have to make some pretty difficult decisions at the
• 35:20
  Speaker 7: trade deadline. Like I already thought, Jeremy Pania was a
• 35:24
  Speaker 7: pretty logical trade candidate this winter because it's the same
• 35:27
  Speaker 7: situation that they faced with Kyle Tucker two years ago.
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: They tried and.
• 35:31
  Speaker 7: Failed to extend him last season. He has priced himself
• 35:34
  Speaker 7: out of their price range. Trading him this winner seemed
• 35:38
  Speaker 7: pretty logical because they did it with Kyle Tucker. Does
• 35:41
  Speaker 7: he become a someone that is talked about at the deadline?
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: I think so.
• 35:46
  Speaker 7: Esak Paratus certainly could be a guy that's on the move.
• 35:50
  Speaker 7: Christian Walker I know he started off really great, and
• 35:53
  Speaker 7: look he's he's been talked about as a great candidate.
• 35:56
  Speaker 7: But and I'm not saying they can't trade him, but
• 35:59
  Speaker 7: he's got almost thirty five million dollars left on this
• 36:02
  Speaker 7: contract and he's thirty five years old.
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: Like they can trade him. That's great.
• 36:06
  Speaker 7: I just don't think that they would get much. They
• 36:08
  Speaker 7: would get as much in return as people think because
• 36:10
  Speaker 7: of what's left on his contract. Josh Hater has a
• 36:14
  Speaker 7: no trade clause, a full no trade clause, so he
• 36:16
  Speaker 7: would have to approve a trade.
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: Christian Walker has a limited no trade clause.
• 36:20
  Speaker 7: I believe that he can decline a trade to six teams.
• 36:25
  Speaker 7: And then you get to the jord On Albarez question. Right,
• 36:28
  Speaker 7: I don't think they would do that. I really don't.
• 36:32
  Speaker 7: I don't think Jordan wants to go. I think what
• 36:35
  Speaker 7: they should do, to be quite frank, is they should
• 36:37
  Speaker 7: re extend him. He has two more years left on
• 36:39
  Speaker 7: the extension that he signed a couple of years ago.
• 36:42
  Speaker 7: They should tear up that deal and give him a
• 36:43
  Speaker 7: new content. They should give him a new extension. I
• 36:45
  Speaker 7: think he is personally, knowing him, I think he wants
• 36:49
  Speaker 7: to stay here. For the rest of him. He wants
• 36:50
  Speaker 7: to be like Al too Big. He wants to be
• 36:52
  Speaker 7: like a guy that is in one place his whole career.
• 36:54
  Speaker 7: But when you talk about the sort of package they
• 36:58
  Speaker 7: could get for him, it would be malpracticed for them
• 37:01
  Speaker 7: not to at least listen. Now, listening does not mean
• 37:04
  Speaker 7: actually doing it, but it would be a dereliction of
• 37:08
  Speaker 7: duty by Dana Brown or whoever is running the trade deadline,
• 37:12
  Speaker 7: cause I guess we can get to that in a
• 37:13
  Speaker 7: little bit, because I don't know if he'll be running
• 37:15
  Speaker 7: the trade deadline. Whoever is doing it, it would be
• 37:19
  Speaker 7: a dereliction of duty not to at least listen as
• 37:21
  Speaker 7: to what they could get. But I still find it
• 37:24
  Speaker 7: very hard to believe that they would trade you on
• 37:26
  Speaker 7: an operas.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: So you think maybe a shake up front office is coming.
• 37:31
  Speaker 7: Well, Dana Brown's in the last year of his contract.
• 37:34
  Speaker 7: Joe's spot of the manager is also in the last
• 37:36
  Speaker 7: year of his contract. They're lame ducks. We've known that
• 37:39
  Speaker 7: since the beginning of the season. Dana Brown has talked
• 37:42
  Speaker 7: about it openly. Joe as spot of the same way
• 37:46
  Speaker 7: to me, like, I'm looking at this from a pragmatic view,
• 37:49
  Speaker 7: of you know, they've got the deadline where they can
• 37:53
  Speaker 7: have to make some pretty consequential decisions. And then about
• 37:56
  Speaker 7: three weeks before the deadline is the draft, and the
• 37:59
  Speaker 7: Astros this season and will have their biggest bonus pool
• 38:02
  Speaker 7: and draft in their franchise history. They're picking four times
• 38:06
  Speaker 7: before pick ninety five because they've been so good in
• 38:10
  Speaker 7: the past, you know, ten years, they have access to
• 38:13
  Speaker 7: a group of players in this draft that they have
• 38:16
  Speaker 7: just never had access to. It's the sort of draft
• 38:18
  Speaker 7: that if they hit on at least one or two
• 38:20
  Speaker 7: of these guys, can really reshape their farm system, can
• 38:24
  Speaker 7: reshape their their organization. Is that something that they want
• 38:29
  Speaker 7: Dana Brown overseeing? He is here in part because of
• 38:32
  Speaker 7: his draft success, because he's a lifelong scout, a guy
• 38:35
  Speaker 7: that made his name and talent evaluation. But you know
• 38:40
  Speaker 7: they if Jim Crane, well, but the fact that this
• 38:44
  Speaker 7: guy is still lamed up would suggest to you that
• 38:46
  Speaker 7: Jim Crane's already maybe determined that this is not the
• 38:48
  Speaker 7: guy he wants leading this franchise forward. But if he
• 38:52
  Speaker 7: has made that definitive determination, is this a guy that
• 38:55
  Speaker 7: you want overseeing a draft that's going to mean a
• 38:58
  Speaker 7: ton of this franchise going forward, and a trade deadline
• 39:01
  Speaker 7: that could reshape a lot of the trajectory of this franchise.
• 39:05
  Speaker 7: It's a fascinating question, and to be honest with you,
• 39:08
  Speaker 7: it may be one that this week helps to determine.
• 39:12
  Speaker 7: Because the Ashers play four against the Seattle Mariners and
• 39:15
  Speaker 7: then after that they play three against the Rangers. It's
• 39:17
  Speaker 7: seven straight games at home against two divisional opponents. If
• 39:22
  Speaker 7: you go one and six or two and five and
• 39:25
  Speaker 7: you fall completely completely out of it, because look, right now,
• 39:28
  Speaker 7: they're nine games under five hundred. There's somehow only three
• 39:31
  Speaker 7: back of the Mariners right in the al Wes because
• 39:33
  Speaker 7: als is a disaster. Like you go five and two
• 39:37
  Speaker 7: on this homestand, and you feel pretty good about yourself,
• 39:39
  Speaker 7: you feel like you're in position, and you get some
• 39:41
  Speaker 7: guys back, and then you can start to convince yourself
• 39:43
  Speaker 7: the turnarounds possible. If you go one and six or
• 39:46
  Speaker 7: two and five or zero and seven on this homestand
• 39:49
  Speaker 7: and you fall completely out of it, then I think
• 39:52
  Speaker 7: there'll be some real questions as to whether there's stuff
• 39:54
  Speaker 7: in season that needs to change.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: You know, for a decade, you know, Houston Astro just
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: lapped around the American League West, and of course then
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: you had the scandal in the middle. So this is
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: an organization where it's players have been booed in every
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: stadium they've gone to for the last few years, half
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: a decade, and so I think there is a little
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: bit too. Hey, we might have the upper hand here
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: in Seattle. We'd like to slap you around here for
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: the next ten years or so, and it might not
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: be as fun if you're rebuilding it. We kind of
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: want to like steal your lunch. We want you to
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: have hope, and then we want to take it away
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: from you. And maybe you know, the Athletics, who seem
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: to have a good up and coming young team as well,
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: and right now we are in first place kind of
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: feel the same way. So I'll close with the question
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: about how Chandler Rome sees the next five five years.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: Let's go five years of Houston Astros baseball contender and
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: this is just a blip, a little bumping the road
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: here in twenty twenty six, or do a lot of
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: them American League West teams get to have some fun
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: the next five years beating up on the Astros.
• 41:06
  Speaker 7: I would cautiously say the latter. Okay, only because only
• 41:10
  Speaker 7: because like and you guys have had to deal with
• 41:12
  Speaker 7: this in Seattle with you know, ownership that is sometimes
• 41:16
  Speaker 7: reluctant to do what I think the fans want them
• 41:18
  Speaker 7: to do. But Jim Crane, Jim Jim Crane is Jim
• 41:23
  Speaker 7: Crane has never given a free agent deal longer than
• 41:26
  Speaker 7: five years, or longer than or more lucrative than ninety
• 41:29
  Speaker 7: five million dollars. He has never guaranteed a player more
• 41:33
  Speaker 7: than one hundred and fifty one million dollars on any
• 41:35
  Speaker 7: contract to get out of the situation that the Astros
• 41:38
  Speaker 7: are in. To me, there's only two ways to go.
• 41:41
  Speaker 7: You either throw a ton of money at the problem
• 41:43
  Speaker 7: and a bunch of established guys in here, some proven
• 41:46
  Speaker 7: guys with track records, and hope that they turn it around.
• 41:50
  Speaker 7: Or you do it through your minor league system. You
• 41:52
  Speaker 7: do it through drafting and developing and make a self
• 41:55
  Speaker 7: sustaining thing if you want to if you want to
• 41:58
  Speaker 7: contend year after a year, you sometime have to do
• 42:00
  Speaker 7: both of those things at the same time. You have
• 42:02
  Speaker 7: to spend a ton of money, and you have to
• 42:04
  Speaker 7: make sure you're drafting good on the back end. So
• 42:06
  Speaker 7: the draft stuff and player development, that's just stuff that
• 42:10
  Speaker 7: just takes time. You can't do that overnight. So unless
• 42:15
  Speaker 7: there is a huge about face in the way that
• 42:19
  Speaker 7: Jim Crane goes about spending his money.
• 42:22
  Speaker 5: And look, this is.
• 42:23
  Speaker 7: Not to suggest that Jim Crane's cheap, like the Ashers
• 42:26
  Speaker 7: have run a top five to top seven payroll like
• 42:29
  Speaker 7: each of the last four seasons. How that money has
• 42:32
  Speaker 7: been allocated is a bit of a different discussion. But
• 42:35
  Speaker 7: this is not a situation where he's miserly. It just
• 42:39
  Speaker 7: they have made some really confounding decisions when it comes
• 42:43
  Speaker 7: to who they've given money to, where they have invested
• 42:47
  Speaker 7: that money. You know, for some reason they have a
• 42:49
  Speaker 7: ninety five million dollar closer. Not that not that Josh
• 42:52
  Speaker 7: Hader's not great, but when you look at i mean,
• 42:54
  Speaker 7: look at the Mariners. Like the Mariners aren't you know,
• 42:57
  Speaker 7: pouring a ton of money into their bullpen, right Like
• 42:59
  Speaker 7: Andres Munoz makes a good bit of money, But this
• 43:01
  Speaker 7: is not a bullpen that's like one hundred million dollar bullpen.
• 43:05
  Speaker 7: For a while, they had two guys at first base
• 43:08
  Speaker 7: and jose A. Brady and Christian Walker. Jose Brady wasn't
• 43:11
  Speaker 7: on the team, but like they were combined to make
• 43:13
  Speaker 7: fifty million dollars, they have fifty million dollars devoted to
• 43:16
  Speaker 7: first base. Like, it's just they have the decisions that
• 43:20
  Speaker 7: they have made, and where they have spent money has
• 43:22
  Speaker 7: been pretty curious. So unless like unless they can find
• 43:28
  Speaker 7: a better way to allocate that money, or unless that
• 43:30
  Speaker 7: they can accelerate the drafting and development process, Like I
• 43:34
  Speaker 7: don't see a path where this gets so much better
• 43:38
  Speaker 7: that they are where they were five years ago.
• 43:40
  Speaker 5: I don't see that that happens anytime soon.
• 43:42
  Speaker 7: But you know, look, the Ashers have also made a
• 43:46
  Speaker 7: They've made a living of finding these you know, obscure,
• 43:49
  Speaker 7: small school kind of overlooked prospects and turned them into
• 43:53
  Speaker 7: real contributors.
• 43:54
  Speaker 5: So maybe they've got a.
• 43:55
  Speaker 7: Couple of those in the pipeline that they're going to
• 43:57
  Speaker 7: surprise us with. But it doesn't look great right now,
• 44:00
  Speaker 7: and I don't know where they go for a.
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: Quick fix to that great stuff. Thank you, Chandler. I
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: appreciate your time here this morning. That's some tremendous insight.
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: We appreciate it. So next four games, you're going to
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: get a load of the Mariners, So hopefully you're going
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: to be writing about a lot of losses here in
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: the very near future.
• 44:20
  Speaker 5: Chandler, Well, I'm getting used to that.
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: Thanks man, Really appreciate you. Thanks guys, all right, Chandler
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: Rome joining us here on Chucking Buck in the Morning.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: You can follow Chandler at Chandler Underscore Rome. Astros beat
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: Rider at the Athletic for a number of years now,
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: So good stuff from him. And yeah, I mean, certainly
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: we're not going to shed a tear over the Astros
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: potentially being in a transition period, and maybe it won't
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: be the full scale rebuild that it could be, because
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: it could be because I don't think their minor leagues
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: are all that well stocked at this point. And as
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: I've mentioned a couple of times, I think the organization
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: has proven how good they are. I mean, their best
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: stretch of baseball and organizational history, without question, was due
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: entirely to a massive rebuild of three years five years
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: of some of the worst baseball that has ever been
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: played in Major League Baseball history. But they just kept
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: accumulating high draft picks, they had free agency, They just
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: their payroll was so low that when they decided to
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: go for it, nothing was off the table, and so
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: they've they've they reaped the rewards of five years of
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: drought because for the next ten years they were Kings
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: of the West. Well, I thought maybe they would not
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: be scared of pressing that plunger once again, But according
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: to Chandler, it sounds more like there'll be some sell
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: There'll be a sales job if this season continues. At
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: the trading deadline. There's the guys that are going to
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: be moved, but it won't be the all out, get
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: rid of everything sort of rebuild, and that would probably
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: preclude your Don Alvarez from being moved.
• 46:11
  Speaker 5: Out of town.
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, which I would like him to be moved out
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: of town and out of the division, Yes, and out
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: of the American League. If that's if I can get
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: my wishes. Sure, Mariners, those are the options. Okay, take
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: it or leave at Houston.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: National League's got a DH now too. Everybody. Everybody can
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: use a DH.
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: Now what I'm saying.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I did see one mock up of the Astros
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: trading deadline, and they did have your Don Alvarez being
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: traded this particular mock up to the Dodgers.
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: I was just about to say, as long as you
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: don't trade them to the Dodgers. And then I was like, oh,
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: come on, they won't, would you stop?
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: No, yeah, don't trade them to the Dodgers.
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we don't need to just give every the Dodgers.
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: First of all, you can only play a certain number
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: of people. You only have nine people on the field.
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: I would rather the Astros keep your Don Alvarez then
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: them trade him to the Dodgers. But I think Josh Hater,
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: Jeremy Pania, Christian Walker, Brian abrau essach Parades, I think
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: all of those guys, as long as they continue down
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: the street. I mean, he's right. I mean, that's the
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: nastiness about it. Even though the Astros have had a
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: disastrous year to this point, there are only three teams
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: in the American League with winning records right now, so
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: everybody's kind of still alive. They don't look like they
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: can dig out of it themselves. But this has been
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: a strange start to the year, and certainly no one
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: in the American League West has pulled away, much to
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: our chagrin, that we have not taken advantage of this opportunity.
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: All right, coming up next on the radio program. It
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: has been the talk of the NBA world, of maybe
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: the sports world over the course of the last twelve hours.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: Did the face of the league getting kicked out of
• 47:57
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• 48:01
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  Speaker 1: All right. Well, let's talk about the face of the NBA,
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  Speaker 1: an elite top ten player are past him. And so
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: at forty one years old, the league's going to be
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: looking for a new face, and I think that he's
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: already raised his very long bony arm, and that is
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: Victor wimin Yama. And so, I mean, I've said this
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: earlier in the show. I think they're so invested in
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: this guy that they rigged the lottery so that he
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: could go to the exact franchise that he wanted to
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: play with with man Whujanobili and Tony Parker and Tony
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: and there are other Frenchmen Man who's not French, but
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: Tony Parker is, and so he sort of had a
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: built in support team already there. And so I believe
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: it was his choice. That's where he wanted to play,
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: Greg Popovich being a mentor, and that's where he ended
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: up playing. And then the NBA took my opinion and
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: again just my opinion the next couple of years to
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: make sure that he had surrounding talent around him with
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: winning the lottery, not the number one pick again, but
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: they won the number two pick two of the next
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: three years or is it back to back back to
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: back years with the Stefan Castle and then Dylan Harper
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: and then of course there was a trade that was
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: weird for de Aaron Fox. So Victor Wiminyama went from
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: boney rookie, how's he going to transition into the NBA?
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: And here we are three years later? Is he the
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: MVP of the league? He is such We've never seen
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: anything like him before. You can't take your eyes off
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: of him. He left that game last night and it
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: took something away from the game, There's no question about it.
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: And it certainly costs the Spurs a better chance to
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: win the game, which they of course lost to the
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: Minnesota Timberwolves. So point of all of this is they've
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: gone to great lengths to try to build the brand
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: of Victor Winbinyama. So that Win Lebron and maybe he
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: already has moved on that The baton passing is a
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: smooth one from one twenty year face of the league
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: to hopefully another ten to fifteen year face of the
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: league in Winmbinyama. And so this is a league that
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: in the past we know that they've protected superstar players.
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: I think we should be to a degree appreciative of it.
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: I don't want them just making Layton black and white
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: calls that favor the better player, even though many people
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: accuse the league of doing that in Michael Jordan's day.
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: I think they've accused the league of doing that in
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: Lebron's day. But I don't really mind protecting the best players, yeah,
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: the faces of the league. And yet last night was
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: something that and I give the officials credit for it. No,
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: we can't protect you on this one, son, I'm sorry.
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: An elbow to the face of nas red and even
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: though nas Reid was actively fouling Wombin Yama with another teammate,
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: they were basically mugging him in Central Park while the
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: elbow occurred. The elbow was an act of aggression, frustration.
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: It was in the wrong area his neck and face. Uh,
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: and that just can't be allowed.
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: And they brought it forward and then brought it back.
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: So I think they did the right thing last night.
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: You know, the league does not want Victor wembin Yama
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: sitting out missing a playoff game. You know, there's no
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: chance he's going to be suspended going forward. I think
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: they're going to treat it as that was your punishment.
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: You missed a large chunk and your team lost, and
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: your team lost, and now you got to come back
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: from it. I don't think anything less of wimbn Yama.
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: I get why he was frustrated, but I kind of
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: appreciate that the league didn't play favorites at that point
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: because they've often been accused of it, and they said,
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: can't overlook it.
• 56:19
  Speaker 4: Sorry.
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: As much as we would all love for you to
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: stay in this game, you can't stay in this game.
• 56:24
  Speaker 4: No.
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: And yeah, when it's something as egregious as that. I mean,
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: if he'd done an elbow kind of to the chest
• 56:31
  Speaker 3: or the ribs or something that, you could have kind
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: of been more Okay, he's trying to wrestle the ball away,
• 56:37
  Speaker 3: but he has the ball, and I understand he's frustrated
• 56:40
  Speaker 3: because there's people just mauling him, and I fully understand
• 56:43
  Speaker 3: why he ended up getting so frustrated. But yeah, when
• 56:46
  Speaker 3: you're holding the ball like that, you can't bring your
• 56:47
  Speaker 3: elbow for it and then just back into somebody's neck
• 56:50
  Speaker 3: like that and not expect to get the penalty he got.
• 56:53
  Speaker 3: And it was funny to me that people were trying
• 56:54
  Speaker 3: to say, like, oh, well, I guess that, yeah, that
• 56:57
  Speaker 3: could be a flagrant one, like well, could.
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: Be a flagrant one.
• 57:01
  Speaker 4: No.
• 57:02
  Speaker 3: I mean they were like starting at the low end
• 57:04
  Speaker 3: and rupping their way up versus I mean just watching.
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, very obvious.
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but I think that's also the broadcast team trying
• 57:12
  Speaker 3: to kind of protect the soon to be face of
• 57:14
  Speaker 3: the league and hoping it sound a flagrant too, because
• 57:16
  Speaker 3: they don't.
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: Want to believe the game.
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they don't want to broadcast the game without him
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: being in there, and they also, I think in their
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: heads kind of work to protect the league a little
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: bit as well. Now, Mitch Johnson was angry afterwards. He's
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: gonna get fined for it. He called out the officials,
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: called it disgusting what they've allowed to have happen in
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: the playoffs, which is also a little bit surprising. I mean,
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: considering the Jordan rules and how protected Michael Jordan was
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: and Lebron at times and Kobe at times. Here you
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: have the next face of the league, and he obviously
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: is a skinny dude, and every time he falls it's
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: like watching a giraffe fall down the stairs. It's like, ah,
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: every time I cringe because I'd don't want to see
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: him hurt. It's just too fun to watch, so.
• 58:03
  Speaker 3: Much further to fall than everybody else, right, and this
• 58:06
  Speaker 3: this unraveling of this human being.
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: It's like watching a transformer fall down a you know,
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: an escalator or escalator. That's what it kind of feels like.
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: Every time he just slips and falls on the court.
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: But he has been on the ground a lot in
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: this playoff so far, even bumped his head into concussion
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: and had to miss a game. And so Mitch Johnson's like,
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: enough's enough. You know, you got to protect my guy
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: a little bit. And there's no doubt that teams have
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: no answer for him because of his physical attributes and
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: his skill, and so what are you going to do
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: if you're a head coach. It's nothing, there's nothing wrong
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: with it. You're a head coach. Like the one weakness
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: he has is that he's skinny and tall, and he
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: falls easily. We've got to rough him up. We don't
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: have any choice. We've got to be physical. We've got
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: to put bodies on him, we've got to put hands
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: on him. We've got to muscle him, because that's the
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: one thing he doesn't have. So not surprised by doing it.
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: But Mitch Johnson was saying afterwards, Seattle's own Mitch Johnson,
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: you can't do this to my guy. You can't do
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: this to our guy. You know, they're targeting him and
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: he's taking it. But at some point, you know you're
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: gonna have to blow the whistle on this stuff. Because
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: I don't blame him for getting frustrated last night. I'm
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: actually proud of him for taking matters into his own hands,
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: even though I would never recommend elbowing another person in
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: the head. So that's where it's at right now, and
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: I think there's some truth to it. I think maybe
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: the officials are airing on the other side, like we
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: don't want to baby him, and we've got to understand
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: the teams are going to go after him. We don't
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: want to call the game differently just because he's the
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: face now. But on the other hand, I don't think
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: the league. I have a feeling the League's going to
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: be on the phone and I'm saying, hey, we can't
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: just let him get bloodied, right, you know, we got
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: to protect him a little bit, especially if they're targeting him.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: So I'm very curious to see how that he's going
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: to be officiated in the next game. I'm sure he's
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: not going to be suspended for any more.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: I don't think so.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: Of the of the playoff, but I will be curious
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: to see if he's officiated differently come game number five.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I will be tuned in. I think it's tomorrow night,
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: isn't it.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I will be tuned in tomorrow night to see
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 3: if it looks any different what they do. And I
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 3: would imagine if nothing changes, tensions are going to be high.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I'll be very intrigued to see what happens.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I heard this morning. I thought it was
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: a pretty decent debate. Where's your Kendrick Perkins on the Spurs?
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: Those guys don't cost a lot of money. Yeah, So
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: that even if, even if Victor is going to be
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: treated this way, because that's how I would try to
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: defend him if I was the other coach, where's the
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: guy to come in and make sure that doesn't happen.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And they might need to find one of this.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: Yes, they've had one. I mean the Bulls had him.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: They all had Can you imagine how Draymond Green would
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: have acted over that?
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 4: All?
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: Right, coming down next on the radio program, we all
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: have them, and I'm going to share one with you next.
• 1:01:12
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• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: doing that.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: It doesn't work that way.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: That's what happened. Good Monday morning to you. Must be
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: a Monday if I press my cough button and thought
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: I could go on the air like that. Joining us
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: now on the program is pretty much one of the
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: greatest hockey analysts that ever lived. Ed Olcik is with
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: us right here on the show to talk a little
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: Stanley Cup playoff hockey here on a Monday morning.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 4: How are you, sir, I'm well, Chuck, nice to be
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 4: with you, Astley, Hope everything as well. And an unbelievable
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 4: time of year we got, uh, as you both know,
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 4: I'm a big a I'm a big horse racing guy.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 4: And I was at the Kentucky Derby this last weekend.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: Uh well, I.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 4: Guess almost two weekends ago now, but it was great
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 4: to be there. And of course the NHL Playoffs, which
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 4: I'm covering for the NHL on tnt SO Pucks and Ponies.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 4: As I'd like to say, it doesn't get any better
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 4: than this, And we got the I'll be in Denver,
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 4: Colorado for Game five between the Wild and the Avalanche
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 4: on Wednesday, and then I will be uh watching the Preakness,
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 4: which is going to be run this Saturday in Maryland.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 4: So I'm looking forward to pucks and ponies this week.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: I just did a segment about one of my great
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: pet peeves. Is it safe to say that it's a
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: pet peeve of yours? When the Kentucky Derby winner does
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: not choose, Well, the horse didn't choose, but the trainer
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: chooses not to let the Kentucky Derby winner run in
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: the Preakness.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 4: Honestly, Chuck, I don't have a problem with it. Some
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 4: horses are able to rebound a lot quicker. Usually these
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 4: horses run, These really good horses probably only run maybe
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 4: five or six times a year, so you're not asking
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 4: them very often.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: And again, I know.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 4: What the history has been in the history of the
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 4: Triple Crown, but you have to know your equine athlete
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 4: and understand that coming back in fourteen days is going
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 4: to be a challenge and is it going to hurt
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 4: the animal long term, not just within a couple of weeks.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 4: And it's not just about being sixty or seventy or
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 4: eighty percent and trying to run in two weeks in Maryland.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 4: So I'm okay with it. Look at what I love
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 4: to see, golden tempo run and try to make history.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 4: Hell yes, but you've got to do what's right by
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 4: the equine athlete. And these trainers know these horses better
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 4: than anybody. So honestly, I'm on the other side of
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 4: the fence. If they don't feel that the horse is
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 4: going to be capable of running competitively and feel like
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 4: that they were to disadvantage, then just sit, wait a
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 4: couple of weeks, and then run in a Belmont, which
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 4: they will that they will do eventually. But I think
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 4: the interesting dynamic and this thing, too, Chuck, is sports
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 4: has changed and evolved over I mean many years. But
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 4: if you just want to go back to you know,
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 4: the mid nineties or what have you, I mean, whether
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 4: it's you know, I know it was in that area
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 4: even just before that. But like the three point line
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 4: in basketball, you have run fences in baseball being moved in.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: You have the shootout in hockey.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 4: You have rules in football now that cater to the
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 4: offensive side of it. The one thing in horse racing
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 4: that hasn't really changed. Is the schedule for the Triple
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 4: Crown where you run the first Saturday in May, then
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 4: you run two weeks later in Maryland for the Preakness,
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 4: and then you have three weeks off until the Belmont,
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 4: And yeah, history would be changed, But I don't hear
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 4: many people talking about how history has changed with you
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 4: guys are massing so many points in the NBA now,
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 4: or how football quarterbacks are amassing all these yards because
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 4: the way that they call penalties, or even in hockey
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 4: with three on three in overtime. So I know there's
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 4: a lot there. But for me, I think at some
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 4: point horse racing has to do right by the equine
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 4: athlete and buy a little bit of time in between
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 4: the Derby and the Preakness, and then keep the three
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 4: weeks between the second Jewel and the third Jewel, and
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 4: then maybe maybe you'll have a better chance of making
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 4: sure that you get, you know, a high percentage of
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 4: the time, getting the Kentucky Derby winter coming back in
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 4: three weeks instead of two.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: Eddie olcheck is with us giving us more than your
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: bargained for when you heard he was coming on the show.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: We're getting pucks and Ponies here today with with Eddie.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: Oh well, let's talk about the Punks. I mean, it
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: just feels like Carolina and Colorado are the two best
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: teams and it feels like an inevitability that they're going
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: to meet in the Stanley Cup Finals. How do you
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: see it?
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 4: Well, I kind of felt that at the start of
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 4: the playoffs. I thought Colorado was cut above everybody else
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 4: chuck during the regular season, and you know, to this point,
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 4: they've proven it. Now Carolina has not lost at all.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 4: Colorado just lost the other night. We actually did that
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 4: game on T and T the other night. We're Minnesota
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 4: sumpthing pretty good. And now they got a huge game
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 4: four tonite back in Saint Paul tonight. It does the
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 4: path for Carolina. There were no excuses this year. We've
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 4: heard about Carolina for the last four or five years
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 4: and everybody expecting runs and then all of a sudden,
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 4: they come up against a team that could play a
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 4: a skate and pound type of game, that being the
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 4: Florida Panthers. And we all know what the Florida Panthers
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 4: are when they are healthy and they can play any
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 4: way you want, and they pretty much just pounded the
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 4: Carolina Hurricanes the last couple of years and their dreams ended.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 4: So no Florida this year in the playoffs for Carolina,
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 4: No Toronto, no New Jersey Devils, no New York Rangers.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 4: So the path for them is there, and they've taken
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 4: advantage and it's gone eight to no so far in
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 4: the playoffs. Now they're going to play the winner of
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 4: Buffalo Montreal and that series looks like it's going to
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 4: go seven games, and somebody's gonna go limp in against
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 4: the well rested team in Carolina. So there are no
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 4: excuses for Carolina Colorado. They're playing a team like Minnesota
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 4: who is very, very good. They're very deep, they can
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 4: play any way you want. I would be shocked if
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 4: this thing doesn't get the six or seven games, and
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 4: if it is seven games, you can see me calling
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 4: the game with Kenny Albert and Brian Bouchet on Sunday
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 4: night on KNT back in Colorado in Denver. But it
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 4: does feel like if those two teams play to their
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 4: very best or at least close to it and without
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 4: any you know, knock on, with any injuries, that should
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 4: end up being a matchup come the Cup final.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: And I want to weave the Kraken in here when
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: I can, because man, I see Carolina. All I've heard
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: about since the Kraken got here is that they don't
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: have that one big score. And yet I watch this
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: Carolina team and they don't really have that one big score.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: They don't have a superstar on their team. They have
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: a lot of good players and they play well together,
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: and they've won it all before. I mean, they've figured
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: out the formula without having to have a Connor McDavid.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: So how much should the crack and be studying the Hurricanes?
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: And frankly, we know that they have studied the Hurricanes
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: because we brought we brought over the guy that kind
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: of built that.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, no question, Ronnie did do that, and he
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 4: did a hell of a job there in Carolina, and
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 4: I think he did a hell of a job with
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 4: the Krack. And and think about it, think about a Chuck,
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 4: what was that now three years ago where they got
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 4: to within one goal of getting to the conference final.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 4: So they did have a team like that where you're right,
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 4: no stars, no game breakers by committee and you've had
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 4: guys have career years now, can guys have you know
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 4: those type of years, year in and year out. Players leave,
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 4: they want more money, just decisions are made, all those
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 4: type of things. The goaltending gruby was unbelievable, So you know,
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 4: sometimes you do catch that lightning in a bottle and
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 4: you make a hell of a run in yourself and
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 4: you're in. Unfortunately, they haven't been able to get back
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 4: to that point, but I do believe sometimes sometimes it
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 4: does happen where you have teams that maybe you shouldn't say,
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 4: maybe they don't have that game breaker, like the one
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 4: guy you see or two guys you see, like in Colorado,
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 4: right they had McKinnon. I mean last year they had
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 4: ranted until they traded them and then you got Macara
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 4: on the back end. You can look at all the
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 4: teams available in the playoffs right now, Chuck and go yeah.
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 4: Other than Carolina, every team has a legitimate superstar. Now
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 4: you have an unbelievable defenseman in Jacob Slavin on Carolina
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 4: who is as good as defensively as any d man
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 4: in the league. Of course, he played for Team USA
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 4: over Milan and winning helping win the gold medal for
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 4: the US. So understand the point, no doubt. But it
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 4: does help when you have those game breakers and in
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 4: those guys that have the ability on any given shift
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 4: to be able to to win you a game. And
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 4: it's I'm not trying to be dramatic, but it not
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 4: only changes the trajectory of a game or a series,
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 4: but honestly it does change that direction in the history
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 4: of your franchise is when you do have guys like that,
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 4: and I'll certainly take my chances with guys like that,
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 4: and you know kind of not only say going by committee,
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 4: but you're going to need a full compliment. In Carolina
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 4: certainly has been able to show that and do that.
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: Now, they haven't won.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 4: Anything yet, so they've been competitive, they've won divisions, they've
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 4: been competitive, and but okay, it like the time is
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 4: now to take that run and get to the Cup
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 4: final and show everybody you know who and what they are.
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 4: And if they're able to do that, then I think
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 4: we can have this conversation and and sit there and go, yeah,
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 4: there is a blueprint. There's no doubt. But I believe
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 4: is that you if you if you want to have six,
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 4: if you want to make the playoffs, you need to
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 4: have those difference makers for sure. And then if you're
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 4: gonna end up winning. You're gonna need a little bit
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 4: of luck. You're gonna need the right matchup. You're gonna
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 4: have to go through a team at some point, whether
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 4: it's the Hawks and Rams last year and then the
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 4: you know in the I the NFC Championship, or you know,
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 4: you're gonna have to face somebody in the Super Bowl
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 4: or in the Cup final, right so that those that
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 4: just matter on how the so called you know, ball
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 4: bounces every once in a while.
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: Eddie oldchick joining us here today to talk to some
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: Stanley Cup playoffs seemed like a good time to bring
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: uh ed Zo aboard. You allowed me to call you
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: ed Zoe the last time we had you on. Hopefully
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: it's still cool with you, still cool anyway? Well, we've
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: we've seen a lot of fist flying here in the
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: last few nights in the Stanley Cup playoffs, a lot
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: of stinky glove being thrown around here. Uh in the NHL,
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: is that about right about this time? Like second round?
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: And you know things are starting to get a little tight,
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: and and does it usually start getting a little tense
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: right now? Maybe it's tensest that it's been so far.
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 4: Is this normal yeah, I would say, I mean we
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 4: got we got quite a big taste of it in
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 4: in in round one where there's been on the line
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 4: and definitely over the line. I had a situation in
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 4: the Ottawa Carolina series in round one where a player
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 4: on Ottawa Ridley Greg came over and uh, there's no
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 4: other way to say it. Two players were kind of
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 4: tangled up and square it off and they weren't fighting,
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 4: but they were holding onto each other and and and
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 4: Greg came over and give a quick little sucker punch.
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 4: And and I don't agree with the number of games
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 4: he got suspended. He got two games, and it should
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 4: have been ten. In my opinion, that is not what
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 4: we do in the league. That's totally uncalled for. And
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 4: two games, I thought he got really, really lucky. And
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 4: I could really care less on what his past history is,
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 4: and they use all that into the formula making decision.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 4: I thought they missed an opportunity to draw a line
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 4: in the sand and say enough enough, we're not going
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 4: to have that type of play happen. I don't care
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 4: if a player gets hurt on that play, like I
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 4: do care.
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: But that's not to me.
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 4: It's the act should punish the act, not necessarily the outcome,
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 4: and that that should have been ten games he only
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 4: got two. Now, last night, at the end of the
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 4: game between Montreal and Buffalo, we had the same situation
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 4: where a monter, a Montreal player came in and popped
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 4: one of the Buffalo sabers in the corner in a
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 4: similar play, but it was a little looser where there
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 4: really wasn't a one on one battle going on and
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 4: then the player came in and popped them in the face.
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 4: So yeah, at tensions get high, and this is where
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 4: you need that discipline and you got to know where
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 4: the line is and you have to understand the situation
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 4: because you just never know. As I said earlier and
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 4: again not trying to be dramatic, as you just never know.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 4: Is when now think about what happened last night in
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 4: the basketball game between the years, the t Wolves and
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 4: the Spurs. Right like whenba Yama he lost his cool
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 4: for maybe two seconds, he certainly knew what he was
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 4: doing and what ended up happening. He gets thrown out
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 4: of a game and you lose arguably a top what chuck,
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 4: Is he a top five player.
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 7: In the league?
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: Is he a top three player in the league.
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 4: So when you make that decision, you want to call
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 4: it selfish, that's fine. Is that the player, No, he's
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 4: not that type of player, but he did. He crossed
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 4: the line. He cost his team an opportunity to win
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 4: a game in a playoff. That can't happen and no
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 4: different national hockey league. There's a line and when you
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 4: cross it, more times than not, you're going to get penalized.
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 4: And you just got to make sure you're being really,
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 4: really smart. So long winded, Yeah, it's gotten a little nasty.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 4: Which nasty is okay, people like watching nasty on television,
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 4: which I'm good, look at it. I love calling the games,
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 4: I love watching the games. And uh yeah, so I would.
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 5: I would.
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 4: I would concur with you that the tensions have risen
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 4: and now there's a lot of there's a lot of
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 4: I like to say from being from Chicago, there's a
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 4: lot of powdered on the powder on the line here.
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 4: So you better play between the whistles and you better
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 4: not become an individual and the ultimate team game because
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 4: if you do that, it could end up casting your
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 4: team a game or even an opportunity to move on
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 4: in the playoffs.
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: Well, let's bring a full circle with our last question
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: for you. I mean, you started it off with pucks
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: and ponies, so I'm going to ask you to come
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: up with an exact day here, give me, give me,
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: give me.
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 4: The driven even drawing thet's how about this, Let's make
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 4: it hold on, let's make a deal. Let's make a
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 4: deal real quick.
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: Okay, and I.
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 4: Probably jumped in too early, but I'm just going to
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 4: do it because that's I thought I heard Johnny Foresln's
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 4: name in the back. I thought I heard his voice,
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 4: so I figured I wanted to cut him off. You know,
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 4: just let me get in there every once in a while.
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 4: If you get a hold of me at the end
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 4: of the week, the post positions will be drawn and
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 4: I'll give I'll give all your great listeners an opportunity
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 4: if they want to get their feet wet. I'll give
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 4: them a couple of horses to cheer on, and maybe,
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 4: you know, put a wager or three on on Saturday.
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 4: So get a hold of me at the end of
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 4: the week, and then you know, I can give you
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 4: the numbers, or if you want me on for thirty
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 4: seconds to set up the race, I can do that
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 4: and then say goodbye. Oh that's you got me at
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 4: the end of the week, if you want me.
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: All right, that sounds good. I was going to ask
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: you for a rare kind of exact. I was going
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: to ask you for your Preakness winner and your Stanley
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: Cup champion. That's the exact gosh.
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's hard not to go with Colorado just
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 4: because they look like they're a step above everybody else.
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 4: And again, I don't know if the horse that leaning
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 4: towards is going to end up running on Saturday, but
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 4: if it is, I do like a horse by the
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 4: name of Napoleon solo. So if that is indeed the case,
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 4: If if Napoleon U is riding is riding on Saturday,
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 4: that's going to be that will be my pick. But
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 4: I got to see the track conditions, I got to
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 4: see the post position.
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: So that's fair.
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 4: That's so, that's got a little that's in pencil.
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: How's that okay? Perfect? That's in pencil. Thank you so
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: great to catch up with you. We appreciate it, and yeah,
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: we'll bug you before the end of the week for
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: your real pick. Sounds great, great week, Thanks for having
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: me ed old Chick joining us right here on Chuck
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 1: and Buck in the mornings. Yes, uh, Pucks and ponies.
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: He was, and he knows his NBA a little bit too.
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 5: There.
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: Provide a little everything what's going on.
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 3: He weaved in the NFL, NBA is Tracy, And I
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 3: was like, man, this guy's so good.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 2: It's like he just he's a jack of all trades.
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 2: He can just seamlessly put it all out there.
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 2: I loved it.
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: Also, want to let you know because I skipped over
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: it to bring ed on as soon as possible. Rich
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: is your Grand Slam cash word? Actually is very relieved
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: we got it in.
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, use it in a sentence. Rich would have been
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 2: real pissing done it.
• 1:19:21
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  Speaker 1: come your way next. Sports Radio ninety three point three
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: k a R FM. Person X meant nothing to them,
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: like they weren't paying at ten. Yeah, So to me,
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: it's like why did we even communicate?
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Like why did you so Jesus waste my time?
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 3: The other fourteen times we've seen each.
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: Other, and that's not like we went on a road
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: trip together.
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 2: Then I'd cry.
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't even think that we change exchange names.
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: I don't know if I ever officially met the guy. Okay,
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: I don't know if we've ever like, hey, I'm this.
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 3: I just did that with him when we had the
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 3: power outage. Oh so you know, I think I believe so. Yeah,
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 3: But that means.
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: That all those interactions, you weren't paying attention to anything.
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: If you can't even remember my face, well you.
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 3: Can't even remember that we we are one of five
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 3: people here at six am.
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: I have seen him no less than a hundred times,
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: I can promise you, yeah, almost every good times in
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: my life. And yet, hey, do you work at the
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: radio station.
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 2: No, Well, my name's not bud Pal. Listen, guy, I'm
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 2: not your pal.
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: I'm not your pal, Buddy, I'm not yet buddy guy.
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: All right, let's get into a little of the ABC's
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: of the ms here, and we do have the alphabet
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: being our guy through a few different Mariner topics here
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: this morning. We left off Friday at the letter J
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: jayis Er just in time. Man, I did not think
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: that Cole Young had thrown out that runner yesterday. I mean,
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: that guy had such little confidence, bases loaded, two outs,
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: and he tried to get a bunt hit. Yeah, with
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 1: the game on the line yesterday, and then he hits
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: a little ground ball towards second base, and I thought
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: for sure, I mean, obviously the guy's got speed. You
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: don't need the scouting report. If he's trying to bunt
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 1: with the bases loaded in a game, potential game winning situation,
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: then he's got speed. And Cole Young somehow threw him
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: out across his body body being carried away from the base,
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: and I even when the contact was made with the
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: base ball and glove, I still thought he was going
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: to be safe. And the umpire blew the call. But
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: if he didn't throw him out, I mean, we've had
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: a bad defensive year so far this year. Where would
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: we be without Cole you Young's big jump defensively at
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: second base. He's turned into a gold glover over there.
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a spectacular play.
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 3: I think I watched it like fourteen times, just watching
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 3: the way he turned his body around and how he
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 3: threw that I mean he he could not have made
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 3: that throw any more perfectly.
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 2: It was incredible. Yeah, yeah, really fun to watch.
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: Good for you, Cole, Yeah, great job, real bright spot
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: young man. Of course you did pop up with the
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 1: game on the line yourself, so you're not completely out
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: of there.
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 2: We're talking about defense.
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so maybe you better just sit there for a second,
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: just think about what you've been.
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 2: About what you've done. We'll talk about it later.
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Maybe, sure, you were.
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 2: The most reliable person we had for three weeks.
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 1: Right, but maybe maybe when your friends are out this Friday,
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 1: you're gonna have to stay home. Oh maybe snap, think
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: about that chaos for kell Nick. We got to see
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: Jared Kellnick in his brand new uniform. He does look leaner.
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: Remember how swoll he got there toward the end with
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: the Mariners. I think he just just try to keep
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 1: getting stronger. And then obviously he had to. He had
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: to eat a lot of his pride over the last
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: couple of years and now is just trying to hold
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: on for his career. And I'll say this, I mean
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: I give him credit for that. For as much hype
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: as went into Jared Kelnick and for as much pressure
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 1: as he put on himself to be not just good,
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: but legendary. I mean, in his head, he was going
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: to be legendary. And for him to have had his
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: career derailed and to spend an entire offseason wondering if
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: you were going to get another chance, and here he
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 1: is up with the White Sox, and I'm gonna give
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: him credit. I always liked him, yeah, I mean I
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 1: just like him. I sympathized with him because I knew
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 1: that head was going to start getting in his way,
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: and it did and it still does. But a lot
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: of guys with if they're because he was always described
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: as having an ego out of control. If your egos
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 1: out of control, you don't learn lessons when you hit
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: rock bottom, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and get
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: back in it. And he's still getting back in it.
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 1: And so I give him a lot of credit for that,
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: because I've seen plenty of over hyped athletes who it
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: didn't work out for them and they disappeared, Yeah, and
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: they broke down and they were they were never heard
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: from again.
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I honestly didn't think we were going to
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 2: hear from him again.
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 3: So it was it's a pleasant surprise to see that he's,
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 3: you know, at least on the right path, and he's
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 3: back up with a big league team, and he doesn't
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 3: seem to be letting his ego or his attitude get
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 3: in his way anymore. I mean, even when he kicked
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 3: that cooler, I felt bad for him, Like I wasn't
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 3: mad at him. I just felt bad because you could
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 3: tell he wanted this team to win so bad and
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  Speaker 3: he wanted to be a reason they won.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 3: And so it's just I don't know, He's always kind
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  Speaker 3: of seemed like a watch tortured person, and he and.
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 1: Julio were just synonymous with one another. And he had
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  Speaker 1: to watch Julio become the face of the franchise, which
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  Speaker 1: Julio had to watch col become the face of the
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  Speaker 1: franchise last year. And I give Julio credit for this
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  Speaker 1: as well, that that didn't change him much. But that
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 1: couldn't have been easy. And I've talked about this numerously
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  Speaker 1: numerous times about Emerson. He had to watch guys he
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  Speaker 1: was compared to lap him over and over and over
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  Speaker 1: and for him to stick in there. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 1: such a psychological game, and you can be beaten because
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 1: you're not physically capable, and you can be beaten because
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 1: you're not psychologically or mentally capable. And Jared, I think,
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 1: put way too much pressure on himself. But I give
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  Speaker 1: him a lot of credit because, like I said, I've
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  Speaker 1: seen a lot of guys who were supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: great and the moment that they were told you're not special,
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  Speaker 1: they crumbled. Yeah, and he's still hanging in there trying
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 1: to make it happen. Yeah, ellis for Luke. Talk about
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: a bounce back Luke Rayley with his historic night on Friday,
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: a grand Slam and a three run homer for Luke
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  Speaker 1: Friday Night. So congratulations to him. I wanted to talk
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  Speaker 1: about him because I mean, I spent the off season
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: doing the Stove podcast with Anders and we would, you know,
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: talk about, of course, every different roster scenario, that's the
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: point of the entire podcast, and I would catch myself
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  Speaker 1: almost every episode saying, and don't forget about Luke Rayley. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not giving myself credit because I was kind of
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 1: treating him as an afterthought, like, oh yeah, and Luke
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  Speaker 1: Rayley still on the roster.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's not forget about him.
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 1: But That's probably more than what a lot of people
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 1: were doing with Luke Rayley heading into this offseason. He
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 1: had such a bad year last year. He had the
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: major injury, he got the slow start, and then he
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 1: just never did contribute to that team's success a year ago,
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 1: and so it was I guess my point is it
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: was easy to forget about Luke Rayley and the possibility
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  Speaker 1: of him becoming a significant piece to the twenty twenty
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: six roster, and yet twenty twenty four, he was a
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 1: huge contributor, yeah, to this team, And so I'm not
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 1: sure where they'd be without Luke Rayley. Certainly a game
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 1: or two worse than what they are right now. But
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 1: he leads the team in almost every offensive category right now.
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 1: I told Ashley earlier in the show. If I'd have
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 1: told you at the beginning of the year that on
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: May eleventh, Luke Raley was going to be our leading
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 1: home run hitter and Cal Josh and Julio had not
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 1: suffered an injury major injury to this point in the season,
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 1: you would have had me committed. But Luke Raley is
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 1: our best offensive weapon, even though he only plays half games.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And if you hadn't told me that, I would
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 3: have thought, either we are really really good and Luke
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 3: Raley's just become a superstar, or oh gosh, we're struggling
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 3: and we're struggling.
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  Speaker 1: We're struggling and he's he's but he's reminded us.
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 2: Yes, what he has and what he can give to
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 2: this team.
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 1: Right, And you know, I've got power, i got speed,
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: I can play defense if you need me to. I
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: hustle every single time, and that is a valuable piece
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: to have. So for all of us that either dismissed
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: him outright in the offseason as a potential piece or
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 1: had to mention him as an afterthought before we got
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: done with a podcast. Oh and don't forget about Luke Rayley.
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: He's still in the mix. Yeah, he's been outstanding. And
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: we can't say that about a lot of guys so
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 1: far this year.
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 3: No, I would agree, and I was nervous after what
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 3: we saw from him last year. But you always know
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 3: that he has that hustle in that heart and that's
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 3: something that he's never going to lose.
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and that that in itself can be valuable.
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 1: He was just so bad last year as a player. Yeah,
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 1: that not even that could get him on the field.
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: But if he you know, he runs into an occasional
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: ball because he's got ridiculous power, yeah and yeah. And
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: if he can put the ball in play more consistently,
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: oh man, then all those little intangibles that he brings
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: become that much more valuable. So Luke's had a great
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 1: back back, bounce back season this year. And he's such
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: a good person. Oh my gosh, he is such a
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: nice guy. It's it's great to see he's he's obviously
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: not at the end of his road in his career. Finally,
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 1: Emma is for moneymaker. We got a money maker on
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  Speaker 1: the mound tonight. His name is George Kirby. This is
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  Speaker 1: the guy you want facing the Houston Astros in Game
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 1: one of a four game series to set the tone. Historically,
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 1: he has dominated Houston, and Houston's had great teams. I
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 1: don't have to tell anyone listening. This year's team might
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 1: not be so good, but we know how great the
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 1: Astros have been. And George has never blinked in the
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: face of the Astros might ten starts in his career,
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  Speaker 1: four and one with a two point one seven ERA,
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 1: and if you take out last year's one outlier per Foremance,
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: where he gave up five runs in a game in
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 1: May against the Astros fifty four and a third innings,
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 1: nine earn runs allowed. That's a one point four to
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 1: nine ERA and nine starts nine of his ten starts
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 1: against the Astros. So I don't know what it is
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  Speaker 1: about George, but he has no problems knock on your
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 1: head again knocking a lot with the Houston Astros. And
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 1: so doesn't mean that he won't, doesn't. I mean, he
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 1: just had the five run game last May. But if
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 1: you're looking on paper, like if we could set our rotation,
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 1: who do we want to start in game one to
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 1: get us off on the right foot in Houston for
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: a four game series, you're taking George. And it just
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 1: so happens he's pitching tonight, yep.
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  Speaker 2: And I think he's gonna have a great game.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna get he's gonna give up one run, he's
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 3: gonna go seven innings.
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  Speaker 1: Oh nice, here you go like it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's from my sports almanac for twenty twenties.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so all right, well then make him your money maker,
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  Speaker 1: because and it's for money maker. You probably thought I
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  Speaker 1: was getting ready to talk about my ass.
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  Speaker 2: I thought that's what you were gonna because that's what
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  Speaker 2: you shake all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Right, and that's, let's face, it's been the key to
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  Speaker 3: I didn't want to tell you that because you keep
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  Speaker 3: thinking it's this radio skill you've got.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, yeah, we know, we know where the talent lies. Ah,
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• 1:31:27
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, why not lay some as Bucky would say, duckets
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  Speaker 3: down on it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, lay some duckets down on George getting the job
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  Speaker 1: done against the Houston Astros tonight. An idea. I'm not
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 1: trying to twist your arm. I'm just saying the statistics
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 1: suggest that we're better than the Astros this year, and
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 1: George dominates the Astros. So do with that what you will.
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