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Chuck & Buck 4-10 Hour 1: Looking ahead to the Mariners series with the Astros, the Kraken win but how can they do better and your ideas on how to fix the Mariners. · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 2: is the Chuck and Buck Show. And today no Chuck
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Speaker 2: and no Buck.
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Speaker 1: It is Ashley Ryan, Greg Bell, Travis moger in on
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Speaker 1: this Friday. So we're going to do things just a
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Speaker 1: little differently than n I think this is early see, this.
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Speaker 3: Is like my former life. This is Army styles the
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Speaker 3: board on.
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Speaker 2: The with a shootout. What time do you leave here?
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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I considered sleeping.
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Speaker 3: I will that was a good choice.
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Speaker 1: No matter what I would have I would have slept here.
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Speaker 2: I think I live in Mill Creek, though, where do
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Speaker 2: you live. I live in like Green Lakes, so it's
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Speaker 2: not too far too far, but still still poor Travis.
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Speaker 1: Every time they ask him to come in on a Friday,
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Speaker 1: it's like the day after a Cracking game, and I'm like, oh,
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Speaker 1: this poor guy, he's just.
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Speaker 2: The last one out and the first one in. And
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Speaker 2: they went to a shootout. It was just a long night.
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Speaker 1: And they won a shootout, which is actually more of
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Speaker 1: the story because I I went to sleep, I did
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Speaker 1: not watch them win the shootout, and I think that
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Speaker 1: was the key. And I apologize to Cracking fans all
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Speaker 1: around because I should have been falling asleep for every shootout.
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Speaker 2: And then they would have won a lot. More about
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Speaker 2: your fault, I know, and I'm sorry.
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Speaker 3: All the problems that Crack and have, I'm not sure
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Speaker 3: that's one of them.
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Speaker 1: Well, I should have figured it out earlier and maybe
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Speaker 1: they'd have less problems. But we will talk plenty about
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Speaker 1: the Crack in today we are. I don't know how
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Speaker 1: you guys felt, but yesterday, obviously.
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Speaker 2: A Mariner's off day. Did you feel a little relieved?
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Speaker 1: Did you feel a little They didn't lose exactly, And
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Speaker 1: I was like, oh, it's kind of nice that I'm
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Speaker 1: not one trying to schedule everything around making sure I'm
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Speaker 1: watching the Mariners game. And too, I also think I
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Speaker 1: needed a little bit of a break.
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Speaker 3: Mom, you better not scheduling a Mariner's game. No, but
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Speaker 3: I do get left.
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Speaker 1: I know it's true, but especially because you know, with
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Speaker 1: Bucky being gone, I feel like I've got it. It's
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Speaker 1: it's not something I can just have on kind of
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Speaker 1: in the background. I feel like I've got to be
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Speaker 1: paying even more attention, and so I have been scheduling
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Speaker 1: more things like Okay, well I can record, I can
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Speaker 1: start late, I can watch this and fast forward. And yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's it was nice to have a day off where
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Speaker 1: I wasn't worried that everybody was going to get very angry.
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Speaker 3: That's you're probably speaking for most of the Pacific Northwest. Yeah, right,
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Speaker 3: when you say that, they just took a breath of Oh,
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Speaker 3: I don't have to watch this for a minute.
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Speaker 2: I know. And that's sad. Two weeks into the season.
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Speaker 3: Well, and that's the thing, right, I mean, this is
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Speaker 3: you talk about Groundhog Day. We talk when I had
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Speaker 3: the show on the station for thirteen months, six of them,
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Speaker 3: Chris and I, Chris Kidd and I talked about this.
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Speaker 3: Are the Mariners that ever going to turn around? How
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Speaker 3: nervous are you about the Mariners? This is clockwork. Four
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Speaker 3: and nine is the norm for this team after thirteen games.
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Speaker 3: Now they are resetting low marks for franchises for first
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Speaker 3: thirteen game. I can talk about this a little bit,
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Speaker 3: but statistically batting averages, ops, slugging. Yeah, every year over
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Speaker 3: year they set a new low after thirteen games. Last
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Speaker 3: year they had franchise lows hitting and scoring. They just
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Speaker 3: broke that this year with the first thirteen games. This
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Speaker 3: is who they are. The American League West stinks right now.
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Speaker 3: The American League stinks right now. So that's okay. The
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Speaker 3: bad part is to see the Mariners have only played
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Speaker 3: the American League so far and they're against the bad
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Speaker 3: side of the Majorague baseball. But yeah, we're going to
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Speaker 3: ask you on the text line four nine with Dodge
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Speaker 3: text line and other places today YouTube, which is new
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Speaker 3: to me.
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Speaker 2: I welcome to YouTube.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you, But we're gonna ask is it are
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Speaker 3: you panicked? How long will you not be panicked? When?
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Speaker 3: At what point is the panic point on the Mariners? Well,
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Speaker 3: you hearing about Dan Wilson is he on a hot seat.
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Speaker 3: My answer is no, no, I would agree because who
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Speaker 3: picked him is still in charge. Yeah, but when's the panic?
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Speaker 3: And I from from my experience in this living here
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Speaker 3: for thirty plus years, maybe the All Star break would
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Speaker 3: be the panic point. I mean on me in April.
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Speaker 3: And this team has shown eventually they have the pitching
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Speaker 3: that if they just get a modicum of hitting, and
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Speaker 3: this year, more to the point that fielding, which is yeah,
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Speaker 3: I think even to average of those they're gonna win.
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Speaker 3: That's that's the history. So it's easy to say coming
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Speaker 3: off and off day, but I wouldn't be too panicked,
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Speaker 3: that would be concerned, wouldn't be panicked.
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Speaker 1: And that's the thing that's the conversation we've kind of
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Speaker 1: been having lately, is Yeah, you can be frust you
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Speaker 1: can be annoyed. And again, just for all the Texters,
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Speaker 1: for all the YouTubers, I'm not telling you how to fan.
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Speaker 2: You can feel however you want.
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Speaker 1: I'm just saying, you know, to save my own sanity,
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Speaker 1: I am annoyed.
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Speaker 2: I'm frustrated.
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Speaker 1: I don't like it that the season starts this way frequently.
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Speaker 1: I don't like it that we have such high expectations
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Speaker 1: and hopes coming off last year. To start this season
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Speaker 1: this way again, when you think maybe now it's going
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Speaker 1: to be different and then it's not.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's really freaking annoying. I get it. I'm annoyed,
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Speaker 2: especially this year.
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Speaker 3: I mean to talk and nobody. I wrote a story
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Speaker 3: for the News Tribute, which I'm already regretting, talking about
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Speaker 3: what players, what fans coming to the ballpark opening day,
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Speaker 3: and even John Stanton himself was saying World Series.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: John Stanton the day of the opener said we should
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Speaker 3: be competing in the World Series this year. He said that, yeah,
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Speaker 3: on live radio on this station. Yeah. He told that
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Speaker 3: to Softy Jimmy's across the street from the park. And
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Speaker 3: they go out and go four and nine to start.
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Speaker 3: That's what makes this particular start even more galling. But
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Speaker 3: having said that, there's still one hundred and fifty games
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Speaker 3: left to go, and this team, again, if they just
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Speaker 3: get a modicum of semi average hitting and just feel
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Speaker 3: the ball like a little league team should be able
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Speaker 3: to and throw the ball and catch the ball, they
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Speaker 3: will win. That's the history of the recent history of
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Speaker 3: this pitching staff. They go with a one, three, nine
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Speaker 3: era down in Texas, a team that did not look
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Speaker 3: good to me at all when we watched him, and
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Speaker 3: they lost all three games. I know. So even having
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Speaker 3: said all of this, they still had the pitching to
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Speaker 3: go to the World Series. They did last year, they
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Speaker 3: did it to do again this year. So when you
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Speaker 3: say panic, now the injury piece, which is what John
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Speaker 3: Stanton caveated when he talked on Opening Day two, Softy,
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Speaker 3: if we have the health, he said, we should be
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Speaker 3: competing this year for the World Series. The injuries for
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Speaker 3: the pitching staff would absolutely turn the whole season around.
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Speaker 3: And then if you would couple that with the hitting
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Speaker 3: in the fielding they have, you're talking about the last place.
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Speaker 2: Tom that would be a disaster.
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Speaker 1: Can Yeah, can we knock on all like, knock on everything.
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Speaker 3: There's enough wood in the Pacific Northwest to knocking on
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Speaker 3: to try to avoid that from happening. But we've already
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Speaker 3: seen it.
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Speaker 1: Bryce Miller, Yeah, but he also even coming off last year,
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Speaker 1: wasn't you know, he had some struggles, some issues, some
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Speaker 1: health that was kind of haunting them all season. So
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Speaker 1: I don't have a fear that that's going to be
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Speaker 1: derailing them. I think he's gonna be okay.
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Speaker 3: And Emerson Hancock has proven worthy enough, Yes, going for him.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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Speaker 3: The pitching. My point is eventually the key is eventually
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Speaker 3: how much are you going to pay and watch and
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Speaker 3: invest in this until eventually happens. But eventually, if they
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Speaker 3: just hit a little bit and catch the ball like
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Speaker 3: amag League team should, they're gonna win. Yeah, because of
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Speaker 3: their pitching staff. And you know what else, They're gonna
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Speaker 3: be forty thousand butts in the seats tonight because it's
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Speaker 3: each Ye Row Giveaway Statue night because and they're gonna
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Speaker 3: unveil the statue out in front of the park Ye night.
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Speaker 3: And I hate to say it, but I've said it
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Speaker 3: many years on this station. As long as there's fireworks nights,
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Speaker 3: bibbleheads and Eachiero statue knights at forty thousand people are
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Speaker 3: coming to John Stanton boys are cool.
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Speaker 2: Oh, you just pissed so many people off.
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Speaker 3: They are high in profit. They are clear and profit.
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Speaker 3: They're getting luxury tax money from the Yankees and the
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Speaker 3: Dodgers and the Cubs of the world. Right. They are
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Speaker 3: plus in what they do best, which is make money
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Speaker 3: pro sports on owners own teams, not to make us
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Speaker 3: feel good and so yeah, it's great, and the Seahawks
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Speaker 3: will say they do it for the fans. Billionaires own
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Speaker 3: billionaire teams to make more billions. That's the bottom line.
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Speaker 3: That's how they got to be billionaires. They didn't get
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Speaker 3: there by being philanthropists. They got there by making money.
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Speaker 3: And as long as the Mariners and John Standing and
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Speaker 3: the boys are making money, we good. And that's the
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Speaker 3: frustration with the Mariners. And when they don't invest and
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Speaker 3: they don't bring people in free agents, that's where fans
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Speaker 3: get ticked. Yeah, and that's that's a a valid concern
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Speaker 3: and a valid criticism of this team. But if you're
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Speaker 3: one of those billionaires invested in the Mariners and you
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Speaker 3: see forty thousand in the park for a four and
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Speaker 3: nineteen that the whole region is pissed about, you.
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Speaker 1: Could yeah, And that's and which is a sad thing.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's interesting to see. You know, obviously,
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Speaker 1: I think most people that are going to this game
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Speaker 1: tonight bought these tickets before the Marriags were on a
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Speaker 1: four and nine.
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Speaker 3: Start, right, and more part, yeah, you should be celebrating, right.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, go celebrate Eachi ro go see the statue go
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Speaker 1: get your replica statue, and I think some of them
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Speaker 1: are going to be autographed.
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Speaker 2: I mean, very cool, fun thing honor the Mariners.
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Speaker 1: There was a conversation on our station yesterday actually about
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Speaker 1: we need to stop celebrating all of these things in
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Speaker 1: the past, right, Like, and people were texting in yesterday,
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Speaker 1: why are you talking about a two thousand and one team.
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Speaker 1: We had Mark maclamore on and we were talking to
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Speaker 1: him about Echiro. Why are you talking about the two
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Speaker 1: thousand and one team that's twenty five years ago. Well,
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Speaker 1: because it is important to honor our past, but also
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Speaker 1: that's what we've got, right You.
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Speaker 3: Talk about the team who never made the World Series.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what we've got. We can't celebrate our trip
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Speaker 1: to the World Series. We can't celebrate our World Series championship.
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Speaker 1: We can celebrate nineteen ninety five because it was an
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Speaker 1: awesome year where nobody thought they were going to make
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Speaker 1: the playoffs. We can celebrate two thousand and one because
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Speaker 1: it was an amazing regular season that ended in disappointment.
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Speaker 2: We don't talk about that part.
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Speaker 1: And we can celebrate our great players, and we can
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Speaker 1: celebrate last year going to the ALCS Game seven because
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Speaker 1: that is what we've got, and you can't celebrate something
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Speaker 1: you don't have.
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Speaker 3: I've been around a few major ague parks. I grew
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Speaker 3: up thirty minutes from Three River Stadium in Pittsburgh, I
10:33
Speaker 3: will say, and family in Cleveland. Get back to Detroit now.
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Speaker 3: My mother and sister live in Detroit, and those cities
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Speaker 3: have great baseball history. Yeah, Pittsburgh back to the turn
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Speaker 3: of the nineteen hundreds, Cleveland the same, Detroit the same,
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Speaker 3: and championships the World Series. The Pirates don't celebrate their
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Speaker 3: last World Series like the Mariners celebrate the two thousand
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Speaker 3: and one and ninety five team. I mean, in nineteen
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Speaker 3: seventy nine, we are family, Willie Stargell Pirates, they don't
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Speaker 3: invoke that as nearly as much as the ninety five
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Speaker 3: Mariners are around here. So they do do it a
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Speaker 3: little bit overboard. But to your point, what what else
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Speaker 3: are they going to celebrate?
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Speaker 1: Right, You've got to know you got to keep reliving
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Speaker 1: it because it does sell.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it does s I mean.
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Speaker 2: I mean people will get annoyed.
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Speaker 1: People are going to be so mad, why are we
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Speaker 1: celebrating these I get it, But again, when that's what
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Speaker 1: you've got.
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Speaker 3: That's what you got it. It's not Sean Figgins statue
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Speaker 3: knite tonight. It's statue. It's not stuff tonight today.
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Speaker 2: Goodness buy would be mad. Yeah right, yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 1: And that's the thing is, you know, we are celebrating
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Speaker 1: a great player with who's i mean, world world famous
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Speaker 1: and what he's done for the game of baseball. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's not like they're doing Rett Boone statue knighte. Sorry
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Speaker 1: for all these guys catching strays, but that's just what
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Speaker 1: we're not doing that, you know. So I do think
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Speaker 1: in terms of that it's important to celebrate those things.
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Speaker 1: And it is sad that that's all we have, not
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Speaker 1: the player part, but the games and the years that
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Speaker 1: we're celebrating that we keep remembering. Yeah, it's sad that
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Speaker 1: that's what we were celebrating because that's what we have.
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Speaker 3: But it also sells. But it sells which it puts
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Speaker 3: butts and seats in the park, which is the bottom
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Speaker 3: line of the people who run the Mariners. Yeah, and
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Speaker 3: I mean I make a joke that they should have
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Speaker 3: Ken Griffy sleeping in the clubhouse bubblehead and they should
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Speaker 3: make Ken Griffy and batting practice ball. They should Maken
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Speaker 3: Griffy in his truck driving across Eye ninety and it
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Speaker 3: would sell. You get forty thousand people to the park.
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Speaker 1: He was at a kracking game last night. You could
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Speaker 1: do a crack Ken Griffy. You get the kracking game, Boble.
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Speaker 3: You can get Ken Griffy sitting in his truck driving
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Speaker 3: across Ero ninety in Montana during a Mariner's game when
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Speaker 3: he abruptly retired bubblehead night and you get forty thousand
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Speaker 3: people that would come to that. Probably, you can't blame
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Speaker 3: the Mariners for which a job to do, and they're
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Speaker 3: doing it very well. Yes, they are for a team
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Speaker 3: that has never made the playoff and they made the
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Speaker 3: World Series. Yeah, but they drove two and a half
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Speaker 3: million people last year.
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Speaker 2: I don't know, but it was.
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Speaker 3: It was thirty two thousand a night.
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Speaker 2: It's pretty good.
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Speaker 3: That's some coin.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: When parking costs fifty seventy bucks and beers cost eighteen
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Speaker 3: bucks and hot dogs cost ten you bring a family
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Speaker 3: of four for two hundred and fifty dollars just to
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Speaker 3: sit in the bleachers, that's some bucks. When three two
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Speaker 3: point five million people come in. Yeah, so they aren't
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Speaker 3: discouraged to change that. No, they aren't discouraged to quit
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Speaker 3: the each Hero statue knights and the Ken Griffy driving
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Speaker 3: in his truck bubblehead night because it sells. And that's
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Speaker 3: the so frustrating part about the on field product. I mean, honestly,
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Speaker 3: if you're driving, if you're drawing thirty two thousand people
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Speaker 3: a night and making the money the Mariners are making,
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Speaker 3: you damn well should be in the World Series. I mean,
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Speaker 3: you're the product you're putting on isn't matching the numbers
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Speaker 3: they get in the revenue they're making buying large.
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Speaker 1: Now, last year did yeah well, and I was going
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Speaker 1: to say too, I think, you know, adding Naylor in
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Speaker 1: the off season was a big deal and bringing in Donovan.
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Speaker 2: I mean they did this year.
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Speaker 1: I think off season wise was more impressive than they've
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Speaker 1: been in a while.
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Speaker 3: But they also had more money. They just made the
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Speaker 3: last past offseason well good.
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Speaker 2: I'm glad they used it, right but right, yeah.
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Speaker 3: Because they played for almost an extra month, they had
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Speaker 3: gate revenue and interest and as I mentioned, thirty two
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Speaker 3: thousand people per night in the stands, so they had
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Speaker 3: a higher floor this past offseason. As far as revenue,
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Speaker 3: and that's the bottom line. How much is this is
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Speaker 3: true of anyton the Seahawks that I cover for the
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Speaker 3: News Tribune, same thing. How much are they willing The
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Speaker 3: NFL is different because it has a hard salary cap
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Speaker 3: and there's a floor you have to pay a minimum
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Speaker 3: of cash out every year. That's where the CBA. But
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Speaker 3: how much are they willing to spend up the profit
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Speaker 3: they got the previous year in the Mariners case, and
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Speaker 3: the profits were larger last year because of the success
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Speaker 3: they had in the longer games and packed houses for
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Speaker 3: two playoff rounds. That to me is the reason that
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Speaker 3: they signed or traded for Brandon Donovan and signed re
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Speaker 3: signed Josh Naylor because the floor was higher and tonight,
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Speaker 3: when forty thousand people come to each year, Statue Knight,
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Speaker 3: the floor stays there. When does the floor drop out?
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Speaker 3: As long as they have this pitching staff, I would
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Speaker 3: argue it's not going to because they're going to be
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Speaker 3: in contention. I guess said. If they can start catching
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Speaker 3: you throwing like a league team, they will be in contention.
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Speaker 3: So the floor doesn't drop out. And that's why, in
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Speaker 3: my mind, the panic doesn't start until August.
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Speaker 1: If they're playing like this right, well, and the panic
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Speaker 1: shouldn't start.
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Speaker 2: I mean, well I shouldn't. I think the panic there.
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Speaker 1: If this is still the case at the end of May,
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Speaker 1: you're gonna have a lot of very panicked people, whether
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Speaker 1: they should be or not, because obviously there's I hate
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Speaker 1: to say, it's still a lot of time left.
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Speaker 2: In the season.
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Speaker 1: I know I won't use the it's early phrase, but
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Speaker 1: you know, it is funny to me that there is
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Speaker 1: so much anger and frustration and some panic with the
15:47
Speaker 1: season started two weeks ago from yesterday.
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Speaker 2: So is it an ugly start to the season?
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Speaker 3: One man? Does it feel like it was two months ago?
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Speaker 1: It feels really well, And I say, maybe that's the problem.
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Speaker 1: Maybe that's the problem is that people are like, oh,
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Speaker 1: we've been doing this all right for months. Oh crap,
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Speaker 1: it's only been two weeks.
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Speaker 2: Maybe that's the problem.
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Speaker 5: Well, I think part of the problem is that your
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Speaker 5: your big stars, your big bats are so cold and
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Speaker 5: striking out. It's very frustrating. You give Naylor this big
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Speaker 5: contract and he is just sucking. Yeah, and you know
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Speaker 5: Julio typically he's not playing well this time of the season,
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Speaker 5: but you still you expect more from your stars.
16:23
Speaker 2: Absolutely. I will say.
16:24
Speaker 1: The one thing that we haven't and I brought this
16:26
Speaker 1: up briefly to Chuck, we haven't really gotten to talk
16:28
Speaker 1: about at all because of this terrible start, is that
16:31
Speaker 1: Julio has had two moments where he's come up in
16:33
Speaker 1: the ninth inning and delivered a clutch hit that's tied
16:36
Speaker 1: the game and sent us to extra innings, and we
16:38
Speaker 1: haven't even gotten to talk about it because everything else
16:40
Speaker 1: has been so abysmal.
16:41
Speaker 3: One to the opposite field of all things.
16:43
Speaker 1: Yeah, Anaheim, Yeah, and he's getting no credit because in
16:46
Speaker 1: both of them they lost the game, right, And it's like,
16:49
Speaker 1: but but that is one positive thing that I've noticed,
16:53
Speaker 1: But then you've got It's kind of like all the
16:54
Speaker 1: positives are taken over by the negative.
16:57
Speaker 2: Like Rob Refsnider, great catch the other day. I can't hit.
17:01
Speaker 3: He doesn't have hit this season, yet doesn't know he's
17:02
Speaker 3: over for thirteen. I believe the guy who's the best
17:05
Speaker 3: hitting against left handed.
17:06
Speaker 1: Pitching he ever created, and I don't think he has
17:08
Speaker 1: a hit unless he got one on Wednesday, but I
17:10
Speaker 1: don't think he did no hits.
17:11
Speaker 2: No hits.
17:12
Speaker 1: Okay, so spectacular catch, can't hit Brendon Donovan.
17:15
Speaker 2: Can hit errors, errors, errors in left field and at
17:19
Speaker 2: third base.
17:20
Speaker 1: So it's like you everything is a you know, given
17:23
Speaker 1: a take in there so that you don't have any
17:25
Speaker 1: like just multiple positives to move forward with because every
17:29
Speaker 1: single positive has a negative attached to it.
17:32
Speaker 3: Right now, That's another point we're going to bring up
17:34
Speaker 3: during the show about the Mariners. Brandon Donovan is their
17:37
Speaker 3: best hitter right now three to sixteen, six oh five,
17:40
Speaker 3: slugging one point h two, seven ops, three home runs
17:43
Speaker 3: and eleven starts. He is the worst third basement in
17:46
Speaker 3: Major League Baseball all kinds of metrics, by all kinds
17:49
Speaker 3: of metrics. Leads and errors. Second most error is actually
17:52
Speaker 3: worst fielding percentage. There's a saber metrics You fucking may
17:55
Speaker 3: have talked about this, maybe not. He's not a big
17:57
Speaker 3: SATA metrics guy. Now, range factor you know that is?
18:01
Speaker 2: I do not.
18:02
Speaker 3: It's how big your range is in your kitchen. No
18:04
Speaker 3: range factor is put outs plus out. I was trying
18:08
Speaker 3: to catch you there, put outs plus assists per nine innings.
18:11
Speaker 3: It's an old Rick rama, said Rick James. That would
18:17
Speaker 3: have been funny. This is a sabermetrics from the nineteen
18:19
Speaker 3: eighties and one of the Originals. And he is the
18:23
Speaker 3: worst in Major League Baseball among all regular third basemen
18:26
Speaker 3: and put outs plus assists per nine innings. Wow, So
18:30
Speaker 3: when he gets chances, he's not converting them, right? How
18:33
Speaker 3: long does that last? Who do they have instead?
18:36
Speaker 2: I know that, And that's the question.
18:37
Speaker 1: I mean, And you think too with Perry Hill, like
18:39
Speaker 1: it's going to improve because we've seen him do that
18:42
Speaker 1: gold Glove infielder it's second base, Yeah, with the Cardinals, don't.
18:46
Speaker 1: I have never played baseball or softball. I just watch
18:49
Speaker 1: a lot of it. I don't know how hard that
18:51
Speaker 1: is to convert from second to third.
18:52
Speaker 3: He did have one hundred I think it was one
18:54
Speaker 3: hundred games in his career. Maybe it's fewer than that.
18:57
Speaker 3: I wrote a story and Opening Day about him playing
18:58
Speaker 3: at third base. He had a dabbling of it in
19:01
Speaker 3: Saint Louis. Yeah, most of it was at second base
19:04
Speaker 3: and then some outfield as well. But he won a
19:05
Speaker 3: gold Glove a couple of years ago for what he
19:07
Speaker 3: did at second base. I coached high school baseball have
19:11
Speaker 3: and here in Seattle, and I'm in no way a
19:13
Speaker 3: majorly level authority on this, but talking to guys in
19:18
Speaker 3: covering used to be some of you remember from my show.
19:21
Speaker 3: I used to be the A's beat writer in Oakland
19:22
Speaker 3: for the Sacramento Bee, and I covered the Mariners as
19:24
Speaker 3: the AP sports writer here in Seattle for years. They
19:27
Speaker 3: will tell you that third base, of all the positions
19:30
Speaker 3: in the infield, is the most difficult because of how
19:32
Speaker 3: quickly the ball gets on, especially right handed batters. Yeah,
19:35
Speaker 3: and that is an adjustment, and compared to second base,
19:39
Speaker 3: where you are more in the middle of the diamond
19:41
Speaker 3: and further back positionally in most cases. So and not
19:45
Speaker 3: to mention the long throws from third to first, so
19:48
Speaker 3: it is incrementally more difficult, they will tell you at
19:50
Speaker 3: third base than at second base. And the Marriagers knew
19:53
Speaker 3: this when they decided to put him at third. The
19:55
Speaker 3: fact is, when they let Heineo Suarez leave again, by
19:59
Speaker 3: the way, the going to trade for Suarez in July,
20:01
Speaker 3: probably that's just going to be a thing.
20:04
Speaker 2: Is going to be your thing.
20:06
Speaker 3: The only two times in the last quarter century they
20:08
Speaker 3: made the playoffs because.
20:10
Speaker 2: Well, they were gonna be like, all right, were.
20:13
Speaker 3: In July. He's going to be back here, by the way,
20:15
Speaker 3: all right. But when they let him go. They had
20:17
Speaker 3: to make a calculous decision of who's going to be
20:20
Speaker 3: a third Okay, let's try Brandon Donovan here. So they
20:25
Speaker 3: had to have considered the possibility that this would happen
20:28
Speaker 3: because he hasn't played.
20:29
Speaker 1: Regularly well, and he even talked about in spring training like, yeah,
20:32
Speaker 1: I'm nervous about this because I don't have a lot
20:34
Speaker 1: of experience here.
20:34
Speaker 3: Then now you see why.
20:36
Speaker 2: Yeah, now you see why.
20:36
Speaker 1: All right, well we've got a lot more to talk
20:38
Speaker 1: about with the Marigers, we got a lot more to
20:39
Speaker 1: talk about with the show.
20:40
Speaker 2: Let's find out what is on tap?
20:44
Speaker 4: What's on tep, what's on tap?
20:47
Speaker 1: So I mentioned we're going to do things a little
20:49
Speaker 1: differently today. We will have the OCHO, but it won't
20:51
Speaker 1: be your typical OO. We'll just kind of continue to
20:54
Speaker 1: have conversations about the bigger stories from the week. The
20:57
Speaker 1: Kraken did win last night, we did mention that. So
20:59
Speaker 1: we're we are going to have Todd light Wiki on
21:01
Speaker 1: at seven oh five. He's gonna talk cracking.
21:03
Speaker 3: Note I'm not gonna talk about that when.
21:05
Speaker 2: Though, Yeah, he's gonna talk crack about not about you.
21:07
Speaker 3: You know, my first question is going to be to
21:08
Speaker 3: Hip Dravis. How the hell are you going to have
21:11
Speaker 3: an independent audit of your hockey operations led by the
21:16
Speaker 3: general manager who leads the hockey operations.
21:18
Speaker 1: Yeah, they the new president of hockey operations because they're
21:21
Speaker 1: not really filling the position.
21:22
Speaker 3: Yeah.
21:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a great question. I'm curious about it.
21:26
Speaker 1: We are also going to have Elise Woodward on at nine,
21:29
Speaker 1: so that'll be fun to talk to her.
21:30
Speaker 2: She just got a new gig in Portland.
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Speaker 1: forty five, And since we probably won't have a lot
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Speaker 2: The lefty picks it up, They'll cut to the near side.
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Speaker 3: Dorothe to the slot side, I dowing a card and
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Speaker 3: the seattle cracking back in the win. Colump with a
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Speaker 3: four to three win in a shootout over Vegas.
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Speaker 4: I'll have to cuts you win right there, partner, battle
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Speaker 4: back in the third period to.
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Speaker 3: Tie this thing up. Couldn't get it done in.
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Speaker 4: Overtime, get it done in a shootout, cracking win four three.
22:45
Speaker 1: The Kraken won a shootout. I know it was pretty
22:49
Speaker 1: amazing because that doesn't happen very often. That was your
22:52
Speaker 1: delivery of the game. The first was their second second
22:56
Speaker 1: in eight attempts. Yeah, I know, I know. That's I'm
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23:17
Speaker 1: here's the thing, and I guess this is my question
23:20
Speaker 1: for both of you, because we've gotten to the point
23:23
Speaker 1: now where the season we can all agree is turning
23:27
Speaker 1: into a pretty big disappointment because everybody had really high
23:30
Speaker 1: playoff expectations. Now the crack and are not mathematically out
23:34
Speaker 1: of it. There are four games left and they are
23:36
Speaker 1: out of the second wild card spot by eight points,
23:39
Speaker 1: so chances are pretty slim that they're making the playoffs.
23:43
Speaker 3: The Kings cannot gain a point for standings in any
23:46
Speaker 3: of their final four games, one of them against Seattle.
23:48
Speaker 2: Actually, and the Predators can't eat I mean basically.
23:51
Speaker 3: Preeditors are one behind, yeah, right below the cut line
23:53
Speaker 3: of for the last wild card.
23:55
Speaker 1: So we have to win out and then hope that nope,
23:57
Speaker 1: that everybody else loses basically and.
23:59
Speaker 3: Not only loses regulation.
24:01
Speaker 2: Yeah, no overtimes.
24:04
Speaker 3: Yeah.
24:04
Speaker 1: So I mean unlikely, right, And I mean we've seen
24:08
Speaker 1: this Cracking team go on on a win streak.
24:10
Speaker 2: I'm not saying that I don't think they could win out.
24:12
Speaker 2: I think they could.
24:13
Speaker 1: I actually wouldn't surprise me that they do it, because
24:15
Speaker 1: it would be right when we're thinking that all hope
24:17
Speaker 1: is lost, and then they'd give us a little hope.
24:18
Speaker 1: And then the problem is what you need from other
24:21
Speaker 1: teams in order to get to that second wild card spot.
24:24
Speaker 1: It's not just dependent on the krack and winning, it
24:27
Speaker 1: is dependent on other people losing. You do play the Kings,
24:30
Speaker 1: so there's one where if you beat them, they're not
24:31
Speaker 1: going to gain a point.
24:32
Speaker 2: But that's just one game.
24:33
Speaker 1: The other teams, I think you play Vegas again, they've
24:36
Speaker 1: already locked in their spot. You're playing Calgary tomorrow and Colorado.
24:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah, so you couldn't.
24:46
Speaker 3: I bet Colorado's reserves are pretty good too.
24:50
Speaker 2: I mean that would that would be out of luck.
24:52
Speaker 1: If we'd get to the last game and it's and
24:54
Speaker 1: everybody's like, okay, all we have to do win this
24:56
Speaker 1: and we're in the playoffs, and then Colorado's backups are
24:59
Speaker 1: just crushing us. That would be our luck. That would
25:03
Speaker 1: be our luck. So do you guys feel like the
25:06
Speaker 1: way that the.
25:07
Speaker 2: Season has gone.
25:08
Speaker 1: We we had I think a lot of optimism going
25:11
Speaker 1: into the Olympic break and then coming out of it
25:12
Speaker 1: it has just kind of yeah, and it's just been
25:15
Speaker 1: a deflated balloon since then. So how big of a
25:18
Speaker 1: disappointment is it really though, Like I mean, it's it's
25:22
Speaker 1: not on a Mariner's level of missing the playoffs.
25:24
Speaker 2: It's not on a Seahawks.
25:25
Speaker 1: Level of missing the playoffs, I don't think, because the
25:28
Speaker 1: Cracking are obviously not as popular as the Mariners and Seahawks. Yeah, exactly,
25:33
Speaker 1: still growing. So how disappointing, How disappointing is it really?
25:38
Speaker 3: Well, if you're a hockey fan, it's certainly disappointing.
25:40
Speaker 2: Yeah, you sign a casual fan, I think.
25:42
Speaker 3: Though, You sign Chandler Stevenson to a forty three million
25:45
Speaker 3: dollar contract. Yeah he has fifteen goals. He's a centerman, Yeah,
25:48
Speaker 3: he has fifteen goals. Look at the Brandon Montur said,
25:52
Speaker 3: this is the problem that people have with the Kraken,
25:54
Speaker 3: not only the results, but the moves that the splash
25:57
Speaker 3: moves that they thought we're going to move the needle
25:59
Speaker 3: and change the direction of the franchise have not worked at.
26:02
Speaker 2: All, right, at all?
26:04
Speaker 1: Well, and then you bring in Bobby McMahon, who I
26:06
Speaker 1: think a lot of people were like, who, we don't
26:07
Speaker 1: really know who he is, and then all of a
26:08
Speaker 1: sudden he runched a fire under everybody.
26:10
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a great one. That's the one that
26:12
Speaker 2: nobody they kept it.
26:13
Speaker 3: Yeah, because his contract ending, which is why they got
26:15
Speaker 3: him in the first place. They got to lock them up, right, Yeah,
26:17
Speaker 3: can they keep it?
26:18
Speaker 2: That'd be huge.
26:19
Speaker 3: Here's the deal in the cracking. And I'm sure you've
26:21
Speaker 3: talked I know I've talked with Ian Forness about this.
26:24
Speaker 3: Their window of people giving a rip, a big rip,
26:27
Speaker 3: as in buying season tickets that cost a dime is
26:31
Speaker 3: about to end when the Sonics come here. There are
26:35
Speaker 3: way more people that are invested in NBA basketball, going
26:38
Speaker 3: back to the Sonics being here until two thousand and eight,
26:40
Speaker 3: than there are hockey fans. And that this right now,
26:45
Speaker 3: between now and the Sonics beginning play, which sounds like
26:47
Speaker 3: it's gonna be October twenty twenty eight, is the window
26:49
Speaker 3: for the crack and to do something right because they
26:52
Speaker 3: will be third fiddle in their own building potentially when
26:55
Speaker 3: the Sonics come. And I'm going to ask Todd lay
26:59
Speaker 3: Wiki about that at eight o'clock. Yet you're good eight
27:03
Speaker 3: o'clock in Denver.
27:05
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, there you go.
27:06
Speaker 3: That That, to me is the existential macro issue with
27:12
Speaker 3: this team. You have had five years to capture the
27:15
Speaker 3: winter market. The Huskies basketball team is not.
27:19
Speaker 2: They're not capturing any market, no.
27:20
Speaker 3: Not even their own. No, So you have this window
27:25
Speaker 3: to establish yourself as a winning franchise. And oh, by
27:29
Speaker 3: the way, you are asking season ticket holders to put
27:31
Speaker 3: down a ton of money for multiple years to have
27:34
Speaker 3: the right to watch you. And now, so far they've
27:37
Speaker 3: still been in this honeymoon phase and they still had
27:39
Speaker 3: season ticket contracts which are now ending that ensured full buildings.
27:44
Speaker 3: No matter what the results, it's been a great financial
27:46
Speaker 3: success for the Kraken that no matter what your on
27:50
Speaker 3: ice product is, the place is sold out. Now, anyone
27:53
Speaker 3: who goes to a cracking game regularly knows that not
27:56
Speaker 3: every game is actually full of fans, right, and that
27:59
Speaker 3: there are many fans who have bought tickets who can't
28:01
Speaker 3: sell them or don't sell them, and the seats go empty.
28:04
Speaker 3: But as far as the bottom line, do an owner,
28:06
Speaker 3: like we talked about with the Mariners butts and seats,
28:08
Speaker 3: they well, let's say butts bought.
28:11
Speaker 2: For right money, paid for seats.
28:13
Speaker 3: Yeah, they've got them year over year, sold out the building.
28:17
Speaker 3: Now that's about to end. When these licenses, these season
28:20
Speaker 3: ticket deals started ending at three and five years and
28:23
Speaker 3: some of them already ended. And then that's the challenge
28:26
Speaker 3: for the how do you get those people to come back?
28:28
Speaker 3: How do you get new investors this season tickets? When
28:30
Speaker 3: you've missed the playoffs for the last five years. You
28:33
Speaker 3: have this glittering building that's about to bring in a
28:35
Speaker 3: Sonics team that will eclipse you in interest and in
28:39
Speaker 3: money spent by the casual sports fan in this market.
28:42
Speaker 3: They will. Yeah, And to me, that's the biggest urgency
28:46
Speaker 3: for this franchise. How and if for me, I don't
28:50
Speaker 3: think it's Lane Lambert. I mean you're gonna change a
28:52
Speaker 3: coach again?
28:52
Speaker 2: You can't. There's no way you can't do that.
28:54
Speaker 3: Toddlay wiki yesterday and his press conference at Northgate or
28:57
Speaker 3: it was actually downtown a climate pledge. He didn't really
29:00
Speaker 3: talk about it. Something else we can ask him at
29:02
Speaker 3: seven thirty.
29:06
Speaker 2: I just like, no, I want you to keep saying
29:07
Speaker 2: different times. Just it's fun.
29:09
Speaker 3: Sorry, No, I like this.
29:11
Speaker 2: You're good.
29:11
Speaker 3: Seven o five book it, seven o five title I
29:14
Speaker 3: Wreck will be here. That's another question I want to
29:16
Speaker 3: ask him, is what what are you gonna do with
29:17
Speaker 3: Lane Lambert? Are you really going to change a third
29:20
Speaker 3: coach in three years? Four coaches in five years.
29:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, I still.
29:23
Speaker 3: Think they fired da've Haxtall too soon.
29:25
Speaker 1: I mean, considering that that was the only time they
29:29
Speaker 1: went to the playoffs.
29:29
Speaker 3: Right and what was wrong with him? He was developing
29:33
Speaker 3: young players. The older players are responding it. I covered
29:35
Speaker 3: that playoff's run. I covered a lot of gay I
29:37
Speaker 3: covered their first season with Dave Hackstall. He was very,
29:41
Speaker 3: very respected and players responded to him, not that they
29:44
Speaker 3: aren't with Lane Lambert, but what was his crime not
29:48
Speaker 3: making the playoffs after the year after making it in
29:50
Speaker 3: the crack and third year? Is that why they canned him?
29:53
Speaker 3: And Bosma was an abject failure? And now you have
29:56
Speaker 3: Lane Lambert with a team that looks like uninspired players.
29:59
Speaker 1: At times they do, Yeah, they go between. I mean
30:01
Speaker 1: that's the thing, the inconsistency. Sometimes they're and again we've
30:05
Speaker 1: had you know, I've heard a lot of people say, well,
30:08
Speaker 1: they're not playing.
30:09
Speaker 2: They're not. It's not for lack of effort. And I
30:12
Speaker 2: would never say.
30:13
Speaker 1: That they're not out there working their butts off and
30:15
Speaker 1: trying hard, but it is. There is a level of
30:17
Speaker 1: energy that seems to ebb and flow with them, and
30:20
Speaker 1: it doesn't seem to always.
30:22
Speaker 3: I went to the game last Saturday night with my
30:23
Speaker 3: son against Chicago, which is a bottom feeding team. They
30:27
Speaker 3: better this year, yeah, Connor Bodard has made them better. Yeah,
30:30
Speaker 3: but they are not a power. I was gonna miss
30:33
Speaker 3: the playoffs yet again. And you could feel in the
30:36
Speaker 3: building when the Chicago took a one nothing lead, here
30:39
Speaker 3: we go again, not just with the fans, the entire
30:42
Speaker 3: tenor of the building, including down on the bench. I
30:44
Speaker 3: was sitting right across from the bench. Heads dropped, shoulders dropped.
30:48
Speaker 3: They are just victims of themselves right now. And that Chicago.
30:52
Speaker 3: They lost that game, but they absolutely had to win
30:55
Speaker 3: five to two, Yeah against a home Yeah.
30:58
Speaker 1: I was at the Utah game and we went up
30:59
Speaker 1: to nothing early and then the second Utah scored a goal,
31:02
Speaker 1: you could feel the air.
31:05
Speaker 2: It was like this was their playoff spot to lose. Yeah.
31:09
Speaker 5: They were in that second playoff spot for a long
31:12
Speaker 5: time and are in a crappy conference, right, so they
31:17
Speaker 5: had every opportunity to take it, and they just they couldn't.
31:21
Speaker 5: And I think part of that might be leadership on
31:24
Speaker 5: the team, not just the head coach, but everly.
31:27
Speaker 3: Yeah.
31:27
Speaker 2: Well and that's the yeah, really.
31:29
Speaker 5: Step it up and get his team to go forward
31:32
Speaker 5: and win games they had to win.
31:34
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's going to be an interesting thing to
31:35
Speaker 1: see what they do this offseason and which players they retain,
31:38
Speaker 1: who who they're going to try to bring in, who
31:40
Speaker 1: they're going to ship out. I mean, there's got to
31:42
Speaker 1: be some shake ups for sure. So yeah, I don't
31:45
Speaker 1: know how much of that will get to with Todd
31:46
Speaker 1: li Wiki because I don't know what I think that
31:49
Speaker 1: would be more ad Jason Bouchral conversation as far as
31:52
Speaker 1: players bringing in stuff like that, We've got a lot
31:54
Speaker 1: of other things to talk with Todd blai Wiki about.
31:56
Speaker 2: At seven oh five.
31:57
Speaker 3: There are people in Buffalo who say, why is Jason
31:59
Speaker 3: Bonner still in GM in the NHL?
32:01
Speaker 2: Really?
32:02
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, look up his history of the Buffalo Sabers.
32:05
Speaker 2: I don't know if I want to. It's Friday. I
32:06
Speaker 2: want to be in a good movie.
32:07
Speaker 3: We're Penguin's cinch to play out my hometown pal the
32:12
Speaker 3: first time in three years. Here you go.
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Speaker 2: Let's bring the room up. Let's bring the room beat.
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Speaker 3: The devils last night. It's probably the last go around
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Speaker 3: for Sydney Crosby and Jenny Malkin.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, probably.
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Speaker 3: That will be a headlining series, the first one, probably
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Speaker 3: against Montreal. The way it stands right now, the heath.
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Speaker 1: I do love the Stanley Cup Playoffs. I like it
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Speaker 1: better than no.
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Speaker 3: It is the best event in sports.
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Speaker 1: You get so into it even when your team's not playing.
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Speaker 1: And we have a lot of experience with that because
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Speaker 1: we didn't have a hockey team five years ago. So
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Speaker 1: and I've watched the NHL playoffs every year.
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Speaker 3: And I and we are blessed in Seattle that if
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Speaker 3: you have over the year cable, when you're paying seven
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Speaker 3: million dollars a month for it, you get CBC out
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Speaker 3: of Vancouver and sports Net Hockey Night in Canada broadcast
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Speaker 3: of the Stanley Cup Playoffs is part. It's bar nutt.
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Speaker 3: It's the best. I said every year, it's the best
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Speaker 3: event in sports television because of one how long it is,
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Speaker 3: how intense it is, and how much they are invested
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Speaker 3: in it. Now this year, Otto is trying to sneak
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Speaker 3: in as another wild card in the East. Would make
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Speaker 3: three of the six Canadian teams that make it. If
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Speaker 3: for a while, look there's only going to be two
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Speaker 3: Edmonton in Montreal. Montreal is rowing Toronto. The flagship Yankees
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Speaker 3: of Canada are just terrible this year.
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Speaker 2: Well, it's all right.
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Speaker 1: Their fans can't be disappointed when they lose in the
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Speaker 1: playoffs again, Yeah, they.
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Speaker 3: Can be disappointed by a lot more now they fired
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Speaker 3: their GM as well. By the way, but the Penguins
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Speaker 3: are back in the playss for first time in three years.
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Speaker 3: If you have C, if you're paying already seven million
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Speaker 3: dollars a month to Comcast, might as well get your
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Speaker 3: money's worth and watch Channel ninety nine. Yeah. Se but
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Speaker 3: cbut out of Vancouver and the Hockey Night in Canada
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Speaker 3: broadcast of Stanley Cup playoffs are they're incomparable.
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Speaker 1: It's so cool you can watch it and hope that
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Speaker 1: one day you'll be watching your team on it because again,
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Speaker 1: not mathematically out of it, but it is looking pretty tough. Okay, Well,
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Speaker 1: we do have a fun contest that we're going to
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Speaker 1: do today and we are giving away some tickets, so
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Speaker 1: you're gonna be want you're gonna want to be paying
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Speaker 1: attention when we come back from the break. It's Sports
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Speaker 1: Sports Radio ninety three three KJR FM. It's Ashley Ryan,
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Speaker 1: Greg Bell, Travis Moger in for Chuck and Buck on
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Speaker 1: this Friday. I apologize to those of you on the
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Speaker 1: text line who I did not explain who was out
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Speaker 1: and who was in.
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Speaker 2: I know they were like, can you let us know
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Speaker 2: who's on the show with you?
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Speaker 3: Oh?
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Speaker 2: My bad? Is that important to everybody? Probably? Maybe if
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Speaker 2: you watch the YouTube stream you could see for yourself.
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Speaker 2: There you go, There you go, yeah, yeah, there you go.
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Speaker 2: Let's see. I know over there. I feel bad. I've
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Speaker 2: been looking at you guys.
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Speaker 3: I'm glad I didn't have this when I had my
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Speaker 3: show for fourteen thirteen months. Whatever.
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Speaker 2: Well, it's fun. I love it.
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Speaker 3: Doesn't mean you have to dress up now and.
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Speaker 1: No, I still wear but I feel like dressed up.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I just yeah, I've got sweatpants on Chucks.
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Speaker 3: For that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, right, what d you say? Chuck seems like the
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Speaker 2: most apprehensive to the streaming.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but now he's like fully into it. Because with
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Speaker 1: draft miss, he's got his draft miss.
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Speaker 3: Like, there's a tree back here. If you can see it.
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Speaker 2: Behind as they should be able to.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, those are you wondering? That is the draft miss tree. Yes,
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Speaker 3: I will tell you. I can say this now. Chucks
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Speaker 3: not here. You may not be listening.
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Speaker 2: No, he's definitely not. He's getting ready for a colonoscopy today.
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Speaker 2: That's why he's out. We talked about it yesterday.
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Speaker 1: He's excited because now on YouTube he can show it
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Speaker 1: off on Monday. He wouldn't have shown off his clean
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Speaker 1: pipes before YouTube.
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Speaker 3: How's he going to show that?
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Speaker 2: Well, Greg, you're gonna have to tune in on Monday
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Speaker 2: and find out. That's a tease, is it? It's something?
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Speaker 3: Something? But when you when you personally you call those
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Speaker 3: that listen at seven am every day, and I'm talking
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Speaker 3: about the Seahawks from July and till February at seven am.
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Speaker 2: I we sometimes longer because we need you.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, when you call, by the way, it is
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Speaker 3: my wake up call. Most days. I wake up with
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Speaker 3: my wife at about five. These days, our son is
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Speaker 3: working locally, so he's living less temporarily, and he gets
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Speaker 3: at four thirty for work. That's like not good. I'm
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Speaker 3: experiencing that today. Yeah, but my wife gets up at
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Speaker 3: five thirty and is out the door by six thirty.
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Speaker 3: So I'm up, but then I fall back to sleep.
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Speaker 3: You are my wake up call. That's why I have
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Speaker 3: you called a house phone. Yeah, not just because it's clearer,
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Speaker 3: but because.
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Speaker 1: It's because you can't turn it off exactly, you can't
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Speaker 1: hit snooze.
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Speaker 3: But Chuck is so into this NFL draft. I mean
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Speaker 3: I like have to hold the phone away from my ear.
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Speaker 3: He is all into it at seven am and I'm
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Speaker 3: just likeugh. And I come in here today and there's
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Speaker 3: a tree.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Well because we realized with YouTube.
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Speaker 1: Well before we I mean we've always had a tree
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Speaker 1: in here, but with YouTube.
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Speaker 2: We were like, well we've got to go a little.
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Speaker 2: We got to amp it up a little.
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Speaker 1: So he's got a pipe when he talks, and he's
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Speaker 1: got a little Father of Draftmas jacket.
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Speaker 2: Really Oh yeah, I haven't.
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Speaker 1: I haven't worn my my Draftmas outfit yet, but it'll
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Speaker 1: be on next week. I just got to find it.
37:09
Speaker 1: Speaking of tas, what is that I'm not telling you.
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Speaker 1: It's a hand I dress up like a large Christmas tree. Really, yes,
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Speaker 1: like a Stanford tree. Uh kind of you're a usc trojan.
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Speaker 2: Well poet, yeah, fighting poet.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we fight with a pry Eric fighting poet.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, duh, it's really just poets. But I thought that
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Speaker 1: sounded same, So I was always like, no, where the
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Speaker 1: fighting my son?
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Speaker 3: That all the time? Ye poets?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like yeah, yeah, don't come at us. I
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Speaker 2: got a sharp pen and I will use.
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Speaker 3: It power of the quill. All right, Well, we probably
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Speaker 3: have tickets.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we promise tickets to people.
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Speaker 1: Okay, So here's what we need, okay, and it can
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Speaker 1: be on the YouTube chat, it can be on the
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Speaker 1: Tacoma Dodge text line. I have the copy points for
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Speaker 1: that somewhere here. Yeah, four nine four five one. But
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Speaker 1: there's a Tacoma Dodge.
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Speaker 3: Well their dodge trucks.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you should text us at four nine four five
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Speaker 1: one that to come a Dodge text line, and you
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Speaker 1: can also use the YouTube chat. We want to know
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Speaker 1: how you would fix the Mariners.
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Speaker 2: That's all you gotta do. Tell us how you would
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Speaker 2: fix the Mariners.
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Speaker 1: We are gonna talk about the best answers and our
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Speaker 1: own ideas that the creative Mariners creative.
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Speaker 3: We're gonna pick the best answers.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, don't just be like spend more money, because that's
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Speaker 1: not gonna win.
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you right now.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna award two pairs of tickets to tonight's each
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Speaker 1: he Row replica statue Knight and the unveiling of the
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Speaker 1: each Row statue, so you and forty thousand of your
38:29
Speaker 1: closest friends can be there to hopefully watch the Mariners
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Speaker 1: beat the Astros. We're gonna award two winners at nine
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Speaker 1: to thirty, so you have until then to text in.
38:38
Speaker 1: You can brainstorm your ideas on how you want to
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Speaker 1: fix the Mariners. Then text in and let us know
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Speaker 1: how you would fix them, or use the YouTube chat
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Speaker 1: and we will pick some of our best answers and
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Speaker 1: go over that at nine thirty.
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Speaker 3: All right, best means to me, best means entertaining, funny
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Speaker 3: and some shred of plausability.
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Speaker 1: Yes, exactly. Yeah, be creative. Our listeners they're pretty good.
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Speaker 1: They'll they've got the creative and they've.
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Speaker 3: Got some they got some angst that they probably could
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Speaker 3: come up with a few.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you can be angry if you want. That's fine.
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Speaker 3: I guess even implausible might work.
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Speaker 1: But at this point, you know what, we're open to,
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Speaker 1: all ideas, all ideas. All right, well, we got to
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Speaker 1: get to headlines and toddlight Wiki.
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