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Chuck & Buck 2-17 Hour 4: ICYMI Jerry Dipoto, The Ol Judge and one last thing · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: As we roll into our number four of day number
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Speaker 1: two of our spring training coverage here on Chuck and
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Speaker 1: Buck in the mornings, our Day number one coverage was
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Speaker 1: highlighted by the appearance of President and Executive of the
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Speaker 1: Year Jerry Depoto, who joined us yesterday at seven a m. But,
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Speaker 1: of course, with it being President's Day, not as many
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Speaker 1: of you were probably listening to the Chuck and Buck
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Speaker 1: radio program. You can go back and check it out
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Speaker 1: on podcast, but just in case we wanted to replay it,
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Speaker 1: we think it's worthy of being replayed, and so here
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Speaker 1: we are with Jerry Depoto yesterday at our set here
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Speaker 1: in Peoria as we launched pretty much our spring training coverage.
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Speaker 1: Great to see you.
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Speaker 2: It's a joy. It's a joy, beautiful weather. We've been
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Speaker 2: down here a week now and the guys showed out.
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Speaker 2: It's spring training is a fun time.
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Speaker 1: It is here, It is here, and it just seems
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Speaker 1: to me I started the show with us today. Maybe
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Speaker 1: I'm reading into it because of the close of last
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Speaker 1: year and the excitement of the offseason and everything else,
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Speaker 1: but it feels like there's a little different air. It
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Speaker 1: doesn't feel like, hey, we got to tree down those astros.
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Speaker 1: It feels like we're the team to beat. Kind of
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Speaker 1: confidence around here. Would you agree with that?
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Speaker 2: I would agree with that, you know, without trying to
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Speaker 2: get a little over the top.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: You know, our guys are confident. We know we have
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Speaker 2: a good team, and we experienced a lot of things
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Speaker 2: last year. We came up a couple out shorts of
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Speaker 2: going to the World Series and and and that gave
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Speaker 2: our guys that that the confidence necessary to believe that
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Speaker 2: we can go out there and really run it. It's
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Speaker 2: we have we have stars, we have personalities, we have depth,
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Speaker 2: we have pitching. Yeah, it's a there's a lot of
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Speaker 2: things that we're doing right now, and I think the
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Speaker 2: league around us is noticing. I think generally speaking, we
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Speaker 2: we go in with a pretty favorable outlook on twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty six.
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Speaker 4: Every single player. And I'm sure you carry this even
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Speaker 4: up to being you know, general manager and now print
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Speaker 4: you know president.
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Speaker 3: I mean, the the idea of you have to always
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Speaker 3: be improving.
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Speaker 4: You not getting as good as you guys got last year,
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Speaker 4: not good enough, you want it, You have somewhere you
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Speaker 4: need to go. So overarching thoughts on what it was
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Speaker 4: you were wanting to do to improve the squad.
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Speaker 2: You know, we had three big things we wanted to address,
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Speaker 2: and we hit them while we were going into the
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Speaker 2: off season. The number one was bringing back Josh Naylor.
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Speaker 2: You know, uh he cooperated and that happened, you know,
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Speaker 2: early in the off season, which really, you know, made
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Speaker 2: our off season possible because it's if we were waiting
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Speaker 2: all off season long to see how that turned out,
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Speaker 2: you know, a lot of doors could potentially close. But
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Speaker 2: you know, it worked out to our advantage. And and
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Speaker 2: Nails is here for the next five years at least,
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Speaker 2: and and and really has been from the day. We
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Speaker 2: acquired him through the start of this camp just a
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Speaker 2: it's a I hate to use something as simple as
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Speaker 2: just a shot in the arm. He just lifts everybody up.
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Speaker 2: He's he's smart, he's he's thoughtful, he's a great teammate,
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Speaker 2: an excellent player. So that was number one. Number two
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Speaker 2: was adding impact at the back end of our bullpen.
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Speaker 2: And we feel like we did that with the acquisition
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Speaker 2: of Jose Ferrara from Washington and obviously cost us a
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Speaker 2: prospect that we held in pretty high regard. But des
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Speaker 2: was sink and slide and he's got an above average
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Speaker 2: change up and and I feel like with Gabe Spyer,
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Speaker 2: Matt brash Andre's Munoz Edward Bizardo really gives us that
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Speaker 2: type of back that you see in championship teams, which
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Speaker 2: was a goal. And then we wanted to add that
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Speaker 2: one more back to lengthen the lineup. And that one
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Speaker 2: took a while.
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Speaker 3: You know.
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Speaker 2: It was someone said to me man the offseason Flew.
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Speaker 2: I said, yeah, unless you were sitting waiting for the
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Speaker 2: Cardinals to trade us Brendan Donovan.
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Speaker 1: But that was stretched out a little while.
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Speaker 2: It took a while, but you know, ultimately we landed
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Speaker 2: the guy that we had our eyes set on the
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Speaker 2: whole time, and here in the early going in spring training,
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Speaker 2: it's it's been worth the wait. He's everything we thought
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Speaker 2: he would be from a makeup emotional you know, it's
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Speaker 2: an energy, just a quality player who's a pro and
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Speaker 2: goes about his business the right way.
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Speaker 1: So what do you envision for him and where he
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Speaker 1: plays on the field.
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Speaker 2: And you know, in Brendan's case, and I talked to
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Speaker 2: him about this the day we acquired him. You know,
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Speaker 2: we want his focus when he's coming into spring training
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Speaker 2: to be third base. It's a position he has played
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Speaker 2: a fair bit in his career, but not in recent
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Speaker 2: years because he was playing with Nolan Aaronato And I
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Speaker 2: guess when you're playing with a Hall of Famer, you
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Speaker 2: don't get the reps. Yeah, but you know Brendan is
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Speaker 2: he is like the super Swiss Army knife defender who
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Speaker 2: can do just about anything defensively on a field. He's
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Speaker 2: played everywhere. You know, we're not going to ask him
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Speaker 2: to pitch, catch or play center. But it's right now
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Speaker 2: we're viewing him as the likely opening day third baseman.
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Speaker 2: And one of the reasons why Brendan was such an
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Speaker 2: appealing target for us in the offseason is because of
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Speaker 2: his versatility. It allowed our young players to continue to grow,
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Speaker 2: and their growth, their assent to the big leagues isn't
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Speaker 2: hindered by someone blocking them. It's Brendan could just go
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Speaker 2: be a good player and move around the diamond in ways,
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Speaker 2: even if it's playing a different position every day, so
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Speaker 2: that leaves the door open for us to take the
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Speaker 2: big step forward. Brendan makes us a better, more stable
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Speaker 2: team the day he shows up, but our real growth
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Speaker 2: comes from the young players taking steps forward, and that's
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Speaker 2: not hindered by adding tonom Shell.
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Speaker 1: Then how does that handicap the second I guess if
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Speaker 1: I were betting in Vegas.
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Speaker 2: Cole Young did good things for us in middle of
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Speaker 2: the summer last year. There was a four or five
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Speaker 2: week stretch where he played about as good an offensive
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Speaker 2: you know, second base as you can play. He was
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Speaker 2: among the four or five best hitters at his position
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Speaker 2: in the league, and toward the end he took on
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Speaker 2: a little water, he got tired. Obviously, we left him
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Speaker 2: off the postseason roster in favor of Polanco, who was
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Speaker 2: swinging a hot bat. And yeah, it's Cole Young is
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Speaker 2: a good young player. He's twenty two years old. You
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Speaker 2: can tell he took his offseason very seriously. He comes
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Speaker 2: in as the favorite if I were in betting man.
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Speaker 2: But there are a lot of good players in this camp,
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Speaker 2: and you know, all age twenty two or younger, Cole Young,
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Speaker 2: I mentioned Michael Arroyo and obviously Colt Emerson. We're getting
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Speaker 2: Michael some reps at third base. Colt Emerson is taking
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Speaker 2: some reps at third base. He's played both shortstop and
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Speaker 2: second base. Again, versatility is the key depending on who
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Speaker 2: takes a step forward with.
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Speaker 4: You're talking about Cole Young and how he obviously took
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Speaker 4: the offseason seriously. How about Colt Emerson. Donovan could be
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Speaker 4: a guy that could play second if he plays third base.
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Speaker 4: So how's he looking into the beginning to.
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Speaker 2: Camp like he always looks. He takes everything seriously. You know,
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Speaker 2: Colt works hard.
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Speaker 3: He is.
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Speaker 2: He's an incredibly mature player. You'd never know if sitting
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Speaker 2: down that he's twenty years old and has you know,
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Speaker 2: played sparingly above double A. And I think the quality
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Speaker 2: of what he brings in every faster of the game.
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Speaker 2: He hits all the boxes, he runs a little bit,
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Speaker 2: he throws, he plays defense, he's versatile, he hits, he
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Speaker 2: gets on base, he's got some power, he's and he's young,
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Speaker 2: and he picks it up pretty quickly. So, you know,
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Speaker 2: we've generally been of the mindset, and this has been
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Speaker 2: a number of years now when guys come in and
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Speaker 2: they're ready to do their thing, and we think they
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Speaker 2: have a chance to be difference making players. We just
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Speaker 2: don't get in their way. Give them, give them the
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Speaker 2: opportunity to go do what they do. You know, and
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Speaker 2: I say that there's some depth on this team that
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Speaker 2: hasn't existed in years past. And we go in as
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Speaker 2: the defending AO wes champs, we do have World Series aspirations,
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Speaker 2: and you know, you're gonna have to get it done
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Speaker 2: in order to make your way onto the team. And
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Speaker 2: Colt has both the skill and the focus to make
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Speaker 2: that happen.
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Speaker 1: For our audience's purpose. Because I think even you and
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Speaker 1: Justin and others are struggling with this. How excited should
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Speaker 1: they be about Kate Anderson and Ryan Sloan and how
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Speaker 1: much do we need to limit our excitement for these
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Speaker 1: two players.
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Speaker 2: It's hard to limit the excitement you know, I'm not
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Speaker 2: one to limit excitement. And you know, as these these
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Speaker 2: last couple of days, as they've thrown their lives, first
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Speaker 2: time throwing live two hitters in a major league camp.
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Speaker 2: Both of them have thrown lives in Shove camp in
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Speaker 2: January headed into early February, but this was the first
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Speaker 2: time to see them throw against major league hitters. They
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Speaker 2: didn't throw against invites or minor league free agents. They
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Speaker 2: threw against guys who played in All Star Games last
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Speaker 2: year and they stood out, which is hard to do
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Speaker 2: in a camp that has this kind of talent. But
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Speaker 2: you know, I'll start with Kate Anderson because he threw first.
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Speaker 2: Obviously the thing I'll hit with Caid. We just got
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Speaker 2: incredibly lucky that they picked our ping pong ball the
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Speaker 2: best pitcher in the country at LSU as an amateur
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Speaker 2: coming out. It was as polished as you're going to see,
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Speaker 2: not just what he does on the mound, but who
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Speaker 2: he is as a person. His work, habits, his focus,
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Speaker 2: seemed like a guy that probably wasn't going to stay
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Speaker 2: in the minor leagues for very long. And that's the
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Speaker 2: feel you get when you watch him pitch. There's it's
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Speaker 2: certainly not a guy that's likely to spend much time
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Speaker 2: at the low levels of the minor leagues. And you know,
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Speaker 2: it's it's so sharp. It's all the pitches. It's the
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Speaker 2: precision as fastball gets up to ninety six ninety seven,
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Speaker 2: sits around ninety three ninety four and has a finish
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Speaker 2: to it that you just don't normally see. And the
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Speaker 2: special part about Caid is the man that he has
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Speaker 2: of his secondary pitches, He's got them all. And you know,
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Speaker 2: he looks like he could pitch in the Atlanta Braves
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Speaker 2: rotation in the nineties and you wouldn't blink. Ryan Sloan
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Speaker 2: through yesterday. Ryan is he's young, he looks like he's
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Speaker 2: twelve and and he throws like he's been in the
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Speaker 2: big leagues for ten years. You know, it's it's he's big,
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Speaker 2: he's physical. His first lives, he was ninety seven and
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Speaker 2: ninety nine with explosive fastball. He threw a two seamer
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Speaker 2: that we hadn't really seen before that that again, explosive
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Speaker 2: is the only word I can use. A slider that
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Speaker 2: makes you buckle, It's uh. Both of these guys have
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Speaker 2: the all of the ingredients to pitch at the front
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Speaker 2: of major league rotations, and you know they're they're twenty
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Speaker 2: and twenty one years old. It shouldn't take very long
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Speaker 2: for them to come.
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Speaker 3: But they got.
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Speaker 2: Like we talked about with Colt and the depth that
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Speaker 2: we have around the field, we got five pretty good
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Speaker 2: starters in the big leagues too, which is a good
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Speaker 2: problem to have.
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Speaker 1: Did you ever see Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome?
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Speaker 3: Remember that movie?
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Speaker 2: I remember that was highlight.
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Speaker 1: There was Master, and there was this And that's what
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Speaker 1: Ryan Sloane reminds me of because from across the field,
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Speaker 1: Master Blaster, Blaster, well, Master was the mind behind it.
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Speaker 1: And then Blaster was this like the Mountain kind of
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Speaker 1: Hulk figure, and you show him from it and everybody
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Speaker 1: was afraid of him. And then he took off his
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Speaker 1: mask and he was just a child. He had this
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Speaker 1: baby face and like, he's just a child, don't hurt him.
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Speaker 1: And when Sloan walked up, I'm like, you look like
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Speaker 1: you're ten years old with a bock up. Yeah, well,
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Speaker 1: and you look like the Mountain from the neck down.
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Speaker 3: Together he does have that.
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Speaker 2: You know, it's when you I'm not the greatest scout
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Speaker 2: in the history of the world. But I've done it
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Speaker 2: for long enough to know that, you know, the easiest
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Speaker 2: thing to identify his physicality and and Ryan Sloane from
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Speaker 2: eighteen years old when we first scouted him had all
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Speaker 2: the physical attributes of a front end major league starter.
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Speaker 2: What we didn't really expect until we got to know
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Speaker 2: him a little bit was how well put together he is,
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Speaker 2: you know, mentally, emotionally, he's resilient. I think he has
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Speaker 2: the right balance of ready to learn and I've got
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Speaker 2: this and which is a really nice.
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Speaker 4: Combo, by the way, in case you were wondering, it's
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Speaker 4: pretty obvious to see the pride and the happiness like
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Speaker 4: exude out of you, ooze out of you almost when
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Speaker 4: it comes to you talking about young pitchers, that's pretty
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Speaker 4: obvious you were a pitcher at one point in time.
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Speaker 4: When it comes to makeup, I mean, I don't know
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Speaker 4: for sure if these young guys that you have have
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Speaker 4: more of a guy to look up to than Cal Rawly.
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Speaker 4: I mean, we were talking earlier on our show today
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Speaker 4: just about Cal Rowling. What expectations would be. I mean,
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Speaker 4: you hit sixty homers. You know, he's asking what do
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Speaker 4: we think in eighty one hundred I mean, while I
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Speaker 4: don't want to put any limitations on the guy, the
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Speaker 4: makeup of this guy, I mean, it almost feels like
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Speaker 4: he's one that could repeat spectacular historic season.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it would be hard for me to expect any
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Speaker 2: more than sixty one, you know, but I say this
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Speaker 2: about Cal like there's I don't know that you can
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Speaker 2: and really put a put a bar on what he
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Speaker 2: can achieve. We saw that last year. What he accomplished
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Speaker 2: last year is so much more than we could have
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Speaker 2: expected the day we drafted him. As he's come through
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Speaker 2: our system. You know, I've said this jokingly over the
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Speaker 2: course of this offseason. You know, Cal went from an
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Speaker 2: awesome secret in the Pacific Northwest, you know, the thirty
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Speaker 2: five homer platinum glove catcher with great leadership skill who
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Speaker 2: really appeals to every man, to being like an international
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Speaker 2: superstar goes by one name, and you know, it's it's
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Speaker 2: pretty awesome to watch that development. And I'll say this
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Speaker 2: about the effect or the impact that it has on
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Speaker 2: our young kids. It has an effect on the other
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Speaker 2: twenty five players, regardless of their age. You know, he
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Speaker 2: takes it so seriously. His focus, his intensity, his work,
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Speaker 2: it's all just come so far, and it's he went
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Speaker 2: from being you know, a really good you know, I
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Speaker 2: guess urging star in our league to becoming a superstar
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Speaker 2: player in a season. And I don't think that it
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Speaker 2: was a one time thing. This is just his skill set.
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Speaker 2: You know, you've got a switch hitter with power. He
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Speaker 2: really closed up the platoon hole that he had before.
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Speaker 2: You know, he was a much better lefty than righty hitter,
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Speaker 2: and that is no longer true. He's equally as good
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Speaker 2: from both sides. He controls a run game, he controls
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Speaker 2: a staff, he's prepared. I could say as many good
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Speaker 2: things as you want to say. And the quality of
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Speaker 2: the I guess the example he sets for the young
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Speaker 2: players is really mirrored by our other major league players.
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Speaker 2: You know, those young pitchers we talked about. It's a
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Speaker 2: or Colt Emerson or Cole Young. They have cal they
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Speaker 2: have Brian Wu, they have Logan Gilbert, they have a
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Speaker 2: group of players around them.
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Speaker 3: You know that.
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Speaker 2: I think that they all take pride in passing it on,
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Speaker 2: paying it forward with those young guys because they lived
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Speaker 2: through it. They grew up in this organization, and I
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Speaker 2: think they take pride in making sure that the next.
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Speaker 2: You know, iteration of the Mariners of the next stage
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Speaker 2: of young player has that same quality when they get
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Speaker 2: their opportunity.
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Speaker 1: What's a scouting grade in terms of intangibles?
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Speaker 3: Eighty?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's eighty, And I say that is true of
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Speaker 2: a couple of our guys. But Cal it's a no
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Speaker 2: brainer eighty, right, And that was true before before he
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Speaker 2: hit sixty, he was he had eighty intangibles. Then now
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Speaker 2: he's got eighty intangibles and ninety power.
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Speaker 3: Wow.
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Speaker 1: Jerry Depoto is with us here from spring training. I
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Speaker 1: do want to get into a couple of other topics.
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Speaker 1: Hopefully we have time to flush these out. The challenge
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Speaker 1: system this year. What's the organizational philosophy on who gets
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Speaker 1: the challenge? When you get the challenge, is it just
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Speaker 1: a couple of players that you're going to give that
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Speaker 1: to at the plate? How are you going to manage
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Speaker 1: that as the organization?
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Speaker 2: Everybody but Randy? Oh yeah, I say that. I say
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Speaker 2: that took. Randy's been you know, Randy's been prone to
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Speaker 2: in the early morning sessions that you may have seen
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Speaker 2: Kate Anderson or Ryan Sloan, you know, and Randy's been
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Speaker 2: quick to challenge and he's not always been. But you know, everybody,
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Speaker 2: you know, just like we do with with everything, it's
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Speaker 2: a you know, everybody's gonna have the opportunity to to
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Speaker 2: feel it out, to get a sense for it. My
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Speaker 2: guess is that the older players will be more likely
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Speaker 2: to tap it than than than most. But I would
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Speaker 2: say that the young players are the ones who actually
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Speaker 2: have the experience doing it. So you know, we would
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Speaker 2: encourage those young guys to to kind of show us
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Speaker 2: the way. And it's last spring we had the first
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Speaker 2: taste of this at the major league level, and unsurprisingly,
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Speaker 2: our eighty and tangibles guy who we just talked about,
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Speaker 2: was believing or not one hundred percent on his challenges.
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Speaker 2: He was always right now, So I was.
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Speaker 1: Wondering, you're ever gonna let a picture do it? Or
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Speaker 1: he's just gonna let cow.
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Speaker 2: You know, I don't know why you would let the
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Speaker 2: picture do it, because the picture and I say this
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Speaker 2: with the mind or the heart of a picture, I
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Speaker 2: think every pitch I throw is right. Actually, you know,
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Speaker 2: with catchers who framed today, and you know Cal's catching it,
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Speaker 2: and yeah, he has a pretty good sense. I'm sure
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Speaker 2: that we're gonna have a pitcher that feels strongly enough
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Speaker 2: about it, then in the moment decides they're going to challenge.
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Speaker 2: But I think cal has enough control of the game
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Speaker 2: that he's more likely to be the one.
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Speaker 3: WBC.
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Speaker 1: This has been a I know, not everybody loves it,
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Speaker 1: especially executives.
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Speaker 2: I think we have more players going to the WBC
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Speaker 2: than any other organization in baseball, which again I think
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Speaker 2: is a pretty awesome thing. It expresses that we have talent,
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Speaker 2: that we're diverse. It's gonna leave a big hole in
17:38
Speaker 2: our camp. You know, Rob Refschneider, who we signed in
17:40
Speaker 2: the off season, I'm really thrilled to have both in
17:43
Speaker 2: the clubhouse and on the field. Rep said, you know,
17:45
Speaker 2: it's really hard to walk into a new camp and
17:48
Speaker 2: he has seventy five guys. You got to get to know.
17:49
Speaker 2: I said, yeah, in a couple of days, its gonna
17:51
Speaker 2: be like fifty. But we are. We're gonna get hit
17:56
Speaker 2: as hard as anybody generally speaking. You just cross your
17:59
Speaker 2: fingers on on health. You know, guys are going to
18:01
Speaker 2: go and I think right now in the Olympics, if
18:03
Speaker 2: you're watching Olympic hockey, you see Kevin Fiala, you know,
18:07
Speaker 2: went down with a leg injury and he's out for
18:08
Speaker 2: the year for the Kings. That's your biggest fear now
18:12
Speaker 2: I say that, and I flashed back to last springs,
18:15
Speaker 2: four Nations in hockey, this year's you know, Olympics, the WBC,
18:20
Speaker 2: which comes up every couple of years. There is nothing
18:23
Speaker 2: you can do in preparing for a major league season
18:26
Speaker 2: that gives you this kind of rush, this kind of competition.
18:31
Speaker 2: It's like playoff and everything that happens is happening at
18:36
Speaker 2: Defcon one, and you can't replicate that in spring training.
18:40
Speaker 2: So you just hope that you can get your guys
18:42
Speaker 2: physically prepared to go do it so that you know
18:45
Speaker 2: injury is less a concern because what's happening on the
18:48
Speaker 2: field is so much better in preparing them for what
18:51
Speaker 2: happens in October than anything we can do here.
18:54
Speaker 1: What is your response to the statement the Dodgers are
18:57
Speaker 1: ruining baseball.
18:58
Speaker 2: I just think they're awesome, you know, and where they're deep,
19:02
Speaker 2: they have stars everywhere they've done it. Generally speaking, they're
19:06
Speaker 2: good at scouting, they're good at player development, they're good
19:09
Speaker 2: at roster building, and you know, I I I get it.
19:12
Speaker 2: You know, it's a their payroll is considerably higher than
19:15
Speaker 2: than just about anybody else in the league. And you know,
19:18
Speaker 2: and and very much higher than the teams that are
19:21
Speaker 2: outside the top three or four. I I say that,
19:24
Speaker 2: and it's it's hard to be to take shots at
19:27
Speaker 2: what they've built. And you know, and and the people
19:30
Speaker 2: I think they're smart. They've done a good job. They
19:33
Speaker 2: take advantage of the resources they have and the market
19:35
Speaker 2: they work in, and and and they do what they do.
19:38
Speaker 2: You know, I say that There's always been teams like
19:41
Speaker 2: the Dodgers. You know, in our baseball lives, there's been
19:43
Speaker 2: dominant teams. Sometimes they're big market teams, sometimes they're they're not,
19:47
Speaker 2: but they don't always win the World Series. And you know,
19:50
Speaker 2: it's a it's part of being consistent over time and
19:53
Speaker 2: showing up and just banging down the door. We feel
19:56
Speaker 2: like we have the ability with the roster we have
19:59
Speaker 2: to go toe to toe with anybody, regardless of the
20:01
Speaker 2: size of their payroll or how many stars they signed.
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Speaker 4: What's the what is the benefit? The deferred money part
20:07
Speaker 4: of it is one thing that I think a lot
20:09
Speaker 4: of fans and myself, I'll just say, well, makes sense.
20:11
Speaker 2: We don't, you know, lean into deferred payments. I guess
20:16
Speaker 2: deferred payments are payments. You know at some point you're
20:19
Speaker 2: gonna have to pay that bill. And you know, the
20:21
Speaker 2: Dodgers are one of the very few teams in Major
20:25
Speaker 2: League Baseball who have revenue systems where they can reasonably
20:29
Speaker 2: look forward ten, twenty or thirty years and believe, all right,
20:34
Speaker 2: we can manage that. You know, if these deferred payments
20:38
Speaker 2: come due at a certain point they're all hitting and
20:41
Speaker 2: you're ten years out and you are the average major
20:44
Speaker 2: league payroll, you can't manage you know, that part of it.
20:48
Speaker 2: And when you look at what's happening with deferred payments
20:52
Speaker 2: around the league, they have you know, they were trending
20:55
Speaker 2: in the early two thousands. They went away for a
20:57
Speaker 2: reason because they're very hard to manage. But you know,
21:00
Speaker 2: there there are a number of teams in the league
21:02
Speaker 2: that I think believe that they can manage that over
21:04
Speaker 2: the long term. They know their finances better than I do.
21:07
Speaker 2: So I'm not one to throw stones. I know that's
21:10
Speaker 2: not something that we feel as realistic an our market.
21:13
Speaker 2: So we'll just try to sign good contracts with players
21:15
Speaker 2: we like, and and and do it in a more
21:17
Speaker 2: traditional way.
21:18
Speaker 1: Well, I got a million other questions for Hi'm sure
21:20
Speaker 1: Bucky does as well, but uh, we do appreciate the time.
21:24
Speaker 1: We don't have time to get into all of them.
21:26
Speaker 1: I think I just closed with this, what's your man
21:28
Speaker 1: bun policy for Brendan Donovan?
21:31
Speaker 3: Are you saying is are the Mariners.
21:33
Speaker 1: Pro man bun anti man bun?
21:35
Speaker 3: What are we going to do with that? The hair
21:37
Speaker 3: of his?
21:37
Speaker 2: You know, we got a couple of man buns and
21:39
Speaker 2: and I'm generally there's I'm open love them all. You know,
21:42
Speaker 2: we get Teddy McGraw, who's an in house, former draft
21:45
Speaker 2: pick of ours who's in his first major league camp.
21:47
Speaker 2: You know, if he lets it down, it's a glorious flow,
21:51
Speaker 2: you know. And we've we've dubbed him breaking ball Jesus.
21:54
Speaker 2: But you know, when they when they pile the demand
21:56
Speaker 2: ball up, man bun up. I I do think it's
22:00
Speaker 2: it works for me, okay, be it gives me the
22:03
Speaker 2: vibe that we are who we are. And you know,
22:05
Speaker 2: I think if I had to pin Brendan Donovan, and
22:08
Speaker 2: I've known him for all of a couple of weeks
22:10
Speaker 2: in my life, but if I had to thin slice
22:13
Speaker 2: his first week as a Mariner. It's a it is
22:16
Speaker 2: a shocking ability just to come in and be yourself.
22:18
Speaker 2: And we've always embraced that, We've expressed it in our culture.
22:22
Speaker 2: And if that means you're gonna wear a man bun,
22:24
Speaker 2: fire away. All right, I got it. I'm glad we
22:27
Speaker 2: cleared that up today. Thank you very much. We appreciate you.
22:29
Speaker 3: Have a great year.
22:30
Speaker 1: All right, So Mary to Poto, Executive of the Year
22:33
Speaker 1: at MLB. We'll continue here from spring training.
22:36
Speaker 3: Next.
22:36
Speaker 1: That's Chucking Buck Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM,
22:40
Speaker 1: judge taking the time out of your busy schedule.
22:43
Speaker 3: You're welcome. You're welcome.
22:44
Speaker 4: I didn't figure the show would go on without the
22:47
Speaker 4: judge coming down here. And you know there's rulings that
22:50
Speaker 4: need to be made down here, getting ready for this season.
22:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I hope that everybody with an earshot.
22:55
Speaker 3: That's what the.
22:55
Speaker 1: Mariners understands that whatever you say goes.
22:58
Speaker 3: Yeah.
22:59
Speaker 4: Well, look at all the people all over there, the fans,
23:01
Speaker 4: they're watching bullpens and whatnot. They're all standing, Ashley, I
23:04
Speaker 4: don't think there are people of ground screw all standing.
23:08
Speaker 4: Our folks right here standing in front of us. Some
23:10
Speaker 4: of some of the wonderful people from the mariners and
23:12
Speaker 4: merchandise standing. The mariners standing, everyone standing except for you
23:17
Speaker 4: and Ashley.
23:18
Speaker 3: That's true. Oh I don't think you are.
23:20
Speaker 1: That's true.
23:21
Speaker 3: I'm not.
23:22
Speaker 1: Uh And look, I'm gonna give you credit, Judge. I
23:24
Speaker 1: don't think they're here to watch the bullpens. No, I
23:28
Speaker 1: just think they're here to catch a glimpse of you.
23:31
Speaker 1: I don't even think they can hear us from over there.
23:33
Speaker 1: But yeah, they're just here to watch watching you watch
23:36
Speaker 1: bullpens for coming.
23:37
Speaker 3: People appreciate your appreciate your presence in the courtroom.
23:40
Speaker 1: All right, here's how it works. I'm gonna throw a
23:43
Speaker 1: few items out. Ashley and I will discuss them briefly.
23:46
Speaker 1: We don't have to argue.
23:47
Speaker 3: We can actually agree on them.
23:49
Speaker 1: But once the old judge is hurt enough, he bangs
23:51
Speaker 1: his gabble.
23:52
Speaker 5: Bang gabbl gavel gavel.
23:55
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, but he will then weigh in. Whatever
23:58
Speaker 1: he says goes. So it's turned into I know, tomorrow's
24:02
Speaker 1: Pitcher's Day, and everybody's excited about the national holiday called
24:05
Speaker 1: Pitchers Day, which we're doing tomorrow. Today turned into Infielder's Day.
24:09
Speaker 1: So let's just have an infielder theme spring training old
24:13
Speaker 1: judge session here in your courtroom. Here we go, very
24:17
Speaker 1: first one, Cold Emerson will win an opening day big
24:21
Speaker 1: league job, Ashley.
24:24
Speaker 6: It's hard to say when I'm not down there and
24:25
Speaker 6: can't see, but just by judging by kind of the
24:28
Speaker 6: things that you guys have been saying, I think I
24:31
Speaker 6: think yes, he will. He will win an infield starting job.
24:35
Speaker 1: I don't think it's crazy to say that, because I
24:37
Speaker 1: think that there's a feeling in the organization. The executives
24:41
Speaker 1: think he has a very good chance of winning this
24:44
Speaker 1: job in the spring. I'm going to say, though I'm
24:47
Speaker 1: gonna say no. I think they're gonna say, hey, I
24:50
Speaker 1: wouldn't kill you for a little more seasoning, and we're
24:53
Speaker 1: all right, we don't need cold Emerson at age twenty
24:56
Speaker 1: to rescue the day. We'll call him up at some
24:59
Speaker 1: point during the season, maybe early in the season, but
25:03
Speaker 1: not opening day.
25:05
Speaker 5: Gavel, Gavel Gavel.
25:07
Speaker 4: I also think they are going to stick with unless
25:11
Speaker 4: something happens. I mean there's a possibility, and I don't
25:13
Speaker 4: think it's far fetched by any stretch that he performs
25:16
Speaker 4: well enough where they're like, man, we really don't want to.
25:19
Speaker 4: We don't want to hold him back. We don't think
25:21
Speaker 4: any need to. But I also think that there's still
25:24
Speaker 4: I mean the kid, he's a kid. I mean I
25:25
Speaker 4: think that there still is some things that he could
25:28
Speaker 4: possibly learn. They have a guy now in Brendan Donovan
25:31
Speaker 4: that can it can take that third base job. And
25:34
Speaker 4: then you have a guy with some experience I mean
25:37
Speaker 4: not much and Cole Young and and or Ryan Bliss
25:39
Speaker 4: possibly that could could fill that second base role to
25:43
Speaker 4: start the season out, you send him down. He really
25:45
Speaker 4: got like twenty Summit bats at tripa A. Wouldn't hurt
25:48
Speaker 4: him to go down there, get off to a good start,
25:50
Speaker 4: you know, just go down kind of get the season
25:52
Speaker 4: off to on a roll, and then have his debut.
25:54
Speaker 4: I wouldn't be surprised if he's up well before the
25:56
Speaker 4: All Star break, to be honest, if he goes down
25:58
Speaker 4: and performs and it's like, we're not gonna hold this
26:01
Speaker 4: guy down. I know that for sure. When he proves
26:04
Speaker 4: that it's he's ready and it's time for him to
26:06
Speaker 4: be up and contributing to the big league club, they're
26:08
Speaker 4: going to do that. I think at this point in time,
26:10
Speaker 4: though they're playing is probably to start with Cole Young
26:12
Speaker 4: at second Brendan at third base, and I don't think
26:16
Speaker 4: they're gonna go off of that unless something happens.
26:18
Speaker 1: All right, well, with the hype growing around Young Colt,
26:21
Speaker 1: should JP be looking over his shoulder.
26:24
Speaker 6: Ashley Well, I mean that would be a natural thing
26:27
Speaker 6: if I said that, I thought Colt was gonna win
26:29
Speaker 6: an infield. But I just think they like JP too much.
26:32
Speaker 6: I don't see him going anywhere.
26:34
Speaker 1: I think they like Colt more, okay, but I think
26:37
Speaker 1: they are committed to JP for sure. I think everybody
26:41
Speaker 1: knows that it's gonna be a baton situation from this
26:44
Speaker 1: year to next. This is the last year JP is
26:47
Speaker 1: under contract. But he had a three point eight war
26:50
Speaker 1: season last year. I mean, there were some some defensive
26:54
Speaker 1: metrics that were a little questionable with our starting shortstop
26:57
Speaker 1: last year, and he I think they're There were some
27:00
Speaker 1: spurts where he kind of fell into some habits that
27:04
Speaker 1: we don't like seeing from him, but he ended up
27:07
Speaker 1: having a really good productive year for the Mariners, and
27:10
Speaker 1: I think that they don't want any other scenario other
27:13
Speaker 1: than JP being the shortstop on a World Series team
27:16
Speaker 1: this year.
27:16
Speaker 5: Gavel Gavel Gavel.
27:19
Speaker 4: I think that he knows. I think that he knows
27:22
Speaker 4: the writing is on the wall for the future, but
27:25
Speaker 4: that future starts next year, I mean, barring something crazy,
27:29
Speaker 4: whether it be injury or just a really subpar season,
27:31
Speaker 4: which I don't see out of him. He has some
27:34
Speaker 4: things that are frustrated into me at times, when his
27:37
Speaker 4: approach at the plate and getting a little bit home
27:39
Speaker 4: run happy like he is, you know, Cal Rawley or
27:42
Speaker 4: Aaron Judge, like you're not just every once in a
27:44
Speaker 4: while you pop one out of the yard.
27:46
Speaker 3: That's fine.
27:46
Speaker 4: I like those grinder, tough abs, getting your walks when
27:50
Speaker 4: you need him, turning the lineup over. I don't think
27:53
Speaker 4: there's any chance that if cold Emerson makes this team,
27:56
Speaker 4: it will be playing shortstop in front of a JP
27:58
Speaker 4: Crawford unless there's an injury.
27:59
Speaker 1: Yeah, having Josh Naylor for one sixty two will be
28:03
Speaker 1: the primary factor for a comfortable repeat of the American
28:09
Speaker 1: League West Division.
28:10
Speaker 6: Actually, I don't know that it would be the primary factor.
28:12
Speaker 6: I think he is a big factor just his leadership
28:15
Speaker 6: and even what we saw in the half season we
28:17
Speaker 6: got from him last year. Obviously, he makes a big
28:20
Speaker 6: impact and he was quick to do it, But I
28:23
Speaker 6: think that the Mariners have set themselves up to have
28:25
Speaker 6: several factors be those key factors. I mean, obviously, depending
28:29
Speaker 6: on the season that Cal has, depending on how healthy
28:32
Speaker 6: our pitching stays, those are all going to be huge factors.
28:35
Speaker 1: I love that you just didn't argue with the fact
28:37
Speaker 1: we would have a comfortable division title this year. I'm
28:42
Speaker 1: with you, And although I think it's going to be
28:44
Speaker 1: a big factor, I think the biggest factor towards achieving
28:47
Speaker 1: that I think people forget. I mean, this team's had
28:51
Speaker 1: some success here of the last three four years with
28:54
Speaker 1: the same nucleus, but the same nucleus is still very young.
28:57
Speaker 3: I mean, we have four.
28:58
Speaker 1: Starting pitchers who are just now entering their prime. We
29:03
Speaker 1: have a center fielder who's off to a tremendous start
29:05
Speaker 1: in his career, who is just now entering his prime.
29:09
Speaker 1: We have a catcher and MVP candidate who is clearly
29:13
Speaker 1: in the smack dab middle of his prime, plus a
29:17
Speaker 1: lot of other young talent on its way. But I
29:20
Speaker 1: think it's that nucleus that still hasn't played its best
29:24
Speaker 1: baseball yet is the reason why in twenty twenty six
29:27
Speaker 1: we're going to win the division and win it comfortable.
29:29
Speaker 5: Gabble gabble gabble.
29:31
Speaker 3: Josh Nay is going to be a part of it.
29:33
Speaker 4: But I mean, obviously any team game you could just say, well,
29:36
Speaker 4: it's the team. I think that him having him for
29:39
Speaker 4: a full season is going to start the season where
29:42
Speaker 4: there's a little bit of that grittiness where like, hey,
29:45
Speaker 4: we're never going to be okay with slipping into mediocrity.
29:49
Speaker 4: If there's one thing that it feels like around here,
29:52
Speaker 4: it's that this team believes their World Series capable. And
29:55
Speaker 4: I don't mean just getting to the World Series, like
29:57
Speaker 4: they believe they can beat any roster out there. Well
30:00
Speaker 4: that needs to start Game one, That starts actually here,
30:02
Speaker 4: starts in your preparation for Game one, and then all
30:05
Speaker 4: the way through one sixty two and beyond.
30:07
Speaker 1: I mean comfortable, a comfortable win, boy.
30:11
Speaker 4: I mean, I think that they're the most talented team
30:13
Speaker 4: in our division, and yet if you're gonna lose some
30:16
Speaker 4: ball games, just it's just the nature of the beast.
30:18
Speaker 3: Comfortable.
30:20
Speaker 5: I don't know for sure if I feel comfortable.
30:23
Speaker 3: I feel confident.
30:24
Speaker 4: I feel confident that they're the best team, and I
30:26
Speaker 4: feel that they have enough grit that They're going to
30:29
Speaker 4: play like that majority of the season, and so I
30:31
Speaker 4: do think that they're going to win it, But I
30:32
Speaker 4: don't know for sure. It's gonna be a while into
30:35
Speaker 4: the season before I feel comfortable.
30:36
Speaker 3: I'll tell you that.
30:37
Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you this. I guarantee you what Josh
30:40
Speaker 1: Naylor will be the biggest factor in. That's when Tucker
30:43
Speaker 1: weighs three hundred pounds by the All Star breck.
30:46
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, for sure.
30:48
Speaker 1: That dog's getting snack after snack after snack fed to
30:51
Speaker 1: it this week, and Josh Naylor is basically carrying around
30:54
Speaker 1: like a big giant sack of treats for him at
30:57
Speaker 1: all times. That dog's are going to weigh three fifty
30:59
Speaker 1: the All Star break.
31:00
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, Well, Tucker just maybe get some extra cardio
31:04
Speaker 4: in here.
31:04
Speaker 6: Maybe he could play a line for the Seahawks.
31:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe, maybe that's the next step. Final one. Brendan
31:10
Speaker 1: Donovan is so likable that by the end of the year,
31:13
Speaker 1: Seattle Mariner fans will elect him prom king of the Mariners.
31:20
Speaker 6: He is very likable. But I think it would be
31:22
Speaker 6: hard to take that crown from cal Raly or even
31:25
Speaker 6: Josh Naylor.
31:26
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm with you.
31:27
Speaker 1: I think as likable as he's going to be, he's
31:31
Speaker 1: just gonna be a prince in the court of King
31:35
Speaker 1: cal I think he's prompt king in perpetuity in Seattle.
31:38
Speaker 5: Gavel, Gavel, Gavel.
31:40
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, I will say this, there's when somebody
31:43
Speaker 4: wears the crown, and right now cal Raly wears the crown,
31:46
Speaker 4: and there's a couple other princes in that court that
31:48
Speaker 4: you're speaking of. I and rightfully so. But it's hard
31:51
Speaker 4: to take the crown off of somebody with a dumper
31:54
Speaker 4: that size. It was sixty home runs in his back pocket.
31:57
Speaker 4: I mean, and then he's not doing anything except for
32:01
Speaker 4: making See I'll fall more in love with him every
32:03
Speaker 4: action that he does, everything, every word that he speaks,
32:06
Speaker 4: and the way in which he plays the game. I
32:08
Speaker 4: think that he's going to be an undercover you know,
32:12
Speaker 4: prom court guy. You know a guy that's on court,
32:14
Speaker 4: under cover on court. Yeah, he's going to be on court,
32:17
Speaker 4: for sure. He's going to have a sash, yeah, But
32:20
Speaker 4: I don't know for sure. I don't I don't think.
32:22
Speaker 4: I don't think his game is one that it plays
32:25
Speaker 4: to be the prom king. I think it's one that
32:27
Speaker 4: is perfectly happy with being on court.
32:29
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, well in the picture, I will say this,
32:32
Speaker 1: and I know, I know, you know. I don't know
32:36
Speaker 1: who the prom queen's going to be, but I'm voting
32:38
Speaker 1: for Ashley. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll give you a
32:42
Speaker 1: vote for that too. I vote for Palmer, but I
32:44
Speaker 1: think there's some legal reasons that.
32:45
Speaker 3: We can't do that.
32:46
Speaker 6: I didn't know if you were saying that because you
32:47
Speaker 6: feel bad that it's freezing here and you're in the sun.
32:50
Speaker 5: No, we actually feel good about that.
32:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, we're feel awesome about that. Why would we
32:54
Speaker 1: not Yeah, wow, that would.
32:56
Speaker 6: Be silly to feel bad.
32:57
Speaker 1: Why would we not feel great about our advantage of you?
33:00
Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah, we'll just take your prom queen vote and
33:04
Speaker 5: like it.
33:04
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, I even family members, I'm like, I call
33:08
Speaker 1: them every once.
33:08
Speaker 3: I like, my life is so much better than your
33:11
Speaker 3: right not to rub it in. But I'm rubbing it in.
33:13
Speaker 1: Yeah.
33:14
Speaker 3: I haven't done that to my family yet.
33:15
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do that during great and all those kids
33:18
Speaker 1: and laugh at them.
33:19
Speaker 5: Yeah hi, yeah, oh hey kids, is it freezing there?
33:24
Speaker 1: Oh it's not gonna make your prom king. I'll tell
33:28
Speaker 1: you're not gonna beat cal Rally that way though, you
33:31
Speaker 1: and I being selfish. All Right, one last thing to
33:34
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Speaker 1: ready to wrap up our second show here with one
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Speaker 1: last thing I would like to start because part of
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Speaker 1: our coverage, I mean, we do a little bit of
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Speaker 1: social media. You probably saw a lot of BUCkies photos
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Speaker 1: that he snapped around the park. I'm trying to do it.
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Speaker 1: I just don't like doing it, but I'm trying to
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Speaker 1: participate in that realm. But what I do is a
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Speaker 1: blog after every single day that we do a show
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Speaker 1: down here, and the theme of the first one was
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Speaker 1: really about the buzz of camp being Kate Anderson and
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Speaker 1: Ryan Sloane, the pitching prospects within the organization, and there's
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Speaker 1: still the buzz of camp and I think are going
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Speaker 1: to be that throughout. So I wrote a blog. It's
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Speaker 1: up at ninety three to three kjr dot com. You
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Speaker 1: can also check it out certainly through social media there
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Speaker 1: on x either on my page of the KJR page.
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Speaker 1: So if you like to read up on my thoughts
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Speaker 1: on Anderson and Sloan being the buzz of camp, then
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Speaker 1: feel free to do so. That's just part of our coverage.
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Speaker 1: All right, Ashley, what's your one last thing?
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Speaker 6: I just wanted to say. Today was a lot of
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Speaker 6: fun and you guys did a great job. And I
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Speaker 6: am almost forgetting that you're in nice weather and we're
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Speaker 6: not because it's sunny here. Oh oh, Sonny in like
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Speaker 6: thirty five.
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Speaker 7: Oh toasty, yeah, layout five.
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Speaker 4: And Sonny, yeah, get your bikinis out.
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Speaker 3: Hey, don't burn. Make sure that you know gonna.
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Speaker 6: Try frostbite Israel.
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Speaker 7: You're right, I'd like to say, I'm not laughing at you, buddy,
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Speaker 7: It's okay.
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Speaker 1: Oh well, you know what, that glass is half full
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Speaker 1: back there.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's nice to hear that glass half full. Things
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Speaker 3: are on the rise. You keep that.
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Speaker 1: Sunshiny disposition, and you will melt any frost by tears.
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Speaker 4: Oh you need yeah, smile on your face of warm
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Speaker 4: the entire greater Seattle area.
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Speaker 1: Okay, warmed our hearts. I'll tell you that much, Bucky Watcher.
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Speaker 3: One last thing.
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Speaker 4: I'm excited about getting out and watching practice today. Today's
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Speaker 4: full first, real, full full team squad practice. Julio's walking
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Speaker 4: by right now. You got a whole bunch of catch
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Speaker 4: cow just walked by. They're all out there getting ready
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Speaker 4: to get this thing on a little bit. Pushed it
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Speaker 4: back a little bit with all the meetings they got,
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Speaker 4: But it's I think they did for their meetings or
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Speaker 4: they just did it so that we get.
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Speaker 3: To watch the entire press. That's nice of them.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know if they brought us donuts today.
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Speaker 1: I mean things are looking up well. Yesterday when we
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Speaker 1: were out they feel about talking heavily.
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Speaker 3: We found out heavily.
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Speaker 4: Basically his donut man, I mean, he brings in donuts
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Speaker 4: all the time in Seattle to t Mobile.
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Speaker 1: Never never has brought us one yet never.
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Speaker 4: And then today there was donuts in the cafeteria which
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Speaker 4: we're not allowed to go into, and yet they're because
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Speaker 4: of heavily.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, because heavily.
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Speaker 4: So I asked him, I said, hey, heavily is that
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Speaker 4: you did you bring donuts in and then put them
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Speaker 4: an arms reach away from where I can go? And
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Speaker 4: he says, no, I actually didn't do that, although that
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Speaker 4: would have been a good idea.
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Speaker 5: And then he brought us each of donuts.
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Speaker 1: No, thanks, those are bosa. Those are really good. That's
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Speaker 1: like the favorite donut place in all of Phoenix.
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Speaker 5: Really.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I'm really good.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna all be the judge of that, all right,
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Speaker 1: I will gladly let you be the judge of that.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, it is first of all, price that a
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Speaker 1: long meeting today. I'm like, why are they meeting for
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Speaker 1: so long? And then it was pointed out to me,
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Speaker 1: I think by you, like, this is the first official
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Speaker 1: practice of spring training with everybody here, so it is
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Speaker 1: on baseball season. Is here enough of this? Pitchers and
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Speaker 1: catchers reporting and you know, you know, dawdle your way
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Speaker 1: into camp. It's weird because they've all been here for
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Speaker 1: like a week, every single player. But nonetheless, today is
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Speaker 1: the first official practice, So here we go. The baseball
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Speaker 1: season is underway. We are too shows in to our coverage.
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Speaker 1: We will continue here all week long. I had a
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Speaker 1: great lineup today once again. It started with Kevin Sitzer.
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Speaker 1: He just got off on the right foot with us
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Speaker 1: and our show.
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Speaker 3: Today.
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Speaker 1: We had Chris Rose from NFL Network. We had Cole
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Speaker 1: Young on, then we had Colt Emerson on. We had
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Speaker 1: Brendan Donovan on, introduced him to the Seattle fan base
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Speaker 1: a little bit earlier in the show at eight o'clock.
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Speaker 3: And who else do we have on? Was that it?
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Speaker 2: Oh?
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Speaker 3: Every fifth series?
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Speaker 2: Ye?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And we replayed Jerry so great joke. Two great shows,
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Speaker 1: so man forty of the way through it, and I
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Speaker 1: couldn't be more pleased with what we're putting together for
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Speaker 1: you here at Peoria. So we'll do it again tomorrow
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Speaker 1: at six am. Mark James is coming your way next
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