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Chuck in the Morning 9/3 H1: Do we believe? Mariners Morning After and how do you like them apples? · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: We're live. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to chaos.
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  Speaker 1: Get your head up now, we got a long day.
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  Speaker 1: Where the action never stops. Are you writing this down?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 2: Something completely different this is chuck in the morning why you.
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  Speaker 1: People are beyond you let's go let's get the game
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  Speaker 1: on Hey, great morning to you all. Welcome into the
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  Speaker 1: radio show. It is a Thursday morning, a lovely one.
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  Speaker 1: We got a little bit of rain yesterday back into
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  Speaker 1: our lives. I thought it was special.
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  Speaker 3: I made soup and the fall candle was burning.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, are you just all in on this?
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  Speaker 1: Your chips are in the middle of the table right now.
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  Speaker 4: I know, but I will say it was tortilla soup,
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  Speaker 4: so I felt like that was like a halfway soup.
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  Speaker 3: That's not like a stew or something heavy. It was light.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And it was delicious.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it sounds wonderful. Gosh, that's the atmosphere I should
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  Speaker 1: have been a part of last night.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. What kind of atmosphere were you a part of?
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  Speaker 1: I did go out for a little bit to the kitchen. Oh, nice.
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  Speaker 1: Hung out there a little bit. But I didn't have
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  Speaker 1: like some homey, warm, you know, smell of apple cider candles.
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  Speaker 1: Tortilla soup kind of evening. Yeah. Ushering in the fall. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm welcoming it. Which seems to have crept up on us.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like Journey with open arms. Just come here, fall.
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  Speaker 3: I'll give you a big old hug.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a stalker you want.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a stalker you're attracted to.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm like, yes, I'm over here.
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  Speaker 1: Follow me. Follow me. It's like, you know what? I warped. I, Chuck,
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  Speaker 1: wore this sexy outfit so that this stalker would follow
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  Speaker 1: me home.
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  Speaker 3: I did ask for it. In this instance.
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  Speaker 1: In this instance. Yes, that should be pointed out. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Great morning to you all. Welcome into the show. Ashley
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  Speaker 1: Ryan is here. My name is Chuck Powell. It's good
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  Speaker 1: to have you with us. We'll take it till 10
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  Speaker 1: o'clock this morning. And certainly a ton to talk about today.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I've ever done this to Ashley,
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  Speaker 1: but like 30 seconds before we cracked the mics, I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what to lead with here today. Have
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  Speaker 1: I ever done that?
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  Speaker 4: No, because we never talked before the show starts either.
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  Speaker 4: So I was like, and I was like, hold on,
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  Speaker 4: let me put, and I had my head, and I
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  Speaker 4: was like, and then I looked at you again and
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  Speaker 4: you said, I was like, oh.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I know what's first on my mind.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: But then again, we're not having Greg Bell on today
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  Speaker 1: at 7.05, just giving him a day off.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Um, he he's earned it. Uh, and so I, I
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  Speaker 1: got that opportunity to do like a baseball conversation about
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  Speaker 1: what happened yesterday and where the team's at. And I'm like, well,
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  Speaker 1: then is that an excuse to not lead with it
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  Speaker 1: is should I go something else here? Um, but I think,
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  Speaker 1: I think Ashley's right. I think that you just go
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  Speaker 1: with what's top of mind.
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  Speaker 3: You gotta.
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  Speaker 1: Because this team just continues to be the most bizarre
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  Speaker 1: creature that has ever been created in the history of sports.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not like it's just this year. I hate
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  Speaker 1: to remind you, but this happens every single year with
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  Speaker 1: this team.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And for those people out there that still get angry
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  Speaker 1: When I, or Bucky used to, or Ashley, dare suggest
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  Speaker 1: that it's a long season, what the F extra evidence
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  Speaker 1: do you need that a team could play this bad
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  Speaker 1: for five months, enter September, five games out of first place,
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  Speaker 1: ten games under, or nine games, I guess they were yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: going into yesterday, and they win two games, And suddenly
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  Speaker 1: it's like, oh my gosh, it's alive! There's still, this
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  Speaker 1: corpse has had breath breathed back into it. The truth
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  Speaker 1: of the matter is, no, they didn't go three and
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  Speaker 1: three over this six-game road trip to Toronto and Boston.
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  Speaker 1: And the truth of the matter is they couldn't have
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  Speaker 1: played worse in Toronto than what they did. And the
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  Speaker 1: truth of the matter is the first loss, first game
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  Speaker 1: in the Boston series was one of the most devastating
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  Speaker 1: losses you'll see in a baseball season. And certainly it
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  Speaker 1: felt like there is no way this team's going to
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  Speaker 1: put it back together again. But Humpty Dumpty'd it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: get up off that floor. Let's get back up on
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  Speaker 1: that wall. And the next two days, you win consecutive games.
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  Speaker 1: You've now scored eight runs or more in three straight games.
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  Speaker 1: So suddenly the offense has life. Cal Raleigh, even though
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  Speaker 1: he didn't play yesterday, seems back. And lo and behold,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not sitting here telling you, get ready,
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  Speaker 1: here we go, because there's not enough evidence to support confidence.
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  Speaker 1: But there's enough evidence to support. They're not done. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they only missed that three and three goal.
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  Speaker 3: By a Julio mistake.
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  Speaker 1: By a Julio mistake. I mean, in only one game
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  Speaker 1: at two and four, I mean, you'd rather have them
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  Speaker 1: gone three and three. The goal was to at least
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  Speaker 1: go four and two. But obviously two and four, two
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  Speaker 1: straight wins. The offense comes alive. At least the fight
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  Speaker 1: that when your backs are firmly against the wall, that
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  Speaker 1: you're not just going to roll into a ball in
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  Speaker 1: the corner is there. That was evident the last couple
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  Speaker 1: of days. Dan's certainly managing with urgency at this stage
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  Speaker 1: in the season. And lo and behold, this corpse, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not dead yet.
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  Speaker 3: He says he's not dead yet.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yes, you are. You'll be stone cold dead in
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  Speaker 1: a moment. I'm feeling better.
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  Speaker 3: Can you just take him?
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  Speaker 1: I want to sing and dance. Um, it's unbelievable. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they're unbelievable. And this has happened every year. Now it's
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  Speaker 1: happened at a different time in the season every year,
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  Speaker 1: but it happens every year that they go on this
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  Speaker 1: run when it looks like they're done. And yet they
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  Speaker 1: somehow summon some run. And I'm not saying that's going
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  Speaker 1: to happen. I'm really not.
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  Speaker 3: It was, yeah, two wins.
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  Speaker 1: I have not been won over by it. Your snake
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  Speaker 1: charms won't work on me. You know, I've been fooled
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  Speaker 1: before this season, but I will say this. There have
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  Speaker 1: been times in the last five years where I declared
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  Speaker 1: on these airwaves as somebody that truly believes in this
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  Speaker 1: roster and has for five straight seasons, six straight seasons,
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  Speaker 1: that I thought, that's it. There's no way. There's no
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  Speaker 1: way anybody can come back from that. And immediately they
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  Speaker 1: put together some sort of streak out of nowhere that
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  Speaker 1: and start playing the way they haven't all season long.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm not going to eliminate it as a possibility,
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  Speaker 1: nor am I going to sit here and believe in
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  Speaker 1: what we've seen the last couple of days either. But
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  Speaker 1: it's just strange how they just continue to be the
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  Speaker 1: weirdest team that has ever taken a field at any
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  Speaker 1: level in sports.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no consistency.
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  Speaker 4: Because if you were to show someone tape, if you
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  Speaker 4: made it all, like, you know, the kind of night vision, right?
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  Speaker 4: Where you couldn't tell who, whose team is wearing what colors.
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  Speaker 4: And you've showed someone a game from Toronto and, and,
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  Speaker 4: and Tuesday's game from Boston. There's no way they would
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  Speaker 4: think that was the same team. Because especially offensively, they'd
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  Speaker 4: be like, well, those are two totally different teams. There
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  Speaker 4: is zero consistency. So it's hard to sit there and
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  Speaker 4: have confidence that they're going to pull it together. And
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  Speaker 4: because we've done this, I feel like this is the
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  Speaker 4: most rollercoastery.
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  Speaker 3: It's been in a long time. Terrible.
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  Speaker 4: In terms of kind of our emotions being allowed to say, okay,
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  Speaker 4: here's the time.
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  Speaker 3: Here's when they're going to do it.
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  Speaker 4: And so I just think, I mean, I sat there
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  Speaker 4: and looked at Five Iron last night, and the first
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  Speaker 4: thing I said was, ugh, if. we should have swept
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  Speaker 4: the Red Sox. And that was my first, not that
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  Speaker 4: I wasn't happy we won too, I was, but I
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  Speaker 4: just thought we should have swept the Red Sox. And
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  Speaker 4: that was so irritating that we didn't because that does
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  Speaker 4: make a big difference. And not only in the way
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  Speaker 4: that the standings and the way that your road trip
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  Speaker 4: goes and you come back on a 500 road trip
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  Speaker 4: and maybe that helps the confidence, but it helps the
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  Speaker 4: fans too and it helps people believe a little bit more.
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  Speaker 4: And you're coming home and you got four games against
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  Speaker 4: the A's And I don't know what's going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's like, oh, you should sweep them.
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  Speaker 1: You could get swept. Right.
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  Speaker 4: That's why I'm like, I don't know. And I haven't
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  Speaker 4: given up. I mean, I've been consistent on I still
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  Speaker 4: think they have a chance. I still think they can
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  Speaker 4: do this. I still believe that they can win the division.
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  Speaker 1: There's the truth. I mean, to predict that they're going to, okay,
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  Speaker 1: here comes the run, I think that that's foolish enough.
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  Speaker 1: I also think to just bury them and believe they
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  Speaker 1: have no chance of pulling that off is also a
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  Speaker 1: bit foolish. What, 22 games to go? It's not like
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  Speaker 1: you're trying to chase down the Rays and Yankees. You're
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  Speaker 1: trying to chase down extremely flawed teams. Right. And you
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  Speaker 1: get the softest part of your schedule the entire year.
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  Speaker 1: But who can read anything into that? Right, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, that means nothing.
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  Speaker 1: It means nothing. It really does. It means nothing. to
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  Speaker 1: this version of the Mariners, which is, very similar to
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  Speaker 1: past versions of the Mariners. Certainly talented enough to pull
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  Speaker 1: something off, but where's the consistency? Why would I believe anything?
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  Speaker 1: Could very well be fool's gold. And you might return tonight,
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  Speaker 1: take on Jack Perkins and his six ERA, and he
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  Speaker 1: might two-hit you over seven innings. I mean, that's just
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  Speaker 1: how weird and strange that they are. Which does suggest
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  Speaker 1: why they've had such a bad year. That you cannot
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  Speaker 1: put any kind of consistency together. Momentum is your enemy.
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  Speaker 1: All that sort of thing. But I'll say this. I
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  Speaker 1: had a conversation Friday afternoon. Before the Rainiers game, with
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  Speaker 1: Softie and Dick, as I do every Friday before the
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  Speaker 1: Rainiers games that I do. And, of course, Dick, boy,
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  Speaker 1: he's really proud that he gave up before any of us.
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  Speaker 3: That he gave up before any of us.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's really proud of that.
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  Speaker 3: Well done.
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  Speaker 1: Keeps reminding us. And then Softie and I were talking about, okay, realistically,
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  Speaker 1: what will you be okay with the next six days?
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  Speaker 1: And certainly nobody foresaw... We're going to play like garbage
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  Speaker 1: against the Blue Jays, lose them all, and then try
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  Speaker 1: to remake up that ground in Boston. Nobody went into
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  Speaker 1: the weekend thinking that. Even the largest Mariner naysayer out
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  Speaker 1: there didn't think that that was the scenario that we
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  Speaker 1: were in store for. But the realistic conversation was, let's
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  Speaker 1: say you go 3-3 over the next six games and
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  Speaker 1: And you're within four, three games of the Astros. That's
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  Speaker 1: the window we gave ourselves. And you've got 22 games
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  Speaker 1: to play against teams that pretty much have folded and
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  Speaker 1: are preparing for next season. The A's, the Angels, the Rockies.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's what's coming up for the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the season. Yeah, I can live with that, was the
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  Speaker 1: conclusion that he and I drew while Fane continued to
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  Speaker 1: tell us that we are fools.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's the conclusion that he and I drew. So does
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  Speaker 1: it eliminate it if you go two and four instead
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  Speaker 1: of three and three and you're five back instead of
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  Speaker 1: four back? Is that one game difference here as we
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  Speaker 1: get ready for the A series starting tonight? That one
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  Speaker 1: game difference throw us completely off our feelings that we
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  Speaker 1: had on Friday and Obviously not. Obviously, mathematically, it's not
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  Speaker 1: out of the question. I think where I'm guarded this
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  Speaker 1: morning is I don't want to start believing again.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: That's fair. I mean, how many times has the tide
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  Speaker 1: seemingly changed and you still can't navigate the waters? And so...
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  Speaker 1: I'm not here to tell you, here we go! But
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  Speaker 1: I'm also not here to perform a eulogy on the
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  Speaker 1: season either. And so here we sit, the weird-ass 2026 Mariners,
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  Speaker 1: toying with our emotions once again. And the only conclusion
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  Speaker 1: that I could draw is that corpse you thought was
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  Speaker 1: flying to Boston showed life the last couple of days. joyous,
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  Speaker 1: splendid life and that maybe it does have some fight
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  Speaker 1: in it and maybe it does want to live.
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  Speaker 3: And wouldn't that be just a magical thing?
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  Speaker 2: Yes!
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I feel like we've been trying to will
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  Speaker 4: them to want those things for the last three months, right?
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  Speaker 1: Like, come on, guys.
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  Speaker 3: You can do it. You want this. We know it.
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  Speaker 4: And we're trying to all send.
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  Speaker 1: Why are you trying to deny it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, come on. Just accept it.
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  Speaker 1: Why are you trying to act like you don't want this?
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  Speaker 3: Just accept it. It's happening.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, these are the things that we have all
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  Speaker 4: been trying. We've been like, just you can do it.
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  Speaker 4: We know you can do it. We're finding everything we
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  Speaker 4: can grasp onto and just hoping that it'll go. So
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  Speaker 4: I can understand why you would say, I don't know
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  Speaker 4: if I want to believe again. Because it's been so
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  Speaker 4: sad when they've been sucking.
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  Speaker 1: If it was a relationship, the advice would be, you
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  Speaker 1: got to stop letting him slash her do this to you. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Wake up.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, this isn't healthy.
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  Speaker 1: You need to move on. Yeah. I mean, if this
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  Speaker 1: was a relationship, that's the advice you would give your
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  Speaker 1: best friend. This is not healthy for you.
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  Speaker 3: They're doing the bare minimum.
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  Speaker 1: Right. You need more than that. They're not there for you.
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  Speaker 3: You deserve more than that. That's what it would be.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, last week, your boyfriend, the Mariners, he went
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  Speaker 1: outside and he just took You know, a number two
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: in the front lawn of your parents' house. You just
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: can't stay with that person.
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  Speaker 3: There's no respect there.
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  Speaker 1: The neighbors were talking. And I don't care if they
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: did bring you flowers. And we're really charming in Boston
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: the last couple of days. You know what they are. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And those are poop flowers. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: They grew them in their own poop garden.
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: Oh man it is something and you're like but they're
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: saving money on fertilizer yeah you keep justifying their actions exactly.
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  Speaker 1: All right um let's talk about what else is coming
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  Speaker 1: up on the show today it's time to find out
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  Speaker 1: what's on tap may i have your attention please this
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• 16:03
  Speaker 1: I am not glossing over the whole Montez Cal thing
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: that happened yesterday. We are going to get into it.
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  Speaker 1: That was part of my indecision this morning. Like, do
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: I get into that at 6? And then again at 7?
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  Speaker 1: Did I save that for 7? But I do want
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: to go through the Montez... And the Mariner's process conversation.
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  Speaker 1: And so without Greg today, because we're giving him a
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: day off, we will do that at 7.05. So we
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  Speaker 1: are going to tackle that subject. I'm certainly not ignoring it.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, I like it so much.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to put it in its perfect position here
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: today without overdoing it. So that was sort of the
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: strategy and the indecision. here this morning, but the Mariners
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  Speaker 1: won over the Red Sox eight to three. We'll talk
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  Speaker 1: to Ryan Healy about the, uh, weird, uh, Mariners, uh,
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  Speaker 1: today at nine o'clock. Um, the team is 66 and 74,
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  Speaker 1: which is gross and disgusting. Um, but they do remain
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  Speaker 1: within shouting distance, uh, five games back of the Houston
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  Speaker 1: Astros who won last night. The Texas Rangers lost last night.
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  Speaker 1: The A's are in town for a four game series
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  Speaker 1: and it will begin this evening. And it will be
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  Speaker 1: Kate Anderson, which is exciting in its own right, taking
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  Speaker 1: on Jack Perkins from the A's, a right-hander. So that's
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: good news. It's a right-hander. Even though we did rough
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: up a left-hander. A bad one. But we roughed up
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: a left-hander yesterday in Boston to close out that series.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: It's Apple Cup week, of course. Sunday. I even wrote
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: down Saturday. That's just part of the past.
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  Speaker 4: It is.
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  Speaker 1: Sunday at 1 o'clock. Softie will join us. That's right.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: Thursdays with Softie are back. He'll join us at 730.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: He is the leader of the honks again this year
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: and now is the sideline reporter for Huskies football as well.
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  Speaker 1: And I do honestly believe Cam and Elise are terrified.
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  Speaker 3: As they should.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll talk to him at 7.30 today to discuss
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: the Apple Cup. College football week one. I don't know
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: if they're still calling that last week week zero or what.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: They, like, combined them all on the scoreboard thing, which
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: was weird.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but a full week of college football. First full
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: week of college football is this weekend, Labor Day weekend.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: And it starts tonight. Yes, it does. There's a heavy slate. Now,
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: there's not a lot of good games this week. Usually
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: we have, like, a top ten matchup. some sort of
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: kickoff classic that I grew up with, maybe two or
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: three of those that they spread out over the weekend
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: so you get a good game every single day. Um, well,
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: they're not doing that this year. Kind of a bummer.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: I think the best matchup is LSU Clemson. And I
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: think the only reason that people are fascinated with it,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: cause it's two powerful brands, uh, one down right now. Um,
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: but it's the, it's Dabo Sweeney and the anti Dabo Sweeney. Yeah.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: It's the guy that's doing anything to try to win
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: and trying to skirt all the new rules to try
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: to work them to his advantage. And the, the one guy,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: the last bastion of head coaches that doesn't want to
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: do any of the new stuff and just wants people
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: to commit to Clemson and stay here for four years.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: And I don't want to have to recruit you every day.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's the, that's probably the most intriguing thing
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: about the most intriguing matchup this week. Yeah.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: Cause it's like a 10 and a half point spread
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: or something like that. So, It would be a pretty
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: large upset if Clemson were to pull it off. And
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: I think, yeah, it's just people keeping their fingers crossed,
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: hoping that Clemson can pull off some magic.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: It's like a fight in your living room between your
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: grandfather and your niece's goth boyfriend. Yeah, similar.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: That's exactly. how I pictured it.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's kind of what it is. Completely different ideologies.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: Very different ideologies.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: But the same amount of scrap. Correct.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: They both got a little fight in them.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Do not underestimate Grandpa. He will pull your black hair
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: right out of your head.
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: He will come at you like a spider monkey.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: He will pull that bone out of your nose. Trust me.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: He cannot wait to do it. Okay. All right. We
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: are six days from the Seahawks opener. And so, I mean,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: I'm really kind of jonesing now to talk about an opponent.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure we'll get into that today. But, yeah,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: the New England Patriots are a pretty fascinating story right now.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: I've heard rumblings that camp is a disaster, that Vrabel–
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: thinks his depth is horrible that the organization's not over
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: the whole russini thing um that it has caused some
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: ripple effects within the organization uh and so interesting first
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: opponent interesting i'm interested to see how the national people
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: next week once we're closer to the game start covering
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: this game and what topics they do hit uh and
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: same thing with how the Patriots prepare for this upcoming game,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: if they will treat it like a true opener, uh,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: or if the soap opera that is turned into new
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: England Patriots, that new England Patriots football is turned into, uh,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: ends up being the bigger topic of conversation next week
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: as we lead off to kickoff. Here, we're just about
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: the champs and the smoothest running operation in the world.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so good luck with all of that. Kirk Cousins
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: was named the starting quarterback for the Raiders yesterday. That's
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: now official. We will discuss how the NBA just absolutely
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: devastated the Los Angeles Clippers over this Kawhi Leonard extra
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: payment thing. Oh, my. Yeah. Gosh, what a ruling. You
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: want to send a message. You want to set a
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: bar for we're not going to allow this conduct at all.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: And everybody who has flirted around with this, you better
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: take heed. This is not only your warning. We are
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: making an example of the Los Angeles Clippers and everybody
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: better be following the example. So they have set a
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: really high bar on how they're going to punish teams.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: guilty of this infraction. We'll talk about that a little
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: later on in the show. Sounders take on Red Bull
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: New York on Saturday. Suddenly the Sounders are a much
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: more interesting team again now that they have a star
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: goal score. And of course, we've got a lot of
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: baseball to discuss today. So we will continue that conversation
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: with Mariners morning after next on Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: We were just talking about that the corpse remains alive.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it's like a negative thing, if
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: we should kind of describe them I don't know if
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: you saw Lord of the Rings or not, but like
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: the orcs were probably like the worst fighters you've ever
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: seen in the history of movies. I mean, the hobbits
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: were killing them one after another.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: I mean, big feet and small bodies.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So just terrible, terrible. I mean, fierce looking, you know, combatants.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: But they were obviously very bad at fighting. And yet
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: they almost won the war. I mean, they came as
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: close as anyone ever to pulling an upset and winning
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: the war.
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: And so I don't know if that's what the Mariners are,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: or if we look at it more positively and say,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: they're like Terminator. Like, you can keep blowing them to bits,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, just the the torso
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: will start dragging itself across the fiery warehouse. And then
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: you could blow up the torso, and then just the
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: arm will come after you. So maybe that's the way
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: we should look at them. It's just a bunch of
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Terminators out there.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: That's how I've felt about them all season long.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: And that's what we are right now. We're just an
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: arm crawling along a warehouse floor trying to get to
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Sarah Connor.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Before the movie ends.
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: I only watched Terminator 2 because Edward Furlong was in it,
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: and I loved him when I was younger.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Oh, you did?
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: I did. I don't know why.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: I don't either.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: I mean, he was cute when he was younger.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: Then he wasn't.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: But in Terminator, oh, yeah. Me and all my friends
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: had a crush on Eddie.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: And not drawn to Arnold or John Connor or Sarah.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Linda Hamilton.
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: Nope.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: It was just Eddie Furlong. It's the only reason I
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: watched it. Multiple times.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: It's an interesting, interesting choice. All right, let's talk about
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: yesterday's game. Mariners taking on the Boston Red Sox, trying
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: to make it two in a row, trying to score
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: eight runs or more for a third straight game, which
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: seems impossible. And yet the game starts with Mariner fans
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: already angry because for whatever reason, the story of the
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: game the night before, Laz Montez is not in the lineup.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Because the M's are facing a left-hander. Not even a
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: good left-hander. But just because he's left-handed, they sat Laz Montes.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: They also sat Cal Raleigh. We understand he wasn't feeling well.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: So apparently that was the reason. And not that Dan
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: and the organization weren't placing urgency on the game. Because
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Dan is absolutely managing with urgency now. There is no
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: question about that. I mean, he made a pitching change
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: in the fifth inning. took out Bryce Miller. He brought
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: in Munoz with a three-run lead the night before because
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Hobie Milner had given up a couple of runs and
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: he didn't want to take any chances on those two games.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: And you know what? I'm for that. I'm for not
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: waiting for disaster to occur. I think it is that
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: time of the year, but it does help when you
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: are finally scoring runs and And this team not only
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: scored eight runs again yesterday, they did it without courtesy
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: of a homer.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: Canzone, deep drive, up to the monster, and it bangs
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: off the wall.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Pareda is in to score.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: Randy Held, Dom Canzone, scrapes the paint, and the Mariners
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: continue to push another run across in the sixth inning.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: 8-1 Mariners.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: 8-1 Mariners. They did score a couple of times to
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: make it 8-3, which unfortunately makes us nervous.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: I know, right?
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Whenever the distance is closed from seven runs to five,
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: we're like, oh boy, here we go again.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: Oh no, it's happening.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah. But 8-3 is your final score. A relief core
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: of Ferrer, Rucker, Dominguez, who, by the way, has been
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: really good. Put aside that first performance that he had.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: And then Cooper Criswell, all pitched in relief of Bryce
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Miller yesterday, and the M's end up winning it by
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: a final score of 8-3, a game in which they
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: wrapped out 12 hits. Everyone in the lineup, not named
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Taylor Ward and Cole Young, had a hit in the contest.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: The bottom three in the order had seven hits. Weston Wilson,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: who again did his Herman Munster thing, impersonation at third
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: base yesterday, but two big hits, two runs scored in
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: the game. JP, three for three, and that's it, JP.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: That's how you need to play.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was great.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Johnny Pareda just continues two for three, two RBIs,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: so bottom of the order, got the job done, and
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Dan Wilson gets the job done yesterday, including removing Bryce
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: Miller before the end of the fifth inning to manage
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: with some urgency. Here's Dan after the game. Yeah, great
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: series win.
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: I thought the way the guys attacked again offensively today
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: was impressive and two big innings.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: That really boosted us today.
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: Particularly the bottom part of the order, those bottom three
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: guys really were impressive today. And not just getting hits,
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: but putting up good ABs, finding walks from time to
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: time and really setting it up to the top. And
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: that was a huge contribution from those guys down there today.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: And JP, Willie and Johnny doing a great job.
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: The guys at the top doing a great job driving them.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: In and, you know, led to some really big innings. And,
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: you know, Bryce, I thought, was.
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: Extremely good today and a really good one.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: To build on for him. I thought he attacked. You know,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: we talked about using his fastball, which.
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: He did, and, you know, used his secondaries, you.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Know, pretty well. And, you know, again, a good outing
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: from him.
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: And then the bullpen, you know, stepped up and did
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: what they do, really held it there.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Rucker giving us two innings was pretty big, too.
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: Just a really good series, one that you can gain
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: some confidence from as we head home here tomorrow.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Dan Wilson after the 8-3 victory. I agree with everything
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: he said about Bryce Miller. I agree with how he
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: handled Bryce Miller yesterday. Bryce Miller has been bad lately.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: And I get that Bryce was a little upset that
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: he was taken out, where he's sitting there one out away,
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: not really in any trouble, thanks to a double play,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: and wants to finish the fifth so he can qualify
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: for a win. It's still important to pitchers, even if
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: it's not important to people in analytics and sabermetrics that
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: have dismissed the win as a stat. Pitchers still want
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: to get it. So I understand that he's upset, but
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: to me, Dan's right. And this was probably organizational as well, where.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: This is something good for him to build off of. Okay.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: We didn't get you through five. Yeah. You know, but
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: four and two thirds, you know, I'm a little worried
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: that Bryce Miller can only give you three good quality
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: innings right now. And that maybe the bullpen decision that
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: they made with him was the right one. But the
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Emerson Hancock injury... forced you into putting him back into
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: the starting rotation. Well, under those circumstances, following those dots,
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: I think that that is exactly what I would have
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: wanted to get out of Bryce Miller yesterday. And I'm
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: good with him being taken out after 65 pitches. Looks
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: like he wasn't the same pitcher in the fifth inning
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: that he was in the second and the third. So
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: I want Bryce to look at this as a positive,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: and I want him to build off of that, as
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Dan said. Now, The decision to go with Ferrer in
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: that situation, when you've got a three-run lead at that point. See,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: this is, and we're going to get into this at 7.05,
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: because this is not analytics that made that decision. That
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: is just your old-school Tony LaRusso, Whitey Herzog, you know,
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: lefty versus lefty matchup. William Abreu murders lefties. I don't
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: care if he is left-handed. He hits lefties 200 OPS
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: points better than he hits righties. So that is not
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: an analytics decision that they're making, except from the standpoint
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: that Ferrer does do better against lefties than he does righties.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: But the truth of the matter is, you probably were
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: better off going with a righty like Dominguez in that
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: situation to face the lefty. Yeah, that would make sense. Well, actually,
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Dominguez is better against righties. But that could have been
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: the moment to use Rucker rather than for a full inning. Yeah.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: Get one out. Yep. Against a lefty killer who hits
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: from the left side when that is supposedly Rutgers' strength
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: is a righty who gets out lefties. That's playing the
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: analytics game. So, again, that's probably nitpicking.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: But.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: I think– I'll just say this. For the most part,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: I agree with Dan's decision yesterday. I thought that was
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: the right thing for Bryce, and I thought it was
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: the right thing for the team. Yeah.
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: No, I think– and I didn't leave yesterday's game going, why, what, what?
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: You know, it was– yeah, okay, fine. I don't have
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: a problem with any of the decisions that he made
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: at all.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: And Rucker going for two innings, even though he gave
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: up two runs, you had that to work with.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you had a cushion.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: You needed somebody to eat up some outs for you yesterday,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: and I thought that was the right decision. Agreed. I
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: don't know if him being on the roster is the
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: right decision. Now, that's an argument we can have, but
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: if he's on the roster, that's it. That's the Rucker
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: situation that he pitches in.
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and maybe he wouldn't have been if Hancock stays
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: healthy and Miller actually.
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: Is in the pen.
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: Maybe he wouldn't be, but I mean, at this point,
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: I do think and then as far as, you know,
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: the lineup that we'll talk about later. But I do
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: get why Mariners fans were like, oh, here we go
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: again on game three.
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: It's like we're just.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: Oh, for sure.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: You know, throwing it in. And it's and I thought
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: the same thing. Like, what are we doing? Like, let's
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: ride this momentum from yesterday.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Entirely aggravating.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: But then I also thought to myself, watch as we're
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: all sitting there going, what are they doing?
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: They're going to just come out and dominate. And sure enough,
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: they did.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: Well, 8-3 is the final score. They are back in
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: action tonight at home, so they're already home to take
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: on the A's, and it will be Kate Anderson tonight
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: against Jack Perkins, right-hander for the Athletics. All right, we'll
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: talk more about that, as I said, at 7.05. Coming
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: up next, we count down the days until the Apple
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Cup and the reliance that Jed Fish is going to
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: have on his freshman this year. Sports Radio 93.3, KJR FM. football,
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: but also the best. pregame show in college football, and
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: that'll lead you all the way to kickoff at 1 o'clock.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: The historic call from Elyse Woodward, the new voice of
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: the Huskies, along with Cam Cleland and this feisty young
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: up-and-comer on the sidelines by the name of David Softy Mahler.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: We'll check in with him today at 7.30 as he
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: gets ready for another new role in your lives as
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: the sideline reporter for the Huskies. Thursdays with Softy are back.
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: I'm excited to hear him on the sidelines. I mean,
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: if people ever wonder if a sideline reporter is biased...
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: You're about to find out.
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: Well.
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: He will be.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, if you think he's going to do it
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: like everybody else has done it, you don't know my
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: friend Dave. That's right.
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: And that's why it's going to be great.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: He's going to try to figure out a way that
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: how nobody else has ever done sideline reporting before. And
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: it may begin with like wrestling match on the sidelines
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: against the Coug sideline reporter.
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Jessamyn Mack.
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: She's going to win that.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Oh, in a landslide.
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: She will pin his ass. All right. So he'll join
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: us at 730. Also, we've got our showdown made the
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: announcement yesterday. We're switching from the green jacket draft into
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: a showdown, but it's pretty much the same thing. The
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: reason that we are changing it because we wanted to
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: retire the green jacket. And also, we also want to
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: incorporate listeners this year into our draft. It's something that
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: we always see on the text line. I want to draft.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: I want to draft. And so we're going to give
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: listeners a team this season when we do our drafts
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: to preview major sporting events. Today, we're going to preview
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: the Big Ten Conference, and we're going to do it
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: with our fantasy draft. So we're going to need somebody
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: at 8 o'clock today. And I'm telling you now, because
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: you're probably going to have to study a little bit
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: over the course of the next hour to be in
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: our Big Ten Fantasy League. You're not going to be
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: in for the entire season. Other listeners will make the pickups. Um,
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: during the course of the year that we do on
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: a weekly basis, but you will set the foundation. Whoever
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: is our listener picker today will set the foundation for
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: the listeners team and our fantasy league. You're going to
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: draft a quarterback, a running back, a wide receiver, and
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: then a flex position. which is running back wide receiver
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: or tight end. And we do PPR rules. That's how
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: we do that. And then the only other thing that
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: I probably should give you a heads up about is
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: that you can't have two players from the same team
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  Speaker 1: on your roster. That's the only way that it makes
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: it tricky. Otherwise we just have two greater teams. Right.
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  Speaker 1: So you can't have two Huskies on your team. You
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: can only have one. Correct.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So keep that in mind. So if somebody wants to
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: do that, let us know at 49451. I'm saying it
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  Speaker 1: now because I want to give you at least the
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: next hour to do a little studying, a little research
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  Speaker 1: and put together your draft order. So maybe we picked
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: them in the break. somebody that could be our listener,
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: Big Ten showdown participant.
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  Speaker 3: Perfect.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe you want Quade Carr. I said I would
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  Speaker 1: talk about him. I only got like a minute left.
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  Speaker 1: I will just mention him. He's going to be the
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: starting running back, and he's just another freshman. Now, he's
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: a second-year freshman. It's going to be really strange getting
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: used to real– I mean, we're in the transition period
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: to stop calling guys– Freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Now
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: they're first, second, third, fourth, and fifth year players.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't like that.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: I think we can still use the same terminology. Maybe
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: we just have like super seniors in their fifth year
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: because I like the– I'm with you. Why do we
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: need to abandon the terminology? But Quade Carr is not your–
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: Just came from high school. He's been two years in
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  Speaker 1: the program. He is a redshirt freshman, so he's a
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: second-year player for the Huskies. And he's slight. I mean,
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of talk about Jadarian Price's skinny legs. Well,
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: Quade Carr is kind of skinny everywhere. Um, he is
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: a five 11, one 95, and that's in the program.
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  Speaker 1: They're probably fudging a little bit on the size, but
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: there's no doubt that he's got some burst. And I
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: don't think there's any doubt that he absolutely ran away
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: with a running back competition, even though they liked the group.
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  Speaker 1: I think that he became very evident that that's our
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: best guy right now. Um, but there are going to
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: be a lot of different body types. Jaden Lamar is
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: like five, nine to 15 thunder thighs, big biceps. And
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: then way to get a load of, uh, Ansu Sano,
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: oh my gosh. I mean, that guy's a monster. You'd
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: swear he's a defensive end.
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: You're saying Ansu Sano, yes.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: Yes. So they're going to have a really interesting running
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: back group, but it sounds like it's going to start
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: with the most explosive guy that they have, and that's
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: the second-year freshman, Quade Carr. So maybe you want to
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: draft him in our showdown coming up at 8 o'clock today.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: But coming up next, we've got your headlines. No Greg
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: Bell today. We give him the day off. And it
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: gives us an opportunity at 7.05 to talk about Mariners baseball,
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: to talk about the decisions that went into yesterday's game,
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: and the Mariners process as far as I know it.
• 38:19
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