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Chuck & Buck 4-29 Hour 2: Headlines and the Draftermath, ABC's of the Mariners and Reckless at Breakfast. · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Line sharply fair into the corner. Add on time.
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  Speaker 2: In the ninth inning, Young scores on his heels. Here
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  Speaker 2: comes Revos, no throw home. Polio drives in two more
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  Speaker 2: for the Mariners. It's his third double tonight and a
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  Speaker 2: seven to one Mariners lead.
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Goldsmith on the Call Mariners TV. Last night, the
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  Speaker 1: Ms were trailing one to nothing all the way until
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  Speaker 1: the top of the sixth inning, tied it up, then
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  Speaker 1: took the lead in the seventh, two two out, big
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  Speaker 1: RBI it's for the squad, gave them the lead against
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  Speaker 1: the tough customer that is Joe Ryan, and then well sure,
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  Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden they just put the
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  Speaker 1: foot on the gas pedal and blew the Twins away,
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  Speaker 1: scoring three times in the eighth, twice more in the
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  Speaker 1: ninth than they went at seven to one last night.
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  Speaker 1: The heart of the order, which of course Cal's got
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  Speaker 1: to be included in any description of the heart of
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  Speaker 1: the order, But the classic heart of the order when
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  Speaker 1: I grew up, was always considered three four five. Our
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  Speaker 1: three four five hitters last night combined for eight hits
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  Speaker 1: six extra base hits in the game, including the big
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  Speaker 1: three run homer from Josh Naylor So seven to one
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  Speaker 1: Mariners so win over the Minnesota Twins. It tops our
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  Speaker 1: headlines brought to you by Frost Brewed Corpse Light Ashley.
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  Speaker 1: They're just a game under five hundred again they are.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, just you talking about the top of
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  Speaker 3: the order or the heart of the order. There all
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  Speaker 3: of them overdred hitting over two of them hitting well
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  Speaker 3: over two hundred.
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  Speaker 4: Randy orro Aserenas at two ninety seven, Yeah about that.
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  Speaker 3: And Naylor remember last week was was it one fifty something?
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  Speaker 3: I don't even know, is it two twenty? Yeah, we
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  Speaker 3: just got to get cal up there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I thought he was getting hot, but he
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  Speaker 1: had a rough night at the plate last night, going
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  Speaker 1: zero for five. But we're out of the funk. They're
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  Speaker 1: out of the funk, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 4: Fake the funk.
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  Speaker 1: And as I said during our Marin this morning after segment,
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  Speaker 1: that Josh Naylor celebration was him saying, I am done
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  Speaker 1: being in the funk. I'm out. I'm officially out. I've
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  Speaker 1: knocked in a run with two outs by hitting a
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  Speaker 1: base at the other way over the shortstop's head, and
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  Speaker 1: now I've turned on a three run homer and hit
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  Speaker 1: it into the upper deck and right center field. And
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  Speaker 1: so I am done stinking this year. I am out,
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  Speaker 1: all right. So that's where our frost brewed Corse, I
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  Speaker 1: choose chill headlines begin. We got other things to get to,
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  Speaker 1: as a matter of fact, quite a bit to get to.
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  Speaker 1: Brendavan Donovan update on his injury. Looks like he's going
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  Speaker 1: to be back by the homestand that sounds too conservative
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  Speaker 1: to me as a report. I'm gonna go ahead and
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  Speaker 1: guess he's back by the start of the home stand
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  Speaker 1: on Friday. I don't know that for a fact, but
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm going to read the tea leaves on this.
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  Speaker 1: That's too conservative of a guestimate. I'm gonna say he's
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  Speaker 1: back by Friday when the team returns home. We'll see.
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  Speaker 1: Thank goodness, they've got grointment lying around from years ago.
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  Speaker 3: Just rub that miracle, says, Sounders send it over their old.
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  Speaker 1: Sounders have yeah. Oh I think yeah, And.
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  Speaker 4: They send it over.
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  Speaker 1: No is that right?
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  Speaker 4: Because they put that on all the soccer players and
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  Speaker 4: they fall.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. Oh and they just miraclely cured right Russell and Gino,
• 3:35
  Speaker 1: what do you think of that combination? They might be
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  Speaker 1: back together again with Russell as his back up with
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  Speaker 1: the New York Jets. That was a rumor that popped
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  Speaker 1: up yesterday. We'll talk more about that later on in
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  Speaker 1: the show College Football Dogs After Dark. This Friday, it's
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  Speaker 1: the UW Spring Game. Won't be really in the dark,
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  Speaker 1: as a matter of fact, there's gonna be some really
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  Speaker 1: good weather and probably some pretty bright sunshine for that.
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  Speaker 1: And yet Fish he wants to roll that thing out
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  Speaker 1: on Friday evenings, and we will be all over it
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  Speaker 1: right here on your flagship sports radio ninety three point
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  Speaker 1: three KHARFM. College Basketball News. The NCAA Tournament has decided
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  Speaker 1: to expand. It's not to the number of ninety six.
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  Speaker 1: It's to the number of seventy six, which just sounds odd.
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  Speaker 1: A seventy six team field. I hate it.
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  Speaker 4: I know who could sponsor it? Seventy six gas stations.
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  Speaker 1: There you go, there you go? Are they going to
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  Speaker 1: be the seventy six ers? The teams that qualify for
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  Speaker 1: the tournament? Speaking of college basketball, Tyron Stokes and the
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  Speaker 1: number one recruit in America and he plays his high
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  Speaker 1: school basketball right here in Seattle. He has chosen the
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  Speaker 1: Kansas Jayhawks to play at the college level for one year.
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  Speaker 1: So that's the decision there. He was asked about why
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  Speaker 1: not you dub and he said, well, I kind of
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  Speaker 1: am gone with the guys that have been recruiting me
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  Speaker 1: since I was in the eighth grade, and you dubbed
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  Speaker 1: didn't start contacting me really late in the process.
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  Speaker 4: Probably not great.
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  Speaker 1: So he's gone with the people he's kind of grown
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  Speaker 1: up with, I guess in the recruiting game, and so
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  Speaker 1: he's going to be Kansas Jayhawk. NBA has introduced a
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  Speaker 1: proposal for tanking reform and lottery reform, which will go
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  Speaker 1: over a little bit later on in this hour. The
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  Speaker 1: NBA Playoffs last night, Philadelphia won. They won two games
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  Speaker 1: in Boston and they won. They kind of pulled away
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  Speaker 1: from the Celtics last night one thirteen to ninety seven,
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  Speaker 1: so they're still alive, even though they trail in the
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  Speaker 1: series three games to two. New York's now up three
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  Speaker 1: to two on the Atlanta Hawks. Jalen Brunson scored thirty
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  Speaker 1: nine points last night and the Knicks defeated the Hawks comfortably.
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  Speaker 1: They are up three to two in the series. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: San Antonio advances. They send Portland out of the playoffs
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  Speaker 1: one fourteen to ninety five the final score there, so
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  Speaker 1: San Antonio moves on. They'll meet the winner if Denver
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  Speaker 1: and Minnesota, and they won't play until tomorrow, not tonight.
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  Speaker 1: They'll play two tomorrow. But the San Antonio Spurs advance
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  Speaker 1: in the playoffs. They're a fun team to.
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  Speaker 4: Watch, are they are? They are?
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't I would like to see them win at
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  Speaker 3: all because that would mean that Oklahoma.
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  Speaker 1: City camp back. Yeah. Well, I am a subscriber to
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  Speaker 1: the You gotta kind of figure out how to lose
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  Speaker 1: in the NBA playoffs, where you can figure out how
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  Speaker 1: to win. I mean that has been historically accurate over time,
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  Speaker 1: So I'm not I'm thinking they're not going to get there.
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  Speaker 1: But they match up really well with Okase. We shall
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  Speaker 1: see Orlando at Detroit tonight. The Magic can actually knock
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  Speaker 1: off the one seed in the East in five games.
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  Speaker 1: Toronto at Cleveland tonight. That series is even at two apiece,
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  Speaker 1: and the Lakers can take out the Houston Rockets. They're
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  Speaker 1: at home tonight. They lead the series three games to one. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: in the Stanley Cup playoffs Boston, they two won overtime
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  Speaker 1: winner over Buffalo, David Pasternak the game winning goal, so
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  Speaker 1: the Bruins stay alive even though they still trail three
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  Speaker 1: to two in that series. Minnesota moves up on Dallas
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  Speaker 1: three games to two, doubling up the starslast night four
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  Speaker 1: to two. That would be an upset, and if Anaheim
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  Speaker 1: takes out Edmonton, that would be a shocking upset. And
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  Speaker 1: yet the Ducks are up three to one going into
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  Speaker 1: last night's game. Edmonton did stay alive, lay on Drysidle
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  Speaker 1: with two goals and Edmonton wins four to one, but
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  Speaker 1: they still trail by a game in that series. Tonight
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  Speaker 1: Montreal at Tampa, Pittsburgh at Philadelphia. The Flyers can wrap
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  Speaker 1: things up there, Utah at Las Vegas. The other two
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  Speaker 1: series are even at two games a piece, So there
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  Speaker 1: you go.
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  Speaker 3: One other thing that Everett Silver Tips headed to the
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  Speaker 3: WHL Championship.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks to our Texters for letting.
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  Speaker 3: Us know that.
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  Speaker 1: All right, well, thank you Texters. A win is your
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  Speaker 1: keyword this hour. Ninety three to three KJAR dot com
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  Speaker 1: iner it for your shot at a thousand dollars in
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  Speaker 1: Grand Slam cash win to ninety three to three KJR
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  Speaker 1: dot com. All right, let's talk some NFL and even
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  Speaker 1: though we are going nearly as big this week on
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  Speaker 1: the NFL Draft, there is so much darkness, so much history,
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  Speaker 1: and yet so much hope that there's no doubt that
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  Speaker 1: this week, all week long, we in the sports world
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  Speaker 1: are caught in the drafter Math. Thank you to Nick
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  Speaker 1: Allen for casting the movie. Really great.
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  Speaker 4: I don't go watch that in the theater.
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  Speaker 1: Just brought it up yesterday and it's already being talked
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  Speaker 1: about as a major motion picture. That's awesome.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, very exciting.
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  Speaker 1: Man. We will have Emmanuel Henderson Junior. He's caught in
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  Speaker 1: the drafter Math. Yeah, you know, I thought he's just
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  Speaker 1: going to be a bit actor, a walk on, and
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  Speaker 1: now all of a sudden he's going to be interviewed
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  Speaker 1: today like he's a big deal. YEP.
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  Speaker 4: Might even make it. We might invite him to the
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  Speaker 4: premiere of drafter Math the movie.
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  Speaker 1: Probably will. It's gonna be a red car for the fair.
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  Speaker 1: So don't come dressed and buddy.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you will not be allowed and you.
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  Speaker 1: Will need a plus one. Don't come alone. That'll be
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  Speaker 1: embarrassing for you. All right, Well, obviously we've had a
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  Speaker 1: lot to discuss with the Seahawks twenty twenty six draft,
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  Speaker 1: by all accounts, just solid, just got done what you
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  Speaker 1: needed to get done, and got mostly like b's and
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  Speaker 1: B plus. Is hard for the Seahawks to end up
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  Speaker 1: with an A. They would have had to manipulate the
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  Speaker 1: draft board or something that the experts perceived as a
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  Speaker 1: steal would have had to fall in their laps. That
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  Speaker 1: didn't really occur for the Seahawks during the draft process,
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  Speaker 1: but they manipulated the draft board, ended up with double
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  Speaker 1: the amount of picks they started with. They filled what
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  Speaker 1: holes they had, which I don't think we're all that
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  Speaker 1: significant or deep, and yet what holes that were created
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  Speaker 1: by free agency, with the exception of maybe depth at
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  Speaker 1: edge rusher. They seemed to attack with two defensive backs
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  Speaker 1: in rounds two and three to make up for the
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  Speaker 1: losses of Kobe Bryant and also Reek Woollan, and then
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  Speaker 1: of course the first round draft selection of Jadarian Price
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  Speaker 1: to in some way replace Ken Walker from your running
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  Speaker 1: back room. So just felt like just a really solid
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five and excuse me, twenty twenty six NFL
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  Speaker 1: draft from John Schneider, Mike McDonald and the scouting team
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  Speaker 1: there for the Seahawks. But I wanted to spend a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of time today talking about the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: five Seahawks draft class, because, let's face it, this really
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  Speaker 1: is what it's all about. I mean, for those that
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  Speaker 1: roll their eyes at the draft and dare to call
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  Speaker 1: it a crap shoot, shame on you. It is anything
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  Speaker 1: but a crap shoot. It is an insult to John
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  Speaker 1: Schneider and other excellent general managers over the years, like
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  Speaker 1: Ozzie Newsom and others who've won championships because of the
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  Speaker 1: way they've drafted. This is the foundation, is the core
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  Speaker 1: of every organization. You better do well in the draft
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  Speaker 1: because it's very difficult to compete when you don't. Even
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  Speaker 1: the San Francisco forty nine ers who seem to have
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  Speaker 1: thumbed their nose at the draft, I think are going
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  Speaker 1: to end up paying for not hitting in the draft here,
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  Speaker 1: maybe as early as this year. I thought it was
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  Speaker 1: going to be this past year, but maybe it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be as early as this year. But they really
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  Speaker 1: do still lean on guys they got in the draft,
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  Speaker 1: Bosa's and Warners and others. But the draft is kind
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  Speaker 1: of the foundation for every team's success out there and
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  Speaker 1: you don't always get a Zabel and an Emon worry,
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  Speaker 1: you know, two guys that aren't just home runs, but
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  Speaker 1: were immediate home runs for you. And so the twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five Seahawks draft class is going to be, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's going to be as important to the Seahawks continuing,
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  Speaker 1: you know, on the pace of being in a championship window,
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  Speaker 1: probably more so than what this group's going to be,
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  Speaker 1: because if things go the right way, Bud Clark and
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  Speaker 1: Julian Neil are going to have to fight their way
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  Speaker 1: toward playing time. If things work the right way, there
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  Speaker 1: should be enough depth there in the secondary with guys
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  Speaker 1: that they're they're really excited about they didn't maybe a
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  Speaker 1: couple that didn't even get that much playing time or
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  Speaker 1: Anie am I a Pritchett that might have seen the
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  Speaker 1: light this past year after having some real struggles at
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  Speaker 1: the start of his NFL career. I think in an
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  Speaker 1: ideal world, Clark and Neil used this as a learning year,
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  Speaker 1: soak up everything they can from Julian Love and others
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  Speaker 1: before they move on and maybe don't have to get
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  Speaker 1: pressed into action. And I would say the you know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, we can say the same thing about
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  Speaker 1: Jadarian Price. Feels like he is going to have to
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  Speaker 1: play a pretty significant role. But I got to believe
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  Speaker 1: that there's a very good chance that the twenty five
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  Speaker 1: draft class, we're going to see their movement this year,
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  Speaker 1: and it will have a much bigger impact than what
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  Speaker 1: the rookies are going to have. Elijah Arroyo. I was
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  Speaker 1: very disappointed with Elijah Arroyo this past year. I thought
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  Speaker 1: we were going to see a lot more of him.
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  Speaker 1: But will we in a healthy year, see his role
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  Speaker 1: get expanded this year, see him get more touches, see
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  Speaker 1: him get more comfortable in the National Football League. Jalen
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  Speaker 1: Milroe we saw for just a glimpse and it was
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  Speaker 1: a disaster. Yeah, and then we never cracked out that
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  Speaker 1: little gimmick again for the rest of the year. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you've got an entire offseason program now and I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: that they're working on some stuff that Jalen Milroe, so
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  Speaker 1: when they do utilize him once again, where we're an
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  Speaker 1: upgrade from disaster. So that was the third round draft
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  Speaker 1: selection last year in Jalen Milroe, and so I would
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  Speaker 1: expect that you're going to see that package of Jalen
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  Speaker 1: Milroe maybe a little smoother this year. If it proves
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  Speaker 1: to be smoother, we'll see a lot more of it.
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  Speaker 1: Riley Mills, who we keep hearing about, the defensive tackle
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  Speaker 1: out of Notre Dame who had the big play in
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  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. Believe me, they were talking about Riley
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  Speaker 1: Mills to anyone that would listen, and I'm talking about
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks brass about how special they think that he
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  Speaker 1: might be. Eventually. He just dealt with an injury all
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  Speaker 1: season long. But Riley Mills is probably gonna play a
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  Speaker 1: pretty significant role on this team and its defensive line rotation.
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  Speaker 1: This year, we all got excited about Tory Horton because
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  Speaker 1: it seemed like every time he was on the field
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  Speaker 1: he caught a touchdown pass.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it did seem like that.
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  Speaker 1: So healthier year from him, we should see more from
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  Speaker 1: Tory Horton and he should have a bigger role for
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: this upcoming season. Robbie Oots again dealt with injuries. Might
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  Speaker 1: use him more. Got to keep him on the football
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  Speaker 1: field and then you might have a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: offensive line depth between Cable Doo and Richmond where they
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: might see some more playing time. So from getting caught
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  Speaker 1: in the drafter math. Don't forget those guys got caught
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  Speaker 1: in last year's drafter math. It's not easy to just
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  Speaker 1: walk on in NFL team and contribute right away. And
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  Speaker 1: when you're on a super Bowl caliber team and get
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  Speaker 1: the necessary reps, not everybody's em and Warren Sable. So
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  Speaker 1: I would suspect Ashley that the twenty twenty five Seahawks
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  Speaker 1: draft class is going to have and I'm not counting Emon,
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  Speaker 1: Warre and Sable. We already know that those are givens.
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  Speaker 1: I have a feeling they're going to be a lot
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  Speaker 1: bigger factors than what the twenty twenty six draft class
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  Speaker 1: was is going to be for this upcome.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I would hope so, because that's how it
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  Speaker 3: should work, right. You don't if you're having all of
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  Speaker 3: your draft picks come in and immediately earn spots on
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  Speaker 3: your team, and there's probably something wrong with your team
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  Speaker 3: as it was before the draft. So for the Seahawks
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  Speaker 3: to have this, you know, kind of step up system
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  Speaker 3: where these draft picks are coming in and get seeing
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  Speaker 3: just a little bit of action and then you know,
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  Speaker 3: getting to learn things slowly and getting to observe. That's
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  Speaker 3: how it should be because I feel like that's your
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  Speaker 3: recipe for success right there. You're going to have those
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  Speaker 3: few players like Zabel and even Warrey who are just
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  Speaker 3: building the holes. Yeah oh yeah, yeah, but I well,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not saying necessarily on our team, but I'm just
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  Speaker 3: saying in the draft, you're going to have those players
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  Speaker 3: who can just step in and they immediately get it
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  Speaker 3: and they were built for this almost which it seems
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  Speaker 3: like Zabel and even where you were.
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  Speaker 4: But for the most part, it should be a process.
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  Speaker 3: You shouldn't have somebody that can come in and immediately
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  Speaker 3: has it all figured out.
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  Speaker 4: I mean that would be odd.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly. Well, it's smooth sailing, it seems. In
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  Speaker 1: terms of the critics for the Seahawks, I mean, they're
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  Speaker 1: not getting pinged really buy anybody. Maybe not glorified, but
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  Speaker 1: not getting pinged by anybody, yeah, for having screwed anything up.
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  Speaker 1: That is not the case for the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: NFC West, the Rams, the forty nine er, the Cardinals,
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  Speaker 1: they have all been caught in the draft or math.
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  Speaker 4: Dang it, I don't have the music going on.
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  Speaker 1: We've talked about the Rams a couple of times. We
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  Speaker 1: talked about forty nine ers yesterday. Let's talk about the
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  Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals, who have been harshly criticized as well for
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  Speaker 1: their twenty twenty six NFL draft. This is one I'm
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  Speaker 1: not necessarily buying. I think a lot of it has
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  Speaker 1: to do with with what the Cardinals did at three. Overall,
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  Speaker 1: there are some people that are really entrenched and don't
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  Speaker 1: ever take a running back high. Now. I tend to
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  Speaker 1: hang out with that group. We went out and you know,
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  Speaker 1: socialized at the clubs. I'm probably gonna spend most of
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: my time with those people. We have a lot in common.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: I do understand the running backs or a diamond does
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: an argument, but where But even with your best friends,
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: there's a certain topic that will come up and you're like, Oh,
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go downstairs and get a beverage, see what's
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: going on with the game, because I don't want to
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: talk about what you're talking about right now. Well, I
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: think that group does discount something that I don't discount.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: There are running backs that are outliers to that general rule.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: There are special guys that no matter where you get
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: them in the draft, they're worth getting in the draft.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: And I think Jeremiah Love is one of those. I
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: actually commend the Arizona Cardinals for this selection because I
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: think they've tried to get way too cute being what
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: those friends huddled up in the those running back friends
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: of mine huddled upstairs have. I think they're trying to
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: appeal to them when they don't look at an obvious
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: running back talent and grab him because he's special. I mean,
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: over the years, the Cardinals have just failed time and
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: time again with their first round draft selection, trying to
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: build the foundation, trying to build the front the front
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: five and the front four defensively, the front seven defensively,
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: and they've overlooked tremendous skill talent. Now Marvin Harrison they
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: did not overlook, and he hasn't turned out all that well.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: But I'll go back to the twenty twenty three NFL Draft,
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: which is going to go down as one of the
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: great NFL drafts we've ever seen. I mean, they had
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: the sixth pick, they did what you want them to do.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: They got Paris Johnson Junior, the tackle out of Ohio State,
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: and he's been a pretty good player. And yet do
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: you think the Cardinal fans over the last few years
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: would have rather had Bejan Robinson would have rather had
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Jimy or Gibbs would have rather had Jackson Smith and
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: Jigba possibly, I think so. So to me, I commend
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: the Cardinals because they were just like, we can overthink
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: this and try to think that we need to build
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: this before we build that. But this is our favorite
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: player in the draft, and he yeah, plays running back,
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: but he also plays wide receiver, and we can use
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: him by both the running game and in the passing game.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: And so yeah, we've got other stuff to build. And
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: maybe we're not going to be that good this year,
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: but we're not going to be that good taking a
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: guard either, or a tackle or a pass rusher either.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: So why don't we just get what we feel is
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: the surest thing, something that we believe is special, something
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: we think is going to be.
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: Great, something we want some yeah, something we.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: Actually something our fan base want, something that can charge
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: up the fan base that right now is pissed at us. Yeah,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: And I don't want to make a pr decision. I
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: think this is a good sound football decision as well.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: And I get that Bjon Robinson didn't change the Atlanta
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Falcons overnight, But do you think the Atlanta Falcons are
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: glad they have Bjean Robinson pretty sure. I mean the
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Raiders right before them, in that twenty twenty three draft
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: drafted the Tyree Wilson pass rusher out of Tech Teck.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: You gotta get a pass rusher, pass rusher out of
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Texas Tech. They just traded him for like a sixth
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: round pick this weekend. So do you think maybe the
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Raiders man we'd had Robinson, we wouldn't had to take
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: genty we had already had that solved at this point,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: or a Jamir Gibbs who did make a difference with
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions. So I get it. I mean a
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: running is he gonna change the Cardinals overnight? But I
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: don't think any one player other than a quarterback, the
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: right quarterback, is gonna change you overnight. So I commend
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: him for it. I think Jeremiah Love is special, and
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: I think that I think the Cardinals have tried to
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: play that game for many years now and it wasn't
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: working either, So why not get what you think is
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: the surest thing in the draft, and then you can
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: use the next couple of years to build up everything
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: around him to make him better. I commend them for
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: the move. I don't quite understand the criticism.
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't get it either, honestly. I mean, yes,
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: as you said, they could have done something that would
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: have been more of a necessary piece.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: But you're gonna say, yeah, all those but you're gonna
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: need that anyway, and you still need a running back,
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: you still need all of these other things, and so
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: at some point you just got to pick which one
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: are we going with first, and then we're going to
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: build all the other pieces as we can. And when
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: you've got an opportunity to get one of the best
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: players in the entire NFL draft, why wouldn't you take it?
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Well, And that's just it. I mean, yeah, there there
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: were a lot of There are a lot of things
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: that you have to do right to become a champion. Yeah,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: there are a lot of things you got to do
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: right to become good in the National Football League. The
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: competition out there is fierce. But you can try to
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: figure out, well, we got to do this before we
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: do that, and then we'll do that, and then we'll
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: do that, or you can look in the mirror and say,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: you know, we haven't been very good at this drafting thing,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: and it's really kind of shipwrecked us. So as we
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: try to patch things back up, what do we want
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: to do? You know, do we wanna? Do we want to? Uh?
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: You know, do we want do we We've got an
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: opportunity to get a beautiful sail do well. I know
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: that the ship's not ready to sail right just yet,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: but we we need a lot of other things to
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: get in order to patch this ship back up and
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: make it seaworthy again. And may and sale's not gonna
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: get us there, but we have an opportunity to get
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: a great sale. Yeah, one of the best sales, right,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: And those things are really expensive and those things are
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: really hard to find, and so yeah, we gotta keep and.
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: It's on sale too.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we got to keep searching for the other things,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: and we've got to fix the ship, but let's get
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: the sale. Yeah, you can't sail well, you can't be
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: a sailor without a sale. So let's just go ahead
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: and get this awesome saale.
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: I like that.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: So to me, even though a lot of people are
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: crushing them, they're caught in the drafter math. I think
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: I'm not one that's gonna rip on the cardinals, but
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: I will the forty nine ers and it's fun to
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: watch the Rams squirm out of this pr night. Yeah,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: it is all right. Coming up next, ABC's of the
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Ms for You on Sports Radio ninety three point three
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: kh A RFM. Final score looks like it was easy
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: as one two three last night, but it was anything
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: but that was a great pitching matchup last night. The
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: score was very much nodded for most of the contest.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: At Zero's, the Mariners trailed one to nothing, tied it
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: at one with a clutch two out hit, took the
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: lead on a clutch two out hit, and then pulled
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: away and he ate the ninth innings for a comfortable
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: seven to one victory there last night, if I have
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: two problems with it, I don't know what Dan Wilson
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: was arguing.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was confused by that. We just needed a break.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: We need to get out of the dugout and stretch
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: our legs a bit.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: He was really angry, and I'm like, Dan, it was
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: a check swing, and the umpire's doing you a favor
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: by not he can't verify or confirm the check swing
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: because he has to give them a window as to
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: whether or not they want to challenge the call. First
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: and then he will do the check swing. And so yes,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: he gave them a little bit more time because this
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: is still new territories. So the twins are like, we
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: want to we want to see if that's a check
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: and he had to explain to them, no, I'm not
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: going to check with the first base umpire because then
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: you won't have to use the challenge. So he was
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: actually doing them a favor and Dan couldn't grasp it.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: It was weird, Yeah, because I just thought he seemed
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: and he seemed more fired up than he should have
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: been about the situation.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Jerry fired up.
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: This is what you've chosen to get all worked up about.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: And I also don't I no, I pinch hit Garber
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: over ref Snyder. When one strikes out one every three
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: at bets and the other one out of every four,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: and on one out of every four is not great,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: but it's better than one out of every three. You're
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: looking for a fly ball in that situation. How's it not,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: ref Snider. Anyway, let's get to the alphabet. Jay is
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: for Josh and Julio, the Jay brothers coming through last night.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: We've talked about this a couple of times, but it's
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: come back up here again. In the alphabet, that walk
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: off home run, the bat from Josh Naylor, it said
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: to me, I am done slumping. I am out of it.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: That was more than just you know, I had a
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: long home run. That was him earlier in the game,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: coming through with an opposite field base hit clean single
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: with two outs to score Julio who started to two
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: out rally, and then that home run was And now
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: I just took your boy deep to right center field.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: I am locked in. And maybe you know, I don't
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: know how long I can sustain being red hot. I'm
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: not saying that I'm red hot right now, but I
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: am done being ice cold. That to me was what
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: that celebration was. And even the way Julio's conducting himself
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: right now. There was a lot of head shaking at
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: the beginning of the year and a lot of frustration,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: I think, with hitting in cold weather. But now he's
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: playing with that joy. We love seeing Julio play with,
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: you know. And so I think that the Jay Brothers
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: last night kind of proved to us that they realize
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: we're done with the slump.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was almost like we've seen them slowly chipping away,
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: chipping away, chipping away. But last night was like the breakout.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: They were like, Okay, here we are. It's like Will
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: Ferrell in SNL. It was hot in there, but it
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: was cold in there for them.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: K is for Kirby and Company, and I'm spelling that
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: with a K because it looks good on a sign.
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: I like that.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: So George gets the start today. Ashley and I have
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: discussed this as well already this morning. I just I
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: don't know if I in the thirty one games that
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: they've played, I want a win more than I want
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Tonight's today's. Yeah, today's today's because it does get you
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: back to five hundred. And then you have two full
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: fat days basically to get ready to come home. And
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: you want to talk about an opportunity. Okay, deep breath,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: reset button, don't relax. Seen you do that in the
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: past before you know, we haven't accomplished anything by just
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: digging out of the hole we created for ourselves. But
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: what a wonderful time to get a win, get back
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: to five hundred. In essence, have two days off, ye
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: come home. Brendan Donovan might be in uniform waiting for
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: you with arms out.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: On Friday, the fan base is gonna be fired up
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: for a home stand taking on the Kansas City Royals
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: on Friday.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: So what a wonderful time to just get out of
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: this hole that has been created. They self created their
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: own fault. But I want to see Kirby and company tonight.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: In other words, there is no excuse. Everybody is available
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: to get this win tonight. I don't care if you
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: used four guys last night. They can pitch on back
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: to back freaking days. They got two days off, so
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: spire bizarre whoever you need brash Munjos obviously didn't pitch
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: last night. He needs to pitch today no matter what
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: the score is. Listen to the man. He can't sit
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: for a week and not pitch, and you got two
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: days off basically coming up after today's game, so he
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: needs to pitch no matter what. Today. You've got Frere
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: who should be well rested tonight. So this is hopefully
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: George goes eight innings and then you just hand it
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: off to Munjos. But Kirby and company, we pull out
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: all the stops to get this victory today so that
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: we can experience that ah Friday evening at home feeling
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: like we've hit the reset button on the season.
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you get to come home tonight, You're in your
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: own bed. You get to have an off day tomorrow.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: You get all day until your night game on Friday.
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: It's going to be like seventy degrees on Friday, seventy
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: five on Saturday, or maybe seventy on Saturday, seventy five
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: on Sunday. I mean, ideal PNW baseball conditions.
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: Let's do it.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: You got so much time, cal JP, you know my
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Woodenville brethren. Let's just meet up at Vaughn's.
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: Oh my god, I'll go to Vaughan's. That place is
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: so good.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Let's just have a pie and some.
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: Pasta.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: You say it all right? Finally, L is four because
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: I've doubled up today. If you've noticed Logan love Logan.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: I thought he was great last night. I really do.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: He had a jam created by others, uh, and he
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: worked out of it. Man, did I love that sequence
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: in which and this is where the Logan love part
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: comes in because he and col are best buds, which
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: is why you can't go back home to Florida. That'll
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: be stupid.
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: You are home.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: Yes, they are just they are just best buds and
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: it really showed. And that at bat where he got
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: the strikeout with the bases loaded in one out and
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: he got the strikeout, and when we got to strike out,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: he's like, Okay, I'm out of this ending because there's
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: no way this guy's gonna get an it off of me.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: But that at bat was just such a beautiful thing
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: between two people who trust each other, just implicitly. Yeah,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: because all right, number one, you're in a hole that
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: you didn't create. Cal makes a visit great, do that
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: every time. As a former pitcher. I know I didn't
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: make it to the major leagues, didn't even make it
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: to the minor leagues, but man, you get so worked
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: up when things out of your control don't go the
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: right way, especially when you're trying to pitch out of
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: a little mini slump yourself, and you just need that
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: like reassurance and Cal knowing Logan just goes out, it's
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: mound visit time. You know what, I'm gonna remind him
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: how great he is. That's not that. Traffic's not your fault.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Now let's go, let's get this done, let's get out
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: of it, and let's win this damn ball game. So
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: I love that. Then he gets ahead in the count
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: and he throws two pitches in the dirty, and Angie
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: described it, she was absolutely right, that's just complete trust.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: I'm going to just spike two balls to see if
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: I can get him to chase, because I need a
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: strikeout right now. I want to strike out. I want
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: to put a ball in play. I don't want them
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: to score a single iff and run, and I need
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: a strikeout right now. So let's see if I can
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: get him to chase. I'm way ahead in the count. Well,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: the only way you can do that and just spike
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: two balls like that is if you just have complete
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: confidence in your catcher, your buddy, your best friend. And
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: it was it was like swatting away flies with a
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: horse's tail. I mean, those were nothing to Cal, and
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: so he creates that. And then there was this little
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: discussion that Aaron and Angie had earlier in the broadcast
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: where they were talking about Logan didn't really like his
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: change up, and Cal said to him, Oh, I like
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: your change up. We're not going to know, let's not
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: ditch your change up. I know it's new to you,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: but I like it. I like where it's going. And
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: I think Logan would have given up on it, and
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Cal's like, no, no, no, no, let's stick with it. We
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: can develop something. And Logan, I mean, he's in charge
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: of his own arsenal, but he has so much faith
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: in Cal, his buddy, his logan love, his logan lover.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: He's like, Okay, if you think it's worth keeping, then
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: I'll keep it. And what did he strike out Tristan
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Gray with on that? I bet the most beautiful change
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: up he's thrown his entire career. It was gorgeous. And
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: as soon as he saw that, and it's like that friendship,
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: that trust, that faith, that camaraderie, that kinship that those
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: two guys have, there was no way the next guy
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: was going to get a hit off of him, and
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: he didn't. You get out of it. You're only down
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: one run. Yeah, you didn't get the win, but you
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: also didn't get the loss. And guess what, you went
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: on to win it by a final score of seven
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: to one. But that game completely changes, I think without
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: that Logan love affair right there between those two guys,
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: trust that they had in one another. I mean, he's
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: he's in a huge moment in the game with the
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: bases loaded, trying to get out of that jam, calling
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: a pitch that he knows that Logan doesn't have faith in.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: But Cal's like, no, we're gonna throw the change up
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: because I have faith in it. I have faith in you.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: And he just threw a dandy. It was awesome. Yeah.
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: But also, wouldn't you have wanted to know what he
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: said to Cal when they got to the dugout, because
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: I bet there was something kind of.
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: Snarky, because you know their relationships always snarky.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and so I bet there was no I guarantee
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: when he went out to the mound, He's like, hey, idiot,
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: let's go.
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: But then after when I bet Logan had just the best,
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  Speaker 3: driest comment to Cal after, like, I don't even I
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  Speaker 3: just wish I knew what it was, Yeah, to be
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: a fly on that wall.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: I guess we'll keep the chain up.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, or don't ever. We never talk about this.
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  Speaker 1: All right? Coming up next, we're gonna get reckless at
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  Speaker 1: breakfast to hear this morning, I have no choice but
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: to talk about this topic and reckless at Brack Sports
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  Speaker 1: Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. And that's all because
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: of me. Yeah, because I'm fascinating by this topic and
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: we're going to team back in the NBA, and I'd
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: like for this issue to be solved before the Sonics return.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to enter I mean, I'll enter any
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  Speaker 1: NBA world, I'll do whatever it takes, but I don't
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  Speaker 1: prefer to enter an NBA world where this tanking issue
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  Speaker 1: still seems to be at the forefront of every NBA discussion.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it'd be awesome to have it resolved.
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  Speaker 1: It would be nice, And Adam Silver feels the exact
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: same way. Adam Silver apparently, this is the one issue,
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: more than anything else, more than expansion, more than load management,
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: more than anything else, that keeps him up at night.
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  Speaker 1: He can't stand the fact that as many teams are
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  Speaker 1: tanking and that it's as big as story as it
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  Speaker 1: is even now and in the playoffs. So he said
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  Speaker 1: they were going to work on dramatic reform this offseason,
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: a proposal to try to fix tanking in the National
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  Speaker 1: Basketball associate And they'll never entirely fix it, but at
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: least try to discourage it as much as they possibly can.
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  Speaker 1: So here's what they've come up with. And I don't
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  Speaker 1: think that they've reached the finish line with this. But
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: here's what they've come up with as an idea. It's
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  Speaker 1: a three two one lottery. So you can forget about
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  Speaker 1: the millions of ping pong balls they're going to put in.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to reduce the number of ping pong balls,
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  Speaker 1: and they're going to flatten the odds considerably, and they
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  Speaker 1: are no longer no longer going to reward the worst
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  Speaker 1: teams in the NBA. As a matter of fact, the
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  Speaker 1: teams that are going to get the most ping pong
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  Speaker 1: balls are the teams that miss the playoffs and have
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  Speaker 1: the best records, and they're going to get three of them.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: If I'm reading this correctly, I think I am, they're
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: going to get three of them. So three ping pong balls,
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  Speaker 1: just three are going to go to teams that did
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  Speaker 1: not qualify for the playoffs but have the best records,
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  Speaker 1: and then two will go to the worst three teams
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  Speaker 1: in the NBA, and then everybody in the middle gets
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  Speaker 1: just one ping pong ball. So that's him discouraging losing,
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  Speaker 1: trying to encourage teams that aren't going to make the
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: NBA playoffs to finish, to try to finish down the stretch.
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  Speaker 1: So you're going to try to You're you're going to
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: try to get into the winning category, right, You're going
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: to try to get that as extra two ping pong
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  Speaker 1: balls by having a better record than what you currently have.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: And yet the teams that really are just flattened on
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  Speaker 1: their faces, we're still going to give them more ping
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  Speaker 1: pong balls than we're going to give the teams in
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  Speaker 1: the middle. So it's a three two one lottery. So
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  Speaker 1: that's the idea behind.
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  Speaker 4: It, which I love that they're trying to fix it.
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  Speaker 3: I would almost say, though, if you're really trying to
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  Speaker 3: discourage it, you give those bottom three teams one ball
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  Speaker 3: and the people in the middle get the two because
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  Speaker 3: you're the three that have the worst record are still
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  Speaker 3: having a better odds, So the tanking is still somewhat
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  Speaker 3: paining off.
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  Speaker 1: Well, what I would do is get rid of the
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  Speaker 1: lottery entirely. Yeah, because you can go through all you want.
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  Speaker 1: I still and I realized that, you know, I know,
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  Speaker 1: I not. I might be in the minority, but I
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: know it's not that large of a minority. I think
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  Speaker 1: the lottery is rigged, and to me, this just makes
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: it easier to rig the lottery like this system that
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: they have in place, because now now it looks like
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: now we really can because we have three ping pong
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  Speaker 1: balls going to the two best teams. I mean, we
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: can give it the Golden State Warriors, yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, and then have somebody so we can yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we can give Steph one last chance. Since see such
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: a moneymaker for us, I think it just makes it
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  Speaker 1: look that much more obvious. So I'd take it a
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  Speaker 1: step further. I'd get rid of the lottery, and I
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: would find a particular point in the regular season where
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  Speaker 1: I would start keeping a separate standings and then you're
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: going to you're going to win the lottery based on
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  Speaker 1: how many games you win from this point forward. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know where that day is and have to give
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  Speaker 1: them more thought, but there would be a magic day
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  Speaker 1: in my calendar where I'm be like, all right, at
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  Speaker 1: this stage, we're going to start judging the lottery based
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  Speaker 1: on who wins the most games from these bad teams.
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  Speaker 1: That's how I would do it. Would that's how I
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: would encouraging teams from trying to tank is by encouraging
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  Speaker 1: them to win when they've close to being eliminated and
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: that to me, gives a more fair product. I'm going
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: to encourage victory, you know, and I'm going to create
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  Speaker 1: a completely different contest within my NBA season. But a
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: lot of people push back on this, Rachel Nichols being
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  Speaker 1: one of them. There are others, Oh, I get it.
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  Speaker 1: So you're going to make it even harder for the
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  Speaker 1: bad teams to get good again. That's not a good idea.
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  Speaker 1: My response to that, and I appreciate the sentiment. My
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: response to that is, I don't care, because at this stage,
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: we really do have to stop, and I think this
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  Speaker 1: goes I'm not doing anything to change the NFL. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's fine. I don't think anything needs to change
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL. But at this point, we got to
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: stop incentivizing collapsing teams or teams that are just blowing
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  Speaker 1: it up to lose on purpose to get higher draft picks.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't care if it makes it harder do better.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care what system that we create. If you're
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  Speaker 1: good at what you do, you should be able to
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  Speaker 1: put a product on the court that is improving. Yes,
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: even if you inherited the worst crap sandwich that's ever
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  Speaker 1: been handed to a general manager. Your job is, under
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  Speaker 1: whatever the rules they hand me, to start adding pieces
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  Speaker 1: that make this team better as opposed to no, let's
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: take something bad and keep making it as bad as
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: we can get it, because that's our way back on
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  Speaker 1: the road again.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we're looking at you, Washington Wizards.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So to me, I don't care, because we have
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: to stop incentivizing losing at the biggest levels of our
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  Speaker 1: sports here in America, And so if that's what we've
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  Speaker 1: got to do, then that's what we've got to do.
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  Speaker 1: Guess what, get better?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I fully agree. I mean I was just looking.
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: I was just pulling up the standings from this past season,
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: and you look at some of the teams that you're
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: going to see them towards the bottom all the time.
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  Speaker 3: There are some that are going up and down, you know,
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: like Memphis has made the playoffs in the past and
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: they were terrible this year.
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: But and the Kings had one good year.
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: But the Pelicans, the Wizards, as I just said, when
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: was the last time they were good?
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: They have been relevant since they became the Wizards.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so those are the teams that shouldn't be rewarded. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: because it's not just oh well, we didn't get the
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  Speaker 3: top the number one draft pick, and that's why we're bad.
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  Speaker 3: That's not what it is. You're not putting in any
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  Speaker 3: effort to get better.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, organizationally, hire the right people to make the right
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  Speaker 1: decisions to get you better. I mean, teams do it
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  Speaker 1: all the time. Teams do it all the time. San
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  Speaker 1: Antonio Spurs went all the way down to the bottom.
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  Speaker 1: Now they rigged the lottery for them and they got
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  Speaker 1: back up to the top. Right in my opinion, But
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: teams do it all the time. And I get it
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: that it's harder in the NBA. You know, it's really difficult.
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: And we might find that out personally with the Sonics
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: entering this new world of the NBA. It's been a
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: while since the Sonics have been in the NBA. It
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: is harder than ever to go from bad to good.
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: But I don't think you want to encourage Just be
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  Speaker 1: as bad as you possibly can and then you can
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  Speaker 1: get better, right, I don't think that's the way to
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  Speaker 1: go about it. I'm tired of incentivizing losing in all
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  Speaker 1: of our professionals sports, but particular then the NBA. And
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: my only advice to you is draft better, be better,
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  Speaker 1: create a better organization, an effort create an organization that
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  Speaker 1: free agents want to come to and hire the right people,
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  Speaker 1: hire the right executives, create the right infrastructure, and I
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  Speaker 1: guarantee you you'll start improving as a basketball team, if
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: that's even what you want to do, all right. Coming
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: up next on the radio program, we will talk some
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: Mariners baseball. Something that has come up here in the
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: last few days. I've been trying to wrap my head
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: around how it could make sense logan Gilbert trade. Are
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: you really trying to light this fire national baseball writers.
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: I don't think you're paying attention to how it works.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk about it next. Sports Radio ninety three point
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