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Chuck & Buck 3-30 Hour 1: Opening weekend, Mariners Morning After and the unlikeable Dan Hurley. · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: let's get the game off. Hello, good morning?
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  Speaker 2: Hello?
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  Speaker 1: Is everything working?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know?
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  Speaker 2: That was the fun thing. When you said hello, I
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  Speaker 2: was like, will he hear me?
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't sure. I've heard stories. I've experienced a thing
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  Speaker 1: or two.
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  Speaker 2: It's been a blast.
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  Speaker 1: Is this thing on? Is this thing on?
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  Speaker 3: You know it's serious. When there's engineers here in the morning, m.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, is that who? That is enough? Oh? That's oh yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I walked by some of them like he's not
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be here. I didn't know. I was saying
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  Speaker 1: a ghost.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, you were the ghost of Jeff.
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  Speaker 1: The ghost of Jeff. Oh he has haunted a mini
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  Speaker 1: house and building in his life. Oh I am the
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  Speaker 1: Jim Fool Powerful. Good morning, Happy Monday. Hope you had
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  Speaker 1: a great weekend out there, and welcome into our radio show.
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  Speaker 1: It is Chuck and Buck in the Morning Sports Radio
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  Speaker 1: ninety three point three KJRFM. My name is Chuck Powell.
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  Speaker 1: Ashley Ryan is here as well. Bucky is out today
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  Speaker 1: and probably is going to be throughout the course of
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  Speaker 1: the week. And so we roll on, we trudge on,
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  Speaker 1: and we've got four hours ready to deliver here today
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  Speaker 1: on this Monday morning. Great to have you with us,
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of things to cover, especially a lot
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  Speaker 1: of things baseball related. It was a fascinating weekend from
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  Speaker 1: a number of different levels. Also frustrating as well, which
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  Speaker 1: we'll get into uh here in a moment. But overall,
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  Speaker 1: how did the weekend go? Do you do anything fun?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Did spectacular?
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  Speaker 2: Won a golf match.
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  Speaker 3: It was a season long tournament that we had at
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  Speaker 3: our club, Winter Chapman, and my partner Eric and I
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  Speaker 3: made it to the finals on Saturday, had great weather,
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  Speaker 3: lots of people came out to watch.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, and we won.
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  Speaker 1: And you won?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Do you want to or a tournament?
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  Speaker 2: It was a tournament? Yeah, more than I know. But
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  Speaker 2: I want the match to win the tournament.
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  Speaker 1: I see, I see. Wow. Well, congratulations, thanks.
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  Speaker 2: It's pretty fun.
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  Speaker 1: What did you get a lot of money you did. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but like a lot of story keeps getting.
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  Speaker 2: Bay No, right, yeah, we got money like for our
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  Speaker 2: club books.
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  Speaker 3: I can buy clothes and or golf bag or clubs
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  Speaker 3: or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Did you beat five Iron along the way?
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  Speaker 2: No, we didn't play five Irons.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, but he was in the same tournament, in.
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  Speaker 2: The same tournament.
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  Speaker 1: You won the tournament, yeah Iron?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, well just say that. Yeah, sorry about it?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah. I mean he can tell himself what
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  Speaker 1: he wants to tell himself. But you want a tournament
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  Speaker 1: that he was in.
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  Speaker 3: I like the way that you're thinking about the now
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  Speaker 3: because I had not thought of it. Y.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I can think.
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  Speaker 2: I basically beat every single Yeah, I beat everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, he won the tournament. For goodness, he had a
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  Speaker 1: chance to win the tournament. He didn't win the tournament.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody else did. And her name is you, and her
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  Speaker 1: name is me.
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  Speaker 2: I was gonna say, my name is her?
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  Speaker 1: Well good, well that's exciting. Did you celebrate a little bit?
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  Speaker 1: Did you have some punch?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I had quite a bit of punch on Saturday, but
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  Speaker 3: I hung out, had dinner. It was a whole family affair.
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  Speaker 3: Palmer the Great was up there, had some friends.
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  Speaker 1: He's always drinking punch.
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  Speaker 3: Always drinking punch. Yeah, I had a really good time.
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  Speaker 3: My mom came up and oh yeah, yeah, wow, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it was a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but you were on vacation. I want to hear
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  Speaker 2: about you.
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  Speaker 1: Oh it was. It was good. Every year I do
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  Speaker 1: a little you know, gathering with a group of friends,
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  Speaker 1: and I really was. I was sitting there and I
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  Speaker 1: was thinking, we ended up talking about it, and because
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  Speaker 1: they do this group of friends mainly guys that I
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  Speaker 1: worked with in Vegas and then branched off and met
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  Speaker 1: friends from those people that I worked with, and so
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  Speaker 1: we've kind of had this excuse to get together once
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  Speaker 1: a year and no matter what it is, whether it's
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  Speaker 1: just sitting around and right now, and last two years
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  Speaker 1: we were in a house, yeah, just in some different city,
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  Speaker 1: and then we gather and hang out. And so I
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  Speaker 1: love it. I love that we make that a priority.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And then I was thinking, like I wish that I
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  Speaker 1: had because you have other groups of friends during the
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  Speaker 1: course of your life. I've got my Arizona friends, I've got,
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  Speaker 1: you know, my friends that I grew up, and then
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  Speaker 1: I've got six brothers and sisters and then a mother
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  Speaker 1: and a father that are still alive, and so there
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  Speaker 1: are a lot of different groups out there that I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I was sitting that was we were talking about it
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  Speaker 1: out loud because this particular group of friends they get
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  Speaker 1: together twice per year because they will get together at
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of the baseball season and then they get
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  Speaker 1: because there's a lot of radio people in it, and
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  Speaker 1: so it's just before we start getting too deeply involved
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  Speaker 1: in baseball season and football season, you know. So they
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  Speaker 1: get together in Vegas right before the football season as well.
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  Speaker 1: And I stopped doing that years ago, and I always
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  Speaker 1: get grief for it, and I'm like, I make it
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  Speaker 1: a priority to see you guys once a year. I
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  Speaker 1: don't even do that for my own mother. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I can't see you guys twice a year
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  Speaker 1: and then maybe not see my mom that year. Right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: So I was thinking, I appreciate it. I love that
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  Speaker 1: we do this once a year, but I kind of
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  Speaker 1: wish if there was time that I would have done
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  Speaker 1: this individually with my older brother, and individually with my
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  Speaker 1: little brother, and individually with my sisters, and individually with
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  Speaker 1: my friends I grew up with and individually with my
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  Speaker 1: friends in Arizona, which I do see them once a
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  Speaker 1: year because of spring training, but it's not like a
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  Speaker 1: we make a commitment to it. So it's nice that
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  Speaker 1: we do it, but it made me wish that there
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  Speaker 1: was more time and money to do it with everybody.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I wish there was more time and money too, Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Just in general. Yeah. Yeah, but i'd use it to
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  Speaker 2: visit people.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I would too. I would do or have them visit.
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  Speaker 2: Me, yeah, or take them onnification somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: That's my ideal situation, is that I have the vacation
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  Speaker 1: destination and then I bring people to me. I know.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I've have lots of conversations about. If you
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  Speaker 3: won the lottery, what's the first thing you do. I
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  Speaker 3: would take my friends on a big vacation, is that right?
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  Speaker 1: I would. I would buy the house of my dreams
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  Speaker 1: nice and then and then yeah, i'd pretty much lock
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  Speaker 1: it down there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I would invite people to see me as opposed
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  Speaker 1: to because my entire adult life it's been me traveling
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  Speaker 1: to see people. Yeah, but yeah, I would do the
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  Speaker 1: old reversal. I have the vacation destination. If you want
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  Speaker 1: to come see me. You've got a place to stay.
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  Speaker 1: I might even help with the airfare if you can't
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  Speaker 1: cut it. But that's that's how I would.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it'd be nice.
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  Speaker 1: That'd be nice, Be nice. I think you're right, though,
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  Speaker 1: it just starts at the premise of more time and
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  Speaker 1: more money. Yeah, if anybody's listening and can make that
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  Speaker 1: happen for Ashley or myself, we're interested.
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  Speaker 2: We've got smart, rich people that are listening.
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  Speaker 1: There figure this out, I would think so. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: even if we had just a collection of not so
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  Speaker 1: smart and not so wealthy people, if you could pool
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  Speaker 1: your intelligence and your money together, you can make Ashley
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  Speaker 1: and I's lives better.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're thinking outside the box now, and I like it.
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  Speaker 1: You need to form a club. I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: you're waiting for.
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  Speaker 2: Ye doing other things for your own self.
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  Speaker 1: These GoFundMe ages for people that actually need it, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's a little tiresome. If you could just put together
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  Speaker 1: something for just people you like listening to, right, that'd
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  Speaker 1: be Maybe could use a little boost, that's right, that'd
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  Speaker 1: be kind of you. Yeah, I don't know why I
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  Speaker 1: got to think of you and your ways to be kinder.
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  Speaker 3: Phil's gonna be his Life's gonna be like, what are
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  Speaker 3: you doing? Aren't you supposed to be working?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 3: Not, today's gonna work on getting Chuck at Ashley more time.
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  Speaker 1: It's more money. Yeah yeah, Right now, all we got
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  Speaker 1: is the ghost of Jeff Yep to enjoy our time.
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  Speaker 2: That is not what he's working on. I'll tell you
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  Speaker 2: about that much right now.
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  Speaker 1: Well, welcome in. We got a lot of different baseball
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  Speaker 1: things to discuss today because it was our first taste
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  Speaker 1: of Mariners baseball for twenty twenty six. It was our
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  Speaker 1: first taste of the ABS Challenge system in Major League
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  Speaker 1: Baseball history, and a man, was that a fascinating subject
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  Speaker 1: all weekend long. Man, that's gonna be a huge story
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  Speaker 1: all year long. And so I can't wait to talk
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  Speaker 1: about that. We certainly had our first taste of Emerson Hancock,
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  Speaker 1: the new and improved Emerson Hancock, which I can't wait
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  Speaker 1: to get into. We'll probably do that more in Mariners
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  Speaker 1: Morning After and tell you a little bit more about
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  Speaker 1: that in headlines. But I do think it starts and
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  Speaker 1: not to launch it into a frustrating place already this week.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we are responsible for getting the sports Talk
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  Speaker 1: Week started here, our show here at KJAR. But I
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  Speaker 1: know how many people were frustrated over the television viewing
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  Speaker 1: habits that were disrupted this year by MLB, and certainly,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm going to put more on MLB here
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  Speaker 1: than the Mariners. But the Mariners did make the decision
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  Speaker 1: financially to not have their own network and decided to
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  Speaker 1: fall in line with Rob Manfred's master plan. And so
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  Speaker 1: even though most of it, Ashley I think was a
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  Speaker 1: fault of Major League Baseball and having a terrible they
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  Speaker 1: weren't ready for it. And then they put these negotiations
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  Speaker 1: off to the last set because this is what all
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  Speaker 1: companies do, and it didn't allow them time to troubleshoot
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  Speaker 1: or warn or prepare people for it, and instead it
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  Speaker 1: was a mess this weekend. As far as I could tell,
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  Speaker 1: I belwise, I was not here, wasn't my typical Mariner
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  Speaker 1: viewing of a weekend. But I do know that Thursday
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  Speaker 1: people couldn't didn't know until pretty much game time whether
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  Speaker 1: or not they were going to have the game or not.
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  Speaker 1: And then Friday was a national game, which I had
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  Speaker 1: to have a one streaming service for, and then Sunday
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  Speaker 1: was another National four games to start the season. We
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  Speaker 1: as baseball fans, are at least accustomed to having the
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  Speaker 1: local team on most every game, and yet we are
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  Speaker 1: off through just a rotten start with how Major League
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  Speaker 1: Baseball has changed the viewing habits of its base fans,
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  Speaker 1: and I know it's made a lot of people frustrated
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend. I would have been losing my mind
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  Speaker 1: had I been here for the weekend. I just happened
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  Speaker 1: to be with a lot of baseball junkies, and I
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  Speaker 1: probably watched more Mariners baseball than most of you, even
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  Speaker 1: though I wasn't even here, even though I was on vacation.
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  Speaker 1: And so I'll start it with you, because you were
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  Speaker 1: here to experience at all. How much did you get
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  Speaker 1: caught and bogged down in the frustration?
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  Speaker 3: I was pretty stressed on Thursday trying to figure it
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  Speaker 3: out because I had so the Mariners launched that Mariners
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  Speaker 3: dot Com slash watch thing, right, So I went there,
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  Speaker 3: and we have Fubo. So I put in Fubo and
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  Speaker 3: it's supposed to tell you what channel it is. Well,
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  Speaker 3: all I would say is, yeah, you can watch the game.
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  Speaker 3: Do you want to tweet this out or post it?
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  Speaker 3: On Facebook, and so.
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  Speaker 2: I clicked on tweet just because I thought maybe if
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  Speaker 2: I clicked that.
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  Speaker 3: It'll tell me what channel it's on. No, it just said, hey,
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  Speaker 3: I can watch MLB network and stuff. And I was like, well,
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  Speaker 3: so is it even going to be a channel or
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  Speaker 3: is it just going to show me MLB network because
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  Speaker 3: that's not what I'm looking for.
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  Speaker 2: So I had no idea until about.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was about two or three o'clock in
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  Speaker 3: the afternoon when I finally found it on Fubo. But
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  Speaker 3: I'd been trying to look for it, and so I
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  Speaker 3: know Comcast it had populated that morning right or Exfinity
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  Speaker 3: had populated that morning, but for Fubo it did not
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  Speaker 3: populate till later.
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  Speaker 2: And then I was like, Okay, at least I know
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  Speaker 2: now it works. That's fine.
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  Speaker 3: And then I thought to myself, Man, I'm really glad
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  Speaker 3: we have all of these extra streaming apps that we
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  Speaker 3: keep complaining about, because it did allow us to be
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  Speaker 3: able to watch every single game this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: But but you have to buy the streaming But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's what saying.
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  Speaker 2: We already have it, so but there's so many people
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  Speaker 2: that don't.
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  Speaker 3: And I just thought to myself, you know, like on
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  Speaker 3: Thursday Night Football when the Seahawks are playing Thursday Night
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  Speaker 3: Football on Amazon, you get it locally.
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  Speaker 2: It should be that way.
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  Speaker 3: You should still have it locally if it's on Peacock
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  Speaker 3: or it's on Amazon, or it's on Apple TV, it
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  Speaker 3: should always still be a local option. And that was
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  Speaker 3: what was really frustrating to me that I thought that
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  Speaker 3: it's a it's a pretty ridiculous thing that you have
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  Speaker 3: to have every app to.
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  Speaker 2: Watch your own local team. That shouldn't be the case.
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  Speaker 1: It's unforgivable. Yeah, it's unforgivable, is what it is. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I I will say, unless they correct it, and we
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  Speaker 1: might have to live with it this year, but I
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  Speaker 1: hope that they learned their lessons. I mean, what Rob
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  Speaker 1: Manford is after before he's done, and we're probably going
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  Speaker 1: to have a collective bargaining agreement, we're probably gonna have
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  Speaker 1: a strike or a lockout. That's to try to achieve
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  Speaker 1: the things he wants to finish before he's done, and
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  Speaker 1: one of them is and he's achieved a lot of
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  Speaker 1: these things and a lot of things have worked. So
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  Speaker 1: let me just first start by saying Rob Manford's actually
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  Speaker 1: done some really effective things here in the last you know,
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  Speaker 1: in the twilight of his commissionership. That said, my biggest
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  Speaker 1: criticism of Rob Manford throughout is that he's never really
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  Speaker 1: been a baseball fan. And I know I say that
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  Speaker 1: tongue in cheek a lot, but I do believe that
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  Speaker 1: there's some truth to that. I don't think he acts
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  Speaker 1: like somebody that knows baseball, understands baseball, has watched it
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  Speaker 1: his entire life, and actively watches it.
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  Speaker 2: Now and enjoys it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And so what he's trying to achieve is he's
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  Speaker 1: trying to get a salary cap before before he's done,
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  Speaker 1: and that's lead to the lockout. Another thing he's going
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  Speaker 1: to try to achieve is he wants to have he
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  Speaker 1: sees what the NFL has, and he wants to have that.
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  Speaker 1: He sees how much money they make with their television deal,
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  Speaker 1: he sees how they own all the rights to their
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  Speaker 1: television product. And so one by one, Rob Manford has
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  Speaker 1: tried to gather all of these organizations together into an
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  Speaker 1: MLB network so that he can eventually sell packages to
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  Speaker 1: all these streaming services and to the networks and everything else.
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  Speaker 1: And so that's the hammer he's trying to swing here.
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  Speaker 1: But what he loses side of, and what he can't
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  Speaker 1: lose sight of is the fact that the reason that
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  Speaker 1: I've always laughed in the face of people who have
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  Speaker 1: been telling me since I was ten that baseball's almost
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  Speaker 1: dead and it's more popular and financially lucrative than ever,
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  Speaker 1: is that baseball doesn't have to worry about the younger
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  Speaker 1: generation because the younger generation will at some point have
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  Speaker 1: adult responsibilities, and those adult responsibilities like raising children and
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  Speaker 1: not going and you know, hanging out with a wife
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  Speaker 1: or hanging out with a husband. It's not gonna be
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  Speaker 1: just trying to find the next party. It's going to
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  Speaker 1: be I had a long day at work, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to go home and turn the game on. That's
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  Speaker 1: what baseball has because it's a nightly tradition, yep. And
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  Speaker 1: so I've always compared being a baseball fan to you know,
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  Speaker 1: putting on that rope, putting on your comfortable beating up
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  Speaker 1: favorite house slippers, and that just routine of having the
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  Speaker 1: game on in the background is what makes baseball fans. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, now, there are people like me, They've been
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  Speaker 1: baseball fans since I was a kid. But there are
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  Speaker 1: going to be people. My mom is the perfect example.
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  Speaker 1: My mom wouldn't watch a sporting event because we watch
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  Speaker 1: too much sports. She now watches more baseball than I do,
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  Speaker 1: you know, because she her life slowed down so much
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  Speaker 1: that she became loyal to the product. And so Rob
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  Speaker 1: Manford is kind of spit in the face of all
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  Speaker 1: of his loyalists in order to reach out to those
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  Speaker 1: who don't like him. Let's reach out to the fan
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't like baseball. Let's create something that we're constantly
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  Speaker 1: in their face. And meanwhile, the loyal fan is like, well,
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: I don't want to do that. We don't have any
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: reason to do that, And now you're angering your entire
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: fan base. You are basically saying making the frust getting home,
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: putting on your tattered robe and your old slippers is
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: something that is so natural that you don't have to
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: search the house.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: For them, right, you know where they are every day,
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: and you.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: Don't have to buy a new pair every five days. Yeah,
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: because oh, you need these slippers for this occasion. You
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: cannot lose that. If you want to do it nationally,
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: do it nationally. You can't lose that with your local
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: market and I'm sure we're in a new era. I'm
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: sure that we're not going to adjust anytime soon. We
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: might not ever adjust back again. But man, you are
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: playing with fire because as much as you wanted reach
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: out to twenty year old Toby who loves playing video
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: games and watching Japanese porn and trying to make him
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: a baseball fan, you know, the truth of the matter
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: is that your customer is Chuck. Your customer is Ed,
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: the iron worker who is going home tired and wants
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: a beer and a sofa and the ballgame on. Yeah,
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: And if he can't find it, he's not a big
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: enough baseball fan to fight to find it. What he's
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: a fan of is my beer, my lounger, and the.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: Baseball game, his comfortable routine.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: The routine. It's the it's the tattered robe and the slippers.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: And so it's the reason why everybody that thought baseball
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: was going to die, we're wrong. And now it's going
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: to be the reason that Rob Manford's going to put
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: his product in jeopardy if he doesn't adjust to this,
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: and he probably never will. We're we're probably going to
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: be asked to adjust to this new world of having
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: to buy every streaming service if we're going to watch
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: every game. I'm going to tell you right now, none
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: of you listening are bigger baseball fans than I am.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: Not a single one of you is a bigger baseball
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: fan than I am. I am done buying streaming services.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: I won't spend another dollar. And if I have to
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: miss a few Mariners games, I'm going to miss a
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: few Mariners games. Yeah. I'm not playing your effing game, period.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: And so if other people feel that way, one by one,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: fans are going to start losing interest. And if they
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: can't find their tattered robe, what they're gonna do. They're
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: gonna put on slacks and they're gonna go do some
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: other activity. They're gonna go out into the yard and
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: you know, and and maybe you know have have to
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: put on cargo shorts and listen to music. Yeah, you know,
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: they're gonna find another routine. They're going to find another
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: daily activity and it's not going to be baseball. And
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: at that point then baseball is in trouble. So he's
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: playing with fire right now. It is a bad idea.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: And I don't care how revolutionary you want to look,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: this is still a sport for people that want to
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: find the tattered robe period.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and it is still a sport that is built
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: on people who have been raised on a team or yeah,
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: Jack an who know they want to cheer for their team.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: I mean, you're the big baseball fan, but there's a
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: lot of you know, people who would call themselves baseball fans,
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: but they're just Mariners fans, right, They're not going to
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: look for every single baseball game. They just want to
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: watch their own team. And so if you make it
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: harder and harder for them.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: To do that, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, you want
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: to play around with it nationally on a product that
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: is suffering. National baseball is not exactly hitting the ball
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: out of the ballpark right now, but locally it's killing it. Yeah,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: and now you want to mess with the fan of
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: the local team. The local game should be on for
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: free or on a cable subscription, whatever the case may be.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: It should be easy to access, it should be cheap,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: and it should be available period.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: You should not have to go to every app for
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: your local game.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: That's right. Yeah, all right, let's find out what's on
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: tap for the rest of the show. What's on TEP.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: What's on TEP Mariners eight Guardians, nothing to split a
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: four game series to start the weekend. Can't wait to
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: talk about what we saw from the Mariners in their
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: first four games of the year, including the brand new
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Emerson Hancock who was nearly perfect for six innings last night.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: We'll talk more about that Mariners Morning After at six
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: thirty today. Also, the ABC's are back. They will debut today.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: It's our daily Mariner segment. We'll do that at eight thirty.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: We have ABC's on more than we do Mariners Morning
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: After because occasionally these jokers take a day off, where
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: ABC's I never take a day off. So it starts
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: today at eight thirty. Ryan Healy starts his routine of
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: joining us every Monday at nine o'clock, so he'll be
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: with us today. We'll not only talk about the Guardians
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: and the Mariners, but we'll also get you ready for
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: the Yankees Mariner series, which starts tonight at six forty.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: The ABS Challenge System made quite the interesting, slash fascinating debut.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: Can't wait to discuss that. At seven oh five today,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: the final four in college basketball is set. It's Arizona
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: and Michigan to one seeds, a three seed Illinois, Yeah,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: and a two seed Yukon, which pulled off a stunner
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: over Duke rallying from nineteen points down to win on
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: not a last second shot, but damn nero last second shot,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: seventy three to seventy two. Can't wait to talk about
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: that game a little bit later on in the show,
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: u'd upspring Football starts this weekend, and we are just
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: two days away from everyone's favorite holiday. Draft miss begins
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: here on Chuck and Buck this Wednesday, and so hopefully
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: you're ready. Hopefully you'll prepared, because I don't want to
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: be a part of getting out into that mess. O man,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: the forty eight hours of people that put off their
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: draft miss plans that are gonna bog down our city.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, don't think that we're gonna feel.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Bad for you, Oh man, I warned you. You know
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: this is coming every year. If you're not ready, that's
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: your fault. Mariner's Morning After Next Sports Radio ninety three
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: point three KJRFM. Good morning, and welcome into the radio show.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: No Bucky Jacobson today, Ashley, Ryan, Chuck Powell with you,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: and yes it's our Mariners Morning After segment it is back.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: The network picked it back up for another season. So
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: every day after a Mariner's games, we'll recap the game
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: for you in the form of a highlight, a sound bite,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: and a preview of what's going on tonight. And yes,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: we picked a new winning song and losing song, and
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: so you had to unfortunately debut the losing song on Friday.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: But this is our debut of our new winning song.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: I like it.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's way more fun than the losing one.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: What was the losing one? I don't know.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: The sound of silence disturbed the sound of song?
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I hate that song already.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that was something we didn't factor in because
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: I love that song.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: You're not gonna anymore, Oh man, not anymore.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: We might have to change that. Sorry, buccame, we might
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: have to change that. But all right, so one first
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: time we get to play our winning song. And now
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: now when he says one more time, it'll make total
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: sense to everybody.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, But the Mariners did get the job done last
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: night to salvage a split in the opening series where
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: I mean, you could have easily seen them win all
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: four this weekend, but you go ahead and take this
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: split against a pretty good team and you win yesterday
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: and convincing fashion by the final score of eight to nothing.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Brendan Donovan's made quite the impression already on this team.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: He's out there with his like bandido you know, neckwear
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: and his long flowing mullet his locks. Yeah yeah, and
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: he's also muscled up a couple of times, including last
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: night Leo Revos credit to him, credit of all the
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: guys at the bottom of the order, that they started
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: to create a little bit of an inning out of
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: nothing last night in the bottom of the fourth when
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: it was scoreless and Leo Revos kept the inning going,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: got the team on the board with an RBI single,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: and then Brendan Donovan came up to the plate with
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: apparently an idea to bunt, and he decided against it
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: because it was too cold, and he did he wasn't
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: feeling fast.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was cold.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: He said, I'm not feeling fast. My legs don't feels
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: as nimble as they need to be. So he changed
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: his mind from bunting to doing this. That's a kind
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: of pitch We hit for a homer on opening day
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: up in the tidy out of here, a ton of
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: it a clothesline and the Mariners lead for it to
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: nothing when they got Brandon Donovan. We knew all about
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: the ability to get on base, had.
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: Those scrappy at bats, but he did this the first
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: at bat in a Marion's unifil gonna three.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Want pitch up in the strike sign, he did pretty
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: much in that same spot. Ryan Rowland Smith on the
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: call last night on Peacock, which carried the game with
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Jason Bennetti doing the play by play, Donovan, it's the
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: three run homer gives the Mariners the four nothing lead,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: and believe me, that was all they were gonna need.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Emerson Hancock, the new Emerson Hancock, who on opening day
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: both Jerry Depoto and Pete Woodworth told us on opening
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: day that he looked better than any picture that we
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: had during spring training. He had twenty one strikeouts over
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: fifteen innings in his spring training action. And so there
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: was a thought, and I think a little bit of
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: a hope that maybe, I mean, Pete Wardworth's pretty smart,
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Gary Depoto's pretty smart, maybe we would see a different
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Emerson Hancock. And man if any yesterday was any indication, ooh,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: that's exciting. Yeah, that's a bingal.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll take that. I was I was cooking dinner,
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: and I was like listening the kit.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: You can see the TV, but I was listening to
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: the announcers trying to basically say like he's throwing a
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: no hitter right now, but without saying it, and they're like,
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: well hmm, and so then I would I was like,
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: am I Am.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: I hearing what I think I'm hearing?
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, well he walked one guy. Otherwise he was perfect.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah through six innings last night, and Emerson Hancock ended
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: up striking out nine and he left the with a
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: no hitter. So he's got himself a seven to nothing lead,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: but he'd also thrown ninety seven pitches, and the decision
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: was he's not gonna make it through nine, so why
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: should we push him past six when we have a
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: seven run lead. So they go to Cooper Criswell, they're
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: long reliever on the team to finish out the game,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: which he did. He went three shutout innings himself and
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: picked up a save in the game last night, eight
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: to nothing. The Mariners win in a breeze. Here is
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Emerson Hancock after the game.
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean getting the opportunity was huge, and you
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: know when you get that opportunity, you go out there
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: and do the best you can. Those last three outs
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: you want those, You want to get to the sixth
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: and they able to execute their big double play. Ball
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: wasn't very sharp. You don't want to start off any
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: of the hit by pitch, But do we get out
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: of that, get get through six? You know, I thought
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: it was a pretty.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Good How validating is for all the offseason words you
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: put in, like you're talking about a lot of pick
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: certain things showed up to the spring is one thing
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: to bring it into the regular season.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: How validated as a commercial?
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: I think it's just one of those things that you
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: just kind of gives you confidence in like your process
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: of like how you're doing things. It's one of those
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: things you can't quite chase that type of result, But
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: if you're in there and you're committed to every pitch,
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: you know you're doing the best that you can. You know,
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: throwing a lot of strikes, limiting free bases, I feel like,
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: you know a lot of good things can happen. But
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, that was something going into the off
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: season that I wanted to accomplish. It was something that
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: I knew that I needed to get better at and
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: just kind of picked out certain things that I really
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: wanted to focus in on. And you know, so far,
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: you know, I feel like I'm doing a pretty good
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: job of like staying on top of those things.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: Well, I'll say, man, that was impressive. Pretty good job
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: last night. Emerson Hancock. Six innings, no hits, allowed, no runs,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: nine strikeouts, walked just one batter in an eight nothing win.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: He gets the win himself in the game last night.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: And there's a lot that I wanted to say about
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Emerson Hancock today, which we'll have to save for a
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: little later in the show to it into, but I'll
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: just talk about what I saw last night from him
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: as a pitcher. And you know, remember when Paul Seewald
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: got to the Mariners and then he started having success,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: And then we interviewed him about that success and he
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: told us he said they wanted they they did their math,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: and the pitching coaches were convincing me to just keep
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: throwing my fastball in the top of the zone, and
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: I just didn't believe it was gonna work. I just
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: couldn't give myself to And he's Paul Seewald, if you remember,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: very cerebral guy, very bright guy, but he'd never broken
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: FARU to become a successful pitcher until they put on
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: a Mariner's uniform, and he had to give himself. He
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: had to just trust that Woodworth and company knew what
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: they were talking about. And since that time, I think
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: Seawald's success kind of because sometimes if you operate up
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: in the zone with your fastball, and if you don't
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: a thousand percent believe because you don't throw one hundred
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: miles per hour that you can live up there, that
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: often can end up with the ball going five hundred
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: feet and over the fence. Yeah, and so it took
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: a while for Seawall to trust that that's where and
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: then he ended up having successful well Miller and Wu
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: operate up there and lo and behold, what was Emerson
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Hancock not just getting strikeouts last night? But it was
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: getting swing and miss stuff consistently, which is a I mean,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: that's a statistic that teams count. They don't just count strikeouts.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: They don't just count you know what the batting average
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: against the fastball is. They love swing and miss stuff.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: You if they swing and miss, they can't put it
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: in play. If they can't put it in play, then
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: it doesn't bloop anywhere, or it doesn't go off your
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: shortstops glove, or your third baseman doesn't throw it down
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: the right field line. Oh so they love it. And
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: he's getting swing and miss stuff repeatedly on his fastball
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: up in the zone. I mean, it looked very much
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: like out of the playbook of Brian wu last night.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: And Emerson Hancock, make no mistake about it, has so
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: happy for him. He's one of the nicest people you
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: will ever meet. They root for him. He's one of them.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: He is one of their brothers. Those five guys in
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: the starting rotation. They love that dude. And so to
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: see him have the success he had last night and
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: the way he had it, it just felt real. It
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: didn't feel like, oh, he's just on tonight. It felt
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: like everything they were talking about in spring training that
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: he was doing that he wasn't doing before he was
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: executing last night, and he got to see it right
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: before his eyes how successful he can be. And now
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: he has confidence. That's the way I now, I know
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: how to do this. Now I feel it. Now I've
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: got that feel for it. It may be the start
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: of some really special things. And I do stress maybe
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: because there's a long way to go. It is just
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: one start, but there's no doubt this guy's got that down.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: He's the highest drafted guy of all of them.
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's not gonna have just a game like
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: that every single time he goes out. So if he
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: goes out and he gives up some hits, see it
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: was a fluke. No, that's not the way like I
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: mean I was. He was very impressive last night, very impressive.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: And Chriswell was too. Fourteen strikeouts of Guardians hitters last
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: night for an easy walk over eight nothing wins. So
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: you take two out of four. You kind of hoped
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: for more.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: I know that.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but Cleven's not a bad team, so you split
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: the opening series. We got our first taste of Mariners
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: baseball twenty twenty six style, and now we get ready
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: for a Yankees team who we're favored to have more
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: wins than this year. So this isn't the typical Oh,
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: here come the Yankees. Here's a true test for the Mariners. No,
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: it's the other way around. Yankees, you're gonna get your
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: first true test because you're going to take on the
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: favorites to win the American League. Let's go tonight, and
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: so shoes on the other foot a little bit here
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six.
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: I was excited when I woke up this morning and
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: I was like, Oh, it's a Monday.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: We probably don't even have a Mariner's game tonight, And
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: I was like, no way we do.
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: If there's nothing worse than you get through opening weekend,
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: you have a day off, it feels like it takes forever.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, one of the few teams that is going to
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: play the first five days of the season, and so
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: it'll be Luis Castill making his first start of the
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: year tonight six forty and he's going to go up
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: against a lot left hander, Ryan Weathers. Ryan Weathers is
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  Speaker 1: somebody that has always had talent, but they don't. He's
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  Speaker 1: never really been able to put it together. The Yankees
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  Speaker 1: feel like they are putting it together with him. So
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  Speaker 1: he had a really good spring himself. So we'll see
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  Speaker 1: how that unfolds tonight first pitch at six'. Forty we'll
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  Speaker 1: talk more about it later on in the. Show but
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  Speaker 1: the other big story that we have to discuss throughout
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  Speaker 1: the show, today we have a final, four and it
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  Speaker 1: includes the jerk From Yukon Sports radio ninety three point THREE. Kjrfm,
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  Speaker 1: OH a lot of stuff to talk about here. Today
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  Speaker 1: certainly we have a final four that's one of the bigger,
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  Speaker 1: stories that's a bigger story nationally to, discuss and it
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  Speaker 1: will be two one Seeds arizona And. Michigan they'll face
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  Speaker 1: off against one another though the final four, round and
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  Speaker 1: then a two seed in a three seed Advance illinois
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  Speaker 1: fighting a LINE i make it to the final, FOUR
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  Speaker 1: i have him in my. Finals oh, wow look at. You,
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  Speaker 1: yeah you were all over them from the. OUTSET i,
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  Speaker 1: mean that's the team THAT i grew up rooting. For
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  Speaker 1: not EVEN i had that much, Faith, like there's no
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  Speaker 1: Way Brad underwood's out Coaching Kelvin.
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  Speaker 3: Samson also probably you also probably didn't want to think
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  Speaker 3: Like i'm being a, Homer i'm being.
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  Speaker 1: Biased it was pretty much just straight up analysis That
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  Speaker 1: Brad underwood probably can't out Coach Kelvin. Sampson, ever and
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  Speaker 1: Yet illinois knocked Off houston and then they went again On.
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  Speaker 1: Saturday and so here we are with our final four,
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  Speaker 1: set and it does include The Yukon huskies And Dan,
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  Speaker 1: hurley who obviously is a very good. Coach you, Know
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  Speaker 1: apple didn't fall far from the. TREE i, mean he
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  Speaker 1: grew up in a coaching, family, obviously has a very
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  Speaker 1: famous point guard playing brother who's alma mater he beat
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  Speaker 1: yesterday to make it to The final. Four obviously a
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  Speaker 1: very sharp guy who picked up a lot about basketball
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  Speaker 1: over the, years knows how to connect with his, players
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  Speaker 1: so on and so. Forth but, man who when you
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  Speaker 1: single handedly become someone that people will root For duke to, Beat,
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  Speaker 1: yeah you've really accomplished. SOMETHING i, Mean i've never had
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  Speaker 1: anything Against, duke BUT i get that they come across
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  Speaker 1: arrogant and, pompous and so a lot of people like
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  Speaker 1: to See duke, fall BUT i think more people now
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  Speaker 1: want to See Dan hurley. Fall so when you have
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  Speaker 1: people like disappointed That yukon hits a game winning shot
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  Speaker 1: that is one of the greatest shots in college basketball
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  Speaker 1: history yesterday and people are, deflated it's because of not
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  Speaker 1: wanting to See Dan hurley have any more. Success.
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  Speaker 2: YEAH i mean that was literally when they hit, IT
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  Speaker 2: i was, like oh. Wow and THEN i was, like, oh.
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  Speaker 1: Man did you see what he? Did would you see the?
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  Speaker 2: VIDEO i didn't see what he. Did, NO i watched the,
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  Speaker 2: shot BUT i didn't.
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  Speaker 1: See, well it's one thing he's, like he's kind of
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  Speaker 1: cleaned up his act when he knows that the cameras are,
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  Speaker 1: rolling but he still can't help himself when he thinks
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  Speaker 1: that there might be one camera, Rolling like he thinks
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  Speaker 1: he's going to get away with. It but he went
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  Speaker 1: over after the celebration and he took a towel and
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  Speaker 1: he started wiping his head with, it like the sweat
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  Speaker 1: and the tears and everything that was, flowing and he
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  Speaker 1: started wiping with, it and he looks at the camera
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  Speaker 1: out of the corner of his eye and then turns
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  Speaker 1: around and takes the towel and throws it into the,
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  Speaker 1: crowd like everybody there wants his sweaty drippings from his. Victory,
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  Speaker 1: now don't get me, Wrong i'm sure a collector out.
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  Speaker 1: There Col raley has a towel we win The World
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  Speaker 1: series and he decides to leave it on the. BENCH
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  Speaker 1: i would imagine there are a few people listening out
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  Speaker 1: there that would go pick that. Up this is the
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  Speaker 1: towel Cal raley wiped His World series sweat, with And
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  Speaker 1: i'm going to put it in my collector's. Room it's
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  Speaker 1: a little weird for, me BUT i get that. One
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  Speaker 1: but when you think in your head that people are
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  Speaker 1: going to want my sweaty residue from this, victory and
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  Speaker 1: not just, People i'm gonna throw it up into the
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  Speaker 1: crowd and let them fight over it because they want
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  Speaker 1: it that badly when they weren't even asking for, that.
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  Speaker 2: Right if you're, like, Oh, dan give us your sweat.
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  Speaker 1: Towel that is a level of arrogance That i've not
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  Speaker 1: seen reached that. Often he is a difficult person.
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  Speaker 3: To, like, well very difficult person to. LIKE i, mean
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  Speaker 3: his arrogance is just otherworldly on most. DAYS i, mean
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  Speaker 3: we had that conversation about between him And mick cronin
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  Speaker 3: who do you dislike?
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  Speaker 1: More cronan is just like an angry, gar.
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  Speaker 2: Like get off my lawn kind of.
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  Speaker 1: Guy, yeah he's like the angry elf in an. Elf oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah he just yells at, people gets, mad and it's
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  Speaker 3: like makes people feel kind of stupid for asking, questions,
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  Speaker 3: Right But hurly makes people feel stupid for asking questions
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  Speaker 3: and makes people feel stupid for most things and just
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  Speaker 3: walks around like he is a gift, well.
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  Speaker 1: AND i think it all comes from his, insecurities which
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  Speaker 1: are very well documented throughout his, life feeling like he
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  Speaker 1: was in the shadow of everyone in his family in,
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  Speaker 1: basketball and SO i think that arrogance comes out of,
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  Speaker 1: insecurities quite, frankly and he will remind us every time
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  Speaker 1: that he does something that people, criticize he'll remind us
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  Speaker 1: of his how down he was at one point in his.
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  Speaker 1: Life AND i guess that we're supposed to give him
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  Speaker 1: a free pass so that he doesn't start feeling depressed.
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  Speaker 1: Again but we've all battled, depression maybe not to the
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  Speaker 1: degree that he. Has AND i still don't think that
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  Speaker 1: even a depressed individual is free of criticism when they
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  Speaker 1: think that an entire fan base is cheering for them
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  Speaker 1: and can't wait to get his. Sweat, YEAH i, MEAN i,
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  Speaker 1: mean that's really thinking something of yourself right.
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  Speaker 2: There he thinks a lot of.
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  Speaker 3: HIMSELF i think a lot of him, Too but mine
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  Speaker 3: aren't as positive as, He.
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  Speaker 1: So SO i don't. Know let's let's put it this,
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  Speaker 1: way pretty. Easy Who i'm going to root For illinois VERSUS. U.
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  Speaker 2: Come, yeah that one's not gonna be a tough one
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  Speaker 2: for me.
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  Speaker 1: Either one of the easiest Decisions i've ever made is
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  Speaker 1: a Sports i'm told that you're supposed to always have
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  Speaker 1: an opinion in this business and support it and have
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  Speaker 1: a good strong. Take my good strong take is THAT
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  Speaker 1: i really Want illinois to beat you.
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  Speaker 2: Ukon, yeah my good strong take is suck At hurley.
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