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Chuck & Buck 4-7 Hour 1: A hat tip to the Wolverines, Mariners Morning After and Stocking Stuffers · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 3: It is beautiful. Looks really nice on screen too.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we've had a Draftmas tree in here before, just
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Speaker 1: Yes we have.
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Speaker 3: I'm glad that this is the new tree. This is better.
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Speaker 1: Yes, I mean we've not not done things in the past,
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Speaker 1: but now that we are on blasts, so to speak, well,
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Speaker 1: we couldn't not step our game up a little bit
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Speaker 1: this year. So we'll crack out the smoking jacket a
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Speaker 1: little bit later on. Ashley's got her tinsel wrapped around
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Speaker 1: the Mike stand. Yep, there in the producers booth, and yes,
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Speaker 1: away from the National Football League Draft twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 1: And you know what, Pete Prisco, who was on before us,
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Speaker 1: I don't care that there's not any buzz. There is
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Speaker 1: no way you can take away my draftness spirit.
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Speaker 3: Aber, Yeah, Crisco a grinch.
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Speaker 1: The only way to take it away is to take
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Speaker 1: the draft away, which might happen someday. So good to
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Speaker 1: have you with us. Great to be here on this Tuesday.
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Speaker 1: And yes we do have a lot to discuss today,
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Speaker 1: including a Mariners baseball team that just continues its ice
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Speaker 1: cold start at the plate, off to a four and
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Speaker 1: seven start this season, which none of us wanted. But
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Speaker 1: certainly we'll discuss that a little bit later on in
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Speaker 1: the radio program. We will start with a national championship.
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Speaker 1: You got to begin when we crown a champion in
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Speaker 1: our sports world, even if it doesn't involve a local team.
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Speaker 1: I mean yeah, I mean we win the Super Bowl
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Speaker 1: all the time.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like old news.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but this college basketball national championships thing sure seems
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Speaker 1: to be elusive here in the Washington state area, the
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Speaker 1: entire state area.
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Speaker 3: It's a little harder.
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Speaker 1: Michigan cut down the nets last night with a sixty
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Speaker 1: nine to sixty three win over Yukon Michigan who had
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Speaker 1: pretty much steamrolled everybody, and not just in the tournament
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Speaker 1: all season long. I mean, when they were firing, nobody
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Speaker 1: could come close to them. They proved that against Arizona.
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you when they first proved it when they
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Speaker 1: beat Gonzaga by forty points, and at the time, everybody
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Speaker 1: was like, how bad is Gonzaga? That was I mean,
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Speaker 1: gonzag has really taken a step down. Well, Gonzaga went
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Speaker 1: on to lose just three games this year, and I
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Speaker 1: don't think that that was your typical Zag's team that
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Speaker 1: we've seen here in the last decade or so. Not
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Speaker 1: one of their better teams, certainly, But Michigan, I think
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Speaker 1: the story there was oh wow. I think there should
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Speaker 1: have been oh wow, how good is Michigan? And they've
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Speaker 1: kind of proved that all season long. That wasn't vintage
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five twenty six Michigan wolverine'es basketball last night,
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Speaker 1: and I give Yukon all the credit in the world.
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Speaker 1: I mean, we can sit here and criticize Dan Hurley
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Speaker 1: for his behavior and his antics, but dude can coach.
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Speaker 1: And if you ever hear Dan Hurley interviewed about his team,
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Speaker 1: it is always preaching toughness and they're one of the
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Speaker 1: tougher teams you'll see play college basketball. And if they go,
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Speaker 1: if they go down a notch. He's there in their ear,
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Speaker 1: in there you know what to tell them, you're not
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Speaker 1: being tough enough, and they toughened up the game last night,
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Speaker 1: Michigan was in for a battle. Neither team shot well,
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Speaker 1: but both teams played great defense. Yukon shot just thirty
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Speaker 1: one percent from the field. Michigan, who had been red hot,
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Speaker 1: shot just thirty eight percent. They couldn't hit a three
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Speaker 1: all night long. Landeberg, who was, you know, favoring a knee,
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Speaker 1: just was not the same player. But Michigan played just
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Speaker 1: as tough defensively, which usually when you face a team
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Speaker 1: that punches you in the mouth, you know you you
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Speaker 1: don't always respond to that. Oh is that way we're
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Speaker 1: gonna play today? Oh? I didn't know we were gonna
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Speaker 1: play that way today. But Michigan did that and for that,
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Speaker 1: they won the game. And it speaks to what a
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Speaker 1: complete team that they've had all season long. They have
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Speaker 1: proven that, man, they're just better than everybody else in
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Speaker 1: college basketball this season. But if you do this is
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Speaker 1: what makes them a champion, because it's a six game stretch.
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Speaker 1: You got to win six straight games in a tournament
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Speaker 1: without a loss, and you and you got to face
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Speaker 1: all sorts of different background stories and certain different kind
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Speaker 1: of lineups and different kind of strategies. And if you
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Speaker 1: can figure out to win against any foe, that's how
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Speaker 1: you win the national championship. And they did that last night.
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Speaker 1: You want to dirty this thing up, you want to
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Speaker 1: muddy this thing up. Guess what, we can play that
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Speaker 1: way too, And so they won the championship last night.
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Speaker 1: And so I don't know if there are too many
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Speaker 1: people here listening that that root for Michigan to do anything,
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Speaker 1: because it's kind of an arrogant fan base and an
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Speaker 1: arrogant school, it seems. But the hurling not even close.
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Speaker 1: But that was that was I mean, that was just
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Speaker 1: a great team and I think a very worthy champion
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Speaker 1: last night. And the older I get, Ashley, the more
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Speaker 1: I just want to believe that whoever won the championship
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Speaker 1: was deserving of it. And now we've seen Indiana win
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Speaker 1: in college football, We've seen Michigan win in college basketball.
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Speaker 1: I think the two teams that were the best in
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Speaker 1: these past two seasons won the national championship. And I'm
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Speaker 1: here for it. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, I was rooting for Michigan, which was not a surprise.
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Speaker 2: We both were and I think and not wanting to
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Speaker 2: see Dan Hurley wins, so that was one bonus. But
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Speaker 2: on top of it, yeah, I do think they were
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Speaker 2: the better team. I think Yukon had their game plan
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Speaker 2: and good for them, they made it a good, a
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Speaker 2: close game. I mean, their game plan was We're going
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Speaker 2: to foul the f out of them and see what happens.
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Speaker 1: And then a lot of them were complaining about a
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Speaker 1: lot of their fans about the calls. But it's like, well,
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Speaker 1: you are doing this intentionally. I get that there's a
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Speaker 1: little imbalance, but you are trying to play this way,
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Speaker 1: so you're going to get called. And again I'm going
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Speaker 1: to give Hurley credit for this too, because he was
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Speaker 1: just sort of relentless on that all the way to
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Speaker 1: the very end of the game where he's trying to
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Speaker 1: get a foul called against McKenny for throwing elbows. I mean,
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Speaker 1: you're down four, You've kept yourself a lot, you scrapped
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Speaker 1: your way back into the contest, and he was thinking
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Speaker 1: and and that whole act that he does on the
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Speaker 1: sideline complaining about everything it wears on the officials and
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Speaker 1: the audience. Well, certainly the audience. But he's doing it
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Speaker 1: to wear on the officials because and I don't like it,
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Speaker 1: and I wish that officials did not cave to this
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Speaker 1: sort of thing. But the truth of the matter is,
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Speaker 1: you get tired of hearing people complain. I mean, I
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Speaker 1: wasn't planning on talking about this happens to me at home.
8:30
Speaker 1: I get tired of hearing the complaints. So I just
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Speaker 1: cave and I, you know, buy the ridiculous thing that
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Speaker 1: needs to be bought. And I'm not talking about like
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Speaker 1: we don't have like a Shetland pony or anything.
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Speaker 3: That was a little.
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Speaker 1: I'm just talking about like things for the house. I'm like,
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Speaker 1: how do we need that again? Okay, I don't want
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Speaker 1: to even argue about I'm just gonna go get it.
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Speaker 1: And and that's the way officials tend to operate too,
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Speaker 1: like I don't want to hear you complaining, and I'm
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Speaker 1: just going to give you the call this and and
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Speaker 1: unfortunately that's just the reality of things because they are
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Speaker 1: they are human beings, and he works them, and he
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Speaker 1: works them all day long, and he allows everybody to
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Speaker 1: think he's just a whiny, complaining you know, little snot,
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Speaker 1: which he is which he is. But he's really good
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Speaker 1: at what he does, I'll give him that. And he
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Speaker 1: was very close to almost turning this thing around. I
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Speaker 1: mean when that solo ball knocked in that three pointer
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Speaker 1: where he banked it in, I'm like, oh my gosh,
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Speaker 1: they're going to come back and win this one too,
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Speaker 1: aren't they.
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Speaker 3: I thought the same thing.
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Speaker 2: Oh oh please now, yeah, And I don't want any
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Speaker 2: more of looks of disbelief from Dan Hyland.
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Speaker 3: The LDS were on point last night.
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Speaker 1: When did we do that? By it? It was it
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Speaker 1: was an NBA game, yeah, and an NBA playoff game. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Well that's right around the corner. We might have to
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Speaker 1: do that.
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Speaker 3: We might have to count lds again.
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Speaker 1: I mean it was just I could go back, you
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Speaker 1: know what I could do. I could go back and
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Speaker 1: watch the National Championship game count him up and count
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Speaker 1: him up from herly to see if he is on
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Speaker 1: the level of Lebron.
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Speaker 3: Oh gosh, he is.
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Speaker 2: I mean he's got the hands to the side of
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Speaker 2: the head. Just there was one point, I think it
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Speaker 2: was like twenty seconds on camera just of him with
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Speaker 2: his eyes as wide as it could be, in his mouth.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Oh, I was like Okay, well they didn't. They're not
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Speaker 3: following for it. You're done.
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Speaker 1: It's annoying. Yeah, it's very annoying. LEDs are looks of disbelief.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. It was probably when Ashley first started,
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Speaker 1: or somewhere around.
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Speaker 3: The old studio.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and we I started. I just couldn't believe how
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Speaker 1: many looks of disbelief I was seeing an NBA playoff game.
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Speaker 1: So I went home and I counted. I came up
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Speaker 1: with a whole stat sheet. There were LEDs, and then
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Speaker 1: there were little offshoots of it as well. There were
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Speaker 1: if I remember, I wish I would have kept that around.
10:48
Speaker 1: I might have it somewhere because I tend not to
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Speaker 1: throw things away. But yes, she sent me a text
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Speaker 1: or yeah, text during the course of the game last night,
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Speaker 1: like Dan Herly takes LODs to the next level.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, like he is what everyone should strive for.
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Speaker 1: Looks of disbelief on the sidelines. And yes, and he
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Speaker 1: will dramatize them.
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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, I just thought myself, Oh damn, you
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Speaker 2: are on another level today.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, he may have set a record that could
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Speaker 1: have been a national championship record for lds. Definitely last
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Speaker 1: night from from Dan Hurley. But it was good to
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Speaker 1: see Michigan win. I'd kind of been on them all
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Speaker 1: season long. First time I saw them play, and that's
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Speaker 1: going back to the Zags game, I'm like, Wow, this
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Speaker 1: team is special and they are deep, and they were long,
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Speaker 1: and like I said, they could win in just about
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Speaker 1: any way you wanted to muck it up. They had
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Speaker 1: an answer for it. I mean, that's you know, that's
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Speaker 1: seven foot three, six eleven. I thought Mores Johnson Junior
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Speaker 1: might have kept it. Might have been the biggest reason
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Speaker 1: that Michigan won the game last night because he played
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Speaker 1: so well in the first half and when they needed
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Speaker 1: a bucket, he tended to get it. Lendebergh, you know,
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Speaker 1: you've got a six foot nine inch point forward who's
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Speaker 1: bringing the ball up at the end of the game
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Speaker 1: to give their point guard to blow. I mean, they
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Speaker 1: just had an end and they usually shoot extraordinarily well,
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Speaker 1: but they didn't do that last night, sort of taken
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Speaker 1: out of their game, and Michigan goes in and wins
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Speaker 1: the National championship. So Big ten on top for the
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Speaker 1: first time since nineteen eighty nine, first national championship since
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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty nine. Yeah, no, no, no, that's not true. First
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Speaker 1: first Michigan championship since eighty nine, first Big Ten championships
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Speaker 1: since two thousand. I believe with Michigan State. So right
12:36
Speaker 1: now Big Ten's on top of the college basketball and
12:39
Speaker 1: college football world these days.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, just like we predicted, you know, that's
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Speaker 2: what happens. We have to see the demise of the
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Speaker 2: Pac twelve. And yeah, once that happens, the big times like,
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Speaker 2: oh all right, let's be successful man.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, welcome Washington, Oregon. By the way, I don't
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Speaker 1: know if you saw it in your conference notes, but
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Speaker 1: we're getting ready to get excellent raalty here.
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Speaker 3: We about to dominate.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. So anyway, not a great time to join a
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Speaker 1: super conference right now because we're pretty much like the
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Speaker 1: new conference foes that you have are pretty elite. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: show anyway, get on it, Get on it, and you
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Speaker 1: know what, we're gonna talk about this later on in
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Speaker 1: the show, because it is time to get on it,
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Speaker 1: and I've got time set aside. I mean, I had
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Speaker 1: Quincy Pondexher was a great guest on Friday, and he
13:31
Speaker 1: helped us preview the final four. But I mean I've
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Speaker 1: heard Quincy on before and he's very sensitive about criticism
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Speaker 1: toward Washington. And I asked him, gave him the opportunity,
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Speaker 1: where's Washington basketball right now? And his response was, if
13:46
Speaker 1: anybody thinks we're far away, they're crazy. Well I might
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Speaker 1: be crazy because you don't look close. You don't look
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Speaker 1: like you're on the doorstep of doing this and and so.
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Speaker 1: But I'll say this what miss showed us. I mean,
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Speaker 1: this is a modern day championship right here. That's a
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Speaker 1: team entirely of transfers, that is a starting five, entirely
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Speaker 1: of we just started playing basketball together for the first
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Speaker 1: time eight months ago.
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Speaker 3: That worked out well, and.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it worked out well. But what it does, what
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Speaker 1: something like that does to everybody else who has excuses
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Speaker 1: for why they're not as good, It takes away all
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Speaker 1: of your excuses. Yeah, I don't want to hear them,
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Speaker 1: you know. I mean, a new coach, you don't need
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Speaker 1: five years, Kurt Signetti.
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Speaker 3: I was going to say, Indianna, same thing in a.
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Speaker 1: Much more difficult sport to I mean, you've got one
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Speaker 1: hundred plus guys on your roster. You're not supposed to
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Speaker 1: be able to turn things around. You're not supposed to
14:45
Speaker 1: go from one of the worst programs in college football
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Speaker 1: history to the best in two years. But they did
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Speaker 1: it there. Dusty May has been on campus at Michigan
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Speaker 1: for two years. That's not exactly some household name. That's
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Speaker 1: not like you just hired coach k and got all
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Speaker 1: the recruits. I mean that is somebody that pieced together,
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Speaker 1: one player at a time and one single offseason a
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Speaker 1: championship team. And I don't think that Michigan could do that.
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Speaker 1: If we were playing by the old rules and there
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Speaker 1: were guys on campus that have been playing for three
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Speaker 1: or four years together, then I don't think that you
15:23
Speaker 1: could have done that five ten years ago. But you're
15:25
Speaker 1: sure as f can do it today. And now we
15:28
Speaker 1: have absolute proof of that. You surely can in today's game,
15:33
Speaker 1: since nobody has years of playing together. I mean nobody freshmen.
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Speaker 1: Great players who are freshmen come, they play for one year,
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Speaker 1: and then they go to the NBA, which also should
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Speaker 1: be changed. But I don't know how close we are
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Speaker 1: to getting that done. And if you've got a team
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Speaker 1: with guys coming back, you're probably gonna lose half of them.
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Speaker 1: So here's somebody that's been on campus for two years
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Speaker 1: had pretty much empty cupboards, and then he went out
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Speaker 1: one player at a time and pieced together a championship team.
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Speaker 1: So it can be done. And I'm not here for excuses.
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Speaker 1: And they are running thin in a lot of ways
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Speaker 1: here in the Seattle market on a lot of teams.
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Speaker 1: I'm not just picking on you dub basketball right now.
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Speaker 1: Obviously you can turn it around overnight in these sports
16:25
Speaker 1: because of the new rules. And maybe the new rules
16:27
Speaker 1: will be changed, maybe they will be adjusted. Maybe we
16:30
Speaker 1: should have never had these rules in the first place.
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Speaker 1: But as long as they are in play, it gives
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Speaker 1: you the chance to go from we missed the tournament entirely,
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Speaker 1: we missed the NIT entirely last year. But obviously there's
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Speaker 1: a formula out there. If you do things in the
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Speaker 1: right off season, you find the right group of guys.
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Speaker 1: Because even though they got really good transfers, there were
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Speaker 1: better transfers considered on paper this offseason that went to
16:57
Speaker 1: other programs. And Dusty May's like that guy, that guy,
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Speaker 1: that guy that got that works together and now let's go.
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Speaker 1: Uh and so it can be done. It can be done,
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Speaker 1: and and uh, and I really don't know of any
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Speaker 1: major college basketball or football program. I don't know what
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Speaker 1: excuse you have for languishing in mediocrity. When you see
17:18
Speaker 1: these success stories like you've seen from Indiana and Michigan,
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Speaker 1: they've pretty much stripped you of any excuses you have
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Speaker 1: for staying mediocre for any extended period of time.
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Speaker 2: And I would agree with that for yeah, staying mediocre
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Speaker 2: for any extended period of time. I do still think
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Speaker 2: and I said this during the basketball season, and Quincy
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Speaker 2: said it when he was on I mean, the injuries
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Speaker 2: to washing that Washington dealt with this year were pretty awful,
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Speaker 2: I mean just in terms of what it did to
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Speaker 2: their roster. But that's your okay, So that's your excuse
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Speaker 2: this year. Now you don't have that same excuse next year.
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Speaker 1: See, I don't even buy that an excuse. That's an excuse.
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Speaker 1: That's an excuse to say we weren't as good as
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Speaker 1: we could have been. It's not an excuse for we
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Speaker 1: missed the n T. Like it's not the same for
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Speaker 1: pas no. But I'm I'm saying it too. It's not
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Speaker 1: like you were, oh, we didn't have we weren't healthy
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Speaker 1: all season long, and so we didn't achieve our utmost goal.
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Speaker 1: You didn't even make the n i T. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's not like you had five guys that you know,
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Speaker 1: had a turnover car wreck and you lost all of
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Speaker 1: them for the entire season. That's an excuse. You should
18:24
Speaker 1: have been better than what you were period, and you
18:28
Speaker 1: didn't have such devastating injuries that there's an excuse to
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Speaker 1: miss the n i T Tournament, much less the NCAA Tournament,
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Speaker 1: much less to be a contender. And so yes, they
18:39
Speaker 1: excuse injuries are a reason, but they only go so
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Speaker 1: far when you're not talking about your best player missing
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Speaker 1: an entire year. That is something dramatic that did not
18:50
Speaker 1: happen to them.
18:51
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's fair. Yeah, that's fair.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's find out what's on tap for the
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Speaker 1: rest of the show. What's on TEP, what's on Tech
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Speaker 1: Michigan sixty nine, Yukon sixty three. The college basketball season
19:06
Speaker 1: does come to an end, and we will talk more
19:08
Speaker 1: about it later on in the program. College football spring
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Speaker 1: ball continues. Jed Fish is going to join us today
19:14
Speaker 1: at eight o'clock, so we're gonna hear right from the
19:17
Speaker 1: horse's mouth how springball is going. Also, I'm gonna use
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Speaker 1: them because he has his Draftmas season as a draft
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Speaker 1: expert as well. Well, let's let him evaluate Denzel Boston,
19:28
Speaker 1: Jonah Coleman and others as they get ready for the
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Speaker 1: NFL Draft. So we'll talk to the head ball coach
19:33
Speaker 1: today at eight o'clock. I hope he wears his visor.
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Speaker 1: NFL Draft is in fourteen days. Rob rang joins us
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Speaker 1: for the first time this Draftmas season. Jolly old Saint
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Speaker 1: Piccolas himself will be with us this morning at seven
19:47
Speaker 1: oh five to talk about the upcoming draft. We'll hit
19:50
Speaker 1: it pretty hard from the Seahawks angle since this is
19:53
Speaker 1: our first conversation with Rob of the Draftmas season. We
19:56
Speaker 1: also have stocking Stuffers today, actually later on this and
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Speaker 1: we introduce a brand new segment today at eight forty five,
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Speaker 1: never been heard during the Draftmas season. It's Miracle on
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Speaker 1: thirty fourth pick and it comes your way today at
20:10
Speaker 1: eight forty five. Can't wait for it. Kracking fans are
20:14
Speaker 1: not happy with the Cracking right now. They lost again
20:17
Speaker 1: last night and got blown out by the Winnipeg Jets.
20:19
Speaker 1: They have pretty much just waved the white flag. They
20:23
Speaker 1: are now eight points out of the final playoff spot
20:27
Speaker 1: with six games to go five teams separating them from
20:31
Speaker 1: a playoff spot, and even the Saint Louis Blues, who
20:34
Speaker 1: just a couple of weeks ago we talked about being
20:37
Speaker 1: one of the worst teams in the league and you
20:40
Speaker 1: need to get two points in this exchange, this home
20:43
Speaker 1: and home exchange with them. Well, Saint Louis has even
20:46
Speaker 1: passed them in the standings and so it is pretty
20:50
Speaker 1: much rock bottom right now for Lane Lambert and the
20:53
Speaker 1: Kraken and they are not going to make the playoffs.
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21:09
Speaker 1: And we have a Mariner's team to talk about. They
21:12
Speaker 1: lost again last night two to one. They've lost three
21:15
Speaker 1: straight games, offense being the issue. They'll play again tonight
21:19
Speaker 1: in Fort Worth. George Kirby going against Nate Givaldi is
21:22
Speaker 1: the pitching matchup. Will detail last night's lost for you
21:25
Speaker 1: next with Mariners morning after on Sports Radio ninety three
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Speaker 1: point three KJRFM. In bright Light, Yes, bright, let's shine
21:34
Speaker 1: some light on this. Somebody get a night light from
21:36
Speaker 1: my friend Darkness.
21:38
Speaker 3: Yeah.
21:39
Speaker 1: Well, the Mariners lost again last night in Texas, taken
21:43
Speaker 1: on the Rangers, and man, when you're in a bad way,
21:46
Speaker 1: mentioned this yesterday, and you only give up two runs,
21:50
Speaker 1: you can only score one, and then when you score seven,
21:53
Speaker 1: you give up eight. It's just it's called a losing streak,
21:57
Speaker 1: it's called a slump, it's called a skid. And they
22:00
Speaker 1: are on one, and unfortunately it comes at the beginning
22:03
Speaker 1: of the year. The loss drops them to four and
22:05
Speaker 1: seven on the campaign. They have lost three straight games.
22:09
Speaker 1: And whenever you score just one run in a game
22:12
Speaker 1: and get one hit over the course of most of
22:16
Speaker 1: the game, well, it just feels heavier than what it should.
22:20
Speaker 1: And that's exactly where we are, all of us. Whether
22:23
Speaker 1: we agree that it's early or not, I'm not gonna
22:27
Speaker 1: have that discussion again. We can all agree that we
22:31
Speaker 1: are disappointed in what we are seeing. Just such high
22:35
Speaker 1: hopes this season, and you just kind of held out
22:39
Speaker 1: some sort of wish that they wouldn't have to start slow,
22:43
Speaker 1: and yet that's exactly what they've done. If there was
22:46
Speaker 1: a good sign yesterday, cal Rawley finally got out in
22:50
Speaker 1: front of a fastball facing Jake Gram and his first
22:54
Speaker 1: at bat of the game, he finally ends his homer
22:57
Speaker 1: drought to.
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Speaker 4: Right field, really blasted back. Tow Rally finds his first
23:05
Speaker 4: and it was tagged a twelve pitch at bat and
23:10
Speaker 4: it ends with a haymaker from tow Raley. One nothing
23:14
Speaker 4: Mariners right out of the gates.
23:18
Speaker 1: Uh, but that would be it, that would be all
23:20
Speaker 1: the scoring output. They would only get two hits in
23:24
Speaker 1: the entire game. I get it against Jacob Grum, he's
23:28
Speaker 1: that good. I mean when he's healthy, when he's been
23:31
Speaker 1: healthy in his career, he's been as good as anybody
23:34
Speaker 1: that's ever played the game. Five innings for him last night,
23:38
Speaker 1: one hit, allowed six strikeouts, but he only went five innings.
23:42
Speaker 1: I thought, for sure, all right, they have to protect
23:45
Speaker 1: against Jacob de Gram's injury history, and we get four
23:48
Speaker 1: innings against a weak ass bullpen of the Texas Rangers.
23:52
Speaker 1: But the Mariners didn't have any more success against that bullpen.
23:56
Speaker 1: That he'd get one more hit before the end of
23:58
Speaker 1: the contest. But a Berger RBI double over the head
24:02
Speaker 1: of Randy a Rose Arena and the sixth inning proved
24:05
Speaker 1: to be the difference in a two to one.
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Speaker 2: When that happened too, I was like, oh, there it goes.
24:10
Speaker 3: That's that just proufs Chuck's point.
24:12
Speaker 2: I mean, it would have been a really tough catch
24:13
Speaker 2: for Randy to make.
24:15
Speaker 1: But I wanted to be unhappy with him. Jay said,
24:20
Speaker 1: because you can't really see at home how great a
24:22
Speaker 1: jump that they get off the bat. But Jay Buhner
24:25
Speaker 1: said in the broadcast last night that he got a
24:27
Speaker 1: great jump and he's very fast. We know that, so
24:31
Speaker 1: it was hit hard. I'm not going to make an excuse.
24:33
Speaker 1: I'm going to put that one on the logan and
24:35
Speaker 1: not Randy a Rose Arena. But I was thinking to myself, man,
24:38
Speaker 1: it would have been nice if you caught that ball.
24:40
Speaker 3: Yeah, that would have been spectacular. And he would have
24:42
Speaker 3: then been like, all right, I heard you. I got this.
24:45
Speaker 3: Here I am guys.
24:47
Speaker 2: I want to be here in left field and I'm
24:49
Speaker 2: gonna work my ass off to be here.
24:50
Speaker 3: And I would have been I would have applauded him.
24:53
Speaker 3: I would have stood up. I would have said well done, sir.
24:56
Speaker 1: Two on the final score. Dan Wilson after the game,
25:00
Speaker 1: am trying to explain his team's poor play.
25:04
Speaker 5: Maybe maybe you know another tough, low scoring one tonight.
25:09
Speaker 5: I can't say enough about the job Logan. Did you
25:12
Speaker 5: know I thought he pitched you know, extremely well for
25:14
Speaker 5: six innings again you know, quality start for us, and uh,
25:19
Speaker 5: you know, I thought he was very aggressive, you know,
25:21
Speaker 5: and and uh, you know, gave us what we had
25:24
Speaker 5: to gave us, put us in a position to you know,
25:27
Speaker 5: to to come back and win that game. And and
25:29
Speaker 5: through the ball well and he you know turned it
25:31
Speaker 5: over to the bullpen that I thought did the same
25:34
Speaker 5: for airs ending was was outstanding. And then chriswell, you know,
25:37
Speaker 5: got in a couple with a couple of runners on
25:39
Speaker 5: there able to get the ground ball and get out
25:41
Speaker 5: of it and give us a chance and you know offensively,
25:46
Speaker 5: you know, the last couple of nights it's it's been
25:49
Speaker 5: the traffic and then I could be able to get
25:50
Speaker 5: it in tonight we weren't able to get much traffic
25:52
Speaker 5: going either. Good to see cal you know, connect with
25:56
Speaker 5: that one in the first inning. Thought that was just
25:57
Speaker 5: an incredible at bat. Uh to at all the way
26:00
Speaker 5: through like that, you know, fall off as many pitches
26:02
Speaker 5: as he did. And then you know, finally put that
26:05
Speaker 5: you know, that put the pitch into the right field seat.
26:07
Speaker 5: So really, you know, outstanding at baton and good to
26:11
Speaker 5: see that from cal.
26:12
Speaker 1: Uh. Yeah, it was good to see that from Cal.
26:15
Speaker 1: I mean, and it was great to see that from Logan.
26:17
Speaker 1: Gilbert thought that was Jose Ferrer's most impressive outing since
26:21
Speaker 1: becoming a Mariner. And I think Josh Naylor's actually seeing
26:27
Speaker 1: the ball better, but he can't catch.
26:28
Speaker 3: A break on anything bad for him yesterday.
26:31
Speaker 1: Great to see Donovan back out onto the field. But
26:35
Speaker 1: I mean, this team's got a real problem hitting left
26:38
Speaker 1: handed pitching. I mean, rest Snyder doesn't have a hit.
26:43
Speaker 1: Roe Blaze hasn't had a hit since the first game
26:45
Speaker 1: that he played. I mean, you're having to I don't
26:49
Speaker 1: even get why you pinch hit Crawford for Roeblaze in
26:53
Speaker 1: that situation because they bring a righty in. I don't
26:56
Speaker 1: even get that because roe Blaze has that actual better
26:58
Speaker 1: history against righties than he against lefties. So I think
27:01
Speaker 1: these I think Dan's over doing the that thing a
27:05
Speaker 1: little bit here at the beginning of the season, trying
27:07
Speaker 1: to find some sort of offensive punch. But teams are
27:11
Speaker 1: gonna do this. I mean, they take Jacob de Gram
27:14
Speaker 1: out after five innings and you think, oh, we got
27:16
Speaker 1: a break. No, it's because they got three left handers
27:18
Speaker 1: ready to line up against a lineup that opponents only
27:23
Speaker 1: fear the guys from the left side of the plate
27:25
Speaker 1: right now, So I don't know what it is about
27:28
Speaker 1: their quest to find veterans with a proven track record
27:32
Speaker 1: of crushing left handers, and they cannot even get a hit.
27:36
Speaker 1: And this is Pollock, this is Garver, this is Solano,
27:40
Speaker 1: now it's ref Snyder. It is frustrating as hell. And
27:44
Speaker 1: so team's gonna keep doing this until the Mariners can
27:47
Speaker 1: prove that they can hit a left handed pitcher and
27:50
Speaker 1: Leo Revas playbatter man seriously, I mean, get your head
27:54
Speaker 1: in the game.
27:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's I mean it's watching last night just thought, okay,
28:01
Speaker 2: there's not really anything bad.
28:04
Speaker 3: There's just not anything good.
28:06
Speaker 2: But I mean when Cal had that home run, I thought, Okay,
28:09
Speaker 2: here we go, it's gonna happen. This is what we've
28:12
Speaker 2: been waiting for. And then it just I just watched.
28:15
Speaker 2: I think I watched the whole game kind of like.
28:20
Speaker 1: Well, the ground can do that to you. I know,
28:22
Speaker 1: well bigger, my bigger concern is that you get out
28:25
Speaker 1: from under him and the after the fifth inning, and
28:28
Speaker 1: you still can't put anything together because the opposing manager
28:32
Speaker 1: just knows I will, I will get just a left
28:35
Speaker 1: hander out of the stands. Yeah, I half seems like
28:38
Speaker 1: it to put against this lineup, switch people around, get
28:41
Speaker 1: some guys out of the lineup, and take advantage of
28:43
Speaker 1: some weaknesses. And so they've got they've got to find
28:46
Speaker 1: a way. They got to figure that out going forward.
28:48
Speaker 1: They're off to a four and seven start. That's three
28:50
Speaker 1: straight losses. The only thing I can say, I'm not
28:53
Speaker 1: gonna spend every day given speeches to people about it's early,
28:57
Speaker 1: even though NO know this forever. I'm in its early guy.
29:01
Speaker 1: And if April sixth is not early, then I don't
29:04
Speaker 1: know what is during a one hundred and sixty two
29:07
Speaker 1: game baseball season that will last through October for goodness sake,
29:11
Speaker 1: or excuse me, through September the regular season. I mean,
29:14
Speaker 1: it's it is early. But if people don't want to
29:17
Speaker 1: hear that, I'll just say this. The Blue Jays are
29:20
Speaker 1: four and six.
29:21
Speaker 3: If they lost what twelve to one last night or.
29:23
Speaker 1: Something, do you think they're out of it? Honestly, do
29:27
Speaker 1: you think they're out of it? If you think they're
29:30
Speaker 1: out of it. You're foolish. And if you think that
29:33
Speaker 1: they are still alive and still a threat, well then
29:38
Speaker 1: why would you not think that the Mariners at four
29:40
Speaker 1: and seven, Why do you put so much more pressure
29:43
Speaker 1: on your own favorite team to be good out of
29:49
Speaker 1: the gates? They're playing bad baseball. They are worthy of criticism.
29:54
Speaker 1: There's not a lot of good things to say about
29:57
Speaker 1: this team, not named Cole Young, Brendan Donovan, or starting pitchers.
30:03
Speaker 1: But we're eleven games in. We are just at the
30:08
Speaker 1: tip of the iceberg with this upcoming baseball season. And
30:12
Speaker 1: the team started four and eight a year ago, and
30:15
Speaker 1: that team had a lot more question marks on a
30:17
Speaker 1: lot more holes than what this roster has. So we'll
30:21
Speaker 1: be fine. I am perfectly willing to state it and
30:25
Speaker 1: put money on it. Yeah, we're going to be fine.
30:28
Speaker 1: We're just playing poorly right now and our three best
30:30
Speaker 1: hitters are all hitting one point fifty.
30:33
Speaker 2: You do bring up a good point, though, that Mariners
30:35
Speaker 2: fans would look at the Blue Jays and never think
30:37
Speaker 2: they're out of it with their poor start. It's just
30:40
Speaker 2: and the Red Sox they're two and eight, I mean
30:42
Speaker 2: they're gonna it's because they're the Mariners, and Mariners fans
30:46
Speaker 2: are so convinced that we as a franchise are cursed
30:49
Speaker 2: in some.
30:50
Speaker 3: Way or we will Mariners it some in some ways.
30:53
Speaker 1: It's been better than the Blue Jays collectively the last five.
30:56
Speaker 3: And I'm not saying that I agree with that.
30:57
Speaker 2: I'm just saying that's where that's what happens is it's
31:00
Speaker 2: there's we don't have an ability to look to put
31:03
Speaker 2: ourselves on the same level as other teams. We are separate,
31:08
Speaker 2: and other teams have the ability to fix it. We're
31:11
Speaker 2: just the Mariners. And that I'm not Again, I don't
31:14
Speaker 2: agree with it. I'm just saying that's what happens. Well,
31:17
Speaker 2: you should stop thinking that way. I realize you haven't
31:19
Speaker 2: won a World Series. But this team has had like
31:21
Speaker 2: five straight winning seasons. I think there's only two other
31:24
Speaker 2: teams in baseball that are on that streak. So, I mean,
31:28
Speaker 2: they'll turn around. They do it every year. That's the trend,
31:32
Speaker 2: is that they start horribly every year and they turn
31:34
Speaker 2: it around. We were hoping to avoid it because we
31:36
Speaker 2: felt we had a more complete team. This would been great,
31:38
Speaker 2: but but I mean the record is completely different. If
31:42
Speaker 2: one of our three best hitters is doing anything at
31:45
Speaker 2: the plate, and they're.
31:46
Speaker 1: Just not They're just not finding a hole when they
31:50
Speaker 1: do it. The ball hard, somebody pulls it back from
31:52
Speaker 1: over the fence. They're just in a bad way. They're
31:55
Speaker 1: just in a slump right now. And it will iron
31:58
Speaker 1: itself out a game again tonight at five o'clock. It'll
32:01
Speaker 1: be George Kirby going against Nate Gavaldi. Good news is
32:04
Speaker 1: he's a right hander. Bad news is that they might
32:08
Speaker 1: hire the popcorn guy who's left handed before the game
32:11
Speaker 1: and have him pitch starting in the second inning. All right,
32:14
Speaker 1: Stocking stuffers next on this draft. Miss Holiday Sports Radio
32:17
Speaker 1: ninety three point three KJRFM, Good morning, Rob Rank's gonna
32:21
Speaker 1: join us, Jolly old Saint Piglas. I'm in a mood.
32:24
Speaker 1: Her and her kerchief, me and my cap. I suppose
32:26
Speaker 1: here on YouTube. I just decided, I mean, we just
32:29
Speaker 1: keep we just keep building this thing on a daily basis.
32:31
Speaker 1: Got a tree in the background. Now, we're not too
32:34
Speaker 1: far away from figuring out this screen and turning it
32:36
Speaker 1: into a fireplace.
32:37
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the one thing we got to ask about.
32:39
Speaker 1: Figure it out. Yeah, we'll figure it out. There's nerds around here.
32:42
Speaker 1: They're good for something, all right. So it's time for
32:45
Speaker 1: stalking stuffers the latest draft rumors. And finally we've got
32:49
Speaker 1: about as juicy as you're going to get. I mean,
32:51
Speaker 1: I was using things that I've stored up for the
32:54
Speaker 1: season at the beginning of this draft MIAs process, and
32:58
Speaker 1: I've been waiting for something juicy, and I finally got
33:00
Speaker 1: some juicy stuff today. And I'm going to start though
33:03
Speaker 1: with Pete Prisco, who we heard on the show before
33:06
Speaker 1: us on the way in here at ninety three point
33:08
Speaker 1: three KHRFM, and he's pretty grumpy to begin with, but
33:12
Speaker 1: I'll give him this rinchy I'll say this. I mean,
33:16
Speaker 1: usually there is buzz with the NFL draft, especially fourteen
33:19
Speaker 1: days away, and there's not as much. I'll acknowledge that
33:22
Speaker 1: there's not as much, but I think that that's just laziness.
33:25
Speaker 1: It's just the laziness of the draft miss spirit. If
33:30
Speaker 1: quarterbacks aren't involved. It's guys like Pete Prisco. They don't
33:33
Speaker 1: get as excited if there aren't quarterbacks at all. He
33:36
Speaker 1: even brought up the whole thing like the Super Bowl
33:38
Speaker 1: wasn't all that siding the matchup, And I'm like, well, no,
33:43
Speaker 1: those were there were two really good stories. And I
33:47
Speaker 1: think that a lot of the national people. And I
33:49
Speaker 1: won't put Persco into this category because I know he
33:51
Speaker 1: watches a lot of football, but I think a lot
33:53
Speaker 1: of the national people that were complaining about that just
33:55
Speaker 1: hadn't watched the Seahawks play enough during the course of
33:58
Speaker 1: the year. I can get that from a fan, but
34:00
Speaker 1: a guy that covers the National Football League for a
34:03
Speaker 1: living shouldn't need, you know, a player on the field
34:07
Speaker 1: that dates Taylor Swift in order to find it interesting.
34:10
Speaker 3: I would hope not.
34:11
Speaker 1: You know. Yeah, And the same thing with the draft.
34:13
Speaker 1: There's plenty of stuff. There's a lot of great stuff
34:15
Speaker 1: in this draft. It's just not quarterback related, and that's
34:20
Speaker 1: why you're not creating bus. Another thing is we haven't
34:23
Speaker 1: seen a big trade. Trades are what get the juices going.
34:27
Speaker 1: We haven't seen anybody make a swap. Well, guess what
34:30
Speaker 1: is in the stocking stuff for Ben today? A big
34:33
Speaker 1: fat trade rumor to get us started this. According to
34:37
Speaker 1: Todd mcshae, trading out of number three remains a priority
34:42
Speaker 1: for Arizona, and there's a lot of buzz. According to
34:47
Speaker 1: Mishe mcshae, about Dallas and what comes to the noise
34:51
Speaker 1: with Dallas trading up from twelve to get to number
34:54
Speaker 1: three and get David Bailey out of Texas Tech. So
35:00
Speaker 1: here's a team that gave up Micah Parsons a year ago,
35:03
Speaker 1: trying to find a pass rusher with who's on the
35:06
Speaker 1: cheap because he'll be on a rookie contract. They have
35:10
Speaker 1: added draft capital here because of trades that they've made
35:13
Speaker 1: here recently, and they have two picks in the first round,
35:17
Speaker 1: and so in order to get up to number three,
35:18
Speaker 1: you probably are gonna need you both. But that's pretty
35:21
Speaker 1: juicy right there, Dallas moving all the way from twelve
35:23
Speaker 1: to number three. Arizona's in a rebuild, trying to stockpile
35:27
Speaker 1: some draft capital. That makes a lot of sense to me,
35:30
Speaker 1: and that would certainly add a little bit of buzz,
35:33
Speaker 1: a little bit of juice to the draft process.
35:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, it gives you some excitement. And I think that
35:36
Speaker 2: would absolutely be a smart move for Arizona because especially
35:39
Speaker 2: when we're sitting here talking about the fact that if
35:41
Speaker 2: they pick at three, there's a good chance they might
35:44
Speaker 2: take a running back that's not really going to satisfy
35:48
Speaker 2: what they actually need. It's more just going to satisfy
35:50
Speaker 2: the fans. I think they'd be wise to move down
35:53
Speaker 2: and see what they could do at twelve.
35:54
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about Carnel Tait. The rumors about
35:58
Speaker 1: Carnell Tit have been swirling since his poor showing forty
36:03
Speaker 1: wise at the Combine. And yet, according to PFSN and
36:09
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is that reliable of a source,
36:12
Speaker 1: Carnell Tate's draft stock is actually rising. That Carnell Tait
36:17
Speaker 1: might be There might have been a lot of gms
36:20
Speaker 1: that were happy that he did not have a good
36:22
Speaker 1: showing at the NFL Combine. Uh, and they're not going
36:26
Speaker 1: to be dissuaded from taking him as high as the
36:29
Speaker 1: top five in the draft. So those that were expecting
36:34
Speaker 1: Tit to tumble might not be the case. Hot rumor
36:38
Speaker 1: out there, Hot Stocking Stuffer suggests that he's still, according
36:42
Speaker 1: to many NFL teams, the number one wide receiver on
36:46
Speaker 1: their board. And then finally, Peter Schrager. He came out
36:49
Speaker 1: with his latest mock draft just this morning. Schrager is
36:53
Speaker 1: one of those mockers that really does just base it
36:56
Speaker 1: on what he's hearing from NFL organization. You know, some
37:01
Speaker 1: guys just go with what they think that they should take.
37:03
Speaker 1: Some guys exclusively, sometimes combine, some people combine the two.
37:08
Speaker 1: He is one of those that really does try to
37:11
Speaker 1: go and match what he's hearing from all of the
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Speaker 1: buzz with his conversations with NFL executives. And at thirty
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Speaker 1: two he has the Seahawks go aheading and pulling the
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Speaker 1: trigger on Jidarian Price, the running back out of Notre Dame.
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Speaker 1: So that's his latest fresh out of the oven mock
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Speaker 1: draft Price to Seattle Seahawks satisfy their running back hole
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Speaker 1: by getting the number two running back on the board.
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Speaker 1: All right, there you go. We've got more NFL draft
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Speaker 1: stuff coming up next, our first visit of this Draftmas
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Speaker 1: season from jolly old Saint Piccolas himself. Our local draft
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Speaker 1: expert Rob Rang joins us on Sports Radio ninety three
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