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Chuck & Buck 2-18 Hour 1: It's Pitcher's Day and we start with Pete Woodworth! The rules for the challenge system and the traditions of Spring Training. · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: Well, good morning and welcome.
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Speaker 2: We are live in Peoria, Arizona Spring training coverage enters
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Speaker 2: day number three here on Chucking Box Sports Radio ninety
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Speaker 2: three point three KJRFM. And I don't have to tell
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Speaker 2: you listening. I'm sure you didn't get a wink of
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Speaker 2: sleep overnight waiting to see what was awaiting you in
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Speaker 2: the morning downstairs. Maybe a big buffet brunch breakfast. I
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Speaker 2: have no idea, but let me just tell you. Happy
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Speaker 2: Pitchers Day to everyone listening out there, and to our
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Speaker 2: first guest as well, Pete Woodworth, the pitching coach of
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Speaker 2: the Mariners. How else would we celebrate this glorious day?
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Speaker 2: Yesterday it rain to start our day because hitters were involved. Today,
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Speaker 2: nothing but glorious sunrise to welcome Pitchers Day. Happy Pictures Day,
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Speaker 2: mister Woodworth.
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Speaker 3: It's like Christmas in February.
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Speaker 1: Do you feel properly fluffed at this point?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, this is the greatest day of year.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you. It's just something I mean, you guys, yeah, ridiculous.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, did you guys do your gift exchange?
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Speaker 3: We have like three days where people care about the
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Speaker 3: pictures and then Julio and Cal show up and exactly.
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Speaker 3: We go down to field twelve. So this is this
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Speaker 3: is our time, time of a shine, right now, give
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Speaker 3: us our day, watch us throw our bullpens and field
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Speaker 3: our bunts.
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Speaker 1: And enjoy it with agility. Yeah, and skill. There's some
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Speaker 1: athletes because of you and what you've done. I do
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Speaker 1: actually like pictures. Oh look at that. Well, it's only
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Speaker 1: changing only the life blood of the team. True to that.
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Speaker 3: Pitching and defense wins championships, score and three run homers.
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Speaker 1: You can never hold someone to negative one.
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Speaker 2: Speaking of life blood that you gave blood today, Huh,
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Speaker 2: what's the matter if you're on steroids?
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Speaker 1: Who cares?
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Speaker 3: I mean, his mound visit is way too aggressive.
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Speaker 2: We've gotta test him. Are gonna be like, I know
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Speaker 2: what the thing is. I know why the Mariners have
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Speaker 2: a two point two to.
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Speaker 1: Three e R. Their pitching coach is on juice.
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Speaker 3: Coaches are juicing. It's a new era of baseball, it
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Speaker 3: really is.
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Speaker 2: I guess all right, I don't want to forget it. So,
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Speaker 2: as we were sitting down to talk to Pete Woodworth
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Speaker 2: Award winning pitching coach of York Seattle Mariners, Logan Gilbert,
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Speaker 2: one of his his prince, his students was walking into
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Speaker 2: the building and I asked, what should I ask him?
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Speaker 2: And he said, ask him about catching me in the
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Speaker 2: off season.
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Speaker 1: So how was it.
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Speaker 2: Like catching Logan in the off season.
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Speaker 3: The thumb is still attached. Fortunately, Logan lives a couple
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Speaker 3: hours away in Florida, so fortunate to be able to
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Speaker 3: see him a little bit more than the rest of
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Speaker 3: the guys. But yeah, I went to go watch him
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Speaker 3: throw a bullpen early in January and I get to
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Speaker 3: this facility and there's no catcher, and he's like, I'm
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Speaker 3: just gonna throw it to the nine pocket a little
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Speaker 3: the little net. And I was like, no, you're a professional.
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Speaker 3: I'll I'll catch your bullpen. You know. Knowing Logan, he's
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Speaker 3: he's not gonna hold back. It was it was ninety five,
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Speaker 3: ninety six. He wanted to show off his new toys
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Speaker 3: that that he got for Christmas.
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Speaker 2: Nice enough to warn you, but nice enough, but not
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Speaker 2: nice enough to hold back.
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Speaker 3: Luckily, I had a a cal Rawley mit in my truck,
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Speaker 3: so I was able to survive.
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Speaker 1: Okay, So he did survive. I did.
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Speaker 2: Will Adam Jude of the Seattle Times survived catching Andres Munoz.
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Speaker 3: This week, we are already looking for a new writer
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Speaker 3: because I'm not here with us next week.
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Speaker 1: Seriously, what he sign up for? What is he doing?
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Speaker 1: This guy of all guys?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Gilbert's one thing, but Munya's it's it's a different gear.
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Speaker 3: That's not gonna be fun for him. I mean it'll
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Speaker 3: be if you put a what was a GoPro on
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Speaker 3: his mask, it would probably be entertaining. Yeah, but we
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Speaker 3: definitely need the paramedics here.
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Speaker 1: Justin famptively. I can't believe he's How was your off
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Speaker 1: season good?
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Speaker 3: That was awesome?
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: My my kids are six and three now, so they're
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Speaker 3: at a at a great age. They're starting to to
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Speaker 3: get cool hobbies. My oldest is into I guess he's
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Speaker 3: just into whatever I want to do. So like nice skinboarding, skateboarding,
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Speaker 3: Nintendo sixty four we got for Christmas, So.
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Speaker 1: Put hips and bottles.
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Speaker 3: I find you have a friend, you know, finally have
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Speaker 3: someone to hang out with.
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Speaker 1: I have the best friend a dad could ever want.
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Speaker 1: A lot like me. That's great. You love all the
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Speaker 1: things that I love.
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Speaker 3: Oh, you want to go throw a bullpen and hit
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Speaker 3: with the balls.
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Speaker 2: Sure you never yelled me to take out the trash.
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Speaker 1: You are awesome.
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Speaker 2: Uh. Pete Woodworth our guest here on chalking back in
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Speaker 2: the morning, Well, let's talk about some of the things
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Speaker 2: that we're working on. First of all, I mean, we
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Speaker 2: arrived Sunday here to camp and the place was already
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Speaker 2: buzzing about Anderson and Sloan. So tell us about the
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Speaker 2: buzz around these two guys there.
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Speaker 3: There's always buzz at the beginning of camp, whether it's
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Speaker 3: guys we've acquired in the off season or or minor
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Speaker 3: leaguers who we've we've drafted that are coming up through
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Speaker 3: our system. But these two are impressive of how far
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Speaker 3: along they are, how mature they are, you know, and
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Speaker 3: Kate has never even thrown it pitch in a in
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Speaker 3: a Mariner's uniform in a real game. Yet, Yeah, they're
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Speaker 3: they're maturity. It's not just it's not just the stuff.
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Speaker 3: Like we've had guys come up through the system with
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Speaker 3: really big stuff and it's fun to watch them. You know,
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Speaker 3: let it eat in the pin. These guys can pitch.
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Speaker 3: These guys, Uh, it's kind of like when when George
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Speaker 3: was coming up and you were just blown away by
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Speaker 3: the by the command and the strike throwing. They have
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Speaker 3: that on top of really good stuff.
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Speaker 1: So.
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Speaker 3: Extremely mature for for where they at and where they're
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Speaker 3: at in their career, which is a huge piece of it.
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Speaker 3: You can't really prepare guys for the big leagues. You
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Speaker 3: just kind of got to throw them into the deep end.
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Speaker 3: But seeing where they're at, you know, between their ears,
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Speaker 3: gives you a lot of confidence that these guys are
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Speaker 3: are one step ahead.
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Speaker 1: You guys were joking a little bit, or you weren't
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Speaker 1: joking that you were talking about the life blood of
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Speaker 1: the team. I mean there's pitching staff. You know, you're
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Speaker 1: starting rotation and in particular has just been so amazing
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Speaker 1: the last few years. I mean when you go into
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Speaker 1: the off season, did you was there a bunch of tinkering.
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Speaker 1: I mean it seems like these guys all come back
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Speaker 1: with a new pitch every single year. But then again,
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Speaker 1: there's got to come a point in time when you're like,
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Speaker 1: you kind of got it just doing what you're doing right.
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Speaker 3: You have all the pitches, we have to we have
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Speaker 3: to invent new ones. Yes, Spelunker, Yeah, this this was
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Speaker 3: kind of the first off season where we just looked
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Speaker 3: at at where all our guys are at, and even
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Speaker 3: our guys said the same thing. I talked with with
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Speaker 3: Wu in the off season, and he's like, it's not
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Speaker 3: about developing new pitches or finding new tricks and tools, Like,
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Speaker 3: how can we get one percent better at what we're
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Speaker 3: already really good at. We we've figured out who we
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Speaker 3: are and what our identity is as a staff and individually,
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Speaker 3: it's not about taking this huge jump and doing something
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Speaker 3: completely different and new. It's how can we just get
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Speaker 3: better at what we're already elite at? And that's kind
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Speaker 3: of been the theme of the offseason, in the theme
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Speaker 3: of spring.
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Speaker 2: We've almost taken for granted until last year that these guys,
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Speaker 2: they know they take the ball every five days, they've
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Speaker 2: had a good.
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Speaker 1: Run of health.
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Speaker 2: And then last year for the five the old man
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Speaker 2: was the only one that stayed healthy the rock all
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Speaker 2: season long. So what did that do to you? What
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Speaker 2: did that do to the organization? You just chalk it
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Speaker 2: up to baseball or were their measures taken to to
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Speaker 2: maybe prevent that? Even more so?
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Speaker 1: This year?
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Speaker 3: I think the positive part was we didn't we didn't
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Speaker 3: miss them for the entirety of the season. They all
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Speaker 3: came back and were successful when they did, especially Bryce
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Speaker 3: in the postseason. What we saw was Emerson Hancock and
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Speaker 3: Logan Evans gave us, you know, thirty three thirty five
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Speaker 3: starts between the two of them and kept us where
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Speaker 3: we needed to be. Those guys got a ton of uportunities.
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Speaker 3: They got a lot of opportunity to grow, They got
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Speaker 3: a lot of opportunity to to learn, which they you know,
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Speaker 3: they might not have gotten if the five horses are healthy.
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Speaker 3: So you know it. You think it's tough, but it's baseball,
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Speaker 3: and we got a game at seven oh five. If
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Speaker 3: that guy can't, someone else has to. And I think
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Speaker 3: it was it was huge for both of their growth
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Speaker 3: to get those opportunities last year.
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Speaker 1: Last year, Gabe had a great year and yet he
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Speaker 1: kind of was your your loan lefty out there majority
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Speaker 1: of the season. So you guys go out and get
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Speaker 1: Jose Ferrer and what are you seeing out of that guy?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Jerry got a Ferrari for Christmas, and that is
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Speaker 3: exactly what he is. It is one hundred it is,
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Speaker 3: it's one hundred miles sinker from the left side. Please
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Speaker 3: find me a lefty that wants to stand in and
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Speaker 3: take a hack off of that. I mean, I haven't
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Speaker 3: really talked to Gabe about it, but I imagine he's gonna
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Speaker 3: enjoy not having to get hot every single night to
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Speaker 3: prepare for those that lefty pocket.
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Speaker 2: Why for are the strikeout numbers are down? Is he
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Speaker 2: a ground ball pitcher at one hundred miles per hour
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Speaker 2: or do you think that we'll see an uptick in that.
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Speaker 3: I hope we will. Yeah, that's why I'm here. It's
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Speaker 3: similar to Awards. You know, it's one hundred dollars a sinker.
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Speaker 3: It's not really a swing and miss fastball, so they're
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Speaker 3: gonna put it on the ground. But he doesn't walk anybody,
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Speaker 3: so that's how he suppresses runs. But yeah, the goal
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Speaker 3: is definitely to keep him improving and and find a
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Speaker 3: little bit more swing and missing his game with the
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Speaker 3: secondaries and and you know, have him take the next step.
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Speaker 2: Spire is uh pitching for Team America. You're going to
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Speaker 2: lose a lot of pictures to the WBC. What does
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Speaker 2: that do to a pitching coach? I mean, this is
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Speaker 2: supposed to be the opportunity to get them ready on
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Speaker 2: your playing and I'll sending your handing them over to
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Speaker 2: foreign Lands to try to continue their preparation for the season.
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Speaker 3: Uh, Honestly, I'm really excited for those guys, I know, Spire,
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Speaker 3: Mooney and Bizardo. The steps that Bizarto has taken to
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Speaker 3: get this opportunity, you know, you couldn't beat anything, but
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Speaker 3: extremely excited for him to represent his country and Moon
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Speaker 3: he's done this before. I actually I dig it like
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Speaker 3: they they kind of they have a different carrot in
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Speaker 3: front of him in the off season. They're I'm not
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Speaker 3: saying they're more motivated, but they Yeah, they just have
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Speaker 3: a different goal that they're preparing for, and they're kind
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Speaker 3: of preparing earlier than most guys. So they come into
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Speaker 3: camp ready to rock and roll, and really by like
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Speaker 3: the fourth or fifth, sixth outing of relievers like all right,
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Speaker 3: can can we go to Seattle?
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Speaker 2: Now?
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Speaker 3: I'm ready? I don't need five more of these, like
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Speaker 3: let's go where starters need they need to build up
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Speaker 3: relievers are. I feel like they're just they're ready sooner.
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Speaker 2: Pete Woodworth is with us here on Chuck and Buck.
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Speaker 2: I know you got to get going here in a
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Speaker 2: little bit. So I gotta ask though, in terms of
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Speaker 2: the challenge system this year, is the rule just don't
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Speaker 2: ever challenge Let cal do it all how are you
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Speaker 2: approaching that philosophic?
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Speaker 3: Well, we saw last year Cal's elite ability to tap
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Speaker 3: the helmet in spring when they tested it. I think
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Speaker 3: he was like sixteen or sixteen. I imagine Cal's gonna say, yeah,
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Speaker 3: pictures aren't allowed to challenge. I'll challenge if we need to,
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Speaker 3: and you are all right with that. I think our
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Speaker 3: pictures are fine with that too. There's not many guys
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Speaker 3: who throw the pitch and are looking at the zone
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Speaker 3: in a controlled manner, like like a Greg Maddox did
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Speaker 3: back in the day in a fielding position. I think
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Speaker 3: like Logan's looking at center field when the ball is released.
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Speaker 3: So I imagine we're going to rely more on the
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Speaker 3: guy who's back there in catching.
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Speaker 2: Well, it's about time he pulled his weight around here.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, do something, Yes, yeah, I gotta do anything but
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Speaker 1: hit sixty challenger to right right. Finally we found something
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Speaker 1: that fits your.
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Speaker 3: Limited value back there.
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Speaker 1: Yes, all right, Well I know you got to run. Always.
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Speaker 1: Great to see you and have a great year. All right,
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Speaker 1: thank you?
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Speaker 2: All right, there is the one, the only Peter Woodworth
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Speaker 2: pitching coach for your Seattle Mariners, and man he's won awards.
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Speaker 2: That's how good he's won awards, got his blood work
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Speaker 2: done just to make sure that he's not AI. So yeah,
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Speaker 2: so he's he's that good at his job baseball.
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Speaker 1: Suspicious of his skills, Yeah, yeah, very suspicious. Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: should test this guy. That staff has been really, really
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Speaker 1: good for a long time. They're all clean. Must be
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Speaker 1: the coach.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I told him because he's got to go meet
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Speaker 2: with Dan Wilson. Otherwise I think that we could have
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Speaker 2: kept him for a couple more minutes anyway, but he's
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Speaker 2: got to go meet with Dan Wilson. And I'm like,
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Speaker 2: don't you have a good enough relationship just to flip
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Speaker 2: Dan the finger at this point and tell him Chuck
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Speaker 2: and Buck want.
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Speaker 1: To talk to me on the radio. Gosh, yeah, grow up, Pete.
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Speaker 1: Be your own man a little bit, you know what
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Speaker 1: I mean. Yeah, you put your foot down everything. While Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean, Dan is one of the nicest people on
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Speaker 1: the planet. He probably just okay, yeah, we can meet
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Speaker 1: at seven twenty, right, That's what I'm thinking.
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Speaker 2: But I guess when your nickname is the Man, people
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Speaker 2: have to do what you say.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, apparently, although it was kind of a funny
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Speaker 1: story where he just said that standing in line to
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Speaker 1: do blood work. The skipper is like, man, the line
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Speaker 1: is long, and what he doesn't just go to the front.
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Speaker 1: You're you're the skipper, you're the guy, You're the Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you can go to the front, right, you can say
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Speaker 1: I have things to do, I'm not waiting in line.
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Speaker 2: Well, Dan, the nice man didn't have quite the ring
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Speaker 2: to it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it doesn't.
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Speaker 2: Well, we are underway. The sun is broken through here
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Speaker 2: on the Picture's Day. Cole Young's already been on the
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Speaker 2: show this week. As he walks by us, he's like, hey,
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Speaker 2: I got to get in before Picture's Day. I'm not
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Speaker 2: gonna mess around with that nonsense.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you want to get good things on there before
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Speaker 1: you just have it, you know, kind of a lowl
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Speaker 1: day if you will.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, So let's find out what is on tap on this.
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Speaker 1: What is it? Second annual, third annual Picture's Day. Let's
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Speaker 1: let's take a look.
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Speaker 2: What's on tap?
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Speaker 1: What's on tap?
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Speaker 2: It's really the second annual, isn't it, Ashley, Now that
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Speaker 2: we've turned it into an annual, Yes, we decided last year.
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Speaker 1: This is going to be an annual thing. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Uh, And so we're gonna try to pull it off.
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Speaker 2: Now to pull this off today, and the idea is
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Speaker 2: to get all five of the starting pitchers on our
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Speaker 2: radio station here before ten o'clock today in order to
16:06
Speaker 2: pull this sucker off. Man, I'm gonna need starting pitchers
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Speaker 2: to be really honest about their schedules, and they're wanting
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Speaker 2: to come on with us, because Bryce, Logan and George
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Speaker 2: all week long like, ah yeah, I can't wait to
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Speaker 2: come on, and then they just keep kicking the can
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Speaker 2: down the road. So we have them scheduled live here today,
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Speaker 2: all at about the same time.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, So.
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Speaker 2: I'm not sure how this is gonna shake out. I'm
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Speaker 2: not sure. I can't I can't speak to their punctuality.
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Speaker 2: You know, they've never picked me up to take me anywhere.
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Speaker 2: You know, they've never taken me to the airport, so
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Speaker 2: I don't know if they would get me there on
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Speaker 2: time or not. But they all have said, eh, yeah,
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Speaker 2: seven o'clock hours, what's gonna work for me. So we're
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Speaker 2: gonna see. We might have them two of them on
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Speaker 2: at the same time. We might stagger them, I don't know,
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Speaker 2: but our seven o'clock hour usually on Wednesdays, we have
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Speaker 2: Reckless at Breakfast at seven five. The entire hour reckless
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Speaker 2: at breakfast right here o'clock on Pitture's day. Well, I
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Speaker 2: am hopeful that they are punctual. Yeah, they are men
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Speaker 2: of their word. They seem to have been such up
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Speaker 2: to this point. And yet we will find out. We
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Speaker 2: will find out.
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Speaker 1: If pictures that those that you love so much are
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Speaker 1: actually worthy of such love.
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Speaker 2: And you know, I'm you know what, they all have
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Speaker 2: new things in their life. George and Bryce both got
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Speaker 2: engaged this offseason, and Logan had a new baby this
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Speaker 2: off season, so they've got more distractions. This is why
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Speaker 2: they can't commit. Yeah, they can't tell me definitively when
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Speaker 2: they're going.
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Speaker 1: To stop by the set.
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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, Brian Wu, who's kept thaying who's focused on baseball
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Speaker 2: and not love and nonsense like that nose, he's like
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Speaker 2: eight o'clock.
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Speaker 1: So we got Brian Wu locked in at eight o'clock today. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And then Luis Castillo, he is the mystery. He is
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Speaker 1: a mystery.
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Speaker 2: Uh huh, we'll see you in the Rock will appear
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Speaker 2: on this year's program.
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Speaker 1: Hopeful for you, because I can only imagine the amount
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Speaker 1: of disappointment if you were to be stood up, if
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Speaker 1: they were to be stood up by those that you
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Speaker 1: love so much. But I wouldn't. I will be shocked.
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Speaker 1: Actually if they do not come through.
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Speaker 2: You know, Christmas became such a big deal because it
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Speaker 2: happens every year. Yes, they didn't just skip it. Jesus
18:26
Speaker 2: didn't just skip his birthday parties, right, Yeah, he's got
18:29
Speaker 2: to show up, you know, he's got to enjoy, he's
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Speaker 2: got to take part in the festival. Would not otherwise
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Speaker 2: it would have never soared.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I would have never become as big of a
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Speaker 1: deal if he was just like, I don't want anything
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Speaker 1: for my birthday. I don't want you guys to celebrate
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Speaker 1: my birthday.
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Speaker 2: If Thanksgiving was like the Olympics every four years, maybe
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Speaker 2: it wouldn't have become a big deal. I mean this,
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Speaker 2: this thing's got to happen every day, and the primary
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Speaker 2: or every year, and the primary.
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Speaker 1: Participants have to participate to show up. Yeah, there you go. Yes,
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Speaker 1: thank you Louis. Yeah yeah yeah, happy pay of the
19:05
Speaker 1: Is that what it is? Oh? Oh, I didn't even
19:08
Speaker 1: know that. The Lenza door.
19:14
Speaker 2: Oh oh ah, I love that. All right, Uh, let's
19:20
Speaker 2: check out what else is on tap here today, Tony Clark,
19:25
Speaker 2: What a story from major League Baseball. They're getting ready
19:28
Speaker 2: for contract negotiations the new CBA, and Tony Clark will
19:31
Speaker 2: not be part of it. And for one reason and
19:34
Speaker 2: one reason only, Uh, he couldn't resist his brother's wife.
19:39
Speaker 1: Uh. And so he's out and.
19:42
Speaker 2: The brother's wife apparently has a job within the organization,
19:46
Speaker 2: and so it was conduct undetrimental and so Tony Clark
19:51
Speaker 2: is out as president of the MLBPA.
19:53
Speaker 1: Yeah, not a good off season for him, because there's
19:56
Speaker 1: another thing going on where there's some some lost money
19:59
Speaker 1: to the union and another charity thing that basically was
20:03
Speaker 1: putting on camps but not really putting on camps, and
20:05
Speaker 1: money was going places where it wasn't supposed to be going.
20:08
Speaker 1: So we already was under kind of suspicion of some
20:11
Speaker 1: other stuff going on. And then he decides to, uh, yeah,
20:14
Speaker 1: I guess do something with his step his sister in law. Okay, ye,
20:21
Speaker 1: move moving along. You can't trust tall people with giant beards.
20:25
Speaker 1: That's what I figured out. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa.
20:27
Speaker 2: That's what I got gathered.
20:30
Speaker 1: You can't trust position players. But then you went position
20:32
Speaker 1: players basically with that are.
20:34
Speaker 2: Tall, bald power position players.
20:38
Speaker 1: Trust right, Yeah, I have never, and I will honestly
20:42
Speaker 1: say I never will sleep with a sister in law.
20:46
Speaker 1: I just mark my words on that one. I'm writing
20:49
Speaker 1: it down. I'll hold you to that. Yeah. I say
20:53
Speaker 1: that now, and I will say that again. Yeahs come back, yeah, yeah,
20:57
Speaker 1: and move it along. Yeah, moving to the head of
20:59
Speaker 1: our union.
21:01
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21:03
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21:09
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21:13
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21:16
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21:19
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22:02
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22:06
Speaker 2: Loaded up. I mean, yesterday's show was just fantastic, ended
22:10
Speaker 2: up being an infield show. Yesterday we had Brendan Donovan on,
22:14
Speaker 2: we had Cole Young on, we had Colt Emerson on.
22:18
Speaker 2: Yes just an array of guests here on week number
22:21
Speaker 2: two of our spring training coverage. So here we go
22:25
Speaker 2: into week number three, and it is Pitcher's Day and
22:29
Speaker 2: we will dive headlong into that later, trying to get
22:31
Speaker 2: all four starting pitchers on our radio program today before
22:35
Speaker 2: ten o'clock. We've already talked to Pete Woodworth, the pitching
22:39
Speaker 2: coach this morning. Sorry you missed it, because he's always very,
22:42
Speaker 2: very entertaining and so we enjoyed our time with him.
22:45
Speaker 2: But one of the topics that we brought up, and
22:47
Speaker 2: we've discussed it already a few times, Bucky, but I
22:50
Speaker 2: don't know if we really sunk our teeth into it.
22:52
Speaker 2: This challenge system that is going to is the new
22:55
Speaker 2: alteration to major League Baseball this year, there was fear
23:00
Speaker 2: that maybe robottoms we heard Robottoms for forever that were
23:04
Speaker 2: just going to replace major League Baseball umpires at least
23:07
Speaker 2: the home plate umpire.
23:08
Speaker 1: I mean, let's.
23:09
Speaker 2: Face it, the base umpires have pretty much been replaced
23:12
Speaker 2: by review and replay for the most part. But they
23:15
Speaker 2: were even talking about just letting a computer gauge what's
23:20
Speaker 2: a ball and strike? We just have too much error
23:24
Speaker 2: behind home plate. Well, we're not going to go that far.
23:29
Speaker 1: The home plate umpire will still exist. And yet he's.
23:33
Speaker 2: Going to receive some aid this year in the form
23:36
Speaker 2: of this challenge system where players are going to have
23:39
Speaker 2: the opportunity just three of them hitter, pitcher, or catcher.
23:42
Speaker 1: They're the only.
23:43
Speaker 2: Three that can challenge. They'll have an opportunity to tap
23:46
Speaker 2: their helmet and say, no way was.
23:48
Speaker 1: That a strike?
23:50
Speaker 2: Review that And so the ABS challenge system is here
23:55
Speaker 2: and certainly the biggest adjustment that the sports fan, the
24:00
Speaker 2: baseball fan, is going to have to make rules wise
24:02
Speaker 2: this season.
24:04
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a lot of I mean, there's a lot
24:05
Speaker 1: of times when we talk about changes and whatnot in
24:08
Speaker 1: in uh in baseball, and I'm kind of I drag
24:11
Speaker 1: my feet a little bit. I'm not super pumped about
24:13
Speaker 1: the idea. This is one that I like, and I
24:15
Speaker 1: like that it's it's I had Yeah, I would have
24:19
Speaker 1: loved to have had this. I mean, there's there's certain times,
24:22
Speaker 1: you know, you and I called some games down in
24:24
Speaker 1: Tacoma for the rain Ears, and they do it down
24:26
Speaker 1: there all the time. And there's actually even a couple
24:29
Speaker 1: of games where they go the full measure where the
24:31
Speaker 1: entire game is called by the robot or by the
24:35
Speaker 1: by the system that's measuring a ball or strike, and
24:38
Speaker 1: they just beep in the in the umpire's year and
24:41
Speaker 1: he says strike if it's a beep, and if it
24:42
Speaker 1: doesn't an it's a ball. This is not that. This
24:45
Speaker 1: is where every one of them is measured, and yet
24:48
Speaker 1: the umpire's calling it a ball or strike, and if
24:50
Speaker 1: you think he got it wrong, then you can challenge it,
24:53
Speaker 1: like you said, and you have two of those challenges. Uh,
24:55
Speaker 1: they continue. You can keep going as long as you
24:57
Speaker 1: got them right, but you basically have two strikes and
25:00
Speaker 1: you don't get to do anymore. So you're not you know, otherwise,
25:03
Speaker 1: you'd have somebody tapping their helmet every pitch, every every
25:05
Speaker 1: single borderline pitch, you'd have somebody tap in their helmet.
25:07
Speaker 1: That would be completely counter productive and I think would
25:10
Speaker 1: mess with the flow of the game. This is one
25:13
Speaker 1: that I actually like, though I like the there's too
25:16
Speaker 1: many times that you you know, I've talked about how
25:19
Speaker 1: one pitch that is, you know, a good pitch by
25:22
Speaker 1: a pitcher, but it's a ball and they end up
25:24
Speaker 1: calling it a strike if it's two to one, And
25:27
Speaker 1: the difference between you go into a three to one
25:28
Speaker 1: count versus a two to two count is completely different.
25:31
Speaker 1: I mean, what the pitcher is feeling versus what you're
25:34
Speaker 1: feeling and vice versa. That is not as it's either
25:37
Speaker 1: very comfortable you're sitting there like, oh, yeah, he can't
25:40
Speaker 1: throw another ball, He's got to come to me now,
25:42
Speaker 1: or you're like, he can do whatever he wants. He
25:44
Speaker 1: can throw a ball, he can freeze me with a strike.
25:46
Speaker 1: He can do whatever he wants. And so when those
25:49
Speaker 1: are borderline calls, which are good pitches by pitchers to
25:52
Speaker 1: put one on the edge somewhere, but if it misses,
25:55
Speaker 1: you want it to be called the right way. And
25:57
Speaker 1: so I think there's going to be some times obviously
26:00
Speaker 1: where it goes the other way, where you took a
26:02
Speaker 1: pitch and and the and the umpire calls it a ball,
26:07
Speaker 1: and yet you know Col's gonna tap his helmet and
26:10
Speaker 1: and they're gonna come back and like, nope, that caught
26:12
Speaker 1: the edge of the zone. You can go sit down now. Yeah,
26:14
Speaker 1: that's gonna be a little bit different. I'm sure that
26:16
Speaker 1: would be frustrating at times as a hitter. I'm sure
26:18
Speaker 1: it would not have worked out perfectly in my favor.
26:21
Speaker 1: As much as I would like to think that I
26:22
Speaker 1: was perfect in knowing the strike zone, I know that
26:24
Speaker 1: I wasn't. So yeah, there's gonna be plenty of times
26:27
Speaker 1: that it kind of goes both ways. But I do
26:29
Speaker 1: like the idea of getting it right because there's just
26:30
Speaker 1: too many crucial situations that the umpire misses.
26:33
Speaker 2: One interesting that you took the topic and you spun it,
26:37
Speaker 2: like the pitcher gets the call and it goes the
26:40
Speaker 2: other way.
26:41
Speaker 1: I was thinking of just the opposite.
26:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, o yeah, yeah, Like occasionally the hitter will be
26:46
Speaker 2: right now so it is picture's day after all. Yeah,
26:51
Speaker 2: and look, the hitter is going to be in charge
26:53
Speaker 2: of his strike zone. That's the difference where you're gonna
26:56
Speaker 2: have two people making the decision when it's the picture,
27:00
Speaker 2: when it's the defense that wants to challenge the call
27:04
Speaker 2: and cal as Pete pointed out went sixteen for sixteen
27:07
Speaker 2: last year. But I mean, you've got some good experienced
27:11
Speaker 2: pitchers on this rotation, and you know, I think of
27:15
Speaker 2: George Kirby first and foremost and the times where he
27:19
Speaker 2: knew he got screwed over by a call and to
27:22
Speaker 2: have the system at his fingertip. And maybe I don't
27:25
Speaker 2: get to use it because we've entrusted Cal to make
27:28
Speaker 2: all of these decisions. There's gonna be an interesting dynamic
27:32
Speaker 2: at play. I've talked about it a lot. It's gonna
27:35
Speaker 2: be interesting to see how they do evolve the strategy
27:38
Speaker 2: for when and how and who gets to use the
27:42
Speaker 2: replay system. Jerry told us yesterday offensively that it was
27:46
Speaker 2: everybody can use it but Randy. But on the pitching side,
27:50
Speaker 2: if they're going to really just hand it over to
27:52
Speaker 2: Cal and pitchers just need to pitch, I mean, per
27:56
Speaker 2: Pete Woodworth's comments, sometimes Logan Gilbert finishes and he's looking
27:59
Speaker 2: in center field.
28:00
Speaker 1: Cal's got the better vantage point on it.
28:03
Speaker 2: It'll be interesting to see when and where they will
28:07
Speaker 2: empower their pitchers to fight for their own strike zone,
28:11
Speaker 2: especially when you have somebody as good as Cowbinding.
28:13
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that it's a huge difference between being
28:17
Speaker 1: the one that it's actually happening too, whether you're the
28:20
Speaker 1: pitcher and you think you got squeezed on one, or
28:22
Speaker 1: whether you're the hitter and you think it was expanded
28:24
Speaker 1: and they called it a strike. It's happening to you,
28:26
Speaker 1: so you can't remove yourself from it. And yet you're
28:28
Speaker 1: the only one that gets to those two. As far
28:32
Speaker 1: as the hitter goes, you're the only one that can
28:34
Speaker 1: challenge it if you're the hitter. I think it just
28:36
Speaker 1: makes sense to have cow. I mean, Cal's is closely
28:39
Speaker 1: connected to it, as George or Logan or any one
28:41
Speaker 1: of these pitchers would be, but he's not them. He's
28:44
Speaker 1: genuinely will be making the call based on whether or
28:46
Speaker 1: not he thinks it's a strike. And then depending on
28:49
Speaker 1: the situation. There's certain situations full count bases, loaded, guy
28:53
Speaker 1: puts one right on the black, or you think it's
28:55
Speaker 1: right on the black and they call it a ball.
28:56
Speaker 1: You waste a challenge there, even if it doesn't go
28:59
Speaker 1: your way, if it's enough that you can go for
29:01
Speaker 1: a challenge, because that's difference between walking and run in
29:03
Speaker 1: and straight and you're out of the inning, right so
29:05
Speaker 1: I think Cal will understand all of it, and you're
29:08
Speaker 1: not asking the pitcher to do it. I if I'm
29:11
Speaker 1: the manager, if I'm Dan Wilson, I'm pretty much saying
29:13
Speaker 1: we're gonna trust Col because one, he has the best
29:16
Speaker 1: vantage point. Two he's most certainly not you know, flopping
29:20
Speaker 1: off the mound or falling off the mound after trying
29:22
Speaker 1: to execute said pitch. But if you, if you in
29:25
Speaker 1: that three seconds, if you want to have some sort
29:28
Speaker 1: of signal that isn't tapping your helmet that is to
29:31
Speaker 1: him like, hey, I think that's a strike. Yeah, then
29:34
Speaker 1: we're still gonna defer to Col. He can say, Okay,
29:36
Speaker 1: you think it was all I didn't necessarily, but you
29:40
Speaker 1: really want this one, Okay, I'll do it. But then
29:43
Speaker 1: it's gonna be one of those for sure. I mean
29:45
Speaker 1: I guarantee they have they will have a tally. Yeah,
29:47
Speaker 1: going somewhere of Yeah, Logan wanted me to tap, wanted
29:51
Speaker 1: me to challenge eighteen pitches yesterday, and he would have
29:53
Speaker 1: been wrong on seventeen of them.
29:55
Speaker 2: Yeah, I ended up giving up four runs that inning.
29:58
Speaker 2: I told you to challenge that, and I was, oh,
30:00
Speaker 2: that that's that's introduced now to Major League Baseball, and
30:04
Speaker 2: it could be fun, but it could also resort in
30:08
Speaker 2: some hurt feelings along the way.
30:11
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know what to expect.
30:13
Speaker 2: I mean, we did watch some games that the Rainiers
30:16
Speaker 2: played and it didn't seem to uh, but I don't
30:20
Speaker 2: know if it impacted anything in the clubhouse. I don't
30:23
Speaker 2: know what what happened from that situation. It looked like
30:25
Speaker 2: does anybody could call it at any given time, which
30:28
Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you right now, that's not the way
30:29
Speaker 2: I would do it. If I were the organization and
30:32
Speaker 2: I was gifted this opportunity to challenge some called nine
30:36
Speaker 2: hole hitter better than ever challenge.
30:38
Speaker 1: You know that. That's kind of the way I feel.
30:40
Speaker 2: I don't think they'll make that rule, certainly, but but
30:44
Speaker 2: there're gonna be some some weird little things that are
30:47
Speaker 2: gonna happen because of this ABS challenge system, And frankly,
30:52
Speaker 2: I think we're gonna see maybe we're gonna get to
30:54
Speaker 2: know the.
30:55
Speaker 1: Umpires a little bit.
30:56
Speaker 2: I think we should keep running statistical tallies on the
30:58
Speaker 2: umpires and splash them up on the screen. I think
31:01
Speaker 2: maybe the umpires should celebrate when they're right, you know,
31:05
Speaker 2: fist bumps still, Leslie Nielsen, spin around, splits, pop back up.
31:09
Speaker 1: Straight, give you one of those. Yeah, rub it in
31:13
Speaker 1: a little bit like, oh, you want to challenge me? Huh,
31:15
Speaker 1: how's that taste? They already have to feel good because
31:17
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm watching it down in Tacoma. When the
31:20
Speaker 1: occasional time that I would see a guy get wrung
31:23
Speaker 1: up on strike three and he's so he just taps
31:26
Speaker 1: his helmet real quick. Well, the the fielders are already
31:29
Speaker 1: running off field. Now they got to stop for a second. Yeah,
31:31
Speaker 1: and then they real quick run it back and it
31:33
Speaker 1: only takes a few seconds, three five seconds they run
31:36
Speaker 1: it back. Boom, they show the thing clipping the edge
31:38
Speaker 1: of the zone and boom, yep, st wright three and
31:41
Speaker 1: now they get to do it again. It's almost like
31:42
Speaker 1: striking out twice. At least, it's like striking out a
31:45
Speaker 1: time and a half. I mean, I I don't think.
31:47
Speaker 1: I mean, Jerry was kind of joking when it comes
31:50
Speaker 1: time Randy or Rosarina like yeah, maybe not maybe everybody
31:53
Speaker 1: but Randy because he typically doesn't think any of them
31:55
Speaker 1: are strikes, and he's gonna do it.
31:57
Speaker 2: I think you're gonna be He did not say, maybe
31:59
Speaker 2: anybody but Ry. He said only Randy can't.
32:02
Speaker 1: Yeah, he said, yeah, but he's he's kidding. I think
32:06
Speaker 1: I think they end up. I think they end up
32:08
Speaker 1: letting everybody. You go ahead and do it. You can't
32:10
Speaker 1: say to your nine o hitter you're not as productive
32:13
Speaker 1: or you're not as important, and so you don't get
32:14
Speaker 1: to waste it. It's just going to be as you
32:17
Speaker 1: start to. I guarantee in spring they're gonna, hey, all right,
32:21
Speaker 1: we're gonna be able to challenge. But if you start
32:23
Speaker 1: doing it and wasting them and setting us up to
32:26
Speaker 1: where we don't have them later on the game when
32:28
Speaker 1: they could be more important, then we're gonna take that
32:31
Speaker 1: opportunity away from you. So use it, use it accordingly.
32:34
Speaker 1: We'll see. If you waste it, you burn your opportunity
32:37
Speaker 1: of doing it, well, we'll see.
32:38
Speaker 2: It's gonna be an interesting wrinkle to this upcoming season,
32:42
Speaker 2: no doubt.
32:43
Speaker 1: All Right, it's chugging back in the morning.
32:45
Speaker 2: Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM spring training coverage continues,
32:50
Speaker 2: and of course the seven o'clock hour is going to
32:52
Speaker 2: be rather interesting, as that's gonna be the bulk of
32:56
Speaker 2: our quest to try to get all five of the
32:58
Speaker 2: starting pitchers scheduled to be in the rotation at the
33:01
Speaker 2: start of the year on the same show. Looks like
33:04
Speaker 2: three are going to be converging at near the same
33:07
Speaker 2: time in our seven o'clock hour, So I have no
33:10
Speaker 2: idea what to expect. We're gonna get reckless at breakfast
33:12
Speaker 2: all seven o'clock hour today here on Chuck and Buck
33:16
Speaker 2: coming up next.
33:16
Speaker 1: Though, finally, finally, one.
33:19
Speaker 2: Tradition actually was continued and so it will live on
33:25
Speaker 2: for another year. We'll discuss that next Sports Radio ninety
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33:38
Speaker 2: Buck Ashley with you here on this lovely Wednesday. Yeah,
33:43
Speaker 2: it is a hump day. More than that, it is
33:45
Speaker 2: a picture's day. Jeremy Guthrie even showed up for pictures Day. Yeah,
33:49
Speaker 2: he's not here for pictures Day.
33:50
Speaker 1: No, he's here. Why would he be here? I mean,
33:52
Speaker 1: I haven't seen him all week in some custom cleats
33:55
Speaker 1: is what he's doing, all right?
33:56
Speaker 2: Right for pictures Day. I mean, you give my gifts
33:58
Speaker 2: on pictures Day. That's why he's got some cleats.
34:01
Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no sense. His
34:04
Speaker 1: biggest client is Josh Naylor who he's bringing I think
34:07
Speaker 1: six hundred pairs of cleats to today? Well, you wears
34:09
Speaker 1: seven hundred per year. Yeah, so no, he's not here
34:12
Speaker 1: to celebrate picture's Day. That's not really a thing. You've
34:15
Speaker 1: invented that.
34:16
Speaker 2: Well, if he's celebrating infielders Day, should have been here yesterday,
34:19
Speaker 2: isn't it amazing?
34:20
Speaker 1: Well, he is a picture it was a former picture,
34:23
Speaker 1: so he likes pictures more. But it's's not here for that.
34:25
Speaker 1: He's here to he's here to give away awesome cleats.
34:29
Speaker 1: And yet and yet they send a picture for the job. Yeah,
34:33
Speaker 1: well no, he owns the company.
34:34
Speaker 2: Right right, he sent a picture for the job on pictures. Yeah, actually,
34:40
Speaker 2: it's doubtful. Actually, just be our voice of reason on this.
34:44
Speaker 1: Reason.
34:45
Speaker 2: Clearly no other explanation. Ashulely is trapped in darkness, cold
34:51
Speaker 2: and ice. Yeah, should at least allow her to be
34:53
Speaker 2: the voice of reason.
34:54
Speaker 1: Okay, we can do that. By the way, it's snowing
34:56
Speaker 1: at my my boy. I was talking to my wife
34:58
Speaker 1: and kids last night. It was snowing.
35:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, it did that. It's still doing it on and off.
35:03
Speaker 2: But at least my car wasn't frozen shut this morning.
35:05
Speaker 1: That oh good, Yeah, that's good.
35:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, I don't know. I mean, we're gonna see.
35:10
Speaker 2: I mean, hopefully this is not a short lived holiday.
35:13
Speaker 1: This Picture's Day.
35:15
Speaker 2: We have George Kirby, Bryce Miller, Logan Gilbert all scheduled
35:18
Speaker 2: in our seven o'clock hour, and Brian Woof scheduled at eight.
35:21
Speaker 2: And then of course when will Luis Castillo join us,
35:24
Speaker 2: which is my favorite part of Pitchers Day.
35:27
Speaker 1: That's all gonna happen before ten o'clock. That's the goal.
35:30
Speaker 2: Now, if it all falls apart, maybe this is the
35:32
Speaker 2: last Picture's Day, Bucky, and you can rejoice. But one
35:36
Speaker 2: tradition that we were worried was on the ropes Ashley.
35:41
Speaker 2: We just pulled out of the fire yesterday.
35:44
Speaker 1: That's right.
35:45
Speaker 2: The fifth Annual Meat Sweats Invitational did in fact get
35:50
Speaker 2: both participants Yea to the Brazilian Steakhouse yesterday.
35:55
Speaker 1: For a feast. And it was it was different, It
35:58
Speaker 1: was different, It was different than we had ever done before.
36:00
Speaker 1: We were in the parking lot ten minutes prior to
36:03
Speaker 1: their opening, so we walked in approximately three seconds after
36:07
Speaker 1: they unlocked the door to a place abandoned. No one
36:12
Speaker 1: there except for the folks that serve meat and you
36:16
Speaker 1: and I, yeah, that's right. I went to the bathroom,
36:18
Speaker 1: I came out. I had to scour the place for
36:20
Speaker 1: the only other person sitting at a table trucks like I'm
36:23
Speaker 1: over here. I found him. And you know, you go
36:26
Speaker 1: to those Brazilian steakhouses and usually that you know, they're
36:29
Speaker 1: rolling around to all the other tables carving meat. At first,
36:33
Speaker 1: we just got piled on it. It was just like
36:36
Speaker 1: one after ano because we were the only people there.
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Speaker 1: It's like a thousand.
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Speaker 2: It's like I had a thousand of those guys.
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Speaker 1: That was awesome. Yeah, it just kept coming. It was
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Speaker 1: definitely the fastest I had to turn my card to
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Speaker 1: red uh ever in meat because it relentless. It was
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Speaker 1: just like one after another. I mean, I still have
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Speaker 1: the last bite in my mouth, and like, will drugs
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Speaker 1: for more than this? And I'm like, yeah, yell. They
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Speaker 1: knew there was a mission.
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Speaker 2: And then the mission was the meat sweats and we
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Speaker 2: hadn't eaten all day. I mean, so that was our
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Speaker 2: first meal of the clock three o'clock. And you know
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Speaker 2: they say that your stomach shrinks, and I think that
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Speaker 2: it does when you've gone that long without eating. So
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Speaker 2: I don't know if we got our money's worth.
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Speaker 1: I really don't. But there was an element of.
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Speaker 2: Us getting there before the kitchen was even ready. Uh,
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Speaker 2: and certainly it was a different experience to like have
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Speaker 2: them pile it on, have the place to ourselves.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well they we sit down, we go get our salad, right,
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Speaker 1: which is just a trick for us to get to,
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Speaker 1: you know, fill up a little bit before the meat
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Speaker 1: that's throwing out. I tried to things that weren't too fibrous. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I got a little salad and a couple of pieces
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Speaker 1: of candied bacon because that's just really wet in my whistle.
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Speaker 1: For the meats. For the meat sweats, they're about to come.
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Speaker 1: And then we go sit down and then the guy
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Speaker 1: comes over and he's like, they're just getting the meat
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Speaker 1: up to temperature. Oh boy, did they ever? Because after
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Speaker 1: that it was just a buffet line, just one afternoon,
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Speaker 1: because I've never been one of the sushi bars where
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Speaker 1: it just rolls by and you just have more. And
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Speaker 1: it was like the conveyor belt of meat that just
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Speaker 1: kept rolling by and it was lava hot. Boy. I
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Speaker 1: burnt my mouth multiple times. Could I never take my
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Speaker 1: own advice that I give to Grace, blow on it,
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Speaker 1: blow on it. I didn't do that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, we'll see if Pitcher's day comes together here today,
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Speaker 2: We're gonna get it, really dive into the heart of
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Speaker 2: it coming up at the top of the hour. But
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Speaker 2: I think everybody listening, Ashley included right now, will be
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Speaker 2: relieved to know that the Meat Sweats Invitational lives for
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Speaker 2: another year. I can't wait for next season. I was
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Speaker 2: worried about it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I was not worried about it.
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