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Chuck & Buck 2-23 Hour 4: ICYMI Justin Hollander, Seahawks get back to work and one last thing! · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: It's a good Monday mornings to you all. Chuck and
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  Speaker 1: Ashley with you here today. No, Bucky Jacobson is taking
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  Speaker 1: a few days off to fry in the Arizona Sun
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  Speaker 1: for a little while longer fry going to one of
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  Speaker 1: them like water slide hotels, going to go to Great Wolf.
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  Speaker 2: Yeahs that went to the Great Wolf near here.
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  Speaker 3: And the mom sent me a text to saying, I
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  Speaker 3: am deeply regretting this choice while I watch the employees
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  Speaker 3: clean vomit out of the pool.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I don't know if I trust public pools.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I ever did a lot of kids. There's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of junk.
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  Speaker 3: I mean there's sweets and food, and then they go
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  Speaker 3: down zippy slides and there's things that go in the
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  Speaker 3: water that know.
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  Speaker 1: I would imagine there's like one point one turds the
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  Speaker 1: water per day at a place like that, and that's
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  Speaker 1: just reported, right, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That's just because someone saw it floating when they came up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm not a big fan of like publicly used
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  Speaker 1: water holes.
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  Speaker 3: I don't mind the public pool in like where it's
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  Speaker 3: adults and kids and things like that.
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  Speaker 2: I worked at quite a few.
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  Speaker 3: I just don't love the indoor.
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  Speaker 2: Water park type. Yeah situation.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Yeah, they're gonna they're just gonna live it up. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Great, kids get worn out, they run around.
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  Speaker 1: And honey going down the turn slide?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah yeah, who does want that?
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  Speaker 1: We're not only not going to be afraid of it,
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  Speaker 1: We're going to embrace that part of it.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, kids, open your mouth, let's take in some water.
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  Speaker 1: They ever seen the South Park episode where the pool
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  Speaker 1: is just made of people?
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  Speaker 2: No, but that's not far off.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, last week, Bucking Hour in Arizona together
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  Speaker 1: delivering for you spring training coverage. Really proud of our coverage.
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  Speaker 1: We had a great week down there. I think we
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  Speaker 1: delivered some good shows to you here in Seattle, got
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  Speaker 1: you going, got your juices going for the upcoming baseball season.
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  Speaker 1: But there were a few that stood out. A few
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  Speaker 1: of our conversations, few of the many conversations that we
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  Speaker 1: had last week, And I thought Friday's conversation with Justin
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  Speaker 1: Hollander was one that truly stood out for those seeking
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  Speaker 1: information right now. I mean we got it right from
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  Speaker 1: the horse's mouth on Friday at seven o'clock, and so
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  Speaker 1: I thought we'd replay that conversation for you, or at
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  Speaker 1: least the majority of it here today because there's some
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  Speaker 1: valuable information to be gleaned. He was quite candid, he
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  Speaker 1: was quite forthright, and really enjoyed our time with the
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  Speaker 1: general manager. And we'll pick up the interview where I
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  Speaker 1: asked him about number one prospect, Colt Emerson and whether
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  Speaker 1: or not he's going to afford Emerson the opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: make this team coming out of spring training.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 5: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: I don't I don't think there's any reason to put
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  Speaker 4: limits on players, especially players is talent that his cult is.
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  Speaker 4: I think he's got the emotional maturity to play in
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  Speaker 4: the big leagues. He probably had the emotional maturity to
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  Speaker 4: play in the big leagues like the day he graduated
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  Speaker 4: high school. He's just wired differently than than most players.
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  Speaker 4: His level of competitiveness, the way he handles failure, the
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  Speaker 4: way handles success, all lead us to believe that when
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  Speaker 4: he's physically ready, ready from a skills standpoint, that we're
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  Speaker 4: not concerned about his transition to the big leagues. I
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  Speaker 4: don't know if he'll be we'll deem him to be
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  Speaker 4: physically ready and sort of ready to go attack the
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  Speaker 4: big leagues from day one. But we're gonna givehim a chance.
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  Speaker 6: What would he I mean, would that typically be at
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  Speaker 6: second base or third base? I mean JP, I would
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  Speaker 6: imagine his kind of sitting there shore to got his
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  Speaker 6: flag in the ground as of now, so it would
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  Speaker 6: be then then that's the reason where for the versatility
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  Speaker 6: of Brendan Donovan if you were needing to put him at.
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  Speaker 4: So third correct? I think that Colt will see reps
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  Speaker 4: at second, short and third this spring. I think if
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  Speaker 4: he were to break with the club, most likely his
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  Speaker 4: reps would would primarily be at third base.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so how then does Donovan approach spring? Is he
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  Speaker 1: just going to get third base reps right now?
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  Speaker 4: I think you'll see a lot of third base, You'll
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  Speaker 4: see some second base, and you'll see some outfield. I
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  Speaker 4: think it's important for us to maximize his value and
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  Speaker 4: make sure that he continues to stay in touch with
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  Speaker 4: all the positions that he's played in the past. I
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  Speaker 4: do think you're going to see more reps from third
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  Speaker 4: base from him. You know, in Saint Louis they had
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  Speaker 4: Nolan Aronto, you know, a platinum glover. It's not really
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  Speaker 4: necessary for him to go get a ton of reps
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  Speaker 4: there for us. He's going to play a lot of third,
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  Speaker 4: but you'll see him take some reps at second on
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  Speaker 4: a day. You'll see him playing the outfield a little
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  Speaker 4: later in the spring as well.
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  Speaker 1: Justin Hollander is with us here on Chuck and Black.
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  Speaker 1: I want to stay on Donovan here. I mean, I've
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  Speaker 1: made this comparison before, but I mean I've like fantasy football.
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  Speaker 1: I will sit there and like, why isn't this guy
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  Speaker 1: responding to my trade? Like it's been forty eight hours?
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  Speaker 1: Just yes or no? So I get worked up over
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  Speaker 1: fantasy football when you're doing it for real and you're
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  Speaker 1: sitting there waiting for the Saint Louis Cardinals to get
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  Speaker 1: you back. I mean, you made it very clear that
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  Speaker 1: you want Donovan, You've circled Donovan, You're in on Donovan.
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  Speaker 1: The Cardinals are trying to trade Donovan, and yet it
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  Speaker 1: stretched out for a long period of time. How excruciating
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  Speaker 1: is it when the bullets are real.
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  Speaker 4: I think you ride the highs and the lows. Some
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  Speaker 4: days you feel like, oh, we're making progress. Some days
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  Speaker 4: you feel like, why aren't we getting a call back?
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  Speaker 4: You know, my kids started asking me every day, did
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  Speaker 4: we get Donovan?
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  Speaker 1: Today.
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  Speaker 4: No guys doing here.
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  Speaker 1: I mean to use your kid as an insider. That's
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  Speaker 1: what I need to do. I should tap into. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it'd probably be bought. Was in video games and what
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  Speaker 1: have you.
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  Speaker 4: Head to the third grade and the fifth grade in Sherlin,
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  Speaker 4: if you Evergreen school, they got all the dope.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's uh.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I think you try and focus on what
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  Speaker 4: you can control, and all we can control is you know,
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  Speaker 4: making sure that they're aware of our interest and what
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  Speaker 4: we're willing to do and all we aren't willing to do.
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  Speaker 4: And you know it's not our decision. They had every
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  Speaker 4: right to take as long as they wanted to take,
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  Speaker 4: to sort of root out and make sure they were
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  Speaker 4: digging in on every lead. They had to make the
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  Speaker 4: best possible deal they could for them. You know, sometimes
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  Speaker 4: that takes less time, Sometimes it takes more time. Sometimes
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  Speaker 4: a team just decides to hold the player. It's up
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  Speaker 4: to them how they want to handle that. Thrilled that
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  Speaker 4: it resulted in a deal. At the end of the day,
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  Speaker 4: we didn't need to have a trade consummated in December.
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  Speaker 4: We're don't play games in December, right, so getting it
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  Speaker 4: done the week before spring training was perfectly good for us.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, what is it? I mean, he seems like a
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  Speaker 6: gritty ball player just from the little bit we've got
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  Speaker 6: to know him. What was the main thing that you
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  Speaker 6: were wanting names so badly for.
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  Speaker 4: I think the combination of the bats of ball, the
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  Speaker 4: sort of the lead off, top of the lineup type skills,
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  Speaker 4: and the versatility you reference cold a second ago. Obviously,
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  Speaker 4: we have Cole Young, we have Michael Royo. We have
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  Speaker 4: a lot of young position players, particularly infielders, that are
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  Speaker 4: coming through our system over the next year. Making sure
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  Speaker 4: that we have a team that has a foundation good
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  Speaker 4: enough to incorporate those guys so that you're not counting
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  Speaker 4: on all of them to be good the moment they
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  Speaker 4: walk into the big leagues, and Donovan having the ability
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  Speaker 4: to float from position to position to position gives those
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  Speaker 4: guys room to breathe and let us figure things and
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  Speaker 4: figure things out, will not sort of jeopardizing the current
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  Speaker 4: quality of our big league team. So that's a rare combination.
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  Speaker 4: You don't often have players with his kind of sort
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  Speaker 4: of batter's box skill set also be versatile enough to
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  Speaker 4: play three or four spots capably to better than capably.
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  Speaker 1: Justin Hollander is with us general manager of the Seattle Mariners.
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  Speaker 1: What an offseason that they had. They got Brenda Donovan
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  Speaker 1: and they got Jose Ferrer. Who will ask him about
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  Speaker 1: here in a moment, but I'll stay on a few
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  Speaker 1: of the names before we get off of it. You
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  Speaker 1: brought up a royal who's hitting eighth in the lineup today.
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  Speaker 1: We haven't discussed him much this week, but a very
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  Speaker 1: interesting prospect you mentioned Cole Young. Ryan Bliss is here,
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  Speaker 1: Leo Reeboss is here. Colt Emerson we've already discussed. You're
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  Speaker 1: gonna have one starting second basement, maybe two at the
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  Speaker 1: max if you end up doing some sort of platoon there.
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea. So is this is just a
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  Speaker 1: as pure a camp battle as you can have for
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  Speaker 1: the second base position, Meaning you may not have in
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  Speaker 1: your head somebody that you've already said is the front runner.
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  Speaker 1: Is just whoever plays the best is gonna be starting
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  Speaker 1: second basement on opening day.
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  Speaker 4: That's probably a little bit of a stretch, I would say.
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  Speaker 4: As we walk in the door today, Cole Young's the favorite.
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  Speaker 4: Love how Cole's off season one. If you've seen him
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  Speaker 4: walking around, he looks fantastic right now.
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  Speaker 1: He was chiseled.
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  Speaker 4: He really put the time in, the work in. You know,
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  Speaker 4: Cole was got rid of that silly mustache. The mustache
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  Speaker 4: is hard for anybody to pull off. I don't want
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  Speaker 4: to judge Cole's. Mine would be really bad too. No,
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  Speaker 4: it's a Cole was the youngest or second youngest regular
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  Speaker 4: in the PCL last year, and then we brought in
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  Speaker 4: the big leagues and he was one of the five
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  Speaker 4: youngest players in the big leagues last year, and for
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  Speaker 4: a good five six week stretch, he was awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Last year.
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  Speaker 4: He was really good, and then he ran out of gas,
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  Speaker 4: and that happens to young players sometimes. The big league
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  Speaker 4: environment is a tough ones to the sane energy. And
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  Speaker 4: it was pretty clear as we got in September that
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  Speaker 4: that Cole was just dragging.
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  Speaker 1: A little bit.
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  Speaker 4: And I think he took a lot of steps this
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  Speaker 4: offseason to make sure that doesn't happen again. He's gonna
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  Speaker 4: be a really good player. I would say he's gonna
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  Speaker 4: get the first crack at, you know, the starting second basement.
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  Speaker 4: That doesn't mean he's gonna play every day, and it
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  Speaker 4: doesn't mean it's his forever. And I think he approached
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  Speaker 4: the winner like he's got to earn it. I think
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  Speaker 4: Michael probably needs some more time still. Leo is a
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  Speaker 4: perfect player as sort of a move around the field,
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  Speaker 4: you know, utility player in the big leagues. He can
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  Speaker 4: do a lot of things well. It takes great at
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  Speaker 4: bats and can play all the infield spots, and I
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  Speaker 4: think you'll see him stand in the outfield a little
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  Speaker 4: bit this spring too. So as a player who helps
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  Speaker 4: the team function, Leo is is probably as you know,
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  Speaker 4: a good a fit as you can have on the
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  Speaker 4: roster to help augment what we have with the rest
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  Speaker 4: of the major league team.
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  Speaker 6: Justin Hollander, with us, I mean talking about the outfield,
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  Speaker 6: I mean, obviously Julio is going to be playing, You're
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  Speaker 6: gonna have a Roseena in there pretty much every day,
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  Speaker 6: and you have can Zone robust coming back from the injury.
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  Speaker 6: And then now you've added ref Schneider into the whole mix.
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  Speaker 6: How are you planning on Is that going to be
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  Speaker 6: a platoon possibly, and then the others may be dagent.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's right. I think that we have
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  Speaker 4: the advantage of, like we talked about earlier, having a
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  Speaker 4: lot of versatile players. And having a lot of players
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  Speaker 4: who hit same side pitching pretty well, maybe less the
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  Speaker 4: case in right field and DH spot, and that's okay.
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  Speaker 4: You can platoon in a couple spots and make it
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  Speaker 4: sort of a functional roster for Dan to walk work through.
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  Speaker 4: And I think that's what we'd anticipate, at least to start,
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  Speaker 4: if everybody's the best version of themselves. I think Railey
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  Speaker 4: and can Zone right, playing right field and dhing against
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  Speaker 4: right handed pitching is probably how we'll go at least
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  Speaker 4: to start. Victor and ref Snyder, you know, playing right
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  Speaker 4: field and dhing and left handed pitching, with the idea
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  Speaker 4: that if one player is playing particularly well, they'll probably
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  Speaker 4: get a little more reps. We're not gonna lock it
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  Speaker 4: in and you know, just say, no matter what happens,
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  Speaker 4: it's one hundred and five games for this player and
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  Speaker 4: sixty games for that player. That's not how baseball season works.
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  Speaker 4: But he is a you know, as a standard, a
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  Speaker 4: foundation how you want to set your lineup has provide
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  Speaker 4: as many platoon advantages as you can over time. You know,
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  Speaker 4: calving a switch hitter and killing it from both sides
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  Speaker 4: to the plate helps a ton. You know, we we
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  Speaker 4: have players that have specialties like rober Rafsnyder killing left
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  Speaker 4: handed pitching, you know, can zone right hand and pitching.
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  Speaker 4: That gives us a big advantage every night, and we've
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  Speaker 4: plan to take it like full advantage of it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, speaking of the DH position and a lot of
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  Speaker 1: Mariner fans, are you know who's going to be the DH?
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  Speaker 1: Who's going to be the DH?
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  Speaker 5: And it?
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  Speaker 1: You know, based off of your conversation, I would imagine
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  Speaker 1: that's going to be a rotating type of thing, at
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  Speaker 1: least theoretically to start the season. But you've got this
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  Speaker 1: prospect another guy we haven't talked about a lot this week,
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  Speaker 1: but every day he's so nice. He walks in and
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  Speaker 1: out the doorway and he waves to us every day
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  Speaker 1: and Bucky and he exchanged Spanish, you know, pleasantries. And
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  Speaker 1: he's about six foot nine, two and eighty nine, looks
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  Speaker 1: like Carl Malone. So is last Montes in this DH
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  Speaker 1: picture at some point this year or will he be
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  Speaker 1: starting power forward for you before the end of the year.
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  Speaker 1: Tell us about Monte one.
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  Speaker 4: Of the Sonics coming back now. I think Laz could
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  Speaker 4: push his way into the mix at the end of
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  Speaker 4: the season. I don't anticipate that where Laz is at
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  Speaker 4: in his development, that he'd be a possibility to break
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  Speaker 4: camp early in the season. But he's a really unique
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  Speaker 4: talent obviously, power that you know is at the uprow
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  Speaker 4: echelon of what big league players have, and he's twenty
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  Speaker 4: years old. We anticipate a really long break future for
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  Speaker 4: Laz as a corner outfielder, mixing in at the h
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  Speaker 4: as well. He's got some some hurdles to climb over
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  Speaker 4: still in the minor leagues, but it's a really unique talent.
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  Speaker 4: I think he's won the MVP at every full season
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  Speaker 4: league he's ever played in, which.
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  Speaker 1: Is pretty unique. Wow.
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  Speaker 4: You know that, and you know what he does. He
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  Speaker 4: does really well and he keeps getting better at the
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  Speaker 4: areas where maybe he has some growth ahead of him.
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  Speaker 4: So really excited to see how this camp goes. I
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  Speaker 4: think Las will play a lot in this camp and
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  Speaker 4: then you know, he'll start in the minor leagues and
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  Speaker 4: we'll see where we go. We like I said, when
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  Speaker 4: we start with Cole, I just don't think it's a
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  Speaker 4: good idea to put limits on players. I think you
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  Speaker 4: send them the wrong message, and I think you send
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  Speaker 4: the organization the wrong message. If you decide in February
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  Speaker 4: what waz is ceiling or what cold ceiling is for
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  Speaker 4: that year. I don't know that anybody's that good that
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  Speaker 4: they can make those decisions and do it smartly.
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  Speaker 1: I love that because there's a little bit of change
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  Speaker 1: where it used to be. No, you're going to approve it, son,
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  Speaker 1: but I love that that's where we are in the
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  Speaker 1: modern day, and I love that that's where you and
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  Speaker 1: your staff are.
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  Speaker 6: Just so you know where Las's head is at. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: we just had a conversation. I said, what do you
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  Speaker 6: think this year of forty forty Dingers? And he's like,
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  Speaker 6: I'm fifty fifty. I said, all right, thirty in the
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  Speaker 6: minor league's twenty in the big leagues. I'll sign up
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  Speaker 6: for that, he said, He nodded, and he basically he
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  Speaker 6: agreed that that'd be okay.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm confident that if he hits fifty, they won't
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  Speaker 4: all be in the minor leagues.
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  Speaker 6: Right, Yeah, go ahead and do that. I'm with you
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  Speaker 6: on that one hundred percent. I mean, moving to some
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  Speaker 6: degree towards pitching a little bit. I'm the idea of
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  Speaker 6: adding the parrera to the bullpen I think is a
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  Speaker 6: huge one. The dude has kind of a locomotive of
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  Speaker 6: a fastball. It looks like adding him to the mix
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  Speaker 6: with Gabe Spider to where he's not the only guy
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  Speaker 6: that has to get loose every time a tough left
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  Speaker 6: he comes up to the dish.
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  Speaker 1: What was your feelings on him really important for us?
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  Speaker 4: One just I think most good teams have a second lefty,
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  Speaker 4: and we weren't just looking to add any second lefty.
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  Speaker 4: We were looking to add impact for us, particularly important
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  Speaker 4: five right handed starters. You get a lot of lineups
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  Speaker 4: that are stacked with lefties. The idea that Gabe has
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  Speaker 4: to get up in the fifth and then the sixth
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  Speaker 4: and the seventh every night whenever there's a possibility of
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  Speaker 4: a leverage moment coming, that's really hard on him. He
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  Speaker 4: was unbelievable last year. We want to make sure we're
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  Speaker 4: doing the right thing for the team, and having sort
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  Speaker 4: of two real impact left handed arms and the bullpen
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  Speaker 4: every night will be great for our pitching group to
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  Speaker 4: work through. Obviously, Farrair has very unique qualities. It's, you know,
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  Speaker 4: a sinker that is sort of unlike any other It's
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  Speaker 4: a sinker at ninety seven ninety nine, we really really
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  Speaker 4: like to change up in the slider as well. I
• 15:00
  Speaker 4: think you'll see more of that as he gets through
• 15:03
  Speaker 4: his outings with us and mixing it in, maybe helping
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: miss a few more bats. But we really think he's
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: got a chance to be one of the elite left
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: handed relievers in baseball. In giving us two of those
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: guys is a really big advantage as we get into
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: you know, October baseball hopefully.
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: And I'll stay on pitching, but just a little aside
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: from the Ferrera, I mean, you draft a Harry Ford,
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: you develop a Harry Ford. He did everything you wanted
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: him to do at the minor league level, and yet
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: you've got cal Rawley blocking him from the future. So
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: even though I always viewed him as a tradeable piece,
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: at a logical tradeable piece, it's gotta be tough to
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: give up a guy that you know you sort of
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: nurtured through this process.
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: You're always emotionally invested in the guys that you draft
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: and develop. We wouldn't have traded Harry just to trade Harry.
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: That doesn't make any sense. There's a place on a
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: big league club for a good second catcher. I think
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: that the path is a little more narrow for us,
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: just because caw is gonna catch one hundred and twenty
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: games a year. It's not a true fifty to fifty
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: time share. But Harry's a good enough player. We believed
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: in Harry, We thought he could help our big league team.
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: We just believed the impact of Ferrera was gonna be
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: greater for us. So willing to trade and trading no
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: matter what, are two different things. We were willing to
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: make a trade to help our team get better. We
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: weren't gonna trade just to trade.
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: Are Hollander excuse me, Hollander. Are we're talking to Hollander?
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: Are Anderson and Sloan like viable moves? Obviously we want
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: five starting pitchers to stay healthy all season long, But
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: I'm wondering about the starting pitching depth. I would assume
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: Hancocks the next guy, the sixth man off the bench.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: But are Anderson and Sloan like seventh and eighth men?
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: Based on the buzz that I'm hearing around here, that's
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: a little quick.
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: Obviously, Kate's never thrown a pitch in a professional game.
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: He's just thrown out here and livp the other day
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: for the first time. Could they be at the end
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: of the season. Again, I'll stick with my no limits policy.
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: Right sure, they could be right now, They're not gonna
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: be on the depth chart to start the season. Where
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: we start and where we end are's usually two different places.
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: They're certainly talented enough to be. What we saw from
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: both those guys and their live vps was special, really unique.
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: Their composure, their stuff, the strike throwing, the diversity of
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: their repertoires. Those guys are going to be really good,
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: really soon. Whether that happens in July or September or
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: next May, I couldn't tell you. We got to keep
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: them healthy, we got to keep their progression going through
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: the low miners into the upper miners. Once you get
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: to Arkansas, you know, we've seen it with Bryce and
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: Brian and George and Logan. Once you get to Arkansas
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: and start playing in Little Rock, you're on the radar.
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: So like, that's a conversation. I think we'll revisit once
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: they get to that point.
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: How happy are you about the health and whatnot of
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: the starting rotation. I mean, four years this team's been
• 17:45
  Speaker 6: a viable contender out there, and it's been in large
• 17:47
  Speaker 6: part because of that starting rotation dealt with some injuries
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: beginning even all the way down to the end of
• 17:52
  Speaker 6: the season. Everybody healthy right now.
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: Everybody's healthy, thank God.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: Right now.
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: This is the one area where I will always lose
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: sleep is waking up in the middle of the night
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: fearing that somebody's gonna get hurt. You know, you're gonna
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: have to tap into your depth. You can never have
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: too much depth. For that reason. I think last year
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: was was a tough one. You know, there were times
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: when we're missing two and then three of our five
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: starters at various points in the season. We hadn't had
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: that in previous years. We sort of lived in the
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: life that everybody else had lived in last year, which is,
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: you know, having to tapp into your depth for not
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: a week or two at a time, but for months
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: at a time. You know, Bryce Miller throughout here yesterday
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: and looked awesome. He was, you know, ninety seven ninety
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: eight with all the secondary pitches working in the strike zone.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: Really impressive. How he's come out of the gate so
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: far this spring. Brian looks great. George, same thing. Louie
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: will get off of mound, I believe today or tomorrow.
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: He was a little bit delayed just because he had
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: a baby and a little beautiful baby girl, so they will.
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: He was in camp about five days late, so he'll
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: get off the mound, I believe tomorrow and then and
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: Logan looks like Logan, So knock on wood. Everybody's healthy today.
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: Please let's keep him that for the next seven months.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Justin Hollander with us right here on chuck him back
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: in the morning. That was Friday's conversation that we had
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: to close out our spring training coverage last week. But yeah,
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: there's some meaty stuff there. Yeah.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: I was like, man, when when you asked him, we
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: brought up a Cole Young situation and it was like, yeah,
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: he's I was like, did you just say that?
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: Is he going to get in trouble for saying that?
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: Like me to be like, I mean, I don't know,
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: we'll see.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, even the last Montes just you know, and
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: cold Emerson. I mean, this is a new way. I mean,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: baseball's finally come around on this. Once upon a time,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Edgar Martinez had to wait until Jim Presley was old. Yeah,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: and now we don't do that anymore. It shows you
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: how backwards it was back in the day. I mean,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: how many hits would Edgar have had if they would
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: have activated him when he was ready and not when
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: Jim Presley was done, you know. Yeah, And we don't
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: do that anymore. And we've even come a long way
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: in recent years because of the changes that that they've
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: made in the CBA to you know, encouraging not just discouraging.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: He used to discourage teams from activating young players when
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: they were ready. You got to control their clock. And
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: now we are finally to the point where best man's
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: going to take the job when they're ready. Now we
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: don't want to activate them too early because there is
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: something too. You know, they go to the big leagues,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: they crash and fail for the first time in their
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: lives at baseball, and maybe it enters into their brains
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: and they have a slow time recovering, or maybe it
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: destroys them entirely. They just never reclaim confidence. I mean,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: we've seen that a lot happen in baseball history. But
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: just the objective is when they're ready, they're gonna play,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: and they're gonna play at the highest level. But we're
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: going to make sure that they're ready. And I love that.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: I love that philosophy and I love how forthright they
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: are about it these days, and I think that's encouraged.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: I mean, maybe Las Montes is the mid season addition
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: to this team. Yeah, maybe maybe he's the DH Maybe
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: he's closer than you know, the object in the rearview
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: mirror is closer than it appears, and it's already very large.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: All right. Coming up next the Seahawks. They go back
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: to work this week. Yes, it's pajama party week, but
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: it's also a week that John Schneider usually gets a
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: little bit of work done as well. So we'll find
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: out what's up the sleeve of the Super Bowl champion executive. Next.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. He's stuck in
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  Speaker 1: a hotel in Boston, for goodness sake, at this moment.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure he'd much rather be at the Talala p
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Resort Casino.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: Who wouldn't.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, yeah, we don't have ideal weather here.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: It's not like what we had in Arizona Friday. Uh,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: but nonetheless, it seems like it's a little better than
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: two feet of snow.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: You know, when you say Talala Persort Casino, do you
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: know what instantly happens? I instantly hear the jingle of
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: slot machines and it fills my heart with joy.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just hearing them going ding ding ding ding ding.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Right in your head, in your heart.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Now I want to go there.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Well, you can go there. You can go there. If
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  Speaker 1: you're drawn to the ding ding ding, get to the
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  Speaker 1: Talala Prasort Casino or quil Ceda Creek Casino. Participate in
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: the twenty four hour kios. Also, you got your Draftking
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: sports book and more. You know, I was thinking about
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: when we were talking to Greg Bell. He's stranded in
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: a snowstorm with his wife Wendy, and really a romantic opportunity,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: and it struck me of the time, and I used
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: to think that this was a really romantic thing. But no,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: I think there's a different word for it. But when
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: I was in college, I found out and that while
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: I was at school that we were going to get
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: this big snowstorm, you know, like a foot foot and
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: a half snow was coming. And I also knew that
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: my you know, my father was going to be out
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: of town for the weekend. Okay, so I get this information.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: This was before cell phones, and I get to a
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: phone and I call my college girlfriend at the time,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: who was working at the radio station. She worked at
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: the radio station, and I go, can you record all
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: of your news casts? I could? Why? I said, Well,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: there's just a huge snowstorm coming and if I'm going
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: to get trapped inside a house somewhere, it's gonna be
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: with you all. And she goes, I'm going to go
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: record right now. So wind picked her up and we
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: were literally driving thinking that we like basically heisted a bank,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: like we were got away with a scot free crime.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: And we were literally driving to my father's house that
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: was going to be empty all week and long, and
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: the snow starts to hit our windshield as we're going
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: and like the perfect crime. Yeah, I just pulled it off.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Her father would be him furious with me because nothing
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: is going to happen that he's going to enjoy.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: That's right. We're locked in the house.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. We had a whole house full of food,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: which college kids don't normally have. Beat the snow. It
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: did snow storm. We were locked inside for like two
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: and a half days.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: They probably just played go fish.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I still, you know, call it one of the
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: most romantic things I've ever done. I think my college
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: girlfriend thinks of it as the horniest thing I've ever dot.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Well that's you know what. Both can be true, So yeah,
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: I guess there can be two right answers.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: I mean Greg Bell ended up there and that wasn't strategy.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: You didn't earn that. You didn't earn it like I
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: earned it.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: That's true. You didn't work hard for it.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw three moves ahead. I was like Gretzky, Yeah,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: what were you doing?
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Just visiting family?
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Right? Exactly?
• 25:03
  Speaker 7: The right?
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, speaking of work, Greg Bell, as soon
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: as he gets out of the Northeast, is heading to Indianapolis,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: and he hopes he gets there in time because he
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: doesn't go for the pajama party. He goes there to
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: meet with John and Mike. But he just saw those
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: fellows a couple of weeks ago because they won the
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl and it was a little longer season than
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: what normally occurs, and so he's going to try to
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: get there in time and find out exactly what the
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: game plan is. But when John Schneider goes to the Combine,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: especially when he's a couple of weeks behind because his
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: team won it all, he goes there to work, and
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: it's not necessarily just to hold a stopwatch. I mean,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: he usually conducts business there, and he even said so
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: himself that some kin Walker business is going to be
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: done while he is in Indianapolis. And who knows if
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: he's going to be able to pull this thing off.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: I realized that the first two guys that to mind
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: or Ken Walker and Rashid Shahed to bring back next year.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: But I've mentioned this a few times. I'll mention it
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: a lot before the free agency frenzy gets underway. I
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: just don't think this organization is in a position where
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: they're going to have to outbid and sweat what one
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: or two players are going to do on the free
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: agent market. I think that this organization is in such
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: a position of power. They have such a good roster
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: right now, such a young roster, such good cap flexibility,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: that I do believe they are going to make a
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: fair market offer to both as they see it, to
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: both Shahed and Walker. But if Walker or Shahed want
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: to take the highest salary, the highest bid on the
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: free agent market, I think they're just going to let
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: them walk. They really do. And I think we need
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: to be prepared for that, because I don't know if
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: I'm going to really knock Keen for any running back.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: We're taking the largest offer that they possibly can get
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: in there one, let's face it, one opportunity to be
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: a free agent. So, as I said many times before,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: yes the Seahawks have cap space, but there are teams
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: out there that have cap space and are desperate to
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: produce a winner, and that combination leads to a lot
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: of overbidding. And I don't think that the Seahawks are
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: desperate in any way to play fall victim to that.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: So I think they're going to give him a fair
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: market value to both of those guys. With the explanation, Hey,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: if you want to be a part of something special,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: this championship thing that we've got going, not that we're
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: building toward, We're already there. We're already on top of
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: the mountain. We're If you want a house on top
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: of the mountain with us, we'll build you an ice house.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: But if you need a mansion in the valley, then
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: I suppose that's where you need to move. And I'll
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: help you get the couch, you know, I'll get one in,
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: you get.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: The other and I'll send you a housewarming gifts, right.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: I just don't think they're going to play ball at
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: the top of the market for either of these guys.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: On one end, because Tory Horton's here to potentially do
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: what Shiheed did, and I'm not saying as well or
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: as dynamically. Time will tell on that. But in terms
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: of am I a deep threat? Yes? Can I return
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: punts and kicks? Yes? Did I do it pretty well
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: in a short period of time in my rookie season yes?
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Will I get better at both? Yes? So they've got
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: a backup plan without having to overspend on Rashid Shahid.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: And then as far as running backs go, I mean,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: you find one in the draft. You got seventy three
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: million dollars of cap space to work with. That doesn't
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: include you having to spend fourteen million dollars a year
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: on Ken Walker. I'm really at this stage, Ashley, I
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: just I think it's not I think they're both going
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: to be gone, and I think that they're going to
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: wreck their attention and their money toward Kobe Bryant and
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: maybe a couple of the other for it, maybe even
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: Rieke Wolan, as frustrated as we were with Rik Wolan,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: I guarantee talented, extremely talented, and I guarantee you Mike
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: McDonald doesn't just want him to walk out the door.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: I mean, maybe there is some frustration with him, but
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: I have a feeling there's a better chance Rik Wolan
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: returns than both Walker and Shaheed.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: And I would love to be pleasantly surprised, but I think,
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: I mean, the Seahawks have paid too much and given
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: up too much for players before, and it has burned
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: them big time Jamal Adams, So I don't think that
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: there's any chance that they're going to fall victim to
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: that overpay market for Walker or Shaheed. And I don't
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: blame them, and I don't blame those guys for going
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: out to try to find the biggest contract they can find.
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: It would be awesome if it could work out and
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: they wanted to be here and they were willing to
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: take whatever the Seahawks were offering, and the Seahawks gave
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: them a fair offer.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: That would be awesome.
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: But I'm not going to hold my breath that something
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: like that's going to happen, nor do I fault either
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: side if it doesn't.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: And I think there is a chance that they could
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: give a less be given a less than market value,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: and they're the type of personalities that might take them
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: to be a part of this special thing. I don't
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Ken Walker does not strike me as some egomaniac that
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: has to get the absolute highest dollar. He just doesn't.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: As a matter of fact. It feels to me like
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: he's just the opposite. And Shaheed has made it very
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: clear to Greg and others. I love it here. So
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: maybe they both do take what the Seahawks offer and
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: that will be good enough. But I think that's the
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: only hope, yes, because there's no way that John Schneider's
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: going to make himself financially uncomfortable, nor should he to
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: bring these guys back when there are other ways to
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: satisfy those holes. Yes, all right, one last thing to
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: close it out in Next Sports Radio ninety three point
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  Speaker 1: three KJRFM, my my final segment of the radio show
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: here on this Monday, Ashley and myself taking you through
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: on Monday, Bucky out for the entire week. As a
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: matter of fact, that we'll be back tomorrow at six
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  Speaker 1: am to entertain you wild.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 31:17
  Speaker 7: Oh, we got a dance number worked up. Ashley and
• 31:20
  Speaker 7: I it's gonna knock your socks. You have some questions
• 31:22
  Speaker 7: about that third, Yeah, I know, I know. I think
• 31:27
  Speaker 7: we might have overdone it.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. Every time you do the turn, you
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: always clip me right there with your foot on the
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: inner thigh, two left ones. Yeah, and it's just too
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  Speaker 1: close for comfort. I understand you got one last thing
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  Speaker 1: for us today.
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: I do have one last thing for you today. I'm
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: glad you asked. It's almost like the segments for that.
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: So obviously a lot of people really got into the
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: hockey match yesterday, right and here on the West Coast,
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: that was a five am start, very early, so it's
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: not like the bars were open so that people could
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: go and watch at the bars.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: But I do know.
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  Speaker 2: I was talking to a friend who lives in New York.
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: She said the New York somebody in high up in
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: the New York office asked for the mandate that bars.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: That alcohol not be served between eight and ten.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: Or whatever be lifted so that bars could invite people
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  Speaker 3: in to watch the US and Canada and the gold
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: medal match. So they'd lifted that, so people were at
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: the bars in New York at eight am watching and
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: things like that. And there was I guess in Philadelphia
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: there was a lot of people at the bars as well,
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: including a guy who came dressed like Herb Brooks oh
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: and got up on the bar right at the during
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: the third intermission and then gave the Herb Brooks.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: Speech, oh Wow to the whole bar, oh Wow before
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: overtime wow.
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  Speaker 3: And I just thought it was really funny, Like he
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: has this brown suit on, he's got the hair combed over,
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: just like Kurt Russell's.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: I mean, it was well done. He committed to it,
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: and I applaud him. There is Oh yeah, there is
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: a video. I'll share it on I'll tweeted on ours.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: But I've got here. We can hear some of the
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: let's do it.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, Bucky's not here to ruin it. Yeah, one game,
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: one other time. We played him ten times.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to keep it going because I don't
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: know if he swears it all okay, but you can
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: hear him.
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  Speaker 2: He sounds like him.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I like that he changes it to one overtime.
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: One game, one overtime. They played him ten times, they
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: probably win nine, so I don't know, very well done.
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: I retweeted it so people can go check it out.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: It's gotten over a million views already. Good job, fake
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: Herb Brooks. Well, fake fake Herb Brooks. Because Kurt Russell
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: was the fake Herb Brooks and now this guy's the fake,
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: fake one.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Right. I can't wait next year at Halloween, I'm going
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: to go, is the fake fake fake Herb Brooks.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm going to hold you to that.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: So I'm going to go it's that guy. Yeah, that guy.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: That's a great idea. This short Yeah, he's got the
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: short tie all. Yeah, you gotta do. Check out the outfit.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: You can pull it off.
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: I like it.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: It's a great plan.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: Okay, we'll see where it goes. Does he have a
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: name or name?
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: No?
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: Just as someone delivered the Herb brook speech at Harry's
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: tap room in Ambler, So I'm assuming Ambler's in Philadelphia somewhere.
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: Really everything there kind of looks like.
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: Independence Hall, yes, yeah, right, Like all the buildings kind
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: of it's like, is that Independence Hall?
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: Though, that's a bar.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: I've never lived in that part of the country, and
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: I kind of want to just for that.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Everything's old, like actually old is old.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to be I want to go haunted
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: places be on a and drink coffee on a campus
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: every day, like I know Harvard or somewhere.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: Like that, and like your neighborhood bar is just old
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: and cool.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: Yes, it's old and cool. I want to be old
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: and cool. I'm just old.
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it doesn't make it when we are old, it's
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: not as cool as when buildings are old.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: They don't celebrate us like that.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: I'm going to bring up one last thing, and I
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: meant to bring this up on the show a little
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: more than what I did. Obviously, it's a little bit tricky.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: I don't want anything to turn into a political conversation.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: But as the Seahawks go up for sale, Elon Musk's
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: name has come up, Jeff Bezos's name has come up. Yes,
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: I think that's the wrong choice, and it has nothing
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: to do with anything political. I don't want somebody that
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: just there's two ways that's gonna happen. If they invest
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: in it, they're they're got too much else in their
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: lives and they're not going to take it seriously enough.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: Or they're going to take it too seriously and perhaps
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: manipulate it too much because the the egos would be
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: out of control. For people that could just buy in
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: NFL with their pocket change, an NFL organization with just
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: their pocket change. So to me, that's worries. It worries.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: That's not do I want. I want somebody that has
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: to like scrap to get the money together, that's passionate
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: about it, that's passionate about it, that loves football, that
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: is a great business and they're great businessman, there's no
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: question about it. But that is going to have enough
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: knowledge about football to know they don't know enough about football.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're gonna know.
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: They're gonna have enough knowledge to put the people in
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: place and keep the people in place that do the
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: football things and not have the ego to think they
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: should be doing the football things.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, Mary, I mean he what he'll do
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: is he'll build like a stadium with that is a spaceship,
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: you know, that's the type of stuff that he's gonna
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna build a stadium that will lift off the
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: ground so that we can play on Mars and stuff
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: like that.
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: Or it'll it'll have around city into different neighborhoods so
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: you actually want to have to commute to the game,
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: it'll pick it'll commute to.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: You maybe, but I mean it's a salary cap league.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: I don't need somebody that has less pockets stupid amounts
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: of money, yeah, to run the football team. I don't
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: want that. And frankly, I mean, if you did want that,
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: you probably want it for baseball. But I don't even
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: like it for baseball. I hate that Steven Cohen treats
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: it as a hobby and just doesn't run it like
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: a business. I hate the way that the Dodgers run
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: it right now, and I think they do run a
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: little more like a business, but it's just they're playing
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: with monopoly money. I wouldn't even want him to be
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: the Mariner's owner, even though there would be a tangible
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: benefit to having somebody with ridiculous money that could just
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: on a whim just sign every player that he wanted. Yeah,
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: but I don't want that.
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: No, And I think that because it does kind of
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: there should be a competitive balance, And when you allow
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: people to do that, you take away some of the
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: competitive balance from the teams that don't have that money.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: And everybody can say, oh, well, you just need owners
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: that will spend more.
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, but I mean you shouldn't kick people out
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: because suddenly their wallet's not big enough when it was
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: fine before.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: I look, I've become I've become a Mariner fan since
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: I've been here, and it's not something that I'm all
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: that comfortable in being. Is investing emotion and sports. I've
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: really not done it in my lifetime. I've always liked
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: sports because of the puzzle making aspect of sports. So
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: I'm always going to be a sports fan first, a
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: protector of the NFL and of Major League Baseball before
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: I'm going to be a protector of what's best for
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: the Seahawks or for the Mariners. And I just don't
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: think from a baseball perspective, it's a good thing to
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: have owners that make that much money that are silly
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: with their payrolls. I don't think that's a good thing
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: for the sports. And in football, it doesn't even benefit
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: you because you have a cap that's going to keep
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: him from really flexing his financial muscles. His money will
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: be spent in bizarre ways that really won't have anything
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: to do that affects the actual roster and the winning
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: of Super Bowls.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can understand the concern for sure.
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know, it'll be interesting to see
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: who steps up and shows interest.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: That's for sure.
• 39:03
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• 39:05
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