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Chuck in the Morning 7-24 Hour 1: The M's are trading who? Could he be wrong and what's next for Calabro? · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: I mean, how many people's days start at eleven thirty pm?
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  Speaker 1: So that's where we're operating. Fortunately, it's a Friday. Fortunately
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I'm looking forward to that for your now,
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  Speaker 1: Okay? Yeah is that what a lot of the experts
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, we've got a lot of things to
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  Speaker 1: discuss today. I'll tell you what's going on, what's on
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  Speaker 1: tap coming up here in a little bit normal like
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  Speaker 1: the first segment. I mean, I mean I do trade
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  Speaker 1: talk every day for June July. I usually try to
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  Speaker 1: find a segment or part of a segment to mention
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  Speaker 1: something about trade season, about trade deadline countdown. I love it,
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  Speaker 1: not gonna apologize for it. Think I'm pretty good at it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so we do it. We do it on this show.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't normally ever treat a rumor like the
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  Speaker 1: lead story of the day. You've probably picked up on
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  Speaker 1: it more often than not. Our first segment, as we
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  Speaker 1: crack the microphones at six o'clock in the morning, is
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  Speaker 1: usually the thing that people would be talking the most
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  Speaker 1: about at that given moment of the day, and so
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  Speaker 1: our lead story, the headline of the sports world in Seattle,
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  Speaker 1: that's usually what we would start with. Well, it turns
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  Speaker 1: out that I think the headline here today is a
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  Speaker 1: series of trade rumors. Ken Rosenthal reporting yesterday that a
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  Speaker 1: few things. As a matter of fact, I'll go through
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  Speaker 1: the few things that he pointed out. Number one, the
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  Speaker 1: Mariners have been trying to trade Luis Castillo. That's always
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  Speaker 1: great getting letting that get back to Luis Castillo.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I bet he's really excited.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm really curious about Like, this is not the
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  Speaker 1: first time that Ken Rosenthal had a really detailed report,
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes executives want information to get out sometimes they
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  Speaker 1: drive the information that gets out. Sometimes agents like to
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  Speaker 1: get information out. I have a feeling the Mariners can't
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  Speaker 1: be too happy. I mean, Rosenthal's run with stuff before.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's a leak over there with the Mariners
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  Speaker 1: organization like it, because I can't imagine, I mean, didn't
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  Speaker 1: didn't this happen with Scott Servis was firing. It started
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  Speaker 1: with a Ken Rosenthal report, I.
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  Speaker 2: Think so, And then that's why they had to That's
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  Speaker 2: how he found out.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, so I can't imagine. I mean, maybe Jerry's
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  Speaker 1: giving him this information. I think Jerry was blamed for
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  Speaker 1: or accused, or maybe it was found out as fact
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  Speaker 1: that he gave Rosenthal the information on Scott but didn't
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  Speaker 1: think he was going to report it before Scott could
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  Speaker 1: get back to town for him for Jerry to tell
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  Speaker 1: him something like that, Yeah, well here's Rosenthal again. And
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe it is Jerry that gives him
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  Speaker 1: the information, but I would think that the Mariners would
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  Speaker 1: not want Luis Castillo to find out that, yes, we've
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  Speaker 1: been actively shopping you. We'd like to get rid of you,
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  Speaker 1: but we can't. And then Emerson Hancock is then the
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  Speaker 1: other big part of the story, which we'll get to
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  Speaker 1: in a moment, and that is that, well, since we
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  Speaker 1: can't trade Castillo, we don't want to trade our core four,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, Kirbie wu Miller, Gilbert No. So Hancock
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  Speaker 1: with controllable years, we don't want to trade him. But
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  Speaker 1: because of the market being different this year and not
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  Speaker 1: a lot of sellers and not a lot of bats
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  Speaker 1: being available on the market, Jerry has acknowledged that they
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  Speaker 1: might have to do a trade a piece a play
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  Speaker 1: player that's contributing this season for another team's contributing player.
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  Speaker 1: It might not be a prospects for a proven player
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  Speaker 1: kind of market that they're working with. And so Rosenthal
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  Speaker 1: reports yesterday that maybe they have decided on floating Emerson
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  Speaker 1: Hancock out there in trades and seeing if they can
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  Speaker 1: get a proven bat in return, while his value is
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  Speaker 1: certainly at its highest that it's ever been in his
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  Speaker 1: entire professional baseball career. So those are the reports. Now
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  Speaker 1: let's start diving it down, diving down into it, and
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  Speaker 1: we'll start with Castile. I don't necessarily want to be
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  Speaker 1: I told you so, guy, but I don't mind it.
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  Speaker 1: I'll do it. I mean, I'll do it. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I also don't want to be the oh, I never
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  Speaker 1: saw this coming when I repeatedly yeah, when I repeatedly
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  Speaker 1: told you that there's not going to be a market
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  Speaker 1: for Luis Castile. The only thing that you're going to
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  Speaker 1: get in return for Luise Castillo is the most marginal
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  Speaker 1: of prospects that you could imagine that is not gonna
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  Speaker 1: help contribute to this team. Or you're gonna get a
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  Speaker 1: really bad contract, or actually a worst contract in return.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody's gonna say, we'll take that off your hands, but
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna take this bad contract in return. There was
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  Speaker 1: possibly a market out there for we're a contender, we
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  Speaker 1: could use pitching. We'll take him and the contract because
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  Speaker 1: we need pitching that badly. But you would still have
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  Speaker 1: to take a bad contract in return and probably not
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  Speaker 1: get a good player in return. So it's just not
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  Speaker 1: something the Mariners organization does. I mean, you know this.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they won't spend wildly on free agency. They
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  Speaker 1: certainly aren't going to take somebody else's crap contract. No,
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  Speaker 1: somebody else's I would hope not honestly worst contract than
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  Speaker 1: what you already have. So I didn't think you were
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  Speaker 1: gonna have much success trading Luis Castillo, and it sounds
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  Speaker 1: like they've run into nothing but dead ends.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what it sounds like.
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  Speaker 6: But again, I with the way that the Mariners are
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  Speaker 6: with money and with payroll and with things like that,
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  Speaker 6: and being so cautious of the contracts they give, I
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  Speaker 6: would be annoyed if they took a worse contract just
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  Speaker 6: to get rid of Luis Castillo. I mean, he at
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  Speaker 6: least right now is performing for you. So I know
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  Speaker 6: it's a problem to have six pitchers, but.
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  Speaker 1: He's pitched, actually, and that's really been an underreported thing.
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  Speaker 1: How much better he's pitched. Yeah, the piggyback unlocked something.
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  Speaker 1: He's been much better as of late.
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  Speaker 6: So yeah, so I'd rather use that to our advantage.
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  Speaker 6: And you know, you just need to make a choice
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  Speaker 6: if he's going to the bullpen or not, versus agreed
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  Speaker 6: just to get rid of him, then you do something
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  Speaker 6: that is going to end up being.
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  Speaker 2: Worse or yeah, that's gonna end up being worse for us.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, agreed, But it doesn't mean barring one of those
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  Speaker 1: scenarios that I mapped out, which I don't think does
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  Speaker 1: anything for any Mariner fan. Oh we get a marginal
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  Speaker 1: player with a bad contract or a low level prospect
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  Speaker 1: that can't help Castile can help us more than a
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  Speaker 1: low levels Yeah, whether he goes to the bullpen with
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  Speaker 1: a poudy attitude or not, it's still going to be
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  Speaker 1: somebody with a potential to contribute more than a low
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  Speaker 1: level prospect. So I never really thought told you repeatedly
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  Speaker 1: that this was going to be an option. Doesn't sound
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  Speaker 1: like it's really going to be an option now. The
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  Speaker 1: handcock thing is pretty fresh, that's pretty new, and this
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  Speaker 1: is done I think purely out of we don't have
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  Speaker 1: a traditional trade deadline market. There are really only seven
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  Speaker 1: teams right now that are absolute sellers. There aren't a
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  Speaker 1: lot of bats out on the market that are available,
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  Speaker 1: particularly the type that we need, which is a proven
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  Speaker 1: right handed hitter. They're just not out there. Byron Buxton
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  Speaker 1: would have been an interesting one. But I mean, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: for those that were telling me over and over he's
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  Speaker 1: not gonna trade his wave, his no trade clause, I
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  Speaker 1: still think he might for the right team, but he
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  Speaker 1: certainly is doubling and tripling and quadrupling down on that sentiment.
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  Speaker 1: Not to mention, the Twins won't go away. They are
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  Speaker 1: still kind of competing in this weak season that the
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  Speaker 1: American League is having. They're certainly not out of the
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  Speaker 1: wildcard race. So it's a funky market. Even the teams
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  Speaker 1: that are out of it don't really have anything you'd want.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want anything from the Rockies. I'm not sure
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  Speaker 1: I want anything from the Giants because if it's good,
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  Speaker 1: it's got a really hefty price tag attached to it.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe Elliott Ramos, But why would the Giants trade Elliott
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  Speaker 1: Ramos when they're trying to rebuild. So it does sound
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  Speaker 1: like Jerry has acknowledged, Hey, out of our depth at
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  Speaker 1: starting pitching. We might have to move an Emerson Hancock
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  Speaker 1: while his value is its highest and we can get
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  Speaker 1: our or that way potentially, So let's talk about what
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  Speaker 1: you might be able to get. Okay, the name that
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  Speaker 1: keeps popping up the Chicago Cubs. They're the team that
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  Speaker 1: from the beginning of the year they can't keep a
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  Speaker 1: pitcher healthy, and they weren't very good with their pitching
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  Speaker 1: to begin with. They can hit the baseball. They're twelve
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  Speaker 1: games over five hundred, looks like they're heading to the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: They've been linked to Schoolble They've been linked to a
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  Speaker 1: lot of pitchers. Maybe this because the Cubs really not
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  Speaker 1: only do they need a starting pitcher right now, they
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  Speaker 1: could really use in their organization a controllable, young starting
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  Speaker 1: pitcher as well. So that's the name that keeps popping up.
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  Speaker 1: And the name in return is say a Suzuki, which
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  Speaker 1: I said when there were Castillo for Suzuki rumors, I'm like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: where do I sign?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Please? Yeah, let's get that done right now before you
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  Speaker 1: change Rye, you.
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  Speaker 6: Know, before someone figures out that it's a really bad
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  Speaker 6: trade for them and a right one for us.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but obviously there wasn't any truth to that. That's
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  Speaker 1: again bloggers and podcasts not knowing anything and thrown out
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  Speaker 1: trade rumors out there, and so Seya Suzuki, but he
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  Speaker 1: could still be at the heart of it. If the
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  Speaker 1: Cubs need some starting pitching and they get a guy
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  Speaker 1: who's performing right now at an all star caliber level.
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  Speaker 1: I mean he's got three point one six right through
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  Speaker 1: nineteen starts so far this year. And I just said
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  Speaker 1: yesterday Emerson Hancock has passed through, passed beyond that threshold
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  Speaker 1: of is this reel or not? I mean, it is
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  Speaker 1: real and I think that there's a great market for
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  Speaker 1: him because he's controlled for another four years beyond this one.
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  Speaker 1: They have him controlled through twenty thirty for goodness sake,
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  Speaker 1: so he's not even arbitration eligible yet, and so that
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  Speaker 1: comes with a lot of value. Starting pitcher pitching at
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  Speaker 1: an all star level age twenty seven, seems to have
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  Speaker 1: figured stuff out. Good guy, great contract, don't have to
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  Speaker 1: pay him for another four years, really significant money. And
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  Speaker 1: so could you get Suzuki for him? Of course if
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  Speaker 1: the Cubs want to, like us, trade from their strength
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  Speaker 1: to address a weakness. But here's the truth of the matter.
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  Speaker 1: Even though Suzuki right now is a better hitter probably
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  Speaker 1: than what Hancock is a pitcher, there's still enough value.
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  Speaker 1: There are enough similarities in what they can contribute to
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  Speaker 1: a team right now that that's not enough for an
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  Speaker 1: Emerson Hancock. Yeah, we'll trade you Suzuki, whose contract for
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  Speaker 1: Suzuki his contract expires at the end of the year.
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  Speaker 1: Will trade you Hancock for Suzuki twenty twenty six. But
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  Speaker 1: what are you going to give us for Emerson Hancock
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven to twenty thirty. I also saw another
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  Speaker 1: rumor about Emerson Hancock. Would the Cubs give Matt Shaw
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  Speaker 1: straight for Emerson Hancock? Like, what that f are you
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  Speaker 1: talking about? I mean, number one, he's not even available.
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  Speaker 1: Matt Shaw is injured. We're not trading Emerson Hancock for
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  Speaker 1: a guy that can't contribute to the.
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  Speaker 2: De anything for us right now? Yeah, that seems really dumb.
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  Speaker 1: We've got to have a bat, right So he's out
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  Speaker 1: indefinitely with a thumb injury. And some fool last night says,
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  Speaker 1: would they be interested in a straight up Matt Shaw? Okay, no,
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  Speaker 1: but you're onto something from this standpoint, Suzuki and Shaw
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  Speaker 1: for Hancock. So we get the Hancock for Suzuki, our depth,
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  Speaker 1: from our depth and from your depth. We just swap
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  Speaker 1: across the aisle. But Shaw is who you give us
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  Speaker 1: for Hancock twenty seven to twenty thirty, because we don't
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  Speaker 1: mean sure, I'd like to have two bats inserted into
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  Speaker 1: the lineup, but there's not a lot of room on
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  Speaker 1: this rock. Quite frankly, once Donovan gets back, Suzuki makes
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  Speaker 1: a huge difference. So you plug Suzuki in for this
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  Speaker 1: year and then you go on to spring trade. Even
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  Speaker 1: if Shaw can't contribute this year, which he'll be able
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  Speaker 1: to contribute by the end of the season at least
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  Speaker 1: that when you report the spring training, it's Matt Shaw
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  Speaker 1: of the Mariners who you have control over for the
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  Speaker 1: next five years, and they have Emerson Hancock. And that
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  Speaker 1: seems like a fair trade. So it's not Suzuki for Hancock. No,
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  Speaker 1: you're not paying us for the financial discrepancy between the two,
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  Speaker 1: and you're not paying us for the control that you
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  Speaker 1: get over Hancock versus the three months we would get
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  Speaker 1: out of, say a.
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  Speaker 2: Suzuki, Right, that would be a really terrible trade for us, right.
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  Speaker 7: And we're not, Well, it wouldn't be a terrible trade,
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  Speaker 7: but I don't think it's fair waste. Yeah, Hancock for
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  Speaker 7: Shaw would be a terrible trade because he's not even
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  Speaker 7: ready to contribute to the team right now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's nonsense. But it let's take both your ideas
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  Speaker 1: and just smush them together. Suzuki and Shaw for Hancock.
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  Speaker 6: I do that well, because then, yeah, now as you said,
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  Speaker 6: you're looking, you're getting something at that point that's actually
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  Speaker 6: beneficial to the future.
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  Speaker 2: The whole idea and the present and the present.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, the whole idea of trading Emerson Hancock kind of
• 18:20
  Speaker 6: punches me in the gut, and I sure, and I
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: wonder that idea. Yeah, I just love him. And it's
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: like for Mayriorners Fands, we finally got to see what
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: he can do, and he's finally here doing it, and
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: for that to then turn into okay, so now he's
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: tradable and he makes the most sense and.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: It just hurts well, and I don't like it. I
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: don't like it from the standpoint of he now knows, yeah,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: he's being floated. Yeah, like for him to have fought
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: to get in here and now it's like, you've been
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: pitching so good. We are trying to invent ways to
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: keep you in the starting rotation. And these are his
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: best friends right now in the world, and he finally
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: gets to look them right in the eye and say,
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: I'm right on level with you. Yeah, finally I caught
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: up to you. And this is fun being a part
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: of this. And I know we're not winning as many games,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: but it is great having tracked you down. I feel accomplished,
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: I feel proud. I feel more a part of this
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: group than ever. And now he's got to walk around
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: in Texas this weekend being trade bait. He knows now
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: he's being tradebed because that's just not some rumor or
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: me floating out some trade possibility, some goofy trade possibility.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: That is a report saying from Ken Rosenthal, one of
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: the top insiders in the game, saying the Mariners are
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: actively shopping Hancock because they can't move Castillo. So now
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: both of them are walking around Texas for the next
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: four days believing that the Mariners are trying to get
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: rid of them.
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and for a series that we like that, yeah,
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: and for a series that we need to do well. Personally,
• 19:53
  Speaker 6: I don't like that for them because that just sucks.
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: And for a team, yeah, you want these guys to
• 19:58
  Speaker 6: go in with the right mindset and ready to help
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: this team win on a four game series and you know,
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: be at their best.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: And so it's I just I don't I don't like it.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: All Right, Well, we're gonna talk more about this a
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: little bit later on in the show. Let's find out
• 20:16
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  Speaker 1: All right, so Mariners in Texas taking on the Rangers.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: That is the start of the biggest series of the
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: season to date. We'll see what kind of impact it
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: has going forward. We'll certainly talk about it later on
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: in the show. Five oh five's first pitch tonight. Mariners
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: are fifty one and fifty two. The Rangers are fifty
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: one and fifty one. So whoever wins tonight's in first
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: place in the American League West. Bryce Miller will start
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: for the Mariners tonight, and the Rangers will go with
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: a very talented Mackenzie Gore. And he is left handed,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: so not only is he good, he's also left hand.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: It's a joy.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the first of four. So we play this
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: series all the way through Monday, Rangers versus Mariners. Let's
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: get it on. We are one day away from training camp,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: that's right. The World champs will report officially to the
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Virginia Mason Athletic Center tomorrow to get it started their
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: defense of the crown of the Throne in the National
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Football League. Greg Bell is going to join us again
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: today at seven O five to discuss that college football.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin said yesterday publicly that he regrets his exit
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: at Ole Miss. That's big of you. Yeah, it took
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: you a while, took.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: Long enough, but you know what this is. So Lane Kiffin,
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: you know what.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: I would also like to take this time today to
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: mention that I do regret when I was three years
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: old and I threw a fit over I didn't want
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: spaghettios and threw them on the floor. I regret that.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: I'm glad that you finally said that I.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Regret acting like an infant even though I was an infant.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: And I think that's similar to al Langkiffin. Well, I
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: think I'm sorry for acting like an infant.
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: Maturity at your at that at his current level, and
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: your maturity with the spaghettios abouts the same.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: We reached that level of man. I really regret that
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: at the exact same time in our lives, Diego Pavia
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: was waived before even reported to Baltimore Ravens camp, so
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: he's now a free agent out there. I'm telling you, dude,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: ufl ufl should be all over Diego Pavia and it's
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: w NBA All Star Weekend. Dominique Malanga is representing the
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Seattle Storm and that's not just because they needed a
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Storm player. She earned it second year in the league.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: She's having a fantastic year and so she's going to
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: participate in the All Star Games. She's very also very likable,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: likable person. All right, coming down next though, training camp.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Another part of our preview this week. I want to
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: talk more about A. J. Barner because we had a
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: guest on earlier this week that I don't think quite
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: understands what we have, an AJ Barner Sports Radio ninety
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: three point three kJ R f M. Hey, before we
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: get into Shawks training camp, I mentioned Lane Kippen and
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: the headlines. When did he decide that I'm going to
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: do the He's I've never seen anyone wear one of
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: these types of jackets. Have you seen the jackets that
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: they wear? Yeah? Yeah, but they're like squared off. It
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: almost looks like well, not that it's short, it's just
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: it's it's not like your typical like you know coat,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: it's like hangs differently, It like hangs lower actually and
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: then it just uh and it's just like full. It's
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: not like it fhrays at the bottom, you know, a coat.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Kind of looks like it just gets held together by
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: the button, but then it has some flow out and
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: then it has flow His just goes straight down and
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: there's no gap in there, and it looks like, you know,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: it looks like you you like a kangaroo's pouch, like
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: you can put your hands in there.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Now I want to find it.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's always wearing them. It's like, are you trying
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: to start a fashion trend or is that something that
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: somebody else. He's the only person I've ever seen wear
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: coats like that, and he's married to it. Boy, he
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: is married to it.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Well, you know what you got. If you're gonna go in,
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: go in.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: With both feet. There's something about it. Though. It's like,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: that's a little bit different, and I'm gonna own that.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: But he's a little bit different.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: That's gonna be my that's gonna be my. Look. Bear
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Brun had his hat. I'm gonna wear a weird coat.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: I've got this all right. Tomorrow Seahawks training camp gets underway.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Our coverage will begin Monday morning at six a m.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: It'll be Hugh Millen and myself from the Virginia Mason
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Athletics Center and so get ready, and of course all
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: shows will be broadcasting out there as well. Training camp
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: is here, the champs are here, and they are ready
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: to defend their crown, and so looking forward to that
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: on Monday, and one of the players that I think
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: could experience a breakthrough. As a matter of fact, when
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: we discussed it earlier this week, I took AJ Barner
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: as my potential breakthrough player and some would argue, well,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: he had a breakthrough a year ago, sure, but I
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: still think there's a lot more ceiling for him to
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: reach and I do believe AJ Barner is going to
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: have a terrific season this upcoming year. But when I
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: brought it up to Dave Richard from CBS Sports, the
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Fantasy football Guy, he kind of acted like I had
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: three heads for even suggesting that AJ Barner should be
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: somebody that people should keep on their radar as a
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: breakthrough player in fantasy this year. Here's what Dave said.
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: It's hard for me to get behind Barner when he
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: didn't even average four targets per game last year. I
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: know we had his moments, but a lot of those
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: had to do with the seven touchdowns that he scored
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: and for some tight ends scoring a touchdown means having
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: a great week in fantasy. But I don't think Aj
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: did enough on top of those touchdowns to warrant getting picked,
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: especially at a time when we're coming off a year
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: where three rookie tight ends were outstanding, and now everybody's
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: clamoring to draft Colston Loveland in round three or round four,
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: Tyler Warren in round four or round five, Harold Fannin
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: in round five or round six. And that's on top
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: of Trey McBride. Brock Bauers. I know you guys have
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: seen a lot of McBride especially. There are a lot
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: of really good young tight.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Ends in the NFL, and by the way, there's still
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: a couple.
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: Of really good old tight ends, and so I think
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: you're going to be able to get away with one
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: in your drafts. Chuck Okay, because AJ Barner won't be
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: in demand and you will be able to get him
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: later on in your draft, and he could have some
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: sleeper potential, and he is a name that I've thought about.
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: Could he be basically what you're looking for from a
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: tight end. Can he be first or second on his
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: team in targets over the course of the season, And
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: if a tight end can do that, they're probably going
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: to have a big role in fantasy and I'm a
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: little bit worried that he may fall short of that
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: in Seattle, given all the other pass catchers that they
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: have in town.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: All Right, So that's Day's take on Aj Barner. Ewan
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: two A keen on the idea that I thought he
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: could have a breakthrough and should be a starting tight
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: end for teams this year in their fantasy leagues. I
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: think he's wrong. I think he will have that breakthrough,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: and if his rules are that, I need him to
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: be the second favorite target of the quarterback. That's usually
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: what starting tight ends in fantasy leagues, they're usually the
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: second favorite target. Well, he was second on the team
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: in receptions last year. He had fifty two receptions. He
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: had more receptions last year than Cooper Cup. And Cooper
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: Cup's a year older and AJ Barner is just now
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: entering his prime. I realized that there's Loveland, and there's Fannin,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: and there's all these other young tight ends, but he's
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: one of those two. He's twenty four years old, getting
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: ready to turn twenty five. He's in his third year
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: in the National Football League. His production jumped up twenty
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: two catches a year ago, his targets jumped up thirty
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: from the previous year. His yardage jumped up two hundred
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: and fifty yards from the previous year, as touchdowns went
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: from four to seven. We've already seen that growth. And
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: with Brian Florey coming in and his reputation for coaching
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: tight ends, and Barner's certainly moments at the end of
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: the year year where he seemed to be more involved
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: in the offense, all I think there's absolutely growth. I mean,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to put him in Trey McBride. I'll
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: never put him in Trey McBride territory. Jsn's just two
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: in demand in our passing game for him to ever
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: put up those types of numbers. But if you're going
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: to bring up Colston Loveland, Colston Loveland's numbers last year,
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: and I think he's going to be terrific. But fifty
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: eight catches, seven hundred and thirteen yards, that's like the
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: eighth best season for a tight end a year ago.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: I certainly think AJ Barner is positioned to go from
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: fifty two catches to seventy catches this year. I think
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: he's positioned to go from five hundred to nineteen yards
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: to seven hundred and nineteen yards this year. I think
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: he is positioned, especially because he's our short yardage you know,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: push pushinger, push pusher. I think he's in position to
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: go from seven touchdowns to ten touchdowns this year. And
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: those numbers push you as a top ten tight end
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: in the National Football League. Certainly, it doesn't scratch what
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Trey McBride is or what Travis kelcey has been throughout
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: most of his career, but as a starting tight end
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: in your league, those numbers absolutely suggest that you're a
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: starting tight end. So I'm not expecting moon and stars
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: for Barner, but I do expect growth, and I think
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: seventy seven hundred and ten is a very realistic stat
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: line for him at the end of the year, as
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: long as he stays healthy.
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: Well.
• 30:29
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and especially adding in that we've got Brian Fleury
• 30:33
  Speaker 6: coming from San Francisco, who you know, worked with George
• 30:36
  Speaker 6: Kittle and loves the to use the tight end. I mean,
• 30:39
  Speaker 6: I would be surprised if he didn't have as good
• 30:42
  Speaker 6: of a season, if not better, for sure.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, I'm going to say he's going to have
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: a better and so if he gets to seventy seven hundred,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: that's starting tight end worthy. That's a top ten tight
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: end statistically in the National Football League, and then beyond
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: fantasy football, brings a lot to the table. He's not
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: scared about blocking whatsoever. He's good in short yardage, He's massive,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: and so he should be terrific in the red zone,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: and we know he's good on the goal line. So
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: I think as a fantasy player, I think that's a
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: top ten tight end this year, and as an overall
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: tight end in the National Football League, I think he's
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: going to enter the top ten this season in the
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: league statistically and overall as a producer this season for
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: the Seahawks. So that's my expectations. Maybe I'm out in
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: the left field, but that seems like a reasonable jump
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: from year two to year number three for AJ Barner
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: this season.
• 31:40
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I definitely think seeing him increase is reasonable. I
• 31:43
  Speaker 6: would love it if he can get to what you're
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: hoping for and projecting, that would be amazing, even six
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: even six, you know, getting halfway between his fifty four
• 31:53
  Speaker 6: and seventy. If you got to sixty three sixty two catches,
• 31:57
  Speaker 6: I'd be thrilled.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: All right, well, ask Greg Bell about that seven oh
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: five here today, but we'll spend a little bit of time.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Of course, we only have one more day to count
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: down until training camp, and so more on the Seahawks
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: coming up later on in the show. Also later in
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: the show, Kevin Collabor is going to be joining us
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: today at nine o'clock. And really convenient that he decided
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: to be such a big story here in the last
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: forty eight hours. And Kevin Collabor is a free agent
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: out there, how's he going to play this? I wasn't
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: sure if we could talk about his options, but now
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: that it's being talked about everywhere, we certainly will gab
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: about it. Next Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM,
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: All right, headlines at seven Greg Bell, it's seven oh five,
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: nine o'clock today, Kevin Collabor is going to join us
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: now that Ashley and Collabor or golfing partners. Yeah, she
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: was like, hey, why don't you come on the radio
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: show at some point this week, and he was like, hey,
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: I'd love nothing more.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's basically what he's said.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: And then the next day we find out he's a
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: huge topic. Yeah, so that worked out well, apparently he
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: was on his phone a lot.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: He was on his phone a couple of times, yeah,
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: during the round.
• 33:25
  Speaker 6: And I didn't think anything of it because he's, you know,
• 33:29
  Speaker 6: an important guy with lots of phone calls.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: But it makes a lot of sense.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: Now, yeah, maybe he was he found out on Monday. Yeah,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: maybe he was hammering out. Maybe he was. Maybe he
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: was having some of those salty conversations with Dondon while
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: you were out there on the golf course. I mean,
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: who knows.
• 33:43
  Speaker 6: Well, And if he was, I would have grabbed if
• 33:45
  Speaker 6: I knew it, I would have grabbed the phone and said, hey, Dundon,
• 33:47
  Speaker 6: stop being an idiot.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: So just conveniently, it turns out that we had booked
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: Kevin Collaboro for Friday, and now he's a big part
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: of the news. And so yeah for us, Yay for
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: you the listener that you get to hear the former
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: voice of the Sonics come on the airwaves and talk
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: about this crazy week that he's had. And look, I
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: mean I think we all know we've all heard. I mean,
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: not all of you have interviewed Kevin Collaboro about this.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: I have, as it turns out, certainly not as much
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: as Softy or Dick have interviewed him, or even Ian
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: I'm sure, but certainly he's made it very clear that
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: he didn't want to stop being the voice of the Sonics.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: He wasn't going to be the voice of the Thunder.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: It took him a long time to get to the
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: point where he felt okay becoming the voice of the Blazers.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: But I think they was always intending on if the
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: team came back, I'd really like to come back and
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: be the voice of the Sonics again. That is my
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: every expectation. My every expectation is that the Sonics are
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: coming back, and my every expectation is that the first
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: play by play voice of the Sonics when they do
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: come back will be Kevin Collabro.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: It better be Yeah, Yeah.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: I think it's a kind of a no brainer. But
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: in the interim, I mean, because Adam Silver keeps dragging
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: his feet, how long is it going to take? And
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: he said yesterday as part of his comments that he
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: would entertain doing college for example, Well, we just so
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: happened to have a U dub play by play job
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: that is available because Tony caster Gunn has taken the
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Buccaneers football job, and that opened up both
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: the football play by play job and the basketball might
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: be satisfied by one person. That's usually how they've done
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: it in the past. I've heard they might split it
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: into two without giving too much away. I do know
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: that someone close to us here at kJ R would
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: like to have that job, a couple people as a
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: matter of fact, and I from personal reasons, I'd like
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: to see that person get that job. But if I
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: were making the decision from you Dubb's perspective, even if
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: I only got him for a couple of years, knowing
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: that the plan was he needs a gig while he's
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: in Seattle, it'd be hard for me if I'm the
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Huskies and he was interested not to give collabor the
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: play by play job, even knowing that it's only for
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: a couple of years and then he's going to take
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: the Sonics job. But maybe for that other person that
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm can name or not, maybe
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: that's a good thing. Maybe it's a we'll announce at
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: the same time, we'll hand this thing off. So collabor
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: for two years and then announce wooth you will hand
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: it off to once the Sonics do return to Seattle.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: So maybe that is a solution to all of this
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: and everybody ends up happy in the end.
• 36:58
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I would love to have everybody. And
• 37:00
  Speaker 6: I also though, I just think the opportunity to have
• 37:06
  Speaker 6: Kevin collabor one of the great play by play voices
• 37:10
  Speaker 6: doing your school's games.
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  Speaker 2: Very hard to pass up. Yeah, and who knows.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe. I mean he said college, so I would assume
• 37:17
  Speaker 6: that you dub would be a possibility.
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  Speaker 2: I would assume he wasn't. Like, No, I'd only go
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: to William and Saint.
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  Speaker 1: Mary, William and Saint Mary.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what it's called, the one like Williams,
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: William and Mary.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: Oh, William and Mary.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: There you go, and then there's Saint.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: Mary, William and Mary.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well maybe he would go to either one of those.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: I don't think there's any doubt about it. I think
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: this is Hey. I wasn't enjoying myself of Portland. Things
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: are getting weird there. I would have stayed if they
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: weren't weird, they were going to pay me, but things
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: have gotten weird. Then I got insulted by the offer.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: I've always wanted to go back to Seattle. It's been
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: written all over my face. I don't know when the
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: Sonics are going to get back there. I don't have
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: an NBA play by play job waiting for me in Seattle,
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: but there is this college gig over here, and I
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: have no problem doing a couple of years of college
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: basketball in the city that I love while I wait
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: for that job to come back. Now whether or not,
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: I mean, U Dub's got a really proud history of
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: play by play people, and maybe they're like, no, we're
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: not some stepping stone, not even for a great like
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: Kevin Collaboro. I don't know. I don't have any inside
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: information there. Maybe they do want to just nope, here's
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: our long term voice of at least Husky's basketball. Or
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: maybe they do want both jobs combined, like you had
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: with castor Cone. So maybe they do want that, or
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: maybe collabor is just so pricey. I don't know that
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: he wouldn't be interested in what that job pays. I
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: have no idea, but it does certainly make an awful
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: lot of sense that he's leaving Portland he wants to
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: be the Sonics play by play man when they return.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: We all want him to be that. And in the interim,
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: you know, he does college basketball for a couple of
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: years in the interim.
• 39:06
  Speaker 6: We've got a number two chair right here that he
• 39:08
  Speaker 6: could come, you know, just join us in the mornings,
• 39:11
  Speaker 6: because nobody everybody thinks, like, gosh, now that I haven't
• 39:14
  Speaker 6: done with the Blazers, I would really love to wake
• 39:17
  Speaker 6: up at three thirty in the morning.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: Well, let's put it this way. If he was insulted
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: by the Blazer's offer.
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: He's not going to go well, yeah, gonna go.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I hardly be like, hold my beer.
• 39:27
  Speaker 6: But if you want to volunteer, yeah, yeah, if you
• 39:31
  Speaker 6: want to, bro, we got a spot for you.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: I want to join the Chuck and Ashley program out
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: of the goodness of your own heart. Yeah, we got coffee, right.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: I think you can write it off on your taxes
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: as a charitable contribution.
• 39:42
  Speaker 6: I think once once a week, Chuck'll bring in four
• 39:44
  Speaker 6: pieces of pizza.
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: You can have two of them.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you can have two of them. I mean I
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: didn't even want to eat all four of you.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: Get two pieces of pizza and all the coffee you
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: can drink? One more could yes?
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: All right, Well he'll join us at nine. I don't
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: know what kind of answers he's going to give us,
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: but it's always great to talk to him. So he'll
• 40:00
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