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Chuck & Buck 5-21 Hour 1: The Mariners keep delivering, Mariners Morning After and Western Conference fun. · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 1: Something complete? This is Chuck and Buck in the Morning.
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  Speaker 1: What's up, folks? Why you people are beyond Let's go,
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  Speaker 1: Let's get the game on. Hey, great Thursday morning too.
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  Speaker 1: You welcome into the radio show called Chugging Buck in
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  Speaker 1: the Morning Sports Radio ninety three point three k j
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  Speaker 1: R f M. It is wonderful to have you with
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  Speaker 1: us here on this day, and of course you'll be
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  Speaker 1: with us till ten o'clock soaking it all up like
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  Speaker 1: some big giant absorb it. Biscuit. We welcome it and
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  Speaker 1: it's great to have you with us. And when I
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  Speaker 1: say us, Ashley is back after two days pretending she
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  Speaker 1: was Greg Bell. Hard work.
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  Speaker 2: I had to do a lot of push ups, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of push ups.
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  Speaker 1: So do you try to pretend to.
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  Speaker 2: Be Greg I was not prepared for that. Nobody tells you.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we joke about Greg Bell doing push ups
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  Speaker 1: and he admitted on the air he can do like
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  Speaker 1: a hundred in a row.
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  Speaker 2: I cannot.
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  Speaker 1: I found out rough, isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, trying to step into those combat boots.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, I gotta do one hundred like before
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  Speaker 3: the show starts, or can I spread it out throughout
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  Speaker 3: the two hours?
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  Speaker 1: Get up in the morning. Yeah, you gotta do it.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, if you're going to be a Greg Bell, you
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  Speaker 1: got to do it before even you get up normally,
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  Speaker 1: which you get up really early because you have to
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  Speaker 1: live up to the I did more before anybody else
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  Speaker 1: did all day, before they even got up.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie to you. I didn't do them
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  Speaker 2: like at four in the morning. I didn't. I did
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  Speaker 2: not wake up early like my normal time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I see, yeah, I see, I see it.
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  Speaker 1: Not you decided that maybe that was something that you
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't continue.
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  Speaker 2: No, yeah, exactly. I slept until seven fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, wow, that's like, oh man, you missed magic hour?
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  Speaker 2: Uh I did? Is that is the magic hour of
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  Speaker 2: the five o'clock hour? Where the sun's coming out.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, magic hours, the six o'clock hour, theirst hour of
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  Speaker 1: the show.
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  Speaker 2: Every dingy did I miss it?
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  Speaker 1: This is Magic Hour? You didn't know that.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Well, now life's going to change for you.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to see the world is completely different now.
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  Speaker 2: It feels so much more magical.
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  Speaker 1: Corn Flakes are going to taste different now that you
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  Speaker 1: know this is Magic Hour.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, let's ask the real question. Who eats corn flakes?
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  Speaker 2: There's no flavor there at all.
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  Speaker 1: I did as a kid because that was healthier, my parents'
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  Speaker 1: attempt to give us healthier stuff.
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  Speaker 3: But like when you have choices, oh yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 3: Oh no, and then there's some well who puts sugar
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  Speaker 3: on corn flakes? Just go get frosted flakes, man, Oh.
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  Speaker 1: There are people that put sugar on frosted flakes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that is just too much. But why buy corn
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  Speaker 3: flakes add sugar?
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  Speaker 1: The ginger who's not here might be one of those candidates, but.
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  Speaker 3: Like, yeah, why buy cornflakes and add sugar? Just buy
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  Speaker 3: the cereal that's got the sugar in there for you.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, yeah, you're right, you're absolutely right about that. It's
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  Speaker 1: just like frosted many wheats. Yeah, you know who's gonna
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  Speaker 1: get regular old many wheats. After you've gone to that world,
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  Speaker 1: after you've gone to that Paradise psychos, after you've taken
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  Speaker 1: a tour around that Disneyland.
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  Speaker 3: At that point, you might as well just buy a
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  Speaker 3: cardboard box and rip it up. It's going to be cheaper,
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  Speaker 3: cut it up into little squares, and chew on that
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  Speaker 3: for a while.
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  Speaker 1: A long time since I've even had breakfast cereal. Well,
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  Speaker 1: good morning to you, and welcome, I mean a long
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  Speaker 1: time welcome into the show here on this Thursday. We
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  Speaker 1: got a very busy program plan for you. Actually, you
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  Speaker 1: know what, not really we don't have that busy of
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  Speaker 1: a show planned for you, but certainly we've got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of topics. The mari are giving us a lot
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  Speaker 1: of content, a lot of thoughder here this week, and
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  Speaker 1: it really times out well like this is the first
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  Speaker 1: week that NFL hasn't had something that in some way
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  Speaker 1: takes up a lot of our programming and our thoughts
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  Speaker 1: and our minds and our lives. And the Mariners are
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  Speaker 1: just like, we got you, We got you covered. We
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  Speaker 1: got all sorts of juicy topics for you. Next week,
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  Speaker 1: and so we'll break down a few of those today.
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  Speaker 1: And did want to thank Anders and Travis for filling
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  Speaker 1: in the last couple of days, and gosh, it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be hard just out there. Have some sympathy for them.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they just went to the mountaintop the last
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  Speaker 1: couple of days and now they got to go back
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  Speaker 1: to their humdrum average lives.
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  Speaker 3: So I'll tell you, I listened my hour and twenty
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  Speaker 3: minute commute into the station both days. That's different, and
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  Speaker 3: you guys sounded great. They sounded like they were just
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  Speaker 3: live in the life.
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  Speaker 1: It was Yeah, thanks for noticing.
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  Speaker 2: I could hear their smiles.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when you get to make dreams come true
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  Speaker 1: in this business, it just, I don't know, does something
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  Speaker 1: for you. It really humbles you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and warms your heart right right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, more than anything. I'm like, this really humbles me
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  Speaker 1: that you two get to work with me.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I can understand that. I mean, glad it did
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  Speaker 3: that for you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean some people would let that go to
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  Speaker 1: their heads. But it was surprising, a humbling experience to
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  Speaker 1: think that here's these two guys that have waited their
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  Speaker 1: entire lives to do this.
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  Speaker 2: Two days. Yeah, and you got two days of magic.
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  Speaker 1: So good luck going back to parenthood if that's what
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  Speaker 1: they're calling it these days.
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  Speaker 2: They do think they call it that.
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  Speaker 1: But let me tell you, marriage like, uh be hard
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  Speaker 1: to be hard to find some joy in that. Again, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it is after you've been to the mountaintop.
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  Speaker 3: But now you're just now you're gonna go look at
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  Speaker 3: your They're gonna go look at.
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  Speaker 2: Their wives, right right, kids and be like, yeah, so
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  Speaker 2: this is it.
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  Speaker 1: Huh, this is it.
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  Speaker 2: This is the best it's gonna get.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Now I gotta go back to this.
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  Speaker 3: And then they're gonna be calling me, calling Greg, Hey,
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  Speaker 3: when's your next vacation?
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  Speaker 1: Right the grind. But anyway, you got a taste of it.
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  Speaker 1: You have a taste of the magic, and uh, it
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  Speaker 1: was great having you in. All right, let's get into it.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so Mariners win. We'll get into that with
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  Speaker 1: Mariners morning after But it's been since yesterday afternoon since
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  Speaker 1: that happened, I mean a long time ago. Yeah, So
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  Speaker 1: the Mariners again have done us a lot of favors
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  Speaker 1: this week because I mean, we did an entire show
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  Speaker 1: on Piggybacking for goodness sake yesterday, and then earlier in
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  Speaker 1: the week we did practically an entire show on Colt Emerson.
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  Speaker 1: And although we're not going to do an entire show
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  Speaker 1: on it today, I do believe, and I think I'm
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  Speaker 1: right to believe that our number one story, which we'll
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  Speaker 1: spend a lot of time on today, is JP Crawford
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  Speaker 1: and his acceptance of the future and the handoff to
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  Speaker 1: the future that he has volunteered to make. And I
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  Speaker 1: mean very interesting, very interesting story here revolving around JP Crawford.
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  Speaker 1: And so you know, we do all of this talk
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  Speaker 1: for weeks about when is it going to be Cold
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  Speaker 1: Emerson's time? And you know, analyze JP, who has shown
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  Speaker 1: the age. I mean, he's not an old man by
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  Speaker 1: any means, but sometimes players age faster than others. And
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  Speaker 1: JP's just not as fast or quick as what he
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  Speaker 1: used to be, even though he's still a relatively young man.
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  Speaker 1: And the metrics were suggesting that every year since his
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  Speaker 1: Gold Glove award at shortstop, which was not that long ago,
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  Speaker 1: we've seen a slight decline in his mobility and in
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  Speaker 1: his defensive metrics numbers. And JP has obviously wanted to
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  Speaker 1: play shortstop. That's the position that he wants. He's also
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  Speaker 1: wanted to be a leadoff man since he arrived. JP
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  Speaker 1: the newcomer and I used to have a conversation every
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  Speaker 1: spring and it was I mean, it was something that
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  Speaker 1: we did every spring when he arrived, and I you know,
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  Speaker 1: that did not continue, by the way, And yet and
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  Speaker 1: yet that was what JP wanted to do. I want
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  Speaker 1: to be a leadoff man and I want to play shortstop. Well,
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  Speaker 1: here we have cold Emerson on the come. You've got
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  Speaker 1: people all over social media, and I have no idea, Astuley,
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  Speaker 1: how much these players pay attention to social media. Probably
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  Speaker 1: can't avoid it, right, you know, they probably do participate.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't if I were them, but they probably do participate.
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  Speaker 2: I would think.
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  Speaker 3: So.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how much they listen to talk radio.
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  Speaker 1: My guess is not a lot, that would be my guess,
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  Speaker 1: and morning radio forget about it. Yeah, these are guys that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, spend a lot of time stand up late,
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  Speaker 1: or at least they used to. And and so maybe
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  Speaker 1: now that everybody's on the team's got a baby, maybe
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  Speaker 1: they don't. Maybe it's just like I can't wait to
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  Speaker 1: get to bed. I don't know. I got to get
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  Speaker 1: up more early with the kid. And so I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if what we say impacts them in any way,
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  Speaker 1: but certainly, you know been hypercritical. I've been hypercritical of
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  Speaker 1: JP Crawford, and I have tried to measure that against
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  Speaker 1: the fact that I still think he's the best shortstop
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  Speaker 1: in the organization, because twenty year olds don't typically just
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  Speaker 1: come into the league and hit the ground running. But
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  Speaker 1: my feeling was that at some point we would have
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  Speaker 1: that moment in our season where I thought that once
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  Speaker 1: Colt Emerson got a few more at Betts was more
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  Speaker 1: consistently putting the ball in play. I've seen him play
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  Speaker 1: a few times in Tacoma, and I know he's already
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  Speaker 1: a better defensive shortstop than JP Crawford is right now,
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  Speaker 1: at this point in his life, I thought that I
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  Speaker 1: was at some point going to announce to the world
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  Speaker 1: it's time Cold Emerson needs to replace JP Crawford. Doesn't
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  Speaker 1: mean that JP Crawford can't have a spot on this roster,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean we want to give him a bus ticket
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  Speaker 1: out of town. It just means we're after a World
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  Speaker 1: Series this year and we're gonna play the best guys
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  Speaker 1: for the job. And I thought it at some point
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  Speaker 1: this season Colt Emerson would be that guy. And then
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, this week arrives and on Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: out of the blue, the Mariners decide it's Colt Emerson's
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  Speaker 1: time now to be on a major league roster. I
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  Speaker 1: just watched him play last Friday. I did not leave
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  Speaker 1: Takoma thinking that guy's ready, that guy is locked in. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that guy's got nothing left to prove at the minor
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  Speaker 1: league level. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like if you had thought that, you would
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  Speaker 3: have said something on social media or sent a text
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  Speaker 3: or something and said, this guy's ready.
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  Speaker 2: I just watched somebody who's ready to play up there.
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  Speaker 1: I certainly would have started Monday show with yes. And
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  Speaker 1: yet that's not how I felt leaving the ballpark on
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  Speaker 1: Friday night. And yet he gets activated, and we are
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  Speaker 1: under the impression he's getting activated because Brendan Donovan is hurt.
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  Speaker 1: Cold Emerson will play third base, and when Brendan Donovan
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  Speaker 1: comes back, Brendan Donovan will become a utility player like
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  Speaker 1: he thrived in as a Saint Louis Cardinal. But Cold
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  Speaker 1: Emerson's gonna play every day. They are activating him, and
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  Speaker 1: they're not activating him to be a platoon player, that's
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  Speaker 1: for sure. And so we dealt with that news earlier
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  Speaker 1: this week, and now we have this situation in which,
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  Speaker 1: after one day at third base, cold Emerson's suddenly playing
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  Speaker 1: shortstop the next day.
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  Speaker 2: Yep?
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  Speaker 1: Or was it two games? I guess it was two
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  Speaker 1: Sunday and month, Sunday, Monday, Yes, Sunday and month, and
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  Speaker 1: then all of a sudden on Tuesday, cold Emerson's playing shortstop.
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  Speaker 1: And of course we're just sure that is man. JP's
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  Speaker 1: been playing every inning, you know, Brendan Donovan, Yeah, Brendan
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  Speaker 1: Donovan's not been available. Leo Revas has had to play
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  Speaker 1: too much. I mean, JP just needs a breather. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he's a veteran player. That makes sense. You know. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not gonna think too much about that. And then yesterday
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  Speaker 1: cold Emerson's at shortstop again and you're like, what's going on? Well,
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  Speaker 1: long way to get to this point. JP Crawford took
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  Speaker 1: himself off of shortstop. Apparently that JP Crawford says, volunteered.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe maybe self awareness. If he's the better shortstop, let
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  Speaker 1: him have the job. But I want to still play
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  Speaker 1: every day, and third base is open right now, and
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  Speaker 1: I know my contracts expiring, but I can also see
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  Speaker 1: the riding on the wall. I'm not stupid. I know
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  Speaker 1: who your second basement of the future is, been playing
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  Speaker 1: with him every day, and I know who the shortstop
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  Speaker 1: of the future is, and I'm gonna step out of
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  Speaker 1: his way because I'd like to be the third baseman
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  Speaker 1: of the future. I would like to remain a Mariner
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  Speaker 1: beyond this year, and maybe the best way to do
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  Speaker 1: that is to learn a new position that doesn't seem
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  Speaker 1: to be locked up for the next ten years. And
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  Speaker 1: so that's what JP Crawford did yesterday. Number one threw
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  Speaker 1: his support behind cold Emerson as the better defensive shortstop
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  Speaker 1: right now, and that his clock needs to start right
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  Speaker 1: now as the Mariner's shortstop as they try to win
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  Speaker 1: a World Series this year, and JP is taking ground
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  Speaker 1: balls at third base with Perry Hill to try and
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  Speaker 1: lock down the third base position for this year and beyond.
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  Speaker 1: It's remarkable, Ashley, it is remarkable that someone would have
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  Speaker 1: that self awareness. I mean, this is an ego driven profession.
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  Speaker 1: Like you have to be confident, you have to be cocky,
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  Speaker 1: you have to be damn near arrogant about how good
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  Speaker 1: you are, otherwise you'll get eaten alive. At the professional level,
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  Speaker 1: there's just too much competition. And you could have very
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  Speaker 1: easily been threatened by Colt Emerson this entire year. And
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  Speaker 1: maybe there was a little bit of that. Maybe he
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  Speaker 1: had to have a few conversations with Jerry and Justin
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  Speaker 1: or Dan or whoever he trusts. Maybe he had to
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  Speaker 1: have a few company maybe with his wife, maybe with
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  Speaker 1: his dogs. Maybe fatherhood did it to him. But nonetheless,
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  Speaker 1: to arrive on May twentieth at the conclusion of I
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  Speaker 1: know I've lost a step defensively, I still think I
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  Speaker 1: can contribute to this team as a leader and as
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  Speaker 1: a ballplayer. But if there's a better shortstop in the
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  Speaker 1: organization that makes us better, give him my job and
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  Speaker 1: let me fight for another job on this team. And
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  Speaker 1: right now third base is open, and I think I
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  Speaker 1: can play it. Incredible, just incredible, And I hope that
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  Speaker 1: all the other shows make as big a deal out
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  Speaker 1: of this as we're going do today, because that just
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  Speaker 1: says a whole heck of a lot about JP Crawford
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  Speaker 1: and his maturity, his leadership and the person that he is.
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  Speaker 1: It's just, I just it's one of those things you
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  Speaker 1: just don't see in professional sports. You see guys that
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  Speaker 1: fight to the bitter end. You see quarterbacks that have
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  Speaker 1: announced to the world I'm about done, and then a
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  Speaker 1: few minutes moments later, that organization drafts a quarterback and
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  Speaker 1: they're pissed off. How could you do that? You just
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  Speaker 1: told everybody you're thinking about retiring, and now you're threatened
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  Speaker 1: that we'd drafted a quarterback so that we don't have
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  Speaker 1: two three law years after your retirement. And so that's
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  Speaker 1: the world. That's the sports world that I'm used to, Ashley,
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  Speaker 1: And here's JP Crawford saying he's the better man for
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  Speaker 1: the job. But I still can play this game, and
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  Speaker 1: I want to be a part of this team, not
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  Speaker 1: as a bench player, as an everyday player and as
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  Speaker 1: a leader. And so give me the chance to win
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  Speaker 1: the third base job before Brendan gets off of the
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  Speaker 1: injury list. Let me prove to you I can do that.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's remarkable.
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  Speaker 2: I absolutely agree with you.
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  Speaker 3: And just one of the things that we'd heard prior
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  Speaker 3: to yesterday was that the Mariners wouldn't think of taking
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  Speaker 3: him out of the lineup or off the field because
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  Speaker 3: he's such a great leader in the clubhouse.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this just proves what a great leader he is and.
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  Speaker 3: Beyond because what you could have imagined him being I
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't have expected this. And for him to have said
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  Speaker 3: I want to be a Mariner for life, this is
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  Speaker 3: the best way to do it, and not just say
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  Speaker 3: I want to play third base and have that conversation
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  Speaker 3: with the organization. He also had his agent call the
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: organization and say, you need to like give him a chance.
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: He wants to be here, he wants to play third base.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: He was like, I'm going to do everything. We're attacking
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: this from all angles. I want to do this and
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: I hope that he's successful at it, because what a
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: nice for him, more than ever, more than ever, Yeah,
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: because what not only what a story for him and
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: this team, but if he's successful, this team's going to
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: be very good.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd said earlier this year, and I mean, because
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: I've been critical of JP, and I think that's my job,
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: right I've got to tell you how I see it,
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: and I see it. I saw a declining shortstop over
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: the last few years who may have reached the point where, hey,
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: we can't have the worst defensive shortstop and still win
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: the World Series. You know, that's the conclusion that I
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: arrived at. But I've also said right now, he's the
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: best man for the job, and that I hope he
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: is the starting shortstop for the Mariners when they're celebrating
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: the World Series this year. That's my hope that he
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: shows us you can't take me out of the lineup.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: I'm putting the ball in play. I get on base
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: a lot, I pop a home run on occasion, and
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: even though I don't have the range, that's never going
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: to get fixed going forward, because people don't get quicker
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: the older that they get. I do if I make
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: every single play that's that I can get to. Then
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: that value, you know, could trump what a young, inexperience
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: cold Emerson could bring to the table. So I wanted
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: nothing more than to see him be the starting shortstop
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: for our World championship team this year. Absolutely, but I
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: also have to evaluate it on its face, and on
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: its face, I just felt Colt Emerson was eventually going
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: to overtake him in nearly every aspect, and I think
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: maybe the organization feels he's already done that and that's
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: why he's been activated. But for JP to say it's okay,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: I'll find my way. I want to be on this
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: team and I want to be a Mariner for life,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, that statement has just Oh yeah, you
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: are a Mariner for life. I been here only eleven years.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: I don't know the city as well as you do,
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: but I know how provincial this place is. I know
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: how much they love the people that love being here.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: I mean, Felix Hernandez is a legend forever, right because
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: he said I'm not going to go for the highest
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: I want to be here. JP just did that yesterday.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: You whatever my future is in baseball, I want it
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: to be as a Mariner. I want to be a
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Mariner for the rest of my career. Pretty impressive, very
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: pretty impressive stuff. So I hope it works out. I
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: We're going to do a round of We've never done
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: this before. I'm introducing a little thing today, fairer run
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: fa okay, And and you know what, when you have
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: been as critical as a sports talk show says I've
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: been of a player, and then he does that, You're like,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: you start to do a little like soul searching. You
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: start doing like this almost like survivor's guilt, Like I
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: got what I wanted? How good do I feel about it?
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: Out there?
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, And a lot of that's happening here as
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: of late. I got what I wanted out of Emerson
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Hancock stand in the rotation, and then we had piggyback Gate,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, how good do I feel about I'm
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: starting to get everything I wanted on this talk show,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: and yet I'm starting to wonder have I been fair
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: or unfair? Is Dan gonna get fired because I've been
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: critical of him? And how am I going to feel
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: about that? So we're gonna do that a little bit
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: later on in the show. But man, JP Crawford should
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: have won you over a little bit more yesterday, because
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: he certainly did me. All right, let's find out what's
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: on tap for the rest of the show, coming on,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Chuck and by what's on TEP, what's on Tech Mariners
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: morning after coming up at six thirty. They won yesterday
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: with a White Sox five to four. They take two
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: out of three in a very weird series. So they'll
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: be at Kansas City starting tomorrow night. Matt Brash returned,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: and you looked fantastic. Also, Piggyback will be piggyback next
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: time through the rotation. They're gonna do it at least
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: one more time and perhaps iron out the wrinkles. We'll
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: discuss that today. NBA Playoffs, the Oklahoma City Thunder went
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: over the San Antonio Spurs last night one twenty two
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: to one thirteen. I kind of expected the Thunder to
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: win by thirty. I just thought the Spurs came in
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: and did what they needed to get done and exhausted
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: every effort to get that done. In Game number one
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: felt to me like the Spurs had accomplished what they
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: set out to achieve. I expected them to get boat
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: raced last night that did not happen, but OKC was
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: the better team last night anyway, so that series is
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: even at one game apiece to the Eastern Conference Finals
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: tonight at five o'clock. The Knicks up on the Cavaliers
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: one game to none. Stanley Cup Western Conference Finals got
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: underway last night with Vegas winning over Colorado four to two.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: The Avalanche had all that time off and couldn't get
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Cale mccarr healthy for game number one. I think he's
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: vital Las Vegas. We continue to just not respect how
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: great Las Vegas is and they won four to two
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: over Colorado last night. Caroline has not played in eleven days,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: so they're going to knock off the Rust and start
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference Finals tonight against Montreal at five o'clock.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: And Aaron Rodgers says, this is it, magno mistake you, well,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: this is it. He is going to play his final
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: season as a professional football player this year for the
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers, So we'll find some time to talk about
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: that later in the show as well. They're coming up next.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: It's Mariners Morning After on Sports Radio ninety three point
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: three KHRFM. Right now, Anders is at homegoing Who's see.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: And I got the movie reference. Look at me.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: A Ventura third basement for the White Sox a few
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: years ago. No, no, no, that's Robin Ventura. Oh yeah,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: see that whacky governor from Minnesota. No, no, that's Jesse Ventura.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: I've never heard of him. Then, And there you go.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Good morning. It is time for Mariners Morning after right
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: here on Chuck and Buck in the Morning. Ashley and
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: I with you here today, uh, and we have a
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: postgame show to provide you. Mariners do win yesterday over
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: the Chicago White Sox. It was the third game of
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: a three game series at home, and of course they
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: were coming off the piggy Backgate disaster, which I'm going
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: to give Ashley Ryan some credit for and we'll talk
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: more about this a little later, but I think she
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: was the other host that I I heard yesterday on
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: the show that kind of had the best perspective on
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: the piggyback Gate, because I don't think it was the
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: disaster that people were trying to portray it as it ended. Disastrously, Yeah,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: ended terribly, yes, And I think that there's just a
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: couple of things that need to be changed in the experiment.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: This is how experiments work. That you know, oh, man,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: that blew up in our face at the end, but
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: we were almost there.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that close.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, And so let's try a couple things differently,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: and let's run the experiment one more time. If it
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: blows up in our face again, and you know, maybe
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: maybe we've wasted time on all of this equipment. But
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: for outing number one, I certainly don't think it was
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: a total disaster. It just the end result of the
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: product ended in a loss. But it was certainly one
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: of the most topic worthy games that we've had in
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: this entire season and for a regular season game in
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: quite some time. And so it probably wasn't the easiest
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: thing to come back the next day and try to
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: fix it. And the Mariners take the field on a
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: beautiful day here in Seattle against the Chicago White Sox.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Emerson Hancock had to be facing all sorts of pressure.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: It's like, dude, we did all of this, all of
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: these gymnastics because you're good, and we didn't see that coming. Yeah,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: And we had to adjust our entire rotation to keep
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: you in. And yesterday we used two starters and two relievers,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: so we kind of need you to be really good
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: today and He wasn't great, and he got off to
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: a rough start, but he was good enough and the
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: Mariners hung in there and then got the biggest hit
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: of the game, I'd say from the most unlikely of
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Mariners is driven deep out to left Johnny Pen's give
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: it the Mariners the lead in the seventeen his first
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: major league home run puts the Mariners in front. Oh man,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: yeata like seeing I like Johnny Perry, I do too.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: And what I just I also love seeing a young
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: player get their first big moment, and especially for him.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm I'm a big fan of his.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's got good energy about him, seems to handle
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: himself really well behind the plate slow that is not
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: good foot speed. But and he's been hitting the ball
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: pretty hard. He hadn't had a lot of results and
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: then showed you, yeah, I can go four hundred feet,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: I can go over the wall. Uh. And it put
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: the Mariners up three to two. They would stay up
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: for good, even though I got a little dicey late
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: in the game. Randy A. Rose Arena helped by hitting
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: a two run homer himself and that exact same inning
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: to make it five to two, and then it was
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: a matter of holding on. Eduardo Eddie Bizardo once again
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: didn't have a clean inning. He gave up a run
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: to make it five to three, and then we didn't
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: have munios because of piggyback Gate, all the damn piggyback disaster. Uh.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: And and so you go into the ninth inning and
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: you decide to pitch the war horse, jose A. Farrer,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: and he gives up a home run on the moor
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: that did not look like a home run swing from
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Randall Gritchik. I have no idea how that guy left
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: the yard swinging that way and making that contact at
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: that angle of the bat, and yet made it five
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: to four. Made us all nervous. And then Farrer ends
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: up striking out the next three hitters in a row,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: and the Mariners do win the game by a final
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: score of five to four. They do win the series
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: two games to one. Here's Dan Wilson after the game. Yeah,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: you know, really.
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: Big series win for us right there. You know, I
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: thought today was, you know, a good ball game for us.
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: Emerson did a nice job for the five that he
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: was in there. You know, he ran into a little trouble
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: there in the second but I thought made some good
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: pitches when he had too. That looked like the cutter
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: was a pretty good pitch for him today. And the
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: sweeper again was.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Was you know, a good pitch.
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: They just you know, put some tough at bats, got
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: his pitch count up a little bit. But you know,
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: he was able to hand it over to the bullpen
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: that I thought was you know, very good again today.
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: You know, he covered four innings there with the bullpen,
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: and you know, the guys threw the ball well and
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: got us the outs that we needed, you know, offensively,
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: you know, created some traffic, got some guys in you
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: know early in a ball game to give us a
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: little bit more of a lead, I mean, to give
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: us a little you know, get us on the board.
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: And then you know, opening it up late I think
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: was big. Johnny Pardo was his first big league homer.
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: That's that's outstanding, you know. And then uh, you know,
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: the big blow. I think Randy being able to drive
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: that ball out of the ballpark was clutch and uh,
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: you know kind of opened it up to three runs
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: for us. And and it was the bullpen's job after that,
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: and they did a great job. So, you know, a
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: good game all around, and uh, you know, a good
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: series win.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Uh. Dan Wilson afterwards, and again I don't think that
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: the piggyback gy was was a disaster, just ended disastrously.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Going to have to repeat that to that frequently. I
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: have a feeling, uh, Dan Wilson afterwards, five to four victory.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Matt Brash made his return, looked phenomenal. Jose Ferrer, what
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: a pickup he's been and I know he gave up
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: the home run, but didn't look like he should have. Uh.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: And then he just locked in. I mean, he is,
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: he's He's was a heck of an addition. He's been
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: outstanding for this team so far, uh this year. And
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: then Emerson ended up going five innings. He was wild
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: early but ended up only walking three in his five
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: innings as he settled in, gave up five hits, two
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: earned runs allowed, and did not factor in the decision,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: but did his part yesterday and the bullpen took it
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: from there. So five to four the final score. Randy
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Rose Arena's fifth home run and also stole two bases
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: in the game, So his excellent season continues. And now
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: a night off and probably much needed, and they won't
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: play again until tomorrow evening against the Kansas City Royals
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: in Kansas City. And so they sit right now at
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: twenty four and twenty seven. Nothing that we wanted, and
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: yet it's very clear, Ashley, that this is what they're
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: going to do to us every year.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: Obviously, and this year feels more aggravating than others. But
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: I think our expectation expectations were higher going into this
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: year than they have been in a while, and well
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: since the when we made the playoffs and then didn't.
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: That year was pretty disappointing, but this year because the
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: expectations are even higher, because you're having not just playoff expectations,
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: world series expectations.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been rough.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: It's been rough.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: It's been a roller coaster.
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: I'm already pretty tired, but I'm ready to take the
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: ride for the rest of the season, and.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: We are going to play fair or unfair to see.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you be the judge if I've been
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: unfair with some of my criticisms so far this year.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: And the reason that I even open up that gate
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: is because you gets as grounded as I try to
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: be on the air and not be overreactive and not
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: just be because I've got this stage and I've got
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: this microphone, and so I try to be responsible and
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: not be an overreactor to things, and because so many
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: in this business are and they've made their fortunes doing
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: it that way, but I try not to be that way.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: But man, when you every year are projecting good things
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: for a team and you know what they're capable of
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: on paper, and every year we've got to start by
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: digging out of a hole, it gets so frustrating that. Yeah,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: maybe I have crossed the line a couple of times
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: and been a little unfair. Maybe I've been a little
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: too harsh with some criticisms as of late, but certainly
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: the frustration is real.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, and that's fair.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And so here this team sits. They are much
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: better than twenty four and twenty seven on paper, and
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: they've got over one hundred games left to try and
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: prove that, and so hopefully that starts on Friday. I'll
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: say this, you want to talk about a roster reconstruction
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: right before our eyes. The way this thing has changed
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: in fifty games is pretty incredible. And I think there
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: are a few other big nugget moves that we're going
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: to see here very shortly that are going to also
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: round this thing out. I think a lot has been
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: learned about this roster in fifty days, and I think
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: they're ready to arrive at conclusions on how we should
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: move forward and who we should be moving forward with.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: And that's something we'll talk about a little bit later
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: on in the show. All right, coming up next though,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: there are other things going on, certainly in the sports world,
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: including an NBA series that we don't want to watch,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: but we can't look away from Sports Radio ninety three
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: point three kJ RFM. I just realized, I'm like, where
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: do I know that guy? So I get we had
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: King Five's up in the studio for just left there.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: I don't usually watch television when I do the show,
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: but I'm like, man, I was out at getting some
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: wine on Saturday, you know, just at the little winery
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: ear locally, and I'm like, man, which, go who is that?
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: And I just figured it out. Rich Marriott was there.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: He saw the meteorologists to the stars.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, he was there. He was there at the
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: same place.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: I didn't even know.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: Well I didn't know, but you didn't know, but I
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: wasn't sure. I'm like, I think that's that rich Mary,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: I missed a prime opportunity to ask him about the
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: weather this week. That's true, Well, it was wonderful at
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: the time. It would have been a really easy softball question.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: What a nice breaker, because I'm sure he loves that
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: on his free time.
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, just like when people come up to you like,
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: so are we getting even sonics back?
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: I'm sure he would have loved like me going over
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: there and say, hey, this weather gonna turn.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, thought it was the best.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: Well, the Thunder and the Spurs played last night, Game
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: two of the Western Conference Finals. I'm if there's any
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: surprise that I have about the result of last night,
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: it's that the Thunder didn't win by more. I think
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: more so than ever, there's really a pacing that these
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: NBA teams even during the regular season. I mean, I
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: get the arguments for in my day, Kenny, we played
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: every day. I get the argument for that. But and
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: how maybe players of yesteryear they think that you should
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: play every day, And yet the modern day thinking is no, no, no,
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: we kind of want to pace ourselves during the regular season.
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  Speaker 1: We want to give our superstars some strategic days off.
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  Speaker 1: We want them to be the very freshest at the
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: end of the year. Well, I kind of think it's
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  Speaker 1: not that there wasn't great effort last night, but I
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: do believe that, either consciously or subconsciously, there are situations,
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  Speaker 1: even in playoff games, where it's like, it's all right,
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: if we lose this one, Yeah, we're not gonna kill
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  Speaker 1: ourselves to win this one. Yeah you know, we killed
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  Speaker 1: ourselves to win the last one, but we got were.
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  Speaker 2: Probably gonna choose your battles, probably gonna be.
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  Speaker 1: In this for a little while. And so I was
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: thinking that was gonna be one of those It's gonna
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: be hard for Mitch Johnson to impress upon his San
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  Speaker 1: Antonio Spurs how desperate this game is, either consciously or subconsciously,
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  Speaker 1: where SGA already had that he covered it in his
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: press conference yesterday. I woke up knowing we were more
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: desperate than the Spurs could possibly be tonight, and we
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  Speaker 1: played that way, and I think that's the way it unfolded.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: I thought it was going to result in like a
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  Speaker 1: thirty point blowout, and it ended up being a pretty
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: competitive game from beginning to end. But the thunder do
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: take it by a final score of one twenty two
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  Speaker 1: to one thirteen. And as much as Seattle basketball fans
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: would rather like just pour lie into their eyes, you know,
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  Speaker 1: then watch the Thunder and watch the Thunder be successful.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: If you're a basketball fan at all, this is one
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  Speaker 1: of the best series matchup wise we've seen in a
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: long time. And from just a pure basketball standpoint, I
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: think basketball fans would want as much of this series
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: as they can possibly get. I get why you want
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: to see the Thunder humiliated, not only a sweep. You
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: would like to see them lose in three games that
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: they just decide after three games we don't want to
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: play anymore. That's the ideal scenario for a Seattle basketball fan.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: But just from a pure basketball standpoint, I think the
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  Speaker 1: world wants to see as much of this series as
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: they possibly can. So it got evened up last night.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah I don't. I will say, as you know, I
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  Speaker 2: hate the Thunder.
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  Speaker 3: I would like to see it go till to seven
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  Speaker 3: and I would like to see the Thunder think they're
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: going to win, all fans to be all excited, and
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: then I want the Spurs to basically do what the
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: Knicks did to the Cavaliers.
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  Speaker 2: Oh you're you're counting us out.
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: All right, Well here we come on our twenty from
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: our twenty two point deficit, and we're taking it from you.
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: Oh I say cry, Yeah, I want to see them cry.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: It's one thing to starve, it's another thing to have
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: to be hungry. And then somebody flaunts food in front
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  Speaker 1: of you, right and then right was you're lifting your
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: fork to your mouth. They're like, no, got to take
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: that away from you.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, that's what that's what you want. That's what
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: I want.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: I see torture. Yeah, starvation with torture.
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: I get it.
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  Speaker 3: And if that makes me cruel, sign me up, call
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  Speaker 3: me Kruela Deville. H.
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  Speaker 1: Well that's what you get. Thunder Yeah, with your lightning.
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