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Chuck & Buck 7-17 Hour 2: What did Jerry have to say? The Depth Chart & Trade Season! · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Hey, Great Friday morning to you. Welcome into the radio show.
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  Speaker 1: Just letting you just unleash the hounds.
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  Speaker 1: Well, great morning to you, Ashley. Ryan is here. My
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  Speaker 1: name is Chuck Powell, and we do have your headlines
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  Speaker 1: going to get into that conversation Adam Jude had with
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Depoto, a lot of very interesting things that I'd
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  Speaker 1: approved by Kjar and we read the statement this morning
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  Speaker 1: pretty much tells you what's going on going forward. I
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  Speaker 1: would just say, if I could riff not nearly as
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  Speaker 1: long as I did at six o'clock today on it,
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  Speaker 1: I would just say that my plan is and it's
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  Speaker 3: Yes, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: And I admire Bucky for taking the time to figure
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  Speaker 1: All of us, Yeah, for sure, for sure. So thank
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  Speaker 1: against the San Francisco Giants as their second half gets
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  Speaker 1: underway and hopefully it will be more positive than the
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  Speaker 1: first half was. And that's where we drop the information
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  Speaker 1: that Adam Jude uncovered he got a little one on
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  Speaker 1: one yesterday with Jerry Depoto, and a lot of things
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  Speaker 1: to react to and Before we get into some of
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  Speaker 1: the details, I just want to say I realized that
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  Speaker 1: I sort of have this reputation as a depoto apologist.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't even describe my relationship with Jerry as good.
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  Speaker 1: I would describe my relationship with Jerry as hey, Chuck,
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  Speaker 1: hi Jerry, and that's about it. I don't have some
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  Speaker 1: pipeline to him. We don't exchange texts, I don't ever
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  Speaker 1: call him, we've never hung out personally, none of that.
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  Speaker 2: I have to reintroduce myself to him every time. So
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  Speaker 2: if that tells you anything about my relationship.
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  Speaker 1: But but if you hear me like defend him support
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  Speaker 1: him more than others, is because I'm sorry. I really
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  Speaker 1: think he's good at what he does, agreed, and he's
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  Speaker 1: not perfect, And I think one of his biggest weaknesses
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  Speaker 1: is his ability to relate via the Sometimes he has
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  Speaker 1: said some really stupid, tactless things, and he should be
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  Speaker 1: better at that because he's a splendid orator, like Eve's
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  Speaker 1: a smart guy and he can really explain things well,
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  Speaker 1: so there's really not any excuse for those moments where
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  Speaker 1: he just blunders the explanation. And so he's had a
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  Speaker 1: few of those moments. Also, I have been hyper critical
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  Speaker 1: of Jerry over the years, for you've done a nice
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  Speaker 1: job putting together a competitive team. Where are those championship moves?
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  Speaker 1: And I rode him about that on these very airwaves
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  Speaker 1: hard until last year at the trading deadline, those were
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  Speaker 1: championship moves. Finally, those were moves saying we're about winning
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  Speaker 1: the World Series. But I think he's done, along with
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  Speaker 1: Justin and the entire organization, a fantastic job of giving
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  Speaker 1: us a winning product that has a very bright future.
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  Speaker 1: And not only do I believe that he has put
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  Speaker 1: us and a championship window right now, We're going to
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  Speaker 1: be in that championship window for a long time because
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  Speaker 1: of the way that Jerry has structured things going forward.
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  Speaker 1: So yes, I do think he's really good with some flaws,
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  Speaker 1: all right. So that sort of explains my analysis of
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Depoto over the years. But then I read this
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  Speaker 1: Adam Jette article, this one on one, and I know,
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  Speaker 1: I know, because there are there are a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people out there listening right now that don't like him,
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  Speaker 1: don't like him at all, don't want him here. And
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  Speaker 1: so you read it and you think to yourself, oh
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  Speaker 1: my gosh, I can't believe he said that. Oh good night, nurse.
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  Speaker 1: This again. I read it, and I'm like, I agree
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  Speaker 1: one hundred percent, Coli, I agree one hundred percent. And
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  Speaker 1: so let's get into some of those things that I
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  Speaker 1: agree with. First of all, Adam asked him about the
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  Speaker 1: general theme to the conversation was we need to be better.
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  Speaker 1: And when I say we, everyone needs to be better.
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  Speaker 1: According to Jerry, in general, I think the pitching staff
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  Speaker 1: continues to do the things that are required to play
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  Speaker 1: into the postseason, and that makes us feel really confident
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  Speaker 1: that eventually we will figure ourselves out. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: the rest of our group, our decision making, our roster composition,
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  Speaker 1: it all needs to be better than it's been. And
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  Speaker 1: that's for me, that's for the staff, and that's for
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  Speaker 1: the players to figure out. I agree with that. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I think he's throwing himself under the bus roster composition
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  Speaker 1: wise a little bit because he doesn't want to exclude
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  Speaker 1: himself and Justin from criticism. And certainly there's a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: but the fact that he led with our decision making,
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  Speaker 1: I think that says something. Am I reading into that ashe.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think so, because I think that says, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we're aware, we're not. We don't have our head in
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  Speaker 2: the sand. We don't think it's all going well. We
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  Speaker 2: recognize everybody needs to be better. It's not just who's
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  Speaker 2: actually going out on the field and performing, it's who's
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  Speaker 2: in the dugout making decisions.
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  Speaker 1: I think, man, you know, maybe I'm reading into it
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  Speaker 1: because it fits one of my narratives if I am,
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  Speaker 1: forgive me, But I do believe that part of that
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  Speaker 1: is the decision making of the players running the bases,
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  Speaker 1: some of their defensive brain farts that they've had. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it doesn't exclude the pitchers either. It certainly
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  Speaker 1: doesn't exclude cal Raley and his pitch swing decisions that
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  Speaker 1: he's made so far this year and Jpeves swing decisions
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  Speaker 1: that he's made this year. But I think there's a
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  Speaker 1: reason that he led with our decision making. I think
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  Speaker 1: he's probably not happy with what Dan's done in the
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  Speaker 1: first half either, And I'm reading into that, and he
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  Speaker 1: certainly didn't say it out out front, but the fact
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  Speaker 1: that he started with decision making kind of makes me
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  Speaker 1: think that he's not too happy with some of the
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  Speaker 1: managerial decisions that have been made so far in the
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  Speaker 1: first half.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and again he's not naive, so if he's bringing
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  Speaker 2: up decision making, he's not thinking it's all these other things.
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  Speaker 3: But Dan's doing a great job.
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  Speaker 2: I mean right, it's so you've got to know that
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  Speaker 2: at least part of it has to do with the
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  Speaker 2: Dan Wilson aspect of it.
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  Speaker 1: He also added to that we have generally not played
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  Speaker 1: a clean game. We've not played the tight, buttoned up,
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  Speaker 1: make the plays defense that we ordinarily do. We have
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  Speaker 1: not been particularly good on the bases. We have just
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  Speaker 1: not played like the Mariners play. And some of that
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  Speaker 1: is pressing. And this gets back to that other thing like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: all right, pressing, we want to do that pressing. I
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  Speaker 1: want to say pressing and not caring, because sometimes it
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  Speaker 1: comes off as not caring. I don't believe that this
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  Speaker 1: team doesn't care. I don't believe that they don't have
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  Speaker 1: a passion for winning. I was there in spring training when,
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  Speaker 1: to a man, they knew what the objective was. They
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  Speaker 1: had never been so bold about what the goal was
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  Speaker 1: for the upcoming season, and it was the ultimate goal.
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  Speaker 1: That's what it's about. So I think sometimes a struggling
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  Speaker 1: base ball team can come off like they don't care
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  Speaker 1: because they're frustrated that they're not being successful. I don't
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  Speaker 1: really question the effort. Maybe the Arose Arena play Saturday aside,
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes Randy doesn't give effort, but Randy's weird, So
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  Speaker 1: I don't really question effort, but I do question focus,
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  Speaker 1: And to me, that was a theme throughout the course
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  Speaker 1: of this conversation between Adam and Jerry. He kept bringing
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  Speaker 1: that up, and I think that reflects certainly on the
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  Speaker 1: players more so than the manager.
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  Speaker 3: Focus.
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  Speaker 1: Focus for sure on the players. Brain farts on the
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  Speaker 1: base pass, brain farts in the field's that's players first, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: But I do think a manager has to take responsibility
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  Speaker 1: for a team's lack of focus. If the president's going
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  Speaker 1: to highlight that continuously in an interview as one of
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  Speaker 1: the issues with why the Mariners are under five hundred
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  Speaker 1: ninety seven games into the season when they might have
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  Speaker 1: the best roster in the American League.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what's one of the things we talk about. That
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  Speaker 2: is Dan's responsibility getting the most out of your team.
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  Speaker 2: If your team isn't focused, you're not doing your job.
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  Speaker 1: Here is another question for him from Adam. Has the
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  Speaker 1: team's performance in the first half affect of your thinking.
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  Speaker 1: Going forward to Poto's response, not at all. We have
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  Speaker 1: one of the most talented teams in the league, and
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  Speaker 1: I think if you pulled around the league you'd get
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  Speaker 1: a similar answer. That's true. I mean, if you just
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  Speaker 1: cannot bring yourself to like anything about Jerry, or if
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  Speaker 1: you're just in this. I'm a Mariner fan, but I
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  Speaker 1: hate them. If you're one of those fans, you might
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  Speaker 1: not think that's true. That's true.
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  Speaker 3: They still have the third highest odds to win the
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  Speaker 3: World Series.
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  Speaker 1: All national analysts believe in them as much as I
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  Speaker 1: believe them. Yeah, as much as Jerry believes in them.
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  Speaker 1: The reason why they keep coming up as most disappointing
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  Speaker 1: teams of the first half, alongside the Mets, who are
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  Speaker 1: out of it and have a payroll twice the size
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  Speaker 1: of ours, is because that's how much people believe in
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  Speaker 1: this roster that followed the sport for a living. He added,
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  Speaker 1: We've been able to weather the storm of injuries. Eh,
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  Speaker 1: everybody has injuries, and coming out of the break, we're
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  Speaker 1: hopeful that Julio and Brendan Donovan will be back out
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  Speaker 1: there and that we get a cleaner there, it is
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  Speaker 1: again more focused there. It is again group than the
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  Speaker 1: one that went into the break, because that's going to
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  Speaker 1: be required, absolutely, and I do think some of that
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  Speaker 1: falls on the manager. You just can't continue to do
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  Speaker 1: it the same way. You can't just continuously have people's backs.
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  Speaker 1: Did you hear Brian Schmitzer last night, Yeah, air out
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  Speaker 1: his team after one bet them played in a month.
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  Speaker 1: If anybody had an excuse to have an off, rusty,
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  Speaker 1: bad game, it was the Sounders last night. And Brian
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  Speaker 1: Schmetzer as soon as that game was over, that is
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  Speaker 1: it's unacceptable. That is not us and we are not
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  Speaker 1: going to be that going forward. What's wrong with that?
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  Speaker 3: Nothing?
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  Speaker 2: And he even called them out for a lack on defense,
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  Speaker 2: how poorly they played, saying they lacked like five different things.
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  Speaker 3: I thought it was great.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's great. And if a player can't take that,
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  Speaker 1: if they're so thin skinned that they can't take being
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  Speaker 1: called out when they when they're guilty, I call it
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: truth therapy. I think it's the greatest thing on planet Earth.
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  Speaker 1: Do you ever have one of those moments where somebody
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  Speaker 1: analyzed you, and you've had a lot of them, where
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  Speaker 1: they you're sure they misanalyzed you, but when they're like,
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  Speaker 1: oh my gosh, you just nailed me. Yeah, and it
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  Speaker 1: causes you to go home and think about how you
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  Speaker 1: can be a better person. Yep. Truth therapy works.
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  Speaker 3: It does.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I don't think you should go out
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  Speaker 2: and call people out individually by name, like Randy didn't
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  Speaker 2: show effort here, and Caldon do this and who you know.
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  Speaker 1: Every once in a while, I think it's okay if
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  Speaker 1: it's agreed very great once.
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  Speaker 3: In a while, yeah, if it's agreedious.
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  Speaker 2: But I do think calling your team out for a
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  Speaker 2: lack of folk or poor base running or things like
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  Speaker 2: that is okay.
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  Speaker 3: It should happen.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's go to this one. It's a long list.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I got time to go through it.
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  Speaker 1: But he's talked about pitching and how good the pitching
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  Speaker 1: has been in the first half, and then that he's
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  Speaker 1: sure it's going to continue into the second half. And
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: he did say that the piggyback plan, even though it
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  Speaker 1: was strange for everyone, it did seem to write Luis
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  Speaker 1: Castillo and Bryce Miller was spectacular in it. And those
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  Speaker 1: things are also true. You know, you don't have a
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  Speaker 1: problem with a piggyback. Certainly, nobody can say what a
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  Speaker 1: runaway success it was, but those there's some truth to that.
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  Speaker 1: Those are true statements that are be made now on
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  Speaker 1: whether or not he's going to trade a starting pitcher.
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  Speaker 1: He said it would be unusual at this time of
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: the year for a team that views itself as a contender,
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: which we do, to trade from the goodness of its
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: major league roster to answer other problems. But I can't
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: say that that's out of the question for us. It's
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: a trading deadline. There's not been any movement. I guess
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: Lance mccullor's junior got traded. I don't even know if
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: he even has a functioning right arm anymore. And so
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: it's been a strange There are seven teams that look
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: like they are sellers right now. I mean, we're two
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: weeks away from the end of July and there are
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: seven teams that look like trade possibilities, and they don't
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: exactly there's a reason why they're one of the seven.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: They don't have a lot to trade. There's not a
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: lot of interest. So we've got a slow market. We
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: got a seller's market, a lot of things are gonna
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: have to play out in the next two and a
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: half weeks. And what he's saying is it might not
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: be a traditional trade deadline type deal. We might have
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: to trade a lot of teams, might have to trade
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: that are both contenders, and this is usually not what
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: you see at the deadline. We'll trade from a surplus
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: to establish to get back up something that addresses our weakness,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: and we could do the same for you. So that
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: would put any one of your starting pitchers possibly on
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: the trading block for the right piece. And then finally
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: he did say about the lefties. At some point, we
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: just have to be better offensively against all pitching. We
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: do have a clear flaw for facing left handed pitching.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: I hope people can't stand him, like you know how
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: rare it is to be that honest. He's the only
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: one that is in that organization. They won't even tell
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: us about injuries. He will tell you the truth, not
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: all the time. He covers some things up, but I
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: love that he's just like, yeah, we stunt against left
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: handed pitching, and that's something we'd like to resolve. Although
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: there are really no clear and obvious places we can
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: fit players on our roster, and there are no clear
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: and obvious players who are available right now. Those are
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: all truths. Everybody thinks, like, go get this guy, Well,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: he's not available. Whatever it takes, they're not gonna get
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: anywhere in professional sports. John Schneider does not spend whatever
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: it takes. John Schneider makes the shrewdest damn trades in
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: the National Football League. No, No, if you run the
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: practice of that guy fits our needs, we're gonna give
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: them whatever it taks. You are gonna be You got,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: you got like an eighteen month shelf life, and you're
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: gonna be one of the worst teams in baseball. You
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: just don't operate that way. You still gotta make good,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: sensible moves to add the right pieces, and right now
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: they're just on't a lot of pieces available on the market. Yeah,
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: so it's gonna be a challenge going forward. But I
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: found a lot of honesty in the interview I did,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: and I'm glad to hear some of it, because I
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: don't know if we have gotten much information along these lines.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: They are aware of how bad they've been, they are
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: aware of what it's gonna take to fill those holes,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: and it sounds like they're on the job, so I
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: do think it's going to be a much better second half.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: I do think, as I've said all along, they will
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: eventually pull away. I get the frustration. I'm frustrated. I
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: don't know why we have to do this every year,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: especially when we have a much better roster than our
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: peers in the American League West. But that's the position
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: that we're in. I do think they will get it together.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: They will pull away. We will be in the playoffs,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: and we will be a major threat in the World Series.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: But this team played crappy in the first half of
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: the season. There's no getting around it. All right, Coming
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: up next, we've got the depth chart right now, an
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: update from the Open Championship. Who is this?
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: Who's this gem of a human with a voice of
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: goddess man?
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: That song it is?
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, she's great.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she's pretty talented. As it turns out.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: It turns out she should make it a career.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah did she ever make it?
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: I've seen her in a while, so I'm not sure.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, let me check the concert schedule to laylup
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: to see if he's going to be performing out there. No,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: it doesn't look like this year. Black Crows will be
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: there though on Sunday, August thirtieth, Anthony Hamilton, September tenth,
• 22:08
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• 22:11
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• 22:14
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• 22:17
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• 22:19
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• 22:25
  Speaker 1: we got a brand new segment here on the show.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: We introduced it last week. It's called the Depth Chart,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: and I'm bringing it back here this week. But it's
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: going to be a Seahawks Training Camp edition. We are now,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: I mean, we can't be any further into a countdown,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: right yeah. Next week will be the last week without
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: training camp, yep, and so a little training camp edition.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: And it's been ranking season here as of late. And
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: apparently this Jeremy Fowler list that had everybody talking on
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: all the talk shows, only four Seahawks, only four players
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: off the World Championship team ended up on the list.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: There were some teams that had nine players that made
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: these lists, but the World Champs only had four guys.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: And this isn't you know, you're not you're not polling writers,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: or this is executives, coaches and whatnot. So I don't
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: know who who he pulled, but this is not just
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: you know, a bunch of talk show hosts somewhere. So
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: the four are JSN, nick Emon Woory, Devin Witherspoon, and
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Leonard Williams. They got acknowledged as the top players among
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: the or among the top players at their positions. So
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: if those are the four we have to work on
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: work with, let's do our depth chart here, Ashley. Of
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: the four, let's rank the four. Okay, all right, JSN,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Emon Worry, Devin Witherspoon, and Leonard Williams. Who are our
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: four best players in sequence?
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Hmmm, that is a hard one because I feel like
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: I want to I'm gonna go JSN first. I feel
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: like I want to go Emon Worry, But at the
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: same time, he's so young. I don't know if I'm
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: just so excited about him that I'm not thinking about
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: the entirety of things. I think I would go JSN,
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: Devin Witherspoon, Leonard Williams, nick Eman Worey.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Okay, I think that's safe. I think you were actually
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: on it before. Okay, okay, yeah, my depth chart is
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Jsn's my starter. Yeah, nick Emon Worry is two. I
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: just think the second year is when you improve the most.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm really excited to see what you're gonna.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Do terrifying for the rest of the league. So I'm
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: gonna go em and Warri too. I'm gonna go Spoon three,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna go Leonard Williams four. All Right, the
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: four snubs, if you will. Four guys that I thought
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: for sure would be on this list. Let's rank them.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Sam Darnold didn't make it on the list. Gray Zabel
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: didn't make it on a list. Byron Murphy didn't make
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: it on a list. Ernest Jones didn't make it on
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: a list. So who's the starter on the snub depth chart?
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: Ernest Jones number one?
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Well, really see, I'm going Byron Murphy number one as
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: my biggest nub. I think that's ridiculous that he's not ranked.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: And did you just go over sacks? Is that all
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: you did?
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: You?
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Maybe whoever was pulled, did you just google who had
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: the most sacks last year? Because there's no way Byron
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Murphy's not one of the best defensive tackles in the game.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: No, I would agree, it's very good.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would put see I'm gonna go so I
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: would go Jones first, Darnold second, Murphy third, and who
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: was our oh and then Zabel fourth because I can
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: understand he's he.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Just to say Murphy third, yeah, oh boy.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: He just finished his rookie season. For Zabel, and I
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: hope for a lot more from him, and I think
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: we'll get a lot more, but I can understand him
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: not being on the list yet.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna Murphy one's Abel two? Wow, Donald three, Jones four. Okay,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: that's my list.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: More opposite there.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're a little different on this one, all right.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: There was also a list. I don't know if this
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: was the foul or maybe it was. I don't know,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: but I heard it the other day on Coward Show.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: But Mike McDonald got raped the third best head coach.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: In the national Who were the two ahead of.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Him, Andy Reid okay, Sean McVay okay, and then Kyle
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Shanahan was fourth on that list. So do you agree
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: with the list? Let's do the head coaching best head
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: coaches in the National Football League depth chart, who's your
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: number one?
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: I would I mean, I know I'm biased, but I
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: would go Mike McDonald because the Chiefs were not good
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: last year, and I'm sorry, but didn't we beat the Rams.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: We did beat the Rams okay a couple of times.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Now. Sean McVay very good head coach. Sean McVay. I
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: don't know we necessarily beat Sean McVay well in terms
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: of his offense, but I'm with you. Yeah, I think
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: he's the best head coach. I wouldn't trade him for anybody.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: I said it last year. I think he's only going
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: to get better. I don't care if there's not enough
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: proving ground like Andy Reid has, or that even Sean
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: McVay has, even though they're similar age. Sean mcvage has
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: had a lot longer in the league proving that he's great.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: I just wouldn't trade our guy for anybody. I'm going
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: McDonald won.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think obviously if you're going for a career,
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: like the entirety of someone's going, but that's not where
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: we're that's what we're doing, right, because then i'd put
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: Andy Reid first.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: But that's now where we're going. So I would go, yeah,
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: Mike McDonald, Sean McVay, Andy Reid.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: I would do Okay, that's exact order that I would
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: go in at this stage. And then I don't even
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: know if I put Shannon Okay, I'll give you Okay,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: I'll give you Kyle Shannon, because I did say last
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: year I think he should be Coach of the Year
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: because of how many injuries he we had to deal
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: with a lot, and they still ended up with what
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: twelve thirteen wins on the season a year ago. But
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: my goodness, we don't have the same disparity. There's a
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: conversation out there. McVeigh versus McDonald. There is no conversation
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Shanahan versus.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: No okay domination.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: They could go out to dinner together and McDonald would
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: be like, I'm gonna have the t bone and Kyle's
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: gonna have the chicken, and Kyle's gonna be like, how
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: did you know I was going to have chicken? Kind
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: of got you figured out?
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, sordid, Oh gosh.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: McVeigh could be like, hey, Kyle, I'm thinking of the
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: number between one and ten. Tell me what I'm thinking,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: and McDonald be like five and Shanahan's like, how did
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: you know that.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: Got your number?
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Buddy? Well, I've kind of figured you out. I know
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: exactly what you're gonna do before you're gonna do it. Yes, anyway,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be a real fun next ten years up, buddy.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: All right, final one, and I want to do this quickly.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: But just some things that I think, although unlikely, maybe
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: they happen. Maybe you tell me the unlikely thing you'd
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: like to see happen, okay during our training camp coverage
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: or no, no, no, no, no, let me take that back. Uh,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: this will be the most unlikely things to have happened. Okay,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: this is the most unlikely thing to have happened to
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: our during our training camp coverage that JSN decides he's
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: too big a deal to talk to us. We just
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: had him on last year. Yeah, DK never came on
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: with us. It's true, just had him on last year. Okay,
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: do you think that? Do you think he's gonna be
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: big time? He's so good now that he won't come home? Uh,
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Ernest Jones will join us and not cuss.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: Oh I don't think so. He wouldn't be Ernest Jones
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: if he didn't. That's what we love about him.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: I will challenge DeMarcus Lawrence to a oiled up pose
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: down and he will lose.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: Oh, You're definitely gonna do it. But he will not lose.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: And I will remind Michael Dixon and how much better
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: we are at soccer than Australia.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: Oh, you're definitely going to do that as well. Okay, yeah,
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: you're going to do that, all right.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: So what's the most unlikely.
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: Unlikely is that JSN snubs really?
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah? So you think I got a better chance of
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: beating DML and down? Well, thank you.
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: I'm very flatter people with it.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: I think I'm very flattered, Thank you very much. Say
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: no more, well.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: Because you say less here.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: Here's the thing is that I think you will challenge
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: him to it that so I think half will happen,
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: and then I think you'll lose miserably.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Oh well, I really lose. I don't know. I think
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: it'll be pretty close. Yes, all right, So you still
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: think JSN is less likely to happen him turning us down.
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: I think that's less likely to happen, and not necessarily.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: I mean, he might not go on our show if
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: the schedule doesn't work out, but he will come on
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: the station.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: I think the least likely thing to happen is that
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Ernest Jones comes on our show and doesn't cuss.
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you ready to fit the dump button for sure?
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: And then I'll go DeMarcus Lawrence posedownh JSI and Michael Dixon,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: because yes, I will rub it in. Yeah. Well, all right,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: coming up next, it is trade season and it's the
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: name that a lot of people seem to want the
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Mariners to land. And I'm going to caution you don't
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: think it's a good idea. Sports Radio ninety three point
• 31:19
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• 31:31
  Speaker 1: the hour, you're ohow your eight top story? So the day.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: We do it every Friday here on the radio program,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: and we have top news right here at KJR that
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: we'll share with you right out of the shoot. It's
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: our top story of the day. So we'll do that
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: at eight o'clock here today. But it's also trade season
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: and I've been hearing a name that's thrown out a lot.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: The Mariners should be interested in this guy, and I'm
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: not dismissing it. I think that Baltimore's Taylor Ward would
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: be an upgrade to our roster, and he is having
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: a good year, but the unusual way that he has
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: gone about his good year strikes me as a bit worrisome.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Taylor Ward this year has suddenly, at the age of
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: thirty two, turned into an on base machine, which has
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: really been his flaw his entire career. That he's had
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: a an on base over three thirty five, which isn't
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: great once in his entire career, and he's thirty two
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: years old. That's a lengthy career. But for whatever reason,
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: for whatever reason, this year, he's got a three eighty
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: seven on base uh and he has a two point
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: war on war because of it. So he's been playing
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: at a rate of about a four war player at
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: this point in the season. So a lot of people think,
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: because he's also hitting lefties very well this year, that
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: here is a veteran who's kind of proven he can
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: hit at the major leagues. He's having a very good year.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: He's doing so some of the things that this team
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: seems to miss, putting the ball in play more this
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: year and certainly getting on base more this year, and
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: so maybe this is the right fit. Well, let's assume
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: he's going to be available at all, because the Orioles
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: are not on that list of seven teams who are
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: out of it. They are still kind of holding on
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: because of how poor the American League has been so
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: far this season. So I don't even think he's technically available.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: But if he does become available and the Mariners were
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: to acquire him, I would think to myself, all right,
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: that's an upgrade to the lineup that works. But I
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: do worry a little bit about how a Tiger could
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: change his stripes like that, because he only has six
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: home runs this year. It's like, this is a guy
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: that hit thirty six home runs a year ago and
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: he's on pace to hit eleven and people are treating
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: it like he's having some big breakout year. Well, he
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: in the offseason, I'll be decided, I'm gonna get on
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: base and put the ball in play more. I mean,
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: his batting average is up twenty seven points, is on
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: base is up seventy points, but his slugging is down
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: over one hundred points so far this season, and so
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: he's not the player that he's been. It's almost as
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: if he's wearing a costume. He's like, hey, everybody, it's
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: me Taylor Ward. You thought I was Ricky Yeller get me? Yeah, yeah, exactly. Hey, surprise,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: it's me Taylor Ward. I'm not an on base guy.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: Did you guys know? You guys didn't know that was
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: me this little time.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: So he's just something. I mean, it's one thing if
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: you do that from twenty four to twenty five, when
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: you do that from thirty one to thirty two, that
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: actually sends off some red flags for me, like what
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: are you? Because frankly, if I were to acquire you,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: even though we could use a guy that gets on base,
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: we could use a guy that hits lefties, and we
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: could use a guy that puts the ball in play
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  Speaker 1: more than what he used to, I'd still prefer having
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: the Taylor Ward that hit thirty six home runs last year,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: drove in over one hundred runs, even though the batting
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: average in the on base wasn't so good. So if
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: you don't feel that way, if you're like, no, no, no,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: we need the on bass guy. We need to put
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: the ball in play guy. We need a veteran, a
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: sorer thing than what we have in our everyday lineup.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: But what happens if he wakes up one morning and
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: he's not that guy. I mean, he's been the power
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: hitting guy his whole career, and now all of a sudden,
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: he's on bass guy. I'm not sure I trust that,
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: and I certainly am not going to give up a
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: lot to acquire that, right. So would I take him? Yeah,
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: he was available. If he was like bundled up in
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: a basket and just left outside T mobile, would I
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: drag him in and raise him as our own?
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: Yep, I'd do that. I'm moses it.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd take him out of the reds and see
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: what he can do, maybe take us to the promised
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: land here? But am I going to if he he
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: might end up being the number one bat on the market?
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: Am I gonna pay number one bat on the market
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: price for a guy that has curiously changed the baseball
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: player that he is in his mid frickin thirties. I'm
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: worried about.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: That, And that's understandable, Yeah, because you don't you wonder
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: especially I feel like here we get burned by people
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: who come in and aren't the same player they were.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: And if someone is already not being the same player
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: he was, how's that going to translate?
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: When they come here and change more.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I don't know. Or he gets here and
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: he's like, ah, I don't want to be that guy anymore.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: That guy's boring and it just gets on it first. Yeah,
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Like I like that guy used to trot around the
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: bases on him dingers. I want to be him again,
• 36:46
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