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Furness Show 3-30: Chris Crawford, Nathan Bishop and Nicky Scarlotta · The Ian Furness Show

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  Speaker 1: Headlines are brought to you by Frostbrewed cors Light Shoes.
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  Speaker 2: We're all just here on a Monday.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm telling you this is as Monday as it gets,
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  Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, this is as Monday as it gets.
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  Speaker 3: Mariners eight nothing over the Guardian split that season opening
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  Speaker 3: series two games apiece. Absolute beat down yesterday by the MS.
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  Speaker 3: The Yankees are in town. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the Yankees
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  Speaker 3: are in town.
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  Speaker 2: My least favorite New York team.
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  Speaker 3: I bet all right, cracking loss the Sabers in a shootout.
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  Speaker 3: Did get a point three to two on Saturday afternoon
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  Speaker 3: on the road. Next again to finish off six straight
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  Speaker 3: away from home, take on the Oilers five o'clock or
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  Speaker 3: five thirty pre game six o'clock is a drop of
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  Speaker 3: the puck with Bento on the pregame for you tomorrow
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  Speaker 3: here on I three point three km.
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  Speaker 1: NFL.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of news coming out of the NFL owners meetings.
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  Speaker 3: We'll get into some of this. Maybe the most important
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  Speaker 3: thing Mike McDonald's saying today DeMarcus Lawrence is expected to
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  Speaker 3: play this year.
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  Speaker 2: I do like to hear it.
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  Speaker 3: Kyle Shannon and thrilled the San Francisco forty night as
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  Speaker 3: we'll open the twenty twenty six season with a trip
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  Speaker 3: to Melbourne, Australia to play the Rams.
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  Speaker 2: Quote.
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  Speaker 3: I don't see any pro it's cool for the league
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  Speaker 3: to play globally. I think that's awesome, but as far
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  Speaker 3: as the team doing it, no, there's not much benefit
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  Speaker 3: to it. I love it, Kyle Shannon, you're my favorite
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  Speaker 3: coach right now, next to Mike McDonald.
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  Speaker 1: God bless you.
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  Speaker 3: All right, let's get the show start here real.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that was my ben Sorry because that's where my
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  Speaker 2: mic used to be, so I turned it off by accident. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: just you know, all right, Okay, that was on me.
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  Speaker 3: That was on me, all right, great, do one shoe
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  Speaker 3: got to start the show's okay. I think the one
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  Speaker 3: thing that everyone listening can relate to that we go through.
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  Speaker 3: You guys all have corporate people that come to town
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  Speaker 3: and screw things up because we do.
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  Speaker 1: We do, and we did it badly.
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  Speaker 3: Our poor producers man, whether it be Ashley, whether it
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  Speaker 3: be Kid, whether it be Jess Andrews is doing softy
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  Speaker 3: show later you guys. You guys are doing heavy lifting, man,
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  Speaker 3: So I thank you for that. We'll get through this.
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  Speaker 3: We'll get to the.
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  Speaker 2: Next case and is our business and not our practice.
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  Speaker 3: We will get through the next two hours on the
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  Speaker 3: I think we're on the radio. If not, then we're
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  Speaker 3: just talking to ourselves for a couple of hours.
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  Speaker 2: Four nine, four five one. If you can't hear us.
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  Speaker 3: All right, we got a lot coming up. We think
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  Speaker 3: today molliwat Monday, good weekend for the baseball team. And
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  Speaker 3: not often you say that when it's a two and
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  Speaker 3: two weekend, but when you look a little bit deeper
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  Speaker 3: into and we'll talk to the boys about this coming
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  Speaker 3: up in a minute. A Cleveland's good playoff team from
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  Speaker 3: a year ago. B If you would have said, hey,
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  Speaker 3: Josh Naylor is going to go oh for fifteen for
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  Speaker 3: the weekend, Julio Rodriguez is going to go one for
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  Speaker 3: fifteen over the weekend. Cal Rawly is going to be
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  Speaker 3: two for fifteen over the weekend. I'm like, what they
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  Speaker 3: How bad was it?
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  Speaker 2: Like?
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  Speaker 1: How bad was the weekend?
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  Speaker 3: That would be my thought, or of just the four games,
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  Speaker 3: and yet here they are two and two because Brendan
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  Speaker 3: Donovan and Dominic can Zone and Luke Rayley and Randy
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  Speaker 3: Rora carry the mail, which is a sign of a
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  Speaker 3: good team when you have that depth, because if we
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  Speaker 3: know this, the best players are going to crank it
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  Speaker 3: up like they're gonna be better. Right, They're gonna be better.
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  Speaker 3: They're gonna they're gonna they're gonna get going. So in
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  Speaker 3: the meantime for the season opening series boom, you end
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  Speaker 3: up going to and two because these guys are doing
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  Speaker 3: their thing and you're pitching still really good for the
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  Speaker 3: most part. I mean, I know they had a bullpen
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  Speaker 3: issue in the tenthning the other night.
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  Speaker 1: I get that.
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  Speaker 3: But you know it's funny by watching Brian wu beat
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  Speaker 3: himself up in the postgame presser on I guess was Saturday, right,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm like, dude, you're fine. That's a quality start
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  Speaker 3: demand on a different level. Absolutely, Emerson Hancock yesterday had
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  Speaker 3: a no hitter going through six pitch count. Guy, I'm
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  Speaker 3: out of the game early, old manny and yelling at
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  Speaker 3: the clouds. Hates it while also understanding it. Can I
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  Speaker 3: hate it and still understand it because that's that's where
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  Speaker 3: I was.
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  Speaker 4: Out with that.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good question.
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  Speaker 3: I hated it. I also saw it coming. I think
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  Speaker 3: we all saw it coming. I don't know, somewhere Nolan.
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  Speaker 3: Ryan's going, what's wrong with these kids these days? Why
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  Speaker 3: can't they just keep throwing the ball? Hell, they'll love
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  Speaker 3: guys that have Tommy John surgery or all these other surgeries.
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  Speaker 3: When they they pitched twenty pitches, it doesn't matter, like
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  Speaker 3: the arm is of very fragile things. But I get
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  Speaker 3: in the case of Hancock, in case we really have
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  Speaker 3: all these guys right now, because Logan Evans is done
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  Speaker 3: for the year, right and because Bryce Miller is out
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  Speaker 3: right now, and so you're already down kind of testing
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  Speaker 3: the depth of your starting rotation.
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  Speaker 1: I get it. I just didn't like it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I get it, and I hated it because I
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  Speaker 3: wanted to see this kid was so good yesterday and
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  Speaker 3: good for him, good for him and people sitting there
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  Speaker 3: watching this game. And by the time he came out,
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  Speaker 3: it was already a blowout and you're like, okay, oh, well,
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  Speaker 3: I guess we can go. I mean it, just it
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  Speaker 3: was kind of a bummer. But again, I understand it.
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  Speaker 3: I don't need baseball guy yelling at me telling me
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  Speaker 3: I don't understand that.
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  Speaker 1: I understand.
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  Speaker 3: We all understand.
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  Speaker 2: Well, So it's a lot more finely tuned these days.
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  Speaker 3: It is, so we'll talk to the boys about that
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  Speaker 3: coming up. But a good weekend, Like it's just a
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  Speaker 3: good way to go two and two against that team
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  Speaker 3: with without your best players hitting good for them. Good start,
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  Speaker 3: tough start continues. The Yankees are going to come in today.
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  Speaker 3: Six point forty is the first pitch for that game.
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  Speaker 3: Do we all figure out the television situation? Do we
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  Speaker 3: all get through that? Okay? We okay? Everybody get through it?
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  Speaker 3: Four nine four on it Combadadge text line shop to
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  Speaker 3: Koma Doadge Chrysler ge b Ran at the corner of
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  Speaker 3: thirty eighth in south to come away intersection is savings
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  Speaker 3: and we all get through television Opening weekend TV one
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  Speaker 3: on one. Do we get through that? Okay? Jess, I
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  Speaker 3: don't ask you because you do things differently though you
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  Speaker 3: live in a very great area.
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  Speaker 2: I went to Opening Day and went to the game yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Well there you go.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, so the two games you really worry about,
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, we had two local broadcasts and we had
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  Speaker 3: the two national broadcasts. While I'm on it real fast,
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  Speaker 3: let me just shout out to Angie Mentink. There was
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  Speaker 3: so she had the strokes plural about a month month
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  Speaker 3: and a half ago. Anyway, a handful of people knew
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  Speaker 3: about I don't know if you did, Jess, but a
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  Speaker 3: handful of us knew about it, and you know, and
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  Speaker 3: first of all, good everyody kind kept the quid, respecting
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  Speaker 3: her privacy and jared her husband everything else. Thinking And
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  Speaker 3: when I heard about it, I'm like, damn, that's awful.
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  Speaker 3: She's going to be out for a while and hopefully
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  Speaker 3: she'll come back at some point this season. I saw
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  Speaker 3: her last Tuesday out at the Old Roots Sports Headquarters studios,
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  Speaker 3: which we used for the KRACK and Hockey Network. And
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  Speaker 3: I saw her out there and had a great conversation,
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  Speaker 3: had a big hug, and I just said you good,
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  Speaker 3: and she's like, I'm good. I'm gonna be on the Thursday.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm like, god, that is so awesome. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and so great. Great to see Angie back. She's probably
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  Speaker 3: one of the most not probably she is one of
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  Speaker 3: the most beloved media folks in our market, not just now,
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  Speaker 3: but but ever. We just it's we all kind of
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  Speaker 3: feel the connection. I thought the line that she had
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  Speaker 3: in one of the two articles written the Seattle met
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  Speaker 3: had the first one about you know, people can relate
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  Speaker 3: to me. You know, I'm a mom, I thought, and
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna say this because I think it even translates
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  Speaker 3: to dudes. All the women have it a lot worse
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  Speaker 3: than guys do.
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  Speaker 5: But you know, I.
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  Speaker 3: Gain weight, I lose weight, I look old, I have
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  Speaker 3: gray hair, whatever, whatever, all the things that change, it
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  Speaker 3: is very relatable. And Angie's a beautiful woman. Don't don't
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  Speaker 3: get me wrong, But I thought what she said was
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  Speaker 3: really was it was. It was good because, yeah, we
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  Speaker 3: can relate to her.
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  Speaker 1: She's a mom.
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  Speaker 3: She's a product of our school in this city. Whether
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  Speaker 3: I went there or not doesn't matter. It's Utub's here,
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  Speaker 3: has kids that have played sports against a lot of
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  Speaker 3: our kids growing up. And she's just as she's in
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  Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden she's got this a
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  Speaker 3: second healthcare after she had breast cancer a few years ago.
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  Speaker 3: I thought it was awesome to me. One of the
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  Speaker 3: highlights the weekend was just seeing her on opening night
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  Speaker 3: and seeing her in the dugout and doing the reporting job.
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  Speaker 3: She's took over for Jen in that regard with that
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  Speaker 3: this year and is going to do a great job.
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  Speaker 3: And we love Angie. So I'm just glad to hear
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  Speaker 3: that she's back. Glad to see that she's back as well.
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  Speaker 2: When I hung out with her on opening day, this
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  Speaker 2: was prior to the clubhouse opening, and we were up
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  Speaker 2: in the press box area, but in the back table.
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  Speaker 2: It's not like sitting in the press box, and we
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  Speaker 2: scared Ryan Divish with our conversation. I'll just leave it
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  Speaker 2: at that. Well, but if you can rattle that person
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  Speaker 2: with talking next to him, I'll just say that that
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  Speaker 2: was authentic Angie.
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  Speaker 1: I love it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, good love to see Angie back. So those are
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  Speaker 3: all the good things this weekend. Then, of course the
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  Speaker 3: two national games were what they were, Peacock and Apple
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  Speaker 3: and away we go back to the Mariners, and I
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  Speaker 3: think everyone's got it figured out by now, whether you
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  Speaker 3: have to buy the stream or don't have to buy
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  Speaker 3: the stream you got. In fact, I was at a
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  Speaker 3: place Saturday night, Formula brooming brewing in issaquah cool spot.
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  Speaker 3: Never been there before me neither. It's really cool. Right
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  Speaker 3: off find ninety kind of right by is Quahana Kamota.
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  Speaker 3: Actually see a little area there.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, talk to them about Mike needs a little
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  Speaker 2: yeah bobcat situation.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that place is, so you went to form and
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  Speaker 3: they we were wondering. We went there to watch the
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  Speaker 3: Purdue game and Perdue Arizona and after we got off
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  Speaker 3: here with the hockey and so we went there and
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  Speaker 3: met my daughter and her boyfriend there and the Purdue
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  Speaker 3: lum and we're watching and my daughter is like, she's
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  Speaker 3: done with college basketball and done being a Purdue wife.
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  Speaker 3: Basically over the last four years, she's just kind of
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  Speaker 3: tapped out. She's like, I'm good, Like I've I've had
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  Speaker 3: enough Perdue basketball to last my lifetime. And anyway, she's like,
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  Speaker 3: w's She's like, I want to forget the Merita game
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  Speaker 3: on And it popped up on one of the many
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  Speaker 3: TVs they have a formula, which I thought was a
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  Speaker 3: good sign from this standpoint, because that's what you want
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  Speaker 3: to have, is are the bars gonna be able to
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  Speaker 3: show games and and all that kind of stuff, And
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  Speaker 3: they had it on there. I think they had comcasts.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't like a big issue to find it or
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  Speaker 3: anything like that, but I think it was a I
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  Speaker 3: think it was on comcasts. I think they had the
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  Speaker 3: sports package because they had a soccer game and it
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  Speaker 3: looked like it was the same little grid. So anyway,
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  Speaker 3: good for them. All right, mullywop guy's coming up in
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  Speaker 3: a minute. We'll check in with those guys coming here
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  Speaker 3: in just a few minutes and and talk to them
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  Speaker 3: about all things Manors opening weekend. Just after two o'clock,
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna requent you with an old friend. He went
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  Speaker 3: viral three years ago, Scarlatta. He he went, he went viral.
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  Speaker 3: If you will play the audio for you coming in
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  Speaker 3: and it was just awesome. We've kept in touch with
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  Speaker 3: I have at least kept in touch with him over
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  Speaker 3: the years. It kind of started like basically a new
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  Speaker 3: career for this guy, like he's now kind of I
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  Speaker 3: think him and his brother's twin brother like influencers, right,
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  Speaker 3: that's what they do, and they're fun. They're fun and
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  Speaker 3: they're just New York to the core. He's a huge
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  Speaker 3: sports fan.
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  Speaker 2: I think they're Suton Islands. So there's different just so
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  Speaker 2: you know there's differences.
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  Speaker 3: I will well, I'll figure that out with him at
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  Speaker 3: that point in time. But yeah, well we'll talk to
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  Speaker 3: him coming up at two o'clock. Get a pre that's
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  Speaker 3: a that's our preview of the Yankee series. We'll do
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  Speaker 3: it with him coming up at two pm today as well,
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  Speaker 3: So lots going on malliwap Monday. Nicky coming up. We
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  Speaker 3: will get to the audio in case you didn't hear
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  Speaker 3: it with MJ in the midday and Chris Kidd earlier.
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  Speaker 3: We'll probably do that. We'll carve some time out after
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  Speaker 3: NICKI in the two o'clock hour the audio of him
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  Speaker 3: of Bill Simmons kind of throwing a little wet blanket
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  Speaker 3: on NBA expansion talk, and I got some thoughts on
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  Speaker 3: that as well, just from some things that I've kind
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  Speaker 3: of gleaned over the last few days. But it wasn't
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  Speaker 3: great what he said. Now there's a lot of reasons
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  Speaker 3: for that, and I'll kind of explain the context coming
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  Speaker 3: up in the two o'clock hour. As always, you can
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  Speaker 3: chime in to come a Dodge text line shop to
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  Speaker 3: You're ready to molly wop first regular season mallywap of
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  Speaker 3: the year.
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  Speaker 1: Let's comming up next.
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  Speaker 6: It's Monday, and that means one thing it's time to
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  Speaker 6: with the Mollywop boys, Nathan Bishop and Chris Crawford with
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  Speaker 6: my oh why, here's Ian Fernets.
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  Speaker 3: And of course the postcast as well with Crawford and Anders.
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  Speaker 1: After every Mariner game. It's must listen.
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  Speaker 3: As I tell them, I know they do a YouTube thing,
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  Speaker 3: I like to wait till they post it on the
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  Speaker 3: podcast because I'm old and I like to have things
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  Speaker 3: done simple. And I figure out a podcast a few
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  Speaker 3: years ago. And that's about as deep as I'll go.
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  Speaker 3: So make sure you go listen to the postcast with
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  Speaker 3: the boys as well. Nathan Bishop Chris Crawford are here.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes you need a good chuckle, specially when we're we're
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  Speaker 3: fighting some things studio wise here and we got that
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  Speaker 3: because I'll tell people behind the curtain, here's what we do.
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  Speaker 1: We do this on a zoom. We'd rather do stream yard,
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  Speaker 1: but we have to do zoom.
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  Speaker 3: For various technical reasons, but we do it on a
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  Speaker 3: zoom and on the little thing where it says everybody's name.
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  Speaker 3: I got Nathan Bishop, I got Jessamin McIntyre, which would
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  Speaker 3: be the studio.
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  Speaker 1: I got Ian Finesse.
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  Speaker 3: And we do do this every now and then as
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  Speaker 3: the years go on, we put in different names. In
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  Speaker 3: nineteen eighty six, the NHL Entry Draft and the fourth
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  Speaker 3: round of the eighty first pick overall, the Quebec Nordieks
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  Speaker 3: took a goaltender out of the from the Peterborough Pete
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  Speaker 3: of the Ontario Hockey League. His name is wait for it,
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  Speaker 3: Ronald Frederick Bradley tug Nutt. So Ron Tugnutt is on
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  Speaker 3: today as one of our one of our guests, Ron,
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  Speaker 3: how are you.
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  Speaker 4: I'm doing good.
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  Speaker 7: I should have tried to do like a French Canadian accent,
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  Speaker 7: but I don't want to get fired from this.
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  Speaker 4: But that is Ron tug nuts That stuck with me forever,
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  Speaker 4: my friends.
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  Speaker 3: You know what, almost six hundred games in the NHL,
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  Speaker 3: So there was tug Nutt was making a difference across
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  Speaker 3: the league. Stop laughing, Nathan. For many years, all I
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  Speaker 3: could think of was he retired in ninety four. I
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  Speaker 3: was thinking, can you imagine our boy Eddie Oulchek with
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  Speaker 3: that name. I was just thinking, I want to hear
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  Speaker 3: ed Zoe with that one. Oh, that would have been good.
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  Speaker 3: All Right, we move on, gentlemen. Weekend one is out
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  Speaker 3: of the way, four games split with the Cleveland Guardians
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  Speaker 3: in the two games to two, and then the Yankees
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  Speaker 3: are in town, which will preview as well. We always
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  Speaker 3: do this, we start out with opening comments. Go ahead,
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  Speaker 3: Nathan Bishop.
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  Speaker 8: Wow, you know, I think that that was about as
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  Speaker 8: good as I expected the team to look. They were,
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  Speaker 8: in my opinion, significantly the better team on the field.
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  Speaker 8: The fact that it was a two to two split
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  Speaker 8: was really just kind of a baseball being baseball kind
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  Speaker 8: of experience. I feel like we're going to have to
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  Speaker 8: really emphasize these first couple of weeks. Everything that we're
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  Speaker 8: saying is based off this tiny sample size with this team.
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  Speaker 8: We're commenting on four baseball games that have happened thus far.
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  Speaker 8: But this was the most runs of the Marinis scored
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  Speaker 8: through four games since twenty nineteen, So that's seven years
• 15:11
  Speaker 8: since they've gotten off to this kind of start, their
• 15:13
  Speaker 8: second and major league baseball in home runs and they
• 15:15
  Speaker 8: did all of that with Josh Naylor, Julio Rodriguez, and
• 15:19
  Speaker 8: Cal Rawley just taking a giant douce all over the
• 15:21
  Speaker 8: field at the plate for four games. So I think
• 15:24
  Speaker 8: that's a really good sign for people that were optimistic
• 15:27
  Speaker 8: about this offense. They wanted to point towards the length
• 15:30
  Speaker 8: of the lineup and the fact that there weren't those
• 15:32
  Speaker 8: black holes. And I was notably a skeptic coming into it,
• 15:35
  Speaker 8: but you saw it in that first four game series.
• 15:37
  Speaker 8: If you're getting that kind of run production without needing
• 15:41
  Speaker 8: your heavy hitters who you know are going to hit
• 15:43
  Speaker 8: over the course of one hundred and sixty two games,
• 15:46
  Speaker 8: that's a great sign, man. And the fact that it's
• 15:47
  Speaker 8: two and two, well whatever.
• 15:49
  Speaker 6: Man.
• 15:49
  Speaker 8: They lost a couple of close games on opening Day
• 15:51
  Speaker 8: and on Saturday a weird extraining game that happens, but
• 15:55
  Speaker 8: just going play to play stuff on the field, I
• 15:57
  Speaker 8: think the team looked pretty darn good.
• 16:00
  Speaker 7: Chris so In Week one, the Seahawks played the Seattle
• 16:06
  Speaker 7: Or The Seahawks played the San Francisco forty nine Ers.
• 16:10
  Speaker 7: Five twenty nine left in the game, brock Perdy completes
• 16:13
  Speaker 7: a pass short left to Christian McCaffrey pushed out of
• 16:15
  Speaker 7: bounds at the Seattle forty nine by Devin Witherspoon.
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: It's a seven to seven game.
• 16:20
  Speaker 7: The forty nine ers are driving and going in for
• 16:23
  Speaker 7: a field goal. Why am I bringing that up? That
• 16:25
  Speaker 7: play was at the two point four percent of the
• 16:29
  Speaker 7: Seattle Seahawks season. We have played two point four percent
• 16:33
  Speaker 7: of the Seattle Mariners season. Imagine making a judgment about
• 16:37
  Speaker 7: the Seattle Seahawks with five twenty nine left in the
• 16:40
  Speaker 7: second quarter, and imagine making judgments about the Seattle Mariners
• 16:44
  Speaker 7: at that point in the season. This is just a
• 16:48
  Speaker 7: long way to say, there's a long way to go,
• 16:50
  Speaker 7: and I know people are really frustrated by what they
• 16:52
  Speaker 7: saw from cal Ralely, from Julio Rodriguez, from Josh Naylor,
• 16:56
  Speaker 7: from Gabe Spire, from the manager. There's a lot of
• 17:00
  Speaker 7: baseball left to be played, and just you know, I
• 17:02
  Speaker 7: think Nathan hit the nail on the head as he
• 17:04
  Speaker 7: usually does. The fact that if you just took it
• 17:07
  Speaker 7: from a pure eye test, the Seattle Mariners looked like
• 17:10
  Speaker 7: a much better team than the Cleveland Guardians. And the
• 17:13
  Speaker 7: Cleveland Guardians are going to be a team that's competing
• 17:15
  Speaker 7: for a playoff spot, partially because the AL Central is
• 17:18
  Speaker 7: not a great division, but also partially because they're a
• 17:21
  Speaker 7: scrappy baseball team with a really good manager that is
• 17:24
  Speaker 7: going to give a lot of teams trouble. I would
• 17:26
  Speaker 7: have liked to have seen some better end game decisions.
• 17:29
  Speaker 7: I would have liked to have seen those Big three
• 17:32
  Speaker 7: get off to a better start, But overall, a two
• 17:35
  Speaker 7: and two start against a pretty good baseball team, you can.
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: Do a lot worse.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: I'm going to get back to the big three, as
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: you mentioned in a second, and then we'll get to
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: pitching as well from the weekend, because I think we
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: saw some really positive things from the starters, especially along
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: the way. We'll get to all that in a heartbeat.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: I mentioned this in our first segment, Chris, and I'll
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: start with you. What a great situation to have opening
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: weekend again to quality opponent in which you start looking
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: through here, Okay, Julio one for fifteen? Uh Naylor, oh
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: for fifteen. I mean you go through the list. Obviously
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: Cal had the what one hit?
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: Two hits?
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: Cal had two hits on the weekend, and you come
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: away and you split a four game series with a
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: quality team. That's great. We'll get to those guys in
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: a second, maybe more importantly, And Nathan just talked about
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: the length and the depth of the lineup. Yeah, Luke
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: Flipp and Raley, ladies and gentlemen, I mean Luke Raley,
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: Dominic can zone those guys having massive weekends. And then Chris,
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: we talked about it when it happened. Brendan Donovan is
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: going to help this team and make them better and
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: we saw that already.
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 18:41
  Speaker 7: Absolutely, It's just so much more of a complete lineup
• 18:44
  Speaker 7: to start twenty twenty six than it was to start
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: twenty twenty five. And I thought Brendan Donovan had an
• 18:49
  Speaker 7: outstanding series. I thought Cole Young looked really good too.
• 18:53
  Speaker 7: But yeah, this is the thing. Do I think the
• 18:56
  Speaker 7: Seattle Mariners can be a World Series contender if the
• 19:00
  Speaker 7: Seattle Mariners have their big three all hitting below one hundred,
• 19:03
  Speaker 7: which I think all three of them.
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: Are right now.
• 19:05
  Speaker 7: Yes, absolutely not. What a crazy thing to say. But
• 19:09
  Speaker 7: it also shows that you don't have to rely on
• 19:12
  Speaker 7: those guys to win baseball games because you're starting pitching
• 19:15
  Speaker 7: is good, because your bullpen has talent, because you have
• 19:18
  Speaker 7: extended this lineup as you mentioned you can win games
• 19:22
  Speaker 7: with those guys not being at their best, knowing at
• 19:25
  Speaker 7: some point these guys are going to be at their best.
• 19:27
  Speaker 7: And by the way, another thing I wanted to point out,
• 19:29
  Speaker 7: Kyle Rawly didn't hit his first home run until Game
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: five last year, and everything worked out just fine.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: Lot refresh our memories on that, like, did he hit
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: a few home runs last year?
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: He did.
• 19:42
  Speaker 7: In fact, he hit somewhere between fifty nine and sixty one.
• 19:44
  Speaker 7: As I seem to recall Ron Tugnet's memories, getting a
• 19:47
  Speaker 7: little long, but it is. Yeah, if everyone's gonna be
• 19:52
  Speaker 7: just fine. But we did see, like those who watched
• 19:55
  Speaker 7: all four games like they passed the eye test everything
• 20:00
  Speaker 7: asked the eye test. And a large reason for that
• 20:03
  Speaker 7: is because this this lineup is so much more complete
• 20:07
  Speaker 7: than it has been in the past.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: Nathany agree that kind of the glass half full is
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: just like looking at, you know, a weekend in which, okay,
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: your big guys aren't carrying you, but Rayley canzone Cole
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: Young at times, a Rozarena had a solid weekend, and
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: certainly Brendan Donovan's been a nice, nice edition to this team.
• 20:23
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, anybody who's watched this. The Marigne teams
• 20:26
  Speaker 8: over the course of time, for any length of time,
• 20:28
  Speaker 8: has seen so many lineups that, yes, have a few
• 20:33
  Speaker 8: good to great hitters in them, and when those guys
• 20:36
  Speaker 8: aren't hitting, it's just nothing, nothing happens. That's part of
• 20:40
  Speaker 8: what I think has kind of held Julio Rodriguez back
• 20:42
  Speaker 8: at the early part of his career was he was
• 20:44
  Speaker 8: asked to carry a pretty crappy group of positional guys
• 20:48
  Speaker 8: in twenty twenty one and excuse me, twenty twenty two,
• 20:51
  Speaker 8: twenty twenty three, and he struggled under that weight. Well, now,
• 20:55
  Speaker 8: when Julio gets off to a slow start and you've
• 20:57
  Speaker 8: got guys like Brendan Donovan, the guys you already mentioned,
• 20:59
  Speaker 8: Brendan and hits two home runs, Luke Raley hits three,
• 21:02
  Speaker 8: Dominic Canzone hits two home runs on opening days, just
• 21:05
  Speaker 8: makes me look like an idiot. My son's running around
• 21:07
  Speaker 8: the house flipping me off because he's so happy to
• 21:09
  Speaker 8: see me look bad. I mean, that's the sign of
• 21:13
  Speaker 8: a good baseball team, because no baseball teams players are
• 21:16
  Speaker 8: at their best for one hundred and sixty two games.
• 21:19
  Speaker 8: That's just not how it works. So there's no reason
• 21:23
  Speaker 8: to me if you are upset about Luke Railey and
• 21:26
  Speaker 8: excuse me Luke Raley, Josh Naylor, cal Raley and Huio
• 21:30
  Speaker 8: Rodriguez having a bad week when the Marriorers went two
• 21:32
  Speaker 8: and two and outse where their opponent by nine runs. Brother,
• 21:35
  Speaker 8: take a deep breath, go outside. The NFL draft will
• 21:39
  Speaker 8: be here soon enough for you. The NFL regular season
• 21:41
  Speaker 8: will be here soon enough. Just this is what baseball is.
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 21:45
  Speaker 8: Then they look like a better team. It's because that
• 21:47
  Speaker 8: lineup one through nine. The worst hitter on there is
• 21:50
  Speaker 8: Leo Reebos, who's just a pain in the butt to
• 21:53
  Speaker 8: get out because he will not swing at balls. He
• 21:55
  Speaker 8: will only swing at pitches in the strike zone. He's
• 21:57
  Speaker 8: like if JP Crawford could still move side to side,
• 22:00
  Speaker 8: that's what Leo Revos would be.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: Took only like eight minutes to get a shot at
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: Chris's kidd. Okay, But it's funny because you're saying that
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: I sincond. Yeah, this is not a lineup that has
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: the you know, the Cooper Hummels and the Tommy Lastella's,
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: the Zebby backup catcher, Zebby Zavalla, whatever the hell his
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: name was, and all that. It's just it's a better
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: base it's a deeper baseball team, which in it's Chris mentioned, Yeah,
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: you're not going to have those guys, Like, there's gonna
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: be times when you can need somebody else the some
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: of the parts and some of the parts offensively. I
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: think we're fun, Nathan, just to stay with you real quick.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: How about this? How about Donovan? Like it feels like
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: forever this team's been looking to find that leadoff hitter,
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: and maybe they found the guy.
• 22:46
  Speaker 8: I mean, there's a reason why every single person who
• 22:49
  Speaker 8: pays attention to baseball, who gets paid money to cover
• 22:52
  Speaker 8: baseball was screaming about Brendan Donovan being the number one
• 22:56
  Speaker 8: trade target for the Seattle Marriers this past offseason. He
• 22:59
  Speaker 8: is as obvious a pickup for them as Josh Naylor
• 23:02
  Speaker 8: and Aohano Suarez were at the trade deadline last year.
• 23:04
  Speaker 8: He just fits everything this team likes to do on
• 23:08
  Speaker 8: offense and everything they needed on offense. And they needed
• 23:12
  Speaker 8: a guy who could control the strike zone at the
• 23:14
  Speaker 8: top of the at the top of the lineup, who
• 23:16
  Speaker 8: could play adequate defense all over the field, and who
• 23:19
  Speaker 8: hits for just enough power. As you saw over this
• 23:21
  Speaker 8: weekend that if you make a mistake to him, he
• 23:23
  Speaker 8: can put it out to right field. So it really
• 23:26
  Speaker 8: really really changes things. And again not to just be
• 23:29
  Speaker 8: labor a point, but it just has a trickle down
• 23:32
  Speaker 8: effect on the rest of the lineup, where now guys
• 23:34
  Speaker 8: are not being asked to do things that they don't
• 23:36
  Speaker 8: do well. A perfect number one hitter is a guy
• 23:38
  Speaker 8: who gets on base, which is why having Julio Rodriguez,
• 23:41
  Speaker 8: as much as I love him in that spot, is
• 23:44
  Speaker 8: tough because he's just not a guy who lets enough
• 23:47
  Speaker 8: balls go by to draw enough walks to really be
• 23:49
  Speaker 8: that table setter guy that you'd like to see there.
• 23:51
  Speaker 8: So he's a great fit man in every way.
• 23:54
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  Speaker 3: break the rule that Chris just he's in CHASTI they
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  Speaker 3: say Hey, how what percentage of the season are we
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: in right now? It was the first quarter of the
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: Seahawk game something like that.
• 24:19
  Speaker 7: It was, yeah, two point four percent of the season.
• 24:21
  Speaker 7: Maybe rounding a little bit up.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: Okay, but can I'm gonna make this anyway? Is it
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: safe to say that Donovan's your leadof hitter and we're
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: not gonna do this song and dance all year? I mean,
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: it's kind of a bummer because it takes a topic
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: off the table for us. I mean we had that,
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: that was a topic every other week last year.
• 24:35
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think the only topic is going to be
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: potentially who's hitting leadoff against left handers? Because the first
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: time that they faced the left hander this year, we
• 24:45
  Speaker 7: had Rob Refsnyder hitting at the top of the lineup,
• 24:47
  Speaker 7: And I actually liked that decision. I think that's the
• 24:49
  Speaker 7: right call. Brendon Donovan is not good against left handed pitching.
• 24:52
  Speaker 7: It's the biggest bugaboo in his game is that he's
• 24:55
  Speaker 7: just not gonna be a guy who hits for any
• 24:58
  Speaker 7: power against.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: Cam Let me jump in, let me jump in a
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: What is that going to have to be the norm? Then?
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: Is he not going to be in against lefties?
• 25:05
  Speaker 7: I think he's going to play against lefties. I just
• 25:07
  Speaker 7: think he's not going to be nearly as effective they
• 25:09
  Speaker 7: hit him six. I would actually drop him probably further
• 25:13
  Speaker 7: down in the lineup there. Maybe you drop him to
• 25:15
  Speaker 7: eighth or ninth. I think ninth makes sense as that
• 25:18
  Speaker 7: second lead off guy, something that I think sometimes gets overstated.
• 25:22
  Speaker 7: But that'll obviously be dependent on when JP Crawford gets
• 25:26
  Speaker 7: back in this lineup. But I do believe Rob Refschneider
• 25:29
  Speaker 7: is going to be a solid option at the top
• 25:32
  Speaker 7: of that lineup against righty's. I'm not worried about the
• 25:35
  Speaker 7: top of this lineup at all, which is something that
• 25:37
  Speaker 7: I cannot say I have said very often for the
• 25:40
  Speaker 7: Seattle Mariners.
• 25:41
  Speaker 8: I think if you also are concerned about the ratings
• 25:43
  Speaker 8: and just our ability to have like that really fun
• 25:45
  Speaker 8: hot topic conversation, I will, without wanting to manifest anything,
• 25:49
  Speaker 8: just point out that Brendan Donovan has not stayed super
• 25:52
  Speaker 8: healthy throughout the course of his career. So there's a
• 25:55
  Speaker 8: good chance we'll have thirty to forty games or so
• 25:57
  Speaker 8: where we can argue about that over the summer. So
• 25:59
  Speaker 8: that's some to look forward to.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, what, yeah, I mean, we can't losing Topics four
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: games end of the season, Like we got that, got it?
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's we can't be going down that road.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: All right, Well, let's let's let this is Molly want Monday.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: So let's go ahead and just discuss. I'm gonna start
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: with Cal for a second, Chris, and I'll let you.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: I'll let you start because you brought it up. He
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: didn't hit his first home run til Game five last year,
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: but he didn't have a good WBC. Uh, and obviously
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: this weekend was not great for him as well. We
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: all know what this guy can do. I would, and
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: nobody knows what's going on in his head. And I'm
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: gonna almost guessing right now, but I wonder how much
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: pressure he puts on himself, Like, and to follow up
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: what he did last year is impossible, and no one
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: would expect him to follow that up. But it just
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: from the WBC to this first weekend, I mean, that's
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: that's not the cow we're used to see.
• 26:48
  Speaker 7: No, it wasn't the best version of Cal or anything
• 26:50
  Speaker 7: close to it. And I would imagine that some of
• 26:52
  Speaker 7: this was just a case of maybe trying to do
• 26:56
  Speaker 7: a little bit too much, and you know that that
• 26:58
  Speaker 7: makes sense, right, Like a guy who wants to get
• 27:01
  Speaker 7: off to a hot start, who all of a sudden
• 27:03
  Speaker 7: has so much attention on him, and I think he'll
• 27:07
  Speaker 7: handle it with a plump because he's done nothing but
• 27:09
  Speaker 7: succeed as a major league player, obviously to a much
• 27:13
  Speaker 7: different level in twenty twenty five than in twenty twenty four,
• 27:16
  Speaker 7: twenty twenty three, twenty twenty two. But yeah, just you know,
• 27:19
  Speaker 7: some pitches that he swung at outside of the strike
• 27:22
  Speaker 7: zone that we just typically don't see. Struck out fifty
• 27:26
  Speaker 7: five or six percent of his plate appearances, which is
• 27:28
  Speaker 7: just a absolutely bonkers number, hasn't barreled of baseball yet.
• 27:33
  Speaker 7: His best swing was he after Donovan hit the home
• 27:37
  Speaker 7: run to hit the leadoff homer, was the foul ball
• 27:41
  Speaker 7: that he hit.
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: He's gonna be fine. He's gonna be fine. But I
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: do think it's a case of him maybe pressing just
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: a little bit.
• 27:49
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I think, Mariner fans, I'm sure Cal's gonna be fine.
• 27:52
  Speaker 8: Like what Chris is saying, He's We've got a four
• 27:54
  Speaker 8: year track record here of him being either the best
• 27:57
  Speaker 8: catcher in baseball or one of the best three to five,
• 28:00
  Speaker 8: Like that's I don't see any reason why any of
• 28:02
  Speaker 8: that's going to change. I think we as fans need
• 28:05
  Speaker 8: to think about how we're going to react if cal
• 28:08
  Speaker 8: Rawley has a twenty twenty two through twenty twenty four
• 28:11
  Speaker 8: cal Rawley season as opposed to a twenty twenty five
• 28:14
  Speaker 8: because that's going to feel on some just gut level
• 28:19
  Speaker 8: like a disappointment because he just hit sixty home runs,
• 28:23
  Speaker 8: he won the home run Derby. In my opinion, he
• 28:25
  Speaker 8: was the face of the twenty twenty five regular season
• 28:28
  Speaker 8: for the entire sport. It was cal Rawley's year last year.
• 28:31
  Speaker 8: So how are we going to react if he goes
• 28:33
  Speaker 8: back to being a two twenty hitter that hits thirty
• 28:35
  Speaker 8: one home runs and plays great defense behind the plate,
• 28:38
  Speaker 8: because that's who he was from twenty twenty two through
• 28:41
  Speaker 8: twenty twenty four. And I think the challenge is on
• 28:43
  Speaker 8: us to remind ourselves and us on this program that
• 28:46
  Speaker 8: if he does that, and if he's something like, you know,
• 28:49
  Speaker 8: seventy percent of what he was last year, to make
• 28:52
  Speaker 8: sure that everybody remembers that's still a damn good baseball
• 28:55
  Speaker 8: player and probably either the best one on this team
• 28:58
  Speaker 8: or the second best depending on what kind of season
• 28:59
  Speaker 8: Hue Rodriguez has, He's going to be just fine. He's
• 29:03
  Speaker 8: probably not going to hit sixty home runs again because
• 29:06
  Speaker 8: I think they keep showing that graphic. Not a ton
• 29:08
  Speaker 8: of people have done that in the American League and
• 29:10
  Speaker 8: baseball has been going on since the Civil Wars. So
• 29:13
  Speaker 8: probably not going to see that happen again. But yeah,
• 29:16
  Speaker 8: he's going to be okay. We need to be okay
• 29:18
  Speaker 8: with him not being what he was last year.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I think you know, last year he carried
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: a team to the playoffs and division title. Offensively with
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: that year he had, as we just talked about and
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: we've talked about a lot of in the offseason, they're
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: a deeper baseball team this last year. They probably needed him,
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: Chris to hit sixty this year. They don't need him
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: to hit sixty this year for them to get to
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: the playoffs. Before we get to the break, and we'll
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: do a quick segment after this, but Chris, I'm gonna
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: throw this one out there again. This is the sample
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: size is really small, but I think it's worth talking
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: about expectations for Josh Naylor because we saw this the
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: version of Josh Naylor.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: We saw.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: I think Nate brought this up last week. The version
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: Josh Naylor we saw last year was crazy good. What
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: are the expectations, Chris? What are realistic expectations for Josh
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: Naylor over one hundred and sixty two games here?
• 30:07
  Speaker 7: I don't think it's crazy to have similar expectations. Like
• 30:11
  Speaker 7: he had an eight thirty one OPS with Seattle. His
• 30:13
  Speaker 7: career high OPS is eight forty two. Like, I don't
• 30:16
  Speaker 7: think it's insane to think he could put up similar numbers.
• 30:19
  Speaker 7: The difference is to stolen bases, right, like going nineteen
• 30:22
  Speaker 7: for nineteen and fifty four games, which literally puts you
• 30:25
  Speaker 7: on a fifty seven stolen base case. That is not
• 30:30
  Speaker 7: going to happen, Folks, That's just not going to happen.
• 30:32
  Speaker 7: I hope it does. We love our Triple B's, our
• 30:35
  Speaker 7: big Beef boys, and we would love to see that happen.
• 30:38
  Speaker 7: But everything else, offensively, it's well within reason for him.
• 30:42
  Speaker 7: He's been about an eight twenty to eight forty ops
• 30:45
  Speaker 7: guy since twenty twenty three. I don't see any reason now.
• 30:49
  Speaker 7: Maybe it's a little different. Maybe we see a few
• 30:52
  Speaker 7: more balls go over the fence, Maybe we see or
• 30:56
  Speaker 7: maybe we see a higher batting on base percentage. Either way,
• 30:59
  Speaker 7: I think the production is going to be pretty similar,
• 31:02
  Speaker 7: the difference being the stolen bases. I just cannot imagine
• 31:05
  Speaker 7: teams aren't going to pay more attention to Naylor once
• 31:08
  Speaker 7: he starts getting on base. But again, he doesn't have
• 31:11
  Speaker 7: to be a nine hundred ops guy to be successful
• 31:14
  Speaker 7: in this lineup. If he's the guy who he's been
• 31:16
  Speaker 7: from twenty twenty three on, he's going to be a
• 31:19
  Speaker 7: really good baseball player and help the Seattle Mariners win
• 31:21
  Speaker 7: a lot of games.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: All right, we'll take a quick break. We'll come back.
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: I want to touch in on the pitching because it
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: was I mentioned this suggests in the opening segment. I
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: kind of chuckled watching Brian Wu beat himself up the
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: other day, like the guys like the Master of Perfection. Dude,
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: you had a quality start. You were fine, like you
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: you were okay. There was no issue with Brian Wu.
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: And yet I need to be better than all this,
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: Like no, dude, you're good, like you're you're fine. That
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: was I mean, starting pitching for the weekend, I think good.
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: And tonight Castile goes to the mat against the Yankees.
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: We'll talk about the Yankees series. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: Yankees are in town. We'll talk about that next to
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: the Mowat Boys. Chris and Nate. A nine three point
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  Speaker 3: real quick before we talk about the Yankees.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Chris.
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: The starting pitchers the four Stars this weekend gave up
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: a combined six earned runs total in four games. Bullpen
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: was what it was. Maybe we'll split it up starters
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: and bullpen thoughts on both.
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: Starting pitching looked really good.
• 33:09
  Speaker 7: When when Logan Gilbert five and a third, three run
• 33:12
  Speaker 7: baseball is easily your worst start, you're doing pretty dang good.
• 33:16
  Speaker 7: I was really impressed with what I saw from George Kirby.
• 33:20
  Speaker 7: From Brian wo up until the sixth inning, and I
• 33:23
  Speaker 7: don't think you could say enough good things about how
• 33:25
  Speaker 7: good Emerson Hancock looked. And boy, that's a really intriguing
• 33:29
  Speaker 7: thing if he is that version, that version of the
• 33:32
  Speaker 7: guy who was going to be the next big starting pitcher,
• 33:36
  Speaker 7: not that long ago, twenty nineteen, I guess that's a
• 33:39
  Speaker 7: little bit long ago. But he looked really good. That
• 33:42
  Speaker 7: sweeper looked awesome. The bullpen looked okay, like you know,
• 33:45
  Speaker 7: Andres Munoz gives up that homer to Chase, please test
• 33:49
  Speaker 7: him before the game's the latter because that's apparently the
• 33:52
  Speaker 7: greatest baseball player of all time.
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: But it wasn't a bad pitch.
• 33:56
  Speaker 7: It was ninety seven running away from him and he
• 33:58
  Speaker 7: happens to take it out. Gabe Spire maybe didn't look
• 34:01
  Speaker 7: the best. Bizardo had some command issues, but overall I
• 34:04
  Speaker 7: would give the pitching an a. I thought they looked
• 34:06
  Speaker 7: really good against the deceptively tough lineup. Jose Ramirez is
• 34:10
  Speaker 7: a superstar, chased a lotter obviously is on his way.
• 34:14
  Speaker 7: There's a bunch of scrappy, pesky hitters that are tough
• 34:17
  Speaker 7: to get out, and the Seattle Mariners did a pretty
• 34:19
  Speaker 7: darn good job of handling him.
• 34:21
  Speaker 8: Nathan Pitching, I'm gonna politely. I think that this is
• 34:26
  Speaker 8: everything Chris just said about the Guardians being pesky. I
• 34:29
  Speaker 8: agree with They were twenty eighth in WRC plus last year.
• 34:33
  Speaker 8: They were one of the very worst hitting teams in
• 34:35
  Speaker 8: baseball by that metric. I thought Emerson Hancock looked awesome.
• 34:38
  Speaker 8: I was watching that sweeper move in ways that it
• 34:40
  Speaker 8: hasn't moved. It's like, that's the thing. There's results with
• 34:43
  Speaker 8: Emerson Hancock where he's pitching against a bad The other
• 34:46
  Speaker 8: start that he had going back to last year where
• 34:48
  Speaker 8: he looked good was against the Colorado Rockies, another really
• 34:51
  Speaker 8: really bad hitting team. So there's that. There's the results
• 34:54
  Speaker 8: against bad offense. But then you can see that sweeper.
• 34:56
  Speaker 8: It's noticeably different than how it has been in other
• 35:00
  Speaker 8: parts of his career. So that's the thing to watch.
• 35:03
  Speaker 8: Can he carry that well, that sweeper shape carry him
• 35:05
  Speaker 8: against more competent offensive guys. I thought the starting rotation
• 35:09
  Speaker 8: was great, and if Emerson Hancock is eighty percent of that,
• 35:12
  Speaker 8: they're going to continue to be great because they're all
• 35:14
  Speaker 8: great pitchers. The bullpen. I think the guys that struggled
• 35:17
  Speaker 8: will be fine. The big hit that Spier gave up
• 35:22
  Speaker 8: was J Joser Ramirez golfing of perfectly fine pitch off
• 35:24
  Speaker 8: of his ankles that Randy A. Roseraina probably could have
• 35:27
  Speaker 8: gotten if he could have gotten into second gear, but
• 35:29
  Speaker 8: maybe it was neither the time nor the place for
• 35:31
  Speaker 8: him to consider doing so. And uh so, Yeah, I
• 35:35
  Speaker 8: think they're gonna be fine. I think the big issue
• 35:37
  Speaker 8: is gonna come down too close and late whether we're
• 35:39
  Speaker 8: gonna really use Casey Lakama in every high leverage situation
• 35:43
  Speaker 8: moving forward. But you know that's less to do with
• 35:46
  Speaker 8: the actual arms himself, the whole other X factor.
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I want to I think I think that
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: was a postcast topic. If I'm not mistaken, is the
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: high lest I mean, is Matt Brash is still in
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: the roster?
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Correct? Chris?
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, definitely is he?
• 35:59
  Speaker 8: Okay, I just I'm not sure. So I thought that
• 36:01
  Speaker 8: we'd like Amina though.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: Is also Dan Wilson know that?
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the quest. I mean, the lack of deployment
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: of Brash. That was kind of the question. I think
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: you guys talked about it on one of those postcasts.
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: Chris yeah, that's the thing.
• 36:15
  Speaker 7: And it's not like he wasn't completely unavailable because we
• 36:19
  Speaker 7: saw him getting hot in that situation. And you know,
• 36:22
  Speaker 7: it's also worth pointing out Josier Ramirez was better against
• 36:25
  Speaker 7: left handed pitching, one of the rare switch hitters that
• 36:28
  Speaker 7: was better against left handed pitching last year than right handers.
• 36:31
  Speaker 7: There were a lot of mistakes from Dan Wilson in
• 36:33
  Speaker 7: this series. I thought the way he handled pinch hitting
• 36:35
  Speaker 7: was a mistake. I thought the bullpen usage was a mistake.
• 36:40
  Speaker 7: I don't have any issues with the line of construction
• 36:42
  Speaker 7: or anything like that.
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: And again, his.
• 36:44
  Speaker 7: Clearly a guy people like playing for. But the concerns
• 36:48
  Speaker 7: that I had about Dan Wilson coming into twenty twenty six,
• 36:52
  Speaker 7: as small as that percentage is of games played, No
• 36:56
  Speaker 7: questions were answered, none of them whatsoever. Unfortunately, there was
• 36:59
  Speaker 7: more confirmation biased than questions answered.
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: Well, boys, let's get to this. The Yankees roll into town.
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: They are three and zero. Nice little three games sweep
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: to start the season for the Yankees, if I'm seeing
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: this correctly, Chris. After three games that yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: the Yankees. They scored thirteen runs and allowed one in
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: three games. That's a plus twelve run differential after three games.
• 37:29
  Speaker 7: Yeah what Yeah, I will tell you this that you
• 37:33
  Speaker 7: can do the math here. The Yankees are on pace
• 37:36
  Speaker 7: to go one hundred and sixty two, and oh the
• 37:38
  Speaker 7: Giants are on pace to go oh and one hundred
• 37:40
  Speaker 7: and sixty two.
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: Yankees are a good baseball team.
• 37:43
  Speaker 7: I will also point out that Giants lineup just looks
• 37:46
  Speaker 7: like I haven't used this one in a while, ten
• 37:47
  Speaker 7: pounds of crap in five pound bag.
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: But they have a lot of talent. It is a
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: talented baseball team.
• 37:54
  Speaker 7: You know, Aaron Judge, I don't think should have won
• 37:56
  Speaker 7: the MVP, but he's one of the best hitters in
• 37:58
  Speaker 7: baseball without question, and one of the best hitters of
• 38:01
  Speaker 7: my lifetime.
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: It's a good baseball team.
• 38:04
  Speaker 7: And the interesting test here now, too is a couple
• 38:07
  Speaker 7: lefties on the mound for New York, one of them
• 38:08
  Speaker 7: a really good one in Max Freed. This is a
• 38:11
  Speaker 7: really good test, a really good test. A series win
• 38:13
  Speaker 7: here would be, as early as it is, and as
• 38:16
  Speaker 7: much as I'm being a hypocrite, a really strong sign.
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: So what I'm hearing, Nathan is that the Yankees are
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: good at baseball? Is that true? Can you confirm.
• 38:27
  Speaker 8: I mean, I don't know they Aaron Judges made what
• 38:30
  Speaker 8: one World Series in ten years, and the ear in
• 38:33
  Speaker 8: the big leagues, like if George Steinbrenner were still alive,
• 38:35
  Speaker 8: he wouldn't be standing for any of this nonsense. And
• 38:37
  Speaker 8: I think that they're all like a bunch of frauds
• 38:40
  Speaker 8: and they keep you know, they couldn't keep one Soda
• 38:42
  Speaker 8: because they couldn't afford him because they're broke, which is
• 38:45
  Speaker 8: really sad. And they can't keep any of their stars
• 38:47
  Speaker 8: other than Aaron Judge because they're paying him to be
• 38:49
  Speaker 8: the whole team and all he does is just hit
• 38:51
  Speaker 8: home run after an in the regular season and what
• 38:53
  Speaker 8: does he do in the postseason, Bob he falls a
• 38:56
  Speaker 8: plot because he's not a big time playoff. Why he's
• 39:00
  Speaker 8: got no rings. So I'm sure they're perfectly fine and talented.
• 39:04
  Speaker 8: I expect the Marriors to look like they belong on
• 39:07
  Speaker 8: the same field with them in a way that they
• 39:08
  Speaker 8: haven't always done, because I actually think they can go
• 39:11
  Speaker 8: toe to toe with him. I love the left handed
• 39:13
  Speaker 8: pitching matchup that Chris touched on because that is going
• 39:15
  Speaker 8: to be a bugaboo for this lineup, and I want
• 39:17
  Speaker 8: to see how they can handle it with guys like
• 39:19
  Speaker 8: Donovan and those other guys we talked about Naylor and
• 39:21
  Speaker 8: some other guys getting kind of shorthanded on the lefty
• 39:24
  Speaker 8: on lefty, So that'll be a really fun thing to see.
• 39:26
  Speaker 8: If they get swept, it'll be fun to scream about it.
• 39:28
  Speaker 8: And then they get to go play the Angels and
• 39:30
  Speaker 8: do whatever. The only team in Major League Baseball to
• 39:32
  Speaker 8: hit more home runs than your Seattle Marriage thus far,
• 39:35
  Speaker 8: the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, California, right next to
• 39:38
  Speaker 8: Disneyland Resorts.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: Mike Trout, let's let's do this.
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: We always highways like to finish it off, all right,
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: So you got three of the Yankees and then a
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: day off, and then you head to Disneyland to take
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: on the two and two at so far Angels as well.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: Chris, what are the expectations for the week?
• 39:54
  Speaker 7: You should go four and two, You should you should win.
• 39:57
  Speaker 7: This is treading up games. Yeah, it's not going to
• 40:00
  Speaker 7: be like a The Angels are pesky like, They've got
• 40:04
  Speaker 7: some guys who can hit and none of them are
• 40:05
  Speaker 7: hurt yet. So then that's a little bit more difficult
• 40:08
  Speaker 7: series than it might be. In July, but yeah, I'll
• 40:10
  Speaker 7: say a four and two week.
• 40:12
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I agree, you're a better team than the Angels,
• 40:14
  Speaker 8: but they're gonna make those games annoying, and you're they're
• 40:17
  Speaker 8: not gonna be as easy as you'd like for them
• 40:18
  Speaker 8: to be because of the reasons that Chris said. I
• 40:21
  Speaker 8: really am just mostly excited for the Yankee series. If
• 40:23
  Speaker 8: they can win two out of three there, it's gonna
• 40:25
  Speaker 8: be awesome. Let's go two and one in each series
• 40:27
  Speaker 8: and be four and two, and then they put them
• 40:28
  Speaker 8: in at eight and nope, six and four when we
• 40:31
  Speaker 8: talks in a.
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: Week, Well, what the hell if if they if they
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: keep winning or doing good things, it's make the show
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: really difficult and challenging.
• 40:39
  Speaker 8: Hey man, six and four puts them on pace to
• 40:41
  Speaker 8: win what one hundred and five games or something.
• 40:43
  Speaker 7: Like that, ninety six and sixty six, So basically is
• 40:46
  Speaker 7: right exactly what it would be.
• 40:47
  Speaker 4: By the way, speaking of annoying, I was just thinking
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: about it the other day. Sorry, Oh well, yeah, very
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: much so. By the way, that's he's not even on
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: this show. I know.
• 40:57
  Speaker 7: I know you guys don't have stream Yard because you
• 40:59
  Speaker 7: found out about that sound effects sport and you didn't
• 41:01
  Speaker 7: want me hitting the joint button over and over and
• 41:03
  Speaker 7: over again. And that's totally fine, but I was thinking
• 41:07
  Speaker 7: about the annoying Do you guys remember when that series
• 41:11
  Speaker 7: against the Angels where it froze on the Jose Suarez
• 41:14
  Speaker 7: pitch and he kept playing that pitch over.
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: And oh, yes, yes, yes over again.
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: I miss you read sports.
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: That was the best rip. All right, so let's do this.
• 41:27
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  Speaker 1: There you go.
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  Speaker 3: chose Chill. Mariners broke out the baths yesterday and they
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  Speaker 3: the Guardians ate nothing. They split the opening series. Start
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: the season two games apiece. They welcome in.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: They yeah, yeah, yeah, the Yankees. Yeah.
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: Three game series starting tonight. By the way, the lineup
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: is out. Donovan is leading off against a lefty hm h.
• 42:51
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• 43:11
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• 43:22
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• 44:07
  Speaker 3: Today, it was the first time in three years my
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: club crunch has been normal.
• 44:11
  Speaker 5: And guess what happens?
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: Dever Cole gets up six runs in the first inning
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: to the Seattle maddenis, Oh God, I love that. That
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: was I believe. I believe three years ago. Nicky Scarlatta,
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: how are you, buddy?
• 44:30
  Speaker 10: Nick Bella is what are we doing?
• 44:32
  Speaker 5: How are we?
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: Uh? You tell me, my man, you tell me how
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: are things going?
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: Hey?
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: Your Yankees are three and oh they got a plus
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: twelve run differential right now.
• 44:41
  Speaker 10: Yeah, you know what that makes me think. So it's
• 44:42
  Speaker 10: not gonna last.
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: It's been a while. For those who missed that viral
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: moment on Instagram years ago, we had nikkiya a couple
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: of times after that. It's been a while, probably been
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: at least a years since we had you on. But
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: wanted to get you out with the Yankees. Let's and
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: I could talk to writers and all those others stuff
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: to preview the Yankee series. I told Jessman, my great producer,
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: I said, now let's get nick we gotta get Nikki on.
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: Let me ask you this, Yeah, let me ask how
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: what did that that viral moment? How did that change
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: your life?
• 45:16
  Speaker 8: Oh?
• 45:16
  Speaker 10: Man, honestly, and I'll tell you why. That moment made
• 45:19
  Speaker 10: me realize the power of social media. You know, at
• 45:22
  Speaker 10: the time, I was still in my union construction job
• 45:24
  Speaker 10: in Manhattan, and uh, obviously when the when the video
• 45:27
  Speaker 10: blew up, I had a couple of connects with simply
• 45:29
  Speaker 10: Seattle and the man who sent the jersey. You guys
• 45:31
  Speaker 10: flew me out and stuff, and it really made me realize, like, wow,
• 45:34
  Speaker 10: social media really is a powerful tool. And now fast
• 45:37
  Speaker 10: forward three years, my brother and I have been doing
• 45:39
  Speaker 10: social media and acting full time as a career the
• 45:42
  Speaker 10: last two and a half years and been blessed by God. Man,
• 45:45
  Speaker 10: So you gotta say, thank God.
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: That's unbelievable. So does acting going on?
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: I mean the social for people on follow I got
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: to follow them on Instagram especially, and probably I'm sure
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: TikTok and stuff too.
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: Treasure.
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you and you and your you and your brother,
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: but and your dad's a big part of it as well.
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: What's how's the get going, man? What's going on with that?
• 46:02
  Speaker 10: Oh, it's going great, it's growing. Grady In. We're actually
• 46:05
  Speaker 10: in the We got into seg the hacking Union stelg Astra.
• 46:09
  Speaker 10: We got in about a year ago. We did a
• 46:11
  Speaker 10: show that's releasing June twelve in the Power Universe, which
• 46:14
  Speaker 10: is fifty cent show. It's releasing June twelfth, season five
• 46:17
  Speaker 10: of Raising Canaan. We have our movie script almost eighty
• 46:21
  Speaker 10: percent done, so it's we're rocking and rolling them.
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: Man, it feels too like everything you're doing is based
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: on you and your family and being real.
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: Is that safe to say?
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 46:33
  Speaker 10: Man, it's safe to say. And the only thing I
• 46:35
  Speaker 10: would say is sometimes I do AMPTI accent up a
• 46:38
  Speaker 10: little bit when I get excited, but then sometimes, like
• 46:41
  Speaker 10: I'm talking now, I'm kind of calm because if I
• 46:43
  Speaker 10: talked like that twenty four seven, I'd probably pass out.
• 46:45
  Speaker 10: You know what, My help wouldn't be looking through good.
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: Your Dad's a big part of it. Two, I gotta
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: tell you this, So tell people about your dad. What's
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: what's Joe like? Because I if people haven't seen the videos,
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: He's cooking for you guys all the time, and it
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: usually ends up just being all almost like a battle
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: like it's like a war zone in there. Sometimes what's
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: Joe Like?
• 47:06
  Speaker 10: I would man's he's I'm biased for saying this, but
• 47:09
  Speaker 10: he's the best cook, in my opinion, in the world.
• 47:12
  Speaker 10: And it's crazy because he was a construction worker's whole life,
• 47:15
  Speaker 10: but he was never like a chef or anything. And he,
• 47:17
  Speaker 10: you know, picked it up from my grandma over the years.
• 47:20
  Speaker 10: She told him and I was passing it down and
• 47:22
  Speaker 10: he just has the passion for the patients and his dishes.
• 47:25
  Speaker 10: Were actually trying to do a cook control with him
• 47:27
  Speaker 10: and get a cookbook work in in the next like
• 47:29
  Speaker 10: three to six months because I got to give the
• 47:31
  Speaker 10: people what they want. They want the recipes.
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: Well, listen, Sunday sauce, and I I gotta tell you this, Honestly,
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: I did the Sunday sauce yesterday. All day.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: I was it's fantastic.
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: Like and listen, you're talking about a half Canadian white
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: kid out here in the Northwest, but I'm watching him.
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: I'm watching your dad. I had to listen. I had
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: the short ribs, you know, got those things going, and
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: I mean the whole sausage everything. Man, it was, and
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: it was it was good. We're gonna have leftover, so
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: now I can't wait. It was awesome. But and part
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: of it is, you know, lots of wine in the sauce.
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: Some wine goes in you, some wine goes in the sauce.
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: And I'm trying to channel matter, Joe, is what I'm doing, Buddy.
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: I'm trying to channel your dad through me. Is what
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: I was doing last night watching Little March Madness and
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: making the sauce. It was I was thinking that because
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: you guys have, how much fun do you have, the
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: three of you, especially.
• 48:21
  Speaker 10: Ah Man, It's it's amazing. It's SIT's so fun being
• 48:23
  Speaker 10: in the kitchen with event and recording it. And it's
• 48:25
  Speaker 10: also even amazing to see like the response on the
• 48:28
  Speaker 10: internet of how many people support it and they're like, oh,
• 48:30
  Speaker 10: this reminds me of my family growing up, this and that,
• 48:33
  Speaker 10: and you know, they really love it, man. So it's
• 48:35
  Speaker 10: amazing and a blessing to be working on my father
• 48:37
  Speaker 10: like this, and my twin brother obviously as well.
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Nicki Scarlotta joining us here from New York, and
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: we of course remember him from a few years ago.
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: Our simply Seattle friends and the Mariners brought you out,
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: which was awesome.
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: Is okay?
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: Listen, Nobody in New York's listening right now. One of
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: them is, well, Jess is from New York, but we're
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: not gonna count her because she's been here long enough.
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: Are you kind of a closet Mariner fan?
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: If it's not with the Yankees, I am.
• 49:01
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I tell you listen, you guys showed me so
• 49:03
  Speaker 10: much love, and I really really love your guys team.
• 49:05
  Speaker 10: If I'm not rooting for the Yankees, I'm rooting for Seattle.
• 49:08
  Speaker 9: Man.
• 49:08
  Speaker 10: That's why it was a pain when that we had
• 49:10
  Speaker 10: to versue you guys last year in playoffs.
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: You know, I know, well, okay, who was the MVP
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: last year? Who should have been the MVP?
• 49:17
  Speaker 10: The big dumper, the big dump.
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: The big dump. So you would have if Nicky had
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: a vote, you would have you would have voted the
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: Big Dumper over over Aaron Judge.
• 49:30
  Speaker 10: I'll tell you why I would have leaned that way,
• 49:32
  Speaker 10: because it's like, whenever again you're gonna see Ketcher hit
• 49:35
  Speaker 10: sixty home runs. It was like the most surreal thing ever,
• 49:37
  Speaker 10: you know, I switched hitting Catcher hitting sixty something home ups. Wow,
• 49:41
  Speaker 10: you know, and everyone's gonna listen, Aaron Judge. He had
• 49:44
  Speaker 10: an amazing season. He batted three thirty I think, with
• 49:46
  Speaker 10: like fifty two or fifty three homers. But you know, me,
• 49:49
  Speaker 10: as a Yankee fan, I'll trade the MVP and I
• 49:51
  Speaker 10: want the championship.
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: Well, what's the deal, man, This guy can't do they
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: have enough around him? What's going on with this Yankee team?
• 49:57
  Speaker 5: Tell me?
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: I mean they obviously the Giants are awful, buddy. Let's
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: let's be honest. The Giants aren't very good, right, So like,
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: you just beat up on this, you beat up on
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: the JV team this weekend, So that that's fine, then
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: plus twelve and all that do the Yankees have enough
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: around Aaron Judge. What's the talk back in New York
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: about this year's Yankee team?
• 50:13
  Speaker 10: Honestly, and I think it's they're kind of in a
• 50:15
  Speaker 10: sense running it back. They have the same roster as
• 50:18
  Speaker 10: last year. You know, we paid all the pitchers, we
• 50:20
  Speaker 10: brought them some bullpen arms, made trades last year before
• 50:22
  Speaker 10: the deadline, and then you have it's kind of a
• 50:25
  Speaker 10: question of the young guys. You know, Volpi's on the
• 50:27
  Speaker 10: ir right now. You've got Caballero at short stop, do
• 50:30
  Speaker 10: Mingas and Spencer Jones are both you know in Triple A.
• 50:33
  Speaker 10: So it's kind of like we have to be sustainable
• 50:36
  Speaker 10: because the Yankees love to start hot and then by
• 50:38
  Speaker 10: July late June, you know, they get into the mid
• 50:41
  Speaker 10: season slump. Then they usually finish the season strong. But
• 50:44
  Speaker 10: what happens is in my opinion, am I humble opinion?
• 50:47
  Speaker 4: Ian?
• 50:48
  Speaker 10: I don't think the home run or nothing approach works
• 50:50
  Speaker 10: today with the advanced pitching and everything. I think we
• 50:53
  Speaker 10: need more contact hitters, we need people stealing bases, and
• 50:55
  Speaker 10: we got to focus more on defense because we already
• 50:57
  Speaker 10: got Judge and Stanton, if they're healthy, those are top hitters.
• 51:00
  Speaker 10: We need a lot of contact. In my opinion, we
• 51:03
  Speaker 10: need more hitting for average on the New York Yankees.
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: How's the football situation going for you guys back there
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: these days?
• 51:09
  Speaker 10: I mean, it's good for me because I'm a Giants fan,
• 51:11
  Speaker 10: and at least there's optimism for the Jets fans and
• 51:14
  Speaker 10: a lot of my boys are Jets fans. I can't
• 51:16
  Speaker 10: say it's looking too good. They just traded for Gino Smith. Again,
• 51:19
  Speaker 10: It's like twenty ten all over again.
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: But what shop I wanted to ask you, what's the
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: reaction to Gino running it back with Gino for the Jets? Like,
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: what's the reaction in New York for that?
• 51:30
  Speaker 10: Honestly, man, I think the Jets fans were like, Okay, listen,
• 51:32
  Speaker 10: Gino Smith. He had a good year two years ago. Obviously,
• 51:35
  Speaker 10: last year he didn't play well, but in a sense
• 51:37
  Speaker 10: he's better than justin fields, right, So it couldn't get
• 51:40
  Speaker 10: worse from last year because last year that was like
• 51:42
  Speaker 10: the worst team I've ever watched in my life. They
• 51:44
  Speaker 10: were the first team since nineteen thirty three to not
• 51:46
  Speaker 10: record an interception. It within like a whole regular season.
• 51:50
  Speaker 10: Their leading passer was justin fields with twelve hundred yards,
• 51:52
  Speaker 10: their leading receiver with Gabret Wilson with four hundred yards,
• 51:55
  Speaker 10: and then he got hurt in Week seven didn't even
• 51:57
  Speaker 10: play the rest of the season. So yeah, the Jets
• 51:59
  Speaker 10: is just a sad dumps the fire and they deserve better, sadly.
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: But as a Giants fan, you had to suffer through
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: the Russell Wilson experience last year. Buddy, that's no fun.
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell you right now that like this, it's
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: not vintage Russ you had. You had Sierra Russ. You
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: didn't get you didn't get Seahawk Russ. You got Sierra
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: Russ last year.
• 52:16
  Speaker 10: I wish we got Seahawk Russ. We'd being in a
• 52:18
  Speaker 10: nice spot.
• 52:19
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 52:20
  Speaker 10: That's the thing. It's so weird. Like it's like I
• 52:21
  Speaker 10: feel like Russ the older he got, he got like inconsistent.
• 52:24
  Speaker 10: Like that second game on the season, he threw for
• 52:27
  Speaker 10: like four hundred and forty yards and three touchdowns. Then
• 52:29
  Speaker 10: the next game it's like he couldn't complete a pass.
• 52:31
  Speaker 10: I just didn't understand it all.
• 52:33
  Speaker 3: Right, before we let you go again, tell people where
• 52:35
  Speaker 3: they can find your stuff, because I think it's pretty cool.
• 52:37
  Speaker 3: You're in sagging. After you got all these things going on,
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: people want to catch up with you and find out
• 52:42
  Speaker 3: where how can they do so?
• 52:44
  Speaker 10: Yeah at Nikki Scarlatta at Scarlatta Twins my twins page
• 52:47
  Speaker 10: at Joe Just Scalata is my twin. I just started
• 52:49
  Speaker 10: my podcast up about three months ago. It's going really
• 52:52
  Speaker 10: well the side of podcast. It's a lot going on
• 52:54
  Speaker 10: right now. But I want to definitely take a trip
• 52:57
  Speaker 10: back out to Seattle.
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 52:58
  Speaker 10: I miss the atmosphere, the seafood, I missed the energy.
• 53:01
  Speaker 10: It was such a great time.
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: June first is the Mets series. If you want to
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: come out from oh.
• 53:05
  Speaker 3: There you go, huh, come out and see the Mets.
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: Like you can't be a Mets fan, right because you're
• 53:09
  Speaker 3: the one or the other.
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: How's that.
• 53:11
  Speaker 10: Let's not let's not get crazy and I'm not a
• 53:13
  Speaker 10: Mets fan.
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: Okay, there's no cross pollines.
• 53:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, cross pollination has just said you can't do that, right,
• 53:19
  Speaker 3: it's one or the other.
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I'm Mets just and Islanders. So I'm a loser, Nikki.
• 53:23
  Speaker 10: Ooh, that's it's it's been a rough twenty five years.
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, my face shows it.
• 53:30
  Speaker 10: We'll get out of here, but listen, one hundred percent.
• 53:33
  Speaker 10: I would love to. And I want to bring my
• 53:35
  Speaker 10: father and my brother the next time too, because my
• 53:37
  Speaker 10: dad's never been out there. He's never been on the
• 53:39
  Speaker 10: West coast. So I would love to. And uh, going
• 53:41
  Speaker 10: back to what I was saying before, I think Soto
• 53:44
  Speaker 10: going to the to the Mets over the Yankees in
• 53:46
  Speaker 10: the off season kind of reignited the Yankees Mets rivalry.
• 53:49
  Speaker 10: I was kind of dead for the last like sixteen
• 53:51
  Speaker 10: years since the subways Herei's are two thousand.
• 53:53
  Speaker 4: I love it.
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: I love it all right, give it.
• 53:55
  Speaker 3: Give us one more time, give us your thought, give
• 53:56
  Speaker 3: us the marriage one more time before you say god.
• 53:58
  Speaker 10: I mean, how can I not the able man might
• 54:01
  Speaker 10: beat the Yankees tonight. You never know because Castille's pitching, right.
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah he is. He got castile.
• 54:05
  Speaker 3: Because that's going to hurt you blood pressure, man, that's
• 54:07
  Speaker 3: gonna hurt your blood pressure.
• 54:09
  Speaker 10: I have high cholesterol at twenty seventy and I don't
• 54:11
  Speaker 10: know how much more it could take.
• 54:13
  Speaker 3: Well, it's the Sunday Sauce, Nikki. It's the Sunday Sauce
• 54:16
  Speaker 3: has given that to you, right, just but you know
• 54:18
  Speaker 3: what they say a little much little glass of wine.
• 54:21
  Speaker 3: You'll be fine that he'll he'll cut through it perfectly,
• 54:23
  Speaker 3: all right.
• 54:24
  Speaker 10: Yeah, well we'll be all right, we'll be good, we'll
• 54:26
  Speaker 10: be good, we'll be healthy.
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: Hey, listen.
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: Great to hear it from you, man, And really, more
• 54:30
  Speaker 3: than anything, congratulations. The story is awesome. The success that
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: you and your brother and your dad. I mean, just
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: the fact that there's a viral moment on social media
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: with of all things, the Seattle Mariners, of all things,
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: of all teams, the Marators and a social like who
• 54:44
  Speaker 3: would have put that thing together, but it did. And
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: look at your having great success. Man, I'm so happy
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: for It's great to catch up and hopefully you get
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: out here in June. I know, Jess, we'll talk to
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: you about that, and hopefully we'll see in person soon.
• 54:54
  Speaker 10: Bud ah Man, I would love it, and thank you
• 54:57
  Speaker 10: as always for having me. Man, God bless and I
• 54:59
  Speaker 10: can't I can look forward enough to the game tonight.
• 55:02
  Speaker 10: I'm really excited for it, even though it starts a
• 55:04
  Speaker 10: little late here in the East coast, but we'll be
• 55:06
  Speaker 10: around today.
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: Nine to forty Eastern time. Huh, that's not too late.
• 55:09
  Speaker 3: You should be fine. You're not having him get up
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: for construction anymore. So you're okay, you can do that.
• 55:13
  Speaker 10: You know, my dad wanted to stay up. But my
• 55:15
  Speaker 10: dad will be sleeping by at least ten time thirty
• 55:17
  Speaker 10: by the second in and I think he's knocking out.
• 55:19
  Speaker 3: Well, no cal Rawley in the lineup tonight, so you
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: guys have a little bit better shot.
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: So he's uh, he's got.
• 55:24
  Speaker 10: He's not playing tonight.
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, it's got. It's four days, got to
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: take a day off. I guess. I don't know. He's
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: a switch hitter. I don't know why he's not playing,
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: but yeah, whatever.
• 55:31
  Speaker 10: I know, well, you know, as he started a little cold,
• 55:33
  Speaker 10: maybe they just want to give him a day. You
• 55:34
  Speaker 10: let him recalibrate, you know.
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: I think that's what they're doing. I think that's what
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: they're doing.
• 55:37
  Speaker 3: All Right, we'll talk to you soon.
• 55:38
  Speaker 10: Thanks Nicky, Thanks thanks, thank you guys, talk soon, all right.
• 55:41
  Speaker 3: All right, I love it. There you go, Nicki scarletta
• 55:43
  Speaker 3: Scarlett of the the icon that he is from three
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: years ago. Guy, It's crazy how time flies. We have
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: three years ago, that viral moment, and the cool thing
• 55:52
  Speaker 3: now is how it has just like social media. I mean,
• 55:56
  Speaker 3: we talk about it often. It's one of those things
• 55:58
  Speaker 3: that sometimes it frustrates a lot of us. I don't
• 56:01
  Speaker 3: love it at times, but then there's a good that
• 56:03
  Speaker 3: comes out of it, and that's a great story. This
• 56:05
  Speaker 3: guy was his blue collar working in the unions, grinding
• 56:07
  Speaker 3: away on a day to day basis and construction in
• 56:10
  Speaker 3: New York, and all of a sudden, that one moment
• 56:12
  Speaker 3: has given him a brand new lease on life career,
• 56:14
  Speaker 3: him and his brother and the acting they're doing. All
• 56:16
  Speaker 3: that very very cool, all right, four one four to
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: five one. That is kumadadge text line four nine, four
• 56:20
  Speaker 3: to five one to combadage text line. What I'd like
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: to do, Jess is if I could, Yes, if we
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: have that? Do you have Bill Simmons audio?
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: Sure? And I have it ready.
• 56:31
  Speaker 3: Okay, this is what the Bill Simmons podcast. MJ and
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: Chris played this earlier, and I was driving in I
• 56:36
  Speaker 3: listen and I heard it, and it just there's a
• 56:37
  Speaker 3: couple of things that jumped out of me. But of
• 56:39
  Speaker 3: course everybody knows Bill Simmons been, you know, one of
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: those media guys, been around forever and very successful and
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: very has very good contacts, very.
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: Dialed in with the NBA, sure is. And here's what
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: he says about Seattle.
• 56:52
  Speaker 11: If you live in Seattle and you read and consumed
• 56:54
  Speaker 11: all this stuff the last week or so, you're like,
• 56:57
  Speaker 11: this is amazing, We're getting the Sonics back.
• 56:59
  Speaker 4: Here we go. That's not what's happening.
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: And I think it's.
• 57:01
  Speaker 11: Really weird how the league is handling this. Why not
• 57:04
  Speaker 11: just be transparent and say, hey, we're just curious to
• 57:08
  Speaker 11: see what we get for these expansion teams. This doesn't
• 57:10
  Speaker 11: mean we're going to have expansion. Instead, you've completely led
• 57:13
  Speaker 11: this poor Seattle people on who now think they're getting
• 57:15
  Speaker 11: a team. And I don't know if that's true. If
• 57:17
  Speaker 11: the goal is we have to right or wrong in Seattle.
• 57:20
  Speaker 11: First of all, you never should have took the team
• 57:22
  Speaker 11: from Seattle in the first place. Criminal when it happened,
• 57:25
  Speaker 11: I still can't believe it happened. They let it happen,
• 57:27
  Speaker 11: and they didn't rectify it for almost twenty years. You
• 57:30
  Speaker 11: better know you're going to have a team in Seattle
• 57:32
  Speaker 11: in the next three years, because to extend this to
• 57:35
  Speaker 11: make it seem like it's going to happen and then
• 57:37
  Speaker 11: pull the rug out from under them again would be
• 57:39
  Speaker 11: pretty stuck.
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: It would be it would be I think that was
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: a good term to use too.
• 57:45
  Speaker 3: The first part of what he said, though, can you
• 57:47
  Speaker 3: peel like the first ten or fifteen seconds again real quick?
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: Yes, please, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
• 57:53
  Speaker 11: If you live in Seattle and you read and consumed
• 57:55
  Speaker 11: all this stuff the last week or so, you're like,
• 57:57
  Speaker 11: this is amazing, We're getting the Sonics back.
• 58:00
  Speaker 4: Here we go.
• 58:00
  Speaker 11: That's not what's happening. And I think it's really weird
• 58:03
  Speaker 11: how the league is handled in this. Why not just
• 58:05
  Speaker 11: be transparent and say, hey, we're just curious to see
• 58:09
  Speaker 11: what we get for these expansion teams. This doesn't mean
• 58:11
  Speaker 11: we're going to have expansion in state.
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 58:14
  Speaker 3: So it's an interesting thing that he's thrown out there,
• 58:20
  Speaker 3: because I think the feeling all along for all of
• 58:23
  Speaker 3: us out here and those who cover it, those who
• 58:26
  Speaker 3: are dialed in with it, those who are talking to
• 58:28
  Speaker 3: people that are in the know about it, is that
• 58:31
  Speaker 3: the NBA, and this is one of the things I've
• 58:34
  Speaker 3: had a problem with the NBA. And then you listen
• 58:35
  Speaker 3: to the show, everybody knows. I just think Adam Silver
• 58:38
  Speaker 3: is a zero in a lot of ways, and I
• 58:41
  Speaker 3: guess maybe especially compared to Hayes, his predecessor, and nobody
• 58:44
  Speaker 3: out here likes David Stern.
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: It's just David Stearn's.
• 58:48
  Speaker 3: One of the main culprits in the team leaving. His
• 58:50
  Speaker 3: ego was one of the main culprits in the Sonics leaving,
• 58:53
  Speaker 3: not the one, but it was certainly a contributing factor Silver.
• 58:57
  Speaker 3: But because David Searn can control stuff in the NBA,
• 59:00
  Speaker 3: if David Stern said this is what was going to
• 59:01
  Speaker 3: happen in the NBA, it did. I'm going to move
• 59:04
  Speaker 3: a team from here, I'm going to expand a team there.
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: I'm going to relocate. I'm going to do this, but
• 59:08
  Speaker 3: I'm going to block a relocation Sacramento, what have you.
• 59:10
  Speaker 3: I don't know if Silver has that same juice. I
• 59:12
  Speaker 3: don't think he does. But the one thing with Silver
• 59:14
  Speaker 3: and the NBA that has been really apparent over the
• 59:18
  Speaker 3: last couple three years, especially cincerally in the last five
• 59:21
  Speaker 3: six years since climate Pledgerina became a viable option to
• 59:24
  Speaker 3: play NBA games in is that they have been very
• 59:30
  Speaker 3: cautious with what they say about Seattle and or any expansion.
• 59:35
  Speaker 3: They have been very calculated, very measured in some ways
• 59:40
  Speaker 3: very conservative about what they've done in terms of expansion,
• 59:43
  Speaker 3: to the frustration of many of us, me included, And
• 59:48
  Speaker 3: for them to come out last week and say, Okay,
• 59:50
  Speaker 3: we had the vote and we are moving ahead, you know,
• 59:54
  Speaker 3: exploring the two markets Seattle in Vegas, and basically we
• 59:59
  Speaker 3: had the third the twenty three votes for that, we'll
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 3: probably have the twenty three votes. I'm paraphrasing here. He
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 3: didn't say this, but we'll have the twenty three votes
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 3: later on. So I'm not sure where Bill Simmons is
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 3: getting that from. I do know that he's kind of
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 3: a James Dolan guy, the Knicks owner, maybe a mouthpiece
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 3: for him. Maybe that's where he's hearing it from him.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 3: Right And as we were talking about it earlier, Andrews
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 3: and I were talking about it, because he pointed out,
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 3: he goes, you know, Simmons is a guy that really
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 3: has been anti expansion, you know, and from from the
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 3: media standpoint. So I just don't put a lot of
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 3: stock into that. Simmons has great contacts, very good reputation
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 3: in that regard. I don't think he threw it out
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 3: there flippantly, but I think he's I think he's a
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 3: little wrong. I think he's off track. I think we're
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 3: very much in line. I do believe that we're going
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 3: to see a basketball thrown up in the air at
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 3: center Court at Climate Pledge Arena in the fall of
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 3: twenty twenty eight. I believe it's also going to be
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 3: a team that will have a group of owners but
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 3: that ownership group will be led by Samantha Hallway and
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 3: the One Roof group as well. It doesn't pencil out
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 3: to have another group come in buy an expansion team,
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 3: pay that expansion fee, and not be a primary tenant
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 3: or even a secondary tenant under the same umbrella, instead
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 3: coming in where you would have to be negotiating with
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 3: basically one Roof for everything. It just doesn't pencil out.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 3: It doesn't make any sense. You never say never, but
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 3: I think what I saw is it's fifteen percent equals
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 3: majority ownership in the NBA. So let's say that the
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 3: Kraken ownership group has fifteen and whatever the other eighty
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 3: five percent comes from, it comes in. There's no concerns
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 3: about money. I don't think we're going to see another
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 3: a bidding process. I don't even think the NBA would
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 3: be have any type of appetite for that. They know
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 3: who's going to own the team here, and if there
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 3: is a team in Vegas, they know it's probably gonna
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 3: be Bill Foley owns the Arena and the Golden Knights.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 3: But I did catch my attention today when Simmons said
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 3: that when those guys played that earlier on MJ in
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 3: the Midday Show, I did catch my attention, like, okay,
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 3: but I think it's I would say my cause of
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 3: concern or how much I'd put probably like a two
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 3: out of ten, but yesterday it might have been a one.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: Well, when I listened to that, it sounds like someone
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: who is aware of Seattle but hasn't lived through it
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: because we've seen all of the toying with and it
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: sounds like he's like just catching up on how much
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: this market has been toyed with or used as a
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: carrot right on the end of the stick. And so
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: I don't put a lot into it, but I get
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: why he'd be saying that. It's just that we in
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: this market have been saying that for far longer than
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 2: he's catching on too.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 3: We've been through the ringer. I mean, it's just it's
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 3: we've been through the ringer. It's been so long, so
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 3: many times we've dealt with this nonsense going over and
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 3: over again. But I think I do believe, not just
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 3: because of last week's announcement and press conference and vote.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 3: I think that we're further down the road and we're
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 3: closer than we've ever been before.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: And this is very real. It is very very real.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: Wet'll take a break, four nine, four to five one
• 1:03:26
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  Speaker 7: Sports guy here with a quick Seattle update.
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  Speaker 12: Dan Wilson appeared very confused after the Guardian series as
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 12: the only pitch cac legamina, as he was under the
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 12: impression that Matt Brest was overworked, as we only saw
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 12: him run on the red carpet before the opening ceremony.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 12: In News that John Stanton doesn't spend money on his players,
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 12: if someone could please show him on TV and tell
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 12: him that he might want to spend money on a
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 12: comb as his hair is comparable to the sitting current
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  Speaker 12: US president.
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  Speaker 2: We'll check in next weekend. Good stuff there, dude, I
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: love that guy.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: Good stuff there.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: He's fun. He even checked in to make sure he did.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: He did.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 3: It's good to have him check in, by the way,
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 3: for I get text Brady Henderson down at the from
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 3: ESPN dot com down at the owners meet air the
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 3: league meetings in the NFL down in Phoenix. Today, Bob
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 3: Ferguson signed the income tax into law. Yeah, it doesn't
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 3: go to effect for a couple of years, but this
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 3: is from Brady Henderson. With Governor Bob Ferguson signing Washington's
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 3: millionaire attacks and the Laundaday. Schneider reiterated that it will
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 3: hurt all the local pro teams. As he noted before,
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 3: he said not having a state income tax has been
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 3: a big benefit to the Seahawks in terms of signing
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 3: free agents. I mean, I can tell you that it's
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 3: a benefit for and Schneider said it to those guys today,
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 3: and it's true. It's a benefit to the Mariners, it's
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 3: a benefit to the Seahawks, it's benefit to the Kraken.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 3: The Governor made mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 3: think to Christaniel's like, well, hey, you know, it doesn't
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 3: matter in California because again we have to overpay to
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 3: get people to come here for a lot of the
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 3: teams Seahawks, Mariners, and Kraken. Why because we're not California.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 3: It's not sunny, it's not warm, it's rainy, it's dark.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: It's a different testation, it's a.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 3: Different place to go. And not having the state income
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 3: tax for millionaires and don't think for a second that
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 3: won't drop lower than a millionaire. But not having that
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 3: state income tax for millionaires was a benefit for free
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 3: agency for all three of the major pro teams.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: And now it might go away. There's a lawsuits coming.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 4: We'll let those guys.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: It'll be a whole thing.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, all right.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 3: Four nine four five one. That is the Tacoma Dodge
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 3: text line. Let me see en me move down here.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 3: I like to start the bottom where we first got
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 3: ones coming.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: We had a lot of text today, we did. We
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: do have a lot of texts. Is that what it is? Okay? Yeah,
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: I appreciate that.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 3: Let me go to the early early are By the way,
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 3: it's always like thirteen, so it's one one pm. I'm
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 3: not a military time guy.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: Oh just minus twelve, Bean minus twelve.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 3: Let's see uh loud and queer on the iHeart app.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 3: Put a Monday vacation next week for spring break. Let's
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 3: go this week and get this over week. Yeah, absolutely, lot,
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 3: and yeah we were we were worried about getting on
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 3: the air today, but we're getting a lot of texts
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 3: early in the first three or four minutes.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: Yes, we're there, No, we're good to go.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 2: That was just the most reassuring thing I could say
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 2: to Ian at the time with the technological I believe
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 2: we are good to get on the air.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: Yes, that'll always.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: Just start with that.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 3: Now, it's not nearly as dangerous as flying an airplane,
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 3: but that'd be like as a as a talk show
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 3: radio talk as a radio talk show host. To hear
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 3: you say that, that's like hearing the pilot say.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: I think I think we'll be good to land. I
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: think I think we'll be good to land today.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: Everything's okay, Yeah, I think we're good.
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 2: Not not just like the reassured, I.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 3: Kind of get the feeling that that thing that you
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 3: have to run in there, especially after they did. Whatever
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 3: they did is like flying a plane.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 2: There's a reason a lot of instruments.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 3: There's a reason Softy and me and Chuck have never
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 3: ventured into that room.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 2: Good for you, and don't do it. I played myself
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 2: into this.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: And attempted to learn how to do that.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: It's like I basically played myself onto special teams. That's
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: what I did.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 3: Time of the TV two O six, MLB and Apple
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 3: and Peacock, anything else. Nickelodeon on Tuesday, probably let's do it.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: Slime on the mounds.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, Chuck was talking about it this morning.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 3: It was a good point about Rob Manford. He's just
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 3: trying to, you know, like kind of spread the tentacles
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 3: out there all these different places, kind of like the
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 3: NFL does. But Chuck said something we've said on the
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 3: show a number of times, and it's true. Major League
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 3: Baseball is a very provincial, very geographically centric sport. It's
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 3: not like the NFL. It doesn't have a widespread popular
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 3: You care about your team, you really don't care about
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 3: a lot of the teams. The NHL is the same way. Frankly,
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 3: to be honest with you, and that's why you need
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 3: to make it as easy as possible. That said, I
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 3: think we've all figured it out.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 5: I believe from.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 3: What I understand, it was more on MLB than it
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 3: was on the Mariners in terms of the last minute
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 3: let's you know, what's the distribution look like and all that.
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: So, but we're here, We're good.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 3: It's on tonight. Brad's going to be on the pregame. Angie,
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 3: I believe, Ryan Roland Smith, Goldie. We're all good, all good,
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 3: and no col but the Yankees are in town. Let's go,
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 3: let's go.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: I love I.
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 3: My favorite West Coast games six thirty six forty.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. When I moved out here, that was
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 2: the biggest thing that I ever noticed. You know, it
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: started I moved out here during baseball season, and then
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 2: it became the summer and I'm sitting at the ballpark
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 2: watching the sunset in July as a game ends. Are
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 2: you kidding me? And then football season was what my
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 2: biggest thing was Monday night football. Because you have worked
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 2: the next time.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: I do not know how they do it back East.
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 2: I was a psychopath.
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 3: That's how we've Over the years. I covered a bunch
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 3: of games back there. I mean at least two in
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 3: DC that were Monday or Sunday night. We had Philadelphia,
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 3: We've had We've had a bunch of when I was
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 3: still doing that, we had a bunch of East Coast
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 3: primetime games and eight twenty kickoff PM is just insane.
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: That was my life though, That's what I grew up on,
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: and so it didn't.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: Could believe how people went to those games.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 2: And they all sold out.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: They did, they did?
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 3: I see a little bit.
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: Do I like this one?
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 2: Two o six. Even with Nicki Scarlatta, you should have
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: just gotten out of the way and let him and
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: Jess go back and forth to see if she slips
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: back into her East Coast accent like she used to
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 2: when she talked with coach Lenny Wilkins.
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: You probably did when you were talking to him off
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: the air, I'm assuming.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: Right, and probably on the air as well. But yeah, no,
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 2: it slips when you kind of like feel at home
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 2: with someone, it does slip. But I don't know. I
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: have what they call a sympathetic ear when I tend
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 2: to just uh talk like the people around me, and
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 2: uh so as soon as I hear my blood from
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: home and Nicky and I off the air, though we
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: did say island to island.
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 3: He's explain to me where he lives.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: Where you lived.
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 2: Staten Island is basically, oddly enough, not considered a burrow,
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: but it is an island closer to the city. I
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 2: live on Long Island, and I grew up in Nassau County.
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 2: So it goes like the Bronx, which is where Staten
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 2: Island is. It's just off the Bronx. Obviously you have
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 2: to take a ferry there and then goes Queens. Then
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 2: it goes Nassau County. So I was closer to Queens
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: than I was to the longest part of the island
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 2: is Suffolk County, and so that's where like Montauk and
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: you know the Hampton said, everything is is Suffolk County.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 2: I grew up on the south shore of Nassau County.
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 2: Was that yeast really confusing? Okay? So we we didn't
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: grow up close together, but we grew up in similar situations. However,
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: mine was a little more beach, his was a little
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: more ferry.
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 3: Gotcha, okay, Okay, I I well, we went back there
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 3: for the Super Bowl. The thing that was like crazy
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 3: was like I don't know how people learned that subway system.
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 2: Oh want to know what you know?
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 3: I think I think so Like it took me a
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 3: couple of days, like we I was dialed in after
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 3: like day two, but we had to take path train
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 3: to subways train and this and that, and I'm like,
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 3: now it's actually pretty good, like because I like hate
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 3: I don't like driving. I mean I'm not I just
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 3: don't like driving that much. And so I do like
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 3: the fact you could just jump on a train and
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 3: go anywhere.
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 2: You get a lot of steps, You do.
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: Get a lot of steps. Do you get a lot
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: of steps?
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 3: See about the ninety nine dollars MLB TV two of
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 3: the games are still blacked out, so dumb. Just in
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 3: the defense of that, like if you and again, I
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 3: know it's different, and I don't think baseball and hockey
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 3: specifically can afford to make it challenging and expensive. But look,
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 3: you're used to it with the NBA, NFL, the NFL.
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 3: You got to have in today's NFL, you have to
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 3: have your local affiliates.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: You have to have.
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 3: ESPN for Monday night football, you have to have Prime
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 3: Video for Thursday night.
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: Football, and then you doesn't everyone have Prime I think
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: so and then on occasion you have to have peacock.
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 2: And you can have a family prime right, yeah, I
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 2: think you can. You know the gray area that I
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: live in. So I'm just used.
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: A lot of people loving nick a lot of people loving.
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 2: Him, and if you do not follow them, they're just
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 2: pure joy on on social media. I have. I am
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 2: not on social media as much as I used to be,
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 2: but if you want to follow someone and a group
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 2: of people, their family stuff is so heartwarming and hilarious.
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 3: Well, I'll land on this one two six, Okay, great
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 3: hearing NICKI and screw Ferguson. Hopefully, hopefully he'll come out
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 3: here this year. Be fun to have him out here.
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 3: How many studio for all?
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 2: I'm already texting with him about it.
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 3: All right, let's get them, must make that happen. I'm
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 3: sure our guys simply said, I don't want to do
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 3: it too. So okay, Soft is he down at T
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 3: Mobile or Jimmy?
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: Well check in with the soft one coming up?
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  Speaker 5: Mixed?
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 3: Is this uh day or show day? Three in a
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 3: row for you? And Jimmy's on first?
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 5: Yes, and tomorrow will be four in a row.
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 3: Are you do you have a room there. You just
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  Speaker 3: stay in there.
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  Speaker 5: What do you do? I should have a room here,
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  Speaker 5: I should have a suite here by the way.
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  Speaker 1: You should have a sweet da.
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  Speaker 5: You know they have a rooftop bar by the way
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  Speaker 5: with a h with a swimming pool up there. I
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 5: do know that you should do our show there one
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 5: of these days when he gets hot.
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  Speaker 3: Your your friend in mine?
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: Ben?
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  Speaker 3: Is he running around there that runs a hole?
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: Benjay's here, Ben's here the whole game, Ben.
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  Speaker 3: Ben mentioned that a couple of times last summer, and
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  Speaker 3: we never made Why don't you get on that.
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  Speaker 1: You got nothing else going on.
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  Speaker 5: Nothing else going on at all. Yeah, I'll just take
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  Speaker 5: care of that for.
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  Speaker 3: You, Okay, I appreciate that. Y God, you know, I
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 3: think the last time I was this is really bad.
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  Speaker 3: The last time I might have been in that hotel
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  Speaker 3: or the the bar upstairs on the roof yeap, might
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 3: have been when we had the going away party for Clayton.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, it's been a while for me as well since
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 13: I've been up there. But really is there's no reason
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 13: for us to go up there right unless we're you know,
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 13: either staying over or working up there. I mean, it's
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 13: I guess kind of weird if we're just hanging out
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  Speaker 13: up there.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean here lling Well listen, it's you and
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: me and it's a bar. I mean, what do you mean?
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  Speaker 13: We are kind of creepy anyway, so it kind of
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 13: fits everything, but it's personally. We're back here tomorrow, man,
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 13: We're here four days in a row and then uh.
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 13: I think Thursday we're gonna be at U Dub for
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 13: uh spring practice day number two. Not there tomorrow because
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 13: we have a short ter show because of crack and
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 13: hockey tomorrow.
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 5: Yes, against the Oilers. God man, every game they play
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 5: is just freaking balls to the walled dale bite and
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 5: playoff action.
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: It's been good.
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 5: Yeah, the game feels like a playoff game right now.
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 3: And they're playing and they're playing a lot better. Yeah,
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 3: they just have the schedules, so down.
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 13: Are they gonna make it the two points out and
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 13: now we tend to go make it?
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 5: What's your gut feel?
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: I think they're gonna miss it by a point or two?
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 3: I bet I say that just because I'm trying to
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 3: be realistic and I want to be wrong. You know,
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 3: how you prepare for misery. Listen, there's a philosophy on
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 3: this show route to be wrong. We like to be
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 3: wrong on this show.
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 5: That's why most people tune into your show.
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: That's why they do. They say, we want a TV show.
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 5: Why do you listen to for Nest? Because I want
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 5: to see what he gets wrong.
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 3: It's well one to three, you could shock it up
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 3: every day, So.
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  Speaker 5: Then just do the opposite.
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 10: Man.
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 3: So what are your top f What are your top
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 3: five takeaways from the first four games of the marriage Buddy?
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 13: Top five? I actually had fifteen fifteen. I gotta whittle
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 13: it down to five.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: Wow, wow, five?
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 5: My god.
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 13: Well, my biggest concern that I've got is the same
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 13: concern that I had after game one. Is anybody checked
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 13: on the kid that ran the basis to make sure
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 13: he's okay?
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 5: They get to turn his ankle on Thursday night.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 3: Well but he got he made it through. His dad
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 3: helped him.
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 13: Nobody's bothered to find out about the kid like to
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 13: run the bases and we're just done.
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 5: We just discard the guy.
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: I think he's okay.
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 13: I think he's I want to find out what happened
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 13: to the kid. Cal Rawley is in a bit of
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 13: a slump. I'm gonna keep it on.
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 3: Gets fired, so gets the night off today, Yes, as
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 3: a lot of people thought it would have been yesterday.
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: But do you think they threw him out there to
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: the national TV?
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  Speaker 13: And I mean I don't think so. If they're making
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 13: decisions based on stuff like that, then.
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: That's idiotic, you would think.
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 5: And that is ridiculous. I mean, don't even get me
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 5: going on that.
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 13: There there's no I I want to live in a
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 13: world ian where I don't believe that my favorite baseball
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 13: team operates like that. That we're gonna be on Peacock
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 13: with Jason Bennetti and who was the Okay, who's the
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 13: guy doing color?
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 5: Rick Manning? Is that right?
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 4: I had?
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 3: I knew the guy forgot said, I knew Ryan rolland
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 3: Smith and the other two guys. I had no idea
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 3: who they were, Rick.
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 13: Manning and some dude with blankets on his lap sitting
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 13: in center field.
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: I did like that they put what the hell was that?
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 3: How about to play out?
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: That was Adam something?
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 5: Is this? I don't even I don't even remember who
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 5: he was.
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 13: I just I just know that they're not great personalities
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 13: and they're not big names. And I think if NBC
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 13: has taken over Sunday Night Baseball, which they are.
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 5: They got to do better than that. Man, that's not
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 5: good enough, not at all.
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: It didn't feel big.
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 13: I don't need to have the biggest name as long
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 13: as the dude's got some personality. But those guys, I
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 13: thought both of them were taking a nap during the game.
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 3: I'm glad hyphen was on because he helped a little bit.
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you.
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 5: Know what, if I'm doing a national game, I'd rather
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 5: just hear new announcers.
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 13: I don't even need Ryan rollingd Smith on. Yeah, just
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 13: just let them be local. Let him be our local, yo.
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 4: Coal.
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 3: Bottom line is, you're two and two in your and
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 3: your your big guys haven't hit at all. That's a
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 3: good sign.
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 5: That's time.
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 13: All these got eighteen plate appearances. He's got ten k's
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 13: in those eighteen plate appearances. So yeah, he's kind of
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 13: continuing what he did in the WBC in the regular season.
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 5: But whatever, man, I mean, it's four games.
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 13: I just I'm not even ready yet to start talking
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 13: about this baseball team, and yet here we are talking
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 13: about the baseball team.
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 3: Well, you're out of Jimmy's that's what you're doing. That
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 3: you want to talk You want to talk about Duke?
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 3: How about Duke the meltdown?
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 5: That wasp came Boozer's ass. If you're a Duke fan, lot.
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 3: Well, not just him, the whole, the whole group. I
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 3: mean Blue Night nineteen point lead, all inbound the ball.
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 3: Just hold it.
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: You don't have to get his brother didn't have to
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: pass it in the first place.
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 13: Take a foul or hit the roof of the arena. Yeah,
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 13: just chuck it, Just throw right up in the air.
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 3: I was talking to some about that today, like like
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 3: with that little time there's the clock ticks down to
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 3: what four or five seconds?
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, just throw it away.
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 5: The other end, Yeah, throw the ball up in the air.
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 13: Well, you don't want to throw it away because then
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 13: Yukon would get a shot to at least touch it,
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 13: maybe with a second or two left to go.
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 5: But you get I mean, I get your point.
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 13: There was there was all five Ukon players were up front, right,
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 13: nobody was back, two guys back. So whatever, it couldn't
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 13: have happened to a nicer group of u you know,
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 13: spoiled brats.
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: Are you anti Duke?
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 5: Blue Devils?
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 13: You know, I'm I'm not as big an anti Duke guy,
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 13: as I am kind of an Antiken Zaga guy. Yeah,
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 13: but there's reasons why I'm an Antiken Zaga guy because
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 13: I'm a Hosckey fan living in Seattle and gets sick
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 13: and tired of people shoving the Zax Dick fane down
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 13: my throat every single year. So I'm not I don't
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 13: have as much hatred for them as I do other
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 13: programs Oregon out there, but yeah, they kind of rubbed
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 13: me wrong a little bit.
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think Duke's one of those teams is easy
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 3: to dislike, and so when something like that happens to them,
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 3: Although Hurley's Hurley's kind of hard to like as well,
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 3: So you're like, oh, he's a psycho. You're rooting for
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 3: the lesser of two evils at that point, one coach
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 3: who's a knucklehead, and an entire program that feels like it's,
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 3: you know, the spoiled children of North Carolina.
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 13: So Hurley's like the Hannibal Lecter of college basketball. Honestly,
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 13: he just I feel like he should be coaching a
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 13: basketball game with a hockey mask.
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 2: Go on.
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 3: Well, and then because he takes the glasses off for
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 3: a while and it's like, but his facial expressions, I
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 3: swear the guy's going to have bad things happened to
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 3: with at some point on the sideline, like he his.
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 5: Blood pressure wise, right yeah, like like sure, like.
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 3: Like you know, I mean, like you can't get to
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 3: that point all the time. And he's out way for
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 3: forty eight straight minutes, forty straight minutes of a game
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 3: and oh my god.
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 13: Well, I hope he stays in college basketball forever because
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 13: I think college basketball needs kind.
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 5: Of a heel like that. Yeah, he goes to the NBA,
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 5: that act would not work. No, NBA.
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 13: No, you can push guys around in college basketball. He
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 13: can't do that in the NBA unless you're winning a
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 13: buttload of championships.
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 3: No, Well he's won though, so he's won a couple. Yeah, right,
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 3: he's won a couple on thee.
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 5: I'm talking in the NBA. Oh yeah, Larry O'Brien.
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: Did you hear the sound from Bill Simmons.
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 13: Yeah, we're gonna play it today on the show what'd
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 13: you think? I'll tell you three forty five?
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: Oh is this fun with audio?
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna fit from USA Soccer guy there.
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 13: Say this that I think there's a couple of things
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 13: that he has said that I kind of agree with that.
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 13: If you were sitting in a different city in America
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 13: and somebody told you that, hey, expansion might be bad
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 13: for the game, I totally get that. I mean, there's
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 13: been more blowouts and ass kickings in the NBA in
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 13: the last month, and maybe there have been in like
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 13: the last decade. Man teams are tanking. Yeah, the quality
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 13: of play is not good.
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 5: See him.
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 13: Blowouts almost every night in the NBA by twenty five
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 13: to thirty points. So it's not a ludicrous argument that
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 13: somebody could say that two more teams is going to
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 13: water down the product even more.
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 5: But I don't care because I want my team.
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, right, water down or not exactly doesn't matter us exactly.
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 3: You don't care how water day. The only thing I
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 3: don't want to want water down is my drink, my
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 3: contail exactly. Let Let let let my new Sonic two
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 3: point oh be the team that's getting hammered by fifty
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 3: every night.
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 5: I'll sign up for that. That's fine.
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 13: Maybe not after year two or three, but for the
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 13: first couple of years I'll be more than half.
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 3: All right, So what are you coming up?
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 13: Let's see hum Millain's with us today, Mike the course
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 13: he's going to be with us today, Bill Krueger, little
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 13: funwell audio. Lots of topics to hit on the Mariner's
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 13: opening weekend, the crack and the ABS system debut to Faceball. Yeah,
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 13: lots of thoughts on that Duke kN ending yesterday. Man
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 13: Seahawks meetings happening right now? Are the NFL meetings happening
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 13: in Arizona. Lots to go over with Huean millin coming
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 13: up next.
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: All Right, we'll top the top of your head if
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 1: you have to channel something.
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 13: All right, see you about to you for the mild
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 13: mannered and marginally objectionable in Pernesse.
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 3: This is paneled day saying so long everyone