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Best of Chuck and Buck at Day 2 of Spring Training · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Your home for Spring training presents Chucking Bucks Daily Recap podcast,
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, and welcome to day two of our spring
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  Speaker 2: training coverage right here at Sports Radio ninety three point
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  Speaker 2: three kjr FM, Chucking Buck in the Mornings, live from Peoria.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. If you took the day off yesterday, if
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  Speaker 2: you went, if your boss said to you you can
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  Speaker 2: have the day off, and you decided, all right, I'll
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  Speaker 2: take the day off. Well, you missed day one of
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  Speaker 2: our coverage. Watch what's spectacular yesterday here from Mariners spring training.
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  Speaker 2: But day two we're out the top it so good
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  Speaker 2: morning and welcome in. We got a little desert rain
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  Speaker 2: overnight and it's chilled things down a little bit. But
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  Speaker 2: Bucky is like, I'm still gonna wear a thong and
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  Speaker 2: a halter top, but I have a jacket on. Oh
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  Speaker 2: that's true, that's true. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I like getting some arion with cheeks, if you know
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  Speaker 3: what I mean. But I had to cover the arms
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  Speaker 3: a little bit today.
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  Speaker 2: Well that'll keep if you protected Former Mariner Bucky Jacobson.
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  Speaker 2: My name is Chuck Powell, Ashley Ryan back in our
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  Speaker 2: studios in Seattle. Welcome to another edition of Chuck and Buckan.
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  Speaker 2: We're starting with a guest right off the bat, one
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  Speaker 2: of our favorite people in the organization, the hitting instructor
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  Speaker 2: for your Seattle Mariners. He's the reason we went to
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  Speaker 2: the American League Championship Series. I'm pretty sure he's the
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  Speaker 2: only reason. Kevin Seitzer joins us here on the program.
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  Speaker 2: Good mornings, Good morning, Happy spring training to you. Happy
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  Speaker 2: to be here. Are you ready to do this again? Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you're I hear you're a couple bottles of
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  Speaker 3: red wine richer forgiven our number number thirty three away
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  Speaker 3: to Brendan Donovan.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir, it was worth the trade.
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  Speaker 2: It's worth the trade. I love. Yeah, you took care
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  Speaker 2: of me very good. Well, it's great to see you.
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  Speaker 2: And it seems to me that you guys are you
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  Speaker 2: coaches are busier than ever. I can't walk by your
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  Speaker 2: room without your being in a meeting. Has there been
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  Speaker 2: a change in philosophy by Dan this year? What's going on?
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  Speaker 4: No? I mean these are meetings that we have throughout
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  Speaker 4: the spring that we're trying to knock as many of
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  Speaker 4: them out as we can early. So we can kind
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  Speaker 4: of be able to breathe in about two weeks. So no,
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  Speaker 4: it's good. It's good. We're getting them knocked out. We
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  Speaker 4: got It's been busy, really busy. We had a lot
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  Speaker 4: of guys show up early. So today's first full squad,
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  Speaker 4: but it feels like we've been full squad for about
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  Speaker 4: four or five days already.
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  Speaker 2: H nice.
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  Speaker 5: How's uh? How was your off season to start with?
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  Speaker 2: Was it?
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  Speaker 3: Was it goodt fast? Yeah, Well that's what happens when
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  Speaker 3: you get and.
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  Speaker 4: That's how I like it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I don't like the off season to drag I really,
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  Speaker 4: I mean after the first of the year, I'm ready.
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  Speaker 4: I'm looking at my watch how many more days until
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  Speaker 4: I get to leave? So I love getting down here,
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  Speaker 4: getting to work in spring springs one of my favorite
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  Speaker 4: times a year, just because you just get to get
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  Speaker 4: guys ready. It's more of a relaxed atmosphere and you know,
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  Speaker 4: you start ramping up for the show.
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  Speaker 2: What kind of contact do you have with the players
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  Speaker 2: in the off season? Is it open door policy? You
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  Speaker 2: can call me whenever you want, you can come meet me.
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  Speaker 2: I'll come meet you. How does how does it work
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  Speaker 2: in the off season for you?
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  Speaker 4: You know my format has changed over the years as
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  Speaker 4: a coach, and you know, the I check in with
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  Speaker 4: the guys normally by text. There will be some phone
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  Speaker 4: calls on occasion. They'll send some video on occasion, but
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  Speaker 4: I like to give them their space. They hear my
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  Speaker 4: mouth all year, you know, all me gar mags. It's
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  Speaker 4: we're with them for eight months, and so I like
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  Speaker 4: to give them a break. We have check in meetings,
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  Speaker 4: more of the best version of your self meetings that
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  Speaker 4: we'll get.
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  Speaker 2: We'll have with.
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  Speaker 4: Several of the staff members and the players individually that
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  Speaker 4: you know, we start talking about last year, what we're
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  Speaker 4: working on for this year. They get to do a
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  Speaker 4: lot of talking, you know, maybe some adjustments and whatnot.
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  Speaker 4: But I don't I don't go see guys anymore unless
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  Speaker 4: they want me to.
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  Speaker 2: I will. But they're doing their thing there.
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  Speaker 4: Most of them have their hitting guy that they're working with,
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  Speaker 4: and that's fine. And if I go in, what I
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  Speaker 4: found is you go in for three or four days
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  Speaker 4: once twice an off season, it's not really going to
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  Speaker 4: change what they're doing. They're gonna be doing what they're
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  Speaker 4: they're focused on, and you know, I can touch base
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  Speaker 4: and talk to them about it the same as I
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  Speaker 4: can look at it. But when I get down here
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  Speaker 4: and get the whites of their eyes and be able
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  Speaker 4: to ask point blank questions and be on top of
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  Speaker 4: it day after day after day, that's when we get
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  Speaker 4: down to business and and we get them ready.
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  Speaker 3: So I mean, you're just going back to last year
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  Speaker 3: a little bit. I mean, being able to sit in
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  Speaker 3: the dugout and watch Cal do what he did must
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  Speaker 3: have been pretty enjoyable. I would imagine it was fun
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  Speaker 3: watching from the seats we were watching from, but I
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  Speaker 3: mean it was there was definitely something different about his approach.
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  Speaker 3: He most certainly from the right side. I mean, became
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  Speaker 3: more of a complete hitter on both sides and doing
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  Speaker 3: damage from both sides. Was there anything in particular that
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  Speaker 3: you guys were working on at this time last year
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  Speaker 3: or throughout the year that led to sixty freaking home runs?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, the big The big was conviction to the approach.
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  Speaker 4: But probably I think he, you know, the first couple
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  Speaker 4: of weeks of the season, he was struggling big time,
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  Speaker 4: and he started working I would say maybe a week
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  Speaker 4: after we got into the season on some mechanical adjustments.
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  Speaker 4: He has a tendency get too far forward, you know,
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  Speaker 4: a little jumpy kind of falling, kind of crashing, closing space.
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  Speaker 4: And and so he really focused on, you know the
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  Speaker 4: old the old line of stay back, and that was
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  Speaker 4: kind of one of the things that really turned him
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  Speaker 4: loose and set him free to be able to to
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  Speaker 4: to not jump and let the ball travel and then
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  Speaker 4: to be able to stay behind the ball and work
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  Speaker 4: the ball middle of the field. And you know, he
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  Speaker 4: still pulled a ton of balls because he wasn't going
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  Speaker 4: to be laid on fastballs. Was why he pulled so
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  Speaker 4: many homers. But you know, his his mindset was middle
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  Speaker 4: of the field and be on time. And so he
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  Speaker 4: he's he's very smart too. His he's he knows how
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  Speaker 4: to think in the batter's box. And it was like
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  Speaker 4: the hotter he got, the easier it was for him
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  Speaker 4: to to sit pitches hard and soft. And you know,
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  Speaker 4: he just he just did a great job. It was
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  Speaker 4: it was a tremendous goose bump type season watching him
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  Speaker 4: do what he did.
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  Speaker 2: He picked up a few fans along the way. Kevin
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  Speaker 2: Sitzer is with us. Let's combine the last two questions
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  Speaker 2: in one uh, the what your role is in the
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  Speaker 2: offseason with cal I mean, what if he comes up
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  Speaker 2: and he's like, hey, I know we had a good
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  Speaker 2: year together last year, but I'm really going on corporate
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  Speaker 2: rate this Gary Sheffield bat wiggle or this Joe Morgan,
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  Speaker 2: you know, arm flap or I'm gonna I'm gonna hesitate
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  Speaker 2: at the top of my swing like soda Horrow. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I really think it's gonna help me. I mean, somebody
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  Speaker 2: has a year like that and then you know, do
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  Speaker 2: they just do the same thing because you're gonna try
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  Speaker 2: to get better. I mean, I think you would have
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  Speaker 2: had a heart attack if each ye row would have
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  Speaker 2: gotten to me would have showed up at Spring being
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  Speaker 2: a slap hitter. So what what do you do in
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  Speaker 2: that case when people are tinkering too much? Well, Number one,
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  Speaker 2: he didn't do that. Number two, I would ask him
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  Speaker 2: if they're stupid. You know, when.
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  Speaker 4: Guys have great years, the worst thing that they can
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  Speaker 4: try and do is get better. You you had a
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  Speaker 4: great year, you had a really solid year. And the
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  Speaker 4: one thing we talk about a lot is a player's
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  Speaker 4: identity and you know, being able to stay within that identity.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, our guys really I mean hats off
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  Speaker 4: to all of them being committed to that last year,
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  Speaker 4: because there's there's lots of reminders, lots of conversations, not
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  Speaker 4: just from the hitting coaches, but from Dan Manny, I
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  Speaker 4: mean all the staff. It's like, we're talking about our identity,
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  Speaker 4: each guy individually, us as a team, and let's let's
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  Speaker 4: go lay it out there.
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  Speaker 3: I gotta ask one about the somewhat new guy, Josh
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  Speaker 3: Naylor that we got locked up for you know, a
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  Speaker 3: few more years after this. Just I mean, I love
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  Speaker 3: his approach. It seems like just an old school ballplayer
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  Speaker 3: the way that he kind of goes about his business.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, what was it that you saw when he
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  Speaker 3: came over? Did you know him before he came over?
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  Speaker 3: And what does he bring to the table, because he
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  Speaker 3: seems like a guy that between the years has has
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  Speaker 3: got a damn good idea what he's doing up there.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I didn't know him before when he got here.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you're in the you're in the heat of battle, man,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you're pushing towards playoffs and all of that,
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  Speaker 4: and you just kind of want to come alongside them
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  Speaker 4: and ask questions and you don't want to ask too
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  Speaker 4: many questions because they're in the middle of the season
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  Speaker 4: and you want them.
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  Speaker 2: To do what they do.
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  Speaker 4: But it was really mostly let him play, ask questions
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  Speaker 4: when I saw things that I, you know, kind of
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  Speaker 4: didn't care for, maybe thought adjustment might be needed. And
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  Speaker 4: he was stinking awesome. I mean flat awesome. Dude can
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  Speaker 4: flat hit. Dude knows how to play the game. Dude
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  Speaker 4: has the greatest feel and cord awareness between the lines
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  Speaker 4: maybe of anybody that I've ever been around. And that's
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  Speaker 4: a big statement for me because I don't I won't
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  Speaker 4: make that. I played with a lot of guys who
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  Speaker 4: were just flat ball players, who who knew the game
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  Speaker 4: and saw the game and saw the little details that
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  Speaker 4: you know, it's like, oh that was pretty good. Oh
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  Speaker 4: the second basement shading a little bit on changeups and
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  Speaker 4: you know, da da da da da, and you know
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  Speaker 4: when the picture does this or that, you know, it's like,
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  Speaker 4: holy cow, that was that was pretty impressive that Josh
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  Speaker 4: is picking up on that. He'd be barking. He he's
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  Speaker 4: up on the rail watching everything all the time, and
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  Speaker 4: just great leadership qualities, hitters meetings, giving feedback, helping the
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  Speaker 4: young guys, and dude just got.
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  Speaker 2: Flapped back to ball skills.
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  Speaker 4: I mean he can just hit hit for average. When
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  Speaker 4: when he stays with I'm just gonna be a base
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  Speaker 4: hit machine. That's when it's really special.
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  Speaker 2: Kevin Sitzer is with us, a hitting instructor for the Mariners, says.
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  Speaker 2: We continue here on our start to our day two
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  Speaker 2: of spring training coverage on the Chuck and Buck. Let's
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  Speaker 2: ask you your first impression of the newer guy, Brendan Donovan.
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  Speaker 2: What is your feel on him thus far?
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  Speaker 4: Gonna fit right in here like a glove, and he's
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  Speaker 4: just he's He's awesome. I'm everything we heard about him,
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  Speaker 4: the makeup, everything is just it's been spot on. We
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  Speaker 4: got a couple guys. Pap Our, our minor league hitting coordinator,
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  Speaker 4: played college ball with him and they were in each
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  Speaker 4: other's wedding like best man in each other's wedding. So
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  Speaker 4: he's out in the cage with me and PAP's been
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  Speaker 4: able to fill me in on on some things too.
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  Speaker 4: But Donnie's just been great, opening up conversations, what he likes,
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  Speaker 4: what he needs, what he wants. Studed a very very
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  Speaker 4: impressive dude too, as far as preparation and the process
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  Speaker 4: and I'm fired up to have.
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  Speaker 2: Him big time. I think the entire organization is fired
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  Speaker 2: up to have him. Made it quite a priority in
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  Speaker 2: the off season.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean over our gene. Just if you grated
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  Speaker 3: last year, what you what you liked about what you
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  Speaker 3: had the offense do, right, I mean they ended up
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  Speaker 3: going deep into this thing. I think what eight outs
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  Speaker 3: away from getting to the you know, kind of the
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  Speaker 3: promised land and giving yourself an opportunity to win it all.
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  Speaker 3: But overarching, I'm sure that you kind of grade yourself
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  Speaker 3: and just grade everybody on. Yeah, we want to put
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  Speaker 3: the ball in play a little more, or you know,
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  Speaker 3: certain guys, we want to make sure that we stay
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  Speaker 3: out of this longer slump or this type of a problem.
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  Speaker 3: What were the grades that you kind of gave to
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  Speaker 3: just the overall thing, and what was it that you're
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  Speaker 3: thinking you really want to improve on this year.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you're spot on with what you're saying, because I
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  Speaker 4: felt like we were very fortunate to be where we
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  Speaker 4: were last year. I felt like there's a lot of
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  Speaker 4: areas that we can improve on, and that's going to
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  Speaker 4: be a focus this year. You know, attention, very detailed,
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  Speaker 4: attention to the little things and what are the little
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  Speaker 4: things situational hitting, moving runners, getting them in from third,
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  Speaker 4: all the stuff that everybody says, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's
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  Speaker 4: what we want to do. We're gonna really put a
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  Speaker 4: lot of emphasis on our approach and our plan and
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  Speaker 4: the execution from day one in spring training, and we're
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  Speaker 4: gonna have lots of conversations about making sure the thought
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  Speaker 4: process is right. They're never going to be perfect at it.
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  Speaker 4: It's very difficult to get the job done when you're
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  Speaker 4: getting a batter's box off the pitching that we have
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  Speaker 4: to face nowadays. But as long as the plan and
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  Speaker 4: as long as the mindset and approach is right, that's
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  Speaker 4: all you can ask for with these guys.
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  Speaker 6: And the.
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  Speaker 4: Times where you get excited in a big situation and
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  Speaker 4: kind of loose focus of those two things, that's.
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  Speaker 2: What we got.
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  Speaker 4: A nip in the butt and clean up so you know,
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  Speaker 4: try and put the ball in play a little bit more.
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  Speaker 4: We got some guys with swing and miss. That's part
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  Speaker 4: of who we are. Having Naylor and Donovan for the
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  Speaker 4: whole season is going to help, you know, with our
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  Speaker 4: strikeout numbers because they they can put the ball in
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  Speaker 4: play and you know, but the other guys, it's like
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  Speaker 4: it's it's part of their identity. It's like, you don't
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  Speaker 4: want to go up there and make col passive to
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  Speaker 4: try and not strike out as much when he's hitting homers.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, we try and improve in those areas.
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  Speaker 4: And really it comes down to, like I said, initially,
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  Speaker 4: plan and approach, and if you can maintain your approach
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  Speaker 4: with two strikes, you got a chance to get it done.
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  Speaker 4: If your mindset becomes don't strike out, just put the
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  Speaker 4: ball in play, You're not going to see the ball
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  Speaker 4: as good. You're not going to have lengthen your swing.
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  Speaker 4: You're not going to stay short and inside the ball
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  Speaker 4: the way you want to and through the ball to
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  Speaker 4: give yourself a chance to foul it off or put
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  Speaker 4: the ball in play. So those little detailed things, those
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  Speaker 4: are just tiny little things that if we can everybody
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  Speaker 4: can improve one percent, you know every week, we will
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  Speaker 4: be in good shape at the end. So, yeah, there's
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  Speaker 4: a lot we need to improve on from last year
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  Speaker 4: as as an offensive unit, and the guys are hungry
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  Speaker 4: and fired up and all in on it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, last thing, because I know you got a busy schedule.
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  Speaker 2: I can't let you get out of here without asking
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  Speaker 2: about Julio. Last year, as good a job as you did,
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  Speaker 2: you didn't have an answer for how you keep a
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  Speaker 2: guy hot for six straight months? So yeah, so did
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  Speaker 2: you solve that in the off season? Do you now
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  Speaker 2: know how to get him started in April so that
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  Speaker 2: he can have six months of All Star play?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm gonna say yes, and I'll let you know
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  Speaker 4: for sure in June.
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  Speaker 2: Perfect. I believe it. I'm ye if you're selling it.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Well, great to see you, Thank you very
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  Speaker 2: much for stopping by. We appreciate it. Have another great year,
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  Speaker 2: all right. Kevin Sykes are joining us right here on
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  Speaker 2: Chuck and Buck in the morning, joining us at our set,
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  Speaker 2: and he's got to run off to one of his
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  Speaker 2: thirty five meetings today. That's final. We appreciate him joining
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  Speaker 2: us here on the radio show. And yes, I mean
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  Speaker 2: as Julio was a little more com I mean he
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  Speaker 2: had a fantastic year again last year and being graded
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  Speaker 2: out as a top center fielder uh in in the
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  Speaker 2: game right now, but certainly you know he started the
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  Speaker 2: month of May uh with a two o seven batting
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  Speaker 2: average Bucky so still that that he hasn't had that
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  Speaker 2: hot start, and we just keep waiting for Man, if
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  Speaker 2: he has a hot start, what could he do? Man,
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  Speaker 2: I'm hoping to see that.
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  Speaker 3: Though, right well, I think most people. I think there's
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  Speaker 3: you know, there's a few turns in the punch bowl
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  Speaker 3: that want to bitch and moan about a guy that's
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  Speaker 3: playing as well as he has in his first four seasons.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he's he's up there with some of the
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  Speaker 3: all time greats as far as what he's done to
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  Speaker 3: start his career off. And yet it's okay to also say, man,
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  Speaker 3: what if he didn't start out so poorly? What if
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  Speaker 3: he didn't have such slow starts? And and I mean
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  Speaker 3: it's I think you're talking about. Uh, it wouldn't have
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  Speaker 3: been just Aaron Judge and and cal Rawly in the
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  Speaker 3: conversation for MVP last year. Juliu has the talent obviously
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  Speaker 3: to be able to thrust himself right into that too.
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  Speaker 3: He just has to kind of get off to a
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: better start and not to dig himself into a little hole.
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: I mean, I'll say one thing, it's commendable how well
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: he turns it around. There's a lot of people that
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: you start off and you're one hundred and fifty abs
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: into the season. You're hitting you know, you're not hitting
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: your weight, and it'll wear on you. You start to press,
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: you start to you know, stress out about it a
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: little bit. Every single out feels like it's two or
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: three outs. Every hit feels like it's a half a
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: hit because of the hole that you dug yourself into.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: He doesn't seem to have a problem with that.
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: He just kind of still trusts the process and trust
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: that eventually his talent is going to shine through and
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: he's going to turn into the dude.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: That he is. But God, I hope that.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: I hope that sites are after one spring training, you
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: got to figure it's salting.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, yeah, he effected it. He has.
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: You hear how often he says the word approach. It's
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: because it's important approach, approach, approach and plan and ultimately,
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: whenever you meet someone or you start something new, the
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: first time that you kind of go through it is
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: it's a feeling out process. I have to think that
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: last year at spring training, it's him gaining the trust
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: of the guys, him getting to know what it is
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: that they think about their own swing and their their
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: own approach and their own plan when it comes to hitting,
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: and then you got to tinker with it because once
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: you get into the season, it's not time for overhaul,
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: it's not time for drastic changes. So now all of
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: a sudden, he has an offseason to think about it.
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: He didn't have to build the rapport with him to
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: start the season off. It's kind of hitting the ground
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: running in spring training. So I'm hopeful that he can
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: and hopeful that he can get him off on a
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: good start in the rest of the offense for that matter.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: Well, a great way to start our day two spring
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: training coverage. A little overcast today, a little overnight desert rain.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: You know Annie Lennox used to sing about it. I
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: know that, and I miss her for it. And so
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: a little bit of a different tone to get the
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: start the show started here today chalk about in the
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: morning Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRF. Our spring
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: training coverage continues, and look who we stumbled upon. What
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: an interesting guest to throw on the radio program down
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: here at spring training. He does baseball stuff with a
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: John Boy that he's down here for at spring training,
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: but we also know him for his football stuff with
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: the NFL Net where Chris Rose is with us here
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: on Chuck and Buck in the Morning. How are you great.
• 19:24
  Speaker 7: It's great to be out covering baseball a week after
• 19:27
  Speaker 7: covering Super Bowl sixties, so I'm sure the city is
• 19:31
  Speaker 7: still glowing and it should be.
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: We're on fire, Chris, We're on fire.
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: And for a guy from Cleveland, Ohio, it is really
• 19:38
  Speaker 7: tough to stomach. But I'm happy for you because I
• 19:40
  Speaker 7: always have loved going up to Seattle over the years,
• 19:43
  Speaker 7: whether it's for the Seahawks game or Marititers or anything
• 19:46
  Speaker 7: else that I have to go up there for.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: And so you guys deserve it, enjoy it. Well, yeah,
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: thank you very much, very nice of you. Well, yeah,
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: I will say a Cleveland Brown fan would say that, though,
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: I mean, there's so many like bitter sports fans out there.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: All fans are all also so nice.
• 20:01
  Speaker 7: No, no, no, I mean, listen, as long as Pittsburgh
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: or Baltimore Cincinnati doesn't win it, then somebody else can
• 20:07
  Speaker 7: go do that. We're perfectly fine with it. I will
• 20:09
  Speaker 7: say this. I went out and did the last hour
• 20:12
  Speaker 7: of game day morning on NFL Network and then did
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: the postgame show as well, which I'm sure we'll get to.
• 20:17
  Speaker 7: But as I was sitting in the outside set with
• 20:20
  Speaker 7: Michael Robinson, who of course helped you guys win Super
• 20:23
  Speaker 7: Bowl forty eight and MJD and I turn around, it
• 20:27
  Speaker 7: was probably like ninety percent Seahawk fans. I was really impressed.
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: I know you guys have always traveled exceptionally well. And
• 20:34
  Speaker 7: the other thing is like, that's the closest you got
• 20:36
  Speaker 7: to Seattle right in anything, in any sport. So get there,
• 20:41
  Speaker 7: and you did. You represent it, And it was fantastic
• 20:44
  Speaker 7: to see.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: As you were watching the season unfold, when did it
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: start to click with you and maybe some of your
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: colleagues like, wait a minute, this team's the real deal.
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: I actually thought, oddly enough, it was a gaming lost
• 21:00
  Speaker 7: and was the last game he lost in Los Angeles.
• 21:03
  Speaker 7: The fact that you guys had a chance to kick
• 21:05
  Speaker 7: a sixty one yarder and win when Sam Darnold got
• 21:07
  Speaker 7: picked off four times. Yeah, if your quarterback gets picked
• 21:10
  Speaker 7: off four times on the road against arguably the best
• 21:13
  Speaker 7: team in the league, you think and would we lose
• 21:15
  Speaker 7: by seventeen twenty? No, we lost by two and had
• 21:18
  Speaker 7: a shot to win it on the last play of
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: the game. Like that's when I knew, okay, this team
• 21:22
  Speaker 7: is great, like really really talented. And then obviously that
• 21:27
  Speaker 7: Week sixteen game, I still go over my head, if
• 21:31
  Speaker 7: Zach Sharboney isn't polite, it's possible that NFC Championship game
• 21:35
  Speaker 7: is played in Los Angeles, right, Like, how many guys.
• 21:38
  Speaker 7: I've got a kid. My oldest son is twenty five
• 21:41
  Speaker 7: years old. I can't get him to pick up anything.
• 21:44
  Speaker 7: So he goes over and he picks up a ball,
• 21:46
  Speaker 7: and he cleans up his room and he gives it
• 21:47
  Speaker 7: to the referee and he says, hey, that's nice. Now
• 21:52
  Speaker 7: I thought that was pretty impressive.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so skip ahead then to the Super Bowl and yeah,
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: you did the postgame show there on NFL at work? Come,
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: so was there? We weren't watching it necessarily, No, you were,
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: I get it, I understand, But was there? What were
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: you guys surprised that how easy it kind of looked
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: that night? What was the overriding sentiment there on the set?
• 22:14
  Speaker 7: I wouldn't say shocked, because so many people felt like,
• 22:18
  Speaker 7: I mean, I thought they were gonna win. I had it,
• 22:20
  Speaker 7: I think twenty four to seventeen, and that was more
• 22:23
  Speaker 7: hoping than expecting. I thought maybe if if the Patriots
• 22:28
  Speaker 7: could get a short field or here or there. It's
• 22:31
  Speaker 7: hard to move ten twelve plays against that defense, particularly
• 22:35
  Speaker 7: the way it was playing. And I know that New
• 22:36
  Speaker 7: England played some really really good defenses, but they went
• 22:39
  Speaker 7: against the Chargers who don't have any tackles. They went
• 22:43
  Speaker 7: against the Houston Texans and it looked like CJ. Stroud
• 22:46
  Speaker 7: was a JV quarterback unfortunately at times. And then they
• 22:48
  Speaker 7: go against a backup in Denver and they don't have
• 22:51
  Speaker 7: anything to apologize for. They got there. They turned their
• 22:54
  Speaker 7: season from one season to the next. They go from
• 22:57
  Speaker 7: four wins to you know, the super Bowl, and it
• 23:00
  Speaker 7: was really impressive. It's just it felt like two different
• 23:03
  Speaker 7: leagues out there.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: How surprise were you with Mike McDonald's game plan against
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: against Josh McDaniels.
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: I mean to me that I thought that was yeah.
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: I thought that was really impressive repency of yeah coaching.
• 23:17
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, listen, that's the way the Seahawks ran
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: the table that they finished by winning ten in a row.
• 23:22
  Speaker 7: The only team that could move the ball against them
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: was a Rams.
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: That was it.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Every other team struggled.
• 23:27
  Speaker 7: And so it doesn't matter whether Josh McDaniels has a
• 23:30
  Speaker 7: great game plan or not, you still get And I
• 23:33
  Speaker 7: think what we learned about New England's offensive line. I
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: could tell you this from having called two of their
• 23:37
  Speaker 7: games in twenty twenty four. Their offensive line and wide
• 23:41
  Speaker 7: receiver room were two of the worst units of football
• 23:44
  Speaker 7: I'd ever seen in my life. So they actually massively upgraded,
• 23:48
  Speaker 7: but they still need help, particularly against the defensive front.
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: Like you've got those two monsters in the middle in
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: Murphy and Leonard Williams. They are just terrific and their
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: push changes the way that you can game plan.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Chris Rose is with us from NFL Network also John
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Boy Media. He's here covering the Mariners spring training, which
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: we'll get to in a moment. His thoughts on the Mariners.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: Huge baseball fan as well as a huge football fan.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: But we did this thing this season. Obviously, we had
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: to talk about Sam Donald a lot, talk about all
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: the critics of Sam Darnold. We started handing out what
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: are called scarlet d's Chris, like the Nathaniel Hawthorne scarlet letter.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: We would give scarlet D's to people that we could
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: not just accept the fact that he was actually good. Now,
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: so did you be honest with this. Should we have
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: given you a scarlet D? Or was there anybody at
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: NFL network who most deserved a recipient of a scarlet D?
• 24:47
  Speaker 7: I think a lot of people probably were skeptical, right,
• 24:50
  Speaker 7: I mean a year ago when he got the job
• 24:53
  Speaker 7: in Minnesota, everybody said, okay, well you've got you know,
• 24:57
  Speaker 7: real interesting wide receiver group.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: Let's see what you can do.
• 24:59
  Speaker 7: And the point in fourteen games, okay, he got them
• 25:02
  Speaker 7: to the playoffs, or you know, on the precipice of
• 25:05
  Speaker 7: the playoffs, let's see what you can do and it
• 25:06
  Speaker 7: must win Week eighteen in order to get the one seed. Well,
• 25:09
  Speaker 7: we all saw what happened in Detroit. Then we saw
• 25:12
  Speaker 7: what happened the next week out here in Arizona where
• 25:14
  Speaker 7: the Rams had to play their home playoff game because
• 25:17
  Speaker 7: of the fires, and people were.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: Gonna question him.
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: And it's fair, I mean, it's not unfair because the
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: script played out similarly, except that this year he also
• 25:27
  Speaker 7: led the league in turnovers. And those are facts. Those
• 25:30
  Speaker 7: aren't that's not being mean to a guy. Those are facts.
• 25:34
  Speaker 7: And so when he gets to the playoffs, there are
• 25:36
  Speaker 7: going to be people who are not going to be
• 25:38
  Speaker 7: willing to give him the benefit of the doubt until
• 25:40
  Speaker 7: they see it. And he played great and particularly under pressure, right,
• 25:45
  Speaker 7: I mean, what quarterback is great under pressure?
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: Not a lot of them.
• 25:48
  Speaker 7: A lot of them struggle and that's where they have
• 25:50
  Speaker 7: their turnovers, especially Sam And for him to put up
• 25:53
  Speaker 7: the statistics that he did, I think against San Francisco
• 25:56
  Speaker 7: and the Rams, he threw four total touchdowns, all four
• 25:58
  Speaker 7: were under pressure, So it was great. He's a really
• 26:02
  Speaker 7: good kid that didn't lose his way, that fought like
• 26:05
  Speaker 7: hell to get where he is, and he deserves all
• 26:07
  Speaker 7: the accolades.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: Now sounds like maybe you could have used the scarlet deal.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: Probably let's say lowercase scarlet, lowercase. I'll take the lowercase.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: I'll be like Jacob deGrom with the lowercase D.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you'd be the first to get the lowercase, A
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: big one, like it's a cape on their back.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: So how big of it?
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: I mean, I think a lot of people know you,
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: maybe more from the NFL side of things, but the
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: baseball is is right there.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: How big of a baseball fan? Huge?
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: Huge?
• 26:35
  Speaker 7: I mean, listen, I spent a decade at MLB Network
• 26:39
  Speaker 7: with intentional talk. When that ended, you know, I've had
• 26:44
  Speaker 7: what I like to say, a soft landing with with
• 26:47
  Speaker 7: John Boy Media. They're an amazing story.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: What do you think of this team? Great? Yeah? Great? Uh.
• 26:56
  Speaker 7: The two series they played last year against Detroit and
• 26:59
  Speaker 7: Toronto were the most wonderful baseball series that we've had. Dramatic,
• 27:06
  Speaker 7: a lot of momentum swings, so many storylines, things you
• 27:10
  Speaker 7: could question, things you appreciated about the sport. Look are
• 27:17
  Speaker 7: they gonna miss Polanco and Suarez? I know that Gino
• 27:20
  Speaker 7: did not have a good second run here, but he
• 27:23
  Speaker 7: still hit forty nine homers last year. Yeah, yeah, I
• 27:28
  Speaker 7: heard about that. But I love the Brendan Donovan pickup.
• 27:33
  Speaker 7: I think that he is a he's a perfect guy
• 27:36
  Speaker 7: for this team. I think he's gonna hit lead off.
• 27:38
  Speaker 7: You can put him wherever you want, which is great.
• 27:43
  Speaker 7: And I think the Rob Refsnyder signing, that's what you're
• 27:46
  Speaker 7: not gonna mention. I don't understand why more teams weren't
• 27:50
  Speaker 7: in on him, Like with the lack of right handed
• 27:53
  Speaker 7: ability in this league. A guy like that who doesn't
• 27:57
  Speaker 7: need consistent at bats to produce, I think he's invaluable.
• 28:01
  Speaker 7: I just I didn't get it, and I think you
• 28:03
  Speaker 7: guys are really fortunate.
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm a big fan of the way they are
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: stacked up right now.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: I can't really good.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't wait to watch what I think should
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: have been the MVP.
• 28:13
  Speaker 7: Go again, How pressure were you with cal Roley last great?
• 28:15
  Speaker 7: I mean I can't imagine. Even though he won't say it,
• 28:19
  Speaker 7: I'll say it for him, Like, what the hell does
• 28:21
  Speaker 7: he have to do to win an MBAU? Hit eighty eight,
• 28:24
  Speaker 7: maybe eighty maybe catch one hundred and sixty one game?
• 28:28
  Speaker 7: Uh huh, We'll give him a day off and yeah,
• 28:32
  Speaker 7: look he's great. Is he gonna hit sixty? Probably not.
• 28:36
  Speaker 7: Is he gonna hit fifty? I even think that would
• 28:38
  Speaker 7: be a chore. Yeah, if the guy gives you forty
• 28:40
  Speaker 7: switch hits plays, you know, the sort of defense handles
• 28:44
  Speaker 7: the pitching staff the way he does. We just don't
• 28:46
  Speaker 7: know what goes into that position. It is so tough.
• 28:49
  Speaker 7: I would say, behind quarterback. It's as challenging a position
• 28:52
  Speaker 7: as there is in sports. So I don't know. I mean, listen,
• 28:56
  Speaker 7: I also didn't have a problem with Judge getting it
• 28:58
  Speaker 7: because he is he is such a freaking yea, so
• 29:02
  Speaker 7: changes the dynamic of that team when he's there as
• 29:05
  Speaker 7: opposed to when he's not. But I would have had
• 29:08
  Speaker 7: zero problem if Cali got zero.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: Well, good to have you on. Thank you very much,
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: my pleasure, guys, Thanks you all right. Chris Rose on
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ r f M.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: The challenge system this year. What's the organizational philosophy on
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: who gets the challenge? When you get the challenge? Is
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: it just a couple of players that you're going to
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: give that to at the plate? How are you going
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: to manage that as the organization? Everybody but Randy? Oh yeah,
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: I say that. I say that joking.
• 29:39
  Speaker 8: Randy's been you know's been prone to in the early
• 29:43
  Speaker 8: morning sessions that you may have seen with Kate Anderson
• 29:45
  Speaker 8: or Ryan Sloan, you know, and Randy's been quick to challenge,
• 29:48
  Speaker 8: and he's not always.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: I mean, I intend to laugh a lot this week.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: There's not going to be anything that's said this week funny.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: That's hilarious. Yeah, what's your philosophy with the new challenge system?
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: Anyone can challenge but Randy? That's from the president. Uh,
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: that is great, not surprising. I think that. I'm pretty sure.
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure Rose Arena doesn't think any strike called
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: on him was really a strike.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah. But the thing is, though it's not gonna work,
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: like they can say that, I don't know what they're
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: gonna do to him, start finding him. I mean they
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: they preached to him last year about hey, you know you,
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: we don't want you to steal. You don't have a
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: green light all the time because we got these guys
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: called cal Raleigh and Julio who we might want to
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: do damage to plate and he never paid attention to it.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: He just went when he wanted to go, and so
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: they had they've had some issues with you know, Randy
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: just kind of blowing off instructions. Let's just put it
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: that way.
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: Well, I mean, if if you only have a couple
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: of them and he blows through two of them and
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: all of a sudden you have no more left and
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: come it comes down to you really needed one, they'll
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: have a talking to him like, hey, don't do it
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: unless you're based.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: Oh there, I have a talk to him. I'm just saying,
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure it's gonna stick.
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: They had to talk to him all a lot of things,
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: not pimping home runs for the other guy.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: They had talks to him with him about that he
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: did curb that some this past year, though he didn't
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: do it as much as he's done it in the past.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: Good morning, Welcome into our Day two spring training coverage
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: here live from Peoria, Arizona. It's Chuck and Buck with you,
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: and if you miss Day one, you miss Jerry Depoto,
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: but we are going to replace some of that for
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: you a little bit later on in the show. We
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: also have Cole Young coming up here in a moment
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: as we enter the seven o'clock hour, let me first
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: get to your frost brewed cors like shoes, chill headlines,
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: and we do start with baseball, where Bryce Miller told
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: Daniel Kramer that the elbow rested this offseason, he feels
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: like he is one hundred percent now heading into twenty
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: twenty six. Of course, he battled injuries last year throughout
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: the campaign and then finished very strong in the postseason.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: He also, I can tell you he's add a little
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: bit of muscle to the frame, so certainly took his
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: off season seriously and told Daniel Kramer he is feeling
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: one hundred percent right now. Same with cal Raley. He's
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: been a little bit under the weather, no big deal there,
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: but he's walking around and looks like old col here again. Today,
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: let's see we got Ken Walker, who will talk about
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: a little bit later on in the radio program The
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: Running Back the Super Bowl MVP. It is franchise Tag
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: Day the windows starts today in the National Football League
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: off season, but the Seahawks are probably not. As a
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: matter of fact, there are stories out there from Adam
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: Schefter and many others suggesting that highly unlikely that the Mariners,
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: who excuse me, the Seahawks, who have on to use
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: the franchise tag two times in the last sixteen years,
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: are going to use it on the Super Bowl MVP.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: That price tag would be fourteen and a half million
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: dollars on Ken Walker for a one year contract. They
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: are going to try to re sign him as a
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: free agent before he hits the free agent market, but
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: there's a very good chance that Walker will at least
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: test the market and see what other teams are offering.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: We'll talk about that a little bit more later on
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: in the hour. It's a cracking Ticket Tuesday today, so
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: keep listening. Every hour we will play that cracking sounder.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: Be the tenth caller at two six, two eight six
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: ninety five ninety five win a pair of tickets to
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: an upcoming Cracking game. And speaking of the Krack, and
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: we will chat with everet fits you. We always chat
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: with Everett from our coverage here in Peoria every year,
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: so the voice of the Krack and will join us
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: today in his normal slot at eight thirty. We'll talk
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: to him about the Olympics and the Crack and what
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: they're getting done during this three week break and more
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: So we will do that at eight thirty, and the
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: US hockey team will return to the ice tomorrow night.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: So there you go. Those are your frost brewed cores
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: like juice chill headlines. And I know that it's cold
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: back back in town, and I will just tell you Ashley,
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: I mean, we do have ice right next door. Oh yeah,
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: we do have ice here, like yeah, like yeah, that's
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: for drinks. But I'm just saying we've got ice here.
• 34:26
  Speaker 9: Cars didn't sound like they were breaking when you open them.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: No, No, that did not happen. No, our minivan was
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: not frosted over.
• 34:33
  Speaker 9: Again, mine wasn't frosted over. It was full on frozen over.
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we didn't have that.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: And I would just like to point out that it
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: is partly cloudy here.
• 34:41
  Speaker 9: Oh my gosh, how are you dealing with that?
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I'll just tell you. I'm I'm continuing to
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: wear my shades through the cloudy parts, okay, just because
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: it still is kind of bright.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: It is annoying to have to take them on and off.
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: I'm just not Yeah, I'm not doing that.
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: So, I mean, it's a struggle that we go through
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: come down here to do this, and I think it's
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: one that actually maybe doesn't appreciate.
• 35:04
  Speaker 9: Your sacrifices do not go unnoticed.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: Oh thank you. That's good. I'm glad you picked up
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: on it.
• 35:09
  Speaker 9: Yeah, so anyway, I appreciated, but they don't go unnoticed.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: But yes, I mean, don't think we're in the lap
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: of luxury here. We got ice too. Yeah, we have
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: cloud cover and a water care. We get slipping that, yep, yeah,
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: get our socks wet potentially. All right, Well, joining us
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: now at our set. Really excited to chat with this
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: young man and he's mustachelists. Now it is the second year,
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: second basement for your Seattle Mariner's cool young sitting down
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: with us here on Chuck and Buck? Are you doing man?
• 35:47
  Speaker 6: They're good. Good to see you. Yeah, good to see
• 35:49
  Speaker 6: you guys.
• 35:50
  Speaker 10: Gonna be back in Peoria in the nice weather, and yeah, yeah,
• 35:53
  Speaker 10: look at you.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: What what was the decision? Like, I'm not a mustache
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: guy anymore. When did you just make that decision?
• 35:58
  Speaker 6: I think I just got tired of it.
• 36:00
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I had it, had it pretty much the whole
• 36:02
  Speaker 10: year last year, and just wanted to change this year.
• 36:05
  Speaker 6: So I'm all clean shaven, ready to go.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, looking good?
• 36:09
  Speaker 6: Thank you?
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: How you feeling?
• 36:11
  Speaker 10: I feel great. I feel like I'm in a really
• 36:13
  Speaker 10: good spot right now. I feel really good physically mentally
• 36:16
  Speaker 10: feel good too, So yeah, it's nice to get out
• 36:20
  Speaker 10: on the field. Take VP on the field. Got some
• 36:23
  Speaker 10: lives today too, So yeah, it's been great.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: How was uh?
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: How did how'd you feel going into the off season?
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: Obviously as a squad, you guys came up short of
• 36:31
  Speaker 5: where you wanted to be, but still a great run.
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: And but for you, I mean the whirlwind of your
• 36:36
  Speaker 5: first taste of the big leagues and that the whole
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: learning curve. I mean there was a moment there during
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: that where you were you were doing great, and then
• 36:45
  Speaker 5: there was the learning process of of kind of going
• 36:47
  Speaker 5: through some struggles and whatnot.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: So just how was that.
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: Whole, that whole part of basically getting to the show
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: and then going through some of those growths. Yeah, no,
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: it was.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: It was great.
• 36:58
  Speaker 10: You know, like you said, there was some there were
• 37:00
  Speaker 10: some good times when I was when I was up,
• 37:02
  Speaker 10: and some bad times. But you know, it's nice going
• 37:04
  Speaker 10: to the off season having an idea and you know
• 37:07
  Speaker 10: how I can improve and what I can work on.
• 37:11
  Speaker 6: So that was that was really nice.
• 37:12
  Speaker 10: It was nice to be back home, see my friend's
• 37:14
  Speaker 10: family and you know, just work on the stuff I
• 37:17
  Speaker 10: need to work on so I can come here right
• 37:19
  Speaker 10: now and be in a good spot.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: So it was.
• 37:21
  Speaker 10: It was a great off season and yeah, put in
• 37:25
  Speaker 10: put in a lot of work. So yeah, I'm excited.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: Uh he had like a couple like tape measure shots, Right,
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: Did you surprise yourself with that or is that in
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: Cole Young's bag this year?
• 37:36
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I was.
• 37:38
  Speaker 10: I was definitely a little surprised. Hit a couple in
• 37:42
  Speaker 10: Triple A, couple of good ones in Triple A. But
• 37:45
  Speaker 10: I kind of figured it was just like the Air
• 37:47
  Speaker 10: and Triple A because some of those parks of all
• 37:50
  Speaker 10: flies in But yeah, I guess.
• 37:53
  Speaker 6: I did surprise myself a little bit. I didn't think.
• 37:56
  Speaker 6: I guess the big league balls helps, but no, it
• 37:59
  Speaker 6: was don't get addicted to that.
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: I don't want to sit you exactly. I can I
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: can go six hundred, trust me, Dan.
• 38:06
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, no, that's I can't be a trap too.
• 38:10
  Speaker 10: It's like, oh, I want to do it again because
• 38:11
  Speaker 10: that that's sling felt so good. But I got to
• 38:14
  Speaker 10: get back to the to the basics and the approach.
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: What what were the things you said going into the
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: off season. It was nice to kind of get to
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: get that taste of the big leagues and and yet
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: know there was some things you want to work on specifically.
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: What were things that you were really concentrating on that are.
• 38:29
  Speaker 5: Going to make you better this year?
• 38:30
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I would say just you know, developing a really
• 38:34
  Speaker 10: solid routine each day, you know, just going into the
• 38:38
  Speaker 10: cage each day.
• 38:38
  Speaker 6: Knowing what I'm gonna do, knowing what drills I'm gonna.
• 38:41
  Speaker 10: Do, and then going out in the infield doing some
• 38:44
  Speaker 10: infield drills, and just understanding like what makes my body
• 38:49
  Speaker 10: feel good, what makes my mind feel good? And yeah,
• 38:53
  Speaker 10: just just put in work and you know, just trying
• 38:56
  Speaker 10: to be the best version of myself, So that was
• 38:58
  Speaker 10: kind of my mentality going in the off season, and yeah,
• 39:01
  Speaker 10: it was.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: It was great. Cole Young is with us here, second
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: year second baseman for your Seattle Mariners. And look, I mean,
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: you've been a shortstop most of your life, so even
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: playing second base at the major league level, you're still
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: learning the position. How much more comfortable are you with
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: it today than where you were a year ago when
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: you had this conversation with us?
• 39:19
  Speaker 10: Yeah, a lot more comfortable today, I think. I think
• 39:23
  Speaker 10: last year, like going into last year, you know, I
• 39:26
  Speaker 10: didn't have that much experience at second base. It was
• 39:28
  Speaker 10: mostly shortstop, so I mean I was obviously familiar with,
• 39:32
  Speaker 10: you know, playing the infield and that that helps a
• 39:35
  Speaker 10: ton going from short to second. But I would say
• 39:38
  Speaker 10: the biggest things that I learned last year was just
• 39:41
  Speaker 10: you know, double play, feeds footwork at second base, the
• 39:46
  Speaker 10: relays at second base, so it's just getting used to that.
• 39:48
  Speaker 10: And I felt like I grew a lot at second
• 39:50
  Speaker 10: base last year, and you know, thanks to Bone for that,
• 39:53
  Speaker 10: and he helped me out a ton last year, and
• 39:56
  Speaker 10: and that helped me, you know, work on in the
• 39:58
  Speaker 10: off season too, just knowing just you know, working on
• 40:00
  Speaker 10: the little things at second and I'm trying to get
• 40:03
  Speaker 10: better at that this past offseason.
• 40:04
  Speaker 6: So yeah, I feel a lot better.
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: Cole.
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: I think that, you know, it would be safe to
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: say that when it comes to the second base position,
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: you're in pole position at this point in time, right,
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: I expect you to be the starting second baseman out there,
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: and yet we all want to be like, I don't
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: think Cal has to worry about whether he's gonna be
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: the starting catcher this year, right. We all want to
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: get to that point, but we're not there just yet
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: with you. And so what is it that you did.
• 40:29
  Speaker 5: Getting ready for this spring training where it's you feel
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: like you're ready for the mental side of what's going
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: into I'm going out and taking this job, or is
• 40:37
  Speaker 5: it I'm just going out there and thinking I'm not
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: I'm just gonna go out and show what i can
• 40:41
  Speaker 5: do and I'm not going to lose a job and
• 40:43
  Speaker 5: doing it that way.
• 40:44
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I'd say my mentality is just trying to get
• 40:48
  Speaker 10: better every single day. Just you know, once you start
• 40:51
  Speaker 10: looking on the road, it's you can lose focus on
• 40:53
  Speaker 10: the day to day stuff, and but my focus is
• 40:57
  Speaker 10: just to my routine each day, just trying to get better,
• 41:01
  Speaker 10: and I try not to think in the future. I
• 41:04
  Speaker 10: try to stay present. And you know, I've learned over
• 41:07
  Speaker 10: the past few years that you know, looking ahead usually
• 41:11
  Speaker 10: you know, will hurt you. So I just try to
• 41:13
  Speaker 10: just you know, be grateful for you know, every day
• 41:17
  Speaker 10: and try to get better.
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: Is it weird you tell me? I don't even know
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: if you've been teammates with him much in the minor leagues,
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: but Cold and Colt we've been talking about for years
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: and you probably are the future of the infield of
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: this organization, and yet you're probably competing uh here it's
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: spring training. Try to explain that dynamic from your perspective.
• 41:37
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, we definitely, like we don't look at
• 41:41
  Speaker 10: each other like that. It's we're we're all friends and there,
• 41:45
  Speaker 10: you know, we all have fun when we come to
• 41:46
  Speaker 10: the field every single day. We you know, we talk
• 41:49
  Speaker 10: about life or whatever it is, like we don't we
• 41:53
  Speaker 10: don't really you know, care about that stuff. So we
• 41:56
  Speaker 10: we just come to the field.
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: You're not giving him a hot foot or you know,
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: and toilet like that, trying to throw them off his game.
• 42:07
  Speaker 6: Definitely not.
• 42:08
  Speaker 10: Nos Colet's always been a good friend since he got
• 42:12
  Speaker 10: draft to the Mariners, and you know, it's been great
• 42:14
  Speaker 10: to you know, develop their relationship over the past few years.
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: If you do want to just go real quick with
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: the Clippers just over there, that'll throw them all that.
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: They'll be great friends after that. I back when I played,
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: I didn't get to play in the big leagues very long,
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: but it was long enough that I took a lot
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: of pride in kind of being a sponge and learning
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: from people that have been there and done that. Uh,
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: you have a group of guys as far as pitchers
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: that are tops in the game as far as the
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: starting staff goes, and even some of the guys in
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: the bullpen. Uh, are you picking their brains? Because I
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: can remember asking, like Jamie Moyer, for example, like Okay,
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: how would you get me out?
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: How what would you do to attack me?
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: So that I had a veteran's perspective on how that
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: we By the way, he said, it'd be easy. Just
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: throw you fastball, and so I'd like, you hit a
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: five hundred feet foul and then I'd change up you
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: to death.
• 43:03
  Speaker 5: I'd be easy. I'm like, oh God, that isn't really
• 43:05
  Speaker 5: what I expected.
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: But it works. Have you picked the brains of some
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: of these guys, the pictures on your team, and and
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: learn some things from them.
• 43:12
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I did a little bit last year. You know,
• 43:15
  Speaker 10: it's always nice knowing to talking to pictures and seeing
• 43:19
  Speaker 10: what they're thinking and how they attack you. And I
• 43:22
  Speaker 10: started doing that a little bit last year, and that's
• 43:25
  Speaker 10: one of my goals for this year is to just
• 43:27
  Speaker 10: you know, talk to the pictures a little bit more
• 43:29
  Speaker 10: and try to, you know, see what they're thinking and
• 43:31
  Speaker 10: how they attack guys. And like you said, the pictures
• 43:35
  Speaker 10: on this staff are amazing, so you know, they they
• 43:39
  Speaker 10: really know how to how to go out there and
• 43:41
  Speaker 10: you know, attack a hitter and they're very disciplined with
• 43:44
  Speaker 10: their their game plan. So yeah, you know, it's it's
• 43:47
  Speaker 10: nice trying to pick their brains and learn from them.
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: You go back home to Pittsburgh this offseason then, and
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: you saw your old friends and now that you're a
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: major leaguer, all the girls thought you were even cuter
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: than they remembered all all of that stuff. What was
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: the return home from the you know, big league hero
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: like in Pittsburgh, PA for you?
• 44:07
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean it wasn't as glorious as that but.
• 44:12
  Speaker 5: Kind of parade.
• 44:13
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I know, you know, I just.
• 44:16
  Speaker 10: You know, went back home, just did the same routine
• 44:18
  Speaker 10: I've I've done the past few off seasons, so I
• 44:22
  Speaker 10: just got to see all my all my friends are
• 44:24
  Speaker 10: back home, you know, my family too, So I mean
• 44:28
  Speaker 10: my off scenes it's pretty simple. It's just you know,
• 44:31
  Speaker 10: work out in the morning, hit ground balls, go home,
• 44:34
  Speaker 10: play some Xbox and then dude, dude every day.
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: So what's your game of choice.
• 44:38
  Speaker 10: I've been playing a lot of NHL, NHL. I just
• 44:42
  Speaker 10: like all the sports games, So like two K, NHL,
• 44:44
  Speaker 10: sometimes Madden.
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: Do you play the kracking?
• 44:47
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I'll switch it up.
• 44:49
  Speaker 10: Okay usually how how it works what we do will
• 44:52
  Speaker 10: just randomize the team and I've gotten to cracking a
• 44:55
  Speaker 10: few times. So it's it's fun playing with them. But yeah,
• 44:59
  Speaker 10: that's that's kind of the day in the life.
• 45:01
  Speaker 6: So it was. It was a good offseason, all right.
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: Well, great to see you have a great camp, have
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: a great year. I can't wait to see you grow
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: and develop even more. Always a pleasure to have you
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: on the show. Cole Young joining us right here on
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: Chuck and Buck in the morning. Wind picked up a
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: little bit another thing we're having to deal with here
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: that Ashley doesn't appreciate it. Yeah. Well, I think brave
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: courage comes to mind, as you know, a word cloud
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: to describe Chuck and Buck this morning here, braving the.
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: Elements at times, you know, tough, because it does it
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: switches sometimes when it goes behind the clouds. I mean
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: it drops down to probably fifty five. Yeah, and then
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: we're on a roller coaster all of a sudden and
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: you're like, oh my gosh, there's a sunscreen and you're like, oh,
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: watch out for that puddle from the rain last night.
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: Oh, don't worry about it.
• 45:45
  Speaker 5: It's not going to rain again for months.
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so tough.
• 45:49
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I just I admire you both so much.
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: Well that's kind of you to say, uh, And also
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: great to have Cole Young here on the radio program.
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: And yeah, he he He didn't look natural with the mustache.
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: Now that he's walked away from us, now that he's
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: beyond ear shot, I think he looks better this way. Yeah, yeah,
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: I think he was. I think he was forced. I
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: don't think he was yet. I don't think he's at
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: mustache age yet. I don't think his face has rounded
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: into mustache for him.
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm just gonna go ahead and say pretty much,
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: no one looks good with just a mustache.
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: Our waiter did last night. You look like the guy
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: on the pringles Can. Yeah. It was a fantastic mustache.
• 46:28
  Speaker 5: It was.
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: It was a lot of a mustache. I'm gonna I'll
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: just leave it to that. It was a lot of mustache.
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: He went, He did a lot to keep that thing
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: exactly where he wanted.
• 46:38
  Speaker 9: You just can't stop.
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: Uh No, that would have probably been creepy, you know,
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: talking about his mustache, But yeah, it was. It was glorious, Ashley.
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: It was really. I mean like he came up to
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: our table and good note hadn't help, but notice it's
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: like a billboard with neon lights on it.
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, it was a must it was. It was
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: like a giant caterpillar on ry Below's nose.
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: It was a thing.
• 47:06
  Speaker 5: Okay, I'm just not a fan of the only mustache look,
• 47:08
  Speaker 5: you know.
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it was my old my dad had it,
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: and it was like that age of folks that was
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: a thing, Like a lot of people just had it.
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: And I went away and understandably so, and now it's
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: coming back and I don't understand.
• 47:22
  Speaker 5: Why it's coming back, just just the stash.
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: Young people wanted to be different. Cole Young looks looks good,
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: though he looks better without it. And uh look, I mean,
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: the job's not his here at camp. He's it's not
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: locked in that he's gonna be. He's in a competition
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: here today. I'll just say this about Cole and I
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: thought that that they handled it the way I would
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: have handled it in that situation. They gave him a
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: chance to win the job in camp a year ago
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: at this time. Uh, they weren't gonna limit him. He
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: really had to take it though. He really had to
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: seize it, and he did. And so, yeah, you break camp.
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: He goes to the miners, Ryan Bliss, you're starting second baseman.
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: Bliss gets injured. Cole Young's the guy that comes up.
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: Maybe it was a little early, maybe he struggled a
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: little bit, Maybe he need a little more seasoning, but
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: he started to play better and you could certainly see
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: why the organization's so excited about him and his future.
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: Those home runs that he hit, I mean, he didn't
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: connect a lot on home runs, but man, they were
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: a couple of them on me. I did not know
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: you had that power, young man, And then you know,
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: the league started to figure him out and he started
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: to struggle, And I thought that they removed him from
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: the lineup at the right time. And it had to
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: be a crushing blow that he didn't get to be
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: on the postseason roster after being a big part of
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: this team for most of the season a year ago.
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: But I thought it was the right move. I thought
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: that they had a better option at that point in
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: the season, So I think they handled it well. How
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: he reacts to it heading into this season, we shall
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: find out. But I know that nothing has been tarnished
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: about their belief in him and his future with this
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: baseball team. Of course not.
• 49:06
  Speaker 5: I mean the kid's young. He was twenty years old.
• 49:08
  Speaker 5: Like he couldn't even buy a beer.
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: I think last year when he was up in the
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: big leagues, I can't even imagine trying to compete at
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: that level at that age. There was just so much
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: that I had to learn over for me for the
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: next five years before I would have thought that I
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: was capable of competing at that level. And yet he
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: did it, and he showed signs of ooh, and not
• 49:28
  Speaker 3: just the tape measure home runs. There were some really
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: good AB's in there, there were some really good defensive
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: players in there, and then there was times where the
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: avalanche starts kind of rolling downhill and the next thing
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: you know, you find yourself in an O for ten,
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: an OH for fifteen slump, and.
• 49:43
  Speaker 5: That's tough to pull out of at that level.
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: To go through that the first time and figure out
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: how do I deal with it is something everybody has
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: to go through. Very rarely do rookies, especially that age,
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: come up and just don't have any scuffles.
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: You have them.
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: What turns you into the ballplayer you're going to be
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: is how do you deal with it? And yeah, I'm
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: sure that it was demoralizing, but I'm also sure that
• 50:03
  Speaker 3: it was incentivizing or motivating for him to not be
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: on that postseason roster because he knows well I kind
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: of played myself into it. I showed that I could
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: play there. I also showed that at times I'm overmatched
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: there and so I have to clean it up and
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: become more consistent. And if he does that this year,
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: he's not gonna have to worry about not being there
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: in the season.
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: I would like nothing more that make no doubt he
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: wins the job and then just you know, grows and builds,
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: and he's still got a lot of They're going to
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: be ups and downs, certainly because he's, you know, twenty
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: one now, he's still very very young in this process.
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: But I think that he's got a really bright future
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: as a Mariner infielder. Speaking of the future, coming up next,
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: this is turning into an infield show. I mean, look
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: at the infielders. They're so jealous a pitcher's day that
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: they've decided they're gonna seize tuesdays. I guess from this
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: point forward. We got Brenda Donovan coming up at eight
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: o'clock today. Coming up next on the program, we're gonna
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: be joined by Cold Emerson. We just were talking about him,
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: were burning. You gotta come over here and defend himself.
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: So Cole Emerson joins us next on Chuck and Buck
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• 51:27
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• 51:29
  Speaker 5: I believe people will see I don't have ice.
• 51:32
  Speaker 9: Drat rat, That's what I said.
• 51:35
  Speaker 5: Rat.
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
• 51:36
  Speaker 5: If I've ever said drat.
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: Give it you have now we don't test it out.
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: Oh drat, Yeah, it doesn't fit me. It doesn't fit me.
• 51:47
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  Speaker 2: our set is Prospect. Colt Emerson, they picture picked a
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: really good time to do some hammering there, sir. Yeah.
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: Great Colt Emerson on the radio show today. Good to
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: see you, man. How are you.
• 52:38
  Speaker 11: I'm doing well, Thank you for having me Ony.
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: Great to be back. Great to have you on the show.
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: Great to see you again. And man for you man,
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: the show is calling. I mean everybody's talking about it.
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: You're not too far away. I mean last year when
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: you arrived to your colt, and that really wasn't a possibility.
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: It wasn't a strong possibility anyway, but this it is.
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: So how does that feel to come to spring training
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: knowing that this might be the year that I'm playing
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: major league baseball?
• 53:07
  Speaker 11: Yeah, it's it's a really cool feeling. Obviously, I don't
• 53:11
  Speaker 11: know if that's gonna happen or not. You know, I
• 53:13
  Speaker 11: still got a play out spring training, a lot of
• 53:15
  Speaker 11: decisions gonna be made, but you know, it's exciting. It's
• 53:18
  Speaker 11: exciting to be second year here and coming into a
• 53:21
  Speaker 11: clubhouse that had a lot of success last year. You know,
• 53:24
  Speaker 11: the vibes in the clubhouse are extremely wow and I'm
• 53:26
  Speaker 11: just really happy to be a part of it.
• 53:28
  Speaker 5: Really, How was your off season?
• 53:30
  Speaker 3: I mean, anything in particular you were thinking about that
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: you had to work on because last year, I mean,
• 53:34
  Speaker 3: you kind of ran through the minor leagues, ended up
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: getting up to Triple A and having some success there.
• 53:38
  Speaker 3: And yet, you know, I mean, being at your age,
• 53:41
  Speaker 3: there's still is things you want to improve on and
• 53:42
  Speaker 3: things you got to get better at in order to
• 53:44
  Speaker 3: not just get to the big leagues but stick and
• 53:46
  Speaker 3: be a guy that's contributing to a team that's hoping
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: to win a World Series.
• 53:50
  Speaker 6: Yeah, for sure.
• 53:52
  Speaker 11: There was a lot of adjustments last year in the season.
• 53:54
  Speaker 11: You know, I struggled to start off the season, so
• 53:57
  Speaker 11: learning what to do when you're struggling was a big
• 54:00
  Speaker 11: one for me. And uh, you know, I kind of
• 54:02
  Speaker 11: got out of it and and once I hit, once
• 54:06
  Speaker 11: I got past that that adversity per se, you know,
• 54:09
  Speaker 11: I was just on a roll, and I think I
• 54:12
  Speaker 11: had some things figured out. You know, I switched switched
• 54:15
  Speaker 11: some things. Hitting instead of a leg kick went to
• 54:18
  Speaker 11: a toe tap, and I think just that I was
• 54:21
  Speaker 11: more consistent throughout the season, and I think leading into
• 54:24
  Speaker 11: the off season, you know, just kind of doing the
• 54:27
  Speaker 11: same thing, rolling into the same routine that I was
• 54:29
  Speaker 11: at the end of the season, I think was a
• 54:31
  Speaker 11: big thing and not not necessarily changing anything or or
• 54:36
  Speaker 11: trying to do too much with the off season. You know,
• 54:38
  Speaker 11: a lot of guys could get caught up on oh,
• 54:41
  Speaker 11: next year it could be a big year at debut,
• 54:43
  Speaker 11: like I need to do something that's gonna be major,
• 54:46
  Speaker 11: and it's like, you don't.
• 54:47
  Speaker 5: I don't.
• 54:48
  Speaker 11: I really don't think you need to do that. You know,
• 54:50
  Speaker 11: obviously I don't know what. I don't know, because I'm
• 54:52
  Speaker 11: not there yet. But you know, I'm gonna keep doing
• 54:55
  Speaker 11: what's given me success and until that doesn't work, and
• 54:58
  Speaker 11: then I'll change if it doesn't work. But but until then,
• 55:01
  Speaker 11: you know, you know, I feel like I'm in a
• 55:03
  Speaker 11: really great spot.
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: Nice cold Emerson is so with this. I just had
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: a thought, what a dilemma that would have been for
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: you in your career to get called up before the
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: age of twenty one. You're a big leaguer, but you
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: can't buy a beer? Yeah, really I would. I'd be
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: a challenge for you. I'd have found away. I would
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: have found a way. You weren't going to turn it down. No,
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: you weren't going to turn it down. As you got
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: called up, teammates might have hooked me up. Uh So
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: what did you do body wise? Like? Did you add
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: a little bit of weight in the off season? I
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: mean you're so young that that's certainly you're you probably
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: aren't finished, uh growing into your man weight, much less
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: what you could do inside a gym. So how did
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: you handle that?
• 55:46
  Speaker 5: For sure?
• 55:47
  Speaker 11: You know, I ended the season about one hundred and
• 55:49
  Speaker 11: finety five pounds, and uh, I think my goal was two,
• 55:52
  Speaker 11: a five and just kind of stick there and hopefully
• 55:55
  Speaker 11: stick there the rest of the season. So so there
• 55:58
  Speaker 11: wasn't much I guess eating big per se. It was
• 56:01
  Speaker 11: just like, all right, let's get as mobile as possible,
• 56:03
  Speaker 11: and it's get as strong as possible and keep it
• 56:05
  Speaker 11: going like that and and stay as healthy as possible. Really,
• 56:08
  Speaker 11: I mean, I really work on the health. I think
• 56:10
  Speaker 11: your appetite and the stuff you eat affects your.
• 56:14
  Speaker 5: Health a lot.
• 56:14
  Speaker 11: And that was a big one, was just being finding
• 56:18
  Speaker 11: meals that I can consistently eat that are healthy and
• 56:20
  Speaker 11: we'll keep my body strong and figuring out what that
• 56:22
  Speaker 11: looks like was a big one. And you know, I
• 56:25
  Speaker 11: get a good idea of my body now this is
• 56:27
  Speaker 11: year three, and I got a pretty good idea of
• 56:31
  Speaker 11: what I need to do in the off season lifting
• 56:33
  Speaker 11: wise to come into spring training ready. And thankfully I
• 56:36
  Speaker 11: figured it out pretty quick the last two years. So
• 56:39
  Speaker 11: so I feel like I'm in a really great spot
• 56:40
  Speaker 11: right now.
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: Good thing you have been with us. Yeah, you're probably
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: judging us yesterday for our Chick fil A at the table,
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: weren't you.
• 56:47
  Speaker 12: I get into some Chick fil A?
• 56:49
  Speaker 11: Okay, all right, for sure, I'm a human. I'm a human.
• 56:53
  Speaker 11: I'm not gonna act like I'm not human.
• 56:55
  Speaker 5: Not a robot yet for sure. Good stay real.
• 56:58
  Speaker 3: I mean, I just gotta say, getting to talk to
• 57:00
  Speaker 3: you last year a little bit, then following you and
• 57:02
  Speaker 3: talking to some other people that you know kind of
• 57:04
  Speaker 3: followed your journey even closer got to see you. They
• 57:08
  Speaker 3: commend you a lot on the between the years part
• 57:10
  Speaker 3: of it, which is the biggest part of baseball. I mean,
• 57:12
  Speaker 3: anybody that's played this game knows how difficult it is
• 57:15
  Speaker 3: to go through the downs, right when you expect a
• 57:18
  Speaker 3: lot of yourself, when you've had nothing but success. Then
• 57:20
  Speaker 3: you go through a downtime and you've got to figure
• 57:22
  Speaker 3: out how to kind of pull yourself up by the bootstrap,
• 57:24
  Speaker 3: not be too hard on yourself because it's just what
• 57:26
  Speaker 3: happens inside the game.
• 57:28
  Speaker 5: What is it about you? Makeup wise?
• 57:31
  Speaker 3: Because everybody that we've talked to in the organization talks
• 57:34
  Speaker 3: about your maturity between the years is beyond your years.
• 57:38
  Speaker 3: And yet that's not something that is necessarily just a
• 57:41
  Speaker 3: god given town. It's something you got to earn, for sure.
• 57:44
  Speaker 11: I I honestly I think I think it's where I
• 57:46
  Speaker 11: came from. You know, a small town in Ohio. You know,
• 57:49
  Speaker 11: I never was really giving a solber spoon, you know
• 57:53
  Speaker 11: what I mean, Like I everything I had to do,
• 57:56
  Speaker 11: I had to work for. And I think it's a
• 57:57
  Speaker 11: testament to my parents and the people around me. You know,
• 58:01
  Speaker 11: my parents sacrifice a lot for me growing up to
• 58:04
  Speaker 11: play baseball. I think I saw that, and I was
• 58:07
  Speaker 11: kind of just thought, like, you know what, don't don't
• 58:09
  Speaker 11: waste the good opportunities you have and really take advantage
• 58:12
  Speaker 11: and even though you might be uncomfortable sometimes, really embraced uncomfortable,
• 58:17
  Speaker 11: being uncomfortable because.
• 58:19
  Speaker 12: That that really makes you who you are.
• 58:21
  Speaker 11: And uh, and I still do that to today, really
• 58:24
  Speaker 11: and just try to embrace every opportunity I'm given, even
• 58:27
  Speaker 11: though it might not be something I want to do,
• 58:29
  Speaker 11: just embrace it and and and look at it in
• 58:31
  Speaker 11: a positive outlook.
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: Mariner's top prospect, Cold Emerson with us right here on
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: Chuck and Buck in the mornings. It's turned into an
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: infield show here today. Uh just had Cole Young on
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: now talking to Colt Emerson and speaking of Cole Young
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: and Brendan Donnovan who's coming up later. It sounds like
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: we got a lot of versatile infielders. So how much
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: are you working at short, how much you're working at second,
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: how much you're working at third. What's your expectation on
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: where you're going to be playing this year? Give us
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: the lowdown. Yeah.
• 59:00
  Speaker 11: Yeah, coming into this season, I want I wanted everybody
• 59:05
  Speaker 11: to know that I wanted to build the trust that
• 59:08
  Speaker 11: I can play any position. Would it be second, third, short,
• 59:12
  Speaker 11: wherever they might put me in, And honestly, as long
• 59:15
  Speaker 11: as I'm on the field, I really don't care where
• 59:17
  Speaker 11: I play. But but I'm making it known that that
• 59:23
  Speaker 11: I'm comfortable at every position and that I worked really
• 59:26
  Speaker 11: hard the last three years. It wasn't just this offseason
• 59:29
  Speaker 11: where I was like, hey, maybe I needed to work
• 59:31
  Speaker 11: on third base. It's been ever since I got to
• 59:33
  Speaker 11: the minor leagues, you know, it's been It's been preached
• 59:35
  Speaker 11: to me by my parents when I was younger, preached
• 59:37
  Speaker 11: to me when I got here.
• 59:38
  Speaker 5: It's like, you need to.
• 59:39
  Speaker 11: Know every position to give further confidence in yourself. And
• 59:45
  Speaker 11: you know, I worked hard at it and I feel
• 59:47
  Speaker 11: very comfortable with the position. So so honestly, I'm happy
• 59:50
  Speaker 11: anywhere they put me.
• 59:52
  Speaker 12: Wherever I start off.
• 59:53
  Speaker 3: I watched a couple of your games down in Tacoma.
• 59:57
  Speaker 3: I was doing some of the play by play there
• 59:59
  Speaker 3: and you hit one big bomb. I mean, for a
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 3: kid your age to hit it that hard is impressive
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 3: to say the least. But you hit for high average.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 3: I mean what goes on as far as between the
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 3: years for you when you think about what type of hitter?
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 3: I mean, everybody'd love to hit three forty and sure
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 3: and hit forty homers, but that's just not not everybody's
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 3: capable of doing big things like that. Yet you're close
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 3: to a three hundred hitter and then you have some thump.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 3: So what is it that you want to be when
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 3: it comes all comes out in the wash?
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: What type of hitter do you want to be?
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 11: Honestly, I just want to be I want to be
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 11: a well rounded hitter. That's what I want to be
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 11: known as. And you know, I'm a I'm a believer
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 11: that that ops or home runs are pitched, they're not hit,
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 11: you know, So when that pitch is thrown down the
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 11: middle and you don't miss it, that that's I think
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 11: that that's what that's where all the home runs come from.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 11: You know, you don't, I mean, you might hit a
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 11: home run. That's that's a pitch inside, ball inside, and
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 11: you might get it. But like at the end of
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 11: the day, the Mariners preached, dominate the zone here, and
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 11: dominate the zone is basically swinging at the pitches in
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 11: the middle of the zone and taking the boardline until
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 11: two strikes. And I think from a young age, I
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 11: did that already. And uh and I really think it works,
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 11: and it's it's really helped me throughout the minor leagues.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: And yeah, yeah, did you also pick up I mean,
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: and you're learning all about Bucky here. I moved to
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: defense and he's like, no, we're going back to hitting. Sorry, Yeah,
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: I want to talk hitting with this guy. He's gonna
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: pick it wherever he is.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 5: Sure stop put him a second.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 6: He can do that.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: Put him he can do that.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 3: He's got the arm strength. Okay, YadA, YadA, YadA. I
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 3: want to get into the brain about.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: I like it. I like it. So, I mean, you're
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: out of Ohio. I don't know how much thought you
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: gave to Seattle Mariners baseball growing up in the state
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: of Ohio. But now here you are three years you're
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: seeing what's going on around you. You see how good
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: a team that you're trying to crack, and also a
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: team that's built with a lot of young players, have
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: got a lot of years left, uh in this game,
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: and you know all the prospects that you're playing with
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: and how talented they are. I mean, how excited are
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: you just to be a Seattle Mariner to be in
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: this organization at this stage?
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 11: Oh my gosh, it's uh, it's amazing. Really, I mean,
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 11: we are we this this organization is going to be
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 11: a winning program, winning organization for a while to come.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 11: And and that's the standard they set, you know, that's
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 11: the standard, uh, cal Jp, Julio, all those guys Nails,
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 11: they they all set that last year or that and
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 11: in years prior. You know, it's all about winning really
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 11: and that's the uh, that's the standard I want to
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 11: set as well. And yeah, I mean if everybody can
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 11: be a winning player, I mean everybody can be a
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 11: team guys like those are the teams that win World
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 11: Series and and the other guys can speak on it
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 11: way more because they've been there. But but coming into
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 11: a clubhouse that's had success in last year is awesome
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 11: and it's really cool to see. And I'm really honored
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 11: to be a part of it and to be in
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 11: the clubhouse and see these guys the way they go
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 11: about their business, the way the way it was last
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 11: and when I was on the taxi squad and I
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 11: shut up for scrimmages, and how loose they were and
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 11: how how serious they were about winning. And that's the standard.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 11: And maybe they don't say it, but you feel it,
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 11: you really do, and everybody wants to win, and it's
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  Speaker 11: a really great feeling.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if I've ever asked this question, but
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  Speaker 2: I mean, how did you watch the playoffs? Lasher? What
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: is a prospect within an organization that has the major
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: league team that he's probably going to be joining sooner
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: than later and they're going through the playoff run. I mean,
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: I know how excited and the roller coaster we went
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: on as fans and former player in Bucky's case, and
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: in broadcasters and try to be professional journalism, but I'm
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: jumping up and down in the in the press box
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: even though I'm not supposed to. After the Gino Sworrez Homer,
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: So what is a what? What is that for you?
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: What was it like to just watch the playoffs and
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: not be able to contribute and yet you know that
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: someday you will be able to. Yeah.
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  Speaker 11: That was That was easily the best playoff baseball I've
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 11: ever watched in my life.
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  Speaker 5: You know, it was.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 11: It was so cool because, like I mean, when you're younger,
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 11: you don't know the personalities, you don't know the you
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 11: don't you don't know the people in the field personally.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 11: And and having that experience known the guys personally, it's
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 11: so cool. And and some of the guys you know,
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 11: I played with in trip Way, so so seeing those guys,
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 11: having relationships with those guys and seeing them on the
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 11: field competing like like it. I was so locked in
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 11: the whole time, you know, throughout the whole we actually
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 11: I was at the first game of the ADS and
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 11: then we went to Arizona and we were locked in
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 11: the whole time. For that we were still here training,
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 11: but when the game came on, TV was on. Everybody
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 11: was locked in on the couch. We made food like
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 11: it was. It was almost a Super Bowl every single time.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 5: It was alight. It was really awesome.
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  Speaker 2: The entire Emerson family now Mariner fans.
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  Speaker 11: Yes, okay, all right, they gotta be in in part
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 11: part of Cambridge and New Concord for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, man, Well, great to see you have
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: a great year. All right, whatever that is, you have
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: a great year, and it's awesome to have you on
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: the show. All right, Cold Emerson joining us right here
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: on Chuck and Buck. We'll continue our spring training coverage.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: Talking a little football next, what's going on with Ken Walker.
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  Speaker 2: Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ R F M. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: good morning, our number three of day number two of
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 2: our spring training coverage live from Peoria, Arizona, which started
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 2: today a little damp. We had some overnight desert rains
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 2: and miss you luck the desert, missed the rain. Yeah,
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: there you go, Bucky. That was great. Yeah, yeah, it
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 2: probably did it for you. Yeah, so here here we go.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: Then we had some overcast and now just bright sunshine.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: Don't mean to rub that in. I mean to Ashley,
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: we do, but not to everybody listening right now here
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: from our set in Peoria. And it's been a great
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 2: day show and a half so far. My goodness. Yesterday
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 2: Jerry Depoto, Gabe Spier, Rick Riz, Mike Cameron, Kate Anderson,
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: Ryan Sloan, and already today we've had Kevin Sitzer on.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: Chris Rose from NFL Network has been down here to
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: cover spring training for John Boy. We've had Cole Young on,
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: We've had Colt Emerson on, and now we get to
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: the interview that we were looking most forward to. I think, here,
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: Josh Naylor, you always want to talk to the new guys.
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: Can't wait to talk to the new guys during spring
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: training coverage. But Brendan Donovan acquired this offseason from the
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: Saint Louis Cardinals in one of the most stretched out
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: trade processes I think I've ever heard ever been on record.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: I mean, the Mariners were just to work this deal
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 2: out for months to get Brendan Donovan, and they finally
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 2: landed him. And so now here he is in a
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: Mariner uniform getting ready to be what looks to be
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: the everyday third baseman. We had a chance to chat
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 2: with him yesterday. We were sitting here, Bucky and I
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: at our set here in Peoria, and we were trying
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: to squeeze some lunch in and what happens. Here comes
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 2: the newcomer, Brendan Donovan with his flowing locks, just walking
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: making a bee line over to us, and he comes
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 2: up to us, said Hey, I might as well get
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 2: to know some of you people in Seattle. Mind if
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: I sit down. That's how he started the entire process
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 2: of interviewing him yesterday. It was outstanding. So yeah, we
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: shoved our lunch aside. We made room for Brendan Donovan
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: here at the set and had a great conversation that
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: will play for you now. And I just started it
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: off by saying, good to meet you. Man.
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  Speaker 13: Man, it's great to meet you. Yeah, thank you for
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 13: having me. I actually crossed their lunch, so they're doing
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 13: me a favor right here. So it's good to be
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 13: on all right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. We would have actually rather be eating in the cafeteria,
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: but we've been banned because of our attitudes.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 5: It could have been because of me. They were like,
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 5: you put oh Bucky weekend, let you crush and spreads
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 5: in there. We need our real players to get in
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 5: there and get their nutrition.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 3: That could be why they stick us out here with
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 3: Chick fil A.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 12: Just let me know, all right, I.
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: Like it sneaky about three sticking together right there, That's
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: what that is. That's right. Well, welcome to Seattle, and
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 2: everybody's excited about having you here in the organization. I mean,
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 2: the process went on for so long. You were attached
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: to Seattle for so long, it was it was arduous,
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 2: I think for the front office their work to try
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: to get you here. You heard the rumors. What what
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: was that experience like for you waiting on whether or
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: not you were going to be traded where you were
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: going to be traded to.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 13: Yeah, so I'll go even deeper than that. So we've
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 13: been linked for I think it was a couple of
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 13: years now, So like I kind of see my name
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 13: floating around, and I do a pretty good job of
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 13: not looking too far into it. Like I said in
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 13: an interview the other day, like rumors are just rumors, right,
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 13: so you never really know.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 12: And things started to ramp up.
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 13: It was like GM meetings when things like kind of
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 13: got flooded, and then it was like winter meetings and
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 13: things got flooded.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 12: And then after the new year.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 13: It was kind of like radio silent. So I wasn't
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 13: really sure. I knew that Seattle was in the mix.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 13: I knew that San Francisco was in the mix. I
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 13: wasn't sure what else. That was just kind of what
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 13: I was hearing, And like I said, my wife is
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 13: a thank you amazing does a just a great job
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 13: of being family oriented. And we just hang out with
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 13: our daughter in the off season, so we kind of
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 13: had an idea that we were getting gonna get moved,
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 13: and once that happens, it's kind of that's just like,
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 13: you know, I just worry about my family, right. I
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 13: think in baseball teaches you how to be adaptable, how
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 13: to how to just move on the fly. But and
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 13: that's one thing. Is like when I got the call
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 13: from the from the Cardinals, and then when I got
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 13: a call from Jerry, I was like, this is a
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 13: real thing, and let me tell you what so telling
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 13: you I was worried about my family. They have been
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 13: amazing of welcoming my family, myself, players, reaching out, family liaisons,
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 13: like reaching out.
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  Speaker 12: I mean, it was been is amazing.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 13: So just from walking in this door, obviously you know
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 13: how much about the baseball side of things, but I
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 13: want to touch on just how good the people are here.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 12: And I've been blown away by that.
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  Speaker 2: That's great to hear. That is good to hear.
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's uh, we'll get talking to Brenda donnovan.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the dude, the idea of you getting to
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 3: come to a team that was a few outs away
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 3: from getting to the World Series. Has got to be
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 3: something where you know you're getting ready to kind of
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 3: embark on something. They obviously, with all that lead up
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 3: to the trade, you knew they wanted you. It was
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 3: just a matter of what's it going to take to
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 3: get this whole job done. So walking into the building,
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 3: you're talking about how everything from the top down has
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 3: been very welcoming, but how excited it is on the
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 3: baseball side of things, how excited are you about just
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 3: joining the squad?
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, superstoked.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 13: Obviously we have one of the best infield coaches, right,
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 13: I mean, it's amazing, amazing, and just how simple and
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 13: how brilliant it is. Just from the from the first day,
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 13: it was like we took some ground balls and it
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 13: was like it wasn't like overhaul. It was like, which
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 13: was cool from my perspective. I was like, all right, cool,
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 13: we don't have to revamp anything. It was like, you know,
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 13: let's get the ball, let's get it to the middle
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 13: of our body and then let's just like let our
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 13: feet take over, which as an infielder it sounds like
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 13: so crazy, but just like doing that over and over
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 13: again in that attention of detail. It's like why guys
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 13: are just walking around with gold gloves. It's like, that's
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 13: that's what he does. And it's been really cool to see.
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 13: So that and then obviously on the hitting side, we
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 13: were talking about number thirty three sites. He gave me
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 13: the number, so I made sure I hooked him up
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 13: with some wine. He's a red wine drinker, so I
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 13: had to get that number back. And I'm going to
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 13: live up to your expectations.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't doubt that.
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  Speaker 3: I don't doubt that one bit, and so I'm excited
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 3: about having you. You wear the number thirty three, But
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 3: tell some of our listeners just what it is like,
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 3: explain yourself. I mean we've talked about you leading up
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 3: to the trade and wanting you to them to make
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 3: this move, but I want to hear it from your words,
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 3: like who is it that that our fans are going
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 3: to get to get to get out there and watch play?
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: And how is it that you play the game? Yeah.
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 13: So from a personal side of things, I love culture,
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 13: I love chemistry. I come from military background, so I
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 13: believe in discipline and preparation, which seems to mesh really
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 13: well with this organization. On the baseball side of things,
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 13: I want to have a quality of bat I want
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 13: to I want to take care of the baseball, and
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 13: I want to play hard. That's one thing that I like.
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 13: I like to play hard, you know. And I think
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 13: that this game is so crazy that you can't really
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 13: control much, right. I mean, I can hit the ball good,
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 13: and I can't control if I get a hit or not.
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 13: But I can control my preparation, my mentality, my effort,
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 13: and those are the three things that I really try
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 13: to lean into. And I feel like that also kind
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 13: of takes the I mean, there's always going to be pressure,
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 13: and I'm not going to sit here and say that
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 13: there's not. There will always be pressure at this level.
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 13: But I think if I can focus things and bucket
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 13: them into what am I focused on, I think it
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 13: can help with that.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 2: Also, hitting's locked Ben in a row boat. You got
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 2: to keep your ore in the water otherwise you'll get
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 2: off violence. That's a little Sightser for you. Yeah, a
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 2: little Kevin Sitzer for you right there.
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 12: I think you just morphed into him for a second.
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: Brendan Donovan with us the newest Mariner, I mean, we
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: just talked to Jerry early this week and he says,
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 2: third base. You've played a lot of different positions. Are
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 2: you ready to tackle third base like all out or
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 2: are you in your back of your heads in. I'm
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 2: just gonna be ready and prepared for all.
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 6: The rest of this stuff too.
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 13: No, I'm gonna go a head first in. Okay, it's
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 13: been it's been a few years since I played third base.
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 13: But you know, obviously we got the best info coach
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 13: in the world, so that helps too. But you know,
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 13: I want to be on the field, so it doesn't
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 13: it doesn't really matter where. I could care less. If
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 13: you need me to play third base, I got you.
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 13: If you need me to go run around somewhere else,
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 13: I got you. I think that's kind of that attitude
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 13: as a young player. I took an approach of like,
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 13: I want to be on the field, and I want
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 13: to be here and I want to help us win.
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 13: So I need to solve a problem. What is that problem?
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 13: I need to be able to spill guys, give them
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 13: days off. And I think that kind of taught me
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 13: a little bit more about the utility role, and that
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 13: kind of helped me with being comfortable being uncomfortable because
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 13: when you're at a new spot yet and ben in
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 13: a while, it's a little uncomfortable. And I'm being honest,
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 13: I'm a little uncomfortable. But that's okay because we're working
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 13: at it. We're making sure that we're getting some strong,
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 13: accurate throws across the infield. We're working our feet getting
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 13: ready for some hot shots at the hot corner. And
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 13: I'm I'm really excited for a new new task and
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 13: a new challenge.
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 3: It's gonna be fun to watch when it comes to
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 3: you at the plate. I mean, you know career two
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 3: eighty hitter somewhere around there. I mean, that's that's like
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 3: hitting three forty back when I was playing. And what
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 3: is it that you do when you're at the plate
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 3: that makes you more of a guy that you know
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 3: handles the stick versus going up there and is okay
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 3: with walking back to the dugout with two hundred bunchies
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 3: a year?
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I do not like striking out. I cannot stand it.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 13: I'm a firm believer and trying to stay inside the
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 13: strike zone. I mean, there's times where you do have
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 13: to tip your cap and you're never gonna see me
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 13: walk back to the doug happier, looking content like I'm
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 13: gonna be a little pissed.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 12: Off, but that's okay.
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 13: But I just feel like if I can put the
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 13: ball in play, if I can go on the right
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 13: pitch and put the ball and play, I have a chance.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 12: It gives us a chance.
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 13: I can't really do anything if I'm walking back to
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 13: the dugout, and that's kind of how.
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 12: I see it.
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 13: I've really tried to lean into my game, and there's
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 13: been times where I think I hit the ball a
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 13: little bit harder each year. I think that comes with
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 13: growth and maturity and being understanding the game a little
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 13: bit more and taking more shots and learning how my
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 13: body understands and maybe getting a little stronger as I
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 13: get older. But I want to be myself, and myself
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 13: is staying inside the strike zone, trying to put the good,
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 13: good part of the bat on a ball that's over
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 13: the middle and go from there. A couple of things
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 13: that I'm working on right now as we ramp up,
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 13: because I do tend to have a little bit more
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 13: of a passive approach in spring training, I will work
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 13: on game my swing off a little bit more. I
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 13: have to kind of get my mind in that the
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 13: frame of like, hey, you need to be ready to go,
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 13: ready to go, ready to go, and then I can
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 13: always dial it back because that's just kind of how
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 13: I am as a player.
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 12: But I make my practice very, very challenging.
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 13: I want my practice to be it's never going to
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 13: look easy or slow out there, but I want my
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 13: practice to be like, my goodness, like this is this
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 13: is not this is not very fun.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 12: And I want to.
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 13: Take that approach off with the traject machine, MIXVP, whatever
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 13: it is. And I want to do that so I
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 13: can fail out there and I got a chance of
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 13: success on the field.
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 2: Well, you face our pitching staff enough to this spring,
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 2: and then you'll make it about as difficult as you
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 2: because you need it to be. Yeah.
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 12: I just got Gilbert Munos inspire. I was like, holy no.
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 2: My goodness, day two live pitch. You're like, well they
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 2: hit live.
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 12: I'm like yeah, I'd love to like oh you got
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 12: kind of chuckled and they told me. I was like,
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 12: all right, here we go.
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 12: I'd but that's the thing.
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 13: When they would come into town or we'd go to Seattle,
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 13: I'd be like, my goodness, there's no breaks now now
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  Speaker 13: I'm on the same team.
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  Speaker 12: This is nice.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Brenda Donovan, our guest here on Chucking Buck in
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 2: the morning, leadoff is what I see in all the
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 2: mock ups. I don't know if Jerry or Dan has
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 2: gone as far as having that conversation with you, but
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 2: is that your preferred spot in the order you want
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 2: to lead things off of this team?
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 12: Man, it's just kind of with whatever the team needs.
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 12: I don't mind being the first in the fire.
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 5: That's okay with me.
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 13: Try to have a good at bat, you know, relay
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 13: some information, maybe create some havoc out there.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 13: I'm healthy now. I had a little bit of an
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 13: operation and kind of cleaned up some things. So I'm
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 13: looking to run a little bit more this year. Last
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 13: few years have kind of been dealing with something, but
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 13: we got to clean up this offseason. I'm feeling great physically,
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 13: so that's something that I'm looking forward to doing. But honestly, man,
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 13: I don't I don't really care. Kind of the same thing,
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 13: you know, as a young player, kind of heading all
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 13: over the lineup. Like I said, I just want to
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 13: be in there.
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I knew that I was on the
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 2: bumps easily. I think he's got them over. Well. I
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 2: just hearing a ballplayer talk about playing ball.
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 3: But he's an old school ballplayer, you can tell. Like,
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 3: I mean, you're talking about the military background that creates discipline,
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 3: and then you want to play hard, you know, I
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 3: mean it's that whole. I'm okay being first in the fire.
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 3: I mean, where where does that come from? Probably the
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 3: military background, But then like where it is it? Because
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 3: I talk about mentality, I talk about approach. I talk
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 3: about things that you can control, right, because it doesn't
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 3: matter if you hit it hard and it goes right
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 3: to somebody, good job. Yeah, you hit it hard. That's
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 3: what your job was. But you got to be able
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 3: to handle that between the years. And yet, I mean,
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 3: when you're talking about goosebumps, it's because you're coming. You're
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 3: coming on here and talking about things with the mentality
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 3: about a mentality, So what is it about your mentality
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 3: that that you would probably pride yourself on?
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 12: I would imagine, you know, I.
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 13: Obviously this game is frustrating, right, but I try not
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 13: to ever throw anything. You know, you know how it
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 13: can get you know, he has some rustpell and that
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 13: helmet's looking at you a little funny, and sometimes you
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 13: want to want to see what it looks like on
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 13: the ground.
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 12: But I pride myself I'm not I'm not doing that
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 12: like I wanna. This is gonna sound.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 13: A little crazy, but the body, the body to me,
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 13: doesn't really know the difference between right and wrong. It
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 13: just gets reactions to the nervous system. So I want
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 13: to just like try to hammer it with as much
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 13: positivity as possible. But that's how I'm speaking, how I'm
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 13: reacting to things. You know, getting excited when you when
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 13: you do something right in the cage, so you can
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 13: kind of help build that muscle memory. But then like
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 13: kind of coming back to the training right the mint
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 13: that that's kind of where that mentality comes from. It's like, man,
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 13: I have just faced the hardest thing off this traject,
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 13: and that traject is no fun.
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 12: Have you seen it?
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 2: No?
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 12: Oh, you might have to peek your head in there
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 12: and take it.
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 5: I saw a video of you hitting off of it.
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 12: It's not fun.
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 5: It looks like it. It's coming in there firm.
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 12: Yeah, So it's it.
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 13: It's what's a hologram, and the machine actually changes in
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 13: an orients the ball exactly how that the shape of it,
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 13: and we take the best thing that guy throws, and
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 13: you can move it around the best shape, best velocity,
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 13: best whatever, his best bolt the nastiest. Yeah, and I'm
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 13: gonna face that over and over and over and over.
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 13: So I think that's kind of where some of that
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 13: mentality comes from.
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 2: Also, if you play one hundred and sixty two games,
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 2: how many games do you end up with just a
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 2: completely filthy uniform.
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 13: I think the uniform should be dirty by the second inning.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 12: Yeah, whether that's me just rubbing dirt on.
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 13: It, you don't like me, They're like, what happened? But
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 13: I think that I think it's got to be dirty.
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 13: Like I think if I look down, like, I mean,
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 13: we didn't do anything that got a little dirt on
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 13: me right now. But if I look down and I
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 13: look pretty good, I'm like, that wasn't a very good day.
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah. Uh. And I know that you were
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 2: in Saint Louis. I'm from Saint Louis, so great fan base.
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 2: I know they loved you there, but you're leaving them
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 2: and now you're coming up here to the Pacific Northwest.
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 2: So how excited are you to introduce yourself to a
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 2: brand new fan base, try to win them over. Yeah.
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 13: Absolutely, I mean that that is a very passionate fan
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 13: base and they're very good to me and my family.
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 13: So I'm excited, right, I'm I mean, I can't promise
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 13: them anything besides the things that we talked about. I'm
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 13: gonna prepare, I'm gonna play hard. So I'm excited to
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 13: play in front of them. And that place gets rocking too,
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 13: So I'm excited as it does.
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 2: Yes, it does. And got to know your teammates a
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 2: little bit. Anybody been a jerk to you? No talking to.
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 12: No, not at all.
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 6: Man.
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 13: A lot of hugs, a lot of cool conversations, and
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 13: like I said, and it's just been like, it's a
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 13: really really good group.
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 2: It is. Yeah, you're gonna have fun and you're not
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 2: shy about growing to let us out.
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 13: No, no, no, you know it's funny because military, you
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 13: think like military, growing up with a colonel and it's like,
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 13: I got long hair and a beard, So how does
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 13: he feel about that?
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've actually.
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 13: Had long hair since since high school, on and off
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 13: a little bit in the minor leagues. We weren't supposed
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 13: to have. It wasn't supposed touch our collar until we
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 13: got above a certain level. But you know, my favorite,
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 13: not favorite, but like, as a left handed hitting shortstop
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 13: growing up, the one player that you were kind of
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 13: envious of was Brandon Crawford and and he had the lettuce.
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 12: It was so I got to play.
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 13: With him his last year when he was in Saint Louis.
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 12: But I told my dad.
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 13: I was like, hey, like, I want to grow my
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 13: hair and I want to be like Brandon Crawford.
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 12: And he kind of like my dad's bald, no facial hair, bald,
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 12: and he kind of looked at me like what did
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 12: you just say?
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 13: And then and I was like, oh, like I want
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 13: to do it, and he kind of like took a
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 13: step back, and this is how cool my dad is.
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 13: And he was like, let me think about it. And
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 13: he's like, all right, keep your grades up and be
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 13: nice to your mom. Don't get in trouble. He's like,
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 13: but just don't look. There's times where I've seen pictures
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 13: of me. I think at one point last year I
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 13: was like, I probably should shave that little sooner. But
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 13: but you know, that's kind of the moral aspect of like, hey,
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 13: just just be a good person.
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 2: You don't want to be the gateway too, you know,
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 2: some malevolent activity. No, I can't have that, all right, man, Well, hey,
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 2: thank you very much for joining us. We appreciate we're
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 2: very excited to have you a part of this organization,
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 2: a part of this city. We've heard nothing but good
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 2: things about you, and I think you just put that
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 2: on display for all of our listeners and back in Seattle.
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 2: So have a great year. Enjoy it all, man.
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 12: I appreciate it, and I'll let him get back to
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 12: their lunch.
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 2: I appreciate it for the dog eats it. Brendan Donovan
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 2: with us yesterday, first time we've aired it here at
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 2: our spring training coverage, the brand new acquisition for the
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 2: Saint Louis Cardinals. I mean, how likable is that guy, Ashley?
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 2: How likable is that guy?
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 9: He's awesome. I was like, man, I could listen to
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 9: everything this guy says.
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 2: He's unbelievable, like bucking. I just looked at each other
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 2: like this is too good to be true. I mean,
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 2: what on earth.
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 9: Is introspective but not corny?
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 9: Yeah? And he's just like easy to listen to, sounds
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 9: like he was easy to talk to. I kind of
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 9: want him to like give me life lessons.
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 5: He's got a good outlook, there's no doubt.
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 3: And then I mean, if you take it to the
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 3: you know, the part that matters the most when it
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 3: comes to us analyzing the team. You just need a
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 3: couple of the just grinders you have to have. I mean,
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 3: not just one or two. That has to be the
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 3: overarching kind of feel of what the team is is
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 3: the hard work and you grind through one sixty two
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 3: because there is so much failure in the game that
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 3: if you don't have that mindset, you become poudy. And
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 3: if majority of your team has that type of a
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 3: head on their shoulders, then you're a poudy ball club.
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 3: And that's when you get into the ten fifteen game
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 3: losing streaks and next thing you know, you're fighting. You're
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 3: fighting an uphill battle. He just has the right mentality
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 3: that goes into creating a good ballplayer, somebody.
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 5: That can deal with the ups and the downs. Sounds
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 5: like he's grounded.
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 3: It sounds like you add him now to cal Rawley,
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 3: Josh Naylor has that same type of a head on
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 3: his shoulders. That's where you want your leaders to have
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 3: that and then everybody else just watches how they go
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 3: about their business and kind of falls in line, so
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 3: to speak, and next thing you know, you got a
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 3: team that's really tough to beat.
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 2: It was a grind to get him. I know that
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 2: the organization was put through a trade process. I've had
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 2: numerous people tell me that unlike anything they've ever seen,
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 2: like just the waiting game to try to finish off
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 2: this deal. And whenever you're doing that, you never know
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 2: who else is slipping in the back door and is
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 2: about ready to take away your coveted prize. But they
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 2: wanted him, They've wanted him for a couple of years.
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 2: He was a priority. This offseason. Gino Suarez ended up
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 2: going to the Cincinnati Reds for far less than what
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 2: we imagined or what spo track would suggest thing he
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 2: should go for. And I think he was Planned B,
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 2: possibly even Plan C for the Mariners. But Plan A
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 2: was always to get Brendan Donovan away from the Saint
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 2: Louis Cardinals, who had made it clear that he was
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 2: available with just two years left on his contract. And
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 2: they're in a bit of a rebuild there in Saint Louis,
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 2: which is rare for that organization, and so I think
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 2: that when Gino went to Cincinnati that it was okay,
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 2: there went Plan B or Plan C or whatever it was,
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 2: and maybe they sweetened the offer a little bit. Okay,
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 2: we know we're close with you here you go, We're
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 2: gonna just sweeten it a little bit and secure our
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 2: guy so that we don't lose him. And you know,
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 2: it's just like when you buy a house. Everybody always
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 2: says buy a little bit or bigger of a house.
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 2: Then you plan spend a little bit more money on
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 2: a house than when you planned, because you won't regret that.
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 2: And that's what I think they did, Like there's no regret.
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 2: There is no regret within these walls. They are so
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 2: happy to have him here. They feel that he fits
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 2: perfectly into this system, into this organization, into the lineup,
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 2: into what they have planned for twenty twenty six. And
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 2: I'm glad that they did it. And I'm even more
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 2: glad that they did it after having met him. I
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 2: said before, I think he's a real asset that this
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 2: team could add. Now I sort of understand why they
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 2: wanted him so badly.
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 3: I think justin Hollander twice, I did it right after
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 3: we talked to him. Yesterday I went over interrupted the
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 3: game of catch with his son. I said, he, I
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 3: don't want to interrupt.
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 5: I just want to say thank you, And he's like,
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 5: for what, And I said, for getting Brendan Doughtovan, thank you,
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 5: thank you. Just talk to him and I couldn't be happier.
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 5: And then today I'm walking to the bathroom. We passed
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 5: other in the hall and I said thanks again. He goes, Yep,
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 5: you're welcome. We're pretty happy about it.
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 6: Heh.
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 2: It turns out Hollander much better at making deals than
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 2: throwing a baseball.
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, yeah, spot say yeah, right right.
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 2: We have good things not in our bullpen and he's
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 2: in our front office. Yeah yeah, all right, coming out
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 2: next on the radio program. Yeah, we're at spring training,
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 2: but we always check in with our guy evert fits
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 2: you to find out what's going on in his life.
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 2: He's got like three weeks off before the crack and
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 2: play again, but he's a huge baseball fan. He's watching
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 2: the Olympics. We got a lot to discuss with our
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 2: guy Everett, who we haven't talked to in a couple
• 1:28:23
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