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5-18 H1: WTH Mariners & NBA, NHL Playoffs · The Gregg Bell Show

• 0:08
  Speaker 1: Welcome into the show.
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  Speaker 2: Anderson Hurst Christopher Kid failing in for Greg g.
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• 1:02
  Speaker 2: you know who could have used a Grand Slam yesterday
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  Speaker 2: and they still would have lost your Seattle Mariners because
• 1:08
  Speaker 2: they lost eight to three in route to getting swept
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  Speaker 2: over the San Diego Padres over the weekend. Man, there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot going on with this baseball team right now.
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  Speaker 2: But I want to bring in Christopher Kidd. Christopher, how
• 1:22
  Speaker 2: are you?
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  Speaker 1: Is going on? Anderson Hurst? How are you? I am good, man,
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: I am good? How are you?
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  Speaker 3: My manners are not going as well? So you're a
• 1:29
  Speaker 3: little sour. Yeah, a lot of fans are as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: For some of us to do a daily postgame show,
• 1:35
  Speaker 2: these kind of stretches are tough because it's like last night,
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, what do I even say? Usually there's after
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  Speaker 2: the first loss, you had a lot of analysis able
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  Speaker 2: to explain it. After that second loss. How much of
• 1:46
  Speaker 2: that first loss did you try not to regurgitate exactly?
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  Speaker 2: When you get to that third loss, what could you
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  Speaker 2: have possibly have changed? Because some of the same issues
• 1:55
  Speaker 2: they've had were throughout the series.
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  Speaker 1: Well, thankfully for the Mariners.
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  Speaker 2: When they lose this year, it's due to to like
• 2:00
  Speaker 2: one moment in the game or like a couple frustrating things.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, man, if you could have just done this differently,
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  Speaker 2: like you would have gone on a run, you would
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  Speaker 2: have won this series. But that wasn't the case over
• 2:11
  Speaker 2: the weekend now, and especially wasn't the case last night
• 2:14
  Speaker 2: against the Padres, like you lost eight to three. You
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  Speaker 2: didn't hit, you couldn't pitch. There are a couple defensive errors.
• 2:20
  Speaker 2: It was cool a guy made his debut in Cole
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  Speaker 2: t Emerson, and we could talk about that obviously, but yeah,
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  Speaker 2: last night was just like you just lost to a
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  Speaker 2: better baseball team. And that's the kind of scope. And
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  Speaker 2: I mentioned this to you before we went on the
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  Speaker 2: show today. That's the kind of scope I'm viewing all
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  Speaker 2: of this. Everyone tries to paint the picture of all
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  Speaker 2: they're just what a game and a half out of
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  Speaker 2: first place right now. I don't know if that's change,
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  Speaker 2: but it's not very much. They're a game, sorry, two
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  Speaker 2: games out of first place. The Rangers are now ahead
• 2:47
  Speaker 2: of you in your third place in the Aos. But
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  Speaker 2: you know, the Mariners could easily still win this division.
• 2:52
  Speaker 2: They could easily still make the playoffs. But that's not
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  Speaker 2: kind of the expectations I set for this team going
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  Speaker 2: into this year. The expectations I set this team was
• 3:00
  Speaker 2: to go and be a World Series contender, right and
• 3:04
  Speaker 2: you kind of are able to, you know, tread water
• 3:08
  Speaker 2: during the first month plus of the season. We're almost
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  Speaker 2: two months into the season now, and it just seems
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  Speaker 2: like they're still not taking that next step like we
• 3:20
  Speaker 2: expected them to do. And I think the biggest damning
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  Speaker 2: evidence that they're not in that World Series conversation right
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  Speaker 2: now is that you went up against a team that
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  Speaker 2: is in that World Series conversation right now in the
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  Speaker 2: San Diego Padres. I mean, they have all the excuses
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  Speaker 2: in the world to not be twenty eight and eighteen
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  Speaker 2: right now, but they are. They're twenty eight and eighteen
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  Speaker 2: with their two best hitters haven't done anything this year
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  Speaker 2: and Manny Machadaw and Fernando Tatis Junior. That is an excuse.
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  Speaker 2: That is an excuse to not have your best record.
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  Speaker 2: The Mariners, on the other hand, like, yes, cal Rawley's
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  Speaker 2: been bad and injured and or whatever you want to
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  Speaker 2: kind of put under his name. But the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the line minus the left handed pitching situation, We'll get
• 4:03
  Speaker 2: to that in a second, but the rest of the
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  Speaker 2: lineup has been pretty dang productive. You look at players
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  Speaker 2: like Luke Rayley, dom Can Zone, Cole Young, Julia Rodriguez,
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  Speaker 2: Randy Rose, Arena, Josh Naylor. On the whole on the
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  Speaker 2: season has been a little underwhelming. But that's mostly due
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  Speaker 2: to his really cold stretch to start the season, and
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  Speaker 2: he's been coming on as of late. So I think
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  Speaker 2: if you look at the lineup, the people that are
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  Speaker 2: playing every day, you don't see a lot of guys
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  Speaker 2: that are underperforming.
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  Speaker 1: On the pitching staff.
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  Speaker 2: I've been happy with Emerson Hancock, I've been happy with
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  Speaker 2: George Kirby minuses blow up yesterday. I've been happy with
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  Speaker 2: Brian wu as well. But Logan Gilbert I expect more
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  Speaker 2: from but it's not like he's blowing up. And we
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  Speaker 2: all we've always talked about Luis Castillo as well. But
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  Speaker 2: you look at these performances across the board and it's like,
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  Speaker 2: how are the Mariners in this position? And it's because
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  Speaker 2: they're just not playing good baseball. They're they're not taking
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  Speaker 2: good team at bats, they're not playing good defense. And
• 5:02
  Speaker 2: one other aspects I didn't even throw in there was
• 5:04
  Speaker 2: the bullpen, and I think the bullpen's actually been one
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  Speaker 2: of the strengths of this team in the early portion
• 5:08
  Speaker 2: of the season. There's a lot of good things with
• 5:10
  Speaker 2: this Mariners team, but you know when you watch the
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  Speaker 2: games and.
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  Speaker 1: The eye test just doesn't pass. Christopher Kidd do you agree.
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  Speaker 3: I agree that the eye test it is not good.
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  Speaker 3: And we briefly wrapped about their home record, yeah, which
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  Speaker 3: is also a little concerning because you look at a
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  Speaker 3: team that's ahead of them by a game two games,
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  Speaker 3: and that would be the Texas Rangers, and you know
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  Speaker 3: what their record at home is.
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  Speaker 1: It's positive. Now, it's not the biggest deal.
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  Speaker 3: It's not as if they're like undefeated, just some jog
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  Speaker 3: or not at the crib. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 3: this is a team that everyone talks about World Series aspirations,
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  Speaker 3: and you're not getting it done in front of the
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  Speaker 3: people that are supporting you to do so that is
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  Speaker 3: my concern. And I don't know if it's gonna just
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  Speaker 3: happen overnight where they just become this good baseball team
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  Speaker 3: at home, right And now the injuries are starting to
• 6:02
  Speaker 3: pile up now obviously with JP Crawford, sounds like it's
• 6:06
  Speaker 3: day to day and he could be playing today for
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  Speaker 3: all we know. So with that being said, you know, Donovan,
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  Speaker 3: he's out. So it's not a great sign for this team.
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  Speaker 3: And I think perhaps there is a tier of fans
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  Speaker 3: that are worried, and then there's the Andersons and fans
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  Speaker 3: that are just like, I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Not too worried. It's just not good enough though, but
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  Speaker 1: it is not good enough.
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  Speaker 3: One of the things that is still crazy to me
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  Speaker 3: is how the offense disappears just so often. Seattle continues
• 6:33
  Speaker 3: to struggle at the plate consistently. Strikeouts are our favorite
• 6:38
  Speaker 3: thing to talk about. You got this guy named Lucas giallat.
• 6:43
  Speaker 1: Jaliedo.
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  Speaker 3: They managed just if I'm not mistaken, one hit in
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  Speaker 3: five innings.
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  Speaker 1: There's the whole game. They only got one hit the
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  Speaker 1: entire game.
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  Speaker 3: Excuse me. My point is they can't have those type
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  Speaker 3: of lapses. Now, I get it. This is a Padre's
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  Speaker 3: team that that is a contender. They're really good, so
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  Speaker 3: it's not terrible. But when you look at the Mariners
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  Speaker 3: and you're like, oh, we should be there too. You actually,
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  Speaker 3: you would think you would get a win in this series,
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  Speaker 3: just a win? Would that be too much to ask for?
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  Speaker 3: And now you're owing six against these guys. You got
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  Speaker 3: swept twice, so that's kind of that's a bad taste
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  Speaker 3: in your mouth, and you're praying, you know what, I
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  Speaker 3: want to see these guys in the fall. In September
• 7:24
  Speaker 3: when there's a chance to move on in the postseason,
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  Speaker 3: and I think that's kind of their mindset, like learn
• 7:30
  Speaker 3: from this. But I do think that the bullpen rotation,
• 7:34
  Speaker 3: maybe they're carrying too much.
• 7:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I think you look at George Kirby and Logan Gilbert
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  Speaker 3: and how they pitched pretty well through this series. But
• 7:43
  Speaker 3: when good starts do not translate into wins, that is
• 7:47
  Speaker 3: a that's concerning, and especially through the long haul. And then,
• 7:51
  Speaker 3: as I mentioned that home field stuff, that's good teams
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  Speaker 3: I think dominated at home and the Mariners, I know
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  Speaker 3: they're a good team because they have the pieces of
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  Speaker 3: the puzzle. Yeah, but they're not putting it on the field.
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  Speaker 3: And to your point of the eye tests, they're not
• 8:04
  Speaker 3: passing the eye test on paper. They're phenomenal, yeah, And
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  Speaker 3: it's they have the talent. It's not that you know,
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  Speaker 3: I don't I see a giant talent gap between them
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  Speaker 3: and the Padres, right, you know, especially at the top
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  Speaker 3: of the lineup and the top of the pitching rotation
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  Speaker 3: and the bullpen. Probably than Podres have the best bullpen
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  Speaker 3: in baseball, but I think the Mariners are up there
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  Speaker 3: as well.
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  Speaker 1: But it's it's just they're.
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  Speaker 2: Not playing good baseball, and I don't know how much
• 8:31
  Speaker 2: of it is manager related. I struggle to I struggle
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  Speaker 2: to put everything on the manager because I think of
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  Speaker 2: all the coaches in any sport, Baseball has the The
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  Speaker 2: baseball manager has the least effect on the outcome as
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  Speaker 2: any head coach in any sport. I think the NFL
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  Speaker 2: head coach has a more positive effect.
• 8:53
  Speaker 3: Let me ask you this, Yeah, should Dan Wilson stop
• 8:56
  Speaker 3: going to pinch hinters in these big opportunities? Be a
• 9:00
  Speaker 3: Is that a fair discussion? You're like, hey man, it's
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  Speaker 3: the eighth inning? Yeah, why are you calling in la
• 9:07
  Speaker 3: la la la la.
• 9:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Like Rod Reschneider's exactly perfect example, I'm not sure. I'm
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  Speaker 3: sure the fans don't agree. Not to mention, have the
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  Speaker 3: results been good?
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  Speaker 1: No? No, I have not. The numbers speak for themselves.
• 9:22
  Speaker 1: The Mariners pitch hitters.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see fifty one plate appearances, seventh modes in MLB,
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  Speaker 3: five eighty ops, ninth worst in baseball.
• 9:31
  Speaker 2: So they're doing it the fifth most out of any team,
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  Speaker 2: and their results are the ninth worst out of any team.
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  Speaker 2: So not only are you not getting the results that
• 9:43
  Speaker 2: you want, you're doing it more often, which means it's
• 9:45
  Speaker 2: affecting your team as much.
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: Let's look at the Friday game, right Manners lose.
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  Speaker 3: What was the scored two? I think it was three
• 9:53
  Speaker 3: to two, okay. I think they use three pitch hinters,
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  Speaker 3: pitch pinch hitters. That's a fun word though, I know
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  Speaker 3: if I'm not mistake two zero. Sorry it was Friday,
• 10:03
  Speaker 3: My bad. Two zero okay, So they use three pinch hitters.
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  Speaker 3: Result a walk, no hits, five played appearances. Yeah, so
• 10:10
  Speaker 3: what do you What's what was the purpose there?
• 10:12
  Speaker 2: So the three things you said there, The issue isn't
• 10:16
  Speaker 2: the fact that they didn't get any hits. Isn't the
• 10:19
  Speaker 2: fact that they just got one walk. It's the fact
• 10:21
  Speaker 2: that they had five played appearances. There, you go, That
• 10:23
  Speaker 2: is the hugest issue. And I talked about this on
• 10:27
  Speaker 2: Friday when I filled in for Ian for Ness as
• 10:29
  Speaker 2: well with Jess, and to me, the issue is not
• 10:35
  Speaker 2: and we saw this over the weekend as well, so
• 10:37
  Speaker 2: we can talk about it again. The issue is not
• 10:40
  Speaker 2: that you're using pinch hitters, period, like every team does
• 10:43
  Speaker 2: it right, and you have players like Luke Rayley and
• 10:46
  Speaker 2: doncan Zone that are less effective versus left handed pitchers.
• 10:50
  Speaker 2: Right The issue though, is the fact that you're doing
• 10:54
  Speaker 2: it so a early in the game. So I think
• 10:58
  Speaker 2: it was actually in the first game of the series
• 11:03
  Speaker 2: where it was the top of the seventh inning. You
• 11:06
  Speaker 2: were down to zero still at this point, Connor, and
• 11:10
  Speaker 2: it's the top of the inning and no one on base,
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  Speaker 2: nobody out.
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: It's the beginning and so long Connor Joe.
• 11:16
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, like pinch hit Luke Raley, who's one of
• 11:19
  Speaker 2: your honest hitters right now to bring in Connor Joe.
• 11:22
  Speaker 2: Now that in a vacuum is not I don't think
• 11:26
  Speaker 2: it's a terrible move, especially if you're in a late
• 11:28
  Speaker 2: game situation where you have guys on base and you
• 11:31
  Speaker 2: have a chance to tire or win the game. I
• 11:33
  Speaker 2: would rather the guy that is in his career better
• 11:36
  Speaker 2: against left handed pitching than than the other guy. So
• 11:39
  Speaker 2: Connor Joe in his career is better against left handed
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  Speaker 2: pitching than Luke Raley is. But the issue with that
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  Speaker 2: is that it was the top of the seventh inning.
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  Speaker 2: You are guaranteeing and at bat again, not just that
• 11:49
  Speaker 2: first time you're pinch hitting for him, but again later
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  Speaker 2: in the game because you're taking him out so early,
• 11:56
  Speaker 2: and what exactly what we expected happened, where you know,
• 12:03
  Speaker 2: Connor Jo actually gets the walk, but then later in
• 12:06
  Speaker 2: the game he's facing Mason Miller, the best closer in
• 12:09
  Speaker 2: baseball with like a forty strike up percentage, and it's alrighty,
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  Speaker 2: So this is where you would love to have Luke Rayley.
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  Speaker 2: So that's the issue with me. It's not the fact
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  Speaker 2: that you're doing it. It's the fact that man opposing
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  Speaker 2: managers to Dan Wilson can know that it's so easy
• 12:26
  Speaker 2: to get the Mariner's best platoon hitters and Luke Rayley
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  Speaker 2: and Dom Canzone are platoon hitters to get them out
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  Speaker 2: of the game early in the game so you can't
• 12:35
  Speaker 2: use them again if you just go to an left
• 12:37
  Speaker 2: handed reliever right after your starter. So it just it
• 12:42
  Speaker 2: just seems like everyone else is playing chess while the
• 12:45
  Speaker 2: Mariners are playing checkers right now.
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  Speaker 1: When it comes to this, i'd.
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  Speaker 3: Also and I eventually, at some point this becomes that
• 12:51
  Speaker 3: the process is just failing. Yeah, and you know what's
• 12:53
  Speaker 3: going to happen. Dan Wilson's going to get the blame
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  Speaker 3: either way.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and I struggle to put it all on Dan.
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  Speaker 2: And I've been someone who's been critical Dan Wilson as
• 13:01
  Speaker 2: much as anyone. Even last year when they made their run.
• 13:04
  Speaker 2: I wasn't really thrilled with some of the managing decisions.
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  Speaker 2: But it's hard to do that because, like I said,
• 13:11
  Speaker 2: that process that we just talked about is on him.
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  Speaker 1: That's not good.
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  Speaker 2: But we wouldn't even be having this discussion if the
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  Speaker 2: guys that can hit left handed pitching actually hit left
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  Speaker 2: handed pitching.
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  Speaker 1: And that's not on him.
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  Speaker 2: Like Rob Rathschneider and Connor Joe are on this team
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  Speaker 2: for one flippant reason, and.
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  Speaker 1: It's to hit left hand picking.
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  Speaker 3: Rob is making six point two million to do one thing.
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  Speaker 3: High strakeout rate, not good, not delivering in leverage moments,
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  Speaker 3: and then it's starting. If I'm not I think it's
• 13:37
  Speaker 3: starting to look like a field experiment in my opinion,
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  Speaker 3: I agree. So with all that being said, the Royal problem, Sure,
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  Speaker 3: to your point, it might not be a Dan Wilson.
• 13:45
  Speaker 3: It could be maybe the roster construction. Yeah, and I
• 13:49
  Speaker 3: know for off seasons and pawn off seasons. Get this,
• 13:52
  Speaker 3: get this and that this is a bat. Yeah, and
• 13:54
  Speaker 3: here you are now with players that are banged up.
• 13:57
  Speaker 3: Kyle Rowley, he's he's out Donovan, He's gonna be out
• 14:01
  Speaker 3: update soon for JP Crawford, and you're looking for sparks,
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  Speaker 3: and right now is not a good time to be
• 14:08
  Speaker 3: in a situation where you're looking for sparks, because we
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: all believe that the Mayors are the best team in
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  Speaker 3: this division. At the same time, when you're not playing
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  Speaker 3: at your best and you don't have your best players,
• 14:19
  Speaker 3: it could easily become a catch up moment. And how
• 14:22
  Speaker 3: far are you willing to fall down that hole before
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: you look up and it's June eighteenth and you are
• 14:27
  Speaker 3: X amount of games out of first place, and you
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: stink at home and you're okay on the road. That
• 14:32
  Speaker 3: is my concern at this point in time. And it's
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: I would raise the yellow flag. I'm staying with yellow.
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: It's been yellow since the season started. He's going to
• 14:40
  Speaker 3: stay there because I do believe the pitching is still
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: really good and they can make away, But I don't
• 14:46
  Speaker 3: know how much longer they can make away, sure with
• 14:49
  Speaker 3: decisions like this happening and the roster not being constructed
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: for when things go south.
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's pretty interesting because on Saturday, so that
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  Speaker 2: the situation we just described on frit it was obviously
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: a Dan Wilson decision. Saturday, Dan Wilson gets tossed early
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: in the game for the second time in his career.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, mar though, I mean, yeah, he's trying
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: to get his guys fired up. I like it, But
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: then you see a different, different strategy. So I'm I'm
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: curious as to text line, what you guys think.
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: Do you think?
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: Because Dan Wilson got tossed, and then when the Potters
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: put in a left handed pitcher for three straight left
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: handed batters, the acting head coach Many act or the
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: acting manager Manny Acta, decided to stick with Luke Rayley,
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: decided to stick with dom Canzone against the left handed pitcher.
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: Now you didn't get any different results, right, And again
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: I'm not even saying that I think Luke Rayley and
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: Dom Canzone can be good versus left handed pitching, Like
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: I don't think they can. Dom Canzone maybe a little
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: bit more so. But Luke Rayley just in his career
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: has shown he cannot hit left handed pitching, and he's
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: talked about it before that it's just he doesn't even
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: practice it anymore because he doesn't ever get used in
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: that situation. So I'm not even saying that's the case,
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: but leave him in the game. So it kind of
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: forces the hand of the other manager to be like, crap,
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: maybe they won't switch out their best hitters and we're
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: just burning left handed pitchers early in the game where
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: we'd rather have them later in the game. And then
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: you're back on the attack instead of always just you know,
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: responding to what other teams are doing. But overall, I
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: think this platoon situation, it'll work itself out. I think
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: Dom Canzone more more likely than not, becomes an everyday
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: player and you'll probably have one less platoon situation in
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: the in the lineup. But the bigger issue for me
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: is is there injuries. I mean, that's it's pretty easy
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: to say when Brendan, Donovan, cal Rawly and JP Crawford
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: at the end of yesterday's game are out of the lineup.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: That's those are three guys that you expected to be
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: contributing every single day that are no longer contributing every
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: single day. And I wanted to give a quick shout
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: out to Cole t Emerson for making his debut yesterday.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: Everyone's been excited about him. I also wonder that how
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: much of him getting called up was because Brendan Donovan
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: got injured, and if this was less of a you're
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: ready situation and more of a hey, we need a
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: guy to come play every day because Brendan Donovan was
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: playing every day for US and his hernia that he
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: had and hernia surgery that he had in the off
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: season not healing like we expected it too. So you know,
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: you want cold Emerson when he does get called up
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: to play every day, so might as well do it now.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: But it's he was starting to hit a little bit more,
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: but he wasn't like tearing the cover off the base
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: ball or anything like that. So I don't know there
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: are any I actually thought he had a pretty good
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: game last night. He gets a walk, hits two balls hard.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: I know it doesn't get a hit, but you know,
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: the process will come and all that stuff. He played
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: third base, though, which is another thing. If JP Crawford
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: goes down, I expect them to play short But the
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: third base situation with him, that's a whole other thing,
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: because I think he needs to be playing short stop
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: because he's going to be your every day shortstop for
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: the years to come. So lots to discuss regards arning
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: the Seattle Marion Arrows. There's a lot of topics, there's
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: a lot of reasons why they're in this funk right now.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: But the biggest thing, as I said at the top
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: of the show, for me, is that you're still well
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: within striking distance of making the playoffs. You're still well
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: within striking distance of winning your division. That's not the
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: issue here. The issue is that we expected this to
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: be a World Series contending team, and you faced another
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: World Series contending team last or over the weekend, and
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: you looked far inferior, and you have all season that's
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: zero to six now against the Padres. So yeah, we'll
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: talk about a little bit later in the show. I'm
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: excited to talk to Chuck Powell. I'm gonna bring him on.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: I heard his discussion regarding Dan Wilson in the nine
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: o'clock hour, and I want to ask him a couple
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: questions regarding that. I want to pick his brain. For
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: those who don't know, we do our Stove podcast, which
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: is normally the off season podcast, but we decided to
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: start doing it during the regular season as well. Every
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: couple of weeks Stove fifteen and Stove thirty. You can
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: find it on those podcast pages on the iHeartMedia or
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app. Excuse me, but Christopher Kidd, when we come back,
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna ask you, as someone who's following the NBA
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: playoffs extremely closely, and I have not, and I'm the
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: one who's been following the NHL playoffs extremely closely, let's
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: update each other on where we're at at this point
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: in the two playoff races.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: One question for you before we go Tampa Bay Rays?
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: Is that what you expected the Mariners speak, because that's
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: what I thought, Yes, in terms of record, Yeah, and
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: how they're playing and how they're looking, that's what I envisioned.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: The Rays are thirty and fifteen. Yep, they're a really
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: good base. That would be nice if the Mariners were
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: that in their AO West Division. But yeah, you know what,
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: and they have better talent than the Rays. That's the
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: thing exactly. That would be my next point. Yeah, the
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: talent is like superior. No discredit to the rais. They
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: have a good roster. But when you look at paper
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: to paper, you're like, damn, how are the Mariners not that?
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: And it's the little things that we kind of briefly
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: discussed here in this opening segment. So text line, I'm
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: sure you're everything we're talking about. Yeah, how can we
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: not talk about the Mariners after they just got swept
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: by a pretty decent team.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's the main discussion in Seattle sports
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: over the weekend right now. But coming up next, we're
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: gonna talk some playoffs that neither Seattle Sports, no Seattle
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: Sports teams are in. It's the NHL playoffs and it
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: is the NBA playoffs. So Chris is gonna update me
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: on what's going on in the NBA. I'm gonna update
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Chris and what's going on in the NHL all coming
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: up next on Sports Radio ninety three point three KJARFM.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: Interest level with the NBA and probably during the mid
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: twenty tens, during the Lebron Steph years, that's when I
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: was watching every single series, every single game consistently. But
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: ever since the Kraken got a hockey team, and especially
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: ever since the Kraken went to the playoffs themselves, I've
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: kind of shifted my gears towards the NHL playoffs a
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: little bit more and focused more on those series. Having
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: a lot of fun watching this year's I think the
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: Western Conference Finals is gonna be a ton of fun.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: But I want to get a quick update from Christopher
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Kidd as someone who hasn't watched my who hasn't watched
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: much of the NBA playoffs this year. Uh, you know,
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: tell me what's going on. You're now all set in
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: the conference finals. Well you got okac.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: I know Sonic fans are rolling their eyes, turning their
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: just doing everything that.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no one's happy about that.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: They haven't lost a game yet, Chris. This is a
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: powerhouse in the West. This team is loaded one through thirteen.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: They believe in each other, They have a great roster,
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: great coaching, and unfortunately it's not the Sonics, but they
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: also have a foe with a seven foot four unicorn
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: and women Yama that can do any and everything. So
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: you got two and dispersed team. By the way, is
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: they're a young team and they may be ahead of schedule,
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: but they don't.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: They don't.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: They don't see it that way, kind of like the Seahawks, right,
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: maybe one that they'll probably win twelve games last season.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Maybe that's a that's a great start. It's a great start.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: No one thought they would be what they were, And
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: if you did, I need to find the tape of
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: you saying so, because I didn't see them winning a
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: super Bowl.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: I thought the Seahawks would.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: Win twelve eleven twelve games, be a real playoff contender,
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: probably losing division round.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: Sure, boy was, and I thought people like, if you
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: were to ask people that going into the Seahawks season
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: last year, people would have said, that's a success.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, not to discredit from anything else that they did,
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: but that's just looking at it, my McDonald.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: You know, second year, can you really do something like
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: a super Bowl win a playoff game?
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Right, that's like you don't.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: Want to put pressure on this guy. And that's kind
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: of what the Spurs are right now. They're built around women.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: Yama they the alien is just what a great nickname
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: for him.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously he is. You think he's gonna win.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Oh he didn't win MVPs. It was it was women
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: on a second in the vote.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: I want to say it was joke, joker, but when
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: Miyama was on the list, Yeah, he's an MVP candidate.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: He is going He's going to win that eventually because
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: what he brings to the game is extraordinary. Ye Now,
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: I know he's seven to four, So that helps a lot.
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: But he can still do things that guys my height
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: are doing, which is handle the ball, gets the basket. Yeah,
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: he's doing You don't see seven four guys with his
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: skill set. Usually they just back to the basket shooting
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: shots ten feet from the rim.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: He's from thirty out. What's the talent around him? Like,
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: I know obviously he's like the oh my piece, but like,
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: are they as deep as the thunder art?
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Because I know that the thunder.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: Strength, I don't know if they're the deepest. I don't, Okay,
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: So that's why I said ahead of schedule. Because they're
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: not as deep, You're gonna need some guys that are
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: probably the X factors to take it to another level.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Who are those?
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: So it's a great question, I would saycl no, I, Well, yeah,
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: he's a part of that.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: But when I look at Okay sees bench, they have
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: guys like Isaiah Joe that comes in and he is
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: basically a firecracker. He's defense, he can knock down the three,
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: he can get to the basket, he can create for others, right,
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: and Okay, he has a couple of guys Alex Carusoe.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, so you're familiar with the names.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so when you look at the Spurs, you're like, Okay, well,
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: who are those guys that can come in and do
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: the same thing. Is it Julian Champagne? Is he a
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: guy that's gonna come in and be a firecracker? Carter
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: Bryant the young I think he's nineteen years old. I'm
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: not saying he's very young. Darren Fox, well, he's a starter. Yeah,
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: So I'm you're talking. You're talking about the role players
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: that are coming off the bench. Luke Cornett, who is
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: like a thousand years old who's been hooping forever, but
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: he's he's valuable. Yeah, those are the players that you're
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: looking at and saying, Okay, I need you to step
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: in and can you elevate this team kind of like
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: you've seen with OKC. And that's why I'm jumping ahead
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: and saying, yeah, they might be ahead of schedule. And
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: even Kelden I mentioned Keldon Johnson, I think, but yeah, Kelden,
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: he is someone that he comes off the bench instant spark.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: So now you got two good teams, but who that
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: bench is going to be I think critical.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Not to mention Ken they slid on SGA.
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: Because he gets what he wants and I know he's
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: a foul baita and all that, but when you look
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: at his westher Garverne finals, it should go six seven games.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: But god, okayc is really good.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: Like they are disciplined offensively, defensively, they just do a
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: really good job as a team in a unit. And
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: I don't know if the Spurs are there, but they're
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: on a big stage to prove that, yeah, we might
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: be young, but we're ready for this opportunity. And then
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: you look at the East Yep, it's just as exciting, right,
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: I say, Troy Piston's kind of a letdown, unfortunately.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: But I thought it was gonna be Neix Pistons. But
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: a lot of people did.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: But shout out to what Cas the Calves did because
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: for the most part, yeah, everyone was counting them out
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: thinking not happening. But Donovan Mitchell, he averaged thirty points
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: per game in this year.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: I mean, so I think he's probably in terms of
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: the star that everyone kind of forgets about.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: It's not forget about him, it's just the fact that
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: he doesn't show up in big moments in the playoffs.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: But this year.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he has done that and got his team to
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: the Eastern Conference finals and years past. And that's to
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: your point about they forgot about him. No, he just
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: didn't play his best ball. He averaged thirty in the
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: semis and James Harden he played plus minus wise, he
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: played good basketball. But when you watch the game, like, yeah,
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: James could have been more effective here and there.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: And I thought they kind of got a little big
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: three of their own, Evan Mobley James Harden.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: No, they do have a big three. Yeah, no doubt
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: about it.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, but that team has just been looked at. It's
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: just like, ah, they're gonna miss They're gonna do this
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: this year. They're gonna win sixty games and be out
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: in the first round. Oh yeah that was actually the
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: Detroit Pistons. And now the Cleveland Cavaliers have a chance
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: to do something they haven't done since Lebron James was
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: in the building.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: So this is huge for them.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: In the Knicks, they're rolling Jayalen brunts and they're finally
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: gonna get to the finals. Man, Like I feel like
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: that they've I think I think this would be the year.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the I just.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: O Gian and Obi his injury, the hamstring. Those aren't
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: fun to play with, so that's my concern. If he's healthy,
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: then I think, yes, they'll win this series and is
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: probably six games. But if he's not, I would expect
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: Cleveland to head back to the NBA Finals and take
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: on OKC.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: One more quick question before we get to hockey. If
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: you were to rank of the four teams left, rank
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: the best player from each team, So Sga, Wemby, Bronson, and.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Mitchell probably I think you just ranked it. You think
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: so in that order?
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, sgag over Wemby. Huh, Well, I don't care. You're
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: seven four. Sga is really there's a reason he won MVP.
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: I'm the best team. He is really good. It's not
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: a slight to Victor. SGA's just really balling out him. Now,
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: does he affect the game the way that win Miyama
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: does on both sides of the ball. Probably not, Because
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: when mien Yama seven to four and blocks any and everything,
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: if it's matters, So it does. But we're giving a
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: lot of credit to do that at seven four, Like, yeah,
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: but you should be averaging two blocks per game.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: That doesn't mean it's not good. It's just it doesn't.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: But I'm not going to discredit as a sure just
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: because he's short, not because he's short, just because he
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: doesn't have that athletic that length that you would love
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: to have. So that's my little two cents on that
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: you ranked it perfectly. Actually, yeah, and I know you
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: didn't do it.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: I did not. You're like, yeah, you knowed.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, I like that. Well, it's head to hockey.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: Let's update you. So you know, I've mentioned this, I
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: think last time that I hosted on the show.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: It's so weird.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: The hockey format is a little bit weird because Dallas
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: and Minnesota faced in the first round in the West,
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: and I think that if you were to rank, you know,
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: the best teams of the regular season, those are probably
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: two and three, Colorado being the best team, and then
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Dallas and Minnesota were probably two and three, And it
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: sucks that they had to face each other in.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: The first round.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: But the way the hockey format works, you have to
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: play your division first and then you get to play there.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: It's just weird.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: So Minnesota moves on and Dallas probably being the second
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: or third best team in the league is out in
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: the first round.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: It's just wild.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: And then Minnesota there, uh, you know, reward for beating
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: this the second or third best team in the league
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: is to play the first best team in the league
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: in Colorado in the second round, and Colorado kind of
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: wiped the floor with them a little bit, showed why
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: that they are the powerhouse in hockey right now. Nathan McKinnon,
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: Cale mccarr. Their goaltending is really good. They just have
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: the complete package. They have depth, they have high end scoring,
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: they have goaltending, they have a really good coach, they
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: have playoff pedigree, they've won a title in the last
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: five years, Like they're with the same cores and it's
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: they're really good. On the other hand, on the Pacific side,
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: Vegas out last Anaheim. Anaheim's kind of the feel good
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: story that you know, probably shouldn't have been in the
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: playoffs up until this point, or wasn't in the playoffs
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: until this year for the last few years. They kind
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: of They beat Edmonton, which was a little bit of
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: a surprise, and the best player in the world, Connor McDavid,
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: loses in the first round, but they lose to Vegas
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: four to two. Vegas Colorado is a very interesting series. Obviously,
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: Colorado is the upper hand. Like I said, they're the
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: best team in the league right now. Vegas is a
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: weird team because I think they have the talent to
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: play with Colorado. Their goaltending can be extremely in consistent
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: and their defense can be extremely inconsistent. So if they
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: if they have a really good version of themselves and
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: you know, uh their goaltender goes off a little bit,
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: I think they have a chance to push this to
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: seven games and possibly win this series. But I expect
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: Colorado to win that one. And on the other side
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: in the East, Carolina is the OKC of of of
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: hockey because I think they play a relatively boring like
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: way of hockey. Like people say, they've never they haven't
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: lost a game, and they have like a cheap owner
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: that everyone's rooting against Tom Dunnan, the same the same
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: owner as the Portland Trail Blazers, by the way, So
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: uh yeah, that's it's it's They still have not lost
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: a game, They've swept two straight series. They're in the
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: conference finals and the last team in that has yet
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: to be decided. Because we have a game seven tonight
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: to get to get to the Eastern Conference finals and
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: face the Carolina Hurricanes. Between Buffalo and Montreal, both these
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: teams are fun. Both these teams are young, they're like
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: you said, it'll probably a little bit ahead of schedule,
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  Speaker 2: so this is this is a super fun series. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: it's been just fights Central. They they've been clawing it
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  Speaker 2: literally everything. I'm excited for Game seven tonight. Buffalo had
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: the longest drought of any American sports league of not
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: making the playoffs, and they made it this year as
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: a one seed in the East, and they're they're hanging
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  Speaker 2: on for dear life here in Game seven against Montreal
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  Speaker 2: and they're playing at home, so that'll be a fun
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  Speaker 2: one for them to face Carolina. But in terms of
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  Speaker 2: how I kind of handicap all this going, you can't
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  Speaker 2: really bet against Carolina. I do think the other shoe
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: is gonna drop eventually. I don't think there as much
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: of a powerhouse as what you're saying about the Thunder
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  Speaker 2: because I compared those two. They obviously haven't lost, they
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: haven't played anyone. They played probably the two worst teams
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  Speaker 2: in the entire playoffs in the first two rounds. So
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  Speaker 2: Philadelphia and Ottawa, like they kind of were pretty lucky
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  Speaker 2: to even get there at that point. So I think
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  Speaker 2: whoever wins a Buffalo Montreal though obviously a little be
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: a little beat up because Carolina has been sitting there waiting,
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: but they've also and sitting there waiting, so Russ versus
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: Rest and all that stuff. But I think it's Colorado's
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  Speaker 2: cut to lose at this point. You know, we'll see
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  Speaker 2: what ends up happening there. They're a fun team to watch,
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  Speaker 2: and they just they have all the pieces and I
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: think they're the only team right now that I could say, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: maybe Carolina too, but they have a little bit of
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: higher end scoring that Carolina doesn't have. So any questions,
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  Speaker 2: Christopher Kidd.
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  Speaker 1: Nah man, you got me all caught up. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: My only question is maybe we could talk about this next?
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  Speaker 3: Is how big is this world not world series? This
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: series against the Chicago White Sox.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: Is it big at all? Is it irrelevant? Doesn't matter?
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: It's May eighteen, It's never irrelevant, but it's a borderline, okay,
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  Speaker 3: is it?
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  Speaker 1: Like for real? Think about it all? Right?
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: It's May eighteenth, this team is struggling. Yeah, is it
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: relevant now when we look back at it in September?
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: God dang it, Christian Mover, if you should, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it could be that, but I seriously doubt that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I think that's interesting discussion to have. Let's do it, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: fair enough.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's let's talk about how big is this series
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  Speaker 2: against the White Sox. Is it one of those where
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: you feel like you have to win the series or
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: is it one of those where it's like, yeah, it's
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: still May eighteenth, you know, it's not Memorial Day weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Yet we're not gonna hit the panic button, you know whatever. Well,
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: we'll talk about that next on Sports Ready on ninety
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  Speaker 2: three point three KJRFM. Welcome Back Sports Radio ninety three
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  Speaker 2: point three kJ r F M ten o'clock hour, myself,
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  Speaker 2: Anderson Hurst, Christopher Kidt filling in for.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Gregathon Bell. Is that his full name?
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: You think it is just Greg greg Yeah, there's two
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: g's in there, greg any Greg. I don't know what's
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: what's a full name for Greg Gregory? Gregory Gregory, that's there.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: I think it's Greg's okay, all right, Especially if it's
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: two g's, that kind of tells you it's like, hey,
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: it stops here, right.
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: He's spending most of this week in the East Coast,
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: and I did find out thanks to the text line
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: letting us know that New London, Connecticut is where the
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: Coast Guard Academy is located. His daughter is graduating from
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: that prestigious university, So congratulations to him. I'm excited for
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: him to experience that and he enjoy a couple days
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: off as well.
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  Speaker 1: Well.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: We talked about it a little bit at the end
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: of last segments. Christopher Kidd poised this corposed this question
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: to me regarding how big this series is for the
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: Seattle Marrigers against the Chicago White Sox. And you know,
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: I think you can look at it kind of two
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: different ways. You can look at it like, hey, it's
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: still pretty early in the season. Like I know, people
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: get so tired of hearing that, But it is such
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: a long season and your division is not very good.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: You're still just two games out, even after getting swept
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: over the weekend, you're in pretty good shape to just
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: if you can shread water. And this is the other
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: part that I can be somewhat positive on, if you
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: can tread water. While Brendan Donovan cal Rawly and we'll
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: see how long JP Crawford are out for then then
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: once those guys come back, you can make a run.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: But the other thing is you expect the other parts
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: of your roster to kind of, you know, carry those
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: guys and pick it up right. And you know, I
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: haven't been extremely disappointed with Julia Rodriguez's output so far
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: this year, but this is his moment now, with cal
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: Rawly going on the injury list for the first time
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: in his career, this is kind of his moment to
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: be like, hey, it's my turn to carry this offense, right,
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: And we've seen him do it before, but we need
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: it now.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: We need it in May.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: It's something that we haven't really said before with him
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: and Randy rose Arena, I feel like has been quietly
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: super consistent, especially offensively this year. We talked about Cole
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: Young a lot as well. There are players on this
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: team that can still carry your team, but you need
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: to do it now. So Chris, I'll ask you first,
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: how big is this series specifically against the White Sox.
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: I think in terms of where this team wants to go,
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: who they want to.
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: Be, Yeah, I think it's huge, really huge. You say huge,
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: I think it's huge for this team, not.
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  Speaker 3: For in terms of for the morale where they want
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: to be. I think it's that simple, where they are
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: who they think they should be. For them, not as
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: a fan stating oh it's a rap if they don't.
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: I think for them there's a little pressure added to
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: it because they're not happy with what they've put out
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: on the field.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what I'm looking at it from. I'm not
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: putting it on saying oh, yeah, they lose this series,
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: it's a rap. They're not winning anything. But I think
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: from their dvantage point, they're like, yeah, guys, we got
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: to wake up.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: We can't keep losing and losing and but oh yeah,
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: we'll figure.
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  Speaker 3: I think for them that it's important, and for me,
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: I would say it's not huge, but I think you
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: got to win this series. It's not a must win.
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: I'm not going to sit there and tell you that.
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: Obviously you want to win as many games as you can.
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: But at the same time, I don't think like, if
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: they lose this it's a rap.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think the kind of conversation you just
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: exposed there is something that a lot of baseball fans
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: have trouble understanding sometimes. Is you know this idea that
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: you can why doesn't every baseball team just you know,
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: have so much more urgency. Why don't they treat every
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: game like it's the World Series?
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Because there's one hundred thousand
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: of them, that's all why?
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: And okay, even say you have the most elite of
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: elite sports psychologists in your building and you treat every
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: game like that and you get your players to buy
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: in that every single game is like a World Series.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Well, if you.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: Do that, then that means when you lose some games,
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: which are bound to happen. The best teams in baseball
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: lose sixty plus games. The best teams in baseball lose
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: sixty plus games every single year. So when you lose
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: those games, it's the bottom can easily fall out because
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: you're putting so much pressure on yourself to win those
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: That's why the whole even keel conversation comes into play.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: Don't get too high, don't get too low. Even when
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: you're on a run, it's like, hey, we're just playing baseball.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: We're good. When you're in a slump, hey we're just
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: playing baseball. We're good. We'll get back to where we are.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: That is the kind of dichotomy of not putting too
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: much pressure on yourself. But there is a balance. I
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: do think that when you get in a run like
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: the Mariners are in right now, they need to kind
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: of get a little kick in the backside. So I'll
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: answer my own question, or Chris's question, actually, because he
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: was the one who kind of posed it. I think
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: this series, if nothing else, it's big because you need
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: to beat the White Sox because you lost to them
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: last week in their own home stadium, and you need
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: to kind of put the sour taste of this weekend
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: in the rear view mirror. Now we've done that the
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: last like three series. If you look at their overall,
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: you know, series record, they got swept by the Padres,
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: But previous to that, they won three out of four
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: against the Astros. Before that, you lose two out of
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: three to the White Sox. Before that, you win to
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: out of three against the Raves, who are the best
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: team in baseball. Before that, you lose two out of
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: three to the Royal. It's like, it's one step forward,
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: one step back for this team, right and there are
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: no and you got to you gotta get some sort
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: of momentum going here in May so and you do
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: see signs that this this team can take that next step,
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: but I need to see a little kick in the
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: backside to make sure that you can get that done.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: I'm right there with you.
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: Let's uh, let's get the thoughts of Chuck Powell. We're
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: gonna hear what he thinks, how much Dan Wilson has
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: to do with all this. You know what he thought
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: of Colt Emerson's debut yesterday, where he expects him to
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: play moving forward, where you have a lot to pick
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: the brain on with mister Chuck Powell. Coming up next
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: on Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ RFM,