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Chuck & Buck 6-11 Hour 2: 12th man news with Gregg Bell, Kyle Peterson from Omaha and World Cup fever. · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: Drilled out to right field, rarely turning gone.
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Speaker 2: Brand Slam Jackson Holiday, the Orioles blow it open into
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Speaker 2: seventh seven.
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Speaker 1: Nothing chuk about in the morning Sports Radio ninety three
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Speaker 1: point three KJRFM. We roll into the seven o'clock hour,
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Speaker 1: that drab highlight rather than an NBA Finals highlight.
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Speaker 2: I know, no, I know.
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Speaker 3: I thought about it was that hitting a bunch of
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Speaker 3: other audio, and I was like, oh, I gotta play
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Speaker 3: a highlight.
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Speaker 2: I better grab that one.
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Speaker 4: Uh.
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Speaker 1: The Mariners do lose seven to two to the Baltimore
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Speaker 1: Orioles tonight on a game they kind of left to
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Speaker 1: George Kirby to figure out, and then once they fell
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Speaker 1: behind three nothing in the sixth the it seemed to
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Speaker 1: me like the goal was to rest the bullpen and
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Speaker 1: not really come back and win the game last night,
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Speaker 1: which I suppose is fine. You got to do that
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Speaker 1: every once in a while, bigger picture kind of thing.
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Speaker 1: And so the Mariners do drop one of the Orioles
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Speaker 1: last night, seven to two. They are thirty six and
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Speaker 1: thirty three on the season. They've got one more in
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Speaker 1: Baltimore tonight at four o'clock, and it will be the
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Speaker 1: best pitching matchup of the entire series. Brian Wu for US,
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Speaker 1: Kyle Bradish will go for the Baltimore Orioles. Speaking of
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Speaker 1: baseball College World Series, we'll start to tomorrow. The NBA
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Speaker 1: Finals may have ended tonight last night, as the New
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Speaker 1: York Knicks came back from a twenty nine point deficit
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Speaker 1: a stunning second half at Madison Square Garden one oh seven,
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Speaker 1: one oh six, the Knicks win over the San Antonio
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Speaker 1: Spurs to take a three.
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Speaker 2: Games to one lead.
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Speaker 1: I can appreciate that everybody's calling it one of the
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Speaker 1: greatest comebacks in the history of sports. Certainly it was,
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Speaker 1: but kind of felt to me like it was more
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Speaker 1: of a collapse oak job. I hate using the word chokes,
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Speaker 1: choke job for sports, but when it applies, it applies.
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Speaker 1: And the Spurs choked that game away last night, and
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Speaker 1: they now trail three games to one in the series
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Speaker 1: as they lose to the Knicks. Game number five will
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Speaker 1: be played Saturday back in San Antonio. They will tip
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Speaker 1: that at five point thirty. Can't wait to hear Spencer
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Speaker 1: Hawes's thoughts coming up at eight o'clock here today, Seahawks
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Speaker 1: excuse me, and of course, the biggest story here today is.
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Speaker 2: The World Cup is here.
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Speaker 1: It is day number one of the twenty twenty six
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Speaker 1: World Cup, and of course Seattle has a slice of
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Speaker 1: that this year. So roll out the red carpet. Here
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Speaker 1: we go, beautiful day to get it started. Twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: six World Cup is here. We will have our World
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Speaker 1: Cup preview coming up today at nine o'clock on the show.
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Speaker 2: But right now, let's talk some Seahawks football.
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Speaker 1: It is a mandatory mini camp for the Seahawks this week,
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Speaker 1: so that means every day we chat with our Seahawks
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Speaker 1: insider Reg Bell is what this on the radio show?
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Speaker 5: Hi?
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Speaker 2: Greg, Hi, good morning, Good morning. How excited are you
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Speaker 2: for World Cup?
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Speaker 6: By the way, I am, It's it's one of them,
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Speaker 6: It is not one of It's the world's biggest sporting event,
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Speaker 6: and most people in the world watch it. I'm kind
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Speaker 6: of a soccer guy. Both my kids played decently high
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Speaker 6: level all the way into their college years, and some
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Speaker 6: played colleed soccer. He's soccer official, He's still pretty involved
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Speaker 6: in it. So yeah, I an appreciation for the game
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Speaker 6: for sure. I'm not one of those as are I
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Speaker 6: think Spain's gonna win it all.
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Speaker 2: You already got you already got your pick in there.
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Speaker 2: How much do you think you will watch? I mean
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Speaker 2: how much time?
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Speaker 5: Will?
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Speaker 1: I mean you're when Greg Bell gets a chance, he
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Speaker 1: goes and hikes a mountain whenever he possibly can. So
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Speaker 1: will it invade your weekends? Will you make sure that
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Speaker 1: you're watching World Cup action every day? Is that the
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Speaker 1: type of World Cup fan you might be?
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Speaker 6: Most days? I'm going to be covering all the Seattle
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Speaker 6: games for the News Tribune and I'll be writing a
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Speaker 6: lot of it will be seen, but I'm writing a
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Speaker 6: bona fide game story. It's like I'm going to cover
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Speaker 6: a Seahawk game when the US and Australia play here
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Speaker 6: in the nineteenth a week from tomorrow, videos in the
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Speaker 6: field and the whole thing, and then yeah, if I'm
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Speaker 6: not doing anything else, I'll watch. But I don't think
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Speaker 6: I'll stop doing something or going out or enjoying this
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Speaker 6: eighty five degree weather just to watch the soccer game.
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Speaker 6: But I haven't even seen the setup downtown of the barge,
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Speaker 6: and I hear people call it the bro barge if
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Speaker 6: it's a bar or what it is off the Elliott Bay.
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Speaker 6: I haven't seen the whole setup in Seattley I'm kind
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Speaker 6: of curious to see that too.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, pretty fascinating, no question about it. So all right,
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Speaker 1: well it gets started today and Greg Bell's ready, just
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Speaker 1: like the rest of you are ready. All right, let's
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Speaker 1: talk some Seahawks football. And so what was the headline
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Speaker 1: then as you start today?
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Speaker 2: What's the headline at Seahawk's camp right now?
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Speaker 6: Well, from a football perspective, it was that Mike McDonald
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Speaker 6: gave updates on Zach Charbonnay and Kenny McIntosh and Tory
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Speaker 6: Horton's injuries. And from an overall perspective of what Mike
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Speaker 6: McDonald's trying to do, it's that he continues to keep
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Speaker 6: these guys bigger than themselves. He keeps the team bigger
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Speaker 6: than itself, and that's saying something for Super Bowl champions
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Speaker 6: in the NFL at the height of their profession. But
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Speaker 6: he kept practice short after just an hour had he
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Speaker 6: changed the plan and had him just in T shirts indoors.
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Speaker 6: He calls the act practice where it's basically just a
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Speaker 6: I mean, it makes walk through his look like sprints there.
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Speaker 6: They don't do much at all, but just go through
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Speaker 6: the plays at walking pace. And then he packed everybody
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Speaker 6: up and spread him across Seattle to volunteer at Seattle
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Speaker 6: Children's Hospital. They showed up, but they should have the
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Speaker 6: hospital on Beacon Hill. They showed up at Doug Baldwin's
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Speaker 6: Family First Community Center where the teams go after school
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Speaker 6: done and Renton and the Ronald McDonald House, which is
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Speaker 6: one of the most fascinatingly charitable and heartwarming places in
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Speaker 6: the city. And he just had the players be with
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Speaker 6: those kids and those people at those places for the day.
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Speaker 6: He just pretty much canceled and cut short the mini
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Speaker 6: camp practice. So they're going to have what was supposed
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Speaker 6: to be yesterday's practice this morning, and then they're going
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Speaker 6: to have what was supposed to be today's practice this afternoon,
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Speaker 6: and that'll be the end of the offseason. He continues.
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Speaker 6: Mike McDonald as a first time coach, I've done this
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Speaker 6: for twenty some years. I haven't really seen a coach
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Speaker 6: be this innovative, this mix of hard ass and players
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Speaker 6: first and just worldly and beyond just the football, but
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Speaker 6: to develop men and life, life skills and remind these
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Speaker 6: guys that they're bigger, that this whole thing they're in
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Speaker 6: as bigger than the sport they play. It it's really
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Speaker 6: fascinating for me. I've mentioned before, I went to a
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Speaker 6: leadership academy West Point that studies this stuff, and his
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Speaker 6: combination of leadership in the sports realm is really unique.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I love it.
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Speaker 1: And if the team goes one in sixteen this year,
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Speaker 1: I'm still going to Lovemike McDonald. But when he is
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Speaker 1: trying to do things differently, when it does stand out
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Speaker 1: to somebody that has covered the National Football League for
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Speaker 1: as long as you have, that it's different. And if
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Speaker 1: there is a slide next year, do you think that
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Speaker 1: opens him up for criticism that he tried to.
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Speaker 2: Recreate the way you defend.
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Speaker 1: The title versus, you know, leaning back on everything all
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Speaker 1: past champions have done.
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Speaker 6: Sure it would, because that's our society. Everyone that's is
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Speaker 6: going to sit from some on chair up on high
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Speaker 6: and criticize somebody who doesn't succeed and why they didn't succeed,
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Speaker 6: and they'll tear him apart and say that he failed
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Speaker 6: and got too involved in everything but the football, and
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Speaker 6: they don't know I mean it is. He's not about
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Speaker 6: just the football. And that's what makes him fascinating because
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Speaker 6: he is so much football. He's a nerd he says
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Speaker 6: that I'm a football nerd. He loves doing the x's
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Speaker 6: and o's and the iPad and the film study and
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Speaker 6: the schemes and talking about over and under fronts, and
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Speaker 6: he loves it. That's what he loves the most. But
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Speaker 6: it doesn't define him and it certainly doesn't define how
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Speaker 6: he leads and coaches the players. And that's what makes
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Speaker 6: it such a fascinating I've coached, I've covered a ton,
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Speaker 6: and I've been coached by, and I've even coached some
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Speaker 6: who are so into the sport itself and are nerds too,
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Speaker 6: or are heart asses and very transactional leadership. As we
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Speaker 6: study leadership, there's transactional leadership and the opposite, and that
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Speaker 6: is just basically Bill Belichick Vince Lombardi barking, screaming you
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Speaker 6: do it my way, or you don't play and you
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Speaker 6: don't see the field, and complete compliance out of sheer force.
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Speaker 6: The opposite of that is transformational leadership, where you invest
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Speaker 6: in those of your leading and you get buy in
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Speaker 6: because you include them in the decision making and that
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Speaker 6: you explain and that you do this huge investment on
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Speaker 6: everything on top of the task you're supposed to do.
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Speaker 6: In your job. That's what Mike McDonald is. And for instance,
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Speaker 6: he does walk in talks. He has in one of those.
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Speaker 6: He has started as individual players and now it's groups
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Speaker 6: of players. And he explained to me yesterday that these
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Speaker 6: tweaked this different ways. But they spend time at the facility,
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Speaker 6: usually in the mornings, between practices or after meetings, in
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Speaker 6: groups of small groups two or three players and assistant coach.
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Speaker 6: They just walk around the facility and talk about the
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Speaker 6: players why and the coaches why or how they got here,
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Speaker 6: or motive, what's their favorite thing of life, or what
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Speaker 6: makes them smile in the morning, or what their kids
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Speaker 6: are doing. Anything and everything, including football they talk about.
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Speaker 6: They invest a lot of their time. There are a
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Speaker 6: lot of coaches who would rather use that time looking
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Speaker 6: at what the latest offensive techniques of Sean McVay are,
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Speaker 6: but McDonald has time for that too, But he invests
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Speaker 6: his time in the person. A lot of the team
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Speaker 6: meetings the Seahawks have had in the last month or year,
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Speaker 6: excuse me, in the last twelve months, group meetings, position meetings, team,
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Speaker 6: entire team meetings have been randomly pulling guys out of
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Speaker 6: the seats and saying tell us your why, tell us
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Speaker 6: how you got here. And guys that bared their souls
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Speaker 6: in front of their whole team, or maybe they're just
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Speaker 6: their defense or maybe just their position, and guys love
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Speaker 6: each other because of it, and they can't believe some
11:04
Speaker 6: of the stories that they've heard of guys who were homeless,
11:06
Speaker 6: or guys who lost a parent, or guys who have
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Speaker 6: overcome all kinds of things to get here, because everyone's
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Speaker 6: got a story, that everyone has a something to this day.
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Speaker 6: It's just I could go on forever about how fascinating
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Speaker 6: covering the entire aspect of Mike McDonald is, and yesterday
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Speaker 6: was a piece of that.
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Speaker 1: Greg Bell is with us our Seahawks Insider. It can
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Speaker 1: of course follow us coverage of Mini camp there at
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Speaker 1: the News Tribune dot com and follow him on x
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Speaker 1: at g Bell Seattle.
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Speaker 2: Well, let's talk about something about that's on.
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Speaker 1: The field, because yesterday we did our Seahawks one series
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Speaker 1: we did with Dick Fane and he chose Tory Horton
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Speaker 1: to break down and we ended up in a conversation
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Speaker 1: about where does Tory Horton kind of fit with this group?
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Speaker 1: I'm kind of expecting them to use more double tight
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Speaker 1: end this year. I'm expecting Robbie Oots to.
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Speaker 2: Play a role at full this year.
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Speaker 1: Well, if you're going to showcase that more frequently, and
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Speaker 1: maybe they're not, you tell me, then that sounds like
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Speaker 1: you're going to go a lot more too receiver sets
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Speaker 1: than maybe we've traditionally seen over the course of the
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Speaker 1: last decades. So as you're trying to figure out the
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Speaker 1: hierarchy at the wide receiver JSNS number one, how does
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Speaker 1: the rest of it fit? And how often do you
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Speaker 1: see Brian Florey using three, four, five receiver sets?
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Speaker 6: I still think quite a lot because the sport, the league,
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Speaker 6: the game today is creating mismatches by use of multiple
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Speaker 6: receiver formations, and that offensive coaches think, the deeper you
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Speaker 6: get into someone's secondary you put three wide receivers on
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Speaker 6: the field, they're going to counter with four or five
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Speaker 6: defensive back. You put four or five wide receivers on
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Speaker 6: the field, they're going to counter with six, sometimes even
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Speaker 6: seven defensive back. Basically, the offensive coaches think, the deeper
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Speaker 6: we get into your pool of defensive we're going to
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Speaker 6: find a mismatch among one of those six or seven
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Speaker 6: defensive backs because your sixth or seventh defensive back isn't
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Speaker 6: nearly as good as your first. And we're going to
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Speaker 6: say that your third or fourth wide, our third or
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Speaker 6: fourth wide receiver is going to beat your fifth or
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Speaker 6: sixth or seventh defensive back. That in a nutshell, very
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Speaker 6: simplififying why the proliferation of spread offenses and a lot
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Speaker 6: of multiple wide receivers and Brian Fleury is still going
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Speaker 6: to do that, Kyle Shanahan still does that in San Francisco,
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Speaker 6: that Fleury was steeped in and why the Seahawks got
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Speaker 6: Fleury as doc. But your point's a good one about
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Speaker 6: multiple tight ends and use of two back. Mcgona actually
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Speaker 6: alluded to this a little bit talking about Robbie Hoots
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Speaker 6: in the second year the fullback and how they're going
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Speaker 6: to use him not just in eye formation, and that
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Speaker 6: they're going to use offset eyes and they're going to
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Speaker 6: use Oots as a wing but have a second fullback
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Speaker 6: on the field doing different things. Slip motion right before
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Speaker 6: the snap. I'm seeing a lot of slip motion in
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Speaker 6: these offseason practices, meaning one or two or three step
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Speaker 6: motions right before the snap to create a leverage advantage
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Speaker 6: right at the snap and after it that's what Sean
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Speaker 6: McVay does with the Rams a lot. Having said all
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Speaker 6: of that, it's Smith and Jagob number one de offensive
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Speaker 6: player of the year in the All Pro. Cooper Cup
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Speaker 6: is still probably number two to me because of the
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Speaker 6: trust factor that the entire offense, the coaching staff and
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Speaker 6: Sam Donald has and a guy is steeped and has accomplished,
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Speaker 6: as Cup is. And then you start getting to the
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Speaker 6: fact that they just spent fifty one million dollars on
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Speaker 6: Rashid Shahed. Yes, it's the return kicks, but also they
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Speaker 6: won him burning down the field, and Shaheed is much
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Speaker 6: more involved already and much smoother in the offense and
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Speaker 6: sinking with Donald than he was anytime last year because
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Speaker 6: he came in midstream at the end of October. So
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Speaker 6: where does that leave Horton. Well, they envision Horton and
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Speaker 6: Shahed on the field at the same time to give
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Speaker 6: defenses a speed problem, thinking you're not going to have
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Speaker 6: two guys who can your defensive secondary who can run
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Speaker 6: as fast as Horton and Shaheed can't. So now you're
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Speaker 6: talking four wide receivers all of a sudden, which is
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Speaker 6: why I think they're going to go They're not just
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Speaker 6: going to exclusively two back, two tight end, two wide
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Speaker 6: receivers because of the need to want to stretch defenses out.
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Speaker 6: It's a long way of saying they do have big
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Speaker 6: plans for Horton. They've barely seen any of them yet,
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Speaker 6: and when they got Shaheed, after Horton started getting better,
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Speaker 6: Uh huh, we could actually have something with both of
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Speaker 6: these guys now instead of one Shaheed replacing the other
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Speaker 6: as the same type of player, they are more multiple,
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Speaker 6: they are more varied, they're more weaponized now that Horton
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Speaker 6: is coming back. The latest yesterday that McDonald said was
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Speaker 6: they believe he could be back either at the start
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Speaker 6: of or the first days of training camp. So he
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Speaker 6: may start on the pup list, but you can come
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Speaker 6: off the pup list any time physically able to perform,
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Speaker 6: if you can come off of that, anytime early in
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Speaker 6: training camp or any time during training camp. And that
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Speaker 6: might be Horton's situation.
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Speaker 2: And I'm going to say that.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to say that for tomorrow because that's probably
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Speaker 1: going to be like a five to six minute conversation
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Speaker 1: with you.
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Speaker 2: So, uh, well, we'll end it right there.
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Speaker 6: Well, let me let me I buried the lead. Excuse me,
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Speaker 6: let me let me do say that. He did say
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Speaker 6: about Zach Charbonay that yes, he's ahead of schedule, which
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Speaker 6: is what everyone expected in the building, Zack Sharbonay to
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Speaker 6: be because of how hard he works. He I asked him,
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Speaker 6: is there a chance he plays week one? And he
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Speaker 6: kind of was coy and smiled and said, well, everything's possible.
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Speaker 6: I think that's still way outside the realm of possibility,
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Speaker 6: and I don't think they're expecting it. But Kenny McIntosh
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Speaker 6: is more of a mad answer. I wrote the story
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Speaker 6: of the news tribute this morning with that description of it.
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Speaker 6: Maybe he comes back at the start of training camp,
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Speaker 6: he said, you'll see what we do with him, meaning
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Speaker 6: roster wise, at the start of camp. But I think
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Speaker 6: he's going to start on an injured list. It's still
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Speaker 6: fuzzy on when he's going to come back. He's now
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Speaker 6: eleven months out from his knee injury and reconstruction, so
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Speaker 6: those two knee ACL tears are not the same, and
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Speaker 6: it seems based on timeline and recovery in the fact,
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Speaker 6: I haven't seen McIntosh on any field that he's behind
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Speaker 6: in some ways, not in time, but in progress. And
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Speaker 6: trajectory seems to be behind sharbon in some ways.
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Speaker 2: So McIntosh is the Horton is the positive and Sharbona
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Speaker 2: is the woe.
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Speaker 6: That's correct. Thank you, Okay, reading, all right, thank you
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Speaker 6: for reading and perceiving. Appreciate that.
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Speaker 5: Jack.
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Speaker 1: Well, if you want to read the entire article, we
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Speaker 1: heard you to do so out there and you can
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Speaker 1: find it at the Newstribune dot com. All right, man, Well,
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Speaker 1: we will see you here in a little bit, or
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Speaker 1: actually maybe we won't see you today.
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Speaker 2: We'll hear you at ten o'clock today.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I've be done at sea course. Thanks all right.
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Speaker 2: Of the year.
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Speaker 1: The College World Series is going to start on Friday,
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Speaker 1: and we have to talk to the face of the
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Speaker 1: College World Series, Kyle Peterson, our friend Sports Radio ninety
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Speaker 1: three point three KJRFM. We're in Seattle, obviously, and a big,
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Speaker 1: big day starts in Omaha, Nebraska tomorrow with the College.
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Speaker 2: World Series getting underway. Apparently we're going to sid a lot.
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Speaker 1: Of world issues here over the course of the next
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Speaker 1: month in the sports world, a World Cup, a World Series,
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Speaker 1: a World Championship, in the NBA Stanley Cup. I guess
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Speaker 1: they're going to claim to be on top of the world.
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Speaker 1: So apparently a lot of world issues are going to
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Speaker 1: be resolved here over the course of the next month
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Speaker 1: or so. A lot of bragging rights are going to
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Speaker 1: be held worldwide, no question about it. But in Omaha,
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Speaker 1: the face of Kyle Peterson. It is the last person
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Speaker 1: they think about before they go to sleep at night.
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Speaker 1: It's the first person they think about in Omaha, Nebraska
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Speaker 1: when they wake up in the morning. They thank God
19:12
Speaker 1: every day for Kyle Peterson, and he joins us here
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Speaker 1: on the program the face of the College World Series,
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Speaker 1: as he does every year.
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Speaker 2: It's an annual tradition. How are you, sir?
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Speaker 5: What a disaster this city must be if they're thinking
19:25
Speaker 5: about me before they go to Beth. But good man,
19:29
Speaker 5: I'm just pulling in a downtown Oh boy, it's overcast
19:32
Speaker 5: and feels like a Seattle day. It's like seventy one
19:35
Speaker 5: degrees and we don't get that feeling this time. You're
19:38
Speaker 5: very off right. I'm pretty good.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, good good? Does Omaha are they even? Are they
19:43
Speaker 1: even aware that the World Cup is going on? I
19:45
Speaker 1: mean their biggest party, annual party, is getting ready to
19:49
Speaker 1: be thrown starting tomorrow. So is there even any aware?
19:53
Speaker 1: Will there be a soccer game anywhere in Omaha, Nebraska
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Speaker 1: over the course of the next couple of weeks.
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Speaker 5: There's probably a few bars that are aware of it
20:03
Speaker 5: outside of that. Now, No, this is I mean, my
20:07
Speaker 5: daughter played high school soccer, so I actually do like
20:10
Speaker 5: the sport. But no, this if you're looking for if
20:16
Speaker 5: you're looking for people to talk about the World Cup,
20:18
Speaker 5: I wouldn't come here this week.
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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Good to know Kyle Peterson is with us.
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Speaker 1: It's our annual tradition. Usually Bucky's here, he's Kyle's buddy.
20:27
Speaker 1: But yeah, he's out for a little while, but I'm
20:29
Speaker 1: sure he'd liked.
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Speaker 2: To be here.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, tell me, buddy, Hike.
20:34
Speaker 2: I will do.
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Speaker 5: Tell my buddy eye. Let hear it from all right, all.
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Speaker 1: Right, good Kyle Peterson to talk College World Series. So
20:40
Speaker 1: let's get into the actual tournament itself. I mean, I
20:44
Speaker 1: think I think it was a bit disappointing. I kind
20:47
Speaker 1: of wanted to see Rock Chelaski and UCLA on this stage.
20:52
Speaker 1: I wanted to see that Georgia Tech team with all
20:54
Speaker 1: of its you know, major league talent that I heard
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Speaker 1: discussed for so long this this season. And yet the
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Speaker 1: top two teams aren't there, the top couple players aren't there.
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Speaker 2: So what do we make of the World Series field?
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Speaker 1: Do we still feel like we have a great College
21:11
Speaker 1: World Series field without some of the best, biggest names
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Speaker 1: and teams in it?
21:17
Speaker 5: Oh? Yeah, yeah, because I mean we still do. We
21:20
Speaker 5: still got some dudes. I mean, Daniel Jackson from Georgia
21:26
Speaker 5: should win the Golden Spikes, which is our heisman. He
21:30
Speaker 5: is here, He's got a chance to be the first
21:31
Speaker 5: player in the history of college baseball. To go thirty
21:34
Speaker 5: home runs, thirty stolen bases, that's a big deal. I mean,
21:37
Speaker 5: any time you get a chance to do something nobody
21:39
Speaker 5: else is down in the history of the sport, that's
21:42
Speaker 5: pretty cool. And he's a catcher, which is crazy. And
21:46
Speaker 5: now many Texas in the opening round and they'll get
21:49
Speaker 5: Dylan valanis the left hander that is a big leaguer.
21:52
Speaker 5: He's just a sophomore, but two combined years in college baseball.
21:55
Speaker 5: He's got an ERA below two, which is crazy, and
21:59
Speaker 5: he's going to face the best offense in the country.
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Speaker 5: And it could be an inch, it could be a
22:03
Speaker 5: week to where it's it's the ballpark actually plays a
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Speaker 5: little bit smaller than we're used to usually wins howling
22:10
Speaker 5: in when it's warm, and it's actually opposite. I mean,
22:13
Speaker 5: I'm pulling in next to the ballpark right now. The
22:15
Speaker 5: wind's blown out today, which doesn't happen. So it could
22:19
Speaker 5: set up for the more offensive teams. So you're Georgia
22:22
Speaker 5: will miss uh to maybe like the ballpark a little
22:25
Speaker 5: bit more. But yet, I mean, long answer your question,
22:27
Speaker 5: But we got we got plenty of stars, all right.
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Speaker 1: They also have a clear cut Cinderella as well in Troy,
22:35
Speaker 1: And are they there to make noise? Do you think
22:39
Speaker 1: do they have a chance to do you know, some
22:42
Speaker 1: butler things like we did in college basketball a few
22:45
Speaker 1: years ago, or is this just what a great ride
22:49
Speaker 1: to the World Series for little Troy.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think they got a chance win a couple
22:56
Speaker 5: of games. It's it's uh, you know, they open with
22:59
Speaker 5: West Virginia and it's the first time in forty years
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Speaker 5: that we've had an opening round game with two teams
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Speaker 5: that have never been here, which is super cool. I mean,
23:08
Speaker 5: I think that's just for the sport in general. So
23:12
Speaker 5: for one of the teams that's never been here, be
23:14
Speaker 5: at West Virginia or Troy, not only are they gonna
23:18
Speaker 5: get here for the first time, but they're gonna they're
23:20
Speaker 5: gonna win their first game at Omar. But yeah, I
23:23
Speaker 5: mean Troy went, I mean listen and beat Florida twice
23:27
Speaker 5: at Florida, and I thought Florida had the you know,
23:29
Speaker 5: the fire Pirate actually win the whole thing and they
23:33
Speaker 5: had to come out of loser's bracket beat Florida twice.
23:35
Speaker 5: They did, So they're plenty good to win a game
23:39
Speaker 5: or two here. It would shock me if you know,
23:42
Speaker 5: if we're talking in a week talking about the finals,
23:45
Speaker 5: if Troy is one of those two teams there, but
23:47
Speaker 5: they got a real chance. I think Wes Virginia does too.
23:50
Speaker 5: That opening round game, which'll it'll be the first game tomorrow,
23:53
Speaker 5: it's super cool. It's crazy. So it's the first time
23:55
Speaker 5: in forty years two teams that haven't been here meet
23:59
Speaker 5: the first round. And the last that happened, one of
24:02
Speaker 5: those teams was LSU. And we know what LSU did
24:06
Speaker 5: that sense, I mean, they've won paid national championships. But
24:10
Speaker 5: still it's cool to see the game growing there is
24:13
Speaker 5: The scenes in West Virginia were absurd. Yeah, I mean
24:17
Speaker 5: that Country Roads thing took out all social media over
24:20
Speaker 5: which is great for us as sport. People could see
24:23
Speaker 5: what it looks like on campus and everybody was setting
24:25
Speaker 5: the tens records and I have a feeling that will
24:28
Speaker 5: probably set some records again here this.
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Speaker 1: Week at Troy, West Virginia, Ole, Miss North Carolina tomorrow
24:33
Speaker 1: and then Saturday Oklahoma, Alabama and Texas and Georgia. A
24:38
Speaker 1: lot of SEC in there, and so maybe Kyle the
24:42
Speaker 1: SEC is not the king of college football any longer.
24:45
Speaker 1: And yet they seem to be the definitive king of
24:49
Speaker 1: college baseball.
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Speaker 5: Well, when you've had a team play for the national
24:55
Speaker 5: championship being the final sixteen to the last seventeen years,
24:57
Speaker 5: that's pretty loud. Nobody's ever had five No conference has
25:02
Speaker 5: ever had five teams here until this year in the
25:04
Speaker 5: SEC has done that. So and one side of the
25:06
Speaker 5: bracket is all SEC. Yeah, so the are guarantee that
25:10
Speaker 5: another team in the finals. It is the most complete
25:13
Speaker 5: league in college baseball. And it's not debatable. And if
25:17
Speaker 5: it wasn't before this, now, is there somebody who can
25:19
Speaker 5: beat them? Sure? Absolutely, North Carolina's loaded, West Virginia I
25:23
Speaker 5: think can make a real run. Those are teams on
25:26
Speaker 5: the other side that I think could potentially get to
25:28
Speaker 5: the finals that are not all US. But still there's
25:32
Speaker 5: no there's no league that commits to the sport more.
25:36
Speaker 5: There's no set of I would say, you know, collective
25:40
Speaker 5: fan bases that cares about the sport more. And there's
25:43
Speaker 5: a reason why, there's a reason why they lift the
25:46
Speaker 5: trophy more than anybody else.
25:47
Speaker 1: They care mm hmm, and they travel as well. And
25:50
Speaker 1: I would imagine North Carolina will and West Virginia will,
25:53
Speaker 1: and I would imagine Troy Will. I mean, is there
25:56
Speaker 1: a is there a hotel room available?
25:59
Speaker 2: And in the state of Nebraska this weekend.
26:03
Speaker 5: There ain't many and if you can get one, it's
26:05
Speaker 5: not free. But the McAfee's here is going to be here.
26:09
Speaker 5: He's doing his show from here with with his ties
26:13
Speaker 5: to West Virginia, and you know that just makes it
26:14
Speaker 5: more of a madhouse. So yeah, I mean, if you're
26:17
Speaker 5: looking to save money, this probably isn't the week to
26:19
Speaker 5: come to town. But if you're looking to see stuff
26:23
Speaker 5: that you know that you talk about for the rest
26:26
Speaker 5: of your life. And we talk about this every year,
26:28
Speaker 5: like it always, it goes over Fathership and my dad
26:33
Speaker 5: can't get to the ballpark anymore. He'll be watching. But
26:36
Speaker 5: the number of fathers and sons that you see around
26:38
Speaker 5: the ballpark at the ballpark that day that stop in and say, hey,
26:42
Speaker 5: you know, this is something we've wanted to do our
26:44
Speaker 5: whole life, and this is a year that we picked it.
26:45
Speaker 5: And it's just I mean, I'm way biased to admit
26:49
Speaker 5: it every year, but I think it's it's one of
26:51
Speaker 5: the great sporting events in the country.
26:53
Speaker 1: Yeah, with all that SEC and particularly West Virginia, there
26:56
Speaker 1: won't be a beer in Omaha that won't be drunk
26:58
Speaker 1: this weekend either. Well's Virginia knows how to tie it on.
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Speaker 1: All right, So do you have a favorite? Not necessarily
27:07
Speaker 1: like a personal favorite, but the team you think is
27:09
Speaker 1: going to be the most difficult to defeat in this format.
27:15
Speaker 5: I think I'd take Texas. Maybe I'd take the winner
27:18
Speaker 5: of the Texas Georgia game to start it. But Texas
27:23
Speaker 5: is playing as well as they have played all year.
27:27
Speaker 5: They've got, for my money, the best arm of the
27:30
Speaker 5: country that's still left throwing game one against the best offense.
27:34
Speaker 5: I mean it sets up Saturday night. It's going to
27:36
Speaker 5: be obscenely good that Texas Georgia game. But I think
27:40
Speaker 5: the winner of that one, for me, is probably best
27:44
Speaker 5: suited to win the whole thing. But that doesn't always
27:49
Speaker 5: happen here, and ballpark effects is going to make a
27:52
Speaker 5: difference that the winds blown out that definitely benefits Georgia
27:55
Speaker 5: and Ole Miss two teams that are I would say
27:57
Speaker 5: the most offensive that are here. Uh, but die, I don't.
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Speaker 5: I don't think we had a clear cut trvor even
28:04
Speaker 5: though you see La ran the table went you know,
28:07
Speaker 5: coast to Coast, a number one team in the country.
28:08
Speaker 5: I still don't think they were a favorite necessarily to
28:12
Speaker 5: come here and win it. I don't know that we
28:14
Speaker 5: have an overwhelming favorite here. But what I do know
28:17
Speaker 5: is is you're gonna you're gonna see dudes over the
28:19
Speaker 5: next two weeks, that you're going to see the Big
28:20
Speaker 5: Leakes in the next two years. And it's it's a
28:24
Speaker 5: great way for the country, honestly, to see the next
28:28
Speaker 5: group of guys are going to play in the Big Leaks.
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Speaker 1: Well, have a blast, I know you will, and we
28:33
Speaker 1: thank you. I know you're very busy. I appreciate the
28:36
Speaker 1: time you take for us every year.
28:37
Speaker 2: To do this.
28:39
Speaker 5: I look forward to it over here. Tell me my
28:40
Speaker 5: buddy hi, please, man. I'll hit him afterwards, but I
28:43
Speaker 5: always look forward to hearing his voice too. So good
28:45
Speaker 5: talking in Chuck, I'll talking any year, all right.
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Speaker 1: Kyle Peterson joining us right here on Chuck and Buck
28:50
Speaker 1: in the morning. Coming up next though, pretty big day
28:52
Speaker 1: around here. They might be deciding a world series in Omaha,
28:56
Speaker 1: in Nebraska, but here in Seattle, we're going to help
28:58
Speaker 1: decide a world Sports Radio ninety three point three kh
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Speaker 2: Starves up, footballers, there you go.
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Speaker 3: Now you sound like a real soccer dude.
29:18
Speaker 2: It just get your crap ready.
29:20
Speaker 3: Get your crap ready, and your scarves up.
29:22
Speaker 2: Yep, You've been waiting for this for a long time.
29:25
Speaker 2: I've been waiting for this my whole life.
29:27
Speaker 4: That's right, World keep coming to our town. You know what,
29:30
Speaker 4: soccer fans, you're five feet nothing, one hundred and nothing.
29:35
Speaker 4: You went toe to toe with the biggest sports fans
29:37
Speaker 4: in the world. That's right.
29:39
Speaker 2: I've been waiting for this my old life.
29:43
Speaker 1: It is Chuck and it is Ashley with you. And yes,
29:47
Speaker 1: the World Cup is here. A beautiful sunshiny day to
29:50
Speaker 1: welcome the World Cup to Seattle. It gets started tonight again.
29:55
Speaker 1: I'm not going to try to pretend to be some
29:57
Speaker 1: sort of soccer expert here over the course of the month,
29:59
Speaker 1: not even really that big a fan of the sport.
30:02
Speaker 1: But nonetheless I do want all you footballers to just
30:05
Speaker 1: have a ball, just have the time of your life.
30:07
Speaker 1: And this is your Christmas. I hope you get everything
30:09
Speaker 1: you want out of the from underneath the tree, so
30:13
Speaker 1: good luck to you on that front.
30:15
Speaker 2: I will say this. We have Brad Evans on yesterday
30:19
Speaker 2: and this is this sort of it, Like I grew up.
30:22
Speaker 1: With baseball, and I grew up with basketball, and I
30:25
Speaker 1: grew up with football, and so it's just I'm just
30:27
Speaker 1: ingrained in those sports. I mean, just studying them, watching them,
30:32
Speaker 1: enjoying them my entire life. Hockey was something that I
30:37
Speaker 1: didn't really watch a ton of as a kid and
30:41
Speaker 1: had a hard time getting into it from a national
30:44
Speaker 1: perspective or even a local perspective. For the longest time,
30:47
Speaker 1: I haven't worked in Phoenix, but it was hard for
30:49
Speaker 1: me to even talk about the Coyotes. I obviously have
30:51
Speaker 1: gotten more into it with the Kraken because I got
30:55
Speaker 1: to be in on the ground floor to watch an
30:57
Speaker 1: organization come together.
30:58
Speaker 2: I got feels like you're a part of it. Yeah,
31:00
Speaker 2: I mean I've been.
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Speaker 1: I've been along with every step of the process, and
31:03
Speaker 1: now you know, we're family members with them as the flagship.
31:07
Speaker 1: And I will tell you what really surprised me in
31:10
Speaker 1: learning more and more about hockey from our experts here
31:13
Speaker 1: over the course of the last few years, is just
31:16
Speaker 1: how important like one guy is one guy like to
31:19
Speaker 1: have one of those Connor McDavid types, or one of
31:22
Speaker 1: those Cale mccars or Nathan McKennon types and how much
31:27
Speaker 1: that lifts all players on the roster. I would not
31:31
Speaker 1: have thought that in the and being a novice kind
31:35
Speaker 1: of hockey fan and watching the Saint Louis Blues when
31:38
Speaker 1: I was younger. I knew that Oates and Hole were
31:40
Speaker 1: amazing a great eighties band too, But I knew that
31:45
Speaker 1: they were amazing, but I didn't realize just the significance
31:49
Speaker 1: that one hockey. To me, it looked like a sport
31:51
Speaker 1: where you're like, man, this was really a team sport.
31:53
Speaker 1: I didn't realize like the.
31:55
Speaker 2: One guy can elevate everything else.
31:58
Speaker 1: Until yesterday, I had zero idea that a soccer guy
32:03
Speaker 1: could have. I mean, you watch soccer, Yeah, don't you think.
32:07
Speaker 1: I mean, it's like a big giant game of keep away? Yeah,
32:10
Speaker 1: And to me, it's like it looks it looks like,
32:14
Speaker 1: on its face, the sport where one guy could have
32:17
Speaker 1: the least amount of impactage and you.
32:19
Speaker 3: Just want to put together the group of good, solid
32:22
Speaker 3: guys that all play well together.
32:23
Speaker 1: Yeah, who collectively plays the best keep away in the world. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: with their feet right. You know, That's kind of what
32:30
Speaker 1: it was to me. So then we have Brad Evans
32:32
Speaker 1: on and I guess I should have, I mean been
32:34
Speaker 1: piecing this together. I mean, if you watch Ted Lasso,
32:37
Speaker 1: you know what kind of a difference that guy made
32:39
Speaker 1: at the very end, true, and he was based off
32:41
Speaker 1: of Messi, and then we watched Messi and what kind
32:44
Speaker 1: of effect he had on the worst team in the
32:46
Speaker 1: MLS that suddenly overnight became the best team arguably in
32:50
Speaker 1: the MLS. So I guess I should have put together
32:52
Speaker 1: that evidence. But for Brad Evans in the conversation yesterday
32:56
Speaker 1: to say the probably the worry that he has with
32:59
Speaker 1: the US, do they have that guy? I thought we
33:03
Speaker 1: had one of those guys. I thought this Pulisic kid
33:05
Speaker 1: was one of those guys. But to hear Brad Evans
33:08
Speaker 1: kind of break it down and to realize just how
33:11
Speaker 1: important like one dude, one dude can be to taking
33:17
Speaker 1: the US from not being able to get over that
33:22
Speaker 1: hurdle with the into the conversation with the big boys
33:26
Speaker 1: throughout the globe and do we have that one guy
33:29
Speaker 1: that can take us there? I was kind of shocked
33:32
Speaker 1: by that. Now I admitted my ignorance when it comes
33:35
Speaker 1: to the sport. I just don't know it that well,
33:38
Speaker 1: and I don't enjoy it that much. But to find
33:41
Speaker 1: out from brad Evans, no, no, no, no, if we have
33:45
Speaker 1: that one guy, if Pulisic is possibly that guy that
33:49
Speaker 1: will elevate us into that upper echelon with all the
33:53
Speaker 1: other world powers, that was surprising to me.
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Speaker 3: No, I agree, And again soccer idiot over here. So
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Speaker 3: I feel like every time I talk to anyone Anders, Jackson,
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Speaker 3: brad Evans, anyone, I'm like, oh, there's so much about
34:07
Speaker 3: the sport I don't know which is good that we're
34:08
Speaker 3: not analyzing it because I feel like people would be
34:12
Speaker 3: very disappointed.
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Speaker 1: And I count Jackson and Anders among the chief idiots
34:16
Speaker 1: I know in the WARLD.
34:17
Speaker 2: That's true. Yeah, and for them to be teaching me stuff,
34:20
Speaker 2: I feel really stupid.
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Speaker 1: Feel the shoes certainly on the other foot, I'll tell
34:26
Speaker 1: you that much right now. But yes, maybe pulistics that guy.
34:31
Speaker 1: Maybe we finally have that guy. I remember once upon
34:33
Speaker 1: a time, Freddie Adu was supposed to be that guy
34:36
Speaker 1: for us. You know, he was like four years old,
34:38
Speaker 1: our best player, yeah you know, yeah, and he did
34:41
Speaker 1: not turn out to.
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Speaker 2: Be Freddie, don't Yeah, he did not turn out to
34:45
Speaker 2: be that guy.
34:46
Speaker 1: And so maybe in this Christian pulistic we have that guy.
34:51
Speaker 1: But it's kind of surprising to just if you've never
34:54
Speaker 1: watched soccer before and you watched the game play for
34:57
Speaker 1: the first time, you wouldn't think that one guy, the
35:00
Speaker 1: way that the game is played could elevate a team
35:04
Speaker 1: because it's just spread out all over the field. And
35:08
Speaker 1: yet he kind of brought it home for me yesterday.
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Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, Yeah.
35:12
Speaker 1: There's a reason that Messi can join a bad MLS
35:16
Speaker 1: team and then suddenly they're.
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Speaker 2: A good MLS team. There's a reason for that, all right.
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Speaker 1: One player on a roster can make all the difference
35:25
Speaker 1: in the world, can take you from okay too great,
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Speaker 1: So we shall see all right. Coming up next, more
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35:34
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