May 16, 2025 • 31 mins
Ty Dane Gonzalez joins the show to talk about the Mariners season and how important it is to get the starters healthy. Did the Seahawks fire the wrong guy? Are Seahawks fans rooting for the Raiders to do well this year? MJ's bet of the day.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, join us right now in the Beacon Plumbing
(00:01):
Hotline at MJ in the midday for the first time.
Is the host of the Locked On Mariners podcast and
also Mariners writer for Emerald City Spectrum Tye Dane Gonzalez.
Ty So, first and foremost, let me just throw this
at you. How much longer can the Mariners?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Now?
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Prior to the series against the Yankees they're averaging five
runs again this season, which was up an entire run
from a year ago. How much longer can this lineup
continue to sustain at that pace?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Well, Mark, first.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
And foremost, thanks so much for having me really appreciate
it to answer your question. Yeah, that's kind of the
big ticket right now, right you know, what we saw
on this homestand where they went one in five was
incredibly concerning. Frankly, because this is right now, while Bryce Miller,
Logan Gilbert, and George Kirby or either down with injury
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or just not pitching up the expectations the kind of
has to win through offense, which is a crazy thing
to say about the Seattle Mariners in the year of
our lower twenty twenty five. But here we are, and
the offense only scored more than three runs once over
the course of that home stand, and we saw a
significant regression from now. Look, you know, they obviously benefited
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greatly from the hot starts for cal Rawly and Horiy
Polanco and JP Crawford, but a big piece to this
as well to their offensive success, was what the bottom
half of the lineup was doing, with guys like Leo
Rivas and Miles Master Bony and Rowley to Les were providing.
On this home stand, the bottom half of the lineup
went thirteen for eighty two with thirty six strikeouts. That's
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just not going to get it done. And that's on
top of you know, JP having a regressive series, Horriy
Polanco having a regressive series. So in order for them
to maintain this, some element of their lineup is going
to have to step up here.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Either.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Their stars are going to have to play more like
stars than we did and see pretty good home stand
out of Randy A. Rosarna and cal Rawley and Julio
did look more comfortable than he has for most.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Of the year, So maybe that's how.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
You get the offense or you're gonna have to get
back to what we saw over the course of the
nine series.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Win streak where it was kind of everyone shipping in
a little bit.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah, it's a good point, a really good point.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
And do you feel that how much do you feel
in terms of because Kirby's making his final start in
Triple A in Albuquerque today for Tacoma, do you feel that,
what's the timetable? Do you think that he can come
back and get back to being the George Kirby that
everybody here knows and loves.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Yeah, so that's another great question. It seems like Kirby
is going to make his season debut next Thursday against
the Astros in the first game of that four game series.
Maybe they pushed that back a day or so, but
that's how it's lined up right now. At that point,
you kind of just have to wonder how short script
it is is he and you know, this team is
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obviously playing ten games in ten days on the road,
and this bullpen has already thrown the fifth most innings
of any bullpen in baseball, So you kind of have
to wonder how that might impact things, not just in
that game, but in that series as a whole. So
it's probably going to have to realistically, it's probably going
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to have to take at least a couple of starts.
I mean, Kirby has looked really good in his rehab
since so far. He's given up a few runs here
and there, but overall, the mechanics have looked goods. You know,
the below is where it needs to be all that,
so I don't suspect that it'll take too long, but
it just it really comes down to you. And this
has been you know, the big thing for this rotation.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
As a whole. How deep can he go into games?
And how quickly can he go deep into games?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Yeah, what's been the problem.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Other than Brian wu who's been consistently He's got six
quality starts out of his eighth this year, nobody seems
to get past that, other than Castile the other day.
But that to get past that sixth, to get to
that six inning and get through the six inning. More importantly,
why has that been such an issue this year?
Speaker 4 (04:09):
I think part of it is that, you know, again,
guys like Bryce Miller have been dealing with, you know,
some arm issues start the year. It seems like Logan
Gilbert's thing that that he is on the aisle with
with something that has been bothering him for the entire year,
so that might have might be playing at least a
part in it where the stuff isn't playing up as
much and they're just not missing as many bets.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
And that's kind of.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
A pitching staff wide issue for the mayors as well,
not just in their rotation, but in the bullpen. They're
just not getting consistent swing, swing and myths, uh and uh.
You know, you're seeing teams be able to foul off pitches,
run up those pitch counts, and just utterly frustrate Mirror's pitchers.
So I don't know exactly like what is directly leading
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to that. I can only guess. I assume that at
least some of it has to deal with, you know,
the the injuries that the you know, guys like Low
Gilbert and Bryce Miller I've dealt with.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
But in general, they just they need to miss more bats.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Ty Dan Gonzalez from Mariners Locked On podcast here on
MJ in the Midday and the Beacon Plumbing Hotline Sports
Radio ninety three to three kJ r F M. So, Tye,
we've talked about the pitching in terms of the bats,
which has been a pleasant surprise, you know, not Donovan Solano,
notwithstanding overall horror, and I talk about how long can
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certain guy sustain? What about Jorge Polanco? Can he keep
this thing going all year long? Because he just looks
like and even JP Crawford, who's been on a tear
for the last month.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
M Yeah, horey, Polanco is finally come down the earth
a little bit at least, you know, over the course
of that that home stand.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Right, it seems like.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
The league think a lot of people came down to
earth after the Homestand yeah, it's.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
A very good point. That's a very good point. But yeah,
it does seem like this.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
You know, the league has made a bit of an
adjustment to him. They're throwing less fastballs. He's been really
you know, capable of timing up those fastballs and firing
off on them and doing damage with any sort of
fastball that catches the plate. We saw more breaking balls
over the course of the homestand and he struggled with that.
We saw more whiffs out of him. So we'll see
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if he's able to make the adjustment. You know, this
guy was, for you know, a month plus, a more valuable.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Hitter that show. Heyotani, right, I don't think that was
that was going to last.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
That's notable.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Yeah, yeah, so you know, so it really just it
comes down to where does he balance out ultimately, Uh,
and I think he will. I don't think he's going
to be you know, well above three hundred hitter, who's
you know, getting on base as much as he's been
and plugging as much as he's been. But I do
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think that he is healthier that that has definitely played
a role into this, and that the very least where
he balances out is going to be something similar to
the Horiy Polanco we saw in those final few years
of Minnesota. Yeah, and then for JP Crawford, We've seen
this time and time again.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
I mean, we know who JP Crawford is at this point.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
He gets hot, you know, he might slump a little
bit here and there, but for the most part, this
is the guy that's going to give you more often
than not quality at that he's going to get on
base with consistency, and he's.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Going to show up in a lot of big moments.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
And so yeah, you know, just the the struggles on
the home stand for JP, not too concerned about those. Again,
you know, most of this lineup struggled on the home stand,
So it's just you know, it's baseball.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Ty Dane Gonzaz joining us the host of the Lockdown
Mariners podcast on ninety three point three KJR FM. Tai,
thanks again for hopping on you. We talked about Horage
Polanco there and he's coming down to earth a little bit.
Is there any update on him being able to be
in the lineup against the left handed pitching.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Yeah, so now really sure what's going on there. I
don't have any insight on that personally. I have asked
around and it doesn't seem like anyone knows for sure what's.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Going on there.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
You know, this could just simply be a matter of
like they still wanted to maintain him physically because he
is coming off of poteloton and surgery. He has been
dealing with the side thing that you know was keeping
him from hitting him from the right side and playing
in the field.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
So maybe it's just.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
A matter of that, or maybe you know, it is
something that he reaggravated because because yeah, it was a
little curious that you know, on Monday, despite it being
a blowout, that they did pinch hit for him with
Lufty on the mound. It had Mitch Garber pinch hit
for him, and then Tuesday he was out of a
lot up against backs freed, and then Wednesday, you know,
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he's just dhing as a lufty strictly against against a
riding on the mound. So we'll see, I guess. I
mean there there isn't a lufty taking a bump for
the padres this upcoming series, So I guess we won't
really see or won't really be able to put that
to the test this weekend, but it's definitely something to
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monitor here over the.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Next few days.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
And then, kind of similarly related to that, how do
you see the third base situation playing out? You know,
Ben Williamson kind of came out and you know, had
a pretty hot start with the bat. He's been excellent defensively.
Is his defense just too valuable to think about with
him slumping now recently to think about putting someone else there?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
I guess my counter question to that is can you
do better?
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Fine?
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Yeah, because, like you know, Dylan Moore's defense has unfortunately
significantly regressed.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
I don't think there's any way around that. This year.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
He's been rough at pretty much any position that they
put him in, and the bat has started to cool
down a little bit for for Dylan, So I don't
think that's a viable option. I definitely don't think that
putting horiy plonco at third base is a viable option.
It'll be interesting to see and Cole Young, you know,
one of their top prospects is starting to really heat
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up and the results are starting to come through for
him down in Tacoma. I'm really interested to see once
Cole Young is able to make his way to the majors,
whenever that might be, and maybe that's relatively soon.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Here what they do.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
About their infield situation in general, how they get playing
time for guys like Dylan Moore and Leo Rivas and
Ben Williamson. But yeah, right now, I just I'd keep
Williamson at third because at the very least, there is
a tool there that I can rely on day in,
day out, and that's the defense.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Ty Dan Gonzalez here on MJ in the Midday from
Mariners Locked On podcast. You know, Mariner's first baseman have
combined for an absolutely atrocious five thirty eight ops, second
to last INAG baseball. Obviously, you cannot continue with Donovan
Solano and that whole thing so yond Diaz, Ryan O'Hearn.
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Is there going to be somebody that Jerry Depoto will
look at and Hollander at the deadline, because clearly, I
mean I said, prior to the season, you know, everybody
want pedal on. So that's fine, but that was a
really big ticket item. Paul Goldschmidt went to the Yankees
for twelve and a half million dollars. Now, we can't
turn the clocks back in time, and even if we did,
John Stanton and Jerry Dipoto probably want to go there.
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So what can you do now in season to fix
this black hole in the lineup?
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Yeah, I mean you mentioned a couple of names already
that will likely be available at the deadline.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
I'll throw out another here, Nathaniel low Ah.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Yeah, most got traded from the Rangers to the Nationals
this offseason.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
The Marriners, according.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
To several reporters who cover the team on a daily basis,
were very aggressive and trying to get low from the
Rangers this off season, and the Rangers just didn't want
to do it, and you saw what they wound up getting.
They got a high leverage major league reliever out of
that trade. And that's just something that the Marriers weren't
really able to offer without.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Hurting their team in the long run.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
I mean, we've seen how important bullpen pieces have been
to this club so far this year. So but I
think that's someone that the Barons would would definitely circle
back on this summer, assuming that they are in a
position to add to their major league roster, that they.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Are competitive competitive enough.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Still at that point, you know, we'll see if they're
able to survive all these injuries and the tougher schedule.
But yeah, once they get to that point, I think
first base in general is going to be the easiest
position for them to address. And you know, there's never
there's never, you know, a good position to have a
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kneed at, you know, over the course of the season.
But if there is a position that they would, you know,
first base is definitely the best position to.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Have a need at right now. Yeah, there's just going
to be so many options.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Yeah, before I let you go this one, the team
who's the real Mariners, the team who had won eighteen
twenty four or the team who went one in five
in the home stand or is it a combination of both.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Yeah, my answer is going to be very boring. If
I apologize an avestet somewhere in the middle.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Yeah, I can see that.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
I can see that, which is I think, I think
there's somewhere in the middle. And you know, right now,
looking at the American League West, that might be good
enough for me. When I look at this team, I
just go try and be as stable as possible until.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
You get to the deadline.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
You have arguably the best farm system in baseball that
is only going to get significantly better this summer because
they have the number three pick in the draft. They
also have a competitive balance round a pick at pick
number thirty five in the draft. That farm system is
going to get significantly better. And how many good prospects do.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
You really need at the end of the day. So
if they're able to get to the deadline.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
In striking distance of the division wildcard, what have you,
they can do some real damage on the market. Now,
there probably isn't going to be a big ticket item
that they can you know, reasonably waive. You know, the
cold Emerson's of the world at you know, there's no
Vladimir Guerrero Junior. Cal Tucker isn't going to get traded.
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But for the Nathaniel Low's of the world, right, and
you know some of the relievers that are likely going
to be available out there, the Marats can be as
competitive as any ball club out there to go and
get those guys. I think they should be very aggressive
with their pharm system this summer, especially because again they're
going to be adding so much more talent to that group.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
No question about it.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
I do have one more actually, Bryce Miller, is he fixables?
Is it just between the ears because there was no
reported injury, and I said, well, maybe they should just
put them on the IL just because there's something not
right there. I mean eight starts and they're all non
quality starts. So is this something that it's just he
has the yips and he can get over it, or
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is it going to take longer than just fifteen day?
Speaker 4 (14:56):
I lu Justin Holland said that they expect him to
be back once his fifteen days are up, So that's
retroactive to May twelfth.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
So we're about, I don't know a little over a
week away from when they expect him back.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
We'll see if he has to, you know, throw a
bullpen or maybe throw one rehab start. But they do
seem confident that this isn't.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
A serious issue.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
They Hollanders said that the inflammation on his right elbow
is kind of on the back side of his arm.
It's not close to his UCL or anything. So there's
no concern about you know, Tommy John or anything like
that like maybe we had when Logan Gilbert went down.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
But yeah, I think I definitely think that he's been
dealing with something like Don't get me wrong, I think
also a little bit of this is like, hey, we
need to give Bryce a break.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Yeah, we need to give him a little bit of
a mittal reprieve here, because watching Bryce, especially over the
last few starts, you know, three of his last four starts,
he wasn't able to get deep, he wasn't able to
get any sort of swing a miss. He was missing
bad on his splitter and his slider, and he's not
someone that can just live off of the fastball like
Brian wu Caan. So to me, it looks like, yeah,
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he's dealing with something, but he's also probably compensating for
that mechanically, and it's probably thrown his mechanics out of
whack and as a result has probably.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Caused some confidence issues there.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
So I think it's despite the fact that you know,
you're already missing Gilbert and you're already missing Kirby, and
now you're going to have three replacement pitchers in your rotation.
That this was just necessary because it's still really early.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
You know, it's only the middle of May.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
And if you can get Bryce right, if you feel
that you can do that right now, this is the
time to do it because he's going to be so
crucial to what this team is able to do or
you know not over the next few months.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Ty Dan Gonzalez, Hi, great job. We'll look forward to
having you back on the show again sooner than later.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Thank you, appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
You've got it coming up next.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Wow, Pete Carroll, did the Seahawks make the right choice
when they parted with him in favor of John Schneider.
Pete Carroll had some comments that you're not gonna want
to miss what he had to say about it. That's
next on Sports Radio ninety three to three kJ R
F M m J in the midday. But first, here's
an update from Quail Hollow for the PGA Championship. I
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want to apologize to Softy today because I'm doing something
that I know he would not be happy about.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
I'm drinking. It's one of my guilty pleasures.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Bro, I'm drinking a Venta Caramel frappuccino from Starbucks. Jess
said she would go. I said, no, no, no, no,
don't go. You know, I'm going anyway, what do you want?
I'm like, all right, Venti caramel frappuccino, extra whipped cream,
extra caramel, no crunch, and I'm drinking it. So sorry,
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softy times you just have to cave. It's just one
of those things that, right, Starbucks is kind of like,
well it's a four letter word that rhymes with corn.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Sometimes you.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Just have to say, oh, well, it's a guilty pleasure.
Not that I do that, but I'm just saying if
I did.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
All right.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Pete Carroll talked about his departure from the Seahawks, and
he basically talked about what happened between him and John Schneider.
He said, quote, it came to me that there was
a time that we probably were about to face one
of the bigger changes shifts in the time of the program.
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And I had really been dedicated, as John had been
dedicated to John Schneider to doing this in great fashion together. Okay,
now he goes on to say we had done that,
I thought, and it was really John's it was his
turn and take over. I had the lead voice in
all of that all through that time, and I was
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really hoping that John could become the general manager of
the club and run it. And if we could do
that and figure out a way to get out of that,
we did. Jody was great about it, so we just
kind of agreed upon it that if we could work
it out, I would support the thought.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
That's kind of how it happened.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
So it's a little bit different than maybe how people
perceived it.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
But John got his chance.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
God if that isn't a Pete Carroll quote, I don't
know what is. It's saying so much while saying so little.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Word salid yes, we'll right right, yeah, yeah, Pete Carroll,
I mean you know, I mean.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
Not not big. There's a lot of words out. I'll
continue the quote here. The relationship between the head coach
and the general manager in the NFL is more important
than any other aspect, any other factor at all. Carol said,
I treat that position with great respect, and I always
did that with John.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
John did that with me. So it's pretty interesting to
hear him basically confirm that Pete was the guy calling
the shots while he was here, because we've always assumed that,
but he just said it. It was me that was making
the decisions, and I wanted John to get his chance, thank.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
You very much.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Sometimes when it goes down the wrong win point on
the air, it's not a good thing.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
No, I got you.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
These things are so addictive, dude, it's like liqu we
crack here. That's a situation right now in Buffalo with
Sean McDermott and Brandon Bean.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Yes, Sean McDermott has full veto power. Yep.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Brandon Bean might be listened as the GM. He takes
orders from Sean McDermott. So that's what happened here in Seattle,
you know. And you know the one thing about Pete,
he's very magnanimous about it. He's not bitter where you
know when coaches get fired. But he gets it. He's
been around a long time. It was it was his
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third NFL head coaching job, now he's on his fourth.
He started with the Jets, he then went to the
Patriots and now then the Sea Hawks and now the Raiders.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
So he understands it.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
And I think the fact that I can't say enough
about Pete Carroll from the standpoint of think about this,
and I'll say this over and over and over, and
it speaks volumes of Pete Carroll, and it's also an
indictment of Bill Belichick. Pete Carroll got hired. Who's the
minority owner there, Tom Brady. He didn't even give Bill
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an interview and he went with Pete Carroll. If Tom
Brady did not want Pete Carroll to become the head
coach of the Raiders.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
He wouldn't be the head coach of the Raiders.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
You're completing my sentences after working with me for the
third time.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
There you jel no, no, no, you're right. I was
gonna ask, I was gonna stop.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
There, and you absolutely that's exactly it. So that tells
you the Raiders want sustainability, consistency, and they need something
someone to come in there and just kind of right
the ship and get that thing sailing out in a
right way and listen. At first, you're like, wow, how old.
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I mean, yeah, he's no spring Chicken. But you know what,
you wouldn't know that if you saw Pete Carroll and
you knew nothing about football. If you were from a
foreign country and you saw him, and you saw how
he acts and the way he's in the sideline and
his youthful exuberance, you would not know the guy's seventy four.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Yeah right, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
You just wouldn't know it. He doesn't look at he
doesn't act it.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Yeah. And he's a guy that's a player's coach.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
And to me, it's a culture thing and that's the
thing that the Raiders have needed for such a long time.
And he's the guy who's the culture center. Right. Maybe
he's not the best with the x'es and o's and
when you start to get out schemes, which I think
the Seahawks started to do the last few years of
his tenure here. So I'm not saying it's it was
the time to It wasn't the time to break up
with him. I think the Seahawks made the right decision.
But I think it's a perfect high for the Raiders.
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It's exactly what they need. My question is, are you
got like Seahawks fans? Are you guys rooting for the
Raiders this year? Do you want to see Pete Carroll
do well Raiders end up with a better record than Seattle.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
What about Gino Smith too? Exactly exactly. I mean I
think a lot of people here are rooting for First
of all, they don't play each other. No, they're in
different conferences.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
You know.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
It's not the old AFC West days where Seattle was
there and they played in the Kingdome and Steve Largin
and Kenny Easlee and Dave Craig. None of that anymore.
Their original Kurt Warner. No, No, this is a different time.
So yeah, who cares. I mean, like, if they do well,
I mean I hate the Chiefs. I don't want to
see them do well. I hate Denver and you know Chargers.
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I mean like it's like their their fan base gets
completely overtaken every single game by every fan base that's
not theirs. Ye, like the Chargers essentially Anders have seventeen
road games.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
Yeah, maybe some neutral sites in there.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
I'll give them that.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Maybe a couple neutral site games.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
You know, you know what they you know, the charge
like literally for the Chargers.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
And I by the way, I say this facetiously, but
I'm also a little serious. They should put their games
on Sunday at the Universe because everyone what's here for Herbert?
Speaker 2 (24:02):
They would be the home team. They would be the
home team.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
They would be the home team more at and Eugene
Outside Stadium than they are in so FI in their
own building, which really isn't even their own building.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
It's the Rams building, but they're just renting.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
If they did that, I would root for them even less. Oh,
no doubt, no, no, no doubt. So it's cool that,
you know. Listen and John Schneider, this is it for him,
like this, he gets it, this is now truly, he
has put the touches.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
This is his team.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
He has his coach, he's got his quarterback, he's got
everything he wants.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
And now let's see what happens.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Yeah, we will talk to Charles Davis about the Seahawks,
their upcoming schedule, the off season that they've had, and
all that coming up at the top of the hour,
coming up next. Another winner last night for me, and
I've got another winner for you this weekend and even
more so coming up next. We will beat the books
right here on MJ in the Miday ninety three three
(25:00):
KJR at them game six tonight at Madison Square Garden
could be the most expensive ticket in Nick's history, which
says something and I'm very, very nervous, and this caramel frappuccino.
And I know you're killing me on the text line.
You're drinking a girly, girly drink. Hey, you know what
(25:22):
you like? What you like, right, I mean you'll like
at least I admit it.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
I mean, I mean i'd sit you once in a while.
We all do.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
I you can't purple, She goes, that's got to be
like five thousand calories ago.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
It might be more, it might be more.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
So Yeah, listen, I it's one of those things that
you just oh man, I just can feel it.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
It starts.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
It tips off at five o'clock tonight and normally because
I only.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Just go last night, Oh do we have? What I
do we have? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Actually let me play that? All right, let's do that.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
This is what in case you you know, I want
to know how I'm doing on Wednesday night.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
I gave you the over on Nick Celtics. What did
I do last night?
Speaker 1 (26:05):
The heart of a Champion's gonna be tested tonight at home.
If they're gonna win, they're gonna have to score a lot.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Come on, Denver. Yeah, yeah, I'm going for him two.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
So it's gonna be Both teams are gonna have to
score to win this game, and Denver's got to go
all out and they can't get one of seven from
Michael Porter. So that being said, I'm not touching the sides.
Go over over to seventeen and a half. Over to
seventeen and a half. Bet it now, thank me later.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
So there it is.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
There's another winner for you been on a roll recently,
and if it wasn't for Michael Porter in Game five,
we would have gone over there as well. So tonight
I don't ever like to take my favorite team, especially
in a big game, but myself and a friend of
the station, you always hear him on Softy and Dick
Lee Sterling from Paramount Sports when we've agreed on going
(26:57):
in together on a bet and on a game. We
are undefeated in the playoffs, undefeated tonight. Take the Knicks
minus two and a half. I don't care if it's
two and a half. I don't care if it's three
and a half. I don't care if it's five and
a half. The Knicks will win this game convincingly tonight
(27:19):
and we'll move on to the Eastern Conference Finals to
face the Indiana pacer. So take the Knicks tonight minus
two and a half. If you like to get some insurance.
It's minus one forty on the money line, So you
can do that there if you want some insurance. Because
the Knicks will not lose this game. But I don't
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think the two and a half. If the Knicks win this,
I think it's gonna be blowout city. I think it
could be double digits. So I don't think you're gonna
have to worry about that whatsoever. It's just gonna be
a big, big this is this is it. I mean,
it's it's gonna be h.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
The Celtics win. Are you guarant guaranteeing a winning in
Game seven? No?
Speaker 1 (27:58):
If the Celtics win, the series is over. Nicks will
not No, no, no, no, no, no. Not what I'm saying
that the Knicks will not win in Boston.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
It's a game. Tonight's game seven for both.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Literally for the Celtics, it's it's game seven because they lose,
the season's over. And if the Knicks lose, they're not
winning Game seven in Boston. Do you think they know that?
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Yeah, they better. They're playing an urgency tonight. There's no
question they have to be Thibodeaux. And there's some conspiracy
theories up in New York City are saying that they
think that James Dolan might have played a role the
Knicks owner and this going to game six tonight, that
he wanted.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
An extra home game for the money. I wouldn't doubt it.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
I wouldn't from what I've heard about James Dolan, I
wouldn't doubt it.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Did you never gave me a movie that you liked,
that was never really critically acclaimed.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
But that you like.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
So people on the text line were telling me they
love Black Mass by the way, in case you did.
No what a cast Johnny Depp, Juno Temple, Oh god,
I gotta look at the I can't think of I know,
like some of the their faces, and I can't think
of their names. Oh, Jesse Plemmons, Joel Edgarton, Dakota Johnson,
(29:17):
Benedict Cumberbatch, and David Harber. Major cast, like, and it's
ten years old, but I didn't think got the credit
it deserves. And it certainly it was released in about September,
So when you get released in September, you just kinda
it's never that after thought it's an afterthought, but I
thought the movie was very well done. It was about
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the former kingpin in Boston, the guy by the name
of James Whitey Bulger who controlled He basically had the FBI.
He was a like a guy that was an informant
with the FBI and he was able to basically rape, murder,
and pillage and the FBI didn't do anything about it.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
I've been producing my ass off so far, so I
don't haven't fully thought about, like the one movie, because
there's one out there.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
I know that. I like that. Maybe didn't get as
much love as it. Okay, well you got out, you
got an our.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
Okay, all right, I'll give it to you at least
by text time. How about that?
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Oh great? I was gonna say, you got another hour.
We can think about that. But I last night, I'm like,
you know what, I just need to watch this. I
just want to. It's so many good actors about Whitey
Bulger and and Johnny Depp was amazing, which he's amazing
and just about everything.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
He's unbelievable. You know what, somebody says something bad about him.
His former co star and Donnie Brasco Michael Madison said
he was lazy in that movie. I thought he did
a great job in Donnie Brasco. I'm like, well that
was lazy then. I I mean, I don't know, it
was really good to me, all right. Coming up next,
Charles Davis from NFL Network and CBS will join us.
We'll talk about the Seahawks schedule they're off season, and
(30:54):
what he thinks of Mike McDonald's team going into the
twenty twenty five season. Right here next on mj in
the Midday Sports Radio ninety three three k j R
f M
All right, join us right now in the Beacon Plumbing
(00:01):
Hotline at MJ in the midday for the first time.
Is the host of the Locked On Mariners podcast and
also Mariners writer for Emerald City Spectrum Tye Dane Gonzalez.
Ty So, first and foremost, let me just throw this
at you. How much longer can the Mariners?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Now?
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Prior to the series against the Yankees they're averaging five
runs again this season, which was up an entire run
from a year ago. How much longer can this lineup
continue to sustain at that pace?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Well, Mark, first.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
And foremost, thanks so much for having me really appreciate
it to answer your question. Yeah, that's kind of the
big ticket right now, right you know, what we saw
on this homestand where they went one in five was
incredibly concerning. Frankly, because this is right now, while Bryce Miller,
Logan Gilbert, and George Kirby or either down with injury
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or just not pitching up the expectations the kind of
has to win through offense, which is a crazy thing
to say about the Seattle Mariners in the year of
our lower twenty twenty five. But here we are, and
the offense only scored more than three runs once over
the course of that home stand, and we saw a
significant regression from now. Look, you know, they obviously benefited
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greatly from the hot starts for cal Rawly and Horiy
Polanco and JP Crawford, but a big piece to this
as well to their offensive success, was what the bottom
half of the lineup was doing, with guys like Leo
Rivas and Miles Master Bony and Rowley to Les were providing.
On this home stand, the bottom half of the lineup
went thirteen for eighty two with thirty six strikeouts. That's
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just not going to get it done. And that's on
top of you know, JP having a regressive series, Horriy
Polanco having a regressive series. So in order for them
to maintain this, some element of their lineup is going
to have to step up here.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Either.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Their stars are going to have to play more like
stars than we did and see pretty good home stand
out of Randy A. Rosarna and cal Rawley and Julio
did look more comfortable than he has for most.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Of the year, So maybe that's how.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
You get the offense or you're gonna have to get
back to what we saw over the course of the
nine series.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Win streak where it was kind of everyone shipping in
a little bit.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah, it's a good point, a really good point.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
And do you feel that how much do you feel
in terms of because Kirby's making his final start in
Triple A in Albuquerque today for Tacoma, do you feel that,
what's the timetable? Do you think that he can come
back and get back to being the George Kirby that
everybody here knows and loves.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Yeah, so that's another great question. It seems like Kirby
is going to make his season debut next Thursday against
the Astros in the first game of that four game series.
Maybe they pushed that back a day or so, but
that's how it's lined up right now. At that point,
you kind of just have to wonder how short script
it is is he and you know, this team is
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obviously playing ten games in ten days on the road,
and this bullpen has already thrown the fifth most innings
of any bullpen in baseball, So you kind of have
to wonder how that might impact things, not just in
that game, but in that series as a whole. So
it's probably going to have to realistically, it's probably going
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to have to take at least a couple of starts.
I mean, Kirby has looked really good in his rehab
since so far. He's given up a few runs here
and there, but overall, the mechanics have looked goods. You know,
the below is where it needs to be all that,
so I don't suspect that it'll take too long, but
it just it really comes down to you. And this
has been you know, the big thing for this rotation.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
As a whole. How deep can he go into games?
And how quickly can he go deep into games?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Yeah, what's been the problem.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Other than Brian wu who's been consistently He's got six
quality starts out of his eighth this year, nobody seems
to get past that, other than Castile the other day.
But that to get past that sixth, to get to
that six inning and get through the six inning. More importantly,
why has that been such an issue this year?
Speaker 4 (04:09):
I think part of it is that, you know, again,
guys like Bryce Miller have been dealing with, you know,
some arm issues start the year. It seems like Logan
Gilbert's thing that that he is on the aisle with
with something that has been bothering him for the entire year,
so that might have might be playing at least a
part in it where the stuff isn't playing up as
much and they're just not missing as many bets.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
And that's kind of.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
A pitching staff wide issue for the mayors as well,
not just in their rotation, but in the bullpen. They're
just not getting consistent swing, swing and myths, uh and uh.
You know, you're seeing teams be able to foul off pitches,
run up those pitch counts, and just utterly frustrate Mirror's pitchers.
So I don't know exactly like what is directly leading
(04:53):
to that. I can only guess. I assume that at
least some of it has to deal with, you know,
the the injuries that the you know, guys like Low
Gilbert and Bryce Miller I've dealt with.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
But in general, they just they need to miss more bats.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Ty Dan Gonzalez from Mariners Locked On podcast here on
MJ in the Midday and the Beacon Plumbing Hotline Sports
Radio ninety three to three kJ r F M. So, Tye,
we've talked about the pitching in terms of the bats,
which has been a pleasant surprise, you know, not Donovan Solano,
notwithstanding overall horror, and I talk about how long can
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certain guy sustain? What about Jorge Polanco? Can he keep
this thing going all year long? Because he just looks
like and even JP Crawford, who's been on a tear
for the last month.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
M Yeah, horey, Polanco is finally come down the earth
a little bit at least, you know, over the course
of that that home stand.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Right, it seems like.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
The league think a lot of people came down to
earth after the Homestand yeah, it's.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
A very good point. That's a very good point. But yeah,
it does seem like this.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
You know, the league has made a bit of an
adjustment to him. They're throwing less fastballs. He's been really
you know, capable of timing up those fastballs and firing
off on them and doing damage with any sort of
fastball that catches the plate. We saw more breaking balls
over the course of the homestand and he struggled with that.
We saw more whiffs out of him. So we'll see
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if he's able to make the adjustment. You know, this
guy was, for you know, a month plus, a more valuable.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Hitter that show. Heyotani, right, I don't think that was
that was going to last.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
That's notable.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Yeah, yeah, so you know, so it really just it
comes down to where does he balance out ultimately, Uh,
and I think he will. I don't think he's going
to be you know, well above three hundred hitter, who's
you know, getting on base as much as he's been
and plugging as much as he's been. But I do
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think that he is healthier that that has definitely played
a role into this, and that the very least where
he balances out is going to be something similar to
the Horiy Polanco we saw in those final few years
of Minnesota. Yeah, and then for JP Crawford, We've seen
this time and time again.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
I mean, we know who JP Crawford is at this point.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
He gets hot, you know, he might slump a little
bit here and there, but for the most part, this
is the guy that's going to give you more often
than not quality at that he's going to get on
base with consistency, and he's.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Going to show up in a lot of big moments.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
And so yeah, you know, just the the struggles on
the home stand for JP, not too concerned about those. Again,
you know, most of this lineup struggled on the home stand,
So it's just you know, it's baseball.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Ty Dane Gonzaz joining us the host of the Lockdown
Mariners podcast on ninety three point three KJR FM. Tai,
thanks again for hopping on you. We talked about Horage
Polanco there and he's coming down to earth a little bit.
Is there any update on him being able to be
in the lineup against the left handed pitching.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Yeah, so now really sure what's going on there. I
don't have any insight on that personally. I have asked
around and it doesn't seem like anyone knows for sure what's.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Going on there.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
You know, this could just simply be a matter of
like they still wanted to maintain him physically because he
is coming off of poteloton and surgery. He has been
dealing with the side thing that you know was keeping
him from hitting him from the right side and playing
in the field.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
So maybe it's just.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
A matter of that, or maybe you know, it is
something that he reaggravated because because yeah, it was a
little curious that you know, on Monday, despite it being
a blowout, that they did pinch hit for him with
Lufty on the mound. It had Mitch Garber pinch hit
for him, and then Tuesday he was out of a
lot up against backs freed, and then Wednesday, you know,
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he's just dhing as a lufty strictly against against a
riding on the mound. So we'll see, I guess. I
mean there there isn't a lufty taking a bump for
the padres this upcoming series, So I guess we won't
really see or won't really be able to put that
to the test this weekend, but it's definitely something to
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monitor here over the.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Next few days.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
And then, kind of similarly related to that, how do
you see the third base situation playing out? You know,
Ben Williamson kind of came out and you know, had
a pretty hot start with the bat. He's been excellent defensively.
Is his defense just too valuable to think about with
him slumping now recently to think about putting someone else there?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
I guess my counter question to that is can you
do better?
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Fine?
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Yeah, because, like you know, Dylan Moore's defense has unfortunately
significantly regressed.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
I don't think there's any way around that. This year.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
He's been rough at pretty much any position that they
put him in, and the bat has started to cool
down a little bit for for Dylan, So I don't
think that's a viable option. I definitely don't think that
putting horiy plonco at third base is a viable option.
It'll be interesting to see and Cole Young, you know,
one of their top prospects is starting to really heat
(10:06):
up and the results are starting to come through for
him down in Tacoma. I'm really interested to see once
Cole Young is able to make his way to the majors,
whenever that might be, and maybe that's relatively soon.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Here what they do.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
About their infield situation in general, how they get playing
time for guys like Dylan Moore and Leo Rivas and
Ben Williamson. But yeah, right now, I just I'd keep
Williamson at third because at the very least, there is
a tool there that I can rely on day in,
day out, and that's the defense.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Ty Dan Gonzalez here on MJ in the Midday from
Mariners Locked On podcast. You know, Mariner's first baseman have
combined for an absolutely atrocious five thirty eight ops, second
to last INAG baseball. Obviously, you cannot continue with Donovan
Solano and that whole thing so yond Diaz, Ryan O'Hearn.
(11:01):
Is there going to be somebody that Jerry Depoto will
look at and Hollander at the deadline, because clearly, I
mean I said, prior to the season, you know, everybody
want pedal on. So that's fine, but that was a
really big ticket item. Paul Goldschmidt went to the Yankees
for twelve and a half million dollars. Now, we can't
turn the clocks back in time, and even if we did,
John Stanton and Jerry Dipoto probably want to go there.
(11:23):
So what can you do now in season to fix
this black hole in the lineup?
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Yeah, I mean you mentioned a couple of names already
that will likely be available at the deadline.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
I'll throw out another here, Nathaniel low Ah.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Yeah, most got traded from the Rangers to the Nationals
this offseason.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
The Marriners, according.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
To several reporters who cover the team on a daily basis,
were very aggressive and trying to get low from the
Rangers this off season, and the Rangers just didn't want
to do it, and you saw what they wound up getting.
They got a high leverage major league reliever out of
that trade. And that's just something that the Marriers weren't
really able to offer without.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Hurting their team in the long run.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
I mean, we've seen how important bullpen pieces have been
to this club so far this year. So but I
think that's someone that the Barons would would definitely circle
back on this summer, assuming that they are in a
position to add to their major league roster, that they.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Are competitive competitive enough.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Still at that point, you know, we'll see if they're
able to survive all these injuries and the tougher schedule.
But yeah, once they get to that point, I think
first base in general is going to be the easiest
position for them to address. And you know, there's never
there's never, you know, a good position to have a
(12:42):
kneed at, you know, over the course of the season.
But if there is a position that they would, you know,
first base is definitely the best position to.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Have a need at right now. Yeah, there's just going
to be so many options.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Yeah, before I let you go this one, the team
who's the real Mariners, the team who had won eighteen
twenty four or the team who went one in five
in the home stand or is it a combination of both.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Yeah, my answer is going to be very boring. If
I apologize an avestet somewhere in the middle.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Yeah, I can see that.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
I can see that, which is I think, I think
there's somewhere in the middle. And you know, right now,
looking at the American League West, that might be good
enough for me. When I look at this team, I
just go try and be as stable as possible until.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
You get to the deadline.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
You have arguably the best farm system in baseball that
is only going to get significantly better this summer because
they have the number three pick in the draft. They
also have a competitive balance round a pick at pick
number thirty five in the draft. That farm system is
going to get significantly better. And how many good prospects do.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
You really need at the end of the day. So
if they're able to get to the deadline.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
In striking distance of the division wildcard, what have you,
they can do some real damage on the market. Now,
there probably isn't going to be a big ticket item
that they can you know, reasonably waive. You know, the
cold Emerson's of the world at you know, there's no
Vladimir Guerrero Junior. Cal Tucker isn't going to get traded.
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But for the Nathaniel Low's of the world, right, and
you know some of the relievers that are likely going
to be available out there, the Marats can be as
competitive as any ball club out there to go and
get those guys. I think they should be very aggressive
with their pharm system this summer, especially because again they're
going to be adding so much more talent to that group.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
No question about it.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
I do have one more actually, Bryce Miller, is he fixables?
Is it just between the ears because there was no
reported injury, and I said, well, maybe they should just
put them on the IL just because there's something not
right there. I mean eight starts and they're all non
quality starts. So is this something that it's just he
has the yips and he can get over it, or
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is it going to take longer than just fifteen day?
Speaker 4 (14:56):
I lu Justin Holland said that they expect him to
be back once his fifteen days are up, So that's
retroactive to May twelfth.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
So we're about, I don't know a little over a
week away from when they expect him back.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
We'll see if he has to, you know, throw a
bullpen or maybe throw one rehab start. But they do
seem confident that this isn't.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
A serious issue.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
They Hollanders said that the inflammation on his right elbow
is kind of on the back side of his arm.
It's not close to his UCL or anything. So there's
no concern about you know, Tommy John or anything like
that like maybe we had when Logan Gilbert went down.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
But yeah, I think I definitely think that he's been
dealing with something like Don't get me wrong, I think
also a little bit of this is like, hey, we
need to give Bryce a break.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Yeah, we need to give him a little bit of
a mittal reprieve here, because watching Bryce, especially over the
last few starts, you know, three of his last four starts,
he wasn't able to get deep, he wasn't able to
get any sort of swing a miss. He was missing
bad on his splitter and his slider, and he's not
someone that can just live off of the fastball like
Brian wu Caan. So to me, it looks like, yeah,
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he's dealing with something, but he's also probably compensating for
that mechanically, and it's probably thrown his mechanics out of
whack and as a result has probably.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Caused some confidence issues there.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
So I think it's despite the fact that you know,
you're already missing Gilbert and you're already missing Kirby, and
now you're going to have three replacement pitchers in your rotation.
That this was just necessary because it's still really early.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
You know, it's only the middle of May.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
And if you can get Bryce right, if you feel
that you can do that right now, this is the
time to do it because he's going to be so
crucial to what this team is able to do or
you know not over the next few months.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Ty Dan Gonzalez, Hi, great job. We'll look forward to
having you back on the show again sooner than later.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Thank you, appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
You've got it coming up next.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Wow, Pete Carroll, did the Seahawks make the right choice
when they parted with him in favor of John Schneider.
Pete Carroll had some comments that you're not gonna want
to miss what he had to say about it. That's
next on Sports Radio ninety three to three kJ R
F M m J in the midday. But first, here's
an update from Quail Hollow for the PGA Championship. I
(17:29):
want to apologize to Softy today because I'm doing something
that I know he would not be happy about.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
I'm drinking. It's one of my guilty pleasures.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Bro, I'm drinking a Venta Caramel frappuccino from Starbucks. Jess
said she would go. I said, no, no, no, no,
don't go. You know, I'm going anyway, what do you want?
I'm like, all right, Venti caramel frappuccino, extra whipped cream,
extra caramel, no crunch, and I'm drinking it. So sorry,
(17:59):
softy times you just have to cave. It's just one
of those things that, right, Starbucks is kind of like,
well it's a four letter word that rhymes with corn.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Sometimes you.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Just have to say, oh, well, it's a guilty pleasure.
Not that I do that, but I'm just saying if
I did.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
All right.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Pete Carroll talked about his departure from the Seahawks, and
he basically talked about what happened between him and John Schneider.
He said, quote, it came to me that there was
a time that we probably were about to face one
of the bigger changes shifts in the time of the program.
(18:44):
And I had really been dedicated, as John had been
dedicated to John Schneider to doing this in great fashion together. Okay,
now he goes on to say we had done that,
I thought, and it was really John's it was his
turn and take over. I had the lead voice in
all of that all through that time, and I was
(19:06):
really hoping that John could become the general manager of
the club and run it. And if we could do
that and figure out a way to get out of that,
we did. Jody was great about it, so we just
kind of agreed upon it that if we could work
it out, I would support the thought.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
That's kind of how it happened.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
So it's a little bit different than maybe how people
perceived it.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
But John got his chance.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
God if that isn't a Pete Carroll quote, I don't
know what is. It's saying so much while saying so little.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Word salid yes, we'll right right, yeah, yeah, Pete Carroll,
I mean you know, I mean.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
Not not big. There's a lot of words out. I'll
continue the quote here. The relationship between the head coach
and the general manager in the NFL is more important
than any other aspect, any other factor at all. Carol said,
I treat that position with great respect, and I always
did that with John.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
John did that with me. So it's pretty interesting to
hear him basically confirm that Pete was the guy calling
the shots while he was here, because we've always assumed that,
but he just said it. It was me that was making
the decisions, and I wanted John to get his chance, thank.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
You very much.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Sometimes when it goes down the wrong win point on
the air, it's not a good thing.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
No, I got you.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
These things are so addictive, dude, it's like liqu we
crack here. That's a situation right now in Buffalo with
Sean McDermott and Brandon Bean.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Yes, Sean McDermott has full veto power. Yep.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Brandon Bean might be listened as the GM. He takes
orders from Sean McDermott. So that's what happened here in Seattle,
you know. And you know the one thing about Pete,
he's very magnanimous about it. He's not bitter where you
know when coaches get fired. But he gets it. He's
been around a long time. It was it was his
(20:53):
third NFL head coaching job, now he's on his fourth.
He started with the Jets, he then went to the
Patriots and now then the Sea Hawks and now the Raiders.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
So he understands it.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
And I think the fact that I can't say enough
about Pete Carroll from the standpoint of think about this,
and I'll say this over and over and over, and
it speaks volumes of Pete Carroll, and it's also an
indictment of Bill Belichick. Pete Carroll got hired. Who's the
minority owner there, Tom Brady. He didn't even give Bill
(21:26):
an interview and he went with Pete Carroll. If Tom
Brady did not want Pete Carroll to become the head
coach of the Raiders.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
He wouldn't be the head coach of the Raiders.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
You're completing my sentences after working with me for the
third time.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
There you jel no, no, no, you're right. I was
gonna ask, I was gonna stop.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
There, and you absolutely that's exactly it. So that tells
you the Raiders want sustainability, consistency, and they need something
someone to come in there and just kind of right
the ship and get that thing sailing out in a
right way and listen. At first, you're like, wow, how old.
(22:06):
I mean, yeah, he's no spring Chicken. But you know what,
you wouldn't know that if you saw Pete Carroll and
you knew nothing about football. If you were from a
foreign country and you saw him, and you saw how
he acts and the way he's in the sideline and
his youthful exuberance, you would not know the guy's seventy four.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Yeah right, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
You just wouldn't know it. He doesn't look at he
doesn't act it.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Yeah. And he's a guy that's a player's coach.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
And to me, it's a culture thing and that's the
thing that the Raiders have needed for such a long time.
And he's the guy who's the culture center. Right. Maybe
he's not the best with the x'es and o's and
when you start to get out schemes, which I think
the Seahawks started to do the last few years of
his tenure here. So I'm not saying it's it was
the time to It wasn't the time to break up
with him. I think the Seahawks made the right decision.
But I think it's a perfect high for the Raiders.
(22:53):
It's exactly what they need. My question is, are you
got like Seahawks fans? Are you guys rooting for the
Raiders this year? Do you want to see Pete Carroll
do well Raiders end up with a better record than Seattle.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
What about Gino Smith too? Exactly exactly. I mean I
think a lot of people here are rooting for First
of all, they don't play each other. No, they're in
different conferences.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
You know.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
It's not the old AFC West days where Seattle was
there and they played in the Kingdome and Steve Largin
and Kenny Easlee and Dave Craig. None of that anymore.
Their original Kurt Warner. No, No, this is a different time.
So yeah, who cares. I mean, like, if they do well,
I mean I hate the Chiefs. I don't want to
see them do well. I hate Denver and you know Chargers.
(23:30):
I mean like it's like their their fan base gets
completely overtaken every single game by every fan base that's
not theirs. Ye, like the Chargers essentially Anders have seventeen
road games.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
Yeah, maybe some neutral sites in there.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
I'll give them that.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Maybe a couple neutral site games.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
You know, you know what they you know, the charge
like literally for the Chargers.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
And I by the way, I say this facetiously, but
I'm also a little serious. They should put their games
on Sunday at the Universe because everyone what's here for Herbert?
Speaker 2 (24:02):
They would be the home team. They would be the
home team.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
They would be the home team more at and Eugene
Outside Stadium than they are in so FI in their
own building, which really isn't even their own building.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
It's the Rams building, but they're just renting.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
If they did that, I would root for them even less. Oh,
no doubt, no, no, no doubt. So it's cool that,
you know. Listen and John Schneider, this is it for him,
like this, he gets it, this is now truly, he
has put the touches.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
This is his team.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
He has his coach, he's got his quarterback, he's got
everything he wants.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
And now let's see what happens.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Yeah, we will talk to Charles Davis about the Seahawks,
their upcoming schedule, the off season that they've had, and
all that coming up at the top of the hour,
coming up next. Another winner last night for me, and
I've got another winner for you this weekend and even
more so coming up next. We will beat the books
right here on MJ in the Miday ninety three three
(25:00):
KJR at them game six tonight at Madison Square Garden
could be the most expensive ticket in Nick's history, which
says something and I'm very, very nervous, and this caramel frappuccino.
And I know you're killing me on the text line.
You're drinking a girly, girly drink. Hey, you know what
(25:22):
you like? What you like, right, I mean you'll like
at least I admit it.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
I mean, I mean i'd sit you once in a while.
We all do.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
I you can't purple, She goes, that's got to be
like five thousand calories ago.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
It might be more, it might be more.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
So Yeah, listen, I it's one of those things that
you just oh man, I just can feel it.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
It starts.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
It tips off at five o'clock tonight and normally because
I only.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Just go last night, Oh do we have? What I
do we have? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Actually let me play that? All right, let's do that.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
This is what in case you you know, I want
to know how I'm doing on Wednesday night.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
I gave you the over on Nick Celtics. What did
I do last night?
Speaker 1 (26:05):
The heart of a Champion's gonna be tested tonight at home.
If they're gonna win, they're gonna have to score a lot.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Come on, Denver. Yeah, yeah, I'm going for him two.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
So it's gonna be Both teams are gonna have to
score to win this game, and Denver's got to go
all out and they can't get one of seven from
Michael Porter. So that being said, I'm not touching the sides.
Go over over to seventeen and a half. Over to
seventeen and a half. Bet it now, thank me later.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
So there it is.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
There's another winner for you been on a roll recently,
and if it wasn't for Michael Porter in Game five,
we would have gone over there as well. So tonight
I don't ever like to take my favorite team, especially
in a big game, but myself and a friend of
the station, you always hear him on Softy and Dick
Lee Sterling from Paramount Sports when we've agreed on going
(26:57):
in together on a bet and on a game. We
are undefeated in the playoffs, undefeated tonight. Take the Knicks
minus two and a half. I don't care if it's
two and a half. I don't care if it's three
and a half. I don't care if it's five and
a half. The Knicks will win this game convincingly tonight
(27:19):
and we'll move on to the Eastern Conference Finals to
face the Indiana pacer. So take the Knicks tonight minus
two and a half. If you like to get some insurance.
It's minus one forty on the money line, So you
can do that there if you want some insurance. Because
the Knicks will not lose this game. But I don't
(27:41):
think the two and a half. If the Knicks win this,
I think it's gonna be blowout city. I think it
could be double digits. So I don't think you're gonna
have to worry about that whatsoever. It's just gonna be
a big, big this is this is it. I mean,
it's it's gonna be h.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
The Celtics win. Are you guarant guaranteeing a winning in
Game seven? No?
Speaker 1 (27:58):
If the Celtics win, the series is over. Nicks will
not No, no, no, no, no, no. Not what I'm saying
that the Knicks will not win in Boston.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
It's a game. Tonight's game seven for both.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Literally for the Celtics, it's it's game seven because they lose,
the season's over. And if the Knicks lose, they're not
winning Game seven in Boston. Do you think they know that?
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Yeah, they better. They're playing an urgency tonight. There's no
question they have to be Thibodeaux. And there's some conspiracy
theories up in New York City are saying that they
think that James Dolan might have played a role the
Knicks owner and this going to game six tonight, that
he wanted.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
An extra home game for the money. I wouldn't doubt it.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
I wouldn't from what I've heard about James Dolan, I
wouldn't doubt it.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Did you never gave me a movie that you liked,
that was never really critically acclaimed.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
But that you like.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
So people on the text line were telling me they
love Black Mass by the way, in case you did.
No what a cast Johnny Depp, Juno Temple, Oh god,
I gotta look at the I can't think of I know,
like some of the their faces, and I can't think
of their names. Oh, Jesse Plemmons, Joel Edgarton, Dakota Johnson,
(29:17):
Benedict Cumberbatch, and David Harber. Major cast, like, and it's
ten years old, but I didn't think got the credit
it deserves. And it certainly it was released in about September,
So when you get released in September, you just kinda
it's never that after thought it's an afterthought, but I
thought the movie was very well done. It was about
(29:39):
the former kingpin in Boston, the guy by the name
of James Whitey Bulger who controlled He basically had the FBI.
He was a like a guy that was an informant
with the FBI and he was able to basically rape, murder,
and pillage and the FBI didn't do anything about it.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
I've been producing my ass off so far, so I
don't haven't fully thought about, like the one movie, because
there's one out there.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
I know that. I like that. Maybe didn't get as
much love as it. Okay, well you got out, you
got an our.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
Okay, all right, I'll give it to you at least
by text time. How about that?
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Oh great? I was gonna say, you got another hour.
We can think about that. But I last night, I'm like,
you know what, I just need to watch this. I
just want to. It's so many good actors about Whitey
Bulger and and Johnny Depp was amazing, which he's amazing
and just about everything.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
He's unbelievable. You know what, somebody says something bad about him.
His former co star and Donnie Brasco Michael Madison said
he was lazy in that movie. I thought he did
a great job in Donnie Brasco. I'm like, well that
was lazy then. I I mean, I don't know, it
was really good to me, all right. Coming up next,
Charles Davis from NFL Network and CBS will join us.
We'll talk about the Seahawks schedule they're off season, and
(30:54):
what he thinks of Mike McDonald's team going into the
twenty twenty five season. Right here next on mj in
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