May 7, 2025 • 37 mins
The Mariners pull out the win against the Athletics with some clutch hitting in the 9th inning. MJ replays audio ripping the Mariners and was willing to face the fact that he was wrong about this team. MJ goes through the list of top 25 college football coaches via CBS Sports and a familiar face didn't make the cut. We play audio of Dave Portnoy who gets a little upset during an interview as we hit to all fields.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Rolly in the right field, Basic Polank go on his
way home. This time's the game, Codio scripts to the plate.
Hey scores standing. Cal Raley a pinched head, go ahead,
two run single has put the Mariners in front in
the ninth inning, or high drive out towards Butler in
right field, Reboss at third tags on his way home.
(00:22):
Leo Rebos scores standing, sacrifice fly Dylan Moore and the
Mariners extend the league.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Out to right field.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Dylan Moore rushes in, calls for the ball, and makes
the catch, and this game belongs to the Mariners. One
of the great wins of the yearly season for the MS.
Carlos Vargas, congratulations your first career Major League save. It
comes in a five to three thriller in Sacramento.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Well, well, well how about the murders unbelievable last night?
Trailing three to two going into the top of the
ninth and you just it feels different, It looks different,
right did the Mariners a year ago going into the
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ninth inning? How much faith did you have in this
team a year ago to be able to come back
and win a game like they did last night? On
a scale of one to ten, I would say from
watching from Afar on my MLB TV package three three
and a half, if that maybe maybe maybe less is
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MJ in the midday your host Mark James m Orse,
James Christopher Kidd on the other side of the glass, Chris,
give me a number last year on this team coming
back in the going into the ninth inning, trailing a
year ago, your confidence level one to ten, ten being
most three or four?
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Yeah, all right, that's about the three confidence Just maybe
can we cross our hands and look to the heavens
and say, baseball gods, what do you say?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
What do you think here? Can they do it?
Speaker 4 (02:13):
But to your point, the answer is no, you don't
really have confidence and a team getting it done in
the ninth inning.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
But this season, oh boy, it's it's changed, hasn't it.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
It's really really changed, and uh man it it feels good.
It's this team's fun to watch. They weren't fun to
watch a year ago.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
They weren't.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
They were it just as you brought up with Goldsmith yesterday. Yeh, right,
they weren't. They just weren't. Man, I don't know what
it was. They just weren't. But top of the ninth
Jore Polonco after JP struck out swinging. There was a
bad call prior to that on a on a pitch.
I mean, the ump last night was just you know,
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like he was just real his his strike zone was. Listen,
I've said it before, I'll say it again. Robot umps
and in baseball you could do it for strikes and balls.
You could definitely do it. Robot umpires. But that's a
whole nother show. So JP strikes out, one out, Polanco
gets up, he walks. Julio decides to become the guy
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that everybody here wants him to be. And he came
up big last night, hit a huge home run over
four hundred feet in the first inning to get things started.
He singles to left, so he and polank are on
first and second. A Rosarina hit by a pitch, so
now it's bass is loaded and the big dumper comes
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up and cal Riley delivered and a two RBI single
at that point, and it was just yeah, here we
go four to three, and then Dylan Moore comes up
to add a little insurance there, which you always want
to sackfly. I know, sackflies like kissing your sister. It's
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not exactly something you like to do. Unless year, of
course we're born and raised in West Virginia, then it's considered,
you know, just Tuesday, but you know, sorry West Virginia.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Not sorry, but you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
And then Carlos Vargas comes up and he gets his
first save of his entire career, and I'm like, this
is different, man, this is different. It really truly is.
Now for me, Here's how I break up Major League
Baseball seasons. I break them up in quarters. The first forty,
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the second forty, the third forty, and the last forty two.
That's how I break up a season. If you you
ideally you can get to twenty five wins for every
forty games, go twenty five and fifteen for every forty,
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you make the playoffs to one hundred wins. It's easier
said than done. Mariners can do that. They can do
that day. Right now are twenty one and fourteen. They
have a chance. So they got five games to go.
They can win four their next five. Toronto's in town
this weekend after the rubber game today at Sacramento coming
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up in about two hours and ten minutes. With the
guy who's been mister consistency five quality starts out of
his six. Brian wu on the mound today and I
didn't see it. I didn't see it. None of us
saw it. Now I want to say, you heard me
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coin the phrase each your crow, bro when it came
to Sherder Sanders.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Well today.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
It's time for me. Three weeks ago and I want
to say this. We were at Jimmy's on First and
we'll be there a week from today for the Yankees
Afternoon Special, which will happen a week from today. We
look forward to beat out Jimmy's on First always since
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April ninth. So April eighth was the extra innings loss
to Houston twelve innings they couldn't get a runner over
in the tenth, eleventh, or twelfth inning. Since that game,
the Mariners are seventeen and six for the best record
in baseball. In that span, they've won forty seven out
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of the last sixty three games against the A's, so
they own the A's and hopefully it'll be forty eight
out of the last sixty four after today's game is over.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
But it's just nice to see to watch this.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
JP Crawford last night extended the longest active hitting streaking
the Majors to fourteen games after singling in the fifth inning.
Everything is just coming together, man, everything And Colin Schnyder
gave up the go ahead single to Miguel anderhar on
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the eighth, but he was able to get out of it.
So today it's time for MJ yours, truly Mark James,
to eat some crow bro.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Here.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
We were back on Wednesday, April ninth, the rubber game
of the series versus Houston. And remember that day I
was on a plane in Vegas and that day the
Mariners were down five nothing to start that game, and
they came back and won on a Randy Rose Arena
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Grand Slam to get things going. But it's time for
me because I will eat crow bro too. I will,
and I want you to listen to this on Wednesday,
April ninth, then and then of course now, because when
you win, I give credit where credit is due. But
here I was three weeks ago today, right at this
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very moment, four and eight best pitching staff in baseball
four and eight, you're wasting the best pitching staff in
baseball right now. But one guy in particular, Julio Rodriguez,
one for fifteen in his last four games, oh for
eight in the series against Houston.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Can't get a hit.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
To quote the lake great Tommy Lesorda, couldn't hit water
if he fel out of an f and boat.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
That's it. And they're in lies. Why this team is
where they are.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
And I'm seeing a lot of fans outside right now
and on side on the sidewalk, and family's coming out
here for the first pitch at one ten, and I'm
seeing a lot of forty four jerseys and man, for
a guy who is currently the face of Seattle sports,
it's not just on him. I mean, look at cal Raley.
Yeah you had double last night. He's not even batting
his weight. He's having a horrible season start to the year,
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two oh five. You look at it right now, your
second third and clean up hitter are batting one seventy eight,
two oh five and one fifty nine.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I'm surprised this team isn't o to twelve.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
If it wasn't for the comeback against the Tigers to
start the season and then the other night against the
Astros when Polanco bailed them out there, this team could
be one and eleven oh to twelve right now.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
No further questions, you're honor. The prosecution rests Tom the
eat your crow bro. Oh and that was worse than that.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
I went on and on and on, and I just said,
you know, a Gerard de Poto, you get what you deserve.
You spend five million dollars on crap like Donovan Solano
and Rowdy Talz, you get what you deserve. Oh yeah, oh,
I was even that. That was the good part. That
was the nice part of my rant. Since that rant,
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this team is seven teen and six. I don't know.
I'm not taking credit for it. I'm just saying that
that rant and then they go they win seventeen of
their next twenty three games.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
So.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Glean into that what you will. But it looks different,
it feels different, and I'm giving a lot of credit.
Oh from the two to zero six Mark, don't eat
crow yet, it's too early.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Give it time. Sincerely, lifelong MS. Fan Elston.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Oh, well, MJ's rant about Julio zero and four start yesterday.
Start a streak for Julio. Keep bagging on Julio. Mark, Hey,
he played great last night. You hear this, It's a
golf clap, That's why you can hardly hear it. That's
what he should do. He got two hundred and nine
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point three million reasons to have games like that. Not
every game, not every game, because even Shoeotani has bad games,
even Aaron Judge and Mookie Betts and Juan Soda Wan
SODA's ind a few of them this year, a lot
of them actually. But that's what Julio should be doing
on a consistent basis. He's got the talent and the potential,
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got the talent in potential.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
So yeah, yeah, I'm here. I'm here to eat crow.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
A lot of you hymns fans are funny on the
free agent text line four nine four five one. Hey,
you want to go ahead, you want to do a
rant about me? The voice text line is always open
to voice text it go off on me.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Feel free. I'm here to eat crow all day long.
I'll eat it and I'll you know what it tastes good?
I want to keep eating crow.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Oh you know something I did eat yesterday for the
first time, Christopher Kid, Frisco Freeze. I was in Tacoma
yesterday and Gary Hill best burger I've had in the PNW.
I love Frisco freaking Freeze. So they have this burger,
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and I tell I want the grilled onions so well
done that they're like burn to a to a crisp.
They did it, and I said, no, Lettuce, no mustard.
You don't put mustard on burgers. No, no, no, no no.
You put mustard on the hot dogs, not burgers. No,
Lettuce know it. And they put red relish with white sauce.
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They said, what's white sauce? They said, well, it's just
like mayonnaise. Okay, phenomenal. Got two of them yesterday. Frett Fries,
eh eh, didn't like the fries, love the burgers. Frisco Freeze,
Gary Hill, Thank you very much, sir. I went there yesterday. Yep,
really good. So I ate Frisco Freeze yesterday. I'm gonna
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eat Crow today and if the Mariners win again today,
I'm gonna eat Crow tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
I want to eat Crow. I want.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
This team is to me, the best team in the division.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
And the AO West.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
They're the La Rams of the American League West, the
the best team in the division, and they're playing like
it now. So it's great to see. Yes, Julio didn't
take that for oh. I was every app bat last night.
I'm just watching for that first pitch. Now, now I
will say this, here's one thing I'm gonna say about Julio.
He did take a first pitch last night in the
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ninth inning, and it should have been a ball, and
that stupid dumbass umpire called it a strike. And Angie
Mentik said, oh, he must have talking about the umpire.
Looks like he must be late for reservations to a restaurant.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
That was a good I like that one. That was
pretty good.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Yeah, he did take it and it should have been
a ball, but the mass umpire called it a strike.
So Julio, congratulations, you came through last night.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
You did.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
You should be coming through almost every night. You were
three for four home run RBI. Maybe you're coming around now,
see if you can do that. Remember what I said,
Unlike other people, I said, I don't want Julio in
the leadoff spot. Put him at second drop on the third, fourth, fifth,
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I don't care. He should never be leading off. Gotta say,
I'm looking pretty good on that one right now, really good.
And Jorge Polanco, man, he's just it's crazy, this guy.
I mean, I know he went zero for three last night,
but he finds a way to make the team better.
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I know he'd had a good game last night.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I get it. The team was one for eight with
runners in scoring position. But yeah, yeah, I'm starting to believe.
I'm starting to believe.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Meritis fans like, no, Mark, don't, don't we've seen this
movie before. Oh no, I did lie. But here's the
reason why I believe. Because they're not relying on the pitching.
They're not just solely relying on the pitching like they
did a year ago, where it's about it's on Logan
Gilbert and George Kirby. George Kirby hasn't even thrown a
pitch this season in a real game. It's not on
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Bryce Miller and Brian wu and Emerson Hancock. It's not
they're getting it done at the plate, and it's it's
the product is aesthetically pleasing.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
I like it.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
And Ben Williamson at third base is like, I mean,
the dude looks like Brooks Robinson. I mean, he's just unbelievable.
Just Gol Glover man. He already looks like a goal Glover.
Donovan Solanough nothing, it's about time. I'm getting time. Now
we're gonna dfa this sob or DFA, this pot piece
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of well you can you know what the last word
is rhymes with cash. Are we gonna d are we
gonna UFA? I mean, uh yeah, DFA, this pot. Let's
it's time probably there on Donovan Solano. That was three
and a half million dollars wasted. By the way, though,
speaking of three and a half million dollars, the Mariners
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just claim leote tavers from the Rangers. So this guy
was the top prospect in baseball in twenty twenty. He
made his MLB debut at twenty one years old. He
was a number one ranked prospect in all of baseball
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back in twenty eighteen. Has kind of been a bus
so far, Manners decide, Hey, let's bring him to Seattle.
Career two forty hitter, six sixty one ops and and
a guy that has not certainly lived up two expectations.
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He uh at one hundred and forty three games the
year that the Rangers won the World Series in twenty
twenty three, he had. He had a great, really good
year that year, two point three war, fourteen home runs,
sixty seven RBIs. So there's talent there. Can Edgar incites
her maximize it? But I mean Here's the thing. I
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don't have a lot of hopes when a team in
the division puts him on waivers and lets him go
to a team within the division, a team that right
now is above them in the standings. So but I'm okay,
you get them at a ross dress for a less
price TJ. Max Marshall's right, Yeah, even less than north
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Strom Rack. Yeah, Burlington Code Factory Marshall. Yeah, Marshall's one
of those. So I'm interested. I want to see what
he can do. He's a switch hitter, so and a
guy who's got some speed. He's got He's stolen at
least ten bases each season for the last four years
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going into this year, and he's fast, lightning fast. So
maybe it's hello Tavares, goodbye Solano as that failed miserably,
So interesting to see what this team does going forward.
How do you feel? Am I? Am I drinking the
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kool aid too early?
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Here? I know it's only May seventh? Am I drinking
it too early? Maybe? I am?
Speaker 6 (18:47):
It?
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Just it looks good.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
It like them coming back in the ninth inning last
night was like awesome. And our new friend Aaron Goldsmith
on the call last night, it just it's and you know,
to not have to rely on munyos from one game
and to bring in Vargas to come in and close
the door. Stepping up man, stepping up twenty five out
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of forty, that's what you shoot for. It's tough to do,
but they have a chance to win twenty five of
their first forty games. If you do that over the
course of a season, you win one hundred and you
go to the postseason. You win one hundred games, not
need Yeah, and with all these wild cards, you go
to the postseason. If you fall short of that and
you win ninety eight, you should go to the postseason
ninety six as well. So that's where we're at. Teams
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looking good. I'm happy. You should be happy as well.
I know, I know it's early, but I got to
give credit where credit is due. Since the rant seventeen
and six, I told you about Frisco freeze Mark from
the two five to three burgers all day long, fries
not fresh. Maybe give the fries another shot. There's some
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of the best around. No no, no, no, no no.
I didn't like them. They were too well done. No no, no, no, Mark,
you'll be eating crow about eating crow in September from
Anti to US six. Mark you Kenny, Mark you canty
crow yet from the four two five. This is the
same team that blew a ten game lead last year.
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They have a history of ripping our hearts out and
stomping on it and picking up and eating it. You
cannot eat crow until they're mathematically in the playoffs. Unfortunately,
that's how it works here.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Aha.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
You still aren't wrong about the dumb signings of Rowdy
and Solano. No, no, no, I'm definitely not there, But kudos, man,
I mean looking good. Last night's game was awesome. It
was awesome. M's were up like ten to thirteen games
last season before their store collapsed. We've been conditioned to
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this in Seattle sports, he says. Ere in Seattle sports, Mark,
you'll have four find different ways to eat your crow. Crow, fajitos, crow,
cast role, crow, chili. All right, well we'll do that.
I will tell you if the crow tastes like the
burgers at Frisco Freeze, I'm all in for it. Frisco
Freesberger is phenomenal. Oh, I mean, don't give me attitude,
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like when I go to a certain other place that
rhymes with ricks. Yeah, can I get grilled onions real
well done? Yeah, sure, no problem, we'll do it for you.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Burger. I wanted more medium rare, but I.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Understand it's on the grill and they're doing all the
buns at the same time, but not gonna desionate mine ahead.
But it was still phenomenal. That red relish and mayonnaise.
Oh my, I didn't even eat ketchup. I'm like, let
me get some ketchup packets, and I tasted the burger
without the ketchup.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Phenomenal.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Frisco Freeze two thumbs up gets to Mark James MJ.
Seal's approval. All right, coming up next. You know, rankings
are like opinions. Sometimes they're accurate. Everyone has one, but
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most of them stink. We'll get to that and why
there's some major shade being thrown on someone here in
Seattle who will tell you what next? Right here on
MJ in the midday ninety three to three, kJ are
at them. But I want to see all the teams
here be successful, the Kraken, the Mariners, the Seahawks, and
the Huskies. Now, I didn't grow up. I was not
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going to sit here and lie to you. That was
a born and raised Washington Huskies fan, I'd be lying
to you. I'm a Miami Hurricane football fan, went to
grad school there. My lifelong favorite team, my undergrad it's
my favorite college basketball program, the Arkansas Razorbacks.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
But when.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Shade is thrown at people in the PNW, now I
get a little defensive because I'm I'm.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Here, and I want to stay here, and I want
to be here.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
And so a list came out by the US say
today and the top twenty five college football coaches in America.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
So numero no, Kirby Smart number.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
One, Ryan Day number two, He's won two national championships.
Dabo Sweeney number three. This is USA today, not me.
Right now, I have to give Credie's gone back to
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back playoff semifinals.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Steve Sarkshan all right.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
James Franklin number five, Yeah, no, no, no, no, no,
he did get.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
He did you know? He reached the semifinals.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
The next time he beats Ohio State or Michigan will
be the first time. He's just this guy who gets
paid a lot of money. I haven't seen it. Number six,
Dan Lanning. I like Dan Lanning. I don't like Oregon,
but I like Dan Lanning as a coach. Wish coach
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a certain team down in the three h five. I'll
tell you that much right now, thirty nine years old,
former Georgia assistant. Look what he's done at Oregon. I
know the program, Mike Bellotti, Jim Kelly, Willie Taggart as success,
Mario Chris the ball. It's it's kind of one of
those things that you know it's the program or is
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it him?
Speaker 6 (24:22):
No?
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Trust me, Dan Landing is is great. He is great.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
They were number one all season long until they faced
Ohio State.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
And got that ass whooped big time. But it happens.
You know what Marcus Freeman Rotre Dame.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
I would just before this season last season, you put
Marcus Freeman seven, I would have just said, well, I'm
gonna just go ahead and rip this up and put
it at you know, use it for bird. I don't
have any birds, but maybe if I ran out of
toilet paper. No, but he got to the playoff and
he had a really great year. He got to the
national championship. Actually, how about this one.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Number eight?
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Caylin de Boor did it at you dub didn't get
to the playoff at Alabama. Jalen Milroe and all of
that talent. Ryan Williams, seventeen year old stud People were
saying the possibly better than Jeremiah Smith. Yeah, uh no,
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not on de boor not yet. He's got to have
a sustained level of success.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
I'll go with this one.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Lane Kiffin number nine, Brian Kelly number ten, Matt Campbell
number eleven, Iowa State Sure, Kyle Whittenham, Utah number thirteen.
Kirk Signetti Indiana. Yeah, hit that again, like you had
one good year. You've beat No.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
One and Nan You're like, ooh, what did we you
the higher seat?
Speaker 3 (26:04):
We should be hosting, you know, and we should be
at Bloomington. You got your ass, Kip, dude, shut up
and move on. Like and by the way, when if
you're gonna get your hair dyed, try to make.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
It look like you don't get it dyed. Okay.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Get the Tim Legler stuff, the good stuff, not the
stuff that you go to home depot or Low's and
just basically go home and put it on your head
in the shower. Oh, I can't stand Kirk Signetty number fourteen,
Kirk Farence gt f oh gt f oh, Kirk Farens. Yeah,
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I guess if winning eight to nine games a year
is good. No, No, Chris climb in Kansas State, Sure, yeah, yeah.
They won at least nine games the past three years,
including a Big Twelve title in twenty twenty two. Jeff
Brohm Louisville. Now, he had a great season last year.
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It's recency bias, but I'm okay with it. This guy
was under ranked. Josh Hipel seventeen should be much higher
on this. You're telling me Kirk Signett's better than Josh
Hipel GTFO GTFO number eighteen. Matt Rule, No, no, no,
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It's gonna take a while to bring Nebraska football back
to relevancy. Nebraska football is like Georgetown basketball. I don't
know if it'll ever come back to the eighties again,
and I wouldn't hold my breath. Brett Bei Lama Illinois.
Gotta tell you right now, Illinois they're my dark horse
for twenty twenty five. If you give me an over
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under eight and a half over nine and a half
over Illinois, they're gonna be this year's Indiana. The only
thing is they're gonna actually beat ranked teams. They're gonna
beat ranked teams. Brett Bielima has theyre going to be
this Trust me when I tell you just remember this show.
Illinois twenty twenty five, Illinois Football twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Number twenty Kilani Sataki, Uh.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
No no, no, not quite. They did go eleven and
two last year, but I'm not putting him at Number
twenty Lance Lighthold Kansas, Sure, sure, yeah yeah. I mean
if you can win at Kansas in football, they've been
more successful recently in football they have been at basketball.
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Number twenty two hit the bell three times.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Rhett Lashley smu rhtt. Lastly, yes, love him.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Former Hurricanes offensive coordinator, met him at the Final four.
This SMU is back and they are in a big way.
Number twenty three Lincoln Riley, Yes, are you kidding me?
They're thirteen and eleven In the past two years, he's
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done nothing since his debut season, going eleven and three.
His last year with Caleb Williams, they lost about six games.
Are you kidding me? Number twenty four Eli Drinkwitz, Sorry
stop stop, and just so you know, I am not
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a homer. Number twenty five Mario crystal Ball. Game day, dumbass,
game day, dumbass Mario crystal Ball. Nobody gets less out
of more talent, had the number one overall pick the draft,
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had the highest scoring offense in college football history, and
had seven or eight guys drafted. And so the other
guys that didn't sign deals, they'll probably make the team,
including Xavier Strepo and Tennessee with cam Ward, Elijah Royo,
Damien Martinez, Jalen Rivers. Who I mean, and you missed
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the twelve team playoff with the highest scoring offense in
college football history?
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Please, Mario chrystobaal Oh, now here's what it says. Just
missed the list. Dan Mullen UNLV, Bronco Mendenhall, Utah State,
Jeff Monkin, Army In, Kenny Dillingham, Arizona State. Kenny Dillingham
should be in the top twenty five. He is that great,
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no question about. Kenny Dillingham should be way ahead of
Signetti to do what he's done. I know, I'm not
even on recency buys. This guy can coach. It's been phenomenal.
So and hello, how about Jetfish anyone? I know his
first year in Seattle at U dub was a down year.
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First year for a lot of coaches at a school
are a down year unless you're inheriting the greatest riches
in the history of college football. Larry Koker two thousand
and one, when he had thirty eight future NFL picks,
since eighteen of them were going to be for future
first round picks, where's Jetfish? Jetfish should be on this list?
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Where is he? And there's the disrespect? And that to me,
that's where this list And granted I get it. You
come up with it so people can debate it, right
Like I always say. You go to a party and
you say top five bands in music history for rock,
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and I will go with Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, the Who,
the Stones, and the Doors, and people be like.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Eh, Pink, Floyd.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Pearl, Jim Metellica.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
They're not better than those five. They're just not. So
stop it, just stop it. They're just not nickelback.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
So Jedfish gonna be a big year for you, dub
Demon Williams.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
That's all right. Let them not notice you, let them
not notice you.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
And I can't rank Jimmy Rodgers yet because you know what,
there's no sample size there. He's the thirty fifth it
coach at n Wazoo history. He's got potential. We'll see
he's only thirty eight years old. He's younger than Dillingham.
We'll see, so I can't rank him yet. But Jetfish
not being on this list makes this list invalid.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
It's a joke.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Jetfish is definitely one of the top twenty five coaches
in college football. You know what one of my idols
one said, just when they think they have all the answers,
I change the questions. Well, this is what happens when
someone who interviewed a guy we all know and decided
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to get a little too well, let's just say antagonistic.
We'll hear that next and hitting to all Fields MJ.
In the midday ninety three to three, KJR FM started
hitting the All Fields. Dave Portnoy has been on a
tirade recently. He owns a bar in Philadelphia that has
(33:34):
to do with barstool Sports and somebody put just this
absolutely disgusting, reprehensible anti Semitic slur up there, and Portnoy
found out the two guys who did it. He has
decided to, along with Robert Kraft, who is a part
of the you know, anti Defamationion Defamation League in New England,
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to send these two like absolutely complete losers to Auschwitz
and then get them to see exactly that you don't
put what they put on the bar in Philadelphia, so
port Andoy's being interviewed by a bunch of immediate organizations,
and he was kind of like turning lem down. And
let's just say that some woman decides that she's gonna
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get a little spicy with el pres.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
Here's why I.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Would say is causing that type environment.
Speaker 7 (34:23):
All these colleges will let Jewish kids get harassed on
campus twenty four to seven. I've been speaking out about
this since it started.
Speaker 6 (34:30):
So these professors, I'd love to know.
Speaker 7 (34:32):
First of all, that sounds like a made up thing.
Speaker 6 (34:34):
I don't know what that quote is.
Speaker 7 (34:35):
The society of sport? Where are the professors from? Where
are the professors from? Well, why do you answer, where
are the professors from?
Speaker 6 (34:47):
Well? No, you quote your quoting two people have no
idea who they are from a made up journal, So.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
Tell the other professors are from.
Speaker 6 (34:55):
Okay, So no, that's a real university. I'd like to
know how they're where are they're any interpretation. I don't
like folks that have no idea where they're coming from.
I totally disagree for what you just said. Who's creating
more hate right now in the world.
Speaker 7 (35:09):
Do you say, arsell sports with whitemen or college campuses?
You know that was that was a question to you, journalist. Well,
I don't play by those rules. What does that mean
you're a journalists. I'm a journalist. I want to I
want to give a media organization.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
I just asked you a question. No, I asked you
a question.
Speaker 7 (35:32):
You would answer the question.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
You would answer the question. All right, the interviews over.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
The interviews over, And he slammed down his laptop. Yeah,
I mean, you're not going to strong arm Dave Portnoy.
You're you're not going to.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
So he's just dealing. He's going through a lot right now.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
And I appreciate everything Portnoy is doing because what these
complete total way of humanity did in Philadelphia over the weekend,
where it was absolutely despicable. There's no place for racism,
there's no place for anti semitism. There's and by the way,
I'm not going on in some political soapbox here. There's
just no there's no place in twenty twenty five for
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any of that crap.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Okay, none of it.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
And I don't blame Portnoy for being pissed off and
he's doing the right thing, and you know, it's just man.
You just when I saw that this weekend and I
was like, oh no, at his at his bar, and
then some guy uploaded on social media and now this
guy's playing the role of the victim in Portnoy is
just destroying this guy and he's Yeah, it's just not good.
(36:41):
But that interview right there, you're not going to get
into a situation where you start strong arming him.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
He's kind of he's been at this.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
Game for a long time, and I mean he's just
trying to make sure that none of this stuff it
gets glorified at all. And the fact that it's even
out there is just and it's disgusting. It really truly
is sol go presco man. I hope you fight the
good fight, all right. Coming up next Curtis Crabtree from
Fox thirteen. We'll talk about the red hot Seattle Mariners
(37:14):
and how this team has been able to go seventeen
and six over the last three weeks with the best
record in baseball.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Next on MJ in the Miday ninety three three, kJ
are at them
Rolly in the right field, Basic Polank go on his
way home. This time's the game, Codio scripts to the plate.
Hey scores standing. Cal Raley a pinched head, go ahead,
two run single has put the Mariners in front in
the ninth inning, or high drive out towards Butler in
right field, Reboss at third tags on his way home.
(00:22):
Leo Rebos scores standing, sacrifice fly Dylan Moore and the
Mariners extend the league.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Out to right field.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Dylan Moore rushes in, calls for the ball, and makes
the catch, and this game belongs to the Mariners. One
of the great wins of the yearly season for the MS.
Carlos Vargas, congratulations your first career Major League save. It
comes in a five to three thriller in Sacramento.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Well, well, well how about the murders unbelievable last night?
Trailing three to two going into the top of the
ninth and you just it feels different, It looks different,
right did the Mariners a year ago going into the
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ninth inning? How much faith did you have in this
team a year ago to be able to come back
and win a game like they did last night? On
a scale of one to ten, I would say from
watching from Afar on my MLB TV package three three
and a half, if that maybe maybe maybe less is
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MJ in the midday your host Mark James m Orse,
James Christopher Kidd on the other side of the glass, Chris,
give me a number last year on this team coming
back in the going into the ninth inning, trailing a
year ago, your confidence level one to ten, ten being
most three or four?
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Yeah, all right, that's about the three confidence Just maybe
can we cross our hands and look to the heavens
and say, baseball gods, what do you say?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
What do you think here? Can they do it?
Speaker 4 (02:13):
But to your point, the answer is no, you don't
really have confidence and a team getting it done in
the ninth inning.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
But this season, oh boy, it's it's changed, hasn't it.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
It's really really changed, and uh man it it feels good.
It's this team's fun to watch. They weren't fun to
watch a year ago.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
They weren't.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
They were it just as you brought up with Goldsmith yesterday. Yeh, right,
they weren't. They just weren't. Man, I don't know what
it was. They just weren't. But top of the ninth
Jore Polonco after JP struck out swinging. There was a
bad call prior to that on a on a pitch.
I mean, the ump last night was just you know,
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like he was just real his his strike zone was. Listen,
I've said it before, I'll say it again. Robot umps
and in baseball you could do it for strikes and balls.
You could definitely do it. Robot umpires. But that's a
whole nother show. So JP strikes out, one out, Polanco
gets up, he walks. Julio decides to become the guy
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that everybody here wants him to be. And he came
up big last night, hit a huge home run over
four hundred feet in the first inning to get things started.
He singles to left, so he and polank are on
first and second. A Rosarina hit by a pitch, so
now it's bass is loaded and the big dumper comes
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up and cal Riley delivered and a two RBI single
at that point, and it was just yeah, here we
go four to three, and then Dylan Moore comes up
to add a little insurance there, which you always want
to sackfly. I know, sackflies like kissing your sister. It's
(04:05):
not exactly something you like to do. Unless year, of
course we're born and raised in West Virginia, then it's considered,
you know, just Tuesday, but you know, sorry West Virginia.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Not sorry, but you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
And then Carlos Vargas comes up and he gets his
first save of his entire career, and I'm like, this
is different, man, this is different. It really truly is.
Now for me, Here's how I break up Major League
Baseball seasons. I break them up in quarters. The first forty,
(04:42):
the second forty, the third forty, and the last forty two.
That's how I break up a season. If you you
ideally you can get to twenty five wins for every
forty games, go twenty five and fifteen for every forty,
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you make the playoffs to one hundred wins. It's easier
said than done. Mariners can do that. They can do
that day. Right now are twenty one and fourteen. They
have a chance. So they got five games to go.
They can win four their next five. Toronto's in town
this weekend after the rubber game today at Sacramento coming
(05:24):
up in about two hours and ten minutes. With the
guy who's been mister consistency five quality starts out of
his six. Brian wu on the mound today and I
didn't see it. I didn't see it. None of us
saw it. Now I want to say, you heard me
(05:50):
coin the phrase each your crow, bro when it came
to Sherder Sanders.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Well today.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
It's time for me. Three weeks ago and I want
to say this. We were at Jimmy's on First and
we'll be there a week from today for the Yankees
Afternoon Special, which will happen a week from today. We
look forward to beat out Jimmy's on First always since
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April ninth. So April eighth was the extra innings loss
to Houston twelve innings they couldn't get a runner over
in the tenth, eleventh, or twelfth inning. Since that game,
the Mariners are seventeen and six for the best record
in baseball. In that span, they've won forty seven out
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of the last sixty three games against the A's, so
they own the A's and hopefully it'll be forty eight
out of the last sixty four after today's game is over.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
But it's just nice to see to watch this.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
JP Crawford last night extended the longest active hitting streaking
the Majors to fourteen games after singling in the fifth inning.
Everything is just coming together, man, everything And Colin Schnyder
gave up the go ahead single to Miguel anderhar on
(07:20):
the eighth, but he was able to get out of it.
So today it's time for MJ yours, truly Mark James,
to eat some crow bro.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Here.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
We were back on Wednesday, April ninth, the rubber game
of the series versus Houston. And remember that day I
was on a plane in Vegas and that day the
Mariners were down five nothing to start that game, and
they came back and won on a Randy Rose Arena
(07:53):
Grand Slam to get things going. But it's time for
me because I will eat crow bro too. I will,
and I want you to listen to this on Wednesday,
April ninth, then and then of course now, because when
you win, I give credit where credit is due. But
here I was three weeks ago today, right at this
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very moment, four and eight best pitching staff in baseball
four and eight, you're wasting the best pitching staff in
baseball right now. But one guy in particular, Julio Rodriguez,
one for fifteen in his last four games, oh for
eight in the series against Houston.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Can't get a hit.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
To quote the lake great Tommy Lesorda, couldn't hit water
if he fel out of an f and boat.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
That's it. And they're in lies. Why this team is
where they are.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
And I'm seeing a lot of fans outside right now
and on side on the sidewalk, and family's coming out
here for the first pitch at one ten, and I'm
seeing a lot of forty four jerseys and man, for
a guy who is currently the face of Seattle sports,
it's not just on him. I mean, look at cal Raley.
Yeah you had double last night. He's not even batting
his weight. He's having a horrible season start to the year,
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two oh five. You look at it right now, your
second third and clean up hitter are batting one seventy eight,
two oh five and one fifty nine.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I'm surprised this team isn't o to twelve.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
If it wasn't for the comeback against the Tigers to
start the season and then the other night against the
Astros when Polanco bailed them out there, this team could
be one and eleven oh to twelve right now.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
No further questions, you're honor. The prosecution rests Tom the
eat your crow bro. Oh and that was worse than that.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
I went on and on and on, and I just said,
you know, a Gerard de Poto, you get what you deserve.
You spend five million dollars on crap like Donovan Solano
and Rowdy Talz, you get what you deserve. Oh yeah, oh,
I was even that. That was the good part. That
was the nice part of my rant. Since that rant,
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this team is seven teen and six. I don't know.
I'm not taking credit for it. I'm just saying that
that rant and then they go they win seventeen of
their next twenty three games.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
So.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Glean into that what you will. But it looks different,
it feels different, and I'm giving a lot of credit.
Oh from the two to zero six Mark, don't eat
crow yet, it's too early.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Give it time. Sincerely, lifelong MS. Fan Elston.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Oh, well, MJ's rant about Julio zero and four start yesterday.
Start a streak for Julio. Keep bagging on Julio. Mark, Hey,
he played great last night. You hear this, It's a
golf clap, That's why you can hardly hear it. That's
what he should do. He got two hundred and nine
(10:57):
point three million reasons to have games like that. Not
every game, not every game, because even Shoeotani has bad games,
even Aaron Judge and Mookie Betts and Juan Soda Wan
SODA's ind a few of them this year, a lot
of them actually. But that's what Julio should be doing
on a consistent basis. He's got the talent and the potential,
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got the talent in potential.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
So yeah, yeah, I'm here. I'm here to eat crow.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
A lot of you hymns fans are funny on the
free agent text line four nine four five one. Hey,
you want to go ahead, you want to do a
rant about me? The voice text line is always open
to voice text it go off on me.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Feel free. I'm here to eat crow all day long.
I'll eat it and I'll you know what it tastes good?
I want to keep eating crow.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Oh you know something I did eat yesterday for the
first time, Christopher Kid, Frisco Freeze. I was in Tacoma
yesterday and Gary Hill best burger I've had in the PNW.
I love Frisco freaking Freeze. So they have this burger,
(12:14):
and I tell I want the grilled onions so well
done that they're like burn to a to a crisp.
They did it, and I said, no, Lettuce, no mustard.
You don't put mustard on burgers. No, no, no, no no.
You put mustard on the hot dogs, not burgers. No,
Lettuce know it. And they put red relish with white sauce.
(12:37):
They said, what's white sauce? They said, well, it's just
like mayonnaise. Okay, phenomenal. Got two of them yesterday. Frett Fries,
eh eh, didn't like the fries, love the burgers. Frisco Freeze,
Gary Hill, Thank you very much, sir. I went there yesterday. Yep,
really good. So I ate Frisco Freeze yesterday. I'm gonna
(12:58):
eat Crow today and if the Mariners win again today,
I'm gonna eat Crow tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
I want to eat Crow. I want.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
This team is to me, the best team in the division.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
And the AO West.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
They're the La Rams of the American League West, the
the best team in the division, and they're playing like
it now. So it's great to see. Yes, Julio didn't
take that for oh. I was every app bat last night.
I'm just watching for that first pitch. Now, now I
will say this, here's one thing I'm gonna say about Julio.
He did take a first pitch last night in the
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ninth inning, and it should have been a ball, and
that stupid dumbass umpire called it a strike. And Angie
Mentik said, oh, he must have talking about the umpire.
Looks like he must be late for reservations to a restaurant.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
That was a good I like that one. That was
pretty good.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Yeah, he did take it and it should have been
a ball, but the mass umpire called it a strike.
So Julio, congratulations, you came through last night.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
You did.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
You should be coming through almost every night. You were
three for four home run RBI. Maybe you're coming around now,
see if you can do that. Remember what I said,
Unlike other people, I said, I don't want Julio in
the leadoff spot. Put him at second drop on the third, fourth, fifth,
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I don't care. He should never be leading off. Gotta say,
I'm looking pretty good on that one right now, really good.
And Jorge Polanco, man, he's just it's crazy, this guy.
I mean, I know he went zero for three last night,
but he finds a way to make the team better.
(14:52):
I know he'd had a good game last night.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I get it. The team was one for eight with
runners in scoring position. But yeah, yeah, I'm starting to believe.
I'm starting to believe.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Meritis fans like, no, Mark, don't, don't we've seen this
movie before. Oh no, I did lie. But here's the
reason why I believe. Because they're not relying on the pitching.
They're not just solely relying on the pitching like they
did a year ago, where it's about it's on Logan
Gilbert and George Kirby. George Kirby hasn't even thrown a
pitch this season in a real game. It's not on
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Bryce Miller and Brian wu and Emerson Hancock. It's not
they're getting it done at the plate, and it's it's
the product is aesthetically pleasing.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
I like it.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
And Ben Williamson at third base is like, I mean,
the dude looks like Brooks Robinson. I mean, he's just unbelievable.
Just Gol Glover man. He already looks like a goal Glover.
Donovan Solanough nothing, it's about time. I'm getting time. Now
we're gonna dfa this sob or DFA, this pot piece
(16:03):
of well you can you know what the last word
is rhymes with cash. Are we gonna d are we
gonna UFA? I mean, uh yeah, DFA, this pot. Let's
it's time probably there on Donovan Solano. That was three
and a half million dollars wasted. By the way, though,
speaking of three and a half million dollars, the Mariners
(16:24):
just claim leote tavers from the Rangers. So this guy
was the top prospect in baseball in twenty twenty. He
made his MLB debut at twenty one years old. He
was a number one ranked prospect in all of baseball
(16:44):
back in twenty eighteen. Has kind of been a bus
so far, Manners decide, Hey, let's bring him to Seattle.
Career two forty hitter, six sixty one ops and and
a guy that has not certainly lived up two expectations.
(17:09):
He uh at one hundred and forty three games the
year that the Rangers won the World Series in twenty
twenty three, he had. He had a great, really good
year that year, two point three war, fourteen home runs,
sixty seven RBIs. So there's talent there. Can Edgar incites
her maximize it? But I mean Here's the thing. I
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don't have a lot of hopes when a team in
the division puts him on waivers and lets him go
to a team within the division, a team that right
now is above them in the standings. So but I'm okay,
you get them at a ross dress for a less
price TJ. Max Marshall's right, Yeah, even less than north
(17:53):
Strom Rack. Yeah, Burlington Code Factory Marshall. Yeah, Marshall's one
of those. So I'm interested. I want to see what
he can do. He's a switch hitter, so and a
guy who's got some speed. He's got He's stolen at
least ten bases each season for the last four years
(18:16):
going into this year, and he's fast, lightning fast. So
maybe it's hello Tavares, goodbye Solano as that failed miserably,
So interesting to see what this team does going forward.
How do you feel? Am I? Am I drinking the
(18:38):
kool aid too early?
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Here? I know it's only May seventh? Am I drinking
it too early? Maybe? I am?
Speaker 6 (18:47):
It?
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Just it looks good.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
It like them coming back in the ninth inning last
night was like awesome. And our new friend Aaron Goldsmith
on the call last night, it just it's and you know,
to not have to rely on munyos from one game
and to bring in Vargas to come in and close
the door. Stepping up man, stepping up twenty five out
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of forty, that's what you shoot for. It's tough to do,
but they have a chance to win twenty five of
their first forty games. If you do that over the
course of a season, you win one hundred and you
go to the postseason. You win one hundred games, not
need Yeah, and with all these wild cards, you go
to the postseason. If you fall short of that and
you win ninety eight, you should go to the postseason
ninety six as well. So that's where we're at. Teams
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looking good. I'm happy. You should be happy as well.
I know, I know it's early, but I got to
give credit where credit is due. Since the rant seventeen
and six, I told you about Frisco freeze Mark from
the two five to three burgers all day long, fries
not fresh. Maybe give the fries another shot. There's some
(19:51):
of the best around. No no, no, no, no no.
I didn't like them. They were too well done. No no, no, no, Mark,
you'll be eating crow about eating crow in September from
Anti to US six. Mark you Kenny, Mark you canty
crow yet from the four two five. This is the
same team that blew a ten game lead last year.
(20:11):
They have a history of ripping our hearts out and
stomping on it and picking up and eating it. You
cannot eat crow until they're mathematically in the playoffs. Unfortunately,
that's how it works here.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Aha.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
You still aren't wrong about the dumb signings of Rowdy
and Solano. No, no, no, I'm definitely not there, But kudos, man,
I mean looking good. Last night's game was awesome. It
was awesome. M's were up like ten to thirteen games
last season before their store collapsed. We've been conditioned to
(20:43):
this in Seattle sports, he says. Ere in Seattle sports, Mark,
you'll have four find different ways to eat your crow. Crow, fajitos, crow,
cast role, crow, chili. All right, well we'll do that.
I will tell you if the crow tastes like the
burgers at Frisco Freeze, I'm all in for it. Frisco
Freesberger is phenomenal. Oh, I mean, don't give me attitude,
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like when I go to a certain other place that
rhymes with ricks. Yeah, can I get grilled onions real
well done? Yeah, sure, no problem, we'll do it for you.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Burger. I wanted more medium rare, but I.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Understand it's on the grill and they're doing all the
buns at the same time, but not gonna desionate mine ahead.
But it was still phenomenal. That red relish and mayonnaise.
Oh my, I didn't even eat ketchup. I'm like, let
me get some ketchup packets, and I tasted the burger
without the ketchup.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Phenomenal.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Frisco Freeze two thumbs up gets to Mark James MJ.
Seal's approval. All right, coming up next. You know, rankings
are like opinions. Sometimes they're accurate. Everyone has one, but
(21:52):
most of them stink. We'll get to that and why
there's some major shade being thrown on someone here in
Seattle who will tell you what next? Right here on
MJ in the midday ninety three to three, kJ are
at them. But I want to see all the teams
here be successful, the Kraken, the Mariners, the Seahawks, and
the Huskies. Now, I didn't grow up. I was not
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going to sit here and lie to you. That was
a born and raised Washington Huskies fan, I'd be lying
to you. I'm a Miami Hurricane football fan, went to
grad school there. My lifelong favorite team, my undergrad it's
my favorite college basketball program, the Arkansas Razorbacks.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
But when.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Shade is thrown at people in the PNW, now I
get a little defensive because I'm I'm.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Here, and I want to stay here, and I want
to be here.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
And so a list came out by the US say
today and the top twenty five college football coaches in America.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
So numero no, Kirby Smart number.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
One, Ryan Day number two, He's won two national championships.
Dabo Sweeney number three. This is USA today, not me.
Right now, I have to give Credie's gone back to
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back playoff semifinals.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Steve Sarkshan all right.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
James Franklin number five, Yeah, no, no, no, no, no,
he did get.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
He did you know? He reached the semifinals.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
The next time he beats Ohio State or Michigan will
be the first time. He's just this guy who gets
paid a lot of money. I haven't seen it. Number six,
Dan Lanning. I like Dan Lanning. I don't like Oregon,
but I like Dan Lanning as a coach. Wish coach
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a certain team down in the three h five. I'll
tell you that much right now, thirty nine years old,
former Georgia assistant. Look what he's done at Oregon. I
know the program, Mike Bellotti, Jim Kelly, Willie Taggart as success,
Mario Chris the ball. It's it's kind of one of
those things that you know it's the program or is
(24:21):
it him?
Speaker 6 (24:22):
No?
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Trust me, Dan Landing is is great. He is great.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
They were number one all season long until they faced
Ohio State.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
And got that ass whooped big time. But it happens.
You know what Marcus Freeman Rotre Dame.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
I would just before this season last season, you put
Marcus Freeman seven, I would have just said, well, I'm
gonna just go ahead and rip this up and put
it at you know, use it for bird. I don't
have any birds, but maybe if I ran out of
toilet paper. No, but he got to the playoff and
he had a really great year. He got to the
national championship. Actually, how about this one.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Number eight?
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Caylin de Boor did it at you dub didn't get
to the playoff at Alabama. Jalen Milroe and all of
that talent. Ryan Williams, seventeen year old stud People were
saying the possibly better than Jeremiah Smith. Yeah, uh no,
(25:28):
not on de boor not yet. He's got to have
a sustained level of success.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
I'll go with this one.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Lane Kiffin number nine, Brian Kelly number ten, Matt Campbell
number eleven, Iowa State Sure, Kyle Whittenham, Utah number thirteen.
Kirk Signetti Indiana. Yeah, hit that again, like you had
one good year. You've beat No.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
One and Nan You're like, ooh, what did we you
the higher seat?
Speaker 3 (26:04):
We should be hosting, you know, and we should be
at Bloomington. You got your ass, Kip, dude, shut up
and move on. Like and by the way, when if
you're gonna get your hair dyed, try to make.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
It look like you don't get it dyed. Okay.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Get the Tim Legler stuff, the good stuff, not the
stuff that you go to home depot or Low's and
just basically go home and put it on your head
in the shower. Oh, I can't stand Kirk Signetty number fourteen,
Kirk Farence gt f oh gt f oh, Kirk Farens. Yeah,
(26:40):
I guess if winning eight to nine games a year
is good. No, No, Chris climb in Kansas State, Sure, yeah, yeah.
They won at least nine games the past three years,
including a Big Twelve title in twenty twenty two. Jeff
Brohm Louisville. Now, he had a great season last year.
(27:01):
It's recency bias, but I'm okay with it. This guy
was under ranked. Josh Hipel seventeen should be much higher
on this. You're telling me Kirk Signett's better than Josh
Hipel GTFO GTFO number eighteen. Matt Rule, No, no, no,
(27:27):
It's gonna take a while to bring Nebraska football back
to relevancy. Nebraska football is like Georgetown basketball. I don't
know if it'll ever come back to the eighties again,
and I wouldn't hold my breath. Brett Bei Lama Illinois.
Gotta tell you right now, Illinois they're my dark horse
for twenty twenty five. If you give me an over
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under eight and a half over nine and a half
over Illinois, they're gonna be this year's Indiana. The only
thing is they're gonna actually beat ranked teams. They're gonna
beat ranked teams. Brett Bielima has theyre going to be
this Trust me when I tell you just remember this show.
Illinois twenty twenty five, Illinois Football twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Number twenty Kilani Sataki, Uh.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
No no, no, not quite. They did go eleven and
two last year, but I'm not putting him at Number
twenty Lance Lighthold Kansas, Sure, sure, yeah yeah. I mean
if you can win at Kansas in football, they've been
more successful recently in football they have been at basketball.
(28:44):
Number twenty two hit the bell three times.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Rhett Lashley smu rhtt. Lastly, yes, love him.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Former Hurricanes offensive coordinator, met him at the Final four.
This SMU is back and they are in a big way.
Number twenty three Lincoln Riley, Yes, are you kidding me?
They're thirteen and eleven In the past two years, he's
(29:17):
done nothing since his debut season, going eleven and three.
His last year with Caleb Williams, they lost about six games.
Are you kidding me? Number twenty four Eli Drinkwitz, Sorry
stop stop, and just so you know, I am not
(29:37):
a homer. Number twenty five Mario crystal Ball. Game day, dumbass,
game day, dumbass Mario crystal Ball. Nobody gets less out
of more talent, had the number one overall pick the draft,
(30:01):
had the highest scoring offense in college football history, and
had seven or eight guys drafted. And so the other
guys that didn't sign deals, they'll probably make the team,
including Xavier Strepo and Tennessee with cam Ward, Elijah Royo,
Damien Martinez, Jalen Rivers. Who I mean, and you missed
(30:22):
the twelve team playoff with the highest scoring offense in
college football history?
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Please, Mario chrystobaal Oh, now here's what it says. Just
missed the list. Dan Mullen UNLV, Bronco Mendenhall, Utah State,
Jeff Monkin, Army In, Kenny Dillingham, Arizona State. Kenny Dillingham
should be in the top twenty five. He is that great,
(30:51):
no question about. Kenny Dillingham should be way ahead of
Signetti to do what he's done. I know, I'm not
even on recency buys. This guy can coach. It's been phenomenal.
So and hello, how about Jetfish anyone? I know his
first year in Seattle at U dub was a down year.
(31:11):
First year for a lot of coaches at a school
are a down year unless you're inheriting the greatest riches
in the history of college football. Larry Koker two thousand
and one, when he had thirty eight future NFL picks,
since eighteen of them were going to be for future
first round picks, where's Jetfish? Jetfish should be on this list?
(31:33):
Where is he? And there's the disrespect? And that to me,
that's where this list And granted I get it. You
come up with it so people can debate it, right
Like I always say. You go to a party and
you say top five bands in music history for rock,
(31:53):
and I will go with Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, the Who,
the Stones, and the Doors, and people be like.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Eh, Pink, Floyd.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Pearl, Jim Metellica.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
They're not better than those five. They're just not. So
stop it, just stop it. They're just not nickelback.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
So Jedfish gonna be a big year for you, dub
Demon Williams.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
That's all right. Let them not notice you, let them
not notice you.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
And I can't rank Jimmy Rodgers yet because you know what,
there's no sample size there. He's the thirty fifth it
coach at n Wazoo history. He's got potential. We'll see
he's only thirty eight years old. He's younger than Dillingham.
We'll see, so I can't rank him yet. But Jetfish
not being on this list makes this list invalid.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
It's a joke.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Jetfish is definitely one of the top twenty five coaches
in college football. You know what one of my idols
one said, just when they think they have all the answers,
I change the questions. Well, this is what happens when
someone who interviewed a guy we all know and decided
(33:11):
to get a little too well, let's just say antagonistic.
We'll hear that next and hitting to all Fields MJ.
In the midday ninety three to three, KJR FM started
hitting the All Fields. Dave Portnoy has been on a
tirade recently. He owns a bar in Philadelphia that has
(33:34):
to do with barstool Sports and somebody put just this
absolutely disgusting, reprehensible anti Semitic slur up there, and Portnoy
found out the two guys who did it. He has
decided to, along with Robert Kraft, who is a part
of the you know, anti Defamationion Defamation League in New England,
(33:55):
to send these two like absolutely complete losers to Auschwitz
and then get them to see exactly that you don't
put what they put on the bar in Philadelphia, so
port Andoy's being interviewed by a bunch of immediate organizations,
and he was kind of like turning lem down. And
let's just say that some woman decides that she's gonna
(34:17):
get a little spicy with el pres.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
Here's why I.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Would say is causing that type environment.
Speaker 7 (34:23):
All these colleges will let Jewish kids get harassed on
campus twenty four to seven. I've been speaking out about
this since it started.
Speaker 6 (34:30):
So these professors, I'd love to know.
Speaker 7 (34:32):
First of all, that sounds like a made up thing.
Speaker 6 (34:34):
I don't know what that quote is.
Speaker 7 (34:35):
The society of sport? Where are the professors from? Where
are the professors from? Well, why do you answer, where
are the professors from?
Speaker 6 (34:47):
Well? No, you quote your quoting two people have no
idea who they are from a made up journal, So.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
Tell the other professors are from.
Speaker 6 (34:55):
Okay, So no, that's a real university. I'd like to
know how they're where are they're any interpretation. I don't
like folks that have no idea where they're coming from.
I totally disagree for what you just said. Who's creating
more hate right now in the world.
Speaker 7 (35:09):
Do you say, arsell sports with whitemen or college campuses?
You know that was that was a question to you, journalist. Well,
I don't play by those rules. What does that mean
you're a journalists. I'm a journalist. I want to I
want to give a media organization.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
I just asked you a question. No, I asked you
a question.
Speaker 7 (35:32):
You would answer the question.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
You would answer the question. All right, the interviews over.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
The interviews over, And he slammed down his laptop. Yeah,
I mean, you're not going to strong arm Dave Portnoy.
You're you're not going to.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
So he's just dealing. He's going through a lot right now.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
And I appreciate everything Portnoy is doing because what these
complete total way of humanity did in Philadelphia over the weekend,
where it was absolutely despicable. There's no place for racism,
there's no place for anti semitism. There's and by the way,
I'm not going on in some political soapbox here. There's
just no there's no place in twenty twenty five for
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any of that crap.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Okay, none of it.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
And I don't blame Portnoy for being pissed off and
he's doing the right thing, and you know, it's just man.
You just when I saw that this weekend and I
was like, oh no, at his at his bar, and
then some guy uploaded on social media and now this
guy's playing the role of the victim in Portnoy is
just destroying this guy and he's Yeah, it's just not good.
(36:41):
But that interview right there, you're not going to get
into a situation where you start strong arming him.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
He's kind of he's been at this.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
Game for a long time, and I mean he's just
trying to make sure that none of this stuff it
gets glorified at all. And the fact that it's even
out there is just and it's disgusting. It really truly
is sol go presco man. I hope you fight the
good fight, all right. Coming up next Curtis Crabtree from
Fox thirteen. We'll talk about the red hot Seattle Mariners
(37:14):
and how this team has been able to go seventeen
and six over the last three weeks with the best
record in baseball.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Next on MJ in the Miday ninety three three, kJ
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