Headlines and the Mariners look to go up 2-0 in Toronto this afternoon. Fatigue was a BIG storyline on the broadcast last night, but it felt overblown as the Mariners seemed just fine and got the game 1 win. :30- Have we had a better weekend in Seattle sports than this past weekend? :35- We had a rough week last week, can Chuck right the ship with his Fact or Fiction pick this morning? :45- ABCs of the Mariners - V is for Vlad Jr: he was electric against the Yankees, but Miller and staff kept him under control last night. - W is for Wilson: there was a narrative going that AJ Hinch outmanaged Dan Wilson, but that changed when Hinch took out Skubal on Friday.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Facing the top hitting team in baseball, which showed Happy
put it the ditching series in the first touch two
straight hits the.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
New series, same story for this good kids out. It's
one kitchen, it's one.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
The alphant chimes, one right thing.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
K Ryan, He's connected and tied the game.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
In the six It's the big dumper when the Mariners
need him most. In Game one of the Championship series
is tied up, go ahead, running second, two gone in
the sixth to three to two. Laco rips on the
left field pace head Rodriguez heads home and the Mariners
have taken the league first and third one gone in
(00:51):
a one run game.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Planco chops it right side and third.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Horgey Polanco has delivered again three to one, and Ponto
has tiken.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
In the last two flay.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
It was a twenty seven pitch first inning for Bryce Miller,
and it looked like the worst nightmare was maybe gonna
happen coming off of that long game five.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I've been digging to the pen quickly. They still haven't
thrown one hundred pitches total.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
The O two from Munos popped up. The Seattle Mariners
retired twenty three of the last twenty four and in
one hundred pitches shut down the Blue Jays.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
In Game one. We've got good Fiji.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yeah, it's Chuck a Buck in the morning. Happy Monday
to you all. Chuck Powellbucky Jacobson, and Ashley Ryan are
with you till ten o'clock this morning. And yes, we
will be talking some football today. We got an hour
of Monday Morning Quarterback with the two top analysts you're
gonna find anywhere, Mike Homer and Hume Mellon joining from
eight to nine. But we're only having an hour so
(02:03):
that we can create more space to talk Mariners baseball,
which we will be doing here shortly as we get
this seven o'clock hour started on a Frost Brewed course
Light Choose Chill Monday, counting you down to Monday Night
football right here at Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
And of course we've got Frost Brewed course Light Choose
(02:23):
Chill headlines to deliver as well. Those were the highlights
from Fox Sports last night. I want to talk about
those two sons of guns here in a little bit.
Joe Davis and John Smoltz on the call last night
Fox Sports as the Mariners do win Game number one
of the American League Championship Series by a final score
of three to one. Of course, the Ms wrapped up
(02:46):
the divisional series in a memorable fifteen inning marathon Friday
night at home, one of the more stressful games that
any fan of a team is ever going to have
to be put through. They pulled it off Friday night
in the spectacular fashion, kept them alive in the American
League Playoffs Major League Baseball Playoffs, and they're off to
(03:09):
a good start, one step toward the World Series. Winning
Game number one last night over Kevin Gosman and the
Jays and come from behind fashion. Three to one was
the final score. Game two will be today two o'clock
start time, and yes, Logan Gilbert is getting the start.
He'll be going up against Toronto rookie tray Y Savage.
(03:29):
So that's your matchup, and again we'll talk more about
that in a moment. Game one of the National League
Championship Series will also get underway today. That's at five
o'clock tonight, so game two of a doubleheader. The Dodgers
will be in Milwaukee to take on the Brewers Seahawks
twenty to twelve winners over the Jacksonville Jaguars. So the
Seahawks improved a four and two and danger going to
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three and three. Mmahn, did they come through? I can't
wait to hear Hughan coaches analysis on this, because they
were playing without their basically their entire starting secondary and
still somehow came up with a game plan that led
them to a twenty to twelve victory over a Jacksonville
team that had been flat out humming. Trevor Lawrence had
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been sacked six times in the first five games of
the year. He was sacked seven times yesterday by the
Seahawks alone. So the pass rush does this one eighty
turnaround from the previous week and you win over hot
Jacksonville team without your secondary, which was supposed to be
really one of the strengths, if not the strength of
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the team. Unreal, I mean just unreal. Sports are cool.
So Seahawks four and two. They're tied with the Rams
and the forty nine ers now atop the NFC West.
Monday Night Football Tonight Buffalo at Atlanta, Chicago at Washington
Caleb Williams versus Jaden Daniels. Is this going to be
a future rivalry? Is this the next Manning versus Brady.
(04:56):
So that's the matchups tonight. So two games on Monday Football.
Seahawks will play Monday Night Football next week, by the way,
against the Houston Texans and college football. You Dub went
over Rutgers Friday night, thirty eight nineteen behind Demon Williams,
junior's best game as a collegiate yet over four hundred
yards passing one hundred and thirty six yards rushing, four
(05:16):
total touchdowns, and the Huskies get a little bit of
revenge against the team that unceremoniously defeated him a year
ago at Rutgers. Oregon lost to Indiana and Indiana has
moved to the number three spot in the country. Penn
State lost their third straight and have fired their head coach,
James Franklin. Meanwhile, the Kraken have started two to zero.
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They'll be at Montreal, first road game of the year
tomorrow night to take on the Canadian And so, my goodness,
there's a lot going on. Bilet Coog's a near miss
against Ole Miss. How about that almost beat the fourth
ranked team in the country for goodness sake, And you
Dub will be at Michigan this week. So at some
point this week, we'll have some time to start counting
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down what a really big game for Jedfish and the Dogs.
But that's probably not going to happen today because we
got baseball to talk about, and Greg Bell not with
us today traveling, and so he'll be back with us
tomorrow and we'll get his thoughts on the Seahawks win
over the Jaguars and much much more. I think he
even wants to talk some baseball.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
If I know that Greg Bell, I would imagine, yeah,
he's gonna do He's gonna go there and watch it.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Yeah, I think he's going, yeah, to go cover it
up in Toronto. I think it's just an excuse.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
For him to go to Toronto.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
I mean, great excuse.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
He does love loonies and toonies.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Loonies and toonies, their money.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Oh, one dollar coins and two dollar coins, loonies and toes.
I did not know that.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Yeah, they were a little crazy, and then.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Well they are crazy.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
The Canadian people are loonies, but they spend loonies as well.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Well.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Logan Gilbert is going to start today on just two
days rest, and so I suppose we're gonna have to
brace ourselves for television duo tonight call in the game
to talk about how it's impossible for Logan Gilbert to
have any energy or strength today, because that's pretty much
what the conversation was for five straight innings last night.
Was John Smoltz, and he's very good and very smart,
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and he knows playoffs. I mean, he's played in a
thousand playoff games, for goodness sake, and he's not the
only one. A lot of people were sharing the thought
over the course of Sunday that, man, the Mariners really,
I mean, they might win the series, but you can
just ride off game number one. They're just going to
be so tired and so emotionally spent and they exhausted
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from travel. And I just didn't really understand that take whatsoever.
But I had to hear John Smoltz talk about it
for five innings and how great Kevin Gosman was. And
then right around the bottom of the fifth, when the
bottom of the fifth got over, it's like a light
bulb went off in the booth and they're like, oh, man,
Miller's matching this guy pitch for pitch. He doesn't look
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higher at all.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
And then in the sixth though, we finally get to
Gauzman and eventually win the baseball game. But I mean,
I get it. If we would have played that fifteen
inning game and then we're asked, you got to play
the Blue Jays tomorrow morning? Yeah yeah, or hey, you
guys up for a doubleheader. We'd really like just to
carry this moment. We got a big audience right now,
(08:22):
and if just go get a snack.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yep, yeah, an orange slice? Yeah, I get an orange
eleven thirty.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
We're gonna we're gonna drag the field eleven thirty. You
got to get your pitcherre ready to go. WHOA, we
don't know what it's gonna be. Figure it out.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Toronto has decided to sacrifice home field advantage to play
you right now.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Yeah, they're waiting, Yeah, just waiting for Detroit to get
out of the clubhouse. They're going to get their unis
on real quick. We'll get this thing rolling.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
I mean, it was an ideal that we had to
use three of our guys and our rotation Friday night
to wrap up the division. That certainly wasn't the game
plan right thing to do. Good job, Dan to not
hesitate to go ahead it. I mean, you've got to
win the divisional series to get to the ALCS. So
(09:06):
you know, you do whatever it takes and then you
worry about tomorrow tomorrow. But I mean, you got an
entire day of travel, and then you've got an entire
day the next day until you have to play at
night on a Monday. These are all guys in their
twenties for goodness sake, almost all of them, with the
(09:28):
exception of George Springer and his weird bowl haircut with
the ball pat weird. Yeah, just shave it, George.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Yeah, great, good looking guy.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
You don't need to You don't need to hang on
to what you got there.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Yeah, hold on doing there. I think it looks great
on you.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Looks like a Yeah, it looks like a bird's nest
fell upside down, cracked all its eggs. So, I mean,
I just didn't quite get the n ear and maybe
they were a little sluggish. I don't know. I think
they just got Gosman. I think Gosman was sharp. I
think that's a tough man for them. But Bryce Miller
certainly didn't look fatigued. The defense certainly didn't look fatigued,
(10:07):
and I just thought that was an overdone narrative going
into the game and during the game from the broadcasters
last night, and so you know, if I'm to believe you, John,
then wow, what a miraculous win by us. I can't
believe we defeated a team that we match up really
well against and are simply better than. I can't believe
(10:29):
we pulled that off since the last time we played
was forty eight hours ago. From the first pitch that
I am stunned.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Yeah, super super surprised by that.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
There have been miracles, but this one takes the cake.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
I mean, I get that, Okay, if I get the
idea that this narrative would pop up, right, fifteen innings
is not a little thing, but it's like to some degree,
like let's just think about, Okay, outside of Gilbert and
Castillo throwing and Kirby obviously the other guys, what happens
(11:05):
during the regular season with the reliever? If they throw
a day or two days in a row, what do
they get off? Usually before they're live again?
Speaker 3 (11:14):
One day off.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Okay, Bizardo was warming up yesterday, right, but then we
didn't need him because Spier went out and shoved for
four straight pitches. Thanks for the inning. I'm back on track.
Or so it would seem. And then it was like, okay,
now we can go brash Munos and we're ready to
rock and roll. But Bizardro was ready to go. He's
the one that threw the most pitches, and yet he
(11:36):
was ready to go. So other outside of that pitching wise.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
You were good to go.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
It it puts you in a position to where you
had to make a decision or we're gonna go Luis Castillo,
who threw the fewer between him and Logan Gilbert.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Or we do we trust Bryce on short on short
short rest.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
But then again, like he had said in that thing earlier,
well sometimes we think about wouldn't it just be better
to not throw a bullpen and just throw on four
days rest? Anyways, and after him only throwing fifty five pitches,
it was obvious now in hindsight, but it makes sense
even leading into it, if someone would have brought the
narrative up of boy, these guys got to be tired,
and he's coming back on short rest, like he might
(12:18):
raise his hand and go.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
I only threw fifty five pitches.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Yeah, Like I'm not really I wasn't tired when I
left the game two days ago, three days ago.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
I'm not dismiss it. It's a valid talking point. I
just think it just got overdone.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Exact exactly, because there's just nothing about this time of
year that you didn't train for. You trained to hopefully
get to be able to play extra baseball in October,
and these guys are young and they're resilient talked. I
said it on the postgame show yesterday that this trip
that we took to Detroit was the first time that
I was affected by travel, like, genuinely my physical body
(12:55):
was not feeling good after the flight there and then
walk around and standing up and just doing all the
stuff that we were doing.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Good thing Dan did and Penciley in the lineup.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
I went to him, you know, I mean all the
starting pitchers went to him and said, hey, I'm ready
to pitch in Game five. I went to him and said, hey, skip,
don't put me in the day. My ankles are swollen
from the flight.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
And I will say, though, that is a good point
that I was I wanted to talk about too, the
fact that all of the starters went to him and
we're like, yep, we're here, whatever you need, use us.
Not one of them would have said no, sorry, Skip,
can't go a little tired. I mean, it's the playoffs.
They all want to do whatever they can do to
help this team win, and that's very evident.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Yeah, and I just kept hearing that emotionally drained, emotionally drained.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
They won.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Yeah, and they lost that game and had to play
the next day.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Yeah, but they didn't even have a plane to fly
to Toronto.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
Yeah, they just floated.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
There, right, I mean, come on, you won one of
the most memorable got wrench. I mean that just that
just lifts all boats, you know, that tied and so
I just really wasn't all that worried about it, and
maybe they did start a little flat. I don't know.
Kind of felt like if Dan Wilson would have challenged
that play call at home, like his coaches whose job
(14:14):
is to review things and should have notified him that
he might be safe. Skip, And this is a huge
momentum changer. If we can score here early on, you know,
maybe we get off to a much faster start and
never have to look back. I don't know, sliding doors,
I suppose, but they do get to win last night.
Three to one is your final score. Now they get
ready for game number two, and here's Logan and he's
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never done this before. First of all, he's never been
a relief pitcher. He's never coming into relief, and he
goes two plus innings, and he did look like he
was starting to fatigue in that third inning. And he's
only on two days rest since that time. So I mean,
this is uncharted territory. He's never done it before. But
the dudes like Gumby first of all, and so I
(14:56):
think we're gonna see something similar. I think we're gonna
see him, maybe not be the best version of himself,
but I think we're going to see a really good
version of Logan Gilbert here tonight against the Blue Jays.
And then anybody doubt Bryce Miller can pitch in the
playoffs now, I hope not by Brian Wo's on this
(15:18):
roster for a reason, and I don't think it's in
case we need him in the seventh game. I mean,
he's got to be able to pitch in some fashion,
and if we've got I don't have any problem at
all giving Bryce Miller the ball in Game five if
Brian Wo's used in relief today to number one, because
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we need the innings and number two to test him
so that you don't have to start him, and you
can take him out after three batters if you need to,
if it's just not right, you know what I'm saying,
Or if he is injured, you can take him out immediately.
You can take him out after one pitch if he
if he's still injured. But you do have that he
made the roster for a reason. He is there, and
(16:01):
I would imagine could go innings if you needed him
to go to go that far. But I expect Logan
Gilbert to give us at least five here, and I
think they're gonna be five really quality innings.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Well, I mean, ultimately, there's no pitcher on our staff
and pretty much on any staff across baseball that at
this point in time in the season that you're going
to allow him to just all right, Bud, Sorry, you
got to eat some innings like you do in the
regular season. Meaning the hook is quicker to yank somebody
out here if they don't got it right, if they
just don't have it. And so what we've seen so
(16:36):
far is a team that really with the I mean,
you didn't have Brian wou and yet you just won
a series in five games, the fifth game of which
went fifteen innings, and you were without the dude that
basically has been your best performer from start to finish
this season, right, And so that tells you the depth, right.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
You know, we were talking with Bryce Millery be in the.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Bullpen right right if you were before the peck injury
to Brian Wu. And yet that's not a knock against him.
That says something about the rest of the team. And
so to me, when you talk about Logan Gilbert, Logan
Gilbert was ready to come in and relief and not
just get out of a jam, but to throw a
couple innings because he is a gumbay ish because he
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does all this weird stuff with these water balls and
snow globes and exercises to make his arm feel as
good as possible for one hundred pitches and then a
few days off on one hundred pitches. And now when
you get to the end, it's not a matter of
do you have even a couple drops left in the
gas tank, it's.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Can you go shove it?
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Because that's what he's expecting to do, is every five
days or every four days, go out and shove. When
you all of a sudden mix in something that is
basically a really cool bullpen. He doesn't get to come
out in the dark with music playing and flame shooting
out that he shoots out. He usually just wanders in
right before the game with a towel around his neck.
(18:01):
Just hey, somebody grab my water my snow globe bag
for me, will you. You know, he just usually wanders
in instead, he gets to come in with all of
that excitement. He's not going to be spent because of it.
Now again, if he gets into trouble in the fourth
or the fifth or the sixth, so be it. I
just don't think it's gonna happen. I think that guys
(18:21):
with split fingers, there's a usually when you get in
trouble with that, it's when you overthrow it. It starts
to spend more. It doesn't have the same drop off
the table. I think him with his big, long, gangly fingers,
he's gonna just split these guys to death.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
Love it.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
By the way, I don't know if he heard his
postgame interview last night, but they had asked Bryce Miller,
what did cal say to you in the first inning,
and Bryce said, normally, I don't even really listen to
what he says, and so it was, but I think
that he went on to say life, but yeah, he
(18:59):
was just trying to like calm me down in the moment.
So they asked Logan about it, and Logan says, yeah,
Cal's visits. Sometimes he just comes out and just stares
at me. Sometimes he doesn't say anything. It's just they're
just really awkward. That's hilarious. But Cal's just disappointed with
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him and goes out there and puts his glove over
his mouth and doesn't even say.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Well, you're trying to change whatever mindset they're in. Wouldn't
that do it?
Speaker 4 (19:33):
If he just walked up somebody and they're expecting to
say something, you just look at him. They're just like,
you need to say something, and then he are you
going to say something? Or on the button runs back yeah,
and then you're just like, what the hell.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
That was your visit?
Speaker 2 (19:49):
How amazing is the relationship between that? And it's amazing incredible?
All right? Coming out next, we'll play some factor fiction
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Speaker 4 (20:07):
Bryce also said that he doesn't always hear what Kyl
is saying when they have the mound visits.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Is that a lot of you guys do that?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Or how does that work?
Speaker 3 (20:17):
He has weird mound does its.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
It's sometimes he doesn't say anything, he just or maybe
I'm missing what he says, but he just kind of
walks out there and stands there and looks at me.
It's kind of awkward sometimes, but I think there's.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
He has weird mound visits.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Just looks at me.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Well, I've never seen that or heard that he said it. Yeah,
But I mean I've been a part of like some
that are it's like in the movie, you know, Major League,
like breathe through your eyelids. It's like you you know,
there's times when people will say things that have nothing
to do with the game.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
You know, now, what are we gonna get so and
so for their wedding? Like there's those those things do happen.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
I've just never heard of a pitch catcher going out
and just staring at him and when you painted the
picture of can you imagine I'm just putting his glove
over his mouth, Because that's what they do so they
don't want somebody to read their lips.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
And then but not saying anything, just just staring at him.
That is one of the one of the funnier things ever.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Yeah, the first time it happened. What what do you
say anything?
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Just pat him on the button.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
The best is too, though, if he's actually saying stuff
but they just don't hear it and they think he's
just out there staring.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
At him, and they're like, what the hell is that?
And Cal's like, God, I hope they heard me.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Oh they know what it's about. Oh yeah, yeah, there's
just a stop.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Doing whatever you're doing right now.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Yeah, yeah, that's that's what it is.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Time to shove.
Speaker 8 (21:47):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. I don't have to say the words,
right you read my eyes? Yeah, they get it. Throw
what I'm calling and execute. Huh that's what his eyes
are saying. Speaking Calonese, that's right. The words are needed.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Factor fiction coming your way in about a minute and
a half. I just want to spend ninety seconds just
I mean, what a weekend. I don't know. I've lived
here for ten years, nothing like it. I don't know
people that have lived there here their entire lives. I mean,
I know you haven't had a lot of Major League
Baseball playoff moments, those that Mariner fans do have, they
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certainly hold precious well. You've added to that lexicon. You've
never had a night like Friday night. While Demand Williams,
for the first time in his young career, is playing,
heismany over there on Montlake Wild Softy is dying a
thousand deaths because he can't be in two places at once.
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And then you not only win that over the weekend,
but since last we've talked, we've won ALCS game to
get this, get that series started. The Seahawks won really
in spectacular fashion. I mean, taking on a four and
one team, sacking Trevor Lawrence seven times, he'd only sacks
six times all year, winning with a depleted secondary, pretty
(23:05):
much your entire secondary wiped out. And not just winning,
but you're a better team. You're the better team Sunday,
so that was huge, cracking her off to a two
and oh start for the first time. Enfranchise is overtime
win on Saturday. I mean Sounders and the Sounders one.
Sounders and Ducks lost. The Ducks lost the Batch. I mean,
(23:26):
it doesn't get I can't imagine it gets better than that.
I can't imagine. I mean yeah, maybe winning a Super
Bowl trump's everything. I don't know, but in terms of
everybody doing their part over a weekend.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Whoa yeah.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
I was even having the thought like, ooh, the Huskies
won the crack like I and now the Seahawks.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
I hope we didn't use all of our winning up
well more?
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Yeah, exactly. All right, let's play some Factor fiction.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Where's that to go?
Speaker 2 (23:54):
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Speaker 2 (24:28):
All right, we didn't have a winning week this week?
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Did we know?
Speaker 5 (24:32):
We were three and two because of another guy? Two
and three?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Two and three and three? Yeah, two and three and
another push, our third push in two weeks. Otherwise what
a record we would have right now? But nonetheless, we'll
pick it back up today. Normally I'll pick the Monday
night game because I know that the Factor fiction players
out there. I really like to have something on the
line every single night. But there are two games tonight,
(24:55):
and I would imagine if I leave both of those
games to the rest of the show. Oh, somebody's gonna
gobble something up. I just don't like those games. I
don't want to go anywhere near those two games here tonight.
So I'm gonna go ahead and skip ahead to the
next week. In the National Football League, Look, I was
wrong about the Indianapolis Colts. They are obviously better. I
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took them under seven and a half in our Green
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wondering by how much. But I can't believe I'm that wrong.
I don't I think that their face, they've they've had
some circumstantial stuff that has allowed them to build this
impressive record of theirs. I just don't think they're better
than the Chargers. And they'll be at the Chargers this
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measly one point to the Indianapolis Colts. I think they're
beating the Colts. I think They're going to be better
than the Colts this year. So I'm gonna take the
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on Sunday. That is my pick for this Monday. On
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We do a daily Mariner segment. We've done it all
season long. We're certainly not gonna stop at the American
League Championship Series. We do you think we are nuts?
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Be weird? Yeah? What do you say this? Now?
Speaker 5 (29:12):
That'd just be a stupid idea.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
It was a good season, boys, mission accomplish. Job's done here,
That's what we were hoping for. In one game in
the American League Championship Series done with the ABCS.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
We left off of the letter vvs four Vlad Junior,
who obviously draw some attention. Remember not long ago we
were wondering what it would take to get him at
last year's trading deadline when the Blue Jays were having
such a bad season. They not only held on to him,
they extended him. There clearly building around him, and man,
it really looked like it was paying off.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
This year.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
He had a good season, very good season, and had
a tremendous series against the New York Yankees. Hit over
five hundred, hit three home runs, he knocked in nine
runs for goodness sake, and that five assuming four games
that he played against the New York Yankees. But last
night against Bryce Miller and company, h er for four
and pretty much just had him grounding out the JP
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every single at that.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Well, that first inning when it was when things got
Harry right, the very first out, the first ball gets
hit out of the yard and then then he ends
up walking a dude, right, He ends up walking that
Nathaniel Lukes, which actually struck him out. That was a
great pitch. First would have been strike three, they called
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it a ball. And then Vlad comes out and he
smashes that first one, and that was one of those like, oh,
to me, anyways, that's my first like okay, because it
felt like it could just go south the way in
which the first ab and then that long ab that
he ends up battling and battling, and it's even longer
because he hits the ball off his knee and and
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so Vlad comes up there and ends up scorching one luckily.
Right to Julio, that was like a okay, boom, because
that's the that's a dude that can absolutely kill you
by himself.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
And so other than that, he did end up.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
Everybody from that point forward ended up getting him out
fairly easily. But that was one where I felt like
we got we got away with one.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
He's very scary, but we do match up well, Like
all of our pitchers are right handed, our starting pitchers
and all of their best hitters, Kirk Guerrero Springer, when
Baschet's there and he's not there right now, I mean,
this is why we match up so well against them,
and it's not that Vladimir Guerrero Junior can't hit right handers,
but we do match up better against this team than
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we would have the Yankees.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Same.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
On the flip side, we struggle a little bit against
left handed starters. We're not going to face one unless
they throw Eric Lauer into a game just to take
advantage of that fact. But I don't think that's going
to happen either. So we match up pretty well, and
last night I thought was a pretty good indication of that.
Bryce Miller could tie some really hot hitters into knots
and we come out of that pretty much unscathed. Toronto
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couldn't be hotter entering that series, and they went one
for twenty eight after George Springer Homer to start the game.
Not bad ws for Wilson. Hell, there's a bit of
a narrative that aj Hinch had been out managing Dan
Wilson in the Alds, but on that last day, man,
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I don't know what aj Hinch was thinking. Tanking out
Trek schoobl Friday night, Well, that was to me insanity.
Six innings, fifteen in a row, set down in order,
showing absolutely no fatigue and he did us a favor.
As I said in the postgame, and I've said it
numerous times, whenever the opposing dugout when you make a
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pitching change and the opposing dougout says, oh my god,
you've made a mistake, and man, what a major man.
I still do to this moment understand it. I will
never understand that decision. And it might have been the
reason why we ended up pulling that game off because
in the seventh inning, the first inning without him on
the mound, we scored a run, tied things up, and
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then went into the fifteen innings. But then last night
Dan obviously got some bad information because that game could
have been a little easier last night. I don't know
why they didn't challenge that play at home plate and
the first inning he looked to my naked eye looked
out to me as well. But that's what you have
that team. This is a team that fact that had
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a call. Hey challenge this because the second baseman's heels
are on the grass, yep. I mean, if they're watching
that closely and nobody took the time to see that,
Calm very well might have gotten his cleat in under
Alejandro Kirk and on the base or on home plate
before he was touched.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
That was a big error.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
The vast difference between those two situations one run in,
two runs, two runners on base and only one out
versus no runs in, two runners on base and two outs.
I mean, just the vast difference, the vast advantage that
you get by possibly getting that thing overturned was worth
losing a challenge at that point, Yeah, what's worth You've
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got to give it a shot. You're right, because of
how big the difference is that the idea of that
us sitting there first and third and they get his
Polonko to ground out and then get the guy out
at home plate. Boom, You're sitting there first and second,
no runs scored. Looks like you're going to escape this
possible run scoring situation. Versus two guys on one run in,
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you still only have one out. A possible crooked number
is on the way.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
I think that in and of itself, the difference, the
vast difference between those like you just said, is a
reason to do it. I will say this though, I
don't think they overturn it. I mean even when they
slow it down. It just was one of those I
feel like whichever way they called it is the way
it was gonna go. And so we don't know for
sure if anything would have changed other than the fact
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you would have been down one.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
You would have been.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
Down one challenge down to your last one now and
feeling like, hopefully we don't need to use another one.
Hopefully we don't have another bang bang. That is crucial
at this point in time, because then you could be without.
And so I don't I think because of the slight
the way in which it could have vastly changed things,
I would have I would have burnt one there. But
at the same time, I don't think they would have
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changed it even if you had.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Well, it's hard for the manager. They do that whole
hold up, hold up the game. I gotta hear from
my people. Where were the people.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
Well, I'm sure they said, don't challenge it. Oh man,
I'm sure they said, I don't think it'll be overturned.
Speaker 6 (35:26):
Yeah, that was my thought too, is however it was called,
was going to be what they were going to stick with,
because I didn't see how there was a good enough
angle to stick although I also, I will say, on Friday,
didn't think that they were going to be able to
overturn that strike that Cal threw to JP to get
the runner at second, and holy moly, that was amazing.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
All right, Monday Morning Quarterback comes your way next with
Humel and Mike Hombre in Sports Radio ninety three point
three kJ R f M
Facing the top hitting team in baseball, which showed Happy
put it the ditching series in the first touch two
straight hits the.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
New series, same story for this good kids out. It's
one kitchen, it's one.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
The alphant chimes, one right thing.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
K Ryan, He's connected and tied the game.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
In the six It's the big dumper when the Mariners
need him most. In Game one of the Championship series
is tied up, go ahead, running second, two gone in
the sixth to three to two. Laco rips on the
left field pace head Rodriguez heads home and the Mariners
have taken the league first and third one gone in
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a one run game.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Planco chops it right side and third.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Horgey Polanco has delivered again three to one, and Ponto
has tiken.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
In the last two flay.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
It was a twenty seven pitch first inning for Bryce Miller,
and it looked like the worst nightmare was maybe gonna
happen coming off of that long game five.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I've been digging to the pen quickly. They still haven't
thrown one hundred pitches total.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
The O two from Munos popped up. The Seattle Mariners
retired twenty three of the last twenty four and in
one hundred pitches shut down the Blue Jays.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
In Game one. We've got good Fiji.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yeah, it's Chuck a Buck in the morning. Happy Monday
to you all. Chuck Powellbucky Jacobson, and Ashley Ryan are
with you till ten o'clock this morning. And yes, we
will be talking some football today. We got an hour
of Monday Morning Quarterback with the two top analysts you're
gonna find anywhere, Mike Homer and Hume Mellon joining from
eight to nine. But we're only having an hour so
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that we can create more space to talk Mariners baseball,
which we will be doing here shortly as we get
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And of course we've got Frost Brewed course Light Choose
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Chill headlines to deliver as well. Those were the highlights
from Fox Sports last night. I want to talk about
those two sons of guns here in a little bit.
Joe Davis and John Smoltz on the call last night
Fox Sports as the Mariners do win Game number one
of the American League Championship Series by a final score
of three to one. Of course, the Ms wrapped up
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the divisional series in a memorable fifteen inning marathon Friday
night at home, one of the more stressful games that
any fan of a team is ever going to have
to be put through. They pulled it off Friday night
in the spectacular fashion, kept them alive in the American
League Playoffs Major League Baseball Playoffs, and they're off to
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a good start, one step toward the World Series. Winning
Game number one last night over Kevin Gosman and the
Jays and come from behind fashion. Three to one was
the final score. Game two will be today two o'clock
start time, and yes, Logan Gilbert is getting the start.
He'll be going up against Toronto rookie tray Y Savage.
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So that's your matchup, and again we'll talk more about
that in a moment. Game one of the National League
Championship Series will also get underway today. That's at five
o'clock tonight, so game two of a doubleheader. The Dodgers
will be in Milwaukee to take on the Brewers Seahawks
twenty to twelve winners over the Jacksonville Jaguars. So the
Seahawks improved a four and two and danger going to
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three and three. Mmahn, did they come through? I can't
wait to hear Hughan coaches analysis on this, because they
were playing without their basically their entire starting secondary and
still somehow came up with a game plan that led
them to a twenty to twelve victory over a Jacksonville
team that had been flat out humming. Trevor Lawrence had
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been sacked six times in the first five games of
the year. He was sacked seven times yesterday by the
Seahawks alone. So the pass rush does this one eighty
turnaround from the previous week and you win over hot
Jacksonville team without your secondary, which was supposed to be
really one of the strengths, if not the strength of
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the team. Unreal, I mean just unreal. Sports are cool.
So Seahawks four and two. They're tied with the Rams
and the forty nine ers now atop the NFC West.
Monday Night Football Tonight Buffalo at Atlanta, Chicago at Washington
Caleb Williams versus Jaden Daniels. Is this going to be
a future rivalry? Is this the next Manning versus Brady.
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So that's the matchups tonight. So two games on Monday Football.
Seahawks will play Monday Night Football next week, by the way,
against the Houston Texans and college football. You Dub went
over Rutgers Friday night, thirty eight nineteen behind Demon Williams,
junior's best game as a collegiate yet over four hundred
yards passing one hundred and thirty six yards rushing, four
(05:16):
total touchdowns, and the Huskies get a little bit of
revenge against the team that unceremoniously defeated him a year
ago at Rutgers. Oregon lost to Indiana and Indiana has
moved to the number three spot in the country. Penn
State lost their third straight and have fired their head coach,
James Franklin. Meanwhile, the Kraken have started two to zero.
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They'll be at Montreal, first road game of the year
tomorrow night to take on the Canadian And so, my goodness,
there's a lot going on. Bilet Coog's a near miss
against Ole Miss. How about that almost beat the fourth
ranked team in the country for goodness sake, And you
Dub will be at Michigan this week. So at some
point this week, we'll have some time to start counting
(05:59):
down what a really big game for Jedfish and the Dogs.
But that's probably not going to happen today because we
got baseball to talk about, and Greg Bell not with
us today traveling, and so he'll be back with us
tomorrow and we'll get his thoughts on the Seahawks win
over the Jaguars and much much more. I think he
even wants to talk some baseball.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
If I know that Greg Bell, I would imagine, yeah,
he's gonna do He's gonna go there and watch it.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Yeah, I think he's going, yeah, to go cover it
up in Toronto. I think it's just an excuse.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
For him to go to Toronto.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
I mean, great excuse.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
He does love loonies and toonies.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Loonies and toonies, their money.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Oh, one dollar coins and two dollar coins, loonies and toes.
I did not know that.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Yeah, they were a little crazy, and then.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Well they are crazy.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
The Canadian people are loonies, but they spend loonies as well.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Well.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Logan Gilbert is going to start today on just two
days rest, and so I suppose we're gonna have to
brace ourselves for television duo tonight call in the game
to talk about how it's impossible for Logan Gilbert to
have any energy or strength today, because that's pretty much
what the conversation was for five straight innings last night.
Was John Smoltz, and he's very good and very smart,
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and he knows playoffs. I mean, he's played in a
thousand playoff games, for goodness sake, and he's not the
only one. A lot of people were sharing the thought
over the course of Sunday that, man, the Mariners really,
I mean, they might win the series, but you can
just ride off game number one. They're just going to
be so tired and so emotionally spent and they exhausted
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from travel. And I just didn't really understand that take whatsoever.
But I had to hear John Smoltz talk about it
for five innings and how great Kevin Gosman was. And
then right around the bottom of the fifth, when the
bottom of the fifth got over, it's like a light
bulb went off in the booth and they're like, oh, man,
Miller's matching this guy pitch for pitch. He doesn't look
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higher at all.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
And then in the sixth though, we finally get to
Gauzman and eventually win the baseball game. But I mean,
I get it. If we would have played that fifteen
inning game and then we're asked, you got to play
the Blue Jays tomorrow morning? Yeah yeah, or hey, you
guys up for a doubleheader. We'd really like just to
carry this moment. We got a big audience right now,
(08:22):
and if just go get a snack.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yep, yeah, an orange slice? Yeah, I get an orange
eleven thirty.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
We're gonna we're gonna drag the field eleven thirty. You
got to get your pitcherre ready to go. WHOA, we
don't know what it's gonna be. Figure it out.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Toronto has decided to sacrifice home field advantage to play
you right now.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Yeah, they're waiting, Yeah, just waiting for Detroit to get
out of the clubhouse. They're going to get their unis
on real quick. We'll get this thing rolling.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
I mean, it was an ideal that we had to
use three of our guys and our rotation Friday night
to wrap up the division. That certainly wasn't the game
plan right thing to do. Good job, Dan to not
hesitate to go ahead it. I mean, you've got to
win the divisional series to get to the ALCS. So
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you know, you do whatever it takes and then you
worry about tomorrow tomorrow. But I mean, you got an
entire day of travel, and then you've got an entire
day the next day until you have to play at
night on a Monday. These are all guys in their
twenties for goodness sake, almost all of them, with the
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exception of George Springer and his weird bowl haircut with
the ball pat weird. Yeah, just shave it, George.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Yeah, great, good looking guy.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
You don't need to You don't need to hang on
to what you got there.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Yeah, hold on doing there. I think it looks great
on you.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Looks like a Yeah, it looks like a bird's nest
fell upside down, cracked all its eggs. So, I mean,
I just didn't quite get the n ear and maybe
they were a little sluggish. I don't know. I think
they just got Gosman. I think Gosman was sharp. I
think that's a tough man for them. But Bryce Miller
certainly didn't look fatigued. The defense certainly didn't look fatigued,
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and I just thought that was an overdone narrative going
into the game and during the game from the broadcasters
last night, and so you know, if I'm to believe you, John,
then wow, what a miraculous win by us. I can't
believe we defeated a team that we match up really
well against and are simply better than. I can't believe
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we pulled that off since the last time we played
was forty eight hours ago. From the first pitch that
I am stunned.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Yeah, super super surprised by that.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
There have been miracles, but this one takes the cake.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
I mean, I get that, Okay, if I get the
idea that this narrative would pop up, right, fifteen innings
is not a little thing, but it's like to some degree,
like let's just think about, Okay, outside of Gilbert and
Castillo throwing and Kirby obviously the other guys, what happens
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during the regular season with the reliever? If they throw
a day or two days in a row, what do
they get off? Usually before they're live again?
Speaker 3 (11:14):
One day off.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Okay, Bizardo was warming up yesterday, right, but then we
didn't need him because Spier went out and shoved for
four straight pitches. Thanks for the inning. I'm back on track.
Or so it would seem. And then it was like, okay,
now we can go brash Munos and we're ready to
rock and roll. But Bizardro was ready to go. He's
the one that threw the most pitches, and yet he
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was ready to go. So other outside of that pitching wise.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
You were good to go.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
It it puts you in a position to where you
had to make a decision or we're gonna go Luis Castillo,
who threw the fewer between him and Logan Gilbert.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Or we do we trust Bryce on short on short
short rest.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
But then again, like he had said in that thing earlier,
well sometimes we think about wouldn't it just be better
to not throw a bullpen and just throw on four
days rest? Anyways, and after him only throwing fifty five pitches,
it was obvious now in hindsight, but it makes sense
even leading into it, if someone would have brought the
narrative up of boy, these guys got to be tired,
and he's coming back on short rest, like he might
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raise his hand and go.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
I only threw fifty five pitches.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Yeah, Like I'm not really I wasn't tired when I
left the game two days ago, three days ago.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
I'm not dismiss it. It's a valid talking point. I
just think it just got overdone.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Exact exactly, because there's just nothing about this time of
year that you didn't train for. You trained to hopefully
get to be able to play extra baseball in October,
and these guys are young and they're resilient talked. I
said it on the postgame show yesterday that this trip
that we took to Detroit was the first time that
I was affected by travel, like, genuinely my physical body
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was not feeling good after the flight there and then
walk around and standing up and just doing all the
stuff that we were doing.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Good thing Dan did and Penciley in the lineup.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
I went to him, you know, I mean all the
starting pitchers went to him and said, hey, I'm ready
to pitch in Game five. I went to him and said, hey, skip,
don't put me in the day. My ankles are swollen
from the flight.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
And I will say, though, that is a good point
that I was I wanted to talk about too, the
fact that all of the starters went to him and
we're like, yep, we're here, whatever you need, use us.
Not one of them would have said no, sorry, Skip,
can't go a little tired. I mean, it's the playoffs.
They all want to do whatever they can do to
help this team win, and that's very evident.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Yeah, and I just kept hearing that emotionally drained, emotionally drained.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
They won.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Yeah, and they lost that game and had to play
the next day.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Yeah, but they didn't even have a plane to fly
to Toronto.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
Yeah, they just floated.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
There, right, I mean, come on, you won one of
the most memorable got wrench. I mean that just that
just lifts all boats, you know, that tied and so
I just really wasn't all that worried about it, and
maybe they did start a little flat. I don't know.
Kind of felt like if Dan Wilson would have challenged
that play call at home, like his coaches whose job
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is to review things and should have notified him that
he might be safe. Skip, And this is a huge
momentum changer. If we can score here early on, you know,
maybe we get off to a much faster start and
never have to look back. I don't know, sliding doors,
I suppose, but they do get to win last night.
Three to one is your final score. Now they get
ready for game number two, and here's Logan and he's
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never done this before. First of all, he's never been
a relief pitcher. He's never coming into relief, and he
goes two plus innings, and he did look like he
was starting to fatigue in that third inning. And he's
only on two days rest since that time. So I mean,
this is uncharted territory. He's never done it before. But
the dudes like Gumby first of all, and so I
(14:56):
think we're gonna see something similar. I think we're gonna
see him, maybe not be the best version of himself,
but I think we're going to see a really good
version of Logan Gilbert here tonight against the Blue Jays.
And then anybody doubt Bryce Miller can pitch in the
playoffs now, I hope not by Brian Wo's on this
(15:18):
roster for a reason, and I don't think it's in
case we need him in the seventh game. I mean,
he's got to be able to pitch in some fashion,
and if we've got I don't have any problem at
all giving Bryce Miller the ball in Game five if
Brian Wo's used in relief today to number one, because
(15:39):
we need the innings and number two to test him
so that you don't have to start him, and you
can take him out after three batters if you need to,
if it's just not right, you know what I'm saying,
Or if he is injured, you can take him out immediately.
You can take him out after one pitch if he
if he's still injured. But you do have that he
made the roster for a reason. He is there, and
(16:01):
I would imagine could go innings if you needed him
to go to go that far. But I expect Logan
Gilbert to give us at least five here, and I
think they're gonna be five really quality innings.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Well, I mean, ultimately, there's no pitcher on our staff
and pretty much on any staff across baseball that at
this point in time in the season that you're going
to allow him to just all right, Bud, Sorry, you
got to eat some innings like you do in the
regular season. Meaning the hook is quicker to yank somebody
out here if they don't got it right, if they
just don't have it. And so what we've seen so
(16:36):
far is a team that really with the I mean,
you didn't have Brian wou and yet you just won
a series in five games, the fifth game of which
went fifteen innings, and you were without the dude that
basically has been your best performer from start to finish
this season, right, And so that tells you the depth, right.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
You know, we were talking with Bryce Millery be in the.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Bullpen right right if you were before the peck injury
to Brian Wu. And yet that's not a knock against him.
That says something about the rest of the team. And
so to me, when you talk about Logan Gilbert, Logan
Gilbert was ready to come in and relief and not
just get out of a jam, but to throw a
couple innings because he is a gumbay ish because he
(17:22):
does all this weird stuff with these water balls and
snow globes and exercises to make his arm feel as
good as possible for one hundred pitches and then a
few days off on one hundred pitches. And now when
you get to the end, it's not a matter of
do you have even a couple drops left in the
gas tank, it's.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Can you go shove it?
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Because that's what he's expecting to do, is every five
days or every four days, go out and shove. When
you all of a sudden mix in something that is
basically a really cool bullpen. He doesn't get to come
out in the dark with music playing and flame shooting
out that he shoots out. He usually just wanders in
right before the game with a towel around his neck.
(18:01):
Just hey, somebody grab my water my snow globe bag
for me, will you. You know, he just usually wanders
in instead, he gets to come in with all of
that excitement. He's not going to be spent because of it.
Now again, if he gets into trouble in the fourth
or the fifth or the sixth, so be it. I
just don't think it's gonna happen. I think that guys
(18:21):
with split fingers, there's a usually when you get in
trouble with that, it's when you overthrow it. It starts
to spend more. It doesn't have the same drop off
the table. I think him with his big, long, gangly fingers,
he's gonna just split these guys to death.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
Love it.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
By the way, I don't know if he heard his
postgame interview last night, but they had asked Bryce Miller,
what did cal say to you in the first inning,
and Bryce said, normally, I don't even really listen to
what he says, and so it was, but I think
that he went on to say life, but yeah, he
(18:59):
was just trying to like calm me down in the moment.
So they asked Logan about it, and Logan says, yeah,
Cal's visits. Sometimes he just comes out and just stares
at me. Sometimes he doesn't say anything. It's just they're
just really awkward. That's hilarious. But Cal's just disappointed with
(19:23):
him and goes out there and puts his glove over
his mouth and doesn't even say.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Well, you're trying to change whatever mindset they're in. Wouldn't
that do it?
Speaker 4 (19:33):
If he just walked up somebody and they're expecting to
say something, you just look at him. They're just like,
you need to say something, and then he are you
going to say something? Or on the button runs back yeah,
and then you're just like, what the hell.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
That was your visit?
Speaker 2 (19:49):
How amazing is the relationship between that? And it's amazing incredible?
All right? Coming out next, we'll play some factor fiction
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F M.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Bryce also said that he doesn't always hear what Kyl
is saying when they have the mound visits.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Is that a lot of you guys do that?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Or how does that work?
Speaker 3 (20:17):
He has weird mound does its.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
It's sometimes he doesn't say anything, he just or maybe
I'm missing what he says, but he just kind of
walks out there and stands there and looks at me.
It's kind of awkward sometimes, but I think there's.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
He has weird mound visits.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Just looks at me.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Well, I've never seen that or heard that he said it. Yeah,
But I mean I've been a part of like some
that are it's like in the movie, you know, Major League,
like breathe through your eyelids. It's like you you know,
there's times when people will say things that have nothing
to do with the game.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
You know, now, what are we gonna get so and
so for their wedding? Like there's those those things do happen.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
I've just never heard of a pitch catcher going out
and just staring at him and when you painted the
picture of can you imagine I'm just putting his glove
over his mouth, Because that's what they do so they
don't want somebody to read their lips.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
And then but not saying anything, just just staring at him.
That is one of the one of the funnier things ever.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Yeah, the first time it happened. What what do you
say anything?
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Just pat him on the button.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
The best is too, though, if he's actually saying stuff
but they just don't hear it and they think he's
just out there staring.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
At him, and they're like, what the hell is that?
And Cal's like, God, I hope they heard me.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Oh they know what it's about. Oh yeah, yeah, there's
just a stop.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Doing whatever you're doing right now.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Yeah, yeah, that's that's what it is.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Time to shove.
Speaker 8 (21:47):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. I don't have to say the words,
right you read my eyes? Yeah, they get it. Throw
what I'm calling and execute. Huh that's what his eyes
are saying. Speaking Calonese, that's right. The words are needed.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Factor fiction coming your way in about a minute and
a half. I just want to spend ninety seconds just
I mean, what a weekend. I don't know. I've lived
here for ten years, nothing like it. I don't know
people that have lived there here their entire lives. I mean,
I know you haven't had a lot of Major League
Baseball playoff moments, those that Mariner fans do have, they
(22:20):
certainly hold precious well. You've added to that lexicon. You've
never had a night like Friday night. While Demand Williams,
for the first time in his young career, is playing,
heismany over there on Montlake Wild Softy is dying a
thousand deaths because he can't be in two places at once.
(22:40):
And then you not only win that over the weekend,
but since last we've talked, we've won ALCS game to
get this, get that series started. The Seahawks won really
in spectacular fashion. I mean, taking on a four and
one team, sacking Trevor Lawrence seven times, he'd only sacks
six times all year, winning with a depleted secondary, pretty
(23:05):
much your entire secondary wiped out. And not just winning,
but you're a better team. You're the better team Sunday,
so that was huge, cracking her off to a two
and oh start for the first time. Enfranchise is overtime
win on Saturday. I mean Sounders and the Sounders one.
Sounders and Ducks lost. The Ducks lost the Batch. I mean,
(23:26):
it doesn't get I can't imagine it gets better than that.
I can't imagine. I mean yeah, maybe winning a Super
Bowl trump's everything. I don't know, but in terms of
everybody doing their part over a weekend.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Whoa yeah.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
I was even having the thought like, ooh, the Huskies
won the crack like I and now the Seahawks.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
I hope we didn't use all of our winning up
well more?
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Yeah, exactly. All right, let's play some Factor fiction.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Where's that to go?
Speaker 2 (23:54):
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Speaker 2 (24:28):
All right, we didn't have a winning week this week?
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Did we know?
Speaker 5 (24:32):
We were three and two because of another guy? Two
and three?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Two and three and three? Yeah, two and three and
another push, our third push in two weeks. Otherwise what
a record we would have right now? But nonetheless, we'll
pick it back up today. Normally I'll pick the Monday
night game because I know that the Factor fiction players
out there. I really like to have something on the
line every single night. But there are two games tonight,
(24:55):
and I would imagine if I leave both of those
games to the rest of the show. Oh, somebody's gonna
gobble something up. I just don't like those games. I
don't want to go anywhere near those two games here tonight.
So I'm gonna go ahead and skip ahead to the
next week. In the National Football League, Look, I was
wrong about the Indianapolis Colts. They are obviously better. I
(25:16):
took them under seven and a half in our Green
Jacket Draft. They're obviously going to eclipse that. I'm just
wondering by how much. But I can't believe I'm that wrong.
I don't I think that their face, they've they've had
some circumstantial stuff that has allowed them to build this
impressive record of theirs. I just don't think they're better
than the Chargers. And they'll be at the Chargers this
(25:38):
week and it's practically a pick them. So I'm going
to take the Los Angeles Chargers. I'm gonna lay the
measly one point to the Indianapolis Colts. I think they're
beating the Colts. I think They're going to be better
than the Colts this year. So I'm gonna take the
Chargers at home, laying a point to the Indianapolis Colts
on Sunday. That is my pick for this Monday. On
(26:02):
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(28:14):
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(29:01):
We do a daily Mariner segment. We've done it all
season long. We're certainly not gonna stop at the American
League Championship Series. We do you think we are nuts?
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Be weird? Yeah? What do you say this? Now?
Speaker 5 (29:12):
That'd just be a stupid idea.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
It was a good season, boys, mission accomplish. Job's done here,
That's what we were hoping for. In one game in
the American League Championship Series done with the ABCS.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
We left off of the letter vvs four Vlad Junior,
who obviously draw some attention. Remember not long ago we
were wondering what it would take to get him at
last year's trading deadline when the Blue Jays were having
such a bad season. They not only held on to him,
they extended him. There clearly building around him, and man,
it really looked like it was paying off.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
This year.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
He had a good season, very good season, and had
a tremendous series against the New York Yankees. Hit over
five hundred, hit three home runs, he knocked in nine
runs for goodness sake, and that five assuming four games
that he played against the New York Yankees. But last
night against Bryce Miller and company, h er for four
and pretty much just had him grounding out the JP
(30:07):
every single at that.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Well, that first inning when it was when things got
Harry right, the very first out, the first ball gets
hit out of the yard and then then he ends
up walking a dude, right, He ends up walking that
Nathaniel Lukes, which actually struck him out. That was a
great pitch. First would have been strike three, they called
(30:29):
it a ball. And then Vlad comes out and he
smashes that first one, and that was one of those like, oh,
to me, anyways, that's my first like okay, because it
felt like it could just go south the way in
which the first ab and then that long ab that
he ends up battling and battling, and it's even longer
because he hits the ball off his knee and and
(30:51):
so Vlad comes up there and ends up scorching one luckily.
Right to Julio, that was like a okay, boom, because
that's the that's a dude that can absolutely kill you
by himself.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
And so other than that, he did end up.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
Everybody from that point forward ended up getting him out
fairly easily. But that was one where I felt like
we got we got away with one.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
He's very scary, but we do match up well, Like
all of our pitchers are right handed, our starting pitchers
and all of their best hitters, Kirk Guerrero Springer, when
Baschet's there and he's not there right now, I mean,
this is why we match up so well against them,
and it's not that Vladimir Guerrero Junior can't hit right handers,
but we do match up better against this team than
(31:30):
we would have the Yankees.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Same.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
On the flip side, we struggle a little bit against
left handed starters. We're not going to face one unless
they throw Eric Lauer into a game just to take
advantage of that fact. But I don't think that's going
to happen either. So we match up pretty well, and
last night I thought was a pretty good indication of that.
Bryce Miller could tie some really hot hitters into knots
and we come out of that pretty much unscathed. Toronto
(31:55):
couldn't be hotter entering that series, and they went one
for twenty eight after George Springer Homer to start the game.
Not bad ws for Wilson. Hell, there's a bit of
a narrative that aj Hinch had been out managing Dan
Wilson in the Alds, but on that last day, man,
(32:16):
I don't know what aj Hinch was thinking. Tanking out
Trek schoobl Friday night, Well, that was to me insanity.
Six innings, fifteen in a row, set down in order,
showing absolutely no fatigue and he did us a favor.
As I said in the postgame, and I've said it
numerous times, whenever the opposing dugout when you make a
(32:38):
pitching change and the opposing dougout says, oh my god,
you've made a mistake, and man, what a major man.
I still do to this moment understand it. I will
never understand that decision. And it might have been the
reason why we ended up pulling that game off because
in the seventh inning, the first inning without him on
the mound, we scored a run, tied things up, and
(32:58):
then went into the fifteen innings. But then last night
Dan obviously got some bad information because that game could
have been a little easier last night. I don't know
why they didn't challenge that play at home plate and
the first inning he looked to my naked eye looked
out to me as well. But that's what you have
that team. This is a team that fact that had
(33:18):
a call. Hey challenge this because the second baseman's heels
are on the grass, yep. I mean, if they're watching
that closely and nobody took the time to see that,
Calm very well might have gotten his cleat in under
Alejandro Kirk and on the base or on home plate
before he was touched.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
That was a big error.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
The vast difference between those two situations one run in,
two runs, two runners on base and only one out
versus no runs in, two runners on base and two outs.
I mean, just the vast difference, the vast advantage that
you get by possibly getting that thing overturned was worth
losing a challenge at that point, Yeah, what's worth You've
(34:00):
got to give it a shot. You're right, because of
how big the difference is that the idea of that
us sitting there first and third and they get his
Polonko to ground out and then get the guy out
at home plate. Boom, You're sitting there first and second,
no runs scored. Looks like you're going to escape this
possible run scoring situation. Versus two guys on one run in,
(34:24):
you still only have one out. A possible crooked number
is on the way.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
I think that in and of itself, the difference, the
vast difference between those like you just said, is a
reason to do it. I will say this though, I
don't think they overturn it. I mean even when they
slow it down. It just was one of those I
feel like whichever way they called it is the way
it was gonna go. And so we don't know for
sure if anything would have changed other than the fact
(34:49):
you would have been down one.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
You would have been.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
Down one challenge down to your last one now and
feeling like, hopefully we don't need to use another one.
Hopefully we don't have another bang bang. That is crucial
at this point in time, because then you could be without.
And so I don't I think because of the slight
the way in which it could have vastly changed things,
I would have I would have burnt one there. But
at the same time, I don't think they would have
(35:12):
changed it even if you had.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Well, it's hard for the manager. They do that whole
hold up, hold up the game. I gotta hear from
my people. Where were the people.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
Well, I'm sure they said, don't challenge it. Oh man,
I'm sure they said, I don't think it'll be overturned.
Speaker 6 (35:26):
Yeah, that was my thought too, is however it was called,
was going to be what they were going to stick with,
because I didn't see how there was a good enough
angle to stick although I also, I will say, on Friday,
didn't think that they were going to be able to
overturn that strike that Cal threw to JP to get
the runner at second, and holy moly, that was amazing.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
All right, Monday Morning Quarterback comes your way next with
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