Chuck & Buck 10-28 Hour 1: It was a game for the ages... we did a little scouting and costume ideas!
October 28, 2025 • 35 mins
We didn’t know if we were going to watch the World Series, but two-thirds of us are sure glad we watched last night’s 18-inning classic between the Dodgers and Blue Jays. The other third is still really glad they haven’t watched a second of it. Did you watch? :30- There was a lot to watch last night between the World Series, Sounders playoff game and MNF, which we used as a scouting opportunity for the Hawks next opponent. The Seahawks and Commanders face off in Sunday Night Football and this isn’t the same Commanders team we saw last year. They’re beat up and without their starting QB, and defensively, they have been struggling, so while this may have looked like an L in August, it is looking like a winnable game if the Seahawks can play it right. :45- It’s Halloween week and we have a costume idea for the Sounders.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Crooks.
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Good morning everyone, morning, it's some time.
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he could once send a fastball to Pluto.
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I'm getting some bucky jacobs and vibes and former I'll
just openly admit I'm a fat, out of shaped X athlete.
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Now there's been a noticeable spike in your blood pressure.
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national champion.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
There's a lot of useless crap up here.
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Speaker 1 (00:56):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Hey, good morning, Welcome into this Tuesday edition up Chucking Back.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
In the Morning.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
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Happy Halloween Week to all of you.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
More very evil, Oh there's some evil. There's a right
pretty good. We welcome you to the show. A lot
to talk about today.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
And when I say we, I'm talking about Ashley Ryan,
of course I'm talking about Bucky Jacobson. I'm talking about me,
Chuck Powell. Welcome into the radio program. We got you
till ten o'clock this morning. We got cracking tickets to
give away a little bit later on in the show,
we got Factor fiction to play today. Geen Sterotaur makes
his return to the radio program.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
So a lot going on.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Will tell you all about it with what's on tap
here in a matter of mores.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
But I know that people really don't want to think
about baseball. I realized that. I get that.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I was kind of right there with you heading into
the weekend, getting so close to the World Series and
just missing it.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
And so you know, it does.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Feel like we should be still be playing baseball, just
really does.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yeah, it'd be great, it'd be awesome to right now
be hosting World Series games.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
To care about it, Yeah that's right.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Well, yeah, to care about it.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
But I'll tell you the baseball seam head in me
took over. I certainly did pay attention on Friday, and
I did pay attention on Saturday, and last night I
was ready front and center to watch me some World Series,
And oh, my goodness, am I glad that I did,
because we probably witnessed one of the greatest baseball games
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in the history of the sport last night, unbelievable eighteen innings.
Stayed up past midnight to watch all eighteen innings before
Freddie Freeman walked it off in the bottom of the
eighteenth with a solo home run. History being made practically
every pitch every inning last night. It was one of
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the greatest games you will ever see. And even though
we hate both the participants right now, certainly it was
worth checking out and leading the show with here today.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Well, good for you for staying up the whole way.
I quit after seventeen innings.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
I did you and Mary Hart's husband apparently, who's Mary Hart?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
She's the woman she's from entertainment tonight. She sits there
and the Dodgers. She sat there for twenty five years.
She sits in the front row of every Dodgers game,
her and her rich husband. No, she didn't. She You
could tell they were fighting. She was sitting there like
with her arms crossed because he was standing up. I
think he had to pooh. He is about one hundred
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and so he's like, that's not you could tell that.
He was like, Mary, I'm starting till the end of
the fending and we don't start one. And so he
was like standing with one foot up the aisle while
she was in his seat. She moved one seat closer
just to prove how like she was practically grabbing the
guy next to her legs so that she didn't have
to go. So he for there she is right there,
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right there in the highlight. She they just showed the
Will Smith home run or fly ball to the wall
and she actually stood up to grab her person.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Leave. Oh I just saw.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
That for the first time anyway, So yeah, they laughed.
After the seventeenth you and the Hearts did the exact
same time.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yeah, And it was I didn't want to.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Normally I would not, but I was tired, and I'm like,
you know what I can I can watch the rest
of this tomorrow when I get up. And yet, what
I mean, the the game itself had just about everything.
I mean, some poor plays, like there were some misplays
and then teams take advantage of that early in the game.
And the first nine inning game, that is, the second
nine inning game, there wasn't as much going on, but
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obviously the strategy comes into play where it's you score
one and you win, you know, presumably you kind of
feel like you will. Anyways, it was yesterday. My one
last thing was I'm torn or I didn't like where
where I was at because I was basically rooting for
both teams to not do well.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Well. There was a bunch of that.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
It was actually one of the more enjoyable games, not
just the the actual game itself, watching it as a
if you're just a baseball fan, all of the perfect
relay throws and the the off script plays that somebody
would come up with something big, but even more so
like I'm up there torn because I'm like, I don't
want you to come through right here, and then sure
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enough they wouldn't come through it and come through, and
then the other teams up and they have the opportunity.
I'm like, well, I don't want you to come through
here either, and they wouldn't. And so it was actually
on a totally different front. It was it was good baseball,
and then it was it was high intensity. I mean,
the the you could you could cut the tension with
a knife. And then the fact that I really wanted
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both teams to fail. They kind of both came through
there a whole bunch of times.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yeah, it was two completely different games, literally, I mean
two nine inning games last night. And the first one
couldn't have been filled with more action. I mean between
mistakes that were prominent and then phenomenal plays and then
phenomenal individual play. I mean, was just one thing after another,
was back and forth. There were plenty of runs, but
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not too many runs. It was you know, Pete Rose
used to tell me when I worked with him about
the nineteen seventy five game which the Red Sox faced
the Cincinnati Reds and it's considered the greatest game that
was ever played. And at one point Pete Rose apparently
some Red Sox or he slid into third base or
some Red Sox led into third base where he was
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playing defense, and he said to them, can you believe
we're playing in the greatest game that's ever been played?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Like he knew it in the moment that it was.
And it was very similar.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
The only difference is that Carlton Fisk had a walk
off home run.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
In the twelfth, so it didn't make people way.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Another six innings, but that nine innings was very similar,
like back and forth, defense, offense, boneheaded plays. All of
it was being involved. And then in the second nine
innings there was no activity at all. Yeah, it was
nine innings of shutout baseball until Freddie Freeman hit the
home run. And it was pitchers deep, deep, because they
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used almost everybody last night, performing in roles that they've
never performed in, and yet kept wiggling out of trouble.
I mean Will Klein, for example, was the last pitcher
the Dodgers used last night. He had never gone over
two innings as a professional baseball player, and they asked
him to pitch four innings last night, seventy pitches, and
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his last one was maybe his best pitch that he
threw all night, a breaking ball that he struck out
a bat or to close out the top of the
eighteenth I mean stuff like that. I mean it was
very clear, and John Smoltz was sort of hinting at it.
I was actually thinking about you. It was very clear
that the hitters, once they reached a point, they were
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all trying to hit a home run to end it.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
The at bats got the at bats couldn't.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Have been sharper in the first nine innings like they
were just they were giving Tyler Glass now everything he
could handle on the Toronto side. And then in the
second nine innings, the bats just kept getting lazier. They
just kept trying to hit a home run so that
they could stop playing baseball last night. And it just
resulted in nothing but a slew of pop ups for
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about nine straight innings, and nobody could put together a run.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Crazy stuff. Yeah, they couldn't.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
And then when you would get the one opportunity, which
they were rare, because the guys, like you said, were
coming out of the bullpen and absolutely shoving. Even the
guys who hadn't pitched in months were coming out there,
and I mean unbelievably sharp, and I mean the Kershaw
coming in bases loaded, a guy that you know is
going to be first ballot Hall of Fame or arguably
one of the best left handed pitchers of all time,
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and he struggled mighty in the playoffs. Everybody knows that
even this year he's got a fifteen ERA in the playoffs.
And yet you're like, well, this is might as well
add this to the you know, the pump and circumstance
surrounding this game that we've watched up to this point.
He comes in, gets it done. But then the next
guy that comes into herd Nandez kid. They're saying he
hasn't gotten it out in two months. And he looked
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like he was a picture of the night.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Yeah, yeah, he looked unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
It was pretty impressive the way in which they kind
of fought and battled and clawed, and yet yeah, you're right,
there was. You could see it in the player's face.
And that's the beauty of extra innings or late innings anyways,
is you're like, oh, I get the opportunity to be
the hero. Well, typically you won't end up being the
hero when you're trying to be the hero. I mean,
I can count on one hand how many times I
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hit a home run when I was trying to hit
a home run. Most of the time you hit a
home run by just having a good ab and and
putting a good swing on it. And sure enough, if
it isn't the one guy that probably didn't ever change
his mindset, Probably if Freddie Freeman struggling to degree, but
he's the guy.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Like, I'm just gonna stay up in the middle do
what I do. If I buggy whip one.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Fine, and sure enough he's the guy that ends up
kind of staying on task, if you will, and it's
ends up getting the walk off home.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
It was interesting his progression of it bats, especially once
he had four at bats in the extra innings and
he had opportunities to win it earlier. And he said
in his postgame interview, I just kept getting closer with
every swing. I could feel my swing was getting closer.
And he went from pop up to fly ball to
the track, to line drive one hundred and four mile
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per hour off the bat, line drive to center field
that varshow made a great play on and then in
the last bat he hit it over the wall.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
It was like, just stayed you're right, stayed on task.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
It was just sort of a clinic in how to Okay,
I'm not going to change my approach here, and if
this thing goes long enough, it's gonna pay off.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
And it did eighteen freaking innings.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
It made me so happy. I didn't watch it.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
I was I looked at the score. I was like, oh,
I think at one point it oh, at one point, yeah,
the Dodgers were up. Then then I saw that the
Blue Jays took the lead. Then the Dodgers tied it,
and then I told five iron, oh they're going to
extra innings.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
And then I was like, all right, well, good night.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
You missed it. You missed it. It was unreal.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
I really I didn't, because then I would have stayed
up till midnight and I would have been so mad.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Now at that point, you're like, I'm like, am I
really going to stop watching at eleven thirty? I'm not
going to get a good night's sleepy, So I just
you know, you might as well watch.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Jason Bateman stayed all eighteen innings.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
He's a diehard Dodger.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Even the celebrities were staying all eighteen innings, which was
I thought pretty cool to see. Uh. But you mentioned
that Kershaw moment, because that really was a standout moment
for me, because here you have one of the greatest
pictures of all time, who has struggled his entire career.
In the postseason, they put him on the roster. He
was only supposed to work like mop up duty, and
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they put him in in the most high leveraged situation
of the entire game. Kershaw's got to be thinking one like, Okay,
this is the last juice I'm going to feel as
a baseball player, but did it have to be this
much juice?
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Right?
Speaker 2 (12:11):
And he came in with the bases loaded, facing Nathan Lucas,
who's not a great hitter, but he was pesky against
us for sure, and he threw he loaded up full count,
several foul balls that were hit off off of them,
and then when he had him three to two, he
threw three straight pitches out of the zone and Lucas
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swung at all of them until he dribbled one into play,
which he almost beat out. But Kershaw could have very
if Lucas just lays off of one of those pitches
that were outside of the zone, Kershaw's the goat again
and they take the lead at that point, and then
he would also have to face Vladimir Guerrero on the
next batter. So that was incredibly intense. I mean, just
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the whole game crazy. I mean, eighteen innings, that's enough.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
And we don't mean talking about show hey yet, Oh jeez.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Nine at bats, got on base all nine times, was
intentionally walked four times, really intentionally walked five times. And
the reason because his first four at bats he had
four extra base hits two home runs and two doubles,
and John Schneider's like, that's it, and he's and Schneider
said afterwards, I'm not pitching to him the rest of
the series.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Yeah, I wouldn't. I wouldn't either, And today he's going
to go out there and get the pitch too. So
it's I mean, it's that dude is Kate and I
probably had a half an hour conversation, probably lasted like
five innings of the extra innings, just about him and
how how much above the rest of baseball he is
and just seems to be. I mean, we remember Bonds
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in his heyday when he was all juiced up, and
how that was seemed unfair and teams recognized it. They
weren't going to go after him unless they absolutely had to,
and he would then make you pay when you did.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I mean, show hey a little bit. In the last series.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
I know, was scuffling after that first home run and
then was like oho for twenty or something like that.
It was in a real big slump and he was
kind of chasing. When he doesn't chase. I don't know
how you get the dude out. You just hope he
hits it. At somebody and if there's somebody that's, you know,
five hundred feet away from home that when they catch it,
it doesn't count. So it was unbelievable. The whole thing
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was the the amount of action there was early in
that game was something I just haven't seen and it
was it was fundamental stuff.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
The relay plays to home.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
But then even the stuff like that, that throw that
Vlad through like that was great. There was no reason
really to make that throw to first. That's one where
you kind of tell a young short stop, don't throw it.
You're not gonna get him right, but he does. Vlad
comes off the base and then throws a seed while
he slips right on the money, picks throws him out.
It was that that walk. The thing that happened early
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with Toronto where the they Bashett thought that it was
ballfour and it was ballfour and it's kind of a
little bit of a late call on the strike and
that he's out in no man's land with his head
up his butt to some degree, who knows, I mean,
that was no outs. You ended up letting them off
the hook there. There was multiple times where they they
let the team off the hook. Other times where they
just pitched themselves off the hook. There was, you know,
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a hit like I said, or multiple hits where then
the relay throw was was perfectly executed and gunned somebody
down at the late it was. It was action packed
for sure, and if you're just a baseball fan, regardless
of whether or not you're scoring from the Mariners, it
was it was super enjoyable to watch. I just eventually
ran out of steam.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
You mentioned the Guerrero play. I mean, it wasn't.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
The throw is terrific, and he's a better defensive player
than he gets credit for. I mean, he's won a
Gold Club, but people usually just recognize him as a
you know, chubby hitter. But his decision to come off
the bag and go get the ball was the key
to that. His decisions say, there we have no shot
at this guy. So I'm going to meet this throw
that has no shot at get getting the runner. I'm
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gonna meet it as close as I can to third base,
and I'm gonna throw it to get the base runner.
I mean, stuff like that was happening all night show.
Hay's home run the last time that Schneider chose to
pitch to him, which was the seventh inning of an
eighteen inning game. That's the last time, and he, of
course hits it out of the ballpark immediately after a
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mound visit where they specifically told Sir Anthony Demingez, don't
throw him anything he can hit first pitch hammers it, oh,
the left center field wall. I mean, it was just
one thing after another until there was nothing after another.
Right for nine innings there was nothing that and even
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that was compelling though, because the drought then became the story.
The lack of activity became the story. Is anybody going
to do anything to win this ballgame became the story.
It was two different games smashed together last night on
the world's biggest stage. And yes, you started the game saying,
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I hate that we're not playing here. This would be
a home game for us, to be the first World
Series game we ever had to host. But just as
a baseball fan, as a sports fan man, to have
witnessed one of the greatest games ever played, it was unreal,
just unreal.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Well, the beauty of not I'm baseball, which they've always
said it doesn't have a clock. I mean we do
have a clock now, and then we have things to
speed up the game during the regular season with ghost
runners starting a second base. In the postseason, they go
back to the regular thing, the regular rules, and it's just, hey,
we're going to play this until we find a winner,
and you've got to earn it. And so it was
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typically I think a lot of people will look at
baseball it's like, if it's a really good game quote
unquote good, they're like, well, then the pitchers just really
executed and it came down to just one mistake and
one capitalized swing. And yet yesterday kind of was like
a whole bunch of it was the mix and match
of everything, poor defense, and then you know they would
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take advantage of that, and then it was great pitching.
And then it was better at bats than good pitching.
But then the pitching stepped up when all of a
sudden the traffic was on base, it kind of had everything.
We had guys stealing bags. It was unbelievable. And then, yeah,
the drought part of it became a giant story too,
because you could tell everybody was wanting to end that
bad boy. They wanted to be the hero, and the
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pitchers were throwing good pitches to.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Not allow that to happen.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
There was even a moment and it's the last thing
cool we got to get to what's on tap. Alejandro
Kirk had a big home run in this game, a
three run shot. Looked like Tyler Glass now was just
on his game and Kirk gets a three run homer
off of him, And even in that moment, it was like,
I think that's when I turned the page from I
don't even know if I want to watch.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
This to like that is just that's so special. Like baseball.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
You've got Glass now, big tall, good looking athlete looks
like seven foot tall Killian Murphy. I mean, he's like chiseled.
He's the guy that you picture. He's got these big
ass feet that that and this long ass stride and
he throws nasty stuff constantly, and if you went to
scout him, you'd be like, uh, oh, I just found
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the next great picture. I mean, he just steps out
like that and he's facing off against some guy that
wont to tryout, five foot nothing, four hundred and nothing,
sitting there with his pot belly hanging over his belt,
and Alejandro Kirk in that moment, can be better than
seven foot Killian Murphy throwing thousand miles per hour on
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the mound, and it was just like, no other sport, Yeah,
no other sport. And that happened where that tubagoo can
best that chiseled freak in a one on one showdown.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
In the World Series.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
It's a ball and nobody had hit a like six
hundred straight curveballs that he had thrown that he hadn't
hit out of the park. And sure enough, all one
hundred kirks sits on it and says, here you go. Yeah,
now you're instead of you being up too, we're up
by one. It was that back and forth.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
It was never never are you going to c in
an NBA finals? You know? Uh No?
Speaker 2 (20:13):
G Sga is sitting at the top of the key
with the game on the line, and then the other
coach says, let's put our five foot four inch, three
hundred pound can't move laterally has is the slowest person
in the league, sat up. Let's put him on there
and see if he can stop him when we can
win the NBA title. It just it just doesn't happen.
And I just think it's a beautiful thing about the
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game of baseball. All right, let's find out what's on tape.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
What's on tip? What's on tep alright.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Six five and eighteen innings. Dodgers went over the Blue
Jays last night. They have a two games to one
lead in the of course best of seven World Series. Tonight,
Game four at five o'clock, Shane Bieber will go for
the Blue Jays and the Dodgers will counter with show
Hey O Tany Aerner's big story going out around town
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about how much salary room will they actually have?
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Will they only have room for just.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Josh Naylor if they go after him. We'll talk about
that a little bit later on in the show. We
got the abcs of the Ems coming your way.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
At eight forty five.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
We are one week away from the NFL trading deadline.
We'll talk to Greg Bell a little bit about it
at seven o'clock, but I want to discuss it amongst
ourselves as well. At seven thirty here today, Greg Bell
will also talk about the Seahawks, who officially come off
by and get ready for the Commanders. They will next
play Sunday Night football against Washington, which lost last night
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twenty eight to seven to the Kansas City Chiefs. The
score was tied at halftime. The Chiefs twenty one unanswered
points in the second half to win. On Monday Night,
football Huskies are going on by but the big story
in college football are the head coaching firings that have
happened mid season. We'll talk to Rick Neweissel about it
today at nine o'clock Crack In or back home. They'll
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host Montreal tonight at seven thirty.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Everet Fits.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
You will be with us today at eight thirty. It's
also a Cracking Ticket Tuesday, so be listening for that
audio piece to play, and when you do hear it,
be the tenth caller at two six two eight six
ninety five ninety five to win a pair of tickets
to see the crack and play November fifth against the
San Jose Sharks. We'll do it every single hour. That's
what a Cracking Ticket Tuesday is all about. And the Sounders,
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which we'll find some time to talk about as well,
lost game number one of their playoff in a shootout
to Minnesota United.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
The Sounders missed.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Three of their five shootout kicks and end up not
putting nearly enough pressure on the goalie and they lose
game one. But it is the best of three, so
game number two we'll be back here in Seattle coming
up next, though, for the Seahawks last night, for Seahawks fans,
last night, Monday Night Football was an opportunity to scout
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our next opponent thoroughly, and that's exactly what I did.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
We'll talk about it next. Sports Radio nine three.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Point three KJRFM World Series, which was unbelievable last night.
But also you had Sounders playing and that was kind
of unbelievable in its own way. Sad and the Commanders
took on Monday Night Football the Kansas City Chiefs, and
it was a competitive game for a while, seven to
seven at halftime, but the Chiefs kind of blew out
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the Commanders twenty one to nothing in the second half
of a twenty eight to seven win. We speak a
little more about it here today because number one, it's
been a week since we've watched the Seahawks play a game.
It's been a couple of weeks before I've really watched
the Seahawks play a game.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Last time we played a game, we were in the
middle of a playoff series, which was a pretty big deal.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
Yeah, I remember, Yeah, that was bigger.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Yeah, definitely are trying.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
They're like, hey, can we get off the back Burner like, yeah,
in a minute.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Yeah, yeah, they're not comfortable being back there, but they
will next play on Sunday night. We'll have the big
stage Sunday Night football against the Washington Commanders who played
last night against the Kansas City Chiefs. So it gave
us an opportunity to do some scouting, like to really
watch the Commanders from the beginning of a game to
the end of the game.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
And they are really beat up right now.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
So they've been missing a lot of players, but you know,
that's the National Football League.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
That does happen.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
It's not like the Seahawks haven't had their injuries, not
like the Chiefs haven't had their injuries.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
So they're a beat up football team.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
But they've also been really bad defensively so far this season.
And they were playing without their starting quarterback Jayden and Daniels.
Who really is the stir that the straw that stirs
the drink there with the Commanders, And we saw that
at the end of last season when they nearly made
a run to the Super Bowl. But you could tell
they were kind of doing it with Gile. I mean,
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they were playing hard. I'll give them that. Dan Quinn
apparently gave some speech about like it is time to
become the team we're going to be.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
They entered the game last night three and four record, So.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Apparently it was a big, big, like motivational week, and
you're getting ready to face the Kansas City Chiefs in
Kansas City, and you got a rally around not having
Jadeen Daniels there. And so they played hard and they
battled the Kansas City Chiefs. But once that kind of
left them in the first half, then they were exposed
(25:19):
man for man, talent for talent, the Chiefs just sort.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Of wipe the field with them in the second half.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Yeah, you can't let Patrick Mahomes kind of re establish
his feet, you know what I mean, Like he got
he didn't. He made a couple not great throws, one
in particular, I think probably that wasn't great. The other
one was more of a drop pass tip thing that
turned into an interception. But if you find yourself halfway
through a game and you've held the Kansas City Chiefs
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to seven, then you would hope that you could muster
you know, ten fourteen something like that to where all
of a sudden you got them on their heels. You
you forced them that they have to go do something.
The fact that it was seven to seven at halftime,
you're like, man, you've really it felt like you've played hard,
and you've also missed an opportunity to possibly put them
(26:08):
into a corner a little bit. Now, who knows what
would happen even if they had a seven point lead
going into halftime, because it did feel like once the
the luster of the pep talk more off a little bit,
then all of a sudden, it was just a better team,
a better team. A better team just said Okay, we're
going to go out here and show you that we
deserve to win. And that third quarter was basically the difference.
Speaker 6 (26:29):
Well, and that's the thing too, is that with that
score at halftime, than all Kansas City does is go
into the locker room and say, Okay, we just played
a half like crap and we're tied, so let's go
out and play less like crap and we got this.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Well, way easier for them.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
I mean, Jade Daniels kind of makes that team go yeah,
and not having him last night, I mean, I think
Mario is a fine backup quarterback in the National Football League,
but I think Jade and Daniels was playing like a
superhero by the end of the last season, and teams,
you know, just had weren't familiar with him enough to
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have a proper game plan. Certainly, the Lions weren't in
the playoffs a year ago, so without him being on
the field, I don't know if we can get a
real test of Washington. I don't know if we call
it a sophomore slump in the Jade and Daniels era.
They certainly haven't as a team played as well as
what a lot of people thought they were going to.
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But in terms of what the Seahawks are getting ready for,
it's just a completely different team if they've got Daniels
at starting quarterback or if they don't have him at
starting quarterback. And I don't know if we're going to
know until Sunday night. It sounds like Jade Daniels is
going to be a game time decision for Sunday night.
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So Mike McDonald's got to prepare for everything this week.
And that might be the only downside to Jade and
daniels injury from the Seahawks perspective.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Yeah, well, I mean, the nice thing I think is
you basically you have to plan like you're gonna play
because you don't want to be caught slipping where you're like, man,
I didn't think he was going to play. And the
nice thing is is they're kind of the same. Just
one's the varsity version and Mariota is the backup version.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
You know.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
I mean one is I will change the game. I
can take over the game.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
I know this.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
He gets all those first team reps, and I know
that Mariota has been getting them as of late since
he's been on the shelf.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
But it just is not the same.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
You can just tell that that Jayden Daniels makes everybody better, right,
and I think Mariota is one where if you just
have a bunch of dudes that don't need you to
make them better, then he can get it done and
he will. He made some good passes here and there
and ended up moving the ball a little bit, but
they just was not enough to overcome a team like
the Chiefs, and ultimately I don't think it'd be enough
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to overcome the Seattle's defense if Jaden Daniels isn't playing.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Yeah, I know, on the beginning of the year, you
circle that game is one of the tougher games on
the schedule. But now, I mean it just feels like
a game that they should win. It's going to be
in Washington, so you do have to go on the road,
but you've had two weeks to rest.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
They're going to be on short rest. They may or may.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Not have their starting quarterback back, and even if he
does play, he might not be one hundred percent. They're
banged up across the board, and so a game that
maybe you put l's next to this game on your
pocket schedule at the beginning of the year suddenly looks
like a game that you should win. That's how it
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feels to me on a Tuesday before we face the
Washington Comand.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
Yeah, definitely feels a lot more promising than it did
to start that the year, because, i mean, coming off
last year, their defense looked good, their offense was humming.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
I mean, they were legit scary team to play. And
now you're like, oh, well, yeah, this is a lot
more reasonable.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
All right, coming up next on the program, it is
a big week in a lot of different ways, including
for the Sounders and for Trick or Treaters. Sports Radio
ninety three point three KJARFM Soccer's going to the Halloween party.
It's basketball this year, just so they can pretend they
can know what it's like to put the ball in
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the goal.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Oh burn, Why that hurts some people?
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Jackson earmuffs.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
I think they enjoy their I think they're comfortable in
their own skin. But it's nice to just get to
a halloween party, masquerade party, and you know, and go
with something that just as crazy wild you wish you were, Yeah,
something that is.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Out of your You know you can't, you can't.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Live that way on a daily basis, But for one night,
you can pretend that's true.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Yeah, that's true. And it would be nice to just
be able to like imagine.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
Scoring because penalty kicks right like that, The advantage there
is supposed to be for the person kicking the ball, right, Well,
you are like.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Ten feet away kicking through basically double barn doors. So
may a person's three feet wide with at most seven
foot wingspan. I would think that I could do it,
and yet three out of five Sounders could not get
the job done.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Last night.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
It was sad, sad looking.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Yeah, it was bad, bad. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (31:09):
I put the game on and five iron was like,
why are you putting this on?
Speaker 3 (31:12):
It?
Speaker 6 (31:12):
So well, it's the playoffs. We got to at least
have the game on TV three. And then at the end,
I go, well that was disappointing.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Well, I'm gonna just tell you this.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
So, as I was remote control jockeying around between the
Series game the Washington and I watched a lot by
the way of the Sounders, which is but this is
the beauty of them. This is the beauty of soccer.
Is I could go spend time on the World Series,
and then in between every half inning, switch over see
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what's going on with the football game. Then I'd get
stuck on that for a minute, go back to the
World Series half inning or so, check back on the Sounders.
Still zero zero, And I didn't see any of the
flopping that happened while I was away.
Speaker 5 (31:56):
Yeah, quite a bit.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
When I went to make a sandwich, my sandwich for
the evening, I missed the show.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Hey home Run? Oh no, no, yeah. Yeah. So but
you're like, oh, I wonder what I missed there? Zero zero.
I did miss it.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
I did see, like there are a couple Rothrock come on, dude,
like beautiful little past sequence. The easy part was kicking
the ball in the goal and you overshot it.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
Yeah, it looked like we outplayed them, and.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Then I felt to me like they weren't doing Fry
a lot of favors in goal, at least for part
of the game because he had too much pressure around
him there for a while. But most of the game,
I think this is pretty evident, was played just defensively,
just a little keep away action. And Jackson warned us
(32:47):
this is the way Minnesota plays, and kind of felt
like we played that way as well.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
Yeah, they suck back and so we I think we
probably want to have looked at the stats, the time
of possession, and yet that's Minnesota's fine with that. They're
fine with not have it, and then when you turn
it over they make runs, and then you know we
withstood it. I mean, it was a well played game.
I suppose. I'm not going to act like I watched
every second of it because I didn't, But I mean
it was a well played game. Obviously, you get the penalties,
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and neither team gave anything up. We had a couple
of scoring opportunities there that you kind of let pass
by the wayside, and regulation and then when I mean,
they're human and so it's not as easy as just
putting it, you know, just kick it in the goal.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Obviously.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
Well there's a dude there and their keeper is big
and good, and so they tricked him that first one.
They kicked right down the middle, and then he played
a little head game and with him and so oh
you got to back it up. Yeah, And then they
tried going down the middle again. He blocked that one,
but then the next two that are you know, off
the crossbar and then off the side post.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
It like, you gotta put it on goal.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
I mean, even playing through high school like I did,
that's the You have to put it on goal down
low towards the corner. You don't have to nail it
up in the top right hand corner, just you can
pick even if the goalie picked the right way. If
you put it where you can and you're capable of,
he can't stop he can't stop it.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
So, I mean, it just was not good. That was
bad penalty kicking for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (34:09):
I don't know a lot about soccer, so I couldn't
have told you if it was a good game or not.
Speaker 5 (34:13):
It was not a thrilling game.
Speaker 6 (34:15):
But watching it for me, I was like, well, it
seems like we're out playing this team. I mean every
time I was watching was when we were at least
having the shot attempt. But then I don't know. It's
always disappointing to then come down to one on one
kicking and have the game decided that way.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Well, it's not over. They team returns for game two.
It will be a best of three in the first round.
It's not always they actually reduce games as they go.
The soccer has to be different than everybody else. So
you know most leagues you play more games as you go. Yeah,
not soccer. Not the MLS. They play fewer as you go.
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So this first round is three games. The next one
will be in Seattle, so certainly not over. But it
does count as a loss last night, and it's not hockey.
You don't get a point for.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
It, all right.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
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Happy Halloween Week to all of you.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
More very evil, Oh there's some evil. There's a right
pretty good. We welcome you to the show. A lot
to talk about today.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
And when I say we, I'm talking about Ashley Ryan,
of course I'm talking about Bucky Jacobson. I'm talking about me,
Chuck Powell. Welcome into the radio program. We got you
till ten o'clock this morning. We got cracking tickets to
give away a little bit later on in the show,
we got Factor fiction to play today. Geen Sterotaur makes
his return to the radio program.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
So a lot going on.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Will tell you all about it with what's on tap
here in a matter of mores.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
But I know that people really don't want to think
about baseball. I realized that. I get that.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I was kind of right there with you heading into
the weekend, getting so close to the World Series and
just missing it.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
And so you know, it does.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Feel like we should be still be playing baseball, just
really does.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yeah, it'd be great, it'd be awesome to right now
be hosting World Series games.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
To care about it, Yeah that's right.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Well, yeah, to care about it.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
But I'll tell you the baseball seam head in me
took over. I certainly did pay attention on Friday, and
I did pay attention on Saturday, and last night I
was ready front and center to watch me some World Series,
And oh, my goodness, am I glad that I did,
because we probably witnessed one of the greatest baseball games
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in the history of the sport last night, unbelievable eighteen innings.
Stayed up past midnight to watch all eighteen innings before
Freddie Freeman walked it off in the bottom of the
eighteenth with a solo home run. History being made practically
every pitch every inning last night. It was one of
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the greatest games you will ever see. And even though
we hate both the participants right now, certainly it was
worth checking out and leading the show with here today.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Well, good for you for staying up the whole way.
I quit after seventeen innings.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
I did you and Mary Hart's husband apparently, who's Mary Hart?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
She's the woman she's from entertainment tonight. She sits there
and the Dodgers. She sat there for twenty five years.
She sits in the front row of every Dodgers game,
her and her rich husband. No, she didn't. She You
could tell they were fighting. She was sitting there like
with her arms crossed because he was standing up. I
think he had to pooh. He is about one hundred
(03:51):
and so he's like, that's not you could tell that.
He was like, Mary, I'm starting till the end of
the fending and we don't start one. And so he
was like standing with one foot up the aisle while
she was in his seat. She moved one seat closer
just to prove how like she was practically grabbing the
guy next to her legs so that she didn't have
to go. So he for there she is right there,
(04:12):
right there in the highlight. She they just showed the
Will Smith home run or fly ball to the wall
and she actually stood up to grab her person.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Leave. Oh I just saw.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
That for the first time anyway, So yeah, they laughed.
After the seventeenth you and the Hearts did the exact
same time.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yeah, And it was I didn't want to.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Normally I would not, but I was tired, and I'm like,
you know what I can I can watch the rest
of this tomorrow when I get up. And yet, what
I mean, the the game itself had just about everything.
I mean, some poor plays, like there were some misplays
and then teams take advantage of that early in the game.
And the first nine inning game, that is, the second
nine inning game, there wasn't as much going on, but
(04:54):
obviously the strategy comes into play where it's you score
one and you win, you know, presumably you kind of
feel like you will. Anyways, it was yesterday. My one
last thing was I'm torn or I didn't like where
where I was at because I was basically rooting for
both teams to not do well.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Well. There was a bunch of that.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
It was actually one of the more enjoyable games, not
just the the actual game itself, watching it as a
if you're just a baseball fan, all of the perfect
relay throws and the the off script plays that somebody
would come up with something big, but even more so
like I'm up there torn because I'm like, I don't
want you to come through right here, and then sure
(05:35):
enough they wouldn't come through it and come through, and
then the other teams up and they have the opportunity.
I'm like, well, I don't want you to come through
here either, and they wouldn't. And so it was actually
on a totally different front. It was it was good baseball,
and then it was it was high intensity. I mean,
the the you could you could cut the tension with
a knife. And then the fact that I really wanted
(05:55):
both teams to fail. They kind of both came through
there a whole bunch of times.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yeah, it was two completely different games, literally, I mean
two nine inning games last night. And the first one
couldn't have been filled with more action. I mean between
mistakes that were prominent and then phenomenal plays and then
phenomenal individual play. I mean, was just one thing after another,
was back and forth. There were plenty of runs, but
(06:22):
not too many runs. It was you know, Pete Rose
used to tell me when I worked with him about
the nineteen seventy five game which the Red Sox faced
the Cincinnati Reds and it's considered the greatest game that
was ever played. And at one point Pete Rose apparently
some Red Sox or he slid into third base or
some Red Sox led into third base where he was
(06:43):
playing defense, and he said to them, can you believe
we're playing in the greatest game that's ever been played?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Like he knew it in the moment that it was.
And it was very similar.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
The only difference is that Carlton Fisk had a walk
off home run.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
In the twelfth, so it didn't make people way.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Another six innings, but that nine innings was very similar,
like back and forth, defense, offense, boneheaded plays. All of
it was being involved. And then in the second nine
innings there was no activity at all. Yeah, it was
nine innings of shutout baseball until Freddie Freeman hit the
home run. And it was pitchers deep, deep, because they
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used almost everybody last night, performing in roles that they've
never performed in, and yet kept wiggling out of trouble.
I mean Will Klein, for example, was the last pitcher
the Dodgers used last night. He had never gone over
two innings as a professional baseball player, and they asked
him to pitch four innings last night, seventy pitches, and
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his last one was maybe his best pitch that he
threw all night, a breaking ball that he struck out
a bat or to close out the top of the
eighteenth I mean stuff like that. I mean it was
very clear, and John Smoltz was sort of hinting at it.
I was actually thinking about you. It was very clear
that the hitters, once they reached a point, they were
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all trying to hit a home run to end it.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
The at bats got the at bats couldn't.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Have been sharper in the first nine innings like they
were just they were giving Tyler Glass now everything he
could handle on the Toronto side. And then in the
second nine innings, the bats just kept getting lazier. They
just kept trying to hit a home run so that
they could stop playing baseball last night. And it just
resulted in nothing but a slew of pop ups for
(08:31):
about nine straight innings, and nobody could put together a run.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Crazy stuff. Yeah, they couldn't.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
And then when you would get the one opportunity, which
they were rare, because the guys, like you said, were
coming out of the bullpen and absolutely shoving. Even the
guys who hadn't pitched in months were coming out there,
and I mean unbelievably sharp, and I mean the Kershaw
coming in bases loaded, a guy that you know is
going to be first ballot Hall of Fame or arguably
one of the best left handed pitchers of all time,
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and he struggled mighty in the playoffs. Everybody knows that
even this year he's got a fifteen ERA in the playoffs.
And yet you're like, well, this is might as well
add this to the you know, the pump and circumstance
surrounding this game that we've watched up to this point.
He comes in, gets it done. But then the next
guy that comes into herd Nandez kid. They're saying he
hasn't gotten it out in two months. And he looked
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like he was a picture of the night.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Yeah, yeah, he looked unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
It was pretty impressive the way in which they kind
of fought and battled and clawed, and yet yeah, you're right,
there was. You could see it in the player's face.
And that's the beauty of extra innings or late innings anyways,
is you're like, oh, I get the opportunity to be
the hero. Well, typically you won't end up being the
hero when you're trying to be the hero. I mean,
I can count on one hand how many times I
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hit a home run when I was trying to hit
a home run. Most of the time you hit a
home run by just having a good ab and and
putting a good swing on it. And sure enough, if
it isn't the one guy that probably didn't ever change
his mindset, Probably if Freddie Freeman struggling to degree, but
he's the guy.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Like, I'm just gonna stay up in the middle do
what I do. If I buggy whip one.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Fine, and sure enough he's the guy that ends up
kind of staying on task, if you will, and it's
ends up getting the walk off home.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
It was interesting his progression of it bats, especially once
he had four at bats in the extra innings and
he had opportunities to win it earlier. And he said
in his postgame interview, I just kept getting closer with
every swing. I could feel my swing was getting closer.
And he went from pop up to fly ball to
the track, to line drive one hundred and four mile
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per hour off the bat, line drive to center field
that varshow made a great play on and then in
the last bat he hit it over the wall.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
It was like, just stayed you're right, stayed on task.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
It was just sort of a clinic in how to Okay,
I'm not going to change my approach here, and if
this thing goes long enough, it's gonna pay off.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
And it did eighteen freaking innings.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
It made me so happy. I didn't watch it.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
I was I looked at the score. I was like, oh,
I think at one point it oh, at one point, yeah,
the Dodgers were up. Then then I saw that the
Blue Jays took the lead. Then the Dodgers tied it,
and then I told five iron, oh they're going to
extra innings.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
And then I was like, all right, well, good night.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
You missed it. You missed it. It was unreal.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
I really I didn't, because then I would have stayed
up till midnight and I would have been so mad.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Now at that point, you're like, I'm like, am I
really going to stop watching at eleven thirty? I'm not
going to get a good night's sleepy, So I just
you know, you might as well watch.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Jason Bateman stayed all eighteen innings.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
He's a diehard Dodger.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Even the celebrities were staying all eighteen innings, which was
I thought pretty cool to see. Uh. But you mentioned
that Kershaw moment, because that really was a standout moment
for me, because here you have one of the greatest
pictures of all time, who has struggled his entire career.
In the postseason, they put him on the roster. He
was only supposed to work like mop up duty, and
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they put him in in the most high leveraged situation
of the entire game. Kershaw's got to be thinking one like, Okay,
this is the last juice I'm going to feel as
a baseball player, but did it have to be this
much juice?
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Right?
Speaker 2 (12:11):
And he came in with the bases loaded, facing Nathan Lucas,
who's not a great hitter, but he was pesky against
us for sure, and he threw he loaded up full count,
several foul balls that were hit off off of them,
and then when he had him three to two, he
threw three straight pitches out of the zone and Lucas
(12:35):
swung at all of them until he dribbled one into play,
which he almost beat out. But Kershaw could have very
if Lucas just lays off of one of those pitches
that were outside of the zone, Kershaw's the goat again
and they take the lead at that point, and then
he would also have to face Vladimir Guerrero on the
next batter. So that was incredibly intense. I mean, just
(12:57):
the whole game crazy. I mean, eighteen innings, that's enough.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
And we don't mean talking about show hey yet, Oh jeez.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Nine at bats, got on base all nine times, was
intentionally walked four times, really intentionally walked five times. And
the reason because his first four at bats he had
four extra base hits two home runs and two doubles,
and John Schneider's like, that's it, and he's and Schneider
said afterwards, I'm not pitching to him the rest of
the series.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Yeah, I wouldn't. I wouldn't either, And today he's going
to go out there and get the pitch too. So
it's I mean, it's that dude is Kate and I
probably had a half an hour conversation, probably lasted like
five innings of the extra innings, just about him and
how how much above the rest of baseball he is
and just seems to be. I mean, we remember Bonds
(13:44):
in his heyday when he was all juiced up, and
how that was seemed unfair and teams recognized it. They
weren't going to go after him unless they absolutely had to,
and he would then make you pay when you did.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I mean, show hey a little bit. In the last series.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
I know, was scuffling after that first home run and
then was like oho for twenty or something like that.
It was in a real big slump and he was
kind of chasing. When he doesn't chase. I don't know
how you get the dude out. You just hope he
hits it. At somebody and if there's somebody that's, you know,
five hundred feet away from home that when they catch it,
it doesn't count. So it was unbelievable. The whole thing
(14:22):
was the the amount of action there was early in
that game was something I just haven't seen and it
was it was fundamental stuff.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
The relay plays to home.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
But then even the stuff like that, that throw that
Vlad through like that was great. There was no reason
really to make that throw to first. That's one where
you kind of tell a young short stop, don't throw it.
You're not gonna get him right, but he does. Vlad
comes off the base and then throws a seed while
he slips right on the money, picks throws him out.
It was that that walk. The thing that happened early
(14:53):
with Toronto where the they Bashett thought that it was
ballfour and it was ballfour and it's kind of a
little bit of a late call on the strike and
that he's out in no man's land with his head
up his butt to some degree, who knows, I mean,
that was no outs. You ended up letting them off
the hook there. There was multiple times where they they
let the team off the hook. Other times where they
just pitched themselves off the hook. There was, you know,
(15:17):
a hit like I said, or multiple hits where then
the relay throw was was perfectly executed and gunned somebody
down at the late it was. It was action packed
for sure, and if you're just a baseball fan, regardless
of whether or not you're scoring from the Mariners, it
was it was super enjoyable to watch. I just eventually
ran out of steam.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
You mentioned the Guerrero play. I mean, it wasn't.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
The throw is terrific, and he's a better defensive player
than he gets credit for. I mean, he's won a
Gold Club, but people usually just recognize him as a
you know, chubby hitter. But his decision to come off
the bag and go get the ball was the key
to that. His decisions say, there we have no shot
at this guy. So I'm going to meet this throw
that has no shot at get getting the runner. I'm
(16:01):
gonna meet it as close as I can to third base,
and I'm gonna throw it to get the base runner.
I mean, stuff like that was happening all night show.
Hay's home run the last time that Schneider chose to
pitch to him, which was the seventh inning of an
eighteen inning game. That's the last time, and he, of
course hits it out of the ballpark immediately after a
(16:23):
mound visit where they specifically told Sir Anthony Demingez, don't
throw him anything he can hit first pitch hammers it, oh,
the left center field wall. I mean, it was just
one thing after another until there was nothing after another.
Right for nine innings there was nothing that and even
(16:44):
that was compelling though, because the drought then became the story.
The lack of activity became the story. Is anybody going
to do anything to win this ballgame became the story.
It was two different games smashed together last night on
the world's biggest stage. And yes, you started the game saying,
(17:06):
I hate that we're not playing here. This would be
a home game for us, to be the first World
Series game we ever had to host. But just as
a baseball fan, as a sports fan man, to have
witnessed one of the greatest games ever played, it was unreal,
just unreal.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Well, the beauty of not I'm baseball, which they've always
said it doesn't have a clock. I mean we do
have a clock now, and then we have things to
speed up the game during the regular season with ghost
runners starting a second base. In the postseason, they go
back to the regular thing, the regular rules, and it's just, hey,
we're going to play this until we find a winner,
and you've got to earn it. And so it was
(17:43):
typically I think a lot of people will look at
baseball it's like, if it's a really good game quote
unquote good, they're like, well, then the pitchers just really
executed and it came down to just one mistake and
one capitalized swing. And yet yesterday kind of was like
a whole bunch of it was the mix and match
of everything, poor defense, and then you know they would
(18:06):
take advantage of that, and then it was great pitching.
And then it was better at bats than good pitching.
But then the pitching stepped up when all of a
sudden the traffic was on base, it kind of had everything.
We had guys stealing bags. It was unbelievable. And then, yeah,
the drought part of it became a giant story too,
because you could tell everybody was wanting to end that
bad boy. They wanted to be the hero, and the
(18:27):
pitchers were throwing good pitches to.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Not allow that to happen.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
There was even a moment and it's the last thing
cool we got to get to what's on tap. Alejandro
Kirk had a big home run in this game, a
three run shot. Looked like Tyler Glass now was just
on his game and Kirk gets a three run homer
off of him, And even in that moment, it was like,
I think that's when I turned the page from I
don't even know if I want to watch.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
This to like that is just that's so special. Like baseball.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
You've got Glass now, big tall, good looking athlete looks
like seven foot tall Killian Murphy. I mean, he's like chiseled.
He's the guy that you picture. He's got these big
ass feet that that and this long ass stride and
he throws nasty stuff constantly, and if you went to
scout him, you'd be like, uh, oh, I just found
(19:17):
the next great picture. I mean, he just steps out
like that and he's facing off against some guy that
wont to tryout, five foot nothing, four hundred and nothing,
sitting there with his pot belly hanging over his belt,
and Alejandro Kirk in that moment, can be better than
seven foot Killian Murphy throwing thousand miles per hour on
(19:41):
the mound, and it was just like, no other sport, Yeah,
no other sport. And that happened where that tubagoo can
best that chiseled freak in a one on one showdown.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
In the World Series.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
It's a ball and nobody had hit a like six
hundred straight curveballs that he had thrown that he hadn't
hit out of the park. And sure enough, all one
hundred kirks sits on it and says, here you go. Yeah,
now you're instead of you being up too, we're up
by one. It was that back and forth.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
It was never never are you going to c in
an NBA finals? You know? Uh No?
Speaker 2 (20:13):
G Sga is sitting at the top of the key
with the game on the line, and then the other
coach says, let's put our five foot four inch, three
hundred pound can't move laterally has is the slowest person
in the league, sat up. Let's put him on there
and see if he can stop him when we can
win the NBA title. It just it just doesn't happen.
And I just think it's a beautiful thing about the
(20:34):
game of baseball. All right, let's find out what's on tape.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
What's on tip? What's on tep alright.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Six five and eighteen innings. Dodgers went over the Blue
Jays last night. They have a two games to one
lead in the of course best of seven World Series. Tonight,
Game four at five o'clock, Shane Bieber will go for
the Blue Jays and the Dodgers will counter with show
Hey O Tany Aerner's big story going out around town
(21:03):
about how much salary room will they actually have?
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Will they only have room for just.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Josh Naylor if they go after him. We'll talk about
that a little bit later on in the show. We
got the abcs of the Ems coming your way.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
At eight forty five.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
We are one week away from the NFL trading deadline.
We'll talk to Greg Bell a little bit about it
at seven o'clock, but I want to discuss it amongst
ourselves as well. At seven thirty here today, Greg Bell
will also talk about the Seahawks, who officially come off
by and get ready for the Commanders. They will next
play Sunday Night football against Washington, which lost last night
(21:37):
twenty eight to seven to the Kansas City Chiefs. The
score was tied at halftime. The Chiefs twenty one unanswered
points in the second half to win. On Monday Night,
football Huskies are going on by but the big story
in college football are the head coaching firings that have
happened mid season. We'll talk to Rick Neweissel about it
today at nine o'clock Crack In or back home. They'll
(21:57):
host Montreal tonight at seven thirty.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Everet Fits.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
You will be with us today at eight thirty. It's
also a Cracking Ticket Tuesday, so be listening for that
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what a Cracking Ticket Tuesday is all about. And the Sounders,
(22:24):
which we'll find some time to talk about as well,
lost game number one of their playoff in a shootout
to Minnesota United.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
The Sounders missed.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Three of their five shootout kicks and end up not
putting nearly enough pressure on the goalie and they lose
game one. But it is the best of three, so
game number two we'll be back here in Seattle coming
up next, though, for the Seahawks last night, for Seahawks fans,
last night, Monday Night Football was an opportunity to scout
(22:54):
our next opponent thoroughly, and that's exactly what I did.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
We'll talk about it next. Sports Radio nine three.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Point three KJRFM World Series, which was unbelievable last night.
But also you had Sounders playing and that was kind
of unbelievable in its own way. Sad and the Commanders
took on Monday Night Football the Kansas City Chiefs, and
it was a competitive game for a while, seven to
seven at halftime, but the Chiefs kind of blew out
(23:23):
the Commanders twenty one to nothing in the second half
of a twenty eight to seven win. We speak a
little more about it here today because number one, it's
been a week since we've watched the Seahawks play a game.
It's been a couple of weeks before I've really watched
the Seahawks play a game.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Last time we played a game, we were in the
middle of a playoff series, which was a pretty big deal.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
Yeah, I remember, Yeah, that was bigger.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Yeah, definitely are trying.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
They're like, hey, can we get off the back Burner like, yeah,
in a minute.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Yeah, yeah, they're not comfortable being back there, but they
will next play on Sunday night. We'll have the big
stage Sunday Night football against the Washington Commanders who played
last night against the Kansas City Chiefs. So it gave
us an opportunity to do some scouting, like to really
watch the Commanders from the beginning of a game to
the end of the game.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
And they are really beat up right now.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
So they've been missing a lot of players, but you know,
that's the National Football League.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
That does happen.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
It's not like the Seahawks haven't had their injuries, not
like the Chiefs haven't had their injuries.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
So they're a beat up football team.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
But they've also been really bad defensively so far this season.
And they were playing without their starting quarterback Jayden and Daniels.
Who really is the stir that the straw that stirs
the drink there with the Commanders, And we saw that
at the end of last season when they nearly made
a run to the Super Bowl. But you could tell
they were kind of doing it with Gile. I mean,
(24:48):
they were playing hard. I'll give them that. Dan Quinn
apparently gave some speech about like it is time to
become the team we're going to be.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
They entered the game last night three and four record, So.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Apparently it was a big, big, like motivational week, and
you're getting ready to face the Kansas City Chiefs in
Kansas City, and you got a rally around not having
Jadeen Daniels there. And so they played hard and they
battled the Kansas City Chiefs. But once that kind of
left them in the first half, then they were exposed
(25:19):
man for man, talent for talent, the Chiefs just sort.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Of wipe the field with them in the second half.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Yeah, you can't let Patrick Mahomes kind of re establish
his feet, you know what I mean, Like he got
he didn't. He made a couple not great throws, one
in particular, I think probably that wasn't great. The other
one was more of a drop pass tip thing that
turned into an interception. But if you find yourself halfway
through a game and you've held the Kansas City Chiefs
(25:46):
to seven, then you would hope that you could muster
you know, ten fourteen something like that to where all
of a sudden you got them on their heels. You
you forced them that they have to go do something.
The fact that it was seven to seven at halftime,
you're like, man, you've really it felt like you've played hard,
and you've also missed an opportunity to possibly put them
(26:08):
into a corner a little bit. Now, who knows what
would happen even if they had a seven point lead
going into halftime, because it did feel like once the
the luster of the pep talk more off a little bit,
then all of a sudden, it was just a better team,
a better team. A better team just said Okay, we're
going to go out here and show you that we
deserve to win. And that third quarter was basically the difference.
Speaker 6 (26:29):
Well, and that's the thing too, is that with that
score at halftime, than all Kansas City does is go
into the locker room and say, Okay, we just played
a half like crap and we're tied, so let's go
out and play less like crap and we got this.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Well, way easier for them.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
I mean, Jade Daniels kind of makes that team go yeah,
and not having him last night, I mean, I think
Mario is a fine backup quarterback in the National Football League,
but I think Jade and Daniels was playing like a
superhero by the end of the last season, and teams,
you know, just had weren't familiar with him enough to
(27:04):
have a proper game plan. Certainly, the Lions weren't in
the playoffs a year ago, so without him being on
the field, I don't know if we can get a
real test of Washington. I don't know if we call
it a sophomore slump in the Jade and Daniels era.
They certainly haven't as a team played as well as
what a lot of people thought they were going to.
(27:25):
But in terms of what the Seahawks are getting ready for,
it's just a completely different team if they've got Daniels
at starting quarterback or if they don't have him at
starting quarterback. And I don't know if we're going to
know until Sunday night. It sounds like Jade Daniels is
going to be a game time decision for Sunday night.
(27:46):
So Mike McDonald's got to prepare for everything this week.
And that might be the only downside to Jade and
daniels injury from the Seahawks perspective.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Yeah, well, I mean, the nice thing I think is
you basically you have to plan like you're gonna play
because you don't want to be caught slipping where you're like, man,
I didn't think he was going to play. And the
nice thing is is they're kind of the same. Just
one's the varsity version and Mariota is the backup version.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
You know.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
I mean one is I will change the game. I
can take over the game.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
I know this.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
He gets all those first team reps, and I know
that Mariota has been getting them as of late since
he's been on the shelf.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
But it just is not the same.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
You can just tell that that Jayden Daniels makes everybody better, right,
and I think Mariota is one where if you just
have a bunch of dudes that don't need you to
make them better, then he can get it done and
he will. He made some good passes here and there
and ended up moving the ball a little bit, but
they just was not enough to overcome a team like
the Chiefs, and ultimately I don't think it'd be enough
(28:46):
to overcome the Seattle's defense if Jaden Daniels isn't playing.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Yeah, I know, on the beginning of the year, you
circle that game is one of the tougher games on
the schedule. But now, I mean it just feels like
a game that they should win. It's going to be
in Washington, so you do have to go on the road,
but you've had two weeks to rest.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
They're going to be on short rest. They may or may.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Not have their starting quarterback back, and even if he
does play, he might not be one hundred percent. They're
banged up across the board, and so a game that
maybe you put l's next to this game on your
pocket schedule at the beginning of the year suddenly looks
like a game that you should win. That's how it
(29:27):
feels to me on a Tuesday before we face the
Washington Comand.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
Yeah, definitely feels a lot more promising than it did
to start that the year, because, i mean, coming off
last year, their defense looked good, their offense was humming.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
I mean, they were legit scary team to play. And
now you're like, oh, well, yeah, this is a lot
more reasonable.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
All right, coming up next on the program, it is
a big week in a lot of different ways, including
for the Sounders and for Trick or Treaters. Sports Radio
ninety three point three KJARFM Soccer's going to the Halloween party.
It's basketball this year, just so they can pretend they
can know what it's like to put the ball in
(30:05):
the goal.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Oh burn, Why that hurts some people?
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Jackson earmuffs.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
I think they enjoy their I think they're comfortable in
their own skin. But it's nice to just get to
a halloween party, masquerade party, and you know, and go
with something that just as crazy wild you wish you were, Yeah,
something that is.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Out of your You know you can't, you can't.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Live that way on a daily basis, But for one night,
you can pretend that's true.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Yeah, that's true. And it would be nice to just
be able to like imagine.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
Scoring because penalty kicks right like that, The advantage there
is supposed to be for the person kicking the ball, right, Well,
you are like.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Ten feet away kicking through basically double barn doors. So
may a person's three feet wide with at most seven
foot wingspan. I would think that I could do it,
and yet three out of five Sounders could not get
the job done.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Last night.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
It was sad, sad looking.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Yeah, it was bad, bad. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (31:09):
I put the game on and five iron was like,
why are you putting this on?
Speaker 3 (31:12):
It?
Speaker 6 (31:12):
So well, it's the playoffs. We got to at least
have the game on TV three. And then at the end,
I go, well that was disappointing.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Well, I'm gonna just tell you this.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
So, as I was remote control jockeying around between the
Series game the Washington and I watched a lot by
the way of the Sounders, which is but this is
the beauty of them. This is the beauty of soccer.
Is I could go spend time on the World Series,
and then in between every half inning, switch over see
(31:42):
what's going on with the football game. Then I'd get
stuck on that for a minute, go back to the
World Series half inning or so, check back on the Sounders.
Still zero zero, And I didn't see any of the
flopping that happened while I was away.
Speaker 5 (31:56):
Yeah, quite a bit.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
When I went to make a sandwich, my sandwich for
the evening, I missed the show.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Hey home Run? Oh no, no, yeah. Yeah. So but
you're like, oh, I wonder what I missed there? Zero zero.
I did miss it.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
I did see, like there are a couple Rothrock come on, dude,
like beautiful little past sequence. The easy part was kicking
the ball in the goal and you overshot it.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
Yeah, it looked like we outplayed them, and.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Then I felt to me like they weren't doing Fry
a lot of favors in goal, at least for part
of the game because he had too much pressure around
him there for a while. But most of the game,
I think this is pretty evident, was played just defensively,
just a little keep away action. And Jackson warned us
(32:47):
this is the way Minnesota plays, and kind of felt
like we played that way as well.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
Yeah, they suck back and so we I think we
probably want to have looked at the stats, the time
of possession, and yet that's Minnesota's fine with that. They're
fine with not have it, and then when you turn
it over they make runs, and then you know we
withstood it. I mean, it was a well played game.
I suppose. I'm not going to act like I watched
every second of it because I didn't, But I mean
it was a well played game. Obviously, you get the penalties,
(33:13):
and neither team gave anything up. We had a couple
of scoring opportunities there that you kind of let pass
by the wayside, and regulation and then when I mean,
they're human and so it's not as easy as just
putting it, you know, just kick it in the goal.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Obviously.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
Well there's a dude there and their keeper is big
and good, and so they tricked him that first one.
They kicked right down the middle, and then he played
a little head game and with him and so oh
you got to back it up. Yeah, And then they
tried going down the middle again. He blocked that one,
but then the next two that are you know, off
the crossbar and then off the side post.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
It like, you gotta put it on goal.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
I mean, even playing through high school like I did,
that's the You have to put it on goal down
low towards the corner. You don't have to nail it
up in the top right hand corner, just you can
pick even if the goalie picked the right way. If
you put it where you can and you're capable of,
he can't stop he can't stop it.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
So, I mean, it just was not good. That was
bad penalty kicking for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (34:09):
I don't know a lot about soccer, so I couldn't
have told you if it was a good game or not.
Speaker 5 (34:13):
It was not a thrilling game.
Speaker 6 (34:15):
But watching it for me, I was like, well, it
seems like we're out playing this team. I mean every
time I was watching was when we were at least
having the shot attempt. But then I don't know. It's
always disappointing to then come down to one on one
kicking and have the game decided that way.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Well, it's not over. They team returns for game two.
It will be a best of three in the first round.
It's not always they actually reduce games as they go.
The soccer has to be different than everybody else. So
you know most leagues you play more games as you go. Yeah,
not soccer. Not the MLS. They play fewer as you go.
(34:50):
So this first round is three games. The next one
will be in Seattle, so certainly not over. But it
does count as a loss last night, and it's not hockey.
You don't get a point for.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
It, all right.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Coming up next headlines plus Greg Bell is gonna join
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