November 12, 2025 • 37 mins
Bucky’s family is back today, that means he has to put clothes on, throw away the pizza boxes and put down the toilet seat! Week 2 of the CFP rankings came out last night and a lot of people are asking questions, so Chuck dives in! :30- AL KINISKY (KAN Color Analyst) joins the show on the heels of another OT game for the Kraken and a shootout loss. Is the glass half full or half empty? What’s the goalie situation? :45- We close out the show with one last thing!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So as we roll into the nine o'clock hour here
on a home day, al Koniski will join us later
in the hour. We got one last thing coming your way.
A little more on the college football playoff rankings as well.
But tonight all the fun comes to a close. The
family gets back in town at the Jacobson household.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
So yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Yeah, I guess it's the one and only pantiless Monday.
I guess that's over. Yep. Yeah, there was got to
do it once. Yeah, I did it for a few days.
I mean it was there was a lot of.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Just wandering around okay, nakedness okay, but then again, I
mean it's yeah, I tried not to do that a
ton I mean, nobody wants to see that time to.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Take the couch cushion fort down and put them back
in the couch where they belong.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
I don't think I did return anything back to the
way that it was necessarily. Now, I will say this, uh,
first and foremost, I genuinely missed my family, like it's
it's crazy, how it's crazy, how almost lonely it feels
when you're used to such commotion, like NonStop dad, dad, mom, mom,
(01:08):
You know, the kids, and Kate doesn't do that whole lot.
She's not usually saying dad, dad, but it's just there's
always somebody Look what I can do. Fuck, look what
I can do. Yeah, there is times so she's like,
I want to build this. I want to build this.
I want to build this. Okay, just go build it,
you do you? But I mean I was, it almost was.
So I took full advantage of, like I said, I
(01:31):
when we left, they flew out Friday morning. When I
left here, I went and got two big pizzas from
Frankiees and I just basically grazed on them for like
three days.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Not largest, yeah, no extra largest.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Yes and so, and it grazed on the night that
they before they all left, I had cooked at dinner
with some steak and chicken basically for steak and chicken
burritos or tacos, whatever you want to call it, and.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
You can mix both if you want. I did.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I did so after the pizzas were gone. The last
couple of days, I've basically just eaten this, you know,
made in my own little taco concoctions, and one day
I had it with chips and just basically talked like
chicken and steak nachos that I made for myself. It
was awesome, It was awesome. I dirtied one dish the
entire time.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
How many dishes got dirty?
Speaker 1 (02:21):
One? Right now?
Speaker 3 (02:22):
I did put it in the dishwasher with the other
stuff that I put in the day that before they left.
And I just started that last night. So I did
the dishes, just.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Turned it on. One time. I used one dish, put
it in there, turned it on. It is remarkable, like
dishes when I grew up and we had a family
of eight. I mean, it was just every night scene.
And it is remarkable when you are a man. I
can only speak because I've only been a man and
(02:51):
you're by yourself. How how little dishes bother you in
your existence? Because you don't use many? Right? Yes?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Much?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Why why did they accumulate so much when you add
another person? I mean, I'll even go so far as
to let you know.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
So I used a paper plate when I got home
with the pizzas. We have some paper plates, right, I
just used the same one for the entire weekend.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Oh, you didn't even dirt.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
I didn't even I didn't dirty multiple paper plates.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Wow with Knapkin on the same paper towel too, just
laid it on this on the thing and just put
it right on the box of pepperoni. I said, I'll
see you in a little while, and sure enough, a
couple hours go by.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I think I could. I think I could indulge in
another piece of pizza and go grab the same place.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
That's the look on now. He looks so proud. I
was like this, I was very proud.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
He's like, oh my gosh, I wouldn't believe how successful
my weekend.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Oh so, taking a shower, right, we can get out
of the shower. Everybody has a shower match that they
get out that, you know, so you're not slipping around
on the little in floor tile floor or whatever. Well
they're little, they're like normal size, but that's little from me.
It's you know, I don't know, maybe two foot by
a foot and a half little rectangle. And I think
about it pretty much every day when I get out
(04:08):
of the shower, like I wish this was bigger. So
when they were gone, I just took a towel. It
was the older towel that I had been using, and
it put it on the floor like a full.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Blown beach towel thing.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
So the whole area was just I could walk wherever
I wanted and drip however much I wanted.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Well, I wanted to be done being dried off.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Oh uh huh.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
It really is, though, Like what a guy, there's there's
such value in just that freedom to not be corrected
about something.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Yeah, oh yeah, I'm not one that's very good at
being corrected.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Yeah. And so I heard a conversation on the way
in Okay and it was it was a female host,
and she's fantastic, and she was talking about like she
was going out. She had friends coming to town to
visit her, and they were celebrating that she just ran
a marathon, and she was talking about how they all
(05:04):
got together and they all stayed the night together and
they did their makeup and were getting ready to go
out on the town and they just laughed and played
music and danced and half naked and all this stuff.
And she was like it really, in her words, it
really is the best thing about being a female and
having female friends. And she was asking on the air,
(05:25):
what's the equivalent of that on the other side, on
the male side, And the two dopes that she's with
didn't have an answer. One of them said the locker room, Well,
not everybody can relate to that, you know, not everybody
played professional football. And the other guy didn't even have
an answer because he's weird. But I'm sitting there like
yelling at the radio, like the equivalent of that is
(05:46):
that guys just get together. It's a vulnerable state, that's
what it is. You're running around half naked, but you
don't care because you're with the people that you like
and you're having a good time and so you relax.
You're not worried about whether or not your significant other
is going to judge you for something. So that's that's
(06:09):
the joy that she's expressing. It's just that females are
a lot more button up than what males are on average.
But for a group of males, our equivalent of that
is just getting together, a game on in the background,
eating what you want, drinking what you want, not worrying
about it. You know, gambling if you're playing poker, being
(06:29):
loose with the language, you know, things of that nature,
without worrying that somebody doesn't like what you're saying, doing
or thinking. And it is it's not even spousal. It
could be just anything. That's the equivalent. It's just being
able to be yourself with your favorite people in an
environment that there's no judgment.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
So you can SAPA in a safe space.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
And you can be as you can be as vulnerable
as you want to be and be yourself as much
as you want to be. That's the equivalent. So Michelle,
nobody could come up with an answer that's the answer
from a male perspective.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
And also it makes sense. Yeah, yeah, totally makes sense. Yeah,
I And I think.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
It's it's just interesting because I think it's so funny
that men and women also have such varying or such
big ideas of what the opposite sex does when they're alone.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Right, Like, there's a joke what was it on? Uh oh?
Speaker 5 (07:24):
On friends and they were like, oh, yeah, what do
you think when we all get together, we just wear
pajamas and have pillow fights?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Right then he's like and then they're like, no, we're kidding, Yes,
of course we do that.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Like, you can't break Joey's heart into thinking that that's
something that doesn't happen, but it is. You know, there's
always been those stereotypical things that you think happens.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Well, the same thing like I and I know you
can relate to this, like when I mean Unicorn came
to town, and I've lived with several different women in
my life individually.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Not to get I was gonna say, not at the
same time.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Not at the same time, but she was the most
like concerned about it, and so like if I had
the place to myself or left of my own devices,
her brain went to like what you see on the movies,
and I'm like, hey, all I want is a break
from you. Yeah, I have nothing intended except to be alone,
(08:18):
probably get a nice bottle of scotch, slowly enjoy it
over the weekend, watch sports, and go outside for a
run on occasion. That's pretty much all I want to do. Ever,
why do you think I'm going to go to some
you know, yeah, strip joint pajama party across town. All
I want is just time alone and to not hear
(08:42):
about anything else but what I my own breath, breathing,
that's what I want to hear. I want to not
have to say what do you want to watch? I'm
just gonna choose what I want to watch. That's that's
the joy. That's the joy that they were experiencing, and
that's the joy that guys experience. It's nothing tawdry, eat
no dark or seeded. It typically is and I know
(09:04):
there are dark types, but it typically is just no,
I just want to do what I want to do
without hearing anything about it.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Yeah, that's like when I go out of town.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
I know all Mark wants to do is like, Okay,
i can play golf whenever I want, and I'll hang
out at the club and have some drinks, and then
I'll come home and I'll lay on the couch and
I'll watch TV and I'll have whatever I want to eat,
and I don't have to worry.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
About feeding anybody else.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
And it's the same when he goes out of town
and Palmer's gone, I'm like, poor wine, watch trash television,
and I'm going to make like vegetables that he won't eat,
or you know, some food that he doesn't like to eat.
I'm like, oh, I'm going to cook Indian food tonight
because he won't eat that, or I'm gonna.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Make Brussels routes because he eats the smell of it.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Yeah, yeah, He's right, it's sme gross. That's there's simplicity
of the whole thing. And yet it's this five days
or whatever it was was. It was crazy because as
of late, you guys know, I've been making some changes,
dietary changes and whatnot, and it's real easy to do.
Once I basically tell my wife, who's very fit, and
she's into that, hey, all right, I'm ready to do this.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Well, she stopped.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Getting the crap food that I enjoyed. She didn't get
the big bag of cheetos at cost Go anymore, because it's.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Very good of her. Yes, as someone that loves you.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Yes, she was waiting for me to finally say, Okay,
I'm going to commit to this and I'm ready to
do it. And yet so that was my first order
of Like, the first thing I was to do was not
like it's not sneaky. I've told her about it, Like yep,
I bought a couple of pizzas and I just grazed
on them.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
It was.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
And then it was the idea of usually because you cohabitate,
like there was one day that I just laid on
the couch and watch sports. Right, usually I have a
chair and I sit there. I laid on the couch. Oh,
I put the blanket that you got us for Christmas.
I put that down on the couch to lay on
that as soft and I don't need a blanket over
the top of me because I'm I'm fatinam hot all
the time.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
But wow, yeah, I was super hot.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Oh with the pose I was in, and I was
in my underwear the whole day, like that's it. Nothing else.
I didn't put anything else on. But I even brought
like a pillow out from the one of my extra
pillows from the bed out and normally I would pick
that up right, fold up the blanket, put everything away. No,
left it there, left it right there the whole time.
I forgot to put it away so she doesn't go
(11:12):
home and see it. I actually, I don't care if
she's going to. I didn't make the bed after I
got up any of the days. Yeah, I just it
was just the just do whatever I want type of
a thing. And yet at the same time, I'm so
glad they're home.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Yeah, yeah, exactly, And you know that it's right to
pick that thing up. We all know that it's right,
and we didn't have to actually feel better about it
if we walked back through the room and saw that
we had put it away earlier, we would actually feel
better about that.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
But you didn't have to write right. So that's the key.
I take a vacation, I put the toilet seat down.
I would say ninety nine point nine percent of the
time the last five days, not once on purpose. There
was a couple of times I put it down out
of habit, and I reached back down and put it
back up, just just as you could, just because the
(12:01):
next time I saved myself that one second and I
was like, huh, now, trust you me. I'm going to
be happy to go back to putting them back down right,
having my family back in.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
The house, having the noise, and yes, chaos can't wait, Yeah,
you can't wait. I believe that. I do. I believe that,
all right. I did want to talk a little bit
about the college football playoff rankings. I would to try
to do a little bit of an exercise because a
lot of people have problems with the polls, that's very clear,
and a lot of people have problems with their rankings.
And I mean Rick new Isel, Cam Cleveland Softy brings
(12:32):
it up all the time, the two of you as well.
So I mean we're talking about a collection of you know,
smart people here right that how is that team not
ahead when they beat them? And I just would like
to remind you that the job is far more difficult
than that, and I know you guys know that, but
especially this time of the year, as resumes are changing constantly,
(12:54):
so it's not just as easy as looking at seven.
These two teams are seven and two, and that team
beat the other team, why are they ranked lower? It's
just not that simple. And so I wanted to see
if we could go through an exercise to try to
if I can maybe prove this okay once and for all.
And I hope Coach new ISIL's listening out he is,
(13:17):
I hope Softie's listening, and I hope cam Cleveland's listening
because I don't want to have to repeat it.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
You three, okay?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yeah? And by the way, pick up your towel your
wife's home, yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
And put the toilet seat down.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Hey, all right. So this started with Bucky and I
talking off the air, and he was like, how is
Miami ahead of Louisville when Louisville beat them and they
have the same record. That's where the conversation started. And
so my take, of course was because Miami's overall resume
with wins over Notre Dame in South Florida outside of conference,
(13:47):
and without an embarrassing loss on their ledger. The most
embarrassing loss they have is home to SMU, which is
a pretty good team made the tournament a year ago.
They're just resume is just better. But if we played
this game of all right, they have the same record,
but they lost to them, they have to be ranked ahead.
(14:07):
Look at how faulty that this gets? Fast, Okay, so
we'll start with Louisville has to be ahead of Miami. Well,
if that's the case, Miami beat Notre Dame and they
have the same record, So that means Miami, by this rule,
has to be ahead of Notre Dame. So you're gonna
say Louisville's got to be out of Miami because that
(14:29):
just clear cut same record, they beat them head to head,
they have to be ahead of the Miami. Then that means,
by that logic, Miami has to be ahead of Notre Dame,
which means Louisville has to be ahead of Notre Dame. Right, Okay,
So now so now Notre Dame has a win over
USC right Okay, And they won by ten. So if USC,
(14:55):
for example, were to beat Oregon next week and they
both have the same records, there's an argum to me
made that Oregon should still be ahead of USSE but USC,
by this logic, says, well, we've got to be ahead
of Oregon. We have the same record, and we just
beat them head to head. So now Notre Dame's definitely
got to be ahead of USC, and USC's definitely got
(15:17):
to be ahead of Oregon. So now Oregon with two
losses on the season and still a resume worth making
the tournament, I would think, especially if they close strong.
By this logic, Oregon is now behind Louisville, Miami, Notre Dame, USC,
and oh, by the way, Virginia who beat Louisville, So
(15:40):
Virginia has to go ahead of all of them by
this logic. And then so look how far that's pushing
Oregon down. Yeah, if you want to go a little further,
Illinois beat USC. Now, granted they have three losses, but
two of those losses were against the first and second
ranked teams in America. So there's an argument then that
(16:02):
could be made if we're going to play this. Yeah,
but we beat you head to head game that Illinois
now goes ahead of USC in the rankings, and so
you dub beat Illinois. So maybe you dubbed jumps Oregon
if they lose to USC playing this, Yeah, but they
(16:23):
beat them head to head game that so many people
want to play and then are so confused about. And
then Wisconsin beat you dub and I know that their
records nowhere close, but boy, you want to talk about
putting a smile back on Luke Fickles's place or fickles face.
Congratulations Now in this head to head math that we
(16:44):
want to do, you're now a bubble team. Congratulations Badgers.
I know it's been a rough year, but you're a
bubble team, so it just can't work that way. I
do believe that head to head has to come into
play on certain tiebreakers, but because it's so convoluted, the
overall resume is what has to get you there. Even
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if you do have the same record as somebody else
and you lost to them head to head, you still
have to take everything into consideration. Do you have bad losses,
do you have quality wins? Did you play anybody in
non conference? Did you lose at home to a team
that you shouldn't have lost to Did you beat a
team that you weren't supposed to beat on the road.
(17:28):
All of that factors in, even things like did you
have key players out? That's a little further down the line,
but did you have key players out at certain times
than that created the loss? And now those players are
back and now you look more dangerous. That's where the
eye test comes into play. So all of that has
to be factored in. And that's why it is just
about the resume, way more than head to head, just
(17:51):
about the overall resume and giving value to all of
those individual elements that suggest how good of a football
season that you had. And there is no exact science
to it. There's gonna be a little bit of just
human element. This is what I think. I mean, that's
there's no way of getting around that. And so to me,
I hope. I know a lot of people get upset
(18:14):
by that. How can they be ranked out on them
because there's just so much more that goes into the
decision of who's gets ranked ahead of who. Yeah, there's
obviously way more.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
I mean, if anybody, excuse me, would think it just
head to head, well, that would be silly. It's to me,
it's all of those things you just said, Okay, your resume,
your strength of schedule.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
How difficult is it.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
I mean, what's the difference between beating beating Rutgers and
beating Cal Is there a difference? Well, there's a difference.
And how much weight do you put in the difference
and how much so? And then that's where my biggest
thing is when all of a sudden, even when you
start comparing resumes, when it's you compare the resume of
like teams that you played, well, then they have to
(18:55):
go so deep as to Okay, well you played them
and lost to them when they had their starting quarterback,
and then this team lost beat them when they were
on their third string quarterback. Like you have to go
into all of that stuff, and I think the committee,
I think does go into that.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Might have to eventually you might have to end up there.
If you're really splitting hairs, then you're getting to the point,
are like, well when did you beat them?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:18):
You know, and that sort of thing comes in, Like
this Penn State thing is a really difficult element that
Penn State was one of the top teams in the
country and probably are on paper still to this day,
and Oregon probably deserves a lot of credit for crushing
Penn State spirit so thoroughly with that victory on the
road that the entire program fell apart. That should be
(19:39):
a feather in their cap. But and I think that
does come up in the conversation eventually, and it has
to be included in the conversation when discussing Oregon's resume.
But the truth of the matter is overall, that Penn
State resume is so crappy right now that a win
over Penn State doesn't look that great anymore.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
But okay, then, at the same time, then you have
to to me, it's the eye test, which I think
that they put a lot of stock in that, right.
I think that's where their biggest debate is when they
talk about, Okay, well, then then do you deduct points
from Indiana for barely squeaking by them with the last second,
miraculous touchdown tiptoe thing at the very end of it,
(20:25):
when they're on a five or six game losing streak
coming into it, do you say, well, you could barely
get by this team that we had completely wrong. It
did come up in the conversation this week, and yet
I mean, to some degree, there's the alur injury is
part of it. The fact that that did crush their
spirit a little bit. They had a white out game
and got beat on their own their own turf. With it,
(20:47):
I think Ucla, You think that Ucla all of a
sudden comes in right after new Heizel's kid takes over
and injects a different kind of life into it, and
all of a sudden, you know, they win a game
at home when Penn State's coming off of the maybe
overlooked it as it still hadn't gotten over the Oregon lost.
There's way that there's so many things that go into it.
That's why it's not an exact science. It's the exact
(21:08):
science would just be the best records. Well, obviously you
can't go with that because some team that you know,
North Dakota State might go undefeated. Are they the number
one team in the country?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Of course not.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
And so to me, it's there's a ton that goes
into it. And yet it's it's dependent upon how much
stock you put into it, how much how much weight
you put into each thing, as you're putting all of
these different variables on the scale. And that's one where
you can never really get any people that are discussing
this thing to completely agree on the entire thing.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
And so that's why I think they do it now. Committee.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
That's why you have a committee, and that's why they
do these rankings now and then every single week, so
they have a starting point with what they go at
and now you have the second half of the season
or last third of the season to kind of figure
out how the wiggle rooms can happened.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Well, I mean, just just the little exercise that we did,
Virginia is at the top of the heap of all
of those programs if we did it based off of
identical records. But the head to head thing as the tiebreaker,
you're putting Virginia out of Louisville, Miami, Notre Dame, USC,
and Oregon. That's if USC beats Oregon. And there's no
(22:12):
way Virginia deserves that. They've lost two, they have two
bad losses on their resume and they don't really have
all that Their most impressive win was the Louisville win.
So it's just I don't know, I just hear it
all the time. Same record, I mean I heard from
coach Newey was old earlier the same record, how are
they lower? Because there's more to it than just the
head to head matchup, and it does factor, but everything
(22:36):
has to factor, and then we try and do our
best to figure out how good a season that a
team had was. All right? Coming up next, Al Kiniski'll
join us Chuggingbock Sports Radio ninety three point three KJARFM.
(23:00):
You can issuate so you're out of town too, to
come in here and say hello. Brought us Queen Anne
beer Hall breakfast burritos they were the day the tree
fell Yeah, exactly. He like, he's like, hey, is he
out today? I'm coming in today. That's not how it happened.
Oh you don't think no, did Justin come into someone else?
Speaker 6 (23:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (23:22):
I can't remember the name.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Justin probably think Justin probably didn't come in because he
heard the tree fell down.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
He's like, well, I don't know, I want to see
Chuck and Ashley. Well, we just enjoyed Al's presence immensely
and wish he would come back every week. Yeah, it'd
be nice. Breakfast burritos, Al, how are you? Good morning?
Speaker 6 (23:42):
Fantastic? And uh, you know, Buck, I got to say
I've been in the corporate world for thirty years. If
I had a nickel for every time I heard the
tree fell on my car excuse I won't be into
work today, it'd be a rich man.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Oh is that right?
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Well, maybe that's because you're Canadian a lot of trees
fall on cars, or that your go to excuse. Next time,
I'll call you at nine o'clock at eleven o'clock at
night and see if you want to come out there
and help me with.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
You can hit, you can wield a change. I'm sure
I'm gonna say.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
You've got to get stealed though. Get a sponsorship in.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
There for you. That'd be a great idea, the one
I use. Yeah, that's that's a good point, absolutely all right. Well,
cracking last night, lose in another shootout, another overtime game.
I don't want to labor this point al, but just
getting one when you can get two in these sessions
is starting to get a little repetitive.
Speaker 6 (24:37):
Yeah, I mean, listen, you can look at this from
the glass half empty, glass half full standpoint. You saw
a team last night that put their defensive structure on
display and kept the opposing team to one goal against.
But unfortunately the glass half empty side is you couldn't
put pucks in on a team that was playing in
(24:58):
their second back to back that was pretty decimated with
some sort of sickness, flew whatever, and had many guys
with a lineup. Also, the goalie that played in the
first of the back to back played in the second
back to back and that's rare. So you know, depending
on what side you're looking at, Yeah, you got a
point out of it, but you really should have gotten two.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
How difficult is it?
Speaker 3 (25:23):
I mean, we we just watched the Sounders basically lose
their their playoff game. They lost to with penalty kicks,
And I know in soccer it's you should make just
about every single one. I'm you're not going to nobody's perfect,
but it's one of those it's far bigger than the
guy that is covering it can cover. And yet in
hockey it seems far more difficult. And so what is
(25:44):
the percentage that you expect your guys to make when
it comes to penalty shootouts?
Speaker 6 (25:49):
Yeah, I mean there's there's a very select few number
of players in the league that have high percentage numbers,
and high might be you know, thirty percent or you know,
for every every three they're getting one, but really it's
much lower than that. It's something that you you practice,
you know when you do have opportunities in practice. But
(26:10):
every goalie is different in the league. Every goalie is
going to play things differently, so you know, the percentage
is probably much slower than lower than what you would
think it would be. And listen, you know, the the
ratio of space between the goaltender and the and the
net is very different hockey versus soccer, so you're not
(26:30):
surprised when the number is so small. But having said that,
it's a skill, it's it's a it's a skills competition. Unfortunately,
that's how we've decided we're going to end games in
the NHL during the regular season, and there are some
guys that are fantastic in it and some guys that struggle,
even though they're they're high scorers during five on five
(26:50):
player or power play. There's something about that breakaway situation,
that one versus one situation that you know, it's hard
to get over that hump.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Color Analyst for yours you a cracking right here on
the flagship al Kaniski with us. He joins us every
Wednesday at this time. I know we're out. Got to
coord out for a little bit here, and hopefully it's
only a little bit. But I got to give credit
to Matt Murray for a third string goalie. I don't
know if that's technically true, but certainly the way that
the season started, he was the third guy added to
(27:21):
the roster. Man. He was terrific last night.
Speaker 6 (27:25):
Yeah he was. And it was his second start to
in two games. So, you know, goalies love flow, and
I think they you know, once you get a couple
of games in your belt, you start to feel that.
But you know, I mistakenly sit on the broadcast last
night that with Joey to Cord out, you've got both
Philip Grubauer and Matt Murray vying for that who the
(27:46):
true second backup goaltender is. And I have to amend
that statement. We don't know how long Joy Tocord's out.
So right now, what these two goaltenders are doing is
trying to buy for who's going to be the number
one goaltender. I'll tell you, the way Matt Murray played,
he's got my vote right now.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Well, I mean, if he's the one, is it still
just pretty much split? I mean, it seems like across
the board. Now in the NHL, you're you're needing too,
and so if that's your if you've you've kind of
somehow maybe moved him up the depth chart here, you're
feeling good about how you're going to be able to
be tending goal considering we don't know how long.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Like you said, Joey, the cord's out.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
Yeah, I think what you do is you've got to
look at the schedule ahead. You know, Cracking, I've got
Winnipeg tomorrow night. They've got Jose Saturday. So the next
two games, you've got a elite, top of the league
team and you've got a team that the Crack had
lost to six to one last week. Obviously, you know
both teams you want to play well against. But you've
got to look at your goaltender due a route now
(28:47):
right now, and say who's going to play the best
against that particular team. It's not necessarily who's playing the best,
it's who's going to play the best because sometimes you
get an X factor with goaltenders that they always play
well again certain teams, or maybe it was a team
they were traded from, but the coaching staff will look
out to those two games, and they'll make those decisions
(29:08):
based on those factors.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Is five on three like impossible to overcome? And do
you like it as a hockey player a hockey analyst
that such a great advantage can be given in the
middle of a game like that, Yeah, I.
Speaker 6 (29:23):
Mean it's It's one of those things where as a player,
if you're the person that's on the penalty kill, you
want to be really careful about not putting your team
down another man in that situation. Having said that, it happens,
I've done it. I've been on both sides of it.
And when you're the team that's up two men on
the power plays, it's expected that you're going to get
(29:43):
some great, a high danger chances in that time that
you have driven. While it's five on three, it's not
assumed it's going to be a goal because you've still
got three players out there plus a goal tender that's
playing fantastic. And let's remember that that game last night,
that's five one three goal that was scored. Matt Murray
had forty nine percent of that save. It went off
(30:05):
his glove, but just the velocity of the shot had
dropped after he got a piece of it and continued
into the back of the net. So he makes that
save there, and you know the crack can win the
game won nothing. So it's not a given, but it's
probably going to be one of the best opportunities you
have in a game to get a goal.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Yeah, whenever you see that, you know you're going against
a five on three. You're just like, oh crap, well there,
there's at least one. There's at least one goal.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
All right.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Last thing for you, because we won't be able to
chat with you before the Sharks game coming up this weekend.
You you tell me, you correct me if I'm wrong.
I don't remember Wayne Gretzky looking as young as what
these Sharks players look like. They look like they're eleven.
And Ashley tells me it's just because I'm getting older.
I don't think so. I don't feel this way about
(30:51):
other sports. There's something about these young hockey players. The
Badard kid in Chicago and like seven of those Sharks players,
they all look like their six year old Al why
do they look so young?
Speaker 6 (31:02):
Al? I don't know. I don't know if it's if
it's face washing regimes at night, if it's skin creams
or what. But I agree, most of them wouldn't be
able to grow a mustache this month for November, so
I question it as well. I think they get younger
every year.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Feels like it. Man, that is a young looking team
right there. Just every guy that would score, and they
scored a lot. Man, he looks even younger than the
last guy. Yeah, not another team movie, that's what we
were watching.
Speaker 6 (31:32):
No, no, absolutely not all right now, thanks man, We'll
talk to you from Chicago next week.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Sounds good. Al Kiniski joining us right here on Chuck
and Buck and the team will be in action tomorrow
night at home against the Winnipeg Jets at seven o'clock.
So I'm very competitive hockey every single night from this team.
But they are not getting two points there the nights
they're getting one point. They have a chance to get
to they're just not winning consistently and overtime something Lane
(32:01):
Lambert is going to be working on, all right, one
last thing to close out our Wednesday show next on
kJ R. Had a perfect day from the field. Love
of it? Really, yeah, clerk, make it. Maybe new clothes
just to make a shoot better. That's a nice looking
Eddie Bauer jacket. You got there.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
I don't know, comfy half vest jacket.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Maybe I just felt sexier today. I came to work
in my shooting Paperwase shooting just was awesome. Look good,
feel good, feel good, play good or something.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Like that, like logic to me.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Yeah, all right, let's close it out with one last thing, Bucky,
what you got? I am?
Speaker 3 (32:37):
I'm not one hundred percent sure what to make of
the Holy Ani McKay thing. Obviously I read a little
bit more into it. We found out, I don't know
it was yesterday or early this morning that he had
gotten that he had taken the job as a field
coordinator with Cleveland. I did read some stuff from the manager,
Steve Vote, where he was just like, you know, I
(32:58):
love what he brings to the table. I get he
was itching for more of an on field thing, where
I think a couple of years ago he got moved
to an on field type of job. He used to
manage in college and and some wooden back called the
north Woods League. I think it's called the It's like
a college wood bat league. And so I think that
he likes the actual coaching aspect of stuff, beyond just
(33:20):
the player development or the mental side, the peak performance
coaching part of it, player development, all of that. I
think he likes being on like kind of in the
mix on the field, in the dugout, doing.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
That type of thing.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
And and yet that's basically the opportunity he's getting to
become the field coordinator there. And yet it's you know,
the I know the Mariners already have a guy and
maybe they just didn't want to give him that position.
But the guy that they have, I don't know him
from Adam. He just as a young kid, so they
thirty one years old and never played above a ball
that the Maritors have in that position. And is that
(33:53):
a tool or no, that's I think that's the minor
league coordinator.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Oh okay, I don't have it in front of him now.
I looked it up last night. I don't know. I
don't have any inside information into this. It feels like
a backwards move. I know, just from their titles assistant
general manager to some what's the title of coordinat field
coordinator with the Cleveland Guardians. It's a smaller market, it's
a lower budget, it's a team that doesn't look like
(34:18):
they're set up to win like the may as much
as what the Mariners seem to be set up like
so it is strange. I don't know what went into it.
If Andy McKay just like you said, an opportunity to
be a little more hands on baseball versus just being
Sigmund Freud for the Seattle Mariners. But I do know
he contributed. I do know that they liked him. I
(34:39):
do know that he served a really specific role for
this team and the evaluation and development of players, both
physically and mentally. So I'm not sure what went into it.
Maybe it was just time for Andy to try something different. Yeah,
well that's my whole thought on is.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
I just don't understand it because to me, I think
he was a valuable piece. It sounds like, you know,
Hollanders said, Yeah, I'm sad to see him go when
I'm happy for him. So obviously it's something where it's
it's a it's a step in the direction that Andy
McKay is wanting to go, and yet you're going to
be losing something because he brought. He brought some stuff
behind the scenes that will never fully know what it
(35:17):
was that he was doing or what what what influence
he had in certain decisions that they made.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
All right, Ashley what do you got for one last thing?
Speaker 5 (35:24):
I saw that it is official for sure that Jackson
Dart will not be playing and Jameis Winston will get
the start. After our earlier segment talking about how Russell
Wilson Wilson was benched or pushed further down the bench,
I did some pretty intense research, okay, between the Phil
(35:46):
Collins song I Missed Again and our lyrics have I
benched again? And I am now more convinced than ever
that Phil did write it about this moment.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
I do you have more evidence?
Speaker 4 (35:57):
Well, let's just say not today, but I might have
more evidence for you tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
There might be a duet. Oh okay, that's how close
the song is. I don't barely need to replace anything.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Right, I'm benched again, Okay.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Yep, so stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
All right, all right, Yes, I actually played a Phil
Collins song called I've Never heard I Missed Again, I
Missed Again, and it sounded very much like I'm benched again. Yeah,
and so anyway, that's what she's referring to. Yes, and
now she's looked further into the song and realizes the lyrics.
Speaker 5 (36:33):
I've written all the words out. I've barely changed any
that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
All right, well, I look forward to that also, I
want you to look forward to Stove. The podcast will
have its debut this week. Anders and I back for
another season of off season marin Er Talk. We're going
to record our first episode tomorrow after this show, and
so we'll have our first thoughts on the off season.
(37:00):
Seems to be a clamoring people can't wait to start
talking about the off season. How to get these Mariners
over the hump and into the world series once and
for all. We we'll start diving into that project tomorrow,
Andrews and myself, So I'll let you know where you
can find it and how long of the first episode
we're going to do, because we might go sixteen hours.
All right, We'll talk to you tomorrow at six am.
(37:21):
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So as we roll into the nine o'clock hour here
on a home day, al Koniski will join us later
in the hour. We got one last thing coming your way.
A little more on the college football playoff rankings as well.
But tonight all the fun comes to a close. The
family gets back in town at the Jacobson household.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
So yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Yeah, I guess it's the one and only pantiless Monday.
I guess that's over. Yep. Yeah, there was got to
do it once. Yeah, I did it for a few days.
I mean it was there was a lot of.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Just wandering around okay, nakedness okay, but then again, I
mean it's yeah, I tried not to do that a
ton I mean, nobody wants to see that time to.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Take the couch cushion fort down and put them back
in the couch where they belong.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
I don't think I did return anything back to the
way that it was necessarily. Now, I will say this, uh,
first and foremost, I genuinely missed my family, like it's
it's crazy, how it's crazy, how almost lonely it feels
when you're used to such commotion, like NonStop dad, dad, mom, mom,
(01:08):
You know, the kids, and Kate doesn't do that whole lot.
She's not usually saying dad, dad, but it's just there's
always somebody Look what I can do. Fuck, look what
I can do. Yeah, there is times so she's like,
I want to build this. I want to build this.
I want to build this. Okay, just go build it,
you do you? But I mean I was, it almost was.
So I took full advantage of, like I said, I
(01:31):
when we left, they flew out Friday morning. When I
left here, I went and got two big pizzas from
Frankiees and I just basically grazed on them for like
three days.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Not largest, yeah, no extra largest.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Yes and so, and it grazed on the night that
they before they all left, I had cooked at dinner
with some steak and chicken basically for steak and chicken
burritos or tacos, whatever you want to call it, and.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
You can mix both if you want. I did.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I did so after the pizzas were gone. The last
couple of days, I've basically just eaten this, you know,
made in my own little taco concoctions, and one day
I had it with chips and just basically talked like
chicken and steak nachos that I made for myself. It
was awesome, It was awesome. I dirtied one dish the
entire time.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
How many dishes got dirty?
Speaker 1 (02:21):
One? Right now?
Speaker 3 (02:22):
I did put it in the dishwasher with the other
stuff that I put in the day that before they left.
And I just started that last night. So I did
the dishes, just.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Turned it on. One time. I used one dish, put
it in there, turned it on. It is remarkable, like
dishes when I grew up and we had a family
of eight. I mean, it was just every night scene.
And it is remarkable when you are a man. I
can only speak because I've only been a man and
(02:51):
you're by yourself. How how little dishes bother you in
your existence? Because you don't use many? Right? Yes?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Much?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Why why did they accumulate so much when you add
another person? I mean, I'll even go so far as
to let you know.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
So I used a paper plate when I got home
with the pizzas. We have some paper plates, right, I
just used the same one for the entire weekend.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Oh, you didn't even dirt.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
I didn't even I didn't dirty multiple paper plates.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Wow with Knapkin on the same paper towel too, just
laid it on this on the thing and just put
it right on the box of pepperoni. I said, I'll
see you in a little while, and sure enough, a
couple hours go by.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I think I could. I think I could indulge in
another piece of pizza and go grab the same place.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
That's the look on now. He looks so proud. I
was like this, I was very proud.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
He's like, oh my gosh, I wouldn't believe how successful
my weekend.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Oh so, taking a shower, right, we can get out
of the shower. Everybody has a shower match that they
get out that, you know, so you're not slipping around
on the little in floor tile floor or whatever. Well
they're little, they're like normal size, but that's little from me.
It's you know, I don't know, maybe two foot by
a foot and a half little rectangle. And I think
about it pretty much every day when I get out
(04:08):
of the shower, like I wish this was bigger. So
when they were gone, I just took a towel. It
was the older towel that I had been using, and
it put it on the floor like a full.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Blown beach towel thing.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
So the whole area was just I could walk wherever
I wanted and drip however much I wanted.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Well, I wanted to be done being dried off.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Oh uh huh.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
It really is, though, Like what a guy, there's there's
such value in just that freedom to not be corrected
about something.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Yeah, oh yeah, I'm not one that's very good at
being corrected.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Yeah. And so I heard a conversation on the way
in Okay and it was it was a female host,
and she's fantastic, and she was talking about like she
was going out. She had friends coming to town to
visit her, and they were celebrating that she just ran
a marathon, and she was talking about how they all
(05:04):
got together and they all stayed the night together and
they did their makeup and were getting ready to go
out on the town and they just laughed and played
music and danced and half naked and all this stuff.
And she was like it really, in her words, it
really is the best thing about being a female and
having female friends. And she was asking on the air,
(05:25):
what's the equivalent of that on the other side, on
the male side, And the two dopes that she's with
didn't have an answer. One of them said the locker room, Well,
not everybody can relate to that, you know, not everybody
played professional football. And the other guy didn't even have
an answer because he's weird. But I'm sitting there like
yelling at the radio, like the equivalent of that is
(05:46):
that guys just get together. It's a vulnerable state, that's
what it is. You're running around half naked, but you
don't care because you're with the people that you like
and you're having a good time and so you relax.
You're not worried about whether or not your significant other
is going to judge you for something. So that's that's
(06:09):
the joy that she's expressing. It's just that females are
a lot more button up than what males are on average.
But for a group of males, our equivalent of that
is just getting together, a game on in the background,
eating what you want, drinking what you want, not worrying
about it. You know, gambling if you're playing poker, being
(06:29):
loose with the language, you know, things of that nature,
without worrying that somebody doesn't like what you're saying, doing
or thinking. And it is it's not even spousal. It
could be just anything. That's the equivalent. It's just being
able to be yourself with your favorite people in an
environment that there's no judgment.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
So you can SAPA in a safe space.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
And you can be as you can be as vulnerable
as you want to be and be yourself as much
as you want to be. That's the equivalent. So Michelle,
nobody could come up with an answer that's the answer
from a male perspective.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
And also it makes sense. Yeah, yeah, totally makes sense. Yeah,
I And I think.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
It's it's just interesting because I think it's so funny
that men and women also have such varying or such
big ideas of what the opposite sex does when they're alone.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Right, Like, there's a joke what was it on? Uh oh?
Speaker 5 (07:24):
On friends and they were like, oh, yeah, what do
you think when we all get together, we just wear
pajamas and have pillow fights?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Right then he's like and then they're like, no, we're kidding, Yes,
of course we do that.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Like, you can't break Joey's heart into thinking that that's
something that doesn't happen, but it is. You know, there's
always been those stereotypical things that you think happens.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Well, the same thing like I and I know you
can relate to this, like when I mean Unicorn came
to town, and I've lived with several different women in
my life individually.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Not to get I was gonna say, not at the
same time.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Not at the same time, but she was the most
like concerned about it, and so like if I had
the place to myself or left of my own devices,
her brain went to like what you see on the movies,
and I'm like, hey, all I want is a break
from you. Yeah, I have nothing intended except to be alone,
(08:18):
probably get a nice bottle of scotch, slowly enjoy it
over the weekend, watch sports, and go outside for a
run on occasion. That's pretty much all I want to do. Ever,
why do you think I'm going to go to some
you know, yeah, strip joint pajama party across town. All
I want is just time alone and to not hear
(08:42):
about anything else but what I my own breath, breathing,
that's what I want to hear. I want to not
have to say what do you want to watch? I'm
just gonna choose what I want to watch. That's that's
the joy. That's the joy that they were experiencing, and
that's the joy that guys experience. It's nothing tawdry, eat
no dark or seeded. It typically is and I know
(09:04):
there are dark types, but it typically is just no,
I just want to do what I want to do
without hearing anything about it.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Yeah, that's like when I go out of town.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
I know all Mark wants to do is like, Okay,
i can play golf whenever I want, and I'll hang
out at the club and have some drinks, and then
I'll come home and I'll lay on the couch and
I'll watch TV and I'll have whatever I want to eat,
and I don't have to worry.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
About feeding anybody else.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
And it's the same when he goes out of town
and Palmer's gone, I'm like, poor wine, watch trash television,
and I'm going to make like vegetables that he won't eat,
or you know, some food that he doesn't like to eat.
I'm like, oh, I'm going to cook Indian food tonight
because he won't eat that, or I'm gonna.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Make Brussels routes because he eats the smell of it.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Yeah, yeah, He's right, it's sme gross. That's there's simplicity
of the whole thing. And yet it's this five days
or whatever it was was. It was crazy because as
of late, you guys know, I've been making some changes,
dietary changes and whatnot, and it's real easy to do.
Once I basically tell my wife, who's very fit, and
she's into that, hey, all right, I'm ready to do this.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Well, she stopped.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Getting the crap food that I enjoyed. She didn't get
the big bag of cheetos at cost Go anymore, because it's.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Very good of her. Yes, as someone that loves you.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Yes, she was waiting for me to finally say, Okay,
I'm going to commit to this and I'm ready to
do it. And yet so that was my first order
of Like, the first thing I was to do was not
like it's not sneaky. I've told her about it, Like yep,
I bought a couple of pizzas and I just grazed
on them.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
It was.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
And then it was the idea of usually because you cohabitate,
like there was one day that I just laid on
the couch and watch sports. Right, usually I have a
chair and I sit there. I laid on the couch. Oh,
I put the blanket that you got us for Christmas.
I put that down on the couch to lay on
that as soft and I don't need a blanket over
the top of me because I'm I'm fatinam hot all
the time.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
But wow, yeah, I was super hot.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Oh with the pose I was in, and I was
in my underwear the whole day, like that's it. Nothing else.
I didn't put anything else on. But I even brought
like a pillow out from the one of my extra
pillows from the bed out and normally I would pick
that up right, fold up the blanket, put everything away. No,
left it there, left it right there the whole time.
I forgot to put it away so she doesn't go
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home and see it. I actually, I don't care if
she's going to. I didn't make the bed after I
got up any of the days. Yeah, I just it
was just the just do whatever I want type of
a thing. And yet at the same time, I'm so
glad they're home.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Yeah, yeah, exactly, And you know that it's right to
pick that thing up. We all know that it's right,
and we didn't have to actually feel better about it
if we walked back through the room and saw that
we had put it away earlier, we would actually feel
better about that.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
But you didn't have to write right. So that's the key.
I take a vacation, I put the toilet seat down.
I would say ninety nine point nine percent of the
time the last five days, not once on purpose. There
was a couple of times I put it down out
of habit, and I reached back down and put it
back up, just just as you could, just because the
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next time I saved myself that one second and I
was like, huh, now, trust you me. I'm going to
be happy to go back to putting them back down right,
having my family back in.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
The house, having the noise, and yes, chaos can't wait, Yeah,
you can't wait. I believe that. I do. I believe that,
all right. I did want to talk a little bit
about the college football playoff rankings. I would to try
to do a little bit of an exercise because a
lot of people have problems with the polls, that's very clear,
and a lot of people have problems with their rankings.
And I mean Rick new Isel, Cam Cleveland Softy brings
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it up all the time, the two of you as well.
So I mean we're talking about a collection of you know,
smart people here right that how is that team not
ahead when they beat them? And I just would like
to remind you that the job is far more difficult
than that, and I know you guys know that, but
especially this time of the year, as resumes are changing constantly,
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so it's not just as easy as looking at seven.
These two teams are seven and two, and that team
beat the other team, why are they ranked lower? It's
just not that simple. And so I wanted to see
if we could go through an exercise to try to
if I can maybe prove this okay once and for all.
And I hope Coach new ISIL's listening out he is,
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I hope Softie's listening, and I hope cam Cleveland's listening
because I don't want to have to repeat it.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
You three, okay?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yeah? And by the way, pick up your towel your
wife's home, yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
And put the toilet seat down.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Hey, all right. So this started with Bucky and I
talking off the air, and he was like, how is
Miami ahead of Louisville when Louisville beat them and they
have the same record. That's where the conversation started. And
so my take, of course was because Miami's overall resume
with wins over Notre Dame in South Florida outside of conference,
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and without an embarrassing loss on their ledger. The most
embarrassing loss they have is home to SMU, which is
a pretty good team made the tournament a year ago.
They're just resume is just better. But if we played
this game of all right, they have the same record,
but they lost to them, they have to be ranked ahead.
(14:07):
Look at how faulty that this gets? Fast, Okay, so
we'll start with Louisville has to be ahead of Miami. Well,
if that's the case, Miami beat Notre Dame and they
have the same record, So that means Miami, by this rule,
has to be ahead of Notre Dame. So you're gonna
say Louisville's got to be out of Miami because that
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just clear cut same record, they beat them head to head,
they have to be ahead of the Miami. Then that means,
by that logic, Miami has to be ahead of Notre Dame,
which means Louisville has to be ahead of Notre Dame. Right, Okay,
So now so now Notre Dame has a win over
USC right Okay, And they won by ten. So if USC,
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for example, were to beat Oregon next week and they
both have the same records, there's an argum to me
made that Oregon should still be ahead of USSE but USC,
by this logic, says, well, we've got to be ahead
of Oregon. We have the same record, and we just
beat them head to head. So now Notre Dame's definitely
got to be ahead of USC, and USC's definitely got
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to be ahead of Oregon. So now Oregon with two
losses on the season and still a resume worth making
the tournament, I would think, especially if they close strong.
By this logic, Oregon is now behind Louisville, Miami, Notre Dame, USC,
and oh, by the way, Virginia who beat Louisville, So
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Virginia has to go ahead of all of them by
this logic. And then so look how far that's pushing
Oregon down. Yeah, if you want to go a little further,
Illinois beat USC. Now, granted they have three losses, but
two of those losses were against the first and second
ranked teams in America. So there's an argument then that
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could be made if we're going to play this. Yeah,
but we beat you head to head game that Illinois
now goes ahead of USC in the rankings, and so
you dub beat Illinois. So maybe you dubbed jumps Oregon
if they lose to USC playing this, Yeah, but they
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beat them head to head game that so many people
want to play and then are so confused about. And
then Wisconsin beat you dub and I know that their
records nowhere close, but boy, you want to talk about
putting a smile back on Luke Fickles's place or fickles face.
Congratulations Now in this head to head math that we
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want to do, you're now a bubble team. Congratulations Badgers.
I know it's been a rough year, but you're a
bubble team, so it just can't work that way. I
do believe that head to head has to come into
play on certain tiebreakers, but because it's so convoluted, the
overall resume is what has to get you there. Even
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if you do have the same record as somebody else
and you lost to them head to head, you still
have to take everything into consideration. Do you have bad losses,
do you have quality wins? Did you play anybody in
non conference? Did you lose at home to a team
that you shouldn't have lost to Did you beat a
team that you weren't supposed to beat on the road.
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All of that factors in, even things like did you
have key players out? That's a little further down the line,
but did you have key players out at certain times
than that created the loss? And now those players are
back and now you look more dangerous. That's where the
eye test comes into play. So all of that has
to be factored in. And that's why it is just
about the resume, way more than head to head, just
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about the overall resume and giving value to all of
those individual elements that suggest how good of a football
season that you had. And there is no exact science
to it. There's gonna be a little bit of just
human element. This is what I think. I mean, that's
there's no way of getting around that. And so to me,
I hope. I know a lot of people get upset
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by that. How can they be ranked out on them
because there's just so much more that goes into the
decision of who's gets ranked ahead of who. Yeah, there's
obviously way more.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
I mean, if anybody, excuse me, would think it just
head to head, well, that would be silly. It's to me,
it's all of those things you just said, Okay, your resume,
your strength of schedule.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
How difficult is it.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
I mean, what's the difference between beating beating Rutgers and
beating Cal Is there a difference? Well, there's a difference.
And how much weight do you put in the difference
and how much so? And then that's where my biggest
thing is when all of a sudden, even when you
start comparing resumes, when it's you compare the resume of
like teams that you played, well, then they have to
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go so deep as to Okay, well you played them
and lost to them when they had their starting quarterback,
and then this team lost beat them when they were
on their third string quarterback. Like you have to go
into all of that stuff, and I think the committee,
I think does go into that.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Might have to eventually you might have to end up there.
If you're really splitting hairs, then you're getting to the point,
are like, well when did you beat them?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:18):
You know, and that sort of thing comes in, Like
this Penn State thing is a really difficult element that
Penn State was one of the top teams in the
country and probably are on paper still to this day,
and Oregon probably deserves a lot of credit for crushing
Penn State spirit so thoroughly with that victory on the
road that the entire program fell apart. That should be
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a feather in their cap. But and I think that
does come up in the conversation eventually, and it has
to be included in the conversation when discussing Oregon's resume.
But the truth of the matter is overall, that Penn
State resume is so crappy right now that a win
over Penn State doesn't look that great anymore.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
But okay, then, at the same time, then you have
to to me, it's the eye test, which I think
that they put a lot of stock in that, right.
I think that's where their biggest debate is when they
talk about, Okay, well, then then do you deduct points
from Indiana for barely squeaking by them with the last second,
miraculous touchdown tiptoe thing at the very end of it,
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when they're on a five or six game losing streak
coming into it, do you say, well, you could barely
get by this team that we had completely wrong. It
did come up in the conversation this week, and yet
I mean, to some degree, there's the alur injury is
part of it. The fact that that did crush their
spirit a little bit. They had a white out game
and got beat on their own their own turf. With it,
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I think Ucla, You think that Ucla all of a
sudden comes in right after new Heizel's kid takes over
and injects a different kind of life into it, and
all of a sudden, you know, they win a game
at home when Penn State's coming off of the maybe
overlooked it as it still hadn't gotten over the Oregon lost.
There's way that there's so many things that go into it.
That's why it's not an exact science. It's the exact
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science would just be the best records. Well, obviously you
can't go with that because some team that you know,
North Dakota State might go undefeated. Are they the number
one team in the country?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Of course not.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
And so to me, it's there's a ton that goes
into it. And yet it's it's dependent upon how much
stock you put into it, how much how much weight
you put into each thing, as you're putting all of
these different variables on the scale. And that's one where
you can never really get any people that are discussing
this thing to completely agree on the entire thing.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
And so that's why I think they do it now. Committee.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
That's why you have a committee, and that's why they
do these rankings now and then every single week, so
they have a starting point with what they go at
and now you have the second half of the season
or last third of the season to kind of figure
out how the wiggle rooms can happened.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Well, I mean, just just the little exercise that we did,
Virginia is at the top of the heap of all
of those programs if we did it based off of
identical records. But the head to head thing as the tiebreaker,
you're putting Virginia out of Louisville, Miami, Notre Dame, USC,
and Oregon. That's if USC beats Oregon. And there's no
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way Virginia deserves that. They've lost two, they have two
bad losses on their resume and they don't really have
all that Their most impressive win was the Louisville win.
So it's just I don't know, I just hear it
all the time. Same record, I mean I heard from
coach Newey was old earlier the same record, how are
they lower? Because there's more to it than just the
head to head matchup, and it does factor, but everything
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has to factor, and then we try and do our
best to figure out how good a season that a
team had was. All right? Coming up next, Al Kiniski'll
join us Chuggingbock Sports Radio ninety three point three KJARFM.
(23:00):
You can issuate so you're out of town too, to
come in here and say hello. Brought us Queen Anne
beer Hall breakfast burritos they were the day the tree
fell Yeah, exactly. He like, he's like, hey, is he
out today? I'm coming in today. That's not how it happened.
Oh you don't think no, did Justin come into someone else?
Speaker 6 (23:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (23:22):
I can't remember the name.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Justin probably think Justin probably didn't come in because he
heard the tree fell down.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
He's like, well, I don't know, I want to see
Chuck and Ashley. Well, we just enjoyed Al's presence immensely
and wish he would come back every week. Yeah, it'd
be nice. Breakfast burritos, Al, how are you? Good morning?
Speaker 6 (23:42):
Fantastic? And uh, you know, Buck, I got to say
I've been in the corporate world for thirty years. If
I had a nickel for every time I heard the
tree fell on my car excuse I won't be into
work today, it'd be a rich man.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Oh is that right?
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Well, maybe that's because you're Canadian a lot of trees
fall on cars, or that your go to excuse. Next time,
I'll call you at nine o'clock at eleven o'clock at
night and see if you want to come out there
and help me with.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
You can hit, you can wield a change. I'm sure
I'm gonna say.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
You've got to get stealed though. Get a sponsorship in.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
There for you. That'd be a great idea, the one
I use. Yeah, that's that's a good point, absolutely all right. Well,
cracking last night, lose in another shootout, another overtime game.
I don't want to labor this point al, but just
getting one when you can get two in these sessions
is starting to get a little repetitive.
Speaker 6 (24:37):
Yeah, I mean, listen, you can look at this from
the glass half empty, glass half full standpoint. You saw
a team last night that put their defensive structure on
display and kept the opposing team to one goal against.
But unfortunately the glass half empty side is you couldn't
put pucks in on a team that was playing in
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their second back to back that was pretty decimated with
some sort of sickness, flew whatever, and had many guys
with a lineup. Also, the goalie that played in the
first of the back to back played in the second
back to back and that's rare. So you know, depending
on what side you're looking at, Yeah, you got a
point out of it, but you really should have gotten two.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
How difficult is it?
Speaker 3 (25:23):
I mean, we we just watched the Sounders basically lose
their their playoff game. They lost to with penalty kicks,
And I know in soccer it's you should make just
about every single one. I'm you're not going to nobody's perfect,
but it's one of those it's far bigger than the
guy that is covering it can cover. And yet in
hockey it seems far more difficult. And so what is
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the percentage that you expect your guys to make when
it comes to penalty shootouts?
Speaker 6 (25:49):
Yeah, I mean there's there's a very select few number
of players in the league that have high percentage numbers,
and high might be you know, thirty percent or you know,
for every every three they're getting one, but really it's
much lower than that. It's something that you you practice,
you know when you do have opportunities in practice. But
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every goalie is different in the league. Every goalie is
going to play things differently, so you know, the percentage
is probably much slower than lower than what you would
think it would be. And listen, you know, the the
ratio of space between the goaltender and the and the
net is very different hockey versus soccer, so you're not
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surprised when the number is so small. But having said that,
it's a skill, it's it's a it's a skills competition. Unfortunately,
that's how we've decided we're going to end games in
the NHL during the regular season, and there are some
guys that are fantastic in it and some guys that struggle,
even though they're they're high scorers during five on five
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player or power play. There's something about that breakaway situation,
that one versus one situation that you know, it's hard
to get over that hump.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Color Analyst for yours you a cracking right here on
the flagship al Kaniski with us. He joins us every
Wednesday at this time. I know we're out. Got to
coord out for a little bit here, and hopefully it's
only a little bit. But I got to give credit
to Matt Murray for a third string goalie. I don't
know if that's technically true, but certainly the way that
the season started, he was the third guy added to
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the roster. Man. He was terrific last night.
Speaker 6 (27:25):
Yeah he was. And it was his second start to
in two games. So, you know, goalies love flow, and
I think they you know, once you get a couple
of games in your belt, you start to feel that.
But you know, I mistakenly sit on the broadcast last
night that with Joey to Cord out, you've got both
Philip Grubauer and Matt Murray vying for that who the
(27:46):
true second backup goaltender is. And I have to amend
that statement. We don't know how long Joy Tocord's out.
So right now, what these two goaltenders are doing is
trying to buy for who's going to be the number
one goaltender. I'll tell you, the way Matt Murray played,
he's got my vote right now.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Well, I mean, if he's the one, is it still
just pretty much split? I mean, it seems like across
the board. Now in the NHL, you're you're needing too,
and so if that's your if you've you've kind of
somehow maybe moved him up the depth chart here, you're
feeling good about how you're going to be able to
be tending goal considering we don't know how long.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Like you said, Joey, the cord's out.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
Yeah, I think what you do is you've got to
look at the schedule ahead. You know, Cracking, I've got
Winnipeg tomorrow night. They've got Jose Saturday. So the next
two games, you've got a elite, top of the league
team and you've got a team that the Crack had
lost to six to one last week. Obviously, you know
both teams you want to play well against. But you've
got to look at your goaltender due a route now
(28:47):
right now, and say who's going to play the best
against that particular team. It's not necessarily who's playing the best,
it's who's going to play the best because sometimes you
get an X factor with goaltenders that they always play
well again certain teams, or maybe it was a team
they were traded from, but the coaching staff will look
out to those two games, and they'll make those decisions
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based on those factors.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Is five on three like impossible to overcome? And do
you like it as a hockey player a hockey analyst
that such a great advantage can be given in the
middle of a game like that, Yeah, I.
Speaker 6 (29:23):
Mean it's It's one of those things where as a player,
if you're the person that's on the penalty kill, you
want to be really careful about not putting your team
down another man in that situation. Having said that, it happens,
I've done it. I've been on both sides of it.
And when you're the team that's up two men on
the power plays, it's expected that you're going to get
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some great, a high danger chances in that time that
you have driven. While it's five on three, it's not
assumed it's going to be a goal because you've still
got three players out there plus a goal tender that's
playing fantastic. And let's remember that that game last night,
that's five one three goal that was scored. Matt Murray
had forty nine percent of that save. It went off
(30:05):
his glove, but just the velocity of the shot had
dropped after he got a piece of it and continued
into the back of the net. So he makes that
save there, and you know the crack can win the
game won nothing. So it's not a given, but it's
probably going to be one of the best opportunities you
have in a game to get a goal.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Yeah, whenever you see that, you know you're going against
a five on three. You're just like, oh crap, well there,
there's at least one. There's at least one goal.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
All right.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Last thing for you, because we won't be able to
chat with you before the Sharks game coming up this weekend.
You you tell me, you correct me if I'm wrong.
I don't remember Wayne Gretzky looking as young as what
these Sharks players look like. They look like they're eleven.
And Ashley tells me it's just because I'm getting older.
I don't think so. I don't feel this way about
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other sports. There's something about these young hockey players. The
Badard kid in Chicago and like seven of those Sharks players,
they all look like their six year old Al why
do they look so young?
Speaker 6 (31:02):
Al? I don't know. I don't know if it's if
it's face washing regimes at night, if it's skin creams
or what. But I agree, most of them wouldn't be
able to grow a mustache this month for November, so
I question it as well. I think they get younger
every year.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Feels like it. Man, that is a young looking team
right there. Just every guy that would score, and they
scored a lot. Man, he looks even younger than the
last guy. Yeah, not another team movie, that's what we
were watching.
Speaker 6 (31:32):
No, no, absolutely not all right now, thanks man, We'll
talk to you from Chicago next week.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Sounds good. Al Kiniski joining us right here on Chuck
and Buck and the team will be in action tomorrow
night at home against the Winnipeg Jets at seven o'clock.
So I'm very competitive hockey every single night from this team.
But they are not getting two points there the nights
they're getting one point. They have a chance to get
to they're just not winning consistently and overtime something Lane
(32:01):
Lambert is going to be working on, all right, one
last thing to close out our Wednesday show next on
kJ R. Had a perfect day from the field. Love
of it? Really, yeah, clerk, make it. Maybe new clothes
just to make a shoot better. That's a nice looking
Eddie Bauer jacket. You got there.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
I don't know, comfy half vest jacket.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Maybe I just felt sexier today. I came to work
in my shooting Paperwase shooting just was awesome. Look good,
feel good, feel good, play good or something.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Like that, like logic to me.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Yeah, all right, let's close it out with one last thing, Bucky,
what you got? I am?
Speaker 3 (32:37):
I'm not one hundred percent sure what to make of
the Holy Ani McKay thing. Obviously I read a little
bit more into it. We found out, I don't know
it was yesterday or early this morning that he had
gotten that he had taken the job as a field
coordinator with Cleveland. I did read some stuff from the manager,
Steve Vote, where he was just like, you know, I
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love what he brings to the table. I get he
was itching for more of an on field thing, where
I think a couple of years ago he got moved
to an on field type of job. He used to
manage in college and and some wooden back called the
north Woods League. I think it's called the It's like
a college wood bat league. And so I think that
he likes the actual coaching aspect of stuff, beyond just
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the player development or the mental side, the peak performance
coaching part of it, player development, all of that. I
think he likes being on like kind of in the
mix on the field, in the dugout, doing.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
That type of thing.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
And and yet that's basically the opportunity he's getting to
become the field coordinator there. And yet it's you know,
the I know the Mariners already have a guy and
maybe they just didn't want to give him that position.
But the guy that they have, I don't know him
from Adam. He just as a young kid, so they
thirty one years old and never played above a ball
that the Maritors have in that position. And is that
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a tool or no, that's I think that's the minor
league coordinator.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Oh okay, I don't have it in front of him now.
I looked it up last night. I don't know. I
don't have any inside information into this. It feels like
a backwards move. I know, just from their titles assistant
general manager to some what's the title of coordinat field
coordinator with the Cleveland Guardians. It's a smaller market, it's
a lower budget, it's a team that doesn't look like
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they're set up to win like the may as much
as what the Mariners seem to be set up like
so it is strange. I don't know what went into it.
If Andy McKay just like you said, an opportunity to
be a little more hands on baseball versus just being
Sigmund Freud for the Seattle Mariners. But I do know
he contributed. I do know that they liked him. I
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do know that he served a really specific role for
this team and the evaluation and development of players, both
physically and mentally. So I'm not sure what went into it.
Maybe it was just time for Andy to try something different. Yeah,
well that's my whole thought on is.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
I just don't understand it because to me, I think
he was a valuable piece. It sounds like, you know,
Hollanders said, Yeah, I'm sad to see him go when
I'm happy for him. So obviously it's something where it's
it's a it's a step in the direction that Andy
McKay is wanting to go, and yet you're going to
be losing something because he brought. He brought some stuff
behind the scenes that will never fully know what it
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was that he was doing or what what what influence
he had in certain decisions that they made.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
All right, Ashley what do you got for one last thing?
Speaker 5 (35:24):
I saw that it is official for sure that Jackson
Dart will not be playing and Jameis Winston will get
the start. After our earlier segment talking about how Russell
Wilson Wilson was benched or pushed further down the bench,
I did some pretty intense research, okay, between the Phil
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Collins song I Missed Again and our lyrics have I
benched again? And I am now more convinced than ever
that Phil did write it about this moment.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
I do you have more evidence?
Speaker 4 (35:57):
Well, let's just say not today, but I might have
more evidence for you tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
There might be a duet. Oh okay, that's how close
the song is. I don't barely need to replace anything.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Right, I'm benched again, Okay.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Yep, so stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
All right, all right, Yes, I actually played a Phil
Collins song called I've Never heard I Missed Again, I
Missed Again, and it sounded very much like I'm benched again. Yeah,
and so anyway, that's what she's referring to. Yes, and
now she's looked further into the song and realizes the lyrics.
Speaker 5 (36:33):
I've written all the words out. I've barely changed any
that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
All right, well, I look forward to that also, I
want you to look forward to Stove. The podcast will
have its debut this week. Anders and I back for
another season of off season marin Er Talk. We're going
to record our first episode tomorrow after this show, and
so we'll have our first thoughts on the off season.
(37:00):
Seems to be a clamoring people can't wait to start
talking about the off season. How to get these Mariners
over the hump and into the world series once and
for all. We we'll start diving into that project tomorrow,
Andrews and myself, So I'll let you know where you
can find it and how long of the first episode
we're going to do, because we might go sixteen hours.
All right, We'll talk to you tomorrow at six am.
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