December 23, 2025 • 33 mins
We usually have Rick Neuheisel here, but we are pivoting! There’s still room to talk college football as we take a look at the existing CFP format and the argument for expansion. :30- It’s Christmas Eve-Eve, so what are we asking Santa for this year to improve our Mariners? :45- We close out the show with one last thing. Merry Christmas!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Well, we would like to get it all over ourselves, Rick,
but you got to answer your phone first, Bud, so
we shall see. Ashley is trying hard to get in
touch with him. He has not answered up to this point,
which could be a bit of an issue because they
didn't have anything else playing for this.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Although he is not Okay, that's fine whatever.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I did have one thing that you and I can
have a conversation about, and if he calls back, fine,
so be it. And it's good to have without Chuck here,
because I know he would he would poo poo on
this idea. And ultimately, by the way, thank you for breakfast, Chuck.
Chuck got us bought some booze and an Uber Eats
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gift card each one of us.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
You got a bottle of wine.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I got a bottle of Woodenville whiskey, and then he
got us each a gift card to Uber Eats, which
Ashley just broke into hers for for us. So I
just had a crunch trap on Chuck. So thanks Chuck,
Thank you Chuck.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
He meant to say, though, was we had taco time?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah? We did that.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Oh yes, yes, that's what I meant to say. Yeah, yeah, Well,
crunch wrap from Taco time.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I think they call it a crispy beef buried Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Oh gosh, so good. I love it so much. Get
it all over you.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Well, I mean, obviously, if we have Rick Neuheiseelan, I
was going to have him, you know, give us what
he thought about this last weekend's games, which were different.
There's two of them that were very exciting to fairly
evenly matched teams, with the Miami Texas A and M
game and the Alabama Oklahoma game both good games, and
then the two with the two other teams that the
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two others, James Madison pretty much got whooped by Oregon
and they held tough against the second and third stringers
in the second half, but it was not much of
a matchup. And that was even worse than the Old
miss against Tulane game. And yet it's the idea of
you know, I hear people arguing whether or not these
group of five teams should be in right, and it's like,
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as a former nai A Baseball player, where we didn't
get to compete in the College Baseball World Series. We
compete in the nai World Baseball World Series, but that
was different. And yet I'll go to my grave saying
that I think we would have been competitive if not
beat the team it was LSU at the time that
won it. The year that we won the national championship,
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I would have loved to have gone up against them,
and I think that it would have been It would
have been a cool game. Now, baseball football were completely
different ball games. I understand that, and yet I don't
want to make it, not because of the legal stuff
that Hugh breaks down, right, the legal part of you
have to give these teams a chance or you're just
playing too much, you know, too many favoritism, you know,
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like you don't have a chance.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Sorry, you have your own thing. And I don't think
that's right.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I think giving them an opportunity, if they have an
outstanding season, then they should maybe get into it. And
yet this past year like this year, and I understand
the argument of it doesn't matter how big you make
the tournament, there's always going to be somebody left out.
And yet, yeah, I understand that, and I don't want
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to get to sixty four teams like March Madness. I
think that's excuse me. I think that would be a
bit excessive. And yet the idea of still keeping two
spots open for group of five teams. So let's just
say this year it still is James Madison and Tulane. Okay,
you guys, you know kick button the sun Belt in
the American Conference, and so you guys are going to
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earn your spot. But if you expanded it just to sixteen,
so really it would be fourteen teams, the cutoff there
is basically Notre Dame, BYU, Texas and Vanderbilt would have
gotten in, right, Utah, USC and Arizona would be the
first few teams outta.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Any of them had a legitimate argument on there.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
No Utah ends up going ten and two.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
So it's like, Okay, it's not a bad season and
you really only lost to Texas Tech and BYU. But
so that's where your kind of argument would come from, right,
is if you had it expanded to sixteen, where you
still had two teams that get in from the group five,
I think you're going to have some argument there, but
it's not going to be the same argument as Notre Dame,
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as BYU b YU lost two games just to Texas Tech.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
That's all that we saw throughout the course of the
season as they were better and everybody they stepped on
the field with with the exception of that.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Team, yep, one team.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Texas lost three.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
But they play in the SEC, and they were playing
good football at the end of the year, and they're
a legit. I mean, they end up winning there, they
end up winning their conference, or they end up they
end up beating a couple of good teams down the stretch.
I think Texas is one that deserves to being in,
and then Vanderbilt is one of those you typically don't
expect them to be that good, and they have the
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best season they've had in forever and they still are
on the outside looking in. I just think there's room
for expansion, right, we talked about it was yesterday, back
in the day when it was just some voting. You
just voted on stuff, and all of a sudden you
get to write off into the sunset as a national
champion or not. And Hugh expresses the idea of the
one with them in BYU and that it was the
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closest ever the voting comes down to just a few
guys basically saying I picked that team versus that team,
and that whole entire program, the every person on that
team gets to either be a national championship or doesn't,
just based on voting. And I don't agree with most
of the voting that goes on, whether it's Pro Bowls
or Manager of the Year or AO MVPs. I don't
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think that it's I just don't think it's a fool
proof way of achieving something or getting something is based
on voting.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
So it used to be garbage the way that they
did it.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Then you have the BCS where you institute some computer
stuff into it. Right now, you're taking analytics in data
and you're trying to pick it by that way. Then
you all of a sudden have a couple teams that
just get to play for it based on the BCS.
Then you finally expand it to four teams that was
much better, were making progress.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yeah, now twelve teams, And.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
I get Chuck's opinion is, let's just let this thing
marinate for a bit, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
It's way better than.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
It was, but it doesn't I don't feel like you're
you're definitely up messing with tradition by switching from twelve
teams to sexy team.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
So college football doesn't give a rats behind about tradition.
Clearly by the way to college football is going these
days a.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Hundred percent with that, and it just I want to
see the best teams competing, and I also want teams
to have a chance.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Yeah, it's interesting because I think with this, with this
whole college football playoff thing, I would tend to lean
more in the camp of what Chuck is saying in
terms of like, Okay, well let's just get through the
twelve and see how it goes, because it does seem
like everything in college football is gung ho, and then
we'll reel it back and try to figure out how
to fix it. So it does, at least in this situation,
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it seems like, well, at least they're taking it step
by step. But then at the same time, you look
at this year and they're already talking about expanding it
to sixteen, and they were talking about that before they'd
even picked the field of twelve, so they didn't really
even know what controversies there might or might not be.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
So I do think they tend to get ahead of themselves.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
So at least in this sense, they're maybe trying to
be a little bit smarter than most of the rest
of college football and what they're dealing with.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah, yeah, and I hear you.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I mean I'm typically one that's going to kind of
drag my feet not towards progression or you know, I'm
not one that's against things progressing and moving in a
positive direction.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I'm just one like that.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
I'm typically a little bit slower because I actually want
things to play out and see how it looks and
see how it works. I just don't see the negative side, right,
I mean the positive side is you you just add
more games now, more games of meaning.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Right.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
The idea of getting rid of the underdogs, the Boise
States or you know, the Two Lanes or the James
Ma The idea of giving them no chance, say sorry, guys,
you're just not worthy of it, I think is wrong.
I don't think that that would be fair to not
give those teams a chance.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Well, what's one of the most exciting games that we've
seen in the in the last twenty years Boise State Oklahoma.
Oh yeah, and so you take away those the chance
for those and I know it's not very often, right,
but that game was awesome, right.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
It was Jared Sabaranski's kid from Hermison Oregon was.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
A quarterback there, You're right, didn't know he didn't get engaged.
It was the running back then engaged.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Right, Yes, but yeah, he's a I'm with you, like
I want the opportunity, and you're going to have more
of those, I think over the course of time. Now,
it's just not going to happen very often. But then again,
let's say that it was usc that has to go
play Indiana. The chance of them beating in Indiana a
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sixteen seed beating a one seed, if there's no buyes,
if you were to go that route with the bracket,
it's not likely, but it's more likely than JMU beating them.
I'm one hundred percent on. But if you earn the
number one, or the number two, or the three or
the four spot, and if there's no buys like there
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is now, if you expanded sixteen, you should get a
somewhat of an easier first game.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
It's the same thing as you get the top seeds.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
The number two will in the NFL will host the
number seven. Now, the difference between number two and the
NFL number seven is far different than number two and
number twenty six or you know, seventeen, whoever it is
that is a group of five team that gets into
it because we're trying to play fair and square. I mean,
it's not a participation trophy, it's you earned it by
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kicking ass on your schedule, the conference that you play in.
Those players have no control over who they are scheduled
to play, but they had control over going out there
and taking care of their business. And so to me,
I want to give those guys a little bit of
a chance. And if all of a sudden, Indiana and
Ohio State this year would get a cupcake of a game, Okay,
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well kind of deserved one. Is been the perennial best
team in the in the country for the last couple
of years.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Ohio State.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Indiana crept up last year and said hey, we're a
force to be reckoned with. And this year overcame the
team that looked dominant in Ohio State. They've earned getting
an easier first round game. Now first round game, you
still it's you still got a ways to go to
end up getting to the national championship. To me, I
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think there's a way in which I know there's logistics
when teams start playing when you want the season to
be over, by how meaningful you get rid of the
conference championship games. You just basically play your your regular
season to get ranked, and all of a sudden. The
thing that I liked the most about the expansion of
the college football playoffs to twelve teams is you no
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longer had that feeling of, oh, I lost when I'm out,
because even when it was four, you felt like, boy,
if if I didn't, if I'm not in the SEC
and I lost a game, I'm out of the college
football Playoffs. I mean that that just isn't You can't
expect a team to be perfect and unless they're in
the SEC, and then the SEC, it's like, well, you
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lost to Georgia, that's only like a half a loss.
You're still gonna make it if you run the table
the rest of the way. That's not fair in any way,
shape or form. So now they expand it to twelve,
you've kind of fixed that problem. But you have, without
a doubt, left legitimately good teams. I would say Texas
and Notre Dame for sure, BYU maybe in the same boat,
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but a little bit less than and Vanderbilt simply because
Vanderbilt ten and two playing in the SEC. They I mean,
this was their Cinderella moment. This was their look at
what we did this year, and then they're on the
outside looking in to me, I think you can there's
a legitimate argument that they should be able to have
a chance to kind of see if they can shock
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the world to some degree. Now they would have to
go play against a Georgia or an Oregon or a
Texas Tech. Well, that's an uphill about you might be
one and done and yet you got a chance versus
them just sitting there. There's a couple of hundred guys.
If you just take the teams that feel like they
maybe could have made it and should have made it,
that are gonna go their entire life and they're gonna
be talking to people around a campfire or sitting at
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a party somewhere and saying, yeah, we got screwed, we
got screwed. We didn't get a chance to go compete, right,
and then they're gonna have to kind of live with
that for the rest of their life. I think there's
a way where you don't have to have that, And
if you do, it's so far down the list that
the argument against you making it Michigan. Yeah, the argument
against Virginia making it the argument against Houston or whoever.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
I always the extra people that are left out of
the March Badness Tournament, right, Sorry, if you're the seventieth
best team in the country, but no, you don't deserve
a spot in the tournament.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
So I don't know. I would just I mean, it's
where I would go.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
And I'm not typically one that's just quick to, you know,
throw something away and let's try something new. I'm almost
always am I one like, I think we should see
how this thing planned hands out. I just in this situation,
I just don't see the negative in it. I don't
see adding four more teams to the mix as a
big deal.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
No, and I would agree I don't see that either.
I just think the only thing that the only problem
I have and why I say I side with where
Chuck is coming from, like let's see it through. Is
at least get through the season you're in with the
decision you made before you start thinking about adding it.
And once you've done the selection show and then you
see the people that are left out and you see
how the controversy. Okay, well, now how can we avoid
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that or fix that for next year, or how can
we ramp that up. How can we adjust all of
those things? You've gone through the first round of games,
you can now see, how does that play out? I mean,
do I think it would have been Yeah, better to
see Notre Dame and by you in there playing some
better competition. Yeah, that would have been great versus seeing blowouts.
But you're still gonna see blowouts regardless of who you're
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letting in.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
So I do think sixteen is probably gonna be the
sweet spot. That's where.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
I don't think that they should go above that at all.
I would like to see them do it next year.
But I do think they were right in at least
taking the step to go to the twelve first.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Yep, well, yeah, I'm fine with that.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
I mean, if they would have jumped straight to sixteen,
there would, without a doubt be a thought of could
you have seen what twelve was about?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
And ultimately we are seeing what it's about, and it's
going to be great. I mean, it's going to be fine.
I don't think that the to me, when I hear
people get real loud and real boisterous about this is
just garbage.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
The whole thing is a joke.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
The college football is a joke because JMU and Tulane
couldn't compete with the teams they played. It's like, okay,
well just take that out of the equation for a second.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
You still have ten really good football teams.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
I mean, Alabama got blown out by Georgia and the
conference championship.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
So was that a joke?
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Right? Yeah, it's true. Yeah, And well it.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Don't just happen when a small team plays a bigger team.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Right yeah. So true.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
And yet it's to me, I like where we're at,
And yet I don't think I have a hard time
recognizing that there's a giant negative on the backside of it.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
I just don't get that.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
I don't see it as as like, well, you really
just diluted the product, right, I mean I get that, sure,
and the idea of well there's always going to be
I'm not saying it because I want to appease Notre dame.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Notre dame.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
You you you think you're holier than now literally that
you don't have to be in a conference.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Okay, Well you if you stick to your.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Guns with that, you're going to have an uphill battle
because they are going to take that into account. They're
going to take it into account that, Well, you're not
scheduling a whole bunch of tough teams and the team
that you did Miami, they beat you, and we're giving
them the nod if you're because you're going to be
on the outside the idea that they have to go
eleven and one to make it.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Yeah, you've chosen that pass.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
That's what the smaller teams, the smaller conferences have to do.
So undefeated, one loss, ye should be treated like that.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Yeah, I'm with you, and so I just don't I
don't fully understand where the upheaval is. I'm not trying
to make it to where Notre Dame Texas feel that
they didn't get snubbed because I understand that somebody is
going to be on the bubble and be on the
out when they think they should be in, because the
criteria changes once you no matter where you draw the line,
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there's gonna be somebody left out and they're gonna feel like, well,
compared to that team, Okay, well, Utah, you can say that,
but you didn't have a bunch of You didn't have
a bunch of Utah. You're thinking, okay that you had
the same record as Vanderbilt and Vanderbilt gets any you
don't okay, did you play the.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Same teams that Vanderbilt played? No, you didn't. That just
there you go to me.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
It makes it to where that bubble conversation is way
more cut and dry. And even though it won't be
cut and dry because humans and they have rooting interests
and they they're gonna think that their favoritism being played.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yeah, it's better than robots picking it.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
And and I think that it's a it's the way
in which you can get the close tournament of having
all the teams that legitimately could come out on the
other side as the national championship and deservingly so.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
So I don't know, maybe it's something they'll end up doing.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
I wouldn't be surprised simply because the NCAA's be like, wait,
more money, more teams, more money. Yeah, we're gonna go
ahead and do that. Whether they're doing it for the
right reasons or not, anyway, who knows. We're gonna come
back after this, and then I'm gonna give Ashley one
more chance to ask Santa for something. I'm gonna end
up having a conversation with Santa later on today on
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my way home, and so this is gonna be Astley's
last time to ask him for what she wants for
the Mariners right here at Sports Radio ninety three point
three KGRFM. Merry Christmas, everybody out there, thanks for joining
the show. We got a couple more segments here, but
this is our last one before Christmas to ask for
what you want. I mean, I might. I used to
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circle everything in the calendar or the catalog. Excuse me
that when my mom would be like, all right, circle
what you want and you go to the toy section, obviously,
and I circled everything, and yet my Mom's like, you
know that Santa can't give you everything, right, And of
course I know that, and yet Santa typically did get
me something. And so I'm wondering, Ash, if this is
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your final time from your mouth to Santa's ears that
you get to ask him for something, you can go
ahead and ask for something big. Maybe you ask for
something big, Maybe ask for something in the middle, and
maybe ask for something you feel is more Mariner esque, right,
and more something that Santa Mariner Santa would would be actually.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Willing to give you. What do you want right now?
For Christmas?
Speaker 4 (18:38):
I think I think I'm gonna have to ask for
Gino Suarez.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Oh yeah, I'd like to have him back.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
I don't want to be the team that keeps that
has him and then lets him go and then he
does well, and then brings him back, and then lets
him go and then he does well and then wants.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
To bring him back again.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
So I know he didn't do very well for us
batting wise while he was here, but he obviously had
a really good season. It just didn't translate once he
got here. I don't think that that would be the
case next year, So I would like to give him
another full season and see what he can do. Plus,
I think his energy that he brings is really valuable
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to this team, and I know that he is very
well loved by everyone in the clubhouse.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Yep, I'm with you. I mean, I think that the
power numbers. You know, it's a couple of years ago
when they were getting when they moved on from him,
where they were thinking, okay, too many strikeouts and it's
just a matter of time until he kind of falls
off right where it's just even more of a strikeout
or nothing guy, and maybe the home runs dip because
you know, you hit fifty homers, you can strike out
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a bunch. If you hit twenty two homers and hit
two hundred and strike out, you know, two times a game,
that's not as useful.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Obviously.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
Yeah, I wouldn't mind Gino at a you know, I
don't know, Oh, thirteen fourteen million dollars a year for
a couple of years.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
I mean, that's the thing I'm not gonna worry about.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
I'm not gonna worry that the Mariners are going to
overpay him to keep him, because the Mariners don't overpay people.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
So that when I yeah, so people are like, oh,
we don't want to overpay. I don't want anyone to
overpay him.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
How about this one for you, Here's one's a tug
at your heart a little bit, Gino. Regardless of what
the money is, Gino, you love him and he brings
something to the table on the field, off the field,
in the clubhouse or Bregman. Now, obviously you're spending way
more Bregman.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
But where's gitting more?
Speaker 2 (20:35):
You're getting more?
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Yeah, that is a tough one.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
I mean, I guess my heart would stop myself from
allowing the Bregman thing to even come into my mind
because I just don't think it would ever happen. I
don't think we'd pay him that much or what he
wants I should say. I mean, if they decided to say, yeah,
we think he's worth it, we're gonna pay him by
all means, bring him in, like that's great. I just
think more realistically, they're gonna go with the one they know,
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and the one they know is Gino.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Yeah, and it would be half the price. Yeah, probably
half the price is Bregman twice the player.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
It's hard to say. He's not gonna get a hundred homers.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
I know that, but I think that he just brings
more to the table, not a little bit more defensively.
Not that Gino's bad by any stretch, but I don't
know if he's quite as good. I think they both
would be good in the clubhouse different ways. One's good vibes,
one's gritty, grind, go play the game hard.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
It's all about.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Winning and and and whatnot. Not that Gino isn't, but
you get you get my point. I think, yeah, I would.
I would choose Bregman, even though part of me is like, yeah,
they're not going to do that. They're not going to
jump into those waters. I don't think. I I think
another one that I've always kind of liked, and yet
I don't know necessarily why is Harrison Bader as a
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guy that as a d H an inexpensive DH. I
think you get him for less than ten million bucks
a year, and you could do it on a short
term deal to where if it's not working out, you
move on. I think you get him less than what
you paid for Mitch Garver well, and you're gonna get more. Okay,
you're gonna get more out of him offensively. He's not
great defensively, but that's fine. You have a pretty set
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outfield at this point in time. But Bart, if you
have an injury, you want to be able to put
somebody in there that you don't feel like you're going backwards.
And then he could also DH. I mean he could,
he could. He's not a guy that is just one
side of the plate or the other, like you know
the Ben Refschneider that we just signed yesterday. He rakes
lefties and he's not good against right handed pitching, and
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so I supposed what they're probably planning on doing is
figuring out a way to have I don't know, maybe
the backup catcher when if there's a rity on the mound,
maybe the backup that's when the backup catcher catches and
you put Cal in the DH spot being a switch hitter,
that's will you use his DH where he's only half
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the DH. It's that or they find another DH to.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Platoon with him.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
I think if you do it the way that I
expressed first, where Col's DH and and you bring in
your backup catcher, you're going backwards offensively for sure.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Yeah, no, I and I get that for I don't
think that that's the route. It didn't work out very
well last year, so I don't think that that's the
situation you should have. You're putting yourself in too risky
of a position in those situations. I think what you
were talking about earlier today with having ref Schneider ref
Schneider on you know, batting against lefties as your DH
(23:39):
and then bringing in someone like Carlos Santana to face
the righties, someone again who you know, and we know
the Mariners love to have players they are familiar with.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Yeah, yeah, well, I mean it's I think to some degree,
for a while, Jerry maybe discounted a little bit too
much the importance of the clubhouse.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
I think you don't have to have it to win.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
I mean, you can have a bunch of dudes that
really don't like each other, but they're really good baseball players,
and they're gonna go out and win a bunch of games.
But if you're gonna be somewhere throughout the course of
one hundred and sixty two games, even those that don't
get along, that maybe don't see eydie on a bunch
of stuff, they're gonna kind of grind together and they'll
find themselves in a sense of sympatico. They'll find themselves
(24:22):
in a mode where they're doing what they need to
do for each other with one another, and so it
ends up playing where everything's kind of smooth sailing right now,
and then you're gonna run into those hiccups. And that's
where a good manager comes in to get everybody rowing
in the same direction, even if you're not necessarily wanting
to kick it with each other outside of the field
(24:42):
of play. So I mean, I hope they add some stuff.
I mean, I'm happy with the fact they added Rob Reschneider.
I mean, he's based on war he was the best
left fielder on the market, all right. I mean he
was the highest rated left fielder. Now that's a guy
that you know, puts them all in play and hits
a bunch of line drives and understands how to handle
(25:04):
the bat when it's against a lefty. Yeah, And so
they definitely upgraded with that move. And yet I want
them to continue it upgrade because you did lose some
pieces Polanco and Gino. You have not made up for
all of that yet with a backup catcher and a
platoon dh slash utility guys.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
So we shall see what they do.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
But from our mouths to Santa's Ears and the Mariners,
go ahead and keep on getting us some presents.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
We like presents.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
On the other side, yep, we're going to do our
one last thing and wish everybody to marry very merry,
very merry, very merry Christmas. On the other side, here
at Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM, oh, one
last thing before Christmas. Maybe the best one last thing
(25:52):
of the year. Definitely the best one last thing this year,
of the end of this year.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Yeah, definitely the best one last thing of this week.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Yeah, yep, yep.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Well O Fridays will probably be no will booze news.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Yep, that won't be a one last thing.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Okay, Well, anyways, Merry Christmas everybody out there, thanks for listening.
It's fun doing the show. It's a lot more doing
it from this chair, come to find out. And yet
I do feel more comfortable each time that I get
to do it. And Ashley, thank you very much because
you make it easy. So thank you, thank you very
much for that. It's time for one last thing before
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we got to turn this thing over to MJ and
the wonderful Christopher kid.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
That's your one last thing.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
I just want to say same thing, like, hey, thanks
to everyone that has listened to us and is listening
to us this holiday week. I know the schedules are
on and we've still got all our favorite people texting
in and so being a part of the show. And
I think, you know, I especially with the text line.
We don't utilize it a lot in our show, but
we do respond to people, and I do want the
people that do take the time to text in to
(26:58):
know that we do see your tech, so we do
appreciate it, and you know, we might not be able
to write back all the time. But that doesn't mean
that we're not paying attention to them and we're not
really appreciative of the things that you say, and not
even like praising us, nothing like that.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
I'm saying, just participating in the show.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Yeah, it's a lot of fun to have to be
doing this and knowing that people are playing along.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Yeah, well it is weird sitting here in our little box,
right and you're in your own little room and you
know that there's people listening, but the text line is
kind of the only real way that you know for sure. Now,
there's a bunch of turds that like to just you know,
say stuff and I want to do what DK did.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Sometimes actually not really, I don't care that much.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
But some of the people that are turds that think
they're not. At least there's some that are turds and
know they are and are trying to get under our skin.
The ones that think they're totally within the realm of reason.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
I'm like, well, you're there, you're frightening.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
You're a bit off base there, friend, But yeah, it is.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
I think a lot of people are in the Christmas
spirit because there has been a lot of nice one
telling us good job, and yeah, merry Christmas, and merry
Christmas to everyone, even those that hate I don't care
Rick well, and merry Christmas to you.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
Still, yes, I do want to address one specific test.
We got a text we got from the two five
to three asking or just saying, I miss the Twelve
Days of Christmas. And I know it was probably a
lot of extra work for you, Ashley, but I miss it.
So I to that person, I will just say this, Yes,
I apologize. I have not done the Twelve Days of
Christmas the last two years. I had family things going
on at the holidays both last year and this year.
(28:28):
I lost my dad last year, and we had Mark's
aunt unfortunately died just a couple of weeks ago. So
I've not been in a very festive Christmas mood in
terms of the energy that it takes to put together
the Twelve Days of Christmas.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
But next year, I promise I will do it.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
It is a good one.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
But yes, we do have lives outside of this and
try to even in not so fun times like you
were talking about, try to still stay the straight and
arrow and stay on task and do what we can.
But that's some extra stuff that is a lot of
work that you end up putting into to get that
thing to where it is. It's, uh, there's a reason
they haven't asked.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
Me to well, And you know, you just got to
be in the right frame of mind to put something
together like that. And when you're being pulled in a
completely opposite direction, it's hard to.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Get the focus there.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Yeah, exactly. It takes all the focus you can muster
to just do the four hours of actual radio.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Yeah, beyond exactly.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Trying to find some festive mood to get in when
you're heading in the opposite direction.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
I'm with you.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
By the way, we did get another texture just now said,
how do I get Bucky autograph?
Speaker 3 (29:33):
I'm right now, send him in?
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Ye, send them in. I do.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
I sign them everyone that comes, and I always will.
And because otherwise my mom would be like, I'm so disappointed.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
Just make sure when you send it in that you
put an envelope with your return address back on it
to make it easier.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Yeah, because I probably won't. I don't even know where
I would ask me.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
You'd have to find.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
You don't have like it just a place that has
all of the stockpile of office supplies.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
We don't know where that is.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Oh, we should get on that.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
I mean, with all of the PayPal ad revenue that
we get, maybe we could get some stamps and stuff
so they could send stuff back to those that forget
a self address stamped envelope. I doubt it, though, so
I would do it yourself, send it in with a
stamped envelope, and I will sign it and send it
off the same day that I get it guaranteed. All right,
My one last thing, what was it? I was going
(30:22):
to say, and now I got totally distracted.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Sorry, that's all right.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
I had something too, and it was good. Maybe it
wasn't that.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Good, obviously, I think it was probably great.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
It was the DK it. I saw a new video
on the DK thing. Now both these things can be
true at the same time. It's a video of basically
Tom Pelichero shared this video. This is after DK punched
this dude. It shows the guy coming back to his seat,
ripping his shirt off in his blue wig to find
he has blue dyed hair underneath the blue tinsel wig
(30:56):
and he says that was the goal. Oh, that was
the goal. He was doing it on purpose, trying to
get it right. Now, I wouldn't be surprised because he's thinking,
that's paycheck, right, He's gonna sue. You shouldn't get anything. No,
if that's your goal, it's say something to get punched
in the face by a pro athlete so that you
can make money hopefully that judge. The judge sees it
and says, yeah, you don't get jack.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
As a matter of fact, you get a skull. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
And and well, I mean if if I mean you
just got to keep yourself in check, DK, I think
that that is one truth. You have to keep yourself
in check, regulate your emotions. You can't do that, period,
point blank.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
That's it. That's all there is to it.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
On the flip side of it, if you think that
you get to go do whatever you want with no repercussions,
hoping that he does something and you can get a
paycheck out of it, you deserve nothing either, and you're
just a bad human. So Merry Christmas to everyone except
for that guy. And yeah, other than that, I don't know.
I just want to wish everybody a merry Christmas except
(31:59):
for that guy, and just enjoy your time with your family.
You know, we don't know for sure how many Christmases
and how many New Year's is you have. So hug
your loved ones, tell them you love them, am spend
some time with them, enjoy the time. It's not about
the presence, It's about the family celebration and being good
(32:20):
to one another. So until I see you, guys, or
until I talk to you guys again, Merry Christmas from me,
from Chuck, I'm sure from Ashley and the rest of
us here at KJR. Up Next, we got MJ and
Christopher Kidd at Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
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Speaker 3 (32:56):
This report is sponsored by Audible. One blocking problem right
now in Kirkland. This is going to be an accident,
partially
Well, we would like to get it all over ourselves, Rick,
but you got to answer your phone first, Bud, so
we shall see. Ashley is trying hard to get in
touch with him. He has not answered up to this point,
which could be a bit of an issue because they
didn't have anything else playing for this.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Although he is not Okay, that's fine whatever.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I did have one thing that you and I can
have a conversation about, and if he calls back, fine,
so be it. And it's good to have without Chuck here,
because I know he would he would poo poo on
this idea. And ultimately, by the way, thank you for breakfast, Chuck.
Chuck got us bought some booze and an Uber Eats
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gift card each one of us.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
You got a bottle of wine.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I got a bottle of Woodenville whiskey, and then he
got us each a gift card to Uber Eats, which
Ashley just broke into hers for for us. So I
just had a crunch trap on Chuck. So thanks Chuck,
Thank you Chuck.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
He meant to say, though, was we had taco time?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah? We did that.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Oh yes, yes, that's what I meant to say. Yeah, yeah, Well,
crunch wrap from Taco time.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I think they call it a crispy beef buried Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Oh gosh, so good. I love it so much. Get
it all over you.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Well, I mean, obviously, if we have Rick Neuheiseelan, I
was going to have him, you know, give us what
he thought about this last weekend's games, which were different.
There's two of them that were very exciting to fairly
evenly matched teams, with the Miami Texas A and M
game and the Alabama Oklahoma game both good games, and
then the two with the two other teams that the
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two others, James Madison pretty much got whooped by Oregon
and they held tough against the second and third stringers
in the second half, but it was not much of
a matchup. And that was even worse than the Old
miss against Tulane game. And yet it's the idea of
you know, I hear people arguing whether or not these
group of five teams should be in right, and it's like,
(02:04):
as a former nai A Baseball player, where we didn't
get to compete in the College Baseball World Series. We
compete in the nai World Baseball World Series, but that
was different. And yet I'll go to my grave saying
that I think we would have been competitive if not
beat the team it was LSU at the time that
won it. The year that we won the national championship,
(02:25):
I would have loved to have gone up against them,
and I think that it would have been It would
have been a cool game. Now, baseball football were completely
different ball games. I understand that, and yet I don't
want to make it, not because of the legal stuff
that Hugh breaks down, right, the legal part of you
have to give these teams a chance or you're just
playing too much, you know, too many favoritism, you know,
(02:49):
like you don't have a chance.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Sorry, you have your own thing. And I don't think
that's right.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I think giving them an opportunity, if they have an
outstanding season, then they should maybe get into it. And
yet this past year like this year, and I understand
the argument of it doesn't matter how big you make
the tournament, there's always going to be somebody left out.
And yet, yeah, I understand that, and I don't want
(03:13):
to get to sixty four teams like March Madness. I
think that's excuse me. I think that would be a
bit excessive. And yet the idea of still keeping two
spots open for group of five teams. So let's just
say this year it still is James Madison and Tulane. Okay,
you guys, you know kick button the sun Belt in
the American Conference, and so you guys are going to
(03:33):
earn your spot. But if you expanded it just to sixteen,
so really it would be fourteen teams, the cutoff there
is basically Notre Dame, BYU, Texas and Vanderbilt would have
gotten in, right, Utah, USC and Arizona would be the
first few teams outta.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Any of them had a legitimate argument on there.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
No Utah ends up going ten and two.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
So it's like, Okay, it's not a bad season and
you really only lost to Texas Tech and BYU. But
so that's where your kind of argument would come from, right,
is if you had it expanded to sixteen, where you
still had two teams that get in from the group five,
I think you're going to have some argument there, but
it's not going to be the same argument as Notre Dame,
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as BYU b YU lost two games just to Texas Tech.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
That's all that we saw throughout the course of the
season as they were better and everybody they stepped on
the field with with the exception of that.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Team, yep, one team.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Texas lost three.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
But they play in the SEC, and they were playing
good football at the end of the year, and they're
a legit. I mean, they end up winning there, they
end up winning their conference, or they end up they
end up beating a couple of good teams down the stretch.
I think Texas is one that deserves to being in,
and then Vanderbilt is one of those you typically don't
expect them to be that good, and they have the
(04:51):
best season they've had in forever and they still are
on the outside looking in. I just think there's room
for expansion, right, we talked about it was yesterday, back
in the day when it was just some voting. You
just voted on stuff, and all of a sudden you
get to write off into the sunset as a national
champion or not. And Hugh expresses the idea of the
one with them in BYU and that it was the
(05:14):
closest ever the voting comes down to just a few
guys basically saying I picked that team versus that team,
and that whole entire program, the every person on that
team gets to either be a national championship or doesn't,
just based on voting. And I don't agree with most
of the voting that goes on, whether it's Pro Bowls
or Manager of the Year or AO MVPs. I don't
(05:37):
think that it's I just don't think it's a fool
proof way of achieving something or getting something is based
on voting.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
So it used to be garbage the way that they
did it.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Then you have the BCS where you institute some computer
stuff into it. Right now, you're taking analytics in data
and you're trying to pick it by that way. Then
you all of a sudden have a couple teams that
just get to play for it based on the BCS.
Then you finally expand it to four teams that was
much better, were making progress.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yeah, now twelve teams, And.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
I get Chuck's opinion is, let's just let this thing
marinate for a bit, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
It's way better than.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
It was, but it doesn't I don't feel like you're
you're definitely up messing with tradition by switching from twelve
teams to sexy team.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
So college football doesn't give a rats behind about tradition.
Clearly by the way to college football is going these
days a.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Hundred percent with that, and it just I want to
see the best teams competing, and I also want teams
to have a chance.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Yeah, it's interesting because I think with this, with this
whole college football playoff thing, I would tend to lean
more in the camp of what Chuck is saying in
terms of like, Okay, well let's just get through the
twelve and see how it goes, because it does seem
like everything in college football is gung ho, and then
we'll reel it back and try to figure out how
to fix it. So it does, at least in this situation,
(06:57):
it seems like, well, at least they're taking it step
by step. But then at the same time, you look
at this year and they're already talking about expanding it
to sixteen, and they were talking about that before they'd
even picked the field of twelve, so they didn't really
even know what controversies there might or might not be.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
So I do think they tend to get ahead of themselves.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
So at least in this sense, they're maybe trying to
be a little bit smarter than most of the rest
of college football and what they're dealing with.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah, yeah, and I hear you.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I mean I'm typically one that's going to kind of
drag my feet not towards progression or you know, I'm
not one that's against things progressing and moving in a
positive direction.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I'm just one like that.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
I'm typically a little bit slower because I actually want
things to play out and see how it looks and
see how it works. I just don't see the negative side, right,
I mean the positive side is you you just add
more games now, more games of meaning.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Right.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
The idea of getting rid of the underdogs, the Boise
States or you know, the Two Lanes or the James
Ma The idea of giving them no chance, say sorry, guys,
you're just not worthy of it, I think is wrong.
I don't think that that would be fair to not
give those teams a chance.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Well, what's one of the most exciting games that we've
seen in the in the last twenty years Boise State Oklahoma.
Oh yeah, and so you take away those the chance
for those and I know it's not very often, right,
but that game was awesome, right.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
It was Jared Sabaranski's kid from Hermison Oregon was.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
A quarterback there, You're right, didn't know he didn't get engaged.
It was the running back then engaged.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Right, Yes, but yeah, he's a I'm with you, like
I want the opportunity, and you're going to have more
of those, I think over the course of time. Now,
it's just not going to happen very often. But then again,
let's say that it was usc that has to go
play Indiana. The chance of them beating in Indiana a
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sixteen seed beating a one seed, if there's no buyes,
if you were to go that route with the bracket,
it's not likely, but it's more likely than JMU beating them.
I'm one hundred percent on. But if you earn the
number one, or the number two, or the three or
the four spot, and if there's no buys like there
(09:07):
is now, if you expanded sixteen, you should get a
somewhat of an easier first game.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
It's the same thing as you get the top seeds.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
The number two will in the NFL will host the
number seven. Now, the difference between number two and the
NFL number seven is far different than number two and
number twenty six or you know, seventeen, whoever it is
that is a group of five team that gets into
it because we're trying to play fair and square. I mean,
it's not a participation trophy, it's you earned it by
(09:37):
kicking ass on your schedule, the conference that you play in.
Those players have no control over who they are scheduled
to play, but they had control over going out there
and taking care of their business. And so to me,
I want to give those guys a little bit of
a chance. And if all of a sudden, Indiana and
Ohio State this year would get a cupcake of a game, Okay,
(09:57):
well kind of deserved one. Is been the perennial best
team in the in the country for the last couple
of years.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Ohio State.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Indiana crept up last year and said hey, we're a
force to be reckoned with. And this year overcame the
team that looked dominant in Ohio State. They've earned getting
an easier first round game. Now first round game, you
still it's you still got a ways to go to
end up getting to the national championship. To me, I
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think there's a way in which I know there's logistics
when teams start playing when you want the season to
be over, by how meaningful you get rid of the
conference championship games. You just basically play your your regular
season to get ranked, and all of a sudden. The
thing that I liked the most about the expansion of
the college football playoffs to twelve teams is you no
(10:48):
longer had that feeling of, oh, I lost when I'm out,
because even when it was four, you felt like, boy,
if if I didn't, if I'm not in the SEC
and I lost a game, I'm out of the college
football Playoffs. I mean that that just isn't You can't
expect a team to be perfect and unless they're in
the SEC, and then the SEC, it's like, well, you
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lost to Georgia, that's only like a half a loss.
You're still gonna make it if you run the table
the rest of the way. That's not fair in any way,
shape or form. So now they expand it to twelve,
you've kind of fixed that problem. But you have, without
a doubt, left legitimately good teams. I would say Texas
and Notre Dame for sure, BYU maybe in the same boat,
(11:31):
but a little bit less than and Vanderbilt simply because
Vanderbilt ten and two playing in the SEC. They I mean,
this was their Cinderella moment. This was their look at
what we did this year, and then they're on the
outside looking in to me, I think you can there's
a legitimate argument that they should be able to have
a chance to kind of see if they can shock
(11:53):
the world to some degree. Now they would have to
go play against a Georgia or an Oregon or a
Texas Tech. Well, that's an uphill about you might be
one and done and yet you got a chance versus
them just sitting there. There's a couple of hundred guys.
If you just take the teams that feel like they
maybe could have made it and should have made it,
that are gonna go their entire life and they're gonna
be talking to people around a campfire or sitting at
(12:15):
a party somewhere and saying, yeah, we got screwed, we
got screwed. We didn't get a chance to go compete, right,
and then they're gonna have to kind of live with
that for the rest of their life. I think there's
a way where you don't have to have that, And
if you do, it's so far down the list that
the argument against you making it Michigan. Yeah, the argument
against Virginia making it the argument against Houston or whoever.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
I always the extra people that are left out of
the March Badness Tournament, right, Sorry, if you're the seventieth
best team in the country, but no, you don't deserve
a spot in the tournament.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
So I don't know. I would just I mean, it's
where I would go.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
And I'm not typically one that's just quick to, you know,
throw something away and let's try something new. I'm almost
always am I one like, I think we should see
how this thing planned hands out. I just in this situation,
I just don't see the negative in it. I don't
see adding four more teams to the mix as a
big deal.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
No, and I would agree I don't see that either.
I just think the only thing that the only problem
I have and why I say I side with where
Chuck is coming from, like let's see it through. Is
at least get through the season you're in with the
decision you made before you start thinking about adding it.
And once you've done the selection show and then you
see the people that are left out and you see
how the controversy. Okay, well, now how can we avoid
(13:31):
that or fix that for next year, or how can
we ramp that up. How can we adjust all of
those things? You've gone through the first round of games,
you can now see, how does that play out? I mean,
do I think it would have been Yeah, better to
see Notre Dame and by you in there playing some
better competition. Yeah, that would have been great versus seeing blowouts.
But you're still gonna see blowouts regardless of who you're
(13:53):
letting in.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
So I do think sixteen is probably gonna be the
sweet spot. That's where.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
I don't think that they should go above that at all.
I would like to see them do it next year.
But I do think they were right in at least
taking the step to go to the twelve first.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Yep, well, yeah, I'm fine with that.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
I mean, if they would have jumped straight to sixteen,
there would, without a doubt be a thought of could
you have seen what twelve was about?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
And ultimately we are seeing what it's about, and it's
going to be great. I mean, it's going to be fine.
I don't think that the to me, when I hear
people get real loud and real boisterous about this is
just garbage.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
The whole thing is a joke.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
The college football is a joke because JMU and Tulane
couldn't compete with the teams they played. It's like, okay,
well just take that out of the equation for a second.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
You still have ten really good football teams.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
I mean, Alabama got blown out by Georgia and the
conference championship.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
So was that a joke?
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Right? Yeah, it's true. Yeah, And well it.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Don't just happen when a small team plays a bigger team.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Right yeah. So true.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
And yet it's to me, I like where we're at,
And yet I don't think I have a hard time
recognizing that there's a giant negative on the backside of it.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
I just don't get that.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
I don't see it as as like, well, you really
just diluted the product, right, I mean I get that, sure,
and the idea of well there's always going to be
I'm not saying it because I want to appease Notre dame.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Notre dame.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
You you you think you're holier than now literally that
you don't have to be in a conference.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Okay, Well you if you stick to your.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Guns with that, you're going to have an uphill battle
because they are going to take that into account. They're
going to take it into account that, Well, you're not
scheduling a whole bunch of tough teams and the team
that you did Miami, they beat you, and we're giving
them the nod if you're because you're going to be
on the outside the idea that they have to go
eleven and one to make it.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Yeah, you've chosen that pass.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
That's what the smaller teams, the smaller conferences have to do.
So undefeated, one loss, ye should be treated like that.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Yeah, I'm with you, and so I just don't I
don't fully understand where the upheaval is. I'm not trying
to make it to where Notre Dame Texas feel that
they didn't get snubbed because I understand that somebody is
going to be on the bubble and be on the
out when they think they should be in, because the
criteria changes once you no matter where you draw the line,
(16:16):
there's gonna be somebody left out and they're gonna feel like, well,
compared to that team, Okay, well, Utah, you can say that,
but you didn't have a bunch of You didn't have
a bunch of Utah. You're thinking, okay that you had
the same record as Vanderbilt and Vanderbilt gets any you
don't okay, did you play the.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Same teams that Vanderbilt played? No, you didn't. That just
there you go to me.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
It makes it to where that bubble conversation is way
more cut and dry. And even though it won't be
cut and dry because humans and they have rooting interests
and they they're gonna think that their favoritism being played.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yeah, it's better than robots picking it.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
And and I think that it's a it's the way
in which you can get the close tournament of having
all the teams that legitimately could come out on the
other side as the national championship and deservingly so.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
So I don't know, maybe it's something they'll end up doing.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
I wouldn't be surprised simply because the NCAA's be like, wait,
more money, more teams, more money. Yeah, we're gonna go
ahead and do that. Whether they're doing it for the
right reasons or not, anyway, who knows. We're gonna come
back after this, and then I'm gonna give Ashley one
more chance to ask Santa for something. I'm gonna end
up having a conversation with Santa later on today on
(17:32):
my way home, and so this is gonna be Astley's
last time to ask him for what she wants for
the Mariners right here at Sports Radio ninety three point
three KGRFM. Merry Christmas, everybody out there, thanks for joining
the show. We got a couple more segments here, but
this is our last one before Christmas to ask for
what you want. I mean, I might. I used to
(17:54):
circle everything in the calendar or the catalog. Excuse me
that when my mom would be like, all right, circle
what you want and you go to the toy section, obviously,
and I circled everything, and yet my Mom's like, you
know that Santa can't give you everything, right, And of
course I know that, and yet Santa typically did get
me something. And so I'm wondering, Ash, if this is
(18:16):
your final time from your mouth to Santa's ears that
you get to ask him for something, you can go
ahead and ask for something big. Maybe you ask for
something big, Maybe ask for something in the middle, and
maybe ask for something you feel is more Mariner esque, right,
and more something that Santa Mariner Santa would would be actually.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Willing to give you. What do you want right now?
For Christmas?
Speaker 4 (18:38):
I think I think I'm gonna have to ask for
Gino Suarez.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Oh yeah, I'd like to have him back.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
I don't want to be the team that keeps that
has him and then lets him go and then he
does well, and then brings him back, and then lets
him go and then he does well and then wants.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
To bring him back again.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
So I know he didn't do very well for us
batting wise while he was here, but he obviously had
a really good season. It just didn't translate once he
got here. I don't think that that would be the
case next year, So I would like to give him
another full season and see what he can do. Plus,
I think his energy that he brings is really valuable
(19:19):
to this team, and I know that he is very
well loved by everyone in the clubhouse.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Yep, I'm with you. I mean, I think that the
power numbers. You know, it's a couple of years ago
when they were getting when they moved on from him,
where they were thinking, okay, too many strikeouts and it's
just a matter of time until he kind of falls
off right where it's just even more of a strikeout
or nothing guy, and maybe the home runs dip because
you know, you hit fifty homers, you can strike out
(19:45):
a bunch. If you hit twenty two homers and hit
two hundred and strike out, you know, two times a game,
that's not as useful.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Obviously.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
Yeah, I wouldn't mind Gino at a you know, I
don't know, Oh, thirteen fourteen million dollars a year for
a couple of years.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
I mean, that's the thing I'm not gonna worry about.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
I'm not gonna worry that the Mariners are going to
overpay him to keep him, because the Mariners don't overpay people.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
So that when I yeah, so people are like, oh,
we don't want to overpay. I don't want anyone to
overpay him.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
How about this one for you, Here's one's a tug
at your heart a little bit, Gino. Regardless of what
the money is, Gino, you love him and he brings
something to the table on the field, off the field,
in the clubhouse or Bregman. Now, obviously you're spending way
more Bregman.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
But where's gitting more?
Speaker 2 (20:35):
You're getting more?
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Yeah, that is a tough one.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
I mean, I guess my heart would stop myself from
allowing the Bregman thing to even come into my mind
because I just don't think it would ever happen. I
don't think we'd pay him that much or what he
wants I should say. I mean, if they decided to say, yeah,
we think he's worth it, we're gonna pay him by
all means, bring him in, like that's great. I just
think more realistically, they're gonna go with the one they know,
(21:02):
and the one they know is Gino.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Yeah, and it would be half the price. Yeah, probably
half the price is Bregman twice the player.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
It's hard to say. He's not gonna get a hundred homers.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
I know that, but I think that he just brings
more to the table, not a little bit more defensively.
Not that Gino's bad by any stretch, but I don't
know if he's quite as good. I think they both
would be good in the clubhouse different ways. One's good vibes,
one's gritty, grind, go play the game hard.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
It's all about.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Winning and and and whatnot. Not that Gino isn't, but
you get you get my point. I think, yeah, I would.
I would choose Bregman, even though part of me is like, yeah,
they're not going to do that. They're not going to
jump into those waters. I don't think. I I think
another one that I've always kind of liked, and yet
I don't know necessarily why is Harrison Bader as a
(21:57):
guy that as a d H an inexpensive DH. I
think you get him for less than ten million bucks
a year, and you could do it on a short
term deal to where if it's not working out, you
move on. I think you get him less than what
you paid for Mitch Garver well, and you're gonna get more. Okay,
you're gonna get more out of him offensively. He's not
great defensively, but that's fine. You have a pretty set
(22:19):
outfield at this point in time. But Bart, if you
have an injury, you want to be able to put
somebody in there that you don't feel like you're going backwards.
And then he could also DH. I mean he could,
he could. He's not a guy that is just one
side of the plate or the other, like you know
the Ben Refschneider that we just signed yesterday. He rakes
lefties and he's not good against right handed pitching, and
(22:42):
so I supposed what they're probably planning on doing is
figuring out a way to have I don't know, maybe
the backup catcher when if there's a rity on the mound,
maybe the backup that's when the backup catcher catches and
you put Cal in the DH spot being a switch hitter,
that's will you use his DH where he's only half
(23:03):
the DH. It's that or they find another DH to.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Platoon with him.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
I think if you do it the way that I
expressed first, where Col's DH and and you bring in
your backup catcher, you're going backwards offensively for sure.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Yeah, no, I and I get that for I don't
think that that's the route. It didn't work out very
well last year, so I don't think that that's the
situation you should have. You're putting yourself in too risky
of a position in those situations. I think what you
were talking about earlier today with having ref Schneider ref
Schneider on you know, batting against lefties as your DH
(23:39):
and then bringing in someone like Carlos Santana to face
the righties, someone again who you know, and we know
the Mariners love to have players they are familiar with.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Yeah, yeah, well, I mean it's I think to some degree,
for a while, Jerry maybe discounted a little bit too
much the importance of the clubhouse.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
I think you don't have to have it to win.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
I mean, you can have a bunch of dudes that
really don't like each other, but they're really good baseball players,
and they're gonna go out and win a bunch of games.
But if you're gonna be somewhere throughout the course of
one hundred and sixty two games, even those that don't
get along, that maybe don't see eydie on a bunch
of stuff, they're gonna kind of grind together and they'll
find themselves in a sense of sympatico. They'll find themselves
(24:22):
in a mode where they're doing what they need to
do for each other with one another, and so it
ends up playing where everything's kind of smooth sailing right now,
and then you're gonna run into those hiccups. And that's
where a good manager comes in to get everybody rowing
in the same direction, even if you're not necessarily wanting
to kick it with each other outside of the field
(24:42):
of play. So I mean, I hope they add some stuff.
I mean, I'm happy with the fact they added Rob Reschneider.
I mean, he's based on war he was the best
left fielder on the market, all right. I mean he
was the highest rated left fielder. Now that's a guy
that you know, puts them all in play and hits
a bunch of line drives and understands how to handle
(25:04):
the bat when it's against a lefty. Yeah, And so
they definitely upgraded with that move. And yet I want
them to continue it upgrade because you did lose some
pieces Polanco and Gino. You have not made up for
all of that yet with a backup catcher and a
platoon dh slash utility guys.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
So we shall see what they do.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
But from our mouths to Santa's Ears and the Mariners,
go ahead and keep on getting us some presents.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
We like presents.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
On the other side, yep, we're going to do our
one last thing and wish everybody to marry very merry,
very merry, very merry Christmas. On the other side, here
at Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM, oh, one
last thing before Christmas. Maybe the best one last thing
(25:52):
of the year. Definitely the best one last thing this year,
of the end of this year.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Yeah, definitely the best one last thing of this week.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Yeah, yep, yep.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Well O Fridays will probably be no will booze news.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Yep, that won't be a one last thing.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Okay, Well, anyways, Merry Christmas everybody out there, thanks for listening.
It's fun doing the show. It's a lot more doing
it from this chair, come to find out. And yet
I do feel more comfortable each time that I get
to do it. And Ashley, thank you very much because
you make it easy. So thank you, thank you very
much for that. It's time for one last thing before
(26:30):
we got to turn this thing over to MJ and
the wonderful Christopher kid.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
That's your one last thing.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
I just want to say same thing, like, hey, thanks
to everyone that has listened to us and is listening
to us this holiday week. I know the schedules are
on and we've still got all our favorite people texting
in and so being a part of the show. And
I think, you know, I especially with the text line.
We don't utilize it a lot in our show, but
we do respond to people, and I do want the
people that do take the time to text in to
(26:58):
know that we do see your tech, so we do
appreciate it, and you know, we might not be able
to write back all the time. But that doesn't mean
that we're not paying attention to them and we're not
really appreciative of the things that you say, and not
even like praising us, nothing like that.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
I'm saying, just participating in the show.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Yeah, it's a lot of fun to have to be
doing this and knowing that people are playing along.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Yeah, well it is weird sitting here in our little box,
right and you're in your own little room and you
know that there's people listening, but the text line is
kind of the only real way that you know for sure. Now,
there's a bunch of turds that like to just you know,
say stuff and I want to do what DK did.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Sometimes actually not really, I don't care that much.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
But some of the people that are turds that think
they're not. At least there's some that are turds and
know they are and are trying to get under our skin.
The ones that think they're totally within the realm of reason.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
I'm like, well, you're there, you're frightening.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
You're a bit off base there, friend, But yeah, it is.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
I think a lot of people are in the Christmas
spirit because there has been a lot of nice one
telling us good job, and yeah, merry Christmas, and merry
Christmas to everyone, even those that hate I don't care
Rick well, and merry Christmas to you.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
Still, yes, I do want to address one specific test.
We got a text we got from the two five
to three asking or just saying, I miss the Twelve
Days of Christmas. And I know it was probably a
lot of extra work for you, Ashley, but I miss it.
So I to that person, I will just say this, Yes,
I apologize. I have not done the Twelve Days of
Christmas the last two years. I had family things going
on at the holidays both last year and this year.
(28:28):
I lost my dad last year, and we had Mark's
aunt unfortunately died just a couple of weeks ago. So
I've not been in a very festive Christmas mood in
terms of the energy that it takes to put together
the Twelve Days of Christmas.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
But next year, I promise I will do it.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
It is a good one.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
But yes, we do have lives outside of this and
try to even in not so fun times like you
were talking about, try to still stay the straight and
arrow and stay on task and do what we can.
But that's some extra stuff that is a lot of
work that you end up putting into to get that
thing to where it is. It's, uh, there's a reason
they haven't asked.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
Me to well, And you know, you just got to
be in the right frame of mind to put something
together like that. And when you're being pulled in a
completely opposite direction, it's hard to.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Get the focus there.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Yeah, exactly. It takes all the focus you can muster
to just do the four hours of actual radio.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Yeah, beyond exactly.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Trying to find some festive mood to get in when
you're heading in the opposite direction.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
I'm with you.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
By the way, we did get another texture just now said,
how do I get Bucky autograph?
Speaker 3 (29:33):
I'm right now, send him in?
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Ye, send them in. I do.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
I sign them everyone that comes, and I always will.
And because otherwise my mom would be like, I'm so disappointed.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
Just make sure when you send it in that you
put an envelope with your return address back on it
to make it easier.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Yeah, because I probably won't. I don't even know where
I would ask me.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
You'd have to find.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
You don't have like it just a place that has
all of the stockpile of office supplies.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
We don't know where that is.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Oh, we should get on that.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
I mean, with all of the PayPal ad revenue that
we get, maybe we could get some stamps and stuff
so they could send stuff back to those that forget
a self address stamped envelope. I doubt it, though, so
I would do it yourself, send it in with a
stamped envelope, and I will sign it and send it
off the same day that I get it guaranteed. All right,
My one last thing, what was it? I was going
(30:22):
to say, and now I got totally distracted.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Sorry, that's all right.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
I had something too, and it was good. Maybe it
wasn't that.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Good, obviously, I think it was probably great.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
It was the DK it. I saw a new video
on the DK thing. Now both these things can be
true at the same time. It's a video of basically
Tom Pelichero shared this video. This is after DK punched
this dude. It shows the guy coming back to his seat,
ripping his shirt off in his blue wig to find
he has blue dyed hair underneath the blue tinsel wig
(30:56):
and he says that was the goal. Oh, that was
the goal. He was doing it on purpose, trying to
get it right. Now, I wouldn't be surprised because he's thinking,
that's paycheck, right, He's gonna sue. You shouldn't get anything. No,
if that's your goal, it's say something to get punched
in the face by a pro athlete so that you
can make money hopefully that judge. The judge sees it
and says, yeah, you don't get jack.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
As a matter of fact, you get a skull. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
And and well, I mean if if I mean you
just got to keep yourself in check, DK, I think
that that is one truth. You have to keep yourself
in check, regulate your emotions. You can't do that, period,
point blank.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
That's it. That's all there is to it.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
On the flip side of it, if you think that
you get to go do whatever you want with no repercussions,
hoping that he does something and you can get a
paycheck out of it, you deserve nothing either, and you're
just a bad human. So Merry Christmas to everyone except
for that guy. And yeah, other than that, I don't know.
I just want to wish everybody a merry Christmas except
(31:59):
for that guy, and just enjoy your time with your family.
You know, we don't know for sure how many Christmases
and how many New Year's is you have. So hug
your loved ones, tell them you love them, am spend
some time with them, enjoy the time. It's not about
the presence, It's about the family celebration and being good
(32:20):
to one another. So until I see you, guys, or
until I talk to you guys again, Merry Christmas from me,
from Chuck, I'm sure from Ashley and the rest of
us here at KJR. Up Next, we got MJ and
Christopher Kidd at Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
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Speaker 1 (32:42):
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