September 1, 2026 • 39 mins
RICK NEUHEISEL (CBS Sports/Dallas Renegades) Coach Neuheisel is back and we have a lot to talk about with him! Is Lane Kiffin terrible and how does Coach feel about NFL players being allowed to come back to college? College football sure has had it’s dramas off the field, but we’ve also had some great football. Who does Coach think is the team to beat in CFB this year? What players will Coach be keeping an eye on this season? How is Coach feeling about the Huskies’ chances this season? Could they make the playoffs? Should UW an WSU be playing the Apple Cup and what does Coach think about how it’s changed? What is the future of the rivalry? Are there any games this weekend that are must-watch besides the Apple Cup? :30- ABC’s of the Mariners - M is for Montes:; Laz Montes will join the Mariners today - N is for Nincompoop: Yes, Chuck’s talking about Dan - O is for Oblique: Is it possible that Cal Raleigh has been playing with a bad oblique all season? - P is for Peyton: did we like the hug? :45- We wrap up the Tuesday show with one last thing!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
All right nine o'clock hour here on this tuesday but
not just any tuesday it is a special tuesday the
college football season is underway and so.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Too we renew our friendship uh with college football insider,
former UW head coach, former quarterback of the San Antonio Gunslingers,
and the best damn analyst in the business. He is
back for another season with us here on KJR. Rick
Neuheisel joins us. Hello, coach.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Chuck, how the heck are you, buddy? You ready for 2026?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I think so. I think I am. Are you? That's
the bigger question.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Oh, I'm ready. Storylines abound, as is normally the case.
But many of them away from the fields of play.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Many of them in the courtrooms. And that has been
the story all summer long.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Well, let's go ahead and start there since you brought
it up. What the hell is wrong with Lane Kiffin?
I mean, at his core as a human being, what
is the issue with this person?
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Always looking for an edge. And listen, I've been in
the business a long time. I understand that. I was
always looking for an edge in recruiting, always trying to
figure out how, because that's your lifeblood, getting good players.
But this has gone to a place where I think
everybody is just scratching their heads. And in this case,
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I actually can't fault him. Because the class of 2022,
the class of 2022 got a raw deal by the NCAA.
They were told that there was going to be no
extra year. And so those who decided to go off
to the NFL, even though they weren't drafted, decided, OK,
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I'll go off and try to get into camp and
make a team. And then they find out in June
after they've already signed that, oh, we're going to go
five for five. But in the five for five edict,
the NCAA still says to everybody that's part of that
class of 2022, the high school class of 2022, that
you don't get to play the fifth year. You played
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against people that all got a fifth year because of COVID.
You are anybody that's not a senior that didn't just graduate.
They get their fifth year. But you are going to
be the one class in this kind of last decade
that doesn't get your fifth year. And then when the
kids took that to court, judges looked around and said, why?
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Why are you the only ones that don't get the
fifth year? And so they said, the merits of your opportunity,
the chances of you winning in court are such that
I'm going to provide you an injunction. And that's why
they're eligible to play. And we're going to see a
bunch of those kids play this weekend. So Lane just said, well,
what about the guys that because they were told they
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couldn't play, went and tried to make an NFL team?
and now aren't on an NFL team, why can't they
come back? And the judge in Louisiana has said, I
agree with you. They shouldn't be able to come back.
They were given bad information by the very entity that
created the new rule. And because of that, Lane's trying
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to get a few of his former players back to
come and play for him at LSU. A Louisiana judge
has said yes, and the SEC is up in arms,
threatening him. All sorts of penalties, all sorts of fines,
all sorts of even kicking LSU out of the league
is being talked about. I mean, it is craziness what's
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going on in the southeastern portion of our country.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
So what is he going to do? Is he just
going to play them and then see where the chips fall?
Speaker 4 (04:02):
No.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
So tomorrow or excuse me, Thursday, there's going to be
another court hearing. The SEC bringing this this to a
magistrate and they're going to plead their case. And that
judge is going to give a ruling. And Lane Kiffin
has said he'll comply with whatever that whatever that judge says.
The SEC has said we got to think about all
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of our options because they're banding against LSU, thinking that
they're a rogue state, if you will. And it's wild.
It really is wild.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Is this going to be the craziest thing that happens?
I mean, do you get the impression that we're starting
to get our arms around every potential weird situation? Or
are we just a long way away from the Wild
West having laws in town?
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Well, the five for five rule is a common sense rule.
that the idea that you get five years to play,
which then that people can't play games with the red
shirt rule, right? The red shirt rule was great while
it was around. But now that people get paid, if
I can stop playing and save my year because I've
proven I'm a really good player and get more money
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the next place, you stop playing. And no one wants that.
So we've just gone to five for five, which makes sense.
It starts now. when you turn 19 or when you, uh,
graduate high school, whichever comes first and has a few
exceptions like a Mormon mission or something like that. But,
but that's it. Five for five, no waivers. That makes
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a lot of sense. What didn't make sense is that
the guys who wrote that bill and wrote that law
into the NCA, uh, uh, legislation just said to the
class of 22, except you not realizing what judges were
going to say, because it's, It's easy for a judge
to say, well, you're getting the wrong side of this
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and finding for him. And all you have to do
is give an injunction. You don't have to have it
go to court because court won't happen until after the
year is over and the guys will get to play.
We've seen countless people play in the last two or
three years of college football that never actually went to court,
even though they got an injunction to do just that.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
You know what's funny is the other night I couldn't sleep,
so I just turned on one of those 30 for 30s,
and it was the SMU story. It was the death
penalty to SMU. And I'm sitting there watching. I'm like,
this is tame compared to what's happening now in every program.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
I was at UCLA. We got a couple of those kids.
The guys who went to Dallas on that story to
recruit said it was the wildest scene. Every hotel in
Dallas was filled with college recruiters all trying to find
and hide these kids at different restaurants so they could
talk to them about coming to their school.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
That reminds me of that. There's a Major League Baseball story.
When Major League Baseball started the American League against the
National League, and they were doing the same thing 100
years ago. I mean, we're supposed to like... It's.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
The old NBA versus ABA, the NFL versus the AFL.
It's all the same. The competition creates the competitor.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Well, I know that we've had controversial topics that have
been juicy to discuss, and at times... irritating, frustrating, and
have sent some people over the edge. But another thing
that has happened during this last three years is, man,
we've had some great football. We have had some great
football seasons the last two or three years, and I
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doubt that's going to be different for this upcoming year.
So let's talk about the landscape for the college football
season upcoming. Who is your first team that comes to
mind when I say, who's the team to beat in
college football this year?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
I think it's Notre Dame. Notre Dame has an excellent
quarterback in C.J. Carr. I had a lot of friends
who were down at the Manning Passing Academy, which happens
every year in Thibodeau, Louisiana. And they recruit all kinds
of college quarterbacks to come there and kind of put
on displays. They coach the young kids, but they also
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kind of have a showcase, if you will. And C.J.
Carr was incredibly impressive. he's the grandson of Lloyd Carr,
who was the coach at Michigan. So you know he's
got a background in football. He's going to be well-versed
in terms of the X's and O's. But he's also very,
very good. So you start with him. You've got a
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couple of Ohio State receivers that just transferred in. You
know what Ohio State gets in the wide receiver department.
You've got the best offensive line coming back. You've got
a great linebacker and secondary core, a top five defensive line,
and you don't play a team that can come close
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to beating you without helping them by beating yourself until
November 7th, which is Miami. So they've got a schedule.
They've got everything you need. Notre Dame's the team to pick.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Notre Dame. Look at that.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Yuck.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Says the USC fan chiming in. Or USC grad, I
should say.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Yeah, but they don't play it anymore, so she can't
be bitter.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Well, that whole thing makes me bitter, too. But at USC,
not at Notre Dame.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Yeah, she even celebrated, I think, UCLA firing their AD today,
which I thought was over the top. I'm like, well, man,
that's rough. Rick Neuheisel with us here on Chugging Back
in the Morning, his first official visit with us of
the college football season. Excited to have him back for
another full year, thanks to Taco Time. All right, let's
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talk about the players that will be involved this year.
this time last year was all arch madness and then
obviously he didn't exactly have the road paved for him
to a Heisman trophy a year ago but he's back
again and my guess is he's going to have a
pretty good season but is he going to have the
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best season out there who's the player you got your
eye on this season.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Well, I just mentioned CJ Carr. Obviously, Dante Moore at
Oregon is a tremendous player, as is DeMond Williams, the
quarterback right there in Seattle for the Dogs. I think
those guys are fabulous players. Jaden Maiava just got out
of the blocks as SC beat San Jose State. I
know it's just San Jose State, but he was 25
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of 29 in his first go-round. You've got.
Josh Hoover is now the quarterback at Indiana. He'd been
at TCU. If he eliminates interceptions, which kind of plagued
him a little bit, playing for the Frogs, and under Signetti,
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I expect him to do that. He's got a chance
to be terrific. Darian Menza was an unbelievable player for
Duke and Tulane. Now he's at Miami, and you can
imagine what's along with him, namely Malachi Toney. Uh, the receiver,
the freshman that was a phenom, you saw him showcase.
I think he had 10 catches or something close to
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it in the national championship game. So there's in Trinidad,
Chambliss at Ole miss, uh, Marcel Reed at Texas A & M.
I mean, there's, there's really good players. This is going
to be a fun, fun season. Um, and, and just,
I know it's sounds Homer ish, given that you're in Seattle,
but I liked the Husky schedule. I really do. And
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I long for them to be in the hunt when
Indiana comes to town in November. Indiana is not going
to be intimidated because of the weather, but they will
be intimidated because of that Husky crowd that I know
is one of the best in football when they're motivated.
So I'm kind of pinpointing that game as a CFP
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highlighted type of occasion.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Yeah, I went out to camp a couple of weeks
ago and I've kind of gotten the buzz around this team.
And they believe three years into the Jed Fish era
that when he took over, I mean, he had to
rebuild the lines from scratch. And they believe that's the
strength of this team, the offensive line and the defensive line.
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So what do you think that means for a team
that has DeMond Williams at quarterback for their chances of
making the playoffs this year?
Speaker 3 (12:44):
I think a 10-2 team from the Big Ten is in, okay?
And as you look at their schedule, they should be
3-0 when Minnesota comes to town. And I'm going to
say the Husky home crowd will carry them through against P.J.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
's crew.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
The game at USC in early October is a big one.
If they can find a way to win on the road,
which will be their first road test, that to me
will signal that this is a team that has arrived.
They get Iowa at home, another Husky crowd requirement. You've
got to be there for that. On the road at Purdue,
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they should handle business. And you can't take anything lightly.
We all remember what happened at Wisconsin, right? And then
at Nebraska, those are winnable games. I'm anxious to see
what Calandria looks like at Nebraska. But until I'm proven otherwise,
Nebraska is a 500 team. Then you get Penn State
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at home. At Michigan State, a team kind of been
rebuilding with Pat Fitzgerald as their coach. Indiana at home.
I'm just saying, even with two blemishes and then you
finish at Oregon, you can go to Eugene holding a
Pat hand. I see them having a real chance to
be 10-1 or 9-2 going to Oregon to play for
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a CFP spot.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
You know, that lake jump you did would have been
a lot easier to do this time of year, a
lot warmer. Oh, my goodness.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Can you imagine the apple cup plunge? I mean, that
would have been simple Simon. Yeah, easy. I'm telling you,
in November, it's a commitment.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
You can tell her firsthand. That's a commitment. What do
you think of?
Speaker 3 (14:29):
I told you that story about Barbara Hedges. I told
you that story about Barbara, right? Uh-huh.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Yeah, I know the plunge. That's why I'm bringing it up.
It would just be so easy to do when the
Apple Cups played in early September, for goodness sake.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Yeah, that's a no-brainer.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
What do you think, as somebody that's coached in this
game and still feels part of this rivalry? I remember
you bringing the apples for the guys on the set
last year for the Apple Cup. What do you think
of it being the opening game of the year and
on a Sunday?
Speaker 3 (15:04):
I'll take it whenever I can get it. College football
has morphed and changed and been put through some meat
grinders and blenders and what have you. And we got
a we got a smoothie now.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Right.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
But but the bottom line is if we can get
it on the schedule where Washington and Washington State play,
we should get it on the schedule. The problem is
for the poor Cougars is they've been beat up in
terms of what they can afford to spend on their
roster because they're not getting the same kind of television
revenue and for no wrongdoing on their own. It's just unfortunate.
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So the chances for the game to be really competitive
have diminished. But don't tell that to that team that's
going to take the field wearing crimson and gray.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
You might as well tell your Barbara Hedges story for
those that didn't hear it.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Barbara Hedges was in my kitchen getting ready as we
were all preparing for the Apple Cup plunge. And Neil Dempsey,
whose name is on the indoor facility, an incredibly benevolent booster.
sat and looked at me like, are you crazy? You're
jumping in the lake right now. It's that cold. And
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I said, we're going, Neil, you want to go? And
he goes, I won't, but I will write a check
for $ 2 million to the athletic department. And he pointed
at Barbara. If she goes, if she goes 2 million
right now. And I looked at Barbara and I said,
come on, let's go. And she said, Rick, I can't
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my hair.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Two million dollars.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Two million. I said we can buy new hair. She
didn't think that was funny.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Do you think the game will last many more years?
Do you think that the sands and the hourglass are
running out on it?
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Here's my prediction. I think For the short term, that
could be obviously your conclusion. I see a new world
in 2031, 2032, maybe even having to wait until 2036
when the ACC television deal is up, where we reshuffle
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the deck, and Washington and Washington State will be back
as partners again in whatever the new look of college
football is.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Well, it'll be sad, but it wouldn't be the first
great rivalry that got crushed by the modern times. But
hopefully we do get to see the game played annually
going forward. We shall see how it unfolds. All right.
I'm not going to go through. I mean, I normally
weekly go through the big games this weekend, but. You
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haven't even had a chance to watch most of these
teams play, any of these teams play this weekend. So
it almost seems unfair to have you analyze them without
any information having watched them play. So I'll just ask this.
What's the game you're most looking forward to this weekend
that's not the Apple Cup?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
The Tiger versus Tiger thing in Baton Rouge. So much
conversation about Lane and what's going on there and you know,
our pros play in and here comes Dabo Sweeney, who's
as old school as they come, you know, baseball, hot dogs,
apple pie and Dabo Sweeney. Right. And, and I'm, I'm,
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I'm just curious to see if his Clemson team can
give those, the, the new fangled tigers a run. And, uh,
I'm hoping it's a really competitive game.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
All right. Uh, do you have your same crew back
this year?
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Same crew. On Tuesdays, though, we add a face. Brian
Kelly joins our squad today, which I leave our phone
call now to go to the studio and do some
TV with BK, which.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Will be fun. He came out firing this past weekend
as a media member, from what I understand. So get ready.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
I don't think there'll be any shyness from Brian Kelly.
I don't worry about his ability to be gregarious.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Well, have fun. Thanks again for joining us. We're excited
to have you back for another year and looking forward
to another thrilling college football season with you.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
We're going to have a blast. Go Dawgs. Enjoy the weekend,
my friend.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
All right.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Rick Neuheisel joining us right here on the radio show.
Coming up next, ABCs of the M, Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM.
Losing somehow to the Boston Red Sox last night, inventing
another way to blow a baseball game 9-8 in 10 innings.
And so we've had numerous conversations about it here this morning.
I'm not going to recap all of them. I'm just
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going to use the ABCs of the M's as they
were designed to be used You never know where the
alphabet's going to take us through our Daily Mariner segment.
And we begin with the letter M today, and M
is for Montez. So, not trying to pull it a
silver lining, but certainly for Mariner fans that follow prospects,
this is an exciting night to see Laz Montez make
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his Major League debut. We still don't know who's pitching
for the rest in Red Sox, or at least I
didn't at 6 o'clock this morning. Maybe they've updated that since.
I can check. But if it's a left-hander, I would
imagine that Montez is going to play anyway. That would
be my guess. Looks like Jettison Pius. Never even heard
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of him. Bet you he's left-handed. No, he's right-handed. 22
years old.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Oh, and he's wearing a white socks uniform in the picture,
so he must have just.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Jadickson Pius. Never even heard of him. 22 years old, 6'1, 175,
70 pounds. So Laz Montes is going to be in
the lineup tonight. Who are you getting in Laz Montes?
For those of you that don't follow the prospects, the
best power hitter in our organization, at least power hitting
prospect in our organization. A big dude. So gregarious. Such
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a great personality. And then also moves pretty well for
his size. Has a really big arm from right field.
I watched him play a few Tacoma games and sometimes defensively, yeah,
he doesn't always take the best route. But I watched
him play the last couple of games and he was
fantastic in the outfield. So I'm excited about this tonight
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if for no other reason than to watch Laz Montes
make his debut in the major leagues. And maybe he
will give them a boost because this dude does damage
to the baseball when he makes contact with it. But
he does strike out a lot. And he hits from
the left side of the plate. So, again, we already
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have a pretty lefty-dominated lineup. Well, we're adding another left-handed
hitter to that mix here this evening. So, excited about it. Now,
there is another wrinkle to this. There's another power-hitting prospect
placed for the Cleveland Guardians organization by the name of
Ralphie Velasquez. And Ralphie Velasquez is the hottest hitter in
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the minor leagues. And the Guardians right now are a
wild card team. They actually had the last spot in
the wild card, or at least last I checked. And so,
Ralphie Velasquez could help a team that, despite their status
as a playoff team, has been terrible offensively all season long.
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And so, they've been asking, just like they did a
year ago with Chase DeLauder, when are we going to
bring up Ralphie? Ralphie, Ralphie, wreck it, Ralphie. Let's bring
up Ralphie.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Ralphie, Ralphie, Ralphie.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
That's all they've been talking about in Cleveland, and they've
refused to do it to this point. And they still
haven't announced, even though today's September 1st, i.e. September call-up time,
they still haven't announced that he's being called up. And
believe me, he's crushing it. And one of the reasons
they aren't is because they are thinking about there possibly
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being a strike next year. A little interesting fact about that.
Major League Baseball can strike minor league baseball can continue playing.
So their theory is apparently in Cleveland, do we really
want to start his clock, have to create a 40-man
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roster spot for him, and then if we don't have
major league baseball, Ralphie doesn't have a place to play.
Where if we don't activate him this year to try
to help us win and secure a playoff spot, then
he can keep his development going at the minor league level. Well,
we've clearly decided we don't care about that with Laz
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Montes here in Seattle. And so interesting kind of approach
to all of this shows you how desperate the Mariners
are to still try to pull this thing off. Meanwhile,
the Cleveland Guardians are far more worried about Ralphie Velasquez's
longevity than they are about whether or not they make
a wild card spot this year.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
Yeah, sure seems that way.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Also, I will say, I would love to see Montez
hit his 39th and 40th home runs against Jeddix and
Paez today with his 18 ERA.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Yeah, let's do that.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
He's played in three games. The last one was March 31st.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Yeah. I think he's being called up just because of
an emergency.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Situation here. So, yeah, I'm sure we'll invent a way
to get no hit by him.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
Oh, God.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
All right. N is for nincompoop. Okay. Yeah, I'm going
to talk about Dan. I'm shocked. I mean, I mentioned
this at 6 o'clock. I did not mention it when
we talked about him at 7.30 or at 8 o'clock
when we talked about the season at large. I don't
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mean to keep piling on, but, man, you should have, like,
one managerial decision that you're, like, outraged by.
Speaker 6 (25:16):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
I mean, if you're being reasonable... At most, once a
week maybe, where you're like standing on the table like, no, no, no.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
Or why?
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Yeah. And maybe I'm wrong. Maybe you are wrong, the
Mariner fan. And maybe the manager is right most of
the time and we're wrong. Maybe that's the case. I mean,
he does have a lot more information than we do, right?
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
He has played a lot more baseball than what we have, right?
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
But I'm telling you, Ashley, it is four times a game.
It's four times a game with this guy. And last
night was, why have they not figured out that when
George gives up a cheap hit that he loses focus?
Speaker 5 (26:01):
He needs a little talking to.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
I mean, since I started bringing this up, does it
not happen every single time? If he gives up a
cheap hit, he gets angry. And then the next thing
you know, he's giving up a walk, which he did
last night. And then it was a 2-0 count on
the next batter before Cal went out to talk to him.
I'm not saying Pete goes out there or Dan goes
out there. Cal's perfectly good with that, but Cal either
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needs to take it upon himself or Dan needs to say, Cal,
get out there. He just gave up a blue pit.
You know what happens, Dan, when he gives up a
blue hit. Talk him off the blue pit. Talk him
off the ledge. You don't say it out loud on
the field, but there's got to be some sort of
code like.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
Ha, ha.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Ka-ka!
Speaker 6 (26:45):
Ka-ka!
Speaker 5 (26:46):
Whip-a-wow! Whip-a-wow!
Speaker 2 (26:48):
You know, some sort of call that George isn't even
aware of that means, oh yeah, I gotta go out
and talk to George. How are they keep letting this happen?
And he gave up two more runs last night after
the cheap infield single that he knew he made his pitch,
and that guy should have never been on first, and
I'm pissed about it, and I can't even focus on
the next hitter, and I'm gonna walk him, and I'm
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gonna 2-0 on the next guy because I can't get
over the fact that that... Jerk got an infield single
against me when I made my pitch. That's how it operates,
and the Mariners do not figure it out. This has
been five years with this guy, and they still don't
figure it out.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
Yeah, there's no excuse for it, honestly. There's no excuse.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Oh, that's just one example. Bizzardo shouldn't have been in.
We shouldn't have bunted with Robles in the 10th. That's
not what you do in the top of the 10th inning,
and shouldn't have put Criswell in in the bottom of
the 10th. his first appearance in two months, you're going
to throw him into the fire and say, save our season, buddy.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
And then load the bases and give him no margin
for error. That's where it bothered me.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
I was sitting there watching it with my friend Ashley
because it's easy to have friends with the same name.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
You never forget them.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
And I said, what are we doing? Now he can't
screw up at all because we'll just walk in the
winning run. And that's the worst thing.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
And what did he do?
Speaker 1 (28:03):
3-0.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
And then he had to throw right over.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
The middle, and Story ends up knocking in the game-winning hit.
It's not bad strategy to load the bases in that situation.
Not with him. Yeah, exactly. Because you do want to
get the force at home. Chad Durbin is a dirtbag.
I mean, he's going to get the job done if
you pitch to Durbin in that situation. But I'm throwing
Ferrer against the lefty Duran. Maybe I don't have the
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force at home. But maybe I can get the strikeout,
and that's my best way to get out of this,
not getting the force at home. So it was just
a terrible decision to go to Criswell. Yeah. You haven't
pitched in two months. You're coming back to Boston where
you used to pitch. Your motor's going to be running
hotter than anyone here. I'm going to load the bases
for you. Get out of it.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
Yeah, please don't screw this up.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Unreal. O is for oblique. I think we're going to
find out this offseason that Cal Raleigh played with a
Bad oblique this entire year. And I think that we're
going to have a different perspective on it once we
get to the offseason when he's honest about it. And
here's why I mean this. Anybody else notice that he
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can't throw out runners anymore? And I know he got
one last night. I don't even remember the last time
he threw out a base runner prior to last night.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
We actually had someone text in and ask about that yesterday.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Do you know what it is? Here are his percentages
since he came into the league. 26%, 29%, 28%, 29%.
That was his platinum glove year. year.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
26%.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Those were the first five years. That's a really good
ratio in Major League Baseball. This season, 13%. Oh, wow.
He's throwing out 13. Nine out of 10 runners are
stealing base. Alejandro Kirk. Stole a base against him over
the weekend.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
Yeah, and he's short and chubby.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Now, does anybody think that Cal Raleigh's arm would have
just gone to trash in the offseason? Or do you
think maybe he can't let it rip because he's dealing
with a side injury? Maybe?
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Maybe?
Speaker 6 (30:17):
Maybe.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
I wouldn't rule it out.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
I mean, he's never dealt with an injury before this year,
and I don't know that he handles it well.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
His arm strength is 45th. This guy won a Platinum
Glove Award two years ago. Arm strength of all catchers
in Major League Baseball, 45th out of 70. When Cal Raleigh's, oh, fine.
We're talking top 10.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
Yeah, he's incredible.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
13% of base runners.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
I hadn't thought about the possibility that he was still
playing with it. I think he's still playing with it.
I think that's a good observation.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
He's either still playing with pain or he got so
used to throwing that way to protect himself that now
his entire motion is off.
Speaker 6 (30:58):
Oof.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
Well, I hope, I'm going to hope that it's some
pain that he can get over and not that he
has to relearn how to throw.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Finally, and I do have to mention this just quickly.
P is for Peyton. Did you like the hug last night?
Speaker 5 (31:10):
Oh, between him and.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Dom? Yeah, and Dom.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
Yeah, actually, I thought it was funny.
Speaker 6 (31:15):
I laughed.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
As diehard as Red Sox fans are, you know how, oh,
take it seriously. That's a wicked pisser.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
They loved it. They love him.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
Yeah, because it was funny. It was like, Okay, Dom
was like, all right, you got me here. And I mean,
what are you going to do in that? Be mad
that Dom didn't reach first?
Speaker 3 (31:32):
No.
Speaker 5 (31:33):
And it wasn't that he wasn't taking it seriously. It
was just a moment.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
He's apparently like the most likable person in sports. Peyton Tolley,
the pitcher for the Red Sox. Big bear of a
man with big giant Tom Selleck mustache. Really good at
what he does. But he plays with that sort of
charm all the time. And it might rub old school
people the wrong way that he's going to hug an opponent.
But it got... greeted with so much aplomb last night,
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and when Red Sox fans are like, I love this guy,
after something like that, I mean, he's a pretty special dude,
that Peyton Tully. I liked it.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
It's not like Dom hit a home run and then...
totally walked up to him at home plate and was like, hey, man,
that was a great hit.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5 (32:15):
This was in the competitive spirit.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
It was funny. A big giant bear standing between you
and first base. You can run over me or you
can hug me.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
Yeah, Dom's just like, all right.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Let me rephrase that. You can try to run over
me or you can just hug me and accept your fate.
Speaker 6 (32:32):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
And they just did the hug it out. I actually
really liked that. Me too. All right, one last thing
next on KJR. Oh, that Ashley Ryan's going to entertain
you next Wednesday if you want to be around 12s,
but you're not heading to the game. I mean, we
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are starting defense of a world championship after all.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
Oh, are we the returning Super Bowl champions?
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Everybody shares in that.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Then you get your big giant ring.
Speaker 5 (33:08):
I will check the mail when I get home.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
It probably is in the mail. But yeah, if you
want to be a part of an opening day watch party,
Tulalip Resort and Casino is hosting one at their Tulalip Amphitheater.
So 3,000 seating capacity outdoors, the way God intended it.
And then out there with the big screen television and
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the amphitheater quality sound. You can be around fellow 12s.
You can win some prizes. You can eat. You can drink.
You can be right next door to a casino. For
goodness sake, if you want to make a few bets
on the game. And you get to hang out with
Ashley Ryan.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
Yeah, you do.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
So that's next Wednesday. 4.30 doors open. Game time at 5.20.
Tulalip Resort Casino. And all you want is everything. Everythingtulalip.com.
Speaker 6 (33:56):
All right.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
What's your one last thing today?
Speaker 5 (33:57):
Oh, I'm having a hard time, Chuck. Having a real
hard time.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
With?
Speaker 5 (34:02):
Palmer starts middle school tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (34:04):
Oh, wow.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
Palmer the Great is going to be a middle schooler
tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Is that a tough one?
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
As a parent, middle school, from grade school to middle school?
Speaker 4 (34:15):
Yeah, because once they start middle school, they start changing
real fast. And, you know, elementary school, they're just still
little kids.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Right.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
They have a playground.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Right.
Speaker 5 (34:25):
And now it's hard. Okay.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
It's hard.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
What's been the toughest one before now? Is that kindergarten?
And then this one, it won't be as hard as kindergarten,
will it?
Speaker 1 (34:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (34:41):
We'll see how I feel tomorrow. I don't get to
take her to school.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
When I took her to kindergarten, although on the last
day of elementary school, you should have seen all the
moms outside school.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
We all had tears in our eyes. So did the kids.
It's a big transition to go from elementary school to
middle school.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Is this the last big one?
Speaker 5 (34:56):
No, then it'll go to high school.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
High school will be even bigger or just as difficult?
Speaker 4 (35:00):
I don't know. It's a great question because I feel
like they go through such a change in middle school
that I don't know that transition into high school is
as emotional versus this feels like she's going from being
a little kid to almost a teenager, and that's hard.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
I don't want to put any pressure on you, but...
For a little while, when I was in middle school,
I was dating a senior in high school.
Speaker 5 (35:23):
Okay, well, that's different.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
I don't want to put any pressure on you.
Speaker 5 (35:29):
Yeah. Well, it just got harder.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Yeah, small school.
Speaker 5 (35:37):
Yeah, small school.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (35:39):
Oh, that just made my heart hurt.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
I was mature. She was immature.
Speaker 5 (35:44):
I actually made.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
A pretty cute couple until my mom found out.
Speaker 5 (35:47):
Well, okay, good. Did your parents support this?
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Yeah, that's a tough thing to do. It doesn't matter
what age you are is when you have to tell
a girl, my mom won't let me date you. I
don't care how old you are. That's not an easy conversation.
Speaker 5 (35:59):
That's not an easy one.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
No.
Speaker 5 (36:04):
Nope, nope, nope.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Yeah, so anyway.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
No, that's hard.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
If you want me to.
Speaker 5 (36:08):
Don't want you to give her any advice.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
You want me to have a talk with her, I'm
happy to... Nah, we're good. Come on.
Speaker 5 (36:13):
We're good.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
Let me have a conversation.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
Yeah, we're good.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Don't let their mom ruin that for you. That could
have been the love of my life, Palmer the Great. Yeah.
Stacey Frederick could have been mine forever.
Speaker 5 (36:29):
She could have been.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
She could have been. My last one. My one last
thing is we finally have a college football playoff, but
because of NIL.
Are we going to get a college football playoff where
we really don't need college football playoff games? And what
I mean by that is the discrepancy between the haves
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and have-nots is going to get so pronounced that we're
not going to be able to find 12 teams on
the same level to compete with one another. Let me
give you an example. Somebody did a simulation of the
entire season. Computer simulation. Did it a million times.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
And Here are the results that they came up with,
and I'm going to skip ahead to the quarterfinals. Miami, Alabama,
Ohio State versus North Dakota State, pulling off an upset.
Texas Tech versus Oregon, and Notre Dame versus Florida. So
that's the quarterfinals of the college football playoff. That's the
final eight teams in the college football season. Theoretically, the
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best eight teams in the college football season, right? Here
are the final scores, the point differential in those four games,
according to the computer. 20 points, 28 points, 20 points,
and 38 points. Oh, yikes.
Speaker 5 (37:48):
Well, that sounds great.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Are we going to get to the four biggest games
of the year on one day or one weekend, and
the average point differential is going to be 28 points?
Speaker 5 (38:01):
Oh, that's a bummer. We had some good ones last year, too.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
Suddenly I'm a little worried about having a college football
playoff right now.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
Which is what I fought for my entire life. But
I don't want to get a bunch of blowouts because
there are only eight good teams in college football at
any given season.
Speaker 5 (38:16):
That would suck.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
That would be horrible.
Speaker 5 (38:19):
Well, let's just hope the computer doesn't know what the
hell it's talking about.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
What do computers know?
Speaker 3 (38:23):
Right?
Speaker 2 (38:24):
They're dumb. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (38:26):
All right.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
We'll talk to you tomorrow. Computer probably dated a junior
when they were in the eighth grade.
Speaker 5 (38:30):
Hunk's a junk.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
Yeah. We'll talk to you at 6 a.m. Coming up next,
it's Greg and Jess, Sports Radio. Captain Greg and Jess
on KJR.
Speaker 6 (38:39):
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Speaker 5 (38:59):
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Speaker 4 (39:02):
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Speaker 5 (39:06):
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All right nine o'clock hour here on this tuesday but
not just any tuesday it is a special tuesday the
college football season is underway and so.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Too we renew our friendship uh with college football insider,
former UW head coach, former quarterback of the San Antonio Gunslingers,
and the best damn analyst in the business. He is
back for another season with us here on KJR. Rick
Neuheisel joins us. Hello, coach.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Chuck, how the heck are you, buddy? You ready for 2026?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I think so. I think I am. Are you? That's
the bigger question.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Oh, I'm ready. Storylines abound, as is normally the case.
But many of them away from the fields of play.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Many of them in the courtrooms. And that has been
the story all summer long.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Well, let's go ahead and start there since you brought
it up. What the hell is wrong with Lane Kiffin?
I mean, at his core as a human being, what
is the issue with this person?
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Always looking for an edge. And listen, I've been in
the business a long time. I understand that. I was
always looking for an edge in recruiting, always trying to
figure out how, because that's your lifeblood, getting good players.
But this has gone to a place where I think
everybody is just scratching their heads. And in this case,
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I actually can't fault him. Because the class of 2022,
the class of 2022 got a raw deal by the NCAA.
They were told that there was going to be no
extra year. And so those who decided to go off
to the NFL, even though they weren't drafted, decided, OK,
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I'll go off and try to get into camp and
make a team. And then they find out in June
after they've already signed that, oh, we're going to go
five for five. But in the five for five edict,
the NCAA still says to everybody that's part of that
class of 2022, the high school class of 2022, that
you don't get to play the fifth year. You played
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against people that all got a fifth year because of COVID.
You are anybody that's not a senior that didn't just graduate.
They get their fifth year. But you are going to
be the one class in this kind of last decade
that doesn't get your fifth year. And then when the
kids took that to court, judges looked around and said, why?
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Why are you the only ones that don't get the
fifth year? And so they said, the merits of your opportunity,
the chances of you winning in court are such that
I'm going to provide you an injunction. And that's why
they're eligible to play. And we're going to see a
bunch of those kids play this weekend. So Lane just said, well,
what about the guys that because they were told they
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couldn't play, went and tried to make an NFL team?
and now aren't on an NFL team, why can't they
come back? And the judge in Louisiana has said, I
agree with you. They shouldn't be able to come back.
They were given bad information by the very entity that
created the new rule. And because of that, Lane's trying
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to get a few of his former players back to
come and play for him at LSU. A Louisiana judge
has said yes, and the SEC is up in arms,
threatening him. All sorts of penalties, all sorts of fines,
all sorts of even kicking LSU out of the league
is being talked about. I mean, it is craziness what's
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going on in the southeastern portion of our country.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
So what is he going to do? Is he just
going to play them and then see where the chips fall?
Speaker 4 (04:02):
No.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
So tomorrow or excuse me, Thursday, there's going to be
another court hearing. The SEC bringing this this to a
magistrate and they're going to plead their case. And that
judge is going to give a ruling. And Lane Kiffin
has said he'll comply with whatever that whatever that judge says.
The SEC has said we got to think about all
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of our options because they're banding against LSU, thinking that
they're a rogue state, if you will. And it's wild.
It really is wild.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Is this going to be the craziest thing that happens?
I mean, do you get the impression that we're starting
to get our arms around every potential weird situation? Or
are we just a long way away from the Wild
West having laws in town?
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Well, the five for five rule is a common sense rule.
that the idea that you get five years to play,
which then that people can't play games with the red
shirt rule, right? The red shirt rule was great while
it was around. But now that people get paid, if
I can stop playing and save my year because I've
proven I'm a really good player and get more money
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the next place, you stop playing. And no one wants that.
So we've just gone to five for five, which makes sense.
It starts now. when you turn 19 or when you, uh,
graduate high school, whichever comes first and has a few
exceptions like a Mormon mission or something like that. But,
but that's it. Five for five, no waivers. That makes
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a lot of sense. What didn't make sense is that
the guys who wrote that bill and wrote that law
into the NCA, uh, uh, legislation just said to the
class of 22, except you not realizing what judges were
going to say, because it's, It's easy for a judge
to say, well, you're getting the wrong side of this
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and finding for him. And all you have to do
is give an injunction. You don't have to have it
go to court because court won't happen until after the
year is over and the guys will get to play.
We've seen countless people play in the last two or
three years of college football that never actually went to court,
even though they got an injunction to do just that.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
You know what's funny is the other night I couldn't sleep,
so I just turned on one of those 30 for 30s,
and it was the SMU story. It was the death
penalty to SMU. And I'm sitting there watching. I'm like,
this is tame compared to what's happening now in every program.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
I was at UCLA. We got a couple of those kids.
The guys who went to Dallas on that story to
recruit said it was the wildest scene. Every hotel in
Dallas was filled with college recruiters all trying to find
and hide these kids at different restaurants so they could
talk to them about coming to their school.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
That reminds me of that. There's a Major League Baseball story.
When Major League Baseball started the American League against the
National League, and they were doing the same thing 100
years ago. I mean, we're supposed to like... It's.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
The old NBA versus ABA, the NFL versus the AFL.
It's all the same. The competition creates the competitor.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Well, I know that we've had controversial topics that have
been juicy to discuss, and at times... irritating, frustrating, and
have sent some people over the edge. But another thing
that has happened during this last three years is, man,
we've had some great football. We have had some great
football seasons the last two or three years, and I
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doubt that's going to be different for this upcoming year.
So let's talk about the landscape for the college football
season upcoming. Who is your first team that comes to
mind when I say, who's the team to beat in
college football this year?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
I think it's Notre Dame. Notre Dame has an excellent
quarterback in C.J. Carr. I had a lot of friends
who were down at the Manning Passing Academy, which happens
every year in Thibodeau, Louisiana. And they recruit all kinds
of college quarterbacks to come there and kind of put
on displays. They coach the young kids, but they also
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kind of have a showcase, if you will. And C.J.
Carr was incredibly impressive. he's the grandson of Lloyd Carr,
who was the coach at Michigan. So you know he's
got a background in football. He's going to be well-versed
in terms of the X's and O's. But he's also very,
very good. So you start with him. You've got a
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couple of Ohio State receivers that just transferred in. You
know what Ohio State gets in the wide receiver department.
You've got the best offensive line coming back. You've got
a great linebacker and secondary core, a top five defensive line,
and you don't play a team that can come close
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to beating you without helping them by beating yourself until
November 7th, which is Miami. So they've got a schedule.
They've got everything you need. Notre Dame's the team to pick.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Notre Dame. Look at that.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Yuck.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Says the USC fan chiming in. Or USC grad, I
should say.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Yeah, but they don't play it anymore, so she can't
be bitter.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Well, that whole thing makes me bitter, too. But at USC,
not at Notre Dame.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Yeah, she even celebrated, I think, UCLA firing their AD today,
which I thought was over the top. I'm like, well, man,
that's rough. Rick Neuheisel with us here on Chugging Back
in the Morning, his first official visit with us of
the college football season. Excited to have him back for
another full year, thanks to Taco Time. All right, let's
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talk about the players that will be involved this year.
this time last year was all arch madness and then
obviously he didn't exactly have the road paved for him
to a Heisman trophy a year ago but he's back
again and my guess is he's going to have a
pretty good season but is he going to have the
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best season out there who's the player you got your
eye on this season.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Well, I just mentioned CJ Carr. Obviously, Dante Moore at
Oregon is a tremendous player, as is DeMond Williams, the
quarterback right there in Seattle for the Dogs. I think
those guys are fabulous players. Jaden Maiava just got out
of the blocks as SC beat San Jose State. I
know it's just San Jose State, but he was 25
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of 29 in his first go-round. You've got.
Josh Hoover is now the quarterback at Indiana. He'd been
at TCU. If he eliminates interceptions, which kind of plagued
him a little bit, playing for the Frogs, and under Signetti,
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I expect him to do that. He's got a chance
to be terrific. Darian Menza was an unbelievable player for
Duke and Tulane. Now he's at Miami, and you can
imagine what's along with him, namely Malachi Toney. Uh, the receiver,
the freshman that was a phenom, you saw him showcase.
I think he had 10 catches or something close to
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it in the national championship game. So there's in Trinidad,
Chambliss at Ole miss, uh, Marcel Reed at Texas A & M.
I mean, there's, there's really good players. This is going
to be a fun, fun season. Um, and, and just,
I know it's sounds Homer ish, given that you're in Seattle,
but I liked the Husky schedule. I really do. And
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I long for them to be in the hunt when
Indiana comes to town in November. Indiana is not going
to be intimidated because of the weather, but they will
be intimidated because of that Husky crowd that I know
is one of the best in football when they're motivated.
So I'm kind of pinpointing that game as a CFP
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highlighted type of occasion.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Yeah, I went out to camp a couple of weeks
ago and I've kind of gotten the buzz around this team.
And they believe three years into the Jed Fish era
that when he took over, I mean, he had to
rebuild the lines from scratch. And they believe that's the
strength of this team, the offensive line and the defensive line.
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So what do you think that means for a team
that has DeMond Williams at quarterback for their chances of
making the playoffs this year?
Speaker 3 (12:44):
I think a 10-2 team from the Big Ten is in, okay?
And as you look at their schedule, they should be
3-0 when Minnesota comes to town. And I'm going to
say the Husky home crowd will carry them through against P.J.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
's crew.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
The game at USC in early October is a big one.
If they can find a way to win on the road,
which will be their first road test, that to me
will signal that this is a team that has arrived.
They get Iowa at home, another Husky crowd requirement. You've
got to be there for that. On the road at Purdue,
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they should handle business. And you can't take anything lightly.
We all remember what happened at Wisconsin, right? And then
at Nebraska, those are winnable games. I'm anxious to see
what Calandria looks like at Nebraska. But until I'm proven otherwise,
Nebraska is a 500 team. Then you get Penn State
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at home. At Michigan State, a team kind of been
rebuilding with Pat Fitzgerald as their coach. Indiana at home.
I'm just saying, even with two blemishes and then you
finish at Oregon, you can go to Eugene holding a
Pat hand. I see them having a real chance to
be 10-1 or 9-2 going to Oregon to play for
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a CFP spot.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
You know, that lake jump you did would have been
a lot easier to do this time of year, a
lot warmer. Oh, my goodness.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Can you imagine the apple cup plunge? I mean, that
would have been simple Simon. Yeah, easy. I'm telling you,
in November, it's a commitment.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
You can tell her firsthand. That's a commitment. What do
you think of?
Speaker 3 (14:29):
I told you that story about Barbara Hedges. I told
you that story about Barbara, right? Uh-huh.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Yeah, I know the plunge. That's why I'm bringing it up.
It would just be so easy to do when the
Apple Cups played in early September, for goodness sake.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Yeah, that's a no-brainer.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
What do you think, as somebody that's coached in this
game and still feels part of this rivalry? I remember
you bringing the apples for the guys on the set
last year for the Apple Cup. What do you think
of it being the opening game of the year and
on a Sunday?
Speaker 3 (15:04):
I'll take it whenever I can get it. College football
has morphed and changed and been put through some meat
grinders and blenders and what have you. And we got
a we got a smoothie now.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Right.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
But but the bottom line is if we can get
it on the schedule where Washington and Washington State play,
we should get it on the schedule. The problem is
for the poor Cougars is they've been beat up in
terms of what they can afford to spend on their
roster because they're not getting the same kind of television
revenue and for no wrongdoing on their own. It's just unfortunate.
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So the chances for the game to be really competitive
have diminished. But don't tell that to that team that's
going to take the field wearing crimson and gray.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
You might as well tell your Barbara Hedges story for
those that didn't hear it.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Barbara Hedges was in my kitchen getting ready as we
were all preparing for the Apple Cup plunge. And Neil Dempsey,
whose name is on the indoor facility, an incredibly benevolent booster.
sat and looked at me like, are you crazy? You're
jumping in the lake right now. It's that cold. And
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I said, we're going, Neil, you want to go? And
he goes, I won't, but I will write a check
for $ 2 million to the athletic department. And he pointed
at Barbara. If she goes, if she goes 2 million
right now. And I looked at Barbara and I said,
come on, let's go. And she said, Rick, I can't
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my hair.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Two million dollars.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Two million. I said we can buy new hair. She
didn't think that was funny.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Do you think the game will last many more years?
Do you think that the sands and the hourglass are
running out on it?
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Here's my prediction. I think For the short term, that
could be obviously your conclusion. I see a new world
in 2031, 2032, maybe even having to wait until 2036
when the ACC television deal is up, where we reshuffle
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the deck, and Washington and Washington State will be back
as partners again in whatever the new look of college
football is.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Well, it'll be sad, but it wouldn't be the first
great rivalry that got crushed by the modern times. But
hopefully we do get to see the game played annually
going forward. We shall see how it unfolds. All right.
I'm not going to go through. I mean, I normally
weekly go through the big games this weekend, but. You
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haven't even had a chance to watch most of these
teams play, any of these teams play this weekend. So
it almost seems unfair to have you analyze them without
any information having watched them play. So I'll just ask this.
What's the game you're most looking forward to this weekend
that's not the Apple Cup?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
The Tiger versus Tiger thing in Baton Rouge. So much
conversation about Lane and what's going on there and you know,
our pros play in and here comes Dabo Sweeney, who's
as old school as they come, you know, baseball, hot dogs,
apple pie and Dabo Sweeney. Right. And, and I'm, I'm,
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I'm just curious to see if his Clemson team can
give those, the, the new fangled tigers a run. And, uh,
I'm hoping it's a really competitive game.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
All right. Uh, do you have your same crew back
this year?
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Same crew. On Tuesdays, though, we add a face. Brian
Kelly joins our squad today, which I leave our phone
call now to go to the studio and do some
TV with BK, which.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Will be fun. He came out firing this past weekend
as a media member, from what I understand. So get ready.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
I don't think there'll be any shyness from Brian Kelly.
I don't worry about his ability to be gregarious.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Well, have fun. Thanks again for joining us. We're excited
to have you back for another year and looking forward
to another thrilling college football season with you.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
We're going to have a blast. Go Dawgs. Enjoy the weekend,
my friend.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
All right.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Rick Neuheisel joining us right here on the radio show.
Coming up next, ABCs of the M, Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM.
Losing somehow to the Boston Red Sox last night, inventing
another way to blow a baseball game 9-8 in 10 innings.
And so we've had numerous conversations about it here this morning.
I'm not going to recap all of them. I'm just
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going to use the ABCs of the M's as they
were designed to be used You never know where the
alphabet's going to take us through our Daily Mariner segment.
And we begin with the letter M today, and M
is for Montez. So, not trying to pull it a
silver lining, but certainly for Mariner fans that follow prospects,
this is an exciting night to see Laz Montez make
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his Major League debut. We still don't know who's pitching
for the rest in Red Sox, or at least I
didn't at 6 o'clock this morning. Maybe they've updated that since.
I can check. But if it's a left-hander, I would
imagine that Montez is going to play anyway. That would
be my guess. Looks like Jettison Pius. Never even heard
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of him. Bet you he's left-handed. No, he's right-handed. 22
years old.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Oh, and he's wearing a white socks uniform in the picture,
so he must have just.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Jadickson Pius. Never even heard of him. 22 years old, 6'1, 175,
70 pounds. So Laz Montes is going to be in
the lineup tonight. Who are you getting in Laz Montes?
For those of you that don't follow the prospects, the
best power hitter in our organization, at least power hitting
prospect in our organization. A big dude. So gregarious. Such
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a great personality. And then also moves pretty well for
his size. Has a really big arm from right field.
I watched him play a few Tacoma games and sometimes defensively, yeah,
he doesn't always take the best route. But I watched
him play the last couple of games and he was
fantastic in the outfield. So I'm excited about this tonight
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if for no other reason than to watch Laz Montes
make his debut in the major leagues. And maybe he
will give them a boost because this dude does damage
to the baseball when he makes contact with it. But
he does strike out a lot. And he hits from
the left side of the plate. So, again, we already
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have a pretty lefty-dominated lineup. Well, we're adding another left-handed
hitter to that mix here this evening. So, excited about it. Now,
there is another wrinkle to this. There's another power-hitting prospect
placed for the Cleveland Guardians organization by the name of
Ralphie Velasquez. And Ralphie Velasquez is the hottest hitter in
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the minor leagues. And the Guardians right now are a
wild card team. They actually had the last spot in
the wild card, or at least last I checked. And so,
Ralphie Velasquez could help a team that, despite their status
as a playoff team, has been terrible offensively all season long.
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And so, they've been asking, just like they did a
year ago with Chase DeLauder, when are we going to
bring up Ralphie? Ralphie, Ralphie, wreck it, Ralphie. Let's bring
up Ralphie.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Ralphie, Ralphie, Ralphie.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
That's all they've been talking about in Cleveland, and they've
refused to do it to this point. And they still
haven't announced, even though today's September 1st, i.e. September call-up time,
they still haven't announced that he's being called up. And
believe me, he's crushing it. And one of the reasons
they aren't is because they are thinking about there possibly
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being a strike next year. A little interesting fact about that.
Major League Baseball can strike minor league baseball can continue playing.
So their theory is apparently in Cleveland, do we really
want to start his clock, have to create a 40-man
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roster spot for him, and then if we don't have
major league baseball, Ralphie doesn't have a place to play.
Where if we don't activate him this year to try
to help us win and secure a playoff spot, then
he can keep his development going at the minor league level. Well,
we've clearly decided we don't care about that with Laz
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Montes here in Seattle. And so interesting kind of approach
to all of this shows you how desperate the Mariners
are to still try to pull this thing off. Meanwhile,
the Cleveland Guardians are far more worried about Ralphie Velasquez's
longevity than they are about whether or not they make
a wild card spot this year.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
Yeah, sure seems that way.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Also, I will say, I would love to see Montez
hit his 39th and 40th home runs against Jeddix and
Paez today with his 18 ERA.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Yeah, let's do that.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
He's played in three games. The last one was March 31st.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Yeah. I think he's being called up just because of
an emergency.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Situation here. So, yeah, I'm sure we'll invent a way
to get no hit by him.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
Oh, God.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
All right. N is for nincompoop. Okay. Yeah, I'm going
to talk about Dan. I'm shocked. I mean, I mentioned
this at 6 o'clock. I did not mention it when
we talked about him at 7.30 or at 8 o'clock
when we talked about the season at large. I don't
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mean to keep piling on, but, man, you should have, like,
one managerial decision that you're, like, outraged by.
Speaker 6 (25:16):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
I mean, if you're being reasonable... At most, once a
week maybe, where you're like standing on the table like, no, no, no.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
Or why?
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Yeah. And maybe I'm wrong. Maybe you are wrong, the
Mariner fan. And maybe the manager is right most of
the time and we're wrong. Maybe that's the case. I mean,
he does have a lot more information than we do, right?
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
He has played a lot more baseball than what we have, right?
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
But I'm telling you, Ashley, it is four times a game.
It's four times a game with this guy. And last
night was, why have they not figured out that when
George gives up a cheap hit that he loses focus?
Speaker 5 (26:01):
He needs a little talking to.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
I mean, since I started bringing this up, does it
not happen every single time? If he gives up a
cheap hit, he gets angry. And then the next thing
you know, he's giving up a walk, which he did
last night. And then it was a 2-0 count on
the next batter before Cal went out to talk to him.
I'm not saying Pete goes out there or Dan goes
out there. Cal's perfectly good with that, but Cal either
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needs to take it upon himself or Dan needs to say, Cal,
get out there. He just gave up a blue pit.
You know what happens, Dan, when he gives up a
blue hit. Talk him off the blue pit. Talk him
off the ledge. You don't say it out loud on
the field, but there's got to be some sort of
code like.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
Ha, ha.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Ka-ka!
Speaker 6 (26:45):
Ka-ka!
Speaker 5 (26:46):
Whip-a-wow! Whip-a-wow!
Speaker 2 (26:48):
You know, some sort of call that George isn't even
aware of that means, oh yeah, I gotta go out
and talk to George. How are they keep letting this happen?
And he gave up two more runs last night after
the cheap infield single that he knew he made his pitch,
and that guy should have never been on first, and
I'm pissed about it, and I can't even focus on
the next hitter, and I'm gonna walk him, and I'm
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gonna 2-0 on the next guy because I can't get
over the fact that that... Jerk got an infield single
against me when I made my pitch. That's how it operates,
and the Mariners do not figure it out. This has
been five years with this guy, and they still don't
figure it out.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
Yeah, there's no excuse for it, honestly. There's no excuse.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Oh, that's just one example. Bizzardo shouldn't have been in.
We shouldn't have bunted with Robles in the 10th. That's
not what you do in the top of the 10th inning,
and shouldn't have put Criswell in in the bottom of
the 10th. his first appearance in two months, you're going
to throw him into the fire and say, save our season, buddy.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
And then load the bases and give him no margin
for error. That's where it bothered me.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
I was sitting there watching it with my friend Ashley
because it's easy to have friends with the same name.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
You never forget them.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
And I said, what are we doing? Now he can't
screw up at all because we'll just walk in the
winning run. And that's the worst thing.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
And what did he do?
Speaker 1 (28:03):
3-0.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
And then he had to throw right over.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
The middle, and Story ends up knocking in the game-winning hit.
It's not bad strategy to load the bases in that situation.
Not with him. Yeah, exactly. Because you do want to
get the force at home. Chad Durbin is a dirtbag.
I mean, he's going to get the job done if
you pitch to Durbin in that situation. But I'm throwing
Ferrer against the lefty Duran. Maybe I don't have the
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force at home. But maybe I can get the strikeout,
and that's my best way to get out of this,
not getting the force at home. So it was just
a terrible decision to go to Criswell. Yeah. You haven't
pitched in two months. You're coming back to Boston where
you used to pitch. Your motor's going to be running
hotter than anyone here. I'm going to load the bases
for you. Get out of it.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
Yeah, please don't screw this up.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Unreal. O is for oblique. I think we're going to
find out this offseason that Cal Raleigh played with a
Bad oblique this entire year. And I think that we're
going to have a different perspective on it once we
get to the offseason when he's honest about it. And
here's why I mean this. Anybody else notice that he
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can't throw out runners anymore? And I know he got
one last night. I don't even remember the last time
he threw out a base runner prior to last night.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
We actually had someone text in and ask about that yesterday.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Do you know what it is? Here are his percentages
since he came into the league. 26%, 29%, 28%, 29%.
That was his platinum glove year. year.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
26%.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Those were the first five years. That's a really good
ratio in Major League Baseball. This season, 13%. Oh, wow.
He's throwing out 13. Nine out of 10 runners are
stealing base. Alejandro Kirk. Stole a base against him over
the weekend.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
Yeah, and he's short and chubby.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Now, does anybody think that Cal Raleigh's arm would have
just gone to trash in the offseason? Or do you
think maybe he can't let it rip because he's dealing
with a side injury? Maybe?
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Maybe?
Speaker 6 (30:17):
Maybe.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
I wouldn't rule it out.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
I mean, he's never dealt with an injury before this year,
and I don't know that he handles it well.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
His arm strength is 45th. This guy won a Platinum
Glove Award two years ago. Arm strength of all catchers
in Major League Baseball, 45th out of 70. When Cal Raleigh's, oh, fine.
We're talking top 10.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
Yeah, he's incredible.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
13% of base runners.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
I hadn't thought about the possibility that he was still
playing with it. I think he's still playing with it.
I think that's a good observation.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
He's either still playing with pain or he got so
used to throwing that way to protect himself that now
his entire motion is off.
Speaker 6 (30:58):
Oof.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
Well, I hope, I'm going to hope that it's some
pain that he can get over and not that he
has to relearn how to throw.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Finally, and I do have to mention this just quickly.
P is for Peyton. Did you like the hug last night?
Speaker 5 (31:10):
Oh, between him and.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Dom? Yeah, and Dom.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
Yeah, actually, I thought it was funny.
Speaker 6 (31:15):
I laughed.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
As diehard as Red Sox fans are, you know how, oh,
take it seriously. That's a wicked pisser.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
They loved it. They love him.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
Yeah, because it was funny. It was like, Okay, Dom
was like, all right, you got me here. And I mean,
what are you going to do in that? Be mad
that Dom didn't reach first?
Speaker 3 (31:32):
No.
Speaker 5 (31:33):
And it wasn't that he wasn't taking it seriously. It
was just a moment.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
He's apparently like the most likable person in sports. Peyton Tolley,
the pitcher for the Red Sox. Big bear of a
man with big giant Tom Selleck mustache. Really good at
what he does. But he plays with that sort of
charm all the time. And it might rub old school
people the wrong way that he's going to hug an opponent.
But it got... greeted with so much aplomb last night,
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and when Red Sox fans are like, I love this guy,
after something like that, I mean, he's a pretty special dude,
that Peyton Tully. I liked it.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
It's not like Dom hit a home run and then...
totally walked up to him at home plate and was like, hey, man,
that was a great hit.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5 (32:15):
This was in the competitive spirit.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
It was funny. A big giant bear standing between you
and first base. You can run over me or you
can hug me.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
Yeah, Dom's just like, all right.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Let me rephrase that. You can try to run over
me or you can just hug me and accept your fate.
Speaker 6 (32:32):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
And they just did the hug it out. I actually
really liked that. Me too. All right, one last thing
next on KJR. Oh, that Ashley Ryan's going to entertain
you next Wednesday if you want to be around 12s,
but you're not heading to the game. I mean, we
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are starting defense of a world championship after all.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
Oh, are we the returning Super Bowl champions?
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Everybody shares in that.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Then you get your big giant ring.
Speaker 5 (33:08):
I will check the mail when I get home.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
It probably is in the mail. But yeah, if you
want to be a part of an opening day watch party,
Tulalip Resort and Casino is hosting one at their Tulalip Amphitheater.
So 3,000 seating capacity outdoors, the way God intended it.
And then out there with the big screen television and
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the amphitheater quality sound. You can be around fellow 12s.
You can win some prizes. You can eat. You can drink.
You can be right next door to a casino. For
goodness sake, if you want to make a few bets
on the game. And you get to hang out with
Ashley Ryan.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
Yeah, you do.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
So that's next Wednesday. 4.30 doors open. Game time at 5.20.
Tulalip Resort Casino. And all you want is everything. Everythingtulalip.com.
Speaker 6 (33:56):
All right.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
What's your one last thing today?
Speaker 5 (33:57):
Oh, I'm having a hard time, Chuck. Having a real
hard time.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
With?
Speaker 5 (34:02):
Palmer starts middle school tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (34:04):
Oh, wow.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
Palmer the Great is going to be a middle schooler
tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Is that a tough one?
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
As a parent, middle school, from grade school to middle school?
Speaker 4 (34:15):
Yeah, because once they start middle school, they start changing
real fast. And, you know, elementary school, they're just still
little kids.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Right.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
They have a playground.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Right.
Speaker 5 (34:25):
And now it's hard. Okay.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
It's hard.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
What's been the toughest one before now? Is that kindergarten?
And then this one, it won't be as hard as kindergarten,
will it?
Speaker 1 (34:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (34:41):
We'll see how I feel tomorrow. I don't get to
take her to school.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
When I took her to kindergarten, although on the last
day of elementary school, you should have seen all the
moms outside school.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
We all had tears in our eyes. So did the kids.
It's a big transition to go from elementary school to
middle school.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Is this the last big one?
Speaker 5 (34:56):
No, then it'll go to high school.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
High school will be even bigger or just as difficult?
Speaker 4 (35:00):
I don't know. It's a great question because I feel
like they go through such a change in middle school
that I don't know that transition into high school is
as emotional versus this feels like she's going from being
a little kid to almost a teenager, and that's hard.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
I don't want to put any pressure on you, but...
For a little while, when I was in middle school,
I was dating a senior in high school.
Speaker 5 (35:23):
Okay, well, that's different.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
I don't want to put any pressure on you.
Speaker 5 (35:29):
Yeah. Well, it just got harder.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Yeah, small school.
Speaker 5 (35:37):
Yeah, small school.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (35:39):
Oh, that just made my heart hurt.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
I was mature. She was immature.
Speaker 5 (35:44):
I actually made.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
A pretty cute couple until my mom found out.
Speaker 5 (35:47):
Well, okay, good. Did your parents support this?
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Yeah, that's a tough thing to do. It doesn't matter
what age you are is when you have to tell
a girl, my mom won't let me date you. I
don't care how old you are. That's not an easy conversation.
Speaker 5 (35:59):
That's not an easy one.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
No.
Speaker 5 (36:04):
Nope, nope, nope.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Yeah, so anyway.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
No, that's hard.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
If you want me to.
Speaker 5 (36:08):
Don't want you to give her any advice.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
You want me to have a talk with her, I'm
happy to... Nah, we're good. Come on.
Speaker 5 (36:13):
We're good.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
Let me have a conversation.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
Yeah, we're good.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Don't let their mom ruin that for you. That could
have been the love of my life, Palmer the Great. Yeah.
Stacey Frederick could have been mine forever.
Speaker 5 (36:29):
She could have been.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
She could have been. My last one. My one last
thing is we finally have a college football playoff, but
because of NIL.
Are we going to get a college football playoff where
we really don't need college football playoff games? And what
I mean by that is the discrepancy between the haves
(36:52):
and have-nots is going to get so pronounced that we're
not going to be able to find 12 teams on
the same level to compete with one another. Let me
give you an example. Somebody did a simulation of the
entire season. Computer simulation. Did it a million times.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
And Here are the results that they came up with,
and I'm going to skip ahead to the quarterfinals. Miami, Alabama,
Ohio State versus North Dakota State, pulling off an upset.
Texas Tech versus Oregon, and Notre Dame versus Florida. So
that's the quarterfinals of the college football playoff. That's the
final eight teams in the college football season. Theoretically, the
(37:31):
best eight teams in the college football season, right? Here
are the final scores, the point differential in those four games,
according to the computer. 20 points, 28 points, 20 points,
and 38 points. Oh, yikes.
Speaker 5 (37:48):
Well, that sounds great.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Are we going to get to the four biggest games
of the year on one day or one weekend, and
the average point differential is going to be 28 points?
Speaker 5 (38:01):
Oh, that's a bummer. We had some good ones last year, too.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
Suddenly I'm a little worried about having a college football
playoff right now.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
Which is what I fought for my entire life. But
I don't want to get a bunch of blowouts because
there are only eight good teams in college football at
any given season.
Speaker 5 (38:16):
That would suck.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
That would be horrible.
Speaker 5 (38:19):
Well, let's just hope the computer doesn't know what the
hell it's talking about.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
What do computers know?
Speaker 3 (38:23):
Right?
Speaker 2 (38:24):
They're dumb. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (38:26):
All right.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
We'll talk to you tomorrow. Computer probably dated a junior
when they were in the eighth grade.
Speaker 5 (38:30):
Hunk's a junk.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
Yeah. We'll talk to you at 6 a.m. Coming up next,
it's Greg and Jess, Sports Radio. Captain Greg and Jess
on KJR.
Speaker 6 (38:39):
You can't miss a thing from today's show because we're
on demand. Their podcast will be up right after the show.
Just click on demand on our website at 933kjr. com and
click on Chuck and Buck Podcast to replay anytime, anywhere.
From Sports Radio 93.3, KJR FM.
Speaker 5 (38:59):
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