Softy and Dick 6-7 H3: Bucky Jacobson, Best Ballpark Food.

Former Mariner Bucky Jacobson stops by and talks about the Mariner offense and what to expect the rest of the year.  Friday Bracket: best ballpark food.  Continuing the best ballpark food conversation.

Episode Transcript

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No from the Star reinles Sports testsyour ninety three point three KJRFL sports headlines.
All right, boys and girls,here we go headlines on Softie and
Dick Wich Jackson live from Cheenie Stadiumfor tonight's Rainiers game. You can hear
Bucky Jacobson, by the way,call that game tonight with Mike Kurdo and
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That guy right there will see hisbig league ball club tonight in action
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Lynch. Luis Castillo goes tomorrow andGeorge Kurbulet's here for George Kirby. Everybody
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now awake and responsive after suffering aseizure and cardiac arrest yesterday. And the
Sounders tomorrow in Kansas City. Let'shere for the Sonders. Come on,
guys here, everybody's fired up overon nine fifty am, five o'clock pre
game five thirty kickoff with Jackson,Feltz and company. All right, a
very very large man has just showedup here in Takoba. That is you

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right there, Bucky? Do youwant more of me? More of you?
What do you want? Their?Bless of me? You know what
my wife? My wife says theexact same damn thing. By the way,
it's all good. Bucky Jacobson hasmade his way here to Cheney Stadium.
Let's here for Bucky Jacobs. Comeon, quite about pawningis that you
have here? Man? He's gothis own cheering section down here. He

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brought his own fans. How areyou, buddy? I am good,
I am good. I'm very uhtrepidations of this chair. Yeah, not
sure if it's really gonna hold me, so I'm not gonna move. Let
me tell you it won't. Allright. You should have heard it when
I sat down and said sound yeah, yeah, and I'm not gonna make
with this little grub over here.I was at I was at Dick Bird's

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sixtieth birthday party and a guy namedSteve Entman sat on a chair like that
and it's freaking four pieces. Now. Yeah, took about thirty seconds,
by the way, so large.You might be better standing up. I'm
just telling you that. Still,get right behind the steel chair. Grab
one of those Jackson's, he'd grabone of those things over there. Get
to get jit see Jackson felt toour producer. Really, since he's been
down here, I'll be honest withyou, he hasn't done anything, really

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nothing. He just came first,and he lives ten minutes from here,
so he got Anders. He's strongarmed Anders into staying in Seattle so he
could come here and hang out.He did one thing though, he complained
about no food. That food wasbrought about two hours. He's like,
where's the food? I here something. I came here for the food.
Only reason why the guy wants tobe here is for the damn food.
So yeah, on the way,I was just getting ready to park and

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I heard him saying, well Iheard about all the good food. Yeah,
right behind you, man, sohave had it. Man, it's
all you. We got the loadedbaked potato, the shrimp po boy,
we got the brisket and mac andcheese. The brisket sandwich that's got your
name written all over. That ismac cheese covered in meat. Yeah,
exactly what it is. That's prettygood. Hey, I got to ask
you your history in this ballpark.Yeah, tell me about it. Oh

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man, Well it was. Iwasn't here very long, right, I
mean I just signed with the Marinersback in all four, came here out
of spring training and it was eightysix games I think we played here before
I got called up. And afterthat, I mean I was back here
for a rehab ait signment the nextyear after all the surgeries and whatnot.
But it was it was fun thisplace. We stayed at a place called

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on the Green apartments, those inFederal Way, which I don't know where
they are now, but I'll try. Well, it's right across the I
don't know what that body of wateris where the paper mills at. Well,
the paper mill doesn't smell very good. Everybody knows that, right.
But then also that makes me takesme back to college at Elsie State in
Lewis, and there's a paper hill. It smells horrible. You end up
getting used to it. And thenat the same time there's a uh I

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don't know. It almost makes thefresh cut grass at the yard smell better
when there's another uh odor. Soyou started eating the grass when you came
here. I didn't eat the grasshere, but I did eat the grass
at Safegoa when I got the safecoat. Matter of fact, your boy
Boot was like, what are youdoing? Like it took me eight years
to get here. I'm taking Oh, we're ever gonna have my boy Boone

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and Bucky in the same room atthe time. I doubt because you have
no idea how close that is topotentially happening this summer. I'm down with
it. You are, yeah,okay, as long as you're cool that,
I'm cool with it. But becauseI put a squash on a thick
and that you were not cool withit, no, I don't think he
would like Okay, all right,Well, you're bigger than him, so
screw him. Yeah all right,We've been sitting here watching VP the last
hour and a half and only oneball has made it up here. So

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I need to know how many ballsdid you hit out of this place in
BP and or in a game?Oh? I don't know, can't I
can't count that right. Well,first of all, this place did not
look like this back right, Andthis place was a dump right, and
it was just the wall. Therewas no seats up here, there was

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nothing. It was just a parkinglot right behind the wall. Yeah,
so you could you couldn't tell.I mean just you basically went out of
the yard. Now I will tellyou that these lights yea, yeah,
same lights. Wow, these oldlight standards, right, And I launched
quite a few over those lights thereyou go. So if that tells you
where they go, I love it. Man. Well, are like forty
feet tall? Yeah that's all.That's about a four to eighty shot to

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clear that, bad boy. ButI've been coming here since I was a
kid for Tigers games, you know, back when they were the a's affiliate.
My dad would take us to EverettGiants games when the Backingham Mariners would
come down. So, I mean, there's a there's an awesome history of
minor league baseball man in this state, even going back to Spokane with the
Indians and all that out there.So I really hope people get a chance
to get down here. So arewe gonna do the bracket? Now?

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We should we have five people?Okay, well we can wait until next
segment and talk some baseball with Bucke. Yeah, you know what, let's
do that, mon Sax. Right, Well, here's what we'll do.
We'll do a few minutes. We'llbreak at twelve. All right, we'll
just make up making the executive decisionbecause Jackson can't make decisions because he's in
a food coma. Now now I'mgonna I'm gonna take over. But you
know, Dick and I have beentalking a lot in the last couple of

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days about this Mariner offense. He'sa little more skeptical about it moving forward
than I am. I think thisoffense is gonna heat up. And I
think they'll heat up because I justdon't see Polanco, Hanniger, Garver,
Julio. He'll throw Rally in there. And now Josh Rojas is kind of
caught off a little bit. Theseguys are not playing to the back of
their baseball card. I'm not sayingall of them will, but some of
them will. This offense to gethere, to be eight games up with

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the offense they've had so far,is a minor miracle. I think this
team is in good shape the restof the year. Well yeah, I
mean that they're obviously been riding thepitching staff. That's I mean, it's
beyond good. It might be beyondbeyond great, it might be absolutely special
when it comes when you come tothe fact that any one of five guys
can go out there pitch like anace. They've been riding that. So
they that's why their their record iswhere it is is they've been having pretty

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good pitching, I mean good togreat pitching performance is just about every single
time that they go out there,So you don't have to score a lot
and you just still find yourself eightgames over five hundred. I mean,
I'm far more encouraged than I amdiscouraged when it comes to Wait a second,
so you're we're five games up inthe division. Now, I'm not
a scoreboard watcher at this point.I'm not a scoreboard watcher until probably towards
the end of August, to behonest, where it's now it actually matters

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now. We saw it last yearwe were in first place with a week
left to go or ten days leftin the season and then miss the playoffs.
So it doesn't really matter if we'rethe first place Seattle Mariners right now.
But I'd rather be a first thansecond or third or fourth, that's
for sure. And so you cancompare where we're at against the other teams.
What is for real and what isn'tfor real? I think the pitching
staff is real. Now. Areyou gonna have is Brian we gonna have

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a one year raight last year?Probably not? But I mean, is
George Kirby gonna improve? I thinkGeorge Kirby will improve. All of them.
Are gonna have a stinger here andthere, I would say, But
I just think if you if youtake the pitching staff as a whole,
they don't even have to perform exactlythe way I've been right now. I
think there's gonna be some that theycan even get better. At times.
They're gonna have spurts where they're unhittableeven though they're pretty durned close to that

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now. But to me, theoffense the first month and a half of
the season, nobody besides Josh rojasoshitty right, Cal had a couple that
he ran into and clutch situations.Garver, you know, eventually got off
the schneid and hit that one homerun that was very clutch. Ty Franz
wasn't doing anything. Julio still reallyhe's not doing anything compared to what Julio's

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supposed to do. But he stillis hitting two seventy or something, just
not any power. And to me, he's he isn't making adjustments like I
think a guy in his third yearshould be making. But I mean,
ultimately, no, I'm far moreencouraged because if there's one thing we have
seen with this nucleus of hitters,is they get better as the weather warms
up. I mean, I meanthere's part of me that do I think

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this is ever going to be agreat offense. No, I just don't.
I don't think they have the peopleto be great. But you don't
have to be great with this pitchingstaff. You have to have two guys
on any given night. Ye lastnight they win with Dylan Moore coming through
for a Sackfly and Garver showing upto the squad and getting a couple of
knocks to drive somebody in. That'sall you have to have with this pitching

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staff more often than not. Andif you if you give up five or
six in the game, then you'regonna have to have three or four guys
have a decent day. Well.And so that's where I'm going with this
whole small ball because we saw twodifferent approaches. We saw two days ago
they could have played small ball,didn't and lost. Yesterday they played small
ball and one. So how muchsmall ball do you think should be implemented
to just squeeze a couple runs out? Because this team, when they score

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three runs and more, bucky arethirty three and eight. Just squeeze out
three runs and you're gonna win ata seventy five percent clip. Yeah,
they most certainly should play more,but they they're not going to. And
we can beat our head again throughall all we want. They're not going
to the nerder round. Well maybehe'll change his mind. Well I wish,
well, I would like to thinkthey would. I mean, I
don't know how many times you haveto score two or fewer before You're like,

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hmmm, yeah, I don't know. The answer is he's been here
for nine years. They'll making ithappy, which is why I'm such a
Scott Service fan. Yeah. Well, I mean I don't mind Service definitely,
not as much as as you.I mean, I actually like Service.
I don't think. I don't putvery much stock in what the manager
does on the field because he's goingbased on what their philosophy is. Right,

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it's not a there's no gut field, right if there if their philosophy
was we're gonna go by the analyticsand at times I want you to play
the game by your gut because you'vebeen around the game for fifty sixty years
yep, yeap, then then hewould be questioned on his gut field.
So that doesn't work with guts.So it's not that because what he's what
I'm hearing you saying, is thatScott Service is managing this team the way

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he's managing the team because that's whatthe organization wants. Yep. So we're
not we're not blaming the right guy. I'm telling you this is this is
this is a Hollander Depoto. Let'spush buttons, zapp. This guy robotics,
analytics, blah blah blah. Imean, Service is the public face
and he's the one that takes thegrief. But Jerry wants this. You're
you're telling your dream Jerry, hewants this. They're telling me that Scott's

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Service is not allowed to call thegame the way he wants to call the
game. I think it's a generaloverall approach. That's no, he can
call a bunt at any time ifhe wants to. But they have come
up with a philosophy as an organization. I mean, that's just blatantly obvious.
It doesn't matter who is at thehelm and as far as the manager
goes the philosophy at this point,now he's probably part of that philosophy.

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They're probably sitting there saying, youknow what, giving up an out statistically
nowadays, you're saying, giving upan out with the high strikeouts does not
turn into a sack fly and movingthe guy out of third base this amount
of time and you're putting pressure onhim, then they can also they have
a base open, so they canthrow pitches out of the zone that are
gonna be difficult for you to take. I understand the whole thing, right,
guess the game's always had that.They've always ubunted a guy over.

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They had a base open. Butyou don't have to get a knock to
get the guy in. Now,you just have to hit a deep fly
ball. So I mean to me, I don't think that they philosophy philosophically
want to play some mabile. Ye. Yeah, I love about this guy.
He comes on the air, hegives you a well thought out,
long detailed answer, and which inwhich during I can eat because that's impossible

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to not look at that. Andyou're second only to Hewing. Ye go
over there and stuff my face.So here's the king. No, no,
you're you're not. I mean,if you is Mars, you're like
Pluto close to you in that ring. And that's not an insult to you
at all, by the way,trust me. All Right, So we're
gonna pick our top eight must haveclassic ballpark foods and then decide the one

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thing that you gotta have of thoseeight. Next on ninety three three kJ
R FM, my from the Rand R Foundation Specialist Broadcast Studio. Now
back to Softie and Dick on yourHome for the Huskies and the Kraken Sports
Radio ninety three point three kJ RFM. All right, big thanks to

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the tocover Rightiers for having us downhere at Genie Stadium, Aces Rainiers tonight,
Emerson, hand give it to themovie Hancock with Will Smith, by
the way, great movies. Handcockcall me an a hole one more time?
Remember that? Yeah, and hetook the French kid and launched him
into the air. Who was thelove interest in that movie? It was
God? It was the South Africafrom South Africa? What's stuck from South

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Africa? Lewis is like from Cleveland. I know she's from South Africa?
What is what is her name is? I hate when you know, right,
nuts from from from South Africa.By the way, all right,
so Bucky, we do this onFridays when we have nothing else planned.

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Uh, basically, when the creativejuices stopped flowing, which is today.
All right, we're sitting here inthe sun, we're eating. I gotta
be honest with you, I'm abouttwo minutes away from starting to drink here
on a Friday after and Jackson,you can do that now. You're sorry.
You're the one guy left out forthat. So what we thought we'd
do because the rain earster just broughtus a bunch of shrimp po boy sandwiches,
loaded baked potato with chili, beef, brisket sandwiches, macaroni and cheese

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and brisket. Here. This isthe night where I go home and the
wife is angry at me because I'mnot hungry for dinner. Right, He's
like, did you eat? Baby? You're on your own. I'm sorry.
So my wife's at a banquet tonight. You're done. Perfect, She's
eating on her own. So wehave the best classic ballpark food, all
right. You're about our age,a little bit younger, but about our

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vintage, right. You remember thedays of you know, chocolate malts of
the Kingdome and things like that,crackerjacks all that. So we have a
list of the top eight what wethink are the top eight best classic ballpark
food. So we're not talking aboutbugs, berries, crickets, dingle berries,
none of that stuff. Nothing,dipping, none of that stuff.

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All right, So we got wegot hot dogs and burgers, soft servant
helmet nachos, prets of with cheese, sunflower seeds, peanuts, and crackerjacks.
Okay, so let's start with thefour to five matchup. Soft serve
in the helmet, which you said, Jackson, they still do. They
still do apparently a T mobile park. When I was a kid, it
was Dary Queen collect them, allright. I have a whole damn league.
Soft serve in the helmet or nachos. Pick one, it's soft serving

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helmet, Okay, one hundred percent. Now, first of all, there's
something with the roost that's my mom'sside of the family. And ice cream,
homemade ice cream. I would prettymuch take no. No, I'd
probably just end myself if I can'thave ice cream, I'm just gonna drive
off a bridge somewhere. But no, So to me, ice cream is
gonna win against just about anything,but definitely against ballpark nachos. Okay,

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ballpark nachos get soggy real quick andin a hurry. Jackson. Yeah,
for me, like nachos, Ifeel like if we're talking about classic,
it's just the nachos and cheese,and like nachos is elevated when it's like
loaded with so many other things.I don't feel like that's the sanctity of
the bracket. I don't feel likethat that's what we're talking about here.
So give me the soft served helmet. I still have a nineteen eighty nine

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Mariner logo helmet that holds my coinsin my closet and my kitchen. Oh
wow, so it swept thirty plusyears thirty five years old. Going with
the soft serf on man, Well, it's it's already a win for the
soft serve. But I would saysoft serf too for a lot of reasons,
because most of which ballpark nachos generallysuck because they get soggy, all

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right, The cheese is terrible.The paper basket that they serve the nachos
in gets wet with the cheese sauce, it opens up and falls into your
lap. I mean, look,if I want nachos, I'm going to
a Steca for God's sakes, okay, or Taco Tome. I'm not going
to a baseball stadium for nachos.Now, I don't mind nachos, but
if there's other things available, I'mtaking the soft served. So soft serve

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and the helmet moves on. Threeseed versus the six seed pretzel with cheese
versus sunflower seeds Jackson pretzel with cheesefrom me, I mean, it's filling,
it's delicious. Eat that little cupof cheese sauce and like, I
don't know, like the pretzel neveruses all of the cheese sauce, so
not just you know, go in, go in my tongue and just you
know, take all of that cheesesauce out of there, because it's just

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no matter where you get it,that cheese sauce is delicious. See,
I have the opposite problem. I'mhalfway through the pretzel and the cheese is
gone. We gotta manage it.You gotta miss the cheese. I mean,
the cheese sauce is like it's likean ounce man with the cheese sauce.
To be honest, neither one ofthese are high on my lists.
I'm going to lean sunflower seeds becausewho doesn't like sunflowers? Yeah, you

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just sit there the whole game andjust go through one of those bags.
So pretzel with cheese, sunflower seeds. I gotta go pretzel with cheese for
a lot of reasons. There's nothingbetter than when you get a fresh,
hot, gooey pretzel in the firstinning with the spray water and the salts.
You gotta have the spray now,I don't want, don't don't,
don't put that thing on like awet paper towel. You gotta have the

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spray spray it and then dip itin the salt. And if you wait
until the later earning, sometimes youget kind of hard. And that little
oven they have there, that littlewarmer, so you gotta have it early.
And number two, the problem withme with sunflower seeds, I could
never split them open and spit themthe way you were supposed to right like
I got my teammates playing high schoolbaseball. I just couldn't ever do it.
Like I can't whistle with my fingersthe way some people can. I

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just can't do it. So Iwould I'm like, like, like an
idiot, I'm spitting out whole sunflowerseed because I can't split them up.
So I felt like a fuck.So that with your sunflower seeds spinning well,
first of all, by not enjoyingeverything. So I love a nice,
warm, soft pretzel with cheese,but yeah you do. They are

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chintzy on the cheese and that's snowBoyno you, but you can't go against
seeds. I mean, seeds arethe only thing that you can be eating.
The stands that and you essentially sharinga meal with people on the field.
That's right. If I'm a player, I think it's different. You
gotta have seeds and that nobody haspretzels on the dugout, but they have
seeds in the dugout all the time. Okay, so we have a tie

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here, we got tie and pretzel. Sun Flower seeds jump in. This
is the closest one for me.But I'm gonna go seeds because you kid
doesn't know. Horrible, just partof one of the players. If you're
doing that, so you know,why do you wear a cup to the
game while you're at it? Yeah, that's why put the eye black on.
Wear some stirrups for crying. Allright, So sunflower seeds moves on.

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Peanuts, crackerjacks, Bucky go ahead, and peanuts. Okay, Peanuts
is old school. Crackerjacks is forkids, I do now. Don't get
me wrong again, this body.You don't get this body without liking sweets.
I love popcorn. I like crackerjacks even more, but peanuts is
just its own thing. Plus,yeah, there's not very many things you
get to throw half of it essentially, way make a mess and it's not

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your issue to clean up. Well, I'm gonna tell you what I I
I agree with all of that,And the problem for me a crackerjacks is
they get sticky, and I hatesticky. That's why I don't like cotton
candy. The crackerjacks get sticky inyour fingers and I start wiping it on
my lap and my shirt and allthat rip. I gotta put them in
my hand. I'm sweating already.Hey, this is all about personal trapper,

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and I get get healthy when Ieat crackerjacks. So I'm a that
guy. But you said one thing. I disagree with that. My father
taught me this, and maybe it'sa problem with my family. There's nothing
to throw away. I'm eating thewhole damn thing. You eat the shell?
What your next morning? Please?Oh dude, it's it's it's it's
pure. No, it's it's likeeating It's like it's like a car load

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of fiber. Man, it's Ijust eat the whole damn thing. Salt
hot peanuts in a bag, throwthe entire thing in my mouth, and
I'll eat it all. Please tellme at four nine four five one,
Andrews, you can confirm this thatI'm not the only person that eats the
entire whole thing in breaking open groundlike a normal American person. I'm not

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a normal person, and it's afact I eat the whole freaking thing.
So two for peanuts, wow,Jackson cracker jacks, gentlemen. Yeah,
but yeah, yes for kids,well, I'm like thirty years old,
so in relation, i'm like five. So yes, cracker jets. They
also come with the little like Iloved as a kid, where you got
the little thing cartoon whatever that was. Love. There's a good flavor to

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them, and like peanis, ifthey weren't coming from like the what was
his name, the guy at youknow, tim Mo Park, Safe go
Field, Kingdome, the guy whothrew if they didn't come from Rick,
they just didn't feel the same.They didn't taste as good. And like
that's nine nine percent of the time. So cracker jacks all the way.
Two peanuts, cracker Jack. Andrewswill let you jump in here, go
ahead, I'm gonna go cracker jacks. Although I will say, I will

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say kettle corn is better than crackerjacks. That I got a big,
huge plastic bag. Yes, yeah, all right, we got two two
peanuts, two cracker jacks. Dickthe most famous baseball song of all time
by me some peanuts, which cornpeanuts? Peanuts are Americana at a baseball

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game, Give me peanuts, allright? Basing your your reasoning off of
a song, by the way,the most popular baseball a time. When
I was a kid, I usedto thought that, you know Penis,
why does that not surprise Penis movesoff? We got kids hot dogs versus
burgers hot dogs. Just think aboutthe best hot dog at a ball park

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versus the best burger at a ballpark. Right now, at T Mobile,
they got the Kid Valley stand.Obviously, I'm gonna go ahead and go
first. And I just think thatyou are doing it wrong if you're picking
burgers over hot dogs at a baseballgame. I'm sorry. I love cheeseburgers.
Nobody loves cheeseburgers more than me.But when you're at a baseball game,

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you gotta have the hot dog.It's like, this is like having
spaghetti and meatballs on Thanksgiving. Noman turkey, and it's the only time
you eat turkey is on Thanksgiving Dayfor the most part. So give me
the hot dog. Jackson. SoI grew up close to Kid Valley and
I've always lived close to a kidValley, and the fact that I have
kid Valley in that ballpark is everything. The problem is the sanctity of the
bracket. This is classic ballpark foods. This is not t mobile park.

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So you know, not every ballpark, no your classic ball but they're not
gonna have kid Valley. So bydefault it is hot dog, all right?
Two for hot dogs. I wouldbuy a Hamburger over a hot dog
one hundred times out of one hundred, except when I'm out a baseball.
Would you pay me Tuesday for aHamberger? Give me hot dog? Three
hot dogs? So it's over hotdogs. Moves on, all right,

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So let's go with the UH sixtwo matchup. Sunflower seeds versus pretzels,
peanuts peanuts, Sorry, sunflower seedsversus peanuts, buggy seeds seeds. Yeah,
it's no doubt. I mean oneit does take. I'll say there's
one downside. You eat enough seeds, you start getting like your tongue starts

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getting raw, right or the insideof your mouth getting row. But there's
actually open there's actually a part ofit that is can be somewhat competitive within
yourself, your own competition of canyou crunch it, get the seed out,
spit it out while it still issemi connected. No, you can't.
I can't be doing this is we'vealready established that where it's still somewhat
connected on the other side, andspitting it out, if you can get

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it to where it's just crunch eatspit, crunch eat spit like all,
it's like you just keep doing itone after another. You can't do that
with peanuts because you just throw itin and eat the whole thing. Could
you do that with seeds? No, not like that. But you realize
what was cutting out. It wason the seeds. It was the school
Bucky that was cutting No, no, no, I didn't. I would
never do such a thing. Itwas a temple, all right, So

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Bucky buckyes, Bucky's taking seeds.I'm just I mean, look, I
I told how the seeds embarrassed me. I mean, I just can't.
I can't do seeds, right.I get that seeds belong in the game.
There is always a home for seeds. But I think peanuts on the
stands for fans. Me and mydad would always have peanuts, So for
me, it's peanuts. So peanutsone, seeds one Anders jump in here.

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I'm going with seeds again. I'mkind of with Bucky with the rhythm
thing. It's it's nice. Youcan do that with peanuts too, but
doing it inside your own mouth ispretty cool. Wow, that's it came
out weird. Do whatever you wantin your own mouth. Crazy seeds as
two peanuts has one similar flavor.Peanuts are just heartier, that's right.

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You just get more out of theYou get more bang for the buck eating
a peanut. Then you do asunflower seed. That's right. All the
things you can do with peanuts.Man, nobody makes sunflower butter and puts
it on a true there is,But you're the one that eats peanuts.
Whold two for seeds two nuts?All right, Jackson, a lot of

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I take a lot of pleasure innot letting sunflower seeds get to the final.
I'm not saying sunflower seeds is anembarrassment to be in this bracket.
They're just straight bad. They're notgood. They're generous. So he was
talking about, I don't want tofeel like a player when I'm sitting in
the stands of food. Sunflowers needto get the hell out of this bracket.
Wow, it's the only time youget to feel if you're eating I

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want to feel. I chose nutsover seeds, but I'm not angry at
seeds against By the way, youget like fifteen hundred seeds in a bag
versus pets. But how many seedsto make one nut the line of the
day. That doesn't take a lot, I guess. Just get one through
and you're good, right, allright? Hot dogs versus soft serve.

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Hot dogs versus soft serve Jackson,because you were last last time, go
ahead, Ah, this is aboutas close as one has been for me.
I'm gonna go with soft serve inthe helmet specifically for what Dick mentioned.
You get the memorabilia, you getthe actual piece the helmet that you
get to go home with when Ieat a hot dog. It's this great
moment and you really do feel likeyou're you know, it's it's it's it

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is what it is. It's partof being in a ballpark, but being
able to come home and being ableto look on your shelf and actually see
something from the ballpark. Give methe soft serve and a helmet. All
right, Well, I'll tell youwhat if I want something from the ballpark.
I can just look at the ticketon my phone, I guess,
or maybe look at the on orsomething like that. I love ice cream.
I'm with you, totally with youon ice cream till the book factory

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down there in Oregon. Oh utterlychocolate for me is my favorite of all
time. My wife and I weare a lot of stuff we disagree on.
Ice cream is not one of them. So I don't want to live
in a world, Bucky without icecream. But I also don't want to
live in a world without hot dogsat baseball games. Right. And here's
the thing about that soft ster.You eat it two fast brain freeze.
Hot dogs will never hurt you ever, ever, ever, ever. They

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would just come out the other endat the wrong time. That's possible.
And if you go to a baseballgame and you're sitting in seventy five degree
weather and you went sucking on aFletcher's Finest or whatever they serve at Teamable
Park these days, I don't know. Man. To me, it's just
it's baseball and hot dogs, baseball, hot dogs and beer. Give me
the hot dog, Bucky. I'mwith you. I'm with you, And
that's tough because ice cream is oneof my favorite things on the planet.

(27:49):
Right, But it's just there's justsomething we're talking about iconic baseball ballpark food.
There is nothing. There's a reasonthat's the number one seed. Hot
dogs are. Okay, Dick,I didn't realize scream. I didn't realize
that people like ice cream as muchas I do, because it's literally probably
my number one. It's a foodgroup, it's a date, it's a

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nightly occurrence before I go to bed. I did realize something very sad that
I have had my blue ice creamcup with the yellow Mariner ass, which
by the way, is the worstMariner logo of all time. I've had
it longer than Jackson's been live.That's very sad. That's awesome, that's
my point. I have my GriffyBars in the freezer. But having said

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that, no, it's ballpark food. I have ice cream at home watching
a game, watching a Mariner's game, I will sit I won't sit at
home and watch a Mariner's game witha hot dog, but I'll sit at
the ballpark watching a Mariner's game witha hot Give me hot Can I say

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one thing about this matchup? Yeah, when when I go to a baseball
game. And my wife, whoisn't from America, doesn't know anything about
baseball. You know who you are? Yes, she does, believe it
or not. When the first thingshe asked me and the thing she's excited
about most is getting a hot dogat the game. That tells you everything
you need to know about how Igotta tell you it is reason. If
I was married to your wife,I'd give her whatever the hell she wants.

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Well, I'm basically there. Don'tthrew that up. Man, he's
got a hot wife. What doyou want from me? I don't know
if you had a hot wife.To you, we all got There's for
the hot wine, hot dogs,peanuts. Moving on to the final hot
dogs or peanuts bucket. You gottapick one. Go ahead, it's not
close, all right, all day. You're just pissed about seeds. Not

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man, I would have still chosenhot dog over seeds. You would have
whatever, second place or third place. I don't care. Go ahead,
easy hot dog andrews, jump ineasily, hot dogs. It's over.
It's over. It's over. Iwill I will say it was that good
of a number one seed. It'sCeltics. I will say, pour one
out. For Rick, because Rickwas commit absolutely legendary for what for what

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he did for Peanuts in that stadiumfor so many years, No wonder with
them make Rick is the reason whyI feel an emotional attachment to peanuts.
And yes, you know I putthem through in the bracket for other reasons,
but still like peanuts. I thinkfor a lot of Mara fans have
a special place in their part becauseof him. How you could how he
could hit somebody twenty two rows upbehind the back right here in the strike
zone. Everyone ever now and thenwhat's this? What's this? Let's let's

(30:27):
get the deciding vote over here.Okay, right, so give me your
name again, Celest, Celest,and you're ten years old, is that
right? Celest? Are you fromTacoma, Gig Harbor? Find people out
there in gig Harbor? You gotto pick one. You can have one
or the other. You can't haveboth, all right, hot dogs or
peanuts? Pick one? Okay,Celest? Deserving winners sunflower seeds pick one?

(30:56):
Yeah, Bucky Jacobson or Brett Boonepick one? Oh yeah there for
a second, yeah, I wasa little he hesitated. We got a
break. We're at Cheeney Stadium forthe game that I'm in Tacoma right here

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on ninety three three kJ r fM Live from the R and R Foundation
Specialist Broadcast Studio. Now back toSoftie and Dick on your home for the
Huskies and the Kraken Sports Radio ninetythree point three kJ r FM. Hey,
do you think the people here atthe michelob Ultra hang On launch package.

(31:41):
Yes, thank you micolob Ultra Launchpadknow how big a deal that guy
is over there? I don't thinkso. Yes, here, if these
people have any idea who this guyeven is, you guys, have any
idea who that is? Right there? That's Bucky Jacobson. Bucky Jacobson,
Oh hey, we know he's people. Let's go there, you go,
and there's Captain Hunt right there.Yeah, he's sober. It's incredible.

(32:02):
Man, my god, Holy moly, Captain Husky, Bucky Jacobson and Jackson
Phelps in the same room at thesame time. That's unheard of. It
is. Oh man, that wasfun. Guys, that was good.
Last sek. We're getting a lotof text. By the way, could
do some sloppy second on the textline. When it comes to the peanut

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eating things. Yeah, I eatthe entire peanut, very just shell and
everything. See he does, hedoes. He's with me. You're looking
a body like that? Boys andgirls without eating the entire peanut, man
the whole thing. Let's see twoo six peanut shell eater here checking in
from Linwood. Thank you Linwood,So Jesus Christ. Softy from the that's

(32:49):
all right. Uh Joseph, mycoworker said she eats the whole peanut.
I said she was weird. Uhtwo five three. I was nodding along
with Softy until he said he eatsthe entire peanut. That is insanity,
absolutely the whole thing. My bridehates it, says the two o six
two o six, the entire peanutwith a shell, You're crazy. The
five oh three. No one elsein the world eats the whole peanut and

(33:13):
shell besides you. So I gethere, you go, You and the
other two people to text it inis about it? How about this guy,
the two five three only serial killerseat the peanut shell? Would Jeffrey
Dahmer ted Bundy baby right, Brian, There's plenty of times I've eaten the
entire peanut. Uh four two fiveI love eating the whole thing shell and

(33:35):
all uh four two five, greatshow today, boys, the M's are
up seven to nothing. How aboutglad you're still tuning in unbelievable. Well,
I don't know. I'm looking forwardto tonight Emerson Hancocks on the Hill.
Obviously, with the way Brian Woo'spitching, there's Hancock's got no chance
to get called back up. No, but I mean you I'd be You'd
be hard pressed to think we're gonnago through the entire season. Let somebody

(33:59):
get tired. Let's just hope that'sall it is. I mean, they're
baby and Brian wu and understand meso coming off of the ils to start
the season. But you still havea couple of other young guys. Now
it doesn't look like there's any partof them that's overly stressing. But at
the same time, that's another reasonI was talking about on the morning show
that I want the offense to wakeup a little bit. Is I don't

(34:19):
want them to think they have tonibble and all of a sudden you're getting
into the higher pitch cans. Iwant to these guys if you give them
a four run leader, a sevenrun lead like this they Brice Miller I
guarantee is raring back and just fillingup the stripe zone to where it's like
hit it if you can. Nowyou have to worry about it. They
rake a couple of balls in arow, but until then, just keep
filling up the strike zone. Youdon't have as much high leverage pitch.

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I feel like we should go backto the food conversation for a second,
because what we did last segment wasjust the eight classic ballpark items. But
like this one says right here,four two five, My old favorite was
the Kingdome chocolate malt with the woodenskirts. And that was before your time.
Is that right? So day Goldmade this chocolate malt, and what
you would do is you would andyou'd wait about ten minutes. It would

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soften up, and you'd scrape offthe froth off the top and then go
to town with this wooden spoon.By the time you were done, the
wooden spoon was so soft they werestarting to split and there were splinters in
your tongue by the time you gotdone eatingly, did you go around the
outside? No, I went rightdown the middle. I went around the
outside because your hand would warm andsoften up the outside first, right,

(35:22):
So I went around the outside andby the end I had just had this
like badge of ice cream in themiddle of the cup. Yeah, badge
of minor to go home with asplinter in your mouth from the dairy Gold
frosted chocolate malt wooden spoon. Didthey still make those, by the way,
dairy Gold, I had no idea. I haven't seen one of those.
I remember the little ice cream cups, but they were the ones I
had were orange of anello orange yeah, yeah, yeah, and so same

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thing. You did have to bea little careful. It was like this
big. It was a huge fatmask. I don't remember that. I
didn't go to a Kingdome. Inever went to a King Dome game.
First time I went to the Kingdomewas like playing in the college baseball game,
right, yeah. And I didn'tget to remember if you played,
Did you play in the College BaseballClassic? Kingdome? So I was an
intern for them, And this islike ninety three and ninety four Tennessee came

(36:06):
to town with Todd Helton, youdub I think at Kevin Stalker and the
Canadian junior national team. Was therethose guys were big boys. If you
remember those dudes, they're hitting linedrives off their centerfield wall at the Kingdom.
That tournament was amazing. But dowe have a favorite ballpark item that
was not brought up in the lastsegment? For me, the Kid Valley
chocolate milkshake. Okay, I couldlike milkshakes for I love ice cream and

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like the soft serve is great andall, but the accessibility of a milkshake.
I could eat a milkshake for breakfast, lunch, and dinner if it's
from Kid Valley. I swear likethat. For me, that was for
years the only thing that I musthave every time I go overund tea mobile
safe, Go interesting? Interesting?Hang on a second? Hang on,
Captain Husky, does he think hehas a head sets? You don't have

(36:52):
a headsets, just just talking tothe microphone. Forgot the space space space
foodsticks one year nineteen seventy nine spacefood sticks in Mariner Foil Color, Oka.
Can't tell you how people what aspace food stick was. Oh it
was. It was a highly processedwe're talking food, not cracked by the
way, you know that right,I'm talking hard drugs here, Captain.

(37:15):
You could smoke it for nine eggs. Okay, here's so that's Captain Husky
who no longer has the job.His son now has a job, his
wife. He didn't get fired,he just passed it down right, he
had arrested. Okay, that makessense. Yeah, how about you.

(37:36):
I'm going to frost and Mall.Still. Remember how much it is?
Dollars dollars seventy five. There yougo, dollars, big old frosted mall.
That was every single It was probablythe only thing I ever bought every
game that I was at. ButI don't think there was a game that
I missed. Remember the metal uhcontainer that would house the hot dogs at
the concession, I'm saying peed inno, no, no, that was
the trough. There's a video onYouTube the trop at Wrigley Field sliding down

(38:02):
it. You got to check thatout. Man, that's hilarious. But
now they do bugs and stuff andall this like a lie in stuff.
It's not it's not for me.It's not from my kind of people book.
There was a double Bucky beef burgeror something like that for the short
amount of time that I was there, and it was big, a lot

(38:22):
of meat, and they got thesefried bugs right like this. I've never
tried them. Well, why wouldyou There's a pizza stand next door.
People say things like, you know, some folks that's all they have to
eat because there's no burger available.Yes, why why would anybody want that?
Why not just eat dirt? Ihave no idea. There's zero chance
that I will ever be trying thecrickets. I love it all right.
So you're on the air tonight withKurdo at seven o'clock over on the AM

(38:44):
side doing the game. How aboutthe fact that you once played in the
stadium and now you're calling a gameon radio in the stadium and you're not
floating down a river in Montana.Yeah, that's well, that's a good
thing for Curdo, I suppose hehe. He was texting me wondering if
I was actually going to make ittoday, install of be fly fishing in
Montana. I did make it,so we'll see. I mean, it's
it does bring up some memories.I mean, I drove up here,

(39:07):
drove into the lot over here.It looks different than the stadium's far nicer,
but boy, there's some memories comeflooding back. I just went and
looked at the yard. It's great. Take me through the mentality of a
triple A player. Are they focusedon tonight getting the job done, winning
a baseball game, or are theyconstantly feeling like they're in a job interview
because they're constantly knowing that they wantto be someplace else versus where they are.

(39:32):
Well, it's kind of bull.So I guess the other twenty one
hours out of the day, you'rethinking about where you want to be and
what do I have to do toget there? But if you're thinking about
that during the game, you're notgonna be getting anywhere as matter if you're
gonna be getting sent home. Soit's you're the whole time that the second
you sign you realize it's a jobinterview every single day. Yeah, even

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if it's not. I mean,these guys are close. These guys are
close to getting there. It couldhappen today, tomorrow, whenever. But
all the entire way up you're gettingcoaches and whatnot writing reports about how your
day was, And so an overfour can be an okay day if you
you swung at every pitch, youshould took every pitch, you should square
a few balls up, and sothat report goes in, so you feel

(40:12):
like, okay, decent day asfar as my job interview went. But
you get here and it actually iseven more so. I mean, I
know guys that would sit and lookand read the reports on who got hurt,
almost hoping to see someone that playstheir position getting hurt at the next
level. I was never a guythat was preoccupied with that more it was
it was more about take care ofyour own business and let the chips fall

(40:35):
where they may. Do you rememberJohn Russell, who's the Rainiers manager,
was with us a couple hours agoand asked him about sending guys up and
telling guys. He talked about howRyan Bliss got really emotional when he told
me he was going up. Doyou remember when you got the call?
Oh? Yeah. I was atthe Triple All Star Game in Pawtucket,
Rhode Island. George Cheryl, youremember him, relief pitcher Lefty. He
was my roommate and we were atthe banquet and so we were. I

(41:00):
was in the back row of thebanquet. He was sitting down in the
front row at a table up onthe stage while there's a banquet going on,
and he all of a sudden Isee him. He's on his phone
up in front of the audience,and I'm looking at him, like,
are you an idiot? Take thephone call somewhere else? Well, all
of a sudden, he gets done. He's like buck. He leans back
in his cherry, hands me thephone and I'm like, what is it

(41:22):
hello. He's like, hey,it's Ronnie Dan. Ron was the manager
here, and he's like, hey, just want to let you know you
should congratulate George. You just gotcalled up to the big leagues. Now,
mind you. I'm sitting on twentysix homers halfway through the season down
here, right, and I'm like, did you just did you? Just
did am I talking to the managerof the guy that would tell me I'm
getting called up big leaues? Andthe no reason you're doing this is because

(41:43):
you're telling me I need to congratulatemy buddy, right, And I'm like,
okay, Ronie, I will,I'll make sure that's cool. And
I was kind of irritating. He'slike, and you're going with him,
so have a good trip. AndI'm like, oh my god, are
you serious? And so at thatpoint I looked out my agent was out
in this in the audience and hesees me on the phone and we make
eye contact and he just stands uplike is it really? And I'm like

(42:04):
I give him thumbs up and hejust starts pacing. Oh my god,
Oh my god. So I justwon the home run Derby the day before
and then the next day is theAll Star Game and they're like, uh,
They're like it was Dino Ebel.He's a triple A or a third
base coach for I think the Angels. Anyway, He's like, hey,
dude, I want to play you, but I can't. And I'm like,

(42:27):
hey, I don't care, man, I'm floating on cloud nine right
now. And he's like, Ireally want to. Well, the game
is like a two to one gamethat the fans are chanting Bucky because I
put on a show in the homerun Derby. And he's like, you
want to hit? And I'm like, I mean, I'd love to hit.
And he's like I can't, dude. If you go up there and
get hit on the hand and breakyour hand, you never get called up,
never got your chance. Yeah,he's like I just can't do it.
I'm like that's fine, that's fine. How would you live with that?

(42:49):
Because that that that's like the moonlightgram stat is right. You never
can you imagine altered the universe whereyou sit. You're so you say,
yeah, that's not gonna happen tome, take a shot to the head,
you're done. Yeah, Oh Icould imagine it. I mean it
would have been horrible. At leastI got that. I did get a
little bit of time up there,and so that's something that note will never
be taken away. Show dude toif you made me live in an alternate

(43:12):
universe where I didn't get to experiencethat because of something crazy. I wasn't
even thinking about it, to behonest, I was expecting to go up
there and play, and yet mightlook at the lineup and I'm not in
there. I wasn't mad because Ijust got the phone call like hours before
that I was going to the show, so I wasn't mad. And then
he comes up and explains it tome. I'm like, fine on me,
I don't care, it's worth it, and then good stuff, that's

(43:32):
all right, I will all right. Bucky's got the call with Kurdo over
on AM at seven o'clock tonight,nine fifty KG. We're gonna break Hello,
you make the call baby. We'relive from Cheney Stadium in Tacoma with
the Aces and the Rainiers tonight.Emerson Hancock is on the mound for the
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