Softy and Dick 6-14 H1: Mariners Take 3 out of 4 from White Sox, NFL Rumor Mill, Fun with Audio.

Mariners lose game 4 of White Sox series, once again in extra innings, but they can't move the runner over...how much of the offensive struggles are to be blamed on Dipoto vs Servais?  NFL Rumor Mill.  Fun with Audio.

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the mavene, Who's forty and thirtyone three to two loss in ten in
Chicago last night, five and ahalf games up. Good work out of

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Emerson Hancock seven innings to earn twowalks in a k but the M's get
the loss. Starting a monster accordingto Bucky Jacobson, three game series against
the Texas Rangers tonight, Castillo,Kirby and Gilbert on the pump starting to
see if I thought, Bucky saidthe opposite. Yeah, I'm being starcastic.
Yeah did he silence sarcastic game?I'm me hard. I just have

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a conversation with Chris cro You knowthe things that you respond to. We're
gonna have to have a discussion aboutthis. We're just gonna have to have
a discussion of that. Well,then stop saying those things, because you're
driving me nuts. Big twelve consideringa private equity investment of up to one
billion dollars for a stake was muchof twenty percent of the conference and this
part should come out of the onion, but it doesn't. They're reportedly in

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discussions with All State Yeah, topotentially rename the league the Big All State
Conference. Great idea, Great idea. This is the revenue stream thing that
we were talking about. Great idea. NBA Finals. What's unbelievable is how
bad the Mavericks are and the Oilers. Both the Mavericks and Oilers can fuck
it? Are you kidding me?Why even bother showing up? Cethic's looking

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for their eighteenth title tonight that wouldbe the most all time in the history
of the NBA, and the OilersGame four tomorrow in Edmonton yea down three
to nothing after Florida beat him againyesterday. You want Jose Abrau, No,
the Astros have released him. He'sgot thirty one dollars left on his
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and you're feeling now this is Softyand Dick all right, Here we go
Softy Dick with Anders Anders in forJackson Felt, who I think is back
on Monday, but we won't seehis face either because we'll be at the
Ammal Queen Monday afternoon. So thisis the I think for me, this

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is the sixth remote show. Wewere at the Rainiers game last Friday,
right yes, and then we wereat the Queen on Monday. We were
at the vMac on Tuesday, wewere here on Wednesday, Dino's yesterday.
I'm back here at Jimmy's on Friday, and back at the Emeral Queen on
Monday of next week. I'm startingto get the sense that people don't want
us around the office, by theway, which is certainly possible. I

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wouldn't want me around either if Iwere them, to be honest with you,
wouldn't you rather be on here?Yeah? I would, I would
totally. But now streak, Yeah, every now and then you got to
just, you know, get backto the mothership and you know, make
sure that you know people are doingtheir job behind the scenes. Man,
not pulling a fast one on you. You never know what's happening behind closed
doors over there. When I'm atthe Mothership, I don't see a lot.
To be perfectly honest with you,Well, imagine being me during COVID

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and you were at home and itwas just being Jackson. I mean there
was like a six seventh month stretchthere where it was just me and him,
and there was nothing. I couldhave walked around the halls naked,
by the way, and trust me, nobody wants to see that at all.
Well, here we are from Jimmy'son first. The Mariners lose last
night in Chicago, forty and thirtyone overall, five and a half games
up on Texas as they started abig series with the Rangers tonight. Luis

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Castillo, George Kirby and Logan Gilbertand Dick. I don't know about you,
Andrews. You're a bit younger thanus, so maybe you find me
a different category. Yeah, thankyou. I remember growing up in a
day where if you had a guyon second base and no outs, that
was almost a guarantee run, autumnticguaranteed run. All right, you get
a little bunch, well, sackfly, you get the run, you
move on whatever. I also remembergrowing up in a day where if your

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starting pitcher went seven and gave uptwo, you won, You won the
game. And those things both happenedlast night, and the Mariners could not
get either one, the run inthe tenth or the win for Emerson Hancock.
To your first point, there wasabsolutely no part of me when I
saw the three guys that were comingup into the plate at the tenth,
There was no part of me thathad any hope in the tenth that they

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would actually try to wait to buythe game. I mean, Lockley,
er Rojas, and Luke Raileys hadnot inspired confidence. Whoa, what about
that lineup? Do you have aproblem with a phenomenal hitters? Yeah,
all star calip proven due all startcaliber, and and that is so I
saw those three hitters and I thought, Okay, Scott has to do something.

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He can't just let these guys walkto the plane took. This is
just what's going through my mind atthe time, right. He cannot let
these three walk to the plate andattempt to win the game in the traditional
manner of winning the game by swingingthe bat. That's just not going to
work. And so then we seeTyler Locklear literally look like you were me

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at the plate. It was ohmy god, it wasn't even close to
any of those pitches. And thenanother strikeout from Rojas, and then you
know you've sacrificed all opportunity to geta sackfly bro win. Oh yeah,
Luke Raley does hit a nice longsacrifice fly to us infield, but oh
wait, the runner is on secondand not third, Yeah, and not

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one. So it didn't work well. Let me ask you a question.
First of all, yes, doesany of this surprise you? Number one,
the guy's been here for nine yearszero. And then number two,
I don't know about Tyler Locklear's buntingskills. I'm assuming that Tyler Locklear does
not have a great history of droppingbunch down. I would imagine he doesn't
look like that kind of guy.Josh Rojas, I don't know if he

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does either. I mean, again, in theory, I agree with you
that, hey, that would havebeen the great thing to do to just
play for the run, get thetie, live to see the eleventh and
let's go. But this isn't howthey play. It's not how Scott's service
manages his team. I don't thinkit's what Jerry Depotle is looking for either.
To be totally honest with you,and I understand the criticism of Scott

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because I think there's been a coupleof games in the last maybe week and
a half or so where you canlook at the manager and say, you
know what, that really wasn't inyour finest hour. I mean, that's
happened a couple times in the pastmaybe ten days or so, and I
totally agree with that. But Ialso think that this approach is indicative of
a bigger philosophy organizationally that Jerry Depoto, justin Hollander, Scott's Service, all

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these guys subscribed to and come hellor high water, this is the approach
they're gonna take. I mean,they made all these changes to cut down
on k's and now they're on paceto strike out more times than they did
a year ago. I just mentionedthis to Chris Crawford in the in the
across talk guys, that the Twinsset a major league record, right did
they not last year? Yes,with sixteen hundred and fifty four k and
we were second and we were second, so if not for Minnesota, we

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would have been number one, okay, of all time. The Minnesota went
out and made some changes and nowthey're on pace to strike out three hundred
less times than a year ago,which would have been twenty first in baseball
last year, which is great.So why can Minnesota make these changes and
we can't? So look, Iget it, you're five and a half
up, your nine games above fivehundred, all that stuff is gravy,

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it's awesome, whatever, but mygod, they should be better than forty
and thirty one. With the pitchingthey're getting, they should be better than
forty and thirty one. They shouldbe better than five and a half games
up. Maybe I'm getting greedy,but I'm sorry they're not playing to their
potential right now. Five and ahalf should be eight and a half.
Forty and thirty one should be fortythree and twenty eight. This thing should
almost be over right, yeaesh inthis division, So you have all kinds

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of issues that are keeping you fromclosing the door on Texas and Houston.
I can't fathom as a coach.Yes I'm not a baseball coach, I
get it, but I can't fathomas a coach sitting on the bench watching
my team and I've got a gameplan, right, I've got a game
plan going again and gets this particid. Maybe I'm gonna I'm gonna run a

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zone, right, I'm gonna runa zone. I'm gonna trap occasionally.
And then I get into the gameand the team I'm playing knocks down six
of their first eight threes against thezone. Yep, yep. I gotta
make an adjustment at that point.It's what I'm doing. What my game
plan was wasn't working, and whenScott's service and Jerry to Poti you will

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put some I don't know you wantto be if you guys think we had
a check text right yesterday, it'sit's Jerry to Poto. You know,
if Jerry Depoto's declaring you do notmove runners over, you do not want
the basis No, Okay, Imean I don't know. I don't think
that's the case. I don't thinkthe Poto is on the phone calling Scott.
There's very teams to do that,and I would not be surprised are

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one of them. Well, okay, and your anders, you're right about
that. Let me just say this. I haven't heard that from anybody that
Jerry does that. Okay, Imean, have you heard that angers that
Jerry does that? Uh not likeemphatically, yes, that he does.
But I've heard rumblings that he doesmake in game decisions sometimes. Okay,
Well then, I mean, first, first of all, I don't like

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that number one. If that's thecase, that that would bother me.
Right, that the GM is stickinghis nose and things like that. His
job is to build the roster.But I think Jerry to Poto is bringing
Scott's service players that aren't conducive todoing what you're talking about doing. That's
correct. I agree with that,and I also think that players today they
don't grow up budding like we didthirty forty years ago. It's a totally

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different game. I mean with that, why do you think people went nuts
what Luke Rayley did a couple ofdays ago with two strikes. It's like,
oh my god, it was likeyou and me seeing the pope.
It's like, what the hell wasthat? Honestly did it on his own?
After Scott Servis got checked from thegame, I don't think. I
don't think, well, you know, rab but they they may have called
that from the bench though. Imean that that may postgame said I did

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it on my own. But Ithink, again, this is a this
is an organizational thing, and Ithink if Jerry Depoto had a problem with
the way Scott Service was managing thesegames, he'd fire them. Oh,
I agree, they're on the samepage. I then like, don't get
me wrong, whatever Scott's doing,I agree, he's on the same page
with Jerry. I will disagree alittle bit how much it's actually Jerry infiltrating

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the dugout and telling Scott what todo. I don't think it is either,
right. I agree with that wellinfiltrating just like a general like approach
to how we go about this thing. Right, But I understand and like
LI said before, if you havea be it whatever sport, right,
you have a thing that you do. Well, Okay, you know Pete
Carroll wants to run the ball andplay defense. Well, you know what,

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sometimes you gotta play shootouts right right, Sometimes you gotta adjust and you
gotta play shootouts in basketball. Yeah, maybe I'm a slow down team,
but you know, sometimes the oppositionor the way the game is going forces
you to do something else. Andyou have to be multifaceted as a team.

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Regardless of the sport. You haveto be able to do more than
one thing. If you're a shooterin basketball, you can't just be a
shooter. You know why, becausepeople will get in your grill, they
will go over the screens, theywill trap you, and they will not
allow you to shoot. You haveto have a secondary pitch and this offense
does not have a secondary pitch,and it is embarrassing to watch. Yeah,

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well, then bland the GM forthat. For putting that roster together.
Because if Jerry Depoto put a rostertogether that could be more versatile than
what you're seeing and he's not gettingthat from Scott Servis, then he should
fire the manager for not getting themost out of this roster. I think
it's time. And look, Istill I'm not giving up on this offense

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at all. All Right, Iknow you're busting my balls here today.
Well when's that gonna happen, Soffie? I still think that we're gonna see
this offense catch fire, right,I mean you got like, for example,
Hojore Polanco has an OPS one hundredand seventy six points below his career
average, and Mitch Garver is onehundred and seventy four points below his career
average. All I'm asking these guysis to be average, and they're not
being even average. So I thinkeventually two or three of them will catch

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fire. And this is not gonnabe about the deadline. This will be
about ty Franz coming off the IL, Polanco coming off the IL, and
those guys having a good couple ofmonths, right, Because all you need
now is a good couple of monthsout of these guys to maybe kind of
catch fire and really pump his leadup. But I just think in the
end, this is what this rosteris. I mean, like last night,
for example, you're saying you hadno confidence in the bottom of the
tenth They had Tyler Locklear, VictorRoebliss, Ryan Bliss, and Sebbi Zavalla

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in the starting lineup last night.What the hell kind of an offense is
that. Well, then then blamethe GM for that. And part of
this is injuries. Part of thisis absolutely injuries. There's no question about
that that it's injuries. I mean, you were supposed to have available when
this When when the season began andyou talked about a June thirteenth matchup with
the Chicago White Sox, you'd say, oh, we got Matt Brash,

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we got Santos, we got Palanco, we got Ty Franz. None of
those guys were available last night.Those are four pretty good players that were
not available for the game. I'mnot saying they're all performing when they got
hurt, But the bottom line islast night's game, they could probably get
away with it against a team likeChicago, but I'm curious to see what
they do this weekend against the TexasRangers, because I agree with Chris Crawford
man, the Rangers are starting topick it up. They won a series

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against the Dodgers. They're pissed off. They know this is a big series
for them, Like this is thiswas like a bigger series for Texas than
it does for Seattle. If theyplay like they did against White Sox And
I tweeted out some numbers and I'llgive them to you here. What if
I don't want them the mayor?What if? What if and doesn't want
him? Find take your numbers andshove them up. You're against the worst
team in baseball. They led forseven innings. I saw that trailed for

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fourteen, and were tied for seventeen. Thirty one of the thirty eight innings
played against the worst team in baseball. You were either tied or behind.
Yeah, if you play like youdid in this four game series, againt
Chicago, you will get your assswept this weekend. Well, they got
Dylan Moore. They got Dylan Mooreplaying third base tonight, hitting seventh.
This is the bottom of the order. More Locklier, Roe, Bliss and

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Bliss. There you go. That'swhat you have against the Rangers. Tonight's
World Series stuff. I've taken DylanMoore out of the two hole. Dylan
Moore has a what I say,he's got a where are his damn numbers?
For sure? No, I gotit, I got it. He's
uh God, what the hell?I can't even read my own freaking writing
while you're looking for it. Letme just say I will. I'm gonna
put some onus on Jerry here Versecond I know is making three ninety one

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oh P last sixteen. Sorry forDylan Moore. The last two we got
three ninety three ninety one OPS.We used to have guys in baseball that
had three ninety one on base percentages. Now he's got a three ninety one
OPS in the last sixteen. He'sstarting at third base tonight. Jerry replaced
Gino Suarez, who sticks, TaoscarHernandez who's really good, and Jared Kelnick

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with Jorge Polanco, Mitch Garver andwho was the Thirdie mich and mitchang He
made the offense worse in the offseason. I don't think there's any question.
And here are the numbers the Marinersthis year versus last year's OPS, month
by month last year six eighty sevenoh eight seven oh two. First three

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months of the season six eighty sevenoh eight, seven oh two. This
year six forty nine, six seventysix, eighty eight. Month by month
that's been worse. Every single monthof twenty twenty four has been has been
worse than the respective month of twentytwenty three. By the way, here's
why Dylan Morris starting tonight. He'ssix for sixteen lifetime off of Andrew Heeney
with a twelve twenty four OPS,so not a huge sample, obviously less

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success. Yeah, and by theway, Hanneger's got an eleven to fifty
seven ops off of heene in twentyfive abs and or twenty five at bats
in three bombs. So that's whyhe's in there tonight. But like Anders
said, he's been struggling, somaybe tonight is the night he gets going.
But again, I look all thosemoves that they made, with the
exception of Mitch Haniger, I thoughtwere good moves. I mean, Garver

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over what they had last year atDH. What I tell you, guys,
off the year, the Mariner DHposition last season was twenty fifth in
baseball with a six eighty eight OPS. Now they're twelfth in baseball with a
seven thirty six OPS. Part ofthat is because everybody's down offensively, but
they've improved that spot. They've improvedthat spot over last year. So I

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thought Polanco over Colton Wong, clearupgrade Garver over what they had last year.
Clear up the Polanco's ben Colton Wong. Correct. Yeah, but again,
but I thought, if I wouldhave told you back in December,
you can have Coldon Wong or JorgePolanco playing second baseball, what would you
have said? Everybody would have setsPolanka. That's right. You can have
Cooper Hummel, tommyle Stella, DylanMoore, or you can have Mitch Garver.

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What do you say that's gonna say, Mitch Garbo? How much do
we rip Jerry for that? Gay? Well? Again, like he's just
playing the back of the baseball card. This guy and these guys are supposed
to do them right, but hegets credit when things go well and he
gets criticized when they don't end thestory enough. I mean, what else
do you a great a GM onwins and losses? That's it period.
All the moves made sense, buthey, I'm not the one that gets

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the glory. Or takes the criticismwhen things don't don't go well. Maybe
they're in the wrong part. Maybeit's the wrong mix of players. I
don't know. The only move Ihad a problem with was the Handiger tios
something. That's the only move Ihad a problem with it. I'll tell
you why. Because when Mitch Handigersigned his contract with the Giants like three
years, forty five million, whateverit was, or we can't do that
right, Yeah, And I saidthat on the air, that's ridiculous.

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Hanniger's never healthy. How can yougive the guy fifteen million dollars make him
your starting right fielder if he's gonnamiss, you know, seventy five games.
So I thought the move from Hannegerto Hernandez made total sense. And
then you come back and you gothe opposite way when you couldn't justify paying
Mitch Hanneger fifteen million two years ago, but you can do it now.

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I mean it's like you sold uson this one thing and now you're telling
us the exact opposite two years later. So that's the only thing I had
a problem with. Well, andyou mentioned the home road thing. I
mean, here's what I don't understand. The home road split. Last year,
right, there was only a pointsix ERA difference on the road versus
on home. Right, this yearit's almost two. It's two five,

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eight to four, four to seven. Yeah, let's wait till the end
of the year on that. Imean, I don't think the number is
going to be drastically different, butI think it's gonna get better when the
schedule lightens up. They have theeasiest schedule the rest of the way in
baseball. We all know that someof this may be the schedule. It
just may be circumstances whatever I thinkwe have sometimes and I'm guilty of it
too. I just did it fora bunch of players. By the way,

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I think sometimes we get into atrap of looking at numbers in the
middle of the year and then creatingthis seasons with season long narrative. Yes,
right, I mean that's not thecase, right with a lot of
these guys. So I think youhave to check on that towards the end
of the year. This is why. And you're gonna vomit here when I
bring this up. And Andrews mayvomit as well, But I'm only worried
about you already have. Yeah,it's amazing. It's oymen twice, you're

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forty and thirty one, You're ninegames over, your offense has been putred,
your pitching staff half the time hasnot been very good, and you're
still finding a way to get ninegames over. This is not gonna take
a lot to get this thing towhere we want it to be. If
you can get a couple of guysto step up and maybe make a couple
of minor changes on the road andthe schedule opens up, I still think

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this is a ninety plus win team. Easy, easy with the off with
the talent they've got. And sowhat I'm asking is for Polanco and Ty
France and even Julio who had anotherunbelievable bomb off a ninety nine mile an
hour fastball last night to right field, just do your job. Do your
freaking job. And if they don'tdo their job, then it's going to
be a problem. But if youjust do your job, this team,

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I think I'm telling you, Dick, this team is built for awesome stuff
this year. We'll talk more aboutthat coming up a little fun with audio
at three forty five. Jerry BrewerUncle Jay will join us. Coming up
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Foundation Specialists Broadcast Studio. Now backto Softie and Dick on your Home for
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little fun with audio coming up threeforty fives off the and Dick from
Jimmy's on verst Anders Anders is backin the studio. I feel like we

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have a bell ding ding ding dingenders my dinner enders, my boss.
No, that didn't work. Okay, that's that's right, Oh jingle,
you know whatever that makes sense.Hang on out here. Jamie's on first,
getting ready for the Mariners and Rangerstonight. A couple of things.
I love when I see rumors onsocial media that I don't believe are true,
but I want to talk about himanymore. Okay, So your boy

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ari Myrov, you know who thatis. He's not. He's the my
sports update guy. He works forthe thirty third team. I don't know
if he's like, you know,a dove climbing guy or not, but
he's all over Twitter as they're tryingto followers whatever. So, and I
have no idea where this came from. This may be him saying this and
maybe somebody else reporting this. AriMyrov two hours ago says the Bears were

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open to trading a future fourth toAtlanta to move up from number nine to
number eight to secure Roman doonsay Atlantawasn't interested, and they stayed at eight
and they drafted Michael Pennix. Sowhy would Atlanta not drop back a spot
when the Bears just took Caleb Williams. Know they're on They're not gonna draft
two quarterbacks, okay, and getyourself a free fourth rounder? The hell

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are they doing? That? Seemslike a massive dip, sticky and mistake
by Atlanta unless they just lost afifth rounder for tampering, by the way,
unless they thought that, okay,the Bears might make this trade and
then someone might call the Bears.So why would that team not call the
Falcons? Right? So? Theyso? So they think that the Bears

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are gonna make a deal to moveup one spot and then a call from
somebody else to get out of thatspot when that team could have just called
the unlikely I'm just trying to playDevil's advocate here. Well, you know
what, I gotta be honest withyou. This is so insanely dumb by
Atlanta. And if I'm missing something, please tell me. I don't.
I don't believe it. I don'tbelieve it. Sorry, I don't believe

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it. I don't believe the Falconsare that stupid, because they just again
the Bears are saying, we're gonnamove up. We want Roma Doonza.
We think that you're gonna give KirkCousins a target, and so we think
you might draft Romadonza. We're notdrafting a quarterback. We just took Caleb
Williams. The Falcons know that ifthey had Panics in their sights all along,
they could have gotten them gotten Mikeat number nine, just as easily

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at number eight, and gotten theextra four round draft pick. I don't
believe it. I got so stupidlydumb by Atlanta. I can't imagine I
got another potential scenario. Okay,here we go run that. At the
time that the phone call came in, Atlanta still wasn't sure they were gonna
draft Michael Pains. They were stilldebating, So there maydi Roma donsay was
one of the guys that they wereconsidering as well. Wow, and said,

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pretty big pivot, man, itis. That's a big pivot to
go from robat Dunsay to a quarterback. I'm trying to give the Atlanta Falcons
front office the benefit of doubt thatthey're not entirely stupid. I don't buy
this story. That's because of thestory's true, then they're entirely well.
I'm calling bs your your dick vanemeter or whatever it is that goes up.

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I'm not buying any smiff tests,however, because they would just be
ridiculous, you know. And again, if they're sitting there in the in
their draft room, is it tenminutes now in the clock in first run
picks ten minutes in the correct theygot ten minutes and they're sitting around going,
man, we fell in love withMichael Pennix, all these stories,
but they came to see Atley workedthem out. They loved them. We
don't know, we got six minutesleft. Maybe we should take his teammate.

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I mean, what the hell.No, at that point, at
that point in time, with eightminutes on the clock, they know what
they're doing. They're drafting, they'regetting the quarterbacks. So, I mean,
look, it's possible that they're ridiculouslydumb and they just weren't thinking.
I mean, I can't think ofanother scenario where they would not take the
free draft pick and get the guythey were looking for in the first place.

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And again, unless they thought theBears would take Michael Pennix and draft
two quarterbacks in the top eight,which nobody's ever done in the history of
the NFL draft outside of like thenineteen forties. How many stuff arts does
Michael Pennox make this year? Ithink he makes at least one. I
think Cousin is gonna get bad too. I think I think there is a
you know, there's a part ofme that thinks that Michael Pennix either by

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injury or he just looks that goodin practice. Yeah, probably by injury.
You would have to give him thefirst you know, the first shot,
yea, and that he comes inand looks great, and the Falcons
fans are going, yeah, whyare we going back to October twenty?
Cousins October twenty. I was justabout to say, what if it's at
Seahawks, tell them what happens Octobertwenty. If the Atlanta Falcons. You

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know they're in Atlanta, and Atlantathey host the Seattle Seahawks, So I
mean, hey, that'd be interesting. I thought I had read that they're
giving Tyler Heineke all the number onereps until Cousins comes back for now,
that he's kind of their guy rightnow, that Penix is the number two
guy in practice. I thought i'dread that. But anyway, why wouldn't
you give Pennis the number one repsjust to give him more reps? Probably

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because they just feel like they're gonnasit on him for a couple of years
anyway with Cousins right. Uh.The other story I want to get to
in this segment before Fun with Audio. So are you you're a Seahawks season
ticket holder? Right am? Sothey sent out check your email. This
came in I believe yesterday six thirtyor so. I can't tell exactly what

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time it was, but the Seahawkssent a Apple Cup pre sale code for
people to buy tickets for the AppleCup in September. How's the sales going
there? Day? Not very good? So I I clicked on it and
what I'm seeing and you can seethis right here, Dick. This is
the seating chart, Cougars are onthe h Seahawks side and the Huskies are
on the on the west side.So the Cougars are on this side of

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the stadium. Okay, and there'sa bunch of seats available in the Cougar
section. I'm sorry, the Cougarsare on Yeah, yeah, No,
what's the what's the what's the Seahawksside? You're you were looking at it,
wrecking at it from the wrong way. Yeah, the Huskies are on
that's on the on the visitings.The Cougars are on the Seahawks side.
That's correct. So there's a tonof seats left on the Cougar side.
That's the water uns correct, tonsof seats left on the west side of

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the stadium, And there are alot of seats in the upper deck,
but not as many seats in thelower bowl on the Husky side. So
what I'm hearing is that they've soldabout twenty three thousand tickets total, and
they got about nineteen thousand of thoseon the Husky section. Well, the
Cougar fans are not buying tickets forthe Apple Cup. I was you know,
I got those pre sale notices.I get your tickets now. Hurry,

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hurry, hurry, gets your ticketsnow before they go out to the
general public. I saw the pricesand I was like, there's no way,
in two months the prices are goingto be this hot. They will
come down for sure. So I'mjust playing the supply and demand game.
I got a bunch of friends.I mean, I got as many of
you know, there's a lot ofinterest, like from both my friends that
are Huskies and Cougars. Hey,let's get a block. Let's get ten
seats, let's get twelve seats,and we probably will end up doing that,

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right, But I'm hoping to spendsomewhere in the seventy five dollars range
instead of what they were looking fororiginally. Well, seventy five bucks are
in the upper deck in the corners. I'm looking at the Cougar sideline.
I'm talking about secondary market, rightright, I can probably get better seats,
oh for sure. I'm just sayingfor now, there's seventy five bucks
in the corner. Face value ticketsa row V, which is like the
thirty five yard line section one thirtyfour or two hundred and sixty bucks for

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a ticket. But those are goodseats. Those are really really good seats.
So I agree with you. Ithink ticket prices will totally come down
on the secondary market. I thinkyou'll be able to, when it's all
said and done, probably get prettygood seats for one hundred dollars, if
not cheaper than that. For theApple Cup. I just think that Cougar
fans are not having it. Forwhatever reason, they're not having it.
You know, some people say,the hell will them, We don't want

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the charity, we don't need you, blah blah blah. I saw a
guy tweet me that we'd rather playTexas Tech and Pullman than go to Seattle
and play you. Dub Well.You had the Apple Cup at lumen Field
like thirteen years ago when Cason Williamshad that, when he jumped over the
guy and Bishop Sankie had that.Whatever, maybe there's a Stanford game,
but they've had games there and theCougar fans came out and they were fired

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up. So I want to hearfrom Kug fans on the text line at
four nine four five one are youinto this at all? This game being
in Seattle? Because I thought,for from a Cougar perspective, this would
be great. Let's let's let's doit here, let's split the field.
We'll have some fun with it.I think Cougar fans are so frigging pissed
off at you Dub right now,and they don't want anything to do with

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anything Husky related, and they're sayingand they are flexing their muscles by not
buying it. I think there's Ithink there's definitely a percentage of them.
But I think, like anything,right, the anger, the vitriol,
it's gonna die down right. Itwas like it was like me, how
hot was I after the Mariners gamelast night? Right, I'm not as
hot anymore as I was then Cougarfans. Cougar fans are hot, okay,

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And in three, four, five, six years they won't be as
hot. And I think the rivalrywill never leave time. The rivalry will
never be the same exactly the sameas it was because we're not in the
same conference anymore. But I thinkit's still gonna be a really good avery
down there. Yeah, well Ihope so, I hope so. But
for now, the uh, theHusky fans are greatly outwinging Cougar fans as

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far as how many, how manytickets are so long game for us for
this event, well, it feelslike it. And again, I mean,
will they get sixty five thousand people? It's possible they won't. They
might have forty five fifty thousand people, and they might. There might be
ten thousand empty seats at this thingin September, and I think ticket prices
will go down, absolutely will godown. All right, fun with audio
slash hat Did you hear that?Babe? Coming up on ninety three three

(30:27):
kJ RFM. It's now time forSofty in Dicks one with audio Jimmy g
pawn Star Jimmy mister garoppolo. Nowlet's have some fun with audio. All
right, we're back here. Jimmyis on first, Softy Dick anders Anders

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in for Jackson felts Uh. Canthe Oilers win a damn game? Please?
Please the MAVs too. The hellwith the MAVs. I'd like to
see the someone of the series.We don't care the NBA partals. Nobody
likes sweet. I don't give adamn it. But the NBA Finals anymore,
that's done. May as well getit tonight ended in Dallas, although
maybe Boston wants to win it inBoston. I don't know. I mean,

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you're a basketball coach. If you'reJoe Missoula, what's the name of
the Joe? Yeah. How manypeople can name the head coach of the
Boston Celtics now, probably quite abit, you think, not two months
ago? Really? Not before theplayoffs, because I think there's a lot
of people. I think there's alot of people that don't watch any NBA
basketball until the playoffs. How manypeople in this bar could name the head
coach of the Boston Not many,judges, I don't I would judge one.

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If not, well, I'd putthe over under it at point five.
Because of the age of the folksin here. You know that what
are you talking about? Old peoplecan't be basketball fans. Have you seen
the Have you seen the demos forthe ratings? Are you a sir?
Are you a basketball fan? Youlike basketball? Who's the head coach of
the Boston Celtics? Any idea?You got no idea? He's got nothing.

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Have you you've seen the demographic ratings? Eighteen to thirty four is killing
I'm sure in the he doesn't meanthat older folks don't watch basketball. I'm
just saying discriminating against old people?Is there one person in this bar?
One? Yes, that is eighteento thirty four? Well it's a one,
so no, no, but theremight be people. Thirty four year
olds can't go to a bar.We'll go ask the guys in the restaurant.

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All right, all right, we'llgo find out. I think you're
I can't believe how unbelievably insensitive yourbeing. Ask your parents, Ask your
dad who the curse is of?Bill Wadey knows, he doesn't, right,
he has no idea. You gotno idea? All right, you're
ready a little fun with audio slashhat? Did you hear that? Adic?
Did you? I've been here?That is all right, we start

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in. Let's go to number threethere anders MLB Central. This morning,
Bill Ripkin talked about why the Marinersare built to win in the playoffs.
Their pitching is so good and youryour question was during that highlight, can
they score enough runs? Well,two is enough runs for them on any
given night because their pitchers go outthere and dominate. So I'm not overly

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concerned with the Mariners offense at thispoint in time. They're built certain way.
They got a little mojo working,right, now that when Hanneger came
in and hit that gork into rightfield the drop, he had a little
bit of a back toss like celebratingthe win because he knew it was over
and he only hit it one hundredand forty two feet off his knuckles.

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You see these numbers here, whatthe Mariners do in one run games.
That's the best market baseball. TheAstros on the flip side, they had
the worst record in one run games, and that for me, so go
along with that's the glaring difference.Go along with those one run games from
it. They play a lot ofthem. They're used to playing them.
Their starters go deep into games,which allows the opportunity to use your bullpen
the way you want to use theminstead of the when you have to use

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them. So the more they're usedto winning those games, I think nobody
wants to play games against them likethat. And if we get into playoffs,
you're playing off better teams. Thegames are usually tighter. They're gonna
be in the one or two runrange. They're used to it. Billy
Ripkin likes the Mariners. He's morepositive about them than you are. Well,
I don't think he said anything unfairthere. I agree with that.

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By the way, they're built forthe postseason. Ah, I do somewhat
somewhat. But there's two words thatI always think of when I think of
Billy Ripkin. Yeah, chicken facef face yea from the baseball and do
you have any idea what we're talkingabout? No clue? Wow, God,
we're getting old. We know thehead coach of the Celtics and Bill

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Ripkins the knob of the bat nineteeneighty nine flier right, I thought it
was eighty eight. It was aneighty eight or eighty nine. Go look
at the Bill Ripkin f face cardye, and you'll see what I'm talking
about. I got one with thewords, and I got one with the
boxed out words, and I gotone with no words. Absolute, so
good. I understand what we saying. I just think that. And I

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mentioned these to you in the duringthe break. This baseball team has not
pitched well on the road, andI do not see this staff as good
as they have been overall, gettinginto Yankee Stadium and shutting down the Yankees'
bats in the playoffs, which meansthen you gotta be then you gotta score
with them. But yeah, butyou realize that in a seven game series,

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you'll play three games at Teama WillPark. So can you get one
on the road? I mean,they're sixteen and nineteen on the road.
They have like the exact same roadrecord. The Royals have to be honest
with you, so, I mean, I'm not as worked up about the
road situation as you are. That'sone of those numbers I want to check
when the year comes to it.I think it'd be a lot of share.
All Right, we gotta get toa break. Jerry Brewer is gonna

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join us, coming up next onninety three to three KJRFM.