August 7, 2024 • 28 mins
In the second hour, Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain chat with Petros Papadakis about Jim Harbaugh’s penalty from his time at Michigan and what he’s seeing in the Olympics, then the guys listen and react to comments from Mariners Manager Scott Servais today.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's time for our weekly conversation with college football analyst
Petros Papa Dakas.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Not that I'm a smart guy, I'm stupid.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 3 (00:23):
Don't know.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Now with Petros Peer's Dave Softy Muller.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Writing boards and girls, here we go back here at
the Virginia Mason Athletics Center. It is our pleasure, absolute honor,
really hashtag blessed, as the kids like to say to
welcome in the pride of Southern California sports talk radio,
husband of the Year, father of the month, and one
damn fine Greek American. Our buddy Petros Papa ducis brought
(00:57):
to you.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Bye, Well, that would be the only Sweet James, the
dense beard of justice. You know, if you've ever been
in a car accident or a motorcycle accident, maybe even
a dog has beaten your balls. Whatever it is, Sweet
James knows the ancient secrets and which to extract the
money you deserve from your insurance company.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
What the agent secrets. I'm just thinking about, like mister
Miagi here.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
First, well, well there's a story behind that, okay, but
eight hundred and nine million, that's eight hundred nine million.
You want to hear the story. I do.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Years ago, many years ago, I was still playing college football,
so like twenty four years ago I was. I had
watched I've always been afraid of it, but I was
much older, and I had watched the movie The Exorcist. Okay, yeah,
and you know, a disturbing film and all that, and
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saw the movie. And the next morning I was at
my parents' house early in the morning, sitting there drinking coffee,
and my father emerged and I said to him, you know,
I I saw The Exorcist last night. He goes, yes, yes, sir.
The priest was Greek Orthodox in the movie, and I
(02:15):
said not. Well, I said, well, he was a Greek,
you know, because I guess his mother or grandmother were
speaking to him in Greek. He was a Greek person
of Greek heritage God, but he happened to be in
the movie a Catholic priest, which is quite rare. He
was a Greek guy, but he was a Catholic priest.
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And my father, no, I know that is not the truth.
I said, no, Dad, I just watched it last night.
I mean it's literally a Catholic movie. It's called The Exorcist.
The guy is a Catholic priest. You are incorrect, my son.
And we went back and forth, and then he said,
(02:56):
only the Greeks. Do you want it in the the
voice or you wanted him?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I want the voice, I want the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Only the Greeks know the ancient secrets in which to
eradicate Satan.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Oh God, I love it. I just keep waiting for
you to say you like it of geez eh.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Yeah, well we're not from a skit. We're real people.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Oh yeah, yeah, Greeks are real people too.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yeah, okay, even though they're comical idiots.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
By the way, you know, The Exorcist came out the
year I was born, nineteen seventy three.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Well there you go.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
How about that. I'm not a big horror movie guy
ever since I saw The Changeling. You ever see The Changeling?
Early eighties?
Speaker 3 (03:39):
I am also not a big horror movie Yeah, yeah,
I got yeah, the people under the stairs, all that stuff.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I don't get how people get into this. Well Son,
you know, Halloween is a classic, you know, but it
sure is Freddy Krueger, the whole thing night, Mary elm Street.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Yeah, everybody likes to watch.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Teenagers just not really into it.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Man.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
You ever see like those seventies low budget horror movies
like the Microwave Massacre, things like that.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Yeah, Attack of the Killer to Mendim, Toxic Avenger. Yes, yes,
I don't know where we're going here. You brought it up, man, No,
I didn't bring anything up. You asked about the agent secrets,
and I brought up the Exorcist and about my father,
and then that was that.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Now we've gone from sweet James to your father, to
a toxic Avenger and the Exorcist all in one segment.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
It's time to sports it up.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
There's not many people that can do that in this business,
and you're one of them.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Yeah, well, no, I can totally do it.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Okay, you want to sports it up, fine, Well, sports
it I'm.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Just kind of tired. I've been getting up early and
doing the Fox Sports radio thing.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
You sound kind of cranky to be honest with you.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Yeah, no, I had a one. I've been getting up
at like four in the morning and Dragon Brady, Quinn
and LeVar around for their last hour all week.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
So you're hosting the show or just going on as
a guest.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
I go on as a guest every Wednesday. Okay, Like
I come on as a guest here every Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
And how long do you spend?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
It's not the same as we you and I do,
maybe a little shorter because of the national clock, which.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Still go back to bed after that.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Sometimes sometimes I go to yoga, but I, uh, the
four am wake up and like get ready to talk
and have a have a take, don't suck? Yeah? Uh
is well, you know, and then getting up and do
it in the afternoon again, starting to wear your boy
down a little bit, you know, one more day tomorrow, appearing.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
At the Jungle, the Jungle, have a take, don't suck?
It's on Twitter Jungle, all right?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (05:34):
It is?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
What it? I said? I'm tired. This is your show?
Do you like? Are you trying to upset me? You are?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
You're intentionally trying to upset me. I'm sorry, I apologize,
You're not sorry.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
You like this when you get to say when you
come back from break, Hey, Dick, did you see I
really got to him to really upset Petro's God, he's unstable.
Didn't you like that? And that fun? Making fun of
that guy who's an idiot?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
What else is bothering you? Just let it out?
Speaker 3 (06:06):
My kids are terrible. If there's no camp, they just
wear a sad you know. And I'm trying to go
back to sleep, you know, at some point during the
day because I'm exhausted, and they're screaming and yelling and
running around and doing cannon balls. I've had my wife
sage the house twice. That doesn't work. They still act
like total a holes.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Oh my god?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Or what else? Just ask me sports? Let me sports
it up.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Should have kept their poots on your pants back in
the day, Palace, I want you shut up. How about
your buddy Jim Harbaugh. You think he got busted by
the NCAA. You didn't hear about that stuff?
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Right?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Four years? Four years? Show cause he's banned for four years. Well,
he's not banned. He is banned. He's banned, not banned.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
You can get a job and have show cause, asked
Bruce Pearl, Right, But he can't do anything for four years.
He can do stuff, it's just not recommended. I'm pretty
sure that's what show cause means.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
No, I think he's out for four years. Man, the
same thing. Who's the basketball coach that we hired, the guy,
Tony Bland, same thing.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
If you get show cause, it's not the end of
the world. I'm pretty sure you can still coach.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Well, he can coach in the NFL. No, he can
coach in college. Yeah, but he can't do anything. Don't
you know the definition to show cause? Okay, well, would
you like me to read it to you. It's right
in front of my face.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Yeah, go ahead, do it, that pez, dispenser of the
mouth of yours.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Let me show cause. Penalty means the school wanting to
hire a coach serving that penalty must appear before the
NCAA committee, and a fraction is to explain why it
wants to do so. We want to hire this school
wanting to hire Harbaugh to suspend him for the first
full year. After that, he would still be barred from
athletics related activities, including team travel, practice, video study, recruiting,
(07:55):
and team meetings until the order expires. He can't do
anything for four years. Yeah, but he can still get
it and he can make sixteen million dollars a year.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Yeah. No, I mean, I guess there's a reason he
got out. And it is interesting because nobody respects the
NCAA anymore. But I guess this you have to adhere
to if it's uh, if it is what you say
it is, And I have no reason to believe.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I just read the story.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
I know you're very good at making legal ease up
in the moment.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Don't tell anybody, no, I mean, you know it.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
But the Michigan thing upsets me in a couple different
ways because it's easy to sit there and write it
off and say, oh my god, look at they were cheating,
and look at this, and look at that, and oh
my god, cheater, cheater, you're moded, you're corroded, your butt exploded.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
But there's a drop Jackson, be honest, please.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
They did not build that team from cheating and recruiting
and from knowing that somebody was going to run a
why stick. They built that team if you look at
the recruiting numbers. They built it through their culture. They
built it through their offensive and defensive line. They did
what people thought you were unable to do in the
(09:12):
modern era, which is create a true dominant, close knit
college football team. And they did that. And you can say, yeah,
Harbaugh's got a show cause because he did this wrong,
or whenever you start looking under anybody's curtain, you're going
to be able to find something that get people. So
(09:33):
that part of it bothers me. But there also is
a built in arrogance from Michigan here and an fu
I won't do what you tell me rage against the
machine style from Harbaugh. And that's been the case when
he left Stanford maybe a little bit certainly was the
case when he left the Niners and didn't leave Michigan
(09:53):
pretty either, kind of left to stick it to somebody.
And there's something that Jack Harbaugh said many years ago
in an interview that was quite telling. It was funny,
but it was also telling. And they said, you know,
what was it like moving every three four years as
a kid because your call your father was a football coach.
And he said, well, no, it was good because about
(10:15):
three years is about how long it took everybody in
town to hate Jim.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
And he eventually turns everybody off, for sure, but he wins.
He wins, everywhere you.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Go doubt about it. So what, there's no doubt about it.
And I've always gotten along well with Jim Harbaugh, and
everybody gets super excited when he's around it first, and
I say, just wait, you know you're not gonna a
little bit Pete Carroll like, but very different in some ways.
You'll see some of the wrinkles up close, and yeah,
(10:44):
that's that's the case. He's he totally gives you the
ten yard stare from I mean, the thousand yards stare
from five yards every once in a while. And that's
just part of Jim Harbaugh. But I guess they don't care.
I don't know what mission's going to be Michigan's going
to be like under Sharon Moore, but I would imagine
that some of that culture from the last few years
is going to carry over and they'll be pretty good.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
I mean, I think I just look, I'm not a
Michigan fan. My parents went to Michigan, but I'm not
a Michigan fan per se. I just think eventually the players.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Well you know what the place is like then top Yeah,
for sure, but you have an understanding of what they
are and who they are, and they're but the point
is that.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
They may be the ones holding this bag because now
this has nothing to do with the Connor Stallions thing.
By the way, the show caused penalty for Harbaugh is
about recruiting violations during COVID. Sure, so now they got
the other stuff to worry about. And if they get
put on probation, or they get guys that get suspended,
or they get guys that lose their jobs, or they
got to give back games, the guys that are there
(11:45):
now who had nothing to do with it will end
up holding the bag. Yeah, long, I say wrong.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
One of the many incongruities that we deal with every
day working with college sports and the NCAA. It's always
been stupid. I mean, look at the USC situation. I
mean they a generation or two of us. He football
was destroyed because of a bunch of stuff Pete Carroll did.
And where and where was he when all those players
were suffering? He had no knowledge. Pete had no knowledge.
(12:14):
He created an environment of lack of institutional control. Do
you need me to read that for you? You want
me to look that one up or do you want
to read that one off your ipips? It was all
under him, but he had no idea.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
What.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Okay, Chaucer, thanks for telling me that the Miller's tale
going on behind of course.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
The point is, you know when USC was suffering, where
was Pete Carroll? He was winning super Bowls. And that's
what the Chargers hope that you, Michigan may suffer. They
won't suffer like USC. It's a different NC Double A
and these are different allegations. But Michigan is going to
suffer and Jim Harbaugh is going to be making money
in the pros. That's one of the many things wrong
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with the NC Double A and the way they handle this.
And I agree with Paul Finbaum when he says nobody
takes the NC double A seriously anymore. But I guess
a show cause is a real thing, and it means
you can't do anything.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
If they also said that Jim Harbaugh has pulled off
the biggest scam in the history of college.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Football, Fine bomb said that yesterday. Oh well, that's because
he works for the SEC and it's a big that's
like you, he's a shock jockey, doesn't He's not a
straight shooter like me.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
I'm a shock jock.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
I'm one of the few honest brokers left in all
of sports media.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Petro's Papadacus broker of honesty. I love it. Hey, I
saw where speaking to USC I saw where Reggie Bush's
Heisman trophy is back on campus. Yes, that's pretty fun
WHOA right, that's a big deal. By the way, just
back to the fine bomb thing for a second. He
called Jim Harbor the Jack Nicholson of coaching for his
(13:48):
Oscar winning performance about the NCABLEA investigation. That's pretty funny.
Go back to Reggie.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
I mean none of these things matter to me. I
mean Reggie Bush.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Yeah, okay, I see you then, because I'm tired of
bringing stuff up. You're asking me to sports. Give talking
about horror movies, and you want me to start talking sports.
I start talking sports, and you tell me you don't
give a damn about any of it.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
I'm watching Cutter beat the crap out of our men's
volleyball duo here on the beach. These two dudes from Cutter,
and I don't know where they came from, where they
imported him men's car.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
By the way, don't be Wolf Blitzer. Well, whatever their
doody says Cutter, they say Cutter because they're from Cutter
and they have an accent. They're slapping Cutters all over
the USA team right now, right under the phallix symbol
of the Eiffel Tower. I also watched I watched the steeplechase. Yeah,
I watched the one hundred. I love the men's hundred.
(14:45):
The fifteen hundred was one of the great races of
all time. Yeah from yesterday right, Yes, I've been enjoying
the game. My wife's uh, you know, Gina works for
Brooks Running Shoes. I don't know if you knew that
or not.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
I did not.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
And they had a uh, who's the guy from Great
Britain at finished second?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Oh, the guy with the Oakley blades. Yeah whatever, and
he beat the more him and the Morrissey looking guy
from Norway. Those two guys were like talking all this
ass and igniting the mother the runner world with vitriol
and they went and ran that race and uh, well,
the brit ended up being second, but two USA guys.
(15:21):
I think it's the first time we got two medals. Yeah,
Hawker and the other dude. They first time we've had
two medals for one hundred years. In the fifteen hundred,
those guys got big lung, softy, they breathe. They breathe
so hard.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
I would die doing that.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Yeah, I think just about most people would. And like
you watch these people run the four hundred and they
can't even stand up when they're done. And what finally
tuned athletes in the world.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Did you get your San Juan Seltzer gift pack yet
from Oh.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
That's right, Yes, I did get my San Juan Seltzer.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Yes, that's brightening my day. I'm gonna go up there
and start drinking. That'll help. I'll take the edge off
this interview.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Yeah, there they were mad at you. We we had
a little zoom call last week and meetings about to end.
I think I'm done. I can move on. And you
told that Petro Skuy you stop kissing white claws ass.
I'm second.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Well, I'm not trying to kiss white claws ass. I
don't drink white claw. But I got this San Juana
the Fringe. I'm sure gonna give that a whirl. And
I have a T shirt now too.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
You know what you do with that San Juan Seltzer,
You make a bomb out of it. You know how
to do that? At a shot of Tito's Bombay.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Is that what you do? San Juan? Okay?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
With that thousand percent? They're okay with that?
Speaker 3 (16:33):
All right?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Okay? Have you ever been in the San Juan Islands
by the.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Way, No, I didn't want to cross the streams like ghostbusters.
But if that's what you want to do.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
You know what.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Bothers me about the Olympics go ahead? Is stupid? Why
is it all about the celebrities in the crowd. There's
a lot of celebs like you want to show Michael Phelps, fine,
but I don't care if Olivia Rodrigo is there, Like, well,
leave me alone. This is for amateur athletes, Tom, I
mean it isn't it a microcosm of our problems in
(17:04):
this country? Where some French swimmer walks into the uh
the arena and saw that cheering for him. I'm the
hero of the story. I'm Lebron. They must be cheering
for me.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
That was amazing.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
God, what a god? Leo is it?
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Leo Marshawn? Is that right?
Speaker 3 (17:24):
And the exuberance of Snoop Dogg. What a wonderful thing. Oh,
they're paying him five hundred dollars a day and it's
a he's he's working for the Voice. It's all a commercial.
F u f everybody.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Don't you realize that? I have to look at TV.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
If Tarico points his little sausagey fingers at the one
more time, I'd rather cost Us with his puff filled
pink I was there, And can you believe the thick
asses of these water polo chicks wow.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Buds filed pink eye.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
I do remember that dude Costas had more crust than
the San Andreas fault on that day, man, and I
take that over freaking weeny fingers, Turco and all those information.
Oh hello, Snoop, I remember when you were tried for murder.
I'm Mike Trico.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
God, oh god, anything else? No, okay, we gotta go
all right, enjoy hey two weeks but we got college
football two weeks from Saturday. You got way own.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
There's Hoda looking sweatier than me on TV. Great.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
I love this, all right, dude, I love you.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Do you see the gold teeth on the dude that
won the four hundred?
Speaker 2 (18:50):
No?
Speaker 3 (18:51):
God, I thought it was Paul wall.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
All right?
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Bye? Ah?
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Is he God? I think he's gone? Oh my god,
all right, we're gonna break a lot more to come
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Speaker 2 (19:28):
All right, Mariners Tigers in Game two of three this
evening from t Mobile Park. Mariners get a solid, not
great performance, but solid. I mean if your number one
starter six and three from your number one is you
kind of expect more out of him. I think, especially
against a team like the Tigers who are kind of
giving up and getting rid of a bunch of players.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
How many guys in that lineup for the Tigers yesterday?
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Had you heard of none of them? I mean it was, yeah, unbelievable. Well,
they had a fire sale. I mean they're like the
White Sox they got They're not even trying to win now,
They're they're looking at next year. So uh scooball tonight
leads the league in May and strikeouts probably right now
the Cy Young Award winner in the American League to
be honest with you against George Kirby over under a
(20:11):
six tonight. By the way run scored combined to the
game I'm playing the game.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
I'm trying to fell like, how do you get to there?
Unless unless, unless the bullpens explode?
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Right, how do you get to seven? Well? Weird stuff happens,
man sometimes in this game. Scooble and his last start
gave up five runs against Kansas City, which is I
think why he's not apt to do it again against
the Marinis tonight. So we like the under here. That's
the official betting analysis. I like your other bet minus
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Speaker 4 (20:49):
Pitching matchup should be very good tonight. Obviously two of
the best the young pitchers in the league, and they
will be on display tonight, so it should be an
interesting ballgame.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
And we have good pitching here over the weekend.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
I don't think tonight's game goes in our favor so
much else to say, line up today A little late
lineup coming out, but I think everybody's gonna be okay.
As of right now, looks like Justin Turner will be
in there, Polo being there, so we're working that out
right now. But unless something happens right before game time,
(21:22):
we'll go with the regular guys in there tonight against Scooble.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
So with school Boy, weouln't feed him in a while.
It's got five pitches. That change up has been really
affective for him.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
They've all been pretty vpful.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Just what Arsenal is expected.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Tone kind of good is event.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
He's really good. Certainly he's he's one of the best
young left handers in the league, is maybe the best
young left.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Hander in the league.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
And uh, you know, it's kind of already pitched here
at Cluh.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
It's crazy.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
It's such a things go full circle oftentimes. I'm sure
he'll have a lot of people here rooting him on tonight,
But I think you have to be aggressive against him.
He throws a ton of.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Strikes and our guy tonight throws a lot of strikes.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
And Scoople may throw more than George does, you know,
So I think you need to be aggressive.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
You've gotta be up there ready to go.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
You don't want to give him anything as far as
working in doing a bat so, you know, I hope
we are get after tonight. You got a good fastball, slider, curve, change,
he's got them all. He throws them all for strike.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
So it's a good challenge for our guys.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
He leads baseball on ho two counts and he leads
in three pitch strikeouts. Is it? You say, be aggressive?
But is he throwing quality stuffup there? He's not just
throwing it down the middle, obviously, is he.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
No, he's throwing ninety seven to ninety nine miles an
hour with probably a seventy grade change up and all
those other things if you want to put.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Scout in grades on this stuff. So there's a reason
he's put off the.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Season he's at because he's got outstanding stuff and he
commands it. You know, some guys's pitched with control. He
pitches with command, and that's that's why he's having the
season he is. Now, what point in the year and
then even the division race like this, do you guys
start to not mentistily slowboard watch but become aware.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Of other results.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
They could do it all year long. When does it
take on more significance. I think once you get into September,
you're probably a little bit more tuned into it. There's
still a lot of games to play, and you're still
gonna have streaks. You know, you're gonna win three or
four in a row, you're gonna lose a couple in
a row. Like that's going to continue to happen here,
So you know, I think once you get into September,
you're probably watch a little bit closer to you. If
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anybody says they never watch it, therefore they watched it.
That's what's fun about it, wouldn't you You've got less.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Companies in the Dhe thought since the get By, how's
been catching up much? How much?
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Can I think you know the kind of plan we're
on now, just because you know and I think you've all.
I don't like the personal catcher for a personal pitcher,
but that's kind of the way it's worked out. At
the end of the day. You want to do what's
best for your team, and I think what Garve has
done with George's been phenomena.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
So here's the real question.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Uh, did the Mariners pinch hit Mitch Garver for Luke
Rayley last is that what I saw they did? Why
did he do that?
Speaker 5 (23:55):
Because the numbers said that Mitch Garver is a better
hitter at and s left handed pitching than Luke Raley.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Is okay, and Mitch Garver is scuffling mightily. Was in
the dugout the other day, he's talking about getting death
struck out of three bitches, how much he sucks, blah
blah blah. That just seemed like a weird spot to
put Mitch Garver in considering how much he's been struggling.
I mean, I don't know. Look, I mean overall, I think,
like I said, there's some positives for what Scott Servis
has done this year with the way the offense is
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performed and the guy basically, and you kind of put
your toe I think in that pool a couple of
days ago when you said he's out three starters right
in that game. I think it was against Philly the
ore day. Yes, Scott Servis, for whatever you think about him,
whatever you say about him, whatever your analysis is, he
hasn't had an offense the whole year, right, and they're
there a half came up on first place, so we
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can argue that they should be better the situations. I
get all that. Seemingly lately, some of the buttons he's
pushing seemed to be kind of odd for me. And
the one last night where he pinched hit Mitch Garver
for Luke or Raley for Garver, it was just kind
of an odd time to do that. I mean, look,
I get the whole lefty righty thing, but I mean,
what do your eyes tell you?
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Right?
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Well, you're telling you that Luke Railey has been a
better hitter lately than Midch Carver? Has your eyes told
you that?
Speaker 5 (25:10):
Two at bats before Luke Rayley hit a home run,
which is basically the only thing the offense did allmine?
Speaker 2 (25:14):
So I don't get it. I mean, like that stuff
I don't get and I and this is where I
think you and I disagree on a lot of stuff,
but on this week and agree on that they play.
They play a lot of computer baseball over there at
the Maritors, right, there's not a lot of you know,
what does your gut say? What do your eyes say?
Where does your feel? I mean, managers are paid to
do a lot of things. What their gut feel is
is certainly one of them, because they've been around forever.
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They should know when a player is hot, when a
players not by looking into his eyes.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
Let's let's think about what the postgame conversation would have
been like had it been opposite, right. I mean, I
don't think he's asked the question if Luke Rayley strikes out,
I don't think anybody's asking the question, why did Luke
Rayley stay in? Why didn't you pinch hip? Mitch Carver?
Right right, even though there would have been a reason
to ask that question because Luke Rayley has a four
ninety seven OPS against handed pitching. I mean, Mitch Garver
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has a seven seventy four ninety seven Okay, yea, yeah, whatever,
terrible four ninety seven. Mitch Garver has a seven to
ninety one OPS against left handed pitching. Neither one of
them have massive sample size against Mitch garverer has eighty
eight at bats, has hit six home runs in eighty
eight at bats. That's pretty good, and Luke Raley only
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has fifty one at bats. But the question wouldn't have
been asked it is asked.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
I think there.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
For me, I've always had more of an issue with
Scott Service's pitching maneuvers than I have his pinch hitting
maneuvers last night. It was quizzical, but it wasn't as
bad as I thought when he when he yanked Gilbert
out or Bryce Miller out after four and a third
ye and didn't let him work through that game last week.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Well, the real question, I think too, the over eighty
seven and a half is in peril, by the way,
for this baseball team. They gotta go twenty nine and
nineteen the rest of the way to win eighty eight.
They gotta go on a six to four pace. That's
that's a ninety seven game winning pace the rest of
the way to get the eighty seven and a half
twenty nine to nineteen.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
I still, I still think I might lean there. I mean,
I've been on the I've been on the eighty eight
win sergeant and Doom says they'll make well. I mean,
I've been on the eighty eight win path, you know,
you know, Banner for all season long, and I still
think they're a high eighties win baseball team. I think
when they get these guys back, I do see a
run coming. I don't know exactly when the run's coming.
I do see a run coming. It's probably not coming
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until Julio comes back.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Right, well, it could be a while, that could be
a couple weeks. Yes, you know, you gotta have to
kind of tread water. Stay with Hughes.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Houston's not going anywhere.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
I mean, I got no faith that Houston's gonna be
a ninety plus win baseball team. Right now, you just
kind of hang there with Hughes, with Houston. It's like
those runners in the Olympics, right, yeah, yeah, like in
the fifteen hundred, right you hang You just kind of
run with the pack, Run with the pack, run with
the pack, and then see if you can beat him
in the stretch. Run when you've got JP and Julio back.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
All right, we do an Olympics update here, Jackson from
Westwood One. Let's go to Paris to Olympics update testimonials,
and then John Michael's gonna join us from Atlanta. They're
drooling over Michael Pennock in Atlanta. And did DK Metcalfe
go too far in practice?
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Today?
Speaker 2 (28:04):
We'll discuss that all on the five o'clock hour from
the Virginia Mation Athletic Center right here on ninety three three,
KJRA
It's time for our weekly conversation with college football analyst
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
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Speaker 2 (01:17):
What the agent secrets. I'm just thinking about, like mister
Miagi here.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
First, well, well there's a story behind that, okay, but
eight hundred and nine million, that's eight hundred nine million.
You want to hear the story. I do.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Years ago, many years ago, I was still playing college football,
so like twenty four years ago I was. I had
watched I've always been afraid of it, but I was
much older, and I had watched the movie The Exorcist. Okay, yeah,
and you know, a disturbing film and all that, and
(01:54):
saw the movie. And the next morning I was at
my parents' house early in the morning, sitting there drinking coffee,
and my father emerged and I said to him, you know,
I I saw The Exorcist last night. He goes, yes, yes, sir.
The priest was Greek Orthodox in the movie, and I
(02:15):
said not. Well, I said, well, he was a Greek,
you know, because I guess his mother or grandmother were
speaking to him in Greek. He was a Greek person
of Greek heritage God, but he happened to be in
the movie a Catholic priest, which is quite rare. He
was a Greek guy, but he was a Catholic priest.
(02:36):
And my father, no, I know that is not the truth.
I said, no, Dad, I just watched it last night.
I mean it's literally a Catholic movie. It's called The Exorcist.
The guy is a Catholic priest. You are incorrect, my son.
And we went back and forth, and then he said,
(02:56):
only the Greeks. Do you want it in the the
voice or you wanted him?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I want the voice, I want the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Only the Greeks know the ancient secrets in which to
eradicate Satan.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Oh God, I love it. I just keep waiting for
you to say you like it of geez eh.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Yeah, well we're not from a skit. We're real people.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Oh yeah, yeah, Greeks are real people too.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yeah, okay, even though they're comical idiots.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
By the way, you know, The Exorcist came out the
year I was born, nineteen seventy three.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Well there you go.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
How about that. I'm not a big horror movie guy
ever since I saw The Changeling. You ever see The Changeling?
Early eighties?
Speaker 3 (03:39):
I am also not a big horror movie Yeah, yeah,
I got yeah, the people under the stairs, all that stuff.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I don't get how people get into this. Well Son,
you know, Halloween is a classic, you know, but it
sure is Freddy Krueger, the whole thing night, Mary elm Street.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Yeah, everybody likes to watch.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Teenagers just not really into it.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Man.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
You ever see like those seventies low budget horror movies
like the Microwave Massacre, things like that.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Yeah, Attack of the Killer to Mendim, Toxic Avenger. Yes, yes,
I don't know where we're going here. You brought it up, man, No,
I didn't bring anything up. You asked about the agent secrets,
and I brought up the Exorcist and about my father,
and then that was that.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Now we've gone from sweet James to your father, to
a toxic Avenger and the Exorcist all in one segment.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
It's time to sports it up.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
There's not many people that can do that in this business,
and you're one of them.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Yeah, well, no, I can totally do it.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Okay, you want to sports it up, fine, Well, sports
it I'm.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Just kind of tired. I've been getting up early and
doing the Fox Sports radio thing.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
You sound kind of cranky to be honest with you.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Yeah, no, I had a one. I've been getting up
at like four in the morning and Dragon Brady, Quinn
and LeVar around for their last hour all week.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
So you're hosting the show or just going on as
a guest.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
I go on as a guest every Wednesday. Okay, Like
I come on as a guest here every Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
And how long do you spend?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
It's not the same as we you and I do,
maybe a little shorter because of the national clock, which.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Still go back to bed after that.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Sometimes sometimes I go to yoga, but I, uh, the
four am wake up and like get ready to talk
and have a have a take, don't suck? Yeah? Uh
is well, you know, and then getting up and do
it in the afternoon again, starting to wear your boy
down a little bit, you know, one more day tomorrow, appearing.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
At the Jungle, the Jungle, have a take, don't suck?
It's on Twitter Jungle, all right?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (05:34):
It is?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
What it? I said? I'm tired. This is your show?
Do you like? Are you trying to upset me? You are?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
You're intentionally trying to upset me. I'm sorry, I apologize,
You're not sorry.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
You like this when you get to say when you
come back from break, Hey, Dick, did you see I
really got to him to really upset Petro's God, he's unstable.
Didn't you like that? And that fun? Making fun of
that guy who's an idiot?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
What else is bothering you? Just let it out?
Speaker 3 (06:06):
My kids are terrible. If there's no camp, they just
wear a sad you know. And I'm trying to go
back to sleep, you know, at some point during the
day because I'm exhausted, and they're screaming and yelling and
running around and doing cannon balls. I've had my wife
sage the house twice. That doesn't work. They still act
like total a holes.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Oh my god?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Or what else? Just ask me sports? Let me sports
it up.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Should have kept their poots on your pants back in
the day, Palace, I want you shut up. How about
your buddy Jim Harbaugh. You think he got busted by
the NCAA. You didn't hear about that stuff?
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Right?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Four years? Four years? Show cause he's banned for four years. Well,
he's not banned. He is banned. He's banned, not banned.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
You can get a job and have show cause, asked
Bruce Pearl, Right, But he can't do anything for four years.
He can do stuff, it's just not recommended. I'm pretty
sure that's what show cause means.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
No, I think he's out for four years. Man, the
same thing. Who's the basketball coach that we hired, the guy,
Tony Bland, same thing.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
If you get show cause, it's not the end of
the world. I'm pretty sure you can still coach.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Well, he can coach in the NFL. No, he can
coach in college. Yeah, but he can't do anything. Don't
you know the definition to show cause? Okay, well, would
you like me to read it to you. It's right
in front of my face.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Yeah, go ahead, do it, that pez, dispenser of the
mouth of yours.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Let me show cause. Penalty means the school wanting to
hire a coach serving that penalty must appear before the
NCAA committee, and a fraction is to explain why it
wants to do so. We want to hire this school
wanting to hire Harbaugh to suspend him for the first
full year. After that, he would still be barred from
athletics related activities, including team travel, practice, video study, recruiting,
(07:55):
and team meetings until the order expires. He can't do
anything for four years. Yeah, but he can still get
it and he can make sixteen million dollars a year.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Yeah. No, I mean, I guess there's a reason he
got out. And it is interesting because nobody respects the
NCAA anymore. But I guess this you have to adhere
to if it's uh, if it is what you say
it is, And I have no reason to believe.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I just read the story.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
I know you're very good at making legal ease up
in the moment.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Don't tell anybody, no, I mean, you know it.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
But the Michigan thing upsets me in a couple different
ways because it's easy to sit there and write it
off and say, oh my god, look at they were cheating,
and look at this, and look at that, and oh
my god, cheater, cheater, you're moded, you're corroded, your butt exploded.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
But there's a drop Jackson, be honest, please.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
They did not build that team from cheating and recruiting
and from knowing that somebody was going to run a
why stick. They built that team if you look at
the recruiting numbers. They built it through their culture. They
built it through their offensive and defensive line. They did
what people thought you were unable to do in the
(09:12):
modern era, which is create a true dominant, close knit
college football team. And they did that. And you can say, yeah,
Harbaugh's got a show cause because he did this wrong,
or whenever you start looking under anybody's curtain, you're going
to be able to find something that get people. So
(09:33):
that part of it bothers me. But there also is
a built in arrogance from Michigan here and an fu
I won't do what you tell me rage against the
machine style from Harbaugh. And that's been the case when
he left Stanford maybe a little bit certainly was the
case when he left the Niners and didn't leave Michigan
(09:53):
pretty either, kind of left to stick it to somebody.
And there's something that Jack Harbaugh said many years ago
in an interview that was quite telling. It was funny,
but it was also telling. And they said, you know,
what was it like moving every three four years as
a kid because your call your father was a football coach.
And he said, well, no, it was good because about
(10:15):
three years is about how long it took everybody in
town to hate Jim.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
And he eventually turns everybody off, for sure, but he wins.
He wins, everywhere you.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Go doubt about it. So what, there's no doubt about it.
And I've always gotten along well with Jim Harbaugh, and
everybody gets super excited when he's around it first, and
I say, just wait, you know you're not gonna a
little bit Pete Carroll like, but very different in some ways.
You'll see some of the wrinkles up close, and yeah,
(10:44):
that's that's the case. He's he totally gives you the
ten yard stare from I mean, the thousand yards stare
from five yards every once in a while. And that's
just part of Jim Harbaugh. But I guess they don't care.
I don't know what mission's going to be Michigan's going
to be like under Sharon Moore, but I would imagine
that some of that culture from the last few years
is going to carry over and they'll be pretty good.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
I mean, I think I just look, I'm not a
Michigan fan. My parents went to Michigan, but I'm not
a Michigan fan per se. I just think eventually the players.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Well you know what the place is like then top Yeah,
for sure, but you have an understanding of what they
are and who they are, and they're but the point
is that.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
They may be the ones holding this bag because now
this has nothing to do with the Connor Stallions thing.
By the way, the show caused penalty for Harbaugh is
about recruiting violations during COVID. Sure, so now they got
the other stuff to worry about. And if they get
put on probation, or they get guys that get suspended,
or they get guys that lose their jobs, or they
got to give back games, the guys that are there
(11:45):
now who had nothing to do with it will end
up holding the bag. Yeah, long, I say wrong.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
One of the many incongruities that we deal with every
day working with college sports and the NCAA. It's always
been stupid. I mean, look at the USC situation. I
mean they a generation or two of us. He football
was destroyed because of a bunch of stuff Pete Carroll did.
And where and where was he when all those players
were suffering? He had no knowledge. Pete had no knowledge.
(12:14):
He created an environment of lack of institutional control. Do
you need me to read that for you? You want
me to look that one up or do you want
to read that one off your ipips? It was all
under him, but he had no idea.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
What.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Okay, Chaucer, thanks for telling me that the Miller's tale
going on behind of course.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
The point is, you know when USC was suffering, where
was Pete Carroll? He was winning super Bowls. And that's
what the Chargers hope that you, Michigan may suffer. They
won't suffer like USC. It's a different NC Double A
and these are different allegations. But Michigan is going to
suffer and Jim Harbaugh is going to be making money
in the pros. That's one of the many things wrong
(12:54):
with the NC Double A and the way they handle this.
And I agree with Paul Finbaum when he says nobody
takes the NC double A seriously anymore. But I guess
a show cause is a real thing, and it means
you can't do anything.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
If they also said that Jim Harbaugh has pulled off
the biggest scam in the history of college.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Football, Fine bomb said that yesterday. Oh well, that's because
he works for the SEC and it's a big that's
like you, he's a shock jockey, doesn't He's not a
straight shooter like me.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
I'm a shock jock.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
I'm one of the few honest brokers left in all
of sports media.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Petro's Papadacus broker of honesty. I love it. Hey, I
saw where speaking to USC I saw where Reggie Bush's
Heisman trophy is back on campus. Yes, that's pretty fun
WHOA right, that's a big deal. By the way, just
back to the fine bomb thing for a second. He
called Jim Harbor the Jack Nicholson of coaching for his
(13:48):
Oscar winning performance about the NCABLEA investigation. That's pretty funny.
Go back to Reggie.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
I mean none of these things matter to me. I
mean Reggie Bush.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Yeah, okay, I see you then, because I'm tired of
bringing stuff up. You're asking me to sports. Give talking
about horror movies, and you want me to start talking sports.
I start talking sports, and you tell me you don't
give a damn about any of it.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
I'm watching Cutter beat the crap out of our men's
volleyball duo here on the beach. These two dudes from Cutter,
and I don't know where they came from, where they
imported him men's car.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
By the way, don't be Wolf Blitzer. Well, whatever their
doody says Cutter, they say Cutter because they're from Cutter
and they have an accent. They're slapping Cutters all over
the USA team right now, right under the phallix symbol
of the Eiffel Tower. I also watched I watched the steeplechase. Yeah,
I watched the one hundred. I love the men's hundred.
(14:45):
The fifteen hundred was one of the great races of
all time. Yeah from yesterday right, Yes, I've been enjoying
the game. My wife's uh, you know, Gina works for
Brooks Running Shoes. I don't know if you knew that
or not.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
I did not.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
And they had a uh, who's the guy from Great
Britain at finished second?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Oh, the guy with the Oakley blades. Yeah whatever, and
he beat the more him and the Morrissey looking guy
from Norway. Those two guys were like talking all this
ass and igniting the mother the runner world with vitriol
and they went and ran that race and uh, well,
the brit ended up being second, but two USA guys.
(15:21):
I think it's the first time we got two medals. Yeah,
Hawker and the other dude. They first time we've had
two medals for one hundred years. In the fifteen hundred,
those guys got big lung, softy, they breathe. They breathe
so hard.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
I would die doing that.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Yeah, I think just about most people would. And like
you watch these people run the four hundred and they
can't even stand up when they're done. And what finally
tuned athletes in the world.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Did you get your San Juan Seltzer gift pack yet
from Oh.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
That's right, Yes, I did get my San Juan Seltzer.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Yes, that's brightening my day. I'm gonna go up there
and start drinking. That'll help. I'll take the edge off
this interview.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Yeah, there they were mad at you. We we had
a little zoom call last week and meetings about to end.
I think I'm done. I can move on. And you
told that Petro Skuy you stop kissing white claws ass.
I'm second.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Well, I'm not trying to kiss white claws ass. I
don't drink white claw. But I got this San Juana
the Fringe. I'm sure gonna give that a whirl. And
I have a T shirt now too.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
You know what you do with that San Juan Seltzer,
You make a bomb out of it. You know how
to do that? At a shot of Tito's Bombay.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Is that what you do? San Juan? Okay?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
With that thousand percent? They're okay with that?
Speaker 3 (16:33):
All right?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Okay? Have you ever been in the San Juan Islands
by the.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Way, No, I didn't want to cross the streams like ghostbusters.
But if that's what you want to do.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
You know what.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Bothers me about the Olympics go ahead? Is stupid? Why
is it all about the celebrities in the crowd. There's
a lot of celebs like you want to show Michael Phelps, fine,
but I don't care if Olivia Rodrigo is there, Like, well,
leave me alone. This is for amateur athletes, Tom, I
mean it isn't it a microcosm of our problems in
(17:04):
this country? Where some French swimmer walks into the uh
the arena and saw that cheering for him. I'm the
hero of the story. I'm Lebron. They must be cheering
for me.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
That was amazing.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
God, what a god? Leo is it?
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Leo Marshawn? Is that right?
Speaker 3 (17:24):
And the exuberance of Snoop Dogg. What a wonderful thing. Oh,
they're paying him five hundred dollars a day and it's
a he's he's working for the Voice. It's all a commercial.
F u f everybody.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Don't you realize that? I have to look at TV.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
If Tarico points his little sausagey fingers at the one
more time, I'd rather cost Us with his puff filled
pink I was there, And can you believe the thick
asses of these water polo chicks wow.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Buds filed pink eye.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
I do remember that dude Costas had more crust than
the San Andreas fault on that day, man, and I
take that over freaking weeny fingers, Turco and all those information.
Oh hello, Snoop, I remember when you were tried for murder.
I'm Mike Trico.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
God, oh god, anything else? No, okay, we gotta go
all right, enjoy hey two weeks but we got college
football two weeks from Saturday. You got way own.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
There's Hoda looking sweatier than me on TV. Great.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
I love this, all right, dude, I love you.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Do you see the gold teeth on the dude that
won the four hundred?
Speaker 2 (18:50):
No?
Speaker 3 (18:51):
God, I thought it was Paul wall.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
All right?
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Bye? Ah?
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Is he God? I think he's gone? Oh my god,
all right, we're gonna break a lot more to come
from the Virginia Mason Alytics Center right here on ninety
three to three KJRFM.
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Speaker 2 (19:28):
All right, Mariners Tigers in Game two of three this
evening from t Mobile Park. Mariners get a solid, not
great performance, but solid. I mean if your number one
starter six and three from your number one is you
kind of expect more out of him. I think, especially
against a team like the Tigers who are kind of
giving up and getting rid of a bunch of players.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
How many guys in that lineup for the Tigers yesterday?
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Had you heard of none of them? I mean it was, yeah, unbelievable. Well,
they had a fire sale. I mean they're like the
White Sox they got They're not even trying to win now,
They're they're looking at next year. So uh scooball tonight
leads the league in May and strikeouts probably right now
the Cy Young Award winner in the American League to
be honest with you against George Kirby over under a
(20:11):
six tonight. By the way run scored combined to the
game I'm playing the game.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
I'm trying to fell like, how do you get to there?
Unless unless, unless the bullpens explode?
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Right, how do you get to seven? Well? Weird stuff happens,
man sometimes in this game. Scooble and his last start
gave up five runs against Kansas City, which is I
think why he's not apt to do it again against
the Marinis tonight. So we like the under here. That's
the official betting analysis. I like your other bet minus
one and not no score in the first inning, scoreless
after one. About that five All courtesy of the Emerald
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Queen Casino sportsbook Scott Service before tonight's game two to
three against the Tigers in the dugout moments ago.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Pitching matchup should be very good tonight. Obviously two of
the best the young pitchers in the league, and they
will be on display tonight, so it should be an
interesting ballgame.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
And we have good pitching here over the weekend.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
I don't think tonight's game goes in our favor so
much else to say, line up today A little late
lineup coming out, but I think everybody's gonna be okay.
As of right now, looks like Justin Turner will be
in there, Polo being there, so we're working that out
right now. But unless something happens right before game time,
(21:22):
we'll go with the regular guys in there tonight against Scooble.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
So with school Boy, weouln't feed him in a while.
It's got five pitches. That change up has been really
affective for him.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
They've all been pretty vpful.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Just what Arsenal is expected.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Tone kind of good is event.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
He's really good. Certainly he's he's one of the best
young left handers in the league, is maybe the best
young left.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Hander in the league.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
And uh, you know, it's kind of already pitched here
at Cluh.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
It's crazy.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
It's such a things go full circle oftentimes. I'm sure
he'll have a lot of people here rooting him on tonight,
But I think you have to be aggressive against him.
He throws a ton of.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Strikes and our guy tonight throws a lot of strikes.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
And Scoople may throw more than George does, you know,
So I think you need to be aggressive.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
You've gotta be up there ready to go.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
You don't want to give him anything as far as
working in doing a bat so, you know, I hope
we are get after tonight. You got a good fastball, slider, curve, change,
he's got them all. He throws them all for strike.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
So it's a good challenge for our guys.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
He leads baseball on ho two counts and he leads
in three pitch strikeouts. Is it? You say, be aggressive?
But is he throwing quality stuffup there? He's not just
throwing it down the middle, obviously, is he.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
No, he's throwing ninety seven to ninety nine miles an
hour with probably a seventy grade change up and all
those other things if you want to put.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Scout in grades on this stuff. So there's a reason
he's put off the.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Season he's at because he's got outstanding stuff and he
commands it. You know, some guys's pitched with control. He
pitches with command, and that's that's why he's having the
season he is. Now, what point in the year and
then even the division race like this, do you guys
start to not mentistily slowboard watch but become aware.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Of other results.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
They could do it all year long. When does it
take on more significance. I think once you get into September,
you're probably a little bit more tuned into it. There's
still a lot of games to play, and you're still
gonna have streaks. You know, you're gonna win three or
four in a row, you're gonna lose a couple in
a row. Like that's going to continue to happen here,
So you know, I think once you get into September,
you're probably watch a little bit closer to you. If
(23:13):
anybody says they never watch it, therefore they watched it.
That's what's fun about it, wouldn't you You've got less.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Companies in the Dhe thought since the get By, how's
been catching up much? How much?
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Can I think you know the kind of plan we're
on now, just because you know and I think you've all.
I don't like the personal catcher for a personal pitcher,
but that's kind of the way it's worked out. At
the end of the day. You want to do what's
best for your team, and I think what Garve has
done with George's been phenomena.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
So here's the real question.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Uh, did the Mariners pinch hit Mitch Garver for Luke
Rayley last is that what I saw they did? Why
did he do that?
Speaker 5 (23:55):
Because the numbers said that Mitch Garver is a better
hitter at and s left handed pitching than Luke Raley.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Is okay, and Mitch Garver is scuffling mightily. Was in
the dugout the other day, he's talking about getting death
struck out of three bitches, how much he sucks, blah
blah blah. That just seemed like a weird spot to
put Mitch Garver in considering how much he's been struggling.
I mean, I don't know. Look, I mean overall, I think,
like I said, there's some positives for what Scott Servis
has done this year with the way the offense is
(24:22):
performed and the guy basically, and you kind of put
your toe I think in that pool a couple of
days ago when you said he's out three starters right
in that game. I think it was against Philly the
ore day. Yes, Scott Servis, for whatever you think about him,
whatever you say about him, whatever your analysis is, he
hasn't had an offense the whole year, right, and they're
there a half came up on first place, so we
(24:45):
can argue that they should be better the situations. I
get all that. Seemingly lately, some of the buttons he's
pushing seemed to be kind of odd for me. And
the one last night where he pinched hit Mitch Garver
for Luke or Raley for Garver, it was just kind
of an odd time to do that. I mean, look,
I get the whole lefty righty thing, but I mean,
what do your eyes tell you?
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Right?
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Well, you're telling you that Luke Railey has been a
better hitter lately than Midch Carver? Has your eyes told
you that?
Speaker 5 (25:10):
Two at bats before Luke Rayley hit a home run,
which is basically the only thing the offense did allmine?
Speaker 2 (25:14):
So I don't get it. I mean, like that stuff
I don't get and I and this is where I
think you and I disagree on a lot of stuff,
but on this week and agree on that they play.
They play a lot of computer baseball over there at
the Maritors, right, there's not a lot of you know,
what does your gut say? What do your eyes say?
Where does your feel? I mean, managers are paid to
do a lot of things. What their gut feel is
is certainly one of them, because they've been around forever.
(25:36):
They should know when a player is hot, when a
players not by looking into his eyes.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
Let's let's think about what the postgame conversation would have
been like had it been opposite, right. I mean, I
don't think he's asked the question if Luke Rayley strikes out,
I don't think anybody's asking the question, why did Luke
Rayley stay in? Why didn't you pinch hip? Mitch Carver?
Right right, even though there would have been a reason
to ask that question because Luke Rayley has a four
ninety seven OPS against handed pitching. I mean, Mitch Garver
(26:02):
has a seven seventy four ninety seven Okay, yea, yeah, whatever,
terrible four ninety seven. Mitch Garver has a seven to
ninety one OPS against left handed pitching. Neither one of
them have massive sample size against Mitch garverer has eighty
eight at bats, has hit six home runs in eighty
eight at bats. That's pretty good, and Luke Raley only
(26:23):
has fifty one at bats. But the question wouldn't have
been asked it is asked.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
I think there.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
For me, I've always had more of an issue with
Scott Service's pitching maneuvers than I have his pinch hitting
maneuvers last night. It was quizzical, but it wasn't as
bad as I thought when he when he yanked Gilbert
out or Bryce Miller out after four and a third
ye and didn't let him work through that game last week.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Well, the real question, I think too, the over eighty
seven and a half is in peril, by the way,
for this baseball team. They gotta go twenty nine and
nineteen the rest of the way to win eighty eight.
They gotta go on a six to four pace. That's
that's a ninety seven game winning pace the rest of
the way to get the eighty seven and a half
twenty nine to nineteen.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
I still, I still think I might lean there. I mean,
I've been on the I've been on the eighty eight
win sergeant and Doom says they'll make well. I mean,
I've been on the eighty eight win path, you know,
you know, Banner for all season long, and I still
think they're a high eighties win baseball team. I think
when they get these guys back, I do see a
run coming. I don't know exactly when the run's coming.
I do see a run coming. It's probably not coming
(27:23):
until Julio comes back.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Right, well, it could be a while, that could be
a couple weeks. Yes, you know, you gotta have to
kind of tread water. Stay with Hughes.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Houston's not going anywhere.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
I mean, I got no faith that Houston's gonna be
a ninety plus win baseball team. Right now, you just
kind of hang there with Hughes, with Houston. It's like
those runners in the Olympics, right, yeah, yeah, like in
the fifteen hundred, right you hang You just kind of
run with the pack, Run with the pack, run with
the pack, and then see if you can beat him
in the stretch. Run when you've got JP and Julio back.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
All right, we do an Olympics update here, Jackson from
Westwood One. Let's go to Paris to Olympics update testimonials,
and then John Michael's gonna join us from Atlanta. They're
drooling over Michael Pennock in Atlanta. And did DK Metcalfe
go too far in practice?
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Today?
Speaker 2 (28:04):
We'll discuss that all on the five o'clock hour from
the Virginia Mation Athletic Center right here on ninety three three,
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