August 19, 2024 • 40 mins
Ms lose 2 of 3 to the Pirates to cap off a 1-5 week, how hot is Scott Servais' seat? What do we think will happen the rest of the season with the Mariners? Fun with Audio.
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The Hawks are very thin at tight end, and I
don't mean skinny, I mean they don't have a lot
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time with a foot injury. Noah Fant and Jack Westover
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Steelers running back Jalen Warren will miss the next few weeks,
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What the hell?
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Kitlin Clark with twenty six breaks the WNBA rookie assist record,
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Tomorrow Raiders have named Gardner Minshew their starting quarterback over
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Week one and.
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Quarter about Colet McCoy gonna retire, he will join NBC
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This is softy and dim all right. Here we go
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We're getting closer to the Monday night football parties here
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say seven, but that'd be a lie. I mean, you
can hang out till seven if you want. I might
hang out until nine o'clock tonight, to be honest with you,
because we got the Coaches Show at six pm. Jetfish
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You're gonna want to remember where you were when Jetfish
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Get on down there, support the cause. Dogs going a
week from seve Saturday against Weber statele We got a
bunch of football this weekend, Florida State versus Georgia Tech,
a bunch of other smaller schools as well, Dick, I
(03:07):
think Nevada is playing this weekend, maybe BYU whatever, But
I mean, this is just another example of how college
football just blows this whole thing like they should. There
should be a big countdown start off at Florida State
Saturday morning, Georgia Tech, whatever, Give us a big game
Saturday night, give us a bigger game Sunday night, give
us something gigantic on Monday, and let him own the
damn thing. There's no NFL football, a bunch of preseason crap.
(03:31):
It's Week three that nobody now gives a damn about
because it's the last game of the preseason.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Thank God for that.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
There's nothing really going on in baseball up until the
middle of September when the games get big. NBA is
not playing, Hockey's not playing. You could you could own
the calendar. You could totally dominate the sports calendar.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
What the hell are they? Teams maximize audience, leagues maximize audience,
and NFL does it better than anybody. The NBA does
it pretty well as well. But college football has blown
it terrible. They have blown this weekend for to a
lesser extent, they've blown Labor Day weekend. At least there's
two or three games on Labor Day weekend that are
worth watching. But you're right, this is the two weeks
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that you have that you're not competing with the NFL,
and teams are afraid to take the early loss. But guys,
I mean Dennis Dodd tweeted it out today. He said
he went back like thirty years and he took a
look at the polls and he saw that on average,
about one three loss team every single year. Yeah, would
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have made a twelve team playoff a three loss team.
Go ahead and schedule those games. If you take an
early loss, you can still go nine to three and
they'll look back and say, oh, that loss was four
months ago. It was to a team that's now fifth
in the nation, No big deal, and it will put
eyeballs on the sport and eyeballs on your team.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I don't even think you need to have the big
time matchup. I mean, I'm just looking at some of
these early games, like Utah's playing Oklahoma's playing Clemson, Georgia's
obviously gigantic, Penn State West Virginia.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Just get to get the big names out there.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I mean, if there's a couple of games that are,
you know, top ten, top fifteen, top twenty five, top
forty matchups, hey, great, that's fine.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
But these teams aren't even.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Playing, Like the first step is to get him to
play on a night of the week that they don't
normally play on. But you've been working the entire offseason,
it shouldn't matter what day of the week you're playing.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
At this point, these teams aren't even going.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Man, So anyway, I'm fired up for tonight at six pm,
fired up for the coaches show, fired up for the
Weber State game next Saturday, be doing the pregame, sideline, postgame,
the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
So I think Alisa has a.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Broadcast, No, at least is doing the Paralympics for NBC,
so she's gonna be off that day. How about that
she picks the Weber State game to let me take
over the sideline.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Thanks a lot of least.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I appreciate that couldn't have been like USC or something
or Oregon whatever, But anyway, we're ready for that.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
You're doing sideline pre and post time.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
I did it twice last year Michigan State and Apple Cup.
And it's a long day, it is, for sure. But
it's fun as hell. But what's not fun as hell
right now is what's happening with the Mariners. So just
think about what your mood was on Friday morning after
the sweep by the Tigers, and now think about what
your mood is now after losing two out of three
to the Pittsburgh Pirates. It reminds me Andrews, you're probably
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too young for this, Dick. I know, you remember the
movie Planes, Trains, and Automobiles where they're all sitting there
in a bus depot and John Canna looks at Steve
Martin says, you ever traveled by bus before?
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Not gonna improve your mood much.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
My mood's not improved much, man, after what we saw
over the weekend in Pittsburgh, because it was a disaster.
I mean, this team has no right losing two out
of three to the Pittsburgh Pirates, and they have no
right being swept by the Detroit Tigers because I believe
they have better talent across the board.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Than those two teams. Do they do.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
They're more talented offensively, and they're more talented defensively, and
they're more talented pitching wise. And yet they kind of
feel like right now they're just completely at a loss.
They feel like a rudderless ship that has no idea
what direction it's heading. They have no idea where they're
even going right now with this talent they've got, And
now they got to play the Dodgers this week. Look
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crazier things have happened. Then you know the m's going
to LA and getting two or three. I don't think
would shock anybody, because that's just the way baseball works.
But I think at some point all of this is
going to have to be addressed. Right, Why are we
in this position? Why is this offense so bad? Why
is the manager pushing the wrong buttons in the bullpen
seemingly every single night. Whether you find a way to
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rally Dick and you make the playoffs, whatever you do,
at some point, all of this has to be addressed.
The only question now is when does it get addressed.
Does it get addressed in a week from now, does
it get addressed in four and a's from now, or
does it get addressed in two months from now?
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Well, I look at the manager at this point, because
we can talk all we want about how managers in
baseball are less important than any other coach in any
other major sport, and I totally agree with them. I
think most people probably agree with that. I agree, and
that gives Scott's service a whole lot of wiggle room
because we all look at him and say, wow, that
doesn't really matter. You know, baseball managers don't really You
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know where baseball managers matter. You get answer these questions.
If you're a base line.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
You want me to answer them. I wasn't. I wasn't
told there'd be a Texer.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
I can aware of this.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
You don't have to answer the question. These can just
be rhetorical questions. I can just throw out there. Does
Scott's service make his players better?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I don't think this year he has?
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Okay, that's question number one. Does Scott's service have them
ready to start the season every year? Does Scott's service
pull his teams out of skids quickly, no typically, no, okay, yeah,
there's your answers to your questions. Yea, And it's and
and that's what a manager is for. Because if a
manager can't do that, then you and I can just
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be the manager of the Seattle Mariners. It doesn't take
any skill whatsoever. If a manager's job is is so
just completely dependent on his ownership as general manager and
his talent, then what the hell do we have managers for.
They have to do something, and what they have to
do is answer those three questions in the affirmative. And
he is zero for three in twenty twenty four and
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he hasn't has this had his team ready to play
in any one of the last year.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Does you include the most important thing, which is putting
the chess pieces in the right spot on game day?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Did you can tell? And that's number one?
Speaker 4 (09:15):
That's another good one.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
I mean number one is managing the game.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
That's number one, managing the game game day, squeezing, doing.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
The right thing.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I'm putting the right guys in the right spot, pulling
the right levers for pinch hitters, that pushing the right
buttons for relievers, meanings are second base. I mean that's
where a manager comes into play. I mean for the
most part, yeah, I mean overall getting through to people,
getting the most out of players, things like that. I
just think it's it's one of three things is going
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on right now, and barring a complete miracle turnaround, and
we got to talk about at some point what this
would mean if they do miss the playoffs, because they're
trending that way right they're training to the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
All of us can agree on that. I don't know
who said.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I don't know if it was somebody over the weekend
that I bumped into or somebody on the air. I
have no idea. It may have been you, and may
even me for all I know. If they do this
and they missed the playoffs after having a ten game
lead on what was the date they had the ten
game lead, June the eighteenth, yep, and they missed the playoffs,
I think it would be one of the worst things
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they've ever done as a franchise ever. Honestly, I mean,
Jason starks on Ian Show is saying no team in
the Wildcard Era has ever missed the playoffs after having
a ten game lead. In the division at any point
during the regular season. We're talking thirty years of baseball,
and they'd be the first team to do it. I
think it'd be a complete collapse. I think it'd be
an indictment on everybody. It'd be a total choke job
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by this baseball team if they go down that road,
and it'd be one of the worst things they've ever done.
I mean, look, we can talk all you want about,
you know, not responding to twenty twenty two with you know,
a big check and going out and getting free agents.
We can talk all you want about the two thousand
and one falling short in the regular season, but stuff
like that happens right him in Good teams win one
hundred games and fall short. That's just the way the
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baseball playoffs go. But to not even be there in
an era where more teams are now making the playoffs
than ever in the history of the game, where a
ten game lead, I think would be a disgrace. It'd
be the worst thing, one of the worst things, if
not the worst thing the franchise has ever done. And
I think they'd lose a lot of people. I think
they're losing people right now. They've lost people with the
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way they've responded. You think about twenty twenty two ending
the drought, that incredible series against Houston that was on
the plate of a knife, could have gone either way
in all three of those games, and the way they
responded to it right as an ownership group, the way
they went all in or did not go all in.
Excuse me at that exact point in time. And then
Dick and I Anders are running some numbers off the air.
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I mean, look, the two thousand and eight Toronto Blue
Jays led the league in ERA and won eighty six
games and missed the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
These are the number of wins every team.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Has had in the regular season that led the league
in ERA ninety five, ninety two, one hundred and two,
ninety ninety six, ninety six, hundred, one hundred and three
hundred and two hundred and three hundred and six hundred
and six, one hundred and eleven.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
To ninety two. That's what you do. When you lead
the league in ERA.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
You don't win eighty five games or eighty six games
and missed the playoffs unless you're the two thousand and
eight Toronto Blue Jays and your best player is Alex Rios,
for God's says, I mean, their offense reminds.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Me of this offense.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
And I got guys, I gotta tell you one thing
taken you gets some thoughts.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
I'll just wrap it up with this.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
I think if this team is gonna do it, there's
only one guy that can do it, and it's Julio.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Freaking Rodriguez got to carry.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Julio Rodriguez has to catch fire, and he has to
put this team on his back.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
There's nobody else that has the tools.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
There's nobody else that has the talent, There's nobody else
that has the charisma to do it.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
It's gotta be about forty four.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
If this team is gonna pull it off, forty four
has got to go on a freaking bender starting tonight
in LA And if he does that, maybe they have
a chance. Out of that forget it because Dick cal
Rawley is your best player. Can we all agree with
that cal Rawley's your best playoffs so far?
Speaker 3 (13:06):
This offensively, he's got an OPS is seven forty four.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
You know where that would rank on all the other
teams in contention for a playoff spot on Baltimore, he'd
be number seven. Cleveland number four, Yankees, number three, Astros
number five, Red Sox number five, Royals number three, and
on Minnesota he'd be number six instead.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
He's our best we've got. That can't be that way.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Cal Raley is a very good player, but he cannot
be your best player. And he is your best player.
And that's why you're about to piss away this pitching
staff because of things like that.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
They put themselves in a position on that date, June eighteenth,
right where all they had to do was play five
hundred baseball the rest of the way, and it probably
would have been enough to make the playoffs. It would
have been eighty seven and seventy five. That might have
been enough to make the playoffs had they just played
five hundred baseball. But this goes back to the managering.
To me, we talk about the losing streaks and pulling
them out of kids. I asked Sophie question, Andrews. I'm
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gonna ask you a question since that date, how many
three game or more skids do the Seattle Mariners have
since June the eighteen How many times have they lost
three games in a row or more? You know, just
we're talking about two months. It's only two months.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
I'm gonna say five seven times.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Wow, they have lost three or more games seven separate
times in the last two months. That is inexcusable. It
is inexcusable for a team that has the number one
era in baseball. It is inexcusable for a team that
had an offense that, at least, if you win back
of the baseball card, could be twentieth in Major League Baseball.
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So you put it, Yeah, you put it on those bats,
but you also put it on the guy pushing all
the buttons and not being able to squeeze three runs
a game out of this team. Because when this team
scores three runs a game, they win at an extraordinary
rate fifty eight and nineteen. Second half, when they score
when the second well second, they're twelve and one.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
And when they don't, when they score two or less,
I think they've lost every single game. I think I
think they're owing fourteen in the second half of the year.
And by the way, that's the problem. They've done it
fourteen times. Yeah, but you're a little win or lose
three in a row or more?
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Is I right? Seven times?
Speaker 2 (15:17):
That's okay if you win three or more seven times,
But they've done that three times.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Yeah, in the last two months.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
So they're three and seven when it comes to the
three game winning streak and the and the three game
losing streak. Look, guys, I'll just repeat what I said Friday,
and nothing has really changed for me after the Pittsburgh game.
I mean, no, it's maybe dropping down. You know, the positivity,
the hope is starting to fade away a little bit.
I mean it's not Lord of the Rings all hope
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is lost yet, but it's getting damn close. That I
still believe, and maybe I'm a freaking imbecile for believing this,
that if they can get into the playoffs, I still
think this team has a shot to do somehow, I
really do, because they think the pitching staff is that good.
You're talking about taking a starter or two and putting
him in the bullpen, making the bullpen stronger. The bullpen's
going to be stronger come playoff time. And I believe
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that when you're talking about a three, five or a
seven game series.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
It's just a completely different animal.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
You jump out to a two zero lead with great pitching,
and all of a sudden, the opposing team starts to press.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Would I bet it? No, Dick. I would not bet
it at all, but I.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Think they're a better They're more made for the playoffs
than they are for the regular season because of their
pitching stacks, and I want to see that happen. And
that's why the talk about firing Scott's service is being
brought up, because I think people still believe if these
guys can find a way to get motivated, and maybe
the same voice over and over again is no longer working.
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If they can find a way to get motivated, maybe
they can find a way to get in and maybe
they can find a way to make a run.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Look, I'm grasping at straw. Yeah, I'll be honest with you, guys.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
I'm just trying to find whatever little sliver of positivity
that could be out there.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Why.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Because I'm sick and tired of doing the opposite. I
said this on Friday. Everybody's waiting for Mount Softy to
blow up on the air. I'm tired of Mount Softy
blowing up. I don't want to have a stroke. I'm
fifty one years old. I'm not twenty years old anymore.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Guys.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
You know, I gotta kind of relax a little bit here.
I'll blow a gasket. That could be the end to me.
So I just think there's there's still some hope. If
these guys can find a way to get in. Can
they make it respectable? Can they win a wildcard series
and get to the division series and maybe win the
division series and find a way to get to the
ALCS Where it shocked the hell out of you know,
would it surprised me?
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Would it shocked me? No, because that's baseball. But these
guys got, you know, forty days whatever it is left,
Dick in the regular thirty seven games and the thirty
seven games left they need to go twenty five and
twelve and the regular games, Yeah, twenty five and twelve
they got. They got thirty seven games left to decide.
I think what they want to be. I think Scott
Servis has thirty seven games left maybe to decide.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
We know de Poto does. Is the Poto gonna really
do this?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Is he gonna put together the league's best pitching staff
and then throw it away because the offense could perform?
And the same message Friday, I'll just give you the
same one today. Is he gonna let Scott Servis? Is
he going to entrust him to do that. Is he
going to continue to entrust Scott's service to run this
offense and let him be the steward for this thing
when clearly it hasn't worked for four and.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
A half months.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
And one of the reasons I think Softy is so
optimistic is because this is so wide open this year one.
Trying to have no one hundred win teams in baseball
for the first time since twenty.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Four crazy, It's crazy.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
There's no dominant team right now.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
And guys, look, if if Jerry Depoto looks at Scott's
Service and says, yes, I trust him, Yes he's the
right man for the job, then that's an indictment on
the roster that Jerry's put together, and he's gonna go
down in flames with him at the end of the year.
I mean, can we all agree that if they missed
the playoffs, if they win eighty five, eighty six and
they missed the playoffs, that you might want to just
blow the whole thing? Ye say, the hell well absolutely,
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because the analogy we made last week was, Hey, these
guys could be Steve Sarkisian. Is there a Chris Peterson
out there to take this thing to the next step
because Pete.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
Won with a lot of Sarks got their foundation to
certainly on the pitch. They're certainly on the pitching. So
I just I don't know how the team that has
had the second worst record in baseball since that day
can go twenty five and twelve. I don't know how
that happens. Now. I think they could go twenty two
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and fifteen and play good baseball. But that's that's the
worst case scenario for me. The worst and I mentioned
this on Friday. The worst case scenario for me is
the Mariners rally and fall a couple of games short,
because then that gives Stanton and I think it just
gives them new life, like, oh, we're we're right on
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the right track. We're right there, close and they're not close.
Look at this offense. I've said it all season long.
The eyeball test tells me this is just an average
to above average baseball team, and they're just above average.
Maybe right now they're just average. Last year's team, I
didn't feel that way. The year before that. I didn't
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feel that way. That's why I was so confident those
years that they would rally. And this year people called
me Sergeant doom. So I just didn't see it in
this baseball team. And I keep hearing the offense gonna
turn around the offense and turn around. When the hell's the.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Offense could turn around, you better call for the Poto's head. Awesome,
I just answered your question. If they didn't make the playoffs, Yes,
you should clean out and then you should rip them,
and then you should rip the owner. You should go
after John Stanton too. Nobody should be excused from criticism
if what you're saying is gonna happen happens. Nobody, not
the owner, not the manager, not the GM, nobody. Because
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John Stanton's gonna wear this too, by the way.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
How he's the owner? He how are he doesn't fire himself?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Meaning wearing it, but wearing it when they get criticized
by everybody.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Okay, but he does anyway?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Right, Well he's but no, because you don't criticize him.
There's a lot of people out there that don't criticize him.
I'm saying, people like you that have defended John Stanton,
that have defended.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Jerry Depoto, what else do you have left to stand on? Nothing?
There's nothing left. The guy who's gonna hire a.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
GM who's gonna put together the best pitching staff in
team history and then not give him the resources to
go supplement that with an offense. Isn't that pissed you off? Yes,
this pisses me off. And he needs to hear that.
This guy needs to hear that. I don't want to
be the guy that says, don't the game, but those are.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Worse than their Their payroll is sixteenth right now. They're
not throwing out a sixteenth best team in baseball. They're
throwing out about a twenty fifth best team in baseball
right now. I mean, you're telling me the payroll is
the reason these guys are hitting two ten.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
I'm telling you, tell me the payroll is the reason
these guys are putting together career worst numbers across the board.
I'm telling you, I'm telling you that the absolute wet
noodle that these guys threw at that twenty twenty two
team after they went to Houston, agreed and had that
playoff series and ignored one of the greatest classes in
free agent history was terrible.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
I think that's fair. I've told you I thought you
were fair about that. We're not.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
We're not talking about this year's class. I hate when
people say, well, softy, what would you like them to do?
I'm not talking about this year. I'm talking about overall,
three four years in a row.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
When the Rangers signed Marcus Simeon, they didn't win right.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Away, they lost for a couple of years, and then
when they were ready.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
To win, boom.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
He was a big part of their championship team last season.
This is years of neglect that has gotten to this point.
So I just think, look, I would love for John
Stanton to sell the god darn team tonight to Jeff
Bezos or Steve Balmer or whoever. Probably not gonna happen
because it's a cash cow. Why would they get rid
of it? I get this, but I just think in
the end, this is an embarrassment for everybody, the entire structure,
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the ownership, the general manager, the manager, the whole thing.
You and I have been talking about this all year.
They'll make these moves. Polanco Garver, Yeah, okay, but the
guy was suspended. Buck, the guy's ever been in a regular hitter. Buck,
this guy was banged up. There's always a freaking buck
with everything they do, and now they're wasting maybe the
best rotation in the process.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
I can handle it, honestly, Dick.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
If the pitching staff is pissed poor, and that's what
drives me nuts. I wish this pitching staff sucked. Honestly,
it'd be less painful. It'd be less painful. He just say, look,
they're terrible. GM's adult fires ass. The managers of Moron
get rid of him. These guys can't build squad. But
that's not what's going on here. They have put together
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a world series caliber rotation and they likely, this is
what he said Friday, scared to death that they won't
even get a shot to show what they can do
when the spotlight is brightest. So look, I think this uh,
and we'll get to a break here in a second.
I think, no matter what your opinion is on this team,
find everyone has a take. Whatever they pulled out. Nobody
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is gonna owe anybody an apology. Nobody's gonna owe anybody
you know a a drop to your knees and kiss
their ass and say you were sorry. They deserve everything
coming their way. And if I'm John Stanton, what I
would want to do, what I want to hear from
my owner is a guy that would go on radio
or TV or go on Twitter anywhere and say, you
know what, everything the fans are saying about us, we deserve.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
We deserve all of it.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
And it's our job in the next thirty seven games
to prove them wrong. And if we don't, there's gonna
be massive changes to this organization because what's happening right
now is unacceptable.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Instead, you get freaking crickets is what you get. I mean,
the guy, dude, the guy that owns the.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Phillies's barking about how nobody gives a crap how much
money he makes, and our guys silent doing nothing. The
leadership structure of this organization sucks.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
It's terrible, from the from the top to the bottom.
It's awful.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
You've been around great organizations before, the Seahawks, the storm
who win, Sounders, the Sounders who win because they have
unbelievable leaders on a phenomenal structure and a culture.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Culture is a joke.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
And they may stumble into something every now and then
they may do it. They may stumble into it. Hell,
maybe it happens to Dick this year, or.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
Like you said, Tom Betson stumbled down that time he
got Drew Brees and he had a terrible owner.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Umbrella twirling clown a world won a Super Bowl because
he got Drew Brees.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
But this has got to stop.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
No matter what happens the rest of the way, we're
gonna be here again and again a again.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
All right, I need a freaking break. I need an
oxygen mask.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
I thought you said you weren't gonna get word.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Then oh you got me in.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
We're gonna break more with Dick and Andrews from the
Emerald Queen. Next on ninety three to three kJ r
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Speaker 1 (25:15):
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Speaker 2 (25:31):
That's some numbers, George Kirby in the last what I say,
fifteen games yep, two nine seventy r A.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
The ms are seven and eight and those fifteen with
a two nine seven.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
That's a two nine seven e ra A given up. Well,
I guess it was only six in runs. Huh yeah,
they changed went for correct, Okay, change all right? Because
of your uh, your guy Rivas over there, yeah. Uh.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Luis Castillo has been kind of in the last maybe
month or so month and a half.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
He's just kind of a six inning, three run game
right for sixty game. The the problem is he doesn't
keep a team that only scores one run a game
in the game.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
He keeps it.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
He keeps a normal team in the game, but he
doesn't keep this team in.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
So what do we think's gonna happen? What is the
most likely scenario? By the way back here at the
amperra Queien Casino fun with audio. Next segment, Chuck paler
is gonna join us at four, Stephen Susan five, darny
Caster coach talking dogs before the coaches show five to
forty five coaches show at six. So what is the
most likely scenario? They have thirty seven games left to go?
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Is that right? Dick?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
So sevenes Either A they find a way to rally
make the playoffs. B they rally a little bit but
fall short. B they just or see they just completely
totally fall flat on their asses and end up winning
eighty two eighty three games.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
What is the most likely scenario?
Speaker 4 (26:43):
Well, the most Mariner scenario would be to go twenty
four and thirteen and miss the playoffs by one game.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
And then bring them all back that way.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
That would be the absolute most Mariner scenario of all scenarios.
I think the most likely one, though, is that they
just continue to play me sub you know, five hundred
ish sub five hundred ish baseball for the rest of
the season and lose, you know, and miss out in
the division by seven games. Really, okay, all right, I
(27:13):
think that's the most likely, say Andrews.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
How about you? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (27:16):
I also think they crashing, barn. I think these like
three years of living on the margins has finally caught
up them a little bit, and the players are just
getting tired of playing one run baseball all the time,
and luck is going to catch up to you, and
I think it finally has with them. So I think
they're gonna just similar to what DIXI kind of crashing
burn a little bit and missed the playoffs by quite
a significant margin.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
So Baseball Reference does their playoff odds thing, which, God.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
I just hate this. I don't even know why I'm
talking about this, so dumb.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
It was a ninety percent on June eighteen, Well now
it's at sixteen percent.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
It's like your win probability percentage.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Sixteen percent chance to make the playoffs, says Baseball Reference dies.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
I think that's fair.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
They have the eighth best chance in the American League
to make the postseason. Best case scenario, they win eighty
eight games, were worst case they fall flat on their face,
like Andrews said, and they go seventy eight and eighty four.
I mean, even best case scenario, eighty eight wins is
like right there, right of winning the West or making
the wild card. I think if they can get to
eighty eight, I think they're gonna make it. If they
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can get to eighty eight, yeah, I think, I believe.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
I think it probably wins the division.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
It might be last game of the year, right, but
eighty eight is gonna get But that's the best case scenario.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
And here's the thing, and.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
I'm actually I just talked about how much I get
tired of talking about this Baseball Reference playoff odds thing.
The schedule is favorable outside of the Dodgers series. Giants
are kind of mediocre, Tampa Bay has already done the
Angel stink, the A stink. The Cardinals are kind of
scuffling a little bit. Texas has falling apart.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
Schedule doesn't matter with this point.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Yeah, that's exactly my point. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter,
and it should matter. That's the stupid thing. It's like,
my god, the baseball gods, they are literally following you around.
They show up to your front door, they knock on
the door. Here's a playoff spot.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
What do you do?
Speaker 2 (28:57):
You kick him in the nuts and slam the door.
Then they come round of the back yard. They find
you in the backyard having a cheeseburger and a beer.
Here's the postseason. Nope, don't want it, and they chuck
in the ravine behind your house like you're creep behind
your place. Every time the baseball guys try to hand
us something on a platter, spin it.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
Back on the heads and they hand us the schedule. Now,
the schedule has been something that has helped us in
the past because we have feasted on the bad teams
in August and September over the last couple of years,
and it put us in the playoffs a couple of
years ago, and almost put us in the playoffs last
year because we rallied. But this year they haven't won
those games. The schedule gods anders are like, here you
go have the angels, here you go have the Tiger.
(29:34):
Here you go have the Pirates and we're likena. I
think we'd rather lose to.
Speaker 5 (29:38):
Being teams like the Phillies and the Mets. It's wild.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
But the thing is is that it's a little bit
different guys in September because those teams might be bringing
up some minor leaguers, right, and that matter well, I
mean not as much as it used to because he
used to be able to bring up like a hundred
guys and now you can't do that anymore.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
I saw Kenta Mata throw seventy eight miles. I get
and shut out any and the.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Look I mean.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
The Astros also have in September, and the Astros have
a little bit of a run here where I I
think if it's gonna happen, it's gonna happen in the
next week and a half to two weeks. Astros Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia,
Kansas City.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
To talk about, that's what they've got.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Yeah, I'm trying here.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
And then Cincinnati, Arizona, the A's, the Angels, the Padres,
the Angels, the Mariners, and the Guardians.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
At the end of the year, that series could be big.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Dude.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
I mean, most likely scenario is probably what you said,
that they'll just do enough to kind of hang around,
keep everybody intrigued, and then they'll miss the playoffs by
a game or two and then bring everybody back next year.
Which I'm just here to tell you we cannot start
changing our expectations. From March to September. The expectations were alcs.
(30:44):
That was the expectations, and now we're gonna sit around
and make exclusive excuses for these guys if they missed
the playoffs, which I find to be disgusting, and I
think if you miss it, you're done.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
You've had nine years, you're out.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
When did they start talking about When did the potos
start putting dates on things like four years ago, by
twenty twenty two, two, whatever it was, Well, now it's
gonna be twenty twenty five and you're finished.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
Here's the problem. Though he actually reached those expectations back then,
he just hasn't taken it to the next level. I mean,
he got this team to ninety plus wins in a
playoff spot in about the time he said he would.
It's just they didn't take the step from ninety wins
in a playoff series win to ALCS. That's that's what's
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gonna be. The damning thing on the resume of Jerry
Depoto and Scott Servis is they had it. They were
one of the best teams in baseball for a short
period of time, and they weren't able to go over
the top and instead they backslid.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Well, let's say go watch him win three in a
row starting tonight. Man unreal?
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Can you bet the series odds? By the way, at
this place, member Queen Thomas, find that out. We're gonna
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Speaker 5 (32:00):
I'm for Sunday in Dick's one with Audio.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
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Speaker 5 (32:06):
Now let's have some fun with audio.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
All right, here we go on a busy Monday. From
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Speaker 3 (32:14):
Us at four o'clock. I thought, he said this morning
on his little show.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
If the Maritors lose two out of three to LA,
he would fire Scott's service on Wednesday nights, make him
walk home from Chavez review. Wouldn't that be something how
about if they tarmac. I'm like Kiffin, they wouldn't do that.
There's no way they do no way anyway, don't join
us at four o'clock today. All right, Hey, Dick, we'll
do a little fun with audio slash. Hey did you
hear that? Hey, Dick, did you happen to hear that?
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Oh? What's that?
Speaker 7 (32:41):
David?
Speaker 5 (32:41):
What's that?
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Dick?
Speaker 2 (32:42):
On the TV broadcast for NBC Sports Philadelphia during the
Phillies win versus Washington, the booth was talking about former
Philly Brad Lidge and his post baseball endeavors. When former
Mariner Jamie Moyer came into discussion.
Speaker 8 (32:56):
I'm blown away because Brad Lynch just told us what
he is doing that it's amazing. He's going for his
PhD in archaeology.
Speaker 9 (33:06):
But like, is he what's he gonna do? Is he
gonna go on like digs and stuff and not what
that's called when they go look for look for that
old stuff?
Speaker 8 (33:14):
Worst, Jamie, let's ask Jamie's got to do something else
because he's Brad's going for his peak.
Speaker 9 (33:20):
Yeah, well Jamie, so, oh, Brad might be digging him up.
Speaker 8 (33:23):
Wow, I'm sorry, Jamie.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
It pulls it fell up to.
Speaker 9 (33:39):
Do you want me to handle the rest of this
inning or what?
Speaker 3 (33:41):
No, that's good, it's okay, that's all out of up.
Speaker 9 (33:45):
You got to spend a lot of time with Jamie today.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
It was great to see him.
Speaker 9 (33:48):
It was great to see him. And he he doesn't
look as old as he did when he was pitching here.
Speaker 10 (33:54):
He's only sixty one years old and he pitched like
last Tuesday, right, yeah, exactly, Holy moly, hammer and our guy,
what the hell, let's take Jamie Moyer on this team
right now? You know, maybe it's a long heys a
long reliever with that, he's a.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
Long reliever bringing the seventy two mile an hour.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
He remember Ryan Franklin's rollback in on one? All right, hey, Dick,
did you happen to hear that? Dick an interview.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
In an interview on The Dan Leviatard Show, Dolphins quarterback
to uh takob Iloa compared his experience with Mike McDaniel,
his current head coach, and his former head coach, Brian Flores.
Speaker 11 (34:31):
Can you explain to us the difference in practical terms
between having a coach who did believe in you the
way that he did and the difference between that and
what was happening with Flora. Can you explain to us
the difference in practical terms between having a coach who
did believe in you the way that he did and
the difference between that and what was happening with Flora is?
Speaker 7 (34:53):
Yeah, Well, to put it in simplest terms, if you
woke up every morning and I told you you suck
at what you did, that you don't belong doing what
you do, that you shouldn't be here, that this guy
should be here, that you haven't earned this right, and
(35:17):
then you have somebody else come in and tell you, dude,
you are the best fit for this, Like, you are accurate,
you are the best whatever you are this you are that.
Like how would it make you feel listening to one
or the other? You see what I'm saying, and then
you hear it. You hear it regardless of what it is,
the good or the bad, and you hear it more
(35:38):
and more you start to actually believe that.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Did I hear the same clip twice?
Speaker 4 (35:42):
By the way, well, the first like ten seconds.
Speaker 5 (35:44):
That skip, dad, skip, sorry about that?
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Somebody snapping their fingers going on, uh yeah, he basically
said that Brian Flores told him he was no good
and he stinks, and now.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
He's like the third highest paid quarterback in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
Both coaches are right. He does stink, but big stakes.
Mike McDaniel does a fabulous job squeezing the most out
of that rock he can, just like Kyle Shanahan does
with Brock Purdy.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
I think your definition of stink in my definition of
a stinking, well, the guy led the league in QBR
or whatever it was. I mean, how could you stink?
I mean, dick, If you tell me he's overrated, I
can buy that, but stinks.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
He isn't the way stink.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
Stink like Daniel Jones. There's a different Daniel Jones.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Okay, that's so there's different levels of stink. So he's
on the top tier of stink.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
By some is put in the same breath with the
top seven eight quarterbacks in the NFL, and it's that
list that he stinks against. Okay, he's in the next
seven or eight quarterbacks in the NFL. And in no way,
shape or formed does he earned that. Does he deserve
that type of money? And if Mike McDaniels wasn't his
head coach and Brian Flores are almost any other coach
(37:00):
in the NFL save Brian Floores, save Kyle Shanahan, save
Sean McVay. There's four or five that could probably squeeze
juice out of that rock. If you put him with
any of the other twenty five or twenty six, he
is worse than Geno. I don't think there's any question
about that.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
He was number five in passer rating last year. He
was number ten in QBR, led the league in passing.
Speaker 4 (37:25):
You know what he do? You know what he is against?
Winning team? Probably that temperature isn't seventy I'm sure. I'm
sure a lot of quarterbacks can say they're not. Look,
I'm not saying he's elite at all. I mean the
reason why he made that money is because he was
next up. We've had this conversation for a thousand years,
and I'm just say the team doesn't do that. I
would not say stakes at all.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
I would say, though, we got a few more clips
to go to, Hey, Dick, did you happen.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
To hear that? What's that?
Speaker 3 (37:49):
Dick?
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Let's go number four on the Club Shayshe podcast, Andrews
Shannon Sharp commenting on what seemed to be retaliation from
storm guards. Skylar Diggan Smith on Clark as she pumped
up her home crowd in Indiana during their win versus
the storm yesterday.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
Y'all see the woman's feed up.
Speaker 5 (38:07):
Y'all see her, Kaylin Clark is getting the crowd and going.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
Y'all sees dollad Digging's feed up to make contact with
stop being yo, man to that corn bed. I will
God bath of y'all laying yao. She can't do this.
She leaned the w NBA to see it. She cook it, Let.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
Her cook.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
Cook. Wow, he's angry.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
Was the was the uh cornbread and white girl from Iowa?
Speaker 3 (38:36):
Was that in there? Or did I?
Speaker 4 (38:37):
Yeah? That was that?
Speaker 3 (38:38):
Wasn't there? Okay? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (38:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
I mean, look, I'm trying to put myself in a
position where this is the NBA and there's this hot
shot rookie that people are pissed off about and they're
slamming into him like the bad boy Pistons back in
the day, and I wonder if there'd be this much
reaction to it, but there definitely seems to be. I
think the players, from what I observe, and you would
know way better than me, are getting sick and tired
(39:00):
of all the attention this gal's getting.
Speaker 4 (39:02):
What was weird was it started so early in the season,
Like I understand it more now than I would at
the beginning of the season, Like unless you're just trying
to send a message to a rookie, right, and that's
the reason they were doing it now. I mean, I
I wasn't a big fan of Skyler, Digg and Smith
speeding up the bump, you know, Kicky and Clark about
walking off the off the floor, but that was a
(39:23):
really it was a weird contentious end of the game.
I mean, right before that happened, you you had the
Storm coach come over and get right in the face
of the Fever coach and admonish her for not taking
her starters out when Seattle had already taken her starters out.
So it was just a weird weird what's that.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
For the coach to get mad about not taking.
Speaker 4 (39:45):
This I thought it was a weaker. I thought it
was a weaker look to bump to bum.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
I just think when you're asking someone to give up
on your behalf is I'm not a big fan of that.
Speaker 3 (39:57):
And and I do agree with you that bumping into her.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
It's just it just feels like there's just like like
nothing has changed, right, Like the the story from two
months ago is the same story. Now, there's a lot
of jealousy, except Caitlin's getting better. She's getting way better.
There's a ton of jealousy around the w NBA for
this gal is that they're winning and she is balling out.
Speaker 3 (40:20):
Let's get a break. Chuck Powell is going to join us.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
Coming up next, we'll talk about some baseball with Chuck
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Speaker 4 (00:47):
The Hawks are very thin at tight end, and I
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Speaker 3 (01:03):
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And don't forget the coaches showed tonight Jet Fish and
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Speaker 4 (01:21):
George are still run the wing team.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
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Steelers running back Jalen Warren will miss the next few weeks,
including potentially the season opener, with a hamstring injury.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
The storm drop one to the fever yesterday.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
What the hell?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Kitlin Clark with twenty six breaks the WNBA rookie assist record,
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Speaker 4 (01:48):
Tomorrow Raiders have named Gardner Minshew their starting quarterback over
Aiden O'Connell's start the regular season, and dan Quinn has
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Week one and.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Quarter about Colet McCoy gonna retire, he will join NBC
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Speaker 3 (02:19):
This is softy and dim all right. Here we go
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Speaker 2 (02:25):
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say seven, but that'd be a lie. I mean, you
can hang out till seven if you want. I might
hang out until nine o'clock tonight, to be honest with you,
because we got the Coaches Show at six pm. Jetfish
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You're gonna want to remember where you were when Jetfish
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Get on down there, support the cause. Dogs going a
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bunch of football this weekend, Florida State versus Georgia Tech,
a bunch of other smaller schools as well, Dick, I
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think Nevada is playing this weekend, maybe BYU whatever, But
I mean, this is just another example of how college
football just blows this whole thing like they should. There
should be a big countdown start off at Florida State
Saturday morning, Georgia Tech, whatever, Give us a big game
Saturday night, give us a bigger game Sunday night, give
us something gigantic on Monday, and let him own the
damn thing. There's no NFL football, a bunch of preseason crap.
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It's Week three that nobody now gives a damn about
because it's the last game of the preseason.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Thank God for that.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
There's nothing really going on in baseball up until the
middle of September when the games get big. NBA is
not playing, Hockey's not playing. You could you could own
the calendar. You could totally dominate the sports calendar.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
What the hell are they? Teams maximize audience, leagues maximize audience,
and NFL does it better than anybody. The NBA does
it pretty well as well. But college football has blown
it terrible. They have blown this weekend for to a
lesser extent, they've blown Labor Day weekend. At least there's
two or three games on Labor Day weekend that are
worth watching. But you're right, this is the two weeks
(04:09):
that you have that you're not competing with the NFL,
and teams are afraid to take the early loss. But guys,
I mean Dennis Dodd tweeted it out today. He said
he went back like thirty years and he took a
look at the polls and he saw that on average,
about one three loss team every single year. Yeah, would
(04:32):
have made a twelve team playoff a three loss team.
Go ahead and schedule those games. If you take an
early loss, you can still go nine to three and
they'll look back and say, oh, that loss was four
months ago. It was to a team that's now fifth
in the nation, No big deal, and it will put
eyeballs on the sport and eyeballs on your team.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I don't even think you need to have the big
time matchup. I mean, I'm just looking at some of
these early games, like Utah's playing Oklahoma's playing Clemson, Georgia's
obviously gigantic, Penn State West Virginia.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Just get to get the big names out there.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I mean, if there's a couple of games that are,
you know, top ten, top fifteen, top twenty five, top
forty matchups, hey, great, that's fine.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
But these teams aren't even.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Playing, Like the first step is to get him to
play on a night of the week that they don't
normally play on. But you've been working the entire offseason,
it shouldn't matter what day of the week you're playing.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
At this point, these teams aren't even going.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Man, So anyway, I'm fired up for tonight at six pm,
fired up for the coaches show, fired up for the
Weber State game next Saturday, be doing the pregame, sideline, postgame,
the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
So I think Alisa has a.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Broadcast, No, at least is doing the Paralympics for NBC,
so she's gonna be off that day. How about that
she picks the Weber State game to let me take
over the sideline.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Thanks a lot of least.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I appreciate that couldn't have been like USC or something
or Oregon whatever, But anyway, we're ready for that.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
You're doing sideline pre and post time.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
I did it twice last year Michigan State and Apple Cup.
And it's a long day, it is, for sure. But
it's fun as hell. But what's not fun as hell
right now is what's happening with the Mariners. So just
think about what your mood was on Friday morning after
the sweep by the Tigers, and now think about what
your mood is now after losing two out of three
to the Pittsburgh Pirates. It reminds me Andrews, you're probably
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too young for this, Dick. I know, you remember the
movie Planes, Trains, and Automobiles where they're all sitting there
in a bus depot and John Canna looks at Steve
Martin says, you ever traveled by bus before?
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Not gonna improve your mood much.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
My mood's not improved much, man, after what we saw
over the weekend in Pittsburgh, because it was a disaster.
I mean, this team has no right losing two out
of three to the Pittsburgh Pirates, and they have no
right being swept by the Detroit Tigers because I believe
they have better talent across the board.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Than those two teams. Do they do.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
They're more talented offensively, and they're more talented defensively, and
they're more talented pitching wise. And yet they kind of
feel like right now they're just completely at a loss.
They feel like a rudderless ship that has no idea
what direction it's heading. They have no idea where they're
even going right now with this talent they've got, And
now they got to play the Dodgers this week. Look
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crazier things have happened. Then you know the m's going
to LA and getting two or three. I don't think
would shock anybody, because that's just the way baseball works.
But I think at some point all of this is
going to have to be addressed. Right, Why are we
in this position? Why is this offense so bad? Why
is the manager pushing the wrong buttons in the bullpen
seemingly every single night. Whether you find a way to
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rally Dick and you make the playoffs, whatever you do,
at some point, all of this has to be addressed.
The only question now is when does it get addressed.
Does it get addressed in a week from now, does
it get addressed in four and a's from now, or
does it get addressed in two months from now?
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Well, I look at the manager at this point, because
we can talk all we want about how managers in
baseball are less important than any other coach in any
other major sport, and I totally agree with them. I
think most people probably agree with that. I agree, and
that gives Scott's service a whole lot of wiggle room
because we all look at him and say, wow, that
doesn't really matter. You know, baseball managers don't really You
(07:58):
know where baseball managers matter. You get answer these questions.
If you're a base line.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
You want me to answer them. I wasn't. I wasn't
told there'd be a Texer.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
I can aware of this.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
You don't have to answer the question. These can just
be rhetorical questions. I can just throw out there. Does
Scott's service make his players better?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I don't think this year he has?
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Okay, that's question number one. Does Scott's service have them
ready to start the season every year? Does Scott's service
pull his teams out of skids quickly, no typically, no, okay, yeah,
there's your answers to your questions. Yea, And it's and
and that's what a manager is for. Because if a
manager can't do that, then you and I can just
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be the manager of the Seattle Mariners. It doesn't take
any skill whatsoever. If a manager's job is is so
just completely dependent on his ownership as general manager and
his talent, then what the hell do we have managers for.
They have to do something, and what they have to
do is answer those three questions in the affirmative. And
he is zero for three in twenty twenty four and
(09:04):
he hasn't has this had his team ready to play
in any one of the last year.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Does you include the most important thing, which is putting
the chess pieces in the right spot on game day?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Did you can tell? And that's number one?
Speaker 4 (09:15):
That's another good one.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
I mean number one is managing the game.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
That's number one, managing the game game day, squeezing, doing.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
The right thing.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I'm putting the right guys in the right spot, pulling
the right levers for pinch hitters, that pushing the right
buttons for relievers, meanings are second base. I mean that's
where a manager comes into play. I mean for the
most part, yeah, I mean overall getting through to people,
getting the most out of players, things like that. I
just think it's it's one of three things is going
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on right now, and barring a complete miracle turnaround, and
we got to talk about at some point what this
would mean if they do miss the playoffs, because they're
trending that way right they're training to the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
All of us can agree on that. I don't know
who said.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I don't know if it was somebody over the weekend
that I bumped into or somebody on the air. I
have no idea. It may have been you, and may
even me for all I know. If they do this
and they missed the playoffs after having a ten game
lead on what was the date they had the ten
game lead, June the eighteenth, yep, and they missed the playoffs,
I think it would be one of the worst things
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they've ever done as a franchise ever. Honestly, I mean,
Jason starks on Ian Show is saying no team in
the Wildcard Era has ever missed the playoffs after having
a ten game lead. In the division at any point
during the regular season. We're talking thirty years of baseball,
and they'd be the first team to do it. I
think it'd be a complete collapse. I think it'd be
an indictment on everybody. It'd be a total choke job
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by this baseball team if they go down that road,
and it'd be one of the worst things they've ever done.
I mean, look, we can talk all you want about,
you know, not responding to twenty twenty two with you know,
a big check and going out and getting free agents.
We can talk all you want about the two thousand
and one falling short in the regular season, but stuff
like that happens right him in Good teams win one
hundred games and fall short. That's just the way the
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baseball playoffs go. But to not even be there in
an era where more teams are now making the playoffs
than ever in the history of the game, where a
ten game lead, I think would be a disgrace. It'd
be the worst thing, one of the worst things, if
not the worst thing the franchise has ever done. And
I think they'd lose a lot of people. I think
they're losing people right now. They've lost people with the
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way they've responded. You think about twenty twenty two ending
the drought, that incredible series against Houston that was on
the plate of a knife, could have gone either way
in all three of those games, and the way they
responded to it right as an ownership group, the way
they went all in or did not go all in.
Excuse me at that exact point in time. And then
Dick and I Anders are running some numbers off the air.
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I mean, look, the two thousand and eight Toronto Blue
Jays led the league in ERA and won eighty six
games and missed the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
These are the number of wins every team.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Has had in the regular season that led the league
in ERA ninety five, ninety two, one hundred and two,
ninety ninety six, ninety six, hundred, one hundred and three
hundred and two hundred and three hundred and six hundred
and six, one hundred and eleven.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
To ninety two. That's what you do. When you lead
the league in ERA.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
You don't win eighty five games or eighty six games
and missed the playoffs unless you're the two thousand and
eight Toronto Blue Jays and your best player is Alex Rios,
for God's says, I mean, their offense reminds.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Me of this offense.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
And I got guys, I gotta tell you one thing
taken you gets some thoughts.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
I'll just wrap it up with this.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
I think if this team is gonna do it, there's
only one guy that can do it, and it's Julio.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Freaking Rodriguez got to carry.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Julio Rodriguez has to catch fire, and he has to
put this team on his back.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
There's nobody else that has the tools.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
There's nobody else that has the talent, There's nobody else
that has the charisma to do it.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
It's gotta be about forty four.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
If this team is gonna pull it off, forty four
has got to go on a freaking bender starting tonight
in LA And if he does that, maybe they have
a chance. Out of that forget it because Dick cal
Rawley is your best player. Can we all agree with
that cal Rawley's your best playoffs so far?
Speaker 3 (13:06):
This offensively, he's got an OPS is seven forty four.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
You know where that would rank on all the other
teams in contention for a playoff spot on Baltimore, he'd
be number seven. Cleveland number four, Yankees, number three, Astros
number five, Red Sox number five, Royals number three, and
on Minnesota he'd be number six instead.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
He's our best we've got. That can't be that way.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Cal Raley is a very good player, but he cannot
be your best player. And he is your best player.
And that's why you're about to piss away this pitching
staff because of things like that.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
They put themselves in a position on that date, June eighteenth,
right where all they had to do was play five
hundred baseball the rest of the way, and it probably
would have been enough to make the playoffs. It would
have been eighty seven and seventy five. That might have
been enough to make the playoffs had they just played
five hundred baseball. But this goes back to the managering.
To me, we talk about the losing streaks and pulling
them out of kids. I asked Sophie question, Andrews. I'm
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gonna ask you a question since that date, how many
three game or more skids do the Seattle Mariners have
since June the eighteen How many times have they lost
three games in a row or more? You know, just
we're talking about two months. It's only two months.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
I'm gonna say five seven times.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Wow, they have lost three or more games seven separate
times in the last two months. That is inexcusable. It
is inexcusable for a team that has the number one
era in baseball. It is inexcusable for a team that
had an offense that, at least, if you win back
of the baseball card, could be twentieth in Major League Baseball.
(14:42):
So you put it, Yeah, you put it on those bats,
but you also put it on the guy pushing all
the buttons and not being able to squeeze three runs
a game out of this team. Because when this team
scores three runs a game, they win at an extraordinary
rate fifty eight and nineteen. Second half, when they score
when the second well second, they're twelve and one.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
And when they don't, when they score two or less,
I think they've lost every single game. I think I
think they're owing fourteen in the second half of the year.
And by the way, that's the problem. They've done it
fourteen times. Yeah, but you're a little win or lose
three in a row or more?
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Is I right? Seven times?
Speaker 2 (15:17):
That's okay if you win three or more seven times,
But they've done that three times.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Yeah, in the last two months.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
So they're three and seven when it comes to the
three game winning streak and the and the three game
losing streak. Look, guys, I'll just repeat what I said Friday,
and nothing has really changed for me after the Pittsburgh game.
I mean, no, it's maybe dropping down. You know, the positivity,
the hope is starting to fade away a little bit.
I mean it's not Lord of the Rings all hope
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is lost yet, but it's getting damn close. That I
still believe, and maybe I'm a freaking imbecile for believing this,
that if they can get into the playoffs, I still
think this team has a shot to do somehow, I
really do, because they think the pitching staff is that good.
You're talking about taking a starter or two and putting
him in the bullpen, making the bullpen stronger. The bullpen's
going to be stronger come playoff time. And I believe
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that when you're talking about a three, five or a
seven game series.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
It's just a completely different animal.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
You jump out to a two zero lead with great pitching,
and all of a sudden, the opposing team starts to press.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Would I bet it? No, Dick. I would not bet
it at all, but I.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Think they're a better They're more made for the playoffs
than they are for the regular season because of their
pitching stacks, and I want to see that happen. And
that's why the talk about firing Scott's service is being
brought up, because I think people still believe if these
guys can find a way to get motivated, and maybe
the same voice over and over again is no longer working.
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If they can find a way to get motivated, maybe
they can find a way to get in and maybe
they can find a way to make a run.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Look, I'm grasping at straw. Yeah, I'll be honest with you, guys.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
I'm just trying to find whatever little sliver of positivity
that could be out there.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Why.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Because I'm sick and tired of doing the opposite. I
said this on Friday. Everybody's waiting for Mount Softy to
blow up on the air. I'm tired of Mount Softy
blowing up. I don't want to have a stroke. I'm
fifty one years old. I'm not twenty years old anymore.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Guys.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
You know, I gotta kind of relax a little bit here.
I'll blow a gasket. That could be the end to me.
So I just think there's there's still some hope. If
these guys can find a way to get in. Can
they make it respectable? Can they win a wildcard series
and get to the division series and maybe win the
division series and find a way to get to the
ALCS Where it shocked the hell out of you know,
would it surprised me?
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Would it shocked me? No, because that's baseball. But these
guys got, you know, forty days whatever it is left,
Dick in the regular thirty seven games and the thirty
seven games left they need to go twenty five and
twelve and the regular games, Yeah, twenty five and twelve
they got. They got thirty seven games left to decide.
I think what they want to be. I think Scott
Servis has thirty seven games left maybe to decide.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
We know de Poto does. Is the Poto gonna really
do this?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Is he gonna put together the league's best pitching staff
and then throw it away because the offense could perform?
And the same message Friday, I'll just give you the
same one today. Is he gonna let Scott Servis? Is
he going to entrust him to do that. Is he
going to continue to entrust Scott's service to run this
offense and let him be the steward for this thing
when clearly it hasn't worked for four and.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
A half months.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
And one of the reasons I think Softy is so
optimistic is because this is so wide open this year one.
Trying to have no one hundred win teams in baseball
for the first time since twenty.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Four crazy, It's crazy.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
There's no dominant team right now.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
And guys, look, if if Jerry Depoto looks at Scott's
Service and says, yes, I trust him, Yes he's the
right man for the job, then that's an indictment on
the roster that Jerry's put together, and he's gonna go
down in flames with him at the end of the year.
I mean, can we all agree that if they missed
the playoffs, if they win eighty five, eighty six and
they missed the playoffs, that you might want to just
blow the whole thing? Ye say, the hell well absolutely,
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because the analogy we made last week was, Hey, these
guys could be Steve Sarkisian. Is there a Chris Peterson
out there to take this thing to the next step
because Pete.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
Won with a lot of Sarks got their foundation to
certainly on the pitch. They're certainly on the pitching. So
I just I don't know how the team that has
had the second worst record in baseball since that day
can go twenty five and twelve. I don't know how
that happens. Now. I think they could go twenty two
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and fifteen and play good baseball. But that's that's the
worst case scenario for me. The worst and I mentioned
this on Friday. The worst case scenario for me is
the Mariners rally and fall a couple of games short,
because then that gives Stanton and I think it just
gives them new life, like, oh, we're we're right on
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the right track. We're right there, close and they're not close.
Look at this offense. I've said it all season long.
The eyeball test tells me this is just an average
to above average baseball team, and they're just above average.
Maybe right now they're just average. Last year's team, I
didn't feel that way. The year before that. I didn't
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feel that way. That's why I was so confident those
years that they would rally. And this year people called
me Sergeant doom. So I just didn't see it in
this baseball team. And I keep hearing the offense gonna
turn around the offense and turn around. When the hell's the.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Offense could turn around, you better call for the Poto's head. Awesome,
I just answered your question. If they didn't make the playoffs, Yes,
you should clean out and then you should rip them,
and then you should rip the owner. You should go
after John Stanton too. Nobody should be excused from criticism
if what you're saying is gonna happen happens. Nobody, not
the owner, not the manager, not the GM, nobody. Because
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John Stanton's gonna wear this too, by the way.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
How he's the owner? He how are he doesn't fire himself?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Meaning wearing it, but wearing it when they get criticized
by everybody.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Okay, but he does anyway?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Right, Well he's but no, because you don't criticize him.
There's a lot of people out there that don't criticize him.
I'm saying, people like you that have defended John Stanton,
that have defended.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Jerry Depoto, what else do you have left to stand on? Nothing?
There's nothing left. The guy who's gonna hire a.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
GM who's gonna put together the best pitching staff in
team history and then not give him the resources to
go supplement that with an offense. Isn't that pissed you off? Yes,
this pisses me off. And he needs to hear that.
This guy needs to hear that. I don't want to
be the guy that says, don't the game, but those are.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Worse than their Their payroll is sixteenth right now. They're
not throwing out a sixteenth best team in baseball. They're
throwing out about a twenty fifth best team in baseball
right now. I mean, you're telling me the payroll is
the reason these guys are hitting two ten.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
I'm telling you, tell me the payroll is the reason
these guys are putting together career worst numbers across the board.
I'm telling you, I'm telling you that the absolute wet
noodle that these guys threw at that twenty twenty two
team after they went to Houston, agreed and had that
playoff series and ignored one of the greatest classes in
free agent history was terrible.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
I think that's fair. I've told you I thought you
were fair about that. We're not.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
We're not talking about this year's class. I hate when
people say, well, softy, what would you like them to do?
I'm not talking about this year. I'm talking about overall,
three four years in a row.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
When the Rangers signed Marcus Simeon, they didn't win right.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Away, they lost for a couple of years, and then
when they were ready.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
To win, boom.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
He was a big part of their championship team last season.
This is years of neglect that has gotten to this point.
So I just think, look, I would love for John
Stanton to sell the god darn team tonight to Jeff
Bezos or Steve Balmer or whoever. Probably not gonna happen
because it's a cash cow. Why would they get rid
of it? I get this, but I just think in
the end, this is an embarrassment for everybody, the entire structure,
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the ownership, the general manager, the manager, the whole thing.
You and I have been talking about this all year.
They'll make these moves. Polanco Garver, Yeah, okay, but the
guy was suspended. Buck, the guy's ever been in a regular hitter. Buck,
this guy was banged up. There's always a freaking buck
with everything they do, and now they're wasting maybe the
best rotation in the process.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
I can handle it, honestly, Dick.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
If the pitching staff is pissed poor, and that's what
drives me nuts. I wish this pitching staff sucked. Honestly,
it'd be less painful. It'd be less painful. He just say, look,
they're terrible. GM's adult fires ass. The managers of Moron
get rid of him. These guys can't build squad. But
that's not what's going on here. They have put together
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a world series caliber rotation and they likely, this is
what he said Friday, scared to death that they won't
even get a shot to show what they can do
when the spotlight is brightest. So look, I think this uh,
and we'll get to a break here in a second.
I think, no matter what your opinion is on this team,
find everyone has a take. Whatever they pulled out. Nobody
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is gonna owe anybody an apology. Nobody's gonna owe anybody
you know a a drop to your knees and kiss
their ass and say you were sorry. They deserve everything
coming their way. And if I'm John Stanton, what I
would want to do, what I want to hear from
my owner is a guy that would go on radio
or TV or go on Twitter anywhere and say, you
know what, everything the fans are saying about us, we deserve.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
We deserve all of it.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
And it's our job in the next thirty seven games
to prove them wrong. And if we don't, there's gonna
be massive changes to this organization because what's happening right
now is unacceptable.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Instead, you get freaking crickets is what you get. I mean,
the guy, dude, the guy that owns the.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Phillies's barking about how nobody gives a crap how much
money he makes, and our guys silent doing nothing. The
leadership structure of this organization sucks.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
It's terrible, from the from the top to the bottom.
It's awful.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
You've been around great organizations before, the Seahawks, the storm
who win, Sounders, the Sounders who win because they have
unbelievable leaders on a phenomenal structure and a culture.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Culture is a joke.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
And they may stumble into something every now and then
they may do it. They may stumble into it. Hell,
maybe it happens to Dick this year, or.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
Like you said, Tom Betson stumbled down that time he
got Drew Brees and he had a terrible owner.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Umbrella twirling clown a world won a Super Bowl because
he got Drew Brees.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
But this has got to stop.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
No matter what happens the rest of the way, we're
gonna be here again and again a again.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
All right, I need a freaking break. I need an
oxygen mask.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
I thought you said you weren't gonna get word.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Then oh you got me in.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
We're gonna break more with Dick and Andrews from the
Emerald Queen. Next on ninety three to three kJ r
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Speaker 1 (25:15):
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Speaker 2 (25:31):
That's some numbers, George Kirby in the last what I say,
fifteen games yep, two nine seventy r A.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
The ms are seven and eight and those fifteen with
a two nine seven.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
That's a two nine seven e ra A given up. Well,
I guess it was only six in runs. Huh yeah,
they changed went for correct, Okay, change all right? Because
of your uh, your guy Rivas over there, yeah. Uh.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Luis Castillo has been kind of in the last maybe
month or so month and a half.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
He's just kind of a six inning, three run game
right for sixty game. The the problem is he doesn't
keep a team that only scores one run a game
in the game.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
He keeps it.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
He keeps a normal team in the game, but he
doesn't keep this team in.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
So what do we think's gonna happen? What is the
most likely scenario? By the way back here at the
amperra Queien Casino fun with audio. Next segment, Chuck paler
is gonna join us at four, Stephen Susan five, darny
Caster coach talking dogs before the coaches show five to
forty five coaches show at six. So what is the
most likely scenario? They have thirty seven games left to go?
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Is that right? Dick?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
So sevenes Either A they find a way to rally
make the playoffs. B they rally a little bit but
fall short. B they just or see they just completely
totally fall flat on their asses and end up winning
eighty two eighty three games.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
What is the most likely scenario?
Speaker 4 (26:43):
Well, the most Mariner scenario would be to go twenty
four and thirteen and miss the playoffs by one game.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
And then bring them all back that way.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
That would be the absolute most Mariner scenario of all scenarios.
I think the most likely one, though, is that they
just continue to play me sub you know, five hundred
ish sub five hundred ish baseball for the rest of
the season and lose, you know, and miss out in
the division by seven games. Really, okay, all right, I
(27:13):
think that's the most likely, say Andrews.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
How about you? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (27:16):
I also think they crashing, barn. I think these like
three years of living on the margins has finally caught
up them a little bit, and the players are just
getting tired of playing one run baseball all the time,
and luck is going to catch up to you, and
I think it finally has with them. So I think
they're gonna just similar to what DIXI kind of crashing
burn a little bit and missed the playoffs by quite
a significant margin.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
So Baseball Reference does their playoff odds thing, which, God.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
I just hate this. I don't even know why I'm
talking about this, so dumb.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
It was a ninety percent on June eighteen, Well now
it's at sixteen percent.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
It's like your win probability percentage.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Sixteen percent chance to make the playoffs, says Baseball Reference dies.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
I think that's fair.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
They have the eighth best chance in the American League
to make the postseason. Best case scenario, they win eighty
eight games, were worst case they fall flat on their face,
like Andrews said, and they go seventy eight and eighty four.
I mean, even best case scenario, eighty eight wins is
like right there, right of winning the West or making
the wild card. I think if they can get to
eighty eight, I think they're gonna make it. If they
(28:13):
can get to eighty eight, yeah, I think, I believe.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
I think it probably wins the division.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
It might be last game of the year, right, but
eighty eight is gonna get But that's the best case scenario.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
And here's the thing, and.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
I'm actually I just talked about how much I get
tired of talking about this Baseball Reference playoff odds thing.
The schedule is favorable outside of the Dodgers series. Giants
are kind of mediocre, Tampa Bay has already done the
Angel stink, the A stink. The Cardinals are kind of
scuffling a little bit. Texas has falling apart.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
Schedule doesn't matter with this point.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Yeah, that's exactly my point. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter,
and it should matter. That's the stupid thing. It's like,
my god, the baseball gods, they are literally following you around.
They show up to your front door, they knock on
the door. Here's a playoff spot.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
What do you do?
Speaker 2 (28:57):
You kick him in the nuts and slam the door.
Then they come round of the back yard. They find
you in the backyard having a cheeseburger and a beer.
Here's the postseason. Nope, don't want it, and they chuck
in the ravine behind your house like you're creep behind
your place. Every time the baseball guys try to hand
us something on a platter, spin it.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
Back on the heads and they hand us the schedule. Now,
the schedule has been something that has helped us in
the past because we have feasted on the bad teams
in August and September over the last couple of years,
and it put us in the playoffs a couple of
years ago, and almost put us in the playoffs last
year because we rallied. But this year they haven't won
those games. The schedule gods anders are like, here you
go have the angels, here you go have the Tiger.
(29:34):
Here you go have the Pirates and we're likena. I
think we'd rather lose to.
Speaker 5 (29:38):
Being teams like the Phillies and the Mets. It's wild.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
But the thing is is that it's a little bit
different guys in September because those teams might be bringing
up some minor leaguers, right, and that matter well, I
mean not as much as it used to because he
used to be able to bring up like a hundred
guys and now you can't do that anymore.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
I saw Kenta Mata throw seventy eight miles. I get
and shut out any and the.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Look I mean.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
The Astros also have in September, and the Astros have
a little bit of a run here where I I
think if it's gonna happen, it's gonna happen in the
next week and a half to two weeks. Astros Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia,
Kansas City.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
To talk about, that's what they've got.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Yeah, I'm trying here.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
And then Cincinnati, Arizona, the A's, the Angels, the Padres,
the Angels, the Mariners, and the Guardians.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
At the end of the year, that series could be big.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Dude.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
I mean, most likely scenario is probably what you said,
that they'll just do enough to kind of hang around,
keep everybody intrigued, and then they'll miss the playoffs by
a game or two and then bring everybody back next year.
Which I'm just here to tell you we cannot start
changing our expectations. From March to September. The expectations were alcs.
(30:44):
That was the expectations, and now we're gonna sit around
and make exclusive excuses for these guys if they missed
the playoffs, which I find to be disgusting, and I
think if you miss it, you're done.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
You've had nine years, you're out.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
When did they start talking about When did the potos
start putting dates on things like four years ago, by
twenty twenty two, two, whatever it was, Well, now it's
gonna be twenty twenty five and you're finished.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
Here's the problem. Though he actually reached those expectations back then,
he just hasn't taken it to the next level. I mean,
he got this team to ninety plus wins in a
playoff spot in about the time he said he would.
It's just they didn't take the step from ninety wins
in a playoff series win to ALCS. That's that's what's
(31:28):
gonna be. The damning thing on the resume of Jerry
Depoto and Scott Servis is they had it. They were
one of the best teams in baseball for a short
period of time, and they weren't able to go over
the top and instead they backslid.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Well, let's say go watch him win three in a
row starting tonight. Man unreal?
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Can you bet the series odds? By the way, at
this place, member Queen Thomas, find that out. We're gonna
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Speaker 5 (32:00):
I'm for Sunday in Dick's one with Audio.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
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Speaker 5 (32:06):
Now let's have some fun with audio.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
All right, here we go on a busy Monday. From
the Emerald Queen Casino Sports Book. Chuck Pale gonna join.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Us at four o'clock. I thought, he said this morning
on his little show.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
If the Maritors lose two out of three to LA,
he would fire Scott's service on Wednesday nights, make him
walk home from Chavez review. Wouldn't that be something how
about if they tarmac. I'm like Kiffin, they wouldn't do that.
There's no way they do no way anyway, don't join
us at four o'clock today. All right, Hey, Dick, we'll
do a little fun with audio slash. Hey did you
hear that? Hey, Dick, did you happen to hear that?
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Oh? What's that?
Speaker 7 (32:41):
David?
Speaker 5 (32:41):
What's that?
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Dick?
Speaker 2 (32:42):
On the TV broadcast for NBC Sports Philadelphia during the
Phillies win versus Washington, the booth was talking about former
Philly Brad Lidge and his post baseball endeavors. When former
Mariner Jamie Moyer came into discussion.
Speaker 8 (32:56):
I'm blown away because Brad Lynch just told us what
he is doing that it's amazing. He's going for his
PhD in archaeology.
Speaker 9 (33:06):
But like, is he what's he gonna do? Is he
gonna go on like digs and stuff and not what
that's called when they go look for look for that
old stuff?
Speaker 8 (33:14):
Worst, Jamie, let's ask Jamie's got to do something else
because he's Brad's going for his peak.
Speaker 9 (33:20):
Yeah, well Jamie, so, oh, Brad might be digging him up.
Speaker 8 (33:23):
Wow, I'm sorry, Jamie.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
It pulls it fell up to.
Speaker 9 (33:39):
Do you want me to handle the rest of this
inning or what?
Speaker 3 (33:41):
No, that's good, it's okay, that's all out of up.
Speaker 9 (33:45):
You got to spend a lot of time with Jamie today.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
It was great to see him.
Speaker 9 (33:48):
It was great to see him. And he he doesn't
look as old as he did when he was pitching here.
Speaker 10 (33:54):
He's only sixty one years old and he pitched like
last Tuesday, right, yeah, exactly, Holy moly, hammer and our guy,
what the hell, let's take Jamie Moyer on this team
right now? You know, maybe it's a long heys a
long reliever with that, he's a.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
Long reliever bringing the seventy two mile an hour.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
He remember Ryan Franklin's rollback in on one? All right, hey, Dick,
did you happen to hear that? Dick an interview.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
In an interview on The Dan Leviatard Show, Dolphins quarterback
to uh takob Iloa compared his experience with Mike McDaniel,
his current head coach, and his former head coach, Brian Flores.
Speaker 11 (34:31):
Can you explain to us the difference in practical terms
between having a coach who did believe in you the
way that he did and the difference between that and
what was happening with Flora. Can you explain to us
the difference in practical terms between having a coach who
did believe in you the way that he did and
the difference between that and what was happening with Flora is?
Speaker 7 (34:53):
Yeah, Well, to put it in simplest terms, if you
woke up every morning and I told you you suck
at what you did, that you don't belong doing what
you do, that you shouldn't be here, that this guy
should be here, that you haven't earned this right, and
(35:17):
then you have somebody else come in and tell you, dude,
you are the best fit for this, Like, you are accurate,
you are the best whatever you are this you are that.
Like how would it make you feel listening to one
or the other? You see what I'm saying, and then
you hear it. You hear it regardless of what it is,
the good or the bad, and you hear it more
(35:38):
and more you start to actually believe that.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Did I hear the same clip twice?
Speaker 4 (35:42):
By the way, well, the first like ten seconds.
Speaker 5 (35:44):
That skip, dad, skip, sorry about that?
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Somebody snapping their fingers going on, uh yeah, he basically
said that Brian Flores told him he was no good
and he stinks, and now.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
He's like the third highest paid quarterback in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
Both coaches are right. He does stink, but big stakes.
Mike McDaniel does a fabulous job squeezing the most out
of that rock he can, just like Kyle Shanahan does
with Brock Purdy.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
I think your definition of stink in my definition of
a stinking, well, the guy led the league in QBR
or whatever it was. I mean, how could you stink?
I mean, dick, If you tell me he's overrated, I
can buy that, but stinks.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
He isn't the way stink.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
Stink like Daniel Jones. There's a different Daniel Jones.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Okay, that's so there's different levels of stink. So he's
on the top tier of stink.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
By some is put in the same breath with the
top seven eight quarterbacks in the NFL, and it's that
list that he stinks against. Okay, he's in the next
seven or eight quarterbacks in the NFL. And in no way,
shape or formed does he earned that. Does he deserve
that type of money? And if Mike McDaniels wasn't his
head coach and Brian Flores are almost any other coach
(37:00):
in the NFL save Brian Floores, save Kyle Shanahan, save
Sean McVay. There's four or five that could probably squeeze
juice out of that rock. If you put him with
any of the other twenty five or twenty six, he
is worse than Geno. I don't think there's any question
about that.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
He was number five in passer rating last year. He
was number ten in QBR, led the league in passing.
Speaker 4 (37:25):
You know what he do? You know what he is against?
Winning team? Probably that temperature isn't seventy I'm sure. I'm
sure a lot of quarterbacks can say they're not. Look,
I'm not saying he's elite at all. I mean the
reason why he made that money is because he was
next up. We've had this conversation for a thousand years,
and I'm just say the team doesn't do that. I
would not say stakes at all.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
I would say, though, we got a few more clips
to go to, Hey, Dick, did you happen.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
To hear that? What's that?
Speaker 3 (37:49):
Dick?
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Let's go number four on the Club Shayshe podcast, Andrews
Shannon Sharp commenting on what seemed to be retaliation from
storm guards. Skylar Diggan Smith on Clark as she pumped
up her home crowd in Indiana during their win versus
the storm yesterday.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
Y'all see the woman's feed up.
Speaker 5 (38:07):
Y'all see her, Kaylin Clark is getting the crowd and going.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
Y'all sees dollad Digging's feed up to make contact with
stop being yo, man to that corn bed. I will
God bath of y'all laying yao. She can't do this.
She leaned the w NBA to see it. She cook it, Let.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
Her cook.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
Cook. Wow, he's angry.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
Was the was the uh cornbread and white girl from Iowa?
Speaker 3 (38:36):
Was that in there? Or did I?
Speaker 4 (38:37):
Yeah? That was that?
Speaker 3 (38:38):
Wasn't there? Okay? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (38:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
I mean, look, I'm trying to put myself in a
position where this is the NBA and there's this hot
shot rookie that people are pissed off about and they're
slamming into him like the bad boy Pistons back in
the day, and I wonder if there'd be this much
reaction to it, but there definitely seems to be. I
think the players, from what I observe, and you would
know way better than me, are getting sick and tired
(39:00):
of all the attention this gal's getting.
Speaker 4 (39:02):
What was weird was it started so early in the season,
Like I understand it more now than I would at
the beginning of the season, Like unless you're just trying
to send a message to a rookie, right, and that's
the reason they were doing it now. I mean, I
I wasn't a big fan of Skyler, Digg and Smith
speeding up the bump, you know, Kicky and Clark about
walking off the off the floor, but that was a
(39:23):
really it was a weird contentious end of the game.
I mean, right before that happened, you you had the
Storm coach come over and get right in the face
of the Fever coach and admonish her for not taking
her starters out when Seattle had already taken her starters out.
So it was just a weird weird what's that.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
For the coach to get mad about not taking.
Speaker 4 (39:45):
This I thought it was a weaker. I thought it
was a weaker look to bump to bum.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
I just think when you're asking someone to give up
on your behalf is I'm not a big fan of that.
Speaker 3 (39:57):
And and I do agree with you that bumping into her.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
It's just it just feels like there's just like like
nothing has changed, right, Like the the story from two
months ago is the same story. Now, there's a lot
of jealousy, except Caitlin's getting better. She's getting way better.
There's a ton of jealousy around the w NBA for
this gal is that they're winning and she is balling out.
Speaker 3 (40:20):
Let's get a break. Chuck Powell is going to join us.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
Coming up next, we'll talk about some baseball with Chuck
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