April 30, 2025 • 32 mins
In the second hour, Dave Softy Mahler chats with Petros Papadakis about the NFL Draft and Shedeur Sanders’ fall, plus Bill Belichick and his girlfriend, then Hugh Millen rejoins the show to react to the Mariners win today, another series dub, and the offense on fire.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's time for our weekly conversation with college football analyst
Petros Papa Nikas.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Not that I'm a smart guy, I'm stupid.
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Speaker 4 (00:34):
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Speaker 2 (01:00):
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Speaker 4 (01:30):
Well, we missed you last week. We had the annual
Mather Millen mock Draft.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
How did he go? Good? Good took Shad? I don't remember.
I think the Steelers may have taken Shador. I'm not
certain of that. I'd be honest with you.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
I know the guy that had the Seahawks pick nailed
the Seahawks pick. They took the same guy they took
in Gray's abel. So that's who's that guy. He's a
guard from North Dakota State. Yeah, no, who's that guy?
The name of the guy that had the Seahawks pick.
I don't remember his name off the top of my head.
Oh like a like if correct? Yeah, yeah, we used
we use you know that?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
I just thought you and Hugh went back and forth.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
No no, no, no, no no, because then he gets
to criticize or compliment the selection. Oh okay, right, yeah,
so did you enjoy the draft? Actually, I mean I
watched it just like everybody else. Right, Uh, this was
the most watched for a while. And you know, it's
kind of the same as Colorado football in a way.
I mean, was it manufactured?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yes? Was it as good as everybody said it was? No?
Was it embarrassing? Yes? What was embarrassing? Just the whole thing,
the whole draft.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Well, I mean you had you had announcers embarrassing themselves.
Oh no, Kyper, you're talking about well, not only I
mean on day one it was everybody, you know, almost
a lot of different.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Guys, like who what were they doing?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Well, they just Jackson Dark the videos running, and you're
screaming about Shador Sanders, you know, I mean everybody anytime
somebody got drafted, that's not what they.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Were talking about.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
They spent a whole draft on this one story, and
they should be embarrassed, But the truth is they're not.
They're high fiving. The NFL is high fiving, and NFL Network, ESPN,
they're all everybody involved is high fiving because just like
Colorado football, were they really challenging for a championship? No,
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not really, but they were a huge story and everybody
got their pound out of it because there was ratings
and money to be made off of the story. So
as embarrassing as it may have been for like a
football purist and saying, ruin this guy's moment, that guy's
moment they watched, you know, I was interested to see
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how far he was going to fall. And it's look.
The media, as powerful and as a screaming mimi as
it is, can't get a guy drafted, not since Lonzo Ball,
who was drafted out of place because of Magic Johnson
the only guy dumb enough to fall for it. He
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got Tatum and de Aaron Fox behind him. But not
since then does the media get a guy drafted. You
can't just scream and yell and throw a temper tantrum
and make the NFL, which is a professional league, bend
to your will. And any professional league there is a
scale of a player of how much of a pain
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in the ass is this guy and how good is he?
I mean, you guys dealt with it with DK metcalf right.
Maybe I don't know, I.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Mean maybe, or I mean a little bit. But he's
a typical just divas.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
I mean to think about those stories of well, ya
siel Puigue is a great example, you know, the second
that the pain in the ass part, which was prevalent,
became bigger than the performance.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
He was an afterthought. He was gone. You know.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
So these things play themselves out at that level, and
it's both sides.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Of the coin.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
For people that are political about it. For all the
people that wanted Kaepernick to be on a team, it's
the same amount of people that wanted Tibo to be
on a team. And the truth is their performance wasn't
good enough to warrant the pain in the ass level, right,
And I think that's what all these NFL people weighed.
And I really don't think he was that great, you know.
I mean he's a good, great, good to great college
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quarterback who took a lot of risks, made a lot
of mistakes, took a lot of hits, didn't have much
of a run game, right you know. And I could
say I thought the same about Mahomes and was desperately
wrong about him.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Oh I remember my take on draft day. I was like,
they moved up to get that guy. Yeah, you never
played against the defense in the Big twelve, And boy
was I wrong.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
But by the.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Way, just five of his games, right, you know, maybe four?
And I didn't see it. So, I mean, it's it's
an interesting process. But obviously I think the Sanders family
didn't do themselves any favors right with the way that
they handled it.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
And it's kind of a gray area for.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
A lot of people now with the new nil stuff
in the amount of money. I don't know if it's sustainable,
but the amount of money that's being made right now.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
You know, these guys like.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Quinn Ewers, we're gonna we're gonna look back on like
Mike Williams and Maurice Clart and say, God.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
What a mistake.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
You know, he could have done this, He could have
done that, he could have made this, And that part
of it's hard because because there's a lot of new
decisions to be made and we're.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Not on top of it. Yeah. Well, but by the way,
just for the record, petros.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
I did not even ask and bring up the name
Shader Sanders, you did. I. I just asked about the
draft in general terms. But wasn't that the whole Yes,
that's the that's my whole point, that that's the entire story,
not a second. Because he's supposed to be a blue
blood and they get three guys draft, right, Nobody in
the first round. I mean that's become a cautionary tale.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Well, I mean, you know there's some people that are
given you deb grief for having the one guy in
Carson Bruner, but that that roster got blown to bits, obviously,
and they had like a thousand guys drafted the year before.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
But still embarrassing, no, no doubt. You know, you're a blue.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Blood, You're you see yourself the way Washington football season itself.
You gotta churn more guys into the NFL. And when
you know, when I played at USC, that's how it was.
I mean, and we weren't that good, but I remember
Keyshawn went number one while I was there. Darryl Russell
went too. You know, big draft parties, you know, Chris Claiborne,
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Brian Kelly, the corner. I mean, guys were constantly going
almost in every round. And it's a shame because those
guys exist here in southern California. Yeah, but they're being
poached by other schools. A lot of them are going
to Oregon.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Well, whether good or bad, right, I mean Colorado kind
of in dion own the weekend, right, I mean, that's
that's who was getting talked about Man, same story during
the college football season, stame story during the draft that
everybody's talking about Dion and Colorado Man. So if that's
the if that's the end game, if that's the goal,
then you know, I guess job well done.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Hey Petros, let me ask you a question.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
If if your son Fletcher did what Jax Olbrick did
to Jeff Olbrick and found a a iPad that you
wo had left open in your office with sensitive information
phone numbers of potential draft picks and punk somebody the
way Jacks Olbrick did do Shador Sanders on draft day,
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you get fined one hundred grand, your employer gets fined
a quarter million. But in this scenario, Fletcher's probably just
get five. In this scenario, Fletcher's twenty one, He's not
like nine.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
What's your reaction as a father.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Well, I mean I'd be pretty disappointed. I didn't know
how prevalent draft prank call thing.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
What.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Yeah, Carter got punk too, Yeah, and I don't Is
there a fine for him or no? It's just because
of your door maybe yeah? Yeah, I mean I think
I feel bad for old Brick. I mean, I remember
Old Brick when he was the decordinator at U C.
L A and Jim Mora grabbed his face with both
hands on the sideline, remember that vaguely because he's trying
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to walk off the field. Oh god, Maura not an
easy guy to work with it. I know he's a
friend of yours.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Well he's a little he's a little excitable sometimes. Well yeah,
he has Olbrook's face in both hands.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Right right, like in Indiana Jones with the with the
coin or whatever.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
It's very unfortunate. I feel bad really for everybody involved.
And I think it's a cultural problem with young people, uh,
with you know, the people the streaming. I'm gonna stream
myself on the subway and not going to pay for
the fair. I'm gonna stream myself disrupting this. I'm gonna
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stream myself going around a festival and flipping people's hats
off and see how they.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
React and yeah, serious, it's funny.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Well yeah see, and you would watch it, and I
know I'm kidding, but you know what I'm saying, like that,
this is that culture. And look, if you have a
skill for something like you want to put like a
Ferrari engine on an ATV and ride it around on
the internet, like, at least you're doing something, but the
I'm going to break the law or I'm going to
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do something that's tasteless and put it on the internet.
It sadly become a terrible just a terrible symptom of
modern society, with the with the devices and the and
the modern ways of communication.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I just want to run into the hills, the modern ways. Yeah,
these ways.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Speaking of that, I don't prove your ways? Am I
the Am I the only guy? I don't know how much?
You and Matt shadow up Man talked about this Wolverines
to the Hills, the Bill Belichick thing with girlfriend. Am
I the only guy that just doesn't give a damn
about any of it?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Well? Why is like why is this important?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Why is there is no Well, there's an old saying
that says there is no.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Fool like an old fool.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
And it's not a I mean, it's it's creepy. She's
twenty four and she's on her in love. She has
the crazy eye and you know, a football coach. It
didn't used to be like if Chuck Knox had a
twenty four year old girlfriend, right, and he's about as
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lovable as Bill Belichick is.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
The public persona was.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
I mean, we had Chuck here for a while, so
you know what I mean, layoff, layoff ground, Chuck.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Chuck Knowle, Okay, Chuck Knowle. Let's say he's got a
twenty four year old girlfriend back.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
In his sad but Greg Popovich, yeah right, no one
really cares, like.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Back then, right, they just don't care. But the football
coaching position has become such a pr position. It's become
such a weird visible ceo of sorts, and you have
to be such a dynamic personality at the college level.
That's she's going to be right out front. You know,
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there's a reason. I mean, there was a long time,
Softy that you couldn't even get a college job unless
you were a married man. Like it was really rare
that you would see a single college football coach like
Dana Holgerson or somebody like that.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Well, Danny Sprinkle, the basketball coach at Washington, he's not married, right.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
And it's more prevalent. It's more prevalent now, right, But
it used to be like unless we could say, well,
me and Nadine, we'd love to have Terrell over for Thanksgiving.
You know, if you guys live out of state, you know,
we are family, Nadine and I we love to real
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you know, I mean, that's that's recruiting for the last
thirty forty years.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
What totally am I wrong? Now, You're exactly right.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
So he could spend the night, daughters away in college.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
The wife, the kids. Yeah, the family were happy to
be here.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
That's the whole thing. And you know, you go through
the media guy and the coach. They had the coaches
and their families and everybody looks at the kids and
the wife and and that was that used to be
college coaching. And in some ways it still is. But
uh yeah, it's a it's a weird situation. I mean,
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I remember when we were at USC, we had a
doctor and he looked a lot like Montgomery Burns and
his name was Chester Semmel, okay, and you know he
used to shoot us up and stuff like that, right,
And he was an old man. He looked like Montgomery Burns.
And his girlfriend was probably like thirty.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
All right, and she was hot and you found that creepy.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Well, she was always on the like in the on
the bus and in the hotel because she was with Chester.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Oh, wouldn't you want to show her off? If you
were Chester. Yeah, but what do you think it was?
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Like?
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Hey, girl, I've been room two hundred and thirty here
at the Bilmore. The doctor he won't see you.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Like hey, but good for him, right, dealing with the
slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. Look, if you want
to have a relationship with a twenty four year old,
that's fine. There's a reason with us. There's a service elevator, right,
just don't make me look at it. I got you know,
she's sitting use the back door kind of thing. She's
sitting there dictating to him about football interviews.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
It's embarrassing. Not as embarrassing as the draft, but embarrassing.
Are you rooting for Lebron tonight? Oh? Come on?
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Do people on your show know that you are openly
rooting for the Lakers to lose and be done?
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Dude, you'd be surprised how many people in Los Angeles
are not fans of Lebron.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
All right, Lebron can ball out. Lebron can still dump.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
No, it'll be interesting because the refs are going to
try to help him.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
They didn't help him in Game four. They tried.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
How many what percentage of the LA Sports fan base
whoever they room for? Is it ten rooting against Lebron?
Twenty is significant number.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
I don't know against, but I think the real riding
on the wall was when Luka Doncic came here. Whether
they get eliminated here in the first round and that
Nico Harrison guy does a victory lap in Dallas around
the Metroplex or not, this is it. I mean, Lebron's
forty plus, he's going down in the ditty trial.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
You think so you want him to go down, don't you? No?
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Do I?
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Well, I want you to be served.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Let me just say that you want him to Let
me say this, Okay, I'm not rooting for the FEDS.
I'm not rooting for duty. I'm rooting for the truth.
You understand me, softy.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
I'm just rooting for the truth. Do all right? That's
what I get it.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Not my truth, which is some weird manipulation of telling
your story.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Now the truth, softy, Hey, the truth.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
By the way, speaking of Belichick and his girlfriend, isn't
like the president of France married to like a seventy
year old who was like his high school math teacher
or something.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Did you know that? Are you baiting me?
Speaker 4 (16:40):
No, you didn't really say the real thing. Seventy year
old Emmanuel Crone.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Yeah, it's that's actually a seventy year old What his
his wife?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
She's a Dude's she is not a dude?
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Ude?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
What are you saying? There's no evidence of that. Bridget
trug new Uh allegedly is his wife. That's alleged. She's
seventy two years old and he's forty seven. Remember when
everybody thinks nobody talks about him? Remember when everybody he
said France.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Remember when everybody thought Lady Gaga had a puzza? Remember No,
I don't remember. And Anderson Cooper's like, well do you
She's like, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Do you think I do? I was like there.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
With that, Oh guy, we've missed you. Did you miss
us as much as we missed you?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Deeply? Oh? Man, all right, we'll talk in a week.
We got to get back to Humilin. He's he he's there.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Yeah, Dick is out today. He was in today filling
in for Dick. What are you laughing at?
Speaker 2 (17:58):
No, it's all good. Well, what's so funny now that
you like it? When I say we got no Dick?
Do you? It's true? Miss manhatt he is not here.
Uh do you Yes, it's true, this man has no dick,
do you guys? You guys still in first place? The Mariners. Yeah, yeah,
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they're doing well.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Enjoyant Okay, Dodgers are banged up, man, a lot of
pitching injuries down there.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Oh really, because Tony Gonsolin came back today in dealt.
Do you know about the cat man?
Speaker 2 (18:31):
You stupid bitch. You what's up?
Speaker 6 (18:34):
Man?
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Where you been?
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Been around around. We'll get back to him next. We'll
see it. Man. Petros Papadakis with us.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
We're gonna break more with Hugh coming up on ninety
three to three kJ RFM. Mariners win today ninety three
hueye over the La Angels of Anaheim.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
They are now on pace to win ninety seven games.
They have scored nine runs or more five times already
in the first month of twenty twenty five. That's something
they did sixteen times total in twenty twenty four. So
what I'm trying to tell you is they're already a
third of the way there with five months to go
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in the season. Last year, the Mariners scored six hundred
and seventy six total runs, which was twenty first in
Major League Baseball. They're on pace for eight hundred and
twenty one, which last year would have finished third in
the major leagues. So that is what you're dealing with
right now. That is what the Mariners have been doing.
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And I think Jerry.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Depoto offensive team.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
May have been right, that they may have a good
offensive team. How many I think that Jerry Depoto should
go outside Tea Mobile Park when the season's over. If
the Mariners do end up actually having a good offensive team,
good offensive team, he should take out his bb gun, shotgun,
whatever he likes to hunt with and go find as
much crow as possible and have a big old barbecue
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at Team Mobile and invite people like us to come.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Down and taste it. Can you imagine.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Jorge Polanco doesn't even play today because the Angels have
a lefty on the mound. We get to that in
a second, by the way, and they still score nine
runs in these seven games that were vacated because of
injuries to George Kirby and Logan Gilbert. The Mariners are
now five and two in those seven games with Emerson Hancock,
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Luis f. Castillo. He's the knockoff, not the original and
then Logan Evans, I mean, Hugh, you would have taken
five and two with Kirby and Gilbert in those sevens
of course.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
I mean, I'm watching the game before our show. It's just,
you know, three to three and then all of a sudden, what, Yes,
they are up for six runs in the seventh inning,
I mean twelve hits. The following guys had two or
more hits. Crawford, Rosarina, Solano and.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
No blissed second base. No problem, leave us three for
four three RBI.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
I mean they just like you said, even without Polanco,
they they you know, they obviously have something contagious, a
little juju going, and they believe in themselves.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
And it's fun.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
Now, you know, my little spreadsheet, because I'll make a
spreadsheet about anything you ask me.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Ask me where we are in an NFL season? H
First of all, we're gonna reference a spreadsheet. We have
to play spreadsheet humping clown.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
All right, Where are we at now? I am in
regards to the NFL season? Where are we at?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Right now?
Speaker 6 (21:34):
We are in Game four, first quarters and uh six
oh seven remaining in the first what what what we again?
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Game four?
Speaker 4 (21:44):
So we're so we're a month in. We're a month
into the NFL season. So far not insignificant. Twenty five
percent of the way is already in the rear view mirror.
And look, here's the thing, guys. I'm just thinking of
one of my favorite lines from Planes, Trains and Automobiles
where they get pulled over with a melted car and
the cop says, you have no functioning gages whatsoever, and
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John Candy says, yeah, believe it or not, the radio
still works.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Right.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Remember that the Mariners have no Ryan Bliss, they have
no Victor Roebliss. They have no George Kirby, they have
no Matt Brash, they have no Gregory Santos, which might
be auditioned by subtraction, by the way, because he was
terrible for now. They have no Logan Gilbert, they have
no Luke Rayley, who's on the IL as of yesterday,
and Julio has an OPS under seven hundred. Yet they
still are on pace to win ninety seven games and
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on pace to finish what would have been good enough
for third in offense last year. I mean, are we
buying this, guys? Let's go round the room. Jackson, you too,
are we buying what? We're seeing with this Mariner's offense.
Are we buying that Jerry might be right Jackson about
this baseball team.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
Jerry might be right, I mean, and I think a
lot of it too. You look at what the offense
did towards the end of last year. Dan comes in,
as new offensive staff comes in, and it starts to
turn around. And I kind of was like, all right,
it's the end of the season. How much stock really
putting in here? But I think we are continuing to
see the impact of this coaching staff and the impact
of a guy like jare Polonka returning to even better
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than what he was in Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
So he's finding himself. I gotta be honest.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
I mean, like, listen, one month ago, today is the
last day of April, right, So one month ago I
was I told you guys, all three of you, you
and Dick as well, that I was openly apathetic about
this baseball team. I have full apathy after the rough offseason,
the lackluster last year, losing us as fans, he lost me,
And I said, Mariners, you will have my attention when
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you earn and deserve my attention.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Damn it.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
They have earned and they deserve all of my attention.
I'm back in. I believe right now. Maybe I'm gonna
be foolish, Maybe I'm gonna be, you know, screwed again
like I was screwed last season. But Mariners, I am
open to being screwed. Please don't screw me again. Jackson
is desperate, all right. He wants to be screwed. He's
open to being screwed. Hugh, how about you?
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Are you are you buying this metaphor, by the way, metaphor,
It's yeah, it's a month in. It's not a gigantic sample,
but it's not an insignificant sample either.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
So are we are we buying it that? At the
very minimum? Hue?
Speaker 4 (24:10):
This offense has turned a corner and they are not
going to be a massive liability the way they were
a year ago.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
I'm not buying it, not yet. Wow. Nope, all right, nope,
over here, just why do you come over here and
just kick us all the balls while around? I was
supposed to have for this baseball tease.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
I've been watching this team since nineteen seventy seven, all right, So,
and and I'm reaching for my wallet to see how
much cast I have in considering buying it. But I
haven't bought it yet, not when I consider that on
June eighteenth of a year ago, the Mariners were up
ten games.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Right, and so well aware of that by the way
that they were up tech. Yeah, nobody's more aware of.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
That, I know.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
But just as a reminder, Yeah, yeah, yes, I know
that was quite a bit of radio content. I'm aware
because I had to fill inder those times. But but no,
I'm not. You ask me, I'm not buying it. I
think I need to see it for more. I mean
what I just say, We're We're in the week's quarter
of the of the fourth game, so no, I need more. Now,
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it's cool, right, but you know, I just need to
see it for longer. I think baseball, by its nature,
you just need a longer sample set.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Yeah, no, I get it.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
I mean maybe by the end of May, a couple
of months in, right, you know, one third of the season,
you'll kind of feel like, hey, this is legit. And
I remember, God, who was the guy was it Lloyd
McClendon who would always say, it's like sixty games, give
me sixty games.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Whatever it may have been fifty. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
That feels like a thousand years ago. But I think
you said sixty and so one more month. I think
of doing this obviously, and a lot of people will
buy it. I don't expect this to continue. I don't
expect Hora Polanco to continue. I mean Horay Polanco is
right now along with Aaron Judge, maybe the MVP of
the American League's he's He's a starting caliber player in
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the All Star Game at DH because Judge plays mostly
in right So if the game was today, he probably
is your starting designated hitter.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
His days at third base are over.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
By the way, remember all the conversation we had over
the offseason, what are we doing? Can't believe this is
our guy that we signed the biggest free agent contract
over the offseason. And I remember saying right before the
season began, Hey, look, I mean on its own, the
Horey Polanco, just bringing him back for seven point five Okay, whatever,
But it's like when Christmas and Honeka came around. Yeah,
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I need underwear, I need socks. But can I get
a Walkman too? By the way, can I get a
new stereo system? Can I get a Rockford Foz game form?
My Mustang get? Can I get a toy. I mean,
my god, all this stuff, yes, I need, but you're
telling me, if you're Jerry Depoto, that this is your
big gift.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Your big gift.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
On Christmas morning was hore freaking Polaco for seven point
five million dollars. Yeah, now it looks like it was
worth it because he's crushing the baseball.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
I mean, hooray. Polanco has a.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Twelve ninety four ops against right handers right now, and
that's all he plays against because the guy can't hit
from the right side because of his knee, so he
hits lefty. And there's this idea going around. Actually was
brought up by my good buddy Barry, who the other
day said, Hey, well I could be a gays can't
hit lefty versus lefty. Horey Polanco. Guys, has over four
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thousand played appearances in Major League Baseball. Do you know, Hugh,
how many played appearances Jorge Polanko has as a left
handed hitter against a left handed pitcher in his career?
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Yes, because we talked about it. Okay, the answer is one. Yes.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Do you know how many of bats he has as
a right handed hitter against a right handed pitcher? The
answer is one he just doesn't do it. He grew
up a switch hitter. He came up a switch hitter.
There's no reason for the guy to stand in there
against a lefty as a lefty or a righty as
a righty. He's literally never done it in his career
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except for two different play to appearances. And oh, by
the way, the one played appearance here that he did
it as a lefty versus lefty was this year.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Yeah, this month.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Well, I want you to say the ops again, twelve
ninety four against right.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Twelve ninety four.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
I'm like, wait a minute, yes, historic, I just looked
it up the alt Now I get it. It's a
portion of a season versus a career. But just to
put where twelve ninety four is the all time in
the history of baseball? Ops, is Babe Ruth with eleven
sixty three?
Speaker 5 (28:29):
Right? Right?
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Like you again?
Speaker 6 (28:32):
Obviously duh, don't say, Well, different sample sizes, we understood,
But just to understand you're you're north of twelve. That
is a crazy number.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Yeah, yeah, and that's gonna be his number because that's
all he does is hit righty's I mean basically, when
I say he's hitting three ninety four with a twelve
ninety four OPS against righties. That is thirteen that is
overall what the guy is doing because he never faces lefties.
Number he's got one AB against a left hander as
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a left hander, and he's hitting three eighty nine with
a twelve forty three OPS overall. So never mind even
what he's doing against righty's. I mean, just look at
what the guy is doing overall. It's it's just been
ridiculous what Hori Poloco has been all about.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
So good for.
Speaker 6 (29:17):
Him and is in that crazy two thousand and four
year was was fourteen twenty one, you know, and so
you know, so that's the kind of rare area you're
talking about.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Where is Horny Blanco on the MVP candidate? You know,
last I think he's right behind Aaron Judge, He's right there.
I think he's right behind Areon Judge.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
Now, in the history of baseball, there's only been twelve seasons. Now,
some of these like Baby Ruth is on there a
number of times. I'm not talking about twelve players. I'm
talking about twelve seasons that have been over thirteen hundred.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Would you say twelve ninety three.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
Twelve ninety four against rities twelve ninety four, twelve forty
three overall twelve forty three.
Speaker 6 (29:59):
Okay, well I mean that, yeah, that's something I mean
that would be that'd be a top twenty five in
the history of baseball if he did well.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
Which, by the way, if you look at certain websites,
and I like to go to Baseball Reference dot com,
but a lot of websites when they rank and track
the statistical leaders in Major League Baseball, they only go
with guys that have qualified, meaning they've played enough games.
Horri Polanco has not played enough games to qualify because
he's only played twenty one of the thirty games the
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Mariners have played. You got to pinch hit at bat
late in the game today. But he does not have
enough abs or games played yet to qualify. So look,
Aaron Judges played thirty Horiy Polanco's played twenty one, all right,
so he's played one third less of the games that
Aaron Judges played. But if Horiy Polanco played enough games
to qualify, I think he would need four or five
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more to qualify. So far, he'd be number two in
Major League Baseball in overall ops, number two in overall ops.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
So that is what the guy's been doing well.
Speaker 6 (31:01):
The other thing, I like you you cited the stat
just okay, here's another start with Emerson Hancock.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Where as you're waiting.
Speaker 6 (31:09):
For Kirby to get back three and one with him,
you find you get a win out of this. And
and uh, I think a lot of us, I mean,
we had Larry Stone, you me. I mean, I'm not
qualified to weigh on on it, but those who are
a lot of people raise their eyebrows about the fact
that Hancock was one and done. Now, whatever they did,
they send them down. Maybe maybe it was a meaningful
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So so I'm I'm quick to say, why why would
you do that just after one start? But maybe there
was something mechanically or just his psyche whatever. But they've
been able, uh with two point and with Hancock to
you know, more than tread water.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Yeah, with those starts five and two. And by the way,
we call him knockoff. By the way, knockoffs two point,
knockoff whatever.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
I think we all know who we're talking about. Luis F.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Kist, we're gonna break Larry Stone will join us, by
the way, at the top of the hour, at five o'clock,
It's time for our weekly conversation with college football analyst
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Speaker 4 (01:30):
Well, we missed you last week. We had the annual
Mather Millen mock Draft.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
How did he go? Good? Good took Shad? I don't remember.
I think the Steelers may have taken Shador. I'm not
certain of that. I'd be honest with you.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
I know the guy that had the Seahawks pick nailed
the Seahawks pick. They took the same guy they took
in Gray's abel. So that's who's that guy. He's a
guard from North Dakota State. Yeah, no, who's that guy?
The name of the guy that had the Seahawks pick.
I don't remember his name off the top of my head.
Oh like a like if correct? Yeah, yeah, we used
we use you know that?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
I just thought you and Hugh went back and forth.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
No no, no, no, no no, because then he gets
to criticize or compliment the selection. Oh okay, right, yeah,
so did you enjoy the draft? Actually, I mean I
watched it just like everybody else. Right, Uh, this was
the most watched for a while. And you know, it's
kind of the same as Colorado football in a way.
I mean, was it manufactured?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yes? Was it as good as everybody said it was? No?
Was it embarrassing? Yes? What was embarrassing? Just the whole thing,
the whole draft.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Well, I mean you had you had announcers embarrassing themselves.
Oh no, Kyper, you're talking about well, not only I
mean on day one it was everybody, you know, almost
a lot of different.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Guys, like who what were they doing?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Well, they just Jackson Dark the videos running, and you're
screaming about Shador Sanders, you know, I mean everybody anytime
somebody got drafted, that's not what they.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Were talking about.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
They spent a whole draft on this one story, and
they should be embarrassed, But the truth is they're not.
They're high fiving. The NFL is high fiving, and NFL Network, ESPN,
they're all everybody involved is high fiving because just like
Colorado football, were they really challenging for a championship? No,
(03:25):
not really, but they were a huge story and everybody
got their pound out of it because there was ratings
and money to be made off of the story. So
as embarrassing as it may have been for like a
football purist and saying, ruin this guy's moment, that guy's
moment they watched, you know, I was interested to see
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how far he was going to fall. And it's look.
The media, as powerful and as a screaming mimi as
it is, can't get a guy drafted, not since Lonzo Ball,
who was drafted out of place because of Magic Johnson
the only guy dumb enough to fall for it. He
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got Tatum and de Aaron Fox behind him. But not
since then does the media get a guy drafted. You
can't just scream and yell and throw a temper tantrum
and make the NFL, which is a professional league, bend
to your will. And any professional league there is a
scale of a player of how much of a pain
(04:33):
in the ass is this guy and how good is he?
I mean, you guys dealt with it with DK metcalf right.
Maybe I don't know, I.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Mean maybe, or I mean a little bit. But he's
a typical just divas.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
I mean to think about those stories of well, ya
siel Puigue is a great example, you know, the second
that the pain in the ass part, which was prevalent,
became bigger than the performance.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
He was an afterthought. He was gone. You know.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
So these things play themselves out at that level, and
it's both sides.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Of the coin.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
For people that are political about it. For all the
people that wanted Kaepernick to be on a team, it's
the same amount of people that wanted Tibo to be
on a team. And the truth is their performance wasn't
good enough to warrant the pain in the ass level, right,
And I think that's what all these NFL people weighed.
And I really don't think he was that great, you know.
I mean he's a good, great, good to great college
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quarterback who took a lot of risks, made a lot
of mistakes, took a lot of hits, didn't have much
of a run game, right you know. And I could
say I thought the same about Mahomes and was desperately
wrong about him.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Oh I remember my take on draft day. I was like,
they moved up to get that guy. Yeah, you never
played against the defense in the Big twelve, And boy
was I wrong.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
But by the.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Way, just five of his games, right, you know, maybe four?
And I didn't see it. So, I mean, it's it's
an interesting process. But obviously I think the Sanders family
didn't do themselves any favors right with the way that
they handled it.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
And it's kind of a gray area for.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
A lot of people now with the new nil stuff
in the amount of money. I don't know if it's sustainable,
but the amount of money that's being made right now.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
You know, these guys like.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Quinn Ewers, we're gonna we're gonna look back on like
Mike Williams and Maurice Clart and say, God.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
What a mistake.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
You know, he could have done this, He could have
done that, he could have made this, And that part
of it's hard because because there's a lot of new
decisions to be made and we're.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Not on top of it. Yeah. Well, but by the way,
just for the record, petros.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
I did not even ask and bring up the name
Shader Sanders, you did. I. I just asked about the
draft in general terms. But wasn't that the whole Yes,
that's the that's my whole point, that that's the entire story,
not a second. Because he's supposed to be a blue
blood and they get three guys draft, right, Nobody in
the first round. I mean that's become a cautionary tale.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Well, I mean, you know there's some people that are
given you deb grief for having the one guy in
Carson Bruner, but that that roster got blown to bits, obviously,
and they had like a thousand guys drafted the year before.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
But still embarrassing, no, no doubt. You know, you're a blue.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Blood, You're you see yourself the way Washington football season itself.
You gotta churn more guys into the NFL. And when
you know, when I played at USC, that's how it was.
I mean, and we weren't that good, but I remember
Keyshawn went number one while I was there. Darryl Russell
went too. You know, big draft parties, you know, Chris Claiborne,
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Brian Kelly, the corner. I mean, guys were constantly going
almost in every round. And it's a shame because those
guys exist here in southern California. Yeah, but they're being
poached by other schools. A lot of them are going
to Oregon.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Well, whether good or bad, right, I mean Colorado kind
of in dion own the weekend, right, I mean, that's
that's who was getting talked about Man, same story during
the college football season, stame story during the draft that
everybody's talking about Dion and Colorado Man. So if that's
the if that's the end game, if that's the goal,
then you know, I guess job well done.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Hey Petros, let me ask you a question.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
If if your son Fletcher did what Jax Olbrick did
to Jeff Olbrick and found a a iPad that you
wo had left open in your office with sensitive information
phone numbers of potential draft picks and punk somebody the
way Jacks Olbrick did do Shador Sanders on draft day,
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you get fined one hundred grand, your employer gets fined
a quarter million. But in this scenario, Fletcher's probably just
get five. In this scenario, Fletcher's twenty one, He's not
like nine.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
What's your reaction as a father.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Well, I mean I'd be pretty disappointed. I didn't know
how prevalent draft prank call thing.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
What.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Yeah, Carter got punk too, Yeah, and I don't Is
there a fine for him or no? It's just because
of your door maybe yeah? Yeah, I mean I think
I feel bad for old Brick. I mean, I remember
Old Brick when he was the decordinator at U C.
L A and Jim Mora grabbed his face with both
hands on the sideline, remember that vaguely because he's trying
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to walk off the field. Oh god, Maura not an
easy guy to work with it. I know he's a
friend of yours.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Well he's a little he's a little excitable sometimes. Well yeah,
he has Olbrook's face in both hands.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Right right, like in Indiana Jones with the with the
coin or whatever.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
It's very unfortunate. I feel bad really for everybody involved.
And I think it's a cultural problem with young people, uh,
with you know, the people the streaming. I'm gonna stream
myself on the subway and not going to pay for
the fair. I'm gonna stream myself disrupting this. I'm gonna
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stream myself going around a festival and flipping people's hats
off and see how they.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
React and yeah, serious, it's funny.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Well yeah see, and you would watch it, and I
know I'm kidding, but you know what I'm saying, like that,
this is that culture. And look, if you have a
skill for something like you want to put like a
Ferrari engine on an ATV and ride it around on
the internet, like, at least you're doing something, but the
I'm going to break the law or I'm going to
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do something that's tasteless and put it on the internet.
It sadly become a terrible just a terrible symptom of
modern society, with the with the devices and the and
the modern ways of communication.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I just want to run into the hills, the modern ways. Yeah,
these ways.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Speaking of that, I don't prove your ways? Am I
the Am I the only guy? I don't know how much?
You and Matt shadow up Man talked about this Wolverines
to the Hills, the Bill Belichick thing with girlfriend. Am
I the only guy that just doesn't give a damn
about any of it?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Well? Why is like why is this important?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Why is there is no Well, there's an old saying
that says there is no.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Fool like an old fool.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
And it's not a I mean, it's it's creepy. She's
twenty four and she's on her in love. She has
the crazy eye and you know, a football coach. It
didn't used to be like if Chuck Knox had a
twenty four year old girlfriend, right, and he's about as
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lovable as Bill Belichick is.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
The public persona was.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
I mean, we had Chuck here for a while, so
you know what I mean, layoff, layoff ground, Chuck.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Chuck Knowle, Okay, Chuck Knowle. Let's say he's got a
twenty four year old girlfriend back.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
In his sad but Greg Popovich, yeah right, no one
really cares, like.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Back then, right, they just don't care. But the football
coaching position has become such a pr position. It's become
such a weird visible ceo of sorts, and you have
to be such a dynamic personality at the college level.
That's she's going to be right out front. You know,
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there's a reason. I mean, there was a long time,
Softy that you couldn't even get a college job unless
you were a married man. Like it was really rare
that you would see a single college football coach like
Dana Holgerson or somebody like that.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Well, Danny Sprinkle, the basketball coach at Washington, he's not married, right.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
And it's more prevalent. It's more prevalent now, right, But
it used to be like unless we could say, well,
me and Nadine, we'd love to have Terrell over for Thanksgiving.
You know, if you guys live out of state, you know,
we are family, Nadine and I we love to real
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you know, I mean, that's that's recruiting for the last
thirty forty years.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
What totally am I wrong? Now, You're exactly right.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
So he could spend the night, daughters away in college.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
The wife, the kids. Yeah, the family were happy to
be here.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
That's the whole thing. And you know, you go through
the media guy and the coach. They had the coaches
and their families and everybody looks at the kids and
the wife and and that was that used to be
college coaching. And in some ways it still is. But
uh yeah, it's a it's a weird situation. I mean,
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I remember when we were at USC, we had a
doctor and he looked a lot like Montgomery Burns and
his name was Chester Semmel, okay, and you know he
used to shoot us up and stuff like that, right,
And he was an old man. He looked like Montgomery Burns.
And his girlfriend was probably like thirty.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
All right, and she was hot and you found that creepy.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Well, she was always on the like in the on
the bus and in the hotel because she was with Chester.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Oh, wouldn't you want to show her off? If you
were Chester. Yeah, but what do you think it was?
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Like?
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Hey, girl, I've been room two hundred and thirty here
at the Bilmore. The doctor he won't see you.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Like hey, but good for him, right, dealing with the
slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. Look, if you want
to have a relationship with a twenty four year old,
that's fine. There's a reason with us. There's a service elevator, right,
just don't make me look at it. I got you know,
she's sitting use the back door kind of thing. She's
sitting there dictating to him about football interviews.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
It's embarrassing. Not as embarrassing as the draft, but embarrassing.
Are you rooting for Lebron tonight? Oh? Come on?
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Do people on your show know that you are openly
rooting for the Lakers to lose and be done?
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Dude, you'd be surprised how many people in Los Angeles
are not fans of Lebron.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
All right, Lebron can ball out. Lebron can still dump.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
No, it'll be interesting because the refs are going to
try to help him.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
They didn't help him in Game four. They tried.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
How many what percentage of the LA Sports fan base
whoever they room for? Is it ten rooting against Lebron?
Twenty is significant number.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
I don't know against, but I think the real riding
on the wall was when Luka Doncic came here. Whether
they get eliminated here in the first round and that
Nico Harrison guy does a victory lap in Dallas around
the Metroplex or not, this is it. I mean, Lebron's
forty plus, he's going down in the ditty trial.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
You think so you want him to go down, don't you? No?
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Do I?
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Well, I want you to be served.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Let me just say that you want him to Let
me say this, Okay, I'm not rooting for the FEDS.
I'm not rooting for duty. I'm rooting for the truth.
You understand me, softy.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
I'm just rooting for the truth. Do all right? That's
what I get it.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Not my truth, which is some weird manipulation of telling
your story.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Now the truth, softy, Hey, the truth.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
By the way, speaking of Belichick and his girlfriend, isn't
like the president of France married to like a seventy
year old who was like his high school math teacher
or something.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Did you know that? Are you baiting me?
Speaker 4 (16:40):
No, you didn't really say the real thing. Seventy year
old Emmanuel Crone.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Yeah, it's that's actually a seventy year old What his
his wife?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
She's a Dude's she is not a dude?
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Ude?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
What are you saying? There's no evidence of that. Bridget
trug new Uh allegedly is his wife. That's alleged. She's
seventy two years old and he's forty seven. Remember when
everybody thinks nobody talks about him? Remember when everybody he
said France.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Remember when everybody thought Lady Gaga had a puzza? Remember No,
I don't remember. And Anderson Cooper's like, well do you
She's like, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Do you think I do? I was like there.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
With that, Oh guy, we've missed you. Did you miss
us as much as we missed you?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Deeply? Oh? Man, all right, we'll talk in a week.
We got to get back to Humilin. He's he he's there.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Yeah, Dick is out today. He was in today filling
in for Dick. What are you laughing at?
Speaker 2 (17:58):
No, it's all good. Well, what's so funny now that
you like it? When I say we got no Dick?
Do you? It's true? Miss manhatt he is not here.
Uh do you Yes, it's true, this man has no dick,
do you guys? You guys still in first place? The Mariners. Yeah, yeah,
(18:20):
they're doing well.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Enjoyant Okay, Dodgers are banged up, man, a lot of
pitching injuries down there.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Oh really, because Tony Gonsolin came back today in dealt.
Do you know about the cat man?
Speaker 2 (18:31):
You stupid bitch. You what's up?
Speaker 6 (18:34):
Man?
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Where you been?
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Been around around. We'll get back to him next. We'll
see it. Man. Petros Papadakis with us.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
We're gonna break more with Hugh coming up on ninety
three to three kJ RFM. Mariners win today ninety three
hueye over the La Angels of Anaheim.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
They are now on pace to win ninety seven games.
They have scored nine runs or more five times already
in the first month of twenty twenty five. That's something
they did sixteen times total in twenty twenty four. So
what I'm trying to tell you is they're already a
third of the way there with five months to go
(19:14):
in the season. Last year, the Mariners scored six hundred
and seventy six total runs, which was twenty first in
Major League Baseball. They're on pace for eight hundred and
twenty one, which last year would have finished third in
the major leagues. So that is what you're dealing with
right now. That is what the Mariners have been doing.
(19:35):
And I think Jerry.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Depoto offensive team.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
May have been right, that they may have a good
offensive team. How many I think that Jerry Depoto should
go outside Tea Mobile Park when the season's over. If
the Mariners do end up actually having a good offensive team,
good offensive team, he should take out his bb gun, shotgun,
whatever he likes to hunt with and go find as
much crow as possible and have a big old barbecue
(19:59):
at Team Mobile and invite people like us to come.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Down and taste it. Can you imagine.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Jorge Polanco doesn't even play today because the Angels have
a lefty on the mound. We get to that in
a second, by the way, and they still score nine
runs in these seven games that were vacated because of
injuries to George Kirby and Logan Gilbert. The Mariners are
now five and two in those seven games with Emerson Hancock,
(20:28):
Luis f. Castillo. He's the knockoff, not the original and
then Logan Evans, I mean, Hugh, you would have taken
five and two with Kirby and Gilbert in those sevens
of course.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
I mean, I'm watching the game before our show. It's just,
you know, three to three and then all of a sudden, what, Yes,
they are up for six runs in the seventh inning,
I mean twelve hits. The following guys had two or
more hits. Crawford, Rosarina, Solano and.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
No blissed second base. No problem, leave us three for
four three RBI.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
I mean they just like you said, even without Polanco,
they they you know, they obviously have something contagious, a
little juju going, and they believe in themselves.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
And it's fun.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
Now, you know, my little spreadsheet, because I'll make a
spreadsheet about anything you ask me.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Ask me where we are in an NFL season? H
First of all, we're gonna reference a spreadsheet. We have
to play spreadsheet humping clown.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
All right, Where are we at now? I am in
regards to the NFL season? Where are we at?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Right now?
Speaker 6 (21:34):
We are in Game four, first quarters and uh six
oh seven remaining in the first what what what we again?
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Game four?
Speaker 4 (21:44):
So we're so we're a month in. We're a month
into the NFL season. So far not insignificant. Twenty five
percent of the way is already in the rear view mirror.
And look, here's the thing, guys. I'm just thinking of
one of my favorite lines from Planes, Trains and Automobiles
where they get pulled over with a melted car and
the cop says, you have no functioning gages whatsoever, and
(22:04):
John Candy says, yeah, believe it or not, the radio
still works.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Right.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Remember that the Mariners have no Ryan Bliss, they have
no Victor Roebliss. They have no George Kirby, they have
no Matt Brash, they have no Gregory Santos, which might
be auditioned by subtraction, by the way, because he was
terrible for now. They have no Logan Gilbert, they have
no Luke Rayley, who's on the IL as of yesterday,
and Julio has an OPS under seven hundred. Yet they
still are on pace to win ninety seven games and
(22:30):
on pace to finish what would have been good enough
for third in offense last year. I mean, are we
buying this, guys? Let's go round the room. Jackson, you too,
are we buying what? We're seeing with this Mariner's offense.
Are we buying that Jerry might be right Jackson about
this baseball team.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
Jerry might be right, I mean, and I think a
lot of it too. You look at what the offense
did towards the end of last year. Dan comes in,
as new offensive staff comes in, and it starts to
turn around. And I kind of was like, all right,
it's the end of the season. How much stock really
putting in here? But I think we are continuing to
see the impact of this coaching staff and the impact
of a guy like jare Polonka returning to even better
(23:09):
than what he was in Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
So he's finding himself. I gotta be honest.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
I mean, like, listen, one month ago, today is the
last day of April, right, So one month ago I
was I told you guys, all three of you, you
and Dick as well, that I was openly apathetic about
this baseball team. I have full apathy after the rough offseason,
the lackluster last year, losing us as fans, he lost me,
And I said, Mariners, you will have my attention when
(23:33):
you earn and deserve my attention.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Damn it.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
They have earned and they deserve all of my attention.
I'm back in. I believe right now. Maybe I'm gonna
be foolish, Maybe I'm gonna be, you know, screwed again
like I was screwed last season. But Mariners, I am
open to being screwed. Please don't screw me again. Jackson
is desperate, all right. He wants to be screwed. He's
open to being screwed. Hugh, how about you?
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Are you are you buying this metaphor, by the way, metaphor,
It's yeah, it's a month in. It's not a gigantic sample,
but it's not an insignificant sample either.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
So are we are we buying it that? At the
very minimum? Hue?
Speaker 4 (24:10):
This offense has turned a corner and they are not
going to be a massive liability the way they were
a year ago.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
I'm not buying it, not yet. Wow. Nope, all right, nope,
over here, just why do you come over here and
just kick us all the balls while around? I was
supposed to have for this baseball tease.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
I've been watching this team since nineteen seventy seven, all right, So,
and and I'm reaching for my wallet to see how
much cast I have in considering buying it. But I
haven't bought it yet, not when I consider that on
June eighteenth of a year ago, the Mariners were up
ten games.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Right, and so well aware of that by the way
that they were up tech. Yeah, nobody's more aware of.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
That, I know.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
But just as a reminder, Yeah, yeah, yes, I know
that was quite a bit of radio content. I'm aware
because I had to fill inder those times. But but no,
I'm not. You ask me, I'm not buying it. I
think I need to see it for more. I mean
what I just say, We're We're in the week's quarter
of the of the fourth game, so no, I need more. Now,
(25:14):
it's cool, right, but you know, I just need to
see it for longer. I think baseball, by its nature,
you just need a longer sample set.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Yeah, no, I get it.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
I mean maybe by the end of May, a couple
of months in, right, you know, one third of the season,
you'll kind of feel like, hey, this is legit. And
I remember, God, who was the guy was it Lloyd
McClendon who would always say, it's like sixty games, give
me sixty games.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Whatever it may have been fifty. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
That feels like a thousand years ago. But I think
you said sixty and so one more month. I think
of doing this obviously, and a lot of people will
buy it. I don't expect this to continue. I don't
expect Hora Polanco to continue. I mean Horay Polanco is
right now along with Aaron Judge, maybe the MVP of
the American League's he's He's a starting caliber player in
(26:02):
the All Star Game at DH because Judge plays mostly
in right So if the game was today, he probably
is your starting designated hitter.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
His days at third base are over.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
By the way, remember all the conversation we had over
the offseason, what are we doing? Can't believe this is
our guy that we signed the biggest free agent contract
over the offseason. And I remember saying right before the
season began, Hey, look, I mean on its own, the
Horey Polanco, just bringing him back for seven point five Okay, whatever,
But it's like when Christmas and Honeka came around. Yeah,
(26:32):
I need underwear, I need socks. But can I get
a Walkman too? By the way, can I get a
new stereo system? Can I get a Rockford Foz game form?
My Mustang get? Can I get a toy. I mean,
my god, all this stuff, yes, I need, but you're
telling me, if you're Jerry Depoto, that this is your
big gift.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Your big gift.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
On Christmas morning was hore freaking Polaco for seven point
five million dollars. Yeah, now it looks like it was
worth it because he's crushing the baseball.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
I mean, hooray. Polanco has a.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Twelve ninety four ops against right handers right now, and
that's all he plays against because the guy can't hit
from the right side because of his knee, so he
hits lefty. And there's this idea going around. Actually was
brought up by my good buddy Barry, who the other
day said, Hey, well I could be a gays can't
hit lefty versus lefty. Horey Polanco. Guys, has over four
(27:21):
thousand played appearances in Major League Baseball. Do you know, Hugh,
how many played appearances Jorge Polanko has as a left
handed hitter against a left handed pitcher in his career?
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Yes, because we talked about it. Okay, the answer is one. Yes.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Do you know how many of bats he has as
a right handed hitter against a right handed pitcher? The
answer is one he just doesn't do it. He grew
up a switch hitter. He came up a switch hitter.
There's no reason for the guy to stand in there
against a lefty as a lefty or a righty as
a righty. He's literally never done it in his career
(27:58):
except for two different play to appearances. And oh, by
the way, the one played appearance here that he did
it as a lefty versus lefty was this year.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Yeah, this month.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Well, I want you to say the ops again, twelve
ninety four against right.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Twelve ninety four.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
I'm like, wait a minute, yes, historic, I just looked
it up the alt Now I get it. It's a
portion of a season versus a career. But just to
put where twelve ninety four is the all time in
the history of baseball? Ops, is Babe Ruth with eleven
sixty three?
Speaker 5 (28:29):
Right? Right?
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Like you again?
Speaker 6 (28:32):
Obviously duh, don't say, Well, different sample sizes, we understood,
But just to understand you're you're north of twelve. That
is a crazy number.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Yeah, yeah, and that's gonna be his number because that's
all he does is hit righty's I mean basically, when
I say he's hitting three ninety four with a twelve
ninety four OPS against righties. That is thirteen that is
overall what the guy is doing because he never faces lefties.
Number he's got one AB against a left hander as
(29:02):
a left hander, and he's hitting three eighty nine with
a twelve forty three OPS overall. So never mind even
what he's doing against righty's. I mean, just look at
what the guy is doing overall. It's it's just been
ridiculous what Hori Poloco has been all about.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
So good for.
Speaker 6 (29:17):
Him and is in that crazy two thousand and four
year was was fourteen twenty one, you know, and so
you know, so that's the kind of rare area you're
talking about.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Where is Horny Blanco on the MVP candidate? You know,
last I think he's right behind Aaron Judge, He's right there.
I think he's right behind Areon Judge.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
Now, in the history of baseball, there's only been twelve seasons. Now,
some of these like Baby Ruth is on there a
number of times. I'm not talking about twelve players. I'm
talking about twelve seasons that have been over thirteen hundred.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Would you say twelve ninety three.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
Twelve ninety four against rities twelve ninety four, twelve forty
three overall twelve forty three.
Speaker 6 (29:59):
Okay, well I mean that, yeah, that's something I mean
that would be that'd be a top twenty five in
the history of baseball if he did well.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
Which, by the way, if you look at certain websites,
and I like to go to Baseball Reference dot com,
but a lot of websites when they rank and track
the statistical leaders in Major League Baseball, they only go
with guys that have qualified, meaning they've played enough games.
Horri Polanco has not played enough games to qualify because
he's only played twenty one of the thirty games the
(30:30):
Mariners have played. You got to pinch hit at bat
late in the game today. But he does not have
enough abs or games played yet to qualify. So look,
Aaron Judges played thirty Horiy Polanco's played twenty one, all right,
so he's played one third less of the games that
Aaron Judges played. But if Horiy Polanco played enough games
to qualify, I think he would need four or five
(30:50):
more to qualify. So far, he'd be number two in
Major League Baseball in overall ops, number two in overall ops.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
So that is what the guy's been doing well.
Speaker 6 (31:01):
The other thing, I like you you cited the stat
just okay, here's another start with Emerson Hancock.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Where as you're waiting.
Speaker 6 (31:09):
For Kirby to get back three and one with him,
you find you get a win out of this. And
and uh, I think a lot of us, I mean,
we had Larry Stone, you me. I mean, I'm not
qualified to weigh on on it, but those who are
a lot of people raise their eyebrows about the fact
that Hancock was one and done. Now, whatever they did,
they send them down. Maybe maybe it was a meaningful
(31:32):
So so I'm I'm quick to say, why why would
you do that just after one start? But maybe there
was something mechanically or just his psyche whatever. But they've
been able, uh with two point and with Hancock to
you know, more than tread water.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Yeah, with those starts five and two. And by the way,
we call him knockoff. By the way, knockoffs two point,
knockoff whatever.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
I think we all know who we're talking about. Luis F.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Kist, we're gonna break Larry Stone will join us, by
the way, at the top of the hour, at five o'clock,
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