October 15, 2025 • 36 mins
Softy from Seattle joins for an extended segment on the Mariners making a run and how the city is handling Sam Darnold with the Seahawks!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yes, sir, the voice of Aaron Goldsmith right there, the
beautiful tones of Aaron Goldsmith from Root Sports, m Fox,
the old Fox Sports here in Seattle, with the description
of the former minister to twin or Hey Polonko.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Hitting the home run of fellow former twin Louis Arland.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
That's right. How about that? Well, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Many now hold on? Hold on? Did kJ R do
they carry the Mariners?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
No? Absolutely? Okay, so we will be going head to
head against the biggest baseball games in history tonight, tomorrow
and Friday. Yeah, that should be fun.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Okay, I'm not you know, I rarely do this, but
I mean it kind of has to get under my
skin a little bit for me to say something like
this publicly. That play by play guy sounded fantastic, big voice,
capture the moment.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Great.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Reggie Jackson is mister October. End of story. That's it.
That's the end of the story. Nobody else ever is
mister October. You with me?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Well, first of all, he's mister October to you and I.
But to the teenagers out there, I have no idea
who Reggie Jackson is. The never saught him play. They
have absolutely no idea, what the hell you and I
are talking about? And I went through this entire thing
a couple of years ago at the All Star Game
when the Orioles brought Felix Bautista to Seattle and they
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had started calling him King Felix. Thank you, social media,
thank you. There's only one King Felix, and his name
is Felix Fricken Hernandez. Right, So I'm with you on
that stuff, but I think you and I have to
admit that we are ancient. Were jing, We are old. No,
we are expiring, and it's time for a new generation.
And if they want to refer to Jorge Polanco as
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mister October, we have to way.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
No, we don't know because if this generation, which does
not put nicknames on anything anymore because it impacts the
super special social media branding, I mean, think about it,
Freak Mahomes doesn't even have a freaking nickname. Why you
ain't gonna call me that. They're not giving me three
million dollars, so we can't call So the creativity or
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lack thereof, of this generation leaves a little to be desired.
And if an that's why you.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Should be excited. That's why you should be excited then
that a guy like Goldie is actually referring to Hora Polonko.
Is mister l come up with a different.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Throwback, but come up with a different bit. There's one
mister October in the history of sports. There's if.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
There is a meme going around social media or a
gift or a gift, I don't know what the hell
it is, man anymore. I lose track. I can't keep
up of a uh manual transmission vehicle. And you've got
your gas pedal, you've got your brake pedal, and then
you've got your clutch. And on the clutch is a picture,
a picture of Hora Polonko. So is that fair? Can
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with that, mister clutter clutch?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Get whatever?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Say today? Uh say today? What is it? I have
a clock, softy time for Game three?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Correct? Okay?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Say a rose A Raina hits four home runs and
and the next day they call him babe a rose
A Raina. You cool with that?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah? Yeah no, because that's just dumb. That doesn't even
make any sense. Okay, well it's not even that creative.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Okay, you know, yeah, I'm here.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
You're talking about referring him to something like the like
the rainderno instead of the bait bambino, Right, that's what
you're getting at there or something like that. Yeah, yeah,
that's that's just that that's stupid.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Well, you know what if JJ McCarthy plays for the
Vikings this weekend against the Eagles and he goes lights
out four forty three touchdown, zero interceptions, I can't wait
to uh at the end of the game, you know,
make him the player of the game and call him
JJ the Snake McCarthy. I always love that.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Plumber would have a problem with that.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Okay, hold on, well, Kenny the snake Stabler even before that.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
This is Softy from kJ R. His radio show is
a Pacific Northwest juggernaut. He carries a lot of us
in the iHeart Audio family. That's Nordo. It used to
be the iHeart Right Juggernaut laughing. It used to be
the iHeart Radio family, but now it's the iHeart Audio Family.
It's kJ R three to seven Pacific, three to seven Pacific.
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Softy is the bomb. His show's really really good and
they have a lot of exciting things about which to
chat these days. Uh, and being sports radio Softy, I
mean the M's are two wins from the World Series.
Your Hawks are tied for first in the NFC West.
We'll forget about that Niners win and we'll say tied
and shoot up. You're cracking or undefeated through three. I mean,
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it's great being softy these days.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Hey baby, we are taking over the world. This is payback, Paul,
This is payback for all of the terrible years that
we went through. I had to listen to Nordo complain
and whine off the air about how bad the Twins
are and blah blah blah. Listen. At least you knuckle
ahead and know what a World Series is like, and
you know what a World Series championship is like, going
back to what eighty seven in ninety one, so at
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least you've got memories of a World Series. You know
what this would be like. And you guys have been
waiting what fifty years for a Super Bowl nineteen seventy
six Vikings, so January of seventy seven was the last
time the Vikings played in the Super Bowl. Mariner's first
game with Diego Segi on the mound was April of
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nineteen seventy seven, so we're talking literally three months three
months after the Vikings last Super Bowl is when the
Mariners played their very first game. That's how long we've
been waiting for this. The difference between us in a
World Series and you guys in the Super Bowl is
that you can at least talk to relatives. You can
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talk to family. You can talk to Uncle Milo and
Aunt Jeannie and cousin Bobby about what that Super Bowl
was like in nineteen seventy seven. There's people you know
that at least have memories of that game. We have
no memories. We have no family, We have nobody we
can turn to in Seattle to talk about the World
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Series because it's never happened in Seattle ever. We're talking
to half a century. We're talking a quarter century, Paul.
Since the two thousand and one each hero Alex Roger
or Edgar Martinez, Jay Buhner, Freddie Garcia led Mariners won
one hundred and sixteen games, twenty five years since the
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last ALCS, twenty five years since the last American League
West Championships. So a lot of us are going through
this for the very first time, and it's been so
long to the rest of us that it feels like
the very first time. So that's what you're dealing with
in Seattle.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I think a radio guy who does a national show,
Craig Carton is the name. I think he accused your Mariners,
like pitcher Bryce Miller, of cheating because all of a sudden,
the Blue Jays can't hit. Did you pick up on
that now?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
I think he was accusing the Blue Jays of cheating
against the Yankees. Oh that's what he was talking about.
Oh yes, because the Blue Jays just destroyed Yankee pitching
over four games. Leonard Guerrero had like a sixteen hundred
ops to said, they go to Games one and two
in Rogers Center and they can't hit the ball. But
here's the thing about Carton, and I actually kind of
like Carton a little bit. I think he does a
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good job, but he's way off based on Bryce Miller.
First of all, he's mad the Yankees lost, or that
the Blue Jays lost to Bryce Miller in Game Number one.
Bryce Miller had a sub three ERA in thirty one
starts a year ago and got banged up this year
and has not been pitching. So to call him a
tool and that he can't pitch is just woefully incorrect.
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Number one number two. I don't know what your definition,
guys is of a journeyman pitcher. To me, it's a
guy that's played for multiple teams. He called him a journeyman.
Bryce Miller has only played for one team in his
whole career, and that's the Mariners seventy five starts. So
I like Preig, but he pretty much puked all over
himself with that cake yesterday.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Bro a softy. So when you were on earlier, like
like I don't know, August whatever, it was a couple
of months ago, yes, maybe three months ago, and you
were talking about how solid and deep the Mariners starting
rotation was. And you know, I peek a box scores
every single day. I may dabble in the little prize
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picks or underdog every so often. So I'm like following
this stuff pretty closely. And I'm like, okay, Logan Gilbert,
Bryce Miller, Brian Wu, Luis Castillo. I thought they were
all good, but I didn't realize how clutch these guys were.
What was it in the in the in the the
fifteen that marathon game at Komerica, Yes, was that Bryce
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Miller who came in and went five innings? No, that
was at Gilvert.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
At T Mobile Park and it was on Friday night. Yeah,
and I was not there because I was stuck at
Washington for the Rutgers game on Friday night, so it missed.
It was Gilbert Miller off the charts for that one.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Yeah. So here comes one of your starters and.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Jogan, Gilbert and Luis Castile.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Thank you. Castillo finished it. Gilbert had to go five
something like that, and he was awesome. But what was revelatory?
So you were right about that pitching staff overall, and
and what was revelatory for me watching that is because
I didn't watch the the MS play hardly the entire year.
How about this Eduardo Bizardo? Who are you kidding me?
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Who the heck is this guy?
Speaker 1 (09:32):
We used to call him the mop? Honestly, we called
him a mop early in the year in April May.
He was the mop. You know why because he was
a part of the cleanup crew. He would just come
in to pitch when the game was a mess, when
the game was out of control and they needed an
arm just to finish the game, instead of bringing in
a position player to finish the deal in a game
that was out of hand and over with they would
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bring in Bizardo, and now he's gone from the mop
to the man. Yeah, I mean he has been unbelo vable.
He signed for eight hundred thousand dollars fall over the
offseason from Boston, and there was a feeling in camp
that he wouldn't even make the damn club. And now
he might be your second best or even maybe third
best reliever behind Andress Muno's and gave Spire he's been
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that important for this baseball team. And let's face it, Paul,
you know as well as I and all you guys know,
when your teammates a run, you need guys to have
career years, right, whether it's in the NFL or the
NBA or whatever, you need guys to have career years.
And Cal Rowley is having a career year with sixty
home runs. Torgy Planto in some ways is having a
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career year. Bizardo's having a career year. Gave Spire Andres Munios,
all these guys, you know, having career years, and then
you have to make yourself better, and they did that
at the deadline. It's amazing how many Mariner fans like
me have been begging the Mariners for decades go out
at the deadline and do something, do something to help
this baseball team. And they went out and got Meeuo
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Suarez and they got Josh Naylor from Arizona. And Naylor
has been just bowled for this baseball TV. He's been
amazing defensively, offensively, the base pass, I mean, Ao Hanio
is either strike out, home run, to be honest with you,
but the bigger acquisition by far has been Josh Naylor.
So this is what happens when you give the damn
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as an ownership. This is what happens when you care
and you try and make your baseball team better. Good
things happen like you're seeing right now.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Preach that'll preach a yes, but b it preaches in
this market hard with the way things have gone with
this baseball team. Softy Kjar three to seven, Pacific five
to nine. If you want to listen on the iHeart
Audio app, which is free, it's five to nine pm
locally free iHeartRadio app. Softy Kjar. Few to close here.
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This is the bomb. Is Julio Rodriguez considered a league superstar.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Probably not to be honest with you, but he's playing
like it right now in the postseason. I mean, he's
his problem is he gets off to a kind of
mediocre start every single year and then finds a way
to turn it on. But here's the thing about Julio
that kind of separates him from a lot of other
people around baseball, and that's the charisma. I mean, first
of all, just look at the guy right, Like, he's
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a good looking dude. He really is a handsome looking guy,
got beautiful blue eyes, he's got a great smile, phenomenal teeth.
He's just a really good looking dude, and he has
fun playing baseball. There's a lot of Griffy vibes with him. Well, yeah,
meaning the charisma, right, you know, he's not wearing the
hat backwards the way Griffy did back in the day.
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But he really is a joy to just be around.
He's a great, great dude, signed a half a billion
dollar contract and he's got no ego whatsoever. Awesome guy
to be around and fans. I think when you sign
a rookie to a contract like that, when you don't
have to do six years before free age and see,
the standards are going to be super duper high. And
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the standards were probably a little bit unfair and a
little bit ridiculous for him. He's gonna finish probably in
the top five of the MVP minimum, top ten in
the American League in his fourth year in baseball. So
I think there's reason to be really really happy about
what we're getting from Julio Rodriguez. But I think to say,
he's a superstar, you know, nationally, and a superstar globally.
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I don't know if I would put him on that
level yet, but god darn it, is he playing like
that right now. He's gonna win a Gold Glove. He's
been stepping up clutch, had some big hits for the
MS and the playoffs, and guys like that, Guys like
Cal Rowley belong on a field in October in the
World Series, and there are two games away from doing
that with jo Rodriguez.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
I mean, let's call him Boomstick. I always love that one.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Yeah, why not?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Now, let's call him Boomstick on route or on the radio,
or maybe Sugar I don't know, or maybe black.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Bear, or we call him j Rod, you know. And
you got the f ROD thing going back to Francisco Rodriguez,
irod Yvonne Rodriguez, a Rod Alex Rodriguez and now j
Rod Wholio Rodriguez. So if anybody with Rodriguez in their
last name is autumn mouth, he's gonna be blank Rod.
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So that's what he is. He's j Rod. All right.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
So the Seattle Mariners are at home today. They have
an opportunity to stretch this series. Yep, to stretch the
series two three. Oh as I look for a piece
on the button bar here. Thus I have become a
little staccato on you. Oh yeah, So here we go.
M's minus one twenty five today. Why don't you give
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me half the money you were gonna find. Then we'll
go out. I'll kick you in the nuts and we'll
call it a day. Minus one twenty five. You hit,
they don't. Yeah, sounds like free money.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Well, first of all, I love that drop. We play
that drop a lot on my radio program, and given
the history of the Maritors, we've used that a lot.
That is our our boy Wallace Sean uh famous from
Princess Bride. But that's the Vegas vacation drop that you
played right there. Look, here's what I'm doing. I'm taking
the Blue Jays to win this series right now at
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plus four hundred this very second. Here's why, here's why.
If the Mariners win the series, I'm not gonna give
a damn. Put one hundred on Toronto. And if they
lose the series and the Mariners are going to the
World Series, do you think while I'm crying like a
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baby tomorrow night or on Friday night, I'm gonna be
sitting there with my wife, jumping up and down thinking
about my dad who passed away three years ago and
loved this baseball team. Am I gonna be sitting there
jumping up and down, going this is so great? But
if I only wouldn't have lost that hundred bucks, it'd
be so much better. No, I don't give it, damn.
I lose money on the UW Wazoo game, the Apple Cup,
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the Oregon game, be against my team's every single freaking year,
in big games like this, And if they lose, I
got a couple of bucks in my pocket, so slightly
numb the pain. If they win, I don't care. I
look at it as an investment. Paul one hundred bucks,
two hundred bucks on Toronto to win the series, and
if the Mariners win it, I won't give a dam
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And if they lose the series and choke. At least
I got a couple of coins in my pocket either way.
Softy's a winner.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Softy so now nineteen and a half hours ago at
Softy kjr vax at Softy kjar this when you tweeted
this nineteen hours ago. This is what triggered me to
text you and say, hey, can we get a little
time tomorrow? Softy rote, I'm very emotional, can't focus on
squat randomly bursting out in tears. What the hell is happening?
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I'm like, Softy you okay, No.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Dude, you have no idea how much this means to
us in Seattle to go to the World Series. Yeah,
just like you guys in the Super Bowl, right, I mean,
you tell me if you're if you're five minutes away
from an NFC championship, Vikings are leading thirty one to
ten with five minutes to go at home at US
Bank Stadium, and you can start to smell a Super
Bowl or hell, let's say you get to a Super
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Bowl and you're five minutes away from a championship. I
know what you're doing. I know what you're doing during breaks.
You're grabbing Kleenex, you're wipe in your eyes, you're calling
your loved ones, you're getting ready to plan a parade.
It's the moments that everybody in Minnesota's been waiting for
it for a half a century. So again, when growing
up in Seattle, the World Series was not for us.
It was for the Red Sox, it was for the Yankees,
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it was for Minnesota with that great Kirby Pucket led
team in eighty seven, the Cardinals, you know, teams like that.
It wasn't for us. And now we're two games away,
two wins away, fifty whatever hours away, not even that,
we're talking twenty thirty hours away from potentially clinching a
trip to the World Series for the first time in
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our lives. And it's over freaking whelming. Dude. This baseball
team has been the butt of every joke since I've
been alive. I was four years old when they started
playing in nineteen seventy seven, so their misery as a
franchise pretty much parallel is my entire existence. All Right,
They're forty nine years old. I'm fifty two years old. Okay,
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so yes, excuse me if I'm getting a little bit emotional,
and for clem thinking about what this baseball team is
potentially about to accomplish. I can't focus on anything. I'm
stress eating. I probably put on about fifteen pounds in
the last maybe seventy two hours. Stuff everything I can
into my mouth to not even think about the stress
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that comes along with this. I got in the car
to go see my mom the other day and I
drove five miles in the wrong direction. That's what I'm
dealing with right now.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Well, they do have dispensaries up there. Okay, just a couple,
Just a couple to close here. Now, you had a
tweet October thirteenth. Okay, so Depoto is the general manager, right, he.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Is the president of baseball ops. But okay, it's his show.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
A lot of people owed Depodo an apology for Polanco,
and I'm I'm at the top of the list, right, softy,
he was right. I was wrong and happy to admit it.
What a stud he's been? What I mean? Yeah, Like,
how could you have been negative or like overly positive
about Ari Polanco.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Because he's stunk a year ago? Are you kidding me?
He was terrible last year with this baseball team. He
couldn't water if you fell off the freaking Titanic, Like,
what are you talking about? I mean he was awful.
And then everything that they did over the offseason, Paul,
this goes back to last year. This goes back obviously
forty eight years. But you got to understand what this
baseball team has done to its fan base in the
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last couple of seasons. First of all, they had the
best pitching staff in the American League a year ago
and they couldn't even make the playoffs. And a year
where it's easier than ever now to make the postseason tournament.
I think they became the first team since like the
two thousand and eight Blue Jays to leave the league
in era not make the playoffs. Okay, so that's number one.
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On top of that, they also blew a ten game
lead in the American League West a year ago. That's
number two. All right. Then they go out over the
offseason with money to spend, and the biggest ticket item
that they came home with from the from the store
was Jorge freaking Polanco at seven point five million after
a six point fifty one ops last season and a
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very very disappointing twenty twenty four. So to come back
and have to sell the handbase on that at the
time was ridiculous. Look, I didn't mind bringing Polanko back,
but bring him back and go get Pete Alonzo, Right,
bring him back and go get Cody Bellinger on top
of that. But you know, when you're freaking starving as
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a family and dad goes to the supermarket and he
comes home with a box, the zip lock bag, I'm like,
what the hell is this going to do for us?
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (20:57):
This is what you did over the AUS season. It's
this phenomenal pitching staff that deserves all the support in
the world offensively, and you go and you bring home
Jorge freaking Polanco, Right, that's what you get. Well, he's
been phenomenal, Paul, He's been unbelievable. He's been clutched for
this baseball team. It was a horror show when they
started him off at third base to begin the year.
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But now he's mostly been dhing for this team since
they got Suarez, obviously, and it's all worked out, But
the horr Polanco signing has been one of the biggest
bargains in baseball by far.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
All Right, this is fantastic, Bud, Welcome back to the show.
Can't leave without two super Chicken questions. Is is the test,
let's go? Is the town and state embracing Sam Darnold?
Speaker 1 (21:43):
I think so. I think the Seahawks have done it again, Paul.
And what I mean by that is, remember they done
for Russell Wilson at the exact right time before he
fell apart. And my god, has his perception and his
legacy change since he left Seattle? Holy cow. I mean,
he walked out Seattle as a potential Hall of Famer
and now I think it's going to be real tight
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to get him into Canton, Ohio. I think it's going
to be very difficult for Russell Wilson now actually to
make the Hall of Fame and the perception of him
around the country. Pittsburgh, Denver, the Giants. Now, did you
guys watch the game the other day? I think it
was on Monday night or Sunday night, yep, when Jackson
Dart got hurt and they had to bring Russell Wilson
into the game and the Giant fans are booing him
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and Dable's flipping out with his team. Doctor, get Dart
back out there so I can get this guy off
the field. It was like Russell Wilson walked into the
wrong bathroom and just got run out of there. It was.
It was unbelievable the reaction he got in that game
the other day. So part of me feels bad for him.
But here's the point, Paul don Schneider dumped Russell Wilson
at the exact right time, and he dumped Geno Smith
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at the exact right time. And look what Geno Smith
did in Seattle. Look, he's obviously not playing well right now,
but he filled a role and he was fine when
he was here in seat, but eventually it was time
to move on. And now you've got a guy in
Sam Donald who might be one of the top five
quarterbacks in the National Football League. I kind of feel
bad for you, guys, to be honest with you, because
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I think you should have kept him. Honestly, I think
you should have kept Sam Donald. I don't mind drafting
a guy in the first round. Look, if you think
there's a star, go get him. But it's gotta be
hard for you guys to watch what Sam Donald's doing
in Seattle. No considering the current quarterback situation in Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Let's see. Let's see how Week eighteen at at Levi
works out and then we'll talk after that. Okay, that's fine.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
For me, Hey listen. But the difference is that might
be for the division championship. That might be for the
division title. I think this is a playoff team, Paul.
And here's why. The biggest reason why is because I'm
Mike McDonald. This scheme is unbelievable. They they they played
a red hot Jacksonville team on Sunday and they were
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down Devin Witherspoon, Julian Love, and Tarik Wildon. They still
won the game three thousand miles away from home. I
kind of liked the Seahawks in that game anyway, because
I thought the Jaguars would be emotionally spent after that
Chief win on Monday Night.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Good take.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
But the star of the show is Mike McDonald's scheme.
And it shouldn't even matter what personnel they have on defense.
That's how good this guy's brain is. Man, he's one
of the best defensive minds on the plant and he's.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Our head coach, Jackson Smith and Jigbob. He's gonna have
a thousand yards before Thanksgiving. I mean, it's you know,
when we went there last year and I heard a
lot about him. Best slot receiver in the game, only
plays slot. They don't move him to the outside. Maybe
that's changed, but nevertheless, I mean he's in the best
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receiver period. Conversation with what he's doing this year. Don't
you think he's on pace.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
For nineteen hundred yards Paul who not only about one
hundred and forty five targets's averaging about seventeen yards of catch?
And really what it is it's not having Deca Metcalf
and Cooper cut being thirty two years old. There's just
nobody else to throw the football too. I'm sorry. I
mean Tory Horton, the rookie from Nevada, has potential. He's
not there yet. Cooper Cup can still play, but he's
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nowhere near the guy he was five years ago. So
Jackson Smith and Jigba has become Sam Darnold's security blanket.
His binky is Pacifire everything and aj Barner I cringe
thinking about what happens if he gets hurt. Thank god
that has not happened yet, but he is. He is
the most important player right now on the offense by far.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
You're fantastic, have a great show today and good luck
to your rims later today. Okay, okay, see you Bud,
see your brother. That's Softy from KJAR and Seattle in
the iHeart Audio family as radio show starts at five
o'clock Cornfields time. I've been known to listen to it
on the iHeart Audio app every so often.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Hopefully he left some in the tank. Yeah, softy man,
he's all wound up. And why wouldn't he be. He's ryat.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
I mean, if we had a baseball team looking to
go up three to zero with a home game at
five or seven o'clock later, what five miles from where
we do the show now, with the champions in town
this weekend at noon rolls reverse, we'd be this phenomenal,
we'd be floating. Nevertheless, onward we roll. This is nine
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Speaker 2 (26:28):
The Seattle Mariners dispatch of the Toronto Blue Jays and
meet the La Dodgers in the world Series and beat
the La Dodgers. Hyperbolic or hyper accurate. I was going
hyper accurate. I think the Mariners are going to go
to the World Series.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
So still, you know, Softy was perplexing me with a
couple of things he said, but in the end super
pumped for him, Like how cool would that be if
roles were reversed. He's we're calling in to kjar to
talk about our potential World series run. The Mariners are
going to close out the Blue Jays and go to
the World Series. You get the hyperbole enters the mix
(27:06):
when you say they beat the Dodgers. I mean, it's
just the situation with these with these Dodgers man. And
we're in this text thread for LFL, as you're aware,
and one of the people in our league, PAA lifelong
like born and raised LA sports fan, so there's no
fraudulents in it. Like he's a Lakers fan and he's
a Dodgers fan. If any of us grew up in
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the Southland, we would be Dodgers and Lakers fans, et cetera.
And it was just kind of interesting getting his perspective
as he's just he's talking about these Yamamoto l's earlier
in the season. There's too much drama involved, So and
SO is bleeping around.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Meanwhile, there's six and one.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
In the postseason at this point last night, and Yamamoto's
on his way to a complete game like the first
one in nearly a decade in the NLCS. The Dodgers
are going to sweep the brew Crew. It feels like
that feels hyper accurate, and they're going to smack around
the Mariners. And softis to love his World Series opportunity,
getting a taste with the trophy potential.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
He's at the doorstep of the party.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
He walks into the party and he's going to be
told to leave by Otani and I mean the max
Monthsies of the world, like the money that they have
put into this thing. The Dodgers are going to go
back to back. They're gonna be World Series champion. So
I think that's hyperbolic. Once you enter the they'll beat
the Dodgers and win the World Series.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
The Softy from Seattle his so to quell or ease
the anxiety he's having up to the Mariners T mobiles
where they play. It's their first home game in the ALCS.
They're up to zero on Toronto. I mean he radio
(28:50):
prostitution would be the wrong way to put it. But
he's just doing station after station today because he's five
minutes away Fargo. Go crazy your home for NDSU Athletics
catch the Insiders Monday through Friday eleven to one ninety
two seven, one oh seven nine, HD three, Bison sixteen
sixty dot com and the Bison sixteen sixty apps. He's
(29:14):
going on Bison sixteen sixty in like three minutes. Oh wait,
they got Gray's Abel, don't they. Oh they might have
grays Apa.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
That might be.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
That might be the connection point right there. I wonder
if there are any Mariners who are like from Fargo
or I'll look it up.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
But I mean, he's gonna be. He's gonna be down
in Jefferson City, Missouri. They're gonna have to bump the
top of the hour Farm Report soft. He's going to
do ten minutes with whoever's hosting down there.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Yeah, and he should be, man.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
I mean again, that's the the basic idea of my
spirit being stolen by the baseball team in the situation
here locally, you know, watching deep stretches in Game one
where the Dodgers are up to one.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
I think there was a sackfly.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
You got the bases loaded bottom of the ninth at
Miller Park or am Fam whatever the hell it's called Milwaukee.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Now you get the swinging strike three and you're.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Rooting against the Dodgers, or at least I was feeling
that vibe with my neighbor who's a Wisconsin night and
a massive Brew Crew fan, Like, these games are so
freaking awesome. It was awesome to see Polanco take Louis
Varlin deep. And you mentioned you mentioned Rodriguez just I
saw it in the text line.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
I knew he was a twenty twenty guy. You might
be the first guy ever.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
I'm just gonna trust the text, like the first twenty
twenty guy four years in a row to start his career.
Like you start kind of seeing how these teams are built. Yeah,
and Seattle they're putting a little more coin into it
than the Twins are, but nobody's competing with the coastal
markets of New York and in LA from a financial standpoint.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
So it's what's been building.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
And just you know, hearing Softy kind of run through
the moves that Depoto has made or not made. The
frustration associated with it, all of it coming together. Cal
Raley hitting six the bombs like that is sweet, and
they have an opportunity now after taking two in Canada,
they're gonna come home.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
And I haven't followed.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Bieber's games this year for Toronto going tonight, but this
Kirby Cat has been pretty damn, pretty damn good in
the postseason so far.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Like these guys should be massively favored to win it.
They're gonna go to the World Series. I think that's
super sweet. And perhaps Randy a Rose Arena can have
a couple of big hits today, maybe over the weekend,
and we can dub him mister October. I always love
that one. We'll call him Babe a Rose Arena or
maybe Jolton Joe or the Big Dipper. I always love
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that one. Hyperbolic or hyper accurate. The New York Jets
will be the NFL's first oh and seventeen team. The
Jets will be the NFL's first oh and seventeen team.
They come at it from oh and six. They are
oh and six.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
They've only played one division game, which means there's at
least five more ls to take place.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
M Let me see here, got it. Here we go,
Carolina at home, hel at Cincinnati l after the bye,
Cleveland at MetLife Stadium. Big game, Big game, James. All right,
I'm gonna call that game big game James, just like
James Worthy back in the eighties. What about Senior October?
(32:24):
Sure it's different than mister October and just say and
I'm sorry that this bugs me the way it does. No,
I get what you're saying. This age. I'm not get
off my lawn, guy. This age lacks creativity when it
comes to nicknames and just creatively seeing things from an
abstract everything. Soamam bam bam, seeing it from a ten
(32:46):
thousand foot view, the abstract view.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Well, but I think you're arguing two things there because
you speak to the creativity.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
But that's true.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
But at a more base level, it's like, no, your history, Yeah, yeah,
like that actually actually know who Reggie Jackson is?
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Like you're gonna do if you're to do something like that,
don't pill for one of the most famous nicknames in
the history of sports. Well what about teenagers this day
and age. It's not nine to noon or Softy's job
to teach sports history classes for profit. Although it does
sound fun, it's I mean, there are Babe Ruth. Everybody
knows the name Babe Ruth. Why don't we start calling
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people babe whatever? You know now it was herman, Babe Ruth. Yes,
mister October, Reggie Jackson, Kenny the Snake's Tabler. Well they
that already was Pilford in ninety eight by those who
lack creativity with j Jason Snake Plumber. It's just dumb. Whatever.
So I sablin, do they get it or not? Well,
here here's what I'm going to say.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
I think that it is hyperbolic because I have to
believe that whether it's the Bengals game or the Browns game,
that stretch right there. So I think that's in and
out of the buye Hm. I believe that they will
get one of those games. Nine to Noon puts a
rap on the show after this.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
I cant wait.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
I can't wait until tomorrow. Cool Tomorrow mine very well,
be Julie.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
I can't wait until tomorrow. Yeah, tomorrow is going to
be cool. Tomorrow be liber Nacho, liber each and a
ring Thursday, nine to Dude at bye Ken Also Brian
Baldinger Baldi's breakdowns. Uh he'll be joining nine to noon tomorrow.
I believe about nine forty in the morning. A Baldi
(34:37):
breakdown will be in town this weekend calling the game
nationally on radio. So Baldy tomorrow with some He's Philly based,
so his Eagles opinions. His NFL opinions are fantastic. His
Eagles opinions are second to none. So we got some
Baldi breakdown tomorrow nine to noon, plus not your liber
and much more. Thank you very much for listening to
(34:59):
the nine to new rate presentation. The programs around the corner.
I'm Paul Allen. Here comes Big Daddy Cohn to put
a wrap on the show. All right, welcome back to
the show.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
We got Softy from Seattle with that steam riding the
area of his baseball team because unlike he's awful and
moribund twins their leadership, well, it kind of seems like
they want to win. Will it be Carson or maybe JJ?
Can we please finally get to Sunday because regardless of
who will actually play, we've run out of new and
(35:37):
unique things.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
To say about the situation.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
I'm kind of more concerned about the bye week regeneration.
Cashman being back provides a wrinkle, but what's up.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
With this neck?
Speaker 3 (35:47):
And vang Ginkle got common in the big chair next
him the mailman in and datie me with some texts
in the Fantasy.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
League draft has me hyped, But damn it, I keep on.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Getting sniped and I've kind of lost rhythm and see
you later, Oh my god, how couldn't do that?
Speaker 2 (36:06):
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Yes, sir, the voice of Aaron Goldsmith right there, the
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
Hitting the home run of fellow former twin Louis Arland.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
That's right. How about that? Well, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Many now hold on? Hold on? Did kJ R do
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No? Absolutely? Okay, so we will be going head to
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Speaker 2 (00:37):
Okay, I'm not you know, I rarely do this, but
I mean it kind of has to get under my
skin a little bit for me to say something like
this publicly. That play by play guy sounded fantastic, big voice,
capture the moment.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Great.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Reggie Jackson is mister October. End of story. That's it.
That's the end of the story. Nobody else ever is
mister October. You with me?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Well, first of all, he's mister October to you and I.
But to the teenagers out there, I have no idea
who Reggie Jackson is. The never saught him play. They
have absolutely no idea, what the hell you and I
are talking about? And I went through this entire thing
a couple of years ago at the All Star Game
when the Orioles brought Felix Bautista to Seattle and they
(01:24):
had started calling him King Felix. Thank you, social media,
thank you. There's only one King Felix, and his name
is Felix Fricken Hernandez. Right, So I'm with you on
that stuff, but I think you and I have to
admit that we are ancient. Were jing, We are old. No,
we are expiring, and it's time for a new generation.
And if they want to refer to Jorge Polanco as
(01:44):
mister October, we have to way.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
No, we don't know because if this generation, which does
not put nicknames on anything anymore because it impacts the
super special social media branding, I mean, think about it,
Freak Mahomes doesn't even have a freaking nickname. Why you
ain't gonna call me that. They're not giving me three
million dollars, so we can't call So the creativity or
(02:08):
lack thereof, of this generation leaves a little to be desired.
And if an that's why you.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Should be excited. That's why you should be excited then
that a guy like Goldie is actually referring to Hora Polonko.
Is mister l come up with a different.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Throwback, but come up with a different bit. There's one
mister October in the history of sports. There's if.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
There is a meme going around social media or a
gift or a gift, I don't know what the hell
it is, man anymore. I lose track. I can't keep
up of a uh manual transmission vehicle. And you've got
your gas pedal, you've got your brake pedal, and then
you've got your clutch. And on the clutch is a picture,
a picture of Hora Polonko. So is that fair? Can
(02:52):
with that, mister clutter clutch?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Get whatever?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Say today? Uh say today? What is it? I have
a clock, softy time for Game three?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Correct? Okay?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Say a rose A Raina hits four home runs and
and the next day they call him babe a rose
A Raina. You cool with that?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah? Yeah no, because that's just dumb. That doesn't even
make any sense. Okay, well it's not even that creative.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Okay, you know, yeah, I'm here.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
You're talking about referring him to something like the like
the rainderno instead of the bait bambino, Right, that's what
you're getting at there or something like that. Yeah, yeah,
that's that's just that that's stupid.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Well, you know what if JJ McCarthy plays for the
Vikings this weekend against the Eagles and he goes lights
out four forty three touchdown, zero interceptions, I can't wait
to uh at the end of the game, you know,
make him the player of the game and call him
JJ the Snake McCarthy. I always love that.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Plumber would have a problem with that.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Okay, hold on, well, Kenny the snake Stabler even before that.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
This is Softy from kJ R. His radio show is
a Pacific Northwest juggernaut. He carries a lot of us
in the iHeart Audio family. That's Nordo. It used to
be the iHeart Right Juggernaut laughing. It used to be
the iHeart Radio family, but now it's the iHeart Audio Family.
It's kJ R three to seven Pacific, three to seven Pacific.
(04:19):
Softy is the bomb. His show's really really good and
they have a lot of exciting things about which to
chat these days. Uh, and being sports radio Softy, I
mean the M's are two wins from the World Series.
Your Hawks are tied for first in the NFC West.
We'll forget about that Niners win and we'll say tied
and shoot up. You're cracking or undefeated through three. I mean,
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it's great being softy these days.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Hey baby, we are taking over the world. This is payback, Paul,
This is payback for all of the terrible years that
we went through. I had to listen to Nordo complain
and whine off the air about how bad the Twins
are and blah blah blah. Listen. At least you knuckle
ahead and know what a World Series is like, and
you know what a World Series championship is like, going
back to what eighty seven in ninety one, so at
(05:05):
least you've got memories of a World Series. You know
what this would be like. And you guys have been
waiting what fifty years for a Super Bowl nineteen seventy
six Vikings, so January of seventy seven was the last
time the Vikings played in the Super Bowl. Mariner's first
game with Diego Segi on the mound was April of
(05:25):
nineteen seventy seven, so we're talking literally three months three
months after the Vikings last Super Bowl is when the
Mariners played their very first game. That's how long we've
been waiting for this. The difference between us in a
World Series and you guys in the Super Bowl is
that you can at least talk to relatives. You can
(05:47):
talk to family. You can talk to Uncle Milo and
Aunt Jeannie and cousin Bobby about what that Super Bowl
was like in nineteen seventy seven. There's people you know
that at least have memories of that game. We have
no memories. We have no family, We have nobody we
can turn to in Seattle to talk about the World
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Series because it's never happened in Seattle ever. We're talking
to half a century. We're talking a quarter century, Paul.
Since the two thousand and one each hero Alex Roger
or Edgar Martinez, Jay Buhner, Freddie Garcia led Mariners won
one hundred and sixteen games, twenty five years since the
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last ALCS, twenty five years since the last American League
West Championships. So a lot of us are going through
this for the very first time, and it's been so
long to the rest of us that it feels like
the very first time. So that's what you're dealing with
in Seattle.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I think a radio guy who does a national show,
Craig Carton is the name. I think he accused your Mariners,
like pitcher Bryce Miller, of cheating because all of a sudden,
the Blue Jays can't hit. Did you pick up on
that now?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
I think he was accusing the Blue Jays of cheating
against the Yankees. Oh that's what he was talking about.
Oh yes, because the Blue Jays just destroyed Yankee pitching
over four games. Leonard Guerrero had like a sixteen hundred
ops to said, they go to Games one and two
in Rogers Center and they can't hit the ball. But
here's the thing about Carton, and I actually kind of
like Carton a little bit. I think he does a
(07:22):
good job, but he's way off based on Bryce Miller.
First of all, he's mad the Yankees lost, or that
the Blue Jays lost to Bryce Miller in Game Number one.
Bryce Miller had a sub three ERA in thirty one
starts a year ago and got banged up this year
and has not been pitching. So to call him a
tool and that he can't pitch is just woefully incorrect.
(07:43):
Number one number two. I don't know what your definition,
guys is of a journeyman pitcher. To me, it's a
guy that's played for multiple teams. He called him a journeyman.
Bryce Miller has only played for one team in his
whole career, and that's the Mariners seventy five starts. So
I like Preig, but he pretty much puked all over
himself with that cake yesterday.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Bro a softy. So when you were on earlier, like
like I don't know, August whatever, it was a couple
of months ago, yes, maybe three months ago, and you
were talking about how solid and deep the Mariners starting
rotation was. And you know, I peek a box scores
every single day. I may dabble in the little prize
(08:24):
picks or underdog every so often. So I'm like following
this stuff pretty closely. And I'm like, okay, Logan Gilbert,
Bryce Miller, Brian Wu, Luis Castillo. I thought they were
all good, but I didn't realize how clutch these guys were.
What was it in the in the in the the
fifteen that marathon game at Komerica, Yes, was that Bryce
(08:47):
Miller who came in and went five innings? No, that
was at Gilvert.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
At T Mobile Park and it was on Friday night. Yeah,
and I was not there because I was stuck at
Washington for the Rutgers game on Friday night, so it missed.
It was Gilbert Miller off the charts for that one.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Yeah. So here comes one of your starters and.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Jogan, Gilbert and Luis Castile.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Thank you. Castillo finished it. Gilbert had to go five
something like that, and he was awesome. But what was revelatory?
So you were right about that pitching staff overall, and
and what was revelatory for me watching that is because
I didn't watch the the MS play hardly the entire year.
How about this Eduardo Bizardo? Who are you kidding me?
(09:30):
Who the heck is this guy?
Speaker 1 (09:32):
We used to call him the mop? Honestly, we called
him a mop early in the year in April May.
He was the mop. You know why because he was
a part of the cleanup crew. He would just come
in to pitch when the game was a mess, when
the game was out of control and they needed an
arm just to finish the game, instead of bringing in
a position player to finish the deal in a game
that was out of hand and over with they would
(09:54):
bring in Bizardo, and now he's gone from the mop
to the man. Yeah, I mean he has been unbelo vable.
He signed for eight hundred thousand dollars fall over the
offseason from Boston, and there was a feeling in camp
that he wouldn't even make the damn club. And now
he might be your second best or even maybe third
best reliever behind Andress Muno's and gave Spire he's been
(10:18):
that important for this baseball team. And let's face it, Paul,
you know as well as I and all you guys know,
when your teammates a run, you need guys to have
career years, right, whether it's in the NFL or the
NBA or whatever, you need guys to have career years.
And Cal Rowley is having a career year with sixty
home runs. Torgy Planto in some ways is having a
(10:38):
career year. Bizardo's having a career year. Gave Spire Andres Munios,
all these guys, you know, having career years, and then
you have to make yourself better, and they did that
at the deadline. It's amazing how many Mariner fans like
me have been begging the Mariners for decades go out
at the deadline and do something, do something to help
this baseball team. And they went out and got Meeuo
(11:00):
Suarez and they got Josh Naylor from Arizona. And Naylor
has been just bowled for this baseball TV. He's been
amazing defensively, offensively, the base pass, I mean, Ao Hanio
is either strike out, home run, to be honest with you,
but the bigger acquisition by far has been Josh Naylor.
So this is what happens when you give the damn
(11:20):
as an ownership. This is what happens when you care
and you try and make your baseball team better. Good
things happen like you're seeing right now.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Preach that'll preach a yes, but b it preaches in
this market hard with the way things have gone with
this baseball team. Softy Kjar three to seven, Pacific five
to nine. If you want to listen on the iHeart
Audio app, which is free, it's five to nine pm
locally free iHeartRadio app. Softy Kjar. Few to close here.
(11:51):
This is the bomb. Is Julio Rodriguez considered a league superstar.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Probably not to be honest with you, but he's playing
like it right now in the postseason. I mean, he's
his problem is he gets off to a kind of
mediocre start every single year and then finds a way
to turn it on. But here's the thing about Julio
that kind of separates him from a lot of other
people around baseball, and that's the charisma. I mean, first
of all, just look at the guy right, Like, he's
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a good looking dude. He really is a handsome looking guy,
got beautiful blue eyes, he's got a great smile, phenomenal teeth.
He's just a really good looking dude, and he has
fun playing baseball. There's a lot of Griffy vibes with him. Well, yeah,
meaning the charisma, right, you know, he's not wearing the
hat backwards the way Griffy did back in the day.
(12:42):
But he really is a joy to just be around.
He's a great, great dude, signed a half a billion
dollar contract and he's got no ego whatsoever. Awesome guy
to be around and fans. I think when you sign
a rookie to a contract like that, when you don't
have to do six years before free age and see,
the standards are going to be super duper high. And
(13:03):
the standards were probably a little bit unfair and a
little bit ridiculous for him. He's gonna finish probably in
the top five of the MVP minimum, top ten in
the American League in his fourth year in baseball. So
I think there's reason to be really really happy about
what we're getting from Julio Rodriguez. But I think to say,
he's a superstar, you know, nationally, and a superstar globally.
(13:26):
I don't know if I would put him on that
level yet, but god darn it, is he playing like
that right now. He's gonna win a Gold Glove. He's
been stepping up clutch, had some big hits for the
MS and the playoffs, and guys like that, Guys like
Cal Rowley belong on a field in October in the
World Series, and there are two games away from doing
that with jo Rodriguez.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
I mean, let's call him Boomstick. I always love that one.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Yeah, why not?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Now, let's call him Boomstick on route or on the radio,
or maybe Sugar I don't know, or maybe black.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Bear, or we call him j Rod, you know. And
you got the f ROD thing going back to Francisco Rodriguez,
irod Yvonne Rodriguez, a Rod Alex Rodriguez and now j
Rod Wholio Rodriguez. So if anybody with Rodriguez in their
last name is autumn mouth, he's gonna be blank Rod.
(14:15):
So that's what he is. He's j Rod. All right.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
So the Seattle Mariners are at home today. They have
an opportunity to stretch this series. Yep, to stretch the
series two three. Oh as I look for a piece
on the button bar here. Thus I have become a
little staccato on you. Oh yeah, So here we go.
M's minus one twenty five today. Why don't you give
(14:39):
me half the money you were gonna find. Then we'll
go out. I'll kick you in the nuts and we'll
call it a day. Minus one twenty five. You hit,
they don't. Yeah, sounds like free money.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Well, first of all, I love that drop. We play
that drop a lot on my radio program, and given
the history of the Maritors, we've used that a lot.
That is our our boy Wallace Sean uh famous from
Princess Bride. But that's the Vegas vacation drop that you
played right there. Look, here's what I'm doing. I'm taking
the Blue Jays to win this series right now at
(15:13):
plus four hundred this very second. Here's why, here's why.
If the Mariners win the series, I'm not gonna give
a damn. Put one hundred on Toronto. And if they
lose the series and the Mariners are going to the
World Series, do you think while I'm crying like a
(15:35):
baby tomorrow night or on Friday night, I'm gonna be
sitting there with my wife, jumping up and down thinking
about my dad who passed away three years ago and
loved this baseball team. Am I gonna be sitting there
jumping up and down, going this is so great? But
if I only wouldn't have lost that hundred bucks, it'd
be so much better. No, I don't give it, damn.
I lose money on the UW Wazoo game, the Apple Cup,
(15:56):
the Oregon game, be against my team's every single freaking year,
in big games like this, And if they lose, I
got a couple of bucks in my pocket, so slightly
numb the pain. If they win, I don't care. I
look at it as an investment. Paul one hundred bucks,
two hundred bucks on Toronto to win the series, and
if the Mariners win it, I won't give a dam
(16:17):
And if they lose the series and choke. At least
I got a couple of coins in my pocket either way.
Softy's a winner.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Softy so now nineteen and a half hours ago at
Softy kjr vax at Softy kjar this when you tweeted
this nineteen hours ago. This is what triggered me to
text you and say, hey, can we get a little
time tomorrow? Softy rote, I'm very emotional, can't focus on
squat randomly bursting out in tears. What the hell is happening?
(16:47):
I'm like, Softy you okay, No.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Dude, you have no idea how much this means to
us in Seattle to go to the World Series. Yeah,
just like you guys in the Super Bowl, right, I mean,
you tell me if you're if you're five minutes away
from an NFC championship, Vikings are leading thirty one to
ten with five minutes to go at home at US
Bank Stadium, and you can start to smell a Super
Bowl or hell, let's say you get to a Super
(17:12):
Bowl and you're five minutes away from a championship. I
know what you're doing. I know what you're doing during breaks.
You're grabbing Kleenex, you're wipe in your eyes, you're calling
your loved ones, you're getting ready to plan a parade.
It's the moments that everybody in Minnesota's been waiting for
it for a half a century. So again, when growing
up in Seattle, the World Series was not for us.
It was for the Red Sox, it was for the Yankees,
(17:34):
it was for Minnesota with that great Kirby Pucket led
team in eighty seven, the Cardinals, you know, teams like that.
It wasn't for us. And now we're two games away,
two wins away, fifty whatever hours away, not even that,
we're talking twenty thirty hours away from potentially clinching a
trip to the World Series for the first time in
(17:55):
our lives. And it's over freaking whelming. Dude. This baseball
team has been the butt of every joke since I've
been alive. I was four years old when they started
playing in nineteen seventy seven, so their misery as a
franchise pretty much parallel is my entire existence. All Right,
They're forty nine years old. I'm fifty two years old. Okay,
(18:17):
so yes, excuse me if I'm getting a little bit emotional,
and for clem thinking about what this baseball team is
potentially about to accomplish. I can't focus on anything. I'm
stress eating. I probably put on about fifteen pounds in
the last maybe seventy two hours. Stuff everything I can
into my mouth to not even think about the stress
(18:37):
that comes along with this. I got in the car
to go see my mom the other day and I
drove five miles in the wrong direction. That's what I'm
dealing with right now.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Well, they do have dispensaries up there. Okay, just a couple,
Just a couple to close here. Now, you had a
tweet October thirteenth. Okay, so Depoto is the general manager, right, he.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Is the president of baseball ops. But okay, it's his show.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
A lot of people owed Depodo an apology for Polanco,
and I'm I'm at the top of the list, right, softy,
he was right. I was wrong and happy to admit it.
What a stud he's been? What I mean? Yeah, Like,
how could you have been negative or like overly positive
about Ari Polanco.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Because he's stunk a year ago? Are you kidding me?
He was terrible last year with this baseball team. He
couldn't water if you fell off the freaking Titanic, Like,
what are you talking about? I mean he was awful.
And then everything that they did over the offseason, Paul,
this goes back to last year. This goes back obviously
forty eight years. But you got to understand what this
baseball team has done to its fan base in the
(19:42):
last couple of seasons. First of all, they had the
best pitching staff in the American League a year ago
and they couldn't even make the playoffs. And a year
where it's easier than ever now to make the postseason tournament.
I think they became the first team since like the
two thousand and eight Blue Jays to leave the league
in era not make the playoffs. Okay, so that's number one.
(20:02):
On top of that, they also blew a ten game
lead in the American League West a year ago. That's
number two. All right. Then they go out over the
offseason with money to spend, and the biggest ticket item
that they came home with from the from the store
was Jorge freaking Polanco at seven point five million after
a six point fifty one ops last season and a
(20:27):
very very disappointing twenty twenty four. So to come back
and have to sell the handbase on that at the
time was ridiculous. Look, I didn't mind bringing Polanko back,
but bring him back and go get Pete Alonzo, Right,
bring him back and go get Cody Bellinger on top
of that. But you know, when you're freaking starving as
(20:47):
a family and dad goes to the supermarket and he
comes home with a box, the zip lock bag, I'm like,
what the hell is this going to do for us?
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (20:57):
This is what you did over the AUS season. It's
this phenomenal pitching staff that deserves all the support in
the world offensively, and you go and you bring home
Jorge freaking Polanco, Right, that's what you get. Well, he's
been phenomenal, Paul, He's been unbelievable. He's been clutched for
this baseball team. It was a horror show when they
started him off at third base to begin the year.
(21:19):
But now he's mostly been dhing for this team since
they got Suarez, obviously, and it's all worked out, But
the horr Polanco signing has been one of the biggest
bargains in baseball by far.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
All Right, this is fantastic, Bud, Welcome back to the show.
Can't leave without two super Chicken questions. Is is the test,
let's go? Is the town and state embracing Sam Darnold?
Speaker 1 (21:43):
I think so. I think the Seahawks have done it again, Paul.
And what I mean by that is, remember they done
for Russell Wilson at the exact right time before he
fell apart. And my god, has his perception and his
legacy change since he left Seattle? Holy cow. I mean,
he walked out Seattle as a potential Hall of Famer
and now I think it's going to be real tight
(22:05):
to get him into Canton, Ohio. I think it's going
to be very difficult for Russell Wilson now actually to
make the Hall of Fame and the perception of him
around the country. Pittsburgh, Denver, the Giants. Now, did you
guys watch the game the other day? I think it
was on Monday night or Sunday night, yep, when Jackson
Dart got hurt and they had to bring Russell Wilson
into the game and the Giant fans are booing him
(22:27):
and Dable's flipping out with his team. Doctor, get Dart
back out there so I can get this guy off
the field. It was like Russell Wilson walked into the
wrong bathroom and just got run out of there. It was.
It was unbelievable the reaction he got in that game
the other day. So part of me feels bad for him.
But here's the point, Paul don Schneider dumped Russell Wilson
at the exact right time, and he dumped Geno Smith
(22:50):
at the exact right time. And look what Geno Smith
did in Seattle. Look, he's obviously not playing well right now,
but he filled a role and he was fine when
he was here in seat, but eventually it was time
to move on. And now you've got a guy in
Sam Donald who might be one of the top five
quarterbacks in the National Football League. I kind of feel
bad for you, guys, to be honest with you, because
(23:11):
I think you should have kept him. Honestly, I think
you should have kept Sam Donald. I don't mind drafting
a guy in the first round. Look, if you think
there's a star, go get him. But it's gotta be
hard for you guys to watch what Sam Donald's doing
in Seattle. No considering the current quarterback situation in Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Let's see. Let's see how Week eighteen at at Levi
works out and then we'll talk after that. Okay, that's fine.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
For me, Hey listen. But the difference is that might
be for the division championship. That might be for the
division title. I think this is a playoff team, Paul.
And here's why. The biggest reason why is because I'm
Mike McDonald. This scheme is unbelievable. They they they played
a red hot Jacksonville team on Sunday and they were
(23:56):
down Devin Witherspoon, Julian Love, and Tarik Wildon. They still
won the game three thousand miles away from home. I
kind of liked the Seahawks in that game anyway, because
I thought the Jaguars would be emotionally spent after that
Chief win on Monday Night.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Good take.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
But the star of the show is Mike McDonald's scheme.
And it shouldn't even matter what personnel they have on defense.
That's how good this guy's brain is. Man, he's one
of the best defensive minds on the plant and he's.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Our head coach, Jackson Smith and Jigbob. He's gonna have
a thousand yards before Thanksgiving. I mean, it's you know,
when we went there last year and I heard a
lot about him. Best slot receiver in the game, only
plays slot. They don't move him to the outside. Maybe
that's changed, but nevertheless, I mean he's in the best
(24:45):
receiver period. Conversation with what he's doing this year. Don't
you think he's on pace.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
For nineteen hundred yards Paul who not only about one
hundred and forty five targets's averaging about seventeen yards of catch?
And really what it is it's not having Deca Metcalf
and Cooper cut being thirty two years old. There's just
nobody else to throw the football too. I'm sorry. I
mean Tory Horton, the rookie from Nevada, has potential. He's
not there yet. Cooper Cup can still play, but he's
(25:12):
nowhere near the guy he was five years ago. So
Jackson Smith and Jigba has become Sam Darnold's security blanket.
His binky is Pacifire everything and aj Barner I cringe
thinking about what happens if he gets hurt. Thank god
that has not happened yet, but he is. He is
the most important player right now on the offense by far.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
You're fantastic, have a great show today and good luck
to your rims later today. Okay, okay, see you Bud,
see your brother. That's Softy from KJAR and Seattle in
the iHeart Audio family as radio show starts at five
o'clock Cornfields time. I've been known to listen to it
on the iHeart Audio app every so often.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Hopefully he left some in the tank. Yeah, softy man,
he's all wound up. And why wouldn't he be. He's ryat.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
I mean, if we had a baseball team looking to
go up three to zero with a home game at
five or seven o'clock later, what five miles from where
we do the show now, with the champions in town
this weekend at noon rolls reverse, we'd be this phenomenal,
we'd be floating. Nevertheless, onward we roll. This is nine
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Speaker 2 (26:28):
The Seattle Mariners dispatch of the Toronto Blue Jays and
meet the La Dodgers in the world Series and beat
the La Dodgers. Hyperbolic or hyper accurate. I was going
hyper accurate. I think the Mariners are going to go
to the World Series.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
So still, you know, Softy was perplexing me with a
couple of things he said, but in the end super
pumped for him, Like how cool would that be if
roles were reversed. He's we're calling in to kjar to
talk about our potential World series run. The Mariners are
going to close out the Blue Jays and go to
the World Series. You get the hyperbole enters the mix
(27:06):
when you say they beat the Dodgers. I mean, it's
just the situation with these with these Dodgers man. And
we're in this text thread for LFL, as you're aware,
and one of the people in our league, PAA lifelong
like born and raised LA sports fan, so there's no
fraudulents in it. Like he's a Lakers fan and he's
a Dodgers fan. If any of us grew up in
(27:27):
the Southland, we would be Dodgers and Lakers fans, et cetera.
And it was just kind of interesting getting his perspective
as he's just he's talking about these Yamamoto l's earlier
in the season. There's too much drama involved, So and
SO is bleeping around.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Meanwhile, there's six and one.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
In the postseason at this point last night, and Yamamoto's
on his way to a complete game like the first
one in nearly a decade in the NLCS. The Dodgers
are going to sweep the brew Crew. It feels like
that feels hyper accurate, and they're going to smack around
the Mariners. And softis to love his World Series opportunity,
getting a taste with the trophy potential.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
He's at the doorstep of the party.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
He walks into the party and he's going to be
told to leave by Otani and I mean the max
Monthsies of the world, like the money that they have
put into this thing. The Dodgers are going to go
back to back. They're gonna be World Series champion. So
I think that's hyperbolic. Once you enter the they'll beat
the Dodgers and win the World Series.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
The Softy from Seattle his so to quell or ease
the anxiety he's having up to the Mariners T mobiles
where they play. It's their first home game in the ALCS.
They're up to zero on Toronto. I mean he radio
(28:50):
prostitution would be the wrong way to put it. But
he's just doing station after station today because he's five
minutes away Fargo. Go crazy your home for NDSU Athletics
catch the Insiders Monday through Friday eleven to one ninety
two seven, one oh seven nine, HD three, Bison sixteen
sixty dot com and the Bison sixteen sixty apps. He's
(29:14):
going on Bison sixteen sixty in like three minutes. Oh wait,
they got Gray's Abel, don't they. Oh they might have
grays Apa.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
That might be.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
That might be the connection point right there. I wonder
if there are any Mariners who are like from Fargo
or I'll look it up.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
But I mean, he's gonna be. He's gonna be down
in Jefferson City, Missouri. They're gonna have to bump the
top of the hour Farm Report soft. He's going to
do ten minutes with whoever's hosting down there.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Yeah, and he should be, man.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
I mean again, that's the the basic idea of my
spirit being stolen by the baseball team in the situation
here locally, you know, watching deep stretches in Game one
where the Dodgers are up to one.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
I think there was a sackfly.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
You got the bases loaded bottom of the ninth at
Miller Park or am Fam whatever the hell it's called Milwaukee.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Now you get the swinging strike three and you're.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Rooting against the Dodgers, or at least I was feeling
that vibe with my neighbor who's a Wisconsin night and
a massive Brew Crew fan, Like, these games are so
freaking awesome. It was awesome to see Polanco take Louis
Varlin deep. And you mentioned you mentioned Rodriguez just I
saw it in the text line.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
I knew he was a twenty twenty guy. You might
be the first guy ever.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
I'm just gonna trust the text, like the first twenty
twenty guy four years in a row to start his career.
Like you start kind of seeing how these teams are built. Yeah,
and Seattle they're putting a little more coin into it
than the Twins are, but nobody's competing with the coastal
markets of New York and in LA from a financial standpoint.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
So it's what's been building.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
And just you know, hearing Softy kind of run through
the moves that Depoto has made or not made. The
frustration associated with it, all of it coming together. Cal
Raley hitting six the bombs like that is sweet, and
they have an opportunity now after taking two in Canada,
they're gonna come home.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
And I haven't followed.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Bieber's games this year for Toronto going tonight, but this
Kirby Cat has been pretty damn, pretty damn good in
the postseason so far.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Like these guys should be massively favored to win it.
They're gonna go to the World Series. I think that's
super sweet. And perhaps Randy a Rose Arena can have
a couple of big hits today, maybe over the weekend,
and we can dub him mister October. I always love
that one. We'll call him Babe a Rose Arena or
maybe Jolton Joe or the Big Dipper. I always love
(31:36):
that one. Hyperbolic or hyper accurate. The New York Jets
will be the NFL's first oh and seventeen team. The
Jets will be the NFL's first oh and seventeen team.
They come at it from oh and six. They are
oh and six.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
They've only played one division game, which means there's at
least five more ls to take place.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
M Let me see here, got it. Here we go,
Carolina at home, hel at Cincinnati l after the bye,
Cleveland at MetLife Stadium. Big game, Big game, James. All right,
I'm gonna call that game big game James, just like
James Worthy back in the eighties. What about Senior October?
(32:24):
Sure it's different than mister October and just say and
I'm sorry that this bugs me the way it does. No,
I get what you're saying. This age. I'm not get
off my lawn, guy. This age lacks creativity when it
comes to nicknames and just creatively seeing things from an
abstract everything. Soamam bam bam, seeing it from a ten
(32:46):
thousand foot view, the abstract view.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Well, but I think you're arguing two things there because
you speak to the creativity.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
But that's true.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
But at a more base level, it's like, no, your history, Yeah, yeah,
like that actually actually know who Reggie Jackson is?
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Like you're gonna do if you're to do something like that,
don't pill for one of the most famous nicknames in
the history of sports. Well what about teenagers this day
and age. It's not nine to noon or Softy's job
to teach sports history classes for profit. Although it does
sound fun, it's I mean, there are Babe Ruth. Everybody
knows the name Babe Ruth. Why don't we start calling
(33:20):
people babe whatever? You know now it was herman, Babe Ruth. Yes,
mister October, Reggie Jackson, Kenny the Snake's Tabler. Well they
that already was Pilford in ninety eight by those who
lack creativity with j Jason Snake Plumber. It's just dumb. Whatever.
So I sablin, do they get it or not? Well,
here here's what I'm going to say.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
I think that it is hyperbolic because I have to
believe that whether it's the Bengals game or the Browns game,
that stretch right there. So I think that's in and
out of the buye Hm. I believe that they will
get one of those games. Nine to Noon puts a
rap on the show after this.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
I cant wait.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
I can't wait until tomorrow. Cool Tomorrow mine very well,
be Julie.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
I can't wait until tomorrow. Yeah, tomorrow is going to
be cool. Tomorrow be liber Nacho, liber each and a
ring Thursday, nine to Dude at bye Ken Also Brian
Baldinger Baldi's breakdowns. Uh he'll be joining nine to noon tomorrow.
I believe about nine forty in the morning. A Baldi
(34:37):
breakdown will be in town this weekend calling the game
nationally on radio. So Baldy tomorrow with some He's Philly based,
so his Eagles opinions. His NFL opinions are fantastic. His
Eagles opinions are second to none. So we got some
Baldi breakdown tomorrow nine to noon, plus not your liber
and much more. Thank you very much for listening to
(34:59):
the nine to new rate presentation. The programs around the corner.
I'm Paul Allen. Here comes Big Daddy Cohn to put
a wrap on the show. All right, welcome back to
the show.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
We got Softy from Seattle with that steam riding the
area of his baseball team because unlike he's awful and
moribund twins their leadership, well, it kind of seems like
they want to win. Will it be Carson or maybe JJ?
Can we please finally get to Sunday because regardless of
who will actually play, we've run out of new and
(35:37):
unique things.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
To say about the situation.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
I'm kind of more concerned about the bye week regeneration.
Cashman being back provides a wrinkle, but what's up.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
With this neck?
Speaker 3 (35:47):
And vang Ginkle got common in the big chair next
him the mailman in and datie me with some texts
in the Fantasy.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
League draft has me hyped, But damn it, I keep on.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Getting sniped and I've kind of lost rhythm and see
you later, Oh my god, how couldn't do that?
Speaker 2 (36:06):
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