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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's get a sound Rick.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Good morning, folks.

Speaker 3 (00:03):
Good morning everyone, Good morning, it's sometime.

Speaker 4 (00:06):
Good morning class leads and gentlemen. Ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 5 (00:10):
Beholding sixty one guard from Brighton, Illinois and former high
school basketball stand up?

Speaker 3 (00:19):
What the hell does that meeting? Don't jumped any conclusions,
not a god, You've got to lower lower your expectations.

Speaker 5 (00:26):
Hard to believe we could once send a fastball to
Pluto back.

Speaker 6 (00:29):
I'm getting some Bucky Jacobson vibes and former I'll just
openly admit I'm a fat, out of shaped tex athlete.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Now there's been a noticeable spike in your blood pressure.

Speaker 5 (00:39):
Five seven guard and a former college water polo and
national champion.

Speaker 4 (00:43):
There's a lot of useless crap up here.

Speaker 5 (00:45):
Wow, this is Chuck and Buck in the Morning with
Ashley Ryan. Buck to you by to latok Casino Resort
and Quill see the Greek Draft Kings sports book where
the action never stopped.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
Hey, good morning, Welcome into the radio show. It is
a Monday. Hope you all had a wonderful weekend out there.
We get things started here at six o'clock in the morning.
We take you till ten o'clock in the morning. And
when I say we, I'm talking about Ashley Ryan, I'm
talking about former Mariner Bucky Jacobson. My name is Chuck Powell.
We welcome you into our radio program and into our

(01:37):
hearts here on this Monday of the week of Halloween,
as we get things cracking here bright and early, dark
and early here on Chuck and Buck in the Morning
Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM Hodgepodge of things
to discuss today. We'll be all over the board breaking
down all different kinds of sports here with all sorts

(01:58):
of guests on today's radio program, but it always starts
with the three of us, and here on a Monday.
Of course, I want to ask everybody's weekend went. But
Bucky went to the big comedy show once. We got
to see our guy, Dustin Nickerson.

Speaker 6 (02:14):
Yeah, yeah, it turns out good career choice on his party,
Is that right?

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (02:19):
And then for a forty one year old up and
coming comedian, dude's funny? Is he funny? Really really funny?
You would have loved it? I mean, because these he
writes some jokes that are You got to think about
it for a second.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
You wait a minute, he just did.

Speaker 6 (02:36):
He just tie that to that joke grenades? Uh huh, yeah, unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
It was. It was really good.

Speaker 6 (02:41):
And and then we he invited us to come up
and hang out for a few before now it was
it was I don't know, I don't know what. We
were supposed to sit down and then someone was going
to take us up there. We didn't know that.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
Oh, so he picked you out of the crowd and
he wanted to have sex with you.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
No, oh, well, term you didn't go that.

Speaker 4 (03:02):
What were you wearing a shirt?

Speaker 2 (03:05):
I had sequence on?

Speaker 4 (03:07):
I was.

Speaker 6 (03:07):
I was a little bit flashy, makes sense, you know.
I like to be noticed. So no, I don't know.
I mean it's possible. Yeah, man, what you said is true.
I heard stories, you know, rock stars and whatnot. And
now that I think about it, he doesn't look at
me a little different, you know. It was kind of
like a little squinty. My eyes are a pier guy.

Speaker 4 (03:28):
So was he licking his lips a lot?

Speaker 2 (03:30):
He did that too. I was like, are you allow
cool j or something?

Speaker 3 (03:33):
I don't understand it from an already open bottle?

Speaker 4 (03:37):
Was he doing this with his hands a lot? Like
like his hands mustard twist.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Now that you guys mentioned all of those keys were there.

Speaker 4 (03:46):
He missed all the signs, right I did.

Speaker 6 (03:50):
Yeah, well you're welcome, Dustin. But no, it was well anyway,
So we went up there. But it was like, I
don't know, five hundred steps to the up of this
building of the Neptune Theater. I didn't even know that
it was that tall and steep steps. I'm just thinking myself,
like you or might die on your way down these myself,
I might. I'm like, well, this is not good. But anyway,

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hung out for a little while and then went down
and watched the show.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
It was. It was a really really good show, very good. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (04:19):
Yeah, like I told you guys in the text, turns
out he made a very good career choice because he
is funny.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
Did he single you out for being in the crowd?
He didn't know, Oh, A little surprised by Yeah, I
was in the back.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
I was embarrassed.

Speaker 6 (04:32):
Well, I was in the back near the bar, so
kind of under and over. I wasn't whare the lights
that would shine and you could see the people in
the crowd.

Speaker 4 (04:42):
You couldn't see me, Oh okay, I was you were incognito.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
Usually people recognize you and say something. Yeah, I'm a
little surprised that the comedian who hung out with you
tried to seduce you in one way or another. Right,
I didn't then try to follow up with a joke
at your expense or and then a follow up about it.
I love that guy, Yeah, that sort of thing.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yeah, No, he didn't.

Speaker 6 (05:07):
Again, I don't know if he just didn't see me, right,
it would be weird to then left.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (05:13):
Yeah, showed up show.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
Free game and a drink, and the mouth took out.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
I don't really want to watch.

Speaker 4 (05:18):
It makes sense.

Speaker 6 (05:19):
I don't really think you're funny, but no, I I
I was surprised there was one he made one him
being a Husky a lum. He he was talking about
the huskies, and then he had a little slight remark
at the ducks, and I thought maybe he would be
like a take that buck, just something, but he didn't
even he didn't do that.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
So okay, it was fine.

Speaker 3 (05:39):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
I guess that I was tucked back, nestled up against
the bar.

Speaker 7 (05:43):
Also, probably didn't want to draw attention to you because
he was trying to keep you for himself.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
That's probably what it was.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
Well, he didn't want you to take attention away from him.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yeah, that too.

Speaker 6 (05:53):
And my sequence skirt that I had on was it
was it was snazzy, No, it was skilled.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
Yeah, skilt skill gilt, one of those.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
Plaid sequence.

Speaker 3 (06:06):
Oh yeah, well you you rode home with skilt combination
of skirt guilt. Yeah yeah, well good. Well, I'm glad
that you went. I'm glad that you represented the program.
I mean, we've gotten to know him, we are kind
of on air friends. I suppose you're friends with him.
Now you probably crossed over into Ashley territory.

Speaker 4 (06:27):
Welcome to my world.

Speaker 3 (06:28):
Yeah, so I'm glad that, but I mean, he just
things have been really busy around here, picked a wrong
time to do his little do his little comedy act.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yeah, well he did. It was funny here. He brought
that up.

Speaker 6 (06:41):
He's like, you just realized that that this would have
been game three or something of the of the World
Series two of the World Series, and people were like,
you're a Mariner fan, how dare you? And he's like, yeah,
how dare I planned something a year in advance and
not think, wait a minute, late October, I'm sure then
will be in the World Series again. Good jokes, good content,

(07:05):
good time.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
For sure.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
He was at the UB game Saturday. I saw him
posting a lot of photos, So yeah, he was. He
was on the field. I guess he's got connections. Well
he's a little weird.

Speaker 6 (07:17):
Well apparently it's growing, probably because it came on our show.

Speaker 3 (07:22):
He actually is a little bit worried.

Speaker 6 (07:23):
Because he was in the maybe it was in Chun's
office or his booth or somewhere.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
And he's like, I think that.

Speaker 6 (07:29):
They maybe think I'm rich, Like I'm going to donate.
I don't not, I can't.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
He thought it was kind of funny. He's like, I
think that they think that there's something they can get
out of me.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
I'm not paying for a strong safety. There's no way
I'm going to do that.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
He said he might do.

Speaker 6 (07:50):
He said he might be able to take care of
Warree volleyball player, not a striker, Yeah no.

Speaker 4 (07:58):
No defensive or somebody who's playing on the bench.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
Yeah, maybe a good backup cetter. All right, well, good,
I'm glad that you went. I'm glad you had some
fun with that. And uh, I guess you know, next
time he comes in town, Ashley and I will.

Speaker 4 (08:14):
Go yep, he's coming to Evert in the spring. I
already looked it up.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
Can't wait you dub Meantime, they did win the game
that Dustin Nickerson attended, whether he donated to nil Coffers
or not, forty two twenty five winners over Illinois, and
it was pretty close at in the first half. Kind
of back and forth the first half, but the Dogs

(08:37):
pull away in the second half. And I mean that's
a twenty third ranked team in the country. I mean
they're no longer ranked now. You know, by the time
you get to actual end of the season, how big
of a win will that look like? If Washington really
does have playoffs on the mind, which right now they've

(08:59):
got a bit of a fa favorable schedule. We were
already two thirds of the way through this thing, and
we know that Oregon is looming, and then they've got
a bit of a favorable schedule from here until Oregon.
So I mean, there's still a shot to make the playoff,
but beyond playoff, just I think that Jedfish was sort
of a need of that signature victory. I don't know

(09:22):
if this is it necessarily, but I'll say this, it
would have looked a lot worse. Had he not pulled
this off, I think it would have been a lot worse,
perhaps than it does. Look great in the eyes of
national analysts that review this. And yet you handled a
solid team pretty convincingly, pulled away from them in the

(09:44):
second half, and once again your skill players, particularly Williams
and Boston, were on just this full display on Saturday.
So I don't know. I don't know if this registers,
as you know, Jedfish's crown achievement at you Dub, but
it certainly was a different win than past wins.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
Yes, I think it's the biggest win.

Speaker 6 (10:08):
I mean, it is a ranked opponent, even though they
won't be you know, probably this time tomorrow or whenever
the new rankings come out. I'm sure that they'll drop
out of the twenty top twenty.

Speaker 3 (10:17):
They're out, They're out, and they're out.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
Yeah, And so I mean, I don't know for sure.

Speaker 6 (10:23):
It's not the same obviously, if you were to think, man,
what if you went to the Big House last week
and beat a Michigan team, or what if you'd obviously
upset the number one team or even made that game
a little bit more competitive for the entirety of the game.
I think it's a it's a step in the right direction.
It's probably the biggest win so far. I mean, you'd
beat a ranked opponent. It was at home, and I

(10:45):
know that a lot more credit is given if you
go on the road and beat somebody good. I think
it's it's a step in the right direction.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
I don't.

Speaker 6 (10:52):
I mean right now, if you're you dub you're hoping
you run the table to Oregon, Oregon runs the table
to you, and you get ups at them, and then
you probably that in and of itself might get.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
You in there. I mean that if you can beat Oregon, Uh.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
You go ten and two and you beat Oregon as
the last piece of your puzzle, yeah, I think you're in.

Speaker 4 (11:13):
Yeah, that would be a big hit.

Speaker 6 (11:15):
So if nothing more, maybe it's not that signature when
that you're looking for, you know, as a one and
a half year in head coach, but it's it sets
the table for that win in a month or so
from now.

Speaker 4 (11:27):
I think two. Had you had a better showing at
Michigan last.

Speaker 3 (11:31):
Week, then now you're really talking.

Speaker 7 (11:34):
Yeah, just a better showing, not not even saying that
you win, but that you kept it close. And then
you came home and beat Illinois because I mean they
didn't see you know, the second half, they didn't seem
to struggle with them at all. And then I think, yeah,
you're now You've put yourself in a really good position.
So I think the problem is that you've still got
that Michigan bad taste in people's mouths, and that's kind

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of a struggle.

Speaker 3 (11:57):
Yeah. Well, I mean, you know, Illinois is a solid team, okay,
and you know they weren't going to necessarily go out
there and beat themselves. And so I think the encouraging
things is some of the things that this team has
been struggling with with including starting quickly. They've had a

(12:17):
really hard time, even though even the game that demand
Williams going up against the Mariners and the playoffs and
so so many people were had their eyeballs on Mariners
Tigers that night, even that night that he put up
four hundred passing yards and one hundred and thirty rushing
yards and four touchdowns combined. They got off to a

(12:39):
bit of a slow start. They really didn't get cooking
until the second quarter. Well, you score on your first
drive against Illinois, and and you score late in the
first half, as well when Illinois had taken the lead.
And then you come out in the second half and
you established the same thing you established the offense. Jonah
Coleman had a great drive to start that second half,

(12:59):
and then you end up with a seventeen point win.
So a lot of the areas where you had been
sort of deficient, a lot of the areas that uw
fans were hoping that they'd see some improvement, we got
that on Saturday, and in impressive fashion, and so so
nice work by Jedfish and the group. Forty two to

(13:21):
twenty five is the final score, and it shapes up
with at Wisconsin and they're just having a hell of
a time playing football these days. Home to Purdue, which
you know in your pocket schedule you've probably already written
w down there, and then at UCLA, which certainly has
woken up here as of late, but they got ran

(13:42):
off the field by Indiana that seem's legit. And then
and then you've got Oregon, so yes, you can. You
are allowed to entertain thoughts. The possibilities of making the
playoff ten and two would get you in. Running the
table would get you in. I truly believe that, and

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even though right now, I don't think that you would
project you Dubbed to beat Oregon in a game. This
might be a step in the right direction, And a
month from now, this team could very well be playing
better football. A month from now, this team might wax U,
C l A, and and we might see we might

(14:24):
have a different narrative that surrounds the Washington Huskies. We
might not be talking about a team that has the
potential to get tripped up by any one of those
three teams. We might be talking about a team that
is just on fire right now. Demon Williams has a
full year of experience under his belt this time around
when he faces Oregon, and and Oregon hasn't been as

(14:46):
dominant as what they've been projected to be this year.
So I mean it's there, it's still you know, it's
still something that a lot of work you got. You
gotta be almost perfect. Well, you do have to be
perfect to win loss wise the rest of the way,
but two thirds of the way and through the season
ranked twenty seventh in America, finally coming off a win

(15:09):
over a top twenty five team, a udub fan can
wake up this morning and think there's a chance we
got a shot at it.

Speaker 6 (15:17):
I think that the you know, I mean the offense
early on, I thought that maybe was a bit premature
when people were starting to talk about, well, look at
all the you know, number one ranked offense, and I
get it that at that point in time they were,
But I just don't put much into the rankings period,
not your rankings of your offense, or the rankings of
what people where they put you if you're in the
top twenty five, and where are you, and how that

(15:38):
whole thing works. But I think that the way in
which they did it yesterday, I mean coming out of
the first half, where it still was a ballgame, and
yet Jed Fish had said, well, well, I mean we scored,
you know, a touchdown on every possession except for one, right,
three out of four we had touchdowns, and basically in
the second half, I think they scored on everyone except
for the final drive where they were just running the clock.

(16:01):
And yet it wasn't a ton of you didn't get
a ton of possessions, I mean, three or four possessions
was It was kind of a game that was flying by.
So to me, I think that because of how volatile
the emotions of young college players are that if they
roll Wisconsin and roll Perdue and then have their first
test to some degree, which we've seen a Jekyll and

(16:23):
Hyde when it comes to UCLA, but you end up
rolling that one or just winning a big game there,
They're going to be crazy confident at that point in
time going into that game, a home game against Oregon,
and if Oregon didn't I mean, I'll just tell you,
as a dude that watches every single play that they've done,
if they don't come out and execute, they can still lose.

(16:43):
They can lose to you dub most certainly they can
lose to teams that are less than you dub And
so yeah, there's I think there's good reason.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
For hope at this point. If you're a Husky fan.

Speaker 4 (16:53):
Yeah, it's it is.

Speaker 7 (16:55):
I think part of the problem. I was actually texting
with our friend Dustin Nickerson about.

Speaker 3 (17:00):
The Huskies bringing a full circle.

Speaker 7 (17:02):
Yeah exactly, and just we were talking about, like, how
is our confidence with this team?

Speaker 3 (17:08):
How are we feeling?

Speaker 7 (17:10):
And I think part of the issue, unfortunately for the Huskies,
is that the Mariners just sucks so much, like out
of me in life, and so I was like, going
into this game this week.

Speaker 4 (17:19):
I was like, yeah, they.

Speaker 7 (17:19):
Need to win, but how excited am I about the
game or how into it am I? And so they
need almost to kind of work extra hard to get
me back into being excited about it.

Speaker 4 (17:31):
And that's not even their own fault. Yeah, well no,
yeah exactly. So I just feel bad.

Speaker 3 (17:37):
Well, there were certainly some things to be entertained by
on Saturday, there's no question about it, and the Dogs
do improve to six and two on the season. We'll
talk more about it later on in the show. Also,
the big story in college football is something that we'll
discuss throughout our program together as well. Let's find out
what is on tap?

Speaker 1 (18:00):
Chucking what's on to what's on?

Speaker 3 (18:03):
All right? Forty two twenty five Husky's over the Alni
on Saturday. They are on by this week, so before
they get to the final four games, they'll have a
week off. Meanwhile, Coog's twenty eight seven winners over Toledo.
Dick Thane called that one, so did Coach new Isle
with us on Tuesday. Coogs ran away with it. Coach

(18:25):
Rodgers has really started to you know, you're you're starting
to feel the effects of what good coach He just
might be because Toledo was favored in that game and
the Coogs just steamrolled him. And now they faced the
Oregon State Beavers in the Pac twelve Championship this Saturday
at four point thirty. So yeah, really exciting. That's early

(18:45):
on to be playing a championship, but it is on this.

Speaker 4 (18:49):
The second or third time they played this season.

Speaker 3 (18:51):
Mike sixth Okay, Brian Killy Killy Kelly was dismissed at
LSU late last night. The rumors that he had a
talk with the athletic directors started Sunday afternoon maybe, and
then by the evening, since the story had such legs,

(19:12):
the news came that Brian Kelly was in fact let go.
So this is a big topic here today. We will
discuss it today at eight o'clock. LSU eight fifty four
million dollars just to get rid of a pretty good coach.
I mean it's not like they were zero to seven.

Speaker 4 (19:30):
Yeah, full accent, but pretty good.

Speaker 3 (19:32):
Yeah, a pretty good coach, but they and they hadn't
really had a bad year with Brian Kelly, which is
usually how you get fired. But today's college football world
is just a different world that we're living in right now.
We'll talk about that later on in the show. National
Football League. Even though the Seahawks were on by they
played anyway.

Speaker 7 (19:53):
Scamps, tricksters just wanted to go out and see what
they could do.

Speaker 3 (19:58):
Yeah, couldn't give us a a day outside. Beautiful day
here in Washington yesterday not so much of No, we
had to stay in and watch football. Jets won their
first game of the year. The Baltimore Ravens won without
Lamar Jackson yesterday, and so all of a sudden, people
like Ravens. Watch out for the Ravens in the division.

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They just might come back. Yes, that's always been the case.
And the Texans won over San Francisco. So thanks for
the favor of High five Houston. We'll cover all of
it with cold turkey sandwich aboard of scores in about
ten minutes from now. Sounders play a playoff match tonight
in Minnesota against the Minnesota United. It's a best of

(20:44):
three in the first round. They change it as the
tournament goes on, but tonight's game one at six o'clock.
Jackson Felts will join us today at eight thirty four
a preview. The Kraken have had back to back nice
wins here in the early part of the season, including
a Saturday victory over the Edmonton Oilers. There'll be in
action again tomorrow at home against Montreal at seven thirty.

(21:07):
World Series Game number three tonight at five o'clock. Ryan
Heay a special appearance today at nine o'clock talk Mariners
off season and also a little bit about the World Series.
The series is even at one game apiece that shifts
to Los Angeles this evening. Max Schurzer versus Tyler glasnow
is your pitching matchup. So we got a lot to

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discuss here today, plus some factor fiction. I don't know,
I don't want to mention any names, but one of
the shows had a five and oh week, and it's
the best looking show at the station that had a
five and oh week, the one with the most for
the clever, right, intelligent people, the ones with personality.

Speaker 4 (21:48):
Five and you mean five correct picks and none of
them are wrong?

Speaker 3 (21:51):
Right right, I'll tell you at seven thirty five, which
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Speaker 5 (22:05):
At number one on your car radio pre sid and
then new and improved. I heard radio app free never
sounded so good.

Speaker 3 (22:14):
Go out of the shotgun with Coleman on his right hand.

Speaker 1 (22:16):
There's a snap.

Speaker 3 (22:16):
Looks into the flat. Now he's gonna throw it to
the ends.

Speaker 8 (22:18):
Of wide open des Roebuck cut it again, waiting.

Speaker 3 (22:21):
On the signal. Was he in bounced? Two arms up?

Speaker 8 (22:24):
Touchdown Washington. Touchdown number two for true freshman taz Roebuck.
Demon Williams goes under center Jonath Foeman deep in the
back that they'll throw it backwards to Denzel body.

Speaker 4 (22:34):
Don't bos to the ends.

Speaker 8 (22:35):
And wide open Jonah Coleman touchdown Washington. They drew up
the beauty and how about the arm on Denzel Boston.

Speaker 3 (22:44):
Williams takes a snap hand off Joanna coming off to
the right, makes.

Speaker 8 (22:47):
A man miss Juf touch gets to the right.

Speaker 4 (22:49):
Pilon did to.

Speaker 8 (22:50):
Get in waiting for the signal, two arms up, touchdown
Washington snap. Demon looking left, looks over the middle, staying
cool at the w down.

Speaker 3 (22:59):
He's gonna go.

Speaker 8 (22:59):
Hang on forty five forty twenty five thirty Devon has.

Speaker 9 (23:02):
A first down?

Speaker 10 (23:03):
Does he buss off a.

Speaker 8 (23:04):
Tuckler spends inside the twenty demand, Williams says, get off
me and rolls into the red zone.

Speaker 3 (23:12):
As the Huskies have first and ten boot they got
to the right.

Speaker 8 (23:15):
Williams on the run speed to the ads fires hand zone.

Speaker 3 (23:19):
Tod did he hold on jes touchdown? Denzel Boston? What
a game for Denzel Boston, My goodness, ten catches over
in fifty yards, receiving a touchdown catch also through a
touchdown pass. Of all the guys on this team, he's
the one the NFL scouts are drooling over. He's the

(23:39):
one that's going to be in the first round of
the NFL Draft this year, even though he doesn't get
as much attention as our quarterback or Jonah Coleman at
running back, but he put it on full display on
Saturday at the expense of Illinois. Man, when you beat
a powerhouse like that one, the just year after year,
one hundred years, just a steady train of mediocrity.

Speaker 2 (24:02):
Okay, yeah, I mean, I wonder where you're gonna land.

Speaker 3 (24:06):
It intimidating, especially when it's raining, and you never know
because they, you know, whatever element that Illinois just seems
to fight through it, fight through it and come on
the other side.

Speaker 6 (24:17):
Being okay, yeah, just average. Yeah, yeah, they just just
bring on all comers. Guy, it doesn't matter whatever, whatever.
However much the deck is stacked against them, they will
come out very mediocre.

Speaker 3 (24:31):
Yeah, exactly. I grew up with it. I know all
about it. H it's Chuck, it's buckets. Ashley here on
this Monday morning. The Dogs went over Illinois forty two
to twenty five. On Saturday, they moved to six and
two on the season. They are currently ranked twenty eighth
in the Associated Press, which officially makes them unranked at

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this stage. But the pathway a bit clear. Should have
three winnable games before Oregon, and so yes, you are
allowed this morning to think about a path toward the
college football playoff. And that's where we'll start with our
Frostbrewed Corps. Frostbrewed Corps. Like Choose Chill headlines, it is

(25:12):
a Choose Chill Monday, counting you down to Monday Night football.
Tonight at five fifteen pm, it will be the Washington
Commanders taking on the Kansas City Chiefs to wrap up
a week that did not feature the Seahawks, who were
on by Jets won their first game of the year.
Baltimore won their first game in five weeks, and the

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Texans defeated the San Francisco forty nine Ers to drop
the forty nine ers to third place in the NFC West. Tonight,
the Sounders will start their postseason. They're in Minnesota to
take on Minnesota United. They will start that match at
six o'clock. Jackson Felts will join us to preview at
eight thirty. Cracking back to back nice wins here early

(25:54):
in the season, including a Saturday win over Edmonton at home.
They'll be back in action at Climb a Pledge tomorrow
at seven point thirty, and Game three of the World
Series is going to be tonight. The series shifts to
Los Angeles. Max Schurzer will pitch for the Blue Jays
BOO Tyler glass Now will pitch for the Dodgers.

Speaker 11 (26:16):
BOO.

Speaker 3 (26:17):
World Series coverage right here on KJR, brought to you
by Seattle's closest no Qualmie Casino and Hotel. Ryan Healy
is actually going to join us this morning at nine
o'clock to talk some baseball, but right now we talk
Seahawks football with our Seahawks insider Greg Though. All right,
what did you do this weekend? What did you do.
That was adventurous.

Speaker 1 (26:37):
Hung out.

Speaker 10 (26:37):
We just relaxed and hung out. I was telling Ashley
it was kind of refreshing. Yeah, been home for a
week in the long time.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (26:46):
Yeah, rainy weekend, no, Yeah, there really wasn't much of
an opportunity to go outside. You just had to watch
the leaves get wet.

Speaker 10 (26:53):
Yeah, we were going to go do some mountain biking adventure,
and the weather so we'll just stay home and look nice.

Speaker 3 (27:00):
Yeah, you needed to reset. I mean, you've been working hard.
You've been covering two sports for goodness sake here as
of late. Well, the Seahawks don't play this week, but
they got a little bit of help from the Houston Texans.
I know it's very dangerous to kind of compare games,
but you know, the Seahawks most recently had a pretty

(27:22):
easy time with Houston. Meanwhile, Houston sort of blew the
doors off of San Francisco. So in the big picture,
as this team's trying to win the division, how much
how much respect do we give the Texans knocking off
the forty nine ers yesterday?

Speaker 10 (27:38):
Well, first of all, those are now the first place Seahawks,
don't you know. Yeah, I've heard two of the forty
nine ers lost yesterday. Look, the last two times the
forty nine Ers haven't made the playoffs in the decade,
it's because they were just decimated by injuries in those seasons,
and they're racked by injuries again. Rock Party's not in.
Fred Warner has been heard. Nick Bosta didn't play yesterday.

(28:00):
We're talking to best players on the team, some of
the best players in the league. Christian McCaffrey is back
from injury, as is George Kittle. They had a touchdown yesterday.
You know, George Kittle last week didn't have a catch
for the first time in his career with Mac Jones
as his quarterback, and the Mac Jones magic seems to
have run out, at least it did in Houston. The
most glaring thing to me was Houston. I watched some

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of that game. Houston ran up four hundred and seventy
I think it was four seventy four to seventy two
something like that total yards on San Francisco's defense. And
when I saw Houston's defense offense and c. J. Stott,
they didn't look like a juggernt at all. Against Seattle.
They were sputtering. They couldn't run the ball, they couldn't
convert on third downs. The Seahawks really neutralized them compared

(28:45):
to what San Francisco did. But again, the forty nine
Ers are a shell of their full team and teams
are taking advantage of them because of it. So the
Seahawks are in first place play virtue of a better
division record. So far, it's early one and one in
the division and then Rams are zero to one. Both
of them have lost the forty nine Ers so far,
and of course the Seahawks haven't played the Rams yet.

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Later this month, a couple weeks, the Seahawks will be
down in Inglewood. It's still really early and there's still
time for brock, Purty and Warner and those that get
healthy again. But the Seahawks need to take advantage of this.
That's the way seasons go and division titles. You can
win them. You can't win them in October November, but
you could sure lose them or lose a chance to

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win them. So the Seahawks need to keep doing what
they have been doing, which is their defense keeping them
in most games except Tampa Bay, and then their offense
taking advantage in most times of their passing opportunities, and
now they're going to get three defensive starters back. It
appears Sunday Night. Ed Washington, Devin Witherspoon, Julian Love, and

(29:47):
Derek Hall all expected to play. All expected to practice
this week and play on Sunday Night.

Speaker 6 (29:52):
Ge the I mean, you go into a bye week
sitting in good position. I think maybe it's you know,
hasn't been a perfect season, but still been pretty during
good Like you said, you find yourself in first place
after the way in which the other team's played out,
And so I mean, I think that this is about
the time of the season that I'm, like, might start
feeling good about how I was, how I think about

(30:13):
a team. So I mean that this defense is legit.
You talk about the difference between what you watched in
the Houston Texans what they did to a decimated forty
nine ers team versus what we just watched them not
do or in being capable of doing against the Seahawks.
I think that's legit. I think it has been the
entire time. I think anybody that was thinking that is right.
And yet when it comes to the offense and the

(30:34):
running is what we're watching in the run game, even
though there's room for improvement, is that kind of who
they are where there's going to be scuffles regardless of
how much they can try to improve it. It's probably
not going to be maybe as good as I thought
it could be at the beginning of the season.

Speaker 10 (30:50):
Well, they's sure going to try, Bucky. It is who
they are right now. It's not who they want to be.
It's not who they're designed to be on offense, and
so they're going to keep running. They run it more
than anybody in the NFL. Yet they're gaining the third
fewist yards in the NFL, thirtieth yards per carry. So
they'll keep running even when the results aren't there. I
think Klinkubiak has proven that, and we talked about that

(31:13):
even before the season started. At would likely be the case.
So they're going to give it such ample opportunities that
there's a chance that law of averages says they will
run the ball better just because they're going to run
it so much. They're not going to stop. They are
going to continue to design their offense around running the ball,
play action passes off of it. They are convinced their

(31:34):
line coaches and their offensive designers are convinced this offensive
line needs to have a running game to slow down
opposing pass rushers, and I fully believe that is the case.
I don't think you can just wing it forty five
times with Sam Donald and expect to have the same
results that they've had so far. One of the reasons
Donald is leading the league in yards per pass attempt

(31:59):
is because they're running the ball so much. They're facing
a lot of stack boxes safeties coming down near the
line of scrimmage, and a lot of those Smith and
Jigba plays over the top are because there's one fewer
guy back in the back defending. It's simple math that
when they see a stack box, they're throwing over the
top of it. And running into stack boxes in the

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NFL is usually not a great result, and that's usually
what's happened to the Seahawks run game. We'd look at
Zach Sharbone a fewish yards per attempt because most of
the time he's got four dudes starreing at him as
soon as he grabs a ball. Doesn't matter who the
running back is, you're gonna have a tough time sledding
against that. The push on the offensive line has been

(32:40):
the most disappointing thing we saw in the preseason reminder
that preseasons don't always mean a lot. We saw them
pushing and opening huge holes, and they haven't done that
consistently at all. I've said it before, They've really only
had one half of one game where they played offensively
like they want to, and that's at Pittsburgh, the only

(33:00):
one hundred yard rushing day of the season for Kenneth Walker.
But they will keep trying. It's their identity, it's their design,
it's how they've built the roster, how they built the
offensive line, and they have to do it and that probably,
if the first seven games are an indication, that's probably
going to lead to some more very frustrating games if
fans watching them just run into a brick wall literally.

Speaker 3 (33:21):
Greg Bell is with us our Seahawks insider. Of course,
you can follow mat gmail, Seattle on x and Thenewstribune
dot com for complete Seahawks coverage, and look, it's the football,
National Football League. Injuries are part of it all, and
I'm sure there were some temptations to rush back Devin
Witherspoon and Julian Love throughout these first few weeks, But

(33:44):
here you sit five and two first place. As we've
pointed out, Witherspoon hasn't played since San Francisco. For goodness sake,
Witherspoon and Love obviously haven't played together since San Francisco.
So to resist that temptation to rush them back and
pee in such good position and coming off a bye

(34:06):
what kind of rejuvenation, what kind of a spark could
Witherspoon in Love's return provide for Mike McDonald on Sunday Night.

Speaker 10 (34:16):
Yeah, that's a big deal. And the guy who might
benefit the most is Nick even Worry because he can
now play how Mike McDonald designed him and drafted him
to play and expected him to play. It's gonna really
be I asked last week. Okay, it looks like Withersmon's
gonna play. First of all, just to be clear, Witherspon
did come back for the Week four at Arizona. He

(34:37):
re injured his knee in that game, and so they
haven't been a whole since the fifth play of the
season when Nick Even Worry went out in Week one.
But they were trying to get Witherspoon back. It wasn't like,
let's just shelve you through the bye week, right, right.
He was consistently getting tested, retested, leaving the team to
go get all kinds of tests and work done on

(34:57):
that mcl bruise, and it wasn't responding, but they did
try it. They didn't just just worked out this way
that the bye week is now maximizing his rest for it.
But I think Emon Worry is the guy that's going
to really benefit and therefore the defense is going to
really benefit. Memon Worrey has quickly become maybe the surest
tackler on the defense, and he's got a lot of

(35:19):
opportunities to do it because of where they're playing them.
When they play him in that slot alley position and
teams throw quickly to get rid of the ball before
the pass rush, that guy in the slot corner, the
inside slot safety position has to tackle in the open
field or else you're dead because there's nobody behind you
and you're gonna get You're gonna lose fifteen twenty yards

(35:39):
before your fellow defensive backs run him down. Well, even
Worri has been dropping dudes as soon as they catch passes,
and that turns five yard passes into five yard games
instead of fifteen yard games. And that's the difference between
punting and first downs, which becomes a difference between no
points and points. That's how important Nick emon Worry is.

(36:00):
Last week, I said, Okay, now Witherspoon's coming back, coach
Mike McDonald, what's that mean for who your nickel's going
to be. Because when Witherspoon has been on the field course,
he's been the nickel on third downs and they bring
an extra cornerback usually onto the field to play three
corners in the nickel. And he said, that's an interesting
problem to have. Meaning to me, Nick even Worey is

(36:22):
gonna stay where he's been because of how good he's been.
I would expect Witherspoon and Joe Josh job to be
the outside corners, and I would think Nick Rick reek
Woollen will be the odd man out in that, and
that they'll go with three safeties with love back and
Nick even Worry as the nickel. I'm expecting that in
Washington on Sunday that gives them a better run defender,

(36:45):
a stouter, bigger run defender near the line of scrimmage.
If Washington wants to counter with runs against nickel, and
it gives them their shorest tackler in the open field
against receivers leem and worry, even though he's only played
a couple full games because of that injury, and Week
one really has been exactly maybe even more than they
thought he would be right away, Jay.

Speaker 6 (37:06):
One of the brighter spots on the season up to
this point has been Jackson Smith and Jig. Obviously Sam
Darnold getting him the ball too. But uh, do you
think there's a chance that they're going to go in
the avenue of we got to get others incorporated into
this a little bit more, or might as well just
double down. He seems really difficult to cover and he
catches everything that gets near him. I mean, are they

(37:27):
gonna just say we don't need to spread it around necessarily.
We got a guy that's leading the world right now.
We're just gonna continue that trend here, Muggy.

Speaker 10 (37:36):
I think Chuck and I talked about this last week.
I think what's gonna happen is they're gonna say they
need to spread it around. They're gonna make play calls
that design more Cooper Cup, more of a j Barner,
more of Tory Horton, who has been opened down the field.
Ashe has pointed out in our round table. They're going
to design it that way to want more balance so
that teams can't defend one receiver. But I think when

(38:00):
the pushes is coming to shove, the guy who actually
has to throw the ball under pressure and get it
out before the rush comes is thrown a number eleven
because he trusts that he's going to get open under
any and all coverage situation. So far he has so
they can design and say all they want. But when
Donald's got a three hundred pound guy in his face,
he's thrown a number eleven crossing the middle of the

(38:20):
end zone for a touchdown and a dunk over the goalpost.
It doesn't matter what the play design is. It doesn't
matter what they've said. On Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, when the
quarterback is about to get hit, he's thrown at to
Smith and Jigba. So so far, that's what's happened. Clint
Kubiak has not had game plans that fourteen targets go
to Smith and Jigba and three to Cooper Cup. He's

(38:41):
called many more plays with Cup as the primary receiver,
and Donald has thrown backside third redthrows to Smith and Jigba,
he's thrown on the fourth and one play against Houston.
Instead of the two yard out to the tight end
at every quarterback in the league throws, he throws an
eighteen yard out to Smith and Jigba, the lower percentage play.

(39:01):
In Donald's mind, that's the better option right now. So
I think until some teams designed a coverage that completely
tilts the field of Smith Jigba and leaves dudes just
running Scott free down the middle like Cup and Horton,
I think it's going to continue. There's no reason for
Donald not to throw it to number eleven right now,

(39:23):
the way he's beating every coverage.

Speaker 3 (39:25):
Well, I woke up this morning feeling good about one thing.
If Luke Wilson and Chris Carson and Red Bryant want
to make a return to the National Football League, we
know they're going to the Raiders. So how about Lockett
and Pete and Gino reuniting over the weekend.

Speaker 10 (39:44):
You know you got to give Pete Carroll credit for
his loyal don't you. I mean when he sends guys
out the door, and he didn't send Locket out the door.
Of course he wasn't the coach then, But when guys
departs Seattle, or in this case, he departed Seattle. He
maintains the relaationships.

Speaker 11 (40:01):
He sees him at off season things, he sees them
at combines, and he goes up and hugs him and
loves them and slaps on the back and laughs about
the times they had. There are no bridges burned, I'm
including with Russell Wilson, nobody.

Speaker 10 (40:16):
That's how who Pete Carroll is. And it pays oftentimes
like this. I'm glad Tyler Hawkin has a job. I'm
glad someone had signed him, and I'm glad it's a
guy that he really likes in the doors and then
brought him up in the NFL and drafted him. Uh
good for Tyler Hawckett. But yeah, it does speak to
Pete Carroll. Not only is he loyal, he puts a

(40:37):
lot of work into relationships that we'll see if it
actually pays off. But it certainly keeps guys close in
wanting to play with Pete Carroll. And we know Gino
Smith loves them.

Speaker 3 (40:47):
Maybe Earl and Pete have a little work to do,
I don't know, but everybody else seems to be on board,
that's for sure.

Speaker 10 (40:53):
All right, Greg, Yeah, that's that's a unique situe. Hairyl
Thomas departure.

Speaker 2 (40:57):
Is a unique situation.

Speaker 3 (40:58):
But yeah, alright, man, Well we'll talk to you tomorrow,
all right. Greg Bell, our Seahawks Insider. His segment here
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Speaker 2 (41:43):
All right.

Speaker 3 (41:43):
Factor Fiction comes up at seven thirty five. Yes, there
are some hot teams in the professional football world, but
none hotter than this team. Sports Radio ninety three point
three KJRFM, ABC's of the ms The Alphabet our guide
through a number of different tops topics, and today we
are to the letters to the letter you U is

(42:04):
for underpaid. Suddenly, cal Raleigh, after getting his massive contract
extension looks grossly underpaid at this point, an average of
seventeen and a half million dollars over the course of
his contract. That's the average salary. The big money really
doesn't even kick in for a couple of years. Meanwhile,
they're going to be given Logan Gilbert a contract extension

(42:26):
this offseason that's probably gonna make him paid more than
his buddy Cal Raley, even though Cal's coming off a
historic season. Hell Randy a Rose Arena and arbitration this
year is probably going to make a higher salary than
Cal's average salary over the course of his contract. What
do you think I mean? Usually, when a guy signs

(42:47):
a deal, he's signed a deal, and it doesn't matter
if the team came out on top. Great, if the
player came out on top, dems the breaks. There was
one exception. Salvador Perez, early in his career, signed an
early content tracked extension with Kansas City and the Royals
got about halfway through it and they're like, this just
isn't even fair for what this guy's contributing to this

(43:09):
team right now, and so they ripped it up and
now Salvador and the Royals have one of the great
relationships in all of professional sports. What do you think
should the Mariners do a solid and just say, you
know what, cow, We're gonna give you ten extra million
over this contract, rip it up and give him something.
Don't even negotiate it. You're just gonna give him a
little bit extra this offseason because suddenly he seems that

(43:34):
much more valuable than he was at the time of
his signature.

Speaker 6 (43:38):
I wouldn't be surprised if at some point over the
next five years, maybe six years.

Speaker 3 (43:44):
Of ty for a guy making seventeen Yeah, I don't
think he's going to care.

Speaker 6 (43:50):
To be honest, I really don't think he's going I
don't think he looks at where he's at in the
on the on the rankings of who makes the most
on this team, Logan makes more than well, I think
that they'll just be like, well, fine, now you pick
up the tab, right, You're making five million more year
than I am, so you pick up the tab every time.

Speaker 2 (44:12):
Yes, that's it.

Speaker 6 (44:13):
And I think that, honestly, it would probably that's what
it would be. I'd be willing to bet you that
this year when they went out to dinner like Cayle
get it dude, I got the letter. Yeah, you're getting
all of them. You make seventeen million this year, I'm
making seven. You're getting it. And then it's like, okay, okay, Walter,
when you make more than me, you're getting all of

(44:34):
them and I for what it's worth. That is kind
of the way that it typically goes. And and I
think that I think I don't think cow will care
that's said. I mean, he ends up continuing down the
path that he's on right now. I wouldn't be surprised
if they with two three years left on the deal
deal kind of say hey, we want you to be

(44:54):
here until you're forty. You know what I mean, you're
gonna end up dh in your last five years. Maybe,
But let's just go ahead and sign this bad boy
and basically give him a raise or an extension type
of a thing.

Speaker 4 (45:05):
An extension extension.

Speaker 3 (45:07):
See, that's what I wouldn't do. I would rather give
it something now. I don't want to pay him when
he's not the same guy, especially this organization. I'm not
going to pay him more when he's over the hill.

Speaker 6 (45:21):
I'm just saying, I don't think I'm not going to
cal Rawley is a guy that I have a feeling's
going to be able to leave Seattle whenever he damn
will feels like it. And I think he's going to
be just fine as a guy, even when he's thirty four,
thirty five, thirty six and he's maybe not as good
behind the dish anymore. And you say, dude, just you
play first for a couple of years, right, you just

(45:43):
dh and then yes, you're gonna go straight from probably
being our catcher to being our manager. I think he's
going to be able to drop bombs until he's thirty seven,
thirty eight years old, So I'm not worried about it.
I would I would end up seeing them. I could
see them signing him through twenty thirty five at some
point in time.

Speaker 3 (46:00):
All Right vs Four VIP Julio Rodriguez got the VIP treatment.
First time we'd seen him since the season came to
a close. He shows up at a Cracking game. He
really does immerse himself in the other sports. He goes
to U dub games, he goes to cracking games, and
I'm sure he goes to Seahawks games as well. But

(46:21):
he got a bit of a standing ovation during the
cracking game, so and he seemed a little bit touched
by it. He seemed a little caught off guard by it.
But man, these are Cal and Julio are locked up
for the next decade. Basically, this is the foundation, and
obviously most people are just fine with that.

Speaker 6 (46:44):
Yeah, I don't know why you wouldn't be. I guess
to each their own. I suppose you can have whatever opinion.
I can't wait to see what this dude ends up being,
because while I think some of his criticism is ridiculous,
you know, calling him you know, you know, Jay Fraud,
that's silly. He's He's on track to like a Hall

(47:05):
of Fame career at this point, and yet he still
has not figured out how to hit coming out of
spring training for a couple months. And so I'm just
excited to see. I think that there still is a
lot of that iceberg that we can't see just yet
as far as how what this guy's potential is. But yeah,
I'm about as pumped as I could possibly be having
a couple of position players that are as young as

(47:26):
him and Cal, that think the way that they do,
that loves Seattle the way that they do, that genuinely
care about us as fans the way that I think
that they do. Yeah, I think we're sitting up in
a really good position starting with those two dudes.

Speaker 3 (47:38):
I love it when players show up for other teams games,
and Julio might be the number one guy at that. Yeah,
Cole goes to games. Yeah, and I think it went
to a U dub game with with Julio the other day.

Speaker 7 (47:52):
That was like a thing that they set up though
with the Mariners and you w Yeah.

Speaker 3 (47:56):
But Naylor's obviously a huge cracking fan. I mean he's
Canadian for good news sake, So not a big surprise
that he's gonna Yeah, yeah, for sure. But I love it.
And Julio might be the king of it. And he
really just when he says I love it in Seattle, man,
you believe it because he goes out there and uh
puts his face out there everywhere. So it's awesome, great

(48:17):
to see, great to see, no doubt about it. And man,
I am very excited. And if second half Julio and
first half Julio ever get together in the cage, m
and second half Julio can give him a few tips. Yeah, yeah,
imagine yeah, just imagine what we.

Speaker 4 (48:34):
Gotesome The conversation would be really interesting.

Speaker 6 (48:36):
Between now and then, I'm between here and spring Train.
I'm gonna learn hypnotism. I'm gonna do something. He's an
walk back, but you're getting leapye. And then before we leave,
he's gonna think it's July.

Speaker 3 (48:47):
I'm gonna bring it. I'm gonna invite them both to
a dinner and introduce them to my new friend.

Speaker 2 (48:52):
Full season Julio. Yeah, the best.

Speaker 3 (48:55):
I'm just gonna give him a pen and paper and
just job a lot of things down hate all right.
Coming up next the college football world. I mean, we've
entered a brave new world when it comes to college football.
I'm not sure how it's going to adjust and change
and shift here for the next few years. Here's another

(49:16):
thing that I didn't really see coming, and it's now
just part of our lives. How college football's new world
is affecting coaches. Next Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM,
six o'clock the start time. Minnesota is the location and
the guy we trust more than anybody else in America
to talk about the sounders with us. Our own Jackson Feltz,

(49:38):
joins us here on the radio program Good Morning, Sir,
Good morning. Good to be with y'all. How are you
feeling today?

Speaker 1 (49:45):
Nervous?

Speaker 4 (49:46):
Right?

Speaker 12 (49:46):
It's a playoff time, baby, it's this is the time
we wait for all year in Sunderland. And it's a
very very good team we're facing in Minnesota.

Speaker 3 (49:56):
All right, Well, tell us about the opponent. So why
would the minnesot United make you feel nervous about this series?

Speaker 12 (50:03):
They're a weird team, is probably the best way to
say it. They're a very very good defensive team. They're
actually worse than Seattle offensively. They're the four seed in
the West or the five seed in the West in
this first round, best.

Speaker 1 (50:17):
Of three series.

Speaker 12 (50:19):
They're a weird team because they basically run a style
under a thirty three year old head coach that they're
They're head coach Eric Ramsey is my age Chuck, and
he runs a system that basically says, we're just gonna
sit back defensively, account for you to make a mistake,
which MLS teams you know, sometimes do occasionally, and when

(50:42):
you make a mistake, we're going to capitalize on that mistake.
We're going to get you on the other end, and
we're going to take advantage of set pieces and basically
just you know, count on you all making mistakes and
you know credit. This guy is Eric Ramsey is a
former assistant with Manchester United in England.

Speaker 1 (51:00):
He basically probably.

Speaker 12 (51:01):
Looked at the Major League Soccer quality and system and said,
I know they're going to make mistakes.

Speaker 1 (51:06):
Let's capitalize on that.

Speaker 6 (51:07):
And it's worked all right, Well, then give me Jackson,
give me a number, Give me the name number of
a dude that we that if I'm watching tonight, when
I'm watching tonight, that I'm like, that guy better be
marked the entire time.

Speaker 12 (51:21):
I think we look at one thing and that's going
to be the set pieces when Minnesota gets corner kicks,
when they get free kicks, and those balls are going
into the box, and there's a couple guys. Joaquin Prrera
is somebody who scored on us in the game at
Minnesota just a couple of months ago. He's one of
the ones that'll take those free kicks. Six goals, eleven
assists on the year. He leads their team in a

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system he can send a ball in with those set
pieces and get to one of those big bodies, and
there are a lot of big bodies who can send
them in you have Anthony Markanich, who's a defender who
has nine goals this year, very very good on set pieces.
Michael Boxall is one of their defenders, very good on
set pieces. And it's those guys when they send those

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balls in for set pieces that we have to mark them.
Jackson Reagan, Yeamart Gomez Androti are center backs. They have
to be on their game and they have to be
kind of honestly perfect because Minnesota is a Historically they
are better scoring on set pieces than pretty much according
to my data, and that goes back pretty far, they're

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the best team in MLS history when it comes to
scoring on set pieces in terms of how often they
get them and how often they score on them.

Speaker 3 (52:31):
Jackson Feltz is with us. Join him this evening five
thirty pre match six pm kickoff on nine to fifty AMS.
The Sounders get started with their postseason against Minnesota. At Minnesota,
Let's talk a little more about our guys, the good guys.
Considering sort of the ups and downs this season and

(52:52):
a couple of the big injuries that this team had
to deal with this year, is it safe to say
the Christian roll Done may have had his best season
as a Sounder that at age thirty he might actually
be getting better.

Speaker 12 (53:05):
I think you got You're You're onto something there, Chuck.
I think because of everything else, the Sounders have lost
in certain moments where you have Albert Rusnak out for
a while, you have Jordan Morris out for a very
long while, you have Pedro de la Vega who's been
in and out and now injured again. He fractured his
padella in the last game of the regular season, so

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he's out for six months, and everybody's been out here
and there, and Christian's just kind of been the iron man,
uh and and looking at what he's done over the
course of the year, it's not the statistics. He's not,
you know, racking up a whole bunch of stats, but
it's just what he's meant to the team on both
ends of the field. And then you look at what
he did with the United States national team. You know,

(53:49):
I frankly think that based on what he did over
the last month, he may have locked up a spot
on the national team for the World Cup. In a
a in a World Cup where the United States is
going to be playing a game in Seattle, and it's
the middle game of those three games. I said on
Sounders Weekly last week, if I was a betting man,
I would put money down that Christian Roldon starts in

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Seattle for the United States in the World Cup next year.

Speaker 6 (54:14):
Oh wow, Well, Jordan Morris is back, right, I mean,
a bad season as far as the injuries go. So
what do you expecting out of a guy like him,
even though he hasn't gotten logged a whole bunch of
minutes this year?

Speaker 1 (54:26):
Yeah, no, Bucky, exactly.

Speaker 12 (54:28):
It's been a tough year for him because of these injuries,
and it's just kind of been a one after another.

Speaker 1 (54:33):
And the shoulder thing.

Speaker 12 (54:34):
Is such a freak injury where a shoulder injury of
all things pops up and keeps him out for a
couple of months.

Speaker 1 (54:41):
But now he is back, and he was kind.

Speaker 12 (54:43):
Of playing I would honestly say without much confidence going
into a couple weeks ago. He scores in the final
game of the regular season, and you do see sort
of his reaction to the goal very much was all right,
the monkey's off the back, the weights off. And now
you hope that going into this playoff game he looks
like the classic Jordan Morris because I mean, they're gonna

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need him. This Minnesota team is so good defensively, He's
going to have to get creative with his runs. He's
gonna have to, honestly just keep making runs. And I
know Jordan deals with type one diabetes. He obviously, you know,
it just works his ass off out there, and he's
going to have to recycle runs, keep making runs, run, run, run,
And I want you know, if there's one thing the

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Sounders need out of this game in order to score,
it's probably Jordan Morris to be tired as hell at
the end of this game, because he just has kept
running and kept forcing the Minnesota backline into tough situations
the entire game.

Speaker 3 (55:38):
Thirty three year old Jackson felts our guests right here
on Checking Buck in the morning if you want to
follow him on Twitter. Doo so at Jackson on radio.
And look as the found fan base that have this
is a championship organization, they like their championships. The organization
wants to talk about what's it going to take to
win the whole damn thing. I mean, I'm reading that

(56:00):
Philadelphia might be unbeatable and I also have MESSI for
an entire postseason that everybody's gonna have to deal with.
So how do the Sounders compare in terms of being
able to take the whole damn thing.

Speaker 12 (56:13):
Yeah, I think, even before talking about the Eastern Conference,
which is pretty good this year, the Western Conference is
also pretty good this year.

Speaker 1 (56:21):
I do like how the bracket sets up for Seattle.

Speaker 12 (56:24):
It's Minnesota in the first round, it's likely San Diego
in the second round. And San Diego is an expansion
team who's had an amazing first year, but they aren't
playoff tested like the Sounders are playoff tested, and they're
dealing with a couple of big injuries as well, So
you know, frankly, if it's Sounders san Diego, I like
the matchup there. Sounders actually beat San Diego earlier this year.

(56:46):
And then in the West Final you'd be facing either
Vancouver or LAFC, and that is where I think the
major major challenge. Frankly, even with MLS Cup, I think
the major challenge would come with Vancouver or LAFC. LAFC
brought in this guy named Sun from Tottenham in England
earlier this year, and.

Speaker 1 (57:05):
He's a spectacular player.

Speaker 12 (57:07):
He's basically made LAFC nearly unbeatable on the offensive end.
Vancouver has had their greatest season ever. They finished second
in the Western Conference. They brought in some weapons. Either
of those teams in a one off West Final would
be very, very difficult to get past for Seattle. But
then if you somehow did, You're right, Chuck, it's Philadelphia.

(57:28):
It's Miami on the other side, and yes, Sounders beat Miami.

Speaker 1 (57:33):
They're out for something to play for for sure.

Speaker 12 (57:35):
Philadelphia is an incredible defensive team, even better than Minnesota,
only thirty five goals allowed in thirty four games, so
that would be an enormous challenge. But from my eyes
right now, it's just LAFC or Vancouver in a West
Final theoretically would be about as hard of a West
Final as we would ever have.

Speaker 3 (57:56):
The nervous Jackson Felts woke up this morning chewing on
glass to get ready to get tough for this postseason run,
which begins tonight. Anything else I need to mention five
point thirty pre match six o'clock kickoff, anything else that
we need to pump up for Jackson this evening.

Speaker 12 (58:12):
Yeah, no, it's listen, guys, it's playoff time. And Brian
Schmitzer if there's one thing he does better than anything else.
It's getting guys ready to play playoff soccer. This team,
when they're not injured, they generally fight for championships. Last
year we came out of nowhere to make the Western
Conference championship. Yes, this team is dealing with a big

(58:32):
injury to Pedro, but I think it all comes back
to Brian Schmitzer and he gets these boys ready. And
if there's one reason the Sounders would get to an
MLS Cup, it would be him.

Speaker 3 (58:42):
Thank you, sir. Enjoy it all and we appreciate you
joining us.

Speaker 1 (58:46):
Thank you, everybody appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (58:47):
There is Jackson Belts joining us right here on Chuck
and Buck in the morning. Sounders start at six o'clock
tonight against Minnesota United coming up next. There's another major
event this week and it has to be discussed. Sports
Radio ninety three point three kh A r F M. Well,

(59:16):
during the postseason, we had Ryan Heally as a special
former Mariner analyst for us throughout the entire playoff, and
as we were signing off with them a week ago,
the people were like no more more more Heally true, Yeah,
And so we're like, well, let's give him more Healy then,

(59:37):
so joining us here this morning on the program, Former
Mariner Ryan Heally is back with us on Chuck and Buck.
Good morning, sir, Good morning man. Did you guys miss me?
We did? Really did Yeaphuck?

Speaker 4 (59:51):
You don't you like right now?

Speaker 2 (59:53):
I missed you.

Speaker 6 (59:55):
You're a little jealous every time you see with your
full head of hair, your perfect teeth and whatnot.

Speaker 3 (01:00:01):
Face made for radio?

Speaker 2 (01:00:03):
That's me.

Speaker 3 (01:00:06):
Do you got anything playing for Halloween this weekend? I
don't even know. Do you have children? We haven't had
a personal private conversation, just been all marriners.

Speaker 10 (01:00:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:00:14):
I got two young ones.

Speaker 13 (01:00:14):
I got a three year old little girl and then
I have a year and a half with a little boy.
My daughter got to pick the theme this year. Anyone
out there that knows what super kitties is, that's what
my family's going to be dressed up as. And if
you don't know what that is, tune in Friday evening
to see what my story on my Instagram looks like.

Speaker 6 (01:00:32):
By the way, funny story about that. I don't really
know what super kitties are, but my daughter. I have
a four year old daughter, so she knows what they
are now. She has a hard time pronouncing kiddies. Okay,
it's super like too many teas. There's a tea in
the beginning, there's a tea, a couple of teas in
the middle.

Speaker 3 (01:00:51):
So I'm having a hard time digitalizing what that word is,
A fuck you.

Speaker 2 (01:00:55):
I don't think I can say it.

Speaker 3 (01:00:57):
I don't know you can spell it. Suddenly I have
a thinking about past girlfriends. I wish would have gone
as that for Halloween. It was.

Speaker 2 (01:01:07):
Super It's good.

Speaker 3 (01:01:13):
That would have been I wish those would have been
shown up a couple of years ago. All right, well
here we go. Ryan Heally is with us here this morning,
and yeah, it's it's been a week and we we've
had a week to sort of get over at all.
What do you what are the players do you think
going through a week later after such a near miss

(01:01:36):
in getting to the World Series, It's.

Speaker 13 (01:01:39):
Got to be a bag of mixed emotions, Like, obviously
the loss is devastating. You could see the emotions in
their face post game after that Game seven. You gotta
imagine that coming home for the first week, it's it's
trying to just be where your two feet are. So
how do I get present in my family? How do
I really enjoy the people that I haven't seen a
long time, How I get off my feet rest a
little bit. But I know that you probably have those

(01:02:01):
those moments that pop up in your head, and it's
probably very specific for the individual for whatever they feel
like they could have done better. Yeah, you know, the
managers feel the same way. The gm s feel in
the same way. But everyone's processing right now and they're
getting towards the end of you know, the devastation of it,
like it ever goes away fully. But once they start
preparing for next year, they feel a little bit better.

Speaker 6 (01:02:22):
Yeah, obviously, And yet I mean, the the baseball mentality
is one where you kind of have to have a
short memory. And yet when the season's over, it's not
like I have to have a special or short memory
because I got to move on.

Speaker 2 (01:02:35):
I got another game the next day.

Speaker 6 (01:02:36):
So how long does something like this linger for the
dudes in the clubhouse versus obviously the way in which
they approach normal you know, scheduled baseball, where you got
to get out there and go grind the next day.

Speaker 13 (01:02:48):
I'd never been this far in the playoffs. My assumption
is that this will be felt in spring training next year.
I had some conversations with a few Mariners minor leaguers
actually last last week in the facility that I train
out of, and just the fact that these questions are
going to be asked all through spring training next year,
Like these are not going away. In every decision they

(01:03:09):
make this off season, with free agent acquisitions, trades they make,
it's going to be compared to the team that they
just had just because of how well they did.

Speaker 3 (01:03:17):
Yeah, I want to get into some of that stuff,
but still just a couple more like recap questions. Dan Wilson,
Fangrafts just did a review of his managerial performance and
I think they gave him an average of like a
SE but they gave him an f an F in
his pitching decisions that he made during the course of

(01:03:40):
the playoffs. I'm sure you're not being that hard on
Dan Wilson, But does the manager have a few things
to improve on by next year, assuming that we get back.

Speaker 2 (01:03:51):
To the playoffs.

Speaker 13 (01:03:55):
If you ask them that question, I'm sure he would
say yes, just because he's an accountable leader and he
understands that the results of the decisions you make are
going to determine how everyone views them, and unfortunately the
last decision he made of bringing Bizarre to win is
under an absolute microscope. And I listened to his post
pre Pros game press conferences about it, and you can

(01:04:16):
hear the tone of his voice of that's been our
guy in pinches all year. It didn't work out this time,
and unfortunately he's gonna have to wear this on the
chin for the entire offseason and also spring training of
where was Brash, where was Muonios? What were you thinking?
And you got to Poto backing them up in the media,
which is always nice. The factory unified from kind of
the top down there. I can't give him an f though,

(01:04:37):
because I feel like the most the playoffs he did
a really good job navigating that bullpen, the high leverage arms,
the matchups. Maybe a little bit of a quick trigger
with some of his starting pitchers, but I understand why
you do that, because every game has high leverage, so
you have to go to the guys that helped get
you there. And also, the starting pitching wasn't what they
were in twenty four this whole season, so he was

(01:04:58):
gonna go those bullpen guys that were hot, and that's
what he did all the way throughout.

Speaker 6 (01:05:02):
Yeah, well, I mean, you know, moving into you know
this part of the of the year, obviously kind of
licking our wounds a little bit after getting ejected, but
then you kind of move quickly into Okay, what do
they need to do to make it that that get
those extra nine outs and get to a World Series
next year? For me, and I'm not gonna speak for
anybody else. I think Chuck and Ashly on the same page.

(01:05:23):
You get Josh Naylor and yet he's a Boris guy.
I mean, what do you think odds are that did
did Naylor enjoy his time in Seattle enough? Do you
think that he made a good enough connection with his
teammates in this town that he might come back? Or
is this gonna flat out be the highest bidder's going
to get him.

Speaker 3 (01:05:42):
I don't think bor Or Naylor is a Boris?

Speaker 2 (01:05:45):
Is he not?

Speaker 3 (01:05:46):
I don't know?

Speaker 13 (01:05:47):
He says, I s so that maybe gives us a
little bit of benefit of doubt. But I was just
going through there's a great article on the Athletic talking
about the top fifty free agents out there with the
projected contracts for be or could be, and then also
thinking through the Mariners and what they've done in the
open market with free agents before. And you know, they're
projecting Josh Naylor to get a four year, ninety million
dollar contract and then Suarez a three year, seventy two

(01:06:09):
million art contract. I think one of those two is
really really manageable, and if I'm going to prioritize one,
I would selfishly go after Naylor because I think the
type of player and hitter he was from what we're
seeing be successful in playoffs is what we need. And also,
you know, he struggled the first half of that Alds series.
You guys remember that, We're like, where's Naylor? What's he doing? O?

(01:06:29):
We had a kid?

Speaker 3 (01:06:30):
Oh wow, he rakes again. Never mind, We're okay.

Speaker 13 (01:06:32):
Like that was the process of a Mariner's fans with
Josh Naylor, and then he was our best hitter throughout
the course of the playoffs outside of the one and
only the cal Rawly. So that's the guy that I'm
putting at the top of my list. If I can
anchor down first base with his bat, his back to
bald skills and also his power production, I'm be really happy.
But I'm curious how they navigate the trade market, because
that's where the Mariners get really really busy, whether it's

(01:06:55):
offseason or in season.

Speaker 3 (01:06:56):
Yeah, I don't. I'm just trying to warn people right
off the bat, don't expect too many additions. I think
they're going to try to handle things in house where
they can, and that includes not just the decision between
Naylor and Suarez, because I think you're absolutely right to me,
that's a no brainer that you bring back Naylor. If
those are the two price tags, I think it's a

(01:07:18):
bigger question to go Sworez or Polonco, and I actually
think Ryan, get your opinion on it, I think they
would prioritize Polonco over Sworez as well.

Speaker 13 (01:07:30):
I agree with that statement, especially with what he did,
the bounce back year he had. I'm curious what the
price tag on him is going to be. This article
has him projected to sign a two year, twenty six
million dollar contract.

Speaker 3 (01:07:40):
I think that's doable for the Mariners.

Speaker 13 (01:07:42):
So we can get both of those players back for
one hundred and fifteen to one twenty million dollars combined,
that would be amazing. I know that Ben Williamson was
up as well. If you're talking about in house solutions
for third base. I'm not sure what your guys' opinions
on him are. I haven't seen him play enough, but
I know that the Mariners traded Tyler Locklear in that
Suarez deal to the d Back, so they lost one

(01:08:04):
of their first base prospects and Naylor needs to be
a priority. But they still have Williamson. And the power
production doesn't get me really excited. But I was on
Them Network Radio last week and Ryan Spilboard was talking
about how great of a defender he was and how
solid he would be for that side of the diamond.
But I would need to see a little more power
production from my third base bat, especially when you're losing

(01:08:25):
a replacing with the guy just hit fifty.

Speaker 3 (01:08:27):
Well, it's interesting you bring that up because you know
the fickle fan like I want this, and then you
get this, You're like, well I want that. I mean, so,
Toronto Blue Jays, what did we hear the entire series
about Toronto Blue Jays? What a great job they did
one through nine putting the ball in play. Ben Williamson
doesn't hit for power, but he plays great defense and

(01:08:50):
he does put the ball in play, And even though
it's not doubles, triples, and homers. I mean, if he's
hitting down in the order and he makes cheap compared
to the seventy two million dollars figure that you threw
out there, I would almost guarantee Ryan that Ben Williamson's
the third baseman. I'm not saying Ben Williamson will be

(01:09:11):
our third baseman, but if that's the price tag on
ginoswar is, if he doesn't come way down from that,
I'll almost guarantee that Ben Williamson will be the third
baseman next year over Gino. I would second that as well.

Speaker 13 (01:09:25):
And I think your point there was well articulated at
the Blue Jays formula. How many guys that they have
that were just lifer in the minor leagues and they
got up to the big leagues and they just did
the same thing it did in the minor leagues that
wasn't sexy, And now all of a sudden, when you
get nine guys that do it really, really well, it's beautiful.
And Clement, you're talking about Lucas like, you're talking about
guys that can just grind out at bats. And if

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that's what Williamson develops into a little bit more. But
we saw decent sample size. He almost had three hundred
plate appearances this year. Obviously, the on base percentage I
think will get better. The slug being three to ten
for me is doesn't get me super excited, at least
for a quarter field position. But I do know that
power develops at different stages for each individual player, and

(01:10:06):
at times I've seen guys develop the power even.

Speaker 3 (01:10:08):
More in the major leagues. Why.

Speaker 13 (01:10:10):
I don't have an exact reason for you, but if
that's something that can progress, that'd be amazing. But we
also know the ballpark that he's playing in, and if
you're not a power hitter stepping into that ballpark, it's
really hard to develop into one.

Speaker 6 (01:10:21):
Yeah, it's not going to be easy. But at the
same time, he did after they send him down, after
they got Geno human down there actually and put up
I mean, I'm almost a nine hundred, I want to
say fifty ops, he'd end up pitting my five homers
and fifty a b's. I wouldn't be surprised if he
ends up developing into having more power, because I get
one and two hundred, one bomb and two hundred played

(01:10:41):
appearances up in the big leagues. But he's not going
to be a fifty home run guy, but I mean
it's zero chance. I just think that it's fine to
kind of have a guy that puts the ball in
play and grinds out AB's. I think that is if
I had to narrow down to what I think one
reason why we didn't get to the World Series and
the Toronto Blue Jays did, I think they were better
at that they were better having tough abes.

Speaker 3 (01:11:02):
Well, I'll tell you another thing that goes with it.
I mean they've already announced as an organization that will
probably start next year at the payroll we ended at,
which is a bump forward. That's I mean, because they
added payroll at the trading deadline. I think after their
success that they had this year, and they didn't do
a lot last offseason to add to this team, and

(01:11:22):
I think they have fewer holes this offseason than they
had last offseason, and then the success that they had.
I mean they also, I think Ryan want to be
in a position that, hey, yeah, if we went with
Williamson and we start with him at third base, that
doesn't mean that if we got to the trading deadline,
we wouldn't recognize that as a potential place that needs

(01:11:44):
to be upgraded, and then we get aggressive again at
the trading deadline like they have three of the last
four years. I think that's something that Mariner fans should
expect to have happened. Quite frankly. If anybody's expecting some big,
spendy off season, we're gonna add Tucker, and we're gonna
add Bregman, and we're gonna you know, we're gonna sign,
We're gonna trade for show.

Speaker 2 (01:12:05):
Hey.

Speaker 13 (01:12:05):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:12:05):
If you're expecting that big offseason, it's probably I think
you're gonna be left one team quite severely. Frankly, I'm
with you there.

Speaker 13 (01:12:14):
We have to look at the history of how the
Manners have orchestrated their their rosters, and they've now had
a proof of concept was success of it of winning
the AL West and making it to Game seven of
the CS series, Like they they know their formula has validation.
I've heard the Potos say this multiple times in his
in his conferences press conferences. It's like, we trust our process.
We think our process is really good. I do think

(01:12:34):
that this is an opportunity to audit everything within your
system compared to what some of the teams look like,
and they're gonna be watching that World Series closer than
they would have years past, with a different set of
lenses of the world's doubting this Blue Jays team, Like
they thought the Dodgers wanna go a four game sweep
and they were done zoned And they showed up in
game one and did what they did the entire alcs

(01:12:55):
And I wasn't shocked, Like, I've just watched these guys
seven games straight conduct professional bat up professional bat and
then they faced a really great picture and they did
the same thing. So how do we get guys in
our lineup that can have professional bats? And where can
we allocate some funds? But they're not going to go
spend a couple hundred million dollars in the free agent market.

Speaker 3 (01:13:13):
That's not how they work.

Speaker 13 (01:13:14):
They trade for guys, they make sure they fit there,
they like Seattle, they like the they fit the camaraderie
round there.

Speaker 3 (01:13:19):
And then we extend them. That's that's been their formula.
So why would that change now?

Speaker 6 (01:13:23):
Yeah, heally, is there a philosophy when you were here
that was in this kind of the mode, the new
school mode that is a lot more swing and miss.
It's tougher to have grinder. AB's against the velocity that
people are seeing. So it's there. There's been a time
where we've seen more of the home run, strikeout, walk,
that's your outcomes. And and yet I want to know

(01:13:46):
if you had a sense of what the organization's philosophy was,
because I think a couple of years ago they tried
to make an adjustment like we're not bringing to Oscar back,
we're not bringing Gino Suarez back because we want to
put the ball in play more, Whereas maybe that sounded
like that wasn't a priority for us in years previous.
It was that a did this or organization switch from

(01:14:08):
something maybe back when you played, or even up to
the last couple of years, where they're thinking more of
going back to kind of some mode school. We're gonna
have some role player guys that put the ball in
play more often.

Speaker 13 (01:14:19):
You heard that last year when they made the coaching
changes and they brought Edgar Martinez back, and then they
brought the new hitting coach this year in and that
was the whole conversation. Was the approach, the execution approach,
the consistency of it, understanding how we can win in
our ballpark. We're not going to lead the league in
home runs, even though they almost did. But that wasn't
their strategy going into it. I think they just ended
up having a few players that were having those type

(01:14:41):
of years and they said send it. Let's go, like,
if this is what you want to do, this is
what we can do, let's let's win some ballgames doing that.
There was always a consistency of conversation when I was there, though,
of commanding the strike zone, and whether it was your
a swing swinger for the fences, or it was a
contact play, move a runner over, it was still it
was still commanding the strike zone. It's very consistent on
the pitching side as well. They always talked about strike one.

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There were specific counts that they really wanted us to
win on the offensive side. Obviously the even counts, the
one to one counts, the two to two, the three
two counts. They really wanted us to win those counts.
So if we had to gear down a little bit
in those to win them, so be it. But there's
also understanding your role like that. When I was there,
we had the Nelson Cruises, we had the Robinson Canoes,
the Gene Seguras the Kyle Seegers. We had a lot

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of guys that had different profiles of hit her and
they really wanted those guys to maximize what that opportunity was.
Like it was Jean Jane the hit machine, and Robbie
Canoe is gonna spray doubles and then Nelson Cruz gonna
hit homers, and Kyle Seger is going to clean up
whatever was less from there hitting doubles and homers.

Speaker 3 (01:15:39):
Like that's just which is the formula?

Speaker 13 (01:15:41):
Like you knew who you were as a player, and
it was more so dominate that profile instead of Now
it seems like they're trying to integrate more of a
team wide approach, and that's at least what we saw
the Blue Jays do and do it to absolute perfection.

Speaker 3 (01:15:53):
Super Kiddy himself Ryan Healley is with us right here
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So far series, even at one game apiece, how long
does this thing last? In your opinion, who comes out
on top? And why? I hope for seven games.

Speaker 13 (01:16:36):
That's since I really haven't been a Diehart fan of
a team in a long time, like the Mariners were
the first time I was in it heavy, I always
rooted for seven games. I just love the pressure, I
love the back and forth. So I wont seven games.
And man, if the Dodgers pitching staff does what they've done,
like Gossman's the best I saw him throw, I feel
like he didn't throw that well in the CS series.

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I also, most life i've seen in his fastball, young,
motive pitches like that. I don't see them have it shot.
It really is gonna come down to a lot of
the key factors that we saw in that CS series.
Who is sures are gonna be? Who is Biab gonna be?
Because we know what the Dodgers starting pitching is gonna be.
But I don't think the Dodgers' offense is clicking on
all cylinders yet. So my prediction is Dodgers and seven.

Speaker 3 (01:17:19):
Dodgers and seven. Yeah, I don't even think it's gonna
last seven. Really, it's gonna go back to Canada. Oh
you think there's gonna win all three and then win
all three in La Just in this you just want
it to be over. I might, Yes, for the first
time in my life, I'm like, am I even gonna watch?

Speaker 1 (01:17:37):
And I did?

Speaker 3 (01:17:37):
I did watch Friday night, and I did watch Saturday
and Toronto. You know, you're right. They did the things
that they did to us and against good pitching in
the in the previous series. But I do think the
Dodgers pitching is healthy, and a healthy Dodgers rotation is
perhaps the most dangerous thing on the planet. Yeah, they

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chip away too.

Speaker 13 (01:18:00):
They like manufactured a run with two outs in Game
two where you're like, oh wow, this is gonna be
a cruising inning for him, and all of a sudden
it's a double single.

Speaker 3 (01:18:06):
Oh wow, that's a that's one run.

Speaker 13 (01:18:08):
They just kind of did that to you a couple times,
where they score runs so quickly, like how did that happen?
So I see that happening and then once they get
the big blast. I think that the Blue Jays you.

Speaker 3 (01:18:17):
Need to score early to quiet that Dodger crowd. Yeah
all right, man, Well, great to catch up with you.
Thank you very much. We'll bug you again real soon.
But great to have you on here on this Monday.
It's good seeing you guys again. Thanks for bringing back
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He's already a local celebrity, but after tonight, oh my gosh,
is this ego guy's ego going to be completely out
of control? It's Chuck and Box Sports Radio ninety three
point three KJRFM, The flashcards and the next thing. You know,
he's studying trivia. It's one of his hobbies, one of
his passions.

Speaker 2 (01:19:21):
Yeah, yeah, I get it too, because I mean I
love me some trivia.

Speaker 3 (01:19:26):
Yeah, I know. We have a game every Thursday because
of that, because you force us into it. But Aaron
Levine might actually like it more than you do, Bucky,
and tonight, tonight we will have video evidence that he
has reached the mountaintop of trivia. Aaron Levine joins us

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right here on Chuck and Buck in the Morning. Congratulations
first and foremost.

Speaker 9 (01:19:51):
Hey, thanks, I'm waiting for Bucky to take the online
anytime tests next and I can't wait to see him
on the show.

Speaker 6 (01:19:55):
Also, yeah, I wouldn't even know how to go about
signing up for it, let alone, would I ever qualify
for it? If they wanted to do a bloopers reel,
they would have me on the first episode.

Speaker 9 (01:20:07):
San It's all about It's all about casting sometimes, Bucky.
I think if you get past the first test and
have your zoom audition with them, they take one look
at that beard and they say that guy.

Speaker 1 (01:20:16):
Is on the show.

Speaker 3 (01:20:16):
That's our guy, right.

Speaker 6 (01:20:18):
They ask all about fishing, baseball, campfires, whiskey.

Speaker 2 (01:20:26):
I got a chance.

Speaker 3 (01:20:28):
My children, My children know those. If you do, I'm
in Aaron Levine's gonna be on Jeopardy tonight. So tonight
he's going to be on Jeopardy. How awesome is this
for you?

Speaker 10 (01:20:42):
Man?

Speaker 9 (01:20:43):
Well, to have an opportunity to go on a completely
different channel in Seattle, I mean, that's that's kind of crazy,
beyond Como Fortnite. No, I got to thank my bosses
at Fox thirteen for allowing me to do that.

Speaker 1 (01:20:54):
It's been a dream of mine for a long time.

Speaker 9 (01:20:56):
But you mentioned it being a hobby. I was a
competitive golf for my entire life and I stopped playing
golf about six seven years ago. Competitively, well not competitively.

Speaker 1 (01:21:05):
I just wasn't very good at it.

Speaker 9 (01:21:06):
First of all, I had an eye condition also that
provided prevented me from being on a golf course. So
I needed to fill that competitive hole in some way,
shape or form. And who knew it was going to
be trivia, But believe it or not, when I play
in a trivia match, I get the same adrenaline rush
as I would before teeing off for a big round
of golf.

Speaker 6 (01:21:26):
Well, okay, I mean yeah, that's crazy to me, because
I would just be nervous as all get out that
I'm going to know no answers, not one single answer,
and yet give the people just a little bit of
an idea of we talk about these flash cards that
you'll bust out, you'll have I don't know, a stack
maybe five six inches tall that you just go through
has questions and answers. But how many flash cards do

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you have?

Speaker 9 (01:21:48):
I might have to send out a picture of this Eventually.
I have about twenty eight to thirty shoe boxes full
of index cards that I have written out over the
course of the last six and a half years. Started
with me just making cards for top fifty operas, Top
fifty paintings, top fifty books of the nineteen hundreds and whatever,
and just to give myself a solid foundation, and ever

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since then, it's been making a card for anything I
don't know, either on Jeopardy or any of the trivia
matches that I'm in, and it has slowly grown into
this mountain of index cards. The funny part is I'm
sort of this old school guy that has physical cards,
while everybody else in the trivia world has these apps
that they just kind of swipe on their phones, going

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one after the other, so you never know if they're
actually studying or not. I, on the other hand, have
these big boxes that I bring with me everywhere I go.

Speaker 3 (01:22:39):
Everywhere he goes. Aaron Levine is with us, of course,
from Fox thirteen. Tonight he'll be on Como. He will
be appearing on Jeopardy at ten thirty this evening after
Monday night football, and so he makes his debut on Jeopardy.
So is there like a guide to getting there? I mean,
do you know what it takes to get on Jeopardy?

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Take us through that entire process of wanting to be
on it, and then how difficult it is to actually
get on the show.

Speaker 9 (01:23:09):
So it's funny, I was. I'm competing in trivia regularly
against people who have been in trivia bowls, trivia quiz
bowl throughout their high school careers and stuff. I always
wanted to be on Jeopardy growing up, but watching it
with my parents, like as a teenager at the dinner
table every night. But then I stopped going. I didn't
go to any trivia nights like at bars for the

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next you know, through college. In the next fifteen years.
When I turned thirty, seven, I watched an episode of Jeopardy,
and I just set a long term goal of saying, hey,
by the time I turned forty in three years, I
want to feel comfortable enough to take the online Jeopardy test,
And by the time I turned thirty nine, I felt
comfortable enough to do so. So it's been sort of
the six and a half year process of starting to study.

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Took that first online Jeopardy test.

Speaker 1 (01:23:53):
You have to pass that one.

Speaker 9 (01:23:55):
Then they give you a second fifty question test that
is procter to make sure that you're not cheating, and
then if you pass that, then eventually, hopefully you will
get an online audition. Once you have the audition with
the show, you are automatically placed into a contestant pool
for the next two years. So I was in the
contestant pool for the first time in July of twenty

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twenty one. I spent thirty seven consecutive months in the
contestant pool without getting it called the show.

Speaker 1 (01:24:22):
It expired last August.

Speaker 9 (01:24:24):
I took the test again, went through the whole process again,
had my Zoom audition believe it or not, in spring
training in Arizona, and was back in the contestant pool.
Since February and got the call in the late July
take the show last month, and ever since then, it's
been one big blur with the Mariners in the playoffs,
going to Detroit and Toronto twice, and coincidentally, had they

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won Game seven my airgate tonight would have been the
first day that the Mariners ever hosted a World Series game.
So that's my one big regret. It would have been
an all time coincidence. But unfortunately, hopefully they'll get that
there soon.

Speaker 6 (01:25:01):
All right, Well, I mean getting you do a lot
of these shows, or not shows necessarily, but you go
to events and kind of nerd out a little bit
doing a bunch of trivia stuff. You and I have
spoken about this many times before and after doing you know,
postgame shows or in press boxes and whatnot. So what
was the biggest eye opener of doing the biggest one?

(01:25:22):
Because this has got to be to some degree like
the like the super Bowl of trivia.

Speaker 9 (01:25:27):
Yeah, there's no question, and it's It's interesting though, because
the World Quizzing Championships in the trivia world are considered
the top of the top, and then you go to
various events like there's a Sporkle con we were in Detroit,
and that was the second time for playoffs. That was
the second time I was in Detroit because I had
just been there a year prior for this annual convention

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called Sporkle Con and I've been at the Trivia Nationals.

Speaker 4 (01:25:51):
In New Orleans earlier this year.

Speaker 9 (01:25:53):
Jeopardy is by far the highest profile where you start
hearing from your former teachers from high school and people
you haven't talked to in twenty years. But in the
trivia world itself, there are there are incredibly talented trivia
players that everybody knows about in that circle that consistently

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dominate those those realms. It's like when you're playing competitive
golf and you feel like you're a pretty decent golfer
going out and shooting US seventy three, seventy four, and
know once you get out there that you're going to
get lapped by some dude that shoots sixty three or
sixty four on a regular basis.

Speaker 3 (01:26:32):
Make sure you ask everything in a question, Oh well, yeah,
get that done. Crazy is a big deal, that's right.

Speaker 9 (01:26:40):
And the one thing, by the way, the one thing
people don't see when you're watching from home, is how
huge a factor the buzzer is you're not allowed to
buzz in until a guy off stage activates the buzzer
when Ken Jennings is done reading the clue, And so
if you don't time it correctly or if you buzz
in too quickly, you're actually locked out for a quarter

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of a second, which could be the difference between you
getting in and you're not getting in. And psychologically that's
a big deal because imagine knowing six correct answers in
a row but not being able to get in on
the buzzer, but then getting in on the seventh and
getting it wrong. Then you're sitting here with six hundred
negative six hundred negative eight hundred dollars and you knew

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six out of the first seven answers, but you were
just never able to get in.

Speaker 3 (01:27:25):
Wow, gotta have a strong buzzer gate.

Speaker 2 (01:27:26):
And it happened so fast. Yeah, it's it's tough, Altuve
or somebody maybe for a pointer.

Speaker 3 (01:27:32):
Yeah, exactly how to cheat Jeopardy. That would have been
a good tip for you. Okay, So I remember when
Cliff Claven and Cheers wanted to get on Jeopardy for
like years and then he finally got on and he
showed up at the set and it was like Bucky
was joking about earlier. It was like beer, Boston Sports.
It was like every category was like his X areas

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of expertise, and he dominated round one, and then in
round number two it normalized an fell apart. So what
are your one or two areas of expertise that you
were hoping to get when you game on the scene.

Speaker 9 (01:28:07):
I was hoping for anything from history to geography. I
actually feel fairly good in I shouldn't say opera, but
like some of the classical arts types categories, there is
almost a sense of satisfaction at times where and I
can say this if there was sports on the board
that I didn't necessarily gravitate towards sports, because I was

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playing against the stereotype of oh, this is a sports guy,
He's going to go straight to the sports questions. I
felt like I could handle other things. The one area
that I am very bad at is wordplay. I'm horrible
at anagrams. My mind thinks in a very linear fashion.
So if you say crossword clues A because it starts
with A, I'm fine. But if you say that A

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is the exact middle of the answer, my brain does
not work. So that was the area that I was
most concerned about going on the show.

Speaker 3 (01:29:00):
All right, all right, well you get you, you be
successful of us. We'll watch tonight, make sure that you
know we approve, and then you can step up to
the big leagues and play beat Bucky way these weeks.

Speaker 2 (01:29:14):
Good luck with that.

Speaker 9 (01:29:14):
Yeah, I'm looking forward to that for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:29:17):
I bet you are. I bet you are.

Speaker 3 (01:29:21):
Where you gonna have a party tonight? You have like,
what do you got tonight? What do you got going?
How are you you got a viewing schedule? What are
you doing?

Speaker 9 (01:29:28):
I've got an eight and a half year old that's
really excited to stay up till eleven o'clock to watch
this episode. I didn't exactly you know, it's not exactly
in my favor to have a ten thirty at night
on a weekday episode, but.

Speaker 10 (01:29:43):
It is what it is.

Speaker 9 (01:29:44):
Everybody gets to watch the World Series and then or
Monday night football and then tune in later tonight at I'm.

Speaker 3 (01:29:49):
Thirty, okay, ten thirty.

Speaker 10 (01:29:50):
It is.

Speaker 3 (01:29:51):
Well, congratulations, we're excited for you. I mean watching you
go through your flash cards for years and here you
are right on the doorstep of seeing yourself on Jeopardy.
So awesome.

Speaker 1 (01:30:02):
Congrats man, Thanks Black guys, thanks so much for the support.

Speaker 3 (01:30:05):
All Right, Aaron Levine joining us right here on the
checker box is not gonna er. It's not gonna rate
well in Toronto. No, yeah, he's not gonna get huge
ratings tonight there. But uh, but that's exciting for him.
That's awesome. You've been hearing about this for a while now.
I got a buddy, one of my best friends in
the world, and he's been wanting to get on Jeopardy

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as entire adult life, and it just hasn't happened for him.
I'm sure he hasn't pursued it as aggressively as what
Aaron is.

Speaker 2 (01:30:34):
Yeah. Well, yeah, there's a lot that's gone into it.

Speaker 6 (01:30:35):
He showed me a couple of pictures like incognito like
pictures about he couldn't quite he wasn't supposed to announce
that he was, but he was gonna wait until after
the Mariner's situation was done.

Speaker 2 (01:30:46):
But just getting on there. The first thing, you're gonna
laugh when you see how he wrote his name.

Speaker 3 (01:30:51):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I like that. And he also
knows the result, by the way, Yeah, and can't hell,
anybody I know.

Speaker 4 (01:31:01):
We don't know if he's on more than one night.

Speaker 3 (01:31:02):
Yeah, I don't know. We don't know if he won.
I don't know, if he embarrassed himself, embarrassed Seattle.

Speaker 2 (01:31:08):
We don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:31:09):
I'm gonna doubt that so he can be crazy.

Speaker 3 (01:31:12):
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