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Speaker 5 (01:13):
Good morning and welcome in.

Speaker 6 (01:14):
It's Chuck It back in the Morning Sports Radio ninety
three point three k j R FM. My name is
Chuck Fowel. Former Mariner Bucket Jacobson is here, so is
Ashley Ryan. As we get this home day edition of
the radio program started, but not just any old run
of the mill hump Day Today, Mark's Game three of
the American League Championship Series. The Mariners back home to

(01:36):
take on the Toronto Blue Jays. They happen to carry
a two to o lead going into tonight's festivities and
a chance to really grab a stranglehold on this ALCS.

Speaker 5 (01:48):
And really get the juices going.

Speaker 6 (01:50):
I think that Softy made it very obvious to me,
like the moment that it.

Speaker 5 (01:55):
Happened, that's as our close US signs on.

Speaker 6 (02:00):
You get a win today and you're even closer to
the World Series than that. This would be that marked
the closest that the organization's ever gotten to the World Series,
being just one win away and so certain.

Speaker 5 (02:11):
But I like that. I kind of like that.

Speaker 6 (02:13):
I like having the two oh lead kind of taken
care of business, but still carrying the weight of that
history with you. If there's a team that's not going
to take for granted that they've got a two to
oh lead in the American League Championship Series, it's going
to be our Seattle Mariners. Those players feel it, they
know it, they understand it. I think they've cracked a

(02:35):
little bit under the pressure of it in the past.
But to have the advantage to be have the momentum
to be coming home knowing what kind of home crowd
awaits you. I think it's good to carry that around
a little bit because I don't think you're getting anything
less than one hundred percent tonight.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
Yeah they're well, they're not. They're definitely not like in a.

Speaker 7 (02:56):
Position of like, well, we're used to this, of course,
and yeah, to we know what it feels like to
close this situation out. I just think about the difference
between the Mariners and Dodgers. Both did the same thing,
go win two games on the road, and yet you
hear the Dodgers people coming out you're two wins away
from the World Series again, like it just seems like.

Speaker 8 (03:18):
It'll be posted that yesterday on x Yeah. Yeah, Dodgers
are two wins away from the World Series.

Speaker 7 (03:23):
Yeah, and yet it just doesn't even feel like you
can go there yet as a Mariner fan, like, I
mean you are, and it is, well, the first pitch tonight,
you're as close.

Speaker 4 (03:32):
As you've ever been.

Speaker 7 (03:33):
And yet I think there is a part of it
off if you just take like the difference between the
two teams that are sitting in the same place. One
is like, boy, the job being finished because of the history,
because of the fact they've never achieved the goal of
winning a third game in this situation, and then when
in obviously the necessary fourth game.

Speaker 5 (03:52):
So yeah, I'm with you.

Speaker 7 (03:53):
I think that there is, without a doubt a team
of there's still work to be done. And the mission
wasn't to get to the playoffs. It wasn't to just
get through one round of the playoffs. It was to
get to the World Series and then once you're there,
you might as well win the whole LEFN thing.

Speaker 8 (04:07):
It was interesting though, because with that MLB tweet where
they said, Dodgers are you know, two wins away from
the World Series. Again, when the Mariners went up to
oh in Toronto, I went back to see what they
had said about like what they tweeted when we won,
and it was the Mariners are take a two zero
lead against Toronto and just the wording was different. But
I understand that because the expectations are different, right like

(04:27):
for our series, I think nobody thinks that our series
is even close to over, whereas you can tell they
think that Dodgers Brewers series is basically over because now
they're heading to LA for three games.

Speaker 5 (04:42):
I think people think our series is over.

Speaker 6 (04:45):
I'm just glad that our guys don't right, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
I would agree. I don't know. I haven't gotten that impression.

Speaker 6 (04:51):
Yeah yeah, So I mean I don't I don't get
I don't see a lot of don't worry about Toronto
comments out there. I think that what we showed in
Toronto had everybody going, oh gosh, wow, look at this
Mariners team. Not only are we've been saying for years
if they got in the playoffs, they would be dangerous.

(05:14):
And now all of a sudden, they got over that
first hump where the real pressure existed, and now, man,
they're just playing free and easy out there right now.

Speaker 5 (05:23):
Don't listen to the guys in New York.

Speaker 6 (05:25):
New York media have their heads so far up New
York's but that they don't pay attention to anybody.

Speaker 5 (05:33):
That's not called the Yankees, the Mets. But I don't know.

Speaker 6 (05:36):
I mean, we just had Harold on yesterday and asked
him where's the path that the Blue Jays get back
in this thing? And he says, I really don't see one.
I mean, granted, he's a Mariner guy, but he's also
a national guy. He's the face of the damn network,
for goodness sake. So I think people believe both series
are over. I'm just glad that our players don't feel

(05:58):
that way. Won't approach it that way. Damn, We'll make
sure they don't approach it that way. I want them
to carry the weight of the entire city on their
shoulders into tonight and acting like they don't.

Speaker 5 (06:09):
We can't slip up once. We don't want them back
into this series.

Speaker 6 (06:13):
I think George goes in there with the furious intent
and there is absolutely a plan to start it off
three to oher and not in any way or form
let Toronto think that they're back in this series.

Speaker 4 (06:28):
Yeah, I mean I don't remember.

Speaker 7 (06:30):
I saw somewhere what the percentages are of once you
get up to zero, and it's minimal. I mean, it's
not a big percentage of teams that do come back
in a seven game series after going down to zip.
And yet the fact that it's not zero is enough
that you better not. Yeah, overlook it. It has happened
before it can happen. I mean it was four I

(06:52):
think was that first that when the Red Sox came
back from down three zip right and came back, and
so that was seen insurmountable at that point in time.
They were still carrying the burden of the curse, and
yet they ended up rallying and finding a way. So
I mean, it's just you can just think. I mean,
I think as a baseball player, you find yourself in

(07:13):
the you got to stay where you are present, right
and whatever happened before doesn't matter now, and we don't
know what the future holds, so just treat the present
like a gift. I think that that comes true in
a situation like this, because the field could be completely
different if tonight goes really south and all of a sudden,
you're like, oh man, because I mean just two to

(07:33):
zero feels like basically undefeat in this whole thing.

Speaker 4 (07:36):
I mean, kind of killing.

Speaker 7 (07:37):
Them right now, whereas two to one you're like, oh
my goodness, you could scuffle one time here you know
tomorrow and next thing you know, you find yourself feeling
like they have seized all the momentum and you're in
some must win situation in Game five before you got
to go back to Toronto. So I think that the
team gets it, and I think that there's times when

(07:58):
the media just kind of just say, well, they look
so good or they the other team, they've stifled them.
I mean, coming into this series, the way in which
Toronto hit against the Yankees, and now they haven't hit
for two games. It doesn't mean they can't hit, you
know what I mean. I heard MJ on my way
home yesterday talking about Vlad Guerrero, what a disappointment. Gave

(08:19):
him half a billion dollars. He hasn't got one hit
in this whole series. It's like, Okay, dude's still pretty good.
I wouldn't just think that he's pretty much.

Speaker 5 (08:27):
Won series by himself against the Yankees. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (08:29):
Yeah, he's still having a pretty decent postseason. He just
has not gotten off the schneid when it comes to
hitting against us in two games. And yet there's not
a pitcher in the Mariners organization. I mean, you can
talk about an a ball kid that's sitting at home
watching the playoffs that isn't a little fearful of Vlad
Guerrero walking up to the dish, including all the guys
are going to be thrown to him.

Speaker 6 (08:49):
And look, DODG just did deserve the benefit of the
doll They are world champions, they do they have gotten here.

Speaker 5 (08:54):
Many of times before. We never have.

Speaker 6 (08:57):
So if there is a little bit of you still
got to prove it, they still got to prove it.
So I mean, the Dodgers have been here, they know
they've written this story before, and yeah, they look like
a damn mismatch for the Milwaukee Bers. I think they
are a mismatch for the Milwaukee Bears as not a
great matchup. Milwaukee is a feisty ass team. It's hard
to just put together singles. They're not really trying to

(09:19):
steal bases because they've been thrown out a couple of times.
They can't get on base because the Dodgers pitching has
been just so dominant here throughout the entire postseason.

Speaker 5 (09:28):
So I don't watching that series.

Speaker 6 (09:32):
I don't blame people for thinking that the Dodgers ticket
is already punched. I kind of feel like we have
a little bit of a mismatch with the Toronto Blue Jays.
I talked about it yesterday with Ryan Healy. I think
we have better starting pitching. I think we have better bullpen,
and I think we have a better lineup. I mean,
what more do you need on paper to convince yourself
you've got the better team. We've just got a better

(09:52):
match up with them. But we don't have the history
of proving that we know how to handle this situation,
that we know how to handle prosperity, that we know
how to finish an American League championship series, because it's
never been done here before. So if there's a little
bit of doubt that's been raised by national pundits, local

(10:14):
pundits in the clubhouse, then that's been earned over fifty
years of the Mariners having never gotten there before. But
in terms of like who looks like the better teams,
it's not just the results. The Brewers are a terrible
matchup for the Dodgers, and I don't and I'd be
saying something different if the Yankees would have beaten the
Blue Jays. We didn't match up nearly as well with

(10:35):
the Yankees as we do the Blue Jays. But I
feel we match up very well against Toronto and should win,
should win in five games.

Speaker 5 (10:43):
That's my expectation for him.

Speaker 6 (10:45):
But you still, when you've got that entire history being
carried carried on your shoulders, you can't let up for
one second. Keep the foot on the frickin gas pedal.

Speaker 8 (10:55):
Well, and I think too, Yeah, you look at that
Blue Jays Yankees series and how potent the Blue Jays
offense was. I think everybody just thinks, well, just give
them time and they'll find their bats again. Whereas I
mean in the Detroit series, after we played Errek Scuble
in Game two and one, Derek Jeter went on MLB
or Fox whatever it is and said, you know, we

(11:17):
kind of forgot about the Mariner's pitching. Everybody kept talking
about Trek Scooble, Trek scoobl Trek Scuble.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
We forgot about the Mariner's pitching. And I think that.

Speaker 8 (11:23):
That's kind of been because it's a more of everybody's
just as good on our team. We don't have mediocre
pitching in that one ace, so people don't tend to
look at us as a collective of dominant pitching.

Speaker 7 (11:38):
I think the idea, yeah, I mean, you need to
have a well rounded team. You'd look at the four
teams that are left in this thing, and they're all
dangerous in their own right.

Speaker 5 (11:47):
They all deserve to be where they are.

Speaker 7 (11:48):
They all have some danger in their lineup, and they
all have some good pitching. I think that yesterday you
saw and you heard it on the broadcast when talking
about the length of the Dodgers' lineup.

Speaker 4 (12:00):
Yeah, no doubt.

Speaker 7 (12:01):
And they had a dude out there that decides to
just go complete game on you too, CG.

Speaker 4 (12:05):
How's that taste.

Speaker 7 (12:07):
Yeah, maybe a bullpen is suspect, Well, get it pretty
good if they all just stay in the bullpen.

Speaker 4 (12:13):
It's a really good bullpen.

Speaker 7 (12:14):
Matter of fact, you can't score a run on them
if they never come in the game, and that's not
going to continue to happen. But I think that it's
something we've talked about because we follow this team. And
yet even if you do pay attention to it, to
your point, actually, even if you do recognize how good
the Mariner's pitching staff is, it's not something that is typical.
This is not something you typically watch where you get

(12:35):
to see It's like you talk about, you can never
take a deep breath. You can never take a deep
breath when you have a deep lineup. Think about you
get down into the six spot and it's Tasker Hernandez
or yesterday or whatever.

Speaker 4 (12:48):
Think about it.

Speaker 7 (12:48):
On the other hand, when you're a hitter and you
never get to take a breath based on who's going
to be starting against you the next day, Whereas there
is times I can tell you from experience, you all
of a sudden are facing some dude, it's not their best,
it's the third or fourth best pitcher, and you're like, today,
I'm having a day today, you know, I mean, I'm
feeling good about the way that things are going to

(13:09):
go today. You can't have that feeling. I don't care
who it is that the Mariners are running out there
against you, And so it's just kind of one of
those constantly walking up hill when it comes to trying
to generate offense against the squad.

Speaker 6 (13:20):
Well, it's the best starting rotation in baseball. And maybe
Philadelphia could have had that argument before Zach Wheeler went down,
but nobody else can make that argument. The Dodgers went healthy.
They have the ability to make that argument, and we're
seeing it. They're finally all healthy. They got healthy at
the right time this year as opposed to a year ago.

(13:41):
They can make that argument potentially, and they're playing like
it right now.

Speaker 5 (13:45):
And they're going to be a really.

Speaker 6 (13:46):
Difficult matchup if in fact we do meet the Dodgers
in the in the World Series. But yeah, I believe me.
You know, maybe Derek Jeter was sleeping on it. No
national people were sleeping on the Marion. And they've been
talking about for five years how great this team's pitch,
and know how relentless that they can be, night after
night after night coming at you. And we'll see it

(14:07):
hopefully tonight with George Kirby. Also something that people are
a little worried about showing up tonight is how much
Royal Blue is going to be in the stadium. We
know during the regular season that Toronto fans, Canadian baseball
fans who have adopted the Blue Jays as their team

(14:28):
from coast to coast make their way down and kind
of take over the stadium during the regular season, so
there's a little bit of concern about whether or not
that's going to happen tonight. I really can't answer that.
I don't know of any well, maybe some ticket people can.

Speaker 5 (14:43):
I don't know what to expect on that front. I'm
assuming the.

Speaker 6 (14:50):
Way that they sell tickets for the postseason and the
fact that Mariner fans who might have tickets have probably
held onto them much more tightly than they would have
a regular season ticket to make sure that that doesn't happen.
But certainly there's going to be a few people that
bought tickets initially with the plan of selling tickets at

(15:11):
some point, Donald, I want to go to one or
two games, and then I want to sell a ticket
to some Canadian uh, and then I get to go.

Speaker 5 (15:19):
Then that means I could have gone for free, or
w I did go for free. I can't.

Speaker 6 (15:23):
I don't think anybody can handicap this. I have no
idea what to expect. I certainly predict that it won't
be like it looks like in the regular season. But
I'm also just as sure that it's going to be
a lot more Toronto weed than it was Detroit Y
last week.

Speaker 4 (15:40):
Yeah, there's no doubt about that.

Speaker 7 (15:42):
I mean, they're still going to have some folks that
are coming down, and yeah, some people are selling tickets
for the reasons you explained. It's like, oh again, buy
a little strip here for you know, whether it's through
all of the playoffs and I can give up a
couple and get some of my money back. I don't
even have a problem with that. I actually don't even
mind it. It's definitely not going to be like it
is in the regular season. When you can plan ahead

(16:04):
for months to make a trip down here to watch
your Blue Jays play, and it's you know, beautiful weather,
and it's not going to be near the takeover that
we see during the regular season. And to some degree,
I kind of think, because you are going to get
a full house of mostly Mariner fans, that if they
try there, let's go Blue Jay.

Speaker 4 (16:23):
If they try that, it's going to get drowned out quickly.

Speaker 5 (16:25):
You know.

Speaker 7 (16:25):
It's actually going to give the Mariner fans an opportunity
to be like, no, no, And so I'm expecting it
to be hyped. I mean, even though there's definitely gonna
be more Blue Jay fans here than we saw Tiger fans,
not enough that.

Speaker 4 (16:38):
It's going to matter.

Speaker 8 (16:39):
Yeah, that's one thing that I was I was, I
guess maybe surprised by is that I didn't see a
lot of Tigers fans. I think I would have expected
to see more given that it was Game five, but
at the same time, knowing that they hadn't even really
shown up in their own stadium, I suppose.

Speaker 6 (16:53):
I was a fan base with respecting the Mariners. I
don't think they ever expected to beat us.

Speaker 1 (16:57):
No, I.

Speaker 2 (16:59):
Mean, we've seeing Game four in that stadium.

Speaker 8 (17:01):
It didn't seem like it, And so I do think
there are going to be a good number, and that
is annoying. But I mean, kudos to them, Good on
them for supporting their team. But yeah, we've got to
We've got a job to do. Mariunderstands it's not just
the team that has a job to do. Mariners fans
have a job to do and a responsibility to not
let those fans take over the stadium.

Speaker 6 (17:18):
A responsibility that's right to walk that dog. Well, I again,
I don't know. I mean, I've had a lot of
people ask is they're.

Speaker 5 (17:26):
Gonna be I don't know.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
Yeah, no, one doesn't.

Speaker 5 (17:29):
I mean maybe, I hope not. I'm certainly it's not
going to be as bad. I don't know how to
control that.

Speaker 6 (17:35):
I don't know if the Mariners know how to control that.
So on an individual basis, if any everybody that's a
Mariner fan decides to sell their tickets to make up
for it, and they think to themselves, well it's just
one ticket, it's just two tickets. Well, if you know
a thousand people do that, well they're going to get infiltrated.
I have no idea what to expect with this, but

(17:58):
I'm certainly trust that it's not going to be as
bad as it was during the regular season. And I'm
also trusting that we're going to have kind of a
maniacal crowd like we did on Friday, because that was
some impressive stuff to see to close out the Tigers.
All right, let's find out what's on tap for today's
radio program.

Speaker 1 (18:21):
What's on TEP, what's on TEP?

Speaker 6 (18:24):
All right, five pm start tonight. It will be Shane
Bieber going against George Kirby. Angie Mentink will join us
today as she has all season long, and of course
you don't get as much Angie in your life these
days now that the national networks have taken over coverage
from the local people. So I'm sure you're very curious
to hear what Angie has to say about the way
the series is going. So we'll talk to her at

(18:46):
eight thirty. Also, comedian Dustin Nickerson, who is become one
of our favorite Mariner fans out there. He's going to
be joining us today at nine thirty. If you're not
following along with him, living and dying with every pitch
on Twitter, you need to do it. It's actually very

(19:06):
comical as it turns out.

Speaker 5 (19:08):
He's a comedian.

Speaker 6 (19:09):
He is one of us, so he'll join us today
at nine thirty.

Speaker 5 (19:14):
Brian Woo says he's ready.

Speaker 6 (19:15):
The only thing that he has left to cross off
the list in terms of getting to pitch in a
playoff game is being told it's time to pitch in
a playoff game. So he believes physically he's one hundred
percent and he is ready to go and ready to
potentially dominate. We'll see how the Mariners intend to use
him as this series unfolds. As we mentioned, the Dodgers

(19:36):
are up two to zero in the National League Championship Series.
They defeated Milwaukee last night by a final score of
five to one.

Speaker 5 (19:43):
It's hump Day and.

Speaker 6 (19:45):
Usually this is when we really dive into the seahawks
next opponent that will be the Houston Texans. But we
do have an extra day because this is Monday Night
football week for the Seahawks, and so hump Day gets
a little clouded when it comes to the Hawks on
a Monday night football week. Greg Bell will join us
today at seven five though, to give us the latest information,

(20:08):
it's Thursday night football even the National Football League Tomorrow
the Steelers will be at Cincinnati. That's pretty much the
Bengals last gasp effort to try to get back into
this playoff race, as they'll take on the Steelers at home.
Joe Flacco against Aaron Rodgers, two forty plus year old
quarterbacks going head to head on Thursday night. Football College

(20:29):
football Huskies have a huge game against the Michigan Wolverines
at the Big House this Saturday. Cam Cleveland will join
us today at eight o'clock to discuss it. And the
Montreal Canadians did defeat the Kraken last night by a
final score of five to four, but it did go
into overtime, so we got a point. Allison and Ian

(20:49):
both seem to be really happy with that point. When
you think about it. Yeah, you go on the road
for the very first time, it's their home opener.

Speaker 5 (20:56):
You put four goals on the board, and you lose.

Speaker 6 (20:59):
Because a guy skates right and has about three inches
to get the ball the puck into the net. It
hits off Joey to Cord's shoulder and it was the
only three inches of the net that he wasn't protecting
and it went into the goal. And that's how you
lose the game. Yeah, so you get a point out
of it. You got to point out of all three
games thus far. And so they'll continue the road trip

(21:23):
later on this week. But they did lose an overtime
last night, five to four. All right, we are underway
here on this Wednesday. The ABC's of the m's coming
your way early this.

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Speaker 6 (22:42):
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Speaker 2 (22:46):
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Speaker 5 (22:48):
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Crag and lose their first game of the year, but
they didn't get a point. They took it to overtime
on the road against Montreal, a talented young team, and

(23:25):
that was their home opener for the season, so a
lot of things stacked against them. Sounded like everybody was
all right with a point, so we will take it.
They have scored, obviously a point in every single game
this year, with two wins and now a loss in overtime.
The other stories that we need to cover in our
frost brewed cors Light Shoes Chill headlines before we bring

(23:48):
Greg bell aboard. Of course, Tonight is game number three
of the American League Championship Series. George Kirby getting the
start for the Mariners, Shane Bieber getting the start for
the Toronto Blue Jay's first pitch is at five o'clock.
With a win, the Mariners can go up three to
zero in the series. That would be wonderful. Brian wu
says he's ready to go. He is one hundred percent

(24:11):
ready to pitch. It's just a matter of Dan Wilson
giving him the opportunity, giving him the baseball. So we'll
see if we'll see him at some point during this series.
The National League Championship Series is also two to zero,
with the Dodgers also winning both their games on the
road against the Milwaukee Brewers.

Speaker 5 (24:28):
Last night, it was Yamamoto.

Speaker 6 (24:30):
The night before Blake Snell dominating Milwaukee hitters. Yamamoto ended
up going the distance in a five to one win
over the Milwaukee Brewers. It's Thursday night football leave Pittsburgh
at Cincinnati gets the new week of the National Football
League started tomorrow. In college football, the Huskies will be
at Michigan taking on the Wolverines and the Big House

(24:50):
on Saturday. We'll talk to Cam Cleland about it at
eight o'clock. And of course it is hump day here,
so we start pealing our attention toward the Houston Texans,
the next opponent for the Seahawks, and they won't play
them until Monday night, and I know we will be
covering it.

Speaker 5 (25:07):
Greg Bell.

Speaker 6 (25:07):
Greg got all fancy on us with Delacado. Yeah, what
do you like? You like a nice cab? Are you
more of a white wine kind of guy? What do
you like at the Delacado family wine?

Speaker 10 (25:19):
No red for sure? When I heard that yesterday, I thought,
we'll wait a minute. I think there needs to be
some sampling in order here or something I would I
would think you would be sponsored by well well, I mean,
why would I be sponsored by something I know nothing about?

Speaker 11 (25:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (25:35):
I think we should test it.

Speaker 5 (25:37):
Yeah. I think we should all go to NAPA together.

Speaker 2 (25:40):
Yeah we should. Yeah, broadcast from there?

Speaker 4 (25:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (25:45):
Oh, even better? What's going on here? We just got
to be someone at that station who can make that happen.
I know what department that is.

Speaker 5 (25:56):
We'll put some heat on them, don't you, Greg, But
you have that. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (26:01):
In the meantime, we'll we'll just think about how delicious tacato.

Speaker 10 (26:05):
So I got to hear about it every day. Yeah, great, okay,
come on, exert yourself please. I appreciate that.

Speaker 5 (26:15):
All right.

Speaker 6 (26:16):
Well, what kind of fine wine performance do you think
we're going to get out of George Kirby tonight before
we talked some Seahawks football.

Speaker 10 (26:25):
Well, I mean he did, okay, he was a footnote
in Game five because of how crazy it ended in
fifteen innings and it was like he pitched three days
earlier that night. But people forget that he won run
in five innings, and I think under normal circumstances he
would have continued pitching. And he's I wrote this in
a distribute story or just say, he's the only guy

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on the whole staff who's been on regular turns and
not coming out of bullpens, and so it's business as
usual for him. He talked about that in Toronto before
Game two, about how he's rested and normal routine and
he's doing bullpens and stretching and ninety throws and he's
doing regular season scheduled work. Well, no one else's staff is.

(27:10):
Everyone else is. He's on short rest. They're coming out
of the bullpen, and now Castillo is going to be
on long rest and they haven't had wo at all.
But it's been normal schedule for George Kirby. You would
think for something.

Speaker 6 (27:22):
Yeah, yeah, opportunity to kind of reset the whole thing.
And you still went up too. Oh it's it's pretty amazing.

Speaker 10 (27:30):
So about your ace having pitched yet in the postseason, yeah, yeah,
not bad, not bad, kind of encouraging.

Speaker 6 (27:37):
Also, I I will mention this before we talk Seahawks
football here. You went out of your way to write
a nice story about Mitch Garver, and I think that
that was.

Speaker 10 (27:47):
What this show would notice that. Oh boy, well, I thought,
I thought, when am I going to get the opportunity
to write about Mitch Garver? Well, and well, my point
of the story was it has nothing to do on
with on the field. For those that don't know what
we're talking about, or that we'll never read a story

(28:09):
about Mitch Carver. He was two years ago on the
Texas Rangers when they went up two to zero in
the ALCS after winning two road games at Houston, and
then they went back to Texas and got three swept
three straight games out out of Arlington by the Astros,
so he's been here exactly here, and he said he

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was going to talk to the team about that and
going to talk to them about trying to win every
inning and then be the goal to try to score
every inning. He implied that Texas just cruised into Game
three thinking the series is over, and then they had
to scramble and rally and they won game six and
seven at Houston. That was a really odd series. Texas
won all four games in Houston, and Houston won all
three games in Arlington. Of course, the Rangers and Carver

(28:52):
went on to win the World Series in twenty twenty three,
but he said, yep, I'm definitely talking to the guys
about that experience and how to keep the peddle down
and to try to win every inning. He said, score
in every inning was the mentality he's going to try
to preach to them.

Speaker 5 (29:06):
Mhmm.

Speaker 6 (29:06):
Well, yeah, I think that's a pretty good mentality to have.
I don't think they're gonna have to worry about it.
I don't think they're gonna overlook. I don't think they're
gonna take anything lightly. I don't think they got their
feet up on the desk. I think they are in
a really good place for this game tonight, So we
shall see, all right. Greg Bell is our Seahawks insider,
but he has been covering the Mariners in the playoffs

(29:27):
as well for Thenewstribune dot Com, So it gives us
a chance to.

Speaker 5 (29:30):
Double dip a little bit here with Greg. But let's
talk Seahawks.

Speaker 6 (29:33):
It's a hump day, and I know it's a Monday
night football game, but this is the day where we
start looking forward to the next opponent. Been a weird
year for the Houston Texans, been a weird couple of years.
Two years ago, they were expected they they kind of
came out of nowhere and people put the tag of
NFL darling on them. And they didn't have a bad
year last year, but people looked at it as a disappointment. Well,

(29:57):
this year has certainly been a disappointment. They're off to
a really rough start this season, especially offensively. What should
we know about the Texans here on the Wednesday before
playing them on Monday Night football.

Speaker 10 (30:09):
Well, here's what Mike McDonald's telling his Seahawks. They were
owing three and everybody's writing them off. As the season finished,
they got beat by the Rams, the Buccaneers by a
point and the Jaguars by seven. They lost to the
Rams on the road by five points. They held the
Rams to fourteen points fourteen to nine. They lost to
Tampa Bay twenty to nineteen, and they lost to Jacksonville

(30:32):
seventeen ten. Since then, they've helped get an NFL coach fired.
They've won maybe twenty six to nothing win over Tennessee
as an own three team. That was probably when the
Titans starts saying, okay, we're done with Brian Callahan, whom
they fired a couple of weeks later. And then they
went to Baltimore and won forty four to ten. And
I know Baltimore has all kinds of issues right now,

(30:54):
but that got their attend In a former Ravens defensive coordinator,
I'm guessing that Mike McDonald turned the Texans Ravens game
tape on and just let it play, and that probably
got the Seahawks attention. Forty four to ten on the
road at Baltimore, no matter what state the Ravens are in,
is probably got Mike McDonald's front and center marquee attention

(31:16):
for this week. So they're two and three, they're coming
off of bye and when I look at the numbers,
I'm trying to wonder why people want to roll c J.
Stroud right out of the league. He's got eight touchdowns
against three interception and I haven't watched the Titans game
of Texans game all season. I've been busy doing a
few other things. But he's a seventy one percent passer

(31:38):
with eight touchdowns and three interceptions, so he's doing something right.
Every time I read or hear a story about CJ.
Strauditz that he shouldn't be a quarterback wise in the league,
Houston should cut him, bench him. The point is, the
narrative is that Houston sunk, but they're not. And in
the NFL at two and three, coming off a bye,

(32:01):
you're right there now. Of course, the Colts are often
rolling it in that division, and they'll have work to
do obviously, but I don't think that they're in this
abyss that the narrative that the perception is.

Speaker 7 (32:15):
No, I don't think there are either. It's definitely a
team you can sleep on. I agree. What would you say, though,
even having not watched any texts and stuff, just kind
of looking into it, investigating it, thinking about what you
got to prepare for What is it that they should
worry about the most. I mean, they got to have
a game plan aster. We're not going to let this happen.
We're not going to let that happen. What are those things?

Speaker 10 (32:37):
Well, it's still a Nick Chubb. He doesn't seem to
have quite the season going yet, and they're not running
the ball much. Houston Stide. I think Eachubba is two
hundred and forty yards two hundred and forty nine total
yards on the season rushing with only two touchdowns through
five games. And Stroud does have the ability, like off
many quarterbacks now in the NFL, to extend players and

(32:58):
to get outside the pocket, which has been an issue
at times for the Seahawks. I would say those are
the two issues there now. When I was in Jacksonville,
I was talking to some guys with the Jaguars, and
it was interesting to hear him talk about how well
they might talk about the game on Sunday in Jacksonville.
They might window dress and try to run a little bit,
but I don't think they're going to really test Seattle's run.

(33:21):
They really respect Seattle's run defense. And all of a sudden,
sometimes because the Seahawks have been playing from the front
the lead except the course against Tampa Bay and the shootout.
Suddenly the Seahawks are second in the NFL and rush defense.
So now there's this perception that teams shouldn't try to
run on the Seahawks, and the Jaguars really didn't try

(33:44):
too hard at the end. Was they had one hundred
and twenty five plus yards average a top five rushing
team coming into that game, and they only had about
fifty nine yards. And McDonald after the game talked about
how the run defense created the third and longs and
I mentioned yesterday how many third and nine pluses they had,

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and that's how the defense got seven sacks, a season high.
So if I was Houston, I would test that run
defense and I would do it more than Jacksonville did,
and I don't have a quarterback. It is as hot
and as accurate as Baker Mayfield is. I would run
a lot more of Chubb than what they've done so

(34:27):
far this season. We'll see what they do.

Speaker 5 (34:29):
Greg bellis whether it's our Seahawks insider.

Speaker 6 (34:31):
You can follow mat gmail Seattle on Twitter also Thenewstribune
dot com, where right now he's following both the Mariners
and the Seahawks double duty, and he joins us nearly
every day at seven oh five thanks to Della Coatta
Wines family Wines. All right, let's I want to talk
about JSN. We didn't get a chance yesterday. That was

(34:51):
another big talking point on Monday morning with coach in
with Hugh and look, I mean, he's just having a
phenomenal year, and yet there's still this critic like, man,
you just can't keep targeting him that much during the
course of a game.

Speaker 5 (35:05):
And yet maybe you can. I don't know, because they don't.
He can't.

Speaker 6 (35:11):
They're not stopping him on the other side of the ball.
So if they can't, if they can't cover him, then
why don't you go to your best wide receiver as
often as you possibly can.

Speaker 10 (35:21):
I'm starting to believe that this sports market wants to
complain about anything. They have the number one receiver in
the NFL. Give him the ball. If he's that good.
That's a first world problem to say you're throwing ball
too much to the top receiver in the league. They
thought reason he's a top receiver in the league is
because they're throwing the ball. And Darnald actually has obviously

(35:44):
a very sudden trust. It's not like they go back
years and years and in a couple months here he
is counting on Smith and jigmiticket open. He could have
had him much bigger. Day dropped the pass in open
field at one point, and there was another ball that
was tipped and deflect I'm pretty share it with him
on the slant that the ball get deflected into the
defensive lineman's stomach who dropped it. But the point is

(36:08):
Donald's thrown a lot more to him than even his numbers. Though. Yeah,
I don't have that criticism of the Seahawks. I think
they keep doing what works and if no one's able
to cover Smith and Jig. But even though every defensive
game plan has him in the center of it, yet
he's still leading the NFL keep doing it. He's now
the NFL's yardage receiver leader, past kuk Kuh who's injured

(36:31):
right now with ancle injury for the Rams. I don't
see any I don't know what that criticism should be.
What it's supposed to be, This like socialist job share
of receiving yards, everyone's supposed to have the same or
else the offense isn't working, right. I don't see any
complaints at all. And I can't believe all the things
there could be the complain about the Seahawks, but that

(36:51):
would be one of them.

Speaker 6 (36:52):
Yeah, maybe it does catch up to you eventually. And yeah,
I think there's some some merit to it. But if
they if he's open, then throw it to though.

Speaker 5 (37:02):
Yeah, I mean exactly.

Speaker 10 (37:03):
It's not like in the moment Donald goes, oh wait,
I've thrown it six times to him already. I can't
throw to him at seven. Yeah, even even though my
Reid says it and the defense can't cover him and
he's opened sixty yards down the field, let me throw
this majestic sixty one yard touchdown pass. It's the best
pass I've thrown for the Sea Ark. Oh darn, I
just threwed him for the eighth time. I'm doing something wrong.

(37:23):
And meanwhile it's twenty to six. Whatever. I just don't
see it.

Speaker 6 (37:29):
All right, man, Well, thank you, we appreciate you, and
we'll talk to you again, probably on Friday.

Speaker 5 (37:35):
It sounds like Friday.

Speaker 10 (37:36):
Yeah, oh, okay, just skip ahead.

Speaker 5 (37:40):
I don't know race. It's a day by day. It's
a fluid situation here, Greg.

Speaker 10 (37:45):
But yeah, did they take the table away. Is it
not round anymore at the yard today?

Speaker 5 (37:52):
Yes, we'll see you out.

Speaker 10 (37:53):
There all right, all right, see that I have a
good day.

Speaker 6 (37:56):
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Speaker 5 (38:38):
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Speaker 1 (39:04):
Boy.

Speaker 6 (39:04):
You get used to having Angie men sing pretty much
part of your entire summer, almost on a daily basis
here in her Mariners analysis, and then all of a sudden,
you reach the playoffs, the networks take over and you
don't have Angie in your life, and you're like, what
the F sad? Yeah, Fortunately for you the listener, and
that's the talk show hosts, we do have Angie in

(39:25):
our lives once a week, every week, this time eight
thirty and she joins us here this morning, good to.

Speaker 4 (39:30):
Chat with you.

Speaker 12 (39:32):
I've been chatting with you, and you know, I don't
want to hate on other announcers or anything, but I
was like, oh, Casyn, this this thing they call that
East Coast bias, just just a little bit, you know,
through the first couple of series, I just it goes
to show you, you know, it's like, you know, obviously
Pacific Northwest central to US and where we live and everything,

(39:55):
but the rest of the country just thinks we're like
Southeast Alaska. I mean, they really do.

Speaker 5 (40:00):
Has it really been going on? I mean I haven't
watched any of.

Speaker 2 (40:02):
The coverage yeah, yeah, right.

Speaker 13 (40:05):
No, I yeah, I mean, has it really because I
keep reading it from Marinder fans, But I don't know
if that's just Mariner fans being sensitive to another team
getting compliments.

Speaker 11 (40:17):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 12 (40:18):
There's like a tone to it where I think that
that the Mariners are just surprising a lot of people.
But you have to believe that, Like, you know, you
can imagine the ratings. They're like, wait a minute, coming
out of americanly we have Alaska or Canada. Great? Great,
I mean, you know, I'm sure they were rooting for

(40:39):
the Yankees hard for another Yankees Dodgers, and then if
it was like I mean, obviously the Brewers are down,
but can you imagine if it was like Mariners versus Brewers,
you know, pilots. Yeah, yeah, you know, there's like like
it's just the rest of the nation would just check out,
but it would be awesome.

Speaker 5 (40:57):
Well, it looks like we're headed toward Mariner's dog.

Speaker 6 (41:00):
We got a lot of work to do, so let's
talk about how this team got here to a two
to zero lead in this series. There were a lot
of people and this is something that the national.

Speaker 5 (41:09):
Guys were discussing.

Speaker 6 (41:10):
They were just sure that the Arenders were going to
come in flat and have a trouble in the first
two games of this series.

Speaker 5 (41:18):
What did you.

Speaker 6 (41:19):
Take make make of that narrative that was started heading
into this series.

Speaker 12 (41:27):
Well, you can understand why. I mean, that's this teen
inning game. I mean, that is going to wreck a
lot of teams and then all of a sudden you
got to you know, win that game and then climb
on an airplane and travel cross country. But of course,
you know, the Mariners have been training for this offseason long.
This is this is what they do. Nobody plays more

(41:48):
eleven plus inning games than your Seattle Meritis. They're like,
we got this. This is just this is a Tuesday.
I mean, you know, I don't know what you guys think.
This is so hard so and I also think and
when we're just continuing to see it is you know,
this team is just fueled by it. It's been you guys,

(42:09):
know this the mantra all season long about what happened
in the last couple of years. And I think that
it's just you know, really fueling this team. And I
think that fifteen inning game, you know, wasn't any sort
of like depletion it was like a catapult, and I
mean it's crazy. And you think about Toronto, they had

(42:31):
a little bit of like I feel like a finish line.
I mean, you go up against a juggernaut like the
Yankees and they had nine home runs. Toronto had nine
home runs in three games against the Yankees. They had
at least nine hits in every single game of that series.
And so far against Seattle they've got eight hits total
and just one home run. Springer is the only guy

(42:53):
on their team with an extra base hit at all.
It's really been in p Yeah, with what the Mariners
have done pitching wise to be able to keep this
this Toronto offense at Bay and now they've got to
come and hit it t Mobile Park.

Speaker 10 (43:08):
Good luck.

Speaker 7 (43:10):
Yeah, Well, what does George have to do to keep
that offense at Bay? Because it is there's some potency there.
I mean, vlad Guerrero hasn't done anything yet, but it's
I don't think that George Kirby's like, well he's in
a slump.

Speaker 4 (43:21):
I got him. There's an O for three.

Speaker 7 (43:23):
So what is it that you need to see out
of George to where we can hopefully get five six
plus innings out of him.

Speaker 12 (43:30):
Well, keep Guerrero at bay, and I know that's that's
easier said than done, but I think they've kind of
avoided him. They've they've done sort of like the col Rawley,
you know, approach with him. And I think that's a
good idea. But George Kirby needs to continue to do
what George Kirby does so well, and that is throw

(43:53):
strike one. And really this season, you know, the Mariner's
pitching staff in the postseason has been and really incredible
at this But I think that's the secret, Sauce. I
think you've got to get them on their heels. You know,
this is this is a team that doesn't strike out
a lot. And I know their whole you know, mindset

(44:14):
is they would rather be you know, bo one than
oh for one. So they are willing to take that
first pitch strike two and not swing at a pitcher's
pitch to be out of the at bat. And I
think that that George Kirby and the rest of this
Mariners pitching staff needs to continue to hone in on

(44:35):
that and hit on that.

Speaker 6 (44:36):
And Aji Mensink is with us here talking some of
my Mariners playoff baseball game three to night of the Alcs.
George Kirby versus Shane Bieber first pitches at five o'clock.

Speaker 5 (44:46):
I mean, we got a long way to go.

Speaker 6 (44:48):
But if I were to name an MVP for game one,
it would be Bryce Miller. If I'm naming a game
MVP for both games, it's Orgey Polanco. And I tell you,
if I had the you know, tab A Mariner to
defuse a bomb, I'm probably gonna go with either Bryce
Miller or Rage Polanco because those two guys, to me,

(45:09):
like the pulse never rises with them.

Speaker 5 (45:12):
I mean, you know them better than what we do.

Speaker 6 (45:16):
But I don't think it's a coincidence that those two
guys in particular have stepped up. I don't think any
moment is too big for those two.

Speaker 12 (45:25):
I think the step up is huge. And I'm going
to zoom in on Horge Polanco and you think about
where he was, you know, at the end of last year,
and it was just like, hey, it didn't work out here.
I mean, it just it just kind of didn't. He
was playing hurt all year. But when you look at

(45:47):
the difference in what he was able to do during
the regular season and now in the postseason, guys he
has already hit more home runs in seven postseason games
then he hit in his previous twelve postseason games before
this year. He's got three home runs this season. He's

(46:10):
got a two fifty eight average. Before that, he was
barely hitting over two hundred in the postseason. He has
really found something. I think that you know, every guy
has a different guy that they sort of get something from.
Whether it's Bob Nagianis, whether it's Sites, or whether it's Edgar.
And every single time I'm talking to Polanco, he's like,

(46:30):
Bobby told me this. You know, Sites told me this.
So you know the big thing. You know, a few
weeks ago was with Edgar and that seventy five percent
effort in the swings and getting him to relax at
tension out of his arms and his hands a little bit,
because man, he was on time for the fastball, but
he was just due to against you know, breaking balls
and off speeds. That is not the case. You know,

(46:52):
he's got a lot of adjustability right now in his
swing and he's just covering everything. So and the thing
just go look at his side swing, of his slow
motion side swing, and that head is just so still.
It never moves. Those eyes are like, I mean, saucers
so big and uh, he's just seeing the baseball right

(47:14):
now and he's squaring it up and it doesn't matter
if it's right handed or left handed.

Speaker 8 (47:19):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (47:20):
It's pretty apparent that after that first game, that home
run that Cal hit, that that Blue Jays realized, Okay,
we really shouldn't mess with this guy. He kind of
owns us. As as Chuck calls it, it's it's a Calada. Uh,
he's changed the entire name of the country. I think
it's he owns it so much.

Speaker 12 (47:38):
You know, a lot of times we get like a
like a police escort. You know, it's like to get
through the traffic in Toronto and get ourself on our
way to the airport. I kind of feel like it's
like that's them going, let's get Cal out of the country.
Let's just it's specifically for Cal. Let's let's give him
the police esport and get this guy the heck out
of here.

Speaker 4 (47:56):
Quickly as possible.

Speaker 5 (47:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (47:58):
No, it's it's all good.

Speaker 7 (47:59):
So, I mean, how important is it and how how
do you see the frame of mind for Julio, Because
it's one of those us they walk somebody in front
of you. You get fired up, and yet you got
to kind of keep it toned down to some degree
so you can make him pay for it. You liking
the frame of mind that he's in.

Speaker 12 (48:16):
Julio, Yep, Yeah, he's covering it all as well right now.
And I just think that, you know, for Julio, he's
made the adjustment. I mean we haven't even been talking
about hard ground balls with him. You know, he made
an adjustment for whatever reason about halfway through the season.

(48:39):
Things clicked and fell into place. And then he's just
been on a trajectory up and he's when he's doing
what he's doing right now on time for the fastball
and taking that it's a right center field, and then
he's still catching all the breaking balls and the split
fingers and everything else out in front. That kid is
just so incredibly strong. I mean, he's touched in the

(49:04):
baseball and and and it's going so yeah, he's in
a great place right now. And then you know, the
other thing you know I was talking with Edgar about
with Julio is like, what do you see and he's
just like confidence, Like I see him just being really
confident in his swing, and it's really sort of like
the chicken or the egg thing though, like what comes first?
The success, you know, gives you confidence, like how do

(49:26):
you how do you get that confidence? And he's been
able to sort of, you know, trust his process throughout
the season and get there, even maybe early in the
year when he wasn't having the necessarily outcome goals come true.

Speaker 6 (49:40):
I trust that you feel good about the series. What
about tonight? I mean, can they do it three and row?
Can they go up three to oh tonight?

Speaker 5 (49:46):
Do you think?

Speaker 12 (49:48):
I mean, I don't think that that.

Speaker 10 (49:54):
Old.

Speaker 12 (49:56):
He does have some good numbers against some of the
Mariner players. There's one guy and I feel like I
say this guy's name a lot, and it's Dan was
talking about it yesterday. It's like the little things at
this point in the game makes such a big difference.
Every single pitch matters, every single out matters. I mean,
Marrier saw that, you know the last time we were

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playing baseball te Mobile Park, you know, as they stood
on their feet for the entire four hours and fifty
eight minutes. I think, but I think that you know,
it's it's going to be those little things, you know,
that that continue to matter. And this team has been
and shown itself to be so good at doing all

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those little things.

Speaker 6 (50:40):
You know, just in our last few seconds here. I
don't know if people realize this. Ty France is on
the Blue Jays. He's not active because he's injured. Do
you put it past Ty France if we do walk
it off to be in a in the Mariners dugout
with a mass mustache on and some dark glasses, like

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you're talking.

Speaker 12 (51:03):
Like game four, Like he's like, I'm not coming back
to the Blue Jays for what, I'm gonna go party
with my guys. That would be.

Speaker 6 (51:12):
Sneaking his way over, Like if we're leading in the
decisive game by like six runs, somehow he Mobby Valentine's
that makes it his way over into like a Mariner
uniform with a mustache and some dark glasses on and
just sits there by JP.

Speaker 5 (51:28):
And the dugout for the rest of the game.

Speaker 2 (51:30):
But then I have to.

Speaker 12 (51:31):
Believe that it's sad as he would be, he'd be
there'd be a place in his heart where he would
be absolutely thrilled for the Mariners and his dudes.

Speaker 8 (51:38):
Right, I think he'd gets found out because a ball
would hit him while he's in the dugout and someone'd
be like, who the ball just hit?

Speaker 1 (51:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (51:47):
All right, Well we're all in a good mood. We're laughing,
we're up to Oh we're laughing. Great to chat with you.

Speaker 12 (51:55):
The pressure shifted, there's no doubt about that. And they've
got to be they got to be. They gotta be
feeling it.

Speaker 5 (52:01):
Yeah, all right, Well we'll talk to you again next week.
Are we going to see you at the ballpark the
next three days or what's the deal here?

Speaker 12 (52:07):
I mean probably yeah, I didn't see you guys yesterday.

Speaker 5 (52:10):
But you know, all right, all right, well we'll be there.
We'll be there. We'll track you down one way or
the other, making it act like you like us.

Speaker 6 (52:18):
All Right, we'll talk to you later, all right, Atie
Mentink joining uslready here on chucking back.

Speaker 5 (52:24):
All right, So it's been the year of cal.

Speaker 6 (52:27):
Accept the fact that the Platinum Gold or Platinum Glove
award winner is not even.

Speaker 5 (52:33):
Gonna win gold this year? Is that what we found out?
We'll talk about it next.

Speaker 6 (52:37):
Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM, Game number three
of the American League Championship Series, the Mariners and the
Blue Jays a chance to go up three to zero
and move that much closer to the first ever World
Series appearance and organization history. Dustin Nickerson's going to join
us a little bit later on this hour at nine
point thirty to discuss it. But we got this big

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fatsman here talk about all the things that we want
to discuss about tonight's big game. And of course the
most important thing about the game tonight is so whether
or not you're doing the right.

Speaker 5 (53:12):
Superstition to get it over the threshold. Oh that's it.

Speaker 7 (53:14):
Yeah, okay, yes, okay, is just one thing, multiple things.
We did get a texture saying he has been watching
Brash and Muno's pitch from the deck, watching through the window.

Speaker 4 (53:27):
It's worked so far.

Speaker 7 (53:28):
Keep it a game, thumbs up, said, thanks for your
thanks for your contribution.

Speaker 6 (53:33):
So every time that they take them mount, he goes
outside on the deck rain or shine, Yeah, watches through
the glass doors.

Speaker 5 (53:39):
Yes, and it works like a chalk Yeah.

Speaker 10 (53:41):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (53:41):
You don't mess with that.

Speaker 2 (53:44):
I don't think, No, you don't.

Speaker 8 (53:45):
And there are certain superstitions I will say that aren't
a game to game. Sometimes it happens during the game
you realize, Okay, this thing's working. I gotta keep this
going through the game. Like when we were at Game five,
for instance, I had my little rally towel. Well, I
found that if I wrapped it hard enough around my
hand to the point where I couldn't really feel my thumb,
it was working. Then that kind of stopped working after

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a while, so then I had to wrap.

Speaker 2 (54:08):
It my thumb.

Speaker 8 (54:09):
I could feel my thumb a little bit, but then
I had to have my thumb on my chin and
the towel up on my nose.

Speaker 2 (54:14):
That's how we won the game. You're welcome, and.

Speaker 5 (54:18):
You're passing this on to your daughter.

Speaker 2 (54:20):
I didn't even know.

Speaker 5 (54:21):
I was doing it.

Speaker 2 (54:22):
It is a sickness.

Speaker 8 (54:23):
There are other things that happen from a game to
game basis.

Speaker 2 (54:28):
Those things can't be talked about.

Speaker 8 (54:30):
Oh oh jeez, well, because you can't ruin it.

Speaker 5 (54:34):
Oh, I see.

Speaker 2 (54:35):
Like if I talk about what I'm doing.

Speaker 5 (54:37):
Okay, I'm glad you clarified that, right.

Speaker 8 (54:39):
Right, because right, yes, yes, yeah, yeah, it's not being dirty.
It's just there's certain things that I have found that
are working right now, and if I talk about them, oh,
I don't want them to stop working, and then we lose,
and then it's our fault.

Speaker 7 (54:53):
How do you know which ones of these super duperstitions
that you have are okay to talk about in which
ones aren't?

Speaker 8 (55:01):
Well, because the one like in game is fine because
that was that game that only worked for that game.

Speaker 2 (55:05):
So I'm not it doesn't work again.

Speaker 5 (55:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (55:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (55:09):
Sometimes it's like the way you sit during the game.
Like again.

Speaker 8 (55:11):
For example, go back to nineteen ninety five, Mariners are
playing the Yankees. I'm sitting on the couch with my
hand bent like in front of me. I didn't realize
I was doing it till I went to move my
hand and my wrist hurt. Well when I did that,
the Yankees scored a run hand back to bent, Mariners
win the game, and I sacrificed my own comfort and

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pain for the Mariners to win it.

Speaker 5 (55:35):
Maybe long term ramifications to your wrist.

Speaker 2 (55:38):
Is right, Thank goodness, I ended up okay.

Speaker 6 (55:41):
Arthritic, And if you're okay now, I am, but maybe
ten years from now. The doctor's like, was there ever
a time where you put a lot of torque yep
over a long period.

Speaker 5 (55:50):
Of time on your wrist? Unnecessary or hours? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (55:54):
Four hours back in nineteen ninety five, Doc.

Speaker 5 (55:56):
Well, your wrist is never going to work the same again.

Speaker 2 (55:58):
It was worse, though it was worth it. The double
lives on.

Speaker 6 (56:03):
You know, our old colleague Jim Moore keeps posting videos
of like his wife won't set She just marches back
and forth during the game and she thinks if she
sits down, she'll ruin the mojo.

Speaker 8 (56:13):
Yeah, my mom won't watch the games because when she watches,
she doesn't think we're doing well. I went to her
house the other day, though, I will say this. I
went to her house with a three nothing lead. And
what happened when I got to her house and she
sat down to watch it with me, they tied the
game up.

Speaker 2 (56:27):
So she might be onto something.

Speaker 5 (56:29):
I want this to happen, I really do.

Speaker 6 (56:31):
I want to get to the Pearly Gates, and I
think I'll get through barely, okay, narrowly, I'll get through
the that you think that, Yeah, And I don't know
if this happens, but in my mind, you get a
chance to sit down with like one of the archangels,
and then you get to just like ask them questions,
like all the questions that you have, and then they
tell you they make sure that you're prepared to handle

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the truth. But at that point my thoughts are all angelic,
so I wouldn't get angry at anything. And one of
the questions I'm going to ask is, uh, do superstitions
have anything to do with the outcomes of sporting events?

Speaker 5 (57:10):
And I want the answer to.

Speaker 8 (57:11):
Be yes, Yeah, me too, because howther wise I'm going
to feel like a really big idiot.

Speaker 6 (57:16):
I want the answer to be yes. God takes all
of the superstitions into play, and then he has this,
you know, like only he can do. He can take
all the math of all the different weird superstitions, and
whoever is the most superstitious and sticks with their superstitions
the most loyally wins the game.

Speaker 2 (57:38):
Okay, I think that's fair. I think i'd be I
have probably contributed to a lot of wins.

Speaker 6 (57:44):
Then I want to find that that's a I want
to ask that question, and then I want the answer
to be, to my surprise, yes it has everything to
do with it.

Speaker 7 (57:56):
If i'm if I'm right behind you in line and
I hear that, I'm going to be very distanct.

Speaker 6 (58:01):
You're going to go to hell. That's it. I'm going
to hell. Yeah, I don't want to be here.

Speaker 2 (58:05):
I will say this. First of all, we did get
a text.

Speaker 8 (58:08):
The first rule of in game superstition club is don't
talk about in game superstition clubs. You can't talk about
it while it's happening, but you can talk about it
when it's over. So that's why if there's one for
a specific game, yeah chat it up because that one's
that one's out the door. But right now, yeah, you
got to keep the other, those other ones on the
down low.

Speaker 6 (58:25):
So there are even superstitions to your superstitions. Oh yes, okay,
all right, I.

Speaker 4 (58:30):
Mean I'll do it a little bit like when we
were watching game five.

Speaker 6 (58:33):
Well you won't let anybody talk about like predict victories.
You've got a little bit of a little more than
you think.

Speaker 7 (58:40):
Yeah, well that just makes sense. Like when I hear
the Ian Parnessa's promo.

Speaker 5 (58:46):
Saying he's in the team.

Speaker 4 (58:48):
No, I don't think he's. Jesus's just like, why would
you say that we're up to there? There's no way
they're coming back and winning for It's like, what do
you say?

Speaker 5 (58:55):
I know?

Speaker 2 (58:55):
I was like, oh my god, that may be either there's.

Speaker 4 (58:57):
No way, certainly is a way.

Speaker 2 (58:59):
Oh yeah, too much.

Speaker 7 (59:02):
I don't because you just don't. It's premature. It's just premature.
I feel very good about where we're at right now.
I'm not gonna sit here and say that it's over.
It doesn't make any sense, I know, but it's those
game to be played.

Speaker 6 (59:17):
That's just his take. Like, I don't think they match
up with us with this thing's over.

Speaker 5 (59:22):
We're gonna we're gonna win.

Speaker 6 (59:24):
But it's it's not like it's going to like Julio's
sitting there saying, hey, everybody Ian says that where it's over, relaxed.

Speaker 5 (59:32):
We got it.

Speaker 4 (59:32):
Well, of course they're not saying it, well, yeah.

Speaker 5 (59:35):
You're superstitious. You're a superstitious as actually is.

Speaker 7 (59:38):
No, no, no, I just simply the worst thing you
can say that I can't say.

Speaker 4 (59:42):
I can't take myself.

Speaker 7 (59:44):
Out of the position of if I was still in
the locker room, Like there's just no way I would
say that.

Speaker 4 (59:49):
We just like there's no way they would say that.

Speaker 5 (59:51):
Yeah, it's not in the locker room. He's got a
red hot talk show and he's got a hot take.
Yeah I will.

Speaker 8 (59:56):
I will say it's funny. I do sometimes try to
talk myself out of it. I'm all like beginning ready
in the morning. Okay, nothing I do today is going
to determine whether or not the Mariners win. I'll tell
myself this, and then I'm like, but I'm just gonna
stick with these certain things just in case.

Speaker 2 (01:00:10):
But I know that it has nothing to do but
just in case. And it might also just be in
my house.

Speaker 8 (01:00:16):
Because when the Mariners played the Blue Jays in the
what three years ago in the playoffs, we were losing miserably.
Our friend went into the bathroom. We started winning. When
he came out, we weren't.

Speaker 2 (01:00:28):
Doing as well.

Speaker 8 (01:00:28):
We made him watch, well, listen to the last like
inning and a half. He had to be in the
bathroom and we had to he had to just listen.
So you can thank Seth for that wine. Yeah, he's
in Malaysia right now, so I hope he's watching from
the bathroom tonight.

Speaker 5 (01:00:43):
Well, they don't even have bathrooms there, I don't think,
probably not. Yeah, yeahom, it's right.

Speaker 2 (01:00:52):
He's been in Malaysia this whole time now, so it's
all right.

Speaker 5 (01:00:55):
Hey, Malaysians, I have to find that bathroom one in
the seven.

Speaker 2 (01:01:04):
Oh see, we got this one.

Speaker 8 (01:01:06):
Ted myself and four buddies were in Horn Lake, Mississippi
last weekend watching from a BWW At middle of the
fifteenth I said, rotate seats a minute later, game over.

Speaker 5 (01:01:16):
Thanks Ted. Yep.

Speaker 6 (01:01:17):
Without your job, Ted, we would not have won. That
says just the bottom line.

Speaker 8 (01:01:22):
And that's the thing is you have the whole fan base.
It's the combined fan base. How did you all superstish together.

Speaker 6 (01:01:28):
In comparison to the Tigers right and their fans?

Speaker 2 (01:01:32):
And we clearly wanted it.

Speaker 5 (01:01:33):
Yeah, And so God.

Speaker 14 (01:01:34):
Was like, yes, the Mariner shall win, Polonko shall come through.

Speaker 2 (01:01:39):
Yeah, because look at all these idiots.

Speaker 14 (01:01:42):
It was even for six innings, but then in the
fifteenth the Mariner's superstitions took the lead and Polonko I
ordained it to come through.

Speaker 2 (01:01:54):
See that's the way it works. Chuck gets it.

Speaker 5 (01:01:56):
Yeah, I do now.

Speaker 4 (01:01:57):
I miss it now.

Speaker 2 (01:02:00):
And you know what, one day I'll tell you guys this.
You're gonna really look forward to this.

Speaker 8 (01:02:03):
One day I will fill you in on the twenty
twenty five superstitions.

Speaker 2 (01:02:08):
Okay, you gotta wait for that.

Speaker 5 (01:02:10):
Remind me, remind me of that. We will do it
right after it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:15):
It will never go.

Speaker 6 (01:02:16):
Will you wear this jacket that you can't get your
arms out of We're going to just slip that on
real fast.

Speaker 2 (01:02:22):
Yeah, and put you like what kind of jacket can.

Speaker 4 (01:02:25):
Really cool buckles on it? You'll love it, and we're
kind of be dazzled in the back.

Speaker 8 (01:02:28):
I'mired what to put me in one of those a
long time ago as an option.

Speaker 5 (01:02:32):
Decorate your studio in there with all rubber.

Speaker 4 (01:02:36):
Cushing and soft We'll just pretend it's going to be.

Speaker 5 (01:02:39):
Warmer, okay, being warmer, Yeah, exactly. Just give into it,
don't you pill while you're at it. Well, look, I
feel really good about the team. I felt good about
this matchup coming into the series.

Speaker 6 (01:02:55):
I realized that mostly national people, but a lot of
local people as well, are surprised at this two and
oh start.

Speaker 5 (01:03:02):
I'm not so much.

Speaker 6 (01:03:03):
I also don't think it's over, and we've got a
lot of work left to do. But I like the matchup,
and I and I you know, obviously love being up
to Oh. I just think we're the better team. I
really do, and so to me, that's what carries the day.
Now we get to add to this, because there was

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no denying that we were certainly in a different situation
than what Toronto was because we went to five full games.
I mean, we both had first round byes, but they
had the tidy opportunity to start their best pitcher in
game number one, their hottest pitcher and game number two
and really go with what is their ideal rotation. It's
been anything but ideal for us to this stage. So

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going to and oh on the road when you're still
trying to like patchwork things together until you can get
back to where the Blue Jays were at the start
of the season, and now we're here. Now, we don't
have that as an excuse to use. For sure, it's
not going to be a narrative anymore. Kirby's going to
be pitching on full rest today, Castillo is going to

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be on full rest and then some tomorrow, and Brian
wu is coming back. So yeah, I'm not gonna sit
here and do any he and forness, reckless guarantee victory
kind of things.

Speaker 5 (01:04:21):
But I'm feeling really damn good about where we are
right now.

Speaker 6 (01:04:24):
But then again, I felt good about where we were
before the series even started.

Speaker 7 (01:04:28):
Mm hmm, yeah, well, I mean I felt good. I
still feel good. I feel slightly better than I did
before they won the first two games.

Speaker 4 (01:04:38):
But it none of the stuff.

Speaker 7 (01:04:40):
I mean, I guess when I think about matchups, I
just think about this.

Speaker 4 (01:04:45):
Yeah, it looks good where we're at.

Speaker 7 (01:04:47):
Like, if you just tell me right now, just on paper,
George Kirby or Shane Bieber, which one would you like
starting for your team? Well, I'll take George Kirby. George
still has to go out pitch him. George still has
to go out pitch that lineup and our lineup ha
to make it to where Shane Bieber doesn't out pitch
us pitch our side. To me, it's all of the
Once you get down to the final four teams, they're

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all capable of winning a World Series. They all have
enough talent offensively and pitching that if they show up
and they do what they're capable of doing, they can
win on any given night. And if you can do
that four out of seven times twice, boom, next thing,
you know you're the champ. So to me, it's just
go play. I feel good. I feel slightly better. I mean,
but it's one of those I don't get a whole

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heck of a lot out of one individual win. Now
you get two, and it doubles obviously, but it still
is one of those We're only halfway to where we
need to get, and you can end up losing one
and I will feel less. I will take away some
of my confidence just one loss. Right where you can
just go out there today, kick a ball when you
shouldn't have, or or not play situational baseball when you

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need to, or they do a really good job of something.
Maybe it's George Kirby throws really good pitches and vlad
goes I can hit that one up there, I can
hit this one off the bounce or whatever it is.
It just as that's the beauty of the game, is
how temperamental it is, how how many little things can
change the course of momentum and shifts this way and
that way over the course of a game.

Speaker 4 (01:06:12):
And I love it.

Speaker 7 (01:06:13):
And at the same time that's the part that makes
me nervous sitting and watching.

Speaker 2 (01:06:16):
Yeah, I definitely feel good.

Speaker 8 (01:06:18):
And I think Ian did put out something I think
on X yesterday that was like I feel eerily calm
or some yeah, And I think that's how I felt
yesterday because there was no game yesterday. But on every
game day, I'm like I wake up and I'm like anxious,
but not in a fearful way, just in an exciting,
excited way.

Speaker 2 (01:06:38):
So I'm feeling very.

Speaker 8 (01:06:39):
Good about where we're at right now, But you're still
going to I'm still doing Oh.

Speaker 2 (01:06:43):
I'm not screwing it. I'm not going to screw this
team over.

Speaker 5 (01:06:45):
Because it all comes down to that exactly right.

Speaker 2 (01:06:48):
Well, and also how they play on the field.

Speaker 6 (01:06:50):
Right right, right, but mostly kind matters. I don't think.
I don't I don't want. I'm not going to go
as far as ian and like I booked or flight
the l Hey, but I feel really good. Yeah, and
I and I felt good before the series starts, so
I clearly feel better now. And I just don't want
to provide the analysis of well, whoever.

Speaker 5 (01:07:11):
Scores the most runs is gonna win.

Speaker 6 (01:07:14):
I think we should score the most runs in this
series and tonight, and I think that we will get
this thing done.

Speaker 5 (01:07:22):
But yeah, you do have to go execute, and you
do have to you do.

Speaker 6 (01:07:26):
Have to play ball. And I guarantee you none of
them are taking it for granted. They're none of them
feeling that way. I think they're just as focused now
as they've been at any point during the course of
the season. To win tonight's game and to move to
three and zero. I think they're in a really good
head space. I feel like they've been that way for
a long long time.

Speaker 4 (01:07:43):
Oh yeah, they have. They're all rolling in the same direction.

Speaker 7 (01:07:46):
That's one thing that you can't always say about a team,
even when it gets to the playoffs. And then I
think that they are carrying the gravity, which isn't it's
getting lighter the further they go, the more they advance.
You know, you win the division, that gives you an
extra weight off your shoulders. You get past that first round.
Now all of a sudden, you're like, hey, we're up

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to zip in this bad boy. Let's just go ball.
Let's go have some fun out there and see what's up.
I think that this team is carrying the history, but
not as a weight. They're carrying it almost as like
a badge of honor. Like that's right, We're going to
be the team that breaks the never getting there type
of a thing.

Speaker 4 (01:08:22):
And yet they just got to go out and prove it.

Speaker 6 (01:08:24):
I bet you Dustin Nickerson has all sorts of superstitions.

Speaker 5 (01:08:27):
Doesn't he seem like the top?

Speaker 2 (01:08:28):
Yeah for sure.

Speaker 6 (01:08:29):
Yeah, our friend Dustin Nickerson Seattle comedian, big up and
comer on the national scene. I hear he's been living
and dying with every single pitch during these playoffs, and
he's been a routine guest of ours throughout.

Speaker 5 (01:08:43):
This second half of the season.

Speaker 6 (01:08:45):
So we're excited to check in with him next Sports
Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. He's also a funny,
stand up comedian type, and like you, he's been living
and dying with every pitch of the American League playoffs.
With your Seattle Mariners. Joining us again is Dustin Nickerson.
Good morning, sir, how are you feeling.

Speaker 10 (01:09:05):
Good? I would I would certainly call Ashley a friend.

Speaker 2 (01:09:09):
Oh group, you know success, that's cool.

Speaker 4 (01:09:12):
So Buck and I will be stranded well.

Speaker 1 (01:09:15):
I mean, she's the only one who will talk to
me when we're not on air.

Speaker 10 (01:09:18):
I get texts from her.

Speaker 1 (01:09:20):
She responds to me on Twitter.

Speaker 11 (01:09:22):
You know it's uh, you know you guys.

Speaker 10 (01:09:26):
I would call.

Speaker 11 (01:09:28):
Some of my preferred social acquaintances.

Speaker 10 (01:09:32):
I think we've reached that level.

Speaker 7 (01:09:33):
I've replied to you on Twitter. I think Chuck has
as well.

Speaker 5 (01:09:37):
I could pick that up. I can pick you know,
just you're just a big celebrity type.

Speaker 6 (01:09:40):
It's like the time you met Clooney, you know, and
he didn't know if are we friends or not?

Speaker 5 (01:09:45):
You know that sort of thing.

Speaker 1 (01:09:47):
Yeah, fair enough, fair enough to answer.

Speaker 11 (01:09:51):
To answer your question, I'm feeling I'm feeling.

Speaker 1 (01:09:56):
Good, bad, miserable. I don't know all of the above
all the time. Does that make sense?

Speaker 4 (01:10:03):
You're up too?

Speaker 12 (01:10:03):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:10:04):
Not really?

Speaker 11 (01:10:05):
No, No, I mean I feel I listen, I've been
playing a game in my head called.

Speaker 10 (01:10:16):
Uh.

Speaker 11 (01:10:16):
If I were objective, this has been a very helpful
exercise for me. Like if I were objective about the
Seattle Mariners in Seattle sports in general, I'd be like,
this team is about to break every curse that Seattle
sports has ever ever had, all of them in one season,
the fifteen inning game up to on the road or

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the vibes are immaculate. Our mascots are winning races they've
never won before. You know, Geno and a Rose Raina
still haven't even done anything really of a huge significance,
and they're still winning games. If I were objective in
my lasting images of being a Seattle sports fan, when

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I close my eyes, aren't Joey Kor crying and kembe
Mtumble laughing. If those weren't the things I saw when
I closed my eyes as Seattle sports fan. Then I'd
be like, yeah, yeah, this team is this team's doing great.
So I'm all of the above all the time. But yeah,
I mean feeling as good as I can right now.
Consider I have forty years of trauma, that's good.

Speaker 7 (01:11:24):
So it's just being therapeutic because there are moments that
you allow yourself to feel like more good, Like you
don't feel like, no, too dangerous, it's gonna hurt too
much if I let myself go there.

Speaker 1 (01:11:37):
I'm I mean, Chuck, you said it best.

Speaker 11 (01:11:40):
I mean, I'm living and dying.

Speaker 1 (01:11:43):
On every pitch.

Speaker 11 (01:11:43):
So every great moment I'm celebrating as a high of
level as you can. But I just you know, baseball
was not Baseball was not meant to watch every pitch.
It is not a sport that you can sustain where
you watch every pit It's it's it's meant to be

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watched passively. You know, you can't be I can't sustain this.
You can't be sweating a walk in the first inning.
You just can't do that for three hours. You can't
see like a low and outside ball to call and
be like this ref needs to get or needs to
get fired.

Speaker 1 (01:12:20):
This is like you just can't it, you know.

Speaker 11 (01:12:25):
So I the answer is to there are moments that
I feel as good as I've ever felt as.

Speaker 1 (01:12:32):
A Mariners fan.

Speaker 11 (01:12:33):
Uh and and and just at any given point based
on the next result, not even the next hit or inning,
the next pitch. It's the lowest low I've ever felt
as a Mariners fan as well.

Speaker 1 (01:12:43):
So I'm I'm I'm living and dying and.

Speaker 5 (01:12:45):
All of it.

Speaker 6 (01:12:46):
Baby, Dustin Nickerson with us here on Chuck and Buck
in the morning, Seattle comedian, and he's been become a
friend of the show. We can at least go that far,
all right, So take me through the Friday Night because
I'm I don't fan the way you and Ashley fan,
and yet through fifteen innings.

Speaker 5 (01:13:05):
Of that, I was exhausted at the end of the night.

Speaker 6 (01:13:09):
So based on the description you just gave of what
kind of fan you are, plus you were on stage
that night and couldn't even get updates except periodically, what
was Friday Night like for Dustin Nickerson?

Speaker 11 (01:13:24):
Friday was a Friday was a gift because I got
to be on stage, truly, like you.

Speaker 1 (01:13:32):
Know, ends up my you know, the fans.

Speaker 11 (01:13:35):
That I have in San Francisco do not care about
the Mariners game stunning.

Speaker 1 (01:13:41):
I know, I U when I they're not.

Speaker 11 (01:13:44):
They're not checking their phones for updates, and so neither
should I. I need to be a consummate professional up there.
But we got on I got on stage. Reebus had
just tied the game, and so it was like the eighth, seventh, eighth.

Speaker 1 (01:14:00):
And I figured it.

Speaker 11 (01:14:01):
I knew just based on show times that it was
most likely going to end while I was on stage.
So I said, nobody tell me now, but someone tell
me the result when I walk into the green room.
And so I walk into the green room night after
the show before we go doing the meet and greet,
and the door guy tells me it's tide. I'm like,
it's tied, And then I'm thinking, well, this is great.

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I can watch the end of this between shows. Surely
there's no way this will still be going when I
have to get on stage for the nine to thirty show.

Speaker 1 (01:14:33):
And sure enough, somehow, on.

Speaker 11 (01:14:36):
What I think it's the bottom of the or the
top of the thirteenth, I'm going on stage again. And frankly,
I think my heart was like my actual beating heart
was thankful for the breaks because performing for two hundred
rowdy drunks in downtown San Francisco as I make fun
of the forty nine ers, was.

Speaker 1 (01:14:56):
Less stressful than watching that game.

Speaker 11 (01:14:58):
Give me rowdy drunks all day long over watching yet
another double play.

Speaker 1 (01:15:06):
Get knocked into in the bottom of the extra. How
many of these things giving it into give.

Speaker 6 (01:15:11):
Me rowdy drunks and Kyle Shanahan rat faced jokes any
day compared to that, Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:15:18):
They were on board with them. They I was, I
just got out of a walking boot and I told them,
you know, I know it's weird for a Seahawks fan
to be wearing you know, forty nine or paraphernalia, and
by that I mean a walking boot, and they enjoyed that.

Speaker 1 (01:15:35):
There was some kind of good little zings in there.

Speaker 11 (01:15:39):
And then you know, so anyway, there's always a few
sports jokes in every town I go into, but ends up,
for the most part, most people don't care.

Speaker 1 (01:15:46):
They're like, just complain about having teenage daughters. That's really
the bulk of my act.

Speaker 4 (01:15:51):
Anyways, what's the deal.

Speaker 7 (01:15:53):
By the way, you just getting all kinds of swag
sent to you right, bats and gear, and I mean,
what's going on? What's what's your next bag of goodie
is going to be?

Speaker 1 (01:16:06):
Yes, that's a great question.

Speaker 5 (01:16:08):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:16:09):
This is new to me, the sending free stuff I did.
That's right, Chuck, you did or but you did.

Speaker 11 (01:16:17):
Respond that you can teach me how to actually use
these bats that Victor Sports or Victor's Victis Sports.

Speaker 4 (01:16:22):
I forgot the name.

Speaker 1 (01:16:23):
Oh my god, they said Victis.

Speaker 11 (01:16:26):
Yeah Victis uh as I said, I held that bat,
and I was remembering my glory years down at to
Catur High School in Feduay, Washington on the JV team, thinking, yeah,
this looks like.

Speaker 10 (01:16:36):
A at bets.

Speaker 11 (01:16:38):
At BET's a week ground or a second, you know,
if I make contact in.

Speaker 5 (01:16:42):
The first place.

Speaker 1 (01:16:43):
So uh yeah, I might.

Speaker 11 (01:16:45):
I might have to bring one of those up next
time I'm in town and you can actually, uh you know,
show me how to to keep my weight back.

Speaker 5 (01:16:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:16:53):
Well, I was just going to think more so on
like just go ahead and wrap your thumb around the bat.
You were holding that thumb going up the bat. I'm like,
all right, that's maybe that's why you're on JV.

Speaker 11 (01:17:03):
Yeah, Well, you know, how was your tonight show appearance, Bucky,
it was not near as good as yours.

Speaker 4 (01:17:09):
Not very good at all.

Speaker 11 (01:17:11):
Yeah, you know, I've found my way anyway. Second show
added at the Neptune Theater. But you know, you keep
telling me how to do my job.

Speaker 1 (01:17:22):
I'm telling you we both found our way.

Speaker 11 (01:17:25):
We both found our way. Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:17:30):
Do you have superstitions?

Speaker 6 (01:17:31):
We talked about this in the last segment, and I
have determined that I want to get to the Pearly
Gate someday and ask God just what does determine the
outcome of sporting events? And I want him to tell me.
I weigh all the superstitions that fans show during the game,
and whoever has the most I get that.

Speaker 5 (01:17:51):
I let that team win. So That's where I'm at
with it.

Speaker 6 (01:17:54):
Do you have any superstitions when you watch games?

Speaker 1 (01:17:59):
I yes and no.

Speaker 11 (01:18:02):
I don't know if I would call them full superstitions,
but there are.

Speaker 1 (01:18:05):
I do have viewing patterns. Oh, I won't Yeah, that's break.

Speaker 8 (01:18:11):
See he won't bring You're not gonna talk about him either, right, Yeah,
you're not gonna You're gonna keep those a secret because
you can't ruin it.

Speaker 10 (01:18:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:18:18):
Yeah, I mean everybody kind of in my household knows
that there are just certain things that you do when
you don't do during certain parts of the game and
when certain you know, when your team's batting versus the
other team's batting. You know, I will say one thing
that I predict for I've brought. I've I've picked up
from my dad, who was also a very stressful sports watcher,

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is I'm very I'm very productive. Actually, I like, I'll
clean the house during games.

Speaker 1 (01:18:52):
I will get a lot of work done.

Speaker 11 (01:18:54):
I will send like I just it's I'm I'm moving
quite a bit, especially in the in the early parts
of the game, once you get to kind of like
the sixth and before. But I mean I'm watching and
or listening the entire time. But you know, when you
can carry the game around of your phone, I'm like, well,
I might.

Speaker 12 (01:19:12):
As well do the dishes while I'm doing this.

Speaker 5 (01:19:14):
You know, my wife's like, Wow, the house.

Speaker 1 (01:19:16):
Has never looked better.

Speaker 11 (01:19:17):
I who knew I needed the Mariners to be going
to the playoffs? These these less you know, twenty years
of marriage for you to you know, tidy up a
bit around here.

Speaker 6 (01:19:28):
I know when you're on the Tonight show, I just
kept my right leg crossed over my left leg just
to make sure that you wouldn't.

Speaker 11 (01:19:33):
Be Yeah, yeah, I know, I know, you know, in
my better moments of not being a nervous wreck, I
look at the I look when they show the dugout.
I'm like, these guys look pretty relaxed. This team really
seems to believe in itself. Maybe I should believe in
them a little more, you know, But that's not my

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nature of relationship as a fan, and that's okay.

Speaker 1 (01:19:57):
I'd have it no other way.

Speaker 5 (01:19:58):
All right, Well, why are you tonight to watch?

Speaker 6 (01:20:00):
I know you're going to be in Seattle on the
twenty fifth two shows, right, yeah, yeah, I.

Speaker 1 (01:20:07):
Know, which is tragic. It's such a bit.

Speaker 11 (01:20:10):
It's you know, when it's a little I don't know
how I feel about it entirely.

Speaker 1 (01:20:18):
My brain.

Speaker 11 (01:20:19):
I've been a comedian for like fifteen years now, and
I'm just not thought yet, nor have I ever had
to Hey, I should think about my late October scheduling
in the Northwest in regards to potential World Series appearances,
that my brain hasn't ever had to go to that place.

Speaker 10 (01:20:38):
So yeah, right.

Speaker 11 (01:20:39):
Now, I do have two shows in.

Speaker 1 (01:20:42):
Seattle on a day that.

Speaker 11 (01:20:46):
Would be Game two of the World Series.

Speaker 1 (01:20:48):
Tightally unfortunate.

Speaker 11 (01:20:50):
Just when we booked this in December, my brain was
nowhere near that spot. But the late show was sold
out and we added a three thirty show. I don't
know how any of that works. I don't know what
time games would be, and I don't know if they
allow transferring of tickets. It might work out that that
three point thirty show if we have a night game,
and it might be everyone's trying to switch to that.

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I don't know how any of that works. But this
weekend I'll be in Kansas City, and tonight I'll be
watching the game from home. So okay, so this one
I get to.

Speaker 12 (01:21:23):
I don't know.

Speaker 10 (01:21:24):
I might.

Speaker 11 (01:21:24):
I might clean the floors today, who knows.

Speaker 5 (01:21:28):
Yeah, we gotta get some dusting done. I've been putting
that off.

Speaker 10 (01:21:31):
All right, exactly.

Speaker 6 (01:21:33):
Yeah, Well, thanks man, we appreciate it. Good luck tonight,
and we'll talk to you again soon.

Speaker 10 (01:21:39):
All right, thank you, Good to talk to you all right.

Speaker 6 (01:21:42):
Dustin Nickerson our friend joining us right here on Chuck
and Buck in the morning. If you want to follow him,
follow him at Dustin Nickerson and yeah, he'll be in
town for all of those that maybe are just a
Diard Sounders fan, and that's it, our Dieard Seahawks fan,
and that's it. Go see a show on October twenty fifth,
while we could be playing World Series alright, one last
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