October 20, 2025 • 38 mins
We are setting the tone for one of the biggest sports days ever for Seattle sports fans.. Hockey at 4, Baseball at 5 and Football at 7, oh wow! 3 errors and a stinker of an outing for Gilbert, plus base-running errors… it was sloppy for the Mariners in Toronto last night. We haven’t seen a good performance from our starting pitchers outside of Bryce Miller, but credit has to be given to Toronto; they do the little things. They put the ball in play…which is a great game plan! We should do that! Game 7 is tonight and if there’s any doubt that George Kirby is the Mariners’ guy, that’s gone now as he gets the start tonight in Toronto. And, as If that’s not enough, the Seahawks host the Texans in MNF and a win is necessary to keep pace in the NFC West. :30- Mariners Morning After It was just a bad night for the Mariners, a very bad night, in fact the score made the game look closer than it was as the Mariners hit into two double plays with the bases loaded, committed errors and just weren’t sharp. Is this just what this team does though? Here we are with our backs up against the wall yet again, so can the M’s get it done tonight? :45- There were some impressive and wild performances in the NFL yesterday! We grab a turkey sandwich and check the scoreboard.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Lazy and gentlemen, Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Inducing six one guard from Brighton, Illinois and former high
school basketball stand what the hell does that mean?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Jumped any conclusions?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Not a god.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
You've got to lower lower your expectations. Hard to believe
he could once send a fastball to Pluto.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I'm getting some Bucky Jacobson vibes and former I'll just
openly admit I'm a fat, out of shaped X athlete.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Now there's been a noticeable spike in your blood pressure.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
A five seven guard and a former college water polo
national champion.
Speaker 5 (00:35):
There's a lot of useless crap up here.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
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Speaker 3 (00:51):
You go.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Pay good Monday morning and get ready for one of
the busiest, most impactful days as a Seattle sports fan
in your entire lifetime. And we are going to start.
We're gonna set the tone here this morning for this incredible,
incredible sports day right here in the Pacific Northwest. Good morning,
Ashley Ryan's here. Former Mariner, Bucky Jacobson is here. My
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name is Chuck Powell. It's Chucking Buck in the Morning
Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ RFM. We've got
you for the next four hours until ten o'clock. What
mj and Ian and Softy and Faine do with the
rest of the broadcast day, that's up to them. If
they decide they just, hey, we're just gonna take calls
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on your favorite show tunes, then that's up to them.
Could be a big miss I think, I think so.
I mean, I'm not the programmer around here. I would
imagine they'll talk about the big sporting events going on today,
but it's certainly what we are going to do in
our four hours together as we get you ready for
just absolute craziness. I don't even know what to expect
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from it. We got hockey at four o'clock, we've got
baseball at five o'clock. We've got football in the National
Football League, a Monday night football game, which in any
other year is a four hour preview right here on
Chucking Buck in the Morning. Not today, Not today. There's
way too much to discuss today, So.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Buckle up, people, Yeah, glad that it's your job to
figure out how to wade through all of it, because
that is a lot, want a lot to cover. I
know where my head's at and it's pretty much solely
focused on the Mariners game. It's there too, but while
it's there, it's really focused on the Mariners not having their.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Heads up there.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
But well it's a dark place too, so you can think, yeah, yeah,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Kind of felt to me like some of them were
very feeling very comfortable last night with their heads up there. Yes,
last night for sure, playing game number six last night. Look,
I don't know what to tell you. They don't close
out the Blue Jays yesterday. On one hand, it feels
very disappointing that they played one of their sloppiest games
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of the entire year in the biggest moment, an opportunity
for this franchise to punch its ticket to its first
World Series ever. And then on the other side of it,
this is what they do to us. They never make
it easy. They always have to push it to the
very end. They always have to back themselves in the corner,
and that's ten They tend to play their best when
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they do it this way. I mean, we didn't have
to have a game five.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Of the a L d S.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
We were up three to nothing with Tiger fans walking
out of the stadium, But it was just, you know,
it was just more interesting to play fifteen innings against
Trek school ball on a Friday and win it that way.
Then it was to just handle things easily, take care
of a three run lead, and have an easy flight
home for Detroit and not have to worry about playing
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baseball again. Last night, this team committed three errors. I
don't think they've done that all season long. Logan Gilbert
had a stinker of an outing last night, something we
didn't see him do a lot during the course of
the regular season. We had base running mistakes. On one
particular play, both the guy on the base and the
guy at the plate we're so sure that they'd hit
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a two run homer, they decided not to run and
it ended up not ultimately costing the team that inning,
but it was sort of emblematic of how that game
was played last night. It was very strange. Even Ryan
Divisch this morning, if you read his article at the
local newspaper, turns out we got one. He talked about
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the surprisingly sluggish performance, the sloppy performance and just coming
at a time where you just expect this team to
be razor sharp and focused like they've never been in
their entire athletic lives, and for whatever reason, we didn't
get it. But there's plenty of evidence to suggest we
will get it tonight.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Yeah. Well, real, they don't have a choice.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
You either show up tonight or you get to uh,
you know, put a bow on this bad boy and
and kind of fall short of where you I think
that where they feel they're capable of getting to. So
I'm hoping tonight they get a good night's rest and
you know, there's no flight involved in the whole thing.
Whatever the excuses may be, they got to go out
and show up.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
You got a.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Dude that whether you want to believe in him, not
you personally Chuck or Ashley, but if whether or not
the fan base wants to believe in George Kirby, the
organization does. I think George Kirby believes in George Kirby.
He's just gonna have to be precise. He's gonna have
to do what it is we've wanted watched him do
since he arrived on the scene, and that is locate.
If you don't locate these guys are going to you know,
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they're going to be swinging early and often that's fine.
Put it where he put it, where it's difficult for
him to hit it, and then possibly even pitch outside
his own a little bit, use their aggressiveness against him.
And if he can do that, then we might be
able to be talking about punching our ticket to the
World Series this time tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
I it's I just all I ask is that they
don't come out looking like they did last night, because
that would be the most disappointing thing as a fan
to watch them be as sloppy as they were last
night in Game seven of the American League Championship Series.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
And they won't be, I mean, and I don't.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Think they will, but I'm I'm just throwing it out
there extra.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
It's just the weird part. I mean, it's just a
weird team. It's a good team, maybe even borderline great team.
And they do win. Backed against the wall, they pull
out ten of eleven, They pull out seventeen out of
eighteen to win the division. They win in fifteen innings,
despite having been again the ropes for several straight innings
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in a row. They tend to save their best when
they absolutely have to have it. So I'm gonna trust
that that's gonna happen here again this evening for game
number seven, even game number five, that amazing feeling that
we had Friday night, that incredible game, and the Geno
swore as a Grand Slam that kind of felt like
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backs against the wall, and they played a little bit tight,
but when it really came down to it, they came
up with the big inning that gave them that big
third victory in the series. But Bucky, I don't know
I explain it last night. I know they wont it.
I know they care. I know that they want to
get to the World Series just as bad as every
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single fan out there except for maybe Softy wants them
to get to the World Series. It's just really hard
to explain how you gaff too routine plays, how you
don't run out balls, and how Logan once again just
didn't have it last night. It's not an effort thing,
but maybe it was a focused thing last night.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Well, I mean, I think some grace should be granted.
We watch Major League Baseball players over the course of
you know, one hundred and sixty plus games and basically
you just expect ground ball.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
They feeld it, they make a.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Good throw, that's an out, and you can you should
expect it, but you should also recognize their human and
they're not going to be perfect. Now, the base running thing,
the JP not knowing where the hell is how far
he's supposed to go towards second and his objective of
getting to third there and it didn't end up costing
you kind of sort of you don't know for sure. Yeah,
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there was a you know, because Julio ends up walking afterwards,
and so you ended up with bases loaded. But ultimately
you don't know for sure what happens if the pitcher
makes different pitches. He's going to be tighter with guys
at second and third than he would with first and second.
One out, that's a totally different situation.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
So you don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
But I mean, they had they were sloppy, and then
the Toronto Blue Jays capitalized on it, and then when
we got them kind of started putting them into pressure situations.
Had three straight innings with inning inning double plays. Those
are just absolute backbreakers, and so you find yourself losing
a six to two ball game, even though it felt
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like it was way worse than that.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
It wasn't you were right there.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
You were a couple different things going a couple different
ways away from punching your ticul the World Series. But
inevitably you lost, and so they do force a game seven.
You find yourself, well, it's winner, go home time, and
usually that's when this team shows up the most.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
It all makes me so nervous.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
But yeah, just going back to those double plays last night,
that was just beyond frustrating. To have it not just
happened once, but to have it happened three times in
a row was just it was just it was you
could tell, I mean you could tell already it wasn't
necessarily our night because it wasn't low night. And then
there was some you know issues there with Gino at third,
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and then to have that it was like, okay, this
is just not going well.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Well, you know, you do get the bases loaded, you're
only down by two, and then you've got your bell
cow coming to the plate and it's not like you
didn't hit it hard. It was a fairly hard hit ball.
The first base double play it's over. That takes the
wind out of your sales. Then you falled out behind
by four, and you battle, and you get bases loaded
again and then JP on a check swing, hits the
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ground ball to second base. Another double play over man,
it's really I mean, you sort of understand how it's
hard to overcome that once you're down four to nothing
and you've squandered a couple great scoring opportunities. But I
think the irritating part, and I get why people are irritated,
but I also think you need to reserve in your
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brain this space that says this is what this team
does to me. But the irritating part is that you
fell behind by four to begin with that, and it
was just Logan again not being sharp. And I don't
know if that relief appearance for a guy that is
such a slave to his routine threw him off. But
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usually Bucky Logan Gilbert is getting you to swing at
miss at his splitter in the dirt, or he's set
you up to be thinking about that pitch, which is
his outpitch, and then he'll blow a ninety eight mile
power fastball right by your letters and he'll get you out.
This is a guy that averaged twelve point in a
down year for him, still average twelve point six strikeouts
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per game per nine innings this year, one of the
best rates in all of Major League Baseball, and yet
he's not getting swing and miss. And to me, the
Blue Jays were spitting on everything that he throws in
the dirt and hammering everything that he threw up. I mean,
it just is not threw up in the zone. It's
just not the logan that we expect. And frankly, we
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haven't gotten the starting pitching that we expect, the starting
pitching that we couldn't wait see on display in a
postseason series, and not just one little three gamer, a
five game divisional series, a seven game league championship series.
We couldn't wait to see this group in this on
this stage, in this format, And instead, with the exception
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of Bryce Miller, we really haven't gotten a good starting
pitching performance this entire series.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Yeah, well, they definitely have fallen short. I mean to
some degree. You got to give credit where credit is due.
That's that Toronto Blue Jay's team. They they do the
little things like the putting the ball in play. How
for my entire time of doing the show, it's been
a thing that frustrates the hell out of me. The
idea of that that's not as important as it once was. Well,
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we're seeing it right now, play out to where it's
important to put the ball in play.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
One thing that can happen sometimes when you're not trying
to go yard and you're just thinking, you know what,
I'm not going to let this guy punch me out
just because that's okay, and because he does it to
most people. And you put it in play, and maybe
they don't make the play his routine as it might be.
Maybe they make a mistake, and then you can count
whatever happen. Yeah, right, it would never happen. And so
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I mean, to some degree, there's last night just was
not their night, and they didn't show up and play clean.
They didn't show up and play fundamental baseball. They they
had mental mistakes, physical errors, and then they didn't perform
it their best. So you combine all that and you
turn it. It turns out to be a game that
really you never really felt like you were in. Unfortunately,
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considering you let opportunities pass by with basis load and whatnot.
But to me, it's like, okay, give At this point,
I think the Mariners recognize this team is aggressive, that
they're pitching against. This team has some athletes, They have
some people that can hit, some people that maybe weren't
household names to us. But now you're six games into it,
getting ready for Game seven, and you bettert arnwell recognize
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that Ernie Clement is basically Poul Molder at the plate,
and that this Barger kid, who was a third basement
he plays decent outfield, and and he can swing it
a little bit too if you're not careful. Oh that
him in is Yeah, when he's trying to move a
runner over, don't throw it down and in because he
can hit it three inches over the over the wall.
There's they have some ballplayers on their team, and so
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you have to go execute. It boils down to this
is game seven. You want to be better. Be tougher
at the dish, be tougher on the mound. Make sure
that you make it more difficult than they can make
it for you. That's the that's the name of the game.
It always has been. And yet right now it's put
up or shut up time.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Yeah, it's all execution. It's in their in their three wins,
they've executed so much better than what we've executed. And
that's the frustration part, because we know we can execute
just as well, and we're committing errors on routine plays
in a game, a game to make it to the
World Series. Our pitchers, which we have come to rely on,
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aren't executing their pitches. And I mean and then bases
loaded two different times back to back and we don't
get executed at bat. So yeah, it's about execution. They
certainly out executed us last night in their six to
two victory, and it does force the game seven. But
this is usually where our local baseball team plays its best.
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So we shall see. And man, is it going to
be interesting the way that Dan Wilson and his coaching
staff are going to have to prepare for this thing.
As a matter of fact, let's go ahead and find
out what's on tap, because there is a lot to
set up for today's program to be coming on chucking
by what what's on TEP?
Speaker 3 (15:35):
What's on TEP?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
All right, Ryan Healy will be with us this morning
at eight thirty to talk about the loss last night
six to two, maybe more so what to expect for
game number seven tonight. It was announced right after the ballgame,
and Dan Wilson did not mix words. It just he
couldn't wait to tell us that George Kirby was going
to get the start in Game number five, a guy
that gave up eight runs to the Blue Jays the
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last time that he faced him. So, as I've mentioned
many times throughout this postseason, both on this show and
in our over our postgame shows, maybe some of you
listening out there don't have faith in George Kirby, But
I can guarantee you one person that does. Dan Wilson
and Jerry Depoto and Justin Hollander, and the entire coaching
staff and the entire pitching staff. This is their guy.
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I mean they set him up so that he would
start game number one of the playoffs after a week off.
We had a week off before we played the game.
Who did they hand pick to get our postseason started
number sixty eight? And then they also chose him. If
it goes game five, you're gonna go head to head
against Trek Scooble. Then they had another opportunity to show, well,
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it's Luis Castillo's turning the rotation in the American League
Championship Series to start game number three. Nope, because if
we have a Game seven, we want George Kirby on
the mound. So maybe you don't like the choice. Maybe
we don't like the choice. If we would have had
it could start from scratching, do it all over again.
But this has consistently been the Mariner's choice to go
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at George Kirby. So they have absolute faith in George
in this situation to execute. And also even though they
have that faith, and we will talk about this at
great length later on in the show, everybody's available tonight.
Everybody is available tonight, with the exception of Logan Gilbert.
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Don't be surprised. I mean, Brian wu should be available.
Bryce Miller should be available, Luis Castillo should be available.
Every single person out of the bullpen is available, including
Bizardo who went two innings last night. He's going to
be available first sign of trouble. George Kirby's going to
be out of there. There's no way they can risk
falling behind in a big, big inning during the course
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of this game. And so get ready to see a
game like you've never seen. We've never had a game seven.
We have never had a game seven here in Seattle.
Get ready to see a game seven managed like you've
never seen it managed before.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
M and I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
And I think that there's a there's ways in which
I mean trouble doesn't mean Okay, he walks a guy.
It's if they if he's missing in the zone and
their aggressiveness is paying off, and they rake a ball
in the gap, they end up hitting a couple of
hard balls, they find holes, then yeah, they're gonna They're
gonna find a way they will empty the tank. I
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don't think that Dan Wilson and company are gonna be like, well,
let's see if he can just you know, battle out
of this one. Nope, Uh, if you're I think that
it boils down to location is what George is known
most for, and that's with plus stuff. You're locating and
you're missing off the plate. That's all there is to it.
You're not giving them a whole eck of a lot
because I think you can paint the corners. You paint
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the corners, You're not gonna give up a bunch of
loud contact. And I'm super excited because I think he's
gonna do it.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
Yeah, I think, and both teams are obviously gonna be
everybody available all because you have.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Nothing to lose.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
I mean at this point, right you, if you win
this game, you've still got five days off, six days off,
don't math four days off until Friday, so you might
as well.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Yeah yeah, you empty the tank. There's no question about it,
and that should give us an advantage in this contest.
We do have more good pitchers than what the Blue
Jays have Otani and the Dodgers await. Of course, the
sport the world's still buzzing about maybe the greatest single
performance we've ever seen from a baseball player, showy Otani.
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Friday night. While we were celebrating Gino's Grand Slam, the
rest of the baseball world was marveling at its greatest
marvel Showyotani hitting three home runs, including one completely out
of Dodger Stadium. And then he also pitched that night,
struck out ten batters and allowed two hits and six
shutout innings, just as incredible. Monday Night football tonight, Texans
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at Seahawks. The Seahawks have to win to keep pace
at the top of the NFC West Division. Greg Bell
will be with us at seven oh five. We will
hear from Hugh X's and O's today at nine o'clock.
Mike Holmgren will also be joining us at nine thirty.
It felt like separator week in the National Football League.
I'll explain what I mean by that coming up at
six forty five when we go over cold Turkey Sandwich.
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A board of scores that's coming your way this hour,
and a lot of people in the National Football League
are on Mike McDaniel job watch. There is a belief
after his team got blown out by the low league
Cleveland Browns, that Mike McDaniel could be fired. As the
first order of business this morning in the National Football League,
we shall see the Michigan Wolverines mauled the Washington Huskies
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on Saturday. Demand Williams three interceptions in the game, and
so Washington does not get that signature road win in
the Jedfish era. And so we'll play some factor fiction today.
At seven thirty five, Miami fell as the second ranked team,
another part of that crazy Friday in sports. So Indiana
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is now the new number two in college football, right
behind Ohio State. Kraken have not lost regulation this year.
They are off to a three to zero and two start,
and I guess they're just gonna play every game in
overtime this year, just the every single game seems like it.
They'll be back in action tonight taking on the Flyers.
They'll drop the puck there at four o'clock. Meanwhile, the
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Sounders won their last game of the regular season two
to one over New York City. They will next play
in the postseason Monday, October twenty seven, so a week
from today at Minnesota United. And if that wasn't enough,
the NBA season tips off tomorrow, thank you, And we
aren't going to talk about it all right. Mariners Morning
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After the next Sports Radio ninety three point three kha RFM.
If there was one hundred and thirty seven game series,
we would play all one thirty seven. That's just the
way that this team operates. And so we go to
a Game seven last night as part of Mariners Morning After.
Here today we recap a loss in Game six to
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the Toronto Blue Jays. The final score was six to two.
Who logan Gilbert did not have his good stuff. Instead,
Toronto scored twice. He didn't get much help from the
defense in the second inning they took the two nothing lead.
Could have been worse, ended up getting out of it
because of a great geno play that robbed Vladimir Guerrero
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Junior if a base hit the left field. Then in
the top of the third, you felt like, man, we're
gonna get these right back. A walk, an out, a single,
a walk. The bases are loaded for our Vladimir Guerrero Junior,
as the big dumper came to the plate, base is ordered.
In the two nothing games, see what he goes with
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The first gilt.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Is grounded, the first radical second for one tier hits st.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
On through six seven turn killing. They have a twenty
two year old kiss caw on one pitch to get
out of the Cunado. Scavee Sports on the call last night,
Cal Groundson to the double play. Cal's had a very
good postseason. By the way, Vladimir Guerrero Junior is just
hitting a thousand and so it kind of looks like
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he's the big superstar of the series. But Cal's been
very good in the postseason, including the huge home run.
I don't know if Gino hits the Grand Slam on Friday,
if Cal doesn't hit the home run to kind of
relax the entire dugout to tie that game up in
the late going. But last night was not his night, Bucky.
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I mean, he struck out three times, he grounded into
a double play at the worst possible time. He committed
an error. Last night, he gave up another wild pitch,
and it was a wild pitch. But cal we just
expect him to absorb those things and not have that
become a problem. He had one of his worst games
he's had in a long long time, certainly all season long.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Yeah, and I don't necessarily, I mean, it is what
it is. It's gonna happen from time to time. You're
not going to rake non stop. I mean, it does
look like a Vlad Junior has figured something out and
kind of smash everything that's in the zone. And yet,
I mean, ultimately, not all ground ball double plays, not
all outs are created equal. I mean, to me, that
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col Rawley one is. I think he got the pitch,
he was looking for it, and he ended up hitting
it about a half an inch too high on the
ball from where he won't wanted to. I mean, honestly,
it's that's what you are hoping for. I think that
he went up there thinking, all right, dude, throws splitty
and if it's up enough that it's in the zone,
I'm dropping head on it and we're gonna have four
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runs or two runs, or however many it equates to.
And he gets the pitch that he wants, he hits
it hard, it just basically goes about a step to
Vladdie's right and he makes a good play and next
thing you know, they twist it up and you're out
at the inning. It's not one that you sometimes go
back to the batrack and you put your helmet in
and you put your bat down and you're pissed because
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you did a bunch of things wrong.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
And yet that was one where you got one pitch.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
It's the pitch you wanted, you put a good swing
on it, you hit it on the barrel, it just
goes to somebody instead. You didn't get to the bottom
half the way you need to in a double play situation.
So I mean, it's that compared to like JP's double
playground ball that that was worse. Julio's was even worse
than that, in my opinion, And so I mean, I'm
not trying to play favorites here. I would call it
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how it is. I just think it was a good
swing decision. You just got about a half an inch
too high on the ball, and unfortunately it didn't work out.
I can't wait until he gets that pitch today.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
That just means me, I'm freaking out over here.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Well look, I mean, it was not just a game
where you didn't create your own breaks. He certainly didn't
catch anything. It was just one of those. It was
just such a weird game and to happen it's such
a pivotal time. I mean, even the Revas, we got
little Leo, the ninth place hitter, who's sitting there pimping
a home run. I mean, you're lucky you're even in
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the starting lineup, Bud, and you're sitting there thinking that
you've knocked one fifteen rows into the right center field
bleachers and it hits off the wall, and JP's sitting
there admiring it too. Even when we started to get
our one rally, going our one successful rally, when Naylor
hits a home run and he acts like it's a
foul ball, uh, and nobody thought. Nobody even reacted because
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Naylor spun around and acted like he didn't get it,
and he totally got it. Then we get the single
from a Rose Arena, and then Suarez gets the little gift,
double bloop, double down, the line that hits the part
of the stadium that's jutting out, and Rose Arena scores
all the way from first and then you find out, well,
why isn't Gino at second base? He tripped? Yeah, they
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fell down. It was flat on his face. One of
those nights. It was just crazy that you can have
one of those nights and an on a night in
which you just like, let's close it out.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
Almost had Revs picked off at first again too, almost.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Said Revas napping again. I mean, it was just it
was just just a bad performance at a terrible time
from this baseball team, and even Logan. Gilbert somebody that
we just depend on, and he has not been dependable
in this series last night. Four innings, pitch, seven hits, allowed,
one walk, struck out three, allowed five runs, four of
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them earned, and he took a responsibility after the game.
Speaker 6 (27:24):
I love the team down for sure. Wanted to win
it tonight and I had a great opportunity.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
But it's on me.
Speaker 6 (27:29):
But the team's got a ton of play. I think
I believe we're gonna bounce back like we've done all year. Logan,
you've come through a lot of times for this team,
but like you said, to not quite get there tonight.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
How tough of a feeling is that right now?
Speaker 6 (27:42):
Yeah, it's tough. It's part of the game, for sure.
They're good team. But yeah, it's gonna stay with me
for a while for sure. We still got a lot
of game in front of us tomorrow and hopefully another
series after that. But just take it, learn from it,
move on the fields and mistakes on the basis you
guys have been clean for.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Most of the second half of the season, and how
surprising was that?
Speaker 6 (28:06):
Yeah, for sure, I take it on myself. I didn't
sell the tone at all really from the get go.
A lot of traffic, no quick inning, stuff like that.
The guy was on on the other side and I
didn't match it. So I feel like that's all mean
for sure.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
We've where you guys talked all year, and Dames specifically
just about the fight. You know, you guys ability outs back.
How was that residated?
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Is that something you guys grat really having body drafty? Yeah,
I feel like that's what we do.
Speaker 6 (28:32):
We've got a lot of tough stretches, like I said,
and we know what's in front of us. We know
it's on the line, for sure, you gotta take advantage
of it because after tomorrow, that's that's it. You get
one chance. So I like our chances. I know we've
got a ton of fight in here, but we gotta
gotta make it happen.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Logan Gilbert owning it certainly after that game is over.
Certainly has not been on his game in this series,
and we missed him. Could have been could have been different.
We might be able to have wrapped this thing up
if we had vintage Logan on the mountain either of
us two starts. Well, we did win the first one.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
So yeah, yeah, well, I mean, just it. It's your
going against another good team. Obviously, when you get down
to the final four that are left out of every
team that started the long journey, you're going to go
out there and you're going to hope that you have
your best performance. But typically that's just not the way
it works. It's how bad are your In golf, they
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say a good golfer basically is how good are their misses?
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Like if you if you miss, is it still on
the green? Does it give you a good putt? How
bad are your misses?
Speaker 2 (29:34):
And right now, his misses are a little bit worse
than what you typically see because imperfection's part of the
game bad bad. Imperfection is something that costs your team
and it doesn't set the tone the way that it should.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
All right, So tonight, five o'clock, first pitch, Game seven,
the first game seven in the history of Seattle Mariners Baseball,
and so one went away from the World Series, or
we still one game short of that goal, that goal
that has eluded this city, this franchise, for its fifty
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years of existence, and so we'll do it tonight, five pm,
First pitch. Shane Bieber will be pitching for the Blue Jays.
He pitched quite well for them the last time we
faced them. George Kirby will get the start for the Mariners.
He did not pitch well the first time that he
faced the Jason this series. But expect almost everybody to
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pitch tonight if it comes to that. Both managers are
prepared with a quick hook on their starting pitcher if
things start to go south, and there really isn't anybody
I would think on the Mariners staff not named Logan
Gilbert that isn't available for this game tonight. So it
should be fun and hopefully it ends in elation for
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us in Seattle. We'll certainly talk more about it coming
up later on in the show. We got your ABC's
at the MS, we got Ryan Healey joining us, and
so much more coming up next though the National Football League.
So week in review, It's cold Turkey Sandwich time, a
board of scores on Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
The snat hand off, theccaffrick jumps out to the right,
makes his way along the hash sparks, plowing his way forward,
still going. You're the goal on he is in touchdown
forty nine Ers, Christian McCaffery with a forty yard touchdown run,
Paul dozing his way to the end, souled head with
two twenty four to goal, the forty nine ers lead
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nineteen two.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Ran Radke Westwood one on the call last night, A
game that's men. We jumped all over We jumped all
over it last night with the Baseball's Best postgame show
last night out at snow Qualmy Casino, where we will
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bar and then some because even the Peri Sports Bar
doesn't have a gorgeous view of the Pacific Northwest to
bold just sitting right out there to wrap your eyeballs around.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
I mean, I've spent a lot, a lot of time
in bars.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
That's probably the nicest one. It's so nice, it's so nice.
Hawk's Peak. So that's where we'll be tonight. All right,
let's get to our cold turkey sandwich. A board of scores.
We will start with that forty nine Ers twenty ten
victory over the Atlanta Falcons. What a night for Christian McCaffrey.
He's back one hundred and twenty nine yards, rushing seventy
two yards, receiving two touchdowns, and Kyle Shanahan may be
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authoring the best coaching job of his entire impressive career
because he keeps losing a star player every single week,
it feels like. And yet the forty nine ers are
five and two.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Yeah, pretty impressive to say the least. You know, they're
finding ways to do it. I'm not one hundred percent sure.
I don't know really what the Falcons are, but regardless,
that doesn't take away from what it is Shanahan's doing
because they just a bunch of times. I mean, just
look at the other teams out there. The Bengals, how
for much they fall off when they lose their starting quarterback,
or the Ravens, for crying out loud, you lose some
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key parts, usually there's a drastic cutoff. And yet he's
got mac Jones going out there and winning big primetime games.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
The day started with the Rams winning thirty five to
seven over the Jacksonville Jaguars or the London Jaguars in
London thirty five seven blowout, So the Jags aren't having
much luck in the NFC West. Matt Stafford five touchdowns,
three of them to Devonte Adams, So the Seahawks have
to win tonight to keep pace the top the NFC West,
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as both of those rivals are five and two on
the year. But if the Tampa Bay Buccaneers lose tonight,
the best record in the NFC is going to belong
to the Green Bay Packers, who pulled out a victory
against the Arizona Cardinals twenty seven to twenty three. The
Cardinals have lost five in a row since their two
and o start. The Washington Commanders may not be that
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good this year. Their defense is a mess, and they
just lost their quarterback to another injury, Jayden Daniels going
down in the middle of a game against the Dallas
Cowboys that they were getting blown out in anyway, forty
four to twenty two. The final score certainly the most
impressive offensive performance of the year for the Dallas Cowboys.
They were firing on all cylinders. The Indianapolis Colts, they
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have the best record in the AFC and they are
averaging over thirty three points per game. They beat up
on the Chargers thirty eight to twenty four. The Chargers
have now lost three of four after Jim Harbaugh started
at three to zero with his Chargers and a lot
of people thought they looked as good as any team
in the NFL. Well, they're not as good as the
Indianapolis Colts. Not right now. The Colts are now six
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and one on the season. The Denver Broncos and the
New York Giants played the strangest game of Sunday and
maybe of all time. Forty six of sixty five points
were scored in the fourth quarter. The Broncos came back
from an eighteen point death sit with six minutes to play.
Bucky I was en route. I didn't watch all of this.
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You watched every single second. How crazy was it?
Speaker 5 (35:09):
Was?
Speaker 3 (35:09):
Nuts?
Speaker 2 (35:09):
I mean that really, I don't think either team really
deserved to win based on how they played, but somebody
had to win, and so it was nice to see
the Broncos come out with finally the team that gets
the last second field goal. But I mean to go
down and score, take the lead, and culminate the comeback
from down that much. I mean, hadn't scored a point
until the fourth quarter, and then to finish score in
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thirty three is pretty crazy. And yet then they gave
it up, and the Giants went down and did it.
And then they still with thirty seconds left, got in
field goal range.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Step Carolina Panthers. They're certainly better. How real they are
I don't know, but they moved to four and three
on the year, thirteen six winners over the winless New
York Jets. Andy Dalton had to close out for Bryce Young,
who left this game with an injury. The Jets have
the worst record in the NFL, but maybe not the
worst team. That might belong to the Miami Dolphins, who
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were destroyed by another bad team Cleveland thirty one to
six yesterday. Twa tongue of I looa twelve for twenty three,
one hundred yards passing, no touchdowns, three interceptions. That's about
as bad a line for a starting quarterback as you'll
see at this level. And there are some people believe
Mike McDaniel will not survive the day as the head
coach of the Miami Dolphins. We shall see as of now,
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nothing yet. Philadelphia got its passing game going finally. AJ Brown,
DeVante Smith, Jalen Hurts all had big days and they
win over Minnesota twenty eight to twenty two. The Kansas
City Chiefs are playing like the best team in the NFL,
and Patrick Mahomes is back to playing like an MVP quarterback.
They shut out Pete Gino and the Raiders thirty one
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nothing yesterday. Gino also a really bad line ten for
sixteen for sixty seven passing yards in the game. At
one point, the Raiders had fifty yards and the Chiefs
had already run fifty plays. Wow, now there's a stat
for you. That's dominance, New England thirty one to thirteen
over the Tennessee Titans. The Patriots are in first place,
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Mike Vrabel winning against his old team there in Tennessee.
Chicago is now four and two on the year. They
won over the New Orleans Saints yesterday twenty six to fourteen.
But even though Ben Johnson seems to have turned a
corner a little bit with this franchise, still a lot
of people need to see more from the Bears to
be believers. And then the week will wrap up tonight
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with a true double header. We won't have to share
the stage tonight with Tampa Bay and Detroit. They'll play
that game first, and then it will be Texans at
Seahawks in the night cap. It's a good thing we
don't have anything else in sports distracting us to lowly.
Hugh Millan will join us at nine. Mike Holger will
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join us at nine thirty, so we will talk some
Seahawks football today. Greg Bell's probably want to go to
talk baseball too, so our Seahawks insider will join us
at seven oh five on It's Radio ninety three point
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
Inducing six one guard from Brighton, Illinois and former high
school basketball stand what the hell does that mean?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Jumped any conclusions?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Not a god.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
You've got to lower lower your expectations. Hard to believe
he could once send a fastball to Pluto.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I'm getting some Bucky Jacobson vibes and former I'll just
openly admit I'm a fat, out of shaped X athlete.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Now there's been a noticeable spike in your blood pressure.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
A five seven guard and a former college water polo
national champion.
Speaker 5 (00:35):
There's a lot of useless crap up here.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
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Speaker 1 (01:07):
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the busiest, most impactful days as a Seattle sports fan
in your entire lifetime. And we are going to start.
We're gonna set the tone here this morning for this incredible,
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Ashley Ryan's here. Former Mariner, Bucky Jacobson is here. My
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you for the next four hours until ten o'clock. What
mj and Ian and Softy and Faine do with the
rest of the broadcast day, that's up to them. If
they decide they just, hey, we're just gonna take calls
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on your favorite show tunes, then that's up to them.
Could be a big miss I think, I think so.
I mean, I'm not the programmer around here. I would
imagine they'll talk about the big sporting events going on today,
but it's certainly what we are going to do in
our four hours together as we get you ready for
just absolute craziness. I don't even know what to expect
(02:14):
from it. We got hockey at four o'clock, we've got
baseball at five o'clock. We've got football in the National
Football League, a Monday night football game, which in any
other year is a four hour preview right here on
Chucking Buck in the Morning. Not today, Not today. There's
way too much to discuss today, So.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Buckle up, people, Yeah, glad that it's your job to
figure out how to wade through all of it, because
that is a lot, want a lot to cover. I
know where my head's at and it's pretty much solely
focused on the Mariners game. It's there too, but while
it's there, it's really focused on the Mariners not having their.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Heads up there.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
But well it's a dark place too, so you can think, yeah, yeah,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Kind of felt to me like some of them were
very feeling very comfortable last night with their heads up there. Yes,
last night for sure, playing game number six last night. Look,
I don't know what to tell you. They don't close
out the Blue Jays yesterday. On one hand, it feels
very disappointing that they played one of their sloppiest games
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of the entire year in the biggest moment, an opportunity
for this franchise to punch its ticket to its first
World Series ever. And then on the other side of it,
this is what they do to us. They never make
it easy. They always have to push it to the
very end. They always have to back themselves in the corner,
and that's ten They tend to play their best when
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they do it this way. I mean, we didn't have
to have a game five.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Of the a L d S.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
We were up three to nothing with Tiger fans walking
out of the stadium, But it was just, you know,
it was just more interesting to play fifteen innings against
Trek school ball on a Friday and win it that way.
Then it was to just handle things easily, take care
of a three run lead, and have an easy flight
home for Detroit and not have to worry about playing
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baseball again. Last night, this team committed three errors. I
don't think they've done that all season long. Logan Gilbert
had a stinker of an outing last night, something we
didn't see him do a lot during the course of
the regular season. We had base running mistakes. On one
particular play, both the guy on the base and the
guy at the plate we're so sure that they'd hit
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a two run homer, they decided not to run and
it ended up not ultimately costing the team that inning,
but it was sort of emblematic of how that game
was played last night. It was very strange. Even Ryan
Divisch this morning, if you read his article at the
local newspaper, turns out we got one. He talked about
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the surprisingly sluggish performance, the sloppy performance and just coming
at a time where you just expect this team to
be razor sharp and focused like they've never been in
their entire athletic lives, and for whatever reason, we didn't
get it. But there's plenty of evidence to suggest we
will get it tonight.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Yeah. Well, real, they don't have a choice.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
You either show up tonight or you get to uh,
you know, put a bow on this bad boy and
and kind of fall short of where you I think
that where they feel they're capable of getting to. So
I'm hoping tonight they get a good night's rest and
you know, there's no flight involved in the whole thing.
Whatever the excuses may be, they got to go out
and show up.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
You got a.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Dude that whether you want to believe in him, not
you personally Chuck or Ashley, but if whether or not
the fan base wants to believe in George Kirby, the
organization does. I think George Kirby believes in George Kirby.
He's just gonna have to be precise. He's gonna have
to do what it is we've wanted watched him do
since he arrived on the scene, and that is locate.
If you don't locate these guys are going to you know,
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they're going to be swinging early and often that's fine.
Put it where he put it, where it's difficult for
him to hit it, and then possibly even pitch outside
his own a little bit, use their aggressiveness against him.
And if he can do that, then we might be
able to be talking about punching our ticket to the
World Series this time tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
I it's I just all I ask is that they
don't come out looking like they did last night, because
that would be the most disappointing thing as a fan
to watch them be as sloppy as they were last
night in Game seven of the American League Championship Series.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
And they won't be, I mean, and I don't.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Think they will, but I'm I'm just throwing it out
there extra.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
It's just the weird part. I mean, it's just a
weird team. It's a good team, maybe even borderline great team.
And they do win. Backed against the wall, they pull
out ten of eleven, They pull out seventeen out of
eighteen to win the division. They win in fifteen innings,
despite having been again the ropes for several straight innings
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in a row. They tend to save their best when
they absolutely have to have it. So I'm gonna trust
that that's gonna happen here again this evening for game
number seven, even game number five, that amazing feeling that
we had Friday night, that incredible game, and the Geno
swore as a Grand Slam that kind of felt like
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backs against the wall, and they played a little bit tight,
but when it really came down to it, they came
up with the big inning that gave them that big
third victory in the series. But Bucky, I don't know
I explain it last night. I know they wont it.
I know they care. I know that they want to
get to the World Series just as bad as every
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single fan out there except for maybe Softy wants them
to get to the World Series. It's just really hard
to explain how you gaff too routine plays, how you
don't run out balls, and how Logan once again just
didn't have it last night. It's not an effort thing,
but maybe it was a focused thing last night.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Well, I mean, I think some grace should be granted.
We watch Major League Baseball players over the course of
you know, one hundred and sixty plus games and basically
you just expect ground ball.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
They feeld it, they make a.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Good throw, that's an out, and you can you should
expect it, but you should also recognize their human and
they're not going to be perfect. Now, the base running thing,
the JP not knowing where the hell is how far
he's supposed to go towards second and his objective of
getting to third there and it didn't end up costing
you kind of sort of you don't know for sure. Yeah,
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there was a you know, because Julio ends up walking afterwards,
and so you ended up with bases loaded. But ultimately
you don't know for sure what happens if the pitcher
makes different pitches. He's going to be tighter with guys
at second and third than he would with first and second.
One out, that's a totally different situation.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
So you don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
But I mean, they had they were sloppy, and then
the Toronto Blue Jays capitalized on it, and then when
we got them kind of started putting them into pressure situations.
Had three straight innings with inning inning double plays. Those
are just absolute backbreakers, and so you find yourself losing
a six to two ball game, even though it felt
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like it was way worse than that.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
It wasn't you were right there.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
You were a couple different things going a couple different
ways away from punching your ticul the World Series. But
inevitably you lost, and so they do force a game seven.
You find yourself, well, it's winner, go home time, and
usually that's when this team shows up the most.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
It all makes me so nervous.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
But yeah, just going back to those double plays last night,
that was just beyond frustrating. To have it not just
happened once, but to have it happened three times in
a row was just it was just it was you
could tell, I mean you could tell already it wasn't
necessarily our night because it wasn't low night. And then
there was some you know issues there with Gino at third,
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and then to have that it was like, okay, this
is just not going well.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Well, you know, you do get the bases loaded, you're
only down by two, and then you've got your bell
cow coming to the plate and it's not like you
didn't hit it hard. It was a fairly hard hit ball.
The first base double play it's over. That takes the
wind out of your sales. Then you falled out behind
by four, and you battle, and you get bases loaded
again and then JP on a check swing, hits the
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ground ball to second base. Another double play over man,
it's really I mean, you sort of understand how it's
hard to overcome that once you're down four to nothing
and you've squandered a couple great scoring opportunities. But I
think the irritating part, and I get why people are irritated,
but I also think you need to reserve in your
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brain this space that says this is what this team
does to me. But the irritating part is that you
fell behind by four to begin with that, and it
was just Logan again not being sharp. And I don't
know if that relief appearance for a guy that is
such a slave to his routine threw him off. But
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usually Bucky Logan Gilbert is getting you to swing at
miss at his splitter in the dirt, or he's set
you up to be thinking about that pitch, which is
his outpitch, and then he'll blow a ninety eight mile
power fastball right by your letters and he'll get you out.
This is a guy that averaged twelve point in a
down year for him, still average twelve point six strikeouts
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per game per nine innings this year, one of the
best rates in all of Major League Baseball, and yet
he's not getting swing and miss. And to me, the
Blue Jays were spitting on everything that he throws in
the dirt and hammering everything that he threw up. I mean,
it just is not threw up in the zone. It's
just not the logan that we expect. And frankly, we
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haven't gotten the starting pitching that we expect, the starting
pitching that we couldn't wait see on display in a
postseason series, and not just one little three gamer, a
five game divisional series, a seven game league championship series.
We couldn't wait to see this group in this on
this stage, in this format, And instead, with the exception
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of Bryce Miller, we really haven't gotten a good starting
pitching performance this entire series.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Yeah, well, they definitely have fallen short. I mean to
some degree. You got to give credit where credit is due.
That's that Toronto Blue Jay's team. They they do the
little things like the putting the ball in play. How
for my entire time of doing the show, it's been
a thing that frustrates the hell out of me. The
idea of that that's not as important as it once was. Well,
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we're seeing it right now, play out to where it's
important to put the ball in play.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
One thing that can happen sometimes when you're not trying
to go yard and you're just thinking, you know what,
I'm not going to let this guy punch me out
just because that's okay, and because he does it to
most people. And you put it in play, and maybe
they don't make the play his routine as it might be.
Maybe they make a mistake, and then you can count
whatever happen. Yeah, right, it would never happen. And so
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I mean, to some degree, there's last night just was
not their night, and they didn't show up and play clean.
They didn't show up and play fundamental baseball. They they
had mental mistakes, physical errors, and then they didn't perform
it their best. So you combine all that and you
turn it. It turns out to be a game that
really you never really felt like you were in. Unfortunately,
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considering you let opportunities pass by with basis load and whatnot.
But to me, it's like, okay, give At this point,
I think the Mariners recognize this team is aggressive, that
they're pitching against. This team has some athletes, They have
some people that can hit, some people that maybe weren't
household names to us. But now you're six games into it,
getting ready for Game seven, and you bettert arnwell recognize
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that Ernie Clement is basically Poul Molder at the plate,
and that this Barger kid, who was a third basement
he plays decent outfield, and and he can swing it
a little bit too if you're not careful. Oh that
him in is Yeah, when he's trying to move a
runner over, don't throw it down and in because he
can hit it three inches over the over the wall.
There's they have some ballplayers on their team, and so
(14:15):
you have to go execute. It boils down to this
is game seven. You want to be better. Be tougher
at the dish, be tougher on the mound. Make sure
that you make it more difficult than they can make
it for you. That's the that's the name of the game.
It always has been. And yet right now it's put
up or shut up time.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Yeah, it's all execution. It's in their in their three wins,
they've executed so much better than what we've executed. And
that's the frustration part, because we know we can execute
just as well, and we're committing errors on routine plays
in a game, a game to make it to the
World Series. Our pitchers, which we have come to rely on,
(14:53):
aren't executing their pitches. And I mean and then bases
loaded two different times back to back and we don't
get executed at bat. So yeah, it's about execution. They
certainly out executed us last night in their six to
two victory, and it does force the game seven. But
this is usually where our local baseball team plays its best.
(15:16):
So we shall see. And man, is it going to
be interesting the way that Dan Wilson and his coaching
staff are going to have to prepare for this thing.
As a matter of fact, let's go ahead and find
out what's on tap, because there is a lot to
set up for today's program to be coming on chucking
by what what's on TEP?
Speaker 3 (15:35):
What's on TEP?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
All right, Ryan Healy will be with us this morning
at eight thirty to talk about the loss last night
six to two, maybe more so what to expect for
game number seven tonight. It was announced right after the ballgame,
and Dan Wilson did not mix words. It just he
couldn't wait to tell us that George Kirby was going
to get the start in Game number five, a guy
that gave up eight runs to the Blue Jays the
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last time that he faced him. So, as I've mentioned
many times throughout this postseason, both on this show and
in our over our postgame shows, maybe some of you
listening out there don't have faith in George Kirby, But
I can guarantee you one person that does. Dan Wilson
and Jerry Depoto and Justin Hollander, and the entire coaching
staff and the entire pitching staff. This is their guy.
(16:21):
I mean they set him up so that he would
start game number one of the playoffs after a week off.
We had a week off before we played the game.
Who did they hand pick to get our postseason started
number sixty eight? And then they also chose him. If
it goes game five, you're gonna go head to head
against Trek Scooble. Then they had another opportunity to show, well,
(16:42):
it's Luis Castillo's turning the rotation in the American League
Championship Series to start game number three. Nope, because if
we have a Game seven, we want George Kirby on
the mound. So maybe you don't like the choice. Maybe
we don't like the choice. If we would have had
it could start from scratching, do it all over again.
But this has consistently been the Mariner's choice to go
(17:05):
at George Kirby. So they have absolute faith in George
in this situation to execute. And also even though they
have that faith, and we will talk about this at
great length later on in the show, everybody's available tonight.
Everybody is available tonight, with the exception of Logan Gilbert.
(17:25):
Don't be surprised. I mean, Brian wu should be available.
Bryce Miller should be available, Luis Castillo should be available.
Every single person out of the bullpen is available, including
Bizardo who went two innings last night. He's going to
be available first sign of trouble. George Kirby's going to
be out of there. There's no way they can risk
falling behind in a big, big inning during the course
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of this game. And so get ready to see a
game like you've never seen. We've never had a game seven.
We have never had a game seven here in Seattle.
Get ready to see a game seven managed like you've
never seen it managed before.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
M and I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
And I think that there's a there's ways in which
I mean trouble doesn't mean Okay, he walks a guy.
It's if they if he's missing in the zone and
their aggressiveness is paying off, and they rake a ball
in the gap, they end up hitting a couple of
hard balls, they find holes, then yeah, they're gonna They're
gonna find a way they will empty the tank. I
(18:22):
don't think that Dan Wilson and company are gonna be like, well,
let's see if he can just you know, battle out
of this one. Nope, Uh, if you're I think that
it boils down to location is what George is known
most for, and that's with plus stuff. You're locating and
you're missing off the plate. That's all there is to it.
You're not giving them a whole eck of a lot
because I think you can paint the corners. You paint
(18:43):
the corners, You're not gonna give up a bunch of
loud contact. And I'm super excited because I think he's
gonna do it.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
Yeah, I think, and both teams are obviously gonna be
everybody available all because you have.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Nothing to lose.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
I mean at this point, right you, if you win
this game, you've still got five days off, six days off,
don't math four days off until Friday, so you might
as well.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Yeah yeah, you empty the tank. There's no question about it,
and that should give us an advantage in this contest.
We do have more good pitchers than what the Blue
Jays have Otani and the Dodgers await. Of course, the
sport the world's still buzzing about maybe the greatest single
performance we've ever seen from a baseball player, showy Otani.
(19:24):
Friday night. While we were celebrating Gino's Grand Slam, the
rest of the baseball world was marveling at its greatest
marvel Showyotani hitting three home runs, including one completely out
of Dodger Stadium. And then he also pitched that night,
struck out ten batters and allowed two hits and six
shutout innings, just as incredible. Monday Night football tonight, Texans
(19:47):
at Seahawks. The Seahawks have to win to keep pace
at the top of the NFC West Division. Greg Bell
will be with us at seven oh five. We will
hear from Hugh X's and O's today at nine o'clock.
Mike Holmgren will also be joining us at nine thirty.
It felt like separator week in the National Football League.
I'll explain what I mean by that coming up at
six forty five when we go over cold Turkey Sandwich.
(20:09):
A board of scores that's coming your way this hour,
and a lot of people in the National Football League
are on Mike McDaniel job watch. There is a belief
after his team got blown out by the low league
Cleveland Browns, that Mike McDaniel could be fired. As the
first order of business this morning in the National Football League,
we shall see the Michigan Wolverines mauled the Washington Huskies
(20:33):
on Saturday. Demand Williams three interceptions in the game, and
so Washington does not get that signature road win in
the Jedfish era. And so we'll play some factor fiction today.
At seven thirty five, Miami fell as the second ranked team,
another part of that crazy Friday in sports. So Indiana
(20:54):
is now the new number two in college football, right
behind Ohio State. Kraken have not lost regulation this year.
They are off to a three to zero and two start,
and I guess they're just gonna play every game in
overtime this year, just the every single game seems like it.
They'll be back in action tonight taking on the Flyers.
They'll drop the puck there at four o'clock. Meanwhile, the
(21:16):
Sounders won their last game of the regular season two
to one over New York City. They will next play
in the postseason Monday, October twenty seven, so a week
from today at Minnesota United. And if that wasn't enough,
the NBA season tips off tomorrow, thank you, And we
aren't going to talk about it all right. Mariners Morning
(21:36):
After the next Sports Radio ninety three point three kha RFM.
If there was one hundred and thirty seven game series,
we would play all one thirty seven. That's just the
way that this team operates. And so we go to
a Game seven last night as part of Mariners Morning After.
Here today we recap a loss in Game six to
(21:56):
the Toronto Blue Jays. The final score was six to two.
Who logan Gilbert did not have his good stuff. Instead,
Toronto scored twice. He didn't get much help from the
defense in the second inning they took the two nothing lead.
Could have been worse, ended up getting out of it
because of a great geno play that robbed Vladimir Guerrero
(22:18):
Junior if a base hit the left field. Then in
the top of the third, you felt like, man, we're
gonna get these right back. A walk, an out, a single,
a walk. The bases are loaded for our Vladimir Guerrero Junior,
as the big dumper came to the plate, base is ordered.
In the two nothing games, see what he goes with
(22:38):
The first gilt.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Is grounded, the first radical second for one tier hits st.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
On through six seven turn killing. They have a twenty
two year old kiss caw on one pitch to get
out of the Cunado. Scavee Sports on the call last night,
Cal Groundson to the double play. Cal's had a very
good postseason. By the way, Vladimir Guerrero Junior is just
hitting a thousand and so it kind of looks like
(23:11):
he's the big superstar of the series. But Cal's been
very good in the postseason, including the huge home run.
I don't know if Gino hits the Grand Slam on Friday,
if Cal doesn't hit the home run to kind of
relax the entire dugout to tie that game up in
the late going. But last night was not his night, Bucky.
(23:31):
I mean, he struck out three times, he grounded into
a double play at the worst possible time. He committed
an error. Last night, he gave up another wild pitch,
and it was a wild pitch. But cal we just
expect him to absorb those things and not have that
become a problem. He had one of his worst games
he's had in a long long time, certainly all season long.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Yeah, and I don't necessarily, I mean, it is what
it is. It's gonna happen from time to time. You're
not going to rake non stop. I mean, it does
look like a Vlad Junior has figured something out and
kind of smash everything that's in the zone. And yet,
I mean, ultimately, not all ground ball double plays, not
all outs are created equal. I mean, to me, that
(24:16):
col Rawley one is. I think he got the pitch,
he was looking for it, and he ended up hitting
it about a half an inch too high on the
ball from where he won't wanted to. I mean, honestly,
it's that's what you are hoping for. I think that
he went up there thinking, all right, dude, throws splitty
and if it's up enough that it's in the zone,
I'm dropping head on it and we're gonna have four
(24:37):
runs or two runs, or however many it equates to.
And he gets the pitch that he wants, he hits
it hard, it just basically goes about a step to
Vladdie's right and he makes a good play and next
thing you know, they twist it up and you're out
at the inning. It's not one that you sometimes go
back to the batrack and you put your helmet in
and you put your bat down and you're pissed because
(24:58):
you did a bunch of things wrong.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
And yet that was one where you got one pitch.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
It's the pitch you wanted, you put a good swing
on it, you hit it on the barrel, it just
goes to somebody instead. You didn't get to the bottom
half the way you need to in a double play situation.
So I mean, it's that compared to like JP's double
playground ball that that was worse. Julio's was even worse
than that, in my opinion, And so I mean, I'm
not trying to play favorites here. I would call it
(25:23):
how it is. I just think it was a good
swing decision. You just got about a half an inch
too high on the ball, and unfortunately it didn't work out.
I can't wait until he gets that pitch today.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
That just means me, I'm freaking out over here.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Well look, I mean, it was not just a game
where you didn't create your own breaks. He certainly didn't
catch anything. It was just one of those. It was
just such a weird game and to happen it's such
a pivotal time. I mean, even the Revas, we got
little Leo, the ninth place hitter, who's sitting there pimping
a home run. I mean, you're lucky you're even in
(25:58):
the starting lineup, Bud, and you're sitting there thinking that
you've knocked one fifteen rows into the right center field
bleachers and it hits off the wall, and JP's sitting
there admiring it too. Even when we started to get
our one rally, going our one successful rally, when Naylor
hits a home run and he acts like it's a
foul ball, uh, and nobody thought. Nobody even reacted because
(26:21):
Naylor spun around and acted like he didn't get it,
and he totally got it. Then we get the single
from a Rose Arena, and then Suarez gets the little gift,
double bloop, double down, the line that hits the part
of the stadium that's jutting out, and Rose Arena scores
all the way from first and then you find out, well,
why isn't Gino at second base? He tripped? Yeah, they
(26:43):
fell down. It was flat on his face. One of
those nights. It was just crazy that you can have
one of those nights and an on a night in
which you just like, let's close it out.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
Almost had Revs picked off at first again too, almost.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Said Revas napping again. I mean, it was just it
was just just a bad performance at a terrible time
from this baseball team, and even Logan. Gilbert somebody that
we just depend on, and he has not been dependable
in this series last night. Four innings, pitch, seven hits, allowed,
one walk, struck out three, allowed five runs, four of
(27:20):
them earned, and he took a responsibility after the game.
Speaker 6 (27:24):
I love the team down for sure. Wanted to win
it tonight and I had a great opportunity.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
But it's on me.
Speaker 6 (27:29):
But the team's got a ton of play. I think
I believe we're gonna bounce back like we've done all year. Logan,
you've come through a lot of times for this team,
but like you said, to not quite get there tonight.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
How tough of a feeling is that right now?
Speaker 6 (27:42):
Yeah, it's tough. It's part of the game, for sure.
They're good team. But yeah, it's gonna stay with me
for a while for sure. We still got a lot
of game in front of us tomorrow and hopefully another
series after that. But just take it, learn from it,
move on the fields and mistakes on the basis you
guys have been clean for.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Most of the second half of the season, and how
surprising was that?
Speaker 6 (28:06):
Yeah, for sure, I take it on myself. I didn't
sell the tone at all really from the get go.
A lot of traffic, no quick inning, stuff like that.
The guy was on on the other side and I
didn't match it. So I feel like that's all mean
for sure.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
We've where you guys talked all year, and Dames specifically
just about the fight. You know, you guys ability outs back.
How was that residated?
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Is that something you guys grat really having body drafty? Yeah,
I feel like that's what we do.
Speaker 6 (28:32):
We've got a lot of tough stretches, like I said,
and we know what's in front of us. We know
it's on the line, for sure, you gotta take advantage
of it because after tomorrow, that's that's it. You get
one chance. So I like our chances. I know we've
got a ton of fight in here, but we gotta
gotta make it happen.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Logan Gilbert owning it certainly after that game is over.
Certainly has not been on his game in this series,
and we missed him. Could have been could have been different.
We might be able to have wrapped this thing up
if we had vintage Logan on the mountain either of
us two starts. Well, we did win the first one.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
So yeah, yeah, well, I mean, just it. It's your
going against another good team. Obviously, when you get down
to the final four that are left out of every
team that started the long journey, you're going to go
out there and you're going to hope that you have
your best performance. But typically that's just not the way
it works. It's how bad are your In golf, they
(29:26):
say a good golfer basically is how good are their misses?
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Like if you if you miss, is it still on
the green? Does it give you a good putt? How
bad are your misses?
Speaker 2 (29:34):
And right now, his misses are a little bit worse
than what you typically see because imperfection's part of the
game bad bad. Imperfection is something that costs your team
and it doesn't set the tone the way that it should.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
All right, So tonight, five o'clock, first pitch, Game seven,
the first game seven in the history of Seattle Mariners Baseball,
and so one went away from the World Series, or
we still one game short of that goal, that goal
that has eluded this city, this franchise, for its fifty
(30:07):
years of existence, and so we'll do it tonight, five pm,
First pitch. Shane Bieber will be pitching for the Blue Jays.
He pitched quite well for them the last time we
faced them. George Kirby will get the start for the Mariners.
He did not pitch well the first time that he
faced the Jason this series. But expect almost everybody to
(30:29):
pitch tonight if it comes to that. Both managers are
prepared with a quick hook on their starting pitcher if
things start to go south, and there really isn't anybody
I would think on the Mariners staff not named Logan
Gilbert that isn't available for this game tonight. So it
should be fun and hopefully it ends in elation for
(30:54):
us in Seattle. We'll certainly talk more about it coming
up later on in the show. We got your ABC's
at the MS, we got Ryan Healey joining us, and
so much more coming up next though the National Football League.
So week in review, It's cold Turkey Sandwich time, a
board of scores on Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
The snat hand off, theccaffrick jumps out to the right,
makes his way along the hash sparks, plowing his way forward,
still going. You're the goal on he is in touchdown
forty nine Ers, Christian McCaffery with a forty yard touchdown run,
Paul dozing his way to the end, souled head with
two twenty four to goal, the forty nine ers lead
(31:32):
nineteen two.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Ran Radke Westwood one on the call last night, A
game that's men. We jumped all over We jumped all
over it last night with the Baseball's Best postgame show
last night out at snow Qualmy Casino, where we will
be again this evening. By the way, Bucky and myself,
if you want to come out, it is the perfect
sports bar. I'm not even kidding it. The perfect sports
(31:56):
bar and then some because even the Peri Sports Bar
doesn't have a gorgeous view of the Pacific Northwest to
bold just sitting right out there to wrap your eyeballs around.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
I mean, I've spent a lot, a lot of time
in bars.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
That's probably the nicest one. It's so nice, it's so nice.
Hawk's Peak. So that's where we'll be tonight. All right,
let's get to our cold turkey sandwich. A board of scores.
We will start with that forty nine Ers twenty ten
victory over the Atlanta Falcons. What a night for Christian McCaffrey.
He's back one hundred and twenty nine yards, rushing seventy
two yards, receiving two touchdowns, and Kyle Shanahan may be
(32:36):
authoring the best coaching job of his entire impressive career
because he keeps losing a star player every single week,
it feels like. And yet the forty nine ers are
five and two.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Yeah, pretty impressive to say the least. You know, they're
finding ways to do it. I'm not one hundred percent sure.
I don't know really what the Falcons are, but regardless,
that doesn't take away from what it is Shanahan's doing
because they just a bunch of times. I mean, just
look at the other teams out there. The Bengals, how
for much they fall off when they lose their starting quarterback,
or the Ravens, for crying out loud, you lose some
(33:09):
key parts, usually there's a drastic cutoff. And yet he's
got mac Jones going out there and winning big primetime games.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
The day started with the Rams winning thirty five to
seven over the Jacksonville Jaguars or the London Jaguars in
London thirty five seven blowout, So the Jags aren't having
much luck in the NFC West. Matt Stafford five touchdowns,
three of them to Devonte Adams, So the Seahawks have
to win tonight to keep pace the top the NFC West,
(33:37):
as both of those rivals are five and two on
the year. But if the Tampa Bay Buccaneers lose tonight,
the best record in the NFC is going to belong
to the Green Bay Packers, who pulled out a victory
against the Arizona Cardinals twenty seven to twenty three. The
Cardinals have lost five in a row since their two
and o start. The Washington Commanders may not be that
(33:59):
good this year. Their defense is a mess, and they
just lost their quarterback to another injury, Jayden Daniels going
down in the middle of a game against the Dallas
Cowboys that they were getting blown out in anyway, forty
four to twenty two. The final score certainly the most
impressive offensive performance of the year for the Dallas Cowboys.
They were firing on all cylinders. The Indianapolis Colts, they
(34:22):
have the best record in the AFC and they are
averaging over thirty three points per game. They beat up
on the Chargers thirty eight to twenty four. The Chargers
have now lost three of four after Jim Harbaugh started
at three to zero with his Chargers and a lot
of people thought they looked as good as any team
in the NFL. Well, they're not as good as the
Indianapolis Colts. Not right now. The Colts are now six
(34:45):
and one on the season. The Denver Broncos and the
New York Giants played the strangest game of Sunday and
maybe of all time. Forty six of sixty five points
were scored in the fourth quarter. The Broncos came back
from an eighteen point death sit with six minutes to play.
Bucky I was en route. I didn't watch all of this.
(35:05):
You watched every single second. How crazy was it?
Speaker 5 (35:09):
Was?
Speaker 3 (35:09):
Nuts?
Speaker 2 (35:09):
I mean that really, I don't think either team really
deserved to win based on how they played, but somebody
had to win, and so it was nice to see
the Broncos come out with finally the team that gets
the last second field goal. But I mean to go
down and score, take the lead, and culminate the comeback
from down that much. I mean, hadn't scored a point
until the fourth quarter, and then to finish score in
(35:32):
thirty three is pretty crazy. And yet then they gave
it up, and the Giants went down and did it.
And then they still with thirty seconds left, got in
field goal range.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Step Carolina Panthers. They're certainly better. How real they are
I don't know, but they moved to four and three
on the year, thirteen six winners over the winless New
York Jets. Andy Dalton had to close out for Bryce Young,
who left this game with an injury. The Jets have
the worst record in the NFL, but maybe not the
worst team. That might belong to the Miami Dolphins, who
(36:00):
were destroyed by another bad team Cleveland thirty one to
six yesterday. Twa tongue of I looa twelve for twenty three,
one hundred yards passing, no touchdowns, three interceptions. That's about
as bad a line for a starting quarterback as you'll
see at this level. And there are some people believe
Mike McDaniel will not survive the day as the head
coach of the Miami Dolphins. We shall see as of now,
(36:23):
nothing yet. Philadelphia got its passing game going finally. AJ Brown,
DeVante Smith, Jalen Hurts all had big days and they
win over Minnesota twenty eight to twenty two. The Kansas
City Chiefs are playing like the best team in the NFL,
and Patrick Mahomes is back to playing like an MVP quarterback.
They shut out Pete Gino and the Raiders thirty one
(36:44):
nothing yesterday. Gino also a really bad line ten for
sixteen for sixty seven passing yards in the game. At
one point, the Raiders had fifty yards and the Chiefs
had already run fifty plays. Wow, now there's a stat
for you. That's dominance, New England thirty one to thirteen
over the Tennessee Titans. The Patriots are in first place,
(37:07):
Mike Vrabel winning against his old team there in Tennessee.
Chicago is now four and two on the year. They
won over the New Orleans Saints yesterday twenty six to fourteen.
But even though Ben Johnson seems to have turned a
corner a little bit with this franchise, still a lot
of people need to see more from the Bears to
be believers. And then the week will wrap up tonight
(37:30):
with a true double header. We won't have to share
the stage tonight with Tampa Bay and Detroit. They'll play
that game first, and then it will be Texans at
Seahawks in the night cap. It's a good thing we
don't have anything else in sports distracting us to lowly.
Hugh Millan will join us at nine. Mike Holger will
(37:50):
join us at nine thirty, so we will talk some
Seahawks football today. Greg Bell's probably want to go to
talk baseball too, so our Seahawks insider will join us
at seven oh five on It's Radio ninety three point
three kJ RFM.
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