Headlines and 12th Man News with GREGG BELL (Tacoma News Tribune) Gregg is pulling double duty this week and joins us live from Toronto, so we get the latest from the Seahawks after their win in Jacksonville and give us his thoughts on the M’s game 2 ALCS win yesterday. :30- ALCS Game 3 is tomorrow at T Mobile Park and the team comes home with a 2-0 lead and George Kirby on the mound. :35- Do we trust Ashley’s fact or fiction pick this week? Dawg fans might! :45- Doug Eddings had everyone talking yesterday and not in a good way… The Homeplate umpire missed 24 calls and had the worst playoff rating since… well, Doug Eddings back in 2022.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Here's is one too. Riguez looks one in the.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Air down the line of its first, looks hands and
it's gone. Polio Rodriguez with a three run shot of
the first inning, falling strike, you s muscles, I'm not title.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Scanner goes first to third. Lucas knocks at.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Another after the decking title con thret.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Shot to right center field. Varsha on the run, He's.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
At the truck, he's an it's gone. Let's pullock again.
Jorge Polanco is owning October for the Mariners.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Fined the deep bright field Becos Lucas at.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
The low bade third home run.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Of the game for the Manors. Blesting their way through
Game two. They need a nine to three.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Hey, good morning, Mariners rep. Two oh in the American
League Championship Series. Work to do, but that means they
are just two wins shy of their first World Series
appearance in franchise history, and they're coming home three straight
games on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday at T Mobile to
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try to finish off the Blue Jays. But tremendous start
for this team in the ALCS. A ten to three
win last night, it was tied at three in the
fifth inning when oor A Polanko with a three run
homer to double up the Blue Jays, and then the
team never looked back ten three. Your final score the
Mariners up two to oh in the ALCS. Good morning,
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It is Chuck, Buck and Ashley with you here on
this Tuesday. We got a lot of stuff planned for you.
But we start the seven o'clock hour with your headlines
brought to you by Frost Brewed cors Light. Choose chill.
Game number three tomorrow here in Seattle. George Kirby will
get the start. Toronto will go with Shane Bieber, who
they acquired from Cleveland at the Major League Baseball trading deadline.
(02:10):
First pitch is at five o'clock. Harold Reynolds will join
us to talk about it at eight o'clock. The Dodgers
and Brewers got their series started last night. On the
National League side of things. The Dodgers win a tight one,
two to one the final score. They'll play game number
two tonight at five Yamamoto versus Peralta, A great pitching
match up there. Monday Night Football. The Chicago Bears have
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won three straight games twenty five twenty four. The final
score in Caleb Williams first head to head matchup with
Jaden Daniels of their careers. Meanwhile, Atlanta is on a roll.
Michael Pennix leads the Falcons past Josh Allen and the
Bills twenty four fourteen. The Falcons now three and two
on the season. Huskies at Michigan this Saturday. They'll be
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playing at the Big House. Rick new aisl will join
us at nine o'clock to talk about it, crack and
play their first road game of the season in Montreal
this evening. Everett will join us at eight point thirty
to discuss that, and of course there's a lot of
Seahawks stuff to discuss with our Seahawks insider Greg Bell.
We haven't chatted with him since Friday. I think it's
high time we do it now. That's that's called an
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international multi sport sports writer right there. You can't you
can't stop Greg Bell. You can only hope to contain him. Yeah,
giving that is futile.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Hey, Greg, will you do me a favor and bring
back a Looney and a Tony to show these guys
what they are. They didn't know that those things existed.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
I knew a Looney. I just didn't remember the tony part.
Speaker 7 (03:34):
Oh okay.
Speaker 8 (03:36):
Tunis are great for leaving tips for people. It's just
very easy.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
How long has that currency been around? Is that like
men around? I mean, were looney tunes named after loonies
and toonies?
Speaker 8 (03:49):
Probably at least thirty five years.
Speaker 9 (03:52):
I've been going to Canada, they've had tonies. Yeah, it's
huh two dollar coin basically.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Huh huh. I'll be damn, I'll be damn weird up
there all right.
Speaker 9 (04:03):
Who knew that there was a Jacksonville to Toronto play?
Speaker 8 (04:07):
I did. I don't even know that existed.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
You got a direct one.
Speaker 8 (04:10):
I was here in two hours the Canada little commuter plane.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Look at that? Look at that? So how much fun
was last night from your perspective?
Speaker 7 (04:19):
Then?
Speaker 9 (04:20):
You know what was really cool is they've at first
Then when I saw it, I was like, oh, of
course they did.
Speaker 8 (04:26):
And what used to be SkyDome when I was a.
Speaker 9 (04:28):
Baseball beat writer, the press boxers right behind home played,
and as most stadiums have done, they've sold those seats
because they can profit off of them.
Speaker 8 (04:35):
They put the.
Speaker 9 (04:36):
Media out, in this case pretty much by the left
field thophole. Holy Rodriguez's home run the first thing last
Nay pretty much went right under me. But where we
were down the left field deep left field line in
the corner with my binoculars, I was looking straight into
the Mariner's dugout and I saw all kinds of stuff
they were doing. After Bizardo came out of the game
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after his two scorelessendings, I thought he was an unsung
hero of the game, and how he and the bullpen
reset their rotation for the rest of it, not only
the rest of the series, but they go to the
World Series now. The work that they did, the three
relievers did last night without having to use a high
leverage big big deal.
Speaker 8 (05:14):
I wrote this story for the distribute about that.
Speaker 9 (05:16):
But anyway, when Bizardo comes out of the game and
put my binoculars during the TV time out and between
Ennings and Dan Wilson gave him a huge hug in
the middle of the dugout, and then July Rodriguez gave
him two hugs, and then Rodriguez was showing him. You
could tell it's the first time he'd ever done it,
this elaborate handshaking thing, and yeah, they do damn whatever.
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But at the end of it, Rodriguez that starts pantomiming
twirling a lasso rope over his head like a cowboy,
and he started twirling around and dancing like he's in
a bar somewhere on Fifth.
Speaker 8 (05:55):
Street in Austin.
Speaker 9 (05:56):
It was, and Bizard was just kind of looking at him.
Speaker 8 (05:59):
They're both laughing. Really loose group.
Speaker 9 (06:01):
I guess winning does that, but it's not like they're
daunted by the stage and they're talking about that. Thegetherness
that they have is coming and really handy right now.
And yeah, it was. It was kind of an interesting
way to watch the game with the binoccas into the
dugout because there was a sideshow going on there.
Speaker 7 (06:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Yeah, it's pretty interesting. I mean they are definitely loosey, goosey.
I mean, when what was the difference. You've been here
for some of the Seattle games and yet it kind
of felt Morgish there in Toronto.
Speaker 7 (06:31):
Yeah, yeah it was.
Speaker 9 (06:34):
I mean it was so quiet when I regaz ht
the home run and then Gilbert lets them back in
the game and got loud again, and then the Polanco blast.
Speaker 8 (06:42):
It was.
Speaker 9 (06:43):
Yeah, there was a spattering of Mariner fans right behind
a dugout. There were all Josh Nagler's family from Missus Massagua,
right outside Toronto, and that was about the only noise
you could hear in the whole place. Yeah, it was.
The Rodriguez's home run really took the starts out of
the whole place from the get go, and then the
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Jays were chasing him.
Speaker 8 (07:08):
It didn't feel like a road game.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
After That's gonna be plenty of starts waiting for waiting
for the Blue Jays here, and of course everybody's wondering
how many Blue Jays fans are going to find their
way in because we know what happens during the regular
season in this matchup, so it'll be curious, but it's
certainly going to be electric Wednesday for Game number three.
Greg Bell is with US our Seahawks insider, but for
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the News Tribune they sent him to Toronto. He's covering
some Mariners baseball here in the playoffs as well, So
we get to hit Greg Bell with all sorts of
questions these days. But we haven't talked to you about
the Seahawks win over Jacksonville. I mean, how does Mike
McDonald explain how his defense could play so poorly, couldn't
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cover couldn't get after Baker Mayfield with the pass rush
the previous game, and then against good Jacksonville team, I
much improved Jacksonville team suddenly. The coverage was outstanding, the
pass rush was outstanding. How do you change that much
in one week.
Speaker 9 (08:07):
Well, it all comes back to tackling, which is what
they focused on last week. They tackled at the end
in the early downs, and that created I mean, I wrote.
Speaker 8 (08:18):
It's been a few days a couple of games since.
Speaker 9 (08:20):
But I wrote the third downs that Jacksonville had third
and eleven, third and sixteen, third and fourteen, third and twelve,
third and nine. I think it was like ten plays
of third and nine and more. It was the opposite
against Baker Mayfield and the Buccaneers the week before. They
were on very short third downs. It's a lot harder
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to cover in the NFL third and three because they
can do anything. They can roll out, run pass, quick slants,
they can run quick outs, they can run hitches. It's
hard to cover those. But when it's third and sixteen,
now you can cover for four or five seconds. That's
a whole different proposition. Then your pass rush can get
to the quarterback, which it did for seven sacks, a
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season high. I thought it was all due to the
early six A McDonald said it.
Speaker 8 (09:07):
After the game.
Speaker 9 (09:08):
Putting him in such third and long situations is how
the pass rush went off and the quarterback having to
hold the ball longer because his receivers are running seventeen
yard routes instead four yard routes. It's subtle, but it's
a huge difference, and that's what happened. They put they
tackled well.
Speaker 8 (09:24):
On early downs.
Speaker 9 (09:26):
Speaking of tackling, nick Emun, Worry was the best tackling
in the field, and I think you're now seeing what
we all saw during every day and practices the preseason
as to why they're going to play him everywhere. He's
a sure tackler open field, right away in the backfield.
Receivers open field have to catch name and Worry really
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impressed me on Sunday.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Yeah, he was pretty impressive. Well other than that one
where Travis Hunter juked him out, Yeah that was But
then again, I think he can do that dating about right, Yeah,
it seems like a yeah. I mean so part of
the you know, the defense stepping up obviously limiting them
to twelve points. It makes it to where It's not
that big of a deal that you only scored twenty.
(10:08):
You were talking about the way in which the pass
rush was working, but they shut them down as far
as the run game goes as well.
Speaker 7 (10:15):
They couldn't get anything going there. What did you see
out of the front seven.
Speaker 9 (10:19):
Well, exactly, they tackled, and they tackled on early downs
at the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 8 (10:24):
At the end was averaging almost six yards of carry.
Speaker 9 (10:26):
Most of his games, they hadn't even barely had three
yards to carry.
Speaker 8 (10:30):
I think it was fifty nine yards for the game.
They were averaging one hundred and fifteen.
Speaker 9 (10:34):
Coming into the game, they were the fifth best rushing
team in the league, and they had nothing. And Leonard
Williams had a really good game in that regard to
Marcus Lawrence, he saw the sacks, but he was also
crushing and thrown the lineman collapsing down the edges of
the Jaguars offensive line.
Speaker 8 (10:53):
They are two ed guys.
Speaker 9 (10:54):
When they play as well as they did Williams and Lawrence,
running games are going to fail. Tackles are getting pushed
into guards. That why Atten didn't have anywhere to run,
and then that created the third and longs.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Greg bellis with US our Seahawks insider. Of course, you
can follow his coverage at the Newstribune dot com. He's
covered Mariners and Seahawks these days, and he is our
regular guest here at seven oh five on Chuck and
Buck in the mornings. So I mean that we're talking
about a big chunk of the season now that Julian
Love and Devin Witherspoon have missed. I mean they weren't
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placed on IR so it clearly is a week to
week situation here. But is there any good news to report?
Are they close to getting back? Because I got the
impression that they're pretty important to this team.
Speaker 8 (11:41):
They are. I still think Witherspoon's the best player on
the team.
Speaker 9 (11:45):
He's been getting sent out for more tests and off
site and it's not clear when he's going to come back,
and it may not be this week, it may not
be so after the buy in a couple of weeks,
McDonald's learned to just not say a whole lot about
injuries because you just know a lot about him. He
doesn't want to know a lot about him, and it's
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more you'll find out when he's ba type of thing.
But he's not committing to Weatherspoon being able to play
this week, even with the extra day.
Speaker 8 (12:14):
They're off today, they're off tomorrow.
Speaker 9 (12:15):
They're gonna take it at Wednesday off and then Thursday's
gonna become their Wednesday for the.
Speaker 8 (12:19):
Monday night game.
Speaker 9 (12:20):
So they get two full days off here and really
two and a half three because they weren't on the
field for Monday. They just did film and treatment coming
back from Florida. So this is almost another mini many
buy and they don't even think with I won't say that,
but McDonald won't commit to Witherspoon coming back. Love seems
to be ahead of him. It's a hamstring for love,
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but to be determined. I don't know the answer to
that yet. And it doesn't sound like Witherspoon's anytime soon.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Gee.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
I was listening to a show on the way in
and Adam Scheffner was on. There was talking about the
trade deadline, how much more active it's gotten in the
last few years. And I mean he's thinking that between
now and November fourth, the trade deadline, there could be
fifteen more trades to add to the three that have
already already happened. Do you expect the Mariners to be
in on any of that. I mean, especially considering what
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you're just talking about with some of the injuries.
Speaker 8 (13:14):
The Mariners trade someone right now, they're gonna be en.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Up rising, but not Mariners.
Speaker 8 (13:20):
Yeah, let's not trade a maybe a World Series team made.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
Yeah, that's kid.
Speaker 8 (13:25):
I'm sorry. I had to teach you and I are
in this.
Speaker 9 (13:27):
You and I are in the same boat as far
as that goes right now, which which team I'm covering.
Speaker 8 (13:32):
Yeah, they're gonna be act. They're gonna try. They they
we already know and.
Speaker 9 (13:36):
They didn't need a leak to tell us that they
wouldn't mind trading Woolan. But now he's concussed and the
league rules are you can't trade an injured player. He's
gonna have to come back to play first and show
so he can showcase them.
Speaker 8 (13:49):
A little bit.
Speaker 9 (13:50):
I don't know that they're gonna be able to do
that at this point with Woolan. It might be worth
keeping them because if he leaves as a free agent
at the end of his rookie deal at the end
of this season, they could get a third round pick
for him. Because he's already made a Pro Bowl and
as many snaps as he's played by the NFL's calculation
for comp picks, he should be I would think knock
him on the door of the top tier, which is
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a third round comptick. So if you're the Seahawks, if
you don't get a third round offered, then why.
Speaker 8 (14:15):
Would you trade him? And nobody's gonna offer.
Speaker 9 (14:17):
I wouldn't think anyone would offer a third round pick
for him, So I don't think he's getting traded for
those reasons.
Speaker 8 (14:24):
But they're always trying to depth on the offensive defensive line.
Speaker 9 (14:28):
Jonathan Hankins is still on the team, but not playing
and nowhere near coming back. It's still on the injured
list from the off season, so they could use more
defensive tackles. That had Brandon Peaey come up at nose
tackle off the practice squad a couple of times. Trading
is John Schneider for the depth pieces.
Speaker 8 (14:48):
He'd rather pick him up.
Speaker 9 (14:49):
Off waiver wires, practice squads of other teams and free
agents than they give up a trade asset for him.
So it wouldn't surprise me if the Seahawks aren't don't
actually pull one off. They'd like to in a couple
of cases, but I don't know if they actually will
do it.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
I don't think he can help himself. You know, everything
you say makes logical, reasonable sense, but I think he
just wants to play like I want to ask. Oh yeah,
if hell left out, I'm not going to sell. I'm
not going to just look to move pieces. I got
to add something here. And if you are if there
is a weakness on this team, Greg's still running the
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football for goodness sake, and I don't know if there's
an offensive lineman out there that fixes that. And maybe
you could tell me when Robbie Oots is going to
be back. I didn't expect him to be so valuable
to this run attack, but it seems like they miss him.
Speaker 8 (15:40):
They do.
Speaker 9 (15:41):
They did have Brady Russell in the backfield as a
fullback a couple of times, but you're right, they're still
not running the ball at the darn and it makes
what Sam Darnold is doing at quarterback even more impressive
because this isn't how it's supposed to operate. He was
carrying them at times on Sunday without any other offense
than happening, and he was really good. That throw sixty
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one yard touchdown to Smith and Jigbu was the best
throw I've seen him make any practice against air Andy,
that was the best throw i've seen him make, perfectly
on time, right onto Smith and Jigg's hands and stride.
But this is not how they're supposed to function offensively.
That's what they're still chasing. We said it would be
a work in progress in the offense, in the running game,
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run blocking for a while, and we're only still a
month into the season, so it still may take a while.
Speaker 8 (16:30):
But we've seen Kubiak's gonna.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Keep trying, all right, man, great stuff.
Speaker 8 (16:34):
Oh, I do want to.
Speaker 7 (16:35):
Say one thing.
Speaker 9 (16:36):
I'm going to say one thing I wanted to make
Byron Murphy's week. When he told me that he had
a daughter born last week on Tuesday, that was three
months premature.
Speaker 8 (16:50):
I almost cried in the press conferce room.
Speaker 9 (16:53):
Our twins, my wife and I was twins were born
nine weeks earlier, and they were three pounds each. Brian
Murphy's daughter was two and a half pounds. I can't
tell you the hell on earth of nick you is
for a new parent, a first time parent like Brian
Murphy is.
Speaker 8 (17:07):
I was in my twenties when I was like, twins
were in the nick you. The scariest thing I've ever
been in is.
Speaker 7 (17:13):
A nick you.
Speaker 8 (17:14):
The nick you nurses are angels on earth.
Speaker 9 (17:16):
Anybody out there who knows that nick you nurse and
might be listening to the nick you nurse, you're the
greatest people on earth.
Speaker 8 (17:23):
The week he.
Speaker 9 (17:24):
Had, I can't even begin to describe to you for
anyone who would care so much.
Speaker 8 (17:29):
Of course he would about his newborn daughter. He didn't
get any sleep. He could say, well, it's hard to sleep.
He didn't get any sleep, and he's.
Speaker 9 (17:37):
Worried, sick about that baby girl who's still in the hospital.
He said, everything's great, the growth she's on. It's amazing
that she's two and a half pounds and not needing
a ventilator, breathing on her own. You should have seen
the smile on his face when he told me that.
And it ain't not just about football, man, These guys
have real lives, and it was so cool.
Speaker 8 (18:00):
That was one favorite stories I've ever written, just because
it hits so close to home to me.
Speaker 9 (18:04):
But just so you know, he has the game of
his life in two sacks and said he never had
a sack on the first play of a game, but
he wasn't playing with football.
Speaker 8 (18:13):
In his mind Sunday.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Yeah, well, check it out Thenews Tribune dot com. You
can check out that story all of Greg's coverage of
both the Seahawks and the Mariners. Thanks man, great.
Speaker 8 (18:23):
Stuff, appreciate it. I'll be backcome for Game three tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
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fiction and we preview a little bit Game three for
the Mariners. Sports Radio ninety three point three KHRFM, who
was as a.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Second one the first two to Seattle two.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Who would have thought the Mariners would come in here,
you'd figure running out.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Of steam with not much in the take.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
They had plenty or to have firm control of this
championship series.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Very clearly you and John didn't. I'll say that definitely. Matt, Yeah, obvious,
Chuck Buck and Ashley with you, we play factor fiction
in three minutes from now, the Mariners get the job done,
and beyond that in Toronto, they win both games in Toronto,
take a two oh series leader, and are now coming
home for game number three tomorrow night. It'll be George
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Kirby versus Shane Bieber. That is your pitching matchup. First
pitch is at five o'clock, a chance to go up
three to oh in the series, the American League Championship Series.
And look, I mean you want to talk about weathering
a storm. I mean, yeah, there was an element to
oh my gosh, we had to start three of our
starters in our rotation and one night to pull out
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a fifteen inning win over Detroit in advance in this playoff.
So certainly there were a lot of elements to discuss
I don't think any of us really bought the narrative
that the team was going to go in there tired
and overwhelmed and you know, jet lagged or anything like that.
And I don't think that was the case, but it
was a factor. It was a talking point in the series.
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But now that you've won two and oh, you want
to talk about weathering a storm. I mean, ring a
storm is what a ship goes through when they try
to keep the boat together. No ship ever went through
a storm and weathered a storm and then came out
on the other side and said, hey, you know what, Captain,
the ship looks better than before. Yeah, the waves just
kind of tossed it around and knocked some of those
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dents into place, and it's alfunctioning better than before. Boy,
not only did we weather the storm, the storm made
us better. But that's the position that this team is in.
They now get to realign their starting rotation. We don't
have to worry about that hangover of Friday night. It's
done and now we reset and we just try to
finish this thing over the course of the next five games.
Speaker 7 (21:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
Yeah, I mean maybe knocked a couple of barnacles off
you know, yeah, big waves, and because it did feel
like you're going in there with a barnacle or two attached.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
To your call it a barnacle.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
Yeah, but I don't think that there was something that
they were worried about.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
I know, the guys in the dugout were.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
A lot of I guess it's an easy talking point
and it's understandable something. It's not like there's not a
part of that barnacle that was maybe stuck to the
arm of Logan Gilbert yesterday like a lingering effect. To
some degree it was barnacle. Yeah, yeah, just a little one.
It's it's fine. You just go in the training room.
They'll get that thing removed and you're pretty good to go.
We scrape it off, I think is what they do.
Speaker 7 (22:15):
Yeah, you probably use alcohol or something.
Speaker 10 (22:18):
You use one of those little things that you pound
the back of it, you know, like a little chisel.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
Yeah, a little chisel.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
Be careful with that.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Yeah, but maybe he has a chisel in that bag
of all of his goodies. Hey, get that barnacle off there.
I know used to come out of the bullpen. I
do think that the way in which Bizardo, I mean
when Bizardo comes in and it still is a tide
ball game. It still is it's tight, and you still
have a lot of baseball left, and for him to
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go out there and throw up two score just pretty
much shoving it, I mean, continuing to quiet what were
hot bats coming into this series. And then Vargas was
one where you're like, okay, we still got game. You know,
there's that's still what the sixth inning he came in,
you still had some game to go. And he's been
hot and cold for a majority of the season. He
was pretty good for us. Towards the end of the year,
he was not so much. For him to go out
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there and go two scoreless with no hits was impressive,
and then Hancock was a little shaky.
Speaker 7 (23:10):
But again I'm with you.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
I think that they basically weathered whatever that storm is
that you want to call it, and came out shinier.
Speaker 7 (23:17):
On the other side, you have to see.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Reset your rotation starting tomorrow. You get to reset your
bullpens starting tomorrow. So yeah, good situation obviously for this
team to be in right now. More on the Mariners
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All right, it is Ashley Ryan's pick here today on
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Speaker 10 (24:01):
This makes me nervous because I never I've been trying
not to pick teams that I'm actually rooting for, but
I'm gonna do it this week because Michigan has not
been playing well and Washington seems to have maybe figured
something out.
Speaker 6 (24:14):
And I mean even with.
Speaker 10 (24:15):
The they had to come back obviously in Maryland, but
they figured out the travel.
Speaker 6 (24:20):
They got that road win.
Speaker 10 (24:22):
And I recognize this is an odd start time nine am,
our time, but I'm pretty sure Jedfish is going to
have them all ready to go. And it's this They're
six point underdogs. That's a big spread. I don't know
if they can pull off the win, but I do
think they can keeep it closer than six. So it
can be Washington plus the six at Michigan.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
All right, Well, I hope. I mean, I know what
the fans are irritated by, and that's not being ranked
this week.
Speaker 6 (24:47):
Michigan's still ranked.
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Yeah, So if you want to be ranked, beat a
quality opponent like Michigan, and I guarantee you your ranked
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Least see and that's what I'm saying, at bare minimum,
you know, and Washington can actually say they're being disrespected,
Unlike Georgia when they won the national championship, they were
not disrespected.
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Okay, there you go. You know it would help you
to win if you had a guy like or Polonco
on your team helping you, or a guy like Eddie
Bizardo on your team helping you. They certainly were the
stars yesterday's ten to three game two win in Toronto
over the Blue Jays. You know what would hurt your
chances of winning anything is having a guy like Doug
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Eddings around.
Speaker 6 (29:11):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (29:11):
Yeah he's not good.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
Yeah, he's pretty bad at everything, it turns out, and
so he'd probably reuin I gif you did pick up basketball.
Speaker 7 (29:21):
He'd be the weakling.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
He he'd be the guy that screwed it all up
if you played bingo. He probably doesn't know how.
Speaker 7 (29:27):
To counter spell. He probably don't even know how to
use a dabber.
Speaker 10 (29:30):
I think if you made like an ice cream Sunday bar,
like Banana Split's, he'd put the bananas on top.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
Yeah, he'd probably put like mutton on it and just
ruin the whole thing. Doug Eddings was the homeplate umpire yesterday.
And if you were thinking to yourself, is this guy
not any good?
Speaker 7 (29:44):
You're right.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
He had one of the worst games behind the plate
in the history of baseball. Last night a good thing.
It really didn't affect the outcome for us.
Speaker 7 (29:53):
No, no, and yet it could have.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
I as a matter of fact, I was just I'd
been looking up all morning that fire scorecards. It just
came out and he got ninety percent of them, right,
I mean night, And that's not good. I mean typically
is not good, not good. He missed twenty four calls
in total, which is the worst playoff performance by an
umpire since twenty twenty two, and that last one was
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him in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
You don't want to have multiple of those.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
I mean, he doesn't come up like an Angel Hernandez
or a C. B. Buckner when we've talked about bad
umpires in the past, but that guy's been around for
a really long period of time. And if he keeps
popping up as like the worst, then why on earth
is he even an umpire? Number one? And then number two?
Why is he getting playoff games? Why is he getting
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an American League Championship Series game? He was atrocious last night,
and look, he was atrocious on that first but Randy
rose Arena is walking across home plate on his way
to the dugout. He clearly missed that. Even a rose
Arena is like, now you missed that one, Doug I
was by a mile. And then the Gilbert Springer at bat,
forget about it. He had him struck out twice and
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he ends up walking him in that at bat. So yeah,
Logan wasn't his sharpest, but he also had Josh Naylor
make a silly error in the first inning and then
that was a huge at bat that Logan Gilbert was
out of that inning twice and Eddings because he's terrible,
misses both calls and Gilbert's got to push it a
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little bit further in that second inning and ends up
giving up a run to tie it all up. So
I just don't I don't think there's any room for
somebody that has already earned the label as hey, that's
the worst homeplate umpiring game in the last ten years,
and that guy's decides I can top it, hold my beer. Yeah,
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and does it last night?
Speaker 7 (31:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (31:49):
Well, I mean ultimately I saw something on Twitter yesterday
or last night from some media guy in Toronto does
a radio program and he's like, I'm in a parallel universe.
I won, or what would have happened if they were
and Rose Arena pitch was called a strike? Well, yeah,
well it's because that then they end up walking cal
and then the three run homer and so it you know,
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sliding doors, what happens and whatnot?
Speaker 4 (32:13):
And how about that buddy, Yeah, eleven to two.
Speaker 5 (32:17):
It still ends up coming out that it was a
point zero point two four runs in the advantage of Toronto.
So if for whoever that guy is that his crap calls.
Speaker 7 (32:29):
It were advantage Toronto.
Speaker 5 (32:31):
There was more of them in your favor than against you,
And the most impactful one was that one that was
to Springer where it struck him ount and then stead
he ends up getting a walk and then sure enough
a knock and ties the ball game.
Speaker 7 (32:43):
So it was it was bad man.
Speaker 5 (32:45):
I'm I can't be more excited about something that I
don't typically like, big whole scale changes to the game
that I love, but the fact that they're bringing back
bringing in next year that tap your helmet and hey,
the Moron cam whatever you want to call it, abs
system next year, I can't wait. I'm excited for it
because there's just too many times that a call like
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that changes the impact of a game. And we see
now in postseason that every single pitch there's a lot
that hangs on it. You know, I talk all the
time one to one pitch, and the difference between you
calling a ball a strike and now I'm one two
versus two to one is a gigantic difference in my
bat And so I don't expect them to be perfect.
But if they're not going to be perfect, which they're human,
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So they're not. You can't be crap like you were addings.
But if you're not going to be perfect, then let's
let's institute something that we can take some of your
imperfections out of the game.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
Yeah, game of benches, sliding doors, all of that stuff
applies to sports, particularly applies to baseball. And yes, one
miss call can change an entire at bat, which can
change an entire inning. I don't dismiss that at all,
but man, you got to set on you if you've
lost by seven runs and you're calling out the one
call that went against the Blue Jays in the first
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batter of the game. You lost by seven runs for
goodness sake, and one other note on that, and then
we got Harold Reilds at the top. When they do
have the challenge system next year, apparently they did stats
on this the Mariners, just to kind of get a
gauged because there's going to be a lot of more
strategy involved in this than what people see on the surface.
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They just think there's going to be a miscall you
challenge it and the bat continues or it doesn't. No, no,
no, no no, You're going to have to strategize how you
use them. And you're also going to be really beholden
on how good your catcher is at being able to
actually identify what's a strike and what's the ball. Did
you know that Cal was perfect in spring training when
they were playing with this in spring training, he didn't
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miss a single call. He challenged I think eight or
nine of them in spring training and got every.
Speaker 7 (34:45):
Single one of them, right, not surprising.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
Air down the line of its first, looks hands and
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Speaker 1 (00:20):
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Speaker 3 (00:23):
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At the truck, he's an it's gone. Let's pullock again.
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Speaker 2 (00:45):
Fined the deep bright field Becos Lucas at.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
The low bade third home run.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Of the game for the Manors. Blesting their way through
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Speaker 4 (01:01):
Hey, good morning, Mariners rep. Two oh in the American
League Championship Series. Work to do, but that means they
are just two wins shy of their first World Series
appearance in franchise history, and they're coming home three straight
games on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday at T Mobile to
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try to finish off the Blue Jays. But tremendous start
for this team in the ALCS. A ten to three
win last night, it was tied at three in the
fifth inning when oor A Polanko with a three run
homer to double up the Blue Jays, and then the
team never looked back ten three. Your final score the
Mariners up two to oh in the ALCS. Good morning,
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Game number three tomorrow here in Seattle. George Kirby will
get the start. Toronto will go with Shane Bieber, who
they acquired from Cleveland at the Major League Baseball trading deadline.
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First pitch is at five o'clock. Harold Reynolds will join
us to talk about it at eight o'clock. The Dodgers
and Brewers got their series started last night. On the
National League side of things. The Dodgers win a tight one,
two to one the final score. They'll play game number
two tonight at five Yamamoto versus Peralta, A great pitching
match up there. Monday Night Football. The Chicago Bears have
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won three straight games twenty five twenty four. The final
score in Caleb Williams first head to head matchup with
Jaden Daniels of their careers. Meanwhile, Atlanta is on a roll.
Michael Pennix leads the Falcons past Josh Allen and the
Bills twenty four fourteen. The Falcons now three and two
on the season. Huskies at Michigan this Saturday. They'll be
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playing at the Big House. Rick new aisl will join
us at nine o'clock to talk about it, crack and
play their first road game of the season in Montreal
this evening. Everett will join us at eight point thirty
to discuss that, and of course there's a lot of
Seahawks stuff to discuss with our Seahawks insider Greg Bell.
We haven't chatted with him since Friday. I think it's
high time we do it now. That's that's called an
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international multi sport sports writer right there. You can't you
can't stop Greg Bell. You can only hope to contain him. Yeah,
giving that is futile.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Hey, Greg, will you do me a favor and bring
back a Looney and a Tony to show these guys
what they are. They didn't know that those things existed.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
I knew a Looney. I just didn't remember the tony part.
Speaker 7 (03:34):
Oh okay.
Speaker 8 (03:36):
Tunis are great for leaving tips for people. It's just
very easy.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
How long has that currency been around? Is that like
men around? I mean, were looney tunes named after loonies
and toonies?
Speaker 8 (03:49):
Probably at least thirty five years.
Speaker 9 (03:52):
I've been going to Canada, they've had tonies. Yeah, it's
huh two dollar coin basically.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Huh huh. I'll be damn, I'll be damn weird up
there all right.
Speaker 9 (04:03):
Who knew that there was a Jacksonville to Toronto play?
Speaker 8 (04:07):
I did. I don't even know that existed.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
You got a direct one.
Speaker 8 (04:10):
I was here in two hours the Canada little commuter plane.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Look at that? Look at that? So how much fun
was last night from your perspective?
Speaker 7 (04:19):
Then?
Speaker 9 (04:20):
You know what was really cool is they've at first
Then when I saw it, I was like, oh, of
course they did.
Speaker 8 (04:26):
And what used to be SkyDome when I was a.
Speaker 9 (04:28):
Baseball beat writer, the press boxers right behind home played,
and as most stadiums have done, they've sold those seats
because they can profit off of them.
Speaker 8 (04:35):
They put the.
Speaker 9 (04:36):
Media out, in this case pretty much by the left
field thophole. Holy Rodriguez's home run the first thing last
Nay pretty much went right under me. But where we
were down the left field deep left field line in
the corner with my binoculars, I was looking straight into
the Mariner's dugout and I saw all kinds of stuff
they were doing. After Bizardo came out of the game
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after his two scorelessendings, I thought he was an unsung
hero of the game, and how he and the bullpen
reset their rotation for the rest of it, not only
the rest of the series, but they go to the
World Series now. The work that they did, the three
relievers did last night without having to use a high
leverage big big deal.
Speaker 8 (05:14):
I wrote this story for the distribute about that.
Speaker 9 (05:16):
But anyway, when Bizardo comes out of the game and
put my binoculars during the TV time out and between
Ennings and Dan Wilson gave him a huge hug in
the middle of the dugout, and then July Rodriguez gave
him two hugs, and then Rodriguez was showing him. You
could tell it's the first time he'd ever done it,
this elaborate handshaking thing, and yeah, they do damn whatever.
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But at the end of it, Rodriguez that starts pantomiming
twirling a lasso rope over his head like a cowboy,
and he started twirling around and dancing like he's in
a bar somewhere on Fifth.
Speaker 8 (05:55):
Street in Austin.
Speaker 9 (05:56):
It was, and Bizard was just kind of looking at him.
Speaker 8 (05:59):
They're both laughing. Really loose group.
Speaker 9 (06:01):
I guess winning does that, but it's not like they're
daunted by the stage and they're talking about that. Thegetherness
that they have is coming and really handy right now.
And yeah, it was. It was kind of an interesting
way to watch the game with the binoccas into the
dugout because there was a sideshow going on there.
Speaker 7 (06:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Yeah, it's pretty interesting. I mean they are definitely loosey, goosey.
I mean, when what was the difference. You've been here
for some of the Seattle games and yet it kind
of felt Morgish there in Toronto.
Speaker 7 (06:31):
Yeah, yeah it was.
Speaker 9 (06:34):
I mean it was so quiet when I regaz ht
the home run and then Gilbert lets them back in
the game and got loud again, and then the Polanco blast.
Speaker 8 (06:42):
It was.
Speaker 9 (06:43):
Yeah, there was a spattering of Mariner fans right behind
a dugout. There were all Josh Nagler's family from Missus Massagua,
right outside Toronto, and that was about the only noise
you could hear in the whole place. Yeah, it was.
The Rodriguez's home run really took the starts out of
the whole place from the get go, and then the
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Jays were chasing him.
Speaker 8 (07:08):
It didn't feel like a road game.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
After That's gonna be plenty of starts waiting for waiting
for the Blue Jays here, and of course everybody's wondering
how many Blue Jays fans are going to find their
way in because we know what happens during the regular
season in this matchup, so it'll be curious, but it's
certainly going to be electric Wednesday for Game number three.
Greg Bell is with US our Seahawks insider, but for
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the News Tribune they sent him to Toronto. He's covering
some Mariners baseball here in the playoffs as well, So
we get to hit Greg Bell with all sorts of
questions these days. But we haven't talked to you about
the Seahawks win over Jacksonville. I mean, how does Mike
McDonald explain how his defense could play so poorly, couldn't
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cover couldn't get after Baker Mayfield with the pass rush
the previous game, and then against good Jacksonville team, I
much improved Jacksonville team suddenly. The coverage was outstanding, the
pass rush was outstanding. How do you change that much
in one week.
Speaker 9 (08:07):
Well, it all comes back to tackling, which is what
they focused on last week. They tackled at the end
in the early downs, and that created I mean, I wrote.
Speaker 8 (08:18):
It's been a few days a couple of games since.
Speaker 9 (08:20):
But I wrote the third downs that Jacksonville had third
and eleven, third and sixteen, third and fourteen, third and twelve,
third and nine. I think it was like ten plays
of third and nine and more. It was the opposite
against Baker Mayfield and the Buccaneers the week before. They
were on very short third downs. It's a lot harder
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to cover in the NFL third and three because they
can do anything. They can roll out, run pass, quick slants,
they can run quick outs, they can run hitches. It's
hard to cover those. But when it's third and sixteen,
now you can cover for four or five seconds. That's
a whole different proposition. Then your pass rush can get
to the quarterback, which it did for seven sacks, a
(09:02):
season high. I thought it was all due to the
early six A McDonald said it.
Speaker 8 (09:07):
After the game.
Speaker 9 (09:08):
Putting him in such third and long situations is how
the pass rush went off and the quarterback having to
hold the ball longer because his receivers are running seventeen
yard routes instead four yard routes. It's subtle, but it's
a huge difference, and that's what happened. They put they
tackled well.
Speaker 8 (09:24):
On early downs.
Speaker 9 (09:26):
Speaking of tackling, nick Emun, Worry was the best tackling
in the field, and I think you're now seeing what
we all saw during every day and practices the preseason
as to why they're going to play him everywhere. He's
a sure tackler open field, right away in the backfield.
Receivers open field have to catch name and Worry really
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impressed me on Sunday.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Yeah, he was pretty impressive. Well other than that one
where Travis Hunter juked him out, Yeah that was But
then again, I think he can do that dating about right, Yeah,
it seems like a yeah. I mean so part of
the you know, the defense stepping up obviously limiting them
to twelve points. It makes it to where It's not
that big of a deal that you only scored twenty.
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You were talking about the way in which the pass
rush was working, but they shut them down as far
as the run game goes as well.
Speaker 7 (10:15):
They couldn't get anything going there. What did you see
out of the front seven.
Speaker 9 (10:19):
Well, exactly, they tackled, and they tackled on early downs
at the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 8 (10:24):
At the end was averaging almost six yards of carry.
Speaker 9 (10:26):
Most of his games, they hadn't even barely had three
yards to carry.
Speaker 8 (10:30):
I think it was fifty nine yards for the game.
They were averaging one hundred and fifteen.
Speaker 9 (10:34):
Coming into the game, they were the fifth best rushing
team in the league, and they had nothing. And Leonard
Williams had a really good game in that regard to
Marcus Lawrence, he saw the sacks, but he was also
crushing and thrown the lineman collapsing down the edges of
the Jaguars offensive line.
Speaker 8 (10:53):
They are two ed guys.
Speaker 9 (10:54):
When they play as well as they did Williams and Lawrence,
running games are going to fail. Tackles are getting pushed
into guards. That why Atten didn't have anywhere to run,
and then that created the third and longs.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Greg bellis with US our Seahawks insider. Of course, you
can follow his coverage at the Newstribune dot com. He's
covered Mariners and Seahawks these days, and he is our
regular guest here at seven oh five on Chuck and
Buck in the mornings. So I mean that we're talking
about a big chunk of the season now that Julian
Love and Devin Witherspoon have missed. I mean they weren't
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placed on IR so it clearly is a week to
week situation here. But is there any good news to report?
Are they close to getting back? Because I got the
impression that they're pretty important to this team.
Speaker 8 (11:41):
They are. I still think Witherspoon's the best player on
the team.
Speaker 9 (11:45):
He's been getting sent out for more tests and off
site and it's not clear when he's going to come back,
and it may not be this week, it may not
be so after the buy in a couple of weeks,
McDonald's learned to just not say a whole lot about
injuries because you just know a lot about him. He
doesn't want to know a lot about him, and it's
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more you'll find out when he's ba type of thing.
But he's not committing to Weatherspoon being able to play
this week, even with the extra day.
Speaker 8 (12:14):
They're off today, they're off tomorrow.
Speaker 9 (12:15):
They're gonna take it at Wednesday off and then Thursday's
gonna become their Wednesday for the.
Speaker 8 (12:19):
Monday night game.
Speaker 9 (12:20):
So they get two full days off here and really
two and a half three because they weren't on the
field for Monday. They just did film and treatment coming
back from Florida. So this is almost another mini many
buy and they don't even think with I won't say that,
but McDonald won't commit to Witherspoon coming back. Love seems
to be ahead of him. It's a hamstring for love,
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but to be determined. I don't know the answer to
that yet. And it doesn't sound like Witherspoon's anytime soon.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Gee.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
I was listening to a show on the way in
and Adam Scheffner was on. There was talking about the
trade deadline, how much more active it's gotten in the
last few years. And I mean he's thinking that between
now and November fourth, the trade deadline, there could be
fifteen more trades to add to the three that have
already already happened. Do you expect the Mariners to be
in on any of that. I mean, especially considering what
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you're just talking about with some of the injuries.
Speaker 8 (13:14):
The Mariners trade someone right now, they're gonna be en.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Up rising, but not Mariners.
Speaker 8 (13:20):
Yeah, let's not trade a maybe a World Series team made.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
Yeah, that's kid.
Speaker 8 (13:25):
I'm sorry. I had to teach you and I are
in this.
Speaker 9 (13:27):
You and I are in the same boat as far
as that goes right now, which which team I'm covering.
Speaker 8 (13:32):
Yeah, they're gonna be act. They're gonna try. They they
we already know and.
Speaker 9 (13:36):
They didn't need a leak to tell us that they
wouldn't mind trading Woolan. But now he's concussed and the
league rules are you can't trade an injured player. He's
gonna have to come back to play first and show
so he can showcase them.
Speaker 8 (13:49):
A little bit.
Speaker 9 (13:50):
I don't know that they're gonna be able to do
that at this point with Woolan. It might be worth
keeping them because if he leaves as a free agent
at the end of his rookie deal at the end
of this season, they could get a third round pick
for him. Because he's already made a Pro Bowl and
as many snaps as he's played by the NFL's calculation
for comp picks, he should be I would think knock
him on the door of the top tier, which is
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a third round comptick. So if you're the Seahawks, if
you don't get a third round offered, then why.
Speaker 8 (14:15):
Would you trade him? And nobody's gonna offer.
Speaker 9 (14:17):
I wouldn't think anyone would offer a third round pick
for him, So I don't think he's getting traded for
those reasons.
Speaker 8 (14:24):
But they're always trying to depth on the offensive defensive line.
Speaker 9 (14:28):
Jonathan Hankins is still on the team, but not playing
and nowhere near coming back. It's still on the injured
list from the off season, so they could use more
defensive tackles. That had Brandon Peaey come up at nose
tackle off the practice squad a couple of times. Trading
is John Schneider for the depth pieces.
Speaker 8 (14:48):
He'd rather pick him up.
Speaker 9 (14:49):
Off waiver wires, practice squads of other teams and free
agents than they give up a trade asset for him.
So it wouldn't surprise me if the Seahawks aren't don't
actually pull one off. They'd like to in a couple
of cases, but I don't know if they actually will
do it.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
I don't think he can help himself. You know, everything
you say makes logical, reasonable sense, but I think he
just wants to play like I want to ask. Oh yeah,
if hell left out, I'm not going to sell. I'm
not going to just look to move pieces. I got
to add something here. And if you are if there
is a weakness on this team, Greg's still running the
(15:23):
football for goodness sake, and I don't know if there's
an offensive lineman out there that fixes that. And maybe
you could tell me when Robbie Oots is going to
be back. I didn't expect him to be so valuable
to this run attack, but it seems like they miss him.
Speaker 8 (15:40):
They do.
Speaker 9 (15:41):
They did have Brady Russell in the backfield as a
fullback a couple of times, but you're right, they're still
not running the ball at the darn and it makes
what Sam Darnold is doing at quarterback even more impressive
because this isn't how it's supposed to operate. He was
carrying them at times on Sunday without any other offense
than happening, and he was really good. That throw sixty
(16:02):
one yard touchdown to Smith and Jigbu was the best
throw I've seen him make any practice against air Andy,
that was the best throw i've seen him make, perfectly
on time, right onto Smith and Jigg's hands and stride.
But this is not how they're supposed to function offensively.
That's what they're still chasing. We said it would be
a work in progress in the offense, in the running game,
(16:24):
run blocking for a while, and we're only still a
month into the season, so it still may take a while.
Speaker 8 (16:30):
But we've seen Kubiak's gonna.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Keep trying, all right, man, great stuff.
Speaker 8 (16:34):
Oh, I do want to.
Speaker 7 (16:35):
Say one thing.
Speaker 9 (16:36):
I'm going to say one thing I wanted to make
Byron Murphy's week. When he told me that he had
a daughter born last week on Tuesday, that was three
months premature.
Speaker 8 (16:50):
I almost cried in the press conferce room.
Speaker 9 (16:53):
Our twins, my wife and I was twins were born
nine weeks earlier, and they were three pounds each. Brian
Murphy's daughter was two and a half pounds. I can't
tell you the hell on earth of nick you is
for a new parent, a first time parent like Brian
Murphy is.
Speaker 8 (17:07):
I was in my twenties when I was like, twins
were in the nick you. The scariest thing I've ever
been in is.
Speaker 7 (17:13):
A nick you.
Speaker 8 (17:14):
The nick you nurses are angels on earth.
Speaker 9 (17:16):
Anybody out there who knows that nick you nurse and
might be listening to the nick you nurse, you're the
greatest people on earth.
Speaker 8 (17:23):
The week he.
Speaker 9 (17:24):
Had, I can't even begin to describe to you for
anyone who would care so much.
Speaker 8 (17:29):
Of course he would about his newborn daughter. He didn't
get any sleep. He could say, well, it's hard to sleep.
He didn't get any sleep, and he's.
Speaker 9 (17:37):
Worried, sick about that baby girl who's still in the hospital.
He said, everything's great, the growth she's on. It's amazing
that she's two and a half pounds and not needing
a ventilator, breathing on her own. You should have seen
the smile on his face when he told me that.
And it ain't not just about football, man, These guys
have real lives, and it was so cool.
Speaker 8 (18:00):
That was one favorite stories I've ever written, just because
it hits so close to home to me.
Speaker 9 (18:04):
But just so you know, he has the game of
his life in two sacks and said he never had
a sack on the first play of a game, but
he wasn't playing with football.
Speaker 8 (18:13):
In his mind Sunday.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Yeah, well, check it out Thenews Tribune dot com. You
can check out that story all of Greg's coverage of
both the Seahawks and the Mariners. Thanks man, great.
Speaker 8 (18:23):
Stuff, appreciate it. I'll be backcome for Game three tomorrow.
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the Mariners. Sports Radio ninety three point three KHRFM, who
was as a.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Second one the first two to Seattle two.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Who would have thought the Mariners would come in here,
you'd figure running out.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Of steam with not much in the take.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
They had plenty or to have firm control of this
championship series.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Very clearly you and John didn't. I'll say that definitely. Matt, Yeah, obvious,
Chuck Buck and Ashley with you, we play factor fiction
in three minutes from now, the Mariners get the job done,
and beyond that in Toronto, they win both games in Toronto,
take a two oh series leader, and are now coming
home for game number three tomorrow night. It'll be George
(20:10):
Kirby versus Shane Bieber. That is your pitching matchup. First
pitch is at five o'clock, a chance to go up
three to oh in the series, the American League Championship Series.
And look, I mean you want to talk about weathering
a storm. I mean, yeah, there was an element to
oh my gosh, we had to start three of our
starters in our rotation and one night to pull out
(20:32):
a fifteen inning win over Detroit in advance in this playoff.
So certainly there were a lot of elements to discuss
I don't think any of us really bought the narrative
that the team was going to go in there tired
and overwhelmed and you know, jet lagged or anything like that.
And I don't think that was the case, but it
was a factor. It was a talking point in the series.
(20:55):
But now that you've won two and oh, you want
to talk about weathering a storm. I mean, ring a
storm is what a ship goes through when they try
to keep the boat together. No ship ever went through
a storm and weathered a storm and then came out
on the other side and said, hey, you know what, Captain,
the ship looks better than before. Yeah, the waves just
kind of tossed it around and knocked some of those
(21:16):
dents into place, and it's alfunctioning better than before. Boy,
not only did we weather the storm, the storm made
us better. But that's the position that this team is in.
They now get to realign their starting rotation. We don't
have to worry about that hangover of Friday night. It's
done and now we reset and we just try to
finish this thing over the course of the next five games.
Speaker 7 (21:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
Yeah, I mean maybe knocked a couple of barnacles off
you know, yeah, big waves, and because it did feel
like you're going in there with a barnacle or two attached.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
To your call it a barnacle.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
Yeah, but I don't think that there was something that
they were worried about.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
I know, the guys in the dugout were.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
A lot of I guess it's an easy talking point
and it's understandable something. It's not like there's not a
part of that barnacle that was maybe stuck to the
arm of Logan Gilbert yesterday like a lingering effect. To
some degree it was barnacle. Yeah, yeah, just a little one.
It's it's fine. You just go in the training room.
They'll get that thing removed and you're pretty good to go.
We scrape it off, I think is what they do.
Speaker 7 (22:15):
Yeah, you probably use alcohol or something.
Speaker 10 (22:18):
You use one of those little things that you pound
the back of it, you know, like a little chisel.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
Yeah, a little chisel.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
Be careful with that.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Yeah, but maybe he has a chisel in that bag
of all of his goodies. Hey, get that barnacle off there.
I know used to come out of the bullpen. I
do think that the way in which Bizardo, I mean
when Bizardo comes in and it still is a tide
ball game. It still is it's tight, and you still
have a lot of baseball left, and for him to
(22:44):
go out there and throw up two score just pretty
much shoving it, I mean, continuing to quiet what were
hot bats coming into this series. And then Vargas was
one where you're like, okay, we still got game. You know,
there's that's still what the sixth inning he came in,
you still had some game to go. And he's been
hot and cold for a majority of the season. He
was pretty good for us. Towards the end of the year,
he was not so much. For him to go out
(23:05):
there and go two scoreless with no hits was impressive,
and then Hancock was a little shaky.
Speaker 7 (23:10):
But again I'm with you.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
I think that they basically weathered whatever that storm is
that you want to call it, and came out shinier.
Speaker 7 (23:17):
On the other side, you have to see.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Reset your rotation starting tomorrow. You get to reset your
bullpens starting tomorrow. So yeah, good situation obviously for this
team to be in right now. More on the Mariners
coming up. Harold Reynolds will join us at eight. Let's
play some Factor Fiction. Now, where's that to go? Glad
you're with us.
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Speaker 4 (23:54):
All right, it is Ashley Ryan's pick here today on
fact or Fiction. What Ashley?
Speaker 10 (24:01):
This makes me nervous because I never I've been trying
not to pick teams that I'm actually rooting for, but
I'm gonna do it this week because Michigan has not
been playing well and Washington seems to have maybe figured
something out.
Speaker 6 (24:14):
And I mean even with.
Speaker 10 (24:15):
The they had to come back obviously in Maryland, but
they figured out the travel.
Speaker 6 (24:20):
They got that road win.
Speaker 10 (24:22):
And I recognize this is an odd start time nine am,
our time, but I'm pretty sure Jedfish is going to
have them all ready to go. And it's this They're
six point underdogs. That's a big spread. I don't know
if they can pull off the win, but I do
think they can keeep it closer than six. So it
can be Washington plus the six at Michigan.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
All right, Well, I hope. I mean, I know what
the fans are irritated by, and that's not being ranked
this week.
Speaker 6 (24:47):
Michigan's still ranked.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
Yeah, So if you want to be ranked, beat a
quality opponent like Michigan, and I guarantee you your ranked
next week. So if i'm Jetfish, I'm gonna use that
the Old country's disrespecting. That's right. Nobody thinks you can
hang with this team, and that's at least get them
to cover the six for factor fiction purposes at.
Speaker 10 (25:09):
Least see and that's what I'm saying, at bare minimum,
you know, and Washington can actually say they're being disrespected,
Unlike Georgia when they won the national championship, they were
not disrespected.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
All right, So the pick is you plus six at
Michigan this Saturday, Ashley saying that there's no way that
Michigan's going to beat the Huskies buy more than five points.
And so if you agree with the pick, you're going
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Speaker 4 (28:46):
Okay, there you go. You know it would help you
to win if you had a guy like or Polonco
on your team helping you, or a guy like Eddie
Bizardo on your team helping you. They certainly were the
stars yesterday's ten to three game two win in Toronto
over the Blue Jays. You know what would hurt your
chances of winning anything is having a guy like Doug
(29:10):
Eddings around.
Speaker 6 (29:11):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (29:11):
Yeah he's not good.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
Yeah, he's pretty bad at everything, it turns out, and
so he'd probably reuin I gif you did pick up basketball.
Speaker 7 (29:21):
He'd be the weakling.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
He he'd be the guy that screwed it all up
if you played bingo. He probably doesn't know how.
Speaker 7 (29:27):
To counter spell. He probably don't even know how to
use a dabber.
Speaker 10 (29:30):
I think if you made like an ice cream Sunday bar,
like Banana Split's, he'd put the bananas on top.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
Yeah, he'd probably put like mutton on it and just
ruin the whole thing. Doug Eddings was the homeplate umpire yesterday.
And if you were thinking to yourself, is this guy
not any good?
Speaker 7 (29:44):
You're right.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
He had one of the worst games behind the plate
in the history of baseball. Last night a good thing.
It really didn't affect the outcome for us.
Speaker 7 (29:53):
No, no, and yet it could have.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
I as a matter of fact, I was just I'd
been looking up all morning that fire scorecards. It just
came out and he got ninety percent of them, right,
I mean night, And that's not good. I mean typically
is not good, not good. He missed twenty four calls
in total, which is the worst playoff performance by an
umpire since twenty twenty two, and that last one was
(30:20):
him in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
You don't want to have multiple of those.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
I mean, he doesn't come up like an Angel Hernandez
or a C. B. Buckner when we've talked about bad
umpires in the past, but that guy's been around for
a really long period of time. And if he keeps
popping up as like the worst, then why on earth
is he even an umpire? Number one? And then number two?
Why is he getting playoff games? Why is he getting
(30:44):
an American League Championship Series game? He was atrocious last night,
and look, he was atrocious on that first but Randy
rose Arena is walking across home plate on his way
to the dugout. He clearly missed that. Even a rose
Arena is like, now you missed that one, Doug I
was by a mile. And then the Gilbert Springer at bat,
forget about it. He had him struck out twice and
(31:06):
he ends up walking him in that at bat. So yeah,
Logan wasn't his sharpest, but he also had Josh Naylor
make a silly error in the first inning and then
that was a huge at bat that Logan Gilbert was
out of that inning twice and Eddings because he's terrible,
misses both calls and Gilbert's got to push it a
(31:28):
little bit further in that second inning and ends up
giving up a run to tie it all up. So
I just don't I don't think there's any room for
somebody that has already earned the label as hey, that's
the worst homeplate umpiring game in the last ten years,
and that guy's decides I can top it, hold my beer. Yeah,
(31:48):
and does it last night?
Speaker 7 (31:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (31:49):
Well, I mean ultimately I saw something on Twitter yesterday
or last night from some media guy in Toronto does
a radio program and he's like, I'm in a parallel universe.
I won, or what would have happened if they were
and Rose Arena pitch was called a strike? Well, yeah,
well it's because that then they end up walking cal
and then the three run homer and so it you know,
(32:11):
sliding doors, what happens and whatnot?
Speaker 4 (32:13):
And how about that buddy, Yeah, eleven to two.
Speaker 5 (32:17):
It still ends up coming out that it was a
point zero point two four runs in the advantage of Toronto.
So if for whoever that guy is that his crap calls.
Speaker 7 (32:29):
It were advantage Toronto.
Speaker 5 (32:31):
There was more of them in your favor than against you,
And the most impactful one was that one that was
to Springer where it struck him ount and then stead
he ends up getting a walk and then sure enough
a knock and ties the ball game.
Speaker 7 (32:43):
So it was it was bad man.
Speaker 5 (32:45):
I'm I can't be more excited about something that I
don't typically like, big whole scale changes to the game
that I love, but the fact that they're bringing back
bringing in next year that tap your helmet and hey,
the Moron cam whatever you want to call it, abs
system next year, I can't wait. I'm excited for it
because there's just too many times that a call like
(33:06):
that changes the impact of a game. And we see
now in postseason that every single pitch there's a lot
that hangs on it. You know, I talk all the
time one to one pitch, and the difference between you
calling a ball a strike and now I'm one two
versus two to one is a gigantic difference in my
bat And so I don't expect them to be perfect.
But if they're not going to be perfect, which they're human,
(33:26):
So they're not. You can't be crap like you were addings.
But if you're not going to be perfect, then let's
let's institute something that we can take some of your
imperfections out of the game.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
Yeah, game of benches, sliding doors, all of that stuff
applies to sports, particularly applies to baseball. And yes, one
miss call can change an entire at bat, which can
change an entire inning. I don't dismiss that at all,
but man, you got to set on you if you've
lost by seven runs and you're calling out the one
call that went against the Blue Jays in the first
(33:56):
batter of the game. You lost by seven runs for
goodness sake, and one other note on that, and then
we got Harold Reilds at the top. When they do
have the challenge system next year, apparently they did stats
on this the Mariners, just to kind of get a
gauged because there's going to be a lot of more
strategy involved in this than what people see on the surface.
(34:18):
They just think there's going to be a miscall you
challenge it and the bat continues or it doesn't. No, no,
no, no no, You're going to have to strategize how you
use them. And you're also going to be really beholden
on how good your catcher is at being able to
actually identify what's a strike and what's the ball. Did
you know that Cal was perfect in spring training when
they were playing with this in spring training, he didn't
(34:40):
miss a single call. He challenged I think eight or
nine of them in spring training and got every.
Speaker 7 (34:45):
Single one of them, right, not surprising.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
Yeah, see you do that, Aaron Judge. Whistle teeth all right,
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