October 14, 2025 • 34 mins
HAROLD REYNOLDS (MLB Network) joins the show and gives us his thoughts on this Mariners team taking a 2-0 lead in Toronto. Is everyone at the Network surprised by the way this series has started? The Mariners pitching is impressive and apparently doing things differently than other teams still in the playoffs. How much credit does Harold give to the organization for keeping their pitchers healthy? How important is this deep lineup? How about Jorge Polanco, huh!?!? Believing is contagious- what has stood out about Dan Wilson as a manager? How does Toronto get back into this series? :30- EVERETT FITZHUGH (KAN PxP) Everett joins us live from the road in Montreal as the 2-0 Kraken face the Canadiens tonight. We are seeing the defense thriving early, is this Lane Lambert’s style? :45- ABCs of the Mariners - X is for extraordinary: Polanco has been Mr Clutch in the playoffs. - Y is for Yesavage: he did have some nasty stuff, but did inexperience hurt him and the Blue Jays?
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Shot to right, Zipperfield farshow on the run.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
He's up the trucks.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Bit's gone Bits.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Poland again, Poorgey Polanco is owning October for the Mariners.
He's giving them a six to three lead. Hey, good morning,
Mariners are up two to oh in the American League
Championship Series. How does that fit you here this morning?
Probably better than your own pants.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Fits me like a glove.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Fits you like a glove. You've never looked better. Thanks, Yeah,
Bucky Jacobson, former Mariner. My name is Chuck Powell. Ashley
Ryan here as well. We roll into our eight o'clock
hour with the knowledge that the Mariners are up two
oh in the ALCS against the Toronto Blue Jays, taking
both games on the road, and now they come home
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for games three, four, and five if necessary right here
at T Mobile. Joining us now on the pro Graham.
He is the face of the MLB network. He is
the former second basement of your Seattle Mariners. He made
highlight play after a highlight play for you here in Seattle,
switch hitter, and what a smile. Harold Reynolds now joins
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us here on Chuck and Buck in the morning.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Good morning, sir, Hey, isn't it a good Morning's.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Oh yeah, I.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Thought it was going to be a two holyad beautiful.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Uh yeah, you know what, I'm not surprised by it.
I'll tell you that. What's the what's the feel around
the MLB Network studios? Is everyone there surprised?
Speaker 4 (01:35):
But you uh no, not really. I mean we've had
a kind of a split. I mean, Toronto was.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Playing so well.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
When you take down the Yankees and we're out of East,
everybody thinks that's the greatest thing ever. But we did
have a lot of people that felt like it was
the World Series is going to be Seattle in LA
and it's looking that way right now.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
But the Marylands are playing great ball.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
They're just playing the executing, the pitching and you know,
everything you guys are talking about.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I'm sure, yeah, obviously, I mean the way that they're pitching.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
I mean it's been a few years where it's kind
of felt like this squad was set up as far
as the pitching staff goes to make some make some
hay in October and if they could just get into
the postseason. Right now, it's kind of coming to fruition,
even with that fifteen inning game. So I mean, how
big is it for the way in which Bizardo and
company came in yesterday to just kind of close that
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thing out and let them reset their rotation.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Yeah, I thought even Game one, you know, even before
yesterday's game, Game one, with the way Miller pitched coming
after that fifteen inning game really kind of set them up.
And you know what's unique about Seattle is the starting
pitching is going deep in the game. And what I
mean by unique is most of these clubs are playing
bullpen games. We saw yesterday the Brewers play the first
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game of the series and they start with open earns,
a bullpen game, and that's kind of been ay the
last three years. So it's refreshing to see a team
like Seattle going out there with starting pitching saying we're
going to go as long as we can and then
we'll get.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
To the pin.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
We don't even have our arguably best starter available, yet
he's still coming. It looks like later this series in
Brian Wu. So yeah, I mean, what an advantage in
today's day and age. How much credit do you give
the Mariners organization? Most people give it credit, Harold, for
the way they develop and the way that they find
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pitching talent, but the way that they keep it healthy,
because a lot of these organizations get to the end
of the year and they're lucky to have one or
two quality starters.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
No, they've done a great job and it's depth, you know,
that's what keeps it going for them. They've done a
tremendous job with that.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Well.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
I think also I need to give Jerry a lot
of credit. You know, he's taken a lot of hits
through the years. But the run that they're on right
now and John Stanton that they've been able to keep
this pitching.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
At the right time.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Now, we're gonna run into a scenario here in a
couple of years where you're gonna start paying guys and
we might see some changes with the with what happens
with the guys. But right now, they're hitting at the
right time. And I thought, going to get the offense
that they needed to go get at trade deadline is
the only reason we're sitting here having this conversation today. Yeah,
we've watched this before where they had great pitching.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Great year, they just didn't hit and going to.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Get those two guys and I know they haven't hit
like they're capable of, but just lengthening the lineup has
forced clubs to have to pitch a lot deeper to
a better team. So that to me is a bigger
reason we're sitting here today.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
Yeah, Harold, how big is that in the postseason? I mean,
you know how it is just day to day throughout
the season. Where as a team when you feel like
I don't have to put a bunch of pressure on
myself because if I don't come through, the dude behind
me will pick me up, and so on and so
forth throughout the whole. But you get into the postseason,
there's so much hanging in the balance of every single pitch,
every single bat. How important is it to war this team?
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Because I'm sure that these guys are feeling like I
don't have to go out there and get it done
because it does feel like one through nine had some
guys that are going to compete.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Well, yeah, because what it does it taxes that pitcher.
You know, every pitch now is a concentration pitch that
and it's loud, and you make a mistake, it shows
up and it just puts repeated pressure on We'll go
yesterday's game, I mean the first inning you all of
a sudden, now where you walk the leadoff guy and
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then here comes Cal, here comes Julio, and and you
know down the road you got two more. You haven't
even got to swar As yet or Nailer with the power.
So it changes the whole dynamic of everything as you're
looking through the roster. And then I did not over
skip Polocko. That kid is rolling right now. He's playing
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tremendous ball. But it just shows that there's so many
guys that could hurt you. And that's that's the beauty
of having a.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Length in a lineup former Mariners second Basement. Harold Reynolds
our guest of course with MLB Network now MLB Network's
MLB Tonight, the National Pregame Show award winning National Pregame
Show is coming up later today at three pm Pacific time.
And through the World Series, of course, Harold sits along
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Greg Amsinger, who's come a long way with his baseball knowledge,
by the way, and then the goofy asked Dan Plea
Sack as well, so are you guys? Are you arguing
over Brewers versus Mariners right now?
Speaker 5 (06:37):
You and Plea sac.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
You know, Dad is so funny like he's the all
time saves leader for the Brewers, but he's played with
like fourteen teams, so he's the biggest front runner in
the world. And you know, so he's all big blue
Toronto because he pits there, you know. And then he
was the Cubs, and then it was the Brewers. All
my dad, come on now, and he didn't pitch in Seattle.
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So I'm like, don't even try to claim the Mariners.
So it's funny. We have a blast with these guys.
It's a good time.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Yeah, it's a great watch. You guys are awesome. I
thoroughly enjoy it. All right, So you brought up Horriy Polonko.
I think we need to spend more time on him.
You were a Mariner second basement. He's the current Mariner
second basement. And man, he has just come through time
and time again here in the playoffs. What was the
book on Jorgey Polonko? And is anything he's doing surprising
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you right now?
Speaker 1 (07:34):
In these playoffs?
Speaker 4 (07:36):
He's always been able to hit the knock was kind
of when it was a short stop, he just wasn't
a short stop. And then trying to figure out I'd say,
more than anything, the reason that he's had the struggle
of finding work, so to speak, is more where the
industry is at. You know, with age, they just kind
of push guys off and give him one year deals.
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But he's made some money and the opportunity to going forward.
But as a player, the thing I see with him
is the intelligence. I look at how he is attacking
these pictures. He's got a game plan, the experience is
coming up. It's almost like I'm looking back and I'm
seeing a guy that's been sitting there talking to Edgar Martinez.
(08:19):
You know, I can see Edgar was so stubborn with
his approach, like I got a game plan, I'm staying here,
I'm trusting it. They're gonna throw me my pitch to
hit them boom. And I see the same thing with Jorge.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
You know where he.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Takes trek scuoble deep twice. It's not by accident. He
knew what he was looking for and then the last
couple of days to come up big with plug situations.
He knows what he's looking for. So I think he's a.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
He's a tremendous student.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
And right now he's able to execute it. But I
can see the influence of Edgar, and I can see
the influence of Sitzer with stand consistently you're swaying. I
think those two have had a huge influence us on him.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Harold.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
I don't think you and Dan Wilson's careers overlapped here
in Seattle. I think yours was winding down as his
was just getting started. But when you watch him from Afar,
I mean, the one he gets he gets. Every manager
is going to have their critics out there, and if
you're kind of a rookie where he was, you know,
took over last year and did well and then this
was his first full season. When you watch him, I
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see a guy that just kind of even keel and
then he believes in his guys. I mean down to
the Edward Bizardo kind of had one bad game in
the in the previous series, and yet he bounced back
from that. Spire had a couple bad outings, and yet
he bounced back from that. How much do you think
it plays a good role in the mindset of these
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players considering I think that their manager most certainly believes
in them and they feel it.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
Uh yeah, a lot.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
I mean two two things that stood out to me.
One most of these guys watched Dan Wilson ply you
know when they growing up. If you follow the Mariners
and you follow Griffy and you follow the great runs, Uh,
these guys got a chance to really kind of see
that group as they were growing up. So I think
that's that's a big part of it. And then secondly,
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he's been around the organization even when he wasn't managing,
So they have a personal different personal relationship with Dan,
and now he becomes a manager. But there was one
scene yesterday I pointed it out in Game one that
really tells me a lot about Dan Wilson and the Mariners,
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and it's when Cal Rawly, after Ryce Miller has runs
on first and second, after he's getting up the leadoff homer,
and cal Rawly walks out to the mound, calls time,
and walks out, and not one single infielder comes to
the huddle.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
You know how there's a.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Pitchy change in a conversation. You see every infielder come
in there and try the adjitude sets hanging there, buddy,
you know whatever, And and it was just Cal and Miller,
And that's Dan Wilson letting him have the free reign
of understanding my catcher knows how to run the game.
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And I think that's what Lou did with Dan and
I can see that with Cal and that relationship is big.
There's so much leadership and so much ability for him
to run things. I think that's a direct descendant from
Loopanella trusting and Dan Wilson, and Dan Wilson pouring that
into his catcher and his teammates feet off of that.
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Just like you go back now and you talk to
the guys about those teams that Dan played on. He
clearly ran the pitching staff.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
He was a big time leader on that team.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
And I think you see it with Cal Well, speaking
of the dumper, we're seeing John Schneider approach him completely
differently than he has in past games, regular season games.
He's being careful with him. I mean, it's just been
one year of cal Raley behaving at the plate like
Babe Ruth. But has this magical year that he's had.
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I mean every time he went into a series like
don't let Barry Bonds beat you, don't let Aaron Judge
beat you. Has cal ralely earned that in this one year?
Do you have to pitch a round him if you're
going to face Cal Raleigh.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Now, Uh yeah, it's been a transformative year. And I
think the one thing you don't hit sixty home runs
without being able to do a lot of damage from
both sides of the plate against a number of pitchers.
And I think the one thing that I always look
at is is he hitting good pitching? Is he doing
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this off of good pictures? And if you look at
his resume of guys that he's homered off of, he's
doing it off of good pitching. So that's where you
get that next step, that next level of greatness. And
I think Cal's entered into that territory and he's taken
off of he had a big year last year for
a catcher, he just didn't.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
Get sixty homers, you know.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
So now he's gone to a whole nother level and
you can see the respect that they're pitching him with
in this series.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
Harold, you you'd mentioned earlier the good moves that Jerry
and Justin had made. I mean, the I think the
best one is the Josh Naylor ad there at the
trade deadline.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I just love the grit that he plays with.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
I mean, take us inside somebody that's been in a
clubhouse understands. That was one of those guys that how
important it is to have somebody that kind of plays
with a certain level of intensity that makes sure everybody
else plays the same well.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
It raises everybody else, It raises their their their their drive.
And when you have one hundred and sixty two games,
it's easy to get for playoff games, but one hundred
and sixty two games, there's gonna be those days where
you just feel like, Eh, I don't know, asked Buck about.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
He knows I'm talking about.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
There's some days you drag and then the series is like, oh,
the Yankees are coming in town, let's go. When you
have a Josh Naylor every day coming in who slams
his head with the bat if he doesn't get a hit,
he's not afraid to getting somebody's face, that raises the
level of enthusiasm, excitement, and concentration.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
So I love what he plays with.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
I love what he brings. On top of that, he's
crazy talented. He's made the defense better, he can flat
out hit, and he's stealing bags.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
All the things he's doing.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
He's really an impressive player.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yeah, we're calling him Thicky Henderson.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
These days with all of his I love that.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
I'm gonna use that.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Yeah, I afraid that one.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Yeah, take that material, run with it. I'll be very
proud to hear it on MLB tonight later on today.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
All Right, so.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
We know how crazy baseball can be, and you can't
take anything for granted, but to win both games on
the road, considering a little bit of a storm they
had to weather coming out of that long fifteen inning
marathon Friday night, I mean, where's the avenue that Toronto
gets back into this series? If there is one that
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you can see.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
It's gonna be tough. And because the Mariners are now
have their pitching rested, and.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
You talked about earlier, Wu.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Hasn't even pitched yet. Yeah, so you know they're not hitting.
Toronto hits some balls at people quite a bit in
that series. So if I'm them, I'm saying, hey, some
balls are gonna start to fall. But on the Mariner's side,
they neutralize them and allowed to get the lead early.
It kind of changes how they got to play their
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style of play.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
And we can continue to do that.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Get the lead and continue to keep the pressure on
those those hitters.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Good things are gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
I just don't see losing this series. When you go
up to oh and you win to in Toronto, I
just don't see it, all right, So.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Are you gonna get here for any of this? I mean,
you should have been a part of that Friday Night.
I've never felt an atmosphere like that in a baseball game.
So are you gonna get here? Are you gonna wait
until to see if we make the World Series? What's
the plan? Former Mariner Harold Reynolds.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Well, there's two scenarios.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
One.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Obviously, I'm covering the World Series. I will be on
ground wherever it's at. I'm playing on that be in Seattle.
But with this being the first time the Mariners can
go to a World Series, if it goes to a
Game six or a Game seven, which I'm kind of
hoping it doesn't at this point in time, but if
it does, I'm gonna go to those games and then
I'll stay for the rest of the World Series. Okay,
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but at this point I'm expecting them to be able
to get through this.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
Thing, and it may. You know, this team's not going away.
Toronto's not gonna go away.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
I don't see a four games suite. But I do
see the Mariners winning this thing.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Well, once they do win it, please rub it in,
please sex face for us.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
All I agree. Yeah, he'll be.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Wearing he'll probably grab the Titan from everybody holding that
thing up. Man, he's been talking Marriors the whole time.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
All right, man, Hey, thanks, great to hear from you,
and we'll bug you again later in the world series
if it comes to it.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Looking forward to it, even meet you guys in person.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Let's do yeah, yeah, yeah, well we'll bug you, that's
for sure. You don't have to tell us twice. We'll
annoy the hell out of you once you're in town.
Thanks Manat, appreciate you.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
All rightuck, but appreciate you guys.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Harold Reynolds joining us right here on Chuck and Buck
of course at MLB Network's MLB Tonight, the national pregame show.
It's won awards like wins awards all the time, those guys, uh,
so we appreciate him coming on, sharing his thoughts on
the ALCS. Coming up later. Ryan Healey will join us.
He's going to meet somebody special today. He'll meet up
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the old judge for the first time. But coming up
next on the radio program, It's the guy that I
hugged first after the Mariners clinched the A. L d
S Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ R.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
F M.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Take a Tuesday Morning to you, Ashley. Ryan's here, former
Marina Bucket Jacobson. My name is Chuck Powell and joining
us now on the program. There's a grown man that
I hugged on the way out of t mobiles. You
did after the victory, and then I didn't even realize.
I got out to the street and I'm like, I
don't know. I know. I know that Everett loves Seattle,
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and I know that he likes the Mariners, but he
did grow up a Tiger fan. I hope I didn't
hug Everett fits you when he was in a sad,
sad period of his life coming down.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
He was there a little bit. He had gear on.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Oh, so sorry if my enthusiasm got all over your
Tiger gear, Everett, sorry about that.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
No, listen, I will say this right now, And I
just told vastly a second ago. There was a part
of me, a large part of me, that when the
Mariners won that game, I found myself in a in
a state of happiness. You know, I don't know if
it was because I was caught up in all the
reguildia and whatnot, but honestly, the Tigers losing wasn't as
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sad as as I thought it was gonna be. And
I think it's because, you know, I go to fifteen
twenty games a year. My son is he called JP, Crawford,
Julio and Cal his best friends. Uh So it's you know,
it's listen, I I the Mariners. I now that I
live here in Seattle, the Mariners, I'm adopting them. They
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are becoming my team and more and more whenever they
play a team from Detroit, I find that Detroit fandom
waning a little bit. Now the Lions another story. We're
not talking with the Lions.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Okay, that will be believe the Lions out.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Yea, the Lions out of it, but you know they're
definitely is a bit of me that when the Mariners one,
I was like, all right, we are still alive. And
I felt like a wee as opposed to a day
So it felt pretty good.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
How incredible was that game though Friday? How incredible was
I had.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Never been to a playoff baseball game. Before, so number one,
I got the cross that off the bucket list, and
then number two to see it the way that it ended,
and hanging on every pitch and you know, feeling the
polls of of of all the fans around me. I
was out in the bleachers one ninety three and it
was it was so much fun to be in that atmosphere.
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It was loud. My ears are still ringing from that day.
I'm kind of mad. The beer sales got cut off
in the seventh so I had to go pretty much
a whole game without a beer, which I didn't like
that very much.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
But I don't even think about that.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
I don't think about that. Yeah, day of the day.
But no, it was. It was a fun It was
a fun atmosphere.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Ever it fits. You was with us the voice of
your Seattle Cracking, And I just want to say before
we start diving into cracking, Bucky and I went to
Detroit for the first time, and we are not making
this up. In fact, the nicest people in any city
in America, and it's not even close. We were stunned
by it, Everett. We were stunned how nice everyone was.
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It was incredible.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Listen, many it's called Midwestern nice for a reason, and
everyone thinks that Minnesota owns the crown. But anywhere in
the Midwest, when someone asks, Hey, how you doing, they
genuinely want to have a ten to fifteen minute conversation
on how you're doing. How's your mom, how's your sister?
Did your dad surgery go? Okay? Weren't you up for
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a job last week? How did that go? We genuinely
care how you're feeling. So yeah, man, Detroit is a
great city. Don't let the news fool you. It's crazy
a great town.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Yeah, I'm from the midst too, and I'm telling you
that people from my hometown are a holes compared to
those from your hometown.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
I thought for the longest time like that you were
an anomaly. Right, how is this guy so nice? Everybody's
in ever Troy And now I just realize you're just
running the mill Detroiter.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Yeah, yeah, so it was wonderful. It was wonderful.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
All right. Well, let's talk about our hockey teams too,
and oh start this. Yeah, they're off to just a
fabulous start here under Lane Lambert.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
They are, and I think for a large part of
that is just due to the style of play that
lane is trying to establish here, and you've got players
buying in. And I mean outside of that first period
against against Anaheim on Thursday, you're seeing a very structured,
disciplined style of game. Yeah, they only scored the three
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goals against Anaheim and you know, you win to one
in overtime to Vegas. For the offense probably maybe isn't
where a lot of folks would like, but defensively, structurally,
this is a different team from what we've seen in
the past couple of years. And I've talked to a
number of players, both on the defensive side and forwards,
and they they love this style of play. They like
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the idea, you know, of of that grinding style that
really just sets them up for success. Because we've talked
a lot about this team. There isn't that star power.
There isn't that you know, big bonafide superstar. But what
you have is, you know, twenty different role players, depth players,
guys who can work hard and when they're playing that style.
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As we've seen, it's only been two games, so I
understand it's a very small sample size, but we've seen
that it has worked for them. And you know, I
looked at al a couple of times in that Anaheim
game and in the Vegas game, and I said, if
this is how they're going to play all year long,
and if they can find a way to maybe push
that goals for to closer to three and play three
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to one games or three two games, I like, this
team's chance is moving forward.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
You use the word discipline there, and I mean I
think discipline is something that is is paramount to having
a team period across the board. Dive into that more like,
what is it that Lambert's got them doing or is
it the leaders that have them out there playing a
discipline style hockey?
Speaker 3 (24:10):
So I'll give you an example. There were a couple
of there were a couple of times in the Anaheim
and Vegas games where you could tell that Seattle was
at the end of a shift and you know, maybe
you've got three on two coming through the neutral zone.
You have a lane down the side and you can
easily rush into the zone, try to get a couple
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of shots off and set your offense up. But when
you're at the end of a shift, your legs are burning,
you're tired. Then you're gonna have to get back and
that is when you fall into problems where you can't
skate as well as you would like to do, and
now the other team's got numbers going back the other way,
and you put your goalie in a bad situation. Last
couple of games, the Kraken have been in that situation
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and rather than just crash the zone, they get to
the red line, they dump the puck in and they
turn off or a line change, And there were a
a lot of times when you could see a three
on two rush developing and they said, nope, we know
where we are. We'll dump the puck in and then
we're going to live to fight another day. We saw
that a little bit in the preseason. I saw that
a lot in the last couple of games. So that's
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that discipline that I was talking about. Defensively, a lot
of defensemen have been trying to join in the rush.
We've seen it the first four years a lot. This
is a very active decor when it comes to helping out,
you know, in terms of generating chances offensively. But the
last couple of games you started to see these guys
stay at home a little bit more, play a bit
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more responsibly, not worry so much. You don't have you
know Montour or done below the tops of the circles
on the fore check as much, or trying to keep
pucks in the corner. That's what I mean about discipline.
It's about everyone knowing your role, staying in your particular
role and letting the play develop and not trying to
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force it in.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Our last minute. Give me a thumbnail sketch of this
it's Montreal team that we start our road season with tonight.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Well this isn't this isn't your your father's Montreal Canadians
the last you know, five ten years, I think you know.
They they have a very good young corps and they
just wrapped up Lane Hudson, who was their star defenseman.
They've just wrapped him up for nine years. They've signed
their top eight young players through at least twenty thirty three,
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so they're setting up to be, you know, a pretty
strong team moving forward. Their problems are going to be
in goal. You know, Sam Montembau and Jacob bil Besh
are good goalies, but they don't have that elite number
one goalie. And the Can put up eight goals against
this team in this building last year, almost about a
year ago this time last year, so they're a good
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young team, kind of in the similar vein as Anaheim,
but a little bit more experience. And I think for Seattle,
this is gonna be a game where they're gonna need
that discipline structure because they do have a lot of
young skill and speed on their lineup.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
All right, well, we will be listening for sure tonight
for o'clock Everett and ol on the call from Montreal,
one of the true great organizations in all of the
National Hockey League. All right, man, we will talk to
you soon. How long are you guys on the road?
Speaker 3 (27:18):
For goodness sake, We're We're on the road until next
Thursday night, so the entire ALCS will be over by
the We could be in the World Series by the
time we get back. Like that's how long this road
trip is.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
If there is a chance you're in Toronto right for
Game six.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
SOT, Game five will be Friday, if we have a
day off on Friday, so game five if it gets
to a game five, which at this rate you don't know,
but if there is a Game five, it'll be on Friday.
I've got my Mariners jersey and my hoodie. You ready
to go out to the bar. To the restaurant here
in in Toronto to hopefully watch the Mariners fly the pennant.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
All right, all right, man, we'll have some fun on
the road. We'll talk to you real soon.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
All right, fella's stick here at.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Everett fits you. First road trip of the season, you know,
Alan ever'll get a little wacky. Oh yeah, trip of
the season, especially dancing around cool cities like Montreal and
Toronto and the whatnot.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Yeah, just throwing moonies and tunies all over the.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Probably they get rain loonies and tunies.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Yeah, be careful with that.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
It hurt.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Four o'clock start time tonight, Kraken and Canadians getting it
started as Seattle looks to move to three and zero
on the year. All right, coming up next on our
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this morning of the ALCS. The old Judge is going
to stop by at nine to thirty, So Ryan Healy's
going to meet him for the first time.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Really excited about that. He'll be intimidated Oh, well, boy,
certainly will be.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
The judge doesn't have hair, but he brings a lot
of wheat and wisdom and wisdom and authority.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
And authority, no question, he definitely brings authority. I don't
know about the other stuff wisdom. Oh yeah, oh well, yeah,
now that you bring it off, see when you separated out,
Uh huh, it's more the authority. All right, good point. Yeah,
actually brings up a great point. In the meantime, ABC's
of the MS. We get to finish off the alphabet
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here today and maybe finish off the Blue Jays hero
the next three days. We shall see, but we are
at the end. Yeah, so X is for extraordinary and
I know we've talked about him a lot, but obviously
the ABCS of the MS wants to pay tribute to
Are Polanco. Yeah. Once upon a time there was a
stat called game winning RBIs. They used to keep it.
It was the RBI that gave your team the lead,
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and you kept it for good.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
I looked it up.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
It turns out that Keith Hernandez has the as the
record twenty four and one season. But they used to
keep it. They don't keep that stat anymore. And yet
here's horror Polonko with three straight and counting potentially in
playoff games. For goodness sake, So twenty four is the
all time record for a season. And here is Jorge
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suddenly on this. I do it pretty much every game
basis pace that he's got going on for this team
right now. I mean, you just don't see this very often.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
No, the last time that anybody had this many or
more was dem and Young in twenty twelve had four
postseason game winning knocks in a row.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
That's knocking.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Yeah, yes, I'm not for sure Polonka would have had
the record.
Speaker 6 (30:35):
Well, I mean it's he does. If the record is
just four, that's how crazy it is. Yeah, to do
it one, I mean, if you just did it once
in a postseason, you're like, right on, that was awesome.
I will remember that forever. Then you just do it
the next night, and then you do it the next
night again, like okay. So really, but I mean, ultimately,
I'm not one that is okay. I'm not a guy
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that is okay. It's just the rest of my laurels
and content. So I just think three in a row now,
six more to finish this bad boy off set the
record at nine and then I'll let you take it
off season or yeah, six more game winning hits. It's yeah,
I prefer him in a row, but they don't have to.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Yeah, a lot of people kind of like, should we
bring him back next year? And yeah, I mean I
don't think you're going to bring back Naylor, Polonco and
Sworez next season. But I think if I had to
choose two out of the three, it'd be Naylor and Polonko.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
At this point.
Speaker 6 (31:32):
Yeah, oh yeah, I choose And that's nothing against Gino.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
It's just that, And it's.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
Not that he's scuffling right now and really hasn't turned
into the dude that had forty eight homers or whatever
it was that when we traded for him. It it
just is I think that we got a guy over
there and Ben Williamson at this point in time that
plays great defense.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
I would love to have Polonco. Maybe he's your DH.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
You still have Cole Young.
Speaker 6 (31:55):
Yeah, you still have Cole Young there at second base,
but Nail's is number one for sure, And yet Polonko,
I'd love to have him back. I just he's not
going to sign for the friendly deal he did this year.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Why as for you savage, kind of because you have
to when you face a guy whose last name starts
with why he was nasty, I'll say that. But also,
you know, rookie three career starts for goodness sake during
the regular season, then one in the postseason. You know,
if anything, when you're throwing somebody that experience inexperienced into
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playoff games, I think the last thing that you're going
to be able to achieve is consistency from one game
to the next. I mean, he shirt certainly showed off
an incredible arsenal last night. Man that splitter of his
just dove right off the table, but he also had
some inconsistencies in the strike zone and he ended up
paying for that in the very end. So kind of
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a I get why the Blue Jays kind of tried
to ride the hot hand, but I also see why
the Mariners capitalized.
Speaker 6 (32:59):
Again, Yeah, well, I mean it's everybody in baseball. It's
not just the Mariners. Even though we see the marinerso
because we watch all their games that they don't always
capitalize on hiccups by somebody, you know, a hit by
pitch and then a walk, and we don't see a
three run Dinger to kind of just abruptly, you know,
welcome somebody to this series, like like we saw yesterday.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
But that is kind of the risk.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
Like I said in playoff Baseball, everybody's you're not giving
any abs away, You're not giving any pitches away. You're
you're going up there grinding out every single pitch. And
for a young kid to go out with all of
the pressure of we're down one zip, I got to
answer the bell. I'm going against the opening day starter
or the other team. This offense is deep. There's really
nowhere for you to breathe. And yet he kind of
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starts out with the hit by pitch and the walk
and now of a sudden, you got a budding superstar
in Juli Rodriguez. You make a mistake and you're down
three zip. It's it's not something that I think that
they didn't worry about.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Z is for Zoo, which is kind of what I'm
expecting Wednesday. Now that now that our fan base has
been given so much credit for that performance on Friday,
I mean, don't you try to match it. Don't you
try to maybe even exceed it this week now that
you're back home.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
We shall see.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
But between that and the Blue Jays fans trying to
infiltrate our sysem Canada trying to infiltrate our our stadium
for these next couple of games, it should be just
an absolute zoo tomorrow and potentially for the next three
day Bring eleven. They want to close the borders for
this week. I'm fine, Yeah, yeah, let's do that. Man,
Just have some some repairs at the border. Oh, sorry,
(34:43):
you can get across. Oh we didn't even think about that.
Some road repairs we got to do here, Sorry about it,
slumber bummer.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
All right?
Speaker 2 (34:50):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
Poland again, Poorgey Polanco is owning October for the Mariners.
He's giving them a six to three lead. Hey, good morning,
Mariners are up two to oh in the American League
Championship Series. How does that fit you here this morning?
Probably better than your own pants.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Fits me like a glove.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Fits you like a glove. You've never looked better. Thanks, Yeah,
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Ryan here as well. We roll into our eight o'clock
hour with the knowledge that the Mariners are up two
oh in the ALCS against the Toronto Blue Jays, taking
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us here on Chuck and Buck in the morning.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Good morning, sir, Hey, isn't it a good Morning's.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Oh yeah, I.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Thought it was going to be a two holyad beautiful.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Uh yeah, you know what, I'm not surprised by it.
I'll tell you that. What's the what's the feel around
the MLB Network studios? Is everyone there surprised?
Speaker 4 (01:35):
But you uh no, not really. I mean we've had
a kind of a split. I mean, Toronto was.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Playing so well.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
When you take down the Yankees and we're out of East,
everybody thinks that's the greatest thing ever. But we did
have a lot of people that felt like it was
the World Series is going to be Seattle in LA
and it's looking that way right now.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
But the Marylands are playing great ball.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
They're just playing the executing, the pitching and you know,
everything you guys are talking about.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I'm sure, yeah, obviously, I mean the way that they're pitching.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
I mean it's been a few years where it's kind
of felt like this squad was set up as far
as the pitching staff goes to make some make some
hay in October and if they could just get into
the postseason. Right now, it's kind of coming to fruition,
even with that fifteen inning game. So I mean, how
big is it for the way in which Bizardo and
company came in yesterday to just kind of close that
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thing out and let them reset their rotation.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Yeah, I thought even Game one, you know, even before
yesterday's game, Game one, with the way Miller pitched coming
after that fifteen inning game really kind of set them up.
And you know what's unique about Seattle is the starting
pitching is going deep in the game. And what I
mean by unique is most of these clubs are playing
bullpen games. We saw yesterday the Brewers play the first
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game of the series and they start with open earns,
a bullpen game, and that's kind of been ay the
last three years. So it's refreshing to see a team
like Seattle going out there with starting pitching saying we're
going to go as long as we can and then
we'll get.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
To the pin.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
We don't even have our arguably best starter available, yet
he's still coming. It looks like later this series in
Brian Wu. So yeah, I mean, what an advantage in
today's day and age. How much credit do you give
the Mariners organization? Most people give it credit, Harold, for
the way they develop and the way that they find
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pitching talent, but the way that they keep it healthy,
because a lot of these organizations get to the end
of the year and they're lucky to have one or
two quality starters.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
No, they've done a great job and it's depth, you know,
that's what keeps it going for them. They've done a
tremendous job with that.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Well.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
I think also I need to give Jerry a lot
of credit. You know, he's taken a lot of hits
through the years. But the run that they're on right
now and John Stanton that they've been able to keep
this pitching.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
At the right time.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Now, we're gonna run into a scenario here in a
couple of years where you're gonna start paying guys and
we might see some changes with the with what happens
with the guys. But right now, they're hitting at the
right time. And I thought, going to get the offense
that they needed to go get at trade deadline is
the only reason we're sitting here having this conversation today. Yeah,
we've watched this before where they had great pitching.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Great year, they just didn't hit and going to.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Get those two guys and I know they haven't hit
like they're capable of, but just lengthening the lineup has
forced clubs to have to pitch a lot deeper to
a better team. So that to me is a bigger
reason we're sitting here today.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
Yeah, Harold, how big is that in the postseason? I mean,
you know how it is just day to day throughout
the season. Where as a team when you feel like
I don't have to put a bunch of pressure on
myself because if I don't come through, the dude behind
me will pick me up, and so on and so
forth throughout the whole. But you get into the postseason,
there's so much hanging in the balance of every single pitch,
every single bat. How important is it to war this team?
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Because I'm sure that these guys are feeling like I
don't have to go out there and get it done
because it does feel like one through nine had some
guys that are going to compete.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Well, yeah, because what it does it taxes that pitcher.
You know, every pitch now is a concentration pitch that
and it's loud, and you make a mistake, it shows
up and it just puts repeated pressure on We'll go
yesterday's game, I mean the first inning you all of
a sudden, now where you walk the leadoff guy and
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then here comes Cal, here comes Julio, and and you
know down the road you got two more. You haven't
even got to swar As yet or Nailer with the power.
So it changes the whole dynamic of everything as you're
looking through the roster. And then I did not over
skip Polocko. That kid is rolling right now. He's playing
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tremendous ball. But it just shows that there's so many
guys that could hurt you. And that's that's the beauty
of having a.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Length in a lineup former Mariners second Basement. Harold Reynolds
our guest of course with MLB Network now MLB Network's
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And through the World Series, of course, Harold sits along
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Greg Amsinger, who's come a long way with his baseball knowledge,
by the way, and then the goofy asked Dan Plea
Sack as well, so are you guys? Are you arguing
over Brewers versus Mariners right now?
Speaker 5 (06:37):
You and Plea sac.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
You know, Dad is so funny like he's the all
time saves leader for the Brewers, but he's played with
like fourteen teams, so he's the biggest front runner in
the world. And you know, so he's all big blue
Toronto because he pits there, you know. And then he
was the Cubs, and then it was the Brewers. All
my dad, come on now, and he didn't pitch in Seattle.
(07:02):
So I'm like, don't even try to claim the Mariners.
So it's funny. We have a blast with these guys.
It's a good time.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Yeah, it's a great watch. You guys are awesome. I
thoroughly enjoy it. All right, So you brought up Horriy Polonko.
I think we need to spend more time on him.
You were a Mariner second basement. He's the current Mariner
second basement. And man, he has just come through time
and time again here in the playoffs. What was the
book on Jorgey Polonko? And is anything he's doing surprising
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you right now?
Speaker 1 (07:34):
In these playoffs?
Speaker 4 (07:36):
He's always been able to hit the knock was kind
of when it was a short stop, he just wasn't
a short stop. And then trying to figure out I'd say,
more than anything, the reason that he's had the struggle
of finding work, so to speak, is more where the
industry is at. You know, with age, they just kind
of push guys off and give him one year deals.
(07:57):
But he's made some money and the opportunity to going forward.
But as a player, the thing I see with him
is the intelligence. I look at how he is attacking
these pictures. He's got a game plan, the experience is
coming up. It's almost like I'm looking back and I'm
seeing a guy that's been sitting there talking to Edgar Martinez.
(08:19):
You know, I can see Edgar was so stubborn with
his approach, like I got a game plan, I'm staying here,
I'm trusting it. They're gonna throw me my pitch to
hit them boom. And I see the same thing with Jorge.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
You know where he.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Takes trek scuoble deep twice. It's not by accident. He
knew what he was looking for and then the last
couple of days to come up big with plug situations.
He knows what he's looking for. So I think he's a.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
He's a tremendous student.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
And right now he's able to execute it. But I
can see the influence of Edgar, and I can see
the influence of Sitzer with stand consistently you're swaying. I
think those two have had a huge influence us on him.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Harold.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
I don't think you and Dan Wilson's careers overlapped here
in Seattle. I think yours was winding down as his
was just getting started. But when you watch him from Afar,
I mean, the one he gets he gets. Every manager
is going to have their critics out there, and if
you're kind of a rookie where he was, you know,
took over last year and did well and then this
was his first full season. When you watch him, I
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see a guy that just kind of even keel and
then he believes in his guys. I mean down to
the Edward Bizardo kind of had one bad game in
the in the previous series, and yet he bounced back
from that. Spire had a couple bad outings, and yet
he bounced back from that. How much do you think
it plays a good role in the mindset of these
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players considering I think that their manager most certainly believes
in them and they feel it.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
Uh yeah, a lot.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
I mean two two things that stood out to me.
One most of these guys watched Dan Wilson ply you
know when they growing up. If you follow the Mariners
and you follow Griffy and you follow the great runs, Uh,
these guys got a chance to really kind of see
that group as they were growing up. So I think
that's that's a big part of it. And then secondly,
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he's been around the organization even when he wasn't managing,
So they have a personal different personal relationship with Dan,
and now he becomes a manager. But there was one
scene yesterday I pointed it out in Game one that
really tells me a lot about Dan Wilson and the Mariners,
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and it's when Cal Rawly, after Ryce Miller has runs
on first and second, after he's getting up the leadoff homer,
and cal Rawly walks out to the mound, calls time,
and walks out, and not one single infielder comes to
the huddle.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
You know how there's a.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Pitchy change in a conversation. You see every infielder come
in there and try the adjitude sets hanging there, buddy,
you know whatever, And and it was just Cal and Miller,
And that's Dan Wilson letting him have the free reign
of understanding my catcher knows how to run the game.
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And I think that's what Lou did with Dan and
I can see that with Cal and that relationship is big.
There's so much leadership and so much ability for him
to run things. I think that's a direct descendant from
Loopanella trusting and Dan Wilson, and Dan Wilson pouring that
into his catcher and his teammates feet off of that.
(11:32):
Just like you go back now and you talk to
the guys about those teams that Dan played on. He
clearly ran the pitching staff.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
He was a big time leader on that team.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
And I think you see it with Cal Well, speaking
of the dumper, we're seeing John Schneider approach him completely
differently than he has in past games, regular season games.
He's being careful with him. I mean, it's just been
one year of cal Raley behaving at the plate like
Babe Ruth. But has this magical year that he's had.
(12:06):
I mean every time he went into a series like
don't let Barry Bonds beat you, don't let Aaron Judge
beat you. Has cal ralely earned that in this one year?
Do you have to pitch a round him if you're
going to face Cal Raleigh.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Now, Uh yeah, it's been a transformative year. And I
think the one thing you don't hit sixty home runs
without being able to do a lot of damage from
both sides of the plate against a number of pitchers.
And I think the one thing that I always look
at is is he hitting good pitching? Is he doing
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this off of good pictures? And if you look at
his resume of guys that he's homered off of, he's
doing it off of good pitching. So that's where you
get that next step, that next level of greatness. And
I think Cal's entered into that territory and he's taken
off of he had a big year last year for
a catcher, he just didn't.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
Get sixty homers, you know.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
So now he's gone to a whole nother level and
you can see the respect that they're pitching him with
in this series.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
Harold, you you'd mentioned earlier the good moves that Jerry
and Justin had made. I mean, the I think the
best one is the Josh Naylor ad there at the
trade deadline.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I just love the grit that he plays with.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
I mean, take us inside somebody that's been in a
clubhouse understands. That was one of those guys that how
important it is to have somebody that kind of plays
with a certain level of intensity that makes sure everybody
else plays the same well.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
It raises everybody else, It raises their their their their drive.
And when you have one hundred and sixty two games,
it's easy to get for playoff games, but one hundred
and sixty two games, there's gonna be those days where
you just feel like, Eh, I don't know, asked Buck about.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
He knows I'm talking about.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
There's some days you drag and then the series is like, oh,
the Yankees are coming in town, let's go. When you
have a Josh Naylor every day coming in who slams
his head with the bat if he doesn't get a hit,
he's not afraid to getting somebody's face, that raises the
level of enthusiasm, excitement, and concentration.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
So I love what he plays with.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
I love what he brings. On top of that, he's
crazy talented. He's made the defense better, he can flat
out hit, and he's stealing bags.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
All the things he's doing.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
He's really an impressive player.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yeah, we're calling him Thicky Henderson.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
These days with all of his I love that.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
I'm gonna use that.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Yeah, I afraid that one.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Yeah, take that material, run with it. I'll be very
proud to hear it on MLB tonight later on today.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
All Right, so.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
We know how crazy baseball can be, and you can't
take anything for granted, but to win both games on
the road, considering a little bit of a storm they
had to weather coming out of that long fifteen inning
marathon Friday night, I mean, where's the avenue that Toronto
gets back into this series? If there is one that
(15:05):
you can see.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
It's gonna be tough. And because the Mariners are now
have their pitching rested, and.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
You talked about earlier, Wu.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Hasn't even pitched yet. Yeah, so you know they're not hitting.
Toronto hits some balls at people quite a bit in
that series. So if I'm them, I'm saying, hey, some
balls are gonna start to fall. But on the Mariner's side,
they neutralize them and allowed to get the lead early.
It kind of changes how they got to play their
(15:38):
style of play.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
And we can continue to do that.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Get the lead and continue to keep the pressure on
those those hitters.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Good things are gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
I just don't see losing this series. When you go
up to oh and you win to in Toronto, I
just don't see it, all right, So.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Are you gonna get here for any of this? I mean,
you should have been a part of that Friday Night.
I've never felt an atmosphere like that in a baseball game.
So are you gonna get here? Are you gonna wait
until to see if we make the World Series? What's
the plan? Former Mariner Harold Reynolds.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Well, there's two scenarios.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
One.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Obviously, I'm covering the World Series. I will be on
ground wherever it's at. I'm playing on that be in Seattle.
But with this being the first time the Mariners can
go to a World Series, if it goes to a
Game six or a Game seven, which I'm kind of
hoping it doesn't at this point in time, but if
it does, I'm gonna go to those games and then
I'll stay for the rest of the World Series. Okay,
(16:35):
but at this point I'm expecting them to be able
to get through this.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
Thing, and it may. You know, this team's not going away.
Toronto's not gonna go away.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
I don't see a four games suite. But I do
see the Mariners winning this thing.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Well, once they do win it, please rub it in,
please sex face for us.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
All I agree. Yeah, he'll be.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Wearing he'll probably grab the Titan from everybody holding that
thing up. Man, he's been talking Marriors the whole time.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
All right, man, Hey, thanks, great to hear from you,
and we'll bug you again later in the world series
if it comes to it.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Looking forward to it, even meet you guys in person.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Let's do yeah, yeah, yeah, well we'll bug you, that's
for sure. You don't have to tell us twice. We'll
annoy the hell out of you once you're in town.
Thanks Manat, appreciate you.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
All rightuck, but appreciate you guys.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Harold Reynolds joining us right here on Chuck and Buck
of course at MLB Network's MLB Tonight, the national pregame show.
It's won awards like wins awards all the time, those guys, uh,
so we appreciate him coming on, sharing his thoughts on
the ALCS. Coming up later. Ryan Healey will join us.
He's going to meet somebody special today. He'll meet up
(17:51):
the old judge for the first time. But coming up
next on the radio program, It's the guy that I
hugged first after the Mariners clinched the A. L d
S Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ R.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
F M.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Take a Tuesday Morning to you, Ashley. Ryan's here, former
Marina Bucket Jacobson. My name is Chuck Powell and joining
us now on the program. There's a grown man that
I hugged on the way out of t mobiles. You
did after the victory, and then I didn't even realize.
I got out to the street and I'm like, I
don't know. I know. I know that Everett loves Seattle,
(18:35):
and I know that he likes the Mariners, but he
did grow up a Tiger fan. I hope I didn't
hug Everett fits you when he was in a sad,
sad period of his life coming down.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
He was there a little bit. He had gear on.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Oh, so sorry if my enthusiasm got all over your
Tiger gear, Everett, sorry about that.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
No, listen, I will say this right now, And I
just told vastly a second ago. There was a part
of me, a large part of me, that when the
Mariners won that game, I found myself in a in
a state of happiness. You know, I don't know if
it was because I was caught up in all the
reguildia and whatnot, but honestly, the Tigers losing wasn't as
(19:21):
sad as as I thought it was gonna be. And
I think it's because, you know, I go to fifteen
twenty games a year. My son is he called JP, Crawford,
Julio and Cal his best friends. Uh So it's you know,
it's listen, I I the Mariners. I now that I
live here in Seattle, the Mariners, I'm adopting them. They
(19:41):
are becoming my team and more and more whenever they
play a team from Detroit, I find that Detroit fandom
waning a little bit. Now the Lions another story. We're
not talking with the Lions.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Okay, that will be believe the Lions out.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Yea, the Lions out of it, but you know they're
definitely is a bit of me that when the Mariners one,
I was like, all right, we are still alive. And
I felt like a wee as opposed to a day
So it felt pretty good.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
How incredible was that game though Friday? How incredible was
I had.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Never been to a playoff baseball game. Before, so number one,
I got the cross that off the bucket list, and
then number two to see it the way that it ended,
and hanging on every pitch and you know, feeling the
polls of of of all the fans around me. I
was out in the bleachers one ninety three and it
was it was so much fun to be in that atmosphere.
(20:34):
It was loud. My ears are still ringing from that day.
I'm kind of mad. The beer sales got cut off
in the seventh so I had to go pretty much
a whole game without a beer, which I didn't like
that very much.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
But I don't even think about that.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
I don't think about that. Yeah, day of the day.
But no, it was. It was a fun It was
a fun atmosphere.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Ever it fits. You was with us the voice of
your Seattle Cracking, And I just want to say before
we start diving into cracking, Bucky and I went to
Detroit for the first time, and we are not making
this up. In fact, the nicest people in any city
in America, and it's not even close. We were stunned
by it, Everett. We were stunned how nice everyone was.
(21:15):
It was incredible.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Listen, many it's called Midwestern nice for a reason, and
everyone thinks that Minnesota owns the crown. But anywhere in
the Midwest, when someone asks, Hey, how you doing, they
genuinely want to have a ten to fifteen minute conversation
on how you're doing. How's your mom, how's your sister?
Did your dad surgery go? Okay? Weren't you up for
(21:37):
a job last week? How did that go? We genuinely
care how you're feeling. So yeah, man, Detroit is a
great city. Don't let the news fool you. It's crazy
a great town.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Yeah, I'm from the midst too, and I'm telling you
that people from my hometown are a holes compared to
those from your hometown.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
I thought for the longest time like that you were
an anomaly. Right, how is this guy so nice? Everybody's
in ever Troy And now I just realize you're just
running the mill Detroiter.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Yeah, yeah, so it was wonderful. It was wonderful.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
All right. Well, let's talk about our hockey teams too,
and oh start this. Yeah, they're off to just a
fabulous start here under Lane Lambert.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
They are, and I think for a large part of
that is just due to the style of play that
lane is trying to establish here, and you've got players
buying in. And I mean outside of that first period
against against Anaheim on Thursday, you're seeing a very structured,
disciplined style of game. Yeah, they only scored the three
(22:38):
goals against Anaheim and you know, you win to one
in overtime to Vegas. For the offense probably maybe isn't
where a lot of folks would like, but defensively, structurally,
this is a different team from what we've seen in
the past couple of years. And I've talked to a
number of players, both on the defensive side and forwards,
and they they love this style of play. They like
(23:00):
the idea, you know, of of that grinding style that
really just sets them up for success. Because we've talked
a lot about this team. There isn't that star power.
There isn't that you know, big bonafide superstar. But what
you have is, you know, twenty different role players, depth players,
guys who can work hard and when they're playing that style.
(23:24):
As we've seen, it's only been two games, so I
understand it's a very small sample size, but we've seen
that it has worked for them. And you know, I
looked at al a couple of times in that Anaheim
game and in the Vegas game, and I said, if
this is how they're going to play all year long,
and if they can find a way to maybe push
that goals for to closer to three and play three
(23:47):
to one games or three two games, I like, this
team's chance is moving forward.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
You use the word discipline there, and I mean I
think discipline is something that is is paramount to having
a team period across the board. Dive into that more like,
what is it that Lambert's got them doing or is
it the leaders that have them out there playing a
discipline style hockey?
Speaker 3 (24:10):
So I'll give you an example. There were a couple
of there were a couple of times in the Anaheim
and Vegas games where you could tell that Seattle was
at the end of a shift and you know, maybe
you've got three on two coming through the neutral zone.
You have a lane down the side and you can
easily rush into the zone, try to get a couple
(24:31):
of shots off and set your offense up. But when
you're at the end of a shift, your legs are burning,
you're tired. Then you're gonna have to get back and
that is when you fall into problems where you can't
skate as well as you would like to do, and
now the other team's got numbers going back the other way,
and you put your goalie in a bad situation. Last
couple of games, the Kraken have been in that situation
(24:52):
and rather than just crash the zone, they get to
the red line, they dump the puck in and they
turn off or a line change, And there were a
a lot of times when you could see a three
on two rush developing and they said, nope, we know
where we are. We'll dump the puck in and then
we're going to live to fight another day. We saw
that a little bit in the preseason. I saw that
a lot in the last couple of games. So that's
(25:13):
that discipline that I was talking about. Defensively, a lot
of defensemen have been trying to join in the rush.
We've seen it the first four years a lot. This
is a very active decor when it comes to helping out,
you know, in terms of generating chances offensively. But the
last couple of games you started to see these guys
stay at home a little bit more, play a bit
(25:36):
more responsibly, not worry so much. You don't have you
know Montour or done below the tops of the circles
on the fore check as much, or trying to keep
pucks in the corner. That's what I mean about discipline.
It's about everyone knowing your role, staying in your particular
role and letting the play develop and not trying to
(25:56):
force it in.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Our last minute. Give me a thumbnail sketch of this
it's Montreal team that we start our road season with tonight.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Well this isn't this isn't your your father's Montreal Canadians
the last you know, five ten years, I think you know.
They they have a very good young corps and they
just wrapped up Lane Hudson, who was their star defenseman.
They've just wrapped him up for nine years. They've signed
their top eight young players through at least twenty thirty three,
(26:28):
so they're setting up to be, you know, a pretty
strong team moving forward. Their problems are going to be
in goal. You know, Sam Montembau and Jacob bil Besh
are good goalies, but they don't have that elite number
one goalie. And the Can put up eight goals against
this team in this building last year, almost about a
year ago this time last year, so they're a good
(26:48):
young team, kind of in the similar vein as Anaheim,
but a little bit more experience. And I think for Seattle,
this is gonna be a game where they're gonna need
that discipline structure because they do have a lot of
young skill and speed on their lineup.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
All right, well, we will be listening for sure tonight
for o'clock Everett and ol on the call from Montreal,
one of the true great organizations in all of the
National Hockey League. All right, man, we will talk to
you soon. How long are you guys on the road?
Speaker 3 (27:18):
For goodness sake, We're We're on the road until next
Thursday night, so the entire ALCS will be over by
the We could be in the World Series by the
time we get back. Like that's how long this road
trip is.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
If there is a chance you're in Toronto right for
Game six.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
SOT, Game five will be Friday, if we have a
day off on Friday, so game five if it gets
to a game five, which at this rate you don't know,
but if there is a Game five, it'll be on Friday.
I've got my Mariners jersey and my hoodie. You ready
to go out to the bar. To the restaurant here
in in Toronto to hopefully watch the Mariners fly the pennant.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
All right, all right, man, we'll have some fun on
the road. We'll talk to you real soon.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
All right, fella's stick here at.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Everett fits you. First road trip of the season, you know,
Alan ever'll get a little wacky. Oh yeah, trip of
the season, especially dancing around cool cities like Montreal and
Toronto and the whatnot.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Yeah, just throwing moonies and tunies all over the.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Probably they get rain loonies and tunies.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Yeah, be careful with that.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
It hurt.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Four o'clock start time tonight, Kraken and Canadians getting it
started as Seattle looks to move to three and zero
on the year. All right, coming up next on our
radio program, the ab Season, the MS Sports Radio ninety
three point three kh A r FM, everything else going
on in the college football world. And there's a lot
at nine o'clock, but it won't disrupt our coverage here
(28:45):
this morning of the ALCS. The old Judge is going
to stop by at nine to thirty, So Ryan Healy's
going to meet him for the first time.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Really excited about that. He'll be intimidated Oh, well, boy,
certainly will be.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
The judge doesn't have hair, but he brings a lot
of wheat and wisdom and wisdom and authority.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
And authority, no question, he definitely brings authority. I don't
know about the other stuff wisdom. Oh yeah, oh well, yeah,
now that you bring it off, see when you separated out,
Uh huh, it's more the authority. All right, good point. Yeah,
actually brings up a great point. In the meantime, ABC's
of the MS. We get to finish off the alphabet
(29:25):
here today and maybe finish off the Blue Jays hero
the next three days. We shall see, but we are
at the end. Yeah, so X is for extraordinary and
I know we've talked about him a lot, but obviously
the ABCS of the MS wants to pay tribute to
Are Polanco. Yeah. Once upon a time there was a
stat called game winning RBIs. They used to keep it.
It was the RBI that gave your team the lead,
(29:47):
and you kept it for good.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
I looked it up.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
It turns out that Keith Hernandez has the as the
record twenty four and one season. But they used to
keep it. They don't keep that stat anymore. And yet
here's horror Polonko with three straight and counting potentially in
playoff games. For goodness sake, So twenty four is the
all time record for a season. And here is Jorge
(30:12):
suddenly on this. I do it pretty much every game
basis pace that he's got going on for this team
right now. I mean, you just don't see this very often.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
No, the last time that anybody had this many or
more was dem and Young in twenty twelve had four
postseason game winning knocks in a row.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
That's knocking.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Yeah, yes, I'm not for sure Polonka would have had
the record.
Speaker 6 (30:35):
Well, I mean it's he does. If the record is
just four, that's how crazy it is. Yeah, to do
it one, I mean, if you just did it once
in a postseason, you're like, right on, that was awesome.
I will remember that forever. Then you just do it
the next night, and then you do it the next
night again, like okay. So really, but I mean, ultimately,
I'm not one that is okay. I'm not a guy
(30:57):
that is okay. It's just the rest of my laurels
and content. So I just think three in a row now,
six more to finish this bad boy off set the
record at nine and then I'll let you take it
off season or yeah, six more game winning hits. It's yeah,
I prefer him in a row, but they don't have to.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Yeah, a lot of people kind of like, should we
bring him back next year? And yeah, I mean I
don't think you're going to bring back Naylor, Polonco and
Sworez next season. But I think if I had to
choose two out of the three, it'd be Naylor and Polonko.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
At this point.
Speaker 6 (31:32):
Yeah, oh yeah, I choose And that's nothing against Gino.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
It's just that, And it's.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
Not that he's scuffling right now and really hasn't turned
into the dude that had forty eight homers or whatever
it was that when we traded for him. It it
just is I think that we got a guy over
there and Ben Williamson at this point in time that
plays great defense.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
I would love to have Polonco. Maybe he's your DH.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
You still have Cole Young.
Speaker 6 (31:55):
Yeah, you still have Cole Young there at second base,
but Nail's is number one for sure, And yet Polonko,
I'd love to have him back. I just he's not
going to sign for the friendly deal he did this year.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Why as for you savage, kind of because you have
to when you face a guy whose last name starts
with why he was nasty, I'll say that. But also,
you know, rookie three career starts for goodness sake during
the regular season, then one in the postseason. You know,
if anything, when you're throwing somebody that experience inexperienced into
(32:29):
playoff games, I think the last thing that you're going
to be able to achieve is consistency from one game
to the next. I mean, he shirt certainly showed off
an incredible arsenal last night. Man that splitter of his
just dove right off the table, but he also had
some inconsistencies in the strike zone and he ended up
paying for that in the very end. So kind of
(32:52):
a I get why the Blue Jays kind of tried
to ride the hot hand, but I also see why
the Mariners capitalized.
Speaker 6 (32:59):
Again, Yeah, well, I mean it's everybody in baseball. It's
not just the Mariners. Even though we see the marinerso
because we watch all their games that they don't always
capitalize on hiccups by somebody, you know, a hit by
pitch and then a walk, and we don't see a
three run Dinger to kind of just abruptly, you know,
welcome somebody to this series, like like we saw yesterday.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
But that is kind of the risk.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
Like I said in playoff Baseball, everybody's you're not giving
any abs away, You're not giving any pitches away. You're
you're going up there grinding out every single pitch. And
for a young kid to go out with all of
the pressure of we're down one zip, I got to
answer the bell. I'm going against the opening day starter
or the other team. This offense is deep. There's really
nowhere for you to breathe. And yet he kind of
(33:46):
starts out with the hit by pitch and the walk
and now of a sudden, you got a budding superstar
in Juli Rodriguez. You make a mistake and you're down
three zip. It's it's not something that I think that
they didn't worry about.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Z is for Zoo, which is kind of what I'm
expecting Wednesday. Now that now that our fan base has
been given so much credit for that performance on Friday,
I mean, don't you try to match it. Don't you
try to maybe even exceed it this week now that
you're back home.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
We shall see.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
But between that and the Blue Jays fans trying to
infiltrate our sysem Canada trying to infiltrate our our stadium
for these next couple of games, it should be just
an absolute zoo tomorrow and potentially for the next three
day Bring eleven. They want to close the borders for
this week. I'm fine, Yeah, yeah, let's do that. Man,
Just have some some repairs at the border. Oh, sorry,
(34:43):
you can get across. Oh we didn't even think about that.
Some road repairs we got to do here, Sorry about it,
slumber bummer.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
All right?
Speaker 2 (34:50):
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