Headlines and 12th Man News with GREGG BELL (Tacoma News Tribune) Gregg has been double-dipping this week, so we start by talking to him about tonight’s ALCS game 3. Next up for the Seahawks, it’s MNF against the Texans. :30- George Kirby gets the Game 3 starts tonight and while fans might not think of Kirby as the top dog in the rotation, it sure seems like the Mariners do. :35- It’s fact or fiction time! Can Bucky make a winning pick and will our bounce backs work today? So many questions! :45- Let’s get Reckless at Breakfast! The Milwaukee Brewers are a great organization, but they struggle every year when it comes to the playoffs. Small ball works really well in the regular season and they’ve proven it, but it doesn’t work very well in the postseason… With that being said, the Mariners may need to rely on small ball to get the win against Bieber tonight.
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They have scored, obviously a point in every single game
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Greg bell aboard.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Of course.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Tonight is game number three of the American League Championship Series.
George Kirby getting the start for the Mariners, Shane Bieber
getting the start for the Toronto Blue Jays. First pitch
is at five o'clock. With a win, the Mariners can
go up three to zero in the series. That would
be wonderful. Brian Wu says he's ready to go. He
is one hundred percent ready to pitch. It's just a
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matter of Dan Wilson giving him the opportunity, given him
the baseball, So we'll see if we'll see him at
some point during this series. The National League Championship Series
is also two to zero, with the Dodgers also winning
both their games on the road against the Milwaukee Brewers.
Last night it was Yamamoto. The night before Blake Snell
dominating Milwaukee hitters. Yamamoto ended up going the distance in
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a five to one win over the Milwaukee Brewers. It's
uh Thursday night football leave Pittsburgh at Cincinnati gets the
new week of the National Football League started tomorrow. In
college football, the Huskies will be at Michigan taking on
the Wolverines and the Big House on Saturday. We'll talk
to Cam Cleland about it at eight o'clock. And of
course it is hump day here, so we start peeling
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our attention toward the Houston Texans, the next opponent for
the Seahawks, and they won't play them until Monday night.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
And I know who'll be covering it, Greg Bell.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Greg got all fancy on us with Delacado. Yeah, what
do you like? You like a nice cab? Are you
more of a white wine kind of guy. What do
you like at the Delacado family wine?
Speaker 4 (03:41):
No red for sure. When I heard that yesterday, I thought,
I will wait a minute.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
I think there needs to be some sampling in order
here or something I would I would think you I
would be sponsored by Well, well, I mean, why would
it be sponsored by something I know nothing about?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yeah? I think we test it. Yeah, I think we
should all go to Nappa together.
Speaker 6 (04:02):
Yeah we should.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah, the broadcasts from there?
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Yeah, Oh, even better? What's going on here?
Speaker 5 (04:12):
It just got to be someone at that station who
can make that happen.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Yeah, I know what department that is.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
We'll put some heat on him, don't you, Greg, But
I know you have that.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
In the meantime, we'll just we'll just think about how
delicious tacato.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
So I got to hear about it every day. Yeah,
the rest of two great?
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Okay, come on, exert yourself please. I appreciate that.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
All right.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Well, what kind of fine wine performance do you think
we're going to get out of George Kirby tonight?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Before we talked some Seahawks football.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Well, I mean he did, okay, he was a footnote
in Game five because of how crazy it ended in
fifteen innings and it was like you pitched three days
earlier that night. But people forget that he won run
in five of innings, and I think under normal circumstances
he would have continued pitching. And he's I wrote this
in a news tribute store say, he's the only guy
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on the whole staff who's been on regular turns and
not coming out of bullpens, and so it's business as
usual for him. He talked about that in Toronto before
Game two, about how he's rested and it's a normal
routine and he's doing bullpens and stretching and ninety throws
and he's doing regular season scheduled work. Well, no one
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else's staff is. Everyone else is he's on short rest,
they're coming out of the bullpen or now Castillo is
going to be on long rest and they haven't had
wo at all. But it's been normal schedule for George Kirby.
You would think for something.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Yeah, yeah, opportunity to kind of reset the whole thing,
and you still went up two.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Oh, it's it's pretty amazing.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
So about your ace having pitched yet in the postseason, yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Yeah, not bad, not bad, kind of encouraging. Also, I
I will mention this before we talked Seahawks football here.
You went out of your way to write a nice
story about Mitch Garver. And I think that I was.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
This show would notice that. Boy, well, I thought, I thought,
when am I going to get the opportunity to write
about Mitch Garvery? What do you say? Well?
Speaker 5 (06:23):
And well, my point of the story was it has
nothing to do on with on the field. For those
of don't know what we're talking about, or that we'll
never read a story about Mitch Garver. He was two
years ago on the Texas Rangers when they went up
two oh in the ALCS after winning two road games
at Houston, and then they went back to Texas and
got three swept three straight games out of out of
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Arlington by the Astros. So he's been here exactly here,
and he said he was going to talk.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
To the team about that.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
I'm going to talk to them about trying to win
every inning and then be the goal to try to
score every inning. He implied that just cruised into Game
three thinking the series is over, and then they had
to scramble at rally and they won Game six and
seven at Houston that was a really odd series. Texas
won all four games in Houston, and Houston won all
three games in Arlington. Of course, the Rangers and Carver
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went on to win the World Series in twenty twenty three,
but he said, yep, I'm definitely talking to the guys
about that experience and how to keep the pedal down
and to try to win every inning. He said, score
in every inning was the mentality he's going to try
to preach to them.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Mhmm, Well, yeah, I think that's a pretty good mentality
to have. I don't think they're gonna have to worry
about it. I don't think they're gonna overlook. I don't
think they're gonna take anything lightly. I don't think they
got their feet up on the desk. I think they
are in a really good place for this game tonight.
So we shall see, all right. Greg Bell is our
Seahawks insider, but he has been covering the Mariners in
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the playoffs as well for Thenewstribune dot Com, So it
gives us a chance to double dip a little bit
here with Greg. But let's talk Seahawks. It's hump Day,
and I know it's a Monday night football game. But
this is the day where we start looking looking forward
to the next opponent. Been a weird year for the
Houston Texans, been a weird couple of years. Two years
ago they were expected, they kind of came out of
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nowhere and people put the tag of NFL darling on them.
And they didn't have a bad year last year, but
people looked at it as a disappointment. Well, this year
has certainly been a disappointment. They're off to a really
rough start this season, especially offensively. What should we know
about the Texans here on the Wednesday before playing them
on Monday Night football.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Well, here's what Mike McDonald's telling his Seahawks. They were
zeroing three and everybody's writing them off as the season five.
They got beat by the Rams, the Buccaneers by a point,
and the Jaguars by seven. They lost to the Rams
on the road by five points. They held the Rams
to fourteen points fourteen to nine. They lost the Tampa
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Bay twenty to nineteen, and they lost to Jacksonville seventeen
to ten. Since then, they've helped get an NFL coach fired.
They one maybe twenty six nothing win over Tennessee as
an zero to three team. That was probably when the
Titans starts saying, okay, we're done with Brian Callahan, whom
they fired a couple of weeks later. And then they
went to Baltimore and won forty four to ten.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
And I know.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Baltimore has all kinds of issues right now, but that
got their attention. In a former Ravens defensive coordinator, I'm
guessing that Mike McDonald turned the Texans Ravens game tape
on and just let it play, and that probably got
the Seahawks attention. Forty four to ten on the road
to Baltimore, no matter what state the Ravens are in,
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is probably got Mike McDonald's front and center marquee attention
for this week. So they're two and three, they're coming
off of buy and when I look at the numbers,
I'm trying to wonder why people want to roll c. J.
Stroud right out of the league. He's got eight touchdowns
against three interception. I haven't watched the Titans game of
Texans game all season. I've been busy doing a few
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other things. But he's a seventy one percent with eight
touchdowns and three interceptions, so he's.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Doing something right.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Every time I read or hear a story about CJ.
Strawitz that he shouldn't be a quarterback wise in the league,
Houston should cut him, bench him. The point is, the
narrative is that Houston sunk, but they're not and in
the NFL at two and three coming off a bye,
you're right, you're right there now. Of course, the Colts
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are often rolling it in that division, and they'll have
work to do obviously, but I don't think that they're
in this abyss that the narrative that the perception is.
Speaker 7 (10:37):
No, I don't think there are either. It's definitely a
team you can sleep on. I agree. What would you
say though, even having not watched any texts and stuff,
just kind of looking into it and investigating it, thinking
about what you got to prepare for. What is it
that they should worry about the most? I mean, they
got to have a game plan aster. We're not going
to let this happen. We're not going to let that happen.
What are those things?
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Well, it's still Chubb.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
He doesn't seem to have quite the season going yet,
and they're not running the ball much.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Houston's not.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
I think Chubb is two hundred and forty yards two
hundred and forty nine total yards on the season rushing
with only two touchdowns through five games. And Stroud does
have the ability, like off many quarterbacks now in the NFL,
to extend players and to get outside the pocket, which
has been an issue at times for the Seahawks. I
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would say those are the two issues there now. When
I was in Jacksonville, I was talking to some guys
with the Jaguars, and it was interesting to hear him
talk about how well they might talk about the game
on Sunday in Jacksonville. They might window dress and try
to run a little bit, but I don't think they're
going to really test Seattle's run. They really respect Seattle's
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run defense. And all of a sudden sometimes because the
Seahawks have been playing from the front the lead, except
the church against Tampa Bay and the shootout, suddenly the
Seahawks are second in the NFL and rush defense. So
now there's this per set the teams shouldn't try to
run on the Seahawks, and the Jaguars really didn't try
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too hard at the end. Was they had one hundred
and twenty five plus yards average, a top five rushing
team coming into that game and they only had a
fifty nine yards and McDonald after the game talked about
how the run defense created the third and longs and
I mentioned yesterday how many third and nine pluses they had,
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and that's how the defense got seven sacks, a season high.
So if I was Houston, I would test that run
defense and I would do it more than Jacksonville did,
and I don't have a quarterback. It is as hot
and as accurate as Baker Mayfield is. I would run
a lot more of Chubb than what they've done so
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far this season. We'll see what they do.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Greg bellis whether it's our Seahawks insider.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
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Thenewstribune dot com, where right now he's following both with
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to talk about JSN. We didn't get a chance yesterday.
That was another big talking point on Monday morning with
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coach in with Hugh and look, I mean, he's just
having a phenomenal year and yet there's still this criticism
of like, man, you just can't keep targeting him that
much during the course of a game, and yet maybe
you can.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
I don't know, because they don't. He can't. They're not
stopping him on the other side of the ball.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
So if they can't, if they can't cover him, then
why don't you go to your best wide receiver as
often as you possibly can.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
I'm starting to believe that this sports market wants to
complain about anything. They have the number one receiver in
the NFL. Give him the ball if he's that good.
That's a first world problem to say you're throwing ball
too much to the top receiver in the league. The
reason he's a top receiver in the leaguees because they're
thrown to the ball, and Donald actually has obviously a
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very sudden trust. It's not like they go back years
and years and in a couple of months here he
is counting on Smith and Jigg with ticket open he
could have had a much bigger day. Dropped the past
in open field at one point, and there was another ball.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
That was tipped and deflected.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
I'm pretty sure it was him on the slant that
the ball get deflected into the defensive Lineman's stomach who
dropped it.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
But the point is Donald's thrown a lot more to
him than even his numbers. Though.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
Yeah, I don't have that criticism to see Hawks. I
think they keep doing what works and if no one's
able to cover Smith and Jig. But even though every
defensive game plan has him in the center of it,
yet he's still leading the NFL keep doing it. He's
now in the NFL's yardage receiver leader past kuk Kuh
who's injured right now in ankle injury for the Rams.
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I don't see any I don't know what that criticism
should be. It's supposed to be this like socialist job
share of receiving yards. Everyone's supposed to have the same
or else the offense isn't working, right. I don't see
any complaints at all, and I can't believe all the
things there could be the complain about the Seahawks, but
that would be one of them.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Yeah, maybe it does catch up to you eventually, and yeah,
I think there's some some merit to it. But if
he if he's open, then throw it to those Yeah,
I mean exactly.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
It's not like in the moment Donald goes, oh wait,
I've thrown it six times to him already. I can't
throw to him at seven. Yeah, even even though my
Reid says it and the defense can't cover him and
he's opened sixty yards down the field. Let me throw
this majestic sixty one yard touchdown pass. It's the best
pass I've thrown for the Seahawks. Oh darn, I just
threwed him for the eighth time. I'm doing something wrong.
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And meanwhile it's twenty to six. Whatever. I just don't
see it.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
All right, man, Well, thank you, we appreciate you, and
we'll talk to you again, probably on Friday.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
It sounds like Friday.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Yeah, oh, okay, just skip ahead.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
I don't know. It's a day by day. It's a
fluid situation here, Greg.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
But yeah, did they take the table away?
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Is it not round anymore.
Speaker 8 (16:14):
Today?
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (16:15):
We'll see you out there, all right, all right, Greg
bell our Seahawks inside are joining us right here on
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Speaker 2 (16:54):
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Speaker 3 (17:02):
Coming up next, we'll play some factor fiction. Also talk
about tonight's Game three starter. Is George ready again for
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It's Chuck Poalitz, Buggy Jacobson, and Ashley Ryan with you,
and yes, Game three of the American League Championship Series
played tonight, the first game of the series to be
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played here in Seattle, and a chance to go up
three to zero and George Kirby getting the start tonight
for the Mariners. At this point, I would hope that
Mariner fans have a full gut of confidence when they
think about George Kirby.
Speaker 7 (17:40):
I would imagine they do if they don't. I don't
know what they're necessarily watching. The dude's been pretty unbelievable
in the playoffs just over his career. I mean, I
know a good one back in was twenty twenty two
and even came in in relief, right, got to save
that one time, and then two games here.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
It's he scattered hits.
Speaker 7 (17:59):
It hasn't been the most dominant necessarily, but it's been
when he gives up a hit, then he bears down
and punches the next dude out or finds a way
to get out of it. It's it's been impressive, to
say the least. I mean, I don't think that there's
many people in that organization that have any doubt about
that guy for sure.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Well, we've been waiting a long time to play the
set the rotation for the playoff game, and so we've
done a lot of that here for the last couple
few weeks. Ye certainly we had that down week and
that became a huge topic, how do you set the
rotation for the American League Divisional Series? And everybody had
every Mariner fan had their own individual opinion on how
to do that. And because we have so many good pitchers,
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I don't know if there was a bad idea out there,
but I think what's very clear is whether or not
you think Logan's are number one, or Castillo because of experience,
or Brian Wu because he had a great year without
Brian Wu even as an option. It's pretty clear this
organization has every bit of trust in George Kirby. I
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think they circle him as the guy they have the
most confidence in of delivering, you know, six shutout innings,
at least five shutout innings. And it's just how they've
molded this rotation. I mean, they pitched him in Game
one of the playoffs and then made sure that he
was available in game number five if you have to
face Trek Scooble, which you eventually had to do. And
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then even with everybody tired, what did they do? They
put him in Game three, first game at home. And
so as long as you don't jump to a seven
or see me a five man rotation at some point
in this series, he's scheduled to then start Game seven
if it comes down to it. So you might not,
as a fan, think George. You might not think George
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Kirby is our top dog starting pitcher, but I think
it's pretty clear that the Mariners do without Brian Wu.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
We don't know how Brian Wu enters the equation.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
But Jerry, justin Dan all have the utmost faith in
sixty eight.
Speaker 7 (19:56):
Yeah, well they do. They do definitely have faith in him,
and I don't think there's a any reason why they wouldn't.
I mean, I don't even know for sure. If I'm
sitting in Dan's position, obviously you're sitting there thinking about
it and you're mulling it over. But it's kind of
a blessing of riches to some extent where it doesn't
feel like there's any of them are going to be
wrong choices, right. I mean, to me, it feels like
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you can, okay, who's better at this? Who's better that?
They're all great at They're good at throwing in the zone.
None of them walk a ton of guys. I mean,
maybe a couple guys have a little bit better strikeout stuff.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
I think.
Speaker 7 (20:30):
I think George is probably the guy that everybody even
on that staff would say when he's on he has
the best pinpoint control and location ability. I just think, yeah,
when you think about the ability to punch guys out
when you need a punch out or you know, go
ahead and pound the zone and just make sure that
you're making them earn everything. I think that he might
be the best of the best, like you said, without
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Brian Wu kind of being in the mix as far
as how the debate goes. But really it just seems
like you kind of have like you can flip a
coin and you kind of feel like, which ever one
of the five that lands on, you're feeling pretty good
about it.
Speaker 6 (21:02):
Yeah, And I think to him being at home and
having that better track record at home versus on the road,
it's really worked out well for them to have their
faith in him and have it at home where they
feel even better about him. I don't know that it
would have changed if they'd been on the road. Well
in those games, I would tend.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
To seems it seems like they're trying to get him
to pitch at home. Yeah, that seems like what pointed
out before. They all have better splits at home. They
do considerably better. But even the I mean it's Castillo's turn, yeah,
technically to pitch.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
I mean he came in in relief and he threw
a lot.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Fewer pitches than what George did on Friday. Well, but
with the but the idea of if it goes seven,
who do we want on the mound? They're taking Kirby
over Castile and Castillo's hot right now, and Castillo is experienced,
and still it's no George Kirby is ahead of Luis
Castillo in the pecking order around here. That's how they
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feel about sixty eight right now. And I know they
love them all, but they seem to love George the
mostest child. Let's play some factor fiction.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Where's that to go? Glad you're with us?
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Speaker 3 (22:30):
All right, Bucky picked today in our round of factor fiction?
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Where are we going to go today?
Speaker 7 (22:36):
I got up early last week and watched the Denver
Broncos squeak out of victory against the Jets, and it
was a horrendous game.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Luckily my team came.
Speaker 7 (22:46):
Out on top, but what I got out of it
was Jets are not very good All the way around,
and I think the Panthers are surgery and they I.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Think you need to give a little more time. There's
not enough evidence.
Speaker 7 (22:55):
Now to be good. And yet it feels like the
Carolina Panthers are playing well.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
They're kind of on the up and up.
Speaker 7 (23:06):
It seems they have to go on the road and
they're given a point and a half. But I feel
pretty confident a point and a half at the feet
of the Jets. They're negative ten passing yards. They might
eclipse that this week, but I don't think they'll eclipse
it by a ton. So go ahead and give me
Carolina minus one and a half at the New York Jets.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Are you gonna ride this Jets thing this season?
Speaker 4 (23:27):
They are? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Yeah, just like picking against them. Maybe maybe it's still there.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
To succeed and help me out.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Yeah, all right, So it's going to be Carolina and
they're on the road and they're giving a point and
a half.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Yep, did I hear all of that correctly? All right?
Speaker 3 (23:43):
So that means that Carolina on the road must win
by two points or more over the Jets for Bucky
to be right. With that now being established, what do
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If you agree with the pick, text fiction to four
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Speaker 3 (26:42):
Time to get reckless at breakfast, and of course I'm
going to do a little baseball here today. You know,
this time of the year. The Milwaukee Brewers are a
really great study. I mean, they're fun team to watch
every single year. They've got a great organization. I don't
know how they keep doing it. Every year they're pick
to finish third in their vision and it feels like
every year they win it, and yet they have a
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really hard time in the playoffs. And it's difficult. I mean,
when you think about it, when you get to the postseason.
You're throwing your best pitchers, and when your best pitchers
get slightly tired, you're bringing in bullpen guys, and not
just any bullpen guys, your best bullpen guys. And so
when you think about that format, it's really hard for
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the Brewers to piece together the multiple hits they require
per inning in order to scratch together crooked numbers in
any given inning. It's why they struggle so severely. Theyre
just don't hit a lot of home runs, and this
time of the year, you better be able to hit
the home run. And then when you go up against
the buzzsaws that they've gone against and Snell and y'a Mamoto,
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you're not even getting guys to first base, can't steal
first base, and then they're not even stealing second base
because the outs are so precious and they're trailing that
they can't. They got to abandon the way that they
played during the regular season. So small ball is very
difficult to win the World Series with, even though I
think that you can win in the regular season playing
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that way, and the Brewers kind of proved that every year.
That said tonight, I think small ball might end up.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Winning this game tonight.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
I think Shane Bieber, who got lit up by the
Yankees in his last start, is actually going to be
a difficult matchup tonight.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
And I think George is going to be really good.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Too, So I think maybe the Mariners are going to
have to scratch out a couple of runs here this
evening to win this game. I don't know if they're
going to win with the long ball necessarily tonight, but
that's a great way that this Mariners team is structured,
Bucky is because they can hit the home run, they
can steal bases.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
They've gotten better. They're still not great.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
I think they still have the worst batting average with
runners at third and less than two outs in all
of baseball, but since we started doing Saqwatch, they've been
a lot better at executing in that particular moment.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
We take all the credit for that, but as we should.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
I think they've gotten much better as the season's gone
along at moving runners and manufacturing a run. It didn't
show up that Friday night against the Tigers. We did
a pretty bad job there. But we better get back
to being able to play that way because it's gonna
have to come in handy at some point during this
playoff run.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
If we're gonna win the World.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Series, you got to be able to slug and you
also got to be able to steal a run when
you can. I think that's gonna be the key tonight. Yeah,
the idea.
Speaker 7 (29:36):
Of when I say all the time approach of how
you go about your business, and it does correlate with
small ball, moving guys.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Over and getting guys in.
Speaker 7 (29:45):
It's that my irritation with the strikeouts in those key situations.
It's because over the course of one sixty two, if
you do little things like that correctly, which I ended
up reading Greg Bell's article in the News Tribune that
he was talking about with Mitch Garver and that Mitch Garver,
that's what he's preaching to while he's not a guy
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that's going to get a ton of playing time, and
rightfully so, he's still telling these guys, you got to
do a lot of the little things right that's what's
going to get us over the top. He remembers, you know,
being in this situation and it ended up with hoisting
a trophy at the end of it. So to me,
it is it does boil down to it, and that
is a nice thing. We have the ability to go
long ball, and we're gonna win some games with that,
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and you're gonna have some times where you're not going
to get that. I think Shane Bieber is while maybe
he's not the cy young dude that he was, he
still is highly capable of shutting you down if you
don't have a decent approach. Again, he's not going to
strike everybody out. He's not as overpowering as some of
the guys you see across baseball nowadays, and most certainly
not as overpowering as some of the guys that are
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left in the postseason. But he's a guy that is
going to pitch to try to miss your barrel, and
so you can't be swinging for the fences or you're
going to miss the barrel.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
You have to be thinking. And that's the nice thing.
Speaker 7 (31:00):
I think a guy like JP Crawford, when he's in
his zone, he's not trying to go yard. He's okay
with that soft liner to left center field. And then
when they make a mistake or you do that a
couple of times and then you know they're going to
try to beat you in, then open the floodgates and
try to turn on one early in an ab. I mean,
this is a situation where I think we watch Geno
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right now kind of scuffle a little bit. He's had
a couple of knocks here and there, but for the
most part, he's not doing the Geno stuff. It's because
you're not getting the thing that happens day after day
after day after day during the regular season is they're
just pounding the zone, trying to get through innings, trying
to win a ball game. But the third inning of
a game in April or June is not the same
as the third inning here. The pitcher's not trying to
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be quite as precise. He can't be. You have to
eat innings, and sometimes you can't. You can't try to
make every single pitch out of the two thousand you're
gonna throw over a season perfect. You have to go
out there and sometimes just hope they hit it at somebody.
And so I think this is a prime opportunity, like
you said, where you've got to be able to find
different ways to win, just scratch out or two to
one victory, you know, by moving a guy over and
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getting some sack. Watch on other times, it's you're gonna
have to bop some balls out of the yard with
some three run homers.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (32:09):
I feel like that's how they won Game five of
the Alds, Right, there was a lot of that, just
get on and move around, move them around.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Well, actually they almost lost it because they got so
many runners on base and they couldn't come through in
that moment. They've been much better at that in the
second half of the season, and yet on Friday night
it just wasn't there and you had to have Polanco
come through.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
I think it's gonna be Polanco again. I think it's
gonna be.
Speaker 6 (32:32):
Well, it has to be hit him every night we
required six more game winning.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Yeah, I think it's gonna be rob The difference of
the game is Roblaze getting on, not doing something stupid,
getting the third with fewer than two outs, and jare
Polonco coming through either with a hit or sack watch.
I think that's the three to two, three to two final.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
I do love sack watch in the playoffs. There you go,
all right?
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Tonight is game number three of the American League Championship Series.
George Kirby getting the start for the Mariners, Shane Bieber
getting the start for the Toronto Blue Jays. First pitch
is at five o'clock. With a win, the Mariners can
go up three to zero in the series. That would
be wonderful. Brian Wu says he's ready to go. He
is one hundred percent ready to pitch. It's just a
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matter of Dan Wilson giving him the opportunity, given him
the baseball, So we'll see if we'll see him at
some point during this series. The National League Championship Series
is also two to zero, with the Dodgers also winning
both their games on the road against the Milwaukee Brewers.
Last night it was Yamamoto. The night before Blake Snell
dominating Milwaukee hitters. Yamamoto ended up going the distance in
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a five to one win over the Milwaukee Brewers. It's
uh Thursday night football leave Pittsburgh at Cincinnati gets the
new week of the National Football League started tomorrow. In
college football, the Huskies will be at Michigan taking on
the Wolverines and the Big House on Saturday. We'll talk
to Cam Cleland about it at eight o'clock. And of
course it is hump day here, so we start peeling
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our attention toward the Houston Texans, the next opponent for
the Seahawks, and they won't play them until Monday night.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
And I know who'll be covering it, Greg Bell.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Greg got all fancy on us with Delacado. Yeah, what
do you like? You like a nice cab? Are you
more of a white wine kind of guy. What do
you like at the Delacado family wine?
Speaker 4 (03:41):
No red for sure. When I heard that yesterday, I thought,
I will wait a minute.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
I think there needs to be some sampling in order
here or something I would I would think you I
would be sponsored by Well, well, I mean, why would
it be sponsored by something I know nothing about?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yeah? I think we test it. Yeah, I think we
should all go to Nappa together.
Speaker 6 (04:02):
Yeah we should.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah, the broadcasts from there?
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Yeah, Oh, even better? What's going on here?
Speaker 5 (04:12):
It just got to be someone at that station who
can make that happen.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Yeah, I know what department that is.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
We'll put some heat on him, don't you, Greg, But
I know you have that.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
In the meantime, we'll just we'll just think about how
delicious tacato.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
So I got to hear about it every day. Yeah,
the rest of two great?
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Okay, come on, exert yourself please. I appreciate that.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
All right.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Well, what kind of fine wine performance do you think
we're going to get out of George Kirby tonight?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Before we talked some Seahawks football.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Well, I mean he did, okay, he was a footnote
in Game five because of how crazy it ended in
fifteen innings and it was like you pitched three days
earlier that night. But people forget that he won run
in five of innings, and I think under normal circumstances
he would have continued pitching. And he's I wrote this
in a news tribute store say, he's the only guy
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on the whole staff who's been on regular turns and
not coming out of bullpens, and so it's business as
usual for him. He talked about that in Toronto before
Game two, about how he's rested and it's a normal
routine and he's doing bullpens and stretching and ninety throws
and he's doing regular season scheduled work. Well, no one
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else's staff is. Everyone else is he's on short rest,
they're coming out of the bullpen or now Castillo is
going to be on long rest and they haven't had
wo at all. But it's been normal schedule for George Kirby.
You would think for something.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Yeah, yeah, opportunity to kind of reset the whole thing,
and you still went up two.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Oh, it's it's pretty amazing.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
So about your ace having pitched yet in the postseason, yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Yeah, not bad, not bad, kind of encouraging. Also, I
I will mention this before we talked Seahawks football here.
You went out of your way to write a nice
story about Mitch Garver. And I think that I was.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
This show would notice that. Boy, well, I thought, I thought,
when am I going to get the opportunity to write
about Mitch Garvery? What do you say? Well?
Speaker 5 (06:23):
And well, my point of the story was it has
nothing to do on with on the field. For those
of don't know what we're talking about, or that we'll
never read a story about Mitch Garver. He was two
years ago on the Texas Rangers when they went up
two oh in the ALCS after winning two road games
at Houston, and then they went back to Texas and
got three swept three straight games out of out of
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Arlington by the Astros. So he's been here exactly here,
and he said he was going to talk.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
To the team about that.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
I'm going to talk to them about trying to win
every inning and then be the goal to try to
score every inning. He implied that just cruised into Game
three thinking the series is over, and then they had
to scramble at rally and they won Game six and
seven at Houston that was a really odd series. Texas
won all four games in Houston, and Houston won all
three games in Arlington. Of course, the Rangers and Carver
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went on to win the World Series in twenty twenty three,
but he said, yep, I'm definitely talking to the guys
about that experience and how to keep the pedal down
and to try to win every inning. He said, score
in every inning was the mentality he's going to try
to preach to them.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Mhmm, Well, yeah, I think that's a pretty good mentality
to have. I don't think they're gonna have to worry
about it. I don't think they're gonna overlook. I don't
think they're gonna take anything lightly. I don't think they
got their feet up on the desk. I think they
are in a really good place for this game tonight.
So we shall see, all right. Greg Bell is our
Seahawks insider, but he has been covering the Mariners in
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the playoffs as well for Thenewstribune dot Com, So it
gives us a chance to double dip a little bit
here with Greg. But let's talk Seahawks. It's hump Day,
and I know it's a Monday night football game. But
this is the day where we start looking looking forward
to the next opponent. Been a weird year for the
Houston Texans, been a weird couple of years. Two years
ago they were expected, they kind of came out of
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nowhere and people put the tag of NFL darling on them.
And they didn't have a bad year last year, but
people looked at it as a disappointment. Well, this year
has certainly been a disappointment. They're off to a really
rough start this season, especially offensively. What should we know
about the Texans here on the Wednesday before playing them
on Monday Night football.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Well, here's what Mike McDonald's telling his Seahawks. They were
zeroing three and everybody's writing them off as the season five.
They got beat by the Rams, the Buccaneers by a point,
and the Jaguars by seven. They lost to the Rams
on the road by five points. They held the Rams
to fourteen points fourteen to nine. They lost the Tampa
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Bay twenty to nineteen, and they lost to Jacksonville seventeen
to ten. Since then, they've helped get an NFL coach fired.
They one maybe twenty six nothing win over Tennessee as
an zero to three team. That was probably when the
Titans starts saying, okay, we're done with Brian Callahan, whom
they fired a couple of weeks later. And then they
went to Baltimore and won forty four to ten.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
And I know.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Baltimore has all kinds of issues right now, but that
got their attention. In a former Ravens defensive coordinator, I'm
guessing that Mike McDonald turned the Texans Ravens game tape
on and just let it play, and that probably got
the Seahawks attention. Forty four to ten on the road
to Baltimore, no matter what state the Ravens are in,
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is probably got Mike McDonald's front and center marquee attention
for this week. So they're two and three, they're coming
off of buy and when I look at the numbers,
I'm trying to wonder why people want to roll c. J.
Stroud right out of the league. He's got eight touchdowns
against three interception. I haven't watched the Titans game of
Texans game all season. I've been busy doing a few
(09:57):
other things. But he's a seventy one percent with eight
touchdowns and three interceptions, so he's.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Doing something right.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Every time I read or hear a story about CJ.
Strawitz that he shouldn't be a quarterback wise in the league,
Houston should cut him, bench him. The point is, the
narrative is that Houston sunk, but they're not and in
the NFL at two and three coming off a bye,
you're right, you're right there now. Of course, the Colts
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are often rolling it in that division, and they'll have
work to do obviously, but I don't think that they're
in this abyss that the narrative that the perception is.
Speaker 7 (10:37):
No, I don't think there are either. It's definitely a
team you can sleep on. I agree. What would you
say though, even having not watched any texts and stuff,
just kind of looking into it and investigating it, thinking
about what you got to prepare for. What is it
that they should worry about the most? I mean, they
got to have a game plan aster. We're not going
to let this happen. We're not going to let that happen.
What are those things?
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Well, it's still Chubb.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
He doesn't seem to have quite the season going yet,
and they're not running the ball much.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Houston's not.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
I think Chubb is two hundred and forty yards two
hundred and forty nine total yards on the season rushing
with only two touchdowns through five games. And Stroud does
have the ability, like off many quarterbacks now in the NFL,
to extend players and to get outside the pocket, which
has been an issue at times for the Seahawks. I
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would say those are the two issues there now. When
I was in Jacksonville, I was talking to some guys
with the Jaguars, and it was interesting to hear him
talk about how well they might talk about the game
on Sunday in Jacksonville. They might window dress and try
to run a little bit, but I don't think they're
going to really test Seattle's run. They really respect Seattle's
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run defense. And all of a sudden sometimes because the
Seahawks have been playing from the front the lead, except
the church against Tampa Bay and the shootout, suddenly the
Seahawks are second in the NFL and rush defense. So
now there's this per set the teams shouldn't try to
run on the Seahawks, and the Jaguars really didn't try
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too hard at the end. Was they had one hundred
and twenty five plus yards average, a top five rushing
team coming into that game and they only had a
fifty nine yards and McDonald after the game talked about
how the run defense created the third and longs and
I mentioned yesterday how many third and nine pluses they had,
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and that's how the defense got seven sacks, a season high.
So if I was Houston, I would test that run
defense and I would do it more than Jacksonville did,
and I don't have a quarterback. It is as hot
and as accurate as Baker Mayfield is. I would run
a lot more of Chubb than what they've done so
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far this season. We'll see what they do.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Greg bellis whether it's our Seahawks insider.
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Thenewstribune dot com, where right now he's following both with
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Della Coatta Wines family Wines. All right, let's I want
to talk about JSN. We didn't get a chance yesterday.
That was another big talking point on Monday morning with
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coach in with Hugh and look, I mean, he's just
having a phenomenal year and yet there's still this criticism
of like, man, you just can't keep targeting him that
much during the course of a game, and yet maybe
you can.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
I don't know, because they don't. He can't. They're not
stopping him on the other side of the ball.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
So if they can't, if they can't cover him, then
why don't you go to your best wide receiver as
often as you possibly can.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
I'm starting to believe that this sports market wants to
complain about anything. They have the number one receiver in
the NFL. Give him the ball if he's that good.
That's a first world problem to say you're throwing ball
too much to the top receiver in the league. The
reason he's a top receiver in the leaguees because they're
thrown to the ball, and Donald actually has obviously a
(14:06):
very sudden trust. It's not like they go back years
and years and in a couple of months here he
is counting on Smith and Jigg with ticket open he
could have had a much bigger day. Dropped the past
in open field at one point, and there was another ball.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
That was tipped and deflected.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
I'm pretty sure it was him on the slant that
the ball get deflected into the defensive Lineman's stomach who
dropped it.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
But the point is Donald's thrown a lot more to
him than even his numbers. Though.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
Yeah, I don't have that criticism to see Hawks. I
think they keep doing what works and if no one's
able to cover Smith and Jig. But even though every
defensive game plan has him in the center of it,
yet he's still leading the NFL keep doing it. He's
now in the NFL's yardage receiver leader past kuk Kuh
who's injured right now in ankle injury for the Rams.
(14:56):
I don't see any I don't know what that criticism
should be. It's supposed to be this like socialist job
share of receiving yards. Everyone's supposed to have the same
or else the offense isn't working, right. I don't see
any complaints at all, and I can't believe all the
things there could be the complain about the Seahawks, but
that would be one of them.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Yeah, maybe it does catch up to you eventually, and yeah,
I think there's some some merit to it. But if
he if he's open, then throw it to those Yeah,
I mean exactly.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
It's not like in the moment Donald goes, oh wait,
I've thrown it six times to him already. I can't
throw to him at seven. Yeah, even even though my
Reid says it and the defense can't cover him and
he's opened sixty yards down the field. Let me throw
this majestic sixty one yard touchdown pass. It's the best
pass I've thrown for the Seahawks. Oh darn, I just
threwed him for the eighth time. I'm doing something wrong.
(15:45):
And meanwhile it's twenty to six. Whatever. I just don't
see it.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
All right, man, Well, thank you, we appreciate you, and
we'll talk to you again, probably on Friday.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
It sounds like Friday.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Yeah, oh, okay, just skip ahead.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
I don't know. It's a day by day. It's a
fluid situation here, Greg.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
But yeah, did they take the table away?
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Is it not round anymore.
Speaker 8 (16:14):
Today?
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (16:15):
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Bell's lips, and they just does it, just does I
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Speaker 3 (17:02):
Coming up next, we'll play some factor fiction. Also talk
about tonight's Game three starter. Is George ready again for
his close up Sports Radio ninety three point three kha
RFM Oltmills A great idea for you here on game day.
It's Chuck Poalitz, Buggy Jacobson, and Ashley Ryan with you,
and yes, Game three of the American League Championship Series
played tonight, the first game of the series to be
(17:24):
played here in Seattle, and a chance to go up
three to zero and George Kirby getting the start tonight
for the Mariners. At this point, I would hope that
Mariner fans have a full gut of confidence when they
think about George Kirby.
Speaker 7 (17:40):
I would imagine they do if they don't. I don't
know what they're necessarily watching. The dude's been pretty unbelievable
in the playoffs just over his career. I mean, I
know a good one back in was twenty twenty two
and even came in in relief, right, got to save
that one time, and then two games here.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
It's he scattered hits.
Speaker 7 (17:59):
It hasn't been the most dominant necessarily, but it's been
when he gives up a hit, then he bears down
and punches the next dude out or finds a way
to get out of it. It's it's been impressive, to
say the least. I mean, I don't think that there's
many people in that organization that have any doubt about
that guy for sure.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Well, we've been waiting a long time to play the
set the rotation for the playoff game, and so we've
done a lot of that here for the last couple
few weeks. Ye certainly we had that down week and
that became a huge topic, how do you set the
rotation for the American League Divisional Series? And everybody had
every Mariner fan had their own individual opinion on how
to do that. And because we have so many good pitchers,
(18:36):
I don't know if there was a bad idea out there,
but I think what's very clear is whether or not
you think Logan's are number one, or Castillo because of experience,
or Brian Wu because he had a great year without
Brian Wu even as an option. It's pretty clear this
organization has every bit of trust in George Kirby. I
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think they circle him as the guy they have the
most confidence in of delivering, you know, six shutout innings,
at least five shutout innings. And it's just how they've
molded this rotation. I mean, they pitched him in Game
one of the playoffs and then made sure that he
was available in game number five if you have to
face Trek Scooble, which you eventually had to do. And
(19:21):
then even with everybody tired, what did they do? They
put him in Game three, first game at home. And
so as long as you don't jump to a seven
or see me a five man rotation at some point
in this series, he's scheduled to then start Game seven
if it comes down to it. So you might not,
as a fan, think George. You might not think George
(19:41):
Kirby is our top dog starting pitcher, but I think
it's pretty clear that the Mariners do without Brian Wu.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
We don't know how Brian Wu enters the equation.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
But Jerry, justin Dan all have the utmost faith in
sixty eight.
Speaker 7 (19:56):
Yeah, well they do. They do definitely have faith in him,
and I don't think there's a any reason why they wouldn't.
I mean, I don't even know for sure. If I'm
sitting in Dan's position, obviously you're sitting there thinking about
it and you're mulling it over. But it's kind of
a blessing of riches to some extent where it doesn't
feel like there's any of them are going to be
wrong choices, right. I mean, to me, it feels like
(20:17):
you can, okay, who's better at this? Who's better that?
They're all great at They're good at throwing in the zone.
None of them walk a ton of guys. I mean,
maybe a couple guys have a little bit better strikeout stuff.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
I think.
Speaker 7 (20:30):
I think George is probably the guy that everybody even
on that staff would say when he's on he has
the best pinpoint control and location ability. I just think, yeah,
when you think about the ability to punch guys out
when you need a punch out or you know, go
ahead and pound the zone and just make sure that
you're making them earn everything. I think that he might
be the best of the best, like you said, without
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Brian Wu kind of being in the mix as far
as how the debate goes. But really it just seems
like you kind of have like you can flip a
coin and you kind of feel like, which ever one
of the five that lands on, you're feeling pretty good
about it.
Speaker 6 (21:02):
Yeah, And I think to him being at home and
having that better track record at home versus on the road,
it's really worked out well for them to have their
faith in him and have it at home where they
feel even better about him. I don't know that it
would have changed if they'd been on the road. Well
in those games, I would tend.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
To seems it seems like they're trying to get him
to pitch at home. Yeah, that seems like what pointed
out before. They all have better splits at home. They
do considerably better. But even the I mean it's Castillo's turn, yeah,
technically to pitch.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
I mean he came in in relief and he threw
a lot.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Fewer pitches than what George did on Friday. Well, but
with the but the idea of if it goes seven,
who do we want on the mound? They're taking Kirby
over Castile and Castillo's hot right now, and Castillo is experienced,
and still it's no George Kirby is ahead of Luis
Castillo in the pecking order around here. That's how they
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feel about sixty eight right now. And I know they
love them all, but they seem to love George the
mostest child. Let's play some factor fiction.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
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Speaker 3 (22:30):
All right, Bucky picked today in our round of factor fiction?
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Where are we going to go today?
Speaker 7 (22:36):
I got up early last week and watched the Denver
Broncos squeak out of victory against the Jets, and it
was a horrendous game.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Luckily my team came.
Speaker 7 (22:46):
Out on top, but what I got out of it
was Jets are not very good All the way around,
and I think the Panthers are surgery and they I.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Think you need to give a little more time. There's
not enough evidence.
Speaker 7 (22:55):
Now to be good. And yet it feels like the
Carolina Panthers are playing well.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
They're kind of on the up and up.
Speaker 7 (23:06):
It seems they have to go on the road and
they're given a point and a half. But I feel
pretty confident a point and a half at the feet
of the Jets. They're negative ten passing yards. They might
eclipse that this week, but I don't think they'll eclipse
it by a ton. So go ahead and give me
Carolina minus one and a half at the New York Jets.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Are you gonna ride this Jets thing this season?
Speaker 4 (23:27):
They are? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Yeah, just like picking against them. Maybe maybe it's still there.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
To succeed and help me out.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Yeah, all right, So it's going to be Carolina and
they're on the road and they're giving a point and
a half.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Yep, did I hear all of that correctly? All right?
Speaker 3 (23:43):
So that means that Carolina on the road must win
by two points or more over the Jets for Bucky
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Jimmy's on First. So hope to hear you out there,
see you and hear you.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
I'm sure we'll hear you. Feel you may windows, yeah, yeah,
knock politely. Yeah, there'll be some feeling and some hearing sensing.
You know, there be a lot of that all right.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Time to get reckless at breakfast, and of course I'm
going to do a little baseball here today. You know,
this time of the year. The Milwaukee Brewers are a
really great study. I mean, they're fun team to watch
every single year. They've got a great organization. I don't
know how they keep doing it. Every year they're pick
to finish third in their vision and it feels like
every year they win it, and yet they have a
(27:05):
really hard time in the playoffs. And it's difficult. I mean,
when you think about it, when you get to the postseason.
You're throwing your best pitchers, and when your best pitchers
get slightly tired, you're bringing in bullpen guys, and not
just any bullpen guys, your best bullpen guys. And so
when you think about that format, it's really hard for
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the Brewers to piece together the multiple hits they require
per inning in order to scratch together crooked numbers in
any given inning. It's why they struggle so severely. Theyre
just don't hit a lot of home runs, and this
time of the year, you better be able to hit
the home run. And then when you go up against
the buzzsaws that they've gone against and Snell and y'a Mamoto,
(27:49):
you're not even getting guys to first base, can't steal
first base, and then they're not even stealing second base
because the outs are so precious and they're trailing that
they can't. They got to abandon the way that they
played during the regular season. So small ball is very
difficult to win the World Series with, even though I
think that you can win in the regular season playing
(28:10):
that way, and the Brewers kind of proved that every year.
That said tonight, I think small ball might end up.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Winning this game tonight.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
I think Shane Bieber, who got lit up by the
Yankees in his last start, is actually going to be
a difficult matchup tonight.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
And I think George is going to be really good.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Too, So I think maybe the Mariners are going to
have to scratch out a couple of runs here this
evening to win this game. I don't know if they're
going to win with the long ball necessarily tonight, but
that's a great way that this Mariners team is structured,
Bucky is because they can hit the home run, they
can steal bases.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
They've gotten better. They're still not great.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
I think they still have the worst batting average with
runners at third and less than two outs in all
of baseball, but since we started doing Saqwatch, they've been
a lot better at executing in that particular moment.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
We take all the credit for that, but as we should.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
I think they've gotten much better as the season's gone
along at moving runners and manufacturing a run. It didn't
show up that Friday night against the Tigers. We did
a pretty bad job there. But we better get back
to being able to play that way because it's gonna
have to come in handy at some point during this
playoff run.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
If we're gonna win the World.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Series, you got to be able to slug and you
also got to be able to steal a run when
you can. I think that's gonna be the key tonight. Yeah,
the idea.
Speaker 7 (29:36):
Of when I say all the time approach of how
you go about your business, and it does correlate with
small ball, moving guys.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Over and getting guys in.
Speaker 7 (29:45):
It's that my irritation with the strikeouts in those key situations.
It's because over the course of one sixty two, if
you do little things like that correctly, which I ended
up reading Greg Bell's article in the News Tribune that
he was talking about with Mitch Garver and that Mitch Garver,
that's what he's preaching to while he's not a guy
(30:05):
that's going to get a ton of playing time, and
rightfully so, he's still telling these guys, you got to
do a lot of the little things right that's what's
going to get us over the top. He remembers, you know,
being in this situation and it ended up with hoisting
a trophy at the end of it. So to me,
it is it does boil down to it, and that
is a nice thing. We have the ability to go
long ball, and we're gonna win some games with that,
(30:27):
and you're gonna have some times where you're not going
to get that. I think Shane Bieber is while maybe
he's not the cy young dude that he was, he
still is highly capable of shutting you down if you
don't have a decent approach. Again, he's not going to
strike everybody out. He's not as overpowering as some of
the guys you see across baseball nowadays, and most certainly
not as overpowering as some of the guys that are
(30:48):
left in the postseason. But he's a guy that is
going to pitch to try to miss your barrel, and
so you can't be swinging for the fences or you're
going to miss the barrel.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
You have to be thinking. And that's the nice thing.
Speaker 7 (31:00):
I think a guy like JP Crawford, when he's in
his zone, he's not trying to go yard. He's okay
with that soft liner to left center field. And then
when they make a mistake or you do that a
couple of times and then you know they're going to
try to beat you in, then open the floodgates and
try to turn on one early in an ab. I mean,
this is a situation where I think we watch Geno
(31:21):
right now kind of scuffle a little bit. He's had
a couple of knocks here and there, but for the
most part, he's not doing the Geno stuff. It's because
you're not getting the thing that happens day after day
after day after day during the regular season is they're
just pounding the zone, trying to get through innings, trying
to win a ball game. But the third inning of
a game in April or June is not the same
as the third inning here. The pitcher's not trying to
(31:42):
be quite as precise. He can't be. You have to
eat innings, and sometimes you can't. You can't try to
make every single pitch out of the two thousand you're
gonna throw over a season perfect. You have to go
out there and sometimes just hope they hit it at somebody.
And so I think this is a prime opportunity, like
you said, where you've got to be able to find
different ways to win, just scratch out or two to
one victory, you know, by moving a guy over and
(32:03):
getting some sack. Watch on other times, it's you're gonna
have to bop some balls out of the yard with
some three run homers.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (32:09):
I feel like that's how they won Game five of
the Alds, Right, there was a lot of that, just
get on and move around, move them around.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Well, actually they almost lost it because they got so
many runners on base and they couldn't come through in
that moment. They've been much better at that in the
second half of the season, and yet on Friday night
it just wasn't there and you had to have Polanco
come through.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
I think it's gonna be Polanco again. I think it's
gonna be.
Speaker 6 (32:32):
Well, it has to be hit him every night we
required six more game winning.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Yeah, I think it's gonna be rob The difference of
the game is Roblaze getting on, not doing something stupid,
getting the third with fewer than two outs, and jare
Polonco coming through either with a hit or sack watch.
I think that's the three to two, three to two final.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
I do love sack watch in the playoffs. There you go,
all right?
Speaker 3 (32:51):
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