October 15, 2025 • 33 mins
We may have to have an intervention with Ashley and some of our listeners… the superstitions may be out of control. Or, do they actually work?? :30- DUSTIN NICKERSON joins the show as our friendship with the “up-and-coming” comedian continues to grow! We get the story behind his stressful Friday night and find out if has any supersttions. :45- We close out this humpday/game day show with one last thing!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Game number three of the American League Championship Series, the
Mariners and the Blue Jays a chance to go up
three to zero and move that much closer to the
first ever World Series appearance and organization history. Dustin Nickerson's
going to join us a little bit later on this
hour at nine point thirty to discuss it. But we
got this big, fat segment here talk about all the
(00:21):
things that we want to discuss about tonight's big game.
And of course the most important thing about the game
tonight is whether or not you're doing the right superstition
to get it over the threshold. Oh that's it.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Yeah, okay, yes, okay, is just one thing, multiple things.
We did get a texture saying he has been watching
Brash and Muno's pitch from the deck, watching through the window.
It's worked so far the game thumbs up said thanks,
thanks for your contribution.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
So every time that they take them ount he goes
outside on the deck rain or shine, yeah, watches through
the glass doors. Yes, and it works like a yeah, yep.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
You don't mess with that.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
I don't think, No, you don't.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
And there are certain superstitions I will say that aren't
a game to game. Sometimes it happens during the game,
you realize, Okay, this thing's working.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
I gotta keep this going through the game.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Like when we were at Game five, for instance, I
had my little rally towel. Well, I found that if
I wrapped it hard enough around my hand to the
point where I couldn't really feel my thumb, it was working.
Then that kind of stopped working after a while, so
then I had to wrap it my thumb. I could
feel my thumb a little bit, but then I had
to have my thumb on my chin and the towel
up on my nose.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
That's how we won the game.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
You're welcome, and you're passing this on to your daughter.
I didn't even know.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I was doing it. It is a sickness.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
There are other things that happen from a game to
game basis.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Those things can't be talked about.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Oh oh jeez, well because you can't ruin it.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Oh, I see, like.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
If I talk about what I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Okay, I'm glad you clarified that.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Right, right, because right, yes, yes, yeah, yeah, it's notuffing dirty.
It's just there's certain things that I have found that
are working right now, and if I talk about them, oh,
I don't want them.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
To stop working and then we lose and then it's
our fault.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
How do you know which ones of these super duperstitions
that you have are okay to talk about and which
ones aren't?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Well, because the one like in game is fine because
that was that game that only worked for that game,
So I'm not it doesn't work again.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Sometimes it's like the way you sit during the game.
Like again.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
For example, go back to nineteen ninety five, Mariners are
playing the Yankees. I'm sitting on the couch with my
hand bent like in front of me. I didn't realize
I was doing it till I went to move my
hand and my wrist hurt. Well when I did that,
the Yankees scored a run hand back to bent Mariners
win the game, and I sacrificed my own comfort and
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pain for the Mariners to win.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
And maybe long term ramifications to your wrist is right.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Oh, thank goodness, I ended up.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Could be end up arthritic. I mean, you're okay.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Now, I am, but maybe ten years from now, the
doctor's like, was there ever a time where you put
a lot of torque yep over a long period of
time on your wrist unnecessarily hours.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Yeah, four hours back in nineteen ninety five, Doc.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Well, your wrist is never going to work the same again.
It was worth one though.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
It was worth it. The double lives on.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
You know, our old colleague Jim Moore keeps posting videos
of like his wife won't set She just marches back
and forth during the game and she thinks if she
sits down, she'll ruin the mojo.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Yeah, my mom won't watch the games because when she watches,
she doesn't think we're doing well. I went to her
house the other day, though, I will say this. I
went to her house with a three nothing lead.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
And what happened when I got to her house and
she sat down to watch it with me, they tied
the game up. So she might be onto something.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
I want this to happen, I really do. I want
to get to the Pearly Gates, and I think I'll
get through barely, okay.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Narrowly, I'll get through that.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
You think that, yeah, And I don't know if this happens,
but in my mind, you get a chance to sit
down with like one of the archangels, and then you
get to just like ask them questions, like all the
questions that you have, and then they tell you. They
make sure that you're prepared to handle the truth. But
at that point my thoughts are all angelic, so I
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wouldn't get angry at anything. And one of the questions
I'm going to ask is do superstitions have anything to
do with the outcomes of sporting events? And I want
the answer to be yes.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Yeah, me too, because how it was, I'm going to
feel like a really big idiot.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I want the answer to be yes. God takes all
of the superstitions into play, and then he has this,
you know.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Like only he can do.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
He can take all the math of all the different
weird superstitions, and whoever is the most superstitious and sticks
with their superstitions the most loyally wins the game.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Okay, I think that's fair. I think i'd be I
have probably contributed to a lot of wins.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Then I want to find that that's a I want
to ask that question, and then I want the answer
to be, to my surprise, yes it has everything to
do with it.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
If I'm if I'm right behind you in line and
I hear that I'm going to be very distant.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
You're going to go to hell. That's it. I'm going
to hell.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Yeah, I don't want to be here.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
I will say this. First of all, we did get
a text.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
The first rule of in game Superstition Club is don't
talk about in game Superstition Club.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
See you can't talk about it while it's happening, but
you can talk about it when it's over.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
So that's why if there's one for a specific game,
yeah chat it up because that one's that one's out
the door. But right now, yeah, you got to keep
the other, those other ones on the down low.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
So there are even superstitions to your superstitions.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Oh yes, okay, all right, I.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Mean I'll do it a little bit like when we
were watching game five.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Well you won't let anybody talk about like predict victories.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
You've got a little bit of a little more than
you think.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yeah, well that just makes sense. Like when I hear
the Ian Parnessa's promo sayings in the team, I don't
think he's Jesus's just like, why would you say that
we're up to here? There's no way they're coming back
and winning for It's like.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
What do you say?
Speaker 7 (06:14):
You know?
Speaker 4 (06:15):
I was like, oh my god, that made me there's
no way.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Certainly is a way.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
There, because you just don't if it's premature, it's just premature.
I feel very good about where we're at right now.
I'm not gonna sit here and say it's over. It
doesn't make any sense, I know. But those game to
be played.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
That's just his take, Like I don't think they match
up with us with this thing's over. We're gonna we're
gonna win. But it's it's not like it's going like
Julio's sitting there saying, hey, everybody Ian says that where
it's over, relaxed, we got it.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Well, of course they're not saying it, well.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yeah, you're just superstitious. You're superstitious as actually.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Is no, no, no, I just simply worst thing you
could say that. I can't say. I can't take myself
out of the position of if I was still in
the locker room, like there's just no way I would
say that.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
We would say that, Yeah, it's not in the locker room.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
He's got a red hot talk show and he's got
a hot take.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Yeah I will.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
I will say it's funny. I do sometimes try to
talk myself out of it. I'm I'll be getting ready
in the morning.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Okay, nothing I do today is going to determine whether
or not the Mariners win. I'll tell myself this, and
then I'm like, but I'm just gonna stick with these
certain things just in case. But I know that it
has nothing to do but just in case. And it
might also just be in my house.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Because when the Maritors played the Blue Jays in the
what three years ago in the playoffs, we were losing miserably.
Our friend went into the bathroom. We started winning. When
he came out, we weren't.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Doing as well.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
We made him watch, well, listen to the last like
inning and a half. He had to be in the
bathroom and we had it. He had to just listen.
So you can thank Seth for that win.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
Go Seth.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Yeah, he's in Malaysia right now, so he's watching from
the bathroom tonight.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Well, they don't even have bathrooms there, I don't think,
probably not. He's going to the series. Yeah, yeah, bathroom.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
It's sorry. He's been in Malaysia this whole time now,
so it's all right.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Hey Malaysians, I have to find.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
A bathroom, have to find a bathroom.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
We're in the seven.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Oh see, we got this one.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Ted, myself and four buddies were in Horn Lake, Mississippi,
last weekend watching from the BWW. At middle of the
fifteenth I said, rotate seats A minute later, game.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Over, Thanks Ted. Yep, without your job, Ted, we would
not have won. That says just the bottom line.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
And that's the thing is you have the whole fan base.
It's the combined fan base.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
How did you all superstish together.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
In comparison to the Tigers right and their fans?
Speaker 4 (08:52):
And we clearly wanted it.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Yeah, And so God was like, yes, the Mariner shall win,
Polongko shall come through.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Yeah, because look at all the He's idiots.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
It was even for six innings, but then in the
fifteenth the Mariners superstitions took the lead and Polonko I
ordained it to come through.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
See that's the way it works. Chuck gets it.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Yeah, I do now.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
I miss it now.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
And you know what, one day I'll tell you guys this.
You're gonna really look forward to this. One day. I
will fill you in on the twenty twenty five superstitions.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Okay, you gotta wait for that. Remind me, remind me
that we will do it.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Intervention right after it.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
It will never go.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Will you wear this jacket that you can't get your
arms out of? We're going to just slip that on
real fast.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Yeah, and put.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
You' like what kind of jacket kit?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Really cool buckles on it.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
You'll love it, and we're kind of be dazzled in
the back.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
I fired would have put me in one of those
a long time ago as an option.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Decorate your studio in there with all rubber and soft.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
We'll just pretend it's going to be warmer.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Yeah, exactly, just give into a don't you well, look,
I feel really good about the team. I felt good
about this matchup coming into the series.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
I realized that mostly national people, but a lot of
local people as well, are surprised at this two and
oh start. I'm not so much. I also don't think
it's over, and we've got a lot of work left
to do. But I like the matchup, and I and
I you know, obviously love being up to Oh. I
just think we're the better team. I really do, and
(10:37):
so to me, that's what carries the day. Now we
get to add to this, because there was no denying
that we were certainly in a different situation than what
Toronto was because we went to five full games. I mean,
we both had first round byes, but they had the
tidy opportunity to start their best pitcher in game number one,
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their hottest pitcher, and game number on to and really
go with what is their ideal rotation. It's been anything
but ideal for us to this stage. So going to
and oh on the road when you're still trying to
like patchwork things together until you can get back to
where the Blue Jays were at the start of the season,
(11:18):
and now we're here. Now we don't have that as
an excuse to use. For sure, it's not going to
be a narrative anymore. Kirby's going to be pitching on
full rest today, Castillo's going to be on full rest
and then some tomorrow, and Brian wu is coming back.
So yeah, I'm not gonna sit here and do any
he and forness, reckless guarantee victory kind of things. But
(11:41):
I'm feeling really damn good about where we are right now.
But then again, I felt good about where we were
before the series even started.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Mm hmm, yeah, well, I mean I felt good. I
still feel good. I feel slightly better than I did
before they won the first two games. But it none
of the stuff. I mean, I guess when I think
about matchups, I just think about this. Yeah, it looks
good where we're at. Like, if you just tell me
right now, just on paper, George Kirby or Shane Bieber,
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which one would you like starting for your team? Well,
I'll take George Kirby. George still has to go out
pitch him. George still has to go out pitch that lineup,
and our lineup has to make it to where Seane
Bieber doesn't out pitch us pitch our side. To me,
it's the all of the Once you get down to
the final four teams, they're all capable of winning a
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World Series. They all have enough talent offensively and pitching
that if they show up and they do what they're
capable of doing, they can win on any given night.
And if you can do that four out of seven
times twice, boom, next thing, you know, you're the champ.
So to me, it's just go play. I feel good.
I feel slightly better. I mean, but it's one of
those I don't get a whole heck of a lot
out of one individual win. Now you get two, and
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it doubles obviously, but it still is one of those
we're only halfway to where we need to get and
you can end up losing one and I I will
feel less, I will take away some of my confidence
just one loss. Right where you can just go out
there today, kick a ball when you shouldn't have, or
or not play situational baseball when you need to, or
they do a really good job of something. Maybe it's
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George Kirby throws really good pitches and vlad goes I
can hit that one up there, I can hit this
one off the bounce or whatever it is. It just is.
That's the beauty of the game, is how temperamental it is,
how how many little things can change the course of
momentum and shifts this way and that way over the
course of a game. And I love it. And at
the same time that's the part that makes me nervous
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sitting and watching.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Yeah, I definitely feel good.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
And I think Ian did put out something I think
on X yesterday that was like I feel eerily calm
or some yeah, And I think that's how I felt
yesterday because there was no game yesterday, But on every
game day, I'm like I wake up, and I'm like anxious,
but not in a fearful way, just in an exciting,
excited way.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
So I'm feeling very good about where we're at right now.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
But you're still going to do all of you I'm
still doing.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Oh, I'm not screwing it. I'm not going to screw
this team over.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Because it all comes down to that exactly.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Right, well, and also how they play on the field.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Right right, right, but mostly.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
Matter.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I don't think. I don't, I don't want. I'm not
going to go as far as he in and like
I've booked or flight the LA. But I feel really good. Yeah,
and I and I felt good before the series starts,
so I clearly feel better now. Uh and uh.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
And I just don't want to provide the analysis of well, whoever.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Scores the most runs is going to win. I think
we should score the most runs in this series and
tonight and I think that we will get this thing done.
But yeah, you do have to go execute, and you
do have to you do have to play ball. And
I guarantee none of them are taking it for granted,
They're none of them feeling that way. I think they're
just as focused now as they've been at any point
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during the course of the season. To win tonight's game
and to move to three and zero. I think they're
in a really good head space. I feel like they've
been that way for a long long time.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Oh yeah, they have. They're all rolling in the same direction.
That's one thing that you can't always say about a team,
even when it gets to the playoffs. And then I
think that they are carrying the gravity, which isn't It's
getting lighter the further they go, the more they advance.
You know, you win the division, that gives you an
extra that weight off your shoulders. You get past that
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first round. Now all of a sudden, you're like, hey,
we're up to zip in this bad boy. Let's just
go ball. Let's go have some fun out there and
see what's up. I think that this team is carrying
the history, but not as a weight. They're carrying it
almost as like a badge of honor, Like that's right,
We're going to be the team that breaks the never
getting there type of a thing. And yet they just
got to go out and prove it.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
I bet you Dustin Nickerson has all sorts of superstitions,
doesn't he seem like the top.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Yeah for sure.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Yeah, our friend Dustin Nickerson, Seattle comedian, a big up
and comer on the national scene. I hear he's been
living and dying with every single pitch during these plays
and he's been a routine guest of ours throughout this
second half of the season. So we're excited to check
in with him next Sports Radio ninety three point three
kJ RFM. He's also a funny, stand up comedian type,
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and like you, he's been living and dying with every
pitch of the American League playoffs. With your Seattle Mariners
joining us again is Dustin Nickerson. Good morning, sir, How
are you feeling.
Speaker 6 (16:25):
Good?
Speaker 7 (16:26):
I would I would certainly call Ashley a friend.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
This group, you know success, that's cool.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
So Bucky and I will be stranded.
Speaker 7 (16:35):
Well, I mean, she's the only way that will talk
to me when we're not on air. I get texts
from her. She responds to me on Twitter. You know
it's uh, you know you guys. I would call some
of my preferred social acquaintances. I think we've reached that level.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
I've replied to you on Twitter. I think Chuck has
as well.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
I could pick that up. I could pick you know,
just you're just a big, select pretty type. It's like
the time you met Clooney, you know, and he didn't
know if are we friends or not? You know that
sort of thing.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
Yeah, fair enough, fair enough dancer.
Speaker 7 (17:11):
To answer your question, I'm feeling I'm feeling good, bad, miserable.
I don't know all of all of the above all
the time.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
You're up two?
Speaker 7 (17:23):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Not really?
Speaker 1 (17:25):
No, No, I mean I feel I.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
Listen, I've been playing a game in my head called.
Speaker 8 (17:36):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (17:36):
If I were objective, this is This has been a
very helpful exercise for me. Like if I were objective
about the Seattle Mariners in Seattle sports in general, I'd
be like, this team is about to break every curse
that Seattle sports has ever ever had, all of them
in one season, the fifteen inning game up.
Speaker 6 (17:58):
To on the road.
Speaker 7 (18:00):
The vibes are immaculate, Our mascots are winning races they've
never won before. You know, Geno and a Rose Raina
still haven't even done anything really of a huge significance,
and they're still winning games. If I were objective in
my lasting images of being a Seattle sports fan, when
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I close my eyes, aren't Joey Korra crying and kembe
Mtumble laughing. If those weren't the things I saw when
I closed my eyes as Seattle sports fan, then I'd
be like, yeah, yeah, this is this team's doing great.
So I'm all of the above all the time. But yeah,
I mean feeling as good as I can right now.
Consider I have forty years of trauma, that's good.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
So it's just being therapeutic because there are moments that
you allow yourself to feel like more good, Like you
don't feel like, no, too dangerous, it's gonna hurt too
much if I let myself go there.
Speaker 7 (18:57):
I'm I mean, Chuck, you said it. I mean I'm
living and dying on every pitch. So every great moment
I am celebrating as a high of level as you can.
But I just you know, baseball was not Baseball was
not meant to watch every pitch. It is not a
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sport that you can sustain where you watch every pit
It's meant to be watched passively. You know, you can't
be I can't sustain this. You can't be sweating a
walk in the first inning. You just can't do that
for three hours. You can't see like a low and
outside ball to call and be like this ref needs
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to get or needs to get fired.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
This is like you just can't it, you know.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
So the answer is to there are moments that I
feel as good as I've ever felt as a Mariners fan,
and and and just at any given point based on
the next result, not even the next hit or inning,
the next pitch.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
It's the lowest low I've.
Speaker 7 (20:01):
Ever felt as a Marritors fan as well.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
So I'm living and dying and all of it.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Baby, Dustin Nickerson with us here on Chuck and Buck
in the morning, Seattle comedian, and he's been become a
friend of the show. We can at least go that far,
all right, So take me through the Friday Night because
I'm I don't fan the way you and Ashley fan,
and yet through fifteen innings of that, I was exhausted
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at the end of the night. So based on the
description you just gave of what kind of fan you are,
plus you are on stage that night and couldn't even
get updates except periodically, what was Friday Night like for
Dustin Nickerson?
Speaker 7 (20:44):
Friday was Friday was a gift because I got to
be on stage. Okay, truly like you know, ends up
my You know, the fans that I have in San
Francisco do.
Speaker 6 (20:58):
Not care about the Mariners game. Stunning, I know, I when.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
They're not checking their phones for updates, and so neither
should I. I need to be a consummate professional up there.
But we got on I got on stage, Reebus had
just tied the game, and so it was like the eighth, seventh, eighth,
and I figured it.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
I knew this based on.
Speaker 7 (21:22):
Show times that it was most likely going to end
while I was on stage. So I said, nobody tell
me now, but someone tell me the result when I
walk into.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
The green room. And so I walk into the green
room right after the show before we.
Speaker 7 (21:34):
Go doing the meet and greet, and the door guy
tells me it's tied. I'm like, it's tied. And then
I'm thinking, well, this is great. I can watch the
end of this between shows. Surely there's no way this
will still be going when I have to get on
stage for the nine thirty show.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
And sure enough, somehow, on.
Speaker 7 (21:56):
What I think it's the bottom of the or the
top of the thirteenth, I'm going on stage again. And frankly,
I think my heart was like my actual beating heart
was thankful for the breaks, because performing for two hundred
rowdy drunks in downtown San Francisco, as I make fun
of the forty nine ers, was less stressful than watching
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that game. Give me rowdy drunks all day long over
watching yet another double play get knocked into in the
bottom of the extra and how.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Many of these things giving it into give me rowdy
drunks and Kyle Shanahan rat faced jokes any day compared
to the yeah.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
Yeah, yeah. They were on board with them.
Speaker 7 (22:40):
They I was, I just got out of a walking
boot and I told them, you know, I know it's
weird for a Seahawks fan to be wearing you know,
forty nine or paraphernalia, and by that.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
I mean a walking boot, and they enjoyed that there
was some kind of good little things in there.
Speaker 7 (22:59):
And then you know, so anyway, there's always a few
sports jokes in every town I go, but ends up,
for the most part, most people don't care. They're like,
just complain about having teenage daughters.
Speaker 6 (23:09):
That's really the bulk of my act.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Anyways, what's the deal. By the way, you just getting
all kinds of uh swag sent to you right, bats
and gear, and I mean, what's going on? What's what's
your next bag of goodie is going to be? Yes,
that's a great question.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
I don't know. This is new to me, the sending
free stuff I did.
Speaker 7 (23:34):
That's right, you did, But you did respond that you
could teach me how to actually use these bats that
Victor Sports or Victor's Victis Sports.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
I forgot the name.
Speaker 7 (23:43):
Oh my god, they said Victory Victis uh as I said,
I held that bat, and I was remembering my glory
years down at Catur High School in Seduary, Washington on
the JV team, thinking, yeah, this looks like.
Speaker 6 (23:56):
A at best.
Speaker 7 (23:58):
At best's a week rounder to second, you know, if
I make contact in the first place.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
So yeah, I might I.
Speaker 7 (24:05):
Might have to bring one of those up next time
I'm in town and you can actually, you know, show
me how to keep my weight back.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Yeah. Well, I was just going to think more so
on like just go ahead and wrap your thumb around
the bat. You were holding that thumb going up the bat.
I'm like, all right, that's maybe that's why you're on JV.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (24:24):
Well, you know, how was your tonight show appearance, Bucky?
Speaker 1 (24:27):
It was not near as.
Speaker 8 (24:28):
Good as yours not not very good at all. Yeah,
you know I've found my way anyway. Second show added
at the Neptune Theater. But you know you keep telling.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
Me how to do my job. No, I'm not telling you.
We both found our way.
Speaker 7 (24:45):
We both found our way. Uh.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
Do you have superstitions?
Speaker 1 (24:51):
We talked about this in the last segment, and I
have determined that I want to get to the Pearly
Gate someday and ask God just what does determine in
the outcome of sporting events? And I want him to
tell me. I weigh all the superstitions that fans show
during the game, and whoever has the most I get
that I let that team win. So that's where I'm
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at with it. Do you have any superstitions when you
watch games?
Speaker 6 (25:19):
I yes, and no.
Speaker 7 (25:22):
I don't know if I would call them full superstitions,
but there are.
Speaker 6 (25:25):
I do have viewing patterns. Oh, I said, I won't Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
See, he won't bring We're not going to talk about
him either, right, Yeah, you're not gonna You're gonna keep
those a secret because you can't ruin it.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
Yeah, I mean everybody kind of in my household knows
that there are just certain things that you do when
you don't do during certain parts of the game, and
when certain you know, when your team's batting versus the
other team's batting. You know, I will say one thing
that I've predict for I've brought I've I've picked up
from my dad, who was also a very stressful sport
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or watcher, is I'm very I'm very productive. Actually, I
like I I'll clean the house during games. I will
get a lot of work done. I will send like
I just it's I'm I'm moving quite a bit, especially
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in the in the early parts of the game, once
you get to kind of like the sixth and before.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
But I mean I'm.
Speaker 7 (26:26):
Watching and or listening the entire time. But you know,
when you can carry the game around of your phone,
I'm like, well, I might as well do the dishes
while I'm doing this. You know, my wife's like, wow,
the house has never looked better. I who knew I
needed the Mariners to be going to the playoffs?
Speaker 1 (26:41):
These these less you.
Speaker 7 (26:42):
Know, twenty years of marriage for you to you know,
tidy up a bit around here.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
I know when you're on the Tonight show, I just
kept my right leg crossed over my left leg just
to make sure that you wouldn't.
Speaker 7 (26:53):
Be Yeah, I know, I know, you know, in my
better moments of not being a nervous wreck, I look
at the I look when they show the dugout. I'm like,
you guys look pretty relaxed. This team really seems to
believe in itself. Maybe I should believe in them a
little more, you know, But that's not my nature of
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relationship as a fan, and that's okay.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
I'd have it no other way.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
All right, Well, why are you tonight to watch it?
I know you're going to be in Seattle on the
twenty fifth two shows, right.
Speaker 7 (27:25):
Yeah, yeah, I know, which is tragic.
Speaker 6 (27:29):
It's such a bit.
Speaker 7 (27:30):
It's you know, when it's a little I don't know how.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
I feel about it entirely. My brain.
Speaker 7 (27:38):
I've been a comedian for like fifteen years now, and
I've just not thought yet, nor have I ever had to. Hey,
I should think about my late October scheduling in the
Northwest in regards to potential World Series appearances, that my
brain hasn't ever had to go to that place.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
So yeah, right now, I.
Speaker 7 (27:59):
Do have two shows in Seattle on a day that
would be Game two of the World Series tally unfortunate.
Just when we booked this in December, my brain was
nowhere near that spot. But the late show was sold
out and we added a three thirty show. My I
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don't I don't know how any of that works. I
don't know what time games would be, and I don't
know if they allow transmit of tickets. It might work
out that that three thirty show if we have a
night game and up might be everyone's trying to switch
to that. I don't know how any of that works.
But this weekend I'll be in Kansas City and tonight
I'll be watching the game from home. So okay, so
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this this one I get to.
Speaker 6 (28:42):
I get to Uh, I don't know.
Speaker 7 (28:43):
I might. I might clean the floors today, who knows.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Yeah, we gotta get some dusting done. I've been putting
that off.
Speaker 6 (28:51):
All right, exactly.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Yeah, Well, thanks man, we appreciate it. Good luck tonight,
and we'll talk to you again soon.
Speaker 7 (28:59):
All right, thank you, good to talk to you.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
All right. Dustin Nickerson our friend at joining us right
here on Chuck and Buck in the morning. If you
want to follow him, follow him at Dustin Nickerson and yeah,
he'll be in town for all of those that maybe
you're just a Diard Sounders fan, and that's it, our
Diard Seahawks fan, and that's it. Go see a show
on October twenty fifth, while we could be playing in
the World Series. All Right, one last thing. Next Sports
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Radio ninety three point three kJ RFM. All Right, here
we go, getting ready for Game three of the American
League Championship Series, a chance to move one win closer
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to the World Series. George Kirbys, Shane Bieber Tonight, first pitch,
five o'clock. We got one last thing. We are running
a little bit late, so we kind of got a
zip through this. What do you got Buggy?
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Yesterday Brian Wu's blue press conference thing right where he says,
last box that needs to be checked is my name
being called. And I think it was Angie that actually
asked a question about what percentage would you say? So
she'd very nosy, uh, and she he says, I don't
know if i'd have a percentage. And this actually kind
of worried me, kind of led me down the path
(30:16):
where I haven't been. But I think you have been
of concerned about his first outing being the first time
he throws really and because he kind of said I
don't really have a percentage. I mean, at this point
in the year, nobody's one hundred percent. Everybody's kind of
feeling good, bad, whatever somewhere in between. That wasn't what
I wanted to hear. I wanted to I wanted to
hear one hundred percent or I wanted to hear like,
(30:37):
I'm as good as I could possibly be. I mean,
I've had two weeks off, But that little part of
the answer he still is ready to go and he's
gonna pitch. But it was just kind of one of
those like, eh so, now even more than before, won
a four game sweep, a little bit of time off boom,
start game one, if we have.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Another series, I thinks what I want, I'll take that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly, Ashley.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
What you want?
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Last thing, we've had a couple of people actually texting
and say, oh, I want to win tickets.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
How do I win tickets?
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Well, or somebody asked like, hey, can I just go
with you guys like I don't.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
We don't have tickets to the game.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Yeah, but we are as a station giving away tickets
paired up with venue Kings. It's on x so you
can go to our X account and there's a little
thing that you got to do.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
Follow along. You've got to quote retweet it.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
You got to go to the Venue Kings site and
check out game three of the next round and that
get in price.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
Anyway, you can follow the instructions on there.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
So if you do want to try to win tickets,
we are giving away a pair of tickets for tomorrow
night's game four.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
All right, yeah, make sure you go to the X account.
Don't go to the Triple X account, otherwise you might
see Softy writing a Brahma Bult.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
Naked and nobody wants to see that. Twice.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
I don't want to see that, so anyway, all right, So, yes,
you got opportunities to actually win tickets. And I've been
hearing a lot of Blue Jay fans walking around. It
sounds like down there by the old Ballyard. I mean,
they're going to be there, There's no getting around. They're
going to be there. I just hope it's not nearly
as dramatic of a percentage as we we get during
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the regular season, and I'm fairly confident with that. I'll
close with this.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
We talked about the gold Glove voting.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
This is the process, and I didn't even know what
I had to end up looking up. It's the manager
of every team in Major League Baseball votes for it,
and then he gets to assign it to six different
coaches on every single team, and you can't vote for
your own guy. That's seventy five percent of the vote
right there. So it's managers and coaches who are determining
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the finalists and the Gold Glove Award winners. And then
twenty five percent of it is pure analytics, pure advanced metrics.
What do the numbers say you are statistically, So it's
that combination that's who votes for the Gold Glove. If
you're wanting somebody to blame for cal Rawley not being a.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Finalist, yeah, I don't know. Then that gives me seventy
five five percent. Just still one hundred percent wrong.
Speaker 5 (33:04):
Hey, I do think of this one hundred percent wrong?
Speaker 4 (33:06):
I'm biased here. Yes, all right, we'll talk.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
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There's an accedent in Seattle, traveling WESTB nine ninety approaching
the Mount Baker Tunnel, and that's going to be blocking
the eighth
Game number three of the American League Championship Series, the
Mariners and the Blue Jays a chance to go up
three to zero and move that much closer to the
first ever World Series appearance and organization history. Dustin Nickerson's
going to join us a little bit later on this
hour at nine point thirty to discuss it. But we
got this big, fat segment here talk about all the
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things that we want to discuss about tonight's big game.
And of course the most important thing about the game
tonight is whether or not you're doing the right superstition
to get it over the threshold. Oh that's it.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Yeah, okay, yes, okay, is just one thing, multiple things.
We did get a texture saying he has been watching
Brash and Muno's pitch from the deck, watching through the window.
It's worked so far the game thumbs up said thanks,
thanks for your contribution.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
So every time that they take them ount he goes
outside on the deck rain or shine, yeah, watches through
the glass doors. Yes, and it works like a yeah, yep.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
You don't mess with that.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
I don't think, No, you don't.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
And there are certain superstitions I will say that aren't
a game to game. Sometimes it happens during the game,
you realize, Okay, this thing's working.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
I gotta keep this going through the game.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Like when we were at Game five, for instance, I
had my little rally towel. Well, I found that if
I wrapped it hard enough around my hand to the
point where I couldn't really feel my thumb, it was working.
Then that kind of stopped working after a while, so
then I had to wrap it my thumb. I could
feel my thumb a little bit, but then I had
to have my thumb on my chin and the towel
up on my nose.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
That's how we won the game.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
You're welcome, and you're passing this on to your daughter.
I didn't even know.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I was doing it. It is a sickness.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
There are other things that happen from a game to
game basis.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Those things can't be talked about.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Oh oh jeez, well because you can't ruin it.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Oh, I see, like.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
If I talk about what I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Okay, I'm glad you clarified that.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Right, right, because right, yes, yes, yeah, yeah, it's notuffing dirty.
It's just there's certain things that I have found that
are working right now, and if I talk about them, oh,
I don't want them.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
To stop working and then we lose and then it's
our fault.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
How do you know which ones of these super duperstitions
that you have are okay to talk about and which
ones aren't?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Well, because the one like in game is fine because
that was that game that only worked for that game,
So I'm not it doesn't work again.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Sometimes it's like the way you sit during the game.
Like again.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
For example, go back to nineteen ninety five, Mariners are
playing the Yankees. I'm sitting on the couch with my
hand bent like in front of me. I didn't realize
I was doing it till I went to move my
hand and my wrist hurt. Well when I did that,
the Yankees scored a run hand back to bent Mariners
win the game, and I sacrificed my own comfort and
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pain for the Mariners to win.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
And maybe long term ramifications to your wrist is right.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Oh, thank goodness, I ended up.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Could be end up arthritic. I mean, you're okay.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Now, I am, but maybe ten years from now, the
doctor's like, was there ever a time where you put
a lot of torque yep over a long period of
time on your wrist unnecessarily hours.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Yeah, four hours back in nineteen ninety five, Doc.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Well, your wrist is never going to work the same again.
It was worth one though.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
It was worth it. The double lives on.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
You know, our old colleague Jim Moore keeps posting videos
of like his wife won't set She just marches back
and forth during the game and she thinks if she
sits down, she'll ruin the mojo.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Yeah, my mom won't watch the games because when she watches,
she doesn't think we're doing well. I went to her
house the other day, though, I will say this. I
went to her house with a three nothing lead.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
And what happened when I got to her house and
she sat down to watch it with me, they tied
the game up. So she might be onto something.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
I want this to happen, I really do. I want
to get to the Pearly Gates, and I think I'll
get through barely, okay.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Narrowly, I'll get through that.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
You think that, yeah, And I don't know if this happens,
but in my mind, you get a chance to sit
down with like one of the archangels, and then you
get to just like ask them questions, like all the
questions that you have, and then they tell you. They
make sure that you're prepared to handle the truth. But
at that point my thoughts are all angelic, so I
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wouldn't get angry at anything. And one of the questions
I'm going to ask is do superstitions have anything to
do with the outcomes of sporting events? And I want
the answer to be yes.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Yeah, me too, because how it was, I'm going to
feel like a really big idiot.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I want the answer to be yes. God takes all
of the superstitions into play, and then he has this,
you know.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Like only he can do.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
He can take all the math of all the different
weird superstitions, and whoever is the most superstitious and sticks
with their superstitions the most loyally wins the game.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Okay, I think that's fair. I think i'd be I
have probably contributed to a lot of wins.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Then I want to find that that's a I want
to ask that question, and then I want the answer
to be, to my surprise, yes it has everything to
do with it.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
If I'm if I'm right behind you in line and
I hear that I'm going to be very distant.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
You're going to go to hell. That's it. I'm going
to hell.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Yeah, I don't want to be here.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
I will say this. First of all, we did get
a text.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
The first rule of in game Superstition Club is don't
talk about in game Superstition Club.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
See you can't talk about it while it's happening, but
you can talk about it when it's over.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
So that's why if there's one for a specific game,
yeah chat it up because that one's that one's out
the door. But right now, yeah, you got to keep
the other, those other ones on the down low.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
So there are even superstitions to your superstitions.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Oh yes, okay, all right, I.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Mean I'll do it a little bit like when we
were watching game five.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Well you won't let anybody talk about like predict victories.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
You've got a little bit of a little more than
you think.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yeah, well that just makes sense. Like when I hear
the Ian Parnessa's promo sayings in the team, I don't
think he's Jesus's just like, why would you say that
we're up to here? There's no way they're coming back
and winning for It's like.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
What do you say?
Speaker 7 (06:14):
You know?
Speaker 4 (06:15):
I was like, oh my god, that made me there's
no way.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Certainly is a way.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
There, because you just don't if it's premature, it's just premature.
I feel very good about where we're at right now.
I'm not gonna sit here and say it's over. It
doesn't make any sense, I know. But those game to
be played.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
That's just his take, Like I don't think they match
up with us with this thing's over. We're gonna we're
gonna win. But it's it's not like it's going like
Julio's sitting there saying, hey, everybody Ian says that where
it's over, relaxed, we got it.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Well, of course they're not saying it, well.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yeah, you're just superstitious. You're superstitious as actually.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Is no, no, no, I just simply worst thing you
could say that. I can't say. I can't take myself
out of the position of if I was still in
the locker room, like there's just no way I would
say that.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
We would say that, Yeah, it's not in the locker room.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
He's got a red hot talk show and he's got
a hot take.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Yeah I will.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
I will say it's funny. I do sometimes try to
talk myself out of it. I'm I'll be getting ready
in the morning.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Okay, nothing I do today is going to determine whether
or not the Mariners win. I'll tell myself this, and
then I'm like, but I'm just gonna stick with these
certain things just in case. But I know that it
has nothing to do but just in case. And it
might also just be in my house.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Because when the Maritors played the Blue Jays in the
what three years ago in the playoffs, we were losing miserably.
Our friend went into the bathroom. We started winning. When
he came out, we weren't.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Doing as well.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
We made him watch, well, listen to the last like
inning and a half. He had to be in the
bathroom and we had it. He had to just listen.
So you can thank Seth for that win.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
Go Seth.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Yeah, he's in Malaysia right now, so he's watching from
the bathroom tonight.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Well, they don't even have bathrooms there, I don't think,
probably not. He's going to the series. Yeah, yeah, bathroom.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
It's sorry. He's been in Malaysia this whole time now,
so it's all right.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Hey Malaysians, I have to find.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
A bathroom, have to find a bathroom.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
We're in the seven.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Oh see, we got this one.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Ted, myself and four buddies were in Horn Lake, Mississippi,
last weekend watching from the BWW. At middle of the
fifteenth I said, rotate seats A minute later, game.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Over, Thanks Ted. Yep, without your job, Ted, we would
not have won. That says just the bottom line.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
And that's the thing is you have the whole fan base.
It's the combined fan base.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
How did you all superstish together.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
In comparison to the Tigers right and their fans?
Speaker 4 (08:52):
And we clearly wanted it.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Yeah, And so God was like, yes, the Mariner shall win,
Polongko shall come through.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Yeah, because look at all the He's idiots.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
It was even for six innings, but then in the
fifteenth the Mariners superstitions took the lead and Polonko I
ordained it to come through.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
See that's the way it works. Chuck gets it.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Yeah, I do now.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
I miss it now.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
And you know what, one day I'll tell you guys this.
You're gonna really look forward to this. One day. I
will fill you in on the twenty twenty five superstitions.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Okay, you gotta wait for that. Remind me, remind me
that we will do it.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Intervention right after it.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
It will never go.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Will you wear this jacket that you can't get your
arms out of? We're going to just slip that on
real fast.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Yeah, and put.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
You' like what kind of jacket kit?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Really cool buckles on it.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
You'll love it, and we're kind of be dazzled in
the back.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
I fired would have put me in one of those
a long time ago as an option.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Decorate your studio in there with all rubber and soft.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
We'll just pretend it's going to be warmer.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Yeah, exactly, just give into a don't you well, look,
I feel really good about the team. I felt good
about this matchup coming into the series.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
I realized that mostly national people, but a lot of
local people as well, are surprised at this two and
oh start. I'm not so much. I also don't think
it's over, and we've got a lot of work left
to do. But I like the matchup, and I and
I you know, obviously love being up to Oh. I
just think we're the better team. I really do, and
(10:37):
so to me, that's what carries the day. Now we
get to add to this, because there was no denying
that we were certainly in a different situation than what
Toronto was because we went to five full games. I mean,
we both had first round byes, but they had the
tidy opportunity to start their best pitcher in game number one,
(10:58):
their hottest pitcher, and game number on to and really
go with what is their ideal rotation. It's been anything
but ideal for us to this stage. So going to
and oh on the road when you're still trying to
like patchwork things together until you can get back to
where the Blue Jays were at the start of the season,
(11:18):
and now we're here. Now we don't have that as
an excuse to use. For sure, it's not going to
be a narrative anymore. Kirby's going to be pitching on
full rest today, Castillo's going to be on full rest
and then some tomorrow, and Brian wu is coming back.
So yeah, I'm not gonna sit here and do any
he and forness, reckless guarantee victory kind of things. But
(11:41):
I'm feeling really damn good about where we are right now.
But then again, I felt good about where we were
before the series even started.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Mm hmm, yeah, well, I mean I felt good. I
still feel good. I feel slightly better than I did
before they won the first two games. But it none
of the stuff. I mean, I guess when I think
about matchups, I just think about this. Yeah, it looks
good where we're at. Like, if you just tell me
right now, just on paper, George Kirby or Shane Bieber,
(12:10):
which one would you like starting for your team? Well,
I'll take George Kirby. George still has to go out
pitch him. George still has to go out pitch that lineup,
and our lineup has to make it to where Seane
Bieber doesn't out pitch us pitch our side. To me,
it's the all of the Once you get down to
the final four teams, they're all capable of winning a
(12:30):
World Series. They all have enough talent offensively and pitching
that if they show up and they do what they're
capable of doing, they can win on any given night.
And if you can do that four out of seven
times twice, boom, next thing, you know, you're the champ.
So to me, it's just go play. I feel good.
I feel slightly better. I mean, but it's one of
those I don't get a whole heck of a lot
out of one individual win. Now you get two, and
(12:52):
it doubles obviously, but it still is one of those
we're only halfway to where we need to get and
you can end up losing one and I I will
feel less, I will take away some of my confidence
just one loss. Right where you can just go out
there today, kick a ball when you shouldn't have, or
or not play situational baseball when you need to, or
they do a really good job of something. Maybe it's
(13:14):
George Kirby throws really good pitches and vlad goes I
can hit that one up there, I can hit this
one off the bounce or whatever it is. It just is.
That's the beauty of the game, is how temperamental it is,
how how many little things can change the course of
momentum and shifts this way and that way over the
course of a game. And I love it. And at
the same time that's the part that makes me nervous
(13:36):
sitting and watching.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Yeah, I definitely feel good.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
And I think Ian did put out something I think
on X yesterday that was like I feel eerily calm
or some yeah, And I think that's how I felt
yesterday because there was no game yesterday, But on every
game day, I'm like I wake up, and I'm like anxious,
but not in a fearful way, just in an exciting,
excited way.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
So I'm feeling very good about where we're at right now.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
But you're still going to do all of you I'm
still doing.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Oh, I'm not screwing it. I'm not going to screw
this team over.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Because it all comes down to that exactly.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Right, well, and also how they play on the field.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Right right, right, but mostly.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
Matter.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I don't think. I don't, I don't want. I'm not
going to go as far as he in and like
I've booked or flight the LA. But I feel really good. Yeah,
and I and I felt good before the series starts,
so I clearly feel better now. Uh and uh.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
And I just don't want to provide the analysis of well, whoever.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Scores the most runs is going to win. I think
we should score the most runs in this series and
tonight and I think that we will get this thing done.
But yeah, you do have to go execute, and you
do have to you do have to play ball. And
I guarantee none of them are taking it for granted,
They're none of them feeling that way. I think they're
just as focused now as they've been at any point
(14:54):
during the course of the season. To win tonight's game
and to move to three and zero. I think they're
in a really good head space. I feel like they've
been that way for a long long time.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Oh yeah, they have. They're all rolling in the same direction.
That's one thing that you can't always say about a team,
even when it gets to the playoffs. And then I
think that they are carrying the gravity, which isn't It's
getting lighter the further they go, the more they advance.
You know, you win the division, that gives you an
extra that weight off your shoulders. You get past that
(15:23):
first round. Now all of a sudden, you're like, hey,
we're up to zip in this bad boy. Let's just
go ball. Let's go have some fun out there and
see what's up. I think that this team is carrying
the history, but not as a weight. They're carrying it
almost as like a badge of honor, Like that's right,
We're going to be the team that breaks the never
getting there type of a thing. And yet they just
got to go out and prove it.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
I bet you Dustin Nickerson has all sorts of superstitions,
doesn't he seem like the top.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Yeah for sure.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Yeah, our friend Dustin Nickerson, Seattle comedian, a big up
and comer on the national scene. I hear he's been
living and dying with every single pitch during these plays
and he's been a routine guest of ours throughout this
second half of the season. So we're excited to check
in with him next Sports Radio ninety three point three
kJ RFM. He's also a funny, stand up comedian type,
(16:13):
and like you, he's been living and dying with every
pitch of the American League playoffs. With your Seattle Mariners
joining us again is Dustin Nickerson. Good morning, sir, How
are you feeling.
Speaker 6 (16:25):
Good?
Speaker 7 (16:26):
I would I would certainly call Ashley a friend.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
This group, you know success, that's cool.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
So Bucky and I will be stranded.
Speaker 7 (16:35):
Well, I mean, she's the only way that will talk
to me when we're not on air. I get texts
from her. She responds to me on Twitter. You know
it's uh, you know you guys. I would call some
of my preferred social acquaintances. I think we've reached that level.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
I've replied to you on Twitter. I think Chuck has
as well.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
I could pick that up. I could pick you know,
just you're just a big, select pretty type. It's like
the time you met Clooney, you know, and he didn't
know if are we friends or not? You know that
sort of thing.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
Yeah, fair enough, fair enough dancer.
Speaker 7 (17:11):
To answer your question, I'm feeling I'm feeling good, bad, miserable.
I don't know all of all of the above all
the time.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
You're up two?
Speaker 7 (17:23):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Not really?
Speaker 1 (17:25):
No, No, I mean I feel I.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
Listen, I've been playing a game in my head called.
Speaker 8 (17:36):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (17:36):
If I were objective, this is This has been a
very helpful exercise for me. Like if I were objective
about the Seattle Mariners in Seattle sports in general, I'd
be like, this team is about to break every curse
that Seattle sports has ever ever had, all of them
in one season, the fifteen inning game up.
Speaker 6 (17:58):
To on the road.
Speaker 7 (18:00):
The vibes are immaculate, Our mascots are winning races they've
never won before. You know, Geno and a Rose Raina
still haven't even done anything really of a huge significance,
and they're still winning games. If I were objective in
my lasting images of being a Seattle sports fan, when
(18:22):
I close my eyes, aren't Joey Korra crying and kembe
Mtumble laughing. If those weren't the things I saw when
I closed my eyes as Seattle sports fan, then I'd
be like, yeah, yeah, this is this team's doing great.
So I'm all of the above all the time. But yeah,
I mean feeling as good as I can right now.
Consider I have forty years of trauma, that's good.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
So it's just being therapeutic because there are moments that
you allow yourself to feel like more good, Like you
don't feel like, no, too dangerous, it's gonna hurt too
much if I let myself go there.
Speaker 7 (18:57):
I'm I mean, Chuck, you said it. I mean I'm
living and dying on every pitch. So every great moment
I am celebrating as a high of level as you can.
But I just you know, baseball was not Baseball was
not meant to watch every pitch. It is not a
(19:18):
sport that you can sustain where you watch every pit
It's meant to be watched passively. You know, you can't
be I can't sustain this. You can't be sweating a
walk in the first inning. You just can't do that
for three hours. You can't see like a low and
outside ball to call and be like this ref needs
(19:39):
to get or needs to get fired.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
This is like you just can't it, you know.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
So the answer is to there are moments that I
feel as good as I've ever felt as a Mariners fan,
and and and just at any given point based on
the next result, not even the next hit or inning,
the next pitch.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
It's the lowest low I've.
Speaker 7 (20:01):
Ever felt as a Marritors fan as well.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
So I'm living and dying and all of it.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Baby, Dustin Nickerson with us here on Chuck and Buck
in the morning, Seattle comedian, and he's been become a
friend of the show. We can at least go that far,
all right, So take me through the Friday Night because
I'm I don't fan the way you and Ashley fan,
and yet through fifteen innings of that, I was exhausted
(20:28):
at the end of the night. So based on the
description you just gave of what kind of fan you are,
plus you are on stage that night and couldn't even
get updates except periodically, what was Friday Night like for
Dustin Nickerson?
Speaker 7 (20:44):
Friday was Friday was a gift because I got to
be on stage. Okay, truly like you know, ends up
my You know, the fans that I have in San
Francisco do.
Speaker 6 (20:58):
Not care about the Mariners game. Stunning, I know, I when.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
They're not checking their phones for updates, and so neither
should I. I need to be a consummate professional up there.
But we got on I got on stage, Reebus had
just tied the game, and so it was like the eighth, seventh, eighth,
and I figured it.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
I knew this based on.
Speaker 7 (21:22):
Show times that it was most likely going to end
while I was on stage. So I said, nobody tell
me now, but someone tell me the result when I
walk into.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
The green room. And so I walk into the green
room right after the show before we.
Speaker 7 (21:34):
Go doing the meet and greet, and the door guy
tells me it's tied. I'm like, it's tied. And then
I'm thinking, well, this is great. I can watch the
end of this between shows. Surely there's no way this
will still be going when I have to get on
stage for the nine thirty show.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
And sure enough, somehow, on.
Speaker 7 (21:56):
What I think it's the bottom of the or the
top of the thirteenth, I'm going on stage again. And frankly,
I think my heart was like my actual beating heart
was thankful for the breaks, because performing for two hundred
rowdy drunks in downtown San Francisco, as I make fun
of the forty nine ers, was less stressful than watching
(22:18):
that game. Give me rowdy drunks all day long over
watching yet another double play get knocked into in the
bottom of the extra and how.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Many of these things giving it into give me rowdy
drunks and Kyle Shanahan rat faced jokes any day compared
to the yeah.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
Yeah, yeah. They were on board with them.
Speaker 7 (22:40):
They I was, I just got out of a walking
boot and I told them, you know, I know it's
weird for a Seahawks fan to be wearing you know,
forty nine or paraphernalia, and by that.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
I mean a walking boot, and they enjoyed that there
was some kind of good little things in there.
Speaker 7 (22:59):
And then you know, so anyway, there's always a few
sports jokes in every town I go, but ends up,
for the most part, most people don't care. They're like,
just complain about having teenage daughters.
Speaker 6 (23:09):
That's really the bulk of my act.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Anyways, what's the deal. By the way, you just getting
all kinds of uh swag sent to you right, bats
and gear, and I mean, what's going on? What's what's
your next bag of goodie is going to be? Yes,
that's a great question.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
I don't know. This is new to me, the sending
free stuff I did.
Speaker 7 (23:34):
That's right, you did, But you did respond that you
could teach me how to actually use these bats that
Victor Sports or Victor's Victis Sports.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
I forgot the name.
Speaker 7 (23:43):
Oh my god, they said Victory Victis uh as I said,
I held that bat, and I was remembering my glory
years down at Catur High School in Seduary, Washington on
the JV team, thinking, yeah, this looks like.
Speaker 6 (23:56):
A at best.
Speaker 7 (23:58):
At best's a week rounder to second, you know, if
I make contact in the first place.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
So yeah, I might I.
Speaker 7 (24:05):
Might have to bring one of those up next time
I'm in town and you can actually, you know, show
me how to keep my weight back.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Yeah. Well, I was just going to think more so
on like just go ahead and wrap your thumb around
the bat. You were holding that thumb going up the bat.
I'm like, all right, that's maybe that's why you're on JV.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (24:24):
Well, you know, how was your tonight show appearance, Bucky?
Speaker 1 (24:27):
It was not near as.
Speaker 8 (24:28):
Good as yours not not very good at all. Yeah,
you know I've found my way anyway. Second show added
at the Neptune Theater. But you know you keep telling.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
Me how to do my job. No, I'm not telling you.
We both found our way.
Speaker 7 (24:45):
We both found our way. Uh.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
Do you have superstitions?
Speaker 1 (24:51):
We talked about this in the last segment, and I
have determined that I want to get to the Pearly
Gate someday and ask God just what does determine in
the outcome of sporting events? And I want him to
tell me. I weigh all the superstitions that fans show
during the game, and whoever has the most I get
that I let that team win. So that's where I'm
(25:13):
at with it. Do you have any superstitions when you
watch games?
Speaker 6 (25:19):
I yes, and no.
Speaker 7 (25:22):
I don't know if I would call them full superstitions,
but there are.
Speaker 6 (25:25):
I do have viewing patterns. Oh, I said, I won't Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
See, he won't bring We're not going to talk about
him either, right, Yeah, you're not gonna You're gonna keep
those a secret because you can't ruin it.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
Yeah, I mean everybody kind of in my household knows
that there are just certain things that you do when
you don't do during certain parts of the game, and
when certain you know, when your team's batting versus the
other team's batting. You know, I will say one thing
that I've predict for I've brought I've I've picked up
from my dad, who was also a very stressful sport
(26:00):
or watcher, is I'm very I'm very productive. Actually, I
like I I'll clean the house during games. I will
get a lot of work done. I will send like
I just it's I'm I'm moving quite a bit, especially
(26:21):
in the in the early parts of the game, once
you get to kind of like the sixth and before.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
But I mean I'm.
Speaker 7 (26:26):
Watching and or listening the entire time. But you know,
when you can carry the game around of your phone,
I'm like, well, I might as well do the dishes
while I'm doing this. You know, my wife's like, wow,
the house has never looked better. I who knew I
needed the Mariners to be going to the playoffs?
Speaker 1 (26:41):
These these less you.
Speaker 7 (26:42):
Know, twenty years of marriage for you to you know,
tidy up a bit around here.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
I know when you're on the Tonight show, I just
kept my right leg crossed over my left leg just
to make sure that you wouldn't.
Speaker 7 (26:53):
Be Yeah, I know, I know, you know, in my
better moments of not being a nervous wreck, I look
at the I look when they show the dugout. I'm like,
you guys look pretty relaxed. This team really seems to
believe in itself. Maybe I should believe in them a
little more, you know, But that's not my nature of
(27:14):
relationship as a fan, and that's okay.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
I'd have it no other way.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
All right, Well, why are you tonight to watch it?
I know you're going to be in Seattle on the
twenty fifth two shows, right.
Speaker 7 (27:25):
Yeah, yeah, I know, which is tragic.
Speaker 6 (27:29):
It's such a bit.
Speaker 7 (27:30):
It's you know, when it's a little I don't know how.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
I feel about it entirely. My brain.
Speaker 7 (27:38):
I've been a comedian for like fifteen years now, and
I've just not thought yet, nor have I ever had to. Hey,
I should think about my late October scheduling in the
Northwest in regards to potential World Series appearances, that my
brain hasn't ever had to go to that place.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
So yeah, right now, I.
Speaker 7 (27:59):
Do have two shows in Seattle on a day that
would be Game two of the World Series tally unfortunate.
Just when we booked this in December, my brain was
nowhere near that spot. But the late show was sold
out and we added a three thirty show. My I
(28:20):
don't I don't know how any of that works. I
don't know what time games would be, and I don't
know if they allow transmit of tickets. It might work
out that that three thirty show if we have a
night game and up might be everyone's trying to switch
to that. I don't know how any of that works.
But this weekend I'll be in Kansas City and tonight
I'll be watching the game from home. So okay, so
(28:41):
this this one I get to.
Speaker 6 (28:42):
I get to Uh, I don't know.
Speaker 7 (28:43):
I might. I might clean the floors today, who knows.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Yeah, we gotta get some dusting done. I've been putting
that off.
Speaker 6 (28:51):
All right, exactly.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Yeah, Well, thanks man, we appreciate it. Good luck tonight,
and we'll talk to you again soon.
Speaker 7 (28:59):
All right, thank you, good to talk to you.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
All right. Dustin Nickerson our friend at joining us right
here on Chuck and Buck in the morning. If you
want to follow him, follow him at Dustin Nickerson and yeah,
he'll be in town for all of those that maybe
you're just a Diard Sounders fan, and that's it, our
Diard Seahawks fan, and that's it. Go see a show
on October twenty fifth, while we could be playing in
the World Series. All Right, one last thing. Next Sports
(29:22):
Radio ninety three point three kJ RFM. All Right, here
we go, getting ready for Game three of the American
League Championship Series, a chance to move one win closer
(29:42):
to the World Series. George Kirbys, Shane Bieber Tonight, first pitch,
five o'clock. We got one last thing. We are running
a little bit late, so we kind of got a
zip through this. What do you got Buggy?
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Yesterday Brian Wu's blue press conference thing right where he says,
last box that needs to be checked is my name
being called. And I think it was Angie that actually
asked a question about what percentage would you say? So
she'd very nosy, uh, and she he says, I don't
know if i'd have a percentage. And this actually kind
of worried me, kind of led me down the path
(30:16):
where I haven't been. But I think you have been
of concerned about his first outing being the first time
he throws really and because he kind of said I
don't really have a percentage. I mean, at this point
in the year, nobody's one hundred percent. Everybody's kind of
feeling good, bad, whatever somewhere in between. That wasn't what
I wanted to hear. I wanted to I wanted to
hear one hundred percent or I wanted to hear like,
(30:37):
I'm as good as I could possibly be. I mean,
I've had two weeks off, But that little part of
the answer he still is ready to go and he's
gonna pitch. But it was just kind of one of
those like, eh so, now even more than before, won
a four game sweep, a little bit of time off boom,
start game one, if we have.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Another series, I thinks what I want, I'll take that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly, Ashley.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
What you want?
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Last thing, we've had a couple of people actually texting
and say, oh, I want to win tickets.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
How do I win tickets?
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Well, or somebody asked like, hey, can I just go
with you guys like I don't.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
We don't have tickets to the game.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Yeah, but we are as a station giving away tickets
paired up with venue Kings. It's on x so you
can go to our X account and there's a little
thing that you got to do.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
Follow along. You've got to quote retweet it.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
You got to go to the Venue Kings site and
check out game three of the next round and that
get in price.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
Anyway, you can follow the instructions on there.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
So if you do want to try to win tickets,
we are giving away a pair of tickets for tomorrow
night's game four.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
All right, yeah, make sure you go to the X account.
Don't go to the Triple X account, otherwise you might
see Softy writing a Brahma Bult.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
Naked and nobody wants to see that. Twice.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
I don't want to see that, so anyway, all right, So, yes,
you got opportunities to actually win tickets. And I've been
hearing a lot of Blue Jay fans walking around. It
sounds like down there by the old Ballyard. I mean,
they're going to be there, There's no getting around. They're
going to be there. I just hope it's not nearly
as dramatic of a percentage as we we get during
(32:10):
the regular season, and I'm fairly confident with that. I'll
close with this.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
We talked about the gold Glove voting.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
This is the process, and I didn't even know what
I had to end up looking up. It's the manager
of every team in Major League Baseball votes for it,
and then he gets to assign it to six different
coaches on every single team, and you can't vote for
your own guy. That's seventy five percent of the vote
right there. So it's managers and coaches who are determining
(32:38):
the finalists and the Gold Glove Award winners. And then
twenty five percent of it is pure analytics, pure advanced metrics.
What do the numbers say you are statistically, So it's
that combination that's who votes for the Gold Glove. If
you're wanting somebody to blame for cal Rawley not being a.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Finalist, yeah, I don't know. Then that gives me seventy
five five percent. Just still one hundred percent wrong.
Speaker 5 (33:04):
Hey, I do think of this one hundred percent wrong?
Speaker 4 (33:06):
I'm biased here. Yes, all right, we'll talk.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
To you tomorrow at six am. Coming up next, it's
Kid and it's MJ Sports Radio ninety three point three
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Speaker 2 (33:15):
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Speaker 1 (33:22):
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It’s 1996 in rural North Carolina, and an oddball crew makes history when they pull off America’s third largest cash heist. But it’s all downhill from there. Join host Johnny Knoxville as he unspools a wild and woolly tale about a group of regular ‘ol folks who risked it all for a chance at a better life. CrimeLess: Hillbilly Heist answers the question: what would you do with 17.3 million dollars? The answer includes diamond rings, mansions, velvet Elvis paintings, plus a run for the border, murder-for-hire-plots, and FBI busts.
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
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