October 17, 2025 • 37 mins
One thing is for certain; the fans have shown up the past two nights, but the Mariners have not. When we lost on Wednesday, we were ok, but last night’s loss left a terrible taste in our mouths. Yuck. Bryce Miller gets the start tonight, can the team pull it together before they head back to Canada? :30- Mariners Morning After The Mariners let Scherzer off the hook early and the Blue Jays took advantage of the Mariners pitchers yet again. It was just a bad game… a very bad game. :45- ICYMI: Rick Neuheisel Neuheisel joins us every Tuesday and we got his thoughts on UW’s trip to Ann Arbor.
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And yeah, it's a football Friday, but it's also kind
of a baseball Friday. You gotta admit it. Football, Come on, football,
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Speaker 4 (01:15):
A baseball Friday. To give it up. I'm on football.
We love you football.
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There's that smiley football.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Not today you are.
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We love you football.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
But yeah, you know there's room for baseball love here
on Fridays too.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
And frankly, you've been a.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Little selfish over the years.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Yeah I've been told that. Yeah, oh yeah, Bucky just
took on the rule here.
Speaker 6 (01:44):
Just immediately character role, Yeah, immediately He's like, yeah, you're right, guys,
I'm not buying.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
It for myself. I don't think it's genuine. I don't
think it's a good No, it's not a good performance.
I'm not buying it. I don't Yeah, I don't think
that you really want to be football. I don't want
to football. I care less about football right now.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
You just want to be baseball, don't you there.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
I'm here. You got months after this, you were just
our month, you were just a wolf in.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
We still love you football, but certainly we are a
little fixated these days on the Major League Baseball playoffs,
and so we'll.
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Try to balance the two for you as best we can.
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who really can't pull off the role of football now,
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till Booze News.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
So we got you covered on Chuck and Buck in
the morning.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
So we will start with baseball today, and certainly we've
not exactly seen our local baseball team. Light it up here.
The last couple of days, fans have shown up. Man,
what a stadium, What an atmosphere. What a dominant performance
by the fans here the last couple of days, even
last night, after watching the drubbing in Game number three,
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to show up and then just kind of hang in
there like you, Oh, we're just gonna hold on again.
An excellent performance by the Mariner fan base last night
out at T Mobile, but once again a lopsided affair
last night, an eight to two loss to the Toronto
Blue Jays that evens the series at two games a piece.
It assures the series of going back to Toronto for
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at least a game number six, and it really does
put major emphasis on Game number five. I'm not gonna
say must win because we've seen because Major League Baseball
playoffs are weird and home field advantage clearly doesn't mean
anything in this sport, and it probably should, but it
just doesn't seem to. And so even if you lose today,
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god forbid, you still don't put dirt on this thing
because it can clearly turn on a dime. I mean,
look how dire it looked for Toronto and Blue Jays.
Fans coming to Seattle having lost two games in a row,
and Goten pummeled themselves in game number two, and then
they turned it around, and no time flat, the same
thing could happen today. We could turn things around in
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game number five. And so I guess I'll just start
by saying that that you know, you win game number
five today.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
I mean, we're going to get to some criticism, don't
you worry. But just to keep everything.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
In perspective, you go out there three o'clock today and
you win game number five, and you just completely seize
control of the series again. I don't care if you're
going to Toronto for game six and seven. If you
only have to win one of those two games in
a place where you had no difficulty winning just a
few days ago, I mean, then you've got control of
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the series again, no matter how badly you might have
played the last couple of days. And so Game five
suddenly feels like the most important thing in the world
right now, It is the most important thing.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
In the world. Agreed.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
So glad you've stopped acting like football.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Yeah, that's true. Like game five, who cares football would be? Like,
maybe I'll watch it, Maybe I won't. Maybe i't record it,
watch it.
Speaker 7 (05:31):
Yeah, yeah, I I mean I on my way home
last night at eleven o'clock, I was thinking to myself,
if you had told me before the series started that
we would be two and two going into Game five
at home, would I be happy with it? I wouldn't
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say that I would be unhappy. I mean, it could
just be so much worse now. Obviously it's on the
heels of winning to at their place and feeling like
you had this thing in control. But I guess it's
I wasn't overly optimistic after two being up to zero
just because I think that's a good team. I think
it's a dangerous offense. I think that we have good pitching,
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and usually good pitching beats good hitting, but you have
to execute, and if you don't execute one thing, it's
a The recipe that the Toronto Blue Jays bring in
is we don't we put the ball in play, and
so if what that means is they spoil good pitches
and then if you make mistakes, they square them up.
And that's exactly what we've watched the last couple nights.
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It doesn't matter who we're putting out there, if they
don't execute the way they're capable of. I think if
they do execute the way they're capable of. We saw
it in the first two games. You can not shut
this offense down, but you can keep them at bay,
and then our offense doesn't have to go out and
try to score fourteen runs to win a ball game,
or or you know, like yesterday's case, it would have
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taken nine runs. You don't have to do that if
our pitching staff executes the way they're capable. But if
you don't, it's a bad recipe. It's gonna taste bad.
And I walked out of that ballpark yesterday with a
bad taste in my mouth for sure.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Yeah it was.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
It was.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
That.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
And that's the thing.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Like I walked out Game three, drove home Game three
after the postgame show. That didn't bother me at all.
I don't even think it bothered the fans that came
over to Jimmy's. I don't even think Toronto was celebrating
because no Blue Jay fans came over to Jimmy's.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
They came over last night, Yeah they did.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Yeah, you know, they were feeling themselves last night, no
question about it. But after that Game three I mean,
I don't. I think, I just I mean, I just
chalked that up to George Kirby in the third inning,
left too many pitches over the plate and the Blue
Jays hammered it. So on one hand, I think the
Blue Jays took the game, and also George Kirby, I
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think after the game sort of admitted Nuttan's on me,
and so that didn't necessarily bother me. Last night, Bob,
last night, to me was one of the worst games
they've played in a long time. And I don't want
to be a prisoner of the moment and say all season,
because I'm sure it wasn't probably wasn't even the top ten.
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But that, to me was just a lousy performance by
the entire team, with a couple of exceptions, at the
worst time in the world, at the last possible time
that you wanted to see your team show up and
play that poorly.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Forget that it's just the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
But you know it's Game four, not trying to allow
Toronto to seize true momentum, if that even exists in
baseball in this series.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
But all of it. I hated the base running.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
I mean, two inexcusable base running mistakes, first by Leo
Revas getting picked off of second down two with cal
Raley at the plate.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
What in the world you know, I.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Mean, grab your ears and pull and maybe you can
yank that head of yours out of where it's stuck.
And then Josh Naylor, who played the best of all
Mariners last night, and yet you can't get thrown out
at third down three with less than two outs, or
excuse me, with two outs. That's again inexcusable. There's no
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excuse for that. Forgivable, but inexcusable.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
The hitting. I thought you let Max Schurzer just dictate
euro at bats.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Yeah, you made him look amazing.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
I mean, I thought the problem with Max Scherzer at
this stage in his career is he didn't realize that
he's a retired old bull that all he's supposed to
be doing is grazing in the meadow.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
He's not supposed to be out there, you know, you know,
starting fights, you know, having making love the cows. You know,
he's just supposed to be out there chewing grass and
just enjoying, like the last few years before before it's
all and he went out there and he was just
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the he was just shrewd. He just started out by
like I'm gonna try to get you to fish.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
And then once we fell behind, it worked like a charm,
work like a charm. So I didn't like the approach.
You know, there's approach, there's the approach word with Bucky.
I didn't like the afpats. I didn't like the offense.
I didn't like Luis Castillo last night. I didn't like.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Gabe Spyer coming in and walking a guy. I didn't
like the cal Rowley. Can't suddenly block a wild pitch?
You're calling for a slider in the dirt, cow, You've
got to block these. I mean, you're the best at this.
Why suddenly can you not block a pitch in the
dirt with a runner at third base? I mean, every
single thing is important. I didn't like anything about that
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performance last night. And it wasn't effort Bucky, and it
wasn't that they didn't want it or anything like that.
They just weren't sharp. They were just bad, lousy, and
it happened at a horrible time.
Speaker 7 (11:01):
Yeah yeah, I mean, thank god you had won two
at their place, because you came home and so far
have not even come close to playing the type of
baseball that got you to the place that you're sitting
at right now, And I was last night.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
The last couple of nights, I've had a.
Speaker 7 (11:16):
Hard time going to sleep, even though I'm exhausted by
the time I get home and getting bed at midnight,
and I'm sitting there, and what kept coming over my
head is basically watching this team all year.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
And I haven't watched every Toronto Blue Jays.
Speaker 7 (11:29):
Game, but you know, there's a reason why they won
a handful more games in the regular season. There's a
reason why they ended up kind of pulling away and
at the very end and winning a tough division that
they were in. Is I think that their consistency is
more than the Mariners. It really boils down to every
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team in the big leagues is pretty good. I mean
they all have they every team has some good players.
There's some teams that are closer to great teams or
great rosters, and I think that those are the ones
that you have left in the playoffs at this point.
But it really, even if you take it down to
the final four teams, the teams that end up advancing
the World Series and the teams that end up winning
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it are the teams that do the little things consistently.
And I think that we talk about floors and ceilings.
I think that the Mariners have a much higher ceiling
than the Toronto Blue Jays, and I.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Know for a fact they have a lower floor.
Speaker 7 (12:26):
I think that the floor of the Toronto Blue Jays
is it's still because they have the hitting approach of
we're going to spoil good pitches and we're going to
put balls in play.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
They did that. They have guys his name as Andrez, Yes.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
Exactly, congratulations on your second home run in one hundred games.
Speaker 7 (12:43):
Yeah, and or second home running back to back games,
and so it was that's the prime example of your floor.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
At that point.
Speaker 7 (12:52):
If you're pitching to him, you got the bottom of
the order, you know that you have some danger lurking
on deck. And the next few hitters with Spring and
then Vlad and the Luke's guy in between them. I
think that there's a thing, okay, leadoff double and you say, okay,
what's this guy's role.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
What's his job?
Speaker 7 (13:11):
Okay, is to pull the ball to the right side,
to move that guy over, get him in scoring position.
You can't throw one then down and into him. It's
happened twice in a row that you do it. Yeah,
two different guys make the same damn mistake and throw
it in the one place that he can hurt you with.
I mean, if he ends up you throw make a
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good pitch away and he gets out and around it
and hooks the ball to second base or hooks the
ball period and it bloops in or finds a hole.
All right, you kind of tip your cap. I did
my job. He did his job better. He did just
did his job against me executing my pitch, and it
just didn't work out in my favor. If you throw
it into the one place that he can end up
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scraping it over the wall, then you just should be
punching yourself in the head out there on the mound.
And then fortunately maybe they don't punch themselves in the head,
but proverbally they did. I mean, they ended up going
out there and just kind of kicking themselves in the ass.
And they've done it for the last two days. It's
it's been hard to watch. But at the same time,
I still kind of basically probably the last thoughts that
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were going through my head before I dozed off, where
you're still too too, Yeah, you're too too. It's a
race two out of three and you. The nice thing is,
I think that our team can if you just say, okay,
both teams are gonna play their A games, not a plus.
Just we're gonna get good pitching performances out of both
of them. We're gonna get grindy at bats out of
both of them. I think that you win the ball game.
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I think you win today's game. And then yeah, you
get to go to their place knowing that their backs
against the wall, and you just have to go out
there and repeat that type of a performance and prove
that you're a better team. The last two nights they've
came out and said, we think we're tougher than you are,
we think we're grittier than you are, we think are
over the hill pitcher, he thought, for sure, I'm going
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to be very careful early, and then the second that
they got to lead, he says, now, I'm gonna go
ahead and give you one. I'm gonna get ahead and
hope you don't hurt me with it, and if you don't, yeah,
then I'm gonna dice you up like a veteran.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Dice is up, youngsters. That's exactly what it did, and
it was hard to watch mm hmm.
Speaker 6 (15:13):
I was just yelling at the TV the whole time,
like you are old, like you need to stop doing this.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
And why why, why, why why.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
I just was so frustrated because it seemed like, well,
as we talked to the to Kevin Polar yesterday, he
was the wild card and it was like, well, the
game will go kind of how Surezer goes, and it
did well.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
I mean it's not like we saw vintage Max Scherzer.
I mean he's throwing ninety four out there, which is
pretty soft by today's standards, and he just got us fishing.
I mean, he just did Bucky's right. I mean he
started off and there were some patients shown by Cal
and Julio, and it looked like we were building a
very strong first inning. And I was thinking the same
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thing as Bucky, and I realized in the postgame show
last night. I was thinking the same thing that he was,
and I'm like, that's it, that's what you got to do.
He's obviously come out here and he's going to try
to get you out with junk. This is not old
Max Scherzer or me a young Max Scherzer, I should say, ye,
you know. So they start up and then Polanco hits
into that double play, and then they grabbed the lead
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and the third, and then he just started just old
school like things you were taught the first moment you
were taught a curveball, like what Dad told me in
the backyard, work your fastball in and get ahead, don't
let him get their arms extended. And then once you
get ahead, just throw junk in the dirt away and
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twelve year olds can't lay off of that. And yet
our entire lineup just bought it hook line and sinker
last night. The entire group, including our best guys, maybe
most notably, our best guys, were just at his mercy
last night, and he was just throwing junk, just doing
the basic elemental get in, don't let them, don't let
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them take your mediocre fastball early in the count, get ahead,
and then see if they'll go fishing with old, overpriced bait.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
And we just bought it all. Just terrible.
Speaker 7 (17:16):
Yeah, I mean you, basically, this is the beautiful thing
about baseball.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Were one of the beautiful things.
Speaker 7 (17:22):
There's a lot of them, I think, and yet there's
they're very frustrating when you don't get the beautiful picture
painted for you. The contagiousness of how winning feels and
how winning individual bats feels and hitting can become contagious.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
This team, I.
Speaker 7 (17:37):
Think, is more of an emotional team than some some
other teams are. I think that they they feel the
vibe of the crowd, they feel the vibe of each other.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
They ride that wave.
Speaker 7 (17:49):
That's why we see them sometimes go into funks with
all this talent where they they're not good, and then
you see them snap out of it and play as
good as any baseball team can play for a two
to three week stretch. It's because when things are going good,
they feel themselves, well, what's that spark. I was talking
to Ken, our buddy, you know, yesterday, and he's like, well,
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who's the spark? Then I'm like, it can be any
one of them, but it has to be one of them,
and then the next guy has to kind of throw
some fuel on that fire. And then the next guy
does or two guys later has to. And yet when
you start out and you go, I think, oh, for thirteen,
your top four hitters go for thirteen against Max Scherzer,
And now that's after the first two good abs by
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Cal Rawley and Julio Rodriguez in the first inning, where
they didn't go fishing, they didn't take the bait. After that,
basically they did nothing. I mean the rest of the game.
The top four hitters. Poluncle had a walk in there
that ended up scoring on that. Gino Suarez hit the
in the sixth inning, but it was just really it
was just a man, you guys, you can't. I don't
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expect everybody have a good game, but I expect everybody
approached the game the right way. I mean, there little
thing Randy Rose Arena, when you're scuffling. He swings at
a ball that bounces three feet in front of the
plate and four feet outside. The ball bounces up in
front of him, and you can't even just jog down
to first and make the guy make a throw to first.
It's not gonna he's not gonna throw it down the
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right foot line. But you can't even do that for me. Yeah,
that's the type of stuff I don't like. Just play
the game hard, play the game right, and then if
you lose in doing so, okay, I'll be okay. You
you lose because you play the game the wrong way.
That to me is is it's forgivable, but barely.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
I got a double cramp in the sixth inning sitting
there watching the game, had to stand up, you know,
fixed it the first one, and then sat back down
and it happened again.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Highlight of the night.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Yeah, I like sixth inning double cramp.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Yeah, stretch. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
I had a great meal beforehan at the you know
that the Mariners provided that was wonderful, and then but
once the game starts did Highlight of the night, sixth
inning double cramp. I don't think it's we're going to
replace the seventh inning stretch. I don't think a lot
of people are on board for it. But yeah, last
night it was better than anything else that I experienced.
Speaker 6 (20:11):
Well, you should have timed it better, though, so that
it was happening during the seventh inning stretch.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
See, then it's it works the cramps out.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Yeah, I would.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
I would have just blended in with everyone. They wouldn't
have noticed and and mocked me. All right, let's find
out what's on tap for today's show.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
What's on? What's on? I think I did catch a
media member taking a picture of me cramping up. Is rude,
that's funny.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Toronto eight, Seattle two last night. So there will be
a game five tonight. Of course there was going to
be one anyway. Uh, and it will Uh it's huge,
I mean, might be the series. We'll see. Bryce Miller
gets the start for us at three pm today against
Kevin Gosman. He's already beaten him once, but that is
their top guy. Uh, So it won't be easy. And
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of course the team does have to turn around the
way that it is playing in order to get this
thing accomplished today. So we'll talk a lot about that
on the show today. It could be a lot worse.
Another thing we'll talk about today. You could be the
Milwaukee Brewers, who just look completely overmatched by the Dodgers
three to one the final score there yesterday. So the
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Dodgers are up three to zero in the NLCS. Cracking
lost in a shootout four to three to Ottawa, and
they'll be in Toronto Saturday night at four o'clock. They've
yet to play a game where they didn't at least
get a point, but they now lost two games in
a row, once in overtime, once in a shootout. And
so the Kraken we'll try to write things in Toronto.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
There's that Toronto again.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Dahnto Toronto.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Max Shu's are going to get a goal in and
assist tomorrow too.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
From his rocking chair, Husky's at Michigan nine am kickoff tomorrow.
It's the big noon game on Fox and a huge
game for Jedfish and the Huskies, particularly if they have
any thoughts about making the playoff this year, which you
know that they do. Hanks will get things started tomorrow
morning at six am. Seahawks won't play until Monday night,
game number two of a Monday night football double header
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that the NFL is presenting. They'll take on the Houston Texans.
Then we'll certainly talk about that during our show today.
Greg Bell joins US at seven five. Last night, Thursday
Night Football, the Battle of the Loose Skin and Old
Balls quarterbacks Joe flacko versus Aaron Rodgers and Flacco won
at thirty three to thirty one over Rogers and the Steelers.
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Big loss there for the Steelers, who look like they
might run away with that division. Joe Flacco said, not
so fast. Rams will take on Jaguars that will be
from London at six thirty on Sunday Colts Chargers playing
on Sunday might be the best.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Game of the day.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
And the Sounders regular season finale is tomorrow at three
o'clock in New York City. All right, coming down next
Mariners Morning After. We'll we'll point out the gory details
of last night's loss.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Sports Radio ninety three point three kh A r f M.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
We're gonna pick ourselves up by the boot straps and
go whip some Canadians angry song.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
If angry that makes me angry, not or sad, not
poudy or something.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
It's Chuck Buckets Ashley with you. It's time for Mariners
Morning After. It's our daily postgame show. Mariners do take
it on the chin again last night by a final
score of eight to two. Beautiful strategy by the Blue Jays.
They just came into this game and they said, hey,
look guys, here's what we're gonna do. We're going to
look like we can't match up with the starting pitcher
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for the Mariners, and that's going to put us in
the right position to let our eight and nine hitters
really launch an offensive assault.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Interesting strategy.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
I don't think it would normally work, but for the
Blue Jays two nights in a row. A leadoff double
in the top of the third by the eighth place hitter,
followed by andre Jmenez.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Do you catch a high Wives led the right field?
Ken Zone's going back, It's gone again. It's a minutes
of the ninth spot spark in the Jays for the
second night in a row. Light being strikes twice but
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from an unlikely source.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Two to one, Toronto. I love it.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
It's a great call. I love it, just like reminding
us this shouldn't happen. This shouldn't be happening right.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
Now, but it's happened twice.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
But it's happened twice.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
A Seattle.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Two to nothing at that point, and it was the
spark to an eight run performance. Last Castillo doesn't even
make out of the third inning because he loads the bases.
After that, we have to bring in Gabe Spire gave
Spire walks the first guy he sees, even though that's
the guy that he was designated to get out, and
just such a situation that forced in another run. It
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was one of those nights. The Blue Jays go on
to an eight to two victory. We didn't mount much
of a comeback effort. Much less a comeback, and this
was just all Blue Jays last night. Only counts as
one game, but it was all Blue Jays again last night.
Speaker 7 (25:14):
Yeah, you would think that based on the people that
are just freaking out, that it counted for more than
one game.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
It didn't. Neither one of the last two did.
Speaker 7 (25:23):
It's basically you find yourself even and yet it was
uglier than just a loss. I mean, there's there's definitely
a remainder above the number, you know what I mean,
it's two to two with a remainder of one. I
would say in their favor, it feels if it was ugly.
There was a bunch of things about it. You let
a guy in Max Schurz are off the hook early.
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He pitches around your two most dangerous guys in Polonku's
been clutched, doesn't have a good at bat, and you
it's not like, okay, we'll just give my first one
away and then then I'll get locked in.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
No no, no, no no no.
Speaker 7 (25:58):
That might be when you because the difference between you
putting a run on the board against him early, it
negates the idea of him thinking later on I can
kind of just pound the zone early and then go
soft away. He was reckless to get ahead with guys.
Once he had a two run lead and then a
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four run lead, he was like, here you go, because
what single a solo homer is not going to hurt him.
It's a very veteran way to approach pitching based on
the scoreboard. And yet you let him off the hook early.
And I mean just think if you push one across
the board in the first and then you get a
home run, or maybe Naylor hits a home run with
people on base later because you don't hit into that
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double play. It just is one of those It's a
situation where you let somebody that is right there. I mean,
he's forty one years old. He's not the same maxers
or that he once was. He's going to be very
careful and try to get through three four innings and
maybe just don't get ruffed up. And instead, when you
get him kind of on the ropes in the first inning,
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you decide, naw, you'll help him up.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Not only did you not knock him.
Speaker 7 (27:06):
Out here, I'll just pull this punch and then if
you fall down, I'll help you back up. It was
a it was a very poor performance from the offense
in general, particularly the guys at the top and then
the pitchers, just didn't do the little things, the execution
that we we've become accustomed to.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
I mean, the expectations are.
Speaker 7 (27:24):
Higher than normal, They're higher than they've ever been, you know,
at least since I've been doing this job, based on
what I know this team's capable of. And the last
couple of nights, they've not went out there and even
came close to performing up to their my expectations or
their capabilities.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
Yeah, And I think that's so frustrating too, is that
it was It's one thing to watch the pitching not succeed,
but in a night like last night with Shuzer, you
at least hope the offense could have done their part.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Oh nobody did any Nobody did anything.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
We didn't run the bases. We played a little bit
of defense. JP had a good defensive game last night.
But the guy that they used to call Mad Max,
you know, the star of the film, right the main character.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
The guy that had all the stuff and.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
The makeup and the attitude and the intelligence, he's now
just measured Max right now, and measured Max took us
out last night. Mathematical Max took us out last night
by a final score of eight to two. Josh Naylor
is the only guy that hit last night. He had
three of those in the game, including a home run,
but he.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Also goofed up.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
He had a terrible base running air base running decision
that cost us a chance at a beginning in the game.
And so Bucky loves hearing from Josh Naylor. I think
we all love to hear Josh Naylor. Try to put
this one in perspective.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
Just take a.
Speaker 8 (28:44):
Chance, try to on third base for another person's third situation.
Credit to with Barger's a great throw. I try to
get in the lane and hit the baseball. I didn't
really mean to make a collision with Ernie. I love
that guy.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
I kind of felt really really bad about it.
Speaker 8 (29:02):
How how important was it to to try to be aggressive,
especially at that stage of the game, knowing that it
was still.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
We didn't reach.
Speaker 8 (29:08):
Yeah, I mean, I try not to regret really anything
while playing. I'm gonna take my shot, and you know,
go to bed content cause I I gave him my all.
Next time, maybe i'd make a different decision, but in
that moment, I wanted to take that chance.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
You were one of the few who were able to
make contact against yours.
Speaker 6 (29:28):
W What was he doing so effectively and what allowed
you to to get those his.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
Right?
Speaker 8 (29:34):
He's he uh who died a fastball either in her way,
then he'd throw a slider off that.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
In the zone.
Speaker 8 (29:44):
Every time he was uh had a runner on first
or second, left you up, He's gonna show you the fastball.
The change about that if you held for like longer
or did live out like two to three looks, it
was majority of.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Time off speed. If he was quick, it was Peter Cutter.
Speaker 8 (30:05):
You just kind of have to understand what he was trying.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
To do to each hitter.
Speaker 7 (30:11):
Maybe you could share that information. Yeah, did you share that?
I'm sure that he did. Did you guys not listen?
Speaker 5 (30:17):
That's probably what happened.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Uh? Yeah, I mean I didn't.
Speaker 7 (30:21):
You can't see it from up in the where he's
dotting the pitches and where they are exactly from the
hitter hear cafe, But it seemed just like, yes, that's
what he's doing.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Can we make an adjustment please? Now we'll just maybe
next time.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
I look, you should regret that base running decision. And
it did take a terrific throw from Addison Barger, who
apparently is Roberto Clemente even though he's a third baseman,
but apparently in right field.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
He's as good as it gets.
Speaker 5 (30:44):
Every catch.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Yeah, yeah, he made a diving catch, and he made
a great catch to Rob Revos in the and the
alley got a great break on that, and then threw
a perfect throw and it took a perfect throw to
throw him out. That's sad, man, you know, trailing three,
looks like the crowd's getting into a Gino's Warrez gets
an RBI. It you just can't. I mean, it's just
some myrtles. I don't care what you were thinking. If
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you're gonna go, you better get there. That's that's what
they say about trying to get to third with two outs.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
You're just not supposed to do it in that situation.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
And he ran into an out and may have ran
ass out of the one big inning we had a
chance to have. But he was otherwise terrific in the field,
at the plate, and I'm sure he'll be terrific again
today tonight Bryce Miller versus Kevin Gosman. It will be
a three pm start. It's Game five, and oh how
big it feels. We will talk more about this a
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little bit later on in the show coming up next though,
speaking of Huge U dub As a huge game tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
And ann Arbor, Michigan.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
In case you missed it, Rick Neuheisel is weighed in
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Speaker 4 (32:02):
All right, Chuck.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
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Speaker 4 (32:19):
Maybe we'll have some with Booze News. I don't know.
At nine forty five, I'm not really sure what we're
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Speaker 3 (32:23):
I'm not gonna dictate that, I don't It's not like
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Speaker 4 (32:27):
Should we just we drink what she serves us? That's right,
and we like it that way.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
We've got Greg Bell coming up at seven oh five.
We also have your headlines coming up as well. We've
been talking baseball all morning long. We will ride that
horse again a few more times before ten o'clock today.
But let us satisfy the football portion of a football
Friday and talk a little Huskies.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
They're in action tomorrow nine am. Start to that game,
which means the Hanks will be on the air at
six a m. So get up early with Softy in
the Gang and then we'll take all the way up
to kick off. As a huge game, I mean huge game.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Against Michigan, an opportunity for the Huskies to certainly make
a statement win a not just a road game in
the Big Ten, but a big road game against a
great brand. Rick new Isisl was on with us a
little bit earlier this week, and I asked him, what
kind of chance do you give the Dogs this weekend?
Speaker 9 (33:22):
Well, I think the fact that Jed's coach there, it
will help because he'll kind of be able to talk
to the team about the mystique of the Big House
and all of that. You know, it's not a loud
place because it's a bowl in the place, you're going
to be able to hear. This is all going to
come down to, does Wink Martindale able to craft the
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same kind of plan that Patricia did and keep Demand's
legs at Bay and if that be the case, then
it's all going to come down to third down conversions.
Because if the Huskies can play on third down and
play efficiently on third down, there better than Michigan on offense.
That's a fact. Michigan runs the ball. SC was able
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to corral them in the running game. That hadn't been
the case with the Trojans in the Lincoln Riley era.
That they were able to and SC also ran for
over two hundred yards out rushed Michigan. And if Washington
can do that with both the Man and Joana Coleman,
they this sets up really well for the Dogs. I
will not be shocked with a I know they are underdog,
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but I will not be shocked with the Husky victory.
Speaker 7 (34:31):
Do you feel like there's enough seeing in the pants
of this d line to slow down the Justice Haynes
kid from Michigan.
Speaker 9 (34:37):
To me, that's always the answer when they take one
on the chin at Michigan is we've got to run
the ball. And that was their key when they went
to Nebraska and won. They had big runs and Justice
Haynes is a heck of a player. They've got a
couple of you know, Robbins to his batman. But the
bottom line is this is going to be the key
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and Jed will know this. Uh, they have to stop
the running game. And I would suspect if they're starting to,
you know, meet loggerheads in the running game that Bryce
Underwood their quarterback wall also incorporate its legs, and it'll
be interesting if they add more of that to the equation.
When the Huskies get the town.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Rig new Eyesel man air air finger trying to put
the point hop my button airfinger. Uh Rig new Eyesel
talking about the Michigan Wolverines. Look, this isn't as talented
a roster as it was a couple of years ago
when we were playing for a national championship. Since Jim
Harball left, there has been a decline, but it's still
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Michigan football, and they still play the same way, and
there still are going to be physical and they do
take tremendous pride wearing those colors, wearing that Wolverine helmet
and when they're at home, particularly so if you match
their physicality, which is not an easy thing to ask
of Washington, but if you match their physicality, I think you're.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
Going to win this game.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
But as I said, that's not an easy thing to ask.
Michigan is going to be physical. They take tremendous pride
in it. But I do think we have the advantage
skill wise, playmaker wise going into this game. I mean,
they lost eighteen points the USC last week. I mean
they got ran off the field last week. So this
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is not a great team. Great Michigan team, and there
have been some great ones over the course of the
last decade, but you better believe you're going to get
an honest day's effort. So you better be you better
have the hard hat strapped on.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (36:40):
I mean they lost to Oklahoma and they've lost to USC.
Those are the two best teams they've played. They barely
squeaked out a w against Nebraska. I think you nailed it.
When you're talking about the skill players, like the talent.
I mean, I think if you just go Brice Underworld
versus Underwood versus Demon Williams, I think you got the
advantage of the most important position. I think both teams
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have good running backs, which one can get going and
get loose. I think you have an advantage in pass catchers. Yeah,
but it's gonna boil down to do you let them
impose their will. This is gonna be a good measuring stick,
I think for the Huskies.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
All right, headlines coming up, Greg Bell's coming up. We
got to talk some Seahawks football, even though they don't
play until Monday night.
Speaker 4 (37:20):
And I'm sure he's gonna talk some baseball too. That's
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Speaker 3 (00:59):
Hey, good morning, o'come into the radio program. It is
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And yeah, it's a football Friday, but it's also kind
of a baseball Friday. You gotta admit it. Football, Come on, football,
admit it kind of.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
A baseball Friday. To give it up. I'm on football.
We love you football.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
There's that smiley football.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Not today you are.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
We love you football.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
But yeah, you know there's room for baseball love here
on Fridays too.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
And frankly, you've been a.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Little selfish over the years.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Yeah I've been told that. Yeah, oh yeah, Bucky just
took on the rule here.
Speaker 6 (01:44):
Just immediately character role, Yeah, immediately He's like, yeah, you're right, guys,
I'm not buying.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
It for myself. I don't think it's genuine. I don't
think it's a good No, it's not a good performance.
I'm not buying it. I don't Yeah, I don't think
that you really want to be football. I don't want
to football. I care less about football right now.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
You just want to be baseball, don't you there.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
I'm here. You got months after this, you were just
our month, you were just a wolf in.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
We still love you football, but certainly we are a
little fixated these days on the Major League Baseball playoffs,
and so we'll.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Try to balance the two for you as best we can.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
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(02:55):
till Booze News.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
So we got you covered on Chuck and Buck in
the morning.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
So we will start with baseball today, and certainly we've
not exactly seen our local baseball team. Light it up here.
The last couple of days, fans have shown up. Man,
what a stadium, What an atmosphere. What a dominant performance
by the fans here the last couple of days, even
last night, after watching the drubbing in Game number three,
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to show up and then just kind of hang in
there like you, Oh, we're just gonna hold on again.
An excellent performance by the Mariner fan base last night
out at T Mobile, but once again a lopsided affair
last night, an eight to two loss to the Toronto
Blue Jays that evens the series at two games a piece.
It assures the series of going back to Toronto for
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at least a game number six, and it really does
put major emphasis on Game number five. I'm not gonna
say must win because we've seen because Major League Baseball
playoffs are weird and home field advantage clearly doesn't mean
anything in this sport, and it probably should, but it
just doesn't seem to. And so even if you lose today,
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god forbid, you still don't put dirt on this thing
because it can clearly turn on a dime. I mean,
look how dire it looked for Toronto and Blue Jays.
Fans coming to Seattle having lost two games in a row,
and Goten pummeled themselves in game number two, and then
they turned it around, and no time flat, the same
thing could happen today. We could turn things around in
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game number five. And so I guess I'll just start
by saying that that you know, you win game number
five today.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
I mean, we're going to get to some criticism, don't
you worry. But just to keep everything.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
In perspective, you go out there three o'clock today and
you win game number five, and you just completely seize
control of the series again. I don't care if you're
going to Toronto for game six and seven. If you
only have to win one of those two games in
a place where you had no difficulty winning just a
few days ago, I mean, then you've got control of
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the series again, no matter how badly you might have
played the last couple of days. And so Game five
suddenly feels like the most important thing in the world
right now, It is the most important thing.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
In the world. Agreed.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
So glad you've stopped acting like football.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Yeah, that's true. Like game five, who cares football would be? Like,
maybe I'll watch it, Maybe I won't. Maybe i't record it,
watch it.
Speaker 7 (05:31):
Yeah, yeah, I I mean I on my way home
last night at eleven o'clock, I was thinking to myself,
if you had told me before the series started that
we would be two and two going into Game five
at home, would I be happy with it? I wouldn't
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say that I would be unhappy. I mean, it could
just be so much worse now. Obviously it's on the
heels of winning to at their place and feeling like
you had this thing in control. But I guess it's
I wasn't overly optimistic after two being up to zero
just because I think that's a good team. I think
it's a dangerous offense. I think that we have good pitching,
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and usually good pitching beats good hitting, but you have
to execute, and if you don't execute one thing, it's
a The recipe that the Toronto Blue Jays bring in
is we don't we put the ball in play, and
so if what that means is they spoil good pitches
and then if you make mistakes, they square them up.
And that's exactly what we've watched the last couple nights.
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It doesn't matter who we're putting out there, if they
don't execute the way they're capable of. I think if
they do execute the way they're capable of. We saw
it in the first two games. You can not shut
this offense down, but you can keep them at bay,
and then our offense doesn't have to go out and
try to score fourteen runs to win a ball game,
or or you know, like yesterday's case, it would have
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taken nine runs. You don't have to do that if
our pitching staff executes the way they're capable. But if
you don't, it's a bad recipe. It's gonna taste bad.
And I walked out of that ballpark yesterday with a
bad taste in my mouth for sure.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Yeah it was.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
It was.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
That.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
And that's the thing.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Like I walked out Game three, drove home Game three
after the postgame show. That didn't bother me at all.
I don't even think it bothered the fans that came
over to Jimmy's. I don't even think Toronto was celebrating
because no Blue Jay fans came over to Jimmy's.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
They came over last night, Yeah they did.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Yeah, you know, they were feeling themselves last night, no
question about it. But after that Game three I mean,
I don't. I think, I just I mean, I just
chalked that up to George Kirby in the third inning,
left too many pitches over the plate and the Blue
Jays hammered it. So on one hand, I think the
Blue Jays took the game, and also George Kirby, I
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think after the game sort of admitted Nuttan's on me,
and so that didn't necessarily bother me. Last night, Bob,
last night, to me was one of the worst games
they've played in a long time. And I don't want
to be a prisoner of the moment and say all season,
because I'm sure it wasn't probably wasn't even the top ten.
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But that, to me was just a lousy performance by
the entire team, with a couple of exceptions, at the
worst time in the world, at the last possible time
that you wanted to see your team show up and
play that poorly.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Forget that it's just the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
But you know it's Game four, not trying to allow
Toronto to seize true momentum, if that even exists in
baseball in this series.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
But all of it. I hated the base running.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
I mean, two inexcusable base running mistakes, first by Leo
Revas getting picked off of second down two with cal
Raley at the plate.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
What in the world you know, I.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Mean, grab your ears and pull and maybe you can
yank that head of yours out of where it's stuck.
And then Josh Naylor, who played the best of all
Mariners last night, and yet you can't get thrown out
at third down three with less than two outs, or
excuse me, with two outs. That's again inexcusable. There's no
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excuse for that. Forgivable, but inexcusable.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
The hitting. I thought you let Max Schurzer just dictate
euro at bats.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Yeah, you made him look amazing.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
I mean, I thought the problem with Max Scherzer at
this stage in his career is he didn't realize that
he's a retired old bull that all he's supposed to
be doing is grazing in the meadow.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
He's not supposed to be out there, you know, you know,
starting fights, you know, having making love the cows. You know,
he's just supposed to be out there chewing grass and
just enjoying, like the last few years before before it's
all and he went out there and he was just
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the he was just shrewd. He just started out by
like I'm gonna try to get you to fish.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
And then once we fell behind, it worked like a charm,
work like a charm. So I didn't like the approach.
You know, there's approach, there's the approach word with Bucky.
I didn't like the afpats. I didn't like the offense.
I didn't like Luis Castillo last night. I didn't like.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Gabe Spyer coming in and walking a guy. I didn't
like the cal Rowley. Can't suddenly block a wild pitch?
You're calling for a slider in the dirt, cow, You've
got to block these. I mean, you're the best at this.
Why suddenly can you not block a pitch in the
dirt with a runner at third base? I mean, every
single thing is important. I didn't like anything about that
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performance last night. And it wasn't effort Bucky, and it
wasn't that they didn't want it or anything like that.
They just weren't sharp. They were just bad, lousy, and
it happened at a horrible time.
Speaker 7 (11:01):
Yeah yeah, I mean, thank god you had won two
at their place, because you came home and so far
have not even come close to playing the type of
baseball that got you to the place that you're sitting
at right now, And I was last night.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
The last couple of nights, I've had a.
Speaker 7 (11:16):
Hard time going to sleep, even though I'm exhausted by
the time I get home and getting bed at midnight,
and I'm sitting there, and what kept coming over my
head is basically watching this team all year.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
And I haven't watched every Toronto Blue Jays.
Speaker 7 (11:29):
Game, but you know, there's a reason why they won
a handful more games in the regular season. There's a
reason why they ended up kind of pulling away and
at the very end and winning a tough division that
they were in. Is I think that their consistency is
more than the Mariners. It really boils down to every
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team in the big leagues is pretty good. I mean
they all have they every team has some good players.
There's some teams that are closer to great teams or
great rosters, and I think that those are the ones
that you have left in the playoffs at this point.
But it really, even if you take it down to
the final four teams, the teams that end up advancing
the World Series and the teams that end up winning
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it are the teams that do the little things consistently.
And I think that we talk about floors and ceilings.
I think that the Mariners have a much higher ceiling
than the Toronto Blue Jays, and I.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Know for a fact they have a lower floor.
Speaker 7 (12:26):
I think that the floor of the Toronto Blue Jays
is it's still because they have the hitting approach of
we're going to spoil good pitches and we're going to
put balls in play.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
They did that. They have guys his name as Andrez, Yes.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
Exactly, congratulations on your second home run in one hundred games.
Speaker 7 (12:43):
Yeah, and or second home running back to back games,
and so it was that's the prime example of your floor.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
At that point.
Speaker 7 (12:52):
If you're pitching to him, you got the bottom of
the order, you know that you have some danger lurking
on deck. And the next few hitters with Spring and
then Vlad and the Luke's guy in between them. I
think that there's a thing, okay, leadoff double and you say, okay,
what's this guy's role.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
What's his job?
Speaker 7 (13:11):
Okay, is to pull the ball to the right side,
to move that guy over, get him in scoring position.
You can't throw one then down and into him. It's
happened twice in a row that you do it. Yeah,
two different guys make the same damn mistake and throw
it in the one place that he can hurt you with.
I mean, if he ends up you throw make a
(13:31):
good pitch away and he gets out and around it
and hooks the ball to second base or hooks the
ball period and it bloops in or finds a hole.
All right, you kind of tip your cap. I did
my job. He did his job better. He did just
did his job against me executing my pitch, and it
just didn't work out in my favor. If you throw
it into the one place that he can end up
(13:54):
scraping it over the wall, then you just should be
punching yourself in the head out there on the mound.
And then fortunately maybe they don't punch themselves in the head,
but proverbally they did. I mean, they ended up going
out there and just kind of kicking themselves in the ass.
And they've done it for the last two days. It's
it's been hard to watch. But at the same time,
I still kind of basically probably the last thoughts that
(14:15):
were going through my head before I dozed off, where
you're still too too, Yeah, you're too too. It's a
race two out of three and you. The nice thing is,
I think that our team can if you just say, okay,
both teams are gonna play their A games, not a plus.
Just we're gonna get good pitching performances out of both
of them. We're gonna get grindy at bats out of
both of them. I think that you win the ball game.
(14:37):
I think you win today's game. And then yeah, you
get to go to their place knowing that their backs
against the wall, and you just have to go out
there and repeat that type of a performance and prove
that you're a better team. The last two nights they've
came out and said, we think we're tougher than you are,
we think we're grittier than you are, we think are
over the hill pitcher, he thought, for sure, I'm going
(14:58):
to be very careful early, and then the second that
they got to lead, he says, now, I'm gonna go
ahead and give you one. I'm gonna get ahead and
hope you don't hurt me with it, and if you don't, yeah,
then I'm gonna dice you up like a veteran.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Dice is up, youngsters. That's exactly what it did, and
it was hard to watch mm hmm.
Speaker 6 (15:13):
I was just yelling at the TV the whole time,
like you are old, like you need to stop doing this.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
And why why, why, why why.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
I just was so frustrated because it seemed like, well,
as we talked to the to Kevin Polar yesterday, he
was the wild card and it was like, well, the
game will go kind of how Surezer goes, and it
did well.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
I mean it's not like we saw vintage Max Scherzer.
I mean he's throwing ninety four out there, which is
pretty soft by today's standards, and he just got us fishing.
I mean, he just did Bucky's right. I mean he
started off and there were some patients shown by Cal
and Julio, and it looked like we were building a
very strong first inning. And I was thinking the same
(15:55):
thing as Bucky, and I realized in the postgame show
last night. I was thinking the same thing that he was,
and I'm like, that's it, that's what you got to do.
He's obviously come out here and he's going to try
to get you out with junk. This is not old
Max Scherzer or me a young Max Scherzer, I should say, ye,
you know. So they start up and then Polanco hits
into that double play, and then they grabbed the lead
(16:18):
and the third, and then he just started just old
school like things you were taught the first moment you
were taught a curveball, like what Dad told me in
the backyard, work your fastball in and get ahead, don't
let him get their arms extended. And then once you
get ahead, just throw junk in the dirt away and
(16:38):
twelve year olds can't lay off of that. And yet
our entire lineup just bought it hook line and sinker
last night. The entire group, including our best guys, maybe
most notably, our best guys, were just at his mercy
last night, and he was just throwing junk, just doing
the basic elemental get in, don't let them, don't let
(17:02):
them take your mediocre fastball early in the count, get ahead,
and then see if they'll go fishing with old, overpriced bait.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
And we just bought it all. Just terrible.
Speaker 7 (17:16):
Yeah, I mean you, basically, this is the beautiful thing
about baseball.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Were one of the beautiful things.
Speaker 7 (17:22):
There's a lot of them, I think, and yet there's
they're very frustrating when you don't get the beautiful picture
painted for you. The contagiousness of how winning feels and
how winning individual bats feels and hitting can become contagious.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
This team, I.
Speaker 7 (17:37):
Think, is more of an emotional team than some some
other teams are. I think that they they feel the
vibe of the crowd, they feel the vibe of each other.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
They ride that wave.
Speaker 7 (17:49):
That's why we see them sometimes go into funks with
all this talent where they they're not good, and then
you see them snap out of it and play as
good as any baseball team can play for a two
to three week stretch. It's because when things are going good,
they feel themselves, well, what's that spark. I was talking
to Ken, our buddy, you know, yesterday, and he's like, well,
(18:12):
who's the spark? Then I'm like, it can be any
one of them, but it has to be one of them,
and then the next guy has to kind of throw
some fuel on that fire. And then the next guy
does or two guys later has to. And yet when
you start out and you go, I think, oh, for thirteen,
your top four hitters go for thirteen against Max Scherzer,
And now that's after the first two good abs by
(18:32):
Cal Rawley and Julio Rodriguez in the first inning, where
they didn't go fishing, they didn't take the bait. After that,
basically they did nothing. I mean the rest of the game.
The top four hitters. Poluncle had a walk in there
that ended up scoring on that. Gino Suarez hit the
in the sixth inning, but it was just really it
was just a man, you guys, you can't. I don't
(18:55):
expect everybody have a good game, but I expect everybody
approached the game the right way. I mean, there little
thing Randy Rose Arena, when you're scuffling. He swings at
a ball that bounces three feet in front of the
plate and four feet outside. The ball bounces up in
front of him, and you can't even just jog down
to first and make the guy make a throw to first.
It's not gonna he's not gonna throw it down the
(19:15):
right foot line. But you can't even do that for me. Yeah,
that's the type of stuff I don't like. Just play
the game hard, play the game right, and then if
you lose in doing so, okay, I'll be okay. You
you lose because you play the game the wrong way.
That to me is is it's forgivable, but barely.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
I got a double cramp in the sixth inning sitting
there watching the game, had to stand up, you know,
fixed it the first one, and then sat back down
and it happened again.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Highlight of the night.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Yeah, I like sixth inning double cramp.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Yeah, stretch. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
I had a great meal beforehan at the you know
that the Mariners provided that was wonderful, and then but
once the game starts did Highlight of the night, sixth
inning double cramp. I don't think it's we're going to
replace the seventh inning stretch. I don't think a lot
of people are on board for it. But yeah, last
night it was better than anything else that I experienced.
Speaker 6 (20:11):
Well, you should have timed it better, though, so that
it was happening during the seventh inning stretch.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
See, then it's it works the cramps out.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Yeah, I would.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
I would have just blended in with everyone. They wouldn't
have noticed and and mocked me. All right, let's find
out what's on tap for today's show.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
What's on? What's on? I think I did catch a
media member taking a picture of me cramping up. Is rude,
that's funny.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Toronto eight, Seattle two last night. So there will be
a game five tonight. Of course there was going to
be one anyway. Uh, and it will Uh it's huge,
I mean, might be the series. We'll see. Bryce Miller
gets the start for us at three pm today against
Kevin Gosman. He's already beaten him once, but that is
their top guy. Uh, So it won't be easy. And
(20:59):
of course the team does have to turn around the
way that it is playing in order to get this
thing accomplished today. So we'll talk a lot about that
on the show today. It could be a lot worse.
Another thing we'll talk about today. You could be the
Milwaukee Brewers, who just look completely overmatched by the Dodgers
three to one the final score there yesterday. So the
(21:19):
Dodgers are up three to zero in the NLCS. Cracking
lost in a shootout four to three to Ottawa, and
they'll be in Toronto Saturday night at four o'clock. They've
yet to play a game where they didn't at least
get a point, but they now lost two games in
a row, once in overtime, once in a shootout. And
so the Kraken we'll try to write things in Toronto.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
There's that Toronto again.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Dahnto Toronto.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Max Shu's are going to get a goal in and
assist tomorrow too.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
From his rocking chair, Husky's at Michigan nine am kickoff tomorrow.
It's the big noon game on Fox and a huge
game for Jedfish and the Huskies, particularly if they have
any thoughts about making the playoff this year, which you
know that they do. Hanks will get things started tomorrow
morning at six am. Seahawks won't play until Monday night,
game number two of a Monday night football double header
(22:11):
that the NFL is presenting. They'll take on the Houston Texans.
Then we'll certainly talk about that during our show today.
Greg Bell joins US at seven five. Last night, Thursday
Night Football, the Battle of the Loose Skin and Old
Balls quarterbacks Joe flacko versus Aaron Rodgers and Flacco won
at thirty three to thirty one over Rogers and the Steelers.
(22:35):
Big loss there for the Steelers, who look like they
might run away with that division. Joe Flacco said, not
so fast. Rams will take on Jaguars that will be
from London at six thirty on Sunday Colts Chargers playing
on Sunday might be the best.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Game of the day.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
And the Sounders regular season finale is tomorrow at three
o'clock in New York City. All right, coming down next
Mariners Morning After. We'll we'll point out the gory details
of last night's loss.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Sports Radio ninety three point three kh A r f M.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
We're gonna pick ourselves up by the boot straps and
go whip some Canadians angry song.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
If angry that makes me angry, not or sad, not
poudy or something.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
It's Chuck Buckets Ashley with you. It's time for Mariners
Morning After. It's our daily postgame show. Mariners do take
it on the chin again last night by a final
score of eight to two. Beautiful strategy by the Blue Jays.
They just came into this game and they said, hey,
look guys, here's what we're gonna do. We're going to
look like we can't match up with the starting pitcher
(23:36):
for the Mariners, and that's going to put us in
the right position to let our eight and nine hitters
really launch an offensive assault.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Interesting strategy.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
I don't think it would normally work, but for the
Blue Jays two nights in a row. A leadoff double
in the top of the third by the eighth place hitter,
followed by andre Jmenez.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Do you catch a high Wives led the right field?
Ken Zone's going back, It's gone again. It's a minutes
of the ninth spot spark in the Jays for the
second night in a row. Light being strikes twice but
(24:19):
from an unlikely source.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Two to one, Toronto. I love it.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
It's a great call. I love it, just like reminding
us this shouldn't happen. This shouldn't be happening right.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
Now, but it's happened twice.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
But it's happened twice.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
A Seattle.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Two to nothing at that point, and it was the
spark to an eight run performance. Last Castillo doesn't even
make out of the third inning because he loads the bases.
After that, we have to bring in Gabe Spire gave
Spire walks the first guy he sees, even though that's
the guy that he was designated to get out, and
just such a situation that forced in another run. It
(24:59):
was one of those nights. The Blue Jays go on
to an eight to two victory. We didn't mount much
of a comeback effort. Much less a comeback, and this
was just all Blue Jays last night. Only counts as
one game, but it was all Blue Jays again last night.
Speaker 7 (25:14):
Yeah, you would think that based on the people that
are just freaking out, that it counted for more than
one game.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
It didn't. Neither one of the last two did.
Speaker 7 (25:23):
It's basically you find yourself even and yet it was
uglier than just a loss. I mean, there's there's definitely
a remainder above the number, you know what I mean,
it's two to two with a remainder of one. I
would say in their favor, it feels if it was ugly.
There was a bunch of things about it. You let
a guy in Max Schurz are off the hook early.
(25:45):
He pitches around your two most dangerous guys in Polonku's
been clutched, doesn't have a good at bat, and you
it's not like, okay, we'll just give my first one
away and then then I'll get locked in.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
No no, no, no no no.
Speaker 7 (25:58):
That might be when you because the difference between you
putting a run on the board against him early, it
negates the idea of him thinking later on I can
kind of just pound the zone early and then go
soft away. He was reckless to get ahead with guys.
Once he had a two run lead and then a
(26:19):
four run lead, he was like, here you go, because
what single a solo homer is not going to hurt him.
It's a very veteran way to approach pitching based on
the scoreboard. And yet you let him off the hook early.
And I mean just think if you push one across
the board in the first and then you get a
home run, or maybe Naylor hits a home run with
people on base later because you don't hit into that
(26:40):
double play. It just is one of those It's a
situation where you let somebody that is right there. I mean,
he's forty one years old. He's not the same maxers
or that he once was. He's going to be very
careful and try to get through three four innings and
maybe just don't get ruffed up. And instead, when you
get him kind of on the ropes in the first inning,
(27:02):
you decide, naw, you'll help him up.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Not only did you not knock him.
Speaker 7 (27:06):
Out here, I'll just pull this punch and then if
you fall down, I'll help you back up. It was
a it was a very poor performance from the offense
in general, particularly the guys at the top and then
the pitchers, just didn't do the little things, the execution
that we we've become accustomed to.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
I mean, the expectations are.
Speaker 7 (27:24):
Higher than normal, They're higher than they've ever been, you know,
at least since I've been doing this job, based on
what I know this team's capable of. And the last
couple of nights, they've not went out there and even
came close to performing up to their my expectations or
their capabilities.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
Yeah, And I think that's so frustrating too, is that
it was It's one thing to watch the pitching not succeed,
but in a night like last night with Shuzer, you
at least hope the offense could have done their part.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Oh nobody did any Nobody did anything.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
We didn't run the bases. We played a little bit
of defense. JP had a good defensive game last night.
But the guy that they used to call Mad Max,
you know, the star of the film, right the main character.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
The guy that had all the stuff and.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
The makeup and the attitude and the intelligence, he's now
just measured Max right now, and measured Max took us
out last night. Mathematical Max took us out last night
by a final score of eight to two. Josh Naylor
is the only guy that hit last night. He had
three of those in the game, including a home run,
but he.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Also goofed up.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
He had a terrible base running air base running decision
that cost us a chance at a beginning in the game.
And so Bucky loves hearing from Josh Naylor. I think
we all love to hear Josh Naylor. Try to put
this one in perspective.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
Just take a.
Speaker 8 (28:44):
Chance, try to on third base for another person's third situation.
Credit to with Barger's a great throw. I try to
get in the lane and hit the baseball. I didn't
really mean to make a collision with Ernie. I love
that guy.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
I kind of felt really really bad about it.
Speaker 8 (29:02):
How how important was it to to try to be aggressive,
especially at that stage of the game, knowing that it
was still.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
We didn't reach.
Speaker 8 (29:08):
Yeah, I mean, I try not to regret really anything
while playing. I'm gonna take my shot, and you know,
go to bed content cause I I gave him my all.
Next time, maybe i'd make a different decision, but in
that moment, I wanted to take that chance.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
You were one of the few who were able to
make contact against yours.
Speaker 6 (29:28):
W What was he doing so effectively and what allowed
you to to get those his.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
Right?
Speaker 8 (29:34):
He's he uh who died a fastball either in her way,
then he'd throw a slider off that.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
In the zone.
Speaker 8 (29:44):
Every time he was uh had a runner on first
or second, left you up, He's gonna show you the fastball.
The change about that if you held for like longer
or did live out like two to three looks, it
was majority of.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Time off speed. If he was quick, it was Peter Cutter.
Speaker 8 (30:05):
You just kind of have to understand what he was trying.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
To do to each hitter.
Speaker 7 (30:11):
Maybe you could share that information. Yeah, did you share that?
I'm sure that he did. Did you guys not listen?
Speaker 5 (30:17):
That's probably what happened.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Uh? Yeah, I mean I didn't.
Speaker 7 (30:21):
You can't see it from up in the where he's
dotting the pitches and where they are exactly from the
hitter hear cafe, But it seemed just like, yes, that's
what he's doing.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Can we make an adjustment please? Now we'll just maybe
next time.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
I look, you should regret that base running decision. And
it did take a terrific throw from Addison Barger, who
apparently is Roberto Clemente even though he's a third baseman,
but apparently in right field.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
He's as good as it gets.
Speaker 5 (30:44):
Every catch.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Yeah, yeah, he made a diving catch, and he made
a great catch to Rob Revos in the and the
alley got a great break on that, and then threw
a perfect throw and it took a perfect throw to
throw him out. That's sad, man, you know, trailing three,
looks like the crowd's getting into a Gino's Warrez gets
an RBI. It you just can't. I mean, it's just
some myrtles. I don't care what you were thinking. If
(31:05):
you're gonna go, you better get there. That's that's what
they say about trying to get to third with two outs.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
You're just not supposed to do it in that situation.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
And he ran into an out and may have ran
ass out of the one big inning we had a
chance to have. But he was otherwise terrific in the field,
at the plate, and I'm sure he'll be terrific again
today tonight Bryce Miller versus Kevin Gosman. It will be
a three pm start. It's Game five, and oh how
big it feels. We will talk more about this a
(31:37):
little bit later on in the show coming up next though,
speaking of Huge U dub As a huge game tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
And ann Arbor, Michigan.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
In case you missed it, Rick Neuheisel is weighed in
on this matchup. We'll discuss it next. Sports Radio ninety
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Speaker 4 (32:02):
All right, Chuck.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
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Speaker 4 (32:19):
Maybe we'll have some with Booze News. I don't know.
At nine forty five, I'm not really sure what we're
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Speaker 3 (32:23):
I'm not gonna dictate that, I don't It's not like
Ashley gives us a menu, you know.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Should we just we drink what she serves us? That's right,
and we like it that way.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
We've got Greg Bell coming up at seven oh five.
We also have your headlines coming up as well. We've
been talking baseball all morning long. We will ride that
horse again a few more times before ten o'clock today.
But let us satisfy the football portion of a football
Friday and talk a little Huskies.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
They're in action tomorrow nine am. Start to that game,
which means the Hanks will be on the air at
six a m. So get up early with Softy in
the Gang and then we'll take all the way up
to kick off. As a huge game, I mean huge game.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Against Michigan, an opportunity for the Huskies to certainly make
a statement win a not just a road game in
the Big Ten, but a big road game against a
great brand. Rick new Isisl was on with us a
little bit earlier this week, and I asked him, what
kind of chance do you give the Dogs this weekend?
Speaker 9 (33:22):
Well, I think the fact that Jed's coach there, it
will help because he'll kind of be able to talk
to the team about the mystique of the Big House
and all of that. You know, it's not a loud
place because it's a bowl in the place, you're going
to be able to hear. This is all going to
come down to, does Wink Martindale able to craft the
(33:44):
same kind of plan that Patricia did and keep Demand's
legs at Bay and if that be the case, then
it's all going to come down to third down conversions.
Because if the Huskies can play on third down and
play efficiently on third down, there better than Michigan on offense.
That's a fact. Michigan runs the ball. SC was able
(34:06):
to corral them in the running game. That hadn't been
the case with the Trojans in the Lincoln Riley era.
That they were able to and SC also ran for
over two hundred yards out rushed Michigan. And if Washington
can do that with both the Man and Joana Coleman,
they this sets up really well for the Dogs. I
will not be shocked with a I know they are underdog,
(34:28):
but I will not be shocked with the Husky victory.
Speaker 7 (34:31):
Do you feel like there's enough seeing in the pants
of this d line to slow down the Justice Haynes
kid from Michigan.
Speaker 9 (34:37):
To me, that's always the answer when they take one
on the chin at Michigan is we've got to run
the ball. And that was their key when they went
to Nebraska and won. They had big runs and Justice
Haynes is a heck of a player. They've got a
couple of you know, Robbins to his batman. But the
bottom line is this is going to be the key
(35:00):
and Jed will know this. Uh, they have to stop
the running game. And I would suspect if they're starting to,
you know, meet loggerheads in the running game that Bryce
Underwood their quarterback wall also incorporate its legs, and it'll
be interesting if they add more of that to the equation.
When the Huskies get the town.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Rig new Eyesel man air air finger trying to put
the point hop my button airfinger. Uh Rig new Eyesel
talking about the Michigan Wolverines. Look, this isn't as talented
a roster as it was a couple of years ago
when we were playing for a national championship. Since Jim
Harball left, there has been a decline, but it's still
(35:43):
Michigan football, and they still play the same way, and
there still are going to be physical and they do
take tremendous pride wearing those colors, wearing that Wolverine helmet
and when they're at home, particularly so if you match
their physicality, which is not an easy thing to ask
of Washington, but if you match their physicality, I think you're.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
Going to win this game.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
But as I said, that's not an easy thing to ask.
Michigan is going to be physical. They take tremendous pride
in it. But I do think we have the advantage
skill wise, playmaker wise going into this game. I mean,
they lost eighteen points the USC last week. I mean
they got ran off the field last week. So this
(36:27):
is not a great team. Great Michigan team, and there
have been some great ones over the course of the
last decade, but you better believe you're going to get
an honest day's effort. So you better be you better
have the hard hat strapped on.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (36:40):
I mean they lost to Oklahoma and they've lost to USC.
Those are the two best teams they've played. They barely
squeaked out a w against Nebraska. I think you nailed it.
When you're talking about the skill players, like the talent.
I mean, I think if you just go Brice Underworld
versus Underwood versus Demon Williams, I think you got the
advantage of the most important position. I think both teams
(37:01):
have good running backs, which one can get going and
get loose. I think you have an advantage in pass catchers. Yeah,
but it's gonna boil down to do you let them
impose their will. This is gonna be a good measuring stick,
I think for the Huskies.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
All right, headlines coming up, Greg Bell's coming up. We
got to talk some Seahawks football, even though they don't
play until Monday night.
Speaker 4 (37:20):
And I'm sure he's gonna talk some baseball too. That's
Greg Bell for you. Sports Radio ninety three point three
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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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