October 17, 2025 • 33 mins
We cover the top 8 sports stories of the week in the OCHO 1. Mariners blown out again 2. Game 5 is today 3. Huskies head to Ann Arbor 4. Thursday Night football: AARP bowl 5. Seahawks face the Texans on Monday Night 6. Kraken go to a shootout in Ottawa 7. Sounders close out the regular season in NY 8. KJR has a busy weekend! :30- Ok, it’s time to get pumped up for another Friday Game 5. Let’s go Mariners! :45- The Huskies face Michigan bright and early tomorrow and more big ten action.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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will get started with the Seattle Mariners Game number four
of the American League Championship Series against the Toronto Blue
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Jays last night, and it's started very similarly then to
Game number three. The Mariners had the lead. A home run,
this one by Josh Naylor, had given them that lead.
It looked like our starting pitcher was off to a
really good start. And then all of a sudden. In
the third inning, he runs into the terrifying eight nine
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hitters of the Toronto Blue Jays. A double by Isaiah
Heiner Filefa just inside the third base bag started the inning.
And then the guy that is newly terrorizing us, the
Mike Trout of Canada, Andresjamenez steps to the plate and
for the second time in as many nights, he does.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
This the in catch the high wines whi at the
right field ken zones going back.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
It's gone again.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
It's amenas out of the non spot, sparking the Jays
for the second night.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
In a row.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Light beings strikes twice but from an unlikely source two
to one Toronto.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Joe Davis kind of spelling it out there for you
last night there on Fox. I mean. Andre Simonnez is
a talented player. He was a top prospect in the
Cleveland organization for a long time, known mainly for his glove,
but he had a pretty good scouting report for his bat.
He just had a really bad year at the plate
this year. He certainly didn't hit for power this season,
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but for two nights in a row, his first at
bat of the night, he has launched the Toronto offensive
assault by homering off of George Kirby and then Luis
Castillo last night.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Well, both of them were the exact same situation. You
get a double ahead of him. His job is to
move the runner over. He understands his role on the
team is not to be the power guy, not to
be the run producer, but to set the table. Get
that guy to third base so George Springer can drive
the guy in or do damage. And yet our pitchers
both made the mistake of throwing right where he can
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do damage and do his job.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
A pullable pitch.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Down and in, he drops head on it, squeaks it
over the wall yesterday, and next thing you know, we
go from up one to a down one.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
It just is, it's just poor execution.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
I don't think for one second, George says, I made
a mistake on that pitch. I was trying to go
up and in, which I don't know why you're even
going in period, because then if you miss down this happens.
Just go something away to where he rolls over it
or hits a ball, and short stop doesn't move the
run over, doesn't do his job. You open yourself up
to that mistake, and yet it boils down to execution.
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If he dots that up and in corner, he probably
doesn't hit it. There's a reason he hit to ten
and had seven homers. And then Luis Castillo comes back like, oh,
I can do that too. I'll just throw it right
where you're trying to get one. I'll give you exactly
what you're looking for, and next thing you know, you know,
they take the lead and never look back.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
I just like that guy, do you.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Yeah, And he didn't like the little puppy dog celebration
that he did afterwards.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Yeah, I didn't like that.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Yeah. Yeah. Well, as Bruce Springsteen once said, you can't
start a fire without a spark, and he certainly has
provided the spark, and then the fire roared for the
rest of the game. The next thing you know, you've
burned down the playroom.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
He also said, born in the USA, So yeah, he.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Did say that. Eight run game, four efforts before another
sellout crowd in Seattle plus forty one year old Max
Scherzer baffled Mariners hitters for better than five innings last
night using not mad Max stuff. It's old man Max
stuff that he used last night, and Mariners hitters I
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think had a decent game plan early on, but once
he got the lead, he just started toying with them.
You know, just I'm gonna bust you in early to
get ahead and account dare you to get your barrel
out on a fastball inside, and then I'm gonna throw
breaking balls in the dirt away from you that you'll
never hit and maybe you'll at them. And we just
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kept swinging at them. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
I mean, it's in the little bit of time that
I spent in the big leagues, I learned the lesson
real quick that the reason that the guys are up here,
it typically is because they understand how to pitch. They
understand how to use If it's your aggressiveness against you
or if you're complacent or somewhat passive, they'll use that
against you. Yesterday was the one oh one class of pitching.
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Just go get them, go after him, let them think, okay, here,
I'm going to attack them with fast balls, and then
if they miss it, great.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
You have them set up.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Now for stuff that looks like something going down the
middle and breaking off the plate away. He did it
time after time after time, and with the exception of
Josh Naylor, nobody made an adjustment.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Yeah, you know, occasionally I have one of those games
where you just stink that day, we stunk last night,
and you just don't want it to ever surface in
a playoff game. I mean, I think about the Milwaukee Brewers,
I mean, they just seem overmatch, but they haven't stunk
in a game. They just haven't pulled out a victory
against the Los Angeles Dodgers. We were terrible last night
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and in a lot of ways running the bases, our
approach at the plate, and then uh, you know, obviously
not executing pitching wise in run scoring the possibilities. The
Jays have outscored the Mariners twenty one to six the
last two nights, evening this best of seven series at
two games apiece and assuring a return to Canada. And
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the last time we were there, it was Blue Jay
fans that couldn't figure out why they were so bad.
I mean, we before we left caught a bunch of
them just bickering on the sidelines. Don't come there right
but it I'm not your budtet friend. He's not your
friend guy. I'm not your.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Guy, but he's not your buy friend.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I'm not your foot gy. The US teacher. Very annoying. Yeah,
with their bad eyes and their flappy gums.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
I blame Canada.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Yeah, I do, I do. I blame Canada. But Bryce
Miller can help make the medicine go down today. Maybe
he is just the treatment that we're looking for. He
certainly was the answer in game number one. He's going
to get the ball in game number five and twenty
four hours ago, sitting here on this show, we thought
it was going to be Brian wu getting the start,
but Dan before the game yesterday made it clear that no,
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we're going to hand the ball to Bryce Miller in
game number five to face Kevin Gosman. He was clearly
our number five starter this year Bryce in terms of
effectiveness and availability. But it's very strange how the wheels
turn in Major League Baseball, because it feels to me
like Mariner fans suddenly feel like the exact right guy
is getting the ball today to face Gosman.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Yeah, you were right the hot hand, and I don't
care if it was hot for one hand or two
hands or three hands. At his last time out there,
he's pitched the best to this lineup. He was the
one that kind of set the tone for the way
in which the series started. We've fumbled that away the
first couple of games at home. But I do trust
he's gonna go out there just kind of like the
Clint Eastwood like you call him and just cool customer,
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go out there and attack and do what he's gonna do.
The nice thing is is you still have your bullpen.
Everybody's at your disposal because youve got tomorrow off.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you go kind of you have to
kind of go the same approach. It's almost like a
Game seven approach, and we might have four straight games
of this before it's all said and done, so he'll
have a quick hook too. If the matchup's not favorable.
He puts a couple of guys on base in the third, fourth,
fifth innings, then it will be a move to the
bullpen and just figuring out the right matchups and crossing
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your fingers that guys are on their game. First pitch
today is at three oh eight. And yes, if you're
saying pivotal, I think that's I think that's the appropriate word.
But I will say this, you win this, and it
feels like you're completely back in control of the series. Obviously,
there's nothing intimidating about playing baseball in Toronto. We had
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no problem with that in Games one and two. Home
field advantage has meant nothing in this series and in
most series in these Major League Baseball A playoffs. So
you win today, you pull out a victory today, and
suddenly you just got to win one out of two
in Toronto and that doesn't seem so intimidating at all. No,
I think the word pivotal is perfect.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
I mean the series kind of pivots right here at
this point, I mean there is right now it's two two.
It feels like maybe it's advantaged them. They came in
and answered the two that we snipered from them at
their place. And yet at the same time it doesn't
really matter. Still, starting zero zero, they don't get to
carry over any runs or any better approaches from yesterday.
(09:32):
We just need to answer the bell. It's gut check time.
If you didn't look in the mirror last night before
you went to bad Mariners, you better have done it
this morning and recognize it's time to turn it around
and either prove that you're better than they are or
get ready to go on vacation.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Bucky and I are gonna bring our a game tonight.
We're gonna have the right approach. I will like that
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you Husky fans. Tomorrow morning as well, Hanks will be
on the air at six am getting you ready for
a nine a m. Kickoff. It'll be Washington at Michigan.
That's right, the Wolverines in ann Arbor at the Big House.
(10:31):
Oh yeah, this is a huge game. Rick new Isil
was with us on Tuesday and talked about the matchup.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
This is all going to come down to, does Wink
Martindale able to craft the same kind of plan that
Patricia did and keep Demand's legs at day And if
that be the case, then it's all going to come
down to third down conversion. Because if the Huskies can
play on third down and play efficiently on third down,
they're better than Michigan on offense.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
That's a fact.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
Michigan runs the ball. Sc was able to corral them
in the running game. That hadn't been the case with
the Trojans in the Lincoln Riley era, but 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 mont and Joan Coleman, it just sets
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up really well for the Dogs. I will not be
shocked with a I know they are underdog, but I
will not be shocked with a Husky victor.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Yeah. I wouldn't be shocked either. But they got to
match their physicality. If they can do that, and that's
not an easy thing to ask because Michigan's known for
it and they get a little hyped up at home.
But if they can do that, I think they win
the football game. It opened as a nine and a
half point spread with the Dogs being the underdogs. By
the time Ashley got a hold of it, it was
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a six point spread. In fact or fiction, it's all
the way back down to four and a half right now,
So you'd have just a four and a half point
underdog heading end of this game tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
More.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Well, yeah, that's gonna be a good measuring stick you're
gonna find. This is definitely, I mean, the best opponent
they faced is Ohio State, and they hung with him
for a half and then it kind of kind of.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Fell in on him a little bit.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
This is one where go out there, play four tough
quarters kind of match to physicality, don't let the big
house become too big, and shock the world to some degree,
and you will find yourself ranked somewhere in that top
twenty five.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Koch's coming off an impressive loss, if there is such
a thing. We'll be at eighteen Virginia tomorrow at three thirty.
The Week eight of the college football season starts tonight
with several good games. Nebraska plays Minnesota and number two
Miami tries to stay undefeated against Louisville, and then on Saturday,
all sorts of games featuring ranked opponents number ten, LSU
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at seventeen, Vanderbilt number five, Ole Miss at number nine,
Georgia number eleven, Tennessee at number six, Alabama number twenty three,
Utah at number fifteen BYU in the Holy War, and
then Ashley's favorite rivalry number twenty, USC at number thirty
teen Notre Dame. Eh, don't say that about USC.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
That's not It's about both of them, really, But I
will be cheering for USC this time this time.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Yeah, well you're on her Pooh list though, Yeah, all
my monter time. Yeah, think about that.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Up there close to the top.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Alight am. Number four on our ow show Thursday Night
Football Last Night featured Aaron Rodgers versus Joe Flacco. That's
right too, one hundred year old quarterbacks doing battle on
Thursday Night Football. Forties.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
You grow a little pipe belly, you grow another chin.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
The music starts to get too loud.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
One of your old girlfriends from high school becomes a grandmother.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
So true. Two forty year old plus quarterbacks meeting in
an NFL game for the first time ever. That's a
little surprising to me. And it turns out that Flacco
wins the day thirty three thirty one Cincinnati over Pittsburgh.
If our Chase had sixteen catches, one hundred and sixty
one yards and a.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Touchdown, Fantasy team.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Yah, are you glad you took him? In fantasy. I mean,
even without Joe Burrow, he still puts up monster numbers. Incredible.
The Rams will be at Jacksonville at six thirty Sunday morning.
That will be in London, of course, home of the Jaguars.
And then Philadelphia Minnesota is probably her best game of
the early games which are not that impressive. Indiana Indianapolis
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against the Chargers, that is a really good game. And
then Sunday Night Atlanta and San Francisco is your Sunday
night matchup. Seahawks will not play until Monday night against
the Texans. Of course, the Seahawks trying to get their
secondary healthy. We're all wondering, well Witherspoon will love play
on Monday night. Here's Greg Bell with the outlook on
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the secondary.
Speaker 8 (14:51):
So all three of them practicing four days before the
game suggests that they're going to all three play and
their secondary will be whole. And that will because they
haven't had a whole secondary since the first half of
the first game, because Witherspoon got hurt in the second
half colliding with Josh Job when Joeb intercepted bruck Purty
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way back on September seventh, and since then, Witherspin's only
played two of six games. The first game we get hurt,
and he came back for the Arizona game September twenty fifth,
and then hasn't played against since. So it's somewhat remarkable.
They're four and two in their defense, except for the
Tampa Bay game, has controlled games without who I think
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their best player, Devin Witherspoon.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Is Yeah, Hawks four and two, Texans two and three,
But they're a lot better than their record indicates. The
offense starting to come together. The defense has been spectacular
all season, clearly ranked number one in the National Football League.
Seahawks will play one of two football games on Monday night.
They'll play the second game of a true doublehead or
no overlapping there. So they will be game number two
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on Monday night, and we will be talking about it
a lot Monday, and of course reacting on Tuesday. The Kraken.
They have not come away from a game yet this
year without at least a point. They kept that streak
going last night despite a second loss in two games.
Shane Pinto can put it away for the whole team.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Right handed shot Shane Pinto from the red line carries
it over left side of the circle now cuts back
to the slot, walks in shots.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Scores, and the Ottawa Editors.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Come back after the Kraken took the lead early in
the third, they score late in the third, survive a
push from Seattle in overtime, and get the win in
the shootout by a four to three score.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Patrifinal effort fits you on the call right here on
the flagship Sports Radio ninety three point three KHARFM, Chandler
Stevenson scored twice. The kl earned a point in each
of their four games to start the year, but they've
lost both games on the season's first road trip. They
will also be taking on Toronto this weekend in Toronto
tomorrow at four o'clock. And finally the Sounders and they'll
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play on the road. That first round is a best
of three format and so they don't as far as
I can tell, don't have much to play for on Saturday,
but there are a lot of things on the line
with the MLS playoff picture tomorrow on decision Day. All right,
coming up next on our radio program, are the Mariners cooked? Well?
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If they are, they usually are best when they're cooked.
They're like a pop tart. Sports Radio ninety three point
three KJRFM. Ever felt like an indie race car right there. Yeah,
he just totally indy pitcrewed me during the break, shoved
wires up our shirts. Yeah, wires up my shirts. He
spun my tires yeah you know yeah, I think he
even took the back one off. Yeah. I did put
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some gas in here. Yeah, gasped.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
Yeah, that's a bad.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Photo of your calf bumps. Yeah, he was like, I've
already done that. Yeah, saw him coming. Yeah. Those those
TV people, they are efficient.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
That was pretty impressive. We went from on the air
to thirty seconds later on the TV air.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
I guess yeah, I don't even know.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Now back on the radio, you guys are multitaskers.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
I'm tired, and I don't even know.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
You might be doing another TV thing with the Canadian people.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
I think the Canadians are coming in there.
Speaker 7 (18:26):
They're downstairs outside right now. They're so polite. They asked
permission to film outside. I said, uh, can we just
be out oh here? I was like, yeah, you can
be out there.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
I only accepted this invitation this. Uh you know, drop
by if you will so I could give him a
piece of my mind. Okay, good, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
So I don't know if they're coming up or not.
I sent a text I haven't hear.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
It's gonna get ugly. It's Chuck, it's buckets, Ashley. We're
getting ready for game number five and every way possible,
because it does feel damn important. Three o'clock is your
first pitch. And I compared this team to a pop
tart that you know, usually they are best when you've
cooked them, maybe even overcooked them a little bit. And
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I think a lot of Mariner fans, I think, for
the third time this postseason, have come to the conclusion
that it's just not in the cards. You know, it's
just not gonna happen. That's usually when they play their best.
As a matter of fact, I think they're more like
a can of baked beans. Like you ever tried to
eat a can of cold baked beans, not shod right,
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but man put them over a flame and suddenly, you know,
around a campfire and it tastes like the most delicious
thing you've ever had. Amen. So I mean, you can
say that they're cooked, but this might be exactly where
they want the Blue Jays, because we're talking about a
team that got at the trading deadline. They decided to
go for it very aggressively and went ten and one
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coming out of that, and we were all sure, like,
oh my gosh, this is the best team in baseball.
Those are the perfect editions, filled holes, great clubhouse guys.
Oh my god, we're gonna just steamroll to the playoffs.
And then they went six and fifteen. Just when we
thought they were really good and had solved baseball. Uh huh.
Then they go six and fifteen, and just when you thought,
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oh my gosh, this team we can't even blame Jerry
on this one. This team was really well put together
and they still can't win. My goodness, what happened to
our team that was ten and one in eleven games?
What did they do then, just when you stopped watching,
just when you were sure that they were crumbling again
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typical Mariner baseball. What did they do? They beat the
Atlanta Braves and back to back games twenty eight to four.
That started a ten game winning streak. They won seventeen
out of eighteen games. For goodness sake, they not only
made the playoffs, they won the division. With room to spare,
they earned to buy. And then suddenly we're sure that
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they're rolling, and what did they do to us? They
lost Game one of the American League Divisional Series against
the Relief Group, and then people were sure that they
were done. And then they won back to back games,
and then they were leading three to nothing in the
third game, Game number four, and Tiger fans were leaving
the park by the thousands because they were sure they
were overmatched. And just when you start believing, they blew
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it all.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
My heart can't handle just the story.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
And then that forces a game five, and then of
course we're sure we can't beat Trek's Google again. We
can't go six extra innings and strand that many base
runners and still pull this thing out? Can we? And
they do it, and then the entire national media, well,
they're gonna be way too tired to play the Blue
Jays in game number one. That's a loss right there,
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and instead a win and another win. Coming home two
to nothing, Harold Reynolds tells us, I don't see a
path where the Blue Jays can get back into this series.
And sure enough, they've lost two straight games at home
against one of the fevered crowds in baseball history, and
here we go again. Everybody's convinced that the goose is cooked,
that the baked beans, the bake beans got ruined, spent
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too much time over the campfire. And guess what this is.
Usually when they play their we'll probably lose today one
hundred to five, and then go to Toronto with nobody
giving them a chance, and they'll squeak out Game six
and win Game seven and the forty fourth inning, and
then we'll go to the World Series. This is just
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the way this team plays, and I don't necessarily like it,
but it's never dull. I'll tell you that.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Well, it's pretty enjoyable when as long as you come
out on the good side of things. I mean, it's
the idea of if they would have won that game
four and we never would have got to witness that
game five. I mean, I guess to some degree a
lot of people be like, yeah, my health would benefit
from not having fifteen innings of stranded runners and whatnot.
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And yet to me, that's what I want. I mean,
I don't want it to I don't want to lose
one hundred to five today and then beat them at
their place back to back to pull it out of
the fire. I don't want that to happen, but it
would be pretty enjoyable if it did go down that way.
I'll just say it boils down to execution. I mean,
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people can sit in their chairs and question this and
question that, and think this, and think that. It boils
down to man for man, Are we tougher than they are?
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Man for man? Are we more dialed in than they are?
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Well, the last couple of nights would say no, The
previous couple games would say yes, you were. So now
you get down to three games. Who's going to show
up and make the twenty seven outs they have to
earn against us tougher, Who's going to show up on
the other side of the ball and make it really
difficult for them to scrape together offense? And it boils
down to individual performances. How much are you going to
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be in on it? And I don't expect you to
be perfect, but the approach to taking strive for perfection
and then you hopefully land somewhere that's acceptable. Yesterday did
not look like a team that was striving for perfection.
And it's not that I'm gonna say that. They just
were like, Oh, we don't care, it's no big deal.
We won too At their place, so we should give
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them back just to be polite. No, you just didn't
execute you. I think that they knew what a veteran
pitcher may or may not go out there and try
to do. And he did it, and they took some
hacks at some good pitches that he was just like,
I'm gonna get ahead. Here comes my fast Well, I'm
gonna get ahead.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Now.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
You think I'm the old Max Scherzer and nope, I'm
going to turn into the nibbler. I'm going to turn
into the guy that's gonna get you to chase and
you fell into the trap.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
That's a thing between the years.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
And if it's pressing, like Bill Wixie was asking us
on Fox, it could be pressing. We've seen this team
press before. Well stop pressing. What do you have to
press for? It's not that. Yeah, the city of Seattle
wants this, and you want this and all of this stuff.
It just go out and prove that you're better than
they are. And if you can't, if you can't approach
the game the right way for twenty seven outs on
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both sides, then you're going to prove that you're not
better than they are. And to me, I look at
it as too too. I don't look at as advantage them.
I don't look at it as well. They beat us
by more the run differential, I don't think that matters.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Pretty sure.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
It starts zero zero, and let's see if our lineup.
I think our lineup can compare to theirs. I think
their lineup has an advantage of putting more balls in play.
But there's nothing saying that we have to go out
there and strike out ten times. There's nothing saying you
can't put balls in player, that you can't shorten your
swing and say, let's put pressure on their defense a
little bit the way that they're doing us. If you
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do it, and Bryce Miller answers the bell, I think
you're gonna be sitting okay, And you're right.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
You go to Toronto only having to win one game.
I like that chance.
Speaker 5 (25:46):
Yeah, I would like that plan. That plan sounds like
a good one to me.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Yeah. That Byron from Fox thirteen was a pressure player.
Tell you that, right? Yeah, oh right now, didn't even heartbeat,
didn't even raise up. Yeah. He's like, well, we got
about ten seconds, so how long does this segment go?
This ocho thing he's in there looking at me like
I need to I need to sen you up, buddy, yep.
And he waited till the end of the break and
then got me all Indie pit crewed in like fifteen seconds.
(26:12):
Ball play a violated, violated very much. So I liked it,
did you? Yeah, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
He's asked for my phone number while we're on the air.
Nice Mike, what are you doing? He's pointing my phone,
pointing his phone. Put your phone number in here so
I can call your phone.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
We'll send pictures.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Yeah, geezh. Well, look, Kevin Gosman's their best guy, and
he was pretty good against US, yep, really good against
us in game number one. Bryce Miller's our five guy,
and yet he was even better than Gosman in game
number one. So let's see where it goes. But just
gonna stick to it. I still feel good about our
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chances over the course of a seven game series, and
we're even right now. It's the best of three from
this point forward. And sure we got to play the
last two in Toronto, but you win today and suddenly
that doesn't seem like all that daunting a task. So
this might be it. This might be the pivotal game.
Game number five today at three o'clock, and I'm all
about it. Ryan Heally will join us at nine o'clock.
(27:13):
We'll get his thoughts on everything coming up next to
a little college football. We preview not just you Michigan,
but the entire Big Ten schedule this weekend on Sports
Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. Ryan Heally still to
join us today. I don't have any surprises for him today.
At this point, I hope he's not expecting him.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
It's just become a daily occurrence.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Now. Yeah, I don't want to be the person that
brings in muffins every Friday and then the staff gets
angry the Friday. I don't you know what I mean? Yeah? Thanks,
you introduced him to the old judge, brought his best
friend on the show with us yesterday via surprise.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
I tried setting something up for someone to sneak in
mid segment and depants him.
Speaker 8 (27:57):
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (27:58):
YEA may or may not have a surprise waiting. And
now I suddenly don't want to do the zoom call
all right? Ryan at nine and the AB season nine
to thirty. But we always previewed the Big Ten college
football weekend. Of course, the game we're most interested in
is Washington at Michigan nine am kickoff. That's the big
game on Fox, Big noon game on Fox. Hawks will
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start at six a m. But there is a pretty
interesting matchup tonight Nebraska and Minnesota, long hated rivals. Yeah,
of the planes, they will quite a night at five o'clock.
Nebraska actually enters this week ranked for the first time
this season, even though they're head coaches, being involved in
the heaviest of Penn State head coaching rumors right now,
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I guess I'll try to stay focused on the job
he has and try to beat Minnesota tonight at five o'clock.
The noon hour time kickoff. On Saturday, you've got Purdue
at Northwestern, then at twelve thirty Ohio State at Wisconsin.
Number three Indiana, which did extend Kurt Signetti to a
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very lucrative long term contract to try to keep the
Penn States of the world away from their head coach
now that they finally have good football for the first
time ever. So Indiana will be hosting Michigan State. Hopefully
that contract won't go to Kurt Signetti's head. He's just
so humble, Yeah, he's very humble. Yeah, really little low key.
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I feel like he is a guy that might not
ever leave though if he's acting like it. I mean,
you signed an eight year extension and when you're the
hottest name out there and you could go to number
one number of programs that are available, and for him
to say, I don't need to see those, I'm here,
I'm here, this is where I want to be. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
I love Castle, I love that same here and I
hope that they go back to being just a basketball school.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Oregon is at Rutgers. I think Oregon's going to take
out a lot of frustration over that loss on the
poor Scarlet Knights. This weekend, that's a three thirty start
Penn State. James Franklin will be in Iowa to take
on the Hawkeyes at four. The Jerry new Heiseel Show
continues against Maryland at four o'clock. They'll play that game
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in Los Angeles. New Heisel Fournia. They've now named it
after him. Yeah, it doesn't really roll off the tongue
they felt they owed it to Jerry and then USC
at Notre Dame in the matchup that Ashley doesn't even
really want to embrace anymore.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
I really don't yeah. I mean, I'm glad they're still
doing it. I just I don't really like them either.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Pet Do you Petro? Have you heard Petros's analysis on this,
this whole thing about maybe it won't continue, he said
earlier this week, And you know, could be just big talk,
but I think Petros kind of means what he says, Yeah, says,
if they in this game, he's just done. He's just done.
He doesn't even want to be a part of college
football anymore.
Speaker 7 (30:50):
Well, in this tradition, I agree it should not that
rivalry should not end. As I said, it is one
of two games where I have no problem, Jerry for USC.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
One of two games remaining, right.
Speaker 7 (31:02):
Yes, well, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
All right. So four thirty start there on NBC, and
part of our Big ten Pickups preview or Big ten
Preview is our pickups for our fantasy league. Ashley right
now is leading away with five hundred and thirty points.
It's tight at the top kids got five oh five,
He's and second Bucky's at five hundred. I have won
the last two weeks. It seems like my team's kind
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of turned it around. Gave a great pep speech three weeks.
Good job did you really Yeah, yeah, job, yeah, like
the Jerry new Isle of our Fantasy Pro league really
turned things around since the play calling duties like that
got changed from me to me. Yeah, but I'm still
way back. I'm still almost one hundred points back of
first place, for goodness sake, and nearly seventy points back
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a third place. So I got a lot of work
to do. The only team on buy this week is Illinoy.
That only affects Ashley, who has the last pick. The
kid is so arrogant he skips every Week's sure he's
got the championship team, so he's staying with what he's got. Bucky,
you've got the next selection. Are you going to make
a move? I am?
Speaker 4 (32:09):
I am, and I don't really like to do it
because I'm going to take somebody that's playing against my ducks.
I'm gonna take Antoine Raymond. I'm gonna pick him up.
I'm gonna drop k Tron Allen.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Oh wow, wow, Well you've given up on Penn State too.
Everybody has I go by next week looking two steps
ahead there. That's not a bad formula, all right, Taking
the Rutgers running back and letting go of k Tron
Allen of Penn State. I'm gonna skip this week. My
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team's finally rolling. I'm gonna stick with him for at
least another week. So Ashley, I would imagine you're getting
rid of your quarterback.
Speaker 7 (32:49):
I am getting rid of Luke Altmeyer, and I don't
really like doing this, but I'm going with Nico. I mean,
the guy's had nine touchdowns all season, and five of
them have been.
Speaker 5 (33:02):
In the last two weeks.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Okay, So.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
I believe in Jerry Neuheisel.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Wow, oh yeah, you're going to UCL For whatever reason,
I was just automatically thinking you were going to the
US started to write, Okay, all right, interesting, yeah, very interesting.
Speaker 8 (33:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (33:30):
I'm like, let's see, let's ride.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
The hand happens here. I think that's a pretty clever
pick there. All right, there you go, get ready for
some Big ten football. It does start tonight, but kick
off for U dub is tomorrow morning at nine o'clock.
Honks start at six. Coming up next. Ryan Healey joins
US as he has throughout the playoffs for the Mariners.
The former Mariner just by himself. We'll grill them with
(33:53):
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will get started with the Seattle Mariners Game number four
of the American League Championship Series against the Toronto Blue
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Jays last night, and it's started very similarly then to
Game number three. The Mariners had the lead. A home run,
this one by Josh Naylor, had given them that lead.
It looked like our starting pitcher was off to a
really good start. And then all of a sudden. In
the third inning, he runs into the terrifying eight nine
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hitters of the Toronto Blue Jays. A double by Isaiah
Heiner Filefa just inside the third base bag started the inning.
And then the guy that is newly terrorizing us, the
Mike Trout of Canada, Andresjamenez steps to the plate and
for the second time in as many nights, he does.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
This the in catch the high wines whi at the
right field ken zones going back.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
It's gone again.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
It's amenas out of the non spot, sparking the Jays
for the second night.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
In a row.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Light beings strikes twice but from an unlikely source two
to one Toronto.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Joe Davis kind of spelling it out there for you
last night there on Fox. I mean. Andre Simonnez is
a talented player. He was a top prospect in the
Cleveland organization for a long time, known mainly for his glove,
but he had a pretty good scouting report for his bat.
He just had a really bad year at the plate
this year. He certainly didn't hit for power this season,
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but for two nights in a row, his first at
bat of the night, he has launched the Toronto offensive
assault by homering off of George Kirby and then Luis
Castillo last night.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Well, both of them were the exact same situation. You
get a double ahead of him. His job is to
move the runner over. He understands his role on the
team is not to be the power guy, not to
be the run producer, but to set the table. Get
that guy to third base so George Springer can drive
the guy in or do damage. And yet our pitchers
both made the mistake of throwing right where he can
(03:01):
do damage and do his job.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
A pullable pitch.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Down and in, he drops head on it, squeaks it
over the wall yesterday, and next thing you know, we
go from up one to a down one.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
It just is, it's just poor execution.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
I don't think for one second, George says, I made
a mistake on that pitch. I was trying to go
up and in, which I don't know why you're even
going in period, because then if you miss down this happens.
Just go something away to where he rolls over it
or hits a ball, and short stop doesn't move the
run over, doesn't do his job. You open yourself up
to that mistake, and yet it boils down to execution.
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If he dots that up and in corner, he probably
doesn't hit it. There's a reason he hit to ten
and had seven homers. And then Luis Castillo comes back like, oh,
I can do that too. I'll just throw it right
where you're trying to get one. I'll give you exactly
what you're looking for, and next thing you know, you know,
they take the lead and never look back.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
I just like that guy, do you.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Yeah, And he didn't like the little puppy dog celebration
that he did afterwards.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Yeah, I didn't like that.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Yeah. Yeah. Well, as Bruce Springsteen once said, you can't
start a fire without a spark, and he certainly has
provided the spark, and then the fire roared for the
rest of the game. The next thing you know, you've
burned down the playroom.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
He also said, born in the USA, So yeah, he.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Did say that. Eight run game, four efforts before another
sellout crowd in Seattle plus forty one year old Max
Scherzer baffled Mariners hitters for better than five innings last
night using not mad Max stuff. It's old man Max
stuff that he used last night, and Mariners hitters I
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think had a decent game plan early on, but once
he got the lead, he just started toying with them.
You know, just I'm gonna bust you in early to
get ahead and account dare you to get your barrel
out on a fastball inside, and then I'm gonna throw
breaking balls in the dirt away from you that you'll
never hit and maybe you'll at them. And we just
(05:01):
kept swinging at them. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
I mean, it's in the little bit of time that
I spent in the big leagues, I learned the lesson
real quick that the reason that the guys are up here,
it typically is because they understand how to pitch. They
understand how to use If it's your aggressiveness against you
or if you're complacent or somewhat passive, they'll use that
against you. Yesterday was the one oh one class of pitching.
(05:24):
Just go get them, go after him, let them think, okay, here,
I'm going to attack them with fast balls, and then
if they miss it, great.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
You have them set up.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Now for stuff that looks like something going down the
middle and breaking off the plate away. He did it
time after time after time, and with the exception of
Josh Naylor, nobody made an adjustment.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Yeah, you know, occasionally I have one of those games
where you just stink that day, we stunk last night,
and you just don't want it to ever surface in
a playoff game. I mean, I think about the Milwaukee Brewers,
I mean, they just seem overmatch, but they haven't stunk
in a game. They just haven't pulled out a victory
against the Los Angeles Dodgers. We were terrible last night
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and in a lot of ways running the bases, our
approach at the plate, and then uh, you know, obviously
not executing pitching wise in run scoring the possibilities. The
Jays have outscored the Mariners twenty one to six the
last two nights, evening this best of seven series at
two games apiece and assuring a return to Canada. And
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the last time we were there, it was Blue Jay
fans that couldn't figure out why they were so bad.
I mean, we before we left caught a bunch of
them just bickering on the sidelines. Don't come there right
but it I'm not your budtet friend. He's not your
friend guy. I'm not your.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Guy, but he's not your buy friend.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I'm not your foot gy. The US teacher. Very annoying. Yeah,
with their bad eyes and their flappy gums.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
I blame Canada.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Yeah, I do, I do. I blame Canada. But Bryce
Miller can help make the medicine go down today. Maybe
he is just the treatment that we're looking for. He
certainly was the answer in game number one. He's going
to get the ball in game number five and twenty
four hours ago, sitting here on this show, we thought
it was going to be Brian wu getting the start,
but Dan before the game yesterday made it clear that no,
(07:19):
we're going to hand the ball to Bryce Miller in
game number five to face Kevin Gosman. He was clearly
our number five starter this year Bryce in terms of
effectiveness and availability. But it's very strange how the wheels
turn in Major League Baseball, because it feels to me
like Mariner fans suddenly feel like the exact right guy
is getting the ball today to face Gosman.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Yeah, you were right the hot hand, and I don't
care if it was hot for one hand or two
hands or three hands. At his last time out there,
he's pitched the best to this lineup. He was the
one that kind of set the tone for the way
in which the series started. We've fumbled that away the
first couple of games at home. But I do trust
he's gonna go out there just kind of like the
Clint Eastwood like you call him and just cool customer,
(08:01):
go out there and attack and do what he's gonna do.
The nice thing is is you still have your bullpen.
Everybody's at your disposal because youve got tomorrow off.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you go kind of you have to
kind of go the same approach. It's almost like a
Game seven approach, and we might have four straight games
of this before it's all said and done, so he'll
have a quick hook too. If the matchup's not favorable.
He puts a couple of guys on base in the third, fourth,
fifth innings, then it will be a move to the
bullpen and just figuring out the right matchups and crossing
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your fingers that guys are on their game. First pitch
today is at three oh eight. And yes, if you're
saying pivotal, I think that's I think that's the appropriate word.
But I will say this, you win this, and it
feels like you're completely back in control of the series. Obviously,
there's nothing intimidating about playing baseball in Toronto. We had
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no problem with that in Games one and two. Home
field advantage has meant nothing in this series and in
most series in these Major League Baseball A playoffs. So
you win today, you pull out a victory today, and
suddenly you just got to win one out of two
in Toronto and that doesn't seem so intimidating at all. No,
I think the word pivotal is perfect.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
I mean the series kind of pivots right here at
this point, I mean there is right now it's two two.
It feels like maybe it's advantaged them. They came in
and answered the two that we snipered from them at
their place. And yet at the same time it doesn't
really matter. Still, starting zero zero, they don't get to
carry over any runs or any better approaches from yesterday.
(09:32):
We just need to answer the bell. It's gut check time.
If you didn't look in the mirror last night before
you went to bad Mariners, you better have done it
this morning and recognize it's time to turn it around
and either prove that you're better than they are or
get ready to go on vacation.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Bucky and I are gonna bring our a game tonight.
We're gonna have the right approach. I will like that
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Radio ninety three point three kha RFM. We're there for
you Husky fans. Tomorrow morning as well, Hanks will be
on the air at six am getting you ready for
a nine a m. Kickoff. It'll be Washington at Michigan.
That's right, the Wolverines in ann Arbor at the Big House.
(10:31):
Oh yeah, this is a huge game. Rick new Isil
was with us on Tuesday and talked about the matchup.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
This is all going to come down to, does Wink
Martindale able to craft the same kind of plan that
Patricia did and keep Demand's legs at day And if
that be the case, then it's all going to come
down to third down conversion. Because if the Huskies can
play on third down and play efficiently on third down,
they're better than Michigan on offense.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
That's a fact.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
Michigan runs the ball. Sc was able to corral them
in the running game. That hadn't been the case with
the Trojans in the Lincoln Riley era, but 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 mont and Joan Coleman, it just sets
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up really well for the Dogs. I will not be
shocked with a I know they are underdog, but I
will not be shocked with a Husky victor.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Yeah. I wouldn't be shocked either. But they got to
match their physicality. If they can do that, and that's
not an easy thing to ask because Michigan's known for
it and they get a little hyped up at home.
But if they can do that, I think they win
the football game. It opened as a nine and a
half point spread with the Dogs being the underdogs. By
the time Ashley got a hold of it, it was
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a six point spread. In fact or fiction, it's all
the way back down to four and a half right now,
So you'd have just a four and a half point
underdog heading end of this game tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
More.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Well, yeah, that's gonna be a good measuring stick you're
gonna find. This is definitely, I mean, the best opponent
they faced is Ohio State, and they hung with him
for a half and then it kind of kind of.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Fell in on him a little bit.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
This is one where go out there, play four tough
quarters kind of match to physicality, don't let the big
house become too big, and shock the world to some degree,
and you will find yourself ranked somewhere in that top
twenty five.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Koch's coming off an impressive loss, if there is such
a thing. We'll be at eighteen Virginia tomorrow at three thirty.
The Week eight of the college football season starts tonight
with several good games. Nebraska plays Minnesota and number two
Miami tries to stay undefeated against Louisville, and then on Saturday,
all sorts of games featuring ranked opponents number ten, LSU
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at seventeen, Vanderbilt number five, Ole Miss at number nine,
Georgia number eleven, Tennessee at number six, Alabama number twenty three,
Utah at number fifteen BYU in the Holy War, and
then Ashley's favorite rivalry number twenty, USC at number thirty
teen Notre Dame. Eh, don't say that about USC.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
That's not It's about both of them, really, But I
will be cheering for USC this time this time.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Yeah, well you're on her Pooh list though, Yeah, all
my monter time. Yeah, think about that.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Up there close to the top.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Alight am. Number four on our ow show Thursday Night
Football Last Night featured Aaron Rodgers versus Joe Flacco. That's
right too, one hundred year old quarterbacks doing battle on
Thursday Night Football. Forties.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
You grow a little pipe belly, you grow another chin.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
The music starts to get too loud.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
One of your old girlfriends from high school becomes a grandmother.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
So true. Two forty year old plus quarterbacks meeting in
an NFL game for the first time ever. That's a
little surprising to me. And it turns out that Flacco
wins the day thirty three thirty one Cincinnati over Pittsburgh.
If our Chase had sixteen catches, one hundred and sixty
one yards and a.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Touchdown, Fantasy team.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Yah, are you glad you took him? In fantasy. I mean,
even without Joe Burrow, he still puts up monster numbers. Incredible.
The Rams will be at Jacksonville at six thirty Sunday morning.
That will be in London, of course, home of the Jaguars.
And then Philadelphia Minnesota is probably her best game of
the early games which are not that impressive. Indiana Indianapolis
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against the Chargers, that is a really good game. And
then Sunday Night Atlanta and San Francisco is your Sunday
night matchup. Seahawks will not play until Monday night against
the Texans. Of course, the Seahawks trying to get their
secondary healthy. We're all wondering, well Witherspoon will love play
on Monday night. Here's Greg Bell with the outlook on
(14:50):
the secondary.
Speaker 8 (14:51):
So all three of them practicing four days before the
game suggests that they're going to all three play and
their secondary will be whole. And that will because they
haven't had a whole secondary since the first half of
the first game, because Witherspoon got hurt in the second
half colliding with Josh Job when Joeb intercepted bruck Purty
(15:13):
way back on September seventh, and since then, Witherspin's only
played two of six games. The first game we get hurt,
and he came back for the Arizona game September twenty fifth,
and then hasn't played against since. So it's somewhat remarkable.
They're four and two in their defense, except for the
Tampa Bay game, has controlled games without who I think
(15:34):
their best player, Devin Witherspoon.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Is Yeah, Hawks four and two, Texans two and three,
But they're a lot better than their record indicates. The
offense starting to come together. The defense has been spectacular
all season, clearly ranked number one in the National Football League.
Seahawks will play one of two football games on Monday night.
They'll play the second game of a true doublehead or
no overlapping there. So they will be game number two
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on Monday night, and we will be talking about it
a lot Monday, and of course reacting on Tuesday. The Kraken.
They have not come away from a game yet this
year without at least a point. They kept that streak
going last night despite a second loss in two games.
Shane Pinto can put it away for the whole team.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Right handed shot Shane Pinto from the red line carries
it over left side of the circle now cuts back
to the slot, walks in shots.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Scores, and the Ottawa Editors.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Come back after the Kraken took the lead early in
the third, they score late in the third, survive a
push from Seattle in overtime, and get the win in
the shootout by a four to three score.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Patrifinal effort fits you on the call right here on
the flagship Sports Radio ninety three point three KHARFM, Chandler
Stevenson scored twice. The kl earned a point in each
of their four games to start the year, but they've
lost both games on the season's first road trip. They
will also be taking on Toronto this weekend in Toronto
tomorrow at four o'clock. And finally the Sounders and they'll
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play on the road. That first round is a best
of three format and so they don't as far as
I can tell, don't have much to play for on Saturday,
but there are a lot of things on the line
with the MLS playoff picture tomorrow on decision Day. All right,
coming up next on our radio program, are the Mariners cooked? Well?
(17:35):
If they are, they usually are best when they're cooked.
They're like a pop tart. Sports Radio ninety three point
three KJRFM. Ever felt like an indie race car right there. Yeah,
he just totally indy pitcrewed me during the break, shoved
wires up our shirts. Yeah, wires up my shirts. He
spun my tires yeah you know yeah, I think he
even took the back one off. Yeah. I did put
(17:56):
some gas in here. Yeah, gasped.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
Yeah, that's a bad.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Photo of your calf bumps. Yeah, he was like, I've
already done that. Yeah, saw him coming. Yeah. Those those
TV people, they are efficient.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
That was pretty impressive. We went from on the air
to thirty seconds later on the TV air.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
I guess yeah, I don't even know.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Now back on the radio, you guys are multitaskers.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
I'm tired, and I don't even know.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
You might be doing another TV thing with the Canadian people.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
I think the Canadians are coming in there.
Speaker 7 (18:26):
They're downstairs outside right now. They're so polite. They asked
permission to film outside. I said, uh, can we just
be out oh here? I was like, yeah, you can
be out there.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
I only accepted this invitation this. Uh you know, drop
by if you will so I could give him a
piece of my mind. Okay, good, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
So I don't know if they're coming up or not.
I sent a text I haven't hear.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
It's gonna get ugly. It's Chuck, it's buckets, Ashley. We're
getting ready for game number five and every way possible,
because it does feel damn important. Three o'clock is your
first pitch. And I compared this team to a pop
tart that you know, usually they are best when you've
cooked them, maybe even overcooked them a little bit. And
(19:09):
I think a lot of Mariner fans, I think, for
the third time this postseason, have come to the conclusion
that it's just not in the cards. You know, it's
just not gonna happen. That's usually when they play their best.
As a matter of fact, I think they're more like
a can of baked beans. Like you ever tried to
eat a can of cold baked beans, not shod right,
(19:30):
but man put them over a flame and suddenly, you know,
around a campfire and it tastes like the most delicious
thing you've ever had. Amen. So I mean, you can
say that they're cooked, but this might be exactly where
they want the Blue Jays, because we're talking about a
team that got at the trading deadline. They decided to
go for it very aggressively and went ten and one
(19:53):
coming out of that, and we were all sure, like,
oh my gosh, this is the best team in baseball.
Those are the perfect editions, filled holes, great clubhouse guys.
Oh my god, we're gonna just steamroll to the playoffs.
And then they went six and fifteen. Just when we
thought they were really good and had solved baseball. Uh huh.
Then they go six and fifteen, and just when you thought,
(20:14):
oh my gosh, this team we can't even blame Jerry
on this one. This team was really well put together
and they still can't win. My goodness, what happened to
our team that was ten and one in eleven games?
What did they do then, just when you stopped watching,
just when you were sure that they were crumbling again
(20:36):
typical Mariner baseball. What did they do? They beat the
Atlanta Braves and back to back games twenty eight to four.
That started a ten game winning streak. They won seventeen
out of eighteen games. For goodness sake, they not only
made the playoffs, they won the division. With room to spare,
they earned to buy. And then suddenly we're sure that
(20:57):
they're rolling, and what did they do to us? They
lost Game one of the American League Divisional Series against
the Relief Group, and then people were sure that they
were done. And then they won back to back games,
and then they were leading three to nothing in the
third game, Game number four, and Tiger fans were leaving
the park by the thousands because they were sure they
were overmatched. And just when you start believing, they blew
(21:20):
it all.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
My heart can't handle just the story.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
And then that forces a game five, and then of
course we're sure we can't beat Trek's Google again. We
can't go six extra innings and strand that many base
runners and still pull this thing out? Can we? And
they do it, and then the entire national media, well,
they're gonna be way too tired to play the Blue
Jays in game number one. That's a loss right there,
(21:45):
and instead a win and another win. Coming home two
to nothing, Harold Reynolds tells us, I don't see a
path where the Blue Jays can get back into this series.
And sure enough, they've lost two straight games at home
against one of the fevered crowds in baseball history, and
here we go again. Everybody's convinced that the goose is cooked,
that the baked beans, the bake beans got ruined, spent
(22:10):
too much time over the campfire. And guess what this is.
Usually when they play their we'll probably lose today one
hundred to five, and then go to Toronto with nobody
giving them a chance, and they'll squeak out Game six
and win Game seven and the forty fourth inning, and
then we'll go to the World Series. This is just
(22:32):
the way this team plays, and I don't necessarily like it,
but it's never dull. I'll tell you that.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Well, it's pretty enjoyable when as long as you come
out on the good side of things. I mean, it's
the idea of if they would have won that game
four and we never would have got to witness that
game five. I mean, I guess to some degree a
lot of people be like, yeah, my health would benefit
from not having fifteen innings of stranded runners and whatnot.
(22:59):
And yet to me, that's what I want. I mean,
I don't want it to I don't want to lose
one hundred to five today and then beat them at
their place back to back to pull it out of
the fire. I don't want that to happen, but it
would be pretty enjoyable if it did go down that way.
I'll just say it boils down to execution. I mean,
(23:19):
people can sit in their chairs and question this and
question that, and think this, and think that. It boils
down to man for man, Are we tougher than they are?
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Man for man? Are we more dialed in than they are?
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Well, the last couple of nights would say no, The
previous couple games would say yes, you were. So now
you get down to three games. Who's going to show
up and make the twenty seven outs they have to
earn against us tougher, Who's going to show up on
the other side of the ball and make it really
difficult for them to scrape together offense? And it boils
down to individual performances. How much are you going to
(23:54):
be in on it? And I don't expect you to
be perfect, but the approach to taking strive for perfection
and then you hopefully land somewhere that's acceptable. Yesterday did
not look like a team that was striving for perfection.
And it's not that I'm gonna say that. They just
were like, Oh, we don't care, it's no big deal.
We won too At their place, so we should give
(24:15):
them back just to be polite. No, you just didn't
execute you. I think that they knew what a veteran
pitcher may or may not go out there and try
to do. And he did it, and they took some
hacks at some good pitches that he was just like,
I'm gonna get ahead. Here comes my fast Well, I'm
gonna get ahead.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Now.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
You think I'm the old Max Scherzer and nope, I'm
going to turn into the nibbler. I'm going to turn
into the guy that's gonna get you to chase and
you fell into the trap.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
That's a thing between the years.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
And if it's pressing, like Bill Wixie was asking us
on Fox, it could be pressing. We've seen this team
press before. Well stop pressing. What do you have to
press for? It's not that. Yeah, the city of Seattle
wants this, and you want this and all of this stuff.
It just go out and prove that you're better than
they are. And if you can't, if you can't approach
the game the right way for twenty seven outs on
(25:04):
both sides, then you're going to prove that you're not
better than they are. And to me, I look at
it as too too. I don't look at as advantage them.
I don't look at it as well. They beat us
by more the run differential, I don't think that matters.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Pretty sure.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
It starts zero zero, and let's see if our lineup.
I think our lineup can compare to theirs. I think
their lineup has an advantage of putting more balls in play.
But there's nothing saying that we have to go out
there and strike out ten times. There's nothing saying you
can't put balls in player, that you can't shorten your
swing and say, let's put pressure on their defense a
little bit the way that they're doing us. If you
(25:38):
do it, and Bryce Miller answers the bell, I think
you're gonna be sitting okay, And you're right.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
You go to Toronto only having to win one game.
I like that chance.
Speaker 5 (25:46):
Yeah, I would like that plan. That plan sounds like
a good one to me.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Yeah. That Byron from Fox thirteen was a pressure player.
Tell you that, right? Yeah, oh right now, didn't even heartbeat,
didn't even raise up. Yeah. He's like, well, we got
about ten seconds, so how long does this segment go?
This ocho thing he's in there looking at me like
I need to I need to sen you up, buddy, yep.
And he waited till the end of the break and
then got me all Indie pit crewed in like fifteen seconds.
(26:12):
Ball play a violated, violated very much. So I liked it,
did you? Yeah, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
He's asked for my phone number while we're on the air.
Nice Mike, what are you doing? He's pointing my phone,
pointing his phone. Put your phone number in here so
I can call your phone.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
We'll send pictures.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Yeah, geezh. Well, look, Kevin Gosman's their best guy, and
he was pretty good against US, yep, really good against
us in game number one. Bryce Miller's our five guy,
and yet he was even better than Gosman in game
number one. So let's see where it goes. But just
gonna stick to it. I still feel good about our
(26:51):
chances over the course of a seven game series, and
we're even right now. It's the best of three from
this point forward. And sure we got to play the
last two in Toronto, but you win today and suddenly
that doesn't seem like all that daunting a task. So
this might be it. This might be the pivotal game.
Game number five today at three o'clock, and I'm all
about it. Ryan Heally will join us at nine o'clock.
(27:13):
We'll get his thoughts on everything coming up next to
a little college football. We preview not just you Michigan,
but the entire Big Ten schedule this weekend on Sports
Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. Ryan Heally still to
join us today. I don't have any surprises for him today.
At this point, I hope he's not expecting him.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
It's just become a daily occurrence.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Now. Yeah, I don't want to be the person that
brings in muffins every Friday and then the staff gets
angry the Friday. I don't you know what I mean? Yeah? Thanks,
you introduced him to the old judge, brought his best
friend on the show with us yesterday via surprise.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
I tried setting something up for someone to sneak in
mid segment and depants him.
Speaker 8 (27:57):
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (27:58):
YEA may or may not have a surprise waiting. And
now I suddenly don't want to do the zoom call
all right? Ryan at nine and the AB season nine
to thirty. But we always previewed the Big Ten college
football weekend. Of course, the game we're most interested in
is Washington at Michigan nine am kickoff. That's the big
game on Fox, Big noon game on Fox. Hawks will
(28:21):
start at six a m. But there is a pretty
interesting matchup tonight Nebraska and Minnesota, long hated rivals. Yeah,
of the planes, they will quite a night at five o'clock.
Nebraska actually enters this week ranked for the first time
this season, even though they're head coaches, being involved in
the heaviest of Penn State head coaching rumors right now,
(28:42):
I guess I'll try to stay focused on the job
he has and try to beat Minnesota tonight at five o'clock.
The noon hour time kickoff. On Saturday, you've got Purdue
at Northwestern, then at twelve thirty Ohio State at Wisconsin.
Number three Indiana, which did extend Kurt Signetti to a
(29:03):
very lucrative long term contract to try to keep the
Penn States of the world away from their head coach
now that they finally have good football for the first
time ever. So Indiana will be hosting Michigan State. Hopefully
that contract won't go to Kurt Signetti's head. He's just
so humble, Yeah, he's very humble. Yeah, really little low key.
(29:24):
I feel like he is a guy that might not
ever leave though if he's acting like it. I mean,
you signed an eight year extension and when you're the
hottest name out there and you could go to number
one number of programs that are available, and for him
to say, I don't need to see those, I'm here,
I'm here, this is where I want to be. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
I love Castle, I love that same here and I
hope that they go back to being just a basketball school.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Oregon is at Rutgers. I think Oregon's going to take
out a lot of frustration over that loss on the
poor Scarlet Knights. This weekend, that's a three thirty start
Penn State. James Franklin will be in Iowa to take
on the Hawkeyes at four. The Jerry new Heiseel Show
continues against Maryland at four o'clock. They'll play that game
(30:09):
in Los Angeles. New Heisel Fournia. They've now named it
after him. Yeah, it doesn't really roll off the tongue
they felt they owed it to Jerry and then USC
at Notre Dame in the matchup that Ashley doesn't even
really want to embrace anymore.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
I really don't yeah. I mean, I'm glad they're still
doing it. I just I don't really like them either.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Pet Do you Petro? Have you heard Petros's analysis on this,
this whole thing about maybe it won't continue, he said
earlier this week, And you know, could be just big talk,
but I think Petros kind of means what he says, Yeah, says,
if they in this game, he's just done. He's just done.
He doesn't even want to be a part of college
football anymore.
Speaker 7 (30:50):
Well, in this tradition, I agree it should not that
rivalry should not end. As I said, it is one
of two games where I have no problem, Jerry for USC.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
One of two games remaining, right.
Speaker 7 (31:02):
Yes, well, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
All right. So four thirty start there on NBC, and
part of our Big ten Pickups preview or Big ten
Preview is our pickups for our fantasy league. Ashley right
now is leading away with five hundred and thirty points.
It's tight at the top kids got five oh five,
He's and second Bucky's at five hundred. I have won
the last two weeks. It seems like my team's kind
(31:26):
of turned it around. Gave a great pep speech three weeks.
Good job did you really Yeah, yeah, job, yeah, like
the Jerry new Isle of our Fantasy Pro league really
turned things around since the play calling duties like that
got changed from me to me. Yeah, but I'm still
way back. I'm still almost one hundred points back of
first place, for goodness sake, and nearly seventy points back
(31:48):
a third place. So I got a lot of work
to do. The only team on buy this week is Illinoy.
That only affects Ashley, who has the last pick. The
kid is so arrogant he skips every Week's sure he's
got the championship team, so he's staying with what he's got. Bucky,
you've got the next selection. Are you going to make
a move? I am?
Speaker 4 (32:09):
I am, and I don't really like to do it
because I'm going to take somebody that's playing against my ducks.
I'm gonna take Antoine Raymond. I'm gonna pick him up.
I'm gonna drop k Tron Allen.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Oh wow, wow, Well you've given up on Penn State too.
Everybody has I go by next week looking two steps
ahead there. That's not a bad formula, all right, Taking
the Rutgers running back and letting go of k Tron
Allen of Penn State. I'm gonna skip this week. My
(32:43):
team's finally rolling. I'm gonna stick with him for at
least another week. So Ashley, I would imagine you're getting
rid of your quarterback.
Speaker 7 (32:49):
I am getting rid of Luke Altmeyer, and I don't
really like doing this, but I'm going with Nico. I mean,
the guy's had nine touchdowns all season, and five of
them have been.
Speaker 5 (33:02):
In the last two weeks.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Okay, So.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
I believe in Jerry Neuheisel.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Wow, oh yeah, you're going to UCL For whatever reason,
I was just automatically thinking you were going to the
US started to write, Okay, all right, interesting, yeah, very interesting.
Speaker 8 (33:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (33:30):
I'm like, let's see, let's ride.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
The hand happens here. I think that's a pretty clever
pick there. All right, there you go, get ready for
some Big ten football. It does start tonight, but kick
off for U dub is tomorrow morning at nine o'clock.
Honks start at six. Coming up next. Ryan Healey joins
US as he has throughout the playoffs for the Mariners.
The former Mariner just by himself. We'll grill them with
(33:53):
some questions after the break. Sports Radio ninety three point
three kJ
Speaker 8 (33:57):
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