We kicked off Cal-O-Ween last night with the first official Dumpkin carving and Cal even celebrated the holiday with a home run at the scrimmage. We have 3 game 3’s today and we couldn’t be more excited to watch them all as we await the Mariners ALDS opponent. :30- ABCs of the Mariners - B is for bullpen: this time of the year is when having a great bullpen really makes a difference - C is for Cal: it has been the year of Cal, but for Cal, it is all about what happens from here on out. - D is for Dumpkins, the patches are already getting overrun, so get your dumpkins now! :45- NFL News and Notes - Something seems off about this Lamar Jackson injury- is he really injured or did he pull himself out of the game?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning folks, Good morning everyone, Good morning, it's some time.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Good morning class.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
Pleasing gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 4 (00:08):
Beholding six one guard from Brighton, Illinois and former high
school basketball stand What in the hell does that mean?
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Don't jumped any conclusions. No, not a god, You've got
to lower lower your expectations.
Speaker 5 (00:24):
Hard to believe he could once send a fastball to
Pluto in back.
Speaker 6 (00:28):
I'm getting some Bucky jacobs and vibes and former I'll just.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Openly admit I'm a fat, out of shape X athlete.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Now there's been a noticeable spike in your blood pressure.
Speaker 5 (00:38):
Five seven guard and a former college water polo national champions.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
A lot of useless crap up here.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
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Speaker 1 (01:14):
Hey, good morning and welcome into this Thursday edition of
Chuck Them Back in the Morning. Sports Radio ninety three
point three kJ A r FM is we get you
started for four hours here today of sports talk radio Glory.
Ashley Ryan is here. Former Mariner Bucky Jacob said, my
name is Chuck Pole. Think I really did damage my voice.
(01:34):
I don't know how Axel Rose did it.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Let you go.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Yeah, I just was yelling at a terrible driver this
morning and just did it right before I got here
and through my window. They didn't even hear me. I
didn't even get the satisfaction of them knowing how terrible
a driver they are. And yet I think I have
damaged you know, my money maker.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yeah, you didn't warm up. You weren't warming up on
the way here and stretched.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I wouldn't do my you know my there.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
You didn't do that.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I didn't do any of that.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
Yeah, he just went straight to Berserko zero to sixty.
Speaker 7 (02:11):
If they would have heard you, they still probably wouldn't
have known they were a bad driver. They would have
been like, that guy's having a bad morning.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Boy, that guy's got a really loud voice at five
in the morning.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Yeah, what's he yelling? I'm going to keep driving because
I'm amazing.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
I kind of want to tell you about it, but
I won't spend the time. I won't spend the time. Yeah, man,
maybe a little later, maybe I'll be recovered by then,
and maybe my voice will be completely gone, but welcome in.
We got to save this thing because I don't know,
maybe we'll have some yelling to do this weekend.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
You know, our voice has.
Speaker 7 (02:42):
Got to be yelling in a good way, hollering, not
yelling angrily.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
No no, no, yelling celebratorily. If that's why I can't
wait for that, So welcome into the show here today.
We got a lot to discuss, but it's not just
Major League Baseball playoff time, and eventually we'll get around
to playing on our time, on our schedule whenever we
feel like, yeah, joining the playoffs. The Mariners will just
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slide right into a real comfortable we're hosting. We've rested
for a week situation, and we really don't care who
we play kind of Saturday for us, But that's not
the case for eight teams in Major League Baseball who
are going to be slugging it out and we're gonna
have three, three deciding games today. This doesn't happen for
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baseball a lot. They have great ideas about having that
third game out of three and back to back to
back days all meaning something, and it just kind of
feels like most of them are settled by now. But
that's not the case. Only one team advanced last night
in a sweep, and that was the Los Angelestadgiers. We're
gonna have three deciding games today starting at noon in
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Major League Baseball, which is absolutely thrilling. And then it
coincides with the Calloween, which on October first, yesterday. It
officially launched. Yesterday Ashley got it started. The new holiday
is here.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Yeah, Calloween.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
You even carved a dumpkin, right.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I did. It's a peach with a mustache.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Is that what it is? It?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (04:22):
First tip I could tell, think.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
I could tell.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I could see the crack that's.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
The thing coming up from the bottom of the black
And then I.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Had to make the mustache.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I had to make.
Speaker 7 (04:32):
I had palmer color the mustache because I was like,
we need to have that dark otherwise people are going
to just think this butt has a weird thing in it.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah, well it does even with the musk.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
That's still fine.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
At least it differentiates a really weird place to have
a mustache. Yeah it is. It'd probably been. It's probably
weirder now. People are probably walking by, like, why does
that butt have a mustache?
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Yeah, it's got a leaf at the top.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
The leaf.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
What's the leaf the peach leaf?
Speaker 7 (05:00):
You know. Oh, we took the logo from the cow
peach t shirts and use.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
That peach okay, and then added a mustache.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Okay, peach bottom. I'm not sure it's a peach. I
think it's more of a.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I'm just saying.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
That's the double watermelon.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
That's what they've used.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Smuggled double watermelon, that's.
Speaker 7 (05:16):
What they've used. So we used that well for dumpkin
number one. Maybe we'll use a different fruit for the
second one.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
When we were over at Ashley House, bucket was too
good to go. We were over at Ashley Sause and
I ended up right before I was leaving, I'm like, hey,
could I just use your restroom one last time because
I pee like that? And so went in there and
I looked over and there said there was the extra
you know, the extra toilet paper roll in case you
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needed toilet paper, the on deck circle for toilet paper rolls,
and it just handwritten happy Calloween on the toilet paper
roll and ghost at the end. And I got a
really good kick out of that, did you.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Yeah? Yep.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Oh, anyway, we've been laughing about that since And why
wouldn't it be Calloween? And now that we're starting the
Major League Baseball playoffs, we should start, uh, you know,
launching a few different tricks to Calloween, including not just
carving pumpkins, but carving dumpkins. And so Ashley made her
first ever dumpkin last night.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
I did.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Yeah, I like it, you challenged me. I accepted.
Speaker 7 (06:22):
I came with a design again, not it's not the
perfect dumpkin, but that's part of what a dump What
makes a dumpkin?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Are they ever perfect?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Palmer looked very proud. She was in the photo that
you took.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
She looked very.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Happy, very happy. She drew the peach and then I
had to copy.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Oh oh, look at that. Good for her and good
for Calvin. Cal heard that you were celebrating and decided
to hit a homer in the scrimmage for you, well,
you know you celebrating Calloween.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Yeah, as he should be. Yeah, everyone should.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
He went through the whole process too, grabbed the try dent,
all the flashes going off from the stadium and everything else.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
Did he on his way to second base? Still did
the you know what's up? Like the no one out there?
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Really nobody?
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I love it?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Hey act like it's a real game, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Yeah, and there were there weren't a lot of fans
that showed up for it, but there were a few
that were there. And frankly, that's for a lot of people.
I mean, it was like ten dollars a pop. And
they're doing it again today at five. People want to
take advantage of it. I was thinking, like, that's probably
the closest a lot of you there are ever going
to get to see these players in a game, play
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a game, scrimmage or not. So I think people that
took the time to do it, I think had a
good time yesterday with it. They split the teams up
in two each yuro played for goodness sake, I know.
It's a blast and and of course nobody got injured.
So that's that's the big thing. And I'm a worryward.
So the same today and two other teams in baseball,
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as Bucky told me yesterday, they're doing the same thing.
But but yeah, it sounded like it was a successful
little venture out there.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
I mean, I guess there was competition with Mariners had
five thousand people that they were letting in or whatever,
and Philly was like way two. You see we have
a twenty five thousand, shut up whatever. I like the
fact that they got to get out there. I think
it was mostly bullpen. They're trying to get guys. Yeah,
I think it was all bullpen. Yeah yeah, I mean Emerson,
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he's bullpen now he was throwing. I guess I think
it's get those guys, you know. I think Munos was
one of the guys because you don't know for sure
when they're going to throw again. It's not like you
can schedule them like your schedule starters. So getting them
getting keeping their arms loose and something that's somewhat live,
you know, somewhat game like, and then when you're doing that,
you might as well have guys in there trying to
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hack it those things and trying to hit off of
I thought it was I think it's a great idea.
I mean, I don't know, there is no recipe, there's
no manual. Hey, if you get a first round by
do this, and that's for sure the best way that
you come out, you know, kind of clicking on all cylinders.
It's you're gonna play against a playoff team, you know,
come Saturday that just came off winning a three game series.
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It came down to the third game that we're gonna
get to watch today. They're gonna be hyped up, They're
gonna be feeling themselves. You gotta be able to, you know,
I guess basically drink in what you feel from the
crowd and the city and then just go out there
and perform the way that you have the better part
of the last month.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
For sure. Well, I don't think there's any risk of
them coming out emotionally flat. I think they're gonna be
completely charged. But I don't know if there's any way
to just step right back out onto the field and
play as well as you were playing like seventeen out
of eighteen games where everything was coming together. I mean,
maybe they played better, but that's a long gap. I
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mean the three games over the weekend where you really
weren't playing for anything, I think that already kind of
threw you off of the momentum. And I'm not a
big believer in baseball momentum. I mean, we've watched it
here plenty of times, oh my gosh, this team can't lose,
and then oh my gosh, this team can't win for
a week and a half. So I'm not a huge
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believer in baseball momentum. But I mean, there's no way
that we can just expect this team to go out
on Saturday and be playing as well as they were
for the eighteen games that pretty much allowed them to
run away with the West Division. And so it's a
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different kind of fear of how will they come out flat?
I mean, what will have lost been lost in the transition?
You know, this is a week you've gone without really
trying to win a game, and now the games are
more important than ever. So I mean there's momentum lost.
I don't think there's any, but there wasn't any way
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around it. How do you prepare for that? As Bucky said,
there's no recipe, there's no surefire recipe. Maybe the week
off Ashley they used it and maybe they come out
playing better than they were. I mean that's a possibility too.
It's just I don't know how you just kind of
re enter the atmosphere and play, you know, nine hundred
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baseball like you were to clinch the division.
Speaker 7 (11:13):
Yeah, and I don't I don't expect that we're gonna
see that when they come out, But I do think
that their emotions and their excitement and their.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Also their focus. I think that they're veterans.
Speaker 7 (11:25):
I mean, you've got cal who knows what it's like
to be in the playoffs and be in a playoff atmosphere.
You've got Josh Naylor, who knows what it's like to
be in the playoffs and be in a playoff atmosphere.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
You've got Randya Rose Arena. Most of them do, Yeah,
most of them do.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
I mean people act like the Mariners have never been
here before, but most of our guys have been in
the playoffs and have won a series.
Speaker 7 (11:42):
Yeah, exactly, And then they haven't been there for now.
I mean the guys that were there on that team
in twenty twenty three, was it twenty two?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
I can't remember. It feels like forever ago, Yeah, twenty two.
Most of those guys were then mad that they weren't there.
Speaker 7 (11:56):
I mean, they better be bad, right that they weren't
there for the next two years. So now it's like, Okay,
we had that feeling, man, do we miss that feeling?
And so they're chomping to be able to be back
on that field, I think, And so I don't.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I don't.
Speaker 7 (12:09):
I do think there will be some level of flat
but I think that it'll get worked out throughout the game.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
Yeah, well, I mean you just said it like they're
gonna be chomping right, because you're right, there's no chance
that emotion. They're gonna be like, eah, we'll just overlook
this one. We're we got bigger goals, right. Oh, Like
like they maybe went through that Dodger series was they
were resting guys that needed rest for sure, and they
knew that it was a long shot for them to
do anything besides find the number themselves in the number
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two spot.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
This is different.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
So I think there's zero chance, Like you guys are
saying that they're gonna come out flat like that they
are gonna be chomping at the bit. And so basically
it's kind of like your caged animal or you know,
I mean, you're you're you're somebody's holding you back, pulling
at the reins. If Ranio Rosarina hits one in the
upper tank the first aba the game, look out, there's
no because that's the whole get. You got to get
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the thing roll in a little bit before you can
actually build on any sort of momentum. And so if
you end up, you know, getting a kind of shoved
on you for the first inning or second and third
in and we're looking at the pitcher's dual zero zero through
five innings, then it's gonna look like it was.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Well, are they rusty or boy, they don't.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
They don't have that same thing that we were watching
for the better part of that winning seventeen out eighteen
little stretch they had there that had them run away
with the West. But to me, I don't feel like
that's something that necessarily means it was rusty. It's like
you just got to kind of get off the schneid.
You got to you got to get the ball roll
in a little bit, and then and then the whole
the hitting is contagious and all that stuff that that
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is the real thing, and yet you have to pretty
much institute that every single game. It's just it's more
important that you get it going earlier in this game
because the game is more important, and so you don't
want to have to be stuck in the starting blocks
for a long time. You hope that somebody early rakes
the ball in the gap, or a couple of guys
put a couple of good swings on balls, and next
thing you know, you're off and you get that zero
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off the score board, because that's when you can all
of a sudden start to kind of building that momentum
you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Yeah, and all the pitchers are rested, which I think
it's going to be, especially the starter is going to
be a tremendous advance, well, both the starters and relievers. Meanwhile,
Cleveland is going to be pushed. Detroit's going to be
pushed here today to this is this is the beauty
of one of those you know, when it all costs
kind of games, no tomorrow kind of games. I mean,
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they're not going to think about what they need to
save for Saturday to start a five game series with
the Mariners. The Tigers and the Guardians are going out
there and they're doing whatever it takes to win today.
And if that's you know, and if that's hey, Gavin
Williams felt really strong this morning, and I know he's
only on one day rest, but he's ready to go.
Randy Johnson on your ass, then they'll pitch Gavin Williams right,
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if that's what takes to win the game. So they're
going to go all out today. And I really have
arrived at this point where I don't. I don't really
have a preference. I don't care who it is. I
think that the two teams are different. They bring different
challenges to the plate on Saturday. But nothing about either team,
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with the exception of maybe Trek Scubele, who might start
two out of five games against you, is anything that's
is caused for concern. I think you can pitch around
Jose Ramirez, and even with him, that's the twenty eighth
ranked offense in baseball. They're going to try to They're
going to try to just small ball you to death,
which can come in handy, but you better be pitching well, Cleveland.
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You better be able to handle our offense from top
to bottom in order to win a series that way.
So I mean, maybe the Schooble effect is the difference
that I'd rather face Cleveland, But I think we just
match up really well in a postseason series against either
of these teams, and they'll both be coming off a
three game, you know, battle where they're not thinking about
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what we can save for the Mariners this week.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
No, I mean I can't wait to hope you get
to watch like an eighteen in and ainting marathon between
them and that I mean, the idea of it's kind
of a freeing thing. You know, we talked about it.
It's a great sports talk radio topic of who would
you rather face, and you know, who do you want
to come to town? And there's arguments on both sides,
right and understandably so, but it's it's just the former
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player in me, like I want, I just can't root
for something, and because sometimes then you get what you
want and it doesn't work out the way you want
and it feels worse because of it. It's just the
idea of whoever it is, bring it, let's go, let's
do this. You guys figure that out down there, Hey
Cleveland in Detroit, figure it out, and then fly on
over here and let's do this thing. It's it's just
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kind of that. It's I don't want to say it's arrogant,
but to some degree, there's a part of it that
is kind of you know, I think Connor McGregor that
little walk thing that he would do when he'd knock
somebody out in the UFC, like come on, let's go.
Just if they all walked out there like that. I
don't want him to do that, but it's just that's
the type of confidence they should have on all comers,
because you're not thinking about, well, this is the one
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thing we have to do.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
It's this is the first thing we have to do.
Let's take care of business.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Whoever it is it shows up, and then we got
another step after that and another step after that.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
All right, Well, let's find out what's on tap for
today's radio program.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
What's on TEP? What's ontep? All right?
Speaker 1 (17:20):
So the Guardians, who beat to the Tigers six to
one yesterday, force the third and decisive game in that
wild card round, and they will start it at noon.
Because there are only three games today, they can push
it back a little bit, so they won't start until noon.
They've been starting at ten. So at three pm today
we should know our opponent in the divisional rounds. So
in the meantime, come on down to Cleveland Town. Everyone
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take a look at both of our buildings. Our economy
is based on Lebron James, but at least we're not Detroit.
That's the Tranck.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Yeah, that's the truth.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
The San Diego Padres even things up with the Cubs
yesterday with a three to nothing win. They're going to
try to win with bullpen in the playoffs and all
the way to the World Series. They got a chance
to do it. Two PM is your start time there,
and the Red Sox and Yankees thank you, I mean
as much as we do. I mean most people hate
both the Yankees and the Red Sox, it still is
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the best rivalry in the sport. And when they can
meet in the divisional round of a playoff and go
to a third and decisive game, there's not much better
tension in the entire sport. It's awesome. I mean, it
has been an awesome couple of games between those two.
I mean, I'm not saying the baseball's been the most
awesome thing that I've ever seen in my life, but
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the tension, the atmosphere, the energy, it's almost uncomfortable, which
is awesome.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
That is, it is uncomfortable. I mean being able to
being able to be a part of something. I've never
been in something that's as big and its tension filled
as that. But just being in something and you get
to be a part of it, you get to contribute
to it is far less uncomfortable then standing on the
sidelines and just hope, mean that somebody else does what
you want them to do. And so yet now I'm
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a guy that's on the sidelines. All of us are,
and we're sitting there watching this team's I mean, all
the history that goes into it, and they're good teams.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
And now it's gonna come down to a Game three.
It's going to be epic five PM start for that game.
Mariners do have another scrimmage today at five o'clock. Brian
Woo update yesterday. Kind of looks like he will start
a game, but this is you know, Ryan Devish reading
into it, I think a little bit, but he's pretty
good at that kind of circled. Game three would be
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when he would start, but he's got a couple bullpen
sessions that he'll have before they make that final decision,
and we should have roster decisions and probably a game
one starter decision. I would think this evening. I think
they're just waiting to see who they play. They don't
have to I don't think. I don't think they have
to do it until Friday, but they won't do it
before this series between Cleveland and Detroit's decided, and that
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should be decided by three pm. As I mentioned earlier,
Thursday Night football tonight, the San Francisco forty nine ers
are in Los Angeles to take on the Rams, who
are eight and a half point favorites tonight. Wow, eight
and a half point favorites. It opened at one and
a half, it's now eight and a half. The Rams
are favored over the forty nine ers. Brock Perty is
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not starting for San Francisco. He's out with an injury.
Kind of feels like they pushed him a little bit,
wasn't ready to come back. So Mac Jones will get
the start tonight. On Thursday Night Football, Mike Sander will
join us to talk about that at nine thirty today.
Seahawks will hoast the Buccaneers and they're keeping the same
start time, right yep, okay, one oh five start time.
They'll loast the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I think it's the
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best team they've played so far this season. So we'll
talk about that at eight o'clock today and for an
entire solid hour eight to nine. It's our twelfth Man Roundtable.
We'll celebrate it with Hugh Millon and Greg Bell today.
Seahawks kind of look like their healthiest this entire season
coming into this game, which is a benefit of playing
that Thursday night game on the wrapper round backside. Huskies
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will take on Meryland Saturday at twelve thirty. Softy on
US today at seven oh five, as he always does
on Thursdays. Something tells me we'll talk more Mariners baseball
than Husky's football, because you just can't cage that animal.
Seven days until the Kraken, we'll take the ice for
the very first time for in an official capacity this season.
We are two days away from the Sounders and the Timbers,
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and we are one day away from the w NBA Finals.
We are just one commercial breakaway from the latest edition
of ABC's of the MS. This is the particular audience
never gets the ABCS of the MS because you usually
get Mariners morning after. But you can check out our
award winning daily Mariner bit next on KJR Daily Mariner Segment.
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And when I say daily, we have done it every
day since the start of the Major League Baseball season.
It's a segment where we allow the alphabet to guide
us through various Mariner topics. We never know where the
alphabet is going to lead us, and it doesn't necessarily
have to be the headlines either that we go to.
And so where do we go here on this day,
two day shy of the Divisional round of the Major
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League Baseball Playoffs, where the Mariners will be hosting either
the Guardians or Tigers on Saturday. B is where we
left off. We only got one letter in yesterday. B
is for bullpen, and this time of the year, many
experts will tell you this is where the having a
great bullpen really gets heightened. And I've seen teams win
the World Series because of their bullpen. The Kansas City
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Royals come to mind when they had the Big three
at the back of their bullpen, Herrera, Davis and Holland.
Many people say that's the reason they won the World Series.
So bullpen really comes in handy this time of the year.
The Mariners finished the season with the ninth best ERA
out of their bullpen, but I think that they finished
the season stronger than that, feeling better about that. I
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think that top ten suggests that's a pretty good bullpen,
that bullpen is doing its job. But I think we
finished pretty strong. I think that we actually have a
seven top five bullpen in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 6 (23:03):
Yeah, I mean, it feels you feel real good about
the back of it, you know, even though each one
of them had their hiccups. Munnos has blown you know,
a few saves, and Brash has had his issues at times.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
But I think for the most part.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
You feel good.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
You got to feel good if you can, you know,
have a couple of run lead going into the eighth inning,
you gotta feel good about that.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
And then to me, you have you.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
Have a three or four guys that have at different
points in times been absolutely dominant. You know, A Bizardo
has been good majority of the year, Carls Vargas not
necessarily so much the last little bit of the season,
but he for the first two thirds of the season
was one of your more consistent guys. Out of the
bait bullpen, Gabe's been pretty much lights out the entire season.
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So yeah, I feel good about the bullpen, and yet
it still is such a voll little thing that you
don't know if you're going to have that bullpen that
carries you all the way like we do tend to
see whoever the World Series champion is there didn't have
a crap postseason.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Yeah, you are not gonna win at all of it.
They do.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Dodgers is a great example. I don't think the Dodgers
had a great bullpen, but in the playoffs last year
they were phenomenal and probably the reason why they won
the World Series. Not Show Hey, not Freddie Freeman, even
though Freddy was amazing. It was probably their bullpen, which
going into the playoffs last year you would say was
the weakness of their team, and yet it stepped up
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at the right time. So bullpen is hugely important in
the postseason, and the only thing that we have as
a guide is just how well did the bullpen perform
during the regular season. Cleveland Guardians had the third best
in all of Major League Baseball, by the way, and
they're going to lean on it heavily in a five
game series if they make it to us in the
divisional round. But they are down in a manual class A.
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Turns out the guy loves to gamble. What do you
want me to tell you? Yeah, But they've got it.
That's a weapon for them. The Guardians bullpen is a
weapon for them. Meanwhile, Toronto's got the sixteenth bet bullpen
in the regular season, the Tigers the seventeenth, and they're slumping.
It's one of the reasons why they tanked it at
the end of the year. Like Will vest is not
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even pitching well, and he's the only guy they trust
right now. And the New York Yankees have had bullpen
issues all year long. Even acquiring five of them at
the trading deadline has not necessarily fixed that. They had
the twenty third best bullpenn era during the regular season.
So we sit there at ninth. And it is important
because at this time of the year, you got a
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starter that's going going strong, even if the pitch counts up,
you say keep going. But if you've got a starter
that you depend on that's struggling at all, you pull
them early. And if you've got a bullpen, you a
good deep bullpen like I believe the Mariners have, then
you feel confident in making that move. See is for
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Cal and it's been the year of Cal. I mean,
I mean, there have been other guys certainly that have
contributed strongly to this season, but it just feels like
Cal's had the golden touch, from getting the contract, to
getting off to the great start, to the All Star
Game appearance the starter and the All Star Game, to
the home run derby champion, I mean pretty much like
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Cal's like if he wished it, it came true.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
This year.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
But make no mistake about it, Bucky, and you know
this better than anybody. It's all about for cal Rawley
what happens from this point forward. I mean, this has
been a dream year for him and it will always
register is probably the best year of his entire life.
But if they don't get done as a team what
they are planning to get done, cal Rawley's not going
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to look at this.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
Year as a success. That's just col Yeah, and that's
the way that it should be. I mean, you can
have your own personal accolades, and that's something that you
get to have forever. You know, your own the home
run Derby Trophy. He doesn't have to share that with
a team. But the idea of those all fall flat
to some degree. If you, you know, you go out
here and just lay an egg in the Division Series
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and just don't even show up and don't even perform,
then all of a sudden, it's like you look at
it and there's always the man, what if we had
have done better there? What if we'd have finished that
thing off the way that we want. I don't think
you have to win the World Series for it to
feel successful, but you've got advance past this round. I
would think for cow I would think anything less than
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getting to the World Series for the first time, he
would feel like is less then and it will diminish
how great this season's been, even though you can't really
take away from how great it's been just on an
individual level.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
And you never know how athletes going to respond to
postseason baseball. I mean, we've seen guys thrive and elevate
this time of the year, but Barry Bonds had a
hell of a time until he started juicing, and that
gave him, apparently some confidence, but he had a hell
of a time being successful in the playoffs, and even
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juice or not juice, that's still one of the best
players I've ever seen in my entire life, if not
the best player I've ever seen in my entire life.
Aaron Judge, I mean, he's trying to get this monkey
off his back about what whether or not he's a
postseason performer. Alex Rodriguez, Man, he was terrible in the playoffs. So,
I mean, we got a little taste of cal a
couple of years ago, but this is a different Cal Raley,
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and this is a different feel. I mean, we're not
going in there as a wild card team playing on
the road. We're going in there as a division champ
with a bye, starting this playoffs in the second round
at home, and so Cal Raley, how do you perform
in this situation? It really does separate superstars from legends.
Speaker 6 (28:32):
Yeah, I think that the idea of saying this guy
can't do it in the playoffs, I think that gets
thrown around too quickly. I think somebody could have a
really amazing season and then they go they go one
for twelve in their twelve postseason at bats, I'm like, well,
he had a crab. He's not very good in the postseasons.
Like okay, now you get two three, four postseasons in
a row and you scuffle like Clayton Kershaw did majority
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of his postseason. It taints what you've done during the
regular season.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
He tainted it. He got yep.
Speaker 6 (29:01):
And yet I think that I think there's something about
the way that you're wired that it makes you a
little bit more predisposed to like you want that feel,
you want the more pressure. And if there's one thing
we've watched about Cal, it's different, the postseason different. So
I'm not gonna say it's guaranteed that he's going to
perform and put up crazy numbers. But if he doesn't,
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it's not gonna be because the moment's too big. It's
not gonna be because he's withering and wilting and the
pressure is too high. I can guarantee you he loves
that idea. He handled it coming up in Julio's shadow
to some extent, even Jared Kelnick's shadow to some extent.
You were like the other guy that came up, the
other young guy. For sure, he just handled it like
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that's fine.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Just watch.
Speaker 6 (29:47):
I don't have to be loud about it. I don't
have to come out and tell you how I lead.
I just show you how I lead. And then when
the moment called for him to you know, go big,
dump or fly and put us in the playoffs, he
answered that bell. And then he basically he has answered
every bell since then. Not that these doesn't have his
moments where he doesn't come through, but I just think
he's wired for the This is what I this is
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what I meant to do.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Is this situation.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
If you don't think that when you stand on deck,
I mean I would never sit there and say I
don't want a guy to hit a home run here
because I want an opportunity. But there's a part of
me it's like if he didn't hit a home run
and I do get an opportunity, it's like, oh, yes, man,
I get my turn.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Well there is you know. It's why you got to
admire Mike Trout. He's like, you're not gonna label me
in the postseason. I'm just not gonna make it.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Oh I'm sad, not really Trout. All right.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Das for dumpkins, make sure that you get out there
and get your dumpkins in time for Calloween. This year,
the patches are probably already overrun.
Speaker 7 (30:48):
Yeah, and there was a rush at the grocery store yesterday,
so I got there just in time.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Yeah, dumpkin patches all over the Greater Pacific Northwest area.
A couple out in Woodenville, you know, take the kids
out there.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Okay on the hay, pick out your perfect dumpkins.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
We got a perfect fat dumpkin.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Yeah. Cup of hot cocoa.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Oh yeah, you gotta have some cold some cider, maybe
some warm cider that that goes with a dumpkin picking
all right. Coming up next on the program, we all
are to talk a little NFL. There's some really interesting
stories going on out there, and we're gonna have to
cover them. Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ RFM,
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all right, headlines coming your way at seven o'clock, plus
David Softy Maller will join us. It's Thursdays with Softie,
where normally we just zero in on those Washington Huskies
and we will talk some dogs with Softy today. But
I have a feeling he can't help himself. He's like
a rabid raccoon every day. Yeah, he's going to want
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to talk Mariners baseball. We're not gonna be able to
stop him. No, we try to lead him away from it,
probably chew our hands off. If we try to at him,
he'll bite.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Yeah, trains leaving the station. You're slowing it down.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Uh huh. All right, So there's something weird going on
with this Lamar Jackson thing. The Baltimore Ravens won't talk
about his injury. I don't think he's injured. I mean,
I don't have any evidence to back that up other
than he left a game with an injury where he
wasn't limping or favoring a leg. I do have that evidence,
I think, and this is just a wild The sports
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talk show host theory. I think he was so frustrated
after the way this team started this year that he
pulled himself out of the game, and that John Harbaugh
is spending this entire week and all his teammates who
love and adore him are trying not to get let
that story get out and hurt his legacy, because that
will taint you for a long time. If you pull
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yourself out of a game because it's not going that way,
that will that will that will stain you for the
rest of your career, all the way up to your
Hall of Fame candidacy. People will bring that up. It's
not going to keep him from getting into the Hall
of Fame, but it'll come up. And I think he's
protecting him from that. I think Lamar Jackson pulled himself
from the game. I don't even think he's hurt. They're
even talking about him playing now. One day later after
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saying he was out for three to four weeks, now
they're saying he might be available, and they were like,
could you elaborate on that, and John says, I don't
think I should talk about that right now. There's something
weird going on in ball three.
Speaker 6 (33:14):
Yeah, Well, I mean I typically am going to just
I'm going to just assume that that an athlete of
his caliber will certainly just has too much competitive fire
in him to quit, to quit in the middle of
a game, to quit on his team, to quit on himself.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Scotty Pippen did at once, and Scottie Pippen's great competitor him.
I mean, it does happen.
Speaker 6 (33:34):
It has and yet my my default is going to
be like I just have to think that they that
he's hurt. And yet the fact that when I saw
he's going to be out for a few weeks with
his hamstring, I'm immediately like, well, then that's a bad hamstring,
and they don't. It's not just like back in the
day it was like how's it feel. It's like it
doesn't feel good, but you could didn't know it's grade one,
grade two, grade three hamstring. Poll Now they know that.
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And so when I heard he was going to be
out first magnificant amount of time, I'm like, oh, that's
a bad hammy, that's a bad one. And because of
how he plays the game, you're going to be even
more cautious with a hamstring thing. Because of how much
he uses his legs, and yet if they did come back,
I didn't hear that that that they're saying he might
be back one day later, then that does raise some
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red FIGX.
Speaker 7 (34:19):
Yeah, I saw it on Twitter yesterday too, and yeah,
they'd originally said like, yeah, three to four weeks, so
that's a pretty It was like, okay, so whatever odd
things might have happened, obviously he has a serious injury,
because you're not sitting him out for three to four
weeks just for fun. But to then see that yesterday
I even did a double take. I was like, wait
a minute, what how would he be available for Sunday?
Speaker 3 (34:40):
That makes no sense to me.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
And I don't want to come off like a loon.
I mean, I'm gonna if you're telling me, what would
you bet on that? I bet that he's hurt. I
would bet that he's hurt. But there's just something about
the story that doesn't add up to me. Also, Dan Orlovsky,
since we're on the topic of the Ravens, did some
research and found out that the Ravens have the fewest
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runs on first and second down and the entire National
Football League. I don't what happened to your identity, Like
Derrick Henry is not even being used by this team
right now, and so there's just something broken about the
Baltimore Ravens, who I picked to win the damn Super
Bowl this year. There's just something off about the organization
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that normally just runs like clockwork. He does always count
on the Ravens being as good as they're supposed to be,
if not better than they're supposed to be. But something's off.
Something stinks at the Old Ballpark.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (35:35):
I mean, I think that as a play caller, you
can get into a slump. I think that sometimes it's okay,
they expect us to run with Derek Henry on first
and second down, and so let's trick them here. Let's
let's do these things because Lamar Jackson is good enough
quarterback that you can usually get away with that. But
at some point you just got to go, Okay, you know,
we're one and two going into a big game last week,
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and it's like, let's just go back to what works
and it to the monster standing behind me.
Speaker 7 (36:00):
Yeah, just because he fumbled a couple of times doesn't
mean that he's now going to fumble the ball every
time he holds it.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
And he fumbled because great defensive players perfectly punched the
ball out of his arms. I mean, it's not like
he's got to fumble it.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
You shouldn't lose your faith in him.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
He was a victim of circumstance. He was a victim
of timing. And by the way, I mean, Bucky had
plenty of at bats that I'm sure you feel like
you gave away, but there were also some at bats
that you had like, I didn't have a chance against it. Yeah,
no matter how great approach I hadn't, I wasn't going
to I wasn't going to succeed. He made his pitches.
Speaker 6 (36:34):
I couldn't hit that, Yeah, and those you don't those
don't weigh on your near as much as the ones
that you gave away or that you missed something that
you should have hit.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
So, yeah, I think that it's very much so.
Speaker 6 (36:42):
I don't know how they hold onto the ball as
well as they do with big strong dudes going after
it and trying to punch it, and then sometimes if
they punch it perfect, it's coming out period.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
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started for four hours here today of sports talk radio Glory.
Ashley Ryan is here. Former Mariner Bucky Jacob said, my
name is Chuck Pole. Think I really did damage my voice.
(01:34):
I don't know how Axel Rose did it.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Let you go.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Yeah, I just was yelling at a terrible driver this
morning and just did it right before I got here
and through my window. They didn't even hear me. I
didn't even get the satisfaction of them knowing how terrible
a driver they are. And yet I think I have
damaged you know, my money maker.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yeah, you didn't warm up. You weren't warming up on
the way here and stretched.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I wouldn't do my you know my there.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
You didn't do that.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I didn't do any of that.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
Yeah, he just went straight to Berserko zero to sixty.
Speaker 7 (02:11):
If they would have heard you, they still probably wouldn't
have known they were a bad driver. They would have
been like, that guy's having a bad morning.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Boy, that guy's got a really loud voice at five
in the morning.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Yeah, what's he yelling? I'm going to keep driving because
I'm amazing.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
I kind of want to tell you about it, but
I won't spend the time. I won't spend the time. Yeah, man,
maybe a little later, maybe I'll be recovered by then,
and maybe my voice will be completely gone, but welcome in.
We got to save this thing because I don't know,
maybe we'll have some yelling to do this weekend.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
You know, our voice has.
Speaker 7 (02:42):
Got to be yelling in a good way, hollering, not
yelling angrily.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
No no, no, yelling celebratorily. If that's why I can't
wait for that, So welcome into the show here today.
We got a lot to discuss, but it's not just
Major League Baseball playoff time, and eventually we'll get around
to playing on our time, on our schedule whenever we
feel like, yeah, joining the playoffs. The Mariners will just
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slide right into a real comfortable we're hosting. We've rested
for a week situation, and we really don't care who
we play kind of Saturday for us, But that's not
the case for eight teams in Major League Baseball who
are going to be slugging it out and we're gonna
have three, three deciding games today. This doesn't happen for
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baseball a lot. They have great ideas about having that
third game out of three and back to back to
back days all meaning something, and it just kind of
feels like most of them are settled by now. But
that's not the case. Only one team advanced last night
in a sweep, and that was the Los Angelestadgiers. We're
gonna have three deciding games today starting at noon in
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Major League Baseball, which is absolutely thrilling. And then it
coincides with the Calloween, which on October first, yesterday. It
officially launched. Yesterday Ashley got it started. The new holiday
is here.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Yeah, Calloween.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
You even carved a dumpkin, right.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I did. It's a peach with a mustache.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Is that what it is? It?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (04:22):
First tip I could tell, think.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
I could tell.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I could see the crack that's.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
The thing coming up from the bottom of the black
And then I.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Had to make the mustache.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I had to make.
Speaker 7 (04:32):
I had palmer color the mustache because I was like,
we need to have that dark otherwise people are going
to just think this butt has a weird thing in it.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah, well it does even with the musk.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
That's still fine.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
At least it differentiates a really weird place to have
a mustache. Yeah it is. It'd probably been. It's probably
weirder now. People are probably walking by, like, why does
that butt have a mustache?
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Yeah, it's got a leaf at the top.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
The leaf.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
What's the leaf the peach leaf?
Speaker 7 (05:00):
You know. Oh, we took the logo from the cow
peach t shirts and use.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
That peach okay, and then added a mustache.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Okay, peach bottom. I'm not sure it's a peach. I
think it's more of a.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I'm just saying.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
That's the double watermelon.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
That's what they've used.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Smuggled double watermelon, that's.
Speaker 7 (05:16):
What they've used. So we used that well for dumpkin
number one. Maybe we'll use a different fruit for the
second one.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
When we were over at Ashley House, bucket was too
good to go. We were over at Ashley Sause and
I ended up right before I was leaving, I'm like, hey,
could I just use your restroom one last time because
I pee like that? And so went in there and
I looked over and there said there was the extra
you know, the extra toilet paper roll in case you
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needed toilet paper, the on deck circle for toilet paper rolls,
and it just handwritten happy Calloween on the toilet paper
roll and ghost at the end. And I got a
really good kick out of that, did you.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Yeah? Yep.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Oh, anyway, we've been laughing about that since And why
wouldn't it be Calloween? And now that we're starting the
Major League Baseball playoffs, we should start, uh, you know,
launching a few different tricks to Calloween, including not just
carving pumpkins, but carving dumpkins. And so Ashley made her
first ever dumpkin last night.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
I did.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Yeah, I like it, you challenged me. I accepted.
Speaker 7 (06:22):
I came with a design again, not it's not the
perfect dumpkin, but that's part of what a dump What
makes a dumpkin?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Are they ever perfect?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Palmer looked very proud. She was in the photo that
you took.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
She looked very.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Happy, very happy. She drew the peach and then I
had to copy.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Oh oh, look at that. Good for her and good
for Calvin. Cal heard that you were celebrating and decided
to hit a homer in the scrimmage for you, well,
you know you celebrating Calloween.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Yeah, as he should be. Yeah, everyone should.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
He went through the whole process too, grabbed the try dent,
all the flashes going off from the stadium and everything else.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
Did he on his way to second base? Still did
the you know what's up? Like the no one out there?
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Really nobody?
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I love it?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Hey act like it's a real game, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Yeah, and there were there weren't a lot of fans
that showed up for it, but there were a few
that were there. And frankly, that's for a lot of people.
I mean, it was like ten dollars a pop. And
they're doing it again today at five. People want to
take advantage of it. I was thinking, like, that's probably
the closest a lot of you there are ever going
to get to see these players in a game, play
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a game, scrimmage or not. So I think people that
took the time to do it, I think had a
good time yesterday with it. They split the teams up
in two each yuro played for goodness sake, I know.
It's a blast and and of course nobody got injured.
So that's that's the big thing. And I'm a worryward.
So the same today and two other teams in baseball,
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as Bucky told me yesterday, they're doing the same thing.
But but yeah, it sounded like it was a successful
little venture out there.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
I mean, I guess there was competition with Mariners had
five thousand people that they were letting in or whatever,
and Philly was like way two. You see we have
a twenty five thousand, shut up whatever. I like the
fact that they got to get out there. I think
it was mostly bullpen. They're trying to get guys. Yeah,
I think it was all bullpen. Yeah yeah, I mean Emerson,
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he's bullpen now he was throwing. I guess I think
it's get those guys, you know. I think Munos was
one of the guys because you don't know for sure
when they're going to throw again. It's not like you
can schedule them like your schedule starters. So getting them
getting keeping their arms loose and something that's somewhat live,
you know, somewhat game like, and then when you're doing that,
you might as well have guys in there trying to
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hack it those things and trying to hit off of
I thought it was I think it's a great idea.
I mean, I don't know, there is no recipe, there's
no manual. Hey, if you get a first round by
do this, and that's for sure the best way that
you come out, you know, kind of clicking on all cylinders.
It's you're gonna play against a playoff team, you know,
come Saturday that just came off winning a three game series.
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It came down to the third game that we're gonna
get to watch today. They're gonna be hyped up, They're
gonna be feeling themselves. You gotta be able to, you know,
I guess basically drink in what you feel from the
crowd and the city and then just go out there
and perform the way that you have the better part
of the last month.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
For sure. Well, I don't think there's any risk of
them coming out emotionally flat. I think they're gonna be
completely charged. But I don't know if there's any way
to just step right back out onto the field and
play as well as you were playing like seventeen out
of eighteen games where everything was coming together. I mean,
maybe they played better, but that's a long gap. I
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mean the three games over the weekend where you really
weren't playing for anything, I think that already kind of
threw you off of the momentum. And I'm not a
big believer in baseball momentum. I mean, we've watched it
here plenty of times, oh my gosh, this team can't lose,
and then oh my gosh, this team can't win for
a week and a half. So I'm not a huge
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believer in baseball momentum. But I mean, there's no way
that we can just expect this team to go out
on Saturday and be playing as well as they were
for the eighteen games that pretty much allowed them to
run away with the West Division. And so it's a
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different kind of fear of how will they come out flat?
I mean, what will have lost been lost in the transition?
You know, this is a week you've gone without really
trying to win a game, and now the games are
more important than ever. So I mean there's momentum lost.
I don't think there's any, but there wasn't any way
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around it. How do you prepare for that? As Bucky said,
there's no recipe, there's no surefire recipe. Maybe the week
off Ashley they used it and maybe they come out
playing better than they were. I mean that's a possibility too.
It's just I don't know how you just kind of
re enter the atmosphere and play, you know, nine hundred
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baseball like you were to clinch the division.
Speaker 7 (11:13):
Yeah, and I don't I don't expect that we're gonna
see that when they come out, But I do think
that their emotions and their excitement and their.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Also their focus. I think that they're veterans.
Speaker 7 (11:25):
I mean, you've got cal who knows what it's like
to be in the playoffs and be in a playoff atmosphere.
You've got Josh Naylor, who knows what it's like to
be in the playoffs and be in a playoff atmosphere.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
You've got Randya Rose Arena. Most of them do, Yeah,
most of them do.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
I mean people act like the Mariners have never been
here before, but most of our guys have been in
the playoffs and have won a series.
Speaker 7 (11:42):
Yeah, exactly, And then they haven't been there for now.
I mean the guys that were there on that team
in twenty twenty three, was it twenty two?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
I can't remember. It feels like forever ago, Yeah, twenty two.
Most of those guys were then mad that they weren't there.
Speaker 7 (11:56):
I mean, they better be bad, right that they weren't
there for the next two years. So now it's like, Okay,
we had that feeling, man, do we miss that feeling?
And so they're chomping to be able to be back
on that field, I think, And so I don't.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I don't.
Speaker 7 (12:09):
I do think there will be some level of flat
but I think that it'll get worked out throughout the game.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
Yeah, well, I mean you just said it like they're
gonna be chomping right, because you're right, there's no chance
that emotion. They're gonna be like, eah, we'll just overlook
this one. We're we got bigger goals, right. Oh, Like
like they maybe went through that Dodger series was they
were resting guys that needed rest for sure, and they
knew that it was a long shot for them to
do anything besides find the number themselves in the number
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two spot.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
This is different.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
So I think there's zero chance, Like you guys are
saying that they're gonna come out flat like that they
are gonna be chomping at the bit. And so basically
it's kind of like your caged animal or you know,
I mean, you're you're you're somebody's holding you back, pulling
at the reins. If Ranio Rosarina hits one in the
upper tank the first aba the game, look out, there's
no because that's the whole get. You got to get
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the thing roll in a little bit before you can
actually build on any sort of momentum. And so if
you end up, you know, getting a kind of shoved
on you for the first inning or second and third
in and we're looking at the pitcher's dual zero zero through
five innings, then it's gonna look like it was.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Well, are they rusty or boy, they don't.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
They don't have that same thing that we were watching
for the better part of that winning seventeen out eighteen
little stretch they had there that had them run away
with the West. But to me, I don't feel like
that's something that necessarily means it was rusty. It's like
you just got to kind of get off the schneid.
You got to you got to get the ball roll
in a little bit, and then and then the whole
the hitting is contagious and all that stuff that that
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is the real thing, and yet you have to pretty
much institute that every single game. It's just it's more
important that you get it going earlier in this game
because the game is more important, and so you don't
want to have to be stuck in the starting blocks
for a long time. You hope that somebody early rakes
the ball in the gap, or a couple of guys
put a couple of good swings on balls, and next
thing you know, you're off and you get that zero
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off the score board, because that's when you can all
of a sudden start to kind of building that momentum
you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Yeah, and all the pitchers are rested, which I think
it's going to be, especially the starter is going to
be a tremendous advance, well, both the starters and relievers. Meanwhile,
Cleveland is going to be pushed. Detroit's going to be
pushed here today to this is this is the beauty
of one of those you know, when it all costs
kind of games, no tomorrow kind of games. I mean,
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they're not going to think about what they need to
save for Saturday to start a five game series with
the Mariners. The Tigers and the Guardians are going out
there and they're doing whatever it takes to win today.
And if that's you know, and if that's hey, Gavin
Williams felt really strong this morning, and I know he's
only on one day rest, but he's ready to go.
Randy Johnson on your ass, then they'll pitch Gavin Williams right,
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if that's what takes to win the game. So they're
going to go all out today. And I really have
arrived at this point where I don't. I don't really
have a preference. I don't care who it is. I
think that the two teams are different. They bring different
challenges to the plate on Saturday. But nothing about either team,
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with the exception of maybe Trek Scubele, who might start
two out of five games against you, is anything that's
is caused for concern. I think you can pitch around
Jose Ramirez, and even with him, that's the twenty eighth
ranked offense in baseball. They're going to try to They're
going to try to just small ball you to death,
which can come in handy, but you better be pitching well, Cleveland.
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You better be able to handle our offense from top
to bottom in order to win a series that way.
So I mean, maybe the Schooble effect is the difference
that I'd rather face Cleveland, But I think we just
match up really well in a postseason series against either
of these teams, and they'll both be coming off a
three game, you know, battle where they're not thinking about
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what we can save for the Mariners this week.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
No, I mean I can't wait to hope you get
to watch like an eighteen in and ainting marathon between
them and that I mean, the idea of it's kind
of a freeing thing. You know, we talked about it.
It's a great sports talk radio topic of who would
you rather face, and you know, who do you want
to come to town? And there's arguments on both sides,
right and understandably so, but it's it's just the former
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player in me, like I want, I just can't root
for something, and because sometimes then you get what you
want and it doesn't work out the way you want
and it feels worse because of it. It's just the
idea of whoever it is, bring it, let's go, let's
do this. You guys figure that out down there, Hey
Cleveland in Detroit, figure it out, and then fly on
over here and let's do this thing. It's it's just
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kind of that. It's I don't want to say it's arrogant,
but to some degree, there's a part of it that
is kind of you know, I think Connor McGregor that
little walk thing that he would do when he'd knock
somebody out in the UFC, like come on, let's go.
Just if they all walked out there like that. I
don't want him to do that, but it's just that's
the type of confidence they should have on all comers,
because you're not thinking about, well, this is the one
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thing we have to do.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
It's this is the first thing we have to do.
Let's take care of business.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Whoever it is it shows up, and then we got
another step after that and another step after that.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
All right, Well, let's find out what's on tap for
today's radio program.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
What's on TEP? What's ontep? All right?
Speaker 1 (17:20):
So the Guardians, who beat to the Tigers six to
one yesterday, force the third and decisive game in that
wild card round, and they will start it at noon.
Because there are only three games today, they can push
it back a little bit, so they won't start until noon.
They've been starting at ten. So at three pm today
we should know our opponent in the divisional rounds. So
in the meantime, come on down to Cleveland Town. Everyone
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take a look at both of our buildings. Our economy
is based on Lebron James, but at least we're not Detroit.
That's the Tranck.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Yeah, that's the truth.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
The San Diego Padres even things up with the Cubs
yesterday with a three to nothing win. They're going to
try to win with bullpen in the playoffs and all
the way to the World Series. They got a chance
to do it. Two PM is your start time there,
and the Red Sox and Yankees thank you, I mean
as much as we do. I mean most people hate
both the Yankees and the Red Sox, it still is
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the best rivalry in the sport. And when they can
meet in the divisional round of a playoff and go
to a third and decisive game, there's not much better
tension in the entire sport. It's awesome. I mean, it
has been an awesome couple of games between those two.
I mean, I'm not saying the baseball's been the most
awesome thing that I've ever seen in my life, but
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the tension, the atmosphere, the energy, it's almost uncomfortable, which
is awesome.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
That is, it is uncomfortable. I mean being able to
being able to be a part of something. I've never
been in something that's as big and its tension filled
as that. But just being in something and you get
to be a part of it, you get to contribute
to it is far less uncomfortable then standing on the
sidelines and just hope, mean that somebody else does what
you want them to do. And so yet now I'm
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a guy that's on the sidelines. All of us are,
and we're sitting there watching this team's I mean, all
the history that goes into it, and they're good teams.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
And now it's gonna come down to a Game three.
It's going to be epic five PM start for that game.
Mariners do have another scrimmage today at five o'clock. Brian
Woo update yesterday. Kind of looks like he will start
a game, but this is you know, Ryan Devish reading
into it, I think a little bit, but he's pretty
good at that kind of circled. Game three would be
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when he would start, but he's got a couple bullpen
sessions that he'll have before they make that final decision,
and we should have roster decisions and probably a game
one starter decision. I would think this evening. I think
they're just waiting to see who they play. They don't
have to I don't think. I don't think they have
to do it until Friday, but they won't do it
before this series between Cleveland and Detroit's decided, and that
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should be decided by three pm. As I mentioned earlier,
Thursday Night football tonight, the San Francisco forty nine ers
are in Los Angeles to take on the Rams, who
are eight and a half point favorites tonight. Wow, eight
and a half point favorites. It opened at one and
a half, it's now eight and a half. The Rams
are favored over the forty nine ers. Brock Perty is
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not starting for San Francisco. He's out with an injury.
Kind of feels like they pushed him a little bit,
wasn't ready to come back. So Mac Jones will get
the start tonight. On Thursday Night Football, Mike Sander will
join us to talk about that at nine thirty today.
Seahawks will hoast the Buccaneers and they're keeping the same
start time, right yep, okay, one oh five start time.
They'll loast the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I think it's the
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best team they've played so far this season. So we'll
talk about that at eight o'clock today and for an
entire solid hour eight to nine. It's our twelfth Man Roundtable.
We'll celebrate it with Hugh Millon and Greg Bell today.
Seahawks kind of look like their healthiest this entire season
coming into this game, which is a benefit of playing
that Thursday night game on the wrapper round backside. Huskies
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will take on Meryland Saturday at twelve thirty. Softy on
US today at seven oh five, as he always does
on Thursdays. Something tells me we'll talk more Mariners baseball
than Husky's football, because you just can't cage that animal.
Seven days until the Kraken, we'll take the ice for
the very first time for in an official capacity this season.
We are two days away from the Sounders and the Timbers,
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and we are one day away from the w NBA Finals.
We are just one commercial breakaway from the latest edition
of ABC's of the MS. This is the particular audience
never gets the ABCS of the MS because you usually
get Mariners morning after. But you can check out our
award winning daily Mariner bit next on KJR Daily Mariner Segment.
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And when I say daily, we have done it every
day since the start of the Major League Baseball season.
It's a segment where we allow the alphabet to guide
us through various Mariner topics. We never know where the
alphabet is going to lead us, and it doesn't necessarily
have to be the headlines either that we go to.
And so where do we go here on this day,
two day shy of the Divisional round of the Major
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League Baseball Playoffs, where the Mariners will be hosting either
the Guardians or Tigers on Saturday. B is where we
left off. We only got one letter in yesterday. B
is for bullpen, and this time of the year, many
experts will tell you this is where the having a
great bullpen really gets heightened. And I've seen teams win
the World Series because of their bullpen. The Kansas City
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Royals come to mind when they had the Big three
at the back of their bullpen, Herrera, Davis and Holland.
Many people say that's the reason they won the World Series.
So bullpen really comes in handy this time of the year.
The Mariners finished the season with the ninth best ERA
out of their bullpen, but I think that they finished
the season stronger than that, feeling better about that. I
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think that top ten suggests that's a pretty good bullpen,
that bullpen is doing its job. But I think we
finished pretty strong. I think that we actually have a
seven top five bullpen in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 6 (23:03):
Yeah, I mean, it feels you feel real good about
the back of it, you know, even though each one
of them had their hiccups. Munnos has blown you know,
a few saves, and Brash has had his issues at times.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
But I think for the most part.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
You feel good.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
You got to feel good if you can, you know,
have a couple of run lead going into the eighth inning,
you gotta feel good about that.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
And then to me, you have you.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
Have a three or four guys that have at different
points in times been absolutely dominant. You know, A Bizardo
has been good majority of the year, Carls Vargas not
necessarily so much the last little bit of the season,
but he for the first two thirds of the season
was one of your more consistent guys. Out of the
bait bullpen, Gabe's been pretty much lights out the entire season.
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So yeah, I feel good about the bullpen, and yet
it still is such a voll little thing that you
don't know if you're going to have that bullpen that
carries you all the way like we do tend to
see whoever the World Series champion is there didn't have
a crap postseason.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Yeah, you are not gonna win at all of it.
They do.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Dodgers is a great example. I don't think the Dodgers
had a great bullpen, but in the playoffs last year
they were phenomenal and probably the reason why they won
the World Series. Not Show Hey, not Freddie Freeman, even
though Freddy was amazing. It was probably their bullpen, which
going into the playoffs last year you would say was
the weakness of their team, and yet it stepped up
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at the right time. So bullpen is hugely important in
the postseason, and the only thing that we have as
a guide is just how well did the bullpen perform
during the regular season. Cleveland Guardians had the third best
in all of Major League Baseball, by the way, and
they're going to lean on it heavily in a five
game series if they make it to us in the
divisional round. But they are down in a manual class A.
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Turns out the guy loves to gamble. What do you
want me to tell you? Yeah, But they've got it.
That's a weapon for them. The Guardians bullpen is a
weapon for them. Meanwhile, Toronto's got the sixteenth bet bullpen
in the regular season, the Tigers the seventeenth, and they're slumping.
It's one of the reasons why they tanked it at
the end of the year. Like Will vest is not
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even pitching well, and he's the only guy they trust
right now. And the New York Yankees have had bullpen
issues all year long. Even acquiring five of them at
the trading deadline has not necessarily fixed that. They had
the twenty third best bullpenn era during the regular season.
So we sit there at ninth. And it is important
because at this time of the year, you got a
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starter that's going going strong, even if the pitch counts up,
you say keep going. But if you've got a starter
that you depend on that's struggling at all, you pull
them early. And if you've got a bullpen, you a
good deep bullpen like I believe the Mariners have, then
you feel confident in making that move. See is for
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Cal and it's been the year of Cal. I mean,
I mean, there have been other guys certainly that have
contributed strongly to this season, but it just feels like
Cal's had the golden touch, from getting the contract, to
getting off to the great start, to the All Star
Game appearance the starter and the All Star Game, to
the home run derby champion, I mean pretty much like
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Cal's like if he wished it, it came true.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
This year.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
But make no mistake about it, Bucky, and you know
this better than anybody. It's all about for cal Rawley
what happens from this point forward. I mean, this has
been a dream year for him and it will always
register is probably the best year of his entire life.
But if they don't get done as a team what
they are planning to get done, cal Rawley's not going
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to look at this.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
Year as a success. That's just col Yeah, and that's
the way that it should be. I mean, you can
have your own personal accolades, and that's something that you
get to have forever. You know, your own the home
run Derby Trophy. He doesn't have to share that with
a team. But the idea of those all fall flat
to some degree. If you, you know, you go out
here and just lay an egg in the Division Series
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and just don't even show up and don't even perform,
then all of a sudden, it's like you look at
it and there's always the man, what if we had
have done better there? What if we'd have finished that
thing off the way that we want. I don't think
you have to win the World Series for it to
feel successful, but you've got advance past this round. I
would think for cow I would think anything less than
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getting to the World Series for the first time, he
would feel like is less then and it will diminish
how great this season's been, even though you can't really
take away from how great it's been just on an
individual level.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
And you never know how athletes going to respond to
postseason baseball. I mean, we've seen guys thrive and elevate
this time of the year, but Barry Bonds had a
hell of a time until he started juicing, and that
gave him, apparently some confidence, but he had a hell
of a time being successful in the playoffs, and even
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juice or not juice, that's still one of the best
players I've ever seen in my entire life, if not
the best player I've ever seen in my entire life.
Aaron Judge, I mean, he's trying to get this monkey
off his back about what whether or not he's a
postseason performer. Alex Rodriguez, Man, he was terrible in the playoffs. So,
I mean, we got a little taste of cal a
couple of years ago, but this is a different Cal Raley,
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and this is a different feel. I mean, we're not
going in there as a wild card team playing on
the road. We're going in there as a division champ
with a bye, starting this playoffs in the second round
at home, and so Cal Raley, how do you perform
in this situation? It really does separate superstars from legends.
Speaker 6 (28:32):
Yeah, I think that the idea of saying this guy
can't do it in the playoffs, I think that gets
thrown around too quickly. I think somebody could have a
really amazing season and then they go they go one
for twelve in their twelve postseason at bats, I'm like, well,
he had a crab. He's not very good in the postseasons.
Like okay, now you get two three, four postseasons in
a row and you scuffle like Clayton Kershaw did majority
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of his postseason. It taints what you've done during the
regular season.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
He tainted it. He got yep.
Speaker 6 (29:01):
And yet I think that I think there's something about
the way that you're wired that it makes you a
little bit more predisposed to like you want that feel,
you want the more pressure. And if there's one thing
we've watched about Cal, it's different, the postseason different. So
I'm not gonna say it's guaranteed that he's going to
perform and put up crazy numbers. But if he doesn't,
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it's not gonna be because the moment's too big. It's
not gonna be because he's withering and wilting and the
pressure is too high. I can guarantee you he loves
that idea. He handled it coming up in Julio's shadow
to some extent, even Jared Kelnick's shadow to some extent.
You were like the other guy that came up, the
other young guy. For sure, he just handled it like
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that's fine.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Just watch.
Speaker 6 (29:47):
I don't have to be loud about it. I don't
have to come out and tell you how I lead.
I just show you how I lead. And then when
the moment called for him to you know, go big,
dump or fly and put us in the playoffs, he
answered that bell. And then he basically he has answered
every bell since then. Not that these doesn't have his
moments where he doesn't come through, but I just think
he's wired for the This is what I this is
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what I meant to do.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Is this situation.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
If you don't think that when you stand on deck,
I mean I would never sit there and say I
don't want a guy to hit a home run here
because I want an opportunity. But there's a part of
me it's like if he didn't hit a home run
and I do get an opportunity, it's like, oh, yes, man,
I get my turn.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Well there is you know. It's why you got to
admire Mike Trout. He's like, you're not gonna label me
in the postseason. I'm just not gonna make it.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Oh I'm sad, not really Trout. All right.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Das for dumpkins, make sure that you get out there
and get your dumpkins in time for Calloween. This year,
the patches are probably already overrun.
Speaker 7 (30:48):
Yeah, and there was a rush at the grocery store yesterday,
so I got there just in time.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Yeah, dumpkin patches all over the Greater Pacific Northwest area.
A couple out in Woodenville, you know, take the kids
out there.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Okay on the hay, pick out your perfect dumpkins.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
We got a perfect fat dumpkin.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Yeah. Cup of hot cocoa.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Oh yeah, you gotta have some cold some cider, maybe
some warm cider that that goes with a dumpkin picking
all right. Coming up next on the program, we all
are to talk a little NFL. There's some really interesting
stories going on out there, and we're gonna have to
cover them. Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ RFM,
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all right, headlines coming your way at seven o'clock, plus
David Softy Maller will join us. It's Thursdays with Softie,
where normally we just zero in on those Washington Huskies
and we will talk some dogs with Softy today. But
I have a feeling he can't help himself. He's like
a rabid raccoon every day. Yeah, he's going to want
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to talk Mariners baseball. We're not gonna be able to
stop him. No, we try to lead him away from it,
probably chew our hands off. If we try to at him,
he'll bite.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Yeah, trains leaving the station. You're slowing it down.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Uh huh. All right, So there's something weird going on
with this Lamar Jackson thing. The Baltimore Ravens won't talk
about his injury. I don't think he's injured. I mean,
I don't have any evidence to back that up other
than he left a game with an injury where he
wasn't limping or favoring a leg. I do have that evidence,
I think, and this is just a wild The sports
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talk show host theory. I think he was so frustrated
after the way this team started this year that he
pulled himself out of the game, and that John Harbaugh
is spending this entire week and all his teammates who
love and adore him are trying not to get let
that story get out and hurt his legacy, because that
will taint you for a long time. If you pull
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yourself out of a game because it's not going that way,
that will that will that will stain you for the
rest of your career, all the way up to your
Hall of Fame candidacy. People will bring that up. It's
not going to keep him from getting into the Hall
of Fame, but it'll come up. And I think he's
protecting him from that. I think Lamar Jackson pulled himself
from the game. I don't even think he's hurt. They're
even talking about him playing now. One day later after
(33:03):
saying he was out for three to four weeks, now
they're saying he might be available, and they were like,
could you elaborate on that, and John says, I don't
think I should talk about that right now. There's something
weird going on in ball three.
Speaker 6 (33:14):
Yeah, Well, I mean I typically am going to just
I'm going to just assume that that an athlete of
his caliber will certainly just has too much competitive fire
in him to quit, to quit in the middle of
a game, to quit on his team, to quit on himself.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Scotty Pippen did at once, and Scottie Pippen's great competitor him.
I mean, it does happen.
Speaker 6 (33:34):
It has and yet my my default is going to
be like I just have to think that they that
he's hurt. And yet the fact that when I saw
he's going to be out for a few weeks with
his hamstring, I'm immediately like, well, then that's a bad hamstring,
and they don't. It's not just like back in the
day it was like how's it feel. It's like it
doesn't feel good, but you could didn't know it's grade one,
grade two, grade three hamstring. Poll Now they know that.
(33:58):
And so when I heard he was going to be
out first magnificant amount of time, I'm like, oh, that's
a bad hammy, that's a bad one. And because of
how he plays the game, you're going to be even
more cautious with a hamstring thing. Because of how much
he uses his legs, and yet if they did come back,
I didn't hear that that that they're saying he might
be back one day later, then that does raise some
(34:18):
red FIGX.
Speaker 7 (34:19):
Yeah, I saw it on Twitter yesterday too, and yeah,
they'd originally said like, yeah, three to four weeks, so
that's a pretty It was like, okay, so whatever odd
things might have happened, obviously he has a serious injury,
because you're not sitting him out for three to four
weeks just for fun. But to then see that yesterday
I even did a double take. I was like, wait
a minute, what how would he be available for Sunday?
Speaker 3 (34:40):
That makes no sense to me.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
And I don't want to come off like a loon.
I mean, I'm gonna if you're telling me, what would
you bet on that? I bet that he's hurt. I
would bet that he's hurt. But there's just something about
the story that doesn't add up to me. Also, Dan Orlovsky,
since we're on the topic of the Ravens, did some
research and found out that the Ravens have the fewest
(35:02):
runs on first and second down and the entire National
Football League. I don't what happened to your identity, Like
Derrick Henry is not even being used by this team
right now, and so there's just something broken about the
Baltimore Ravens, who I picked to win the damn Super
Bowl this year. There's just something off about the organization
(35:23):
that normally just runs like clockwork. He does always count
on the Ravens being as good as they're supposed to be,
if not better than they're supposed to be. But something's off.
Something stinks at the Old Ballpark.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (35:35):
I mean, I think that as a play caller, you
can get into a slump. I think that sometimes it's okay,
they expect us to run with Derek Henry on first
and second down, and so let's trick them here. Let's
let's do these things because Lamar Jackson is good enough
quarterback that you can usually get away with that. But
at some point you just got to go, Okay, you know,
we're one and two going into a big game last week,
(35:56):
and it's like, let's just go back to what works
and it to the monster standing behind me.
Speaker 7 (36:00):
Yeah, just because he fumbled a couple of times doesn't
mean that he's now going to fumble the ball every
time he holds it.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
And he fumbled because great defensive players perfectly punched the
ball out of his arms. I mean, it's not like
he's got to fumble it.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
You shouldn't lose your faith in him.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
He was a victim of circumstance. He was a victim
of timing. And by the way, I mean, Bucky had
plenty of at bats that I'm sure you feel like
you gave away, but there were also some at bats
that you had like, I didn't have a chance against it. Yeah,
no matter how great approach I hadn't, I wasn't going
to I wasn't going to succeed. He made his pitches.
Speaker 6 (36:34):
I couldn't hit that, Yeah, and those you don't those
don't weigh on your near as much as the ones
that you gave away or that you missed something that
you should have hit.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
So, yeah, I think that it's very much so.
Speaker 6 (36:42):
I don't know how they hold onto the ball as
well as they do with big strong dudes going after
it and trying to punch it, and then sometimes if
they punch it perfect, it's coming out period.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
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