Chuck & Buck 10-31 Hour 3: The Ocho, should we be rooting against the Dodgers and a big ten preview!
October 31, 2025 • 34 mins
We cover the top 8 sports stories of the week in the OCHO 1. Happy Halloween! 2. Seahawks head to DC for Sunday Night Football 3. Lamar returns and so do the Ravens in TNF 4. The Huskies are on bye with just 4 games remaining 5. Game 6 of the World Series is tonight 6. Sounders host Minnesota on Monday 7. CBB also starts Monday 8. Kraken host the Rangers tomorrow :30- We have suffered from some recency bias in wanting the Blue Jays to lose the World Series, should we really all be rooting against the Dodgers and their plan to ruin baseball. :45- We take a look at the Big Ten matchups this weekend and make our fantasy adjustments. Did Chuck make the right choice?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
But please drink responsibly. But it's a football Friday sponsored
by Tito's Handmade Vodka. It is also Halloween. Happy Halloween everyone,
It's time for the Friday O Show. And yes, I
know there are huge sports stories that we have to
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get to, but how could Halloween not be the top story?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Now?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yeah, but happy Halloween everyone. Ashley Bucky and I we
decided to dress down for Halloween this year. Yes, I
just maybe we're uncovering some new way to do Halloween.
Like the kids, you get their costumes ready, and then
the adult, the parent is just like, now I've got
to come up with a costume for lot to work
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that has a lot of work to put on my plate.
And so maybe maybe we'll start a trend. We showed
up today in our onesies, so we're basically wearing pajamas today. Uh,
and so maybe this is the new way to do Alloween.
Halloween is now dress you dress up the kids and
dress down yourself about I'm down with it?
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yeah, I mean, I don't really have the urge. I
never really, as an adult, really got into dressing up
a whole heck of a lot. My thing is if
I had a good one. One time I went as
a ping Pong CHAMPI and it was easy. I made
a shirt that said ping Pong champ and I had
a big like afro red wig and a head band
and super short shorts and tube socks.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
I don't like coach find things where you wear a
lot of short shorts.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I do. I do observation.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Yeah, and and so like that one. If you don't
have to explain the costume, I like it. If I
have to explain it, I feel like it's not a
good costume.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I think that's fair.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
That's good mine and five Iron's best costume. We're not
big costume people, but if we do it, we do
it big.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
And he was Bob Ross one year, you know, the painter,
and I was the painting.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
So I'd done one of those like paint and sip things,
you know, and I had so had all these canvases
with paintings on it. So I cut a hole in
the center of the painting and then fit my and
the strap, put a strap to the back so that
my head went through the hole, and then I painted
my face to look like the painting so I just
walked around with the painting man.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
That's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
It was a pretty good one.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
That's advanced.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
I was pretty proud of that one.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
That's good. Yeah, that's damn good. It would have been
good just at Bob Ross alone. Yeah, seeing five iron
is Bob Ross for goodness. Oh yeah. Then for you
to take it to that extreme, wow, I am impressed.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
It was good.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah, good job. Well, happy Halloween everybody. I guess we're
gonna get hit by an atmospheric river, So address your
kids accordingly tonight when they go trick or treating. Let's
get to these sports stories. Seahawks are back in action finally.
It's felt like seven and a half years since they
last played a football game. It's been two weeks. They're
coming off a bye and they're getting ready to take
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on the Washington Commanders on Sunday Night Football, and Greg
Bell told us our Seahawks Insider about an hour ago
that Mike McDonald might have a few blitzy surprises for
the Commanders.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
The other thing that's going to change for Seattle with
Nick even Worry and Devin Witherspoon on the field Sunday
night for the first time since the first five plays
of the year. Is McDonald's going to blitz more? We
mentioned that he's got a really low blitz rate compared
to what he expected to. He said, he's not at
all played like he thought he was going to be
playing this year. But now with even Worry and Witherspoon back,
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they're going to blitz more out of the back end,
and that's going to change the pressure in how Seattle
gets to the quarterback. Now, of course the Dangers are
blitzing Jaydan and Daniels. You've got to be pretty quick
and pretty latterly able to run laterally to catch him
going outside. But I'm expecting to see more pressure than
four on Sunday Night than we've I've seen them. Wow.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Yeah, maybe Mike McDonald's I finally I get to unveil
my true defense this week, which is a scary notion
for not just the Commanders but for the rest of
the teams on our schedule. Seahawks won't have Julian Love
after all. The Commanders are going to be without wide
receiver one. Terry McLaurin Jaydon Daniels is very likely to start.
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He was a full participant at practice on Wednesday, So
it looks like we have we'll have face of their
very talented second year quarterback in this game. Seahawks are
three and a half point favorite on the road. But
I just think, I mean, I get it. The Commanders
aren't a bad football team, and I get that they're
going to be a bit desperate. Maybe their season is
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on the line, maybe their chances to make the playoffs
is going to be on the line, and in front
of the entire nation watching at home and their own
fans there inside the stadium, that they will be motivated
by that. But man, everything else goes the Seahawks way.
The healthier quarterback, the overall healthier team, the more rest
that they've been given. They're playing better football right now.
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You know, they're coming off a buy where the Commanders
are coming off a short week. I think we're winning
this one easily. I think this is thirty four to twenty.
I really don't.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
I mean, it feels like we have the more consistent
team for sure. I mean, I just don't see anything yet.
We talk about Jedfish and the Huskies and like kind
of still looking for that signature win. I don't really
feel like there's a signature win on the Seahawks schedule
so far. I mean, you can't ask for a whole
lot better than five and two. Six and one obviously
would be better if you maybe didn't drop that first
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game against the Niners, but the Niners or the Bucks,
if they'd won that, You're like, I would have felt
a little bit different about this.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
See.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
I think the defense is legit, especially considering they haven't
been healthy, and I think the offense is consistent. Just
you know, they don't go out there and turn the
ball over a ton, and yet to me it would
It kind of feels like I still there's still a
question mark around them, and yet there's plenty of question
marks around the Commanders. I just think that if they
go out, if you don't go out and play a
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really sound football game, and they could show up and
play as talented as they are, especially with their quarterback
back and then being backed into a corner a little bit,
I think they could be dangerous.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
I would say if anything's close to a signature win,
it would be that win on the road against the Steelers,
because I just think that was unexpected going into the season.
I would have thought they'd win at home against the
forty nine Ers and lose the Steelers, And the fact
that that was flip flopped through me for a bit
of a loop.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
But I'd say that was a pretty good win.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I think they've passed a lot of tests. I mean,
Houston's better than their record, and they handled them pretty easily. Yeah,
Jacksonville's better than what we expected, and they won by
eight points on the road. Yep, the Steelers won by
fourteen for goodness sake, against it. Even the most recent
loss was one hell of a battle. For some reason,
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our defense didn't show up. But we could have very
easily beaten the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and what a plumb
when that could have been. So I just think we're
just look like a better team than the Commanders so
far this season. And then when you think about all
the other intangible factors, how on earth is Washington going
to be more prepared to play Sunday night than what
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we are. It just feels like there's just way too
many things working in our favor and working against the
Washington Commanders come Sunday Night. But we'll see of course
they've got a chance. Of course they can come out
there and beat the Seahawks, but it just doesn't feel
like that to me. By the way, Greg Bell also
updated us on the round Table and a little bit
earlier this morning. That's if anybody gets moved at the
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NFL trading deadline, which is coming up this Tuesday, it
could be boy A Mafe. But I don't know how
you make that move unless you're also adding a pass rusher.
It seems like we're already thin at pass rusher. So
if you're gonna trade a pass rusher, it better be
part of a trade deadline that also sees you acquiring
a pass rusher. Yeah, Miles Scars for example. Yeah, it's
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as good as done. Yeah. So a lot going on
with the Seahawks commanders. Of course, kickoff will be at
five point twenty on Sunday night. Now. The week of
the National Football League got started last night with the
Baltimore Ravens routing the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
All walks over to the line, the changes play two.
Speaker 7 (08:15):
On the play, Crok claps his hands, gets the snap
back to.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Throw back pedaling back pedaling towards the ends up.
Speaker 7 (08:20):
Tart the five Mark Andrews with the goal line touchdown.
Ravens Baltimore's tight end with his second touchdown grab of
the first half. Jackson to Andrews hurt it so many times.
Had it's thirteen to three Baltimore fifty seconds into.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
The second quarter, I just thank you Wes would one.
I just can't tell you how awesome it is, What
a great feeling it is to have Derick Henry on
your fantasy roster to get inside the ten yard line
four times and never give him the ball. That's awesome.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
No, I bet that's really sorre great. I really enjoy that,
great fantasy game plan.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Great great moment for me. Last night Ravens won easily
twenty eight to six over the Miami Dolphins to improve
to three and five, and their next six games for
people that buried the very talented and always well coached
Baltimore Ravens, they play at Minnesota, at Cleveland, home to
the Jets, and Bengals home to Pittsburgh, and then at Cincinnati.
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I mean, I think they could be nine to five
at that point. So the Ravens are still favored to
win their division by Vegas and pretty much have been
throughout this entire process, and now that they've won back
to back games, feels like it feels like people are
coming around to acknowledging it.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
I mean, you know they're gonna have to play good
complimentary that that offense is dangerous. I mean, we sought
last year with Derrick Henry and Lamar Jackson. Lamar wasn't
playing like Lamar though early, even before he got hurt,
he looked more like Lamaro.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Why I keep hearing that he scored forty points against
the Bills and forty points against the the defense horrendous. Yeah, yeah,
time I agree with that, But I Lamar Jackson had
one bad game against the Chiefs. He did not look
like Lamar Jackson, and they've been doing that to everybody
Other than that, he was putting forty points on the
board every week.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Yeah, I mean, I just didn't feel it felt different.
I mean, I can remember watching his face after during
many games and he just looked kind of poudy, like
he had made a mistake or he wasn't doing whatever
it took for him to be able to go out
there and continue the MVP style stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
And maybe that's what it is.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Maybe it's we've been watching a dude play MVP caliber,
and maybe it was something slightly less than that. I
think that there if you were throwing dirt on him
because he was hurt and they were losing some games,
I think that was wrong.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
I just really liked when they showed the remaining schedule
during the game last night, and the toughest team they
will face is the Patriots and the next seven week. Yeah,
that was the best. Yeah, that was the best team
on their remains the entire skit.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Yes, that was it.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Yeah. Well, Sunday, Indianapolis at Pittsburgh is the best early game, arguably,
Kansas City at Buffalo undoubtedly is the best afternoon game.
And then your Sunday night affair will all be glued
to the television for the Hawks at the Commanders. It
am number four on the o JOW. The Huskies are
on by this week, but we spent plenty of time
this week discussing them. Coach new Eiel joined us on Tuesday,
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and he mapped out a clear cut key to the
Huskies and their remaining games.
Speaker 8 (11:18):
The two teams that have beaten Washington have held Demon
Williams to minus rushing yards. His legs open up the
rest of the offense, and the schedule sets up beautifully
for him. You know, they're going to be favored in
their next three games. The only exception will be the
finale against Oregon. But if they can win the next three,
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they get to even if the Oregon game doesn't go well,
that's nine to three.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
A bowl game.
Speaker 8 (11:44):
Puts you into a ten and three ten win season.
That is progress, and anybody paying attention to Washington football
is going to start taking very close notice about wanting
to come to play at Motlay.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Yeah, that's really well said, coach. Usually is you dub
at Wisconsin next Saturday. Meanwhile, tomorrow the Pac twelve Championship. Tomorrow,
the red hot Washington State Cougars will be at Oregon
State to take on the Beavers. The rest of your
lineup tomorrow. Some of the highlights Penn State at number
one Ohio State, that was supposed to be the game
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of the year and instead big noon kickoff. They're not
even going to get the most eyeballs. I wouldn't think.
I would think more people will watch Vanderbilt at Texas
at nine am than Penn State at Ohio State afternoon.
Oklahoma at Tennessee, that's eighteen versus fourteen, and then later
seventeen Cincinnati at twenty four. Utah will have a full
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Big Ten weekend preview coming up at eight forty five tonight,
the Toronto Blue Jays have a chance to close out
the World Series and become World champs and Canadians. Man,
they can't figure out why suddenly all of America has
turned against them as fans. I don't know what you're
talking abouot Hey, it's.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
About what we're talking about.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
And enough of that eight business. You can learn how
to talk right, understanding, we got ways of making you
pronounce the letter.
Speaker 9 (13:09):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Toronto is up three to two in the best of seven.
They're gonna have two shots at closing this thing out.
But oot right exactly. But for those that are already
kind of putting it in the win column for Toronto,
I will just say this, of all the pitchers that
have pitched in the postseason, Yoshi Yamamato has been the best,
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and he is going tonight. And if they can just
ride him tonight, then all of a sudden, we're gonna
have a Game seven. And you know what they say
about game sevens, anything can happen.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
M M, yeah, I mean, I think if you're thinking
that there's no chance that the Dodger, I mean they're
out of all the teams, the Dodgers are the team
because they can come out and absolutely shove pitching wise,
and then if that lineup wakes up a little bit,
they can they can get some stuff done.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
I think so far, the Blue Jays have played better
baseball throughout the course of the first five.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
They outplayed it.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
They've outplayed the outpaid team. And uh and so, I mean,
to some degree, I'm sure I'm probably in the minority here.
I don't really have a dog in the fight, and
I kind of went into it not really liking either
team to win, and yet I found myself pretty much
being happier that the Blue Jays are winning versus the
instead of the Dodgers.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
I feel like the good news is though, that if
the Dodgers win the night and you go to a
game seven, then they could both lose Game seven.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Right, Maybe maybe there is a wrinkle in the red
I'm going to finishing a tie. Yeah, wouldn't it be
some We found out that George Springer really did just
help the Blue Jays cheat this entire time, and that's
the reason why they're hitting so well against some of
the best bids that I think I just did. Yeah,
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all right, Sounders in action on Monday, they'll take on
Minnesota United. Of course, the sound and the United and
Game number one or match number one went to a
shootout to decide the game after scoreless regulation. Play the
mad scientists, you know, probably as him just where he
wants them, but even he was frustrated by Minnesota's game
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of keep away that they play well.
Speaker 9 (15:17):
The frustrating part about the way they play Softie and.
Speaker 8 (15:19):
Look they didn't they didn't they say it in the press.
Speaker 9 (15:23):
I mean they want to deliberately slow the tempo down.
They want to take.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
The sting out of the game.
Speaker 8 (15:29):
Even at home.
Speaker 9 (15:29):
I mean the goalkeeper was taking thirty forty seconds every goalkick.
You know, they every free kick, they just push guys
up the field and tick it long and they're long throwing.
Look that's who they are. We know who they are.
So does it frustrate us, yes, it make it difficult
for the players, yes, But the silver lining was again,
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you know, we created enough chances to get at least one,
and I think Softie, if we get one at home.
Even if we get one on the road, that might
be enough because they really didn't have too much. I mean,
they had to break away when when you know, Yaimar
made a you know, maybe a silly decision at midfield
and the guy broke in.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
That was their only chance.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Brian Schmetzer the Mad Scientists song with Softy and Dick
earlier this week. If you want to hear the entire interview,
you can do so at ninety three to three KJR
dot com Monday. That game, that match will be played
Monday at seven point thirty at Loominfield. And so don't
put it past the Sounders rallying to win back to
back games. They usually step up this time of the year. Finally,
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college basketball season will also start on Monday. Head coach
Danny Sprinkle of the Dogs was with us yesterday and
talked about the lessons he learned from a disappointing year one.
Speaker 10 (16:47):
It was my third year in a different program. The
emotions of leaving players that you care about and leaving
programs and fan bases that you love like it's hard,
you know, and it took an emotional toll on me
last year that I didn't even really realize until probably
this June, you know, and like I was spent. You know,
I just was like you just you just go. You
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just get through today. You get through the day, You
get through the day. And then it actually felt like
home probably the end of June, like honestly, once the
spring quarter got over and kind of had a week
you know, before the guys the new crew came in
for the summer. And once the new crew came in,
it was like I was refreshed. You know, it was like, Okay,
let's go. You know, all the lessons we learned in
year one. Okay, I actually feel comfortable here in Seattle.
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I know where I'm going, I know where my home is.
You know, I got stuff out of storage, like I'm
not living out of Will Disley's house, and you know,
like and so like that was like the comfort level.
It's like okay, like I can breathe, let's go.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
They had a heck of an off season. They got
votes for Top twenty five coming off a disastrous year
record wise a year ago. That shows you just how
much progress that they've made talent wise through the transfer portal.
Danny Sprinkle and the Doll Will debut in twenty twenty five,
twenty twenty six Monday night at eight o'clock. As a
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matter of fact, they played the last game of the day.
One hundred and sixty nine college basketball games are scheduled
to be played on Monday.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Jeezeez again, after it, it's here. It It totally snuck
up on me, by the way. I mean, I think
the Mariner's playoff run was just kind of all encompassing,
and you still had to have your eye on the NFL.
But I was completely shocked when I think it was Purple.
She was like, Yeah, they already played one, like a
little tune up game, and the season starts in like
three days.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I'm like, what that happen?
Speaker 5 (18:39):
I think you were right there though, Bucky, because yeah,
we're never We're not used to watching the Mariners most
of the way through October, so we've got a gap.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
We'll get used to it any I'm.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Going to be used to it too. I want to
plan things around Mariner's playoff games.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Damn it. Cracking Rangers Saturday night, so they Cracking have
had a little extra time off in the schedule this week,
so they will be coming off three four days rest
when they take on the Rangers Saturday night at Climate
Pledge Arena, and you can hear the action right here
on KJAR all right, coming up next, why you may
want the Jays to win the World Series? Sports Radio
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ninety three point three KJRFM too. Even he's trying to
be cute and smart and trying to say that, you know, well, look,
I don't think you should ever mention, as a representative
of Major League Baseball that we should ruin baseball. So
I think that is is tacky to begin with, and
it's also like something out of mean Girls to me,
Like it's the girl that has all the money and
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got blessed with all the looks going up to the
homely girl in the school and just openly taunting her
with a microphone in her hands. That's what that came
across to me, as I thought that was tasteless by
Dave Robins hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
I think that might be the reason, like I said that,
my rooting interest has somehow veered towards the team that
I absolutely hated a week and a half ago. I mean,
just because they knocked us out and how that whole
series went down. But it's yeah, it's the idea of
when you're giving a lot and then you just kind
of like rub it in the face of people that
are not the same. I mean they're not the same
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how much they spent. Maybe the Mets can say, well,
we were right there with you, but for the most part,
every other team is working with less to some degree.
And yet you're just like, yeah, let's show them. Like
to me, it's you're right, it's like a mean girls,
it's a gross comment.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Yeah, I agree, all right now, I do want to
kind of sink our teeth into this a little bit
here as time a lots and that is. Look, I
never had a problem ever with the differences in baseball.
I mean, it was capitalism. It was the larger markets
just spent more, and that's the way it was. I
think people over exaggerate how much of an advantage that
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that is. There's more parody, it's a fact in Major
League Baseball than there is in the NFL or in
the NBA. And so I just have never really had
that big of a problem. You two know this, I'll
repeat it. What really has become a problem though for me,
as the additional benefits that the Dodgers are being given,
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the deferred payments that should have been outlawed the moment
that it happened, Like the idea that you only have
to pay show A a million dollars and then you can
defer seventy million dollars salary per year to the future
at some point and you're gonna wait until you sell
the franchise for a hundred times more than what you
paid for it, and then you're gonna pay off that debt.
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I think that that is spits in the face of
an already imbalanced league that we tolerated, But that to
me rubs the face, rubs in the face of every
mid small market club that just simply can't spend like
the Dodgers can. So I have a huge problem with that.
And then the extra bonus that they get because show
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A is now in place, and now he's just recruiting
all the Japanese players, those four with big salaries and
those that make no money like Roki Sasaki, and now
they're just all wanting to go play with shohe and
play with their fellow Japanese stars. So the advantages that
they're being given. I mean, the Dodgers for a long
time were not only a high spender but they did
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a remarkable job in their farm system developing talent. Their
entire team now is just what they bought and paid for.
I mean, there are very few examples on this roster,
nobody in their starting rotation that they developed, and very
few people in their starting lineup that they developed at
this point. And so, yes, it has gotten to the
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point where now I don't like it anymore. Now I
can't defend it anymore. And it might lead and I'll
get to it in a moment, but I want you
to get the chance to respond. It might lead to
some drastic changes that we may or may not want.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Yeah, I mean, I guess I don't like the way
in which they do it. And yet it's not like
other teams can't do it. Apparently, you know the deferred
payment thing. Then I wish our guys would do it
to some degree if that's what it took, right, If
it's like, I'm only willing to come out of pocket
for this amount per year. But I know at some
point in time, I'm gonna be able to sell this,
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and I don't care which organization, which which team it is,
You're gonna be able to sell it for billions of
dollars and so I will take out of my eventual
net that I profit with from to pay this to
put it in here. To me, that's it seems very smart. Now,
it's really it's kind of gross when it's already a
team that has a bunch of money and then they
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just do it and continue to do it, and do
it with multiple guys, because then it seems like, man,
you are really taking advantage of a loophole that's in
the system of an already imbalanced system, that the way
that it's set up, And so I, to me, part
of me is just like, well, then I instead of
being mad at them, it makes me more envious of them,
more envious of Why don't we do that then? If
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there's a way to skirt around it where you're not
having to come out of pocket. Now you're just kicking
that can down the road. You know that it's worth
more down the road, especially if it helps you win
World Series. To me, it's like, then why don't we
get on board with that plan?
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Well, I think it's just just be outlawed. I just
think that it's just too sticky. I mean, you should
have to pay the guys that you have, right now,
I mean, we don't have a salary cap in this league.
I get how in the salary cap in the NFL
you got to you can move things and manipulate it around,
but you do have restrictions. We don't have financial restrictions.
And so when you just allow teams to run amuck
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and change the rules on the fly and you don't
do anything about it, I don't think we want a
system where everybody can just defer payments into the future,
because that's how you shut down the league.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Yeah, that's all shut out.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
Yeah, if everybody starts doing it, they're immediately going to
have a problem with it, and then it will be
shut down and it'll be like, well, so it was
fine for the Dodgers to do it once we started
doing it. Now it's not fine. I don't That is
my one big issue with them is the deferred payments. Again,
I get it, you have a lot of money. You're
gonna you can get all the players you want. But
as you said, you should have to pay the players
you have on your team at the time they are
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on your team.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
You should not be able to get away with paying
them twenty years down the road.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Yeah, I agree. It should hit you. Now, if you're
going to outmit everybody for Show a Otani, you should
have to pay show Tony in the moment.
Speaker 5 (25:15):
And that's also Show's fault for agreed to be to
a deferred payment.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
And then let me pay off the t's here in
the time that we have left and we really don't
have any time. There is this underlying, kind of hidden
secret belief that maybe Rob Manfred wants the Dodgers to
win the World Series this way, and this is why
he hasn't stopped this from happening, because Rob Manfred wants
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a salary cap. A lot of owners won a salary cap,
and baseball players have never been willing to give him one.
There's a little bit of a dark secret under the
surface that Rob Manfred wants the Dodgers to dominate because
if they dominate, then it helps his call for creating
a salary cap in the future. And so maybe you
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want a salary cap to even things out. Maybe that
would make all the fan bases that don't follow the Mets,
Dodgers and Yankees feel better. So maybe you do want
the Dodgers to win and not the Jays, or if
you want to avoid the potential lockout that this is
going to create, and I'm talking we might have to
miss an entire year. You know, this is this This
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would be the biggest thing that Rob Manford ever tried
to pull off. And when they get to the new
collective bargaining agreement, You're not just gonna figure it out
at the midnight hour right before the season starts. You're
gonna miss time to get this done. You're gonna have
to You're probably gonna have to miss a year to
get this done. So maybe people don't want that. Maybe
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you do want the Jays to win because you don't
want to give Rob Manford ammunition to potentially shut down
the sport for a year or two, because that is
going to be a big topic when the collective bargaining
agreement expires. And there are some that believe Rob Manfred
wants the Dodgers to dominate so that he can use
that to try to get a salary cap.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Well, the players are not going to go for it.
We know that they've dug their heels in on that
and I don't think they will. If anything, it would
be even more of an argument where the players will
be like, hey, if you don't want to pay us now,
you can pay us later. The whole reason for the
deferred payments, right, I mean, if the Dodgers were wanting
to get show hand, they were willing to pay whatever
they had to pay to get in, but they also
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wanted the rest of the team to be really good
because they want to win now versus trying to spend
all of it now. Then they figured away that's within
the rules at this point in time, and they've assembled
the best team that money can buy.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Obviously. Well, I just don't think that you can just
keep collect kicking a financial cam down the road. I
don't think that you can do it individually. I don't
think you should be able to do it as a company.
I don't think you should be able to do it
as an organization or as a corporation. It eventually is
going to catch up to you. I don't think that
that is something that can exist. I just can't. One
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team can get away with it, and they are getting
away with it, But I don't think it can become
a collective effort just to keep spending money in the
future that you don't even have.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Right now, and you don't even know if you'll have
it in the future.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
You don't know. If you have it in the future,
you don't know what's coming down the road. So we
shall see. By the way, our coverage of the postseason
been brought to you throughout by Seattle's closest no Qualm
casino and Hotel. Big Ten schedule for this weekend plus
our pickups next on kjar all Right, college Football's Big
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Ten weekend. We always go through it here at a
forty five ish on Fridays, plus our pickups at the end.
At Penn State at Ohio State nine am kickoff. It
was supposed to be the game of the year in
college football, and instead Penn State not even ranked, where
Ohio State is number one in the country and are
expected to win big. Also nine am kickoff, Illinois will
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be home to Rutgers as the aligne I try to
bounce back from their loss to the Huskies and number
two Indiana looks every bit the best, our second best
team in college football. They'll be at Maryland that kicks
off at twelve thirty. Michigan State at Minnesota or PJ.
Fleck will continue to keep secrets from us. I guess
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for the rest of mankind's existence. I suppose twelve thirty
kickoff between the Gophers and the Michigan State Spartans at
four o'clock Michigan number twenty one in the country os
Purdue and then number twenty three USC at Nebraska also
four to thirty kickoff there. Matt Ruhle, by the way, resigned,
not just resigned to sign an extension with the Nebraska Cornhuskers,
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so he's not going to Penn State. Signette's not going
to Penn State. A couple of names have decided to
re up with where they are. We like it just
fine right here. So there is your schedule. That means
you got six teams on by Washington of course, Oregon, Iowa, Northwestern, UCLA,
and Wisconsin all on by this week, which does complicate
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things in our Big ten Fantasy football league that we
do here for a Green Jacket, and man, we got
a tight race. Christopher Kidd is now in first place.
He had a big week from Denzel Boston and a
big week overall, six hundred and fifty two points right now.
Bucky even moved past Ashley. She dropped from first to third.
But it's tight. It's tight. Six twenty seven points for
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Bucky and Ashley at six twenty five, and if Darius
Taylor would ever play, I'd be right there with you, guys.
I'm forty eight points back of Ashley for third place,
and I've gotten five zeros from Darius Taylor this year
because PJ. Fleck will not announce whether or not his
players are injured, and he's actually getting in trouble for it,
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and it's about damn time. I hope he gets hammered
with a three billion dollar fine.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's probably doing it just to get you.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Probably he's like, I know that Chuck guy.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Yeah, really happy about Darius Taylor getting on his team
again this year.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Watch what is damn now? He's probably not even hurt,
all right. So here we go with our pickups. Kid,
even though he's in first place, has the first pick
this week, I think we're probably all gonna have to
make up picks this week. He's got two guys sitting
off Boston and callam Mafe, and it's decided I'm not
going to take a zero from my brand new running back,
Caleb callam Maafe. So he's dumped him and he's picking
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up Jordan Marshall, the backup running back at Michigan. Uh yeah,
I guess there's enough carries to go around with Justin
Ayins and Jordan Marshall to suit kid. So Jordan Marshall's
this pick up Caleb calamafe is being cut. I have
to cut Darius Taylor. I don't have a choice. I
have to cut it.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
That he's gonna have three hundred yards, I know it.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
But I don't know if he's healthy. And I can't
keep taking these zeros. I was going to dump Demon
Williams this year this week and pick up Julian Saying
from Ohio State. But I would have been taking my guy,
I know. So I've let you off the hook here
because of p J Flack.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Yeah, your guy might go off this week, though, I'm
picking Cardinal Tate back up.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
All right, So I'm picking up up Cardinal Tate and
I'll dump Darius Taylor this week all rights.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
As terrible or that he has the same issues. I
don't want to just go off this week and screw
you over.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
That's really nice of you, Yeah, because it's going to happen.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
Probably, I'm just putting it out there that I don't
want that to happen.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Well, if you would have dropped Demon Williams, and since
he's on by and then went and taken my guy,
then I would have had to take Ashley's guy. And
so I'm glad that you didn't do it because I'm
going to drop I'm gonna drop my boy, Dante. You
didn't do a lot for me last week, but you
just keep going out there winning ball games.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
And I'm gonna go ahead and pick up.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
Julian sand Okay, who's my guy by the way.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Yeah, who is her guy? Luke Atmeyer?
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Oh I had options?
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Yeah, yeah, you could have taken your USC kid. All right, Ashley,
you have the last pick. You've got out and Coleman out,
so you got to do something.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
Yeah, I'm not getting rid of Coleman and experiment sucked,
So I'm going to drop him by U C l A.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
And I will pick up my guy, Luke Altmeyer.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
All right, All Meyer's back on Ashley's team where he belongs.
That's right, All right, there you go. Yeah, it's crazy
ass competition.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
If you had dropped Demon Williams, I might have taken
a zero quarterback and then snipered him next time.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
That would have been a good move.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Yeah. Yeah, Well so I was thinking about it because
I got ground makeup. I can't afford zeros. I certainly
can't afford to. So Darius Taylor buzz off.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
Yeah, gf y d Darius.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
A couple of these. Wow, he actually.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
Even Darius GFY coach.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Yeah, well he's he has a hand in it or
a hamstring in it. Humeil and Next Sports Radio ninety
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It's time for the show, the best twelve minutes of
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
But please drink responsibly. But it's a football Friday sponsored
by Tito's Handmade Vodka. It is also Halloween. Happy Halloween everyone,
It's time for the Friday O Show. And yes, I
know there are huge sports stories that we have to
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get to, but how could Halloween not be the top story?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Now?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yeah, but happy Halloween everyone. Ashley Bucky and I we
decided to dress down for Halloween this year. Yes, I
just maybe we're uncovering some new way to do Halloween.
Like the kids, you get their costumes ready, and then
the adult, the parent is just like, now I've got
to come up with a costume for lot to work
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that has a lot of work to put on my plate.
And so maybe maybe we'll start a trend. We showed
up today in our onesies, so we're basically wearing pajamas today. Uh,
and so maybe this is the new way to do Alloween.
Halloween is now dress you dress up the kids and
dress down yourself about I'm down with it?
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yeah, I mean, I don't really have the urge. I
never really, as an adult, really got into dressing up
a whole heck of a lot. My thing is if
I had a good one. One time I went as
a ping Pong CHAMPI and it was easy. I made
a shirt that said ping Pong champ and I had
a big like afro red wig and a head band
and super short shorts and tube socks.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
I don't like coach find things where you wear a
lot of short shorts.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I do. I do observation.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Yeah, and and so like that one. If you don't
have to explain the costume, I like it. If I
have to explain it, I feel like it's not a
good costume.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I think that's fair.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
That's good mine and five Iron's best costume. We're not
big costume people, but if we do it, we do
it big.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
And he was Bob Ross one year, you know, the painter,
and I was the painting.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
So I'd done one of those like paint and sip things,
you know, and I had so had all these canvases
with paintings on it. So I cut a hole in
the center of the painting and then fit my and
the strap, put a strap to the back so that
my head went through the hole, and then I painted
my face to look like the painting so I just
walked around with the painting man.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
That's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
It was a pretty good one.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
That's advanced.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
I was pretty proud of that one.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
That's good. Yeah, that's damn good. It would have been
good just at Bob Ross alone. Yeah, seeing five iron
is Bob Ross for goodness. Oh yeah. Then for you
to take it to that extreme, wow, I am impressed.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
It was good.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah, good job. Well, happy Halloween everybody. I guess we're
gonna get hit by an atmospheric river, So address your
kids accordingly tonight when they go trick or treating. Let's
get to these sports stories. Seahawks are back in action finally.
It's felt like seven and a half years since they
last played a football game. It's been two weeks. They're
coming off a bye and they're getting ready to take
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on the Washington Commanders on Sunday Night Football, and Greg
Bell told us our Seahawks Insider about an hour ago
that Mike McDonald might have a few blitzy surprises for
the Commanders.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
The other thing that's going to change for Seattle with
Nick even Worry and Devin Witherspoon on the field Sunday
night for the first time since the first five plays
of the year. Is McDonald's going to blitz more? We
mentioned that he's got a really low blitz rate compared
to what he expected to. He said, he's not at
all played like he thought he was going to be
playing this year. But now with even Worry and Witherspoon back,
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they're going to blitz more out of the back end,
and that's going to change the pressure in how Seattle
gets to the quarterback. Now, of course the Dangers are
blitzing Jaydan and Daniels. You've got to be pretty quick
and pretty latterly able to run laterally to catch him
going outside. But I'm expecting to see more pressure than
four on Sunday Night than we've I've seen them. Wow.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Yeah, maybe Mike McDonald's I finally I get to unveil
my true defense this week, which is a scary notion
for not just the Commanders but for the rest of
the teams on our schedule. Seahawks won't have Julian Love
after all. The Commanders are going to be without wide
receiver one. Terry McLaurin Jaydon Daniels is very likely to start.
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He was a full participant at practice on Wednesday, So
it looks like we have we'll have face of their
very talented second year quarterback in this game. Seahawks are
three and a half point favorite on the road. But
I just think, I mean, I get it. The Commanders
aren't a bad football team, and I get that they're
going to be a bit desperate. Maybe their season is
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on the line, maybe their chances to make the playoffs
is going to be on the line, and in front
of the entire nation watching at home and their own
fans there inside the stadium, that they will be motivated
by that. But man, everything else goes the Seahawks way.
The healthier quarterback, the overall healthier team, the more rest
that they've been given. They're playing better football right now.
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You know, they're coming off a buy where the Commanders
are coming off a short week. I think we're winning
this one easily. I think this is thirty four to twenty.
I really don't.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
I mean, it feels like we have the more consistent
team for sure. I mean, I just don't see anything yet.
We talk about Jedfish and the Huskies and like kind
of still looking for that signature win. I don't really
feel like there's a signature win on the Seahawks schedule
so far. I mean, you can't ask for a whole
lot better than five and two. Six and one obviously
would be better if you maybe didn't drop that first
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game against the Niners, but the Niners or the Bucks,
if they'd won that, You're like, I would have felt
a little bit different about this.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
See.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
I think the defense is legit, especially considering they haven't
been healthy, and I think the offense is consistent. Just
you know, they don't go out there and turn the
ball over a ton, and yet to me it would
It kind of feels like I still there's still a
question mark around them, and yet there's plenty of question
marks around the Commanders. I just think that if they
go out, if you don't go out and play a
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really sound football game, and they could show up and
play as talented as they are, especially with their quarterback
back and then being backed into a corner a little bit,
I think they could be dangerous.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
I would say if anything's close to a signature win,
it would be that win on the road against the Steelers,
because I just think that was unexpected going into the season.
I would have thought they'd win at home against the
forty nine Ers and lose the Steelers, And the fact
that that was flip flopped through me for a bit
of a loop.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
But I'd say that was a pretty good win.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I think they've passed a lot of tests. I mean,
Houston's better than their record, and they handled them pretty easily. Yeah,
Jacksonville's better than what we expected, and they won by
eight points on the road. Yep, the Steelers won by
fourteen for goodness sake, against it. Even the most recent
loss was one hell of a battle. For some reason,
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our defense didn't show up. But we could have very
easily beaten the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and what a plumb
when that could have been. So I just think we're
just look like a better team than the Commanders so
far this season. And then when you think about all
the other intangible factors, how on earth is Washington going
to be more prepared to play Sunday night than what
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we are. It just feels like there's just way too
many things working in our favor and working against the
Washington Commanders come Sunday Night. But we'll see of course
they've got a chance. Of course they can come out
there and beat the Seahawks, but it just doesn't feel
like that to me. By the way, Greg Bell also
updated us on the round Table and a little bit
earlier this morning. That's if anybody gets moved at the
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NFL trading deadline, which is coming up this Tuesday, it
could be boy A Mafe. But I don't know how
you make that move unless you're also adding a pass rusher.
It seems like we're already thin at pass rusher. So
if you're gonna trade a pass rusher, it better be
part of a trade deadline that also sees you acquiring
a pass rusher. Yeah, Miles Scars for example. Yeah, it's
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as good as done. Yeah. So a lot going on
with the Seahawks commanders. Of course, kickoff will be at
five point twenty on Sunday night. Now. The week of
the National Football League got started last night with the
Baltimore Ravens routing the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
All walks over to the line, the changes play two.
Speaker 7 (08:15):
On the play, Crok claps his hands, gets the snap
back to.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Throw back pedaling back pedaling towards the ends up.
Speaker 7 (08:20):
Tart the five Mark Andrews with the goal line touchdown.
Ravens Baltimore's tight end with his second touchdown grab of
the first half. Jackson to Andrews hurt it so many times.
Had it's thirteen to three Baltimore fifty seconds into.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
The second quarter, I just thank you Wes would one.
I just can't tell you how awesome it is, What
a great feeling it is to have Derick Henry on
your fantasy roster to get inside the ten yard line
four times and never give him the ball. That's awesome.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
No, I bet that's really sorre great. I really enjoy that,
great fantasy game plan.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Great great moment for me. Last night Ravens won easily
twenty eight to six over the Miami Dolphins to improve
to three and five, and their next six games for
people that buried the very talented and always well coached
Baltimore Ravens, they play at Minnesota, at Cleveland, home to
the Jets, and Bengals home to Pittsburgh, and then at Cincinnati.
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I mean, I think they could be nine to five
at that point. So the Ravens are still favored to
win their division by Vegas and pretty much have been
throughout this entire process, and now that they've won back
to back games, feels like it feels like people are
coming around to acknowledging it.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
I mean, you know they're gonna have to play good
complimentary that that offense is dangerous. I mean, we sought
last year with Derrick Henry and Lamar Jackson. Lamar wasn't
playing like Lamar though early, even before he got hurt,
he looked more like Lamaro.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Why I keep hearing that he scored forty points against
the Bills and forty points against the the defense horrendous. Yeah, yeah,
time I agree with that, But I Lamar Jackson had
one bad game against the Chiefs. He did not look
like Lamar Jackson, and they've been doing that to everybody
Other than that, he was putting forty points on the
board every week.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Yeah, I mean, I just didn't feel it felt different.
I mean, I can remember watching his face after during
many games and he just looked kind of poudy, like
he had made a mistake or he wasn't doing whatever
it took for him to be able to go out
there and continue the MVP style stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
And maybe that's what it is.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Maybe it's we've been watching a dude play MVP caliber,
and maybe it was something slightly less than that. I
think that there if you were throwing dirt on him
because he was hurt and they were losing some games,
I think that was wrong.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
I just really liked when they showed the remaining schedule
during the game last night, and the toughest team they
will face is the Patriots and the next seven week. Yeah,
that was the best. Yeah, that was the best team
on their remains the entire skit.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Yes, that was it.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Yeah. Well, Sunday, Indianapolis at Pittsburgh is the best early game, arguably,
Kansas City at Buffalo undoubtedly is the best afternoon game.
And then your Sunday night affair will all be glued
to the television for the Hawks at the Commanders. It
am number four on the o JOW. The Huskies are
on by this week, but we spent plenty of time
this week discussing them. Coach new Eiel joined us on Tuesday,
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and he mapped out a clear cut key to the
Huskies and their remaining games.
Speaker 8 (11:18):
The two teams that have beaten Washington have held Demon
Williams to minus rushing yards. His legs open up the
rest of the offense, and the schedule sets up beautifully
for him. You know, they're going to be favored in
their next three games. The only exception will be the
finale against Oregon. But if they can win the next three,
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they get to even if the Oregon game doesn't go well,
that's nine to three.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
A bowl game.
Speaker 8 (11:44):
Puts you into a ten and three ten win season.
That is progress, and anybody paying attention to Washington football
is going to start taking very close notice about wanting
to come to play at Motlay.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Yeah, that's really well said, coach. Usually is you dub
at Wisconsin next Saturday. Meanwhile, tomorrow the Pac twelve Championship. Tomorrow,
the red hot Washington State Cougars will be at Oregon
State to take on the Beavers. The rest of your
lineup tomorrow. Some of the highlights Penn State at number
one Ohio State, that was supposed to be the game
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of the year and instead big noon kickoff. They're not
even going to get the most eyeballs. I wouldn't think.
I would think more people will watch Vanderbilt at Texas
at nine am than Penn State at Ohio State afternoon.
Oklahoma at Tennessee, that's eighteen versus fourteen, and then later
seventeen Cincinnati at twenty four. Utah will have a full
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Big Ten weekend preview coming up at eight forty five tonight,
the Toronto Blue Jays have a chance to close out
the World Series and become World champs and Canadians. Man,
they can't figure out why suddenly all of America has
turned against them as fans. I don't know what you're
talking abouot Hey, it's.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
About what we're talking about.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
And enough of that eight business. You can learn how
to talk right, understanding, we got ways of making you
pronounce the letter.
Speaker 9 (13:09):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Toronto is up three to two in the best of seven.
They're gonna have two shots at closing this thing out.
But oot right exactly. But for those that are already
kind of putting it in the win column for Toronto,
I will just say this, of all the pitchers that
have pitched in the postseason, Yoshi Yamamato has been the best,
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and he is going tonight. And if they can just
ride him tonight, then all of a sudden, we're gonna
have a Game seven. And you know what they say
about game sevens, anything can happen.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
M M, yeah, I mean, I think if you're thinking
that there's no chance that the Dodger, I mean they're
out of all the teams, the Dodgers are the team
because they can come out and absolutely shove pitching wise,
and then if that lineup wakes up a little bit,
they can they can get some stuff done.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
I think so far, the Blue Jays have played better
baseball throughout the course of the first five.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
They outplayed it.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
They've outplayed the outpaid team. And uh and so, I mean,
to some degree, I'm sure I'm probably in the minority here.
I don't really have a dog in the fight, and
I kind of went into it not really liking either
team to win, and yet I found myself pretty much
being happier that the Blue Jays are winning versus the
instead of the Dodgers.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
I feel like the good news is though, that if
the Dodgers win the night and you go to a
game seven, then they could both lose Game seven.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Right, Maybe maybe there is a wrinkle in the red
I'm going to finishing a tie. Yeah, wouldn't it be
some We found out that George Springer really did just
help the Blue Jays cheat this entire time, and that's
the reason why they're hitting so well against some of
the best bids that I think I just did. Yeah,
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all right, Sounders in action on Monday, they'll take on
Minnesota United. Of course, the sound and the United and
Game number one or match number one went to a
shootout to decide the game after scoreless regulation. Play the
mad scientists, you know, probably as him just where he
wants them, but even he was frustrated by Minnesota's game
(15:15):
of keep away that they play well.
Speaker 9 (15:17):
The frustrating part about the way they play Softie and.
Speaker 8 (15:19):
Look they didn't they didn't they say it in the press.
Speaker 9 (15:23):
I mean they want to deliberately slow the tempo down.
They want to take.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
The sting out of the game.
Speaker 8 (15:29):
Even at home.
Speaker 9 (15:29):
I mean the goalkeeper was taking thirty forty seconds every goalkick.
You know, they every free kick, they just push guys
up the field and tick it long and they're long throwing.
Look that's who they are. We know who they are.
So does it frustrate us, yes, it make it difficult
for the players, yes, But the silver lining was again,
(15:52):
you know, we created enough chances to get at least one,
and I think Softie, if we get one at home.
Even if we get one on the road, that might
be enough because they really didn't have too much. I mean,
they had to break away when when you know, Yaimar
made a you know, maybe a silly decision at midfield
and the guy broke in.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
That was their only chance.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Brian Schmetzer the Mad Scientists song with Softy and Dick
earlier this week. If you want to hear the entire interview,
you can do so at ninety three to three KJR
dot com Monday. That game, that match will be played
Monday at seven point thirty at Loominfield. And so don't
put it past the Sounders rallying to win back to
back games. They usually step up this time of the year. Finally,
(16:35):
college basketball season will also start on Monday. Head coach
Danny Sprinkle of the Dogs was with us yesterday and
talked about the lessons he learned from a disappointing year one.
Speaker 10 (16:47):
It was my third year in a different program. The
emotions of leaving players that you care about and leaving
programs and fan bases that you love like it's hard,
you know, and it took an emotional toll on me
last year that I didn't even really realize until probably
this June, you know, and like I was spent. You know,
I just was like you just you just go. You
(17:08):
just get through today. You get through the day, You
get through the day. And then it actually felt like
home probably the end of June, like honestly, once the
spring quarter got over and kind of had a week
you know, before the guys the new crew came in
for the summer. And once the new crew came in,
it was like I was refreshed. You know, it was like, Okay,
let's go. You know, all the lessons we learned in
year one. Okay, I actually feel comfortable here in Seattle.
(17:31):
I know where I'm going, I know where my home is.
You know, I got stuff out of storage, like I'm
not living out of Will Disley's house, and you know,
like and so like that was like the comfort level.
It's like okay, like I can breathe, let's go.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
They had a heck of an off season. They got
votes for Top twenty five coming off a disastrous year
record wise a year ago. That shows you just how
much progress that they've made talent wise through the transfer portal.
Danny Sprinkle and the Doll Will debut in twenty twenty five,
twenty twenty six Monday night at eight o'clock. As a
(18:06):
matter of fact, they played the last game of the day.
One hundred and sixty nine college basketball games are scheduled
to be played on Monday.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Jeezeez again, after it, it's here. It It totally snuck
up on me, by the way. I mean, I think
the Mariner's playoff run was just kind of all encompassing,
and you still had to have your eye on the NFL.
But I was completely shocked when I think it was Purple.
She was like, Yeah, they already played one, like a
little tune up game, and the season starts in like
three days.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I'm like, what that happen?
Speaker 5 (18:39):
I think you were right there though, Bucky, because yeah,
we're never We're not used to watching the Mariners most
of the way through October, so we've got a gap.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
We'll get used to it any I'm.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Going to be used to it too. I want to
plan things around Mariner's playoff games.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Damn it. Cracking Rangers Saturday night, so they Cracking have
had a little extra time off in the schedule this week,
so they will be coming off three four days rest
when they take on the Rangers Saturday night at Climate
Pledge Arena, and you can hear the action right here
on KJAR all right, coming up next, why you may
want the Jays to win the World Series? Sports Radio
(19:16):
ninety three point three KJRFM too. Even he's trying to
be cute and smart and trying to say that, you know, well, look,
I don't think you should ever mention, as a representative
of Major League Baseball that we should ruin baseball. So
I think that is is tacky to begin with, and
it's also like something out of mean Girls to me,
Like it's the girl that has all the money and
(19:37):
got blessed with all the looks going up to the
homely girl in the school and just openly taunting her
with a microphone in her hands. That's what that came
across to me, as I thought that was tasteless by
Dave Robins hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
I think that might be the reason, like I said that,
my rooting interest has somehow veered towards the team that
I absolutely hated a week and a half ago. I mean,
just because they knocked us out and how that whole
series went down. But it's yeah, it's the idea of
when you're giving a lot and then you just kind
of like rub it in the face of people that
are not the same. I mean they're not the same
(20:12):
how much they spent. Maybe the Mets can say, well,
we were right there with you, but for the most part,
every other team is working with less to some degree.
And yet you're just like, yeah, let's show them. Like
to me, it's you're right, it's like a mean girls,
it's a gross comment.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Yeah, I agree, all right now, I do want to
kind of sink our teeth into this a little bit
here as time a lots and that is. Look, I
never had a problem ever with the differences in baseball.
I mean, it was capitalism. It was the larger markets
just spent more, and that's the way it was. I
think people over exaggerate how much of an advantage that
(20:48):
that is. There's more parody, it's a fact in Major
League Baseball than there is in the NFL or in
the NBA. And so I just have never really had
that big of a problem. You two know this, I'll
repeat it. What really has become a problem though for me,
as the additional benefits that the Dodgers are being given,
(21:10):
the deferred payments that should have been outlawed the moment
that it happened, Like the idea that you only have
to pay show A a million dollars and then you can
defer seventy million dollars salary per year to the future
at some point and you're gonna wait until you sell
the franchise for a hundred times more than what you
paid for it, and then you're gonna pay off that debt.
(21:31):
I think that that is spits in the face of
an already imbalanced league that we tolerated, But that to
me rubs the face, rubs in the face of every
mid small market club that just simply can't spend like
the Dodgers can. So I have a huge problem with that.
And then the extra bonus that they get because show
(21:53):
A is now in place, and now he's just recruiting
all the Japanese players, those four with big salaries and
those that make no money like Roki Sasaki, and now
they're just all wanting to go play with shohe and
play with their fellow Japanese stars. So the advantages that
they're being given. I mean, the Dodgers for a long
time were not only a high spender but they did
(22:16):
a remarkable job in their farm system developing talent. Their
entire team now is just what they bought and paid for.
I mean, there are very few examples on this roster,
nobody in their starting rotation that they developed, and very
few people in their starting lineup that they developed at
this point. And so, yes, it has gotten to the
(22:36):
point where now I don't like it anymore. Now I
can't defend it anymore. And it might lead and I'll
get to it in a moment, but I want you
to get the chance to respond. It might lead to
some drastic changes that we may or may not want.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Yeah, I mean, I guess I don't like the way
in which they do it. And yet it's not like
other teams can't do it. Apparently, you know the deferred
payment thing. Then I wish our guys would do it
to some degree if that's what it took, right, If
it's like, I'm only willing to come out of pocket
for this amount per year. But I know at some
point in time, I'm gonna be able to sell this,
(23:12):
and I don't care which organization, which which team it is,
You're gonna be able to sell it for billions of
dollars and so I will take out of my eventual
net that I profit with from to pay this to
put it in here. To me, that's it seems very smart. Now,
it's really it's kind of gross when it's already a
team that has a bunch of money and then they
(23:33):
just do it and continue to do it, and do
it with multiple guys, because then it seems like, man,
you are really taking advantage of a loophole that's in
the system of an already imbalanced system, that the way
that it's set up, And so I, to me, part
of me is just like, well, then I instead of
being mad at them, it makes me more envious of them,
more envious of Why don't we do that then? If
(23:54):
there's a way to skirt around it where you're not
having to come out of pocket. Now you're just kicking
that can down the road. You know that it's worth
more down the road, especially if it helps you win
World Series. To me, it's like, then why don't we
get on board with that plan?
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Well, I think it's just just be outlawed. I just
think that it's just too sticky. I mean, you should
have to pay the guys that you have, right now,
I mean, we don't have a salary cap in this league.
I get how in the salary cap in the NFL
you got to you can move things and manipulate it around,
but you do have restrictions. We don't have financial restrictions.
And so when you just allow teams to run amuck
(24:29):
and change the rules on the fly and you don't
do anything about it, I don't think we want a
system where everybody can just defer payments into the future,
because that's how you shut down the league.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Yeah, that's all shut out.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
Yeah, if everybody starts doing it, they're immediately going to
have a problem with it, and then it will be
shut down and it'll be like, well, so it was
fine for the Dodgers to do it once we started
doing it. Now it's not fine. I don't That is
my one big issue with them is the deferred payments. Again,
I get it, you have a lot of money. You're
gonna you can get all the players you want. But
as you said, you should have to pay the players
you have on your team at the time they are
(25:04):
on your team.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
You should not be able to get away with paying
them twenty years down the road.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Yeah, I agree. It should hit you. Now, if you're
going to outmit everybody for Show a Otani, you should
have to pay show Tony in the moment.
Speaker 5 (25:15):
And that's also Show's fault for agreed to be to
a deferred payment.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
And then let me pay off the t's here in
the time that we have left and we really don't
have any time. There is this underlying, kind of hidden
secret belief that maybe Rob Manfred wants the Dodgers to
win the World Series this way, and this is why
he hasn't stopped this from happening, because Rob Manfred wants
(25:41):
a salary cap. A lot of owners won a salary cap,
and baseball players have never been willing to give him one.
There's a little bit of a dark secret under the
surface that Rob Manfred wants the Dodgers to dominate because
if they dominate, then it helps his call for creating
a salary cap in the future. And so maybe you
(26:06):
want a salary cap to even things out. Maybe that
would make all the fan bases that don't follow the Mets,
Dodgers and Yankees feel better. So maybe you do want
the Dodgers to win and not the Jays, or if
you want to avoid the potential lockout that this is
going to create, and I'm talking we might have to
miss an entire year. You know, this is this This
(26:28):
would be the biggest thing that Rob Manford ever tried
to pull off. And when they get to the new
collective bargaining agreement, You're not just gonna figure it out
at the midnight hour right before the season starts. You're
gonna miss time to get this done. You're gonna have
to You're probably gonna have to miss a year to
get this done. So maybe people don't want that. Maybe
(26:49):
you do want the Jays to win because you don't
want to give Rob Manford ammunition to potentially shut down
the sport for a year or two, because that is
going to be a big topic when the collective bargaining
agreement expires. And there are some that believe Rob Manfred
wants the Dodgers to dominate so that he can use
that to try to get a salary cap.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Well, the players are not going to go for it.
We know that they've dug their heels in on that
and I don't think they will. If anything, it would
be even more of an argument where the players will
be like, hey, if you don't want to pay us now,
you can pay us later. The whole reason for the
deferred payments, right, I mean, if the Dodgers were wanting
to get show hand, they were willing to pay whatever
they had to pay to get in, but they also
(27:30):
wanted the rest of the team to be really good
because they want to win now versus trying to spend
all of it now. Then they figured away that's within
the rules at this point in time, and they've assembled
the best team that money can buy.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Obviously. Well, I just don't think that you can just
keep collect kicking a financial cam down the road. I
don't think that you can do it individually. I don't
think you should be able to do it as a company.
I don't think you should be able to do it
as an organization or as a corporation. It eventually is
going to catch up to you. I don't think that
that is something that can exist. I just can't. One
(28:03):
team can get away with it, and they are getting
away with it, But I don't think it can become
a collective effort just to keep spending money in the
future that you don't even have.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Right now, and you don't even know if you'll have
it in the future.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
You don't know. If you have it in the future,
you don't know what's coming down the road. So we
shall see. By the way, our coverage of the postseason
been brought to you throughout by Seattle's closest no Qualm
casino and Hotel. Big Ten schedule for this weekend plus
our pickups next on kjar all Right, college Football's Big
(28:43):
Ten weekend. We always go through it here at a
forty five ish on Fridays, plus our pickups at the end.
At Penn State at Ohio State nine am kickoff. It
was supposed to be the game of the year in
college football, and instead Penn State not even ranked, where
Ohio State is number one in the country and are
expected to win big. Also nine am kickoff, Illinois will
(29:06):
be home to Rutgers as the aligne I try to
bounce back from their loss to the Huskies and number
two Indiana looks every bit the best, our second best
team in college football. They'll be at Maryland that kicks
off at twelve thirty. Michigan State at Minnesota or PJ.
Fleck will continue to keep secrets from us. I guess
(29:27):
for the rest of mankind's existence. I suppose twelve thirty
kickoff between the Gophers and the Michigan State Spartans at
four o'clock Michigan number twenty one in the country os
Purdue and then number twenty three USC at Nebraska also
four to thirty kickoff there. Matt Ruhle, by the way, resigned,
not just resigned to sign an extension with the Nebraska Cornhuskers,
(29:49):
so he's not going to Penn State. Signette's not going
to Penn State. A couple of names have decided to
re up with where they are. We like it just
fine right here. So there is your schedule. That means
you got six teams on by Washington of course, Oregon, Iowa, Northwestern, UCLA,
and Wisconsin all on by this week, which does complicate
(30:13):
things in our Big ten Fantasy football league that we
do here for a Green Jacket, and man, we got
a tight race. Christopher Kidd is now in first place.
He had a big week from Denzel Boston and a
big week overall, six hundred and fifty two points right now.
Bucky even moved past Ashley. She dropped from first to third.
But it's tight. It's tight. Six twenty seven points for
(30:36):
Bucky and Ashley at six twenty five, and if Darius
Taylor would ever play, I'd be right there with you, guys.
I'm forty eight points back of Ashley for third place,
and I've gotten five zeros from Darius Taylor this year
because PJ. Fleck will not announce whether or not his
players are injured, and he's actually getting in trouble for it,
(30:56):
and it's about damn time. I hope he gets hammered
with a three billion dollar fine.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's probably doing it just to get you.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Probably he's like, I know that Chuck guy.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Yeah, really happy about Darius Taylor getting on his team
again this year.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Watch what is damn now? He's probably not even hurt,
all right. So here we go with our pickups. Kid,
even though he's in first place, has the first pick
this week, I think we're probably all gonna have to
make up picks this week. He's got two guys sitting
off Boston and callam Mafe, and it's decided I'm not
going to take a zero from my brand new running back,
Caleb callam Maafe. So he's dumped him and he's picking
(31:33):
up Jordan Marshall, the backup running back at Michigan. Uh yeah,
I guess there's enough carries to go around with Justin
Ayins and Jordan Marshall to suit kid. So Jordan Marshall's
this pick up Caleb calamafe is being cut. I have
to cut Darius Taylor. I don't have a choice. I
have to cut it.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
That he's gonna have three hundred yards, I know it.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
But I don't know if he's healthy. And I can't
keep taking these zeros. I was going to dump Demon
Williams this year this week and pick up Julian Saying
from Ohio State. But I would have been taking my guy,
I know. So I've let you off the hook here
because of p J Flack.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Yeah, your guy might go off this week, though, I'm
picking Cardinal Tate back up.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
All right, So I'm picking up up Cardinal Tate and
I'll dump Darius Taylor this week all rights.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
As terrible or that he has the same issues. I
don't want to just go off this week and screw
you over.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
That's really nice of you, Yeah, because it's going to happen.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
Probably, I'm just putting it out there that I don't
want that to happen.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Well, if you would have dropped Demon Williams, and since
he's on by and then went and taken my guy,
then I would have had to take Ashley's guy. And
so I'm glad that you didn't do it because I'm
going to drop I'm gonna drop my boy, Dante. You
didn't do a lot for me last week, but you
just keep going out there winning ball games.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
And I'm gonna go ahead and pick up.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
Julian sand Okay, who's my guy by the way.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Yeah, who is her guy? Luke Atmeyer?
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Oh I had options?
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Yeah, yeah, you could have taken your USC kid. All right, Ashley,
you have the last pick. You've got out and Coleman out,
so you got to do something.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
Yeah, I'm not getting rid of Coleman and experiment sucked,
So I'm going to drop him by U C l A.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
And I will pick up my guy, Luke Altmeyer.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
All right, All Meyer's back on Ashley's team where he belongs.
That's right, All right, there you go. Yeah, it's crazy
ass competition.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
If you had dropped Demon Williams, I might have taken
a zero quarterback and then snipered him next time.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
That would have been a good move.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Yeah. Yeah, Well so I was thinking about it because
I got ground makeup. I can't afford zeros. I certainly
can't afford to. So Darius Taylor buzz off.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
Yeah, gf y d Darius.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
A couple of these. Wow, he actually.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
Even Darius GFY coach.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Yeah, well he's he has a hand in it or
a hamstring in it. Humeil and Next Sports Radio ninety
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