October 9, 2025 • 38 mins
Well, the guys couldn’t end the trip to Detroit on a high note as the Mariners came out to a 3-0 lead before Detroit’s bats and their fans woke up. Just how dead-in-the-water was Detroit? And now, we await Game 5 at T Mobile Park tomorrow night facing Tarik Skubal for the 4th time this year. :30- Mariners Morning After Bryce Miller had a good outing, but the Mariners couldn’t capitalize on some offensive opportunities and the Tigers came alive and then some. :45- ICYMI Joey Daccord: The Kraken goaltender joined the show on Tuesday, so we revisit our conversation this morning with the season-opener at CPA tonight.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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(00:24):
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Speaker 2 (00:32):
Well, good morning, live from Detroit, Michigan. It's Chuck and
Buck Sports Radio ninety three point three kjr FM at
the iHeart Detroit Studios for the third morning in a row,
we are coming to you as we cover the American
League Divisional Series. So welcome into the show. Bucky Jacobson's here,
My name is Chuck Powell, Ashley Ryan back at the
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studios in Seattle, and we sure wish that we were
celebrating this morning. I sure thought we were going to
be celebrating this morning. I thought we would already be
sizing up the Toronto Blue Jays here on this radio program.
But instead, here we sit with that Game five hanging
out there. That's going to be played Friday night back home,
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and so Bucky a lot different to tenor to today's
show here this morning. I mean, yes, thank you, Detroit,
thank you for all your hospitality. You are wonderful. But
I really do regret not whipping your ass yesterday. Yeah right,
it really does bother me. I want you to know
up front.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Well apparently, I mean I wouldn't be surprised. Seems how
every Detroit ter we met was basically competing to see
if they were the nicest person on the planet. Maybe
the Mariners had the same thought, maybe like game Spier
was like, you know what we've been You know, we
beat these guys. That's two games in a row, two
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and a half games in a row. We need to
we need to pay them back.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I don't think he would do that, but maybe he
did get lulled into a sense of softness. I don't know,
but yeah, I really thought we were gonna get it done.
And I was hoping on our last day here in Detroit,
before we hopped aboard a plane to come home, that
we would be kind of rubbing it in their faces.
They're very nice, kind faces here this morning on Chuck
(02:19):
and Buck, but Alas, Ashley, we couldn't get it done
for you. We apologize.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
You know what, It's all right because I will tell
you that the when Palmer came home from school yesterday,
the first question out of her mouth was did the
Mariners win? And when I said no, she was so excited.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Happy.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Well, and then Mark and I we were just like,
we're good, We're just gonna go to the Husky game.
It'll be great because we would rather just the Mariners win.
We don't care. And then it was like, oh, we're
going double dipping because we thought the Yankees would probably
pull it off and then we'd be at one o'clock.
And so then we were excited finding ourselves rooting for
the Yankees again for some reason. And then they blew it.
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So now we have to find someone to take our
Husky tickets. And Palmer is even disappointed she doesn't get
to double dip, but she was so pumped that she
gets to be at the game on Friday, like she's
the one She had just been waiting and waiting and waiting.
That's all I think she was thinking about at school
all day was what are how are the Mariners doing
right now? And at the game on Friday.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I love Palmer the great confidence, Like I know we're
gonna win. I want to win on my terms. I
want to win with myself there in the stadium. That'd
be great for us.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
For me, yeah, for her exactly. That's how she wants it.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
That's it, Palmer. Just take it all, Just take everything
you want. Yeah, you know, and hopefully it works out
for the rest of us. But that would be nice.
I mean, it's gonna be fun Friday. It's gonna be electric,
there's no question about it. It's going to be loud.
As Logan Gilbert told me yesterday after the game, that's
the expectation. We know that that's going to be delivered.
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But certainly I wanted to fly home feeling like we
had already wrapped up what we came here to do
and had a couple of days off when we landed
and then got ready for the next opponent. That sounded
more fun to me, yep, than having to play Friday
night and have that anxiety and that pressure and that
nervousness weighing over the stadium. But nonetheless, you know, every
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sporting event, I say this all the time about a game,
you got to have a moment in a game for
it to be a great experience where you're sure you're
going to win at one point, and then you're sure
you're going to lose at one point, and then you
ultimately win. That's the best ride to go on as
a sports fan that there is, Bucky and right now,
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I mean, we've already seen that pendulum swing five times
in this series. I mean we were there after Game
number one and Mariner fans, after losing a lot of
you were sure the series was over. There's no way
we can come back from this. Trek Scooble's pitching tomorrow.
We couldn't even beat their bullpen for an entire game.
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And then the next two nights we were here in Detroit.
We went out in Detroit after Game number three, and
every Tiger fan that we ran into, congratulations, you got
a really good team. Make sure you beat the Yankees
if you have to face them. I mean, that was
the sentiment. So the Tiger fans had given up, and
now all of a sudden, they've evened up the series,
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and so it swings back in the other direction. This morning,
we wake up the Tigers are favored by Vegas to
win because of one person, Trek Scooble, But we got
fifty thousand people that are going to show up, and
even though baseball is not a sport that typically home
field advantage is some significant push. I think it does matter.
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I think it does matter in Seattle. I think that
the record speaks for itself. And we're going to create
one hell of an atmosphere Friday night and we'll see
if Trek's Scooble can come overcome the Seattle nine and
then the Seattle fifty thousand.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Yeah. Well, I mean, ultimately, I'm with you and everybody
basically besides Palmer, I think that would have much rather
had not had a Game five. But if you think
about it as what could the most the absolute most
enjoyable way of this happening, this is it Game five
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is it will feel it will feel cooler than winning it.
And four I mean, now, I.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Gives us a chance for a cal Raley walk off
in the bottom of the ninth.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
That's right, can walk them off when you're on the
road and show it no, And so I mean I
it's one of those It brings more stress, and yet
with that added stress, it brings more hope or more
of a chance of something more spectacular. I mean, but ultimately,
the whole joy, the whole point is is advance right, advance,
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and then keep advancing and eventually win the final game
of the season and hoist a trophy. And so I'm
one that just be the competitor in me is fine
with having a Game five because it's like, well, this
is what you play for, this is what you this
is what you kind of hope for, It's what you
dream of when you're in the backyard playing wiffleball. You
come up with those scenaris. I never one time was like,
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it's game four, we don't need to play game five.
Here's the I never said that. I never made up
that hypothetical scenario. It was always this is game seven
or game five. It was it was always the most
ultimate possible pressure that you could face. And basically that's
what they've done. They've they've backed themselves up. And the
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pendulum that you're talking about is it's the fun part
of it. I would say this, and I agree with you.
I think that home field advantage for this Game five,
and basically for the last month or majority of this season,
really has played a little bit.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Of a role.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
I think in the playoffs, even if you don't have
the greatest fan base, you're usually gonna get sellout crowd.
You're usually gonna get people that are gonna be riled up.
And if there's anything that we witness besides the hospitality
of people in Detroit, it was the second half of
that game, when they finally got on the board, it
started coming alive, and then the next run, and then
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they came alive even more. Next thing you know, they
tied it up, and all of a sudden, you're like, oh,
this place is rocking and rolling, and then you couldn't
stop it. You know. It was almost like getting stunned
and in a boxing match, and next thing you know,
you're like, what the heck? And you wake up kind
of staring up at the lights, thinking, how the heck?
I mean, I had them on the ropes, I had them.
I thought I had them beaten. Next thing, you know,
I'm the one that gets knocked out. So you got
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knocked out or you got knocked down, But there still
is another round in this bad Boy, the most important one.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I really do want to spend the first segment on
this because I need Mariner fans I need Seattle sports fans.
I need kja R listeners, Chuck and Buck listeners to
understand like what exactly, I mean, how dead in the
water the Detroit Tigers were, or at least their fan
base soel clearly the players didn't feel that way, but
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everybody else in Detroit, I mean already outlined the kind
of the vibe that we had after game number three
going out into the city a little bit. I mean,
it was just Tommy's and it was not like we were,
you know, bouncing from bar to bar. It's not like
we were getting a real pulse from Motown. But you
know what little interaction that we had with Detroit people.
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They had already kind of resigned themselves to having lost.
Then you show up. You know, we race to this stadium,
We get to the stadium, and you know, I can't
even believe what I'm looking at. Thousands of empty seats.
Thousands of empty seats at Camerica beautiful Park, by the way,
but thousands of empty seats. And I had a guy
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who was a Detroit meat writer sitting next to me.
Young guy looked like Jerry Neuheisel. Actually, to be honest,
I don't know maybe Rick got around, but he's sitting
next to me on my right and he's I just
oversee on his screen as laptop where he had tweeted
out it is the the first time in the history
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of Detroit Tigers baseball that they didn't have a playoff
game sold up, right, So this is this is a
fan base that shows up for the parties, right, And
yet they were so sure that the series was over
after Game number three that they ended up having thousands
of seats unsold. Now there's still a big crowd there
and they still ended up, you know, making some noise
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and having a factor in the game. But that's how
the game started. Then they were down three to zero.
They're up three to oh, right, and they were booming
throughout the third and the fourth innings, and I think
some people were even leaving. Hell aj Hench in the
third inning with the bases loaded, situation was so desperate,
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and he knew the Mariner bullpen and what it was
capable of. Down three to nothing and where this game
could go. I think it was actually two to nothing
at that point, maybe even one to nothing. I think
it might have been one to nothing, but the bases
were loaded and he summons Kyle Finnegan, arguably his best reliever,
to get him out of a bases loaded jam, which
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for the most part, he did get done. We didn't
take advantage of that situation. So he's bringing that reliever
into the game, and then the Tiger Rider. At one
point that was sitting next to me. He was, you know,
crafting the obituary for the Tiger season. I was watching
him do it, and at one point he had to
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change it to the Tigers were dead, like I mean,
they were out cold at that point. I mean, that's
that was the vibe that was taking place during the
course of that game. And yet somehow, and this is sports,
and you know, you can never possibly tame sports and
(11:49):
its unpredictability, and particularly baseball, which is another thing that
he wrote down at one point that I saw over
his shoulder, was that you can't. Baseball always keeps you guessing,
is how he ended his story. That's what that was
the last line in the story, Baseball always keeps you guessing.
They were sure they were done. They were sure they
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were done when Matt Brash went one, two three the
night before in the bottom of the seventh This city
here in Detroit was sure it was done, and then
what ends up happening, You know, gave Spire checks into
the game, the normally reliable gave Spire and it was
like six feet of smelling salts. He just rolls in
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there and here are the Tigers stood up at the
nine and a half second mark of a ten count
in this heavyweight fight. And the referee looked in their
eyes and saw they were dazed, and saw their knees
were wobbling, but thought to themselves, it's a championship bout.
We got to give them a chance to see if
they can come back in this thing. So they let
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the fight continue and gave Spire for whatever reason, woke
them all up, and you know, they just they grew
a bumper crop from dust, like it just there was
nothing left in the stadium. They everybody had resigned themselves to, hey,
it's been a good season, and then all of a sudden,
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against Gabe Spier and Edward Bizardo, to reliable pitchers bucky
this entire season, they just started rattling hit after hitting.
It's not like they were bloops. I mean they were
crushing two of our more reliable pitchers in our organization
and the next thing you know, we're down six and
we end up on the scoreboard getting blown out. For
goodness sake, but I just wanted people to realize just
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how over that it felt in that stadium at one
point in Game four.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Yeah, I mean when when we scored the run in
the fourth was the first, well they were third. They
were already booing their guys when they didn't get hits,
when they when they were getting out, they started like booing.
When we scored another run in the fourth, it got louder,
and then you we didn't even ended up tacking another
one on in the fifth, when Cal hit that RBI single,
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it was like Randy. It was kind of a Randy
gets on wild pitch. He is in scoring position and
boom caw, you have no outs and you're up three zero,
right you're you're just starting the fifth inning, it felt like,
or maybe that was the fourth inning. Anyways, they ended
up basically all of a sudden kind of turning on
them a little bit.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Now.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
I was thinking to myself, like, there's one a lot
of game left. Two. This team's been battling. It's not
like this has been some blowout series like the first
couple of games in Toronto, for example, are Toronto and
the Yankees. Those were blowouts. I could see how a
home a fan base would be like, what are you doing? Well,
this is a team and a fan base that was
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watching this watch this team have an absolute meltdown the
last month of the season, right and you could tell
it it felt like that's what they Those people booing
were like, what are you doing? You idiots? They were
mad about how this has gone up to this point,
and yet it was like, this team is the team
will certainly feel that because yeah, I mean it starts
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with in the fifth with Bryce. It starts where he
ends up giving up a kind of a soft ground
ball up the middle to get that in and going.
Then he gets more weak contact, gets that out, and
then it's the first the hard hit barrage starts that
double gets him on the board, and all of a sudden,
even those that were going like oh hey three to
one were okay, and they just basically we couldn't stop
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the slide. At that point in time. Gabe was thrown
far twoundy pitches over the heart of the dish, and
obviously they just didn't miss him. They took full advantage
of every mistake we made.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
He was just off. He just was not good, and
he just picked a terrible time of not being good.
And I expected Bryce to have a quick hook. I
actually thought that Dan might take him out after that
Torkolsen single that you were describing. But he he hadn't
allowed anybody to get the second base in the entire game.
His last pitch was the first time that he allowed
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somebody in scoring position. It just so happened to have
scored a run and put the second run scoring position.
But I mean, I know that the plan all along
was quick hook, go to Gabe Spire. If there's a
big lefty, we're gonna go to him first against a
left handed matchup that we like. And it ended up
(16:14):
pushing Parker Medow's out of the game, and Jami Jones,
of all people, comes through with a double and that
was the first uh oh moment that you had to
have as a Mariner fan. But I don't have any
problem with the decision to take Bryce out. I don't
have any problem with the decision to go to Gabe Spire,
And I realized that a lot of people do have
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a problem with it, and I think maybe you're guilty
of hindsight. I would hope that you're at least consistent
with this, because, I mean, Gabe Spire has turned out
to be the difference in this series for a number
of spectacularly good and terrible reasons. Game number one, they
didn't go to them when I thought they should have
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in the fifth inning, and it cost you. Game two,
they did go to him when I thought they should
have prematurely, but this is playoff baseball, both in the
fifth inning, and he got the job done, and it
might have been the difference in winning that game because
there was only three to two, and then he didn't
have to pitch in Game number three, and then game
number four, you go to him, same thing. Fifth inning,
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little traffic on the base paths started, doesn't quite get
through five, even though he pitched very well. All three
of them pitched very well moving into the fifth. None
of them score allowed a run in through four, none
of the three starters that we're talking about. And I
thought all three times that Gabe Spiers should have come
in in that situation in the fifth, and in this
(17:42):
particular case, you do go to him, in my opinion,
at the right time, and he just didn't have it.
He was two or three miles per hour off his velocity.
He wasn't locating at all, and they just lit poor
Gabe up.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Well, yeah, they let him up. I mean you said
it early in this series. Because of the fact that
you have two lefties in the bullpen, Inspire being the
one that you can you've been able to rely on
majority of the season. Nobody's perfect. I remember talking to
Softie and Dick after the first postgame show here and
and it was there's been questions of well, you it
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looks like the backside of your bullpen, you know, when
you're talking about Munnos and Brash obviously, but even Spire
he was doing. I mean they seem unhittable. I mean,
how quick do you go to those guys? You got
to use those guys. Well, yeah, but nobody's unhittable. I
mean they're still human. There's still going to make mistakes.
The difference is how many do you make? How many
opportunities do you give them to make their job a
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little easier, And he was making a bunch. How easy
is it to hit that mistake? Still? I mean, Trek
Skouble made a couple of mistakes Horey Polonko, and he
capitalized on both of them. He doesn't make very many mistakes,
and even when he does, they're not as easy as
as other guy's mistakes might be that have lesser stuff.
Gave Spire the fact that his there was a little
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bit of a boy off of his fastball makes it
a little bit easier to connect when he ends up
throwing one over the heart. And obviously they did that,
and then you know, okay, well now they've evened it
up to some degree. Bring in bizarrero Dude's been lights
out majority of his appearances this season. I mean, he's
been a guy that you most certainly can you feel
good about bringing him in a high leverage.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
You had a bad seasons that they have. You have
to depend on them in those situations. If you don't,
you're making a mistake as a.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Manager, right And ultimately they did, and I think those
guys would say thank you, and yes, I agree, give
me the ball, all come in here and get it done.
We saw that one one of those games you're talking
about where there was a Spire element to it when
he came in and did not relinquish an inherited runner.
He was crazy fired up. Well, he was expecting to
have that same type of feel when he came into
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this game, because Bryce Miller had done his job. I mean,
giving up two hits through four eighties, goes out there,
gives up a week kind of single up to the Midt.
It's just a knock. He hits it and it goes
it didn't go to JP and then gets another out
and then the double happens, and all of a sudd
that breaks the kind of breaks the levy a little bit.
From that point was that they just could not stop
the bleeding. And it was unfortunate because it was a
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good game. It was just the tale of two halves,
and they obviously had a far better second half of
the game that we had.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
First, I'll disagree with one thing. The crap game.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
You don't like it?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Crap game. No, all right, let's find out what's on
tap for today's last show here in Detroit.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
What's on tip?
Speaker 3 (20:26):
What's on tap?
Speaker 2 (20:27):
All right? Tigers win over the Mariners in game number
four nine three at evens, the series up at two games.
The piece Ryan Heathy will join us this morning. He's
been our postseason contributor, former Mariner. He'll join US at
nine thirty today. We'll also have the ABC's logan. Gilbert
will also be on the program today. Game number five
will be Friday at five o'clock. We know that we
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also know that Trek Scuball will be pitching for the
Detroit Tigers. What we don't know yet officially is who
will be pitching for the Mariners. I know a couple
of websites are assuming that it's George Kirby, but I
don't think that that's been officially declared. There's a chance
it could be Luis Castillo, and obviously there is a
very good chance that it could beat George Kirby. If
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we get that official declaration, will certainly pass it along
and we'll certainly discuss the topic of who should be
pitching that game a little later on in the show.
Toronto did eliminate the New York Yankee, something that we
typically would celebrate in Seattle. But I kind of wanted
to play the day game in the in game number five,
and it sounds like Palmer the Great did as well. Yeah,
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but yeah, everything that we want, I suppose National League
Divisional Series, the Phillies and the Cubs both stayed alive
last night, but they still trail two games to one
in that best of five. Seahawks will be at the
Jaguars on Sunday. This will be the least amount we'll
probably talk about the Seahawks on a Thursday ever so,
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but we'll we'll certainly try to get some information in
on that Thursday night. Football's tonight it's the Eagle at
the New York Giants. Friday Night football. For the Huskies,
they'll be taking on Rutgers on Montlake. Softy's gonna join
us today at seven oh five, but I have a feeling
we're gonna talk more baseball than football with Softy. But
we certainly will provide a little bit of a preview
to the Knights and the Dogs. And then today and
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normally this would be the headline today. It's the opening
day of the Seattle Krakens season. So tonight they take
on the Anaheim Mighty Ducks, and we're going to be
out at Tom's Watch Bar. At least the rest of
the crew that's back in Seattle will be from ten
all the way up to dropping the puck. So we've
got you covered here on the flagship from ten o'clock
(22:38):
to six point thirty. The entire crew is going to
be out at Tom's Watch Bar today every single show,
counting down the seconds to crack an opening day. We
certainly will spend some time discussing that today on the
radio program. But we're here in Detroit for a reason,
and that's to talk Mariners Tigers baseball. So we've got
Mariners Morning After coming arway next Sports Radio ninety three
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point three kha R FM, or my Honey logins Underwear.
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Speaker 3 (23:05):
It's weird.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Did they just say playing with the boys.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Yes, yeah, I mean more more like just snugly caresses them. Yeah,
but I agree. I get it that he did not
make a song called Snugly Caressing with the boys, right right, Yeah,
So yeah it works. I think it's funny. Just the same.
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All right, Mariners Morning After. We've done it all year long,
for years now. After every Mariner's game, we provide this
postgame show for you, but we just do it the
morning after, a highlight of SoundBite, the preview of what's
going on tonight that's coming your way here. Today, Mariners
had a chance to close out the Detroit Tigers right
here in Detroit, Michigan, where Bucky and I have been
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for the last three days. They were up three to
nothing in the game. Everything felt great. Mariner fans had
kind of taken over the stadium. Tiger fans were already leaving,
most of them booing throughout the course of the first
half of that baseball game. And then all of a sudden,
the Tigers started to wake up against Bryce Miller. A
(24:11):
single from Spencer Torkelsen to start the bottom of the fifth,
No harm done, right, Then he gets an out on
a fielder's choice ground out for Zach mckinstree. All right,
we got one out going. He still hasn't allowed a
runner to reach second base in this game. And then
Dylan Dingler changed that. The catcher doubled into left center field.
It scored Detroit's first run of the game, and it
(24:34):
pulled Bryce Miller from the game. No sweat right, We've
got Gabe Speier. He's been outstanding this season, He's been
outstanding in this series. This seems like a good time
to bring in your best left handed reliever. And instead
things went south. Jamaike Jones doubled down the left field
line to get two excuse me, three to two, and
(24:56):
then a RBI single up the middle from Javier Bayaz
tied the game at three runs apiece. Still you thought,
to yourself, Okay, they drew even, no big deal. We
still got four innings or even at three apiece, We're fine.
Gabe Spires started the bottom of the sixth so that
he could face left hander Riley Green, and all of
(25:18):
a sudden things didn't feel fine.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
The one zero breaking ball lifted the light.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Their first lead since the eleventh inning of Game one,
and it's Riley Green to give it to them four
to three Detroit. Mmmmm, now that you put it that way.
Adam Amin fs one there on the call made it
four to three, and then the Tigers against Edward Bizardo
just kept tacking on a three run fifth, a four
(25:52):
run sixth, and then they decided just to add another
run in the seventh and another run in the eighth,
and they end up running away with a game that
I thought was settled in the fifth inning. It felt
like it was settled in the fifth inning. The Tigers
end up winning at nine to three. Gave just did
not have it yesterday.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Period. No, he didn't, obviously, and that's you know, he's
obviously a guy that you usually trust in that situation.
It's just the ebbs and flows of baseball are really
hard to kind of understand, and yet you can feel
it you most certainly you can feel it whether you're
watching on TV or sitting there. When they came back
and how you kind of described tied it up that
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all of a sudden you're like, oh boy, really okay,
now you ended up He got out of it there
after giving up Bryce Miller's runs and a couple of
his or his Bryce Miller's one run under two, I
guess he gave up too the one that Bryce had
already given up with a double, Then he gave up
the other guy that was standing on second base, and
then he gave up one of his own. He ended
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up settling down and getting out of that inning to
where you're just tied. That next inning they end up
making a switch and then we get a couple of
quick outs, and next thing you know, we get two
guys on I think it was a walk by Who
was it? Where was.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
Blake?
Speaker 2 (27:12):
You're talking about our inning?
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Yes, we end up getting a walk. Then JP gets
a single and a rose Arena comes up with two
outs and gets and flies out there. That to me
was one where you put up a zero after your
team scores the three tying runs and then they get
a zero. If you would attacked one on there right,
you re tip took the lead, it would feel different
right going into the next inning, because the next inning,
(27:35):
where the highlight we just heard is they end up
wiggling off the hook there right, two guys on, two
outs and the Rosarina doesn't get a hit. Now all
of a sudden, you're going, okay, Riley Green lefty Gabe
ended up settling down after giving up the runs in
the previous inning. We're gonna use him here against Riley Green,
and Boomy hangs a slider and he hits it out
of the yard. And that's where it's like the ebbs
(27:57):
and flows parts of it. It's like, man, just one
thing different front here and there, and you might feel
like you're on your way back up to towards taking
the lead and running away with something. Instead, you don't
get the knock and they come out there the second
pitch of that intan and Readley goes yard.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Well, a lot of people had a problem. I don't
know if it was during before or in hindsight but
a problem with Dan Wilson taking out Bryce Miller, who
hadn't given up a lot of damage in the game. Afterward,
Bryce Miller facing the media said that he understood while
he was taking out, but he did feel great at
the time.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (28:31):
I thought it's the best I've felt in a long time.
And I thought I threw the ball really well. Fastball
was playing really good, splitter was good, and it's passed.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
A few weeks.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
I was working on, you know, getting off speed INTEWN
and I was doing that. Yeah, I thought I attacked
hitters pretty good and it was in the zone a lot.
So Yeah, I think I don't know a regular season.
I think, you know, I go six seven innings there
and weren't a good spot. But yeah, I was happy
(29:02):
with with Yadi.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
Yeah, and larger pictures.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Certainly, it's not so if you think about the immediate aftermath.
Speaker 6 (29:06):
But we've seen this seam bounds back time and time again.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
It just the idea of this team keeping that mentality
and keeping even killed after a tough loss. What's that
like right now?
Speaker 5 (29:14):
Yeah, for sure, We've said it before.
Speaker 6 (29:17):
We got a lot of confidence in this clubhouse, and
I got no doubt we're gonna bounce back and go
to Game five and we'll have some fun at Seattle.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Bryce Miller after the game, he did the job. He
got his job done, There's no question about that. I
know a lot of people were worried about him getting
the ball and that crucial of the situation. I was
not among you. I thought he was. He delivered on
exactly what we promised he is and that is a
low heartbeat, give me the ball, confident, quiet swagger guy.
(29:47):
And he went out there and he Clint eastwooded up
and got the job done. And I thought was taken
out at the appropriate time by Dan Wilson at just
backfired Spy and Bizardo, who usually have it didn't have
it yesterday, and we lost the baseball game. That's the
bottom line, two it all, and now we have to
face a game five. We did have some cushion there,
we could afford to kick one, which we did. But
(30:08):
you've got game number five at home to settle it
on Friday night at five o'clock. We know who's pitching
for them, and we know how good Kerk Scouble is
and we understand he is the lone reason why they
are the favorites in Vegas going into this game five,
but we've already beaten him three times, And the question is,
do you go with the starting pitcher that has head
(30:29):
to head beaten him every single time this year in
Luis Castillo on shorter rest? Or do you go with
George Kirby your game one starter and have Castillo ready
in the bullpen potentially and anybody else that might be
available to pitch in this game against Scooble and the Tigers.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Yeah. I don't know which way he is going to
go with it. It feels to me, if I had to guess,
that you'd go with the guy that's on the legit
rest and George Kirby and his stuff kind of placed
where you feel like he might be able to go
literally pitch for pitch against Trek Scooble. All right, Terrek Scooble,
let's just say he's gonna go seven innings and you
only scratch together one run. I think that you have
(31:09):
an opportunity with George Kirby do the same thing that said.
I also think George would be better suited coming out
of the pen. I mean, has less time just stuck
in the starter role. So It could be you could
You could go Castillo and say, hey, dude, show us
what you got, and literally the first sign of any trouble,
you can go George Kirby, piggybacking him. It's gonna be
(31:29):
an interesting decision. I'm guarantee it's one that Dan Wilson's
not making lightly.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Yeah, no doubt. It's a huge decision, and we don't
have official confirmation. I know a couple of websites are
assuming prominent sports websites are assuming Kirby starts, but we
don't have that official declaration yet made. It could be Castillo.
We shall see, and I think there's a further conversation
to have about that coming up later on in the
(31:54):
program headlines. At the top of the hour, we got
Softy joining us to talk some Huskies and some Mariners
at seven oh five. Most of our show is gonna
be about baseball, but we also have to talk about
opening night for the Crack, and it's tonight. It's a
really big deal. It's a red carpet ceremony. We are
the flagship. We're gonna be counting you down starting at
ten o'clock with MJ and the Midday and then taking
(32:16):
you all the way up to the drop of the
puck right here at Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
So in the spirit of that, we had a conversation
with the goalie on this hockey team earlier this week.
In case you missed it, we'll hear a little bit
from Joey to Cord here on opening day next. Sports
Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. All right, it's Chuck
(32:40):
Valvetz Bucky Jacobs and we are broadcasting live for the
final morning here from Detroit, Michigan. We were sent to
the American League Divisional Series. We got you one win.
We really wanted to get you too. Sorry about that, Seattle.
I wanted to fly home not having to worry about
a Game five on Saturday. But you know what, glass
half full, What a night we have in score for
us Friday night at Team Mobile Game five to decide
(33:03):
who moves on to the American League Championship Series to
face the Toronto Blue Jays. We'll talk more about it
throughout the show. Of course, today we got headlines at seven.
Softy usually talks Huskies at seven oh five, but I
have a feeling he's gonna want to talk Mariners, So
we'll get into that conversation Thursdays with Softy coming your way.
Also tonight, a huge night here at KJAR. Even though
(33:24):
there's a lot going on, we certainly want to highlight
the fact that the Seattle Kraken will start their twenty
twenty five twenty twenty six season tonight against the Anaheim
Mighty Ducks. We've got a broadcast day for you starting
at ten o'clock, MJ and Chris we are going to
be down at Tom's Watch Bar, and then every show
we'll be broadcasting from Tom's watch Bar all day long,
(33:45):
leading you all the way up to the six thirty
puck drop out at Climate Pledge Arena. Earlier this week,
our starting goaltender Joey Decord, coming off a fantastic season,
he joined us and I asked him if he feels
that the Kraken are already for a playoff season.
Speaker 5 (34:02):
I genuinely think so yeah.
Speaker 7 (34:04):
I mean I've already the vibes around the room, around
the team have been so good and so high so
far this this preseason and training camp, and now as
we lead into the season here, I think we, honestly,
I think we have such a good group of guys
in hockey. It's funny hockey. There's so much or so
little separation, sorry, between the top and bottom teams in
(34:27):
the league, and there's so much parody. And I think
so much of what makes teams good is culture.
Speaker 5 (34:32):
And I truly.
Speaker 7 (34:33):
Believe this is This is the best group of guys
we've had in this locker room so far since I've
been here, at least, And I'm just so excited to
get going.
Speaker 5 (34:41):
I think we have a lot of belief in our group.
Speaker 7 (34:43):
I really have enjoyed working with coach Lane and the
way he the way he coaches just makes sense for
me and and the way my brain works. It's like
when you have a good teacher, right when you can
understand a teacher really well in class and stuff. And
that's for me is what it feels like. So I'm
super excited get going. I think we have a lot
of belief in our group this year, and yeah, I
(35:04):
can't wait.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
I'm hyped. There's a few youngsters that are making the
opening day roster. What's it what's it feel like from
your perspective when you see some young guys like that
that are going to get to realize the dream of
playing in the NHL and making an opening day roster.
Speaker 7 (35:17):
Oh, it's so cool. It just it just brings me
back to the first time. I mean I only made
the opening day roster. I think it was two seasons ago.
So this is my third third full year with the team,
and it just brings so much like joy to see
them all fired up and excited and and you know,
you work your whole life to get to where you are,
and you know, every every single person has their own story,
(35:40):
and to see those kids get to go through with
what they have to, all the ups and downs, and
it truly takes a village to see these guys are.
For these guys to make it to the NHL and
to make it for the first time the opening night roster,
it's just a special feeling.
Speaker 5 (35:53):
And we're excited to have them in our group.
Speaker 7 (35:55):
Honestly, they're they're top players and great people and that's
what we want want in our locker, and we want
great people and they're gonna help our team win games,
and we're excited to have them.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Cracking Goalie Joey the cord with us here on chucking
back in the morning. You mentioned, I mean we forget
how young you are and how you had such a
good season a year ago, Joey, and now you enter
for the first time as the clear cut number one goalie.
What does that feel like in terms of a sense
of accomplishment.
Speaker 7 (36:25):
Yeah, truth be told, I haven't put too much thought
into that for me, Like I try not to get
too big picture when I'm thinking about hockey. I think
for me, I try to focus on, Hey, how do
I help this team win hockey games? That's all I
can focus on right now. I can't be like, oh,
you know, I'm the guy I gotta play good for However,
many games like I feel like that's that's an easy
(36:45):
way to get overwhelmed. And for me, it's like, Okay,
we play Anaheim Night one Thursday, Climate pledge be there
by the way.
Speaker 5 (36:53):
But you know, I'm like, how do I help the
team win the game?
Speaker 7 (36:56):
And for me, that's that's sticking to my process and
finding a way to help the team win the game,
and then after that we move on.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Ah, very kind the very talented Showy to Court joining
us earlier this week. He's getting ready for his season
debut tonight as the Crack and will host the Anaheim
mighty Ducks to get the brand new year underway, red
carpet treatment and all that. Mike Menton will be in
his tuxedo, Everett fits you will be in his tuxedo.
Al will be looking good in his tuxedo. Ian Furness
(37:25):
and his evening gown. It's just gonna be a wonderful
explosion of hockey joy.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
He sent me a photo of that gown sequence, the
sea foam colored sequence.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
This is when it pays off to be six to four.
You can just be leggy. Well, the leggy part slid
all the way up the side. He's gonna be showing
it off.
Speaker 4 (37:46):
We do have to make one correction though, it is
a blue carpet that they're rolling out.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
A blue car. Well yeah, okay, fair fair enough, fair enough,
But yes, Ian Furness is gonna show the entire world. Yeah,
why Canada loves him tonight, so we shall we shall
be tuned in. All right, Tom's watch bar. That's where
you want to go if you want to celebrate with
KJR all day long. Broadcast will start there at ten
(38:10):
am and we'll take you all the way up to
the drop of the puck at six thirty. Coming up
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Speaker 2 (00:32):
Well, good morning, live from Detroit, Michigan. It's Chuck and
Buck Sports Radio ninety three point three kjr FM at
the iHeart Detroit Studios for the third morning in a row,
we are coming to you as we cover the American
League Divisional Series. So welcome into the show. Bucky Jacobson's here,
My name is Chuck Powell, Ashley Ryan back at the
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studios in Seattle, and we sure wish that we were
celebrating this morning. I sure thought we were going to
be celebrating this morning. I thought we would already be
sizing up the Toronto Blue Jays here on this radio program.
But instead, here we sit with that Game five hanging
out there. That's going to be played Friday night back home,
(01:14):
and so Bucky a lot different to tenor to today's
show here this morning. I mean, yes, thank you, Detroit,
thank you for all your hospitality. You are wonderful. But
I really do regret not whipping your ass yesterday. Yeah right,
it really does bother me. I want you to know
up front.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Well apparently, I mean I wouldn't be surprised. Seems how
every Detroit ter we met was basically competing to see
if they were the nicest person on the planet. Maybe
the Mariners had the same thought, maybe like game Spier
was like, you know what we've been You know, we
beat these guys. That's two games in a row, two
(01:53):
and a half games in a row. We need to
we need to pay them back.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I don't think he would do that, but maybe he
did get lulled into a sense of softness. I don't know,
but yeah, I really thought we were gonna get it done.
And I was hoping on our last day here in Detroit,
before we hopped aboard a plane to come home, that
we would be kind of rubbing it in their faces.
They're very nice, kind faces here this morning on Chuck
(02:19):
and Buck, but Alas, Ashley, we couldn't get it done
for you. We apologize.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
You know what, It's all right because I will tell
you that the when Palmer came home from school yesterday,
the first question out of her mouth was did the
Mariners win? And when I said no, she was so excited.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Happy.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Well, and then Mark and I we were just like,
we're good, We're just gonna go to the Husky game.
It'll be great because we would rather just the Mariners win.
We don't care. And then it was like, oh, we're
going double dipping because we thought the Yankees would probably
pull it off and then we'd be at one o'clock.
And so then we were excited finding ourselves rooting for
the Yankees again for some reason. And then they blew it.
(02:59):
So now we have to find someone to take our
Husky tickets. And Palmer is even disappointed she doesn't get
to double dip, but she was so pumped that she
gets to be at the game on Friday, like she's
the one She had just been waiting and waiting and waiting.
That's all I think she was thinking about at school
all day was what are how are the Mariners doing
right now? And at the game on Friday.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I love Palmer the great confidence, Like I know we're
gonna win. I want to win on my terms. I
want to win with myself there in the stadium. That'd
be great for us.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
For me, yeah, for her exactly. That's how she wants it.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
That's it, Palmer. Just take it all, Just take everything
you want. Yeah, you know, and hopefully it works out
for the rest of us. But that would be nice.
I mean, it's gonna be fun Friday. It's gonna be electric,
there's no question about it. It's going to be loud.
As Logan Gilbert told me yesterday after the game, that's
the expectation. We know that that's going to be delivered.
(03:54):
But certainly I wanted to fly home feeling like we
had already wrapped up what we came here to do
and had a couple of days off when we landed
and then got ready for the next opponent. That sounded
more fun to me, yep, than having to play Friday
night and have that anxiety and that pressure and that
nervousness weighing over the stadium. But nonetheless, you know, every
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sporting event, I say this all the time about a game,
you got to have a moment in a game for
it to be a great experience where you're sure you're
going to win at one point, and then you're sure
you're going to lose at one point, and then you
ultimately win. That's the best ride to go on as
a sports fan that there is, Bucky and right now,
(04:40):
I mean, we've already seen that pendulum swing five times
in this series. I mean we were there after Game
number one and Mariner fans, after losing a lot of
you were sure the series was over. There's no way
we can come back from this. Trek Scooble's pitching tomorrow.
We couldn't even beat their bullpen for an entire game.
(05:03):
And then the next two nights we were here in Detroit.
We went out in Detroit after Game number three, and
every Tiger fan that we ran into, congratulations, you got
a really good team. Make sure you beat the Yankees
if you have to face them. I mean, that was
the sentiment. So the Tiger fans had given up, and
now all of a sudden, they've evened up the series,
(05:26):
and so it swings back in the other direction. This morning,
we wake up the Tigers are favored by Vegas to
win because of one person, Trek Scooble, But we got
fifty thousand people that are going to show up, and
even though baseball is not a sport that typically home
field advantage is some significant push. I think it does matter.
(05:48):
I think it does matter in Seattle. I think that
the record speaks for itself. And we're going to create
one hell of an atmosphere Friday night and we'll see
if Trek's Scooble can come overcome the Seattle nine and
then the Seattle fifty thousand.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Yeah. Well, I mean, ultimately, I'm with you and everybody
basically besides Palmer, I think that would have much rather
had not had a Game five. But if you think
about it as what could the most the absolute most
enjoyable way of this happening, this is it Game five
(06:23):
is it will feel it will feel cooler than winning it.
And four I mean, now, I.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Gives us a chance for a cal Raley walk off
in the bottom of the ninth.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
That's right, can walk them off when you're on the
road and show it no, And so I mean I
it's one of those It brings more stress, and yet
with that added stress, it brings more hope or more
of a chance of something more spectacular. I mean, but ultimately,
the whole joy, the whole point is is advance right, advance,
(06:53):
and then keep advancing and eventually win the final game
of the season and hoist a trophy. And so I'm
one that just be the competitor in me is fine
with having a Game five because it's like, well, this
is what you play for, this is what you this
is what you kind of hope for, It's what you
dream of when you're in the backyard playing wiffleball. You
come up with those scenaris. I never one time was like,
(07:14):
it's game four, we don't need to play game five.
Here's the I never said that. I never made up
that hypothetical scenario. It was always this is game seven
or game five. It was it was always the most
ultimate possible pressure that you could face. And basically that's
what they've done. They've they've backed themselves up. And the
(07:35):
pendulum that you're talking about is it's the fun part
of it. I would say this, and I agree with you.
I think that home field advantage for this Game five,
and basically for the last month or majority of this season,
really has played a little bit.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Of a role.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
I think in the playoffs, even if you don't have
the greatest fan base, you're usually gonna get sellout crowd.
You're usually gonna get people that are gonna be riled up.
And if there's anything that we witness besides the hospitality
of people in Detroit, it was the second half of
that game, when they finally got on the board, it
started coming alive, and then the next run, and then
(08:09):
they came alive even more. Next thing you know, they
tied it up, and all of a sudden, you're like, oh,
this place is rocking and rolling, and then you couldn't
stop it. You know. It was almost like getting stunned
and in a boxing match, and next thing you know,
you're like, what the heck? And you wake up kind
of staring up at the lights, thinking, how the heck?
I mean, I had them on the ropes, I had them.
I thought I had them beaten. Next thing, you know,
I'm the one that gets knocked out. So you got
(08:31):
knocked out or you got knocked down, But there still
is another round in this bad Boy, the most important one.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I really do want to spend the first segment on
this because I need Mariner fans I need Seattle sports fans.
I need kja R listeners, Chuck and Buck listeners to
understand like what exactly, I mean, how dead in the
water the Detroit Tigers were, or at least their fan
base soel clearly the players didn't feel that way, but
(08:58):
everybody else in Detroit, I mean already outlined the kind
of the vibe that we had after game number three
going out into the city a little bit. I mean,
it was just Tommy's and it was not like we were,
you know, bouncing from bar to bar. It's not like
we were getting a real pulse from Motown. But you
know what little interaction that we had with Detroit people.
(09:20):
They had already kind of resigned themselves to having lost.
Then you show up. You know, we race to this stadium,
We get to the stadium, and you know, I can't
even believe what I'm looking at. Thousands of empty seats.
Thousands of empty seats at Camerica beautiful Park, by the way,
but thousands of empty seats. And I had a guy
(09:40):
who was a Detroit meat writer sitting next to me.
Young guy looked like Jerry Neuheisel. Actually, to be honest,
I don't know maybe Rick got around, but he's sitting
next to me on my right and he's I just
oversee on his screen as laptop where he had tweeted
out it is the the first time in the history
(10:02):
of Detroit Tigers baseball that they didn't have a playoff
game sold up, right, So this is this is a
fan base that shows up for the parties, right, And
yet they were so sure that the series was over
after Game number three that they ended up having thousands
of seats unsold. Now there's still a big crowd there
and they still ended up, you know, making some noise
(10:24):
and having a factor in the game. But that's how
the game started. Then they were down three to zero.
They're up three to oh, right, and they were booming
throughout the third and the fourth innings, and I think
some people were even leaving. Hell aj Hench in the
third inning with the bases loaded, situation was so desperate,
(10:44):
and he knew the Mariner bullpen and what it was
capable of. Down three to nothing and where this game
could go. I think it was actually two to nothing
at that point, maybe even one to nothing. I think
it might have been one to nothing, but the bases
were loaded and he summons Kyle Finnegan, arguably his best reliever,
to get him out of a bases loaded jam, which
(11:05):
for the most part, he did get done. We didn't
take advantage of that situation. So he's bringing that reliever
into the game, and then the Tiger Rider. At one
point that was sitting next to me. He was, you know,
crafting the obituary for the Tiger season. I was watching
him do it, and at one point he had to
(11:28):
change it to the Tigers were dead, like I mean,
they were out cold at that point. I mean, that's
that was the vibe that was taking place during the
course of that game. And yet somehow, and this is sports,
and you know, you can never possibly tame sports and
(11:49):
its unpredictability, and particularly baseball, which is another thing that
he wrote down at one point that I saw over
his shoulder, was that you can't. Baseball always keeps you guessing,
is how he ended his story. That's what that was
the last line in the story, Baseball always keeps you guessing.
They were sure they were done. They were sure they
(12:12):
were done when Matt Brash went one, two three the
night before in the bottom of the seventh This city
here in Detroit was sure it was done, and then
what ends up happening, You know, gave Spire checks into
the game, the normally reliable gave Spire and it was
like six feet of smelling salts. He just rolls in
(12:33):
there and here are the Tigers stood up at the
nine and a half second mark of a ten count
in this heavyweight fight. And the referee looked in their
eyes and saw they were dazed, and saw their knees
were wobbling, but thought to themselves, it's a championship bout.
We got to give them a chance to see if
they can come back in this thing. So they let
(12:55):
the fight continue and gave Spire for whatever reason, woke
them all up, and you know, they just they grew
a bumper crop from dust, like it just there was
nothing left in the stadium. They everybody had resigned themselves to, hey,
it's been a good season, and then all of a sudden,
(13:16):
against Gabe Spier and Edward Bizardo, to reliable pitchers bucky
this entire season, they just started rattling hit after hitting.
It's not like they were bloops. I mean they were
crushing two of our more reliable pitchers in our organization
and the next thing you know, we're down six and
we end up on the scoreboard getting blown out. For
goodness sake, but I just wanted people to realize just
(13:38):
how over that it felt in that stadium at one
point in Game four.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Yeah, I mean when when we scored the run in
the fourth was the first, well they were third. They
were already booing their guys when they didn't get hits,
when they when they were getting out, they started like booing.
When we scored another run in the fourth, it got louder,
and then you we didn't even ended up tacking another
one on in the fifth, when Cal hit that RBI single,
(14:04):
it was like Randy. It was kind of a Randy
gets on wild pitch. He is in scoring position and
boom caw, you have no outs and you're up three zero,
right you're you're just starting the fifth inning, it felt like,
or maybe that was the fourth inning. Anyways, they ended
up basically all of a sudden kind of turning on
them a little bit.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Now.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
I was thinking to myself, like, there's one a lot
of game left. Two. This team's been battling. It's not
like this has been some blowout series like the first
couple of games in Toronto, for example, are Toronto and
the Yankees. Those were blowouts. I could see how a
home a fan base would be like, what are you doing? Well,
this is a team and a fan base that was
(14:42):
watching this watch this team have an absolute meltdown the
last month of the season, right and you could tell
it it felt like that's what they Those people booing
were like, what are you doing? You idiots? They were
mad about how this has gone up to this point,
and yet it was like, this team is the team
will certainly feel that because yeah, I mean it starts
(15:02):
with in the fifth with Bryce. It starts where he
ends up giving up a kind of a soft ground
ball up the middle to get that in and going.
Then he gets more weak contact, gets that out, and
then it's the first the hard hit barrage starts that
double gets him on the board, and all of a sudden,
even those that were going like oh hey three to
one were okay, and they just basically we couldn't stop
(15:23):
the slide. At that point in time. Gabe was thrown
far twoundy pitches over the heart of the dish, and
obviously they just didn't miss him. They took full advantage
of every mistake we made.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
He was just off. He just was not good, and
he just picked a terrible time of not being good.
And I expected Bryce to have a quick hook. I
actually thought that Dan might take him out after that
Torkolsen single that you were describing. But he he hadn't
allowed anybody to get the second base in the entire game.
His last pitch was the first time that he allowed
(15:54):
somebody in scoring position. It just so happened to have
scored a run and put the second run scoring position.
But I mean, I know that the plan all along
was quick hook, go to Gabe Spire. If there's a
big lefty, we're gonna go to him first against a
left handed matchup that we like. And it ended up
(16:14):
pushing Parker Medow's out of the game, and Jami Jones,
of all people, comes through with a double and that
was the first uh oh moment that you had to
have as a Mariner fan. But I don't have any
problem with the decision to take Bryce out. I don't
have any problem with the decision to go to Gabe Spire,
And I realized that a lot of people do have
(16:35):
a problem with it, and I think maybe you're guilty
of hindsight. I would hope that you're at least consistent
with this, because, I mean, Gabe Spire has turned out
to be the difference in this series for a number
of spectacularly good and terrible reasons. Game number one, they
didn't go to them when I thought they should have
(16:56):
in the fifth inning, and it cost you. Game two,
they did go to him when I thought they should
have prematurely, but this is playoff baseball, both in the
fifth inning, and he got the job done, and it
might have been the difference in winning that game because
there was only three to two, and then he didn't
have to pitch in Game number three, and then game
number four, you go to him, same thing. Fifth inning,
(17:18):
little traffic on the base paths started, doesn't quite get
through five, even though he pitched very well. All three
of them pitched very well moving into the fifth. None
of them score allowed a run in through four, none
of the three starters that we're talking about. And I
thought all three times that Gabe Spiers should have come
in in that situation in the fifth, and in this
(17:42):
particular case, you do go to him, in my opinion,
at the right time, and he just didn't have it.
He was two or three miles per hour off his velocity.
He wasn't locating at all, and they just lit poor
Gabe up.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Well, yeah, they let him up. I mean you said
it early in this series. Because of the fact that
you have two lefties in the bullpen, Inspire being the
one that you can you've been able to rely on
majority of the season. Nobody's perfect. I remember talking to
Softie and Dick after the first postgame show here and
and it was there's been questions of well, you it
(18:17):
looks like the backside of your bullpen, you know, when
you're talking about Munnos and Brash obviously, but even Spire
he was doing. I mean they seem unhittable. I mean,
how quick do you go to those guys? You got
to use those guys. Well, yeah, but nobody's unhittable. I
mean they're still human. There's still going to make mistakes.
The difference is how many do you make? How many
opportunities do you give them to make their job a
(18:37):
little easier, And he was making a bunch. How easy
is it to hit that mistake? Still? I mean, Trek
Skouble made a couple of mistakes Horey Polonko, and he
capitalized on both of them. He doesn't make very many mistakes,
and even when he does, they're not as easy as
as other guy's mistakes might be that have lesser stuff.
Gave Spire the fact that his there was a little
(18:59):
bit of a boy off of his fastball makes it
a little bit easier to connect when he ends up
throwing one over the heart. And obviously they did that,
and then you know, okay, well now they've evened it
up to some degree. Bring in bizarrero Dude's been lights
out majority of his appearances this season. I mean, he's
been a guy that you most certainly can you feel
good about bringing him in a high leverage.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
You had a bad seasons that they have. You have
to depend on them in those situations. If you don't,
you're making a mistake as a.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Manager, right And ultimately they did, and I think those
guys would say thank you, and yes, I agree, give
me the ball, all come in here and get it done.
We saw that one one of those games you're talking
about where there was a Spire element to it when
he came in and did not relinquish an inherited runner.
He was crazy fired up. Well, he was expecting to
have that same type of feel when he came into
(19:45):
this game, because Bryce Miller had done his job. I mean,
giving up two hits through four eighties, goes out there,
gives up a week kind of single up to the Midt.
It's just a knock. He hits it and it goes
it didn't go to JP and then gets another out
and then the double happens, and all of a sudd
that breaks the kind of breaks the levy a little bit.
From that point was that they just could not stop
the bleeding. And it was unfortunate because it was a
(20:06):
good game. It was just the tale of two halves,
and they obviously had a far better second half of
the game that we had.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
First, I'll disagree with one thing. The crap game.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
You don't like it?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Crap game. No, all right, let's find out what's on
tap for today's last show here in Detroit.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
What's on tip?
Speaker 3 (20:26):
What's on tap?
Speaker 2 (20:27):
All right? Tigers win over the Mariners in game number
four nine three at evens, the series up at two games.
The piece Ryan Heathy will join us this morning. He's
been our postseason contributor, former Mariner. He'll join US at
nine thirty today. We'll also have the ABC's logan. Gilbert
will also be on the program today. Game number five
will be Friday at five o'clock. We know that we
(20:49):
also know that Trek Scuball will be pitching for the
Detroit Tigers. What we don't know yet officially is who
will be pitching for the Mariners. I know a couple
of websites are assuming that it's George Kirby, but I
don't think that that's been officially declared. There's a chance
it could be Luis Castillo, and obviously there is a
very good chance that it could beat George Kirby. If
(21:09):
we get that official declaration, will certainly pass it along
and we'll certainly discuss the topic of who should be
pitching that game a little later on in the show.
Toronto did eliminate the New York Yankee, something that we
typically would celebrate in Seattle. But I kind of wanted
to play the day game in the in game number five,
and it sounds like Palmer the Great did as well. Yeah,
(21:31):
but yeah, everything that we want, I suppose National League
Divisional Series, the Phillies and the Cubs both stayed alive
last night, but they still trail two games to one
in that best of five. Seahawks will be at the
Jaguars on Sunday. This will be the least amount we'll
probably talk about the Seahawks on a Thursday ever so,
(21:54):
but we'll we'll certainly try to get some information in
on that Thursday night. Football's tonight it's the Eagle at
the New York Giants. Friday Night football. For the Huskies,
they'll be taking on Rutgers on Montlake. Softy's gonna join
us today at seven oh five, but I have a feeling
we're gonna talk more baseball than football with Softy. But
we certainly will provide a little bit of a preview
to the Knights and the Dogs. And then today and
(22:17):
normally this would be the headline today. It's the opening
day of the Seattle Krakens season. So tonight they take
on the Anaheim Mighty Ducks, and we're going to be
out at Tom's Watch Bar. At least the rest of
the crew that's back in Seattle will be from ten
all the way up to dropping the puck. So we've
got you covered here on the flagship from ten o'clock
(22:38):
to six point thirty. The entire crew is going to
be out at Tom's Watch Bar today every single show,
counting down the seconds to crack an opening day. We
certainly will spend some time discussing that today on the
radio program. But we're here in Detroit for a reason,
and that's to talk Mariners Tigers baseball. So we've got
Mariners Morning After coming arway next Sports Radio ninety three
(23:00):
point three kha R FM, or my Honey logins Underwear.
Oh did you yeah?
Speaker 3 (23:05):
It's weird.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Did they just say playing with the boys.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Yes, yeah, I mean more more like just snugly caresses them. Yeah,
but I agree. I get it that he did not
make a song called Snugly Caressing with the boys, right right, Yeah,
So yeah it works. I think it's funny. Just the same.
(23:30):
All right, Mariners Morning After. We've done it all year long,
for years now. After every Mariner's game, we provide this
postgame show for you, but we just do it the
morning after, a highlight of SoundBite, the preview of what's
going on tonight that's coming your way here. Today, Mariners
had a chance to close out the Detroit Tigers right
here in Detroit, Michigan, where Bucky and I have been
(23:50):
for the last three days. They were up three to
nothing in the game. Everything felt great. Mariner fans had
kind of taken over the stadium. Tiger fans were already leaving,
most of them booing throughout the course of the first
half of that baseball game. And then all of a sudden,
the Tigers started to wake up against Bryce Miller. A
(24:11):
single from Spencer Torkelsen to start the bottom of the fifth,
No harm done, right, Then he gets an out on
a fielder's choice ground out for Zach mckinstree. All right,
we got one out going. He still hasn't allowed a
runner to reach second base in this game. And then
Dylan Dingler changed that. The catcher doubled into left center field.
It scored Detroit's first run of the game, and it
(24:34):
pulled Bryce Miller from the game. No sweat right, We've
got Gabe Speier. He's been outstanding this season, He's been
outstanding in this series. This seems like a good time
to bring in your best left handed reliever. And instead
things went south. Jamaike Jones doubled down the left field
line to get two excuse me, three to two, and
(24:56):
then a RBI single up the middle from Javier Bayaz
tied the game at three runs apiece. Still you thought,
to yourself, Okay, they drew even, no big deal. We
still got four innings or even at three apiece, We're fine.
Gabe Spires started the bottom of the sixth so that
he could face left hander Riley Green, and all of
(25:18):
a sudden things didn't feel fine.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
The one zero breaking ball lifted the light.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Their first lead since the eleventh inning of Game one,
and it's Riley Green to give it to them four
to three Detroit. Mmmmm, now that you put it that way.
Adam Amin fs one there on the call made it
four to three, and then the Tigers against Edward Bizardo
just kept tacking on a three run fifth, a four
(25:52):
run sixth, and then they decided just to add another
run in the seventh and another run in the eighth,
and they end up running away with a game that
I thought was settled in the fifth inning. It felt
like it was settled in the fifth inning. The Tigers
end up winning at nine to three. Gave just did
not have it yesterday.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Period. No, he didn't, obviously, and that's you know, he's
obviously a guy that you usually trust in that situation.
It's just the ebbs and flows of baseball are really
hard to kind of understand, and yet you can feel
it you most certainly you can feel it whether you're
watching on TV or sitting there. When they came back
and how you kind of described tied it up that
(26:33):
all of a sudden you're like, oh boy, really okay,
now you ended up He got out of it there
after giving up Bryce Miller's runs and a couple of
his or his Bryce Miller's one run under two, I
guess he gave up too the one that Bryce had
already given up with a double, Then he gave up
the other guy that was standing on second base, and
then he gave up one of his own. He ended
(26:54):
up settling down and getting out of that inning to
where you're just tied. That next inning they end up
making a switch and then we get a couple of
quick outs, and next thing you know, we get two
guys on I think it was a walk by Who
was it? Where was.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
Blake?
Speaker 2 (27:12):
You're talking about our inning?
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Yes, we end up getting a walk. Then JP gets
a single and a rose Arena comes up with two
outs and gets and flies out there. That to me
was one where you put up a zero after your
team scores the three tying runs and then they get
a zero. If you would attacked one on there right,
you re tip took the lead, it would feel different
right going into the next inning, because the next inning,
(27:35):
where the highlight we just heard is they end up
wiggling off the hook there right, two guys on, two
outs and the Rosarina doesn't get a hit. Now all
of a sudden, you're going, okay, Riley Green lefty Gabe
ended up settling down after giving up the runs in
the previous inning. We're gonna use him here against Riley Green,
and Boomy hangs a slider and he hits it out
of the yard. And that's where it's like the ebbs
(27:57):
and flows parts of it. It's like, man, just one
thing different front here and there, and you might feel
like you're on your way back up to towards taking
the lead and running away with something. Instead, you don't
get the knock and they come out there the second
pitch of that intan and Readley goes yard.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Well, a lot of people had a problem. I don't
know if it was during before or in hindsight but
a problem with Dan Wilson taking out Bryce Miller, who
hadn't given up a lot of damage in the game. Afterward,
Bryce Miller facing the media said that he understood while
he was taking out, but he did feel great at
the time.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (28:31):
I thought it's the best I've felt in a long time.
And I thought I threw the ball really well. Fastball
was playing really good, splitter was good, and it's passed.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
A few weeks.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
I was working on, you know, getting off speed INTEWN
and I was doing that. Yeah, I thought I attacked
hitters pretty good and it was in the zone a lot.
So Yeah, I think I don't know a regular season.
I think, you know, I go six seven innings there
and weren't a good spot. But yeah, I was happy
(29:02):
with with Yadi.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
Yeah, and larger pictures.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Certainly, it's not so if you think about the immediate aftermath.
Speaker 6 (29:06):
But we've seen this seam bounds back time and time again.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
It just the idea of this team keeping that mentality
and keeping even killed after a tough loss. What's that
like right now?
Speaker 5 (29:14):
Yeah, for sure, We've said it before.
Speaker 6 (29:17):
We got a lot of confidence in this clubhouse, and
I got no doubt we're gonna bounce back and go
to Game five and we'll have some fun at Seattle.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Bryce Miller after the game, he did the job. He
got his job done, There's no question about that. I
know a lot of people were worried about him getting
the ball and that crucial of the situation. I was
not among you. I thought he was. He delivered on
exactly what we promised he is and that is a
low heartbeat, give me the ball, confident, quiet swagger guy.
(29:47):
And he went out there and he Clint eastwooded up
and got the job done. And I thought was taken
out at the appropriate time by Dan Wilson at just
backfired Spy and Bizardo, who usually have it didn't have
it yesterday, and we lost the baseball game. That's the
bottom line, two it all, and now we have to
face a game five. We did have some cushion there,
we could afford to kick one, which we did. But
(30:08):
you've got game number five at home to settle it
on Friday night at five o'clock. We know who's pitching
for them, and we know how good Kerk Scouble is
and we understand he is the lone reason why they
are the favorites in Vegas going into this game five,
but we've already beaten him three times, And the question is,
do you go with the starting pitcher that has head
(30:29):
to head beaten him every single time this year in
Luis Castillo on shorter rest? Or do you go with
George Kirby your game one starter and have Castillo ready
in the bullpen potentially and anybody else that might be
available to pitch in this game against Scooble and the Tigers.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Yeah. I don't know which way he is going to
go with it. It feels to me, if I had to guess,
that you'd go with the guy that's on the legit
rest and George Kirby and his stuff kind of placed
where you feel like he might be able to go
literally pitch for pitch against Trek Scooble. All right, Terrek Scooble,
let's just say he's gonna go seven innings and you
only scratch together one run. I think that you have
(31:09):
an opportunity with George Kirby do the same thing that said.
I also think George would be better suited coming out
of the pen. I mean, has less time just stuck
in the starter role. So It could be you could
You could go Castillo and say, hey, dude, show us
what you got, and literally the first sign of any trouble,
you can go George Kirby, piggybacking him. It's gonna be
(31:29):
an interesting decision. I'm guarantee it's one that Dan Wilson's
not making lightly.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Yeah, no doubt. It's a huge decision, and we don't
have official confirmation. I know a couple of websites are
assuming prominent sports websites are assuming Kirby starts, but we
don't have that official declaration yet made. It could be Castillo.
We shall see, and I think there's a further conversation
to have about that coming up later on in the
(31:54):
program headlines. At the top of the hour, we got
Softy joining us to talk some Huskies and some Mariners
at seven oh five. Most of our show is gonna
be about baseball, but we also have to talk about
opening night for the Crack, and it's tonight. It's a
really big deal. It's a red carpet ceremony. We are
the flagship. We're gonna be counting you down starting at
ten o'clock with MJ and the Midday and then taking
(32:16):
you all the way up to the drop of the
puck right here at Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
So in the spirit of that, we had a conversation
with the goalie on this hockey team earlier this week.
In case you missed it, we'll hear a little bit
from Joey to Cord here on opening day next. Sports
Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. All right, it's Chuck
(32:40):
Valvetz Bucky Jacobs and we are broadcasting live for the
final morning here from Detroit, Michigan. We were sent to
the American League Divisional Series. We got you one win.
We really wanted to get you too. Sorry about that, Seattle.
I wanted to fly home not having to worry about
a Game five on Saturday. But you know what, glass
half full, What a night we have in score for
us Friday night at Team Mobile Game five to decide
(33:03):
who moves on to the American League Championship Series to
face the Toronto Blue Jays. We'll talk more about it
throughout the show. Of course, today we got headlines at seven.
Softy usually talks Huskies at seven oh five, but I
have a feeling he's gonna want to talk Mariners, So
we'll get into that conversation Thursdays with Softy coming your way.
Also tonight, a huge night here at KJAR. Even though
(33:24):
there's a lot going on, we certainly want to highlight
the fact that the Seattle Kraken will start their twenty
twenty five twenty twenty six season tonight against the Anaheim
Mighty Ducks. We've got a broadcast day for you starting
at ten o'clock, MJ and Chris we are going to
be down at Tom's Watch Bar, and then every show
we'll be broadcasting from Tom's watch Bar all day long,
(33:45):
leading you all the way up to the six thirty
puck drop out at Climate Pledge Arena. Earlier this week,
our starting goaltender Joey Decord, coming off a fantastic season,
he joined us and I asked him if he feels
that the Kraken are already for a playoff season.
Speaker 5 (34:02):
I genuinely think so yeah.
Speaker 7 (34:04):
I mean I've already the vibes around the room, around
the team have been so good and so high so
far this this preseason and training camp, and now as
we lead into the season here, I think we, honestly,
I think we have such a good group of guys
in hockey. It's funny hockey. There's so much or so
little separation, sorry, between the top and bottom teams in
(34:27):
the league, and there's so much parody. And I think
so much of what makes teams good is culture.
Speaker 5 (34:32):
And I truly.
Speaker 7 (34:33):
Believe this is This is the best group of guys
we've had in this locker room so far since I've
been here, at least, And I'm just so excited to
get going.
Speaker 5 (34:41):
I think we have a lot of belief in our group.
Speaker 7 (34:43):
I really have enjoyed working with coach Lane and the
way he the way he coaches just makes sense for
me and and the way my brain works. It's like
when you have a good teacher, right when you can
understand a teacher really well in class and stuff. And
that's for me is what it feels like. So I'm
super excited get going. I think we have a lot
of belief in our group this year, and yeah, I
(35:04):
can't wait.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
I'm hyped. There's a few youngsters that are making the
opening day roster. What's it what's it feel like from
your perspective when you see some young guys like that
that are going to get to realize the dream of
playing in the NHL and making an opening day roster.
Speaker 7 (35:17):
Oh, it's so cool. It just it just brings me
back to the first time. I mean I only made
the opening day roster. I think it was two seasons ago.
So this is my third third full year with the team,
and it just brings so much like joy to see
them all fired up and excited and and you know,
you work your whole life to get to where you are,
and you know, every every single person has their own story,
(35:40):
and to see those kids get to go through with
what they have to, all the ups and downs, and
it truly takes a village to see these guys are.
For these guys to make it to the NHL and
to make it for the first time the opening night roster,
it's just a special feeling.
Speaker 5 (35:53):
And we're excited to have them in our group.
Speaker 7 (35:55):
Honestly, they're they're top players and great people and that's
what we want want in our locker, and we want
great people and they're gonna help our team win games,
and we're excited to have them.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Cracking Goalie Joey the cord with us here on chucking
back in the morning. You mentioned, I mean we forget
how young you are and how you had such a
good season a year ago, Joey, and now you enter
for the first time as the clear cut number one goalie.
What does that feel like in terms of a sense
of accomplishment.
Speaker 7 (36:25):
Yeah, truth be told, I haven't put too much thought
into that for me, Like I try not to get
too big picture when I'm thinking about hockey. I think
for me, I try to focus on, Hey, how do
I help this team win hockey games? That's all I
can focus on right now. I can't be like, oh,
you know, I'm the guy I gotta play good for However,
many games like I feel like that's that's an easy
(36:45):
way to get overwhelmed. And for me, it's like, Okay,
we play Anaheim Night one Thursday, Climate pledge be there
by the way.
Speaker 5 (36:53):
But you know, I'm like, how do I help the
team win the game?
Speaker 7 (36:56):
And for me, that's that's sticking to my process and
finding a way to help the team win the game,
and then after that we move on.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Ah, very kind the very talented Showy to Court joining
us earlier this week. He's getting ready for his season
debut tonight as the Crack and will host the Anaheim
mighty Ducks to get the brand new year underway, red
carpet treatment and all that. Mike Menton will be in
his tuxedo, Everett fits you will be in his tuxedo.
Al will be looking good in his tuxedo. Ian Furness
(37:25):
and his evening gown. It's just gonna be a wonderful
explosion of hockey joy.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
He sent me a photo of that gown sequence, the
sea foam colored sequence.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
This is when it pays off to be six to four.
You can just be leggy. Well, the leggy part slid
all the way up the side. He's gonna be showing
it off.
Speaker 4 (37:46):
We do have to make one correction though, it is
a blue carpet that they're rolling out.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
A blue car. Well yeah, okay, fair fair enough, fair enough,
But yes, Ian Furness is gonna show the entire world. Yeah,
why Canada loves him tonight, so we shall we shall
be tuned in. All right, Tom's watch bar. That's where
you want to go if you want to celebrate with
KJR all day long. Broadcast will start there at ten
(38:10):
am and we'll take you all the way up to
the drop of the puck at six thirty. Coming up
Next on our radio program Headlines plus David Softy Maler
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My Favorite Murder is a true crime comedy podcast hosted by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark. Each week, Karen and Georgia share compelling true crimes and hometown stories from friends and listeners. Since MFM launched in January of 2016, Karen and Georgia have shared their lifelong interest in true crime and have covered stories of infamous serial killers like the Night Stalker, mysterious cold cases, captivating cults, incredible survivor stories and important events from history like the Tulsa race massacre of 1921. My Favorite Murder is part of the Exactly Right podcast network that provides a platform for bold, creative voices to bring to life provocative, entertaining and relatable stories for audiences everywhere. The Exactly Right roster of podcasts covers a variety of topics including historic true crime, comedic interviews and news, science, pop culture and more. Podcasts on the network include Buried Bones with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes, That's Messed Up: An SVU Podcast, This Podcast Will Kill You, Bananas and more.