Headlines and Husky One Series with MARIO BAILEY (Husky Honks) We dive into the skill guys with Mario, starting with who can replace Denzel Boston? It’s all about consistency… Who looks like they’re going to take over in the run game? How much of the offense is going to be built around Demond Williams? What kind of a year does Mario expect from the Dawgs? :30- ABC’s of the Mariners - D is for Derby: last night’s Derby may have been the best one from start to finish, but there was one thing missing… - E is for Emersons: How are the Mariners going to handle Brendan Donovan’s return? Could Colt Emerson be sent back to Triple A? - F is for the Firing: Yes, Chuck said Dan should be fired yesterday, but what about Perry Hill and Kevin Seitzer? :45- The World Cup is really fun, but can we have more of the officiating focused on stopping the flopping?
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
What may or may not be the final swing of
the bat. Tonight, there we go. It's one number nine
for sure.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Hand here it's not.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
It's number ten.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Wow. One more than talking for two to winning time,
short Walker can upend the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
We have a holy run.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Right here, short Walk.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
It was it six in a row? He had did
six in a row. Yeah, to take it over like
and the way the format worked, you only had twenty
swings or fifteen in that round. Uh so, but if
you got to your last swing and you hit a
home run on your last wing, you got another pitch.
So they would just tack them on until you missed.
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And so he had to basically with his last wing,
he had to hit it out for six swings in
a row in order to track down Kyle Schwarber.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
And he did it.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
It was pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
It was great.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
It was great. Best home run derby maybe certainly in
a long time, but maybe ever in terms of just
the full scale competition. I mean, I remember the Josh
Hamilton performance. I remember the Mark McGuire performance. There have
been some like individual performances Ken Grivey Junior that might
have stood out, but in terms of how good it
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was from beginning to end. I'm not sure I've seen
a better one. I would agree that was really good. Yeah,
good morning to you. We move into our number two
of the Chucking Buck on the Radio morning radio program,
and we've got a lot to do here today, a
number of great guests that we're gonna have on. Ryan
Healey will join us a little bit later on talking
about the home run derby and some other things. And
(02:00):
here in a matter of seconds, Mario Bailey will be
joining us. My favorite Husky player of all time. He's
coming up here in a matter of moments. But first,
let's rip through your headlines, brought to you by Frostbrewed
Corps Light. Jordan Walker of the Saint Louis Cardinals won
an epic home run derby last night, defeating the hometown
favorite Kyle Schwarber income from behind fashion. The All Star
(02:22):
Game will be played tonight. Billy Christopher Sanchez starts for
the National League squad. The American League will start Dylan Sees,
the right hander from Toronto. Randy A. Rose Arena will
represent the Mariners at Tonight's All Star Game. The Mariners
won't play again until Friday at home against San Francisco,
so an All Star break, a true all Star break
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for practically the entire organization. World Cup resumes today at noon.
It'll be Spain versus France right here on KJAR. Tomorrow
Argentina versus England. Andersharst will join us to talk about
both matches. Today at nine thirty we are eleven days
and training camp begins for the Seahawks, and we are
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just seconds away from our Huskies One series continuing right
here on Chuck and Buck in the morning. Well in July,
during the All Star break, we do our Huskies One series,
which is one of our top analysts in town, breaking
down one entire unit for the Huskies for one entire
interview and joining us here today. Husky legend, part of
(03:23):
the Hanks right here on KJAR. And as I say
every time he joins us, my favorite Husky football player
of all time, the great Mario Bailey, is with us
here on Chuck and Buck.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Hello, sir, what's up?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Man?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
I gotta go check and listen to you to make
sure you don't call somebody Husky.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Nope.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
And I'm really tight with Hugh Millen And it's always you,
It's always you, Mario.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
All right, I'll take it.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Yeah, yeah, sure, why not? Why wouldn't you take it? Well, look,
we're having Mario on here today to talk about wide
receivers and running backs. So that's the group that we're
going to discuss. As you might have guessed, and what
a run. I mean, this is a great history that
this program has with wide receivers and you're in that group.
But here in the last ten years since I moved
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to town. I mean, you think about Ross and a
dun Say and McMillan and now Denzel Boston can be
added to that list of excellent alums at this position
this university. This program's kind of known as defensive back university.
But Mario, the wide receivers that you've had historically in
the Huskies program cannot be slept on.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
No, they cannot.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
And I think the dB you just came with Coach
Lake's reign that he had with a bunch of dbs
going in the first round, and we just had a
bunch of DB's going period. But we've always had a
standout or two receivers. In the last few years, Coas
de Boor and now Coach have both brought in receivers
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year we had Denzel go first round. The year before
it was Jalen Polk, Jaylen McMillan, and of course Rome.
So I just think the receivers have always been there,
but we just had a little stretch there where we
were DBU for a while.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Well, I want to talk about this year's receivers, but
let's talk about last year's receiver, the number one target,
Denzel Boston and how much he'll be missed. Is there
a guy that can step in this year that can
do what Denzel did a year ago.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
I don't know if we can replace Denzel. I think
down when we got to the red zone, we had
this big, huge target and we would just go to
him and he would always make the play. He would
play bully ball, as I call it, and I just
think he was phenomenal at that It didn't matter that
you knew the ball was going to him. We were
still gonna throw it to him and he was still
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gonna make the play. Now, I do think Desmond Robock
had a great end of the year and became our
second receiver last year, and I think it's know once
you do that. But this year it's a little different
because you don't have Denzel. People are gonna key on
you and it's going to be slightly different, but we
can move Desmond around.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
So I plan on him having a great year.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
But it's a little it's a little difficult when you're
the number one guy and you're not sneaking up on people.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
When people have to plan for you, it changes it
a little bit.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Yeah, and so he's the clear cut number one. I mean,
you still expect him to be the wide receiver one
of this group. Rollbuck, I do.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
I do.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I like the Christen Moss that the transferred from.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
I don't know if it's Kenwick State or something like that,
and I think he's gonna be good, probably because he
wears the number five, and I think that, but I
do have.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Man, why is anyone wearing number five in this program?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I'd like to know, man, That's.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
What I keep asking, the same thing. But I understand
college we don't retire numbers. But I think Christian Moss
will do a great job of taking some pressure off.
And see Williams played pretty sparingly last year, but he's
pretty good and I saw him in spring and he
did a great job.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
We're just looking for who's gonna step up.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
You never know who's gonna step up, because once those
lights come shining, it doesn't matter what spring does and
what camp does this summer. It really matters on what
happens when those lights turn on, and guys turn into
different people once the light the lights come on.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
What is it that you learned? Because I mean, I'm
sure Roebuck would like nothing more than to follow in
your footsteps in this program. But when you got your
first taste of collegiate football at such a high level,
and then your second year full year after that, what
is it that you picked up from the first year
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and the trials and tribulations that go with tasting it
for the first time, and then we're able to apply
to take your game to a whole new level to
fallowing season.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
The biggest word I would use is consistency.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
You know, you have these ups and downs and you're
trying to figure it out, and you're learning things, and
you're starting all the time now, But it's consistency to
be consistent every game and be consistent every route, every play.
You have to learn that, and I don't think you
get that in your first year, and some people maybe
not even their second Honestly, I didn't get it till
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my third year. My freshman year was a waste a year,
probably caught four catches the entire season, and my sophomore
year I had to learn consistent. Since consistency, I would
have these great games and in the next game I'd
be nowhere to be found. Now, part of that is
the coach not throwing me the ball, but I feel
like I wasn't doing my part, and it's being consistent.
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So we're looking for robots to be consistent and show
it every every week, and we need them to have
a partner out there that's going to take some pressure
off of them.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
You know that you brought up number five. You know,
Dana Hall is like one of my other favorite Washington
Huskies of all time? What is it about you?
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (09:08):
And if I taught today and I call him number
five and he calls me number five, he had it
before I got there.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Actually, when I got there, Coach James, they gave me
number eighty.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
My mom called and yelled at them because they promised
me number five. The next day, it was sitting in
my locker and I told him, no, I don't want it.
So my freshman year I wore number eighty and I
told him if I can earn number five, so I
had it my sophomore.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Year on after that, Yeah, yeah, well maybe five should
be retired. I think maybe we should make a new rule.
It is Mario Bailey with US Huskies one series right
here on Chucking Buck in the Morning's one analyst in
town breaking down one key Seahawk player for one entire interview. Well,
let's talk about the running back group because this truly
seems like a mystery on this roster. I mean, from
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the pure standpoint of if you look at the depth chart,
the carry seem to be going to two transfers and
maybe a freshman is going to get some playing time
in the backfield, a considerable amount of playing time. So
I'm gonna need you to be our insider here. What's
happening inside those walls on Montlake. Who looks like the
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guy that's going to be RB one on the depth
chart this year?
Speaker 4 (10:25):
It looks like Jade Lamar. I think he's coming from Oregon,
and I think he will be our guy. But again,
it's what I said, It's like once those lights turn on,
you never know who's gonna show up. I know Trey
Cooley is behind him, but he's transferred like maybe two
or three times, so I'm always leary when a young
man transfers so many times. But Jade Lamar is our guy. Actually,
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there's a freshman that's coming in from Oregon. He's last
on the depth chart. I think Ansu. I think he's
gonna be great if he gets in. I think he's
one of those guys is a playmaker and can make
some plays. We have another freshman, Brian Bonner, I believe,
but I think the enseer from Oregon can make some
plays if he gets the opportunity.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Tell me about Quaid Car what you're hearing about him?
Because he was creating quite the buzz during spring. I mean,
we had Jed Fish on and even he kind of
revealed a little bit of giddiness over what this guy
could be immediately for this team. So what should we
know about Quaid Car before the season gets underway.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Quaid is the only one I didn't mintion, and Quaid
was the only one that on there that was here
last year. I think Quaid has an opportunity because he
knows the system and because he's already comfortable. It goes
a long way to be comfortable, to know your coaches,
to know the plays, to know the system and know
how to get around. I think Quaid has a chance
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to make some plays. I think he could easily be
our number two guy. I've heard all out there that
all during spring and going into camp that they love him.
But it's just a matter of if he's going to
take advantage of the opportunity, because I feel like last
year he had an opportunity early and he didn't. He
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didn't didn't come to fruition.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Mario Bailey is with us for our Husky So one
series as we break down the running backs and wide
receivers for the twenty twenty six Washington Huskies, And I'll
cheat a little bit and draw the quarterback into the
conversation even though we're supposed to be this discussing running
back and wide receiver. But considering williams dual threat capabilities,
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I mean, what will the offense look like? How much
of it's going to be built around Demon Williams. Is
he going to be the leading rusher on this team
and also throw the ball forty times per game?
Speaker 2 (12:51):
It could easily be that he could easily be it.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Demon could be a thousand, two thousand guy easily, if
that's what he wants to do, or if that's what
Coach Fish wants him to be. We just don't know
what the year entails, but I do think he's gonna
have to run a little bit more this year, but
hopefully his little frame.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Can take that. And that's always been the question.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
We don't want to get this young man hurt, but
we also want to win and we want to take
it to the next level. And if we're going to
take it to the next level, we probably need him
to have at least eight hundred yards rushing this year.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
And how is the team reacting from what you're hearing
to his interesting offseason that he had.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Man, it's water under the bridge. He's still our team leader,
you know. And I think it's one of those things
is once that first game kicks off Apple Cup and
he throws for three hundred and runs four hundred, all
this forgotten. Now there is the other side of that,
if we're getting our butts kicked and something were to happen,
and people are going to point to that situation.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
But for me personally too, it's water under the bridge.
He's a young man money talks around here. I get it.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
I do believe in loyalty, but hey, I'm not in
his situation, so it's water under the bridge, and I
just hope he leads us to the next level.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
How much would you have enjoyed throwing the ball forty
times a game back in your day?
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Man?
Speaker 4 (14:18):
I tell people all the time that I would have
records up there that would never be touched and I
would enjoy that.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
But Coach James was definitely not having that.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
We were lucky that he turned it up a notch
and hired Gilbertson and got to throw it twenty five
times a game.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
If there would have been like some like Martian from
the future that would have landed back in your day
and told Coach James that the future of the sport
is throwing the ball forty forty five times a game,
what do you think would have happened?
Speaker 4 (14:49):
He wouldn't have cared whatsoever. It wouldn't have There's no way,
I don't care what that Martian did. He would have
staffed that Martian aside. In no way any of that
was being listened to. Get out of my office.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Martian, Yeah right now, Uh, well, you're pumped. Are you
ready to go? Do you need a little more time
off this summer or are you counting the days till
Husky football?
Speaker 2 (15:15):
At this point, I'm in between there.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Some days I'm pumped and others like, man, this has
come back pretty quick, And it's still weird that the
Apple Cup is how we started off. But you know,
I'm looking forward to it, even talking to you right
now and looking at the difference and our.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Roster and seeing guys I like to see guys come on.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
The scene and explode and some guys you didn't know,
we're gonna do as well as they And looking at
Desmond Roadbox seeing if he can step it up another notch,
and looking at demand. You know that situation is is
haunting for some people. So I want to see him
succeed and I want to see him do well well.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
I always buy a college basket or a college football
magazine every year, despite the fact that all this information
more up to date on the internet, I still do
the magazine purchase every year, and so I purchased it yesterday.
So it was you know, now I'm ready for college football,
officially ready for college football, and I am on the
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countdown and look the magazine that I grabbed and I
don't need to plug it, but ranked number nineteen in
the country. I mean that's you're right, number nineteen in
the country. This magazine's predicting like a nine to three season.
Is it going to be that type of a year
for Washington? Maybe a little bit better? What's your outlook
(16:35):
right now?
Speaker 4 (16:37):
My outlook is that right there as I have us
at a nine and three season, and anything past that
is cake like, I would be happy. But I think
demand leads us easily to nine and three. The question
is is his surrounding cast is who steps up? Can
they step up? I love our defense. I think the
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defense is plug and play. I think coach has a
great handle on it. So I'm looking forward to that.
But nine and three is about where I have us.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
You can listen to every single second that I've ever
done at kJ R, and you were always my favorite
Husky football player of all time.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
I can vouch for that. Yeah, okay it is I
was gonna check you out.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Yeah you trust Ashley. Yeah I thought I was a snake.
Yeah yeah, well, hey man, thank you very much. I
can't wait to hear the coverage this fall and always
great catching up with you.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
I really appreciate you. Thank you. Go dogs.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Mario Bailey joining us right here, the one, the only
Mario Bailey. I've talked to Hugh about this too, and
he's perfectly fine with Mario being my favorite husky player
of all time, perfectly good with it and as he
should be. Yeah, yeah, he should be. I mean Mario
was just he was electrifying. He was good. Yeah, not electrifying.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
Well, I think he would also admit he's there's not
a lot of electrifying.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
There's electrifying in his analysis though, and that's what we
get every fall from Hugh Millin and Mario Bay Plus
all right, coming up next to ABC's of Them. Sports
Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. We left off yesterday
with the letter d D is for Derby. Last night's
home run derby fantastic. I mean, maybe the most complete
(18:24):
best home run derby from the beginning to the end
that I've ever seen. Like the new rule changes, they
did satisfy what I wanted them to change about the derby,
and yet until you watch it unfold, you're liked. Is
there something about this that I didn't see that this
is going to end up being disastrous. I think Jeff
Passen said it was going to end up being disastrous
(18:46):
and then midway through apologized and said this is awesome.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
And it was.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
It was awesome. But I mean, the one thing, if
there was one thing that took away from it last night,
was I don't know about you, Ash, but my reminder
of last year's Home Run Derby. Because last year was
the Year of Cal, and like everything seemed to fall
in place for Cal Raleigh a year ago, including that
incredible derby turnaround that he ended up winning the Home
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Run Derby, but he's not there to defend his title,
not that he would have anyway, because he's had such
a rough season. I mean, last year, I don't know
how many times I talked about the Year of Cal.
Everything just seems to be falling into place, and then
this year nothing has fallen into place. Going all the
way back to the WBC, his first time on the
injury list, the batting average of one seventy not even considered.
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I think he finished like ninth or tenth, and the
voting for catchers in the American League, for goodness sake,
So I think this is the way that we get
tested as human beings. You know, how do you react
when everything goes well for you, and how do you
react when nothing goes well for you? And that's what
we're experiencing for Dumper in twenty twenty six right now.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
I know.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
And it's sad because obviously everybody loves Cal so much
and it was so fun last year.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
That's what I thought too. That's why I was like,
I just don't think one.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
I don't think I could have been as excited as
I was for the Derby last year with Cal and it,
or even when Julio was in it. It's just different
when you don't have a dog in the fight and
you're just kind of watching. But it's also enjoyable because
you're watching with no expectations, right as I mentioned earlier,
and it exceeded my expectations. But yeah, that it hangs there,
that that Cal, the col fun, the Cal excitement. It's
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just missing this year and I want it back.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Yeah, I do too. I do think we'll get it back,
not to the degree of a year ago. But I
think he's I mean, he has to, he just has to.
He asked to have a good I'm not gonna go
I'm not gonna say he goes from struggling offensively to
great in the second half. But I think he can
go from struggling to good here in the second half.
(20:50):
And if you just get good Cal, which is what
we've gotten for nearly all of his career until he
was great Cal offensively, that is then and we'll pull
away in the American League West and then we'll figure
out what to do in the playoffs. But it's certainly,
I mean, he's it. I mean, of all the factors,
if you want to rank them, the biggest one is
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getting Cal back to being good Cal again. Yeah, no,
it's the most important.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
I would agree he is.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
For Emerson's This is gonna be interesting as Brendan Donovan
starts to come back, and obviously this organization is married
to JP Crawford in some fashion. He's going through colet
his first struggles. Offensively, I think he makes up the
difference defensively over what you were getting from JP Crawford.
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But I'm going to be interested to see how they're
going to handle Brendan Donovan being activated. Apparently he's going
to be playing this week. Apparently Donovan's going to be
in games this week. Well, we have five weeks or
excuse me, five days, four days before we play another game,
So how much can he get done on a reab assignment.
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How many more games will he actually miss? And then
the big question is how does he fit on this
roster again? Where is he playing? If he's starting every
day again? I miss him hitting leadoff. I think he
should be hitting leadoff, and I don't miss him playing
third base defensively, but but we've since since he was
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last on this team, we have a different third baseman,
and how are they going to manage it? I hate
the idea that maybe JP takes his shortstops job back
and cold Emerson in the midst of his struggles. I'm
not saying they're going there thinking about doing this, but
maybe it's on the table, sent back to Triple A
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to kind of oh reboot. I don't know. I don't
know if that's on the table, but I don't like
that idea. And then the other Emerson Emerson Hancock. I mean,
there's an awful lot of talk right now about this
team's looking to trade a pitcher for a piece that
they're missing, and then the piece that continues to be
brought up is a back of the end reliever. I
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brought up Mason Miller yesterday. The only way that I
would consider moving one of our five young guys. It's
gonna be hard to get anything for Castillo. Moving one
of our five young pitchers starting pitchers for a reliever,
it better be the best in the world, which is
what Mason Miller is. He is apparently available, and I wonder.
(23:28):
I wonder if this organization, this is just me wondering.
I don't know any information would think. You know, Emerson
Hancock took a long time to get here. Do we
sell high, clear up our overcrowded starting rotation. If somebody
gets hurt, we have Kate Anderson to lean on in
the second half, and we bring in the best closer
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in the game who's under club control, to wipe out
any doubts late in baseball games. I wonder if it's
on the table, I just do.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
Yeah, I hadn't thought of that, but the fact that
it's taken this long is a good point, and that
they could get a lot for him.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
I would hate it, but I would hate to see
him go. I would love getting Mason Miller. I would
hate to see him go.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Yeah, I hate the idea of both of those things
that I brought up. Yeah, I don't want cold Emerson
needing a reboot in Tacoma, and I don't need Emerson
Hancock traded away because he's having a great season and
you could sell high on him. I don't like the
idea of either of those, but certainly has been That's
been a couple of things I've been thinking about since
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yesterday's show. Finally, f is for the firing. Yes yesterday,
on the show, I went as far as saying, I
think it's time to move in a new direction with
our manager. I had pushback on that from some most
agreed with me on our text line and the various
forms of communicating with us. But I certainly did have
(24:57):
some pushback, and that's good. I wanted pushback. I asked
for pushback, and one of the things I said that
was pushed back on me was, well, why don't fire
Sitzer and Perry Hill while you're at it, because the
offense is struggling and the defense is struggling. And my
answer to that is they've got better track records. Like
Kevin Seitzer had a terrific season and he's had three
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months of the offense not performing as well Perry Hill.
This isn't me saying it. This is everybody that comes
to spring training that puts on a Mariner uniform for
the first time telling me they can't wait to work
with the best in the business. I think their track
records are a little longer, deeper, more accomplished for their roles,
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specific roles within the organization. The manager, and it's a
little larger scale, really is held responsible for how well
his team is responding to his leadership and when you
are grossly underachieving like this team is, and frankly, I
thought they grossly underachieved for most of last season. I mean,
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the only time that Dan Rolson really made a big
difference in my opinion was at the tail end of
twenty twenty four. And let's look back at that historically,
Scott Service and the team, they experienced an up and
down season. If you remember just I mean, it's kind
of very similar, like we thought we were going to
get going and then all of a sudden we did
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a snag and lose seven of eight. Well, they had
lost seven of eight coming off of a road trip,
actually eight of nine coming off of a road trip.
They had fallen all the way back to five hundred,
were a game under five hundred right now, And on
August twenty sixth, Jerry made the decision while Scott was
flying back, that we're going to change managers and go
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to Dan Wilson. Kind of a similar situation, like there
was this feeling of we think this team's better than
the way that they're playing, and we feel like maybe
Scott's not getting the most out of them. It's not
going to be easy for us. He's been with us
for a long time, but we feel like we need
a new voice. And what happened. They won their very
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first game with Wilson. They ended up winning five of seven.
They ended up winning twenty one out of thirty four
to close out the year, and you finished eighty five
and seventy seven, one game out of the playoffs, one
game out of the playoffs. Do you think, maybe, just
based purely on this team's not responding to that manager
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the way we want it to, let's make a change.
Do you think maybe if they would have made that
earlier then August twenty second, that this team would have
had time to gel and make the playoffs that year? Yes,
I don't want to wait too long. I don't want
to wait too long. If he's the right guy, he's
the right guy. If you're convinced he's the right guy,
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keep him. But if you're just standing on ceremony at
this point, like I don't have the heart to do.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
It, well, that's a terrible reason to keep anyone.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Right.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Yeah, So I don't want to just keep waiting if
he's if they're not responding to the message, and I
know that they all like him, but they're not fighting
for him. They're not playing the way you want to
see them play under him, And so I don't want
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to get to August and then make this decision that's
thirty games wasted where we could have started to pull
away potentially. Do not underestimate a new voice and what
it can do, because a lot of the times what
it does to players, the players take it personally like
we're responsible for that guy not being employed. He's the
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one that got fired, and yet it was our actions.
It was our not playing well for him that caused
him to get fired, because it wasn't anything he did.
He's not like Dan's not problematic within the organization. He's
not sleeping with the secretary. I mean, he's not going
to do anything that's going to cause him to be
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fired other than are my players playing their best for me?
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Right? And they're not.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
And so sometimes it just takes that message. We see
it all the time in sports, especially in baseball, where
Dan Wilson the message got changed. Dan Wilson, I don't
think was a better manager than Scott Service, but the
message changed at a time where the team needed to
be needed some smelling salts underneath their nose. And what happened.
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They play such good baseball the rest of the way
that they nearly overcame the deficiencies that they put out
on the baseball field for three and a half four months,
and they almost had time to make up for it
and missed by a game. I don't want to do
the same thing there, No thank you, Yeah, all right?
Coming up next, it is the World Cup today right
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here on KJAR. Now, as we get to the end
of the tournament, can I ask, can we just end
this flopping and crying stuff. Sports Radio ninety three point
three KJRFM before we get too far away from the
MLB draft. It's an annual tradition. Scott Hunter joins us
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either before or after, and sometimes both here on Chuck
and Buck in the morning, where we didn't get to
have him on before the draft, So this year we're
gonna check that box and have him on after the draft.
So he will join us at eight o'clock to talk
about the Mariners' most recent drafts. We're looking forward to that,
also looking forward to today at noon. World Cup Final
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four stage is here. It will be France versus Spain
today at noon, and you can hear it right here
at Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. I feel
like I've been the good shepherd. I'm trying real hard,
Rico to be the shepherd throughout this entire tournament. I
think it has been entertaining. I have been drawn to
the magnet to the World Cup more so than the
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actual sport itself. But I have enjoyed the sport itself
a lot more since I've given myself to it so
frequently in the last month than I ever have in
the past. I see certainly a lot of merits to
its popularity, but one thing that I can't get over,
A lot of you can't get over, and frankly, I
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think even Americans who love the sport can't get over.
I don't know what's going on overseas with why you
continue to cling to this aspect of the game, because
it's got to go. I was just talking to somebody
last night over at the kitchen there resident soccer you know,
Nerd over there, and he doesn't like it either, And
(31:47):
that is the flopping and the us w's the unnecessary
writhing that takes place, unnecessary soccer rithing that takes place
on the field.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
And he was.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
The World Cup and the use of the var to
overturn that Switzerland fake flop. Yeah, give the guy a
red card, and gave him a red card, and so
he loved that. And yet Switzerland is still sitting there
in their own Swiss juices, in their own Swiss cheese,
thinking they got wronged because faking injuries and flopping is
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a part of this sport and it's part of the
culture and it has to.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Be allowed otherwise it's not sucker.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Well, I'm just I've given myself to it a lot
more and I'm telling you get rid of it all.
Use the var, use as much replay as you possibly
can to just erase this. It's disgusting how much time
is wasted during a sporting event with players writhing on
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the field over exaggerating an injury that may or may
not have even occurred, just to try to convince the
official eventually to call a foul in that moment. Use
the f out of replay to get rid of this
once and for all, and you're going to pick up
a lot more American fans doing it that way. No,
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I completely agree it is.
Speaker 5 (33:15):
It's annoying, and they've got they've been really good about
it for the most part.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
In the World Cup.
Speaker 5 (33:19):
They've gotten faster at getting people up off the field.
But you still see him. It's just rolling, rolling, rolling around,
and then until the ref comes over and then they're like, okay,
now you've seen me in my pain, Now I can
get up.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Yeah. Yeah, and Bape does it. He'll do it ten
times today. Ye, it'll be go and he'll he'll he
might get a free kick out of it. That's why
they're doing it. And they might block it, yeah, and
I hope they do him block it, yeah, because I
think it's a bunch of mbs. I would agree. Yeah,
he acts like he has an broken bone all the time,
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and It's bewildering, is what it is.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
It is bewildering.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Yeah, and so I I just I think maybe they're not.
Maybe in other cultures, in other countries. Maybe in Mexico
they love it. They love fake injuries and they're flopping
and over exaggerating how injured I am. Maybe they love
it in Germany. Maybe they love it in Luxembourg and Norway.
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Maybe that's one of their favorite parts about the sport.
But I'm gonna tell you right now, it's our least
favorite part, those of us that won't give ourselves to soccer.
That's the thing that we even more so than the
lack of scoring. It is the can't stand the flopping,
can't stand the faking, and can't stand how much time
that you spend doing both during the course of a match.
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And we have replay at our disposal right now, right
at our fingertips, that can be used to, you know,
to reveal exactly what happened on a given play. Start
giving red cards every single time that happens, red cards
immediately you're out of the game and out of the
net game.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Do it.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Don't fake any more. We're done with it. It won't change.
But at least we tried, I tried, all right, Scott
Hunter's Next Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ RFM
What may or may not be the final swing of
the bat. Tonight, there we go. It's one number nine
for sure.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Hand here it's not.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
It's number ten.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Wow. One more than talking for two to winning time,
short Walker can upend the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
We have a holy run.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Right here, short Walk.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
It was it six in a row? He had did
six in a row. Yeah, to take it over like
and the way the format worked, you only had twenty
swings or fifteen in that round. Uh so, but if
you got to your last swing and you hit a
home run on your last wing, you got another pitch.
So they would just tack them on until you missed.
(01:07):
And so he had to basically with his last wing,
he had to hit it out for six swings in
a row in order to track down Kyle Schwarber.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
And he did it.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
It was pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
It was great.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
It was great. Best home run derby maybe certainly in
a long time, but maybe ever in terms of just
the full scale competition. I mean, I remember the Josh
Hamilton performance. I remember the Mark McGuire performance. There have
been some like individual performances Ken Grivey Junior that might
have stood out, but in terms of how good it
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was from beginning to end. I'm not sure I've seen
a better one. I would agree that was really good. Yeah,
good morning to you. We move into our number two
of the Chucking Buck on the Radio morning radio program,
and we've got a lot to do here today, a
number of great guests that we're gonna have on. Ryan
Healey will join us a little bit later on talking
about the home run derby and some other things. And
(02:00):
here in a matter of seconds, Mario Bailey will be
joining us. My favorite Husky player of all time. He's
coming up here in a matter of moments. But first,
let's rip through your headlines, brought to you by Frostbrewed
Corps Light. Jordan Walker of the Saint Louis Cardinals won
an epic home run derby last night, defeating the hometown
favorite Kyle Schwarber income from behind fashion. The All Star
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Game will be played tonight. Billy Christopher Sanchez starts for
the National League squad. The American League will start Dylan Sees,
the right hander from Toronto. Randy A. Rose Arena will
represent the Mariners at Tonight's All Star Game. The Mariners
won't play again until Friday at home against San Francisco,
so an All Star break, a true all Star break
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for practically the entire organization. World Cup resumes today at noon.
It'll be Spain versus France right here on KJAR. Tomorrow
Argentina versus England. Andersharst will join us to talk about
both matches. Today at nine thirty we are eleven days
and training camp begins for the Seahawks, and we are
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just seconds away from our Huskies One series continuing right
here on Chuck and Buck in the morning. Well in July,
during the All Star break, we do our Huskies One series,
which is one of our top analysts in town, breaking
down one entire unit for the Huskies for one entire
interview and joining us here today. Husky legend, part of
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the Hanks right here on KJAR. And as I say
every time he joins us, my favorite Husky football player
of all time, the great Mario Bailey, is with us
here on Chuck and Buck.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Hello, sir, what's up?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Man?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
I gotta go check and listen to you to make
sure you don't call somebody Husky.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Nope.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
And I'm really tight with Hugh Millen And it's always you,
It's always you, Mario.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
All right, I'll take it.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Yeah, yeah, sure, why not? Why wouldn't you take it? Well, look,
we're having Mario on here today to talk about wide
receivers and running backs. So that's the group that we're
going to discuss. As you might have guessed, and what
a run. I mean, this is a great history that
this program has with wide receivers and you're in that group.
But here in the last ten years since I moved
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to town. I mean, you think about Ross and a
dun Say and McMillan and now Denzel Boston can be
added to that list of excellent alums at this position
this university. This program's kind of known as defensive back university.
But Mario, the wide receivers that you've had historically in
the Huskies program cannot be slept on.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
No, they cannot.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
And I think the dB you just came with Coach
Lake's reign that he had with a bunch of dbs
going in the first round, and we just had a
bunch of DB's going period. But we've always had a
standout or two receivers. In the last few years, Coas
de Boor and now Coach have both brought in receivers
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year we had Denzel go first round. The year before
it was Jalen Polk, Jaylen McMillan, and of course Rome.
So I just think the receivers have always been there,
but we just had a little stretch there where we
were DBU for a while.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Well, I want to talk about this year's receivers, but
let's talk about last year's receiver, the number one target,
Denzel Boston and how much he'll be missed. Is there
a guy that can step in this year that can
do what Denzel did a year ago.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
I don't know if we can replace Denzel. I think
down when we got to the red zone, we had
this big, huge target and we would just go to
him and he would always make the play. He would
play bully ball, as I call it, and I just
think he was phenomenal at that It didn't matter that
you knew the ball was going to him. We were
still gonna throw it to him and he was still
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gonna make the play. Now, I do think Desmond Robock
had a great end of the year and became our
second receiver last year, and I think it's know once
you do that. But this year it's a little different
because you don't have Denzel. People are gonna key on
you and it's going to be slightly different, but we
can move Desmond around.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
So I plan on him having a great year.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
But it's a little it's a little difficult when you're
the number one guy and you're not sneaking up on people.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
When people have to plan for you, it changes it
a little bit.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Yeah, and so he's the clear cut number one. I mean,
you still expect him to be the wide receiver one
of this group. Rollbuck, I do.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
I do.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I like the Christen Moss that the transferred from.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
I don't know if it's Kenwick State or something like that,
and I think he's gonna be good, probably because he
wears the number five, and I think that, but I
do have.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Man, why is anyone wearing number five in this program?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I'd like to know, man, That's.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
What I keep asking, the same thing. But I understand
college we don't retire numbers. But I think Christian Moss
will do a great job of taking some pressure off.
And see Williams played pretty sparingly last year, but he's
pretty good and I saw him in spring and he
did a great job.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
We're just looking for who's gonna step up.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
You never know who's gonna step up, because once those
lights come shining, it doesn't matter what spring does and
what camp does this summer. It really matters on what
happens when those lights turn on, and guys turn into
different people once the light the lights come on.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
What is it that you learned? Because I mean, I'm
sure Roebuck would like nothing more than to follow in
your footsteps in this program. But when you got your
first taste of collegiate football at such a high level,
and then your second year full year after that, what
is it that you picked up from the first year
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and the trials and tribulations that go with tasting it
for the first time, and then we're able to apply
to take your game to a whole new level to
fallowing season.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
The biggest word I would use is consistency.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
You know, you have these ups and downs and you're
trying to figure it out, and you're learning things, and
you're starting all the time now, But it's consistency to
be consistent every game and be consistent every route, every play.
You have to learn that, and I don't think you
get that in your first year, and some people maybe
not even their second Honestly, I didn't get it till
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my third year. My freshman year was a waste a year,
probably caught four catches the entire season, and my sophomore
year I had to learn consistent. Since consistency, I would
have these great games and in the next game I'd
be nowhere to be found. Now, part of that is
the coach not throwing me the ball, but I feel
like I wasn't doing my part, and it's being consistent.
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So we're looking for robots to be consistent and show
it every every week, and we need them to have
a partner out there that's going to take some pressure
off of them.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
You know that you brought up number five. You know,
Dana Hall is like one of my other favorite Washington
Huskies of all time? What is it about you?
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (09:08):
And if I taught today and I call him number
five and he calls me number five, he had it
before I got there.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Actually, when I got there, Coach James, they gave me
number eighty.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
My mom called and yelled at them because they promised
me number five. The next day, it was sitting in
my locker and I told him, no, I don't want it.
So my freshman year I wore number eighty and I
told him if I can earn number five, so I
had it my sophomore.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Year on after that, Yeah, yeah, well maybe five should
be retired. I think maybe we should make a new rule.
It is Mario Bailey with US Huskies one series right
here on Chucking Buck in the Morning's one analyst in
town breaking down one key Seahawk player for one entire interview. Well,
let's talk about the running back group because this truly
seems like a mystery on this roster. I mean, from
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the pure standpoint of if you look at the depth chart,
the carry seem to be going to two transfers and
maybe a freshman is going to get some playing time
in the backfield, a considerable amount of playing time. So
I'm gonna need you to be our insider here. What's
happening inside those walls on Montlake. Who looks like the
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guy that's going to be RB one on the depth
chart this year?
Speaker 4 (10:25):
It looks like Jade Lamar. I think he's coming from Oregon,
and I think he will be our guy. But again,
it's what I said, It's like once those lights turn on,
you never know who's gonna show up. I know Trey
Cooley is behind him, but he's transferred like maybe two
or three times, so I'm always leary when a young
man transfers so many times. But Jade Lamar is our guy. Actually,
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there's a freshman that's coming in from Oregon. He's last
on the depth chart. I think Ansu. I think he's
gonna be great if he gets in. I think he's
one of those guys is a playmaker and can make
some plays. We have another freshman, Brian Bonner, I believe,
but I think the enseer from Oregon can make some
plays if he gets the opportunity.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Tell me about Quaid Car what you're hearing about him?
Because he was creating quite the buzz during spring. I mean,
we had Jed Fish on and even he kind of
revealed a little bit of giddiness over what this guy
could be immediately for this team. So what should we
know about Quaid Car before the season gets underway.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Quaid is the only one I didn't mintion, and Quaid
was the only one that on there that was here
last year. I think Quaid has an opportunity because he
knows the system and because he's already comfortable. It goes
a long way to be comfortable, to know your coaches,
to know the plays, to know the system and know
how to get around. I think Quaid has a chance
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to make some plays. I think he could easily be
our number two guy. I've heard all out there that
all during spring and going into camp that they love him.
But it's just a matter of if he's going to
take advantage of the opportunity, because I feel like last
year he had an opportunity early and he didn't. He
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didn't didn't come to fruition.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Mario Bailey is with us for our Husky So one
series as we break down the running backs and wide
receivers for the twenty twenty six Washington Huskies, And I'll
cheat a little bit and draw the quarterback into the
conversation even though we're supposed to be this discussing running
back and wide receiver. But considering williams dual threat capabilities,
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I mean, what will the offense look like? How much
of it's going to be built around Demon Williams. Is
he going to be the leading rusher on this team
and also throw the ball forty times per game?
Speaker 2 (12:51):
It could easily be that he could easily be it.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Demon could be a thousand, two thousand guy easily, if
that's what he wants to do, or if that's what
Coach Fish wants him to be. We just don't know
what the year entails, but I do think he's gonna
have to run a little bit more this year, but
hopefully his little frame.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Can take that. And that's always been the question.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
We don't want to get this young man hurt, but
we also want to win and we want to take
it to the next level. And if we're going to
take it to the next level, we probably need him
to have at least eight hundred yards rushing this year.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
And how is the team reacting from what you're hearing
to his interesting offseason that he had.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Man, it's water under the bridge. He's still our team leader,
you know. And I think it's one of those things
is once that first game kicks off Apple Cup and
he throws for three hundred and runs four hundred, all
this forgotten. Now there is the other side of that,
if we're getting our butts kicked and something were to happen,
and people are going to point to that situation.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
But for me personally too, it's water under the bridge.
He's a young man money talks around here. I get it.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
I do believe in loyalty, but hey, I'm not in
his situation, so it's water under the bridge, and I
just hope he leads us to the next level.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
How much would you have enjoyed throwing the ball forty
times a game back in your day?
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Man?
Speaker 4 (14:18):
I tell people all the time that I would have
records up there that would never be touched and I
would enjoy that.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
But Coach James was definitely not having that.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
We were lucky that he turned it up a notch
and hired Gilbertson and got to throw it twenty five
times a game.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
If there would have been like some like Martian from
the future that would have landed back in your day
and told Coach James that the future of the sport
is throwing the ball forty forty five times a game,
what do you think would have happened?
Speaker 4 (14:49):
He wouldn't have cared whatsoever. It wouldn't have There's no way,
I don't care what that Martian did. He would have
staffed that Martian aside. In no way any of that
was being listened to. Get out of my office.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Martian, Yeah right now, Uh, well, you're pumped. Are you
ready to go? Do you need a little more time
off this summer or are you counting the days till
Husky football?
Speaker 2 (15:15):
At this point, I'm in between there.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Some days I'm pumped and others like, man, this has
come back pretty quick, And it's still weird that the
Apple Cup is how we started off. But you know,
I'm looking forward to it, even talking to you right
now and looking at the difference and our.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Roster and seeing guys I like to see guys come on.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
The scene and explode and some guys you didn't know,
we're gonna do as well as they And looking at
Desmond Roadbox seeing if he can step it up another notch,
and looking at demand. You know that situation is is
haunting for some people. So I want to see him
succeed and I want to see him do well well.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
I always buy a college basket or a college football
magazine every year, despite the fact that all this information
more up to date on the internet, I still do
the magazine purchase every year, and so I purchased it yesterday.
So it was you know, now I'm ready for college football,
officially ready for college football, and I am on the
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countdown and look the magazine that I grabbed and I
don't need to plug it, but ranked number nineteen in
the country. I mean that's you're right, number nineteen in
the country. This magazine's predicting like a nine to three season.
Is it going to be that type of a year
for Washington? Maybe a little bit better? What's your outlook
(16:35):
right now?
Speaker 4 (16:37):
My outlook is that right there as I have us
at a nine and three season, and anything past that
is cake like, I would be happy. But I think
demand leads us easily to nine and three. The question
is is his surrounding cast is who steps up? Can
they step up? I love our defense. I think the
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defense is plug and play. I think coach has a
great handle on it. So I'm looking forward to that.
But nine and three is about where I have us.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
You can listen to every single second that I've ever
done at kJ R, and you were always my favorite
Husky football player of all time.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
I can vouch for that. Yeah, okay it is I
was gonna check you out.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Yeah you trust Ashley. Yeah I thought I was a snake.
Yeah yeah, well, hey man, thank you very much. I
can't wait to hear the coverage this fall and always
great catching up with you.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
I really appreciate you. Thank you. Go dogs.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Mario Bailey joining us right here, the one, the only
Mario Bailey. I've talked to Hugh about this too, and
he's perfectly fine with Mario being my favorite husky player
of all time, perfectly good with it and as he
should be. Yeah, yeah, he should be. I mean Mario
was just he was electrifying. He was good. Yeah, not electrifying.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
Well, I think he would also admit he's there's not
a lot of electrifying.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
There's electrifying in his analysis though, and that's what we
get every fall from Hugh Millin and Mario Bay Plus
all right, coming up next to ABC's of Them. Sports
Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. We left off yesterday
with the letter d D is for Derby. Last night's
home run derby fantastic. I mean, maybe the most complete
(18:24):
best home run derby from the beginning to the end
that I've ever seen. Like the new rule changes, they
did satisfy what I wanted them to change about the derby,
and yet until you watch it unfold, you're liked. Is
there something about this that I didn't see that this
is going to end up being disastrous. I think Jeff
Passen said it was going to end up being disastrous
(18:46):
and then midway through apologized and said this is awesome.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
And it was.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
It was awesome. But I mean, the one thing, if
there was one thing that took away from it last night,
was I don't know about you, Ash, but my reminder
of last year's Home Run Derby. Because last year was
the Year of Cal, and like everything seemed to fall
in place for Cal Raleigh a year ago, including that
incredible derby turnaround that he ended up winning the Home
(19:13):
Run Derby, but he's not there to defend his title,
not that he would have anyway, because he's had such
a rough season. I mean, last year, I don't know
how many times I talked about the Year of Cal.
Everything just seems to be falling into place, and then
this year nothing has fallen into place. Going all the
way back to the WBC, his first time on the
injury list, the batting average of one seventy not even considered.
(19:36):
I think he finished like ninth or tenth, and the
voting for catchers in the American League, for goodness sake,
So I think this is the way that we get
tested as human beings. You know, how do you react
when everything goes well for you, and how do you
react when nothing goes well for you? And that's what
we're experiencing for Dumper in twenty twenty six right now.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
I know.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
And it's sad because obviously everybody loves Cal so much
and it was so fun last year.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
That's what I thought too. That's why I was like,
I just don't think one.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
I don't think I could have been as excited as
I was for the Derby last year with Cal and it,
or even when Julio was in it. It's just different
when you don't have a dog in the fight and
you're just kind of watching. But it's also enjoyable because
you're watching with no expectations, right as I mentioned earlier,
and it exceeded my expectations. But yeah, that it hangs there,
that that Cal, the col fun, the Cal excitement. It's
(20:27):
just missing this year and I want it back.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Yeah, I do too. I do think we'll get it back,
not to the degree of a year ago. But I
think he's I mean, he has to, he just has to.
He asked to have a good I'm not gonna go
I'm not gonna say he goes from struggling offensively to
great in the second half. But I think he can
go from struggling to good here in the second half.
(20:50):
And if you just get good Cal, which is what
we've gotten for nearly all of his career until he
was great Cal offensively, that is then and we'll pull
away in the American League West and then we'll figure
out what to do in the playoffs. But it's certainly,
I mean, he's it. I mean, of all the factors,
if you want to rank them, the biggest one is
(21:11):
getting Cal back to being good Cal again. Yeah, no,
it's the most important.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
I would agree he is.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
For Emerson's This is gonna be interesting as Brendan Donovan
starts to come back, and obviously this organization is married
to JP Crawford in some fashion. He's going through colet
his first struggles. Offensively, I think he makes up the
difference defensively over what you were getting from JP Crawford.
(21:37):
But I'm going to be interested to see how they're
going to handle Brendan Donovan being activated. Apparently he's going
to be playing this week. Apparently Donovan's going to be
in games this week. Well, we have five weeks or
excuse me, five days, four days before we play another game,
So how much can he get done on a reab assignment.
(21:59):
How many more games will he actually miss? And then
the big question is how does he fit on this
roster again? Where is he playing? If he's starting every
day again? I miss him hitting leadoff. I think he
should be hitting leadoff, and I don't miss him playing
third base defensively, but but we've since since he was
(22:22):
last on this team, we have a different third baseman,
and how are they going to manage it? I hate
the idea that maybe JP takes his shortstops job back
and cold Emerson in the midst of his struggles. I'm
not saying they're going there thinking about doing this, but
maybe it's on the table, sent back to Triple A
(22:42):
to kind of oh reboot. I don't know. I don't
know if that's on the table, but I don't like
that idea. And then the other Emerson Emerson Hancock. I mean,
there's an awful lot of talk right now about this
team's looking to trade a pitcher for a piece that
they're missing, and then the piece that continues to be
brought up is a back of the end reliever. I
(23:06):
brought up Mason Miller yesterday. The only way that I
would consider moving one of our five young guys. It's
gonna be hard to get anything for Castillo. Moving one
of our five young pitchers starting pitchers for a reliever,
it better be the best in the world, which is
what Mason Miller is. He is apparently available, and I wonder.
(23:28):
I wonder if this organization, this is just me wondering.
I don't know any information would think. You know, Emerson
Hancock took a long time to get here. Do we
sell high, clear up our overcrowded starting rotation. If somebody
gets hurt, we have Kate Anderson to lean on in
the second half, and we bring in the best closer
(23:49):
in the game who's under club control, to wipe out
any doubts late in baseball games. I wonder if it's
on the table, I just do.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
Yeah, I hadn't thought of that, but the fact that
it's taken this long is a good point, and that
they could get a lot for him.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
I would hate it, but I would hate to see
him go. I would love getting Mason Miller. I would
hate to see him go.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Yeah, I hate the idea of both of those things
that I brought up. Yeah, I don't want cold Emerson
needing a reboot in Tacoma, and I don't need Emerson
Hancock traded away because he's having a great season and
you could sell high on him. I don't like the
idea of either of those, but certainly has been That's
been a couple of things I've been thinking about since
(24:36):
yesterday's show. Finally, f is for the firing. Yes yesterday,
on the show, I went as far as saying, I
think it's time to move in a new direction with
our manager. I had pushback on that from some most
agreed with me on our text line and the various
forms of communicating with us. But I certainly did have
(24:57):
some pushback, and that's good. I wanted pushback. I asked
for pushback, and one of the things I said that
was pushed back on me was, well, why don't fire
Sitzer and Perry Hill while you're at it, because the
offense is struggling and the defense is struggling. And my
answer to that is they've got better track records. Like
Kevin Seitzer had a terrific season and he's had three
(25:21):
months of the offense not performing as well Perry Hill.
This isn't me saying it. This is everybody that comes
to spring training that puts on a Mariner uniform for
the first time telling me they can't wait to work
with the best in the business. I think their track
records are a little longer, deeper, more accomplished for their roles,
(25:43):
specific roles within the organization. The manager, and it's a
little larger scale, really is held responsible for how well
his team is responding to his leadership and when you
are grossly underachieving like this team is, and frankly, I
thought they grossly underachieved for most of last season. I mean,
(26:04):
the only time that Dan Rolson really made a big
difference in my opinion was at the tail end of
twenty twenty four. And let's look back at that historically,
Scott Service and the team, they experienced an up and
down season. If you remember just I mean, it's kind
of very similar, like we thought we were going to
get going and then all of a sudden we did
(26:27):
a snag and lose seven of eight. Well, they had
lost seven of eight coming off of a road trip,
actually eight of nine coming off of a road trip.
They had fallen all the way back to five hundred,
were a game under five hundred right now, And on
August twenty sixth, Jerry made the decision while Scott was
flying back, that we're going to change managers and go
(26:50):
to Dan Wilson. Kind of a similar situation, like there
was this feeling of we think this team's better than
the way that they're playing, and we feel like maybe
Scott's not getting the most out of them. It's not
going to be easy for us. He's been with us
for a long time, but we feel like we need
a new voice. And what happened. They won their very
(27:12):
first game with Wilson. They ended up winning five of seven.
They ended up winning twenty one out of thirty four
to close out the year, and you finished eighty five
and seventy seven, one game out of the playoffs, one
game out of the playoffs. Do you think, maybe, just
based purely on this team's not responding to that manager
(27:34):
the way we want it to, let's make a change.
Do you think maybe if they would have made that
earlier then August twenty second, that this team would have
had time to gel and make the playoffs that year? Yes,
I don't want to wait too long. I don't want
to wait too long. If he's the right guy, he's
the right guy. If you're convinced he's the right guy,
(27:54):
keep him. But if you're just standing on ceremony at
this point, like I don't have the heart to do.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
It, well, that's a terrible reason to keep anyone.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Right.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Yeah, So I don't want to just keep waiting if
he's if they're not responding to the message, and I
know that they all like him, but they're not fighting
for him. They're not playing the way you want to
see them play under him, And so I don't want
(28:22):
to get to August and then make this decision that's
thirty games wasted where we could have started to pull
away potentially. Do not underestimate a new voice and what
it can do, because a lot of the times what
it does to players, the players take it personally like
we're responsible for that guy not being employed. He's the
(28:42):
one that got fired, and yet it was our actions.
It was our not playing well for him that caused
him to get fired, because it wasn't anything he did.
He's not like Dan's not problematic within the organization. He's
not sleeping with the secretary. I mean, he's not going
to do anything that's going to cause him to be
(29:04):
fired other than are my players playing their best for me?
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Right? And they're not.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
And so sometimes it just takes that message. We see
it all the time in sports, especially in baseball, where
Dan Wilson the message got changed. Dan Wilson, I don't
think was a better manager than Scott Service, but the
message changed at a time where the team needed to
be needed some smelling salts underneath their nose. And what happened.
(29:35):
They play such good baseball the rest of the way
that they nearly overcame the deficiencies that they put out
on the baseball field for three and a half four months,
and they almost had time to make up for it
and missed by a game. I don't want to do
the same thing there, No thank you, Yeah, all right?
Coming up next, it is the World Cup today right
(29:57):
here on KJAR. Now, as we get to the end
of the tournament, can I ask, can we just end
this flopping and crying stuff. Sports Radio ninety three point
three KJRFM before we get too far away from the
MLB draft. It's an annual tradition. Scott Hunter joins us
(30:19):
either before or after, and sometimes both here on Chuck
and Buck in the morning, where we didn't get to
have him on before the draft, So this year we're
gonna check that box and have him on after the draft.
So he will join us at eight o'clock to talk
about the Mariners' most recent drafts. We're looking forward to that,
also looking forward to today at noon. World Cup Final
(30:40):
four stage is here. It will be France versus Spain
today at noon, and you can hear it right here
at Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. I feel
like I've been the good shepherd. I'm trying real hard,
Rico to be the shepherd throughout this entire tournament. I
think it has been entertaining. I have been drawn to
the magnet to the World Cup more so than the
(31:02):
actual sport itself. But I have enjoyed the sport itself
a lot more since I've given myself to it so
frequently in the last month than I ever have in
the past. I see certainly a lot of merits to
its popularity, but one thing that I can't get over,
A lot of you can't get over, and frankly, I
(31:24):
think even Americans who love the sport can't get over.
I don't know what's going on overseas with why you
continue to cling to this aspect of the game, because
it's got to go. I was just talking to somebody
last night over at the kitchen there resident soccer you know,
Nerd over there, and he doesn't like it either, And
(31:47):
that is the flopping and the us w's the unnecessary
writhing that takes place, unnecessary soccer rithing that takes place
on the field.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
And he was.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
The World Cup and the use of the var to
overturn that Switzerland fake flop. Yeah, give the guy a
red card, and gave him a red card, and so
he loved that. And yet Switzerland is still sitting there
in their own Swiss juices, in their own Swiss cheese,
thinking they got wronged because faking injuries and flopping is
(32:24):
a part of this sport and it's part of the
culture and it has to.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Be allowed otherwise it's not sucker.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Well, I'm just I've given myself to it a lot
more and I'm telling you get rid of it all.
Use the var, use as much replay as you possibly
can to just erase this. It's disgusting how much time
is wasted during a sporting event with players writhing on
(32:53):
the field over exaggerating an injury that may or may
not have even occurred, just to try to convince the
official eventually to call a foul in that moment. Use
the f out of replay to get rid of this
once and for all, and you're going to pick up
a lot more American fans doing it that way. No,
(33:14):
I completely agree it is.
Speaker 5 (33:15):
It's annoying, and they've got they've been really good about
it for the most part.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
In the World Cup.
Speaker 5 (33:19):
They've gotten faster at getting people up off the field.
But you still see him. It's just rolling, rolling, rolling around,
and then until the ref comes over and then they're like, okay,
now you've seen me in my pain, Now I can
get up.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Yeah. Yeah, and Bape does it. He'll do it ten
times today. Ye, it'll be go and he'll he'll he
might get a free kick out of it. That's why
they're doing it. And they might block it, yeah, and
I hope they do him block it, yeah, because I
think it's a bunch of mbs. I would agree. Yeah,
he acts like he has an broken bone all the time,
(33:52):
and It's bewildering, is what it is.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
It is bewildering.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Yeah, and so I I just I think maybe they're not.
Maybe in other cultures, in other countries. Maybe in Mexico
they love it. They love fake injuries and they're flopping
and over exaggerating how injured I am. Maybe they love
it in Germany. Maybe they love it in Luxembourg and Norway.
(34:18):
Maybe that's one of their favorite parts about the sport.
But I'm gonna tell you right now, it's our least
favorite part, those of us that won't give ourselves to soccer.
That's the thing that we even more so than the
lack of scoring. It is the can't stand the flopping,
can't stand the faking, and can't stand how much time
that you spend doing both during the course of a match.
(34:41):
And we have replay at our disposal right now, right
at our fingertips, that can be used to, you know,
to reveal exactly what happened on a given play. Start
giving red cards every single time that happens, red cards
immediately you're out of the game and out of the
net game.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Do it.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Don't fake any more. We're done with it. It won't change.
But at least we tried, I tried, all right, Scott
Hunter's Next Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ RFM
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