July 14, 2026 • 39 mins
RYON HEALY (Mariners TV) joins the show and our clurb days may be over, but we know dingers! What did Ryon think of last night’s Home Run Derby? What’s going on with Cal and how can he get right? If this team is going to get where they need to go, what needs to happen? How hot is Dan’s seat and should the Mariners move on from him? The good and the bad of Randy Arozarena… :30- ANDERS HIRST (World Cup Broadcast crew) Is flopping on the way out now with VAR? The semifinals start today and Anders gives us the lowdown on Spain vs France and England vs Argentina. :45- We wrap up the show with one last thing!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
Whenever I hear this new music, I just picture Heally
and I hitting the club on the day.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
My club days are well behind me talk and fortunately.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Mineor ahead of me. Really. Yeah, Yeah, I've decided here
as of late that I'm really gonna focus on my
moves at the club as a goal in life. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
My wife calls it a clurb. So that's that tells
you how out of date we are of actually going
to a club. The only club I'm going to is
a kid's club.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I'm going to the club show off my kid.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
You got this, buddy?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yeah? Right e? Lee with us every Tuesday here at
nine o'clock. Boy, Dingers are fun, aren't they? Was that
not a great home run derby last night? Was that
not special? That's the best. That's the most entertaining one
I've watched from beginning to end ever. Yeah, I mean
I've seen better individual performances that I think stole the show.
(01:23):
But in terms of Wilson Contreras starts it with the
best round of the night, and then the way walker
tracked down the hometown Schwarber at the end, I just
thought every round was good and I thought that was
the best beginning to end home run derby I've ever seen.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I think in recent years. Certainly MLB had a big
win last night with just the adjustments they'd made to
the format. It looked like the players responded to it
really nicely, and I think the like so much credit
goes to the Philly fan base, the energy they brought
what they were rooting for or against any particular player
that was currently hitting, Like the Booze were just as
loud as the cheers all night long for anyone going
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against Warburgh or if your name was Wilson.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Catrera's it was.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
It was very, very entertaining in the fan base did
a great job there bringing the energy.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yeah, no doubt about it. You had to have been
in a couple of home run derbies in your life.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Right, Yeah, And honestly, I'm I've been reflecting on some
of those recently because I had a big one coming
up in the in the beginning of August, which I'm
I'm starting to prepare my body for a little bit.
But I did want I did one in Cooperstown when
I was young. I remember when I did Pony League
growing up, maybe I was ten or eleven years old.
I did want a Dodger stadium where they set you
up in the outfield you get to hit it over
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the centerfield wall. I did one at high school that
was actually UCLA. I think I did one in Double A.
I'm not positive it would have been in Corporus Christi,
Texas and the Texas League. I'm not positive doing that year,
but I definitely uh embarked on a few journeys to
the course of my career. I would imagine you did
well at these, only I don't think I ever won
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one of them. That Yeah, so maybe I'm over. Is
that what that means?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I think?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
So?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Oh, I think you're you're gonna run away with this
one next month, aren't you.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
I feel like if I beat, like if if I win,
I might get booed just because like this, I feel
like this is each Row's Homer and Derby twin, like
it's it feels like it's his twin. And if I
beat each row, like I'm just I've been dreaming. Maybe
it was a nightmare. I don't know, but been dreaming of,
like beat beating each row, like like Jordan Walker did
last night at Kyle schwarburn his hometown stadium with the
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statue of the guy just out front. Like if that happens,
I might get booed out of the place and not
get welcome back.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Here's your bet. Uh, you say, hey, I beat each row,
I get a statue outside the stadium, and and if
he beats me, I take everyone in the Mariners out
to the clerb.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I gotta take him to the clerb.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, you take him to the clerb. You take each
as my wife.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
That's when my wife comes with me. We're good. She's
the energy that I need at the club.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
You know, Ashley and I were talking about this a
little earlier. A year ago. Kyle Rowley wins the home
run Derby and it really was just the year of Cal.
I mean it just saw everything that he touched just
turned to gold. And it caught us by surprise. I Mean,
we all already loved Cal before last season, but obviously
he did things that were unexpected even for himself. He
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was not He didn't set a goal of sixty home
runs heading into last year, and then this year, obviously
he's not present. And you think about the way that
the season has gone this season for Cal, going all
the way back to the WBC, it's like everything he's
touched this year has just it just hasn't come together
for him. And here he sits at the All Star
break with a one sixty nine batting average. So, man,
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you compare and contrast a year ago with Cal Rawley
to this year, it really does highlight like how important
he is going to be to the second half of
the season for this team.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
There's no doubt about that. And he's he's been the
leader of this team. I honestly think it was before
last year performance. I think the success on the field
cemented some of those feelings that were already circulating in
the clubhouse of Cal is the guy. He is the
father of our group, and I know that it's really
hard to lead other people when you're having a hard
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time leading yourself. And I'm not making assumptions of what
Cal might be going through in his routines or off
the field, but I know the mental impact of the
performance he's having right now, what that does and how
much of a toll it takes on you. And I
know it's hard to think about others hold people accountable
to the standard that the team is operating at or
trying to operate at to ultimately be humble World Series
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contender like they were projected to be when you really
can't put together a couple of quality bats, and it's
not because he's a bad hitter, it's just one of
those years. Actually had a hitting coordinator in the batting
cage with me last night. Good buddy of mine came
in and he was asking me about Cal and I said,
I have watched hours upon hours of Cal Rawley video
from last season to this season, and the most shirting pieces.
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There's not something that is drastically off in his swing,
and that's been confirmed multiple times by col By, hitting coaches,
everyone around. It's just simply the timing, the pitch election
and the ability to you know, get the ball rolling
down the hill on a consistent basis, and you see
glimpses of it, but it feels like there's so much
failure that's happened on the particular pitch, meaning the fastball
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up in the zone that anytime he misses one, it's
almost like, no, here we go again. And that's what
it kind of looks like to me.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
What is the adjustment that needs to be made, Not
that they haven't tried a million times, but whenever you
were having difficulty, because you know you've talked about it,
it's just tortuous. You're always struggling at something, but particularly
because that looks like the problem. He can't catch up
to the high fastball, and yet he can't lay off
the high fastball. What is a trick that maybe you
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tried to try to catch up to that pitch.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
I would swing someone else's bat. I would change like
the weight, the length of the bat, the model that
I would swing, just to give myself maybe a different balance,
different feel in the batter's box. That was a big
go to, along with changing my cleats, batting gloves, anything
that I possibly could to try and take my mind
off of the obvious. And I think the formula that
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I wish I used more was create my own scorecard
or standard of success of things that are completely within
my control. And it's really simple tasks that I'm trying
to accomplish when I step in the batter's box, and
then I can reverse engineer what my preparation looks like
throughout the course of the day and maybe what he does.
He goes in off the traject and he faces twenty
five pitches, and my goal is to take X amount
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of pitches at the top of the zone, and then
I want to get my swing off on X amount
of pitches on top of the zone to show myself
where I can handle that and just really make that
pitch the priority of the day, and like, can I
go in there and execute and my first at bat
being on time for a fastball at top of the zone.
If I can, great, then I can move on to
the next task. But really organizing what my success looks
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like as a hitter today and how can I keep
myself within those margins.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Ryan Heay is with us every Tuesday talking Mariner Baseball
with the former Mariner and current member of the Mariner
TV crew as well. Hopefully you're going to hear and
see more of Rian on that front here in the
coming weeks. What else about the first half has led
us to this frustrating game under five hundred All Star
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break moment. What else do you pinpoint as beyond cal
as something like, hey, if this team wants to get
where it wants to go, they are going to have
to be better in this area.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Three things I'll give you, okay, good One is I
feel like the defense has been really inconsistent, which has
given up free outs, free bases, and with an offense
it's not producing consistent runs per game. Those free outs,
free bases turning into unearned runs really makes the game
feel out of hand. So that's one. The second one
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is the offense. The offense is in the bottom half
of the league in almost every category. The only category
that I was looking at real quickly that they're in
the top ten in league and the strikeouts, And this
is a team that was built to strike out less,
maybe not hit as many home runs, but get on
base more manufacture runs than I haven't seen that executed
at a high level at all. And then number three
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for me is the expectations of the season from outside
sources and maybe even from inside sources. I think that
before a season ever starts, when the label of World
Series or bus is put on you, which I totally
agree with you, and I understand why though, after what
you experienced as a team last season, why would you
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not come in with that expectation. Sky's the limit. But
I think the gap between expectation and reality is where
frustration can just multiply so quickly. And this team, this
fan base, everyone surrounding it has felt so much frustration
this year because the expectations world Series or busts, and
this team has maybe looked like a World Series team
for that eight ten games stretch that was at the
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end of May early June when they went on that run.
But they went on that run because they were hitting
a bunch of home runs. And when they don't hit
home runs, they're having a hard time winning baseball games,
even though they have six really good major league starting
pitchers that are doing a good job overall, with some
higher performers than some guys struggling. But the defense, the offense,
and the expectations are the three things that have really
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crippled this team in the first half.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Well, I'll loop you in on something that I did yesterday,
and I doubt you're going to agree with it, But
and I take this very seriously. I'm not some hot
take sports talk show hosts who just shows up angry
at the local baseball team and pops off. I've been
frustrated with Dan Wilson's bullpen decisions, is use of his
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bench this year, which really are the last two frontiers
that a manager in modern day has told little control
over from an x AS and O standpoint. But more importantly, Ryan,
I have huge expectations for this team this year, and
I feel like they are falling so far short of
fulfilling those expectations. That really is the manager's job, get
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the most out of the talent you've been given. I
think he's been given a lot of talent. We're a
game under five hundred. So yesterday I went as far
as saying, I think we need a new manager. Uh
tell me why I'm right or wrong about that. Who
would you.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Say is the most successful manager of the Seattle Mariners
of all time?
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Loo, panella?
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Okay? And he was fresh on my mind because he
got some camera time in Tampa this this weekend. Do
you know what his winning percentage is for his career
thirty five hundred plus games with the Mariners.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Worse than Dan Wilson's.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Yes, yeah, And I don't say that to say that
that the smaller sample size and numbers tell everything of
a story. But I do believe that the sample sides
that we've seen of Dan Wilson up to this point
is that of success, and so far this season it
hasn't been as successful as it could be or should be,
(12:08):
And there have been decisions that have been made that
I don't agree with and you don't agree with, and
quite frankly, I'm sure Dan doesn't agree with that to
this point, been some factors out of his control of
injuries and stuff, but also games that probably managed their
way to a loss. Unfortunately, the thing that I can't
get over is what happens to Dan Wilson's relationship with
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the Seattle Mariners if they do fire him, And is
the fan base willing to lose that relationship, that type
of alumni over a half of the season's worth of
underperforming from the actual team on the field. Are they
willing to put all that blame onto a Seattle Mariner
great who has turned this club around over the last
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year and a half two years that he's been here.
They are they willing to break that relationship just because
the expectations were World Series are bust. And I don't
think this takes Dan off the hook entirely. I would
love to see him be more accountable and more real
in some of the interviews of this was not what
the standard is here, Like I would like to see
maybe a little more aggressive tome, but that's not his personality.
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Then it's unfair for me to ask him to be that.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
I've also had an issue with the focus of the players,
from Randy's play down the left field line that he
let go to Josh Naylor sometimes hot dogging plays and
turning it into an error, to really some bad bass
running at times during the course of the year. I
think that's also a reflection of the manager. I mean, like,
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where's the focus? I mean, Randy Rosearina is such an
interesting topic to bring up with you today, but where
is if he's got I know everybody in that clubhouse
likes him, I know that, but there's a difference between
getting everybody to like you and get everybody to perform
for you, and nearly to a man, with the exception
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about five guys, they've underperformed individually. And I wonder how
much of that reflects on Dan in your eyes.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
There was a moment Logan Gilbert through I want to
say it was game one of the Ray series. It
was that game Warner Game two.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Uh, that was game one, I believe.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
So the decision for Logan to talk him his way
into staying in the game, yes, and then giving the
double up Toronto, like that was a moment for Dan
of like, Okay, I'm gonna trust my guy here, like
our team's going through a tough stretch our opening day starter,
talk me and be leaving the game. All right, let's go,
and then grooves of fastball double off the wall. Okay,
intentional walk. Now let's bring in the lefty lefty to
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match him up. Oh okay, Now they pinch hit, bringing
a righty, Oh okay. Like this is Dan trying to
make the right decisions and the game is still telling
him or showing him, no, that wasn't good enough. You
just made like a good gut instinct decision to trust
your player, and then he gives it the double and
then you go for the matchup. Manager responds, and then
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first pitch of the batter gave spy or three run
home run puts the game out of reach. Like it
just feels like and if you saw Dan's face after
that in the dugout when the camera kept panting to him,
like the exact thoughts going through his mind is my
my assumption is what am I gonna do? Like what
I what am I supposed to do?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Like?
Speaker 3 (15:19):
If this is how the game is gonna treat me
and respond to me when I try to make a
good decision, then what's the point? Like it felt like
that helpless moment of like what am I? What can
I do better? What can I do differently? Because I
thought I just did that perfectly and the game still said,
here's a three run Homer, see you later. Like this
game is brutal, It's cruel in so many ways.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Let's talk about Randy or Rose Arena, because on one hand,
he is, without a doubt, our most deserving All Star
we only get one this year, apparently our most deserving
All Star. But on the other hand, we saw it
over the weekend, We've seen a numerous times Randy seems
to be on Randy's plan and doesn't quite understand it.
Feel like to me at times, what it's like to
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do what's best for the team. How do you wrestle
with Randy or Rose Arena? The player trying to relate
to him as how you'd like to have him as
a teammate.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
In my opinion, if Randy wasn't an All Star this
year and performing the way that he has so consistently
and ben the guy that you want to come up
in every spot, I think there'd be a lot different
opinions out there across the league and across Seattle of
Randy as a player. And I think you take the
good with the bad, just because his performance speaks for itself,
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and unfortunately, baseball is a performance forward league, and if
you perform well, then everything else kind of gets ignored.
I don't think Randy is a bad guy by any stretch.
I just think he's done this for a long time
at a high level and has had very very consistent
success and been an All Star multiple times and has
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really flourished and captured the heart of Mariner's fate. And
I understand why because when he pulls out there and
he plays with high energy, high intent, he he captures
your attention with everything he does. But I also know
it's hard to perform at that type of level on
one hundred and sixty two game basis. It takes a
lot out of you, and you know when you're playing outfield,
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you have a lot more ground to cover, so if
your energy and effort isn't really high, it can look
really poor, kind of like that fly ball. And obviously
he's still nursing like a hamstring, So like there's like
there's factors that go into it. He's going out there
willing to play for his team, posting for his team,
not at one hundred percent. So how much credit do
we give that verse? Hey, you should have made that
play Like it's such a push and pull, which is
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probably why there's not anyone in that clubhouse or organization
saying anything to him, because like, you want that bat
in the lineup. I don't want him to hurt that
hamstring again and not be able to hit because he
was hustling for a foul ball down the left field line.
But then also you see the ball dropping. The next
pitch is a home run. You're like, God should have
been caught, Like pick your poison there at this point, Chuck,
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which one do you really want?
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Yeah? I said this yesterday, and you can feel free
to agree or disagree. I guarantee you Randy rose Arena
was told with that hamstring, Hey, no crazy plays don't
dive in the walls, don't jump into stands like the foul.
If it's a foul ball, it's not as important as
your health. And I think Randy has a hard time
when his own personal filter of understanding I met you.
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In his head, he's like, that's a play that they
don't want me to go for because right and then,
but it looked to us like that was an easy
don't agree with that statement.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Really, I don't agree with that. I agree that he
was told to, like, please take care of yourself, like,
if it's a routine ground ball, we don't need to
see a hard ninety Like if it's a pop live,
do you feel like you're not gonna get to like,
I don't need you to reinjure it. So I guaranteed
there was that conversation that happened. But I don't think
in his head he's like, Oh, they don't want me
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to go for that ball. I'm just gonna dog it
over here, lod you Like, I don't. I don't think
that happens in the spot. My guess is he takes
his first couple of hard steps and his eyes, as
Reid told him, I'm probably not gonna get there, so
he dialed it back a little bit and then it
dropped where it did and looked like he had an
opportunity for it. Everyone there saying, why why wasn't that
ball caught?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Mm hmm. Well, you know what, we had a lot
of frustrating moments last season, and look how fun it
ended up being.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
So it's supposed to be frustrating. If it was fun
every day, then you wouldn't enjoy the highs.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Right right.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
It wouldn't be nice though, for all Mariner fans listening,
if they could once enjoy an easy ride to the end,
just once, just ten games up, throughout the entire second half,
feed up on the desk, and then we'll get serious
in the playoffs. That'd be nice. I'd like to see
that you're shaking.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
The kids are doing that, Dodgers, And that's that's.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
The list, Chuck, that's the list, all right, man, right
stuff has always really enjoyed it, and we will talk
to you again next week.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Can't wait, all right?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Ryan joining us right here, former Mariner. Currently on Mariner's TV.
At every Tuesday at nine o'clock, we chat with Ryan Healy.
Coming up next on the program, Anders Hurst is going
to join us. We'll preview today's World Cup match tomorrow's
as well while we have them. Sports Radio ninety three
point three kJ r F M. All right, it's Chuck
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a Buck in the mornings, Chuck Powell, Ashley Ryan with
you joining us now as we get you ready for
another World Cup match. Only three remaining, well, actually four
because they do try to make a big deal out
of that third place match.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Yeah, no one gets their rip.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Yeah I don't. Maybe Anders does, But then again, Anders
sees the world differently than you and I. Sometimes joining
us now is our own Anders Hurst in anticipation of
today's Spain France slug match. How are you, sir?
Speaker 4 (21:03):
I'm doing well. I hate the third place match, so
I'm all with you guys.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Yay, out of way. Andrews, what about this one? I
did this earlier in the show too, Like, I've really
watched and enjoyed more soccer in the last month than
I ever had in my entire life combined, and yet
I still have the flopping, unnecessary writhing on the field
issues with the sport. But almost everybody that I'm talking
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with that are soccer fans, including Stretch and a couple
of others. They've all said I don't like that either.
As soccer fans, I don't like that. Do you think
with video review and some of the things that we've
watched happened in this tournament that maybe that part of soccer,
which is absorbed into the culture will start to get
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faded out of the sport.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
It would be very difficult, to be completely honest, because
I think it's just it has been going on for
such a long time. It's like you said, it's just
part of the culture. It's really really hard to kind
of etch something out just like that. And with every
var change that they make, there's up in arms people
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pissed off about how it's used. They want to go
back to the old days when they weren't using var.
Soccer more than any other sport, is very reluctant to change. However,
they've done it more recently to just try and you know,
fix parts of the game that are pretty obvious that
needs fixing, like what you mentioned. I'm with you. I
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just don't know if it's important enough to the normal
soccer fans to get that out of the game. It
is important for Americans, and I completely understand that and
I talked about this with Hugh and Dick on the
on Friday. I just don't know if physical toughness, which
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is the thing that kind of gets undermined when you're
doing that, is that important to at least the appearance
of it to fans, to players and stuff like that.
So to me, I don't know if it ever will
get and you know, etched out of the game, but
maybe at least it will be diminished to a point
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where it's a little bit more acceptable.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Interesting answer, interesting answer. All right, what about this part
of the tournament? There there seem to be a lot
of drama. It seemed to be like upsets and near upsets,
I mean enormous near upsets throughout the entire tournament, and
yet here we are with the four teams that we're
expected to get to the final four. Do you like
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that about it? Do you like that it ended up
in chalk or do you wish we would have had
a little more of a bumpy road to get to
the final final four teams?
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Yeah? I like it. I think it's a very NCAA
tournament esque where you do get some upsets and you
do get some magical runs, but at the end of
the day, it's usually the final four teams. Maybe there's
one every couple of years. That's that's a huge surprise
of George Mason sort of situation. But I mean this
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is what we wanted, right, We want the four best teams,
all with the chance in my opinion, to win. Like
compared to twenty twenty two, when Morocco and Croatia were
two of the four semi finalists, you could kind of
almost unfortunately count them out for a chance to win
the World Cup. I don't think you can say that
for any team that's playing this in the semifinals. So,
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and I think the two matchups are about as perfectly
set up as possible. You got the tactical, just all
out offense versus I'm gonna keep the ball away from
you the entire time, which is France versus Spain, and
then the politically charged history of England versus Argentina tomorrow.
So I think the two matchups are just perfect to
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kind of set up what should be an amazing final
as well.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
All Right, So France has seemed like they've had the
least amount of trouble from match to match. They just
feel like they've been in control of every match they play.
Why is it going to be different today?
Speaker 4 (25:16):
I think because Spain, if any team in this tournament
is going to beat France. I do believe France is
the favorite. I think they're playing the best soccer and
they have the best team, which are two different things.
They're one kind of vulnerability is in midfield and stain.
The way they play, they will keep the ball away
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from France for long stretches of the game. France rely
on like a high volume attack. So for anyone who's
hockey fans, I compare this matchup to a Colorado Avalanche
versus the Carolina Hurricanes, right, just a suffocating possession style
of Spain versus the high octane I have superstars, go Lore,
(26:03):
I'm gonna just high volume attack of France, And honestly,
I could see it going either way. Spain has actually
beaten France the last three times they've played, so they
do know how to win these types of games. So
even though France has really looked better throughout the course
of the entire tournament, I think Spain knows how to
kind of win these types of games, and it should
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be a really really fun matchup today.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
All Right, apply that same analysis to Argentina versus England.
Give us the way that one's going to go down tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
I honestly I could see it going either way. The
one thing I can say is I think we're going
to get some goals. I really do. Argentina, believe it
or not, actually been the highest scoring team in the tournament,
even though we think of France as this the best
offense or whatever in Argentina and that scores the most goals.
It's just they've done it in a little bit different
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way this year. And I'm as concerned as any neutral
out there for their chances because they haven't really dominated
any game. They've just been kind of surviving in advancing.
But England you could say the same thing about them
as well. The one thing that I will say is
I do think Argentina has the slight advantage offensively. They
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just have a little bit more in the magic category
with with Messi, and they're finally starting to get some
involvements other than him, if they can. If they get more,
you know, just chances created and goals scoring and assists
from people other than Lionel Messi, that's what makes them
(27:41):
really really good, and they finally did that in their
quarterfinal game versus Switzerland. So and England's kind of the opposite.
The more the tournament goes on, the more they're reliant
on Jude Bellingham. So if that continues, you can it's
a great person to rely on. But I think tactically
this one is about as close as it gets. Again,
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and I just add in the history of nineteen eighty six,
the quarterfinal in England faced Argentina right after the Falklands
War and Diego Maradonna had the goal of the century
and then scored with his hand as well. So there's
a lot of controversy surrounding these two teams and I
just can't wait for that matchup just for the historical factor.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
I know who you're rooting for in the Hurst household,
but Ashley and I want to hear the Hey Jude
song again. We want to see Bellingham because that was
pretty That was a pretty cool moment when all of
England was singing Hey Jude to Bellingham the other day.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
Yeah, they were singing Wonderwall actually that's the song that.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
Now, then they Jude to him.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
Oh okay, all right, I must have missed that part.
Because each team has a Each team has a song
that they sing right after they win, so I guess
they added that on just to add some extra, you know,
merriment to a victory.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Every good english person knows the words to Hay Jude.
It just works. It just works.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
Yeah, and wonder while the team sings with the fans,
they all sing it together. Hey ju, he just stood
there while they all sang it at him, and then
he fist pumps.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
And he just soaked it all in.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
I will say, I will say, if England does win
that game, I will root for them against either of
the other two teams. So whoever wins that matchup is
who I will be going for in the final.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Okay, all right, thank you sir, We appreciate it. What
kind of work you gotta do today?
Speaker 4 (29:32):
I am doing the the pre match show for Spain
versus France with Danny Jackson, and then you know, obviously
halftime postgame as well. Hopefully we get a nice fun
am I rooting for extra time? Maybe we'll see what
ends up happening. But I'm as intrigued with these two
matchups as I have been for honestly, anything that I've
(29:54):
ever watched in the world. Cup, so I can't wait
to get down to it, and you can hear us
at eleven thirty am pregame on ninety three point three KJR.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
All right, have fun, Thank you, and another great job
by andrews Hurst joining us right here on the radio
program again eleven thirty pre game twelve o'clock start. You
can hear it right here on your World Cup headquarters
here in town. Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ
R FM. I'm rooting for England. Yeah, Yeah, I'm rooting
(30:24):
for England the whole way. Let's go. They've won me
over too, by the way, Yeah, because I kind of
when the tournament started, I'm like, man, why are you
guys making so many excuses? You're starting with excuses before
every match, But I don't know, I'm kind of caught
up with their whole history, their whole story. Bellingham's turned
out to be my favorite prayer to watch in this
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entire tournament. So yeah, I'm I'm rooting for England.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
Welcome to the team, Welcome to the team.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Yeah, I'm gonna have some tea today. Yeah, and crumpets
all right, close out next with one last thing. Sports
Radio ninety three point three KJRFM, our final segment of
today's radio show here on Chuck a Buck in the Morning.
(31:17):
So we always close things out with one last thing,
and so let's get it started. Actually, what do you got?
Speaker 5 (31:23):
Well, I have to say something that I did not find.
I didn't think I would be as stressed out by,
but boy, it really took up a lot of my.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Stress energy.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
Was Select tryouts, So we were at a select team
pongers at a select team last year that we were
not thrilled with.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
And didn't want to go back to.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Okay, And the one thing.
Speaker 5 (31:45):
I realized was select is you really want to find
a place you want to stay. So they don't have
to do this every year, because then you just find
yourself constantly checking your email to see if if your
kid has.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Gotten an offer to play at the place she wants
to play.
Speaker 5 (31:58):
And I didn't realize how much it was stressing out
until she got her offer from Northwest show and I
got emotional, and Palmer got emotional, and she was so
excited that she got the offer.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
She basically started sobbing. She then made me cry, of course,
and it was so cute.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
And she and so then her hitting coach asked, so
do you want to do you want to play?
Speaker 4 (32:24):
There?
Speaker 5 (32:24):
She goes, between tears, rubbing her eyes, yes, just nodding
her head. It was the cutest thing ever. And now
I sleep a lot better. Oh good, Yeah, which is weird.
I was like, oh, is that why I was so
stressed out? But something that I'm like, it doesn't It's
not me.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
I don't have to go play for this team.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
But you know, as a family, when you're select on
a select team, your whole family's invested in it. You
spend a lot of time with these people. So I
think we found a good one now, and I'm excited
about it.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Yeah, well, good, very good.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (32:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
I don't know what it's like in the big city. Yeah.
I grew up in a small town where everybody made
the team and you barely had it enough to fill
out a roster.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
And so Dad would go and there were two teams
in town, and then he would go into the municipal hall, yeah,
which was about the size of this studio. And then
I'd sit in the car with mom, and about an
hour later he'd come out grumbling about three or four
of the kids he got stuck.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
With Yep, that's how they do Little League.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
And one or two he was excited about.
Speaker 5 (33:28):
Yeah, so yeah, yeah, that's how they do Little League.
They do a draft in they but this is I
mean this. They don't have to take every not everybody
who has a spot, so you could be left out
in the cold.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. We didn't. We didn't have
select until we got the Legion Bowl. So in a
little town, that's all you had.
Speaker 5 (33:44):
Yeah, Which I love that because it I mean that
everybody gets the opportunity to play. Even if your dad
is stuck with Claire's he's not thrilled by yeah. Oh well,
oh well, anyway, she's going everybody, we're at it.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
She's going to the show. That's great. I want to
talk with my one last thing about Randy a Rose Arena.
We a great conversation today with Ryan Healy. Really like
how kind of honest and candid he is, and yet
he still tries to keep me on the in the
rails within the rails on some things. So I really
like having baseball chats with him every Tuesday at nine o'clock.
(34:23):
But he pushed back a little bit on me on
one thing, and I don't mean to be sensitive about it,
but I do kind of think maybe he's miss he's
missing the boat a little bit. And that's just this.
You can't apply normal baseball rules and philosophy to Randy
a Rose arena. That is the point. He is an enigma.
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And I believe that in Tampa and in Saint Louis,
where he rubbed people the wrong way, it was because
they expected him to start acting normally. And I don't
know if it's entirely within him. I don't think Randy
wants to let down his teammates. I don't think Randy
wants to I think some things that Randy does, Randy
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doesn't realize Randy shouldn't do those right. And then when
it is explained to Randy why you shouldn't do that,
he has a really hard time understanding what you mean.
Like there have been a lot of him. I mentioned
this earlier in the week. Hey, he was told, Hey,
cal Rawley's on a roll. We can't be getting thrown
out at second with Cal Raleigh at the plate in
(35:28):
situations where we could use it to run Homer. I'm
not saying you never run when Col's at the plate,
but you need to know where the line is when
you shouldn't run. You need to understand that. Randy doesn't
understand that, right. Randy's like, this is an invisible line.
This isn't a rule. You want me to know when
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to run and when not to run while cow's at
the plate and baseball people are like, yeah, it's very
obvious and very easy to follow, and he's like, no,
that's not easy to follow at all. It's okay to
run sometimes when cows a the plake, but other times
I shouldn't. Randy has a hard time with it, So
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I really do think that a conversation with him about hey,
don't go running into walls. We had a hamstring. You're
too valuable to us. You're the only guy hitting consistently.
We don't want you jumping into the stands. We don't
want you to risk yourself for in a dangerous area
for a ball, even if it's in play. Yeah, and
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Randy was fun going after a fly ball. There was
some traffic over there because it's a stupid ballpark, and
Randy pulled up like, this is one of those plays
they don't want me to get. I really think he
thought that.
Speaker 5 (36:43):
No, and we talked about that, Yesterdy, because I have
the same thing, the same thoughts as Ryan.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
Like I don't understand. I feel like he should know this.
Speaker 5 (36:50):
He should have known that that ball was catchable and
he wasn't going to hurt himself getting it.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
But that's Randy brain, that's Randy filter. I don't think
that he was going after that ball and said I
don't care if I catch that. I think Randy went
through Randy's filter and said this. I think this is
one of those balls they don't want me to go
all out on. So and it's foul led drum.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
Meanwhile, we're watching at home, like, you should have caught that.
Not only could you have caught that, you should have
caught that, should have had it easily. What is wrong
with you? Why are you so? Why did you do that?
And Randy didn't get suspended the next day, he didn't
get benched the next day, he was right back in
the lineup, yep. And I'm betting it's because Randy got
in the dug guy and said, I thought that was
one of the ones you didn't want me to go after.
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Randy's got a different filter than just about anybody else
on any roster in Major League Baseball. And that's that's
just two examples. I could give you twelve. He didn't
think it was showing up a pitcher when he wasn't
turning around on fly balls out of the ballpark. Therein
crossed his mind. He had to be told, no, you
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can't do that. Yeah, pitchers are getting piss Why understand,
why are they getting pissed. I didn't give up a
home run they did, Like, that's how Randy's brain works.
So I don't know. I don't know. You take the
good one and you take the bad with the guy
if you want him on your roster. I get how
frustrating he is. He's been more frustrating for me than
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a lot of you out there. I've been complaining about
him since he arrived. But I think he's just different.
And I don't think he does anything maliciously or with
the intent to show up his teammates or to cause
any mighty any problems. But Randy's on Randy's plan. And
there's a reason in Tampa they called it Randy Land
because it was a population of one going one like him.
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It's going one like him, and he's our guy, and
he's gonna be playing tonight, so I hope he hits
two home runs and wins the MVP. Yeah, let's do
it all right, well, Doctor Tomorrow at six am, Greg
is next Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
Whenever I hear this new music, I just picture Heally
and I hitting the club on the day.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
My club days are well behind me talk and fortunately.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Mineor ahead of me. Really. Yeah, Yeah, I've decided here
as of late that I'm really gonna focus on my
moves at the club as a goal in life. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
My wife calls it a clurb. So that's that tells
you how out of date we are of actually going
to a club. The only club I'm going to is
a kid's club.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I'm going to the club show off my kid.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
You got this, buddy?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yeah? Right e? Lee with us every Tuesday here at
nine o'clock. Boy, Dingers are fun, aren't they? Was that
not a great home run derby last night? Was that
not special? That's the best. That's the most entertaining one
I've watched from beginning to end ever. Yeah, I mean
I've seen better individual performances that I think stole the show.
(01:23):
But in terms of Wilson Contreras starts it with the
best round of the night, and then the way walker
tracked down the hometown Schwarber at the end, I just
thought every round was good and I thought that was
the best beginning to end home run derby I've ever seen.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I think in recent years. Certainly MLB had a big
win last night with just the adjustments they'd made to
the format. It looked like the players responded to it
really nicely, and I think the like so much credit
goes to the Philly fan base, the energy they brought
what they were rooting for or against any particular player
that was currently hitting, Like the Booze were just as
loud as the cheers all night long for anyone going
(02:02):
against Warburgh or if your name was Wilson.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Catrera's it was.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
It was very, very entertaining in the fan base did
a great job there bringing the energy.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yeah, no doubt about it. You had to have been
in a couple of home run derbies in your life.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Right, Yeah, And honestly, I'm I've been reflecting on some
of those recently because I had a big one coming
up in the in the beginning of August, which I'm
I'm starting to prepare my body for a little bit.
But I did want I did one in Cooperstown when
I was young. I remember when I did Pony League
growing up, maybe I was ten or eleven years old.
I did want a Dodger stadium where they set you
up in the outfield you get to hit it over
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the centerfield wall. I did one at high school that
was actually UCLA. I think I did one in Double A.
I'm not positive it would have been in Corporus Christi,
Texas and the Texas League. I'm not positive doing that year,
but I definitely uh embarked on a few journeys to
the course of my career. I would imagine you did
well at these, only I don't think I ever won
(02:57):
one of them. That Yeah, so maybe I'm over. Is
that what that means?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I think?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
So?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Oh, I think you're you're gonna run away with this
one next month, aren't you.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
I feel like if I beat, like if if I win,
I might get booed just because like this, I feel
like this is each Row's Homer and Derby twin, like
it's it feels like it's his twin. And if I
beat each row, like I'm just I've been dreaming. Maybe
it was a nightmare. I don't know, but been dreaming of,
like beat beating each row, like like Jordan Walker did
last night at Kyle schwarburn his hometown stadium with the
(03:26):
statue of the guy just out front. Like if that happens,
I might get booed out of the place and not
get welcome back.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Here's your bet. Uh, you say, hey, I beat each row,
I get a statue outside the stadium, and and if
he beats me, I take everyone in the Mariners out
to the clerb.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I gotta take him to the clerb.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, you take him to the clerb. You take each
as my wife.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
That's when my wife comes with me. We're good. She's
the energy that I need at the club.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
You know, Ashley and I were talking about this a
little earlier. A year ago. Kyle Rowley wins the home
run Derby and it really was just the year of Cal.
I mean it just saw everything that he touched just
turned to gold. And it caught us by surprise. I Mean,
we all already loved Cal before last season, but obviously
he did things that were unexpected even for himself. He
(04:19):
was not He didn't set a goal of sixty home
runs heading into last year, and then this year, obviously
he's not present. And you think about the way that
the season has gone this season for Cal, going all
the way back to the WBC, it's like everything he's
touched this year has just it just hasn't come together
for him. And here he sits at the All Star
break with a one sixty nine batting average. So, man,
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you compare and contrast a year ago with Cal Rawley
to this year, it really does highlight like how important
he is going to be to the second half of
the season for this team.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
There's no doubt about that. And he's he's been the
leader of this team. I honestly think it was before
last year performance. I think the success on the field
cemented some of those feelings that were already circulating in
the clubhouse of Cal is the guy. He is the
father of our group, and I know that it's really
hard to lead other people when you're having a hard
(05:15):
time leading yourself. And I'm not making assumptions of what
Cal might be going through in his routines or off
the field, but I know the mental impact of the
performance he's having right now, what that does and how
much of a toll it takes on you. And I
know it's hard to think about others hold people accountable
to the standard that the team is operating at or
trying to operate at to ultimately be humble World Series
(05:37):
contender like they were projected to be when you really
can't put together a couple of quality bats, and it's
not because he's a bad hitter, it's just one of
those years. Actually had a hitting coordinator in the batting
cage with me last night. Good buddy of mine came
in and he was asking me about Cal and I said,
I have watched hours upon hours of Cal Rawley video
from last season to this season, and the most shirting pieces.
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There's not something that is drastically off in his swing,
and that's been confirmed multiple times by col By, hitting coaches,
everyone around. It's just simply the timing, the pitch election
and the ability to you know, get the ball rolling
down the hill on a consistent basis, and you see
glimpses of it, but it feels like there's so much
failure that's happened on the particular pitch, meaning the fastball
(06:24):
up in the zone that anytime he misses one, it's
almost like, no, here we go again. And that's what
it kind of looks like to me.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
What is the adjustment that needs to be made, Not
that they haven't tried a million times, but whenever you
were having difficulty, because you know you've talked about it,
it's just tortuous. You're always struggling at something, but particularly
because that looks like the problem. He can't catch up
to the high fastball, and yet he can't lay off
the high fastball. What is a trick that maybe you
(06:52):
tried to try to catch up to that pitch.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
I would swing someone else's bat. I would change like
the weight, the length of the bat, the model that
I would swing, just to give myself maybe a different balance,
different feel in the batter's box. That was a big
go to, along with changing my cleats, batting gloves, anything
that I possibly could to try and take my mind
off of the obvious. And I think the formula that
(07:16):
I wish I used more was create my own scorecard
or standard of success of things that are completely within
my control. And it's really simple tasks that I'm trying
to accomplish when I step in the batter's box, and
then I can reverse engineer what my preparation looks like
throughout the course of the day and maybe what he does.
He goes in off the traject and he faces twenty
five pitches, and my goal is to take X amount
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of pitches at the top of the zone, and then
I want to get my swing off on X amount
of pitches on top of the zone to show myself
where I can handle that and just really make that
pitch the priority of the day, and like, can I
go in there and execute and my first at bat
being on time for a fastball at top of the zone.
If I can, great, then I can move on to
the next task. But really organizing what my success looks
(07:59):
like as a hitter today and how can I keep
myself within those margins.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Ryan Heay is with us every Tuesday talking Mariner Baseball
with the former Mariner and current member of the Mariner
TV crew as well. Hopefully you're going to hear and
see more of Rian on that front here in the
coming weeks. What else about the first half has led
us to this frustrating game under five hundred All Star
(08:25):
break moment. What else do you pinpoint as beyond cal
as something like, hey, if this team wants to get
where it wants to go, they are going to have
to be better in this area.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Three things I'll give you, okay, good One is I
feel like the defense has been really inconsistent, which has
given up free outs, free bases, and with an offense
it's not producing consistent runs per game. Those free outs,
free bases turning into unearned runs really makes the game
feel out of hand. So that's one. The second one
(09:01):
is the offense. The offense is in the bottom half
of the league in almost every category. The only category
that I was looking at real quickly that they're in
the top ten in league and the strikeouts, And this
is a team that was built to strike out less,
maybe not hit as many home runs, but get on
base more manufacture runs than I haven't seen that executed
at a high level at all. And then number three
(09:23):
for me is the expectations of the season from outside
sources and maybe even from inside sources. I think that
before a season ever starts, when the label of World
Series or bus is put on you, which I totally
agree with you, and I understand why though, after what
you experienced as a team last season, why would you
(09:45):
not come in with that expectation. Sky's the limit. But
I think the gap between expectation and reality is where
frustration can just multiply so quickly. And this team, this
fan base, everyone surrounding it has felt so much frustration
this year because the expectations world Series or busts, and
this team has maybe looked like a World Series team
for that eight ten games stretch that was at the
(10:07):
end of May early June when they went on that run.
But they went on that run because they were hitting
a bunch of home runs. And when they don't hit
home runs, they're having a hard time winning baseball games,
even though they have six really good major league starting
pitchers that are doing a good job overall, with some
higher performers than some guys struggling. But the defense, the offense,
and the expectations are the three things that have really
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crippled this team in the first half.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Well, I'll loop you in on something that I did yesterday,
and I doubt you're going to agree with it, But
and I take this very seriously. I'm not some hot
take sports talk show hosts who just shows up angry
at the local baseball team and pops off. I've been
frustrated with Dan Wilson's bullpen decisions, is use of his
(10:53):
bench this year, which really are the last two frontiers
that a manager in modern day has told little control
over from an x AS and O standpoint. But more importantly, Ryan,
I have huge expectations for this team this year, and
I feel like they are falling so far short of
fulfilling those expectations. That really is the manager's job, get
(11:14):
the most out of the talent you've been given. I
think he's been given a lot of talent. We're a
game under five hundred. So yesterday I went as far
as saying, I think we need a new manager. Uh
tell me why I'm right or wrong about that. Who
would you.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Say is the most successful manager of the Seattle Mariners
of all time?
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Loo, panella?
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Okay? And he was fresh on my mind because he
got some camera time in Tampa this this weekend. Do
you know what his winning percentage is for his career
thirty five hundred plus games with the Mariners.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Worse than Dan Wilson's.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Yes, yeah, And I don't say that to say that
that the smaller sample size and numbers tell everything of
a story. But I do believe that the sample sides
that we've seen of Dan Wilson up to this point
is that of success, and so far this season it
hasn't been as successful as it could be or should be,
(12:08):
And there have been decisions that have been made that
I don't agree with and you don't agree with, and
quite frankly, I'm sure Dan doesn't agree with that to
this point, been some factors out of his control of
injuries and stuff, but also games that probably managed their
way to a loss. Unfortunately, the thing that I can't
get over is what happens to Dan Wilson's relationship with
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the Seattle Mariners if they do fire him, And is
the fan base willing to lose that relationship, that type
of alumni over a half of the season's worth of
underperforming from the actual team on the field. Are they
willing to put all that blame onto a Seattle Mariner
great who has turned this club around over the last
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year and a half two years that he's been here.
They are they willing to break that relationship just because
the expectations were World Series are bust. And I don't
think this takes Dan off the hook entirely. I would
love to see him be more accountable and more real
in some of the interviews of this was not what
the standard is here, Like I would like to see
maybe a little more aggressive tome, but that's not his personality.
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Then it's unfair for me to ask him to be that.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
I've also had an issue with the focus of the players,
from Randy's play down the left field line that he
let go to Josh Naylor sometimes hot dogging plays and
turning it into an error, to really some bad bass
running at times during the course of the year. I
think that's also a reflection of the manager. I mean, like,
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where's the focus? I mean, Randy Rosearina is such an
interesting topic to bring up with you today, but where
is if he's got I know everybody in that clubhouse
likes him, I know that, but there's a difference between
getting everybody to like you and get everybody to perform
for you, and nearly to a man, with the exception
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about five guys, they've underperformed individually. And I wonder how
much of that reflects on Dan in your eyes.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
There was a moment Logan Gilbert through I want to
say it was game one of the Ray series. It
was that game Warner Game two.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Uh, that was game one, I believe.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
So the decision for Logan to talk him his way
into staying in the game, yes, and then giving the
double up Toronto, like that was a moment for Dan
of like, Okay, I'm gonna trust my guy here, like
our team's going through a tough stretch our opening day starter,
talk me and be leaving the game. All right, let's go,
and then grooves of fastball double off the wall. Okay,
intentional walk. Now let's bring in the lefty lefty to
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match him up. Oh okay, Now they pinch hit, bringing
a righty, Oh okay. Like this is Dan trying to
make the right decisions and the game is still telling
him or showing him, no, that wasn't good enough. You
just made like a good gut instinct decision to trust
your player, and then he gives it the double and
then you go for the matchup. Manager responds, and then
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first pitch of the batter gave spy or three run
home run puts the game out of reach. Like it
just feels like and if you saw Dan's face after
that in the dugout when the camera kept panting to him,
like the exact thoughts going through his mind is my
my assumption is what am I gonna do? Like what
I what am I supposed to do?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Like?
Speaker 3 (15:19):
If this is how the game is gonna treat me
and respond to me when I try to make a
good decision, then what's the point? Like it felt like
that helpless moment of like what am I? What can
I do better? What can I do differently? Because I
thought I just did that perfectly and the game still said,
here's a three run Homer, see you later. Like this
game is brutal, It's cruel in so many ways.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Let's talk about Randy or Rose Arena, because on one hand,
he is, without a doubt, our most deserving All Star
we only get one this year, apparently our most deserving
All Star. But on the other hand, we saw it
over the weekend, We've seen a numerous times Randy seems
to be on Randy's plan and doesn't quite understand it.
Feel like to me at times, what it's like to
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do what's best for the team. How do you wrestle
with Randy or Rose Arena? The player trying to relate
to him as how you'd like to have him as
a teammate.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
In my opinion, if Randy wasn't an All Star this
year and performing the way that he has so consistently
and ben the guy that you want to come up
in every spot, I think there'd be a lot different
opinions out there across the league and across Seattle of
Randy as a player. And I think you take the
good with the bad, just because his performance speaks for itself,
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and unfortunately, baseball is a performance forward league, and if
you perform well, then everything else kind of gets ignored.
I don't think Randy is a bad guy by any stretch.
I just think he's done this for a long time
at a high level and has had very very consistent
success and been an All Star multiple times and has
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really flourished and captured the heart of Mariner's fate. And
I understand why because when he pulls out there and
he plays with high energy, high intent, he he captures
your attention with everything he does. But I also know
it's hard to perform at that type of level on
one hundred and sixty two game basis. It takes a
lot out of you, and you know when you're playing outfield,
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you have a lot more ground to cover, so if
your energy and effort isn't really high, it can look
really poor, kind of like that fly ball. And obviously
he's still nursing like a hamstring, So like there's like
there's factors that go into it. He's going out there
willing to play for his team, posting for his team,
not at one hundred percent. So how much credit do
we give that verse? Hey, you should have made that
play Like it's such a push and pull, which is
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probably why there's not anyone in that clubhouse or organization
saying anything to him, because like, you want that bat
in the lineup. I don't want him to hurt that
hamstring again and not be able to hit because he
was hustling for a foul ball down the left field line.
But then also you see the ball dropping. The next
pitch is a home run. You're like, God should have
been caught, Like pick your poison there at this point, Chuck,
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which one do you really want?
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Yeah? I said this yesterday, and you can feel free
to agree or disagree. I guarantee you Randy rose Arena
was told with that hamstring, Hey, no crazy plays don't
dive in the walls, don't jump into stands like the foul.
If it's a foul ball, it's not as important as
your health. And I think Randy has a hard time
when his own personal filter of understanding I met you.
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In his head, he's like, that's a play that they
don't want me to go for because right and then,
but it looked to us like that was an easy
don't agree with that statement.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Really, I don't agree with that. I agree that he
was told to, like, please take care of yourself, like,
if it's a routine ground ball, we don't need to
see a hard ninety Like if it's a pop live,
do you feel like you're not gonna get to like,
I don't need you to reinjure it. So I guaranteed
there was that conversation that happened. But I don't think
in his head he's like, Oh, they don't want me
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to go for that ball. I'm just gonna dog it
over here, lod you Like, I don't. I don't think
that happens in the spot. My guess is he takes
his first couple of hard steps and his eyes, as
Reid told him, I'm probably not gonna get there, so
he dialed it back a little bit and then it
dropped where it did and looked like he had an
opportunity for it. Everyone there saying, why why wasn't that
ball caught?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Mm hmm. Well, you know what, we had a lot
of frustrating moments last season, and look how fun it
ended up being.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
So it's supposed to be frustrating. If it was fun
every day, then you wouldn't enjoy the highs.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Right right.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
It wouldn't be nice though, for all Mariner fans listening,
if they could once enjoy an easy ride to the end,
just once, just ten games up, throughout the entire second half,
feed up on the desk, and then we'll get serious
in the playoffs. That'd be nice. I'd like to see
that you're shaking.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
The kids are doing that, Dodgers, And that's that's.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
The list, Chuck, that's the list, all right, man, right
stuff has always really enjoyed it, and we will talk
to you again next week.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Can't wait, all right?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Ryan joining us right here, former Mariner. Currently on Mariner's TV.
At every Tuesday at nine o'clock, we chat with Ryan Healy.
Coming up next on the program, Anders Hurst is going
to join us. We'll preview today's World Cup match tomorrow's
as well while we have them. Sports Radio ninety three
point three kJ r F M. All right, it's Chuck
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a Buck in the mornings, Chuck Powell, Ashley Ryan with
you joining us now as we get you ready for
another World Cup match. Only three remaining, well, actually four
because they do try to make a big deal out
of that third place match.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Yeah, no one gets their rip.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Yeah I don't. Maybe Anders does, But then again, Anders
sees the world differently than you and I. Sometimes joining
us now is our own Anders Hurst in anticipation of
today's Spain France slug match. How are you, sir?
Speaker 4 (21:03):
I'm doing well. I hate the third place match, so
I'm all with you guys.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Yay, out of way. Andrews, what about this one? I
did this earlier in the show too, Like, I've really
watched and enjoyed more soccer in the last month than
I ever had in my entire life combined, and yet
I still have the flopping, unnecessary writhing on the field
issues with the sport. But almost everybody that I'm talking
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with that are soccer fans, including Stretch and a couple
of others. They've all said I don't like that either.
As soccer fans, I don't like that. Do you think
with video review and some of the things that we've
watched happened in this tournament that maybe that part of soccer,
which is absorbed into the culture will start to get
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faded out of the sport.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
It would be very difficult, to be completely honest, because
I think it's just it has been going on for
such a long time. It's like you said, it's just
part of the culture. It's really really hard to kind
of etch something out just like that. And with every
var change that they make, there's up in arms people
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pissed off about how it's used. They want to go
back to the old days when they weren't using var.
Soccer more than any other sport, is very reluctant to change. However,
they've done it more recently to just try and you know,
fix parts of the game that are pretty obvious that
needs fixing, like what you mentioned. I'm with you. I
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just don't know if it's important enough to the normal
soccer fans to get that out of the game. It
is important for Americans, and I completely understand that and
I talked about this with Hugh and Dick on the
on Friday. I just don't know if physical toughness, which
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is the thing that kind of gets undermined when you're
doing that, is that important to at least the appearance
of it to fans, to players and stuff like that.
So to me, I don't know if it ever will
get and you know, etched out of the game, but
maybe at least it will be diminished to a point
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where it's a little bit more acceptable.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Interesting answer, interesting answer. All right, what about this part
of the tournament? There there seem to be a lot
of drama. It seemed to be like upsets and near upsets,
I mean enormous near upsets throughout the entire tournament, and
yet here we are with the four teams that we're
expected to get to the final four. Do you like
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that about it? Do you like that it ended up
in chalk or do you wish we would have had
a little more of a bumpy road to get to
the final final four teams?
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Yeah? I like it. I think it's a very NCAA
tournament esque where you do get some upsets and you
do get some magical runs, but at the end of
the day, it's usually the final four teams. Maybe there's
one every couple of years. That's that's a huge surprise
of George Mason sort of situation. But I mean this
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is what we wanted, right, We want the four best teams,
all with the chance in my opinion, to win. Like
compared to twenty twenty two, when Morocco and Croatia were
two of the four semi finalists, you could kind of
almost unfortunately count them out for a chance to win
the World Cup. I don't think you can say that
for any team that's playing this in the semifinals. So,
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and I think the two matchups are about as perfectly
set up as possible. You got the tactical, just all
out offense versus I'm gonna keep the ball away from
you the entire time, which is France versus Spain, and
then the politically charged history of England versus Argentina tomorrow.
So I think the two matchups are just perfect to
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kind of set up what should be an amazing final
as well.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
All Right, So France has seemed like they've had the
least amount of trouble from match to match. They just
feel like they've been in control of every match they play.
Why is it going to be different today?
Speaker 4 (25:16):
I think because Spain, if any team in this tournament
is going to beat France. I do believe France is
the favorite. I think they're playing the best soccer and
they have the best team, which are two different things.
They're one kind of vulnerability is in midfield and stain.
The way they play, they will keep the ball away
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from France for long stretches of the game. France rely
on like a high volume attack. So for anyone who's
hockey fans, I compare this matchup to a Colorado Avalanche
versus the Carolina Hurricanes, right, just a suffocating possession style
of Spain versus the high octane I have superstars, go Lore,
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I'm gonna just high volume attack of France, And honestly,
I could see it going either way. Spain has actually
beaten France the last three times they've played, so they
do know how to win these types of games. So
even though France has really looked better throughout the course
of the entire tournament, I think Spain knows how to
kind of win these types of games, and it should
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be a really really fun matchup today.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
All Right, apply that same analysis to Argentina versus England.
Give us the way that one's going to go down tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
I honestly I could see it going either way. The
one thing I can say is I think we're going
to get some goals. I really do. Argentina, believe it
or not, actually been the highest scoring team in the tournament,
even though we think of France as this the best
offense or whatever in Argentina and that scores the most goals.
It's just they've done it in a little bit different
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way this year. And I'm as concerned as any neutral
out there for their chances because they haven't really dominated
any game. They've just been kind of surviving in advancing.
But England you could say the same thing about them
as well. The one thing that I will say is
I do think Argentina has the slight advantage offensively. They
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just have a little bit more in the magic category
with with Messi, and they're finally starting to get some
involvements other than him, if they can. If they get more,
you know, just chances created and goals scoring and assists
from people other than Lionel Messi, that's what makes them
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really really good, and they finally did that in their
quarterfinal game versus Switzerland. So and England's kind of the opposite.
The more the tournament goes on, the more they're reliant
on Jude Bellingham. So if that continues, you can it's
a great person to rely on. But I think tactically
this one is about as close as it gets. Again,
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and I just add in the history of nineteen eighty six,
the quarterfinal in England faced Argentina right after the Falklands
War and Diego Maradonna had the goal of the century
and then scored with his hand as well. So there's
a lot of controversy surrounding these two teams and I
just can't wait for that matchup just for the historical factor.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
I know who you're rooting for in the Hurst household,
but Ashley and I want to hear the Hey Jude
song again. We want to see Bellingham because that was
pretty That was a pretty cool moment when all of
England was singing Hey Jude to Bellingham the other day.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
Yeah, they were singing Wonderwall actually that's the song that.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
Now, then they Jude to him.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
Oh okay, all right, I must have missed that part.
Because each team has a Each team has a song
that they sing right after they win, so I guess
they added that on just to add some extra, you know,
merriment to a victory.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Every good english person knows the words to Hay Jude.
It just works. It just works.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
Yeah, and wonder while the team sings with the fans,
they all sing it together. Hey ju, he just stood
there while they all sang it at him, and then
he fist pumps.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
And he just soaked it all in.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
I will say, I will say, if England does win
that game, I will root for them against either of
the other two teams. So whoever wins that matchup is
who I will be going for in the final.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Okay, all right, thank you sir, We appreciate it. What
kind of work you gotta do today?
Speaker 4 (29:32):
I am doing the the pre match show for Spain
versus France with Danny Jackson, and then you know, obviously
halftime postgame as well. Hopefully we get a nice fun
am I rooting for extra time? Maybe we'll see what
ends up happening. But I'm as intrigued with these two
matchups as I have been for honestly, anything that I've
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ever watched in the world. Cup, so I can't wait
to get down to it, and you can hear us
at eleven thirty am pregame on ninety three point three KJR.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
All right, have fun, Thank you, and another great job
by andrews Hurst joining us right here on the radio
program again eleven thirty pre game twelve o'clock start. You
can hear it right here on your World Cup headquarters
here in town. Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ
R FM. I'm rooting for England. Yeah, Yeah, I'm rooting
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for England the whole way. Let's go. They've won me
over too, by the way, Yeah, because I kind of
when the tournament started, I'm like, man, why are you
guys making so many excuses? You're starting with excuses before
every match, But I don't know, I'm kind of caught
up with their whole history, their whole story. Bellingham's turned
out to be my favorite prayer to watch in this
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entire tournament. So yeah, I'm I'm rooting for England.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
Welcome to the team, Welcome to the team.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Yeah, I'm gonna have some tea today. Yeah, and crumpets
all right, close out next with one last thing. Sports
Radio ninety three point three KJRFM, our final segment of
today's radio show here on Chuck a Buck in the Morning.
(31:17):
So we always close things out with one last thing,
and so let's get it started. Actually, what do you got?
Speaker 5 (31:23):
Well, I have to say something that I did not find.
I didn't think I would be as stressed out by,
but boy, it really took up a lot of my.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Stress energy.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
Was Select tryouts, So we were at a select team
pongers at a select team last year that we were
not thrilled with.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
And didn't want to go back to.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Okay, And the one thing.
Speaker 5 (31:45):
I realized was select is you really want to find
a place you want to stay. So they don't have
to do this every year, because then you just find
yourself constantly checking your email to see if if your
kid has.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Gotten an offer to play at the place she wants
to play.
Speaker 5 (31:58):
And I didn't realize how much it was stressing out
until she got her offer from Northwest show and I
got emotional, and Palmer got emotional, and she was so
excited that she got the offer.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
She basically started sobbing. She then made me cry, of course,
and it was so cute.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
And she and so then her hitting coach asked, so
do you want to do you want to play?
Speaker 4 (32:24):
There?
Speaker 5 (32:24):
She goes, between tears, rubbing her eyes, yes, just nodding
her head. It was the cutest thing ever. And now
I sleep a lot better. Oh good, Yeah, which is weird.
I was like, oh, is that why I was so
stressed out? But something that I'm like, it doesn't It's
not me.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
I don't have to go play for this team.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
But you know, as a family, when you're select on
a select team, your whole family's invested in it. You
spend a lot of time with these people. So I
think we found a good one now, and I'm excited
about it.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Yeah, well, good, very good.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (32:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
I don't know what it's like in the big city. Yeah.
I grew up in a small town where everybody made
the team and you barely had it enough to fill
out a roster.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
And so Dad would go and there were two teams
in town, and then he would go into the municipal hall, yeah,
which was about the size of this studio. And then
I'd sit in the car with mom, and about an
hour later he'd come out grumbling about three or four
of the kids he got stuck.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
With Yep, that's how they do Little League.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
And one or two he was excited about.
Speaker 5 (33:28):
Yeah, so yeah, yeah, that's how they do Little League.
They do a draft in they but this is I
mean this. They don't have to take every not everybody
who has a spot, so you could be left out
in the cold.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. We didn't. We didn't have
select until we got the Legion Bowl. So in a
little town, that's all you had.
Speaker 5 (33:44):
Yeah, Which I love that because it I mean that
everybody gets the opportunity to play. Even if your dad
is stuck with Claire's he's not thrilled by yeah. Oh well,
oh well, anyway, she's going everybody, we're at it.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
She's going to the show. That's great. I want to
talk with my one last thing about Randy a Rose Arena.
We a great conversation today with Ryan Healy. Really like
how kind of honest and candid he is, and yet
he still tries to keep me on the in the
rails within the rails on some things. So I really
like having baseball chats with him every Tuesday at nine o'clock.
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But he pushed back a little bit on me on
one thing, and I don't mean to be sensitive about it,
but I do kind of think maybe he's miss he's
missing the boat a little bit. And that's just this.
You can't apply normal baseball rules and philosophy to Randy
a Rose arena. That is the point. He is an enigma.
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And I believe that in Tampa and in Saint Louis,
where he rubbed people the wrong way, it was because
they expected him to start acting normally. And I don't
know if it's entirely within him. I don't think Randy
wants to let down his teammates. I don't think Randy
wants to I think some things that Randy does, Randy
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doesn't realize Randy shouldn't do those right. And then when
it is explained to Randy why you shouldn't do that,
he has a really hard time understanding what you mean.
Like there have been a lot of him. I mentioned
this earlier in the week. Hey, he was told, Hey,
cal Rawley's on a roll. We can't be getting thrown
out at second with Cal Raleigh at the plate in
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situations where we could use it to run Homer. I'm
not saying you never run when Col's at the plate,
but you need to know where the line is when
you shouldn't run. You need to understand that. Randy doesn't
understand that, right. Randy's like, this is an invisible line.
This isn't a rule. You want me to know when
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to run and when not to run while cow's at
the plate and baseball people are like, yeah, it's very
obvious and very easy to follow, and he's like, no,
that's not easy to follow at all. It's okay to
run sometimes when cows a the plake, but other times
I shouldn't. Randy has a hard time with it, So
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I really do think that a conversation with him about hey,
don't go running into walls. We had a hamstring. You're
too valuable to us. You're the only guy hitting consistently.
We don't want you jumping into the stands. We don't
want you to risk yourself for in a dangerous area
for a ball, even if it's in play. Yeah, and
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Randy was fun going after a fly ball. There was
some traffic over there because it's a stupid ballpark, and
Randy pulled up like, this is one of those plays
they don't want me to get. I really think he
thought that.
Speaker 5 (36:43):
No, and we talked about that, Yesterdy, because I have
the same thing, the same thoughts as Ryan.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
Like I don't understand. I feel like he should know this.
Speaker 5 (36:50):
He should have known that that ball was catchable and
he wasn't going to hurt himself getting it.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
But that's Randy brain, that's Randy filter. I don't think
that he was going after that ball and said I
don't care if I catch that. I think Randy went
through Randy's filter and said this. I think this is
one of those balls they don't want me to go
all out on. So and it's foul led drum.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
Meanwhile, we're watching at home, like, you should have caught that.
Not only could you have caught that, you should have
caught that, should have had it easily. What is wrong
with you? Why are you so? Why did you do that?
And Randy didn't get suspended the next day, he didn't
get benched the next day, he was right back in
the lineup, yep. And I'm betting it's because Randy got
in the dug guy and said, I thought that was
one of the ones you didn't want me to go after.
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Randy's got a different filter than just about anybody else
on any roster in Major League Baseball. And that's that's
just two examples. I could give you twelve. He didn't
think it was showing up a pitcher when he wasn't
turning around on fly balls out of the ballpark. Therein
crossed his mind. He had to be told, no, you
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can't do that. Yeah, pitchers are getting piss Why understand,
why are they getting pissed. I didn't give up a
home run they did, Like, that's how Randy's brain works.
So I don't know. I don't know. You take the
good one and you take the bad with the guy
if you want him on your roster. I get how
frustrating he is. He's been more frustrating for me than
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a lot of you out there. I've been complaining about
him since he arrived. But I think he's just different.
And I don't think he does anything maliciously or with
the intent to show up his teammates or to cause
any mighty any problems. But Randy's on Randy's plan. And
there's a reason in Tampa they called it Randy Land
because it was a population of one going one like him.
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It's going one like him, and he's our guy, and
he's gonna be playing tonight, so I hope he hits
two home runs and wins the MVP. Yeah, let's do
it all right, well, Doctor Tomorrow at six am, Greg
is next Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
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