July 16, 2026 • 37 mins
The Open Championship is underway at Royal Birkdale. How important is legacy and should more consideration be given to what superstar athletes leave behind when they’re done with their respective sport? :30- ABC’s of the Mariners - K is for Killer: it would feel like a killer if the Mariners can’t come out of the All-Star break and win these first two series with the way the schedule has lined up. - L is for Laz Montes: No one is jumping to get the trades going and this will give J & J some time to evaluate Montes in Tacoma and how could he affect trade deadline decisions? - M is for Michael: Michael Arroyo got called up to Tacoma with Montes and he isn’t struggling with the transition at all. :45- More lists are out, including a ranking of the NFL’s top wide receivers- did they get it right?
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It is chucking back in the morning Sports Radio ninety
three point three KJR FM. Here we are on this
lovely Thursday. May even get a few thunderstorms out there. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful,
nothing to complain about on this And as Chuck Powell
and Ashley Ryan get you started here on this Thursday morning,
(01:31):
I will say this though, you know I always make
an observation.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
It seems on the drive in.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Do you ever have that person at your office place
that is wearing way too much of the cologne or
the perfume.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Yeah, you know that person.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I know that person.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I always think of this very nice person I used
to work with in Phoenix, Nina, And for some reason,
she always wore this like all purple sweatsuit like once
a week, okay, and very nice person, very very and
yet she you could smell her coming. Oh, and it
was just a lot, a lot of perfume.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
We used to work with someone in our old building
that you wore a lot of perfume. But it was
because she smoked and didn't want people to know she smoked.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
I think that was maybe part of this too, was
like I'll cover it up with perfume, no one will know.
And it's like, actually I can smell that you smoke
through the curtains of your perfume. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
And then she would come up and then she would
like deliver.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
She was like the traffic person, so she'd deliver some
stuff almost every day, and then it would just stain
the air.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
And it wasn't a bad smell, it was just too much.
Yeah you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Uh, Well, I think I've got somebody that topped her
this morning, because you know, you drive down the road,
and you can, like really, you can smell marijuana that clearly,
and then you can smell it for like the next hour,
like not hour and a half, but mile and a half.
I don't know what it is about somebody that's smoking
marijuana in their car, but if there's smoke gets into
(03:02):
your car, oh.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Yeah, it permeates, yeah, and it just stays with you.
I had somebody's cologne do that today? Who So somebody
from their vehicle had so much cologne on that it
acted like marijuana and it wafted into my car. And
then I took that cologne smell all the way down
(03:23):
Mercer to work.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
What.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Now, that's a lot of cologne.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
That that poor person, that man must have first good.
Probably it's fried nostrils, though, because if you're putting that
much on, you have no idea killed your nose.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yeah, you had no idea. Yeah, how powerful it really is.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
But you'd think, though, you still know how much you
should put on. Uh huh, you still know the squirts.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
You should know the squirt level. Yeah, you should know.
Everybody should know their squirt level. I would think, but
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Maybe it's just like I don't know anything else in life, Like,
if you've built yourself up to be in a four
donut person, it probably did start at one, and then
you went one and a half, Yeah, and then you
went to you know, whatever the case might be, and
the next thing you know, you're a four donut person.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
And probably if you wear if you've worn the same
Colonne all your whole life with your four donuts, I think, well,
I don't smell it anymore, right.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Yeah, so I'm sure that's what happened.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
It's yeah, he's been wearing that colone since nineteen twenty three.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Apparently it's sympathy that I have for I don't know
what his name is, let's call him Clifford. Clifford, I
have sympathy for you. But yeah, somebody needs to let
Clifford know.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
It's way too much.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
If your cologne can go into another person's car, yeah,
on the road and then staying the other person. And
it actually was a good smell, smelled really good. So
you've chosen a good one, Clifford. Uh, it's just you
are way over your squirt level.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Yeah, you're oversquirted. Got to dial it back.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
As a little That's pretty much it.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
You could even puff and walk through. If you want,
you can do.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
A puff and a walk through. Yeah, I think probably.
I mean I did the but you know, those things
are pretty powerful. You can probably get away.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
With just yeah, you can, although I will agree like
you need it, like evenly dispersed.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
There's nothing you don't want, like right there, just on
the call, the only place you can smell it.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Well, yeah, I think I don't think men do the
puff and walk through, But then again probably that. I
have not been around a lot of men getting ready
to go out o that wear their cologne.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
So you're missing out?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Am I missing out? Is that something to miss out?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Okay, find out from Clifford.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
I would imagine they're a lot more on time. That's
I'll tell you that much. I will tell you that much.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
All right, Well, Clifford, be careful out there and don't
cause any accidents with your oversquirting.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Good morning. We are ready to go here on this Thursday.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
We're gonna take you till ten o'clock here today and
then hand things over to Greg Bell. All sorts of
fun topics to discuss. We're all over the sports world,
and last night there was no sporting event.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
I don't remember the.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Last time I didn't have a sporting event to watch,
and it is great.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
I mean, I love sports.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I mean I wouldn't be doing this, and considering how
much of it I watch, I don't really get sick
of it.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Yeah, it is surprising, actually, yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I mean there are times in the football season where
you get to Monday night and like, I just watched
a Friday night Big Ten game all day Saturday, all
day Sunday. And I don't typically do that, by the way,
I do take a break at some point during the weekend,
even football season, but there are some weekends where it's
(06:46):
like I can't miss that game, right, and that's stacked
on that game, right, and then I gotta watch the
Husky game. And so the next thing you know, you
have watched a triple header, and then you watch a
triple header on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
And seriously, Monday, I gotta watch more football? Does happen?
Speaker 2 (07:01):
But considering how much I watch, you know, I mean
it's sort of like Clifford and his cologne, like I'm
watching too much, but I don't even realize it because
of how much I watched.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
Yeah, like, if it wasn't it's only when it's not
there that all of a sudden you realize, wait a minute,
how much was I watching?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Yeah? Yeah, exactly. I mean the doctor always says, I,
you watched too much. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
They always ask you how much? How many sporting events
are you watching each week? And I always lie, I'm
always like one to two a night.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Why do we do that? Why can't we just be honest?
Because they judge with our doctor, they.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Judge how many sporting events we watch?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Were always judging us.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
But so, yeah, it was nice. It was nice. I
didn't have to worry about it.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Went and had a dinner outdoors, you know, had a
just a couple of glasses of wine, nice meal, sat
outside sunset, so you got the It was a warm
until the sunset.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Yeah, once the clouds came in, that got a little chile.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Oh really Yeah. I wish I would have been out
for that woods. Yeah, but so it was nice. It
was nice not to have it.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
But of course there was a sporting convent that happened
last night. The Open Championship got started at what ten thirty.
Brady Cannon, who we have on before every major, he
did text me and wanted to know where his pajamas were,
so I'd need to make that a tradition.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Really need to remind me and I'll try. Yea, yeah exactly,
and we'll see if we can get to that.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
But yes, it's underway the Open Championship in Southport, England
at Royal Birkdale. Alex Smally is leading with one hole
to go in his first day at five under, but
some pretty solid scores so far. Of course, isn't playing
too difficult. It feels like I didn't watch a lot
(08:49):
of it, to be frank, but then again, it did
start at ten thirty last night.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Start at ten thirty? Right?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Oh no, how many Mariner games I'd be sticking around
for if they all started at ten thirty.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Well, it depends on how they're playing.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
That's true, Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
I was like, well, if they're playing a lot of
the ones I've seen, definitely wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
We're gonna have updates for you live from Royal Birkdale
twenty after and we'll start them right away today.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
We'll get to one at six twenty here this morning.
Scotty Scheffler is at three under.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
At this point I thought Rory was going to win
this tournament to kind of close out what has been
a really eventful year for him. But I'm not even
seeing him anywhere near.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
The I don't know if he's off yet.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Oh he hasn't even teed off yet.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Yeah, there's still a lot of the seeing if he
has or hasn't. I don't see his name there either,
so oh yeah, there he is. He off at seven
fifty retire. Yeah he's done. Yeah, he said I can't
with this.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
All right, So he hasn't. So he hasn't even teed
off yet. So there are a lot of guys let
yet to hit the course.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
At Royal Birkdale. But Scotty Scheffler is at three under.
And I brought this up briefly at the end of
the show. Yes, and I'm not sure Ashley was agreeing
with me on it. But this is not really criticism.
I'm not really criticizing either.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Of these elite golfers McElroy or Scottie Scheffler. But there
was a piece of audio that made its way around
about they were asked about how do you think you're
gonna feel one hundred years from now about your legacy?
And they both looked at each other and they were like,
we're gonna be dead. Who cares, yeah, and that was
sort of their reaction to it. And you know, honestly,
(10:31):
that is the truth.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
But it really is.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
And this isn't anything that I am internalizing. This is
me being in sports talk radio since I was nineteen
years old, and so I've watched a few careers in
my life unfold, and to me, it is and Ror
is not exactly a young athlete anymore, but considering the
sport of golf.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
He still has.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
I mean, you could argue he's still in his prime
and he's got a lot of golf left left in
his career. But it's the kind of comment that somebody
that is on the top of their game, that has
made a mountain of money, that you know, all the
girls still you know, are interested in, and the type
(11:18):
of guy that you know still has his young kids
that run toward him after every tournament. Like things are
really good for Scottie Scheffler and Rory McElroy to the
point now that they can they don't have to really
worry about some reporters feelings and they can pretty much
(11:40):
say on the podium that's a stupid question or that's ridiculous,
and I don't care, and they can be dismissive.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
That's the stage they're in.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
And I've watched plenty of athletes in their prime sit
there when they're on top of their game, they're on top.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Of their financial moneymaking ability, they have accomplished a lot already.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
They still have a lot to go if they want to.
But a lot of them act like legacy, I don't
care about legacy.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I don't care. I don't care about.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Legacy, And they give that attitude like I could walk
away from this game right now and then all of
a sudden, and I don't care who it is.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
With the exception of like Robert Smith and Barry Sanders
and Patrick Willis and a few guys that shocked the
world by stepping away from the game when they had
a lot left in the tank. Those are guys, those
are that's a different breed. But the Barry Bonds of
Barry Bonds.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
At twenty eight was saying I don't need this game
anymore at twenty eight. Then we had to kick him
out of the league at forty three because he wouldn't
go away. I mean, all this scandal and all of
this controversy, and he had to be told go away
before he went away, not publicly but privately. But it
happens to so many of them that when they're in
(13:00):
their prime, they're very dismissive about things like legacy. And
then all of a sudden, the sports world not as
many people are attending their press conferences, and they're not
at the top of the leader board much anymore, and
they're not winning every tournament or they're not a factor
on Sundays as much anymore. And now all of a sudden,
(13:21):
their wife doesn't think it's as cool a thing to
be married to Rory McElroy now that he's not as
not as in demand as he once was. And his
kids are now sixteen and seventeen, and they've got green hair,
and they're angry that you weren't around for my youth
because you were out playing golf all the time. I mean,
this is what happens. And then the next thing, you know,
(13:43):
you know what happens.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Then they start putting everything in perspective, and now they
start missing that prime and now they're.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Like out to prove I still can do this, I'm
still the best. And now they do start thinking about legacy.
And then the next thing, you know, they can't let
it let go. Then they can't walk away from the game.
It's happened. Wait, and I'm not saying that's gonna happen
to Rory McElroy. I'm not saying that's gonna happen to
Scotti Scheffler. Maybe they are two that have everything in
perfect perspective. I'm just saying, be careful being snied about
(14:17):
that and being dismissive about that, because most athletes do
reach a point where you are at the end of it,
and then you do think about legacy, and then all
of a sudden, that's all you're about. I mean, Tiger
Woods keeps trying to come back from thirty different injuries
(14:38):
because he wants that one last glorious moment. Michael Jordan
came back and played for the Wizards. I mean he
walked away from the game at age twenty eight to
go play baseball.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
For goodness sake. Every single boxer retires at twenty five
years old, and they think that they don't need to
do it anymore, and yet Floyd Mayweather is still fighting
on occasion.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
So it is something this sports world like when you
are at the top of it. It is a drug.
It is something that a lot of us can't relate to.
And then when that drug starts being taken away from you,
you start having withdrawal and the next thing you know,
you do. It does hit you hard when you're forty
(15:22):
five years old, fifty two years old, maybe as a
golfer and you're struggling to make the cut at the
latest major routinely, and all of a sudden, you're like,
legacy is all that I need, That's all I'm about
right now. So I hope that they're the exception, but
typically the rule is that it will catch up to
(15:44):
them and those questions about legacy will become very important
to them. Not to mention not worthy of being just
outwardly dismissed or your eyes roll or you tell a
reporter that's a dumb question, because it will matter to
them at some point down the line, and if not,
they're one of the exceptions.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
I think part of it was the brandness and the
timing of the question. You know, you're getting ready. It's
the day before the Open Championship, and to have that
question was probably through them for a loop. And then
in Rory's case, I think specifically he doesn't want to
think about the mark he has to leave on the
game because of what the PGA Tour, the positions the
(16:24):
PGA Tour has put him in. I think if you
would have asked him that question two years ago, three
years ago, when he when they kind of pushed him
to be the face of the PGA Tour, when Live
Golf came in and Rory had to be the one
speaking and trying to stand up for PGA Golf, I
think he would have thought, Yeah, I want this to
be my legacy that I helped secure PGA, you know,
(16:46):
the PGA Tour and make sure that we had this
continuing and that it didn't leave because some other group
with boatloads of money came in and tried to ruin everything.
And if I helped save that or I help keep
the PGA Tour with the PGA is supposed to be,
then that's great. But then he kind of got screwed
over in that moment, and so I think at this
point he's like, I'm just worried about me and my golf,
(17:09):
and that's it because I've already been put in these
positions where I was having to be something more.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Yeah, that's fair, and I'm not being critical of Yeah,
I'm not. I think every prominent athlete that's had as
much success as they are, they have the same notion.
I'm just saying more likely than not. Before it's all sedient,
before you're done playing, Yeah, legacy and what you left
behind will become more important than anything. It will become
(17:37):
more important than the next buck you make. It'll become
more important than the next cute girl that bats her
eyes at you. It'll become more important than just about
anything that you accomplished as a professional athlete will be
your legacy.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
And I've seen plenty.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Of guys in their prime making boatloads of money that
thought it didn't matter and were dismiss about it.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
And those are the ones that you can't get out
of their sport.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
It's like, go away, You've already you've accomplished everything you
can accomplish, and yet they're holding on for the last
strands of legacy and to prove one more time.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
I'm a vest.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
Yeah, I'm a mist And luckily for golf, they can
go to the senior Tour so they don't have to
leave right away. But I hear what you're saying, and
I wonder if that a lot of that just has
to do with age, and when you're young, you just
don't think, like I worry about what I'm leaving behind.
And then as you get older and you start it
starts to hit you. You're like, gosh, yeah, thousand.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
They both know they've accomplished a lot. I got a
lot of money.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I'm still either at or near the top of my game,
and I got a lot of great golf left. Yeah,
it's when it starts to slip away from You're like, oh, wow,
I didn't know that that last major.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
I didn't know that major I won seven years ago
was going to be my last one.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
That then it starts to kind of soak in on you.
So I just say, I've heard this before. I've heard
it before, Scotty, I've heard it before, Rory. Maybe you'll
be there are there are outliers.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
There are guys that have stepped away at the exact
right time, and like the most important things in life
are my family and my wife and my you know,
and and my mental well being and my health.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Those are the There are guys that do that, but more,
but there have been a lot more that eventually do
sort of worry about their legacy before they can step away.
All right, let's find out what is on tap for
the rest of the show Today.
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World Cup Argentina two to one winners, so over England.
We'll talk to Brad Evans today at seven o five.
Spain Argentina will be the matchup for the World Cup
Sunday at noon. We'll be spending a lot of time
on that today. Sounders are actually back in action today.
That's right, they play tonight at seven thirty. They resume
(20:13):
their season against the Portland Timbers right here, and we
can start calling it loomin Field again. Cracking schedule release
for the upcoming year today at ten right here at
Sports Radio ninety three point three KHRFM. We'll celebrate that
with Brandon Montour today at nine point thirty. Lebron watch.
I have predicted he'll make the announcement today, even though
(20:34):
not reading anywhere where they feel like we're seconds away
from this occurring, But yes we are. I think we
might find out where Lebron is going to play his
basketball to close out his NBA career today, If so,
will pass it along. We're nine days from training camp
for the Seahawks. Husky's One series continues today with Christian
Cable at nine o'clock.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
We'll talk about the defensive backs.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
And the Mariners will resume the second half of their
season tomorrow at seven o'clock at home against the lowly
San Francisco Giants. As a matter of fact, we'll have
the ABC's of the MS coming up next. Plenty of
Mariner baseball conversation today, but right now, let's get an
update from Royal Birkdale.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Connected the board this morning. Yours was on.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
The pot was all down, but your mic was on,
so I turned it off, thinking you accidentally hit it.
But I'll just be the one that turns it on
enough for you, So you just give me this.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Oh, so you can turn it on.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
I think somebody crushed my button into the console. So
I don't know if Dick Than got really angry with
you last night or not. Yeah, but yeah, it's like
crushed into the console.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Okay, well I will turn it on and off for you.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
So yeah, that might be what we have to do.
I should still probably have to have it on from
in here.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
I don't know, but yeah, that's all to the engineers.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
That's what we're having an issue with this morning. Not
a big issue. We're good, We're good to go.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
And it is time for the ABC's of the MS. Yes,
so we allow the alphabet to be a guide to
a daily Mariner's segment.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
We never know where it's going to take us. And
we left off yesterday at the letter k K is
for killer. And I do hesitate with this because my
natural urge is to say, you know, what would be
a killer is if the Mariners get off to a
slow start in the second half. But I always have
(22:25):
to keep in the back of my mind, I've done
this before this season like five times, and I have
done this in the past every season, like five times.
And you're sure that there's this crux, this moment in
the season where all right, now's the time where you
got to seize this opportunity and.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
If you don't, you're screwed.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
And the Mariners almost and I will say almost always
prove us wrong because obviously we haven't made the playoffs.
Every single year, but we here recently, but they have
contended every single year here for the last five six seasons,
and so they have these moments in the year where
(23:11):
you're just sure, like this is where you've got to
take hold of this season.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
All Right, you've farted around for nearly one hundred games,
but here we are. You've had this big giant break
here at the All Star break.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Only Randy didn't have a full week off to get
ready for the second half of the season. And you've
got the San Francisco Giants, who couldn't have had a
more nightmarish season this year. And you've got the Cincinnati
Reds who've been fading fast, and you've got them at
home for the next six days before you go to
Texas and show the Texas Rangers who the team to
(23:49):
beat is in the American League West. You'll have a
four game series in Texas. So these next six games
feel important. Probably won't be, but they do feel. It
feels like you can't fumble these. It feels like you
at least got to go four and two. But obviously
baseball math works differently than any other math, and so yeah,
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I'm sure they could go one in five. Oh I
know they can't one in five and then rally from it,
but it does feel it makes sense. You know, it's
logical that they could really benefit from a good start
to the second half, and it will feel like a
killer if they don't seize this opportunity to get off
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to a great start in the second half when the
schedule aligns for them so favorably.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
Yeah, especially as you said coming out of the All
Star break, you just lost five of your last six before.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
You went into the break, but you ended on a win.
So take that for whatever.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
It's worth and turn it into something to come out
of this break, because at this point, honestly, you have
no excuses for playing the way you've been playing. Step
it up, put your big boy pants on.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Speaking of a big boy pants, Robbie Ray is going
to be pitching against the pants.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Tight pants.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Yeah, everybody's in a tight pants. That's the song. We
got to play that.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
I don't think he's pitching until Sunday, so we might
have to jump ahead of that.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
We might have to.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Yeah, Robbie Ray, he'll probably get traded at the deadline.
L is for laz As in laz Montes. This is
This is gonna be an interesting storyline to follow between
now and the trading deadline. Obviously, no one's in a
rush to hit the trading deadline to get active in
the trading deadline. We are at July sixteenth, the deadline's
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August third this year, so you got a good three
weeks remaining here before you know, it's crunch time, right,
and so nobody's racing to it. And partly because the
market's not set. We've only got seven sellers on the
entire market in all of Major League Baseball, which is outlandish,
and it has everything to do with how down a
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first half the American League had, so nearly everybody in
the American League is still alive. The Tigers in the
Red Sox couldn't have been worse for most of the
first half of the season, but because nobody ran away
and hit from them, the Tigers in the Red Sox
started playing better going into the All Star break, and
lo and behold, they find themselves back in the race.
So the trade market is not set, and so this
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is going to give Jerry and Justin some time to
evaluate a guy like Las Montes. And I do remind
everyone what Justin told me in spring training. We joked
around about Las Montes hitting forty home runs this year,
and it was mostly a joke, not that he wasn't
capable of it. And Justin Hollander told us, I can
promise you if Las Montes hits forty home runs this year,
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some of.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Those will be in a Mariner uniform. That's what he
told us.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Well, Las Montes is at twenty six home runs this year,
twenty five in Arkansas and now one in Tacoma. He
is not hitting all that well in Tacoma. He's three
for twenty seven at Tacoma, so it's hitting one of
it and he only has that one home run. So
obviously the veteran pitchers, those four A veteran pitchers with
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all their junk, have been a little different of a
challenge for Las Montes. He hasn't exactly hit the ground
running at Triple A. But if he does make an impact, man,
what is that going to do to Jerry and Justin's
plans for the trade deadline, Because all of a sudden
you're gonna be running out of roster spots. You got
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Brendan Donovan hopefully getting activated soon. If Montes ends up
being a piece. Now you get you've already got too
many left handed hitters. So then then what happens because
somebody's got to go in that process. I mean, we
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already have a numbers crunch, like West and Wilson's going
to be let go before tomorrow, Julio will be activated.
But you also have Rob Reschneider and that mystery, Yeah,
how injured was he?
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Really?
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Is he ever going to be back on the roster?
Do you want him back on the roster? But you
start introducing a Donovan and Montes back into this situation
when you've already called up the Colt Emerson and all
of a sudden, that roster that you had envisioned to
have for the second half of the season. There's a
numbers crunch here, and then on top of it, you're
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thinking about adding a piece at the trading deadline that's
going to cost somebody else their jobs. So it's gonna
be interesting to see Las Montes will dictate whether or not.
I mean, he can force the issue. You've got to
put me in the lineup. There's no way the way
I'm hitting home runs that you can keep me out
of the major league lineup. And yet his struggles at
Tacoma by the time, but they've got until August third
(28:48):
right to figure out whether or not Las Montes should
be a part of this barring injury, because my guess
is if he's not showing that, they'll go get that piece,
and we all want them to get that piece, and
that makes the roster structure even more difficult to fit
another prospect into.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
Yeah, I mean it is interesting to see that he
struggled a bit into coma. It makes me realize, oh,
he is a bit human. But I don't think the
struggles are going to last long, that's for sure. I
think he'll figure it out pretty quickly.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
It's a different it's a different league. I mean it
is the Casey Lawrence. Think of Casey Lawrence. I mean,
that's just a veteran pitcher who knows how to pitch.
He's going to find out your weakness, he's going to
exploit it.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
At double A. He's facing every he's facing.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
One hundred miles per hour, ninety eight miles per hour
on a lot of pitchers, so the stuff he can handle.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
It is the mind game of facing a veteran. Then
that's why they wanted him to get some time into
coma and he's struggling with it. Yeah, those veterans are
have figured out some holes.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
And are exploiting them. When you get to the majors,
now you've got elite talent with that mindset, and so
that's why you can have a prospect that dominated in the
miners then comes up to the major leagues and goes
one for thirty eight. Right, that's why that happens. So
it's good that he's in Tacoma, but he certainly is
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struggling right now, and the veterans are having a field
day with him. Finally, and just quickly, m is for Michael,
because Michael Arroyo got called up at the exact same time. Now,
Montes is the one that we keep talking about. But
Michael Arroyo has an eleven hundred plus ops in his
thirty two at bats at Triple A, so he hasn't
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had any difficulty at all. As a matter of fact,
he's gotten better since being activated, since going from Double
A to Triple A. He's going to be a special talent.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
I do believe that.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
But I do believe he is the guy that you
would trade over Las Montes. You just don't trade power
like that. Plus, we've got an awful lot of middle
infielders who are young that are occupying some really important
positions right now. Yes, all right, coming out, So just
where it does JSN rank among the best wide receivers
in the National Football League. There's the ESPN trying to
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Speaker 3 (31:21):
Yeah, we got broken microphone, sure do.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
All this responsibility is in your hands now, Ashley.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Oh that's actually you don't want to tell me that.
I just turn your mic on and off.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Well, I said, not very much of this power is
in your hands, Ashley.
Speaker 5 (31:37):
As you're interviewing Brad Evans, I just mute you and
I started asking questions.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
You can take them. Brad. We'll enjoy that. Good morning
to you. It is Chuck and Ashley with you.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Brad Evans will be joining us at seven oh five,
so we'll talk plenty of World Cup with Brad and
uh yeah, we'll talk amongst ourselves about it later in
the show as well. We also have your headlines coming
up at seven o'clock. And don't forget the Open Championship
is underway at Royal book Dale and I am going
to say it like that most of the day, I
would hope. So yeah, and so far you got Daniel
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Brown and Sung jay Em are four under.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
They're your leaders. What happened to our leader just Alex Smalley. Oh,
he must have had a double bogie. He's at three
under right now.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Scheffler also three under through sixteen, will have live updates
from Southport, England, twenty after the hour, every hour throughout
the course of Day one of the Open Championship. But
let's talk a little football. We're nine days away from
Seahawks opening training camp. Our coverage will begin in eleven
days from now here on Sports Radio ninety three point
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three KJARFM. We're not going to launch it on a Saturday.
We'll wait till Monday. Yes seems appropriate. Yes, we like
to have our weekends too.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Well, I don't even think there's going to be a
real feel for training camp. I think people just report
on the twenty fifth, But we'll have practice starting on
the twenty seventh, I understand it, and the Seahawks will
start the defense of their World championship. So in the meantime,
we have all of these lists that are coming out,
and now they're competing lists because Jeremy Fowler has interviewed executives, coaches,
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I don't know who else.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Family members. We have no idea.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
He keeps it secret, but I think he's trying to
beat to the punch some of these other lists that
inevitably come out, even our own Mike Sandos quarterback tiers.
Jeremy Fowler got his quarterback list out. We talked about
Sam Donald.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
It worked.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
We talked about Sam Donald in that poll for two
straight days, yep. And yesterday the wide receivers came out.
And here's the pretty much the consensus opinion out there
that there are four top guys. There is a mount
rushmore of wide receivers in the National Football League, But
what order do you put them in? And JSN is
one of those four. Now, he was Offensive or Defense
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player of the Year this past season, so he was
the best wide receiver in the National Football League this
past season statistically, But is he the best?
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Sometimes that doesn't always mean it.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Well, he's not number one on either the ESPN list
or on Pro Football Focus because they came out with
a list yesterday to ranking the top wide receivers in
the National Football League. So ESPN has Jamar Chase, Justin Jefferson,
JSN third, and Puka Nakua fourth. But I think Pro
Football Focus is.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
A little more accurate.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Their list is Pooka Nikua one, JSN two, Justin Jefferson three,
and Jamar Chase four. Now, the only thing that I
would change about Pro Football Focus is I would flip
Chase and Justin Jefferson. So my list would be Pookah
because I just he seems unstoppable. You're exactly so does JSN.
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But he Pooka has the power quotient to which maybe
JSN doesn't quite have that same power, like you could
just muscle through you. But I go Puka, JSN, Chase,
and Jeffers.
Speaker 5 (35:15):
I think that's a good order and the only reason why,
I mean, my Seahawks fan in me wants to put
JSN first and say he's the best. I mean, he
won Offensive Player or whatever All Defensive Player of the Year,
and uh, but I think if I can despise the
Rams and Puka Akua as much as I do and
still respect the fact that he's damn good, he probably
deserves the number one spot.
Speaker 6 (35:36):
Yeah, he's he's pretty Spare and I it caught me
off guard even up until this past season. Yeah, he
was there available like in a fantasy in our fantasy draft,
and I'm.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Like, he's not that good, and then he goes out
and dominates.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Yeah he is that.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
He is that good, and so is JSN, and so
is Jamar Chase, and so is Justin Jefferson. H I
sort of get that. Maybe JSNS to do that back
to back years, put up those gaudy statistics like that,
because Jamar Chase has already done it several years in
a row. Justin Jefferson did it. He hasn't lately because
he hasn't had the quarterback to get him the football. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
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But even that year, he didn't put up numbers with
Sam like JSN put up with Sam a year ago.
But the last thing I'll point out about this, and
I find this interesting, is that according to Fowler in
his research, Jamar Chase was not only number one, but
runaway number one, Like it wasn't even close. And I
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think it's got to be close.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
I would think it's got to be at least.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
With JSNN, with Puka, it's got to be close. But
according to the executives and coaches and family members that
he pulled. It was a runaway. Jamar Chase's number one,
and he's fantastic, There's no getting around it. I just
don't know. Like to me, I never ever question like
JSN or Puoka effort on any play, and sometimes I
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do with Jamar Chi.
Speaker 5 (37:03):
I also just don't think without those four any of
them could be a runaway. I mean, they're just all
so good. In any given season, one of them is
going to have a slightly better statistical season than the
other three. I mean, they should all be the top four,
and it should be very close.
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and Ashley Ryan get you started here on this Thursday morning,
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I will say this though, you know I always make
an observation.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
It seems on the drive in.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Do you ever have that person at your office place
that is wearing way too much of the cologne or
the perfume.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Yeah, you know that person.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I know that person.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I always think of this very nice person I used
to work with in Phoenix, Nina, And for some reason,
she always wore this like all purple sweatsuit like once
a week, okay, and very nice person, very very and
yet she you could smell her coming. Oh, and it
was just a lot, a lot of perfume.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
We used to work with someone in our old building
that you wore a lot of perfume. But it was
because she smoked and didn't want people to know she smoked.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
I think that was maybe part of this too, was
like I'll cover it up with perfume, no one will know.
And it's like, actually I can smell that you smoke
through the curtains of your perfume. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
And then she would come up and then she would
like deliver.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
She was like the traffic person, so she'd deliver some
stuff almost every day, and then it would just stain
the air.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
And it wasn't a bad smell, it was just too much.
Yeah you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Uh, Well, I think I've got somebody that topped her
this morning, because you know, you drive down the road,
and you can, like really, you can smell marijuana that clearly,
and then you can smell it for like the next hour,
like not hour and a half, but mile and a half.
I don't know what it is about somebody that's smoking
marijuana in their car, but if there's smoke gets into
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your car, oh.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Yeah, it permeates, yeah, and it just stays with you.
I had somebody's cologne do that today? Who So somebody
from their vehicle had so much cologne on that it
acted like marijuana and it wafted into my car. And
then I took that cologne smell all the way down
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Mercer to work.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
What.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Now, that's a lot of cologne.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
That that poor person, that man must have first good.
Probably it's fried nostrils, though, because if you're putting that
much on, you have no idea killed your nose.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yeah, you had no idea. Yeah, how powerful it really is.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
But you'd think, though, you still know how much you
should put on. Uh huh, you still know the squirts.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
You should know the squirt level. Yeah, you should know.
Everybody should know their squirt level. I would think, but
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Maybe it's just like I don't know anything else in life, Like,
if you've built yourself up to be in a four
donut person, it probably did start at one, and then
you went one and a half, Yeah, and then you
went to you know, whatever the case might be, and
the next thing you know, you're a four donut person.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
And probably if you wear if you've worn the same
Colonne all your whole life with your four donuts, I think, well,
I don't smell it anymore, right.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Yeah, so I'm sure that's what happened.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
It's yeah, he's been wearing that colone since nineteen twenty three.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Apparently it's sympathy that I have for I don't know
what his name is, let's call him Clifford. Clifford, I
have sympathy for you. But yeah, somebody needs to let
Clifford know.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
It's way too much.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
If your cologne can go into another person's car, yeah,
on the road and then staying the other person. And
it actually was a good smell, smelled really good. So
you've chosen a good one, Clifford. Uh, it's just you
are way over your squirt level.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Yeah, you're oversquirted. Got to dial it back.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
As a little That's pretty much it.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
You could even puff and walk through. If you want,
you can do.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
A puff and a walk through. Yeah, I think probably.
I mean I did the but you know, those things
are pretty powerful. You can probably get away.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
With just yeah, you can, although I will agree like
you need it, like evenly dispersed.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
There's nothing you don't want, like right there, just on
the call, the only place you can smell it.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Well, yeah, I think I don't think men do the
puff and walk through, But then again probably that. I
have not been around a lot of men getting ready
to go out o that wear their cologne.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
So you're missing out?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Am I missing out? Is that something to miss out?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Okay, find out from Clifford.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
I would imagine they're a lot more on time. That's
I'll tell you that much. I will tell you that much.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
All right, Well, Clifford, be careful out there and don't
cause any accidents with your oversquirting.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Good morning. We are ready to go here on this Thursday.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
We're gonna take you till ten o'clock here today and
then hand things over to Greg Bell. All sorts of
fun topics to discuss. We're all over the sports world,
and last night there was no sporting event.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
I don't remember the.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Last time I didn't have a sporting event to watch,
and it is great.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
I mean, I love sports.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I mean I wouldn't be doing this, and considering how
much of it I watch, I don't really get sick
of it.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Yeah, it is surprising, actually, yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I mean there are times in the football season where
you get to Monday night and like, I just watched
a Friday night Big Ten game all day Saturday, all
day Sunday. And I don't typically do that, by the way,
I do take a break at some point during the weekend,
even football season, but there are some weekends where it's
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like I can't miss that game, right, and that's stacked
on that game, right, and then I gotta watch the
Husky game. And so the next thing you know, you
have watched a triple header, and then you watch a
triple header on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
And seriously, Monday, I gotta watch more football? Does happen?
Speaker 2 (07:01):
But considering how much I watch, you know, I mean
it's sort of like Clifford and his cologne, like I'm
watching too much, but I don't even realize it because
of how much I watched.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
Yeah, like, if it wasn't it's only when it's not
there that all of a sudden you realize, wait a minute,
how much was I watching?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Yeah? Yeah, exactly. I mean the doctor always says, I,
you watched too much. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
They always ask you how much? How many sporting events
are you watching each week? And I always lie, I'm
always like one to two a night.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Why do we do that? Why can't we just be honest?
Because they judge with our doctor, they.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Judge how many sporting events we watch?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Were always judging us.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
But so, yeah, it was nice. It was nice. I
didn't have to worry about it.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Went and had a dinner outdoors, you know, had a
just a couple of glasses of wine, nice meal, sat
outside sunset, so you got the It was a warm
until the sunset.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Yeah, once the clouds came in, that got a little chile.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Oh really Yeah. I wish I would have been out
for that woods. Yeah, but so it was nice. It
was nice not to have it.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
But of course there was a sporting convent that happened
last night. The Open Championship got started at what ten thirty.
Brady Cannon, who we have on before every major, he
did text me and wanted to know where his pajamas were,
so I'd need to make that a tradition.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Really need to remind me and I'll try. Yea, yeah exactly,
and we'll see if we can get to that.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
But yes, it's underway the Open Championship in Southport, England
at Royal Birkdale. Alex Smally is leading with one hole
to go in his first day at five under, but
some pretty solid scores so far. Of course, isn't playing
too difficult. It feels like I didn't watch a lot
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of it, to be frank, but then again, it did
start at ten thirty last night.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Start at ten thirty? Right?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Oh no, how many Mariner games I'd be sticking around
for if they all started at ten thirty.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Well, it depends on how they're playing.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
That's true, Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
I was like, well, if they're playing a lot of
the ones I've seen, definitely wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
We're gonna have updates for you live from Royal Birkdale
twenty after and we'll start them right away today.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
We'll get to one at six twenty here this morning.
Scotty Scheffler is at three under.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
At this point I thought Rory was going to win
this tournament to kind of close out what has been
a really eventful year for him. But I'm not even
seeing him anywhere near.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
The I don't know if he's off yet.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Oh he hasn't even teed off yet.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Yeah, there's still a lot of the seeing if he
has or hasn't. I don't see his name there either,
so oh yeah, there he is. He off at seven
fifty retire. Yeah he's done. Yeah, he said I can't
with this.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
All right, So he hasn't. So he hasn't even teed
off yet. So there are a lot of guys let
yet to hit the course.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
At Royal Birkdale. But Scotty Scheffler is at three under.
And I brought this up briefly at the end of
the show. Yes, and I'm not sure Ashley was agreeing
with me on it. But this is not really criticism.
I'm not really criticizing either.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Of these elite golfers McElroy or Scottie Scheffler. But there
was a piece of audio that made its way around
about they were asked about how do you think you're
gonna feel one hundred years from now about your legacy?
And they both looked at each other and they were like,
we're gonna be dead. Who cares, yeah, and that was
sort of their reaction to it. And you know, honestly,
(10:31):
that is the truth.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
But it really is.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
And this isn't anything that I am internalizing. This is
me being in sports talk radio since I was nineteen
years old, and so I've watched a few careers in
my life unfold, and to me, it is and Ror
is not exactly a young athlete anymore, but considering the
sport of golf.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
He still has.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
I mean, you could argue he's still in his prime
and he's got a lot of golf left left in
his career. But it's the kind of comment that somebody
that is on the top of their game, that has
made a mountain of money, that you know, all the
girls still you know, are interested in, and the type
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of guy that you know still has his young kids
that run toward him after every tournament. Like things are
really good for Scottie Scheffler and Rory McElroy to the
point now that they can they don't have to really
worry about some reporters feelings and they can pretty much
(11:40):
say on the podium that's a stupid question or that's ridiculous,
and I don't care, and they can be dismissive.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
That's the stage they're in.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
And I've watched plenty of athletes in their prime sit
there when they're on top of their game, they're on top.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Of their financial moneymaking ability, they have accomplished a lot already.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
They still have a lot to go if they want to.
But a lot of them act like legacy, I don't
care about legacy.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I don't care. I don't care about.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Legacy, And they give that attitude like I could walk
away from this game right now and then all of
a sudden, and I don't care who it is.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
With the exception of like Robert Smith and Barry Sanders
and Patrick Willis and a few guys that shocked the
world by stepping away from the game when they had
a lot left in the tank. Those are guys, those
are that's a different breed. But the Barry Bonds of
Barry Bonds.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
At twenty eight was saying I don't need this game
anymore at twenty eight. Then we had to kick him
out of the league at forty three because he wouldn't
go away. I mean, all this scandal and all of
this controversy, and he had to be told go away
before he went away, not publicly but privately. But it
happens to so many of them that when they're in
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their prime, they're very dismissive about things like legacy. And
then all of a sudden, the sports world not as
many people are attending their press conferences, and they're not
at the top of the leader board much anymore, and
they're not winning every tournament or they're not a factor
on Sundays as much anymore. And now all of a sudden,
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their wife doesn't think it's as cool a thing to
be married to Rory McElroy now that he's not as
not as in demand as he once was. And his
kids are now sixteen and seventeen, and they've got green hair,
and they're angry that you weren't around for my youth
because you were out playing golf all the time. I mean,
this is what happens. And then the next thing, you know,
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you know what happens.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Then they start putting everything in perspective, and now they
start missing that prime and now they're.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Like out to prove I still can do this, I'm
still the best. And now they do start thinking about legacy.
And then the next thing, you know, they can't let
it let go. Then they can't walk away from the game.
It's happened. Wait, and I'm not saying that's gonna happen
to Rory McElroy. I'm not saying that's gonna happen to
Scotti Scheffler. Maybe they are two that have everything in
perfect perspective. I'm just saying, be careful being snied about
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that and being dismissive about that, because most athletes do
reach a point where you are at the end of it,
and then you do think about legacy, and then all
of a sudden, that's all you're about. I mean, Tiger
Woods keeps trying to come back from thirty different injuries
(14:38):
because he wants that one last glorious moment. Michael Jordan
came back and played for the Wizards. I mean he
walked away from the game at age twenty eight to
go play baseball.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
For goodness sake. Every single boxer retires at twenty five
years old, and they think that they don't need to
do it anymore, and yet Floyd Mayweather is still fighting
on occasion.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
So it is something this sports world like when you
are at the top of it. It is a drug.
It is something that a lot of us can't relate to.
And then when that drug starts being taken away from you,
you start having withdrawal and the next thing you know,
you do. It does hit you hard when you're forty
(15:22):
five years old, fifty two years old, maybe as a
golfer and you're struggling to make the cut at the
latest major routinely, and all of a sudden, you're like,
legacy is all that I need, That's all I'm about
right now. So I hope that they're the exception, but
typically the rule is that it will catch up to
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them and those questions about legacy will become very important
to them. Not to mention not worthy of being just
outwardly dismissed or your eyes roll or you tell a
reporter that's a dumb question, because it will matter to
them at some point down the line, and if not,
they're one of the exceptions.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
I think part of it was the brandness and the
timing of the question. You know, you're getting ready. It's
the day before the Open Championship, and to have that
question was probably through them for a loop. And then
in Rory's case, I think specifically he doesn't want to
think about the mark he has to leave on the
game because of what the PGA Tour, the positions the
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PGA Tour has put him in. I think if you
would have asked him that question two years ago, three
years ago, when he when they kind of pushed him
to be the face of the PGA Tour, when Live
Golf came in and Rory had to be the one
speaking and trying to stand up for PGA Golf, I
think he would have thought, Yeah, I want this to
be my legacy that I helped secure PGA, you know,
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the PGA Tour and make sure that we had this
continuing and that it didn't leave because some other group
with boatloads of money came in and tried to ruin everything.
And if I helped save that or I help keep
the PGA Tour with the PGA is supposed to be,
then that's great. But then he kind of got screwed
over in that moment, and so I think at this
point he's like, I'm just worried about me and my golf,
(17:09):
and that's it because I've already been put in these
positions where I was having to be something more.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Yeah, that's fair, and I'm not being critical of Yeah,
I'm not. I think every prominent athlete that's had as
much success as they are, they have the same notion.
I'm just saying more likely than not. Before it's all sedient,
before you're done playing, Yeah, legacy and what you left
behind will become more important than anything. It will become
(17:37):
more important than the next buck you make. It'll become
more important than the next cute girl that bats her
eyes at you. It'll become more important than just about
anything that you accomplished as a professional athlete will be
your legacy.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
And I've seen plenty.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Of guys in their prime making boatloads of money that
thought it didn't matter and were dismiss about it.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
And those are the ones that you can't get out
of their sport.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
It's like, go away, You've already you've accomplished everything you
can accomplish, and yet they're holding on for the last
strands of legacy and to prove one more time.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
I'm a vest.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
Yeah, I'm a mist And luckily for golf, they can
go to the senior Tour so they don't have to
leave right away. But I hear what you're saying, and
I wonder if that a lot of that just has
to do with age, and when you're young, you just
don't think, like I worry about what I'm leaving behind.
And then as you get older and you start it
starts to hit you. You're like, gosh, yeah, thousand.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
They both know they've accomplished a lot. I got a
lot of money.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I'm still either at or near the top of my game,
and I got a lot of great golf left. Yeah,
it's when it starts to slip away from You're like, oh, wow,
I didn't know that that last major.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
I didn't know that major I won seven years ago
was going to be my last one.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
That then it starts to kind of soak in on you.
So I just say, I've heard this before. I've heard
it before, Scotty, I've heard it before, Rory. Maybe you'll
be there are there are outliers.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
There are guys that have stepped away at the exact
right time, and like the most important things in life
are my family and my wife and my you know,
and and my mental well being and my health.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Those are the There are guys that do that, but more,
but there have been a lot more that eventually do
sort of worry about their legacy before they can step away.
All right, let's find out what is on tap for
the rest of the show Today.
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World Cup Argentina two to one winners, so over England.
We'll talk to Brad Evans today at seven o five.
Spain Argentina will be the matchup for the World Cup
Sunday at noon. We'll be spending a lot of time
on that today. Sounders are actually back in action today.
That's right, they play tonight at seven thirty. They resume
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their season against the Portland Timbers right here, and we
can start calling it loomin Field again. Cracking schedule release
for the upcoming year today at ten right here at
Sports Radio ninety three point three KHRFM. We'll celebrate that
with Brandon Montour today at nine point thirty. Lebron watch.
I have predicted he'll make the announcement today, even though
(20:34):
not reading anywhere where they feel like we're seconds away
from this occurring, But yes we are. I think we
might find out where Lebron is going to play his
basketball to close out his NBA career today, If so,
will pass it along. We're nine days from training camp
for the Seahawks. Husky's One series continues today with Christian
Cable at nine o'clock.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
We'll talk about the defensive backs.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
And the Mariners will resume the second half of their
season tomorrow at seven o'clock at home against the lowly
San Francisco Giants. As a matter of fact, we'll have
the ABC's of the MS coming up next. Plenty of
Mariner baseball conversation today, but right now, let's get an
update from Royal Birkdale.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Connected the board this morning. Yours was on.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
The pot was all down, but your mic was on,
so I turned it off, thinking you accidentally hit it.
But I'll just be the one that turns it on
enough for you, So you just give me this.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Oh, so you can turn it on.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
I think somebody crushed my button into the console. So
I don't know if Dick Than got really angry with
you last night or not. Yeah, but yeah, it's like
crushed into the console.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Okay, well I will turn it on and off for you.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
So yeah, that might be what we have to do.
I should still probably have to have it on from
in here.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
I don't know, but yeah, that's all to the engineers.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
That's what we're having an issue with this morning. Not
a big issue. We're good, We're good to go.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
And it is time for the ABC's of the MS. Yes,
so we allow the alphabet to be a guide to
a daily Mariner's segment.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
We never know where it's going to take us. And
we left off yesterday at the letter k K is
for killer. And I do hesitate with this because my
natural urge is to say, you know, what would be
a killer is if the Mariners get off to a
slow start in the second half. But I always have
(22:25):
to keep in the back of my mind, I've done
this before this season like five times, and I have
done this in the past every season, like five times.
And you're sure that there's this crux, this moment in
the season where all right, now's the time where you
got to seize this opportunity and.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
If you don't, you're screwed.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
And the Mariners almost and I will say almost always
prove us wrong because obviously we haven't made the playoffs.
Every single year, but we here recently, but they have
contended every single year here for the last five six seasons,
and so they have these moments in the year where
(23:11):
you're just sure, like this is where you've got to
take hold of this season.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
All Right, you've farted around for nearly one hundred games,
but here we are. You've had this big giant break
here at the All Star break.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Only Randy didn't have a full week off to get
ready for the second half of the season. And you've
got the San Francisco Giants, who couldn't have had a
more nightmarish season this year. And you've got the Cincinnati
Reds who've been fading fast, and you've got them at
home for the next six days before you go to
Texas and show the Texas Rangers who the team to
(23:49):
beat is in the American League West. You'll have a
four game series in Texas. So these next six games
feel important. Probably won't be, but they do feel. It
feels like you can't fumble these. It feels like you
at least got to go four and two. But obviously
baseball math works differently than any other math, and so yeah,
(24:12):
I'm sure they could go one in five. Oh I
know they can't one in five and then rally from it,
but it does feel it makes sense. You know, it's
logical that they could really benefit from a good start
to the second half, and it will feel like a
killer if they don't seize this opportunity to get off
(24:35):
to a great start in the second half when the
schedule aligns for them so favorably.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
Yeah, especially as you said coming out of the All
Star break, you just lost five of your last six before.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
You went into the break, but you ended on a win.
So take that for whatever.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
It's worth and turn it into something to come out
of this break, because at this point, honestly, you have
no excuses for playing the way you've been playing. Step
it up, put your big boy pants on.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Speaking of a big boy pants, Robbie Ray is going
to be pitching against the pants.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Tight pants.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Yeah, everybody's in a tight pants. That's the song. We
got to play that.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
I don't think he's pitching until Sunday, so we might
have to jump ahead of that.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
We might have to.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Yeah, Robbie Ray, he'll probably get traded at the deadline.
L is for laz As in laz Montes. This is
This is gonna be an interesting storyline to follow between
now and the trading deadline. Obviously, no one's in a
rush to hit the trading deadline to get active in
the trading deadline. We are at July sixteenth, the deadline's
(25:35):
August third this year, so you got a good three
weeks remaining here before you know, it's crunch time, right,
and so nobody's racing to it. And partly because the
market's not set. We've only got seven sellers on the
entire market in all of Major League Baseball, which is outlandish,
and it has everything to do with how down a
(25:57):
first half the American League had, so nearly everybody in
the American League is still alive. The Tigers in the
Red Sox couldn't have been worse for most of the
first half of the season, but because nobody ran away
and hit from them, the Tigers in the Red Sox
started playing better going into the All Star break, and
lo and behold, they find themselves back in the race.
So the trade market is not set, and so this
(26:18):
is going to give Jerry and Justin some time to
evaluate a guy like Las Montes. And I do remind
everyone what Justin told me in spring training. We joked
around about Las Montes hitting forty home runs this year,
and it was mostly a joke, not that he wasn't
capable of it. And Justin Hollander told us, I can
promise you if Las Montes hits forty home runs this year,
(26:42):
some of.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Those will be in a Mariner uniform. That's what he
told us.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Well, Las Montes is at twenty six home runs this year,
twenty five in Arkansas and now one in Tacoma. He
is not hitting all that well in Tacoma. He's three
for twenty seven at Tacoma, so it's hitting one of
it and he only has that one home run. So
obviously the veteran pitchers, those four A veteran pitchers with
(27:07):
all their junk, have been a little different of a
challenge for Las Montes. He hasn't exactly hit the ground
running at Triple A. But if he does make an impact, man,
what is that going to do to Jerry and Justin's
plans for the trade deadline, Because all of a sudden
you're gonna be running out of roster spots. You got
(27:28):
Brendan Donovan hopefully getting activated soon. If Montes ends up
being a piece. Now you get you've already got too
many left handed hitters. So then then what happens because
somebody's got to go in that process. I mean, we
(27:48):
already have a numbers crunch, like West and Wilson's going
to be let go before tomorrow, Julio will be activated.
But you also have Rob Reschneider and that mystery, Yeah,
how injured was he?
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Really?
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Is he ever going to be back on the roster?
Do you want him back on the roster? But you
start introducing a Donovan and Montes back into this situation
when you've already called up the Colt Emerson and all
of a sudden, that roster that you had envisioned to
have for the second half of the season. There's a
numbers crunch here, and then on top of it, you're
(28:24):
thinking about adding a piece at the trading deadline that's
going to cost somebody else their jobs. So it's gonna
be interesting to see Las Montes will dictate whether or not.
I mean, he can force the issue. You've got to
put me in the lineup. There's no way the way
I'm hitting home runs that you can keep me out
of the major league lineup. And yet his struggles at
Tacoma by the time, but they've got until August third
(28:48):
right to figure out whether or not Las Montes should
be a part of this barring injury, because my guess
is if he's not showing that, they'll go get that piece,
and we all want them to get that piece, and
that makes the roster structure even more difficult to fit
another prospect into.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
Yeah, I mean it is interesting to see that he
struggled a bit into coma. It makes me realize, oh,
he is a bit human. But I don't think the
struggles are going to last long, that's for sure. I
think he'll figure it out pretty quickly.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
It's a different it's a different league. I mean it
is the Casey Lawrence. Think of Casey Lawrence. I mean,
that's just a veteran pitcher who knows how to pitch.
He's going to find out your weakness, he's going to
exploit it.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
At double A. He's facing every he's facing.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
One hundred miles per hour, ninety eight miles per hour
on a lot of pitchers, so the stuff he can handle.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
It is the mind game of facing a veteran. Then
that's why they wanted him to get some time into
coma and he's struggling with it. Yeah, those veterans are
have figured out some holes.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
And are exploiting them. When you get to the majors,
now you've got elite talent with that mindset, and so
that's why you can have a prospect that dominated in the
miners then comes up to the major leagues and goes
one for thirty eight. Right, that's why that happens. So
it's good that he's in Tacoma, but he certainly is
(30:14):
struggling right now, and the veterans are having a field
day with him. Finally, and just quickly, m is for Michael,
because Michael Arroyo got called up at the exact same time. Now,
Montes is the one that we keep talking about. But
Michael Arroyo has an eleven hundred plus ops in his
thirty two at bats at Triple A, so he hasn't
(30:34):
had any difficulty at all. As a matter of fact,
he's gotten better since being activated, since going from Double
A to Triple A. He's going to be a special talent.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
I do believe that.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
But I do believe he is the guy that you
would trade over Las Montes. You just don't trade power
like that. Plus, we've got an awful lot of middle
infielders who are young that are occupying some really important
positions right now. Yes, all right, coming out, So just
where it does JSN rank among the best wide receivers
in the National Football League. There's the ESPN trying to
(31:08):
tell us and maybe we don't agree. Sports Radio ninety
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Speaker 3 (31:21):
Yeah, we got broken microphone, sure do.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
All this responsibility is in your hands now, Ashley.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Oh that's actually you don't want to tell me that.
I just turn your mic on and off.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Well, I said, not very much of this power is
in your hands, Ashley.
Speaker 5 (31:37):
As you're interviewing Brad Evans, I just mute you and
I started asking questions.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
You can take them. Brad. We'll enjoy that. Good morning
to you. It is Chuck and Ashley with you.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Brad Evans will be joining us at seven oh five,
so we'll talk plenty of World Cup with Brad and
uh yeah, we'll talk amongst ourselves about it later in
the show as well. We also have your headlines coming
up at seven o'clock. And don't forget the Open Championship
is underway at Royal book Dale and I am going
to say it like that most of the day, I
would hope. So yeah, and so far you got Daniel
(32:09):
Brown and Sung jay Em are four under.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
They're your leaders. What happened to our leader just Alex Smalley. Oh,
he must have had a double bogie. He's at three
under right now.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Scheffler also three under through sixteen, will have live updates
from Southport, England, twenty after the hour, every hour throughout
the course of Day one of the Open Championship. But
let's talk a little football. We're nine days away from
Seahawks opening training camp. Our coverage will begin in eleven
days from now here on Sports Radio ninety three point
(32:42):
three KJARFM. We're not going to launch it on a Saturday.
We'll wait till Monday. Yes seems appropriate. Yes, we like
to have our weekends too.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Well, I don't even think there's going to be a
real feel for training camp. I think people just report
on the twenty fifth, But we'll have practice starting on
the twenty seventh, I understand it, and the Seahawks will
start the defense of their World championship. So in the meantime,
we have all of these lists that are coming out,
and now they're competing lists because Jeremy Fowler has interviewed executives, coaches,
(33:19):
I don't know who else.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Family members. We have no idea.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
He keeps it secret, but I think he's trying to
beat to the punch some of these other lists that
inevitably come out, even our own Mike Sandos quarterback tiers.
Jeremy Fowler got his quarterback list out. We talked about
Sam Donald.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
It worked.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
We talked about Sam Donald in that poll for two
straight days, yep. And yesterday the wide receivers came out.
And here's the pretty much the consensus opinion out there
that there are four top guys. There is a mount
rushmore of wide receivers in the National Football League, But
what order do you put them in? And JSN is
one of those four. Now, he was Offensive or Defense
(34:00):
player of the Year this past season, so he was
the best wide receiver in the National Football League this
past season statistically, But is he the best?
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Sometimes that doesn't always mean it.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Well, he's not number one on either the ESPN list
or on Pro Football Focus because they came out with
a list yesterday to ranking the top wide receivers in
the National Football League. So ESPN has Jamar Chase, Justin Jefferson,
JSN third, and Puka Nakua fourth. But I think Pro
Football Focus is.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
A little more accurate.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Their list is Pooka Nikua one, JSN two, Justin Jefferson three,
and Jamar Chase four. Now, the only thing that I
would change about Pro Football Focus is I would flip
Chase and Justin Jefferson. So my list would be Pookah
because I just he seems unstoppable. You're exactly so does JSN.
(35:00):
But he Pooka has the power quotient to which maybe
JSN doesn't quite have that same power, like you could
just muscle through you. But I go Puka, JSN, Chase,
and Jeffers.
Speaker 5 (35:15):
I think that's a good order and the only reason why,
I mean, my Seahawks fan in me wants to put
JSN first and say he's the best. I mean, he
won Offensive Player or whatever All Defensive Player of the Year,
and uh, but I think if I can despise the
Rams and Puka Akua as much as I do and
still respect the fact that he's damn good, he probably
deserves the number one spot.
Speaker 6 (35:36):
Yeah, he's he's pretty Spare and I it caught me
off guard even up until this past season. Yeah, he
was there available like in a fantasy in our fantasy draft,
and I'm.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Like, he's not that good, and then he goes out
and dominates.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Yeah he is that.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
He is that good, and so is JSN, and so
is Jamar Chase, and so is Justin Jefferson. H I
sort of get that. Maybe JSNS to do that back
to back years, put up those gaudy statistics like that,
because Jamar Chase has already done it several years in
a row. Justin Jefferson did it. He hasn't lately because
he hasn't had the quarterback to get him the football. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
(36:16):
But even that year, he didn't put up numbers with
Sam like JSN put up with Sam a year ago.
But the last thing I'll point out about this, and
I find this interesting, is that according to Fowler in
his research, Jamar Chase was not only number one, but
runaway number one, Like it wasn't even close. And I
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think it's got to be close.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
I would think it's got to be at least.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
With JSNN, with Puka, it's got to be close. But
according to the executives and coaches and family members that
he pulled. It was a runaway. Jamar Chase's number one,
and he's fantastic, There's no getting around it. I just
don't know. Like to me, I never ever question like
JSN or Puoka effort on any play, and sometimes I
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do with Jamar Chi.
Speaker 5 (37:03):
I also just don't think without those four any of
them could be a runaway. I mean, they're just all
so good. In any given season, one of them is
going to have a slightly better statistical season than the
other three. I mean, they should all be the top four,
and it should be very close.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
Yeah, I agree. Headline's Next, Brad Evans Next. Sports Radio
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