October 14, 2025 • 49 mins
In the first hour, Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain react to the Mariners being two wins away from the World Series, hear from Dan Wilson today at T-Mobile Park, get a Fact or Fiction pick, listen to some Fun with Audio and talk more about the M’s with Larry Stone.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I am a friggin god darn mess right now, absolute mess.
I got in the car this morning. I already told
you guys this. I got in the car this morning
to go see my mom, who lives about what a
mile or so north of me, and ended up driving
to the Emeral Queen Casino. No idea why, just got
my get I got to High five and realized I
was going the wrong way and turn it around. Yeah, okay,
I'm like, I'm not supposed to go to the Emerald
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Queen Casino. So I've done. I've done no preparation for
this radio show whatsoever. I have nothing on this piece
of paper for anything but a couple of notes in
my brain from this morning talking about the stat that
we were discussing about the LCS, which I don't really
want to bring that up, by the way, all right,
because I look, I don't want to jinx anything and
Jackson jinxes aren't real, jenxues aren't real. All I want
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to do right now for me and I just first
of all, I gotta be honest with you guys. I
don't know how far I should go with this description.
I don't want to offend anybody, but now I know
how sometimes my wife feels and that I just every
now and then just start bursting out into tears. It's incredible,
Like I can't control myself. I cannot control myself. Dick
getting emotional. I'm thinking about this. I'm calling my friends,
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I'm asking my buddies. Is this really happening? Like this
is this really happening? Morpheus at the end of the matrix.
I've imagined this moment.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
For so long?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Is this real? Is this actually real? And we're not
there yet, We're not fricking there yet. The only thing
that matters is kicking their ass tomorrow night in Game three.
That's it, because the last thing this baseball team can do, guys,
is give that team hope. That's the last thing they
can do. And they have a chance tomorrow. You guys
know this as well as I. They have a chance
tomorrow to bring a sledgehammer to their hopes of making
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the World Series. Talking Toronto, now, put one foot in
the grave, and here's what's gonna happen tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
You win this.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Game tomorrow night, and you're gonna have people starting to
order champagne to be available in that clubhouse on Thursday.
You're gonna have broadcasters start to think about what they're
gonna say when the game comes to an end, if
they haven't already.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
By the way, Like I remember talking to Tony.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Casterkuind I've never told the story on the air, and
I will not how many details unless Tony's cool with it.
I texted Tony like six seven months after the UW
Michigan game and I said to him, I said, look,
did you have like a bunch of lines like ready
to go? Did you know what you were going to
say if the Husky's beating Michigan to win the National Championship?
And he sends me back this screenshot of like seven
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or eight things that he was sitting on that, depending
on the moment, he was going to go with. And
I'm sure you've done things like that yourself too in
your broadcast career. They win this game tomorrow and Rick Riz,
Aaron Goldsmith, Gary Hill, whoever ends up being on the
call for the end of the game Thursday. They go
to bed tomorrow night thinking about what they're going to say.
And I'm thinking about Dave nee House right now, and
I'm telling you, I cannot go ninety minutes without crying.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Guys, I can't do it.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I'm thinking about Dave knee House and that line that
he had when the Mariners beat the Angels in ninety five.
Not the Randy looks to the sky that oops is
covered by the dome, not that.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
One nineteen long years.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Well, no, well that's part of it. But when the
cause it's been longer than that, it's been almost fifty years. Well,
Dave Whitonne what he said when the fans rushed the field,
Remember that, when the fans rushed the field. I don't
think we've had a baseball game since then with the
Mariners where the fans were on the field the way
they were in ninety five after the one game playoff.
I don't remember think they rushed the field in game five,
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Not against the Yankees two thousand, two thousand and one.
It was the playoff game against the Angels. That's the
only time I think that's correct, right on the field
where the only time that fans have been on the
field is when we beat the Angels in that one
game playoff in ninety five. And Dave Neihouse said, my friends,
this is indescribable. Remember that, And that's exactly how this
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is going to feel if they can just find a
way to pull this off. And a buddy of mine
who actually works for the Mariners, I won't tell you
who it is, but his name's Adam, texted me today
and said, look, man, we got a three game series
against Toronto at home starting tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Three games, we win the series, and we're going to
the World Series. That's it.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Five games left to win two of them. So I
don't want to hear about your stats. I don't want
to hear about your two games to none. What teams do.
I've seen it all at some possible not to see
on social media. All I want these guys to do
is brick by brick, inning by inning, at bat by
it bat, take away any ounce of hope that they've
got and crutched them tomorrow night and end this thing.
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And then let's get to Thursday night. And imagine what
the atmosphere. First of all, tomorrow is going to be
lunacy at the ballpark. Imagine what it's gonna be like
Thursday night if they can win tomorrow, what that atmosphere
is like at T Mobile Park. And I will say
one more thing, Dick, one more thing, Sorry, do not
let money if you can afford it. And I realize
that for some people that's the context is different.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
If you can find a way to get your ass
into that ballpark tomorrow or Thursday or Friday, if there
is a game five, do not in twenty five years
from now regret not being there if you can afford it,
whatever it takes.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
This is why you save.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
This is why you have a rainy day fun whatever
you call your savings account, because that five hundred bucks,
thousand bucks, fifteen hundred bucks, whatever it is to get
in the doray and a friend drop five thousand dollars
today for tickets for Game.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Three of the World Series.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
He's like, you know, if I don't spend the money,
what am I gonna do with the five thousand bucks?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Just keep it in the savings or going on a vacation.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Hell no, you got to be there, man, If you
can afford it, do not allow yourself to pass on
this opportunity, because there's never going to be a first
time again after this. Hopefully with this ownership and with
this general manager and with this president, this will be
a common theme for us in the next maybe five
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to ten years.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
But the first time. There's never going to be another
first time.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
And I am begging you, I've got so much regret
as a sports fan about events that I passed over
that I did not go to that I am kicking
myself forever because I was not there. So if you
can afford this, get there, find a way to get
your ass in that building. Would I would buy tickets
for Thursday night right now, because if we win tomorrow night,
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those take a price are gonna skyrocket dick before Thursday's game.
So if you can afford it, do not let money
be the reason why you did not find yourself in
the park this week.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
I think the best explanation of how I'm going about
this series is let's let's turn it into a football
game for a second. All Right, we are in the
second quarter of early stages of the second quarter of
the NFC Championship game right now, and we're up two touchdowns, right,
We're up fourteen to nothing. And so when you're sitting there,
I remember, you know, I never got that opportunity against
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the Packers because we were never ahead until the end, right,
But I did get that opportunity against the Panthers, right.
I was in the stadium against the Panthers, and I
think we were up two touchdowns in the first half
of that game. Yeah, And I remember sitting there going, Okay,
I'm not celebrating, not celebrating. I'm like physically telling myself
not to celebrate, and I am not celebrating right now.
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And I will allow myself to slightly celebrate if we
go up three nothing, because us weep would be against
this team and this pitching staff.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
To lose four games in a row would be.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Almost quotation marks almost impossible against this team. But to
come back from two down with that offense that they
got over there and those pictures that they got that
they can throw at us, it is still very very
much a serious song, keeping myself very much up fourteen
to nothing in the early stages of the second quarter.
Right now, we're one touchdown and all of a sudden,
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you look up Scorpors like, crap, it's a one score game.
I don't think we can one win, and we go
to the Bay. We go there Thursday going crap, we
lose this.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
It's two two.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
We haven't come anywhere near this thing being over. It's
just not even in my vocabulary. Guys. It's just I mean,
shame on you if you even have that in your brain.
Get it out, get it out right now. Don't even
think about it. It's it's not even close to being over,
you know. I saw Mark James tweet that last night,
and I gotta be honest with you. I could have
gotten in my car and find him and I could
have punched him. So he said this is over World Series,
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and it made me physically sick.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Now again he does him, I do me.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
That's fine, okay, okay, but whatever, But no chickens counted
on this.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
There is not a chance in f and hell I'm
going down that road, not yet, not even close. And
I will look you do you, Dick, I'll disagree with you.
Game three, we win it, whatever, I'm not even close
to that.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Either.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
It's got to be bottom of the eighth, bottom of
the ninth, whatever that top of the ninth. This is
not over until it's over, because we have now reached
that stage right where it's like critical mass. There's no
in between. Now we're either gonna be elated with I
think the greatest sports moment of our lives. For me,
this will top anything that I've ever been a part of.
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Ever about witty world series are getting to the world Dude,
I almost think making the world series. Dick, I don't know, Dick,
I don't know. Okay, here's here's what I don't want
you to do. Please, for the love of Christ, I'm
begging you don't put me on the spot this week, which.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
You have to be real careful, seriously.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Because I'm not because I'm not in the mood to
fight with anybody about what this means to people. People
say what they want to say. They're freaking emotional, all right,
they're on edge. This is something we've been waiting for
for fifty god darn years. So if I'm in the
mood to sit here and tell you right now that
this would be the greatest thing I've ever seen in
my life, and it's bigger than a super Bowl title.
It may sound idiotic to you, but right now it's
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the way I feel. That's the way I feel right now.
And you mentioned the NFC Championship, and I'm glad that
you brought that up, because this is the difference. This
is why I keep telling people this is totally different
than the super Bowl. Imagine if the super Bowl was
spread out over four days and each quarter was on
a different day, and there was a break in between.
I mean, you are going to bed every night and
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you're thinking about this. You're preoccupied. You can't do squat,
you can't focus on anything.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
You don't want to talk to anybody. All you want
to do is.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Just talk Mariners and think Mariators and countdown until the
freaking game starts tomorrow at five oh eight or whatever
the hell time it is. So this is you and
I growing up, and Jackson's behind us, obviously, But for us,
the World Series not for us us. It's for other people,
for the Yankees, the Red Sox, for the Tigers, right,
it's for the Toronto Blue Jays in the early nineties, whatever, Atlanta,
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Saint Louis, blah blah blah, Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
It's not for us.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
We've been rejected at every freaking turn, and now to
be two games away from the World Series and the
closest we've ever been in our lives. And we've never
waited for something this long.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Ever. We didn't wait this long for a Super Bowl,
we didn't wait this long for.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
The NBA Championship, and we certainly didn't wait this long,
at least in our lifetime.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
For a college football championship.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
We've never collectively as a city waited this long for anything.
And the fact that we, dude, in what the hell
time is that right now it's two fifteen.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
We are fifty one hours away.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
We are potentially fifty five hours away from going to
the World Series. Fifty five from going to the World Series.
That's how close it is. You can freaking smell the
damn thing.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
And what's crazy is that Jackson's generation went through the
same draught that our generation went through. We went through
the seventy six to ninety five generation and you went
through the two to twenty twenty five genera. I mean,
it's it's unbelievable. Now we've just been through two of them, right,
which is fought and real. But you're exactly right. I mean,
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the Sonics went growing up, the Sonics were always good.
That doesn't mean they always had a great season every year,
but you always felt like, the Sonics are good. They
won a championship already, they're gonna win a championship again,
which they never did, but they got close. You know,
the Seahawks were always you know, you get Chuck Knocks
got there, Dave and I only like ten years old.
When Chuck Knock got we were like, the Seahawks are
good man, We're one step away from the super Bowl.
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We're gonna get here eventually, and we did. But he
is exactly right. There was never a thought, Jackson. There
was never an steam going that the Mariners were gonna
make the world.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
It's like being that nerdy guy in high school and
the the prom queen. You got no shot, No she
got it, you got no shot, And then here she
is right in front, here she is. It is interesting because,
as you know, as.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
A thirty three year old, it is funny because I
had this conversation with another thirty three year old while
watching Game two. And for us, in our adult life,
we were we weren't really conscious and oh one to
like really soak in what it meant. So for us,
this is the first time in our adult lives we've
been in a big playoff series. You think sonics right, like,
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that's all the way back. And this is a new
concept to my brain and to my generation's brain of
exactly what you guys said series.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Because you went through the Hawks that wasn't a series.
And that's the thing.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
It's where every single game is a quarter when it
comes to a game every day, and that's that's a
different mental jump on different It's a I don't understand
how your brains dealt with this for Sonics and Mariners
series over this, because I honestly it's short circuiting trying
to understand how to operate on a daily basis.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Well, here's the thing for me, all right, and we'll
just wrap it up.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
We'll get to a breakwere here from Dan Wilson right
a little bit, next segment, Who is the podium with
the media today before before Game three? I in our business,
our job is to describe the way that we're feeling,
whether our opinions, our emotions, whatever insight you know, blah
blah blah. I'm just telling you guys right now that
I'm having a hard time doing that, all right. I'm
having a hard time expressing the emotions that come along
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with something like this. This is bigger than anything I've
ever felt in my life as a sportsman anything, And
maybe I'll feel differently in five years from now, Dick,
when we've been there three times, maybe when it's over
and you asked me, so, how do you feel now?
Maybe I'll give you a totally different answer. This thing
is done right now in the moment today, I have
a hard time putting words together what this means to me.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
So whatever, Well, you've always rooted for the city that
never gets it, right, you root it for the Cleveland Cavaliers,
and this is us.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
This is different, man.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Know what I'm saying is now you're rooting for the
city that never got it, and it's actually us.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
This is super special, man, super special. So let's let's
just you know, hey, let's get it done, all right,
Let's get this done tomorrow night, and whatever hope they've.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Got, crush it and put them in a situation.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Like you said, dick up three to zero where you
can start to taste it and you've got four chances
to get one game a win tomorrow night. Man, And
oh my god, Soto and that whole area around the
stadium is gonna be a freaking circus. I'm not even
sure if I'll go home after the show tomorrow. I
swear to God him. There's a hotel right there right
to twenty one. Dan Wilson here from the Skipper. Next
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Speaker 6 (14:32):
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Speaker 1 (14:47):
All right, we're back here on a busy what the
hell is Tuesday Saftie, Dick Jackson and for Ean and Jess,
we will do factor fiction. And because it's us filling in,
then we get to make the pick and we get
credit for it.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Wrong.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
This is like because we're kind of kicking ass in
Factor of fiction and let's face it, Ian kind of
sucks and.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Factor fiction's right.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
This is like when the varsity team shows up to
use the practice field when the freshmen are on it
and they just kick them off. Say, look, you guys
don't know what you're doing. We're taking over, all right.
So factor fiction brought to you by the Lucky Egle
case seeing it one hotel in a matter of a
Minute's Dan Wilson, Meritor Skipper before the pivotal game three
tomorrow with the media today.
Speaker 7 (15:22):
This is a group that's tight. You know, the whole
pitching staff together is tight. They share information, they talk
about it. They you know, they let each other know
what it's like and so they they're a little bit
more prepared too, so but it's it's good knowing that
you know, these guys are have had a little bit
experience now under their belt and they're ready to go.
Speaker 8 (15:40):
Then from your standpoint here to be back in Seattle
ahead two Oh. I mean, what is the word or
the feeling I think that you know embodies the team
right now when you think about being in this position
to come back home and have potentially three in front
of you here.
Speaker 7 (15:52):
Yeah, obviously it's a very advantageous position when we're excited
about that, but you know, there's there's work to do here,
and I think the focus is tomorrow night.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
That's that's where our focus goes.
Speaker 7 (16:02):
And that's kind of how we've done this, you know,
all along is just you know that we're.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Taking it one day at a time.
Speaker 7 (16:08):
You know, it sounds very cliche, but you take it
one step at a time, and and you know, tomorrow
night we're looking forward to to getting back out there,
you know, you know, taking in the atmosphere here at
T Mobile. We know it's going to be an awesome
atmosphere here for baseball, So that that's where our focus lies.
We get back to work. I think, you know, as
we've talked about the pitching, it's been so solid and
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offensively able to do some great things. So both sides
of the ball, we just need to continue to keep
doing that. And and uh, you know, I think that's
that's the focus going forward.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
The important of the details.
Speaker 9 (16:38):
You've talked about that from day one, Just important of
the details. Each pitch, each.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
A bad yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 7 (16:45):
You know, I think we've seen we talk about the
postseason where little things make big differences. We've seen that
in a lot of these postseason games, not just our games,
but in all the games. And so you do you
focus on the details. You know that each pitch has
you know, magnified significance. You know that each out makes
a big difference. Each at bat can can be huge.
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So I think we've talked about it with our offense
that you know, you start stacking those tough at bats
back to back, and over time you start to to
wear down pitchers.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
And that's when we're at our best.
Speaker 7 (17:20):
So yes, each pitch, each at bat, those are all
very big things here in the postseason, and and our
guys know that, and that's why our focus continues to be,
you know, tomorrow night, and we'll get back out on
the field and get started again.
Speaker 10 (17:34):
Right from kind of continuing on that train of thought
of just the subtle differences, you know, Alds, you guys
came back home. It was when you go home, you
knew the situation. This situation a little bit different. Have
an opportunity to close it out. Just what is the
kind of difference or variation and pressure compared to having
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that lead with an opportunity to close it out at home,
compared to you know, win or go home.
Speaker 7 (18:00):
You know again, I think we take the same mindset.
We go out and we play good baseball tomorrow night.
That's our focus, and I think that's that's where we're
at as a team, and and that that's where that's
what our goal is, is to come out tomorrow and
continue to do the things we've been doing. And that's
that's the hope and and that's what our preparation will be,
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you know, gear towards and we'll do the things that
we've been doing on the mount, uh, you know, preparation wise,
will be doing the things offensively that we've been doing.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Preparation rise and we'll be ready to play game time.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
All right, So the voice of Dan Wilson.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
You guys obviously know the name Shane Bieber, who we
know from his Guardians Indians days, won the Cy Young
in twenty twenty, and he's pitching tomorrow night for Toronto
and he just came off the IL in August after
Tommy John surgery. And he hasn't played much this year.
He's only made I think seven starts, is that right?
He has seven starts on the season, and he's been
pretty good. He's had two starts where he was kind
of five runs and six against the Reds in September,
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three runs, five and two thirds against the Astros, and
at his next start and the other five he was
two runs or less at every single game. So a
lot of guys are better Dick when they come off
with Tommy John surgery and see and see better results.
But we'll see what's going on with Shane Bieber tomorrow.
And George Kirby, who's been a better pitcher at home
than the road. He's never beaten the Blue Jays. I
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think he's only faced him one time. So really you
can't read much into that, but what looks like to
be another solid, kick ass pitching matchup tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
It does.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
It just shocks me that this is what Toronto's got
to throw at us. I mean, they go with a
twenty two year old rookie that had started three games
in his major league career in game two of the ALCS,
and now they're throwing a guy coming off with Tommy
John surgery and game three.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
It's just stunning to me.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
I haven't paid much attention to Toronto, and with the
attention that I had paid attention to, paid attention was
just their three, four and five it is the rest
of their team does not look great.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
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Speaker 2 (21:09):
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Speaker 3 (21:11):
Traditionally, we're gonna stay with the theme of betting against
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Speaker 1 (21:18):
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Speaker 3 (21:23):
I mean, the Hawks beat them to a pulp four
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Speaker 9 (22:02):
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Speaker 2 (24:03):
Hey, Dick, did you happen to hear that? What's that? Dick?
Speaker 1 (24:06):
We start with our buddy Mike Tomlin, longtime head coach
of the Pittsburgh Steelers too, at a press conference this week, stunned, shocked,
could not believe I think Cleveland Browns would trade their
starting quarterback and Joe Flacco to a division rival in Cincinnati.
Speaker 11 (24:22):
You know, to be honest, it was shocking to me.
Andrew Barry must be a lot smarter than me or us,
because it doesn't make sense to me to trade a
quarterback that you think enough of to make your opening
day starter to a division opponent that's hurting in that area.
But that's just my personal feelings.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Okay, So there is some context about why Flacco was
starting right because everybody else was hurt for the most part,
that's why he was out there. And the second of all,
you mentioned how Flacco looked last week, is that correct?
There's a chance we got to admit that he comes
out and looks like ass this weekend.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
He's anything can happen with its one hundred years old.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
So Mike Tomlin and Pittsburgh make him look terrible and
they would say to Mike, hey, you're still mad that
you had to face Joe Flacco on Sunday because he's broke.
I'm very curious to see what Tomlin's reaction is after
the game.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
He's trying to fire up his defense and let him
know that, hey, this is not a pushover team that
you're playing against. But I will say this, Joe Flacco
is the youngest quarterback at the age of forty in
that game.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
That is amazing, incredible.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
How about the guys that are starting in the NFL,
A bunch of has bins that are now having resurgences
and a bunch of old farts like Joe Flacco and
Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
It's unbelieved you guys won Super Bowl? What twelve and
thirteen years ago? Fifteen years ago?
Speaker 1 (25:40):
I was two thousand and twelve, twelve, Yeah, twenty eleven, Yeah, amazing, unreal?
All right, Hey, Dick, did you happen to hear that?
What's that?
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Dick?
Speaker 1 (25:49):
During the sixth itnting of yesterday's Mariners win Fox ALCS
broadcaster Joe Davis and John Smoltz, we're talking about eating
chicken during Canadian Thanksgiving?
Speaker 9 (26:00):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Are you more of a breast or leg meat?
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Breast?
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Okay, right, I'm more of a leg man, mysel. I
think it's turkey. It says chicken on the.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
I'm well aware of the situation, wrote yeah, I did chicken.
Moving on, let's move on, first of all, time out,
a second time out. Let's not bring the lead here,
thank you? Okay? Number one? Are we breast men or
leg men here? Like?
Speaker 9 (26:28):
Like? Okay?
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Well, I'm more of a leg man myself, but not
a turkey leg?
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Number two is I don't know a damn thing about
Canadian Thanksgiving?
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Is it possible to eat chicken on Canadians. Well, yeah,
but they were eating a turkey. I don't you get that? Okay,
why are you so mad at me?
Speaker 5 (26:45):
You're ignoring the importance of this clip, which is breast
or leg, boobs are asphain pigy.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Okay, that's the point, the whole thing, boobs or butts
and again maybe they eat chicken on Canadians. Giving you
want some lo that I'm running burgundy. You know, I
read anything as you will. All right, whenever he puts
on the sheet is going out over the air. Dick
fin can kiss my ass. That's what it says right there.
All right, Hey, Dick, did you happen to hear that?
Speaker 2 (27:09):
What's that?
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Dick?
Speaker 2 (27:10):
You want to go on order here? Jackson two three?
All right?
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Blue Jay's broadcasters Ben Showman Chris LaRue. Is that how
you say that? By the way, had this reaction to
Hore Polanco's go ahead three run shot and the fifth
inning yesterday on Sportsnet five ninety in Toronto.
Speaker 12 (27:22):
The one to one he hit well right center field,
far show racing back at the warning track, leaps at
the fence and that ball is gone. Three run homer,
Jorge Polanco and the Mariners are back up three six
three Seattle in the top of the fifth. It just
snuck out, bouncing off the top of the fence.
Speaker 13 (27:43):
Well you said it, Ben, You have to be careful
with Jorge Polonko. He's come up with a lot of
big hits in the postseason for the Mariners. A couple
of home runs off Trek Scooble when they were playing
the Detroit Tigers, and he was all over that fastball.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
They caught a lot of the plate.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
God just dejected, no life whatsoever. It's almost like somebody
walked up to him by the way and whispered right
in his ear before they get back your cat.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Just do you want to hear more? Well, here's Josh Naylor.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Here's his call of Josh Naylor's home run in the seventh.
Speaker 12 (28:12):
Thing they off pitch and it is crushed out to
right field. Lucas going back, he'll run out of room.
It's gone home run, Josh Naylor. Nine to three. Mariners
leave off, big blast from the big Canadian and Seattle
now really in good position to take a chew nothing
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lead going back to their hometown.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
It's almost like he was waiting for some kind of
reaction from his color guy, and he just left the booth.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
He's just like, you know what, I'm silenced it. I'm
out of here. Not the best color man in the
business for nothing?
Speaker 9 (28:48):
Right?
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Oh God, I love it. I love it. Well listen, man,
I don't want to jinx anything. I don't want to
upset the basement.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Gods. We got two games to go, man, two games
to go. God darn it, get me tomorrow night, and
holy hell, tomorrow night is going to be fun. You
said sex Jackson?
Speaker 9 (29:03):
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Okay, we'll have one more, two more if we can
fit him in. Hey, Dick, did you happen to hear
what's that? Dick Deon Sanders, head coach Colorado finding out
that the Colorado football program would be fined fifty grand
really after their fans tormed the field after their win
over twenty second rank Iowa State.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
This was coach Prime's response to the fine.
Speaker 11 (29:25):
I want to see the kids rush the field. I
absolutely love it. I mean, adds out to our security team.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
They do a good job ushering me in, but I
love to see it.
Speaker 14 (29:33):
Is it a fine for rushing the field?
Speaker 9 (29:34):
What is it?
Speaker 14 (29:35):
Fifteen fifty fifty way for rushing the field? How the
fifty thousand rushing the field? Who made that a rule?
Come on, man, that ain't right. I mean, these kids, well,
we have fifty dollars right there.
Speaker 9 (29:50):
We can chip in.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
Let's chip in, as that was when I grew up.
Speaker 14 (29:54):
You know, we're going some way back before you get
in the covers.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Some games you get a chimp in.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Okay, So fifty thousand bucks for I'm a gonny making
seven million dollars a year, which I think Prime is
making as.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
One hundred and forty dollars, that's a check.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
He could just give the money the check, and I
had the same reaction he did, But I think he
was actually more surprised at how much it was, Like,
that's it fifty grand, that's nothing the SEC charges. Yeah,
half a million dollars. If your fans rush the field,
I thought, you know what the big ten fight is.
By the way, if you rush the field zero there
is no fine, none zip. So have added husky fans
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have at it. I thought he was surprised how much
it was. That agreed, totally agreed. Yes, I was surprised
at how little it was. He was surprised at how
much it was. He could write the check, and I
can't believe it's only fifty thousand.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
That's nothing. Absolutely, that's not a deterrent. I wonder if
he's allowed to write that. You kidding, Mike?
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Is there some big twelve rule that says no, the
coach can't pay this, probably.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Directly, but I can venmo you and you can write
the check and we're done.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
We're gonna break.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
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Speaker 6 (31:14):
It's time for our weekly conversation with legendary sports writer
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Stone all right.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Here we go. Great time to have Larry on the air.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
I don't remember having Larry on the air and saying, God,
you know what, this is really a bad time to
have them, Monk, can we blow them off?
Speaker 2 (31:43):
This kind of sucks.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Stupid time to have Larry on. That has not happened
one time this year. And I think the reason why
it hasn't happened Larry one time this year is because
this baseball team has been pretty good every single week
of the season. So it's always been a joy to
have you on the air. But this is why we
pay you. This is why you get compensated for moments
like this. You are built for this moment, Larry. We
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know you can handle it. Two games away from the
World Series, the closest they've ever been in their existence
to a World Series appearance, and I'll be honest with you,
my friend, For me, it's a little bit overwhelming.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
It really is.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
After the two games to non lead last night, what
are your thoughts on the way the series started and
the way the Tiger Series went for the MS last week?
Speaker 9 (32:25):
Well, first of all, Softy. I watched your videos on
X and I'm a little physic. I'm a little concerned
for your health.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
But by the way, if you were about to say
you were physically sick, I don't blame you either.
Speaker 9 (32:41):
I wasn't going to say that. Well, I mean, going back,
we haven't even had a show since the Friday fifteen
inning game last week. I mean, an instant, classic, masterpiece,
epic game. And then they couldn't have gone in any
better in Toronto. I mean exceeded anyone's expectations. I think
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I think most people were Marystans would have been happy
with a split, and they just they owned them in
those those two games. They just completely shut down a
really good offensive team. Yesterday that the Bats were working,
I mean, everything is set up for for them to
get to the World Series. That that doesn't mean it's
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a done deal. Teams have blown to nothing leads. But
I really like where they are and I think everybody does.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Lara, I'm glad you mentioned Game five. Were you there
on Friday night?
Speaker 9 (33:36):
I was not there. My daughter went, but I did
not go.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Well obviously watched it right away.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Yeah, neither were we We were at Husky Stadium, But Larry,
how do you compare that to Game five in nineteen
ninety five as far as the you know, just the
overall elation, just the drama, everything you saw.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
I mean, was it right there along those lines of
ninety five?
Speaker 9 (34:02):
Well, full confession, I wasn't there in ninety five. I
didn't come to Seattle to ninety six, and I was
actually covering the National League playoffs that year. But I
feel I've confident in saying that I've written more stories
about that game and talk to more people than anybody
in the history of Seattle journalism, So I feel like
I was there. I think it's very similar in sort
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of the cathartic release that the fans had. At that point.
They had never made the playoffs, and you know, that
was their first playoff run, and to have a series
like that was just incredible, considering that the drama of
the stadium and all that, and this time it almost
feels like they've never been there because it's been you know,
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they had a taste of it in twenty twenty two.
But I think most people feel like this is the
team that has the best chance of getting there, and
to have a game like that where it's just every
pit so much as writing on every pitch, and there's
so many disappointments along the way that the double plays,
the rallies thwarted. I mean, the tension was just off
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the charts, and I think it was the same thing
in ninety five and the release once they won was
similar as well.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Well, I mean, let's just talk about tomorrow. First of all,
Toronto's in dire straits. I mean, they're desperate, right. You
got to think that John Schneider is going to throw
the kitchen sink at Dan Wilson.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
How do we think George Kirby responds?
Speaker 1 (35:29):
How do we think the Mariners respond tomorrow in a
game that could absolutely crush This could be a death
blow to Toronto if they can just get this thing done.
And then imagine Larry with that area, That whole area
is going to be like on Thursday, from dawn to
dusk before Game four.
Speaker 9 (35:46):
Man, Yeah, well, yeah, I mean Kirby. I have faith
in Kirby just by what he's done in the postseason.
He's shown that he can handle the pressure. And I
mean he's been great in the two starts that he
had this year. He was great in twenty and twenty two.
He's rested. Uh, I think, you know, I think he's
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gonna pitch pitch very well. They're going up against Shane Bieber,
who is a cy Young Award winner a few years ago,
but he's not the same pitcher that he was then.
All the pressure is on them, Uh, you know, they
know that they can't lose this game, and they're walking
into as a hostel and the environment as they're going
to face, you know, all year. So I think for
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the Mariners, the key is getting ahead on early like
they have all postseason. I think there's only one game
where they didn't. They weren't the first team that scored.
That was the the Springer home run the other day,
and and they overcame. They overcame that. So I think
if the Mariners can jump up, jump ahead as they've
done all postseason, I think I think the momentum is
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going to you know, swing their way, the crowd and
all that, and I think it's going to be a
good outcome.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
Well, Larry, had they not won yesterday, we all know
what the number one topic would have been, and that
would have been Dan Wilson starting a pitcher that had
thrown one hundred and nineteen pitches since Tuesday against the
pitcher that had thrown fifteen pitches since Monday. What was
your take going into the game on the decision to
start Gilbert over Louise.
Speaker 9 (37:20):
Surprised and I didn't quite understand it. I, you know,
the the only rationale I could really come up with
was they really don't want Louise pitching on the on
the road in the postseason. This will be his third
start at home, and they've they've manipulated the matchups so
that he's he's pitched only only at home. So but
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I didn't like the asda of well, you know, why
not go with the more rested guy. But as with
all the pitching decisions that Dan's made, they've kind of
worked out. They've won, They won game one game, so yeah,
the beauty is is that he has so many great choices.
You know, they have a five. You watch these postseasons
and you see teams have bullpen games in game five,
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you know, deciding games of the of the playoffs, and
teams are showing bullpen games. And the Mariners will never
have to do that because they have four good starters
and if wo comes back, they'll have five and that's
just a huge luxury to have. So in a lot
of ways, there's no there's no wrong decisions for Dan,
although I think this was a West but it worked out.
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It worked out.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
No, Dick's right, they would have lost the game. He
would have been barbecued.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
And I thought Larry that Dick was going to ask
about when he mentioned Game five, They're going to ask
about Bryce Miller's performance in game number one. I mean,
that really is just amazing, and that really set the momentum,
I think for the entire series so far. When you
go in there and you steal game one and you
get out of there on short rest obviously kind of
reminded me of Bobby Walcott in Game one of the
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Indian series and ninety five. Now, Bryce obviously started way
more games than Bob Walcott did at that point in time,
But where does that game kind of sit for you
on the list of all time great clutch performances by
a Mariner starting pitcher. What Bryce Miller did in Game
one on Sunday night.
Speaker 9 (39:11):
Yeah, it's got to go, you know, right near the top.
That's not to the top. It was a heroic performance
by Bryce, and I mean, particularly in light of the
arc of the game. The first pitch home run, then
then the what was a twelve or thirteen pitch walk
that followed, and I think there was another walk twenty
seven pitches. I mean I was thinking to myself. I
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think I said it to someone I was watching the
game with, this is going to be an Emerson Hancock game.
We're going to be seeing Emerson Hancock early because pitch
count was so high. They were hitting, you know, three
balls over one hundred miles an hour we're hitting that
first inning. But whatever adjustment he made was incredible, you know,
to get through six innings with the pitch count that
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he did. The whole team through one hundred pitches that game,
and twenty seven were in the first inning. That means
they averaged nine pitches an inning to the final eight inning.
They just completely shut them down. And you know, after
the final six innings yesterday and Sunday, the Blue Jays
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virtually had no no offense whatsoever. They were completely shut
down in both games. But Bryce Miller, you know that
that that's that was the game of his life and
it was, you know, incredibly needed by the Mariners.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
Larry, I do not mean to sound like a cocky
Mariner fan up to nothing. When I'm when I'm about
to say that, I'm just gonna be I'm gonna be
honest with you.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
There we go.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
I find myself after seeing Springer and Vlade and I'm like,
is that it? And then I look at their pitching
staff and their starters are twentieth in baseball, their bullpen
is sixteenth in baseball, and they have seven offensive starters
under seven to seventy Ops.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
Are you does this team impress you that we're playing
right now?
Speaker 8 (41:00):
Well?
Speaker 9 (41:00):
Yeah, I think you got a note that Bob Baschett,
one of what they're one of their top players. You know,
he's not there. Anthony Santander was scratched yesterday, so they
you know, I think they've they've been a better team
in the season than they are right now. But uh,
I think your point, Dick is a valid one. I
think the Mariners are demonstrably a better team than Blue Jays,
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and I think that's that's showing and that that will
prevail in the long run. You know, you don't want
to you don't want to give them any life by
by dropping this game. And you know, Kim Booth had
a story today with talking to Mitch Garber about two
years ago, when the when the when? The or was
it three years ago? When the Rangers won the World Series?
They won the first two on the road and then
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lost the next three at home, and then came back
to win the next two on on the road again. So, uh,
you know the teams, it happens. It doesn't happen very often,
but teams have blown two game leads after winning the
first still on the road. So yeah, I don't think
you can get too cocky, but I think your general
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point is a valid one. The Mariners have a better offense.
I think they have a better starting staff and they
have a better bullpen, and that should tell the story. Well.
Speaker 2 (42:14):
Larry Stones with us courtesy of the RAM.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
Normally joins us on Tuesdays at six, but we got
cracking hockey with Montreal coming up pregame three thirty faced
off at four, And you guys remember the Natural when
not the Natural but Field of Dreams. When Kevin Costner
went to see James Earl Jones Terrence Mayn and said,
I want you to write about this, about my experiences here,
when they invited him into center field, the cornfield and Larry,
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I really, first of all, hope that you're planning on
writing about this number one, because just like not having
Dave Kneehouse around, this journey would not and I'm being serious,
like we bust your balls a lot, we have fun
here on the radio show, but it would not be
the same unless you put pen to paper. So I
really hope you're planning on doing that number one. And
then number two, I want you to write about Josh Naylor,
and I want you to write about his experiences and
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become a dad. And the home running hit last night
in Canada becomes the first Canadian born player to hit
a home run in Toronto and the playoffs are you
kidding me?
Speaker 2 (43:08):
Like really never happened before.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
And I'm just Larry, I'm watching Josh Naylor play and
I'm asking myself, how the hell did Cleveland or Arizona
let this guy go?
Speaker 2 (43:17):
Like you can't find room for that guy in your roster?
Speaker 9 (43:22):
Yeah, thanks for the for the kind words. I am
finding myself like regretting that I'm not with the with
the with the guys in Toronto writing this thing. It
would be so much fun, But I made the you know,
I made the choice to retire, so here we are.
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But yeah, Naylor would be especially fun to write about.
He just seems like such an interesting character. And you
you know, you hear the interviews with him, and he
doesn't sound he sounds very reasonable, you know, he doesn't.
He doesn't sound like a guy that plays with the
intensity in the air as he does. He's you know,
he's kind of quiet and well spoken, and the contrast
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is interesting. But I would yeah, he's I think it's imperative,
becoming more so by the day that they do what
it takes to bring this guy back. And you know,
I mean, the Diamondbacks made the decision that they were
out of it and that he's a free agent at
the end of the year, so get something for him
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rather than having him just walk away. As it turned
out that Diamondbacks really weren't out of it. They contended
till the last couple of weeks, so they probably regret
getting rid of Josh if not Gino. So, you know,
the best trade deadline acquisition the Mariners have ever made,
I think that's safe to say. You know, Castillo Castillo
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used to be that, but I think this is an
even better one.
Speaker 2 (44:50):
Larry, you mentioned wo earlier.
Speaker 3 (44:52):
Would you test him out of the pen, or would
you just be comfortable just throwing him out there on
Friday or or maybe Game six or Game seven. I
thought yesterday might have actually been a nice opportunity up
by six runs to throw him out there for an
inning and see what happens.
Speaker 9 (45:07):
Yeah, I think i'd start him just because he's used
to that and you could just monitor him. It sounds
like he's about fifty pitches. I think it's you know,
Maris don't want to have to use him because they'd
rather sweep and then then they wouldn't have to worry
about it for this series. But in a way, I
think it would be good just to get him out
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on the hill, and even if it's for three or
four innings, because he needs to build on it for
the you know, for the World Series if they get there.
If he throws fifty in his start, you know, the
game five start, if there is one, then maybe he's
up to seventy five his next start and it's in
the World Series, and then you could get him through
five innings maybe, So I think I think it's important
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to get him out there, you know, start that that
what's really a rehab situation going for him. And you know,
and I think it's I just think it's more conducive
to do it as a starter, and then you could
you could set your bullpen behind that, knowing that on
that day you're probably going to need five sixceedings of
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bullpen work.
Speaker 1 (46:14):
Well, Larry Stone again, and I just say this about
Game three tomorrow, that no team in the American League
playoffs has one more games at home, and no team
is one fewer on the road than Toronto. I mean,
their home road splits are insane, fifty four and twenty
seven versus forty and forty one. They are under five
hundred on the road. They are a totally It's like
the Rockies. They are a totally different team on the road.
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And now you've got three games at T Mobile Park.
And you know, a buddy of mine text and said, hey,
we've got two games, we got three game series against Toronto.
You win the series and you go in the World Series.
So Larry, the next time we speak next Tuesday, the
Mariners will either be in the World Series or their
season will be over next Tuesday. All right, I mean
that is what we are dealing with right now. So
I want to ask you real quick, as Chuck threw
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this out there of the year day, and I was
actually thinking about it before he brought it up.
Speaker 2 (47:00):
But I'll give him credit.
Speaker 1 (47:01):
If Jerry Depoto finishes this thing off and he gets
to the Marinon war the ms to the World Series.
For as much heat as he's been taken the last decade,
are we now ready to call him the greatest Mariner
executive of all time?
Speaker 9 (47:16):
I think I think that's probably fair. This will be
their fifth straight winning This is their fifth straight winning season.
You know, they only got to the playoffs twice out
of those. But I mean, this team has been striving
unsuccessfully for a World Series for almost fifty years, and
whoever was going to be the guy who got it done,
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I think is instantly a legend. And I think that
for all the for all the criticism and faults of Jerry,
he built this team, and if you look at it,
it was a pretty damn good job of building it.
There's a lot of guys that he got, you know,
in shrewd trades, under the radar trades, great drafting, and
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that's the sort of thing. So it's a well built
team and I think it's hard for a lot of
fans to give him credit just because there's so much
animosity and and made for the all the struggling years
that the fact of the matter is that this rebuilt
has been pretty good.
Speaker 2 (48:15):
Are we talking World Series next Tuesday with you?
Speaker 9 (48:18):
I think we are? Softy and Dick.
Speaker 2 (48:22):
Unbelievable? All right, dude, we'll talking a week. Man, have fun,
have fun watching the.
Speaker 9 (48:27):
Games, all right, all right, I'm gonna be there tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (48:30):
Love it though, Stop buy and see.
Speaker 1 (48:31):
Us at Jimmy's. All right, we'll have a glass of
mana chevit's waiting for you.
Speaker 2 (48:34):
How's that?
Speaker 9 (48:36):
That's good?
Speaker 2 (48:37):
All right?
Speaker 9 (48:37):
Man?
Speaker 2 (48:38):
Larry Stow with us on the air. I mean, god,
it's just you just hear things like that. Yeah, it's
like hits.
Speaker 9 (48:43):
You.
Speaker 2 (48:44):
Are we talking World Series next week? We are?
Speaker 1 (48:46):
Okay, Well, let's make that happen because in one week
from now again we're either talking. I mean, they've been
playing baseball. What was the tweet I put out last night?
Seventeen thousand whatever days since their first game in Diego
Sagie in nineteen seventy seven, and now we are potentially
fifty four hours away, Dick from a World Series.
Speaker 3 (49:03):
And I think the crazy thing is you're going tomorrow,
I'm going on Thursday. I'm either gonna walk in Thursday
just in a celebratory let's just end this thing and
see it happen, or I'm gonna walk in going. We
gotta win to Ice. Absolutely, it's gonna be so weird.
The vibe between winning and losing tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (49:20):
Nervous? Do you get if they drop Game three and
you're walking into Game four? Very nervous?
Speaker 9 (49:24):
Right?
Speaker 2 (49:25):
Well?
Speaker 1 (49:25):
Tickets for Game four, which could be the clincher if
they're lucky enough to pull off tomorrow, three hundred and
forty six bucks to get in the door right now
at Venue Kings, and Guys, I'm telling you I would
jump on that now because those prices are gonna jump
like a freaking kangaroo if the Mariners win tomorrow, all right,
cracking hockey against Montreal. The boys got you next,
I am a friggin god darn mess right now, absolute mess.
I got in the car this morning. I already told
you guys this. I got in the car this morning
to go see my mom, who lives about what a
mile or so north of me, and ended up driving
to the Emeral Queen Casino. No idea why, just got
my get I got to High five and realized I
was going the wrong way and turn it around. Yeah, okay,
I'm like, I'm not supposed to go to the Emerald
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Queen Casino. So I've done. I've done no preparation for
this radio show whatsoever. I have nothing on this piece
of paper for anything but a couple of notes in
my brain from this morning talking about the stat that
we were discussing about the LCS, which I don't really
want to bring that up, by the way, all right,
because I look, I don't want to jinx anything and
Jackson jinxes aren't real, jenxues aren't real. All I want
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to do right now for me and I just first
of all, I gotta be honest with you guys. I
don't know how far I should go with this description.
I don't want to offend anybody, but now I know
how sometimes my wife feels and that I just every
now and then just start bursting out into tears. It's incredible,
Like I can't control myself. I cannot control myself. Dick
getting emotional. I'm thinking about this. I'm calling my friends,
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I'm asking my buddies. Is this really happening? Like this
is this really happening? Morpheus at the end of the matrix.
I've imagined this moment.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
For so long?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Is this real? Is this actually real? And we're not
there yet, We're not fricking there yet. The only thing
that matters is kicking their ass tomorrow night in Game three.
That's it, because the last thing this baseball team can do, guys,
is give that team hope. That's the last thing they
can do. And they have a chance tomorrow. You guys
know this as well as I. They have a chance
tomorrow to bring a sledgehammer to their hopes of making
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the World Series. Talking Toronto, now, put one foot in
the grave, and here's what's gonna happen tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
You win this.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Game tomorrow night, and you're gonna have people starting to
order champagne to be available in that clubhouse on Thursday.
You're gonna have broadcasters start to think about what they're
gonna say when the game comes to an end, if
they haven't already.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
By the way, Like I remember talking to Tony.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Casterkuind I've never told the story on the air, and
I will not how many details unless Tony's cool with it.
I texted Tony like six seven months after the UW
Michigan game and I said to him, I said, look,
did you have like a bunch of lines like ready
to go? Did you know what you were going to
say if the Husky's beating Michigan to win the National Championship?
And he sends me back this screenshot of like seven
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or eight things that he was sitting on that, depending
on the moment, he was going to go with. And
I'm sure you've done things like that yourself too in
your broadcast career. They win this game tomorrow and Rick Riz,
Aaron Goldsmith, Gary Hill, whoever ends up being on the
call for the end of the game Thursday. They go
to bed tomorrow night thinking about what they're going to say.
And I'm thinking about Dave nee House right now, and
I'm telling you, I cannot go ninety minutes without crying.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Guys, I can't do it.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I'm thinking about Dave knee House and that line that
he had when the Mariners beat the Angels in ninety five.
Not the Randy looks to the sky that oops is
covered by the dome, not that.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
One nineteen long years.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Well, no, well that's part of it. But when the
cause it's been longer than that, it's been almost fifty years. Well,
Dave Whitonne what he said when the fans rushed the field,
Remember that, when the fans rushed the field. I don't
think we've had a baseball game since then with the
Mariners where the fans were on the field the way
they were in ninety five after the one game playoff.
I don't remember think they rushed the field in game five,
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Not against the Yankees two thousand, two thousand and one.
It was the playoff game against the Angels. That's the
only time I think that's correct, right on the field
where the only time that fans have been on the
field is when we beat the Angels in that one
game playoff in ninety five. And Dave Neihouse said, my friends,
this is indescribable. Remember that, And that's exactly how this
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is going to feel if they can just find a
way to pull this off. And a buddy of mine
who actually works for the Mariners, I won't tell you
who it is, but his name's Adam, texted me today
and said, look, man, we got a three game series
against Toronto at home starting tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Three games, we win the series, and we're going to
the World Series. That's it.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Five games left to win two of them. So I
don't want to hear about your stats. I don't want
to hear about your two games to none. What teams do.
I've seen it all at some possible not to see
on social media. All I want these guys to do
is brick by brick, inning by inning, at bat by
it bat, take away any ounce of hope that they've
got and crutched them tomorrow night and end this thing.
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And then let's get to Thursday night. And imagine what
the atmosphere. First of all, tomorrow is going to be
lunacy at the ballpark. Imagine what it's gonna be like
Thursday night if they can win tomorrow, what that atmosphere
is like at T Mobile Park. And I will say
one more thing, Dick, one more thing, Sorry, do not
let money if you can afford it. And I realize
that for some people that's the context is different.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
If you can find a way to get your ass
into that ballpark tomorrow or Thursday or Friday, if there
is a game five, do not in twenty five years
from now regret not being there if you can afford it,
whatever it takes.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
This is why you save.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
This is why you have a rainy day fun whatever
you call your savings account, because that five hundred bucks,
thousand bucks, fifteen hundred bucks, whatever it is to get
in the doray and a friend drop five thousand dollars
today for tickets for Game.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Three of the World Series.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
He's like, you know, if I don't spend the money,
what am I gonna do with the five thousand bucks?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Just keep it in the savings or going on a vacation.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Hell no, you got to be there, man, If you
can afford it, do not allow yourself to pass on
this opportunity, because there's never going to be a first
time again after this. Hopefully with this ownership and with
this general manager and with this president, this will be
a common theme for us in the next maybe five
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to ten years.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
But the first time. There's never going to be another
first time.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
And I am begging you, I've got so much regret
as a sports fan about events that I passed over
that I did not go to that I am kicking
myself forever because I was not there. So if you
can afford this, get there, find a way to get
your ass in that building. Would I would buy tickets
for Thursday night right now, because if we win tomorrow night,
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those take a price are gonna skyrocket dick before Thursday's game.
So if you can afford it, do not let money
be the reason why you did not find yourself in
the park this week.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
I think the best explanation of how I'm going about
this series is let's let's turn it into a football
game for a second. All Right, we are in the
second quarter of early stages of the second quarter of
the NFC Championship game right now, and we're up two touchdowns, right,
We're up fourteen to nothing. And so when you're sitting there,
I remember, you know, I never got that opportunity against
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the Packers because we were never ahead until the end, right,
But I did get that opportunity against the Panthers, right.
I was in the stadium against the Panthers, and I
think we were up two touchdowns in the first half
of that game. Yeah, And I remember sitting there going, Okay,
I'm not celebrating, not celebrating. I'm like physically telling myself
not to celebrate, and I am not celebrating right now.
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And I will allow myself to slightly celebrate if we
go up three nothing, because us weep would be against
this team and this pitching staff.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
To lose four games in a row would be.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Almost quotation marks almost impossible against this team. But to
come back from two down with that offense that they
got over there and those pictures that they got that
they can throw at us, it is still very very
much a serious song, keeping myself very much up fourteen
to nothing in the early stages of the second quarter.
Right now, we're one touchdown and all of a sudden,
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you look up Scorpors like, crap, it's a one score game.
I don't think we can one win, and we go
to the Bay. We go there Thursday going crap, we
lose this.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
It's two two.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
We haven't come anywhere near this thing being over. It's
just not even in my vocabulary. Guys. It's just I mean,
shame on you if you even have that in your brain.
Get it out, get it out right now. Don't even
think about it. It's it's not even close to being over,
you know. I saw Mark James tweet that last night,
and I gotta be honest with you. I could have
gotten in my car and find him and I could
have punched him. So he said this is over World Series,
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and it made me physically sick.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Now again he does him, I do me.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
That's fine, okay, okay, but whatever, But no chickens counted
on this.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
There is not a chance in f and hell I'm
going down that road, not yet, not even close. And
I will look you do you, Dick, I'll disagree with you.
Game three, we win it, whatever, I'm not even close
to that.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Either.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
It's got to be bottom of the eighth, bottom of
the ninth, whatever that top of the ninth. This is
not over until it's over, because we have now reached
that stage right where it's like critical mass. There's no
in between. Now we're either gonna be elated with I
think the greatest sports moment of our lives. For me,
this will top anything that I've ever been a part of.
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Ever about witty world series are getting to the world Dude,
I almost think making the world series. Dick, I don't know, Dick,
I don't know. Okay, here's here's what I don't want
you to do. Please, for the love of Christ, I'm
begging you don't put me on the spot this week, which.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
You have to be real careful, seriously.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Because I'm not because I'm not in the mood to
fight with anybody about what this means to people. People
say what they want to say. They're freaking emotional, all right,
they're on edge. This is something we've been waiting for
for fifty god darn years. So if I'm in the
mood to sit here and tell you right now that
this would be the greatest thing I've ever seen in
my life, and it's bigger than a super Bowl title.
It may sound idiotic to you, but right now it's
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the way I feel. That's the way I feel right now.
And you mentioned the NFC Championship, and I'm glad that
you brought that up, because this is the difference. This
is why I keep telling people this is totally different
than the super Bowl. Imagine if the super Bowl was
spread out over four days and each quarter was on
a different day, and there was a break in between.
I mean, you are going to bed every night and
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you're thinking about this. You're preoccupied. You can't do squat,
you can't focus on anything.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
You don't want to talk to anybody. All you want
to do is.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Just talk Mariners and think Mariators and countdown until the
freaking game starts tomorrow at five oh eight or whatever
the hell time it is. So this is you and
I growing up, and Jackson's behind us, obviously, But for us,
the World Series not for us us. It's for other people,
for the Yankees, the Red Sox, for the Tigers, right,
it's for the Toronto Blue Jays in the early nineties, whatever, Atlanta,
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Saint Louis, blah blah blah, Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
It's not for us.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
We've been rejected at every freaking turn, and now to
be two games away from the World Series and the
closest we've ever been in our lives. And we've never
waited for something this long.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Ever. We didn't wait this long for a Super Bowl,
we didn't wait this long for.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
The NBA Championship, and we certainly didn't wait this long,
at least in our lifetime.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
For a college football championship.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
We've never collectively as a city waited this long for anything.
And the fact that we, dude, in what the hell
time is that right now it's two fifteen.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
We are fifty one hours away.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
We are potentially fifty five hours away from going to
the World Series. Fifty five from going to the World Series.
That's how close it is. You can freaking smell the
damn thing.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
And what's crazy is that Jackson's generation went through the
same draught that our generation went through. We went through
the seventy six to ninety five generation and you went
through the two to twenty twenty five genera. I mean,
it's it's unbelievable. Now we've just been through two of them, right,
which is fought and real. But you're exactly right. I mean,
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the Sonics went growing up, the Sonics were always good.
That doesn't mean they always had a great season every year,
but you always felt like, the Sonics are good. They
won a championship already, they're gonna win a championship again,
which they never did, but they got close. You know,
the Seahawks were always you know, you get Chuck Knocks
got there, Dave and I only like ten years old.
When Chuck Knock got we were like, the Seahawks are
good man, We're one step away from the super Bowl.
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We're gonna get here eventually, and we did. But he
is exactly right. There was never a thought, Jackson. There
was never an steam going that the Mariners were gonna
make the world.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
It's like being that nerdy guy in high school and
the the prom queen. You got no shot, No she
got it, you got no shot, And then here she
is right in front, here she is. It is interesting because,
as you know, as.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
A thirty three year old, it is funny because I
had this conversation with another thirty three year old while
watching Game two. And for us, in our adult life,
we were we weren't really conscious and oh one to
like really soak in what it meant. So for us,
this is the first time in our adult lives we've
been in a big playoff series. You think sonics right, like,
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that's all the way back. And this is a new
concept to my brain and to my generation's brain of
exactly what you guys said series.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Because you went through the Hawks that wasn't a series.
And that's the thing.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
It's where every single game is a quarter when it
comes to a game every day, and that's that's a
different mental jump on different It's a I don't understand
how your brains dealt with this for Sonics and Mariners
series over this, because I honestly it's short circuiting trying
to understand how to operate on a daily basis.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Well, here's the thing for me, all right, and we'll
just wrap it up.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
We'll get to a breakwere here from Dan Wilson right
a little bit, next segment, Who is the podium with
the media today before before Game three? I in our business,
our job is to describe the way that we're feeling,
whether our opinions, our emotions, whatever insight you know, blah
blah blah. I'm just telling you guys right now that
I'm having a hard time doing that, all right. I'm
having a hard time expressing the emotions that come along
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with something like this. This is bigger than anything I've
ever felt in my life as a sportsman anything, And
maybe I'll feel differently in five years from now, Dick,
when we've been there three times, maybe when it's over
and you asked me, so, how do you feel now?
Maybe I'll give you a totally different answer. This thing
is done right now in the moment today, I have
a hard time putting words together what this means to me.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
So whatever, Well, you've always rooted for the city that
never gets it, right, you root it for the Cleveland Cavaliers,
and this is us.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
This is different, man.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Know what I'm saying is now you're rooting for the
city that never got it, and it's actually us.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
This is super special, man, super special. So let's let's
just you know, hey, let's get it done, all right,
Let's get this done tomorrow night, and whatever hope they've.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Got, crush it and put them in a situation.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Like you said, dick up three to zero where you
can start to taste it and you've got four chances
to get one game a win tomorrow night. Man, And
oh my god, Soto and that whole area around the
stadium is gonna be a freaking circus. I'm not even
sure if I'll go home after the show tomorrow. I
swear to God him. There's a hotel right there right
to twenty one. Dan Wilson here from the Skipper. Next
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on ninety three three kJ RFM from the R and R.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
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Speaker 1 (14:47):
All right, we're back here on a busy what the
hell is Tuesday Saftie, Dick Jackson and for Ean and Jess,
we will do factor fiction. And because it's us filling in,
then we get to make the pick and we get
credit for it.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Wrong.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
This is like because we're kind of kicking ass in
Factor of fiction and let's face it, Ian kind of
sucks and.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Factor fiction's right.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
This is like when the varsity team shows up to
use the practice field when the freshmen are on it
and they just kick them off. Say, look, you guys
don't know what you're doing. We're taking over, all right.
So factor fiction brought to you by the Lucky Egle
case seeing it one hotel in a matter of a
Minute's Dan Wilson, Meritor Skipper before the pivotal game three
tomorrow with the media today.
Speaker 7 (15:22):
This is a group that's tight. You know, the whole
pitching staff together is tight. They share information, they talk
about it. They you know, they let each other know
what it's like and so they they're a little bit
more prepared too, so but it's it's good knowing that
you know, these guys are have had a little bit
experience now under their belt and they're ready to go.
Speaker 8 (15:40):
Then from your standpoint here to be back in Seattle
ahead two Oh. I mean, what is the word or
the feeling I think that you know embodies the team
right now when you think about being in this position
to come back home and have potentially three in front
of you here.
Speaker 7 (15:52):
Yeah, obviously it's a very advantageous position when we're excited
about that, but you know, there's there's work to do here,
and I think the focus is tomorrow night.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
That's that's where our focus goes.
Speaker 7 (16:02):
And that's kind of how we've done this, you know,
all along is just you know that we're.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Taking it one day at a time.
Speaker 7 (16:08):
You know, it sounds very cliche, but you take it
one step at a time, and and you know, tomorrow
night we're looking forward to to getting back out there,
you know, you know, taking in the atmosphere here at
T Mobile. We know it's going to be an awesome
atmosphere here for baseball, So that that's where our focus lies.
We get back to work. I think, you know, as
we've talked about the pitching, it's been so solid and
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offensively able to do some great things. So both sides
of the ball, we just need to continue to keep
doing that. And and uh, you know, I think that's
that's the focus going forward.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
The important of the details.
Speaker 9 (16:38):
You've talked about that from day one, Just important of
the details. Each pitch, each.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
A bad yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 7 (16:45):
You know, I think we've seen we talk about the
postseason where little things make big differences. We've seen that
in a lot of these postseason games, not just our games,
but in all the games. And so you do you
focus on the details. You know that each pitch has
you know, magnified significance. You know that each out makes
a big difference. Each at bat can can be huge.
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So I think we've talked about it with our offense
that you know, you start stacking those tough at bats
back to back, and over time you start to to
wear down pitchers.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
And that's when we're at our best.
Speaker 7 (17:20):
So yes, each pitch, each at bat, those are all
very big things here in the postseason, and and our
guys know that, and that's why our focus continues to be,
you know, tomorrow night, and we'll get back out on
the field and get started again.
Speaker 10 (17:34):
Right from kind of continuing on that train of thought
of just the subtle differences, you know, Alds, you guys
came back home. It was when you go home, you
knew the situation. This situation a little bit different. Have
an opportunity to close it out. Just what is the
kind of difference or variation and pressure compared to having
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that lead with an opportunity to close it out at home,
compared to you know, win or go home.
Speaker 7 (18:00):
You know again, I think we take the same mindset.
We go out and we play good baseball tomorrow night.
That's our focus, and I think that's that's where we're
at as a team, and and that that's where that's
what our goal is, is to come out tomorrow and
continue to do the things we've been doing. And that's
that's the hope and and that's what our preparation will be,
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you know, gear towards and we'll do the things that
we've been doing on the mount, uh, you know, preparation wise,
will be doing the things offensively that we've been doing.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Preparation rise and we'll be ready to play game time.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
All right, So the voice of Dan Wilson.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
You guys obviously know the name Shane Bieber, who we
know from his Guardians Indians days, won the Cy Young
in twenty twenty, and he's pitching tomorrow night for Toronto
and he just came off the IL in August after
Tommy John surgery. And he hasn't played much this year.
He's only made I think seven starts, is that right?
He has seven starts on the season, and he's been
pretty good. He's had two starts where he was kind
of five runs and six against the Reds in September,
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three runs, five and two thirds against the Astros, and
at his next start and the other five he was
two runs or less at every single game. So a
lot of guys are better Dick when they come off
with Tommy John surgery and see and see better results.
But we'll see what's going on with Shane Bieber tomorrow.
And George Kirby, who's been a better pitcher at home
than the road. He's never beaten the Blue Jays. I
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think he's only faced him one time. So really you
can't read much into that, but what looks like to
be another solid, kick ass pitching matchup tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
It does.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
It just shocks me that this is what Toronto's got
to throw at us. I mean, they go with a
twenty two year old rookie that had started three games
in his major league career in game two of the ALCS,
and now they're throwing a guy coming off with Tommy
John surgery and game three.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
It's just stunning to me.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
I haven't paid much attention to Toronto, and with the
attention that I had paid attention to, paid attention was
just their three, four and five it is the rest
of their team does not look great.
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Speaker 2 (24:03):
Hey, Dick, did you happen to hear that? What's that? Dick?
Speaker 1 (24:06):
We start with our buddy Mike Tomlin, longtime head coach
of the Pittsburgh Steelers too, at a press conference this week, stunned, shocked,
could not believe I think Cleveland Browns would trade their
starting quarterback and Joe Flacco to a division rival in Cincinnati.
Speaker 11 (24:22):
You know, to be honest, it was shocking to me.
Andrew Barry must be a lot smarter than me or us,
because it doesn't make sense to me to trade a
quarterback that you think enough of to make your opening
day starter to a division opponent that's hurting in that area.
But that's just my personal feelings.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Okay, So there is some context about why Flacco was
starting right because everybody else was hurt for the most part,
that's why he was out there. And the second of all,
you mentioned how Flacco looked last week, is that correct?
There's a chance we got to admit that he comes
out and looks like ass this weekend.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
He's anything can happen with its one hundred years old.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
So Mike Tomlin and Pittsburgh make him look terrible and
they would say to Mike, hey, you're still mad that
you had to face Joe Flacco on Sunday because he's broke.
I'm very curious to see what Tomlin's reaction is after
the game.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
He's trying to fire up his defense and let him
know that, hey, this is not a pushover team that
you're playing against. But I will say this, Joe Flacco
is the youngest quarterback at the age of forty in
that game.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
That is amazing, incredible.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
How about the guys that are starting in the NFL,
A bunch of has bins that are now having resurgences
and a bunch of old farts like Joe Flacco and
Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
It's unbelieved you guys won Super Bowl? What twelve and
thirteen years ago? Fifteen years ago?
Speaker 1 (25:40):
I was two thousand and twelve, twelve, Yeah, twenty eleven, Yeah, amazing, unreal?
All right, Hey, Dick, did you happen to hear that?
What's that?
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Dick?
Speaker 1 (25:49):
During the sixth itnting of yesterday's Mariners win Fox ALCS
broadcaster Joe Davis and John Smoltz, we're talking about eating
chicken during Canadian Thanksgiving?
Speaker 9 (26:00):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Are you more of a breast or leg meat?
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Breast?
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Okay, right, I'm more of a leg man, mysel. I
think it's turkey. It says chicken on the.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
I'm well aware of the situation, wrote yeah, I did chicken.
Moving on, let's move on, first of all, time out,
a second time out. Let's not bring the lead here,
thank you? Okay? Number one? Are we breast men or
leg men here? Like?
Speaker 9 (26:28):
Like? Okay?
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Well, I'm more of a leg man myself, but not
a turkey leg?
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Number two is I don't know a damn thing about
Canadian Thanksgiving?
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Is it possible to eat chicken on Canadians. Well, yeah,
but they were eating a turkey. I don't you get that? Okay,
why are you so mad at me?
Speaker 5 (26:45):
You're ignoring the importance of this clip, which is breast
or leg, boobs are asphain pigy.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Okay, that's the point, the whole thing, boobs or butts
and again maybe they eat chicken on Canadians. Giving you
want some lo that I'm running burgundy. You know, I
read anything as you will. All right, whenever he puts
on the sheet is going out over the air. Dick
fin can kiss my ass. That's what it says right there.
All right, Hey, Dick, did you happen to hear that?
Speaker 2 (27:09):
What's that?
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Dick?
Speaker 2 (27:10):
You want to go on order here? Jackson two three?
All right?
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Blue Jay's broadcasters Ben Showman Chris LaRue. Is that how
you say that? By the way, had this reaction to
Hore Polanco's go ahead three run shot and the fifth
inning yesterday on Sportsnet five ninety in Toronto.
Speaker 12 (27:22):
The one to one he hit well right center field,
far show racing back at the warning track, leaps at
the fence and that ball is gone. Three run homer,
Jorge Polanco and the Mariners are back up three six
three Seattle in the top of the fifth. It just
snuck out, bouncing off the top of the fence.
Speaker 13 (27:43):
Well you said it, Ben, You have to be careful
with Jorge Polonko. He's come up with a lot of
big hits in the postseason for the Mariners. A couple
of home runs off Trek Scooble when they were playing
the Detroit Tigers, and he was all over that fastball.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
They caught a lot of the plate.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
God just dejected, no life whatsoever. It's almost like somebody
walked up to him by the way and whispered right
in his ear before they get back your cat.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Just do you want to hear more? Well, here's Josh Naylor.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Here's his call of Josh Naylor's home run in the seventh.
Speaker 12 (28:12):
Thing they off pitch and it is crushed out to
right field. Lucas going back, he'll run out of room.
It's gone home run, Josh Naylor. Nine to three. Mariners
leave off, big blast from the big Canadian and Seattle
now really in good position to take a chew nothing
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lead going back to their hometown.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
It's almost like he was waiting for some kind of
reaction from his color guy, and he just left the booth.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
He's just like, you know what, I'm silenced it. I'm
out of here. Not the best color man in the
business for nothing?
Speaker 9 (28:48):
Right?
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Oh God, I love it. I love it. Well listen, man,
I don't want to jinx anything. I don't want to
upset the basement.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Gods. We got two games to go, man, two games
to go. God darn it, get me tomorrow night, and
holy hell, tomorrow night is going to be fun. You
said sex Jackson?
Speaker 9 (29:03):
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Okay, we'll have one more, two more if we can
fit him in. Hey, Dick, did you happen to hear
what's that? Dick Deon Sanders, head coach Colorado finding out
that the Colorado football program would be fined fifty grand
really after their fans tormed the field after their win
over twenty second rank Iowa State.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
This was coach Prime's response to the fine.
Speaker 11 (29:25):
I want to see the kids rush the field. I
absolutely love it. I mean, adds out to our security team.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
They do a good job ushering me in, but I
love to see it.
Speaker 14 (29:33):
Is it a fine for rushing the field?
Speaker 9 (29:34):
What is it?
Speaker 14 (29:35):
Fifteen fifty fifty way for rushing the field? How the
fifty thousand rushing the field? Who made that a rule?
Come on, man, that ain't right. I mean, these kids, well,
we have fifty dollars right there.
Speaker 9 (29:50):
We can chip in.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
Let's chip in, as that was when I grew up.
Speaker 14 (29:54):
You know, we're going some way back before you get
in the covers.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Some games you get a chimp in.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Okay, So fifty thousand bucks for I'm a gonny making
seven million dollars a year, which I think Prime is
making as.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
One hundred and forty dollars, that's a check.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
He could just give the money the check, and I
had the same reaction he did, But I think he
was actually more surprised at how much it was, Like,
that's it fifty grand, that's nothing the SEC charges. Yeah,
half a million dollars. If your fans rush the field,
I thought, you know what the big ten fight is.
By the way, if you rush the field zero there
is no fine, none zip. So have added husky fans
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have at it. I thought he was surprised how much
it was. That agreed, totally agreed. Yes, I was surprised
at how little it was. He was surprised at how
much it was. He could write the check, and I
can't believe it's only fifty thousand.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
That's nothing. Absolutely, that's not a deterrent. I wonder if
he's allowed to write that. You kidding, Mike?
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Is there some big twelve rule that says no, the
coach can't pay this, probably.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Directly, but I can venmo you and you can write
the check and we're done.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
We're gonna break.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Larry Stone, courtesy of the RAM, is going to join
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Speaker 6 (31:14):
It's time for our weekly conversation with legendary sports writer
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Stone all right.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Here we go. Great time to have Larry on the air.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
I don't remember having Larry on the air and saying, God,
you know what, this is really a bad time to
have them, Monk, can we blow them off?
Speaker 2 (31:43):
This kind of sucks.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Stupid time to have Larry on. That has not happened
one time this year. And I think the reason why
it hasn't happened Larry one time this year is because
this baseball team has been pretty good every single week
of the season. So it's always been a joy to
have you on the air. But this is why we
pay you. This is why you get compensated for moments
like this. You are built for this moment, Larry. We
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know you can handle it. Two games away from the
World Series, the closest they've ever been in their existence
to a World Series appearance, and I'll be honest with you,
my friend, For me, it's a little bit overwhelming.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
It really is.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
After the two games to non lead last night, what
are your thoughts on the way the series started and
the way the Tiger Series went for the MS last week?
Speaker 9 (32:25):
Well, first of all, Softy. I watched your videos on
X and I'm a little physic. I'm a little concerned
for your health.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
But by the way, if you were about to say
you were physically sick, I don't blame you either.
Speaker 9 (32:41):
I wasn't going to say that. Well, I mean, going back,
we haven't even had a show since the Friday fifteen
inning game last week. I mean, an instant, classic, masterpiece,
epic game. And then they couldn't have gone in any
better in Toronto. I mean exceeded anyone's expectations. I think
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I think most people were Marystans would have been happy
with a split, and they just they owned them in
those those two games. They just completely shut down a
really good offensive team. Yesterday that the Bats were working,
I mean, everything is set up for for them to
get to the World Series. That that doesn't mean it's
(33:25):
a done deal. Teams have blown to nothing leads. But
I really like where they are and I think everybody does.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Lara, I'm glad you mentioned Game five. Were you there
on Friday night?
Speaker 9 (33:36):
I was not there. My daughter went, but I did
not go.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Well obviously watched it right away.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Yeah, neither were we We were at Husky Stadium, But Larry,
how do you compare that to Game five in nineteen
ninety five as far as the you know, just the
overall elation, just the drama, everything you saw.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
I mean, was it right there along those lines of
ninety five?
Speaker 9 (34:02):
Well, full confession, I wasn't there in ninety five. I
didn't come to Seattle to ninety six, and I was
actually covering the National League playoffs that year. But I
feel I've confident in saying that I've written more stories
about that game and talk to more people than anybody
in the history of Seattle journalism, So I feel like
I was there. I think it's very similar in sort
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of the cathartic release that the fans had. At that point.
They had never made the playoffs, and you know, that
was their first playoff run, and to have a series
like that was just incredible, considering that the drama of
the stadium and all that, and this time it almost
feels like they've never been there because it's been you know,
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they had a taste of it in twenty twenty two.
But I think most people feel like this is the
team that has the best chance of getting there, and
to have a game like that where it's just every
pit so much as writing on every pitch, and there's
so many disappointments along the way that the double plays,
the rallies thwarted. I mean, the tension was just off
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the charts, and I think it was the same thing
in ninety five and the release once they won was
similar as well.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Well, I mean, let's just talk about tomorrow. First of all,
Toronto's in dire straits. I mean, they're desperate, right. You
got to think that John Schneider is going to throw
the kitchen sink at Dan Wilson.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
How do we think George Kirby responds?
Speaker 1 (35:29):
How do we think the Mariners respond tomorrow in a
game that could absolutely crush This could be a death
blow to Toronto if they can just get this thing done.
And then imagine Larry with that area, That whole area
is going to be like on Thursday, from dawn to
dusk before Game four.
Speaker 9 (35:46):
Man, Yeah, well, yeah, I mean Kirby. I have faith
in Kirby just by what he's done in the postseason.
He's shown that he can handle the pressure. And I
mean he's been great in the two starts that he
had this year. He was great in twenty and twenty two.
He's rested. Uh, I think, you know, I think he's
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gonna pitch pitch very well. They're going up against Shane Bieber,
who is a cy Young Award winner a few years ago,
but he's not the same pitcher that he was then.
All the pressure is on them, Uh, you know, they
know that they can't lose this game, and they're walking
into as a hostel and the environment as they're going
to face, you know, all year. So I think for
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the Mariners, the key is getting ahead on early like
they have all postseason. I think there's only one game
where they didn't. They weren't the first team that scored.
That was the the Springer home run the other day,
and and they overcame. They overcame that. So I think
if the Mariners can jump up, jump ahead as they've
done all postseason, I think I think the momentum is
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going to you know, swing their way, the crowd and
all that, and I think it's going to be a
good outcome.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
Well, Larry, had they not won yesterday, we all know
what the number one topic would have been, and that
would have been Dan Wilson starting a pitcher that had
thrown one hundred and nineteen pitches since Tuesday against the
pitcher that had thrown fifteen pitches since Monday. What was
your take going into the game on the decision to
start Gilbert over Louise.
Speaker 9 (37:20):
Surprised and I didn't quite understand it. I, you know,
the the only rationale I could really come up with
was they really don't want Louise pitching on the on
the road in the postseason. This will be his third
start at home, and they've they've manipulated the matchups so
that he's he's pitched only only at home. So but
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I didn't like the asda of well, you know, why
not go with the more rested guy. But as with
all the pitching decisions that Dan's made, they've kind of
worked out. They've won, They won game one game, so yeah,
the beauty is is that he has so many great choices.
You know, they have a five. You watch these postseasons
and you see teams have bullpen games in game five,
(38:08):
you know, deciding games of the of the playoffs, and
teams are showing bullpen games. And the Mariners will never
have to do that because they have four good starters
and if wo comes back, they'll have five and that's
just a huge luxury to have. So in a lot
of ways, there's no there's no wrong decisions for Dan,
although I think this was a West but it worked out.
(38:28):
It worked out.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
No, Dick's right, they would have lost the game. He
would have been barbecued.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
And I thought Larry that Dick was going to ask
about when he mentioned Game five, They're going to ask
about Bryce Miller's performance in game number one. I mean,
that really is just amazing, and that really set the momentum,
I think for the entire series so far. When you
go in there and you steal game one and you
get out of there on short rest obviously kind of
reminded me of Bobby Walcott in Game one of the
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Indian series and ninety five. Now, Bryce obviously started way
more games than Bob Walcott did at that point in time,
But where does that game kind of sit for you
on the list of all time great clutch performances by
a Mariner starting pitcher. What Bryce Miller did in Game
one on Sunday night.
Speaker 9 (39:11):
Yeah, it's got to go, you know, right near the top.
That's not to the top. It was a heroic performance
by Bryce, and I mean, particularly in light of the
arc of the game. The first pitch home run, then
then the what was a twelve or thirteen pitch walk
that followed, and I think there was another walk twenty
seven pitches. I mean I was thinking to myself. I
(39:35):
think I said it to someone I was watching the
game with, this is going to be an Emerson Hancock game.
We're going to be seeing Emerson Hancock early because pitch
count was so high. They were hitting, you know, three
balls over one hundred miles an hour we're hitting that
first inning. But whatever adjustment he made was incredible, you know,
to get through six innings with the pitch count that
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he did. The whole team through one hundred pitches that game,
and twenty seven were in the first inning. That means
they averaged nine pitches an inning to the final eight inning.
They just completely shut them down. And you know, after
the final six innings yesterday and Sunday, the Blue Jays
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virtually had no no offense whatsoever. They were completely shut
down in both games. But Bryce Miller, you know that
that that's that was the game of his life and
it was, you know, incredibly needed by the Mariners.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
Larry, I do not mean to sound like a cocky
Mariner fan up to nothing. When I'm when I'm about
to say that, I'm just gonna be I'm gonna be
honest with you.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
There we go.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
I find myself after seeing Springer and Vlade and I'm like,
is that it? And then I look at their pitching
staff and their starters are twentieth in baseball, their bullpen
is sixteenth in baseball, and they have seven offensive starters
under seven to seventy Ops.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
Are you does this team impress you that we're playing
right now?
Speaker 8 (41:00):
Well?
Speaker 9 (41:00):
Yeah, I think you got a note that Bob Baschett,
one of what they're one of their top players. You know,
he's not there. Anthony Santander was scratched yesterday, so they
you know, I think they've they've been a better team
in the season than they are right now. But uh,
I think your point, Dick is a valid one. I
think the Mariners are demonstrably a better team than Blue Jays,
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and I think that's that's showing and that that will
prevail in the long run. You know, you don't want
to you don't want to give them any life by
by dropping this game. And you know, Kim Booth had
a story today with talking to Mitch Garber about two
years ago, when the when the when? The or was
it three years ago? When the Rangers won the World Series?
They won the first two on the road and then
(41:43):
lost the next three at home, and then came back
to win the next two on on the road again. So, uh,
you know the teams, it happens. It doesn't happen very often,
but teams have blown two game leads after winning the
first still on the road. So yeah, I don't think
you can get too cocky, but I think your general
(42:06):
point is a valid one. The Mariners have a better offense.
I think they have a better starting staff and they
have a better bullpen, and that should tell the story. Well.
Speaker 2 (42:14):
Larry Stones with us courtesy of the RAM.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
Normally joins us on Tuesdays at six, but we got
cracking hockey with Montreal coming up pregame three thirty faced
off at four, And you guys remember the Natural when
not the Natural but Field of Dreams. When Kevin Costner
went to see James Earl Jones Terrence Mayn and said,
I want you to write about this, about my experiences here,
when they invited him into center field, the cornfield and Larry,
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I really, first of all, hope that you're planning on
writing about this number one, because just like not having
Dave Kneehouse around, this journey would not and I'm being serious,
like we bust your balls a lot, we have fun
here on the radio show, but it would not be
the same unless you put pen to paper. So I
really hope you're planning on doing that number one. And
then number two, I want you to write about Josh Naylor,
and I want you to write about his experiences and
(42:59):
become a dad. And the home running hit last night
in Canada becomes the first Canadian born player to hit
a home run in Toronto and the playoffs are you
kidding me?
Speaker 2 (43:08):
Like really never happened before.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
And I'm just Larry, I'm watching Josh Naylor play and
I'm asking myself, how the hell did Cleveland or Arizona
let this guy go?
Speaker 2 (43:17):
Like you can't find room for that guy in your roster?
Speaker 9 (43:22):
Yeah, thanks for the for the kind words. I am
finding myself like regretting that I'm not with the with
the with the guys in Toronto writing this thing. It
would be so much fun, But I made the you know,
I made the choice to retire, so here we are.
(43:42):
But yeah, Naylor would be especially fun to write about.
He just seems like such an interesting character. And you
you know, you hear the interviews with him, and he
doesn't sound he sounds very reasonable, you know, he doesn't.
He doesn't sound like a guy that plays with the
intensity in the air as he does. He's you know,
he's kind of quiet and well spoken, and the contrast
(44:05):
is interesting. But I would yeah, he's I think it's imperative,
becoming more so by the day that they do what
it takes to bring this guy back. And you know,
I mean, the Diamondbacks made the decision that they were
out of it and that he's a free agent at
the end of the year, so get something for him
(44:25):
rather than having him just walk away. As it turned
out that Diamondbacks really weren't out of it. They contended
till the last couple of weeks, so they probably regret
getting rid of Josh if not Gino. So, you know,
the best trade deadline acquisition the Mariners have ever made,
I think that's safe to say. You know, Castillo Castillo
(44:46):
used to be that, but I think this is an
even better one.
Speaker 2 (44:50):
Larry, you mentioned wo earlier.
Speaker 3 (44:52):
Would you test him out of the pen, or would
you just be comfortable just throwing him out there on
Friday or or maybe Game six or Game seven. I
thought yesterday might have actually been a nice opportunity up
by six runs to throw him out there for an
inning and see what happens.
Speaker 9 (45:07):
Yeah, I think i'd start him just because he's used
to that and you could just monitor him. It sounds
like he's about fifty pitches. I think it's you know,
Maris don't want to have to use him because they'd
rather sweep and then then they wouldn't have to worry
about it for this series. But in a way, I
think it would be good just to get him out
(45:27):
on the hill, and even if it's for three or
four innings, because he needs to build on it for
the you know, for the World Series if they get there.
If he throws fifty in his start, you know, the
game five start, if there is one, then maybe he's
up to seventy five his next start and it's in
the World Series, and then you could get him through
five innings maybe, So I think I think it's important
(45:51):
to get him out there, you know, start that that
what's really a rehab situation going for him. And you know,
and I think it's I just think it's more conducive
to do it as a starter, and then you could
you could set your bullpen behind that, knowing that on
that day you're probably going to need five sixceedings of
(46:13):
bullpen work.
Speaker 1 (46:14):
Well, Larry Stone again, and I just say this about
Game three tomorrow, that no team in the American League
playoffs has one more games at home, and no team
is one fewer on the road than Toronto. I mean,
their home road splits are insane, fifty four and twenty
seven versus forty and forty one. They are under five
hundred on the road. They are a totally It's like
the Rockies. They are a totally different team on the road.
(46:35):
And now you've got three games at T Mobile Park.
And you know, a buddy of mine text and said, hey,
we've got two games, we got three game series against Toronto.
You win the series and you go in the World Series.
So Larry, the next time we speak next Tuesday, the
Mariners will either be in the World Series or their
season will be over next Tuesday. All right, I mean
that is what we are dealing with right now. So
I want to ask you real quick, as Chuck threw
(46:56):
this out there of the year day, and I was
actually thinking about it before he brought it up.
Speaker 2 (47:00):
But I'll give him credit.
Speaker 1 (47:01):
If Jerry Depoto finishes this thing off and he gets
to the Marinon war the ms to the World Series.
For as much heat as he's been taken the last decade,
are we now ready to call him the greatest Mariner
executive of all time?
Speaker 9 (47:16):
I think I think that's probably fair. This will be
their fifth straight winning This is their fifth straight winning season.
You know, they only got to the playoffs twice out
of those. But I mean, this team has been striving
unsuccessfully for a World Series for almost fifty years, and
whoever was going to be the guy who got it done,
(47:38):
I think is instantly a legend. And I think that
for all the for all the criticism and faults of Jerry,
he built this team, and if you look at it,
it was a pretty damn good job of building it.
There's a lot of guys that he got, you know,
in shrewd trades, under the radar trades, great drafting, and
(48:00):
that's the sort of thing. So it's a well built
team and I think it's hard for a lot of
fans to give him credit just because there's so much
animosity and and made for the all the struggling years
that the fact of the matter is that this rebuilt
has been pretty good.
Speaker 2 (48:15):
Are we talking World Series next Tuesday with you?
Speaker 9 (48:18):
I think we are? Softy and Dick.
Speaker 2 (48:22):
Unbelievable? All right, dude, we'll talking a week. Man, have fun,
have fun watching the.
Speaker 9 (48:27):
Games, all right, all right, I'm gonna be there tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (48:30):
Love it though, Stop buy and see.
Speaker 1 (48:31):
Us at Jimmy's. All right, we'll have a glass of
mana chevit's waiting for you.
Speaker 2 (48:34):
How's that?
Speaker 9 (48:36):
That's good?
Speaker 2 (48:37):
All right?
Speaker 9 (48:37):
Man?
Speaker 2 (48:38):
Larry Stow with us on the air. I mean, god,
it's just you just hear things like that. Yeah, it's
like hits.
Speaker 9 (48:43):
You.
Speaker 2 (48:44):
Are we talking World Series next week? We are?
Speaker 1 (48:46):
Okay, Well, let's make that happen because in one week
from now again we're either talking. I mean, they've been
playing baseball. What was the tweet I put out last night?
Seventeen thousand whatever days since their first game in Diego
Sagie in nineteen seventy seven, and now we are potentially
fifty four hours away, Dick from a World Series.
Speaker 3 (49:03):
And I think the crazy thing is you're going tomorrow,
I'm going on Thursday. I'm either gonna walk in Thursday
just in a celebratory let's just end this thing and
see it happen, or I'm gonna walk in going. We
gotta win to Ice. Absolutely, it's gonna be so weird.
The vibe between winning and losing tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (49:20):
Nervous? Do you get if they drop Game three and
you're walking into Game four? Very nervous?
Speaker 9 (49:24):
Right?
Speaker 2 (49:25):
Well?
Speaker 1 (49:25):
Tickets for Game four, which could be the clincher if
they're lucky enough to pull off tomorrow, three hundred and
forty six bucks to get in the door right now
at Venue Kings, and Guys, I'm telling you I would
jump on that now because those prices are gonna jump
like a freaking kangaroo if the Mariners win tomorrow, all right,
cracking hockey against Montreal. The boys got you next,
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