April 10, 2024 • 31 mins
In the second hour, Dick Fain chats with Petros Papadakis about Caitlin Clark and the big ratings for the Women’s Championship last weekend, plus Bronny James, then Dick listens and reacts to Scott Servais’ comments today after the Mariners dramatic victory.
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It's time for our weekly conversation withcollege football analyst Petros Papa Nakas not that
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We all good doing? Okay?Welcome home from Maui. Yes, which
is like the vacation spot of SeattleRadio's choice. I suppose I think it's
a vacation spot of most of thePacific Northwest's choice. Right. Well,
it's the most visited island in theworld, So is that right, I
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believe it is. Wow. Yeah, we got one in Greece that's pretty
popular, Santorini. Yes, prettydarn popular, because you know, most
every picture you see of a Greekisland is this one small little town in
Santorini called Ea, but it's spelledo i A. And that is like
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the one that's built up in theside of the hill that everything's white,
right, all the buildings go white. That's not uncommon for Greek villages.
But that one is the one that'son the cliff with with the weird u
with the church, blue tops andall that. And that one is often
very much, very lot of treadon those tires, A lot of cruise
ships roll up. Oh yes,I have cruised over there. We did
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not go to Santorini. We wentto Corfu. Oh well that's on the
other side on the Adriatic. Yes, we went to Corfu and then we
went to katak Alone, which gotus to Olympia and the ancient grounds of
the Olympics, which I thought wasfascinating. Although it was like ninety eight
degrees in one and twelve percent humidity, but other than that, it was
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a fun time. So rough summertimein Greece. That about it. You
really start to feel like one ofthe three hundred Spartan soldiers. But you
know, a lot of people don'tgo to that side. You know,
that's very interesting that you that youvisited that side. You're you're truly a
man of the road less travel.That's right now. A lot of fun.
So while I was in Maui,I was sitting there, I made
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it a point Petros on Sunday,I guess it would have been Sunday morning,
Maui. Time to find myself anoutdoor TV at a bar that actually
opened early so that Caitlin Clark couldbe watched by the masses. And this
pool side bar was surrounded with peoplewatching the women's NCAA Championship game eighteen point
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seven million viewers on average, thebiggest audience for any basketball game, pro
or college, met or women infive years. Were you captivated on Sunday?
Yes, until the I was startedto lose, and then I turned
out much like when produced started tolose. Yeah, I turned it off.
But uh yeah, I was reallysurprised at my interest in the women's
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tournament. Maybe it happened because Iwas in My kids were in spring break,
and I was in the desert,another vacation resort spot that you're quite
familiar with, Dick. I wasout in the Coachella Valley and did you
go to Boomers? Did you goto Boomers? Wife took the kids to
Boomers? Thank god I missed.I missed out. I was still here
doing I had Dodgers Opening Day totake care of, which was interesting in
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the light of the Otani stuff,and a much different kind of opening day,
a lot of tight sphincters. Andand then the next day we had
an event at Santa Nita, whichis a famous race turn down here.
So and so then I wasn't ableto get out. I got out to
the desert, and you know,I don't have my normal accout mom my
office that I can hide in andwatch pornography. So I was just sitting
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there with the kids watching I watcheda lot of games, you know,
because I had a vested interest.You know, UCLA was interesting to me.
Then, you know, every timeLSU played it was a Twitter event
and like a racial war. Andthen you had South Carolina who was really
good. And then the Caitlin Clarkstuff was just phenomenal. I mean she
was she just delivered on all thehype. Game in and game out.
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There was just so much excitement andshe was doing stuff that you just haven't
seen from a player in that atthat level, and it was pretty wild
to watch. And I've watched USCof course, I watch the Beeves.
You know, they were they wereinvolved for a while. So I watch
a lot of those teams and thenwas really gratified by all of it until
Iowa lost in the end, andthen then I got Then it was just
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all about all the faces that DannyHurley makes and all that. But it
was a good tournament. And look, it was great, you know,
like they say, everybody's been saying, and I think it's something JFK said
that, you know, a risingtide lifts all the boats, and certainly
she's done that. Now. I'mno marketing genius, and the WNBA has
not really got a foothold ever asfar as nationally goes, and they've got
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to really find a way to keepthis going and market it. Pretty hard
on her though, to start allover again in May. Yes, you
know that schedule. And I respectthese athletes. I'm not one of those
guys that sits there and poop pooswomen's basketball. It's just a matter of
interest, you know. And andwhatever moves the needle is what's gonna generate
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the money. I mean, yousee it now with the NFL and how
powerful it is. And you knowthis better than me. This is a
This is the biggest opportunity the WNBAhas had since it starts. Absolutely and
without question, they got to getBeaker going well. And they that's what
head looks like to me, BeakerBaker. Oh that's her head. Okay,
I got you. I didn't getthere. Didn't get you. She's
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great, She's got her boyfriend inIndiana. She's gonna go there. You
know, you know the Indiana fever. He works there. No, I
did not know that. McCaffrey.Did you see that so WNBA plays forty
games? Did you see how manyIndiana Fever games are gonna be a national
television out of forty very few,only thirty five of them, thirty six
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games. Ninety percent of their gamesare going to be on on national television.
But I'm wondering what you meant.You said, rising tides lift all
boats, and I'm wondering if that'sgoing to Are we going to see a
sustainability in women's college basketball because ofthis, similar to what we saw bird
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Magic. I was looking at thenumbers. The four or five years after
Bird Magic were higher viewership numbers thanthe four five years before Bird Magic.
So there was a little bit oflyft for men's college basketball after seventy nine.
I'm wondering if we're going to seethat after twenty twenty four for women's
basketball. We might, And youknow, some of the kind of crab
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apple or nastiness kind of feeling,especially from the Yukon people toward Caitlin Clark,
you know that, and to LSUpeople. My god, that drives
this too, yeah, you know, and the more people like super Bird
or Tarasi or whatever talk about herin not the most glowing way, which
is how everybody talks about her.Because everybody's talking about her. We never
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talked about Shamikua Holdt's claw like this, or I mean, I know,
Cheryl Miller, She's supposed to bethe best player that ever lived. She
came from USC you know, Myersfrom UCLA. I mean, you can
really argue, Dick. And I'mnot one that really gets deep into these
conversations. But and I'm not likea guy that likes to talk about who's
the goat and all that. It'squite simple. It's Michael Jordan. But
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it's true that this woman, CaitlinClark, in the last three months,
three weeks, has done more forwomen's basketball than Ann Myers, Cheryl Miller
and Rebecca Lobo or whoever you wantto throw in there combine. Yeah.
I mean, and that's no disrespectto them. They're all great athletes.
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I mean, you can't you can'tgauge what the public interest is going to
be. It's the brightest super novathe sport has ever seen. Right,
and this happened with Red Grange.You know, when college football got popular
one hundred years ago, you know, when you say somebody's great and people
show up and in fact they aregreat in that moment that people show up
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for it, then that you've gotexactly what you just described, a super
nova. So I hope it garnersmore interest and gets that league a little
bit better of a foothold that they'vebeen trying to so desperately get for so
long. Well, and I wasdisappointed to hear Brianna Stewart, who you
know, won titles here in Seattle. She's a she's a great Seattle athlete,
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now back east, but she saidthat Clark needed a title to be
considered one of the greatest of alltime. I could, I could.
I could understand the argument that youneed a title to be considered the greatest
of all time, but one ofthe greats I thought that was that was
ludicrous because she's obviously one of thegreats of all time in college basketball.
It all comes off as as sournesstoward toward because it's so clear how how
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fabulous she was and all you Imean, and I'm not a basketball expert,
and let alone a women's basketball expert. You know, I don't watch
sports. I was watching a lotof these games and I was like,
wow, that girl fouled out andjust burst into tears. You know,
you don't see that. You know, there's a lot of crying in foot
bath. You know, there's alot of emotion out there. So it's
kind of getting used to what thesport is like and all that. And
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she's the leading scorer of all timeand third all time and assists. Yeah,
I mean that that just right there. I mean that alone is is
so remarkable that it's hard to believethat people would be kind of I think
people there's a little bit of jealousybecause of the interest. Yeah, that's
fine, I got it. Andyou know, and then the men just
it took second stage. There weresome entertaining games, but there just wasn't
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the captivating nature to the men's tournamentthat there was the women's tournament. And
you know, it all gets youcome together with Hurley doing an unbelievable job
leading you gone to the second straightchampionship. Likable, but yeah, what's
that time? You know, it'sfunny because at times he can be likable.
You hear him in interviews and stufflike that. He is kind of
and then on the court, mygot he looks like the biggest ass of
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all time. But you know hekind of has this this uh double sided
face to him. But why doesn'tYukon get the respect of Duke Kentucky,
North Carolina, Kansas when they havebeen by far the best college program of
the last twenty five years. Haveyou ever been to stores? Well?
Have you? No? I haveme neither? Is that why? I
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don't know? I guess there,I mean Iowa, Iowa doesn't have any
I've been to Iowe either, andneither has many people, and they get
more headlines than Yukon does. I'vebeen there. It's God's country, though
nobody says stores is God's country.You know what I'm saying. They don't
do the wave at Kinnick. Youknow, I don't know they all see
Honestly, if I had to reallyanswer it as a West Coast person like
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you are, I'd say it's becausethey're all chowderhead a holes. Okay,
annoying. You know, the samereason nobody likes Red Sox fans. Okay,
I think it's I think it's thatsimple. They certainly are great.
They've bounced to a few different conferencesthat might have something to do with it.
I don't know, you know.All I know is the biggest a
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hole every year, and coaching iseither Bobby Hurley, Danny Hurley or the
dad that coached high school and wasa probation officer. It's a tough it's
a wrestling match between the three everyyear. But look the reason nobody likes
the men's tournament. All the playersleave early, so you never get a
chance to really fall in love witha player or a team like you would
if guys play together for two orthree years like they used to quote unquote.
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And that's one part of it.The other part of it is Yukon
has won every game they've played inthe tournament the last two years by double
digits and is covered. You know, so there's been a lot of intrigue
down to Stratch, so that hasn'tThat hasn't helped either, But I'm sure
they did good numbers and everybody mademoney. It was great that that the
women took center stage this year.It was fun and it was kind of
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a bresh of a breath of freshair. Speaking of going to pro early,
how about your guy, Bronnie,He's headed to the NBA Draft.
How is he going how are wegoing to orchestrate this ww Eastye, well,
so that Bronny plays with Lebron beforeLebron calls it quits. It's starting
to kind of feel like that,right, Yes, it's starting to.
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But uh, he's still in thetransfer portal and in the draft without an
agent, gotcha, So he's sortof in uh limbo the ozone. I
guess I don't know the ether ofof basketball. Uh, it's kind of
interesting. I mean, I Ilook at it as one side of it,
as a meritocracy, right, Imean, how do you get drafted
as an as an NBA player.Gotta be good enough, there's no other
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criteria. Yeah, I mean,I mean I guess you can't be a
murderer or well, I don't know. Well, I mean, you know
what I'm saying, like that,you have to be really special, like
you you can't just pass the eyeballtest and hey, he's tall, you
know, right, I mean it'sthe ultimate meritocracy. And then you think,
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what's the other side of it.Well, it's another word that starts
with M. It's meglomania, it'sLebron. Yeah, it's and you know,
there's a big struggle here in LosAngeles, because it feels like Lebron's
just pushing around a week ownership groupand gets whatever he wants, And it
would be hard to believe that theywouldn't do this for him. And it's
confounding to watch the tentacles of thegiant octopus of clutch sports move and get
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people that are supposed to be credibleto say things about a kid who's a
great kid by all accounts, butcertainly is not what they're saying he is.
If you're six foot two, itdoesn't matter how good of a defender
you are. If you can't shoot, you're not going to the NBA.
And I'm not an expert, andI can tell you that, and you
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can to get Sham Sherania. Theymust have bought him a truckload a Dracarna
warm to say that he's an elitedefender. I mean, at one point,
does you have a heart problem?Not become an excuse and become a
hindrance. Right like mid season whenhe was just very mediocre and everybody was
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showing up to all the games andthey were trying to like he'd have two
points and they would lead the highlightwith it. Mid season they would say,
well, you know, you're criticizinghim, but he has a you
know, he's coming off a heartprocedure. Right, It's like, okay,
well you're going to draft a guycoming off a heart procedure, Like
what whose minutes dwindled as the yearwent on? Like, just explain this
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to me, you know, Butit's never been explainable. There were five
kids in his league. He wasnot first team All League in his league.
Now, there were five kids inhis league that should have played in
the McDonald's All American before he did. It was a crime what they did
with him in high school and howthey've overhyped this, And it's unfortunate because
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it's a big topic. You know, it's like whenever LeVar Ball would open
his mouth, but it's worse LaVar'sballs. Two out of three those kids
could play. Yeah, you know, and this guy it's not like he's
a kid or a bad player.But I mean, what are we doing,
uh to get people to say,like Chris Mannix all these people to
say these things. Yeah, itkills everybody's credibility and shows how susceptible we
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are to be star efforts. I'mtired of the lies tired of it.
Petros Papadagas joining us. Brought toyou by Sweet James. Uh, we've
got the Husky camp going on.Bill Belichick is walking around with his sleeves
cut off of his Washington Husky uhsweatshirt. Kind of cool to see.
Uh. Maybe the goat in NFLcoaching helping out at U practice and obviously
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you know then he practice has beensoured the last couple of days with the
the Tybo Rogers news and we hada a I will call over zealous reporter
going after Jedfish, who was notthe coach of the Washington Huskies when this
when this thing went down, thatwas Did you did you see that that
video? I did? Yeah,you know, I mean, you know,
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these are sensitive topic and very difficult. I mean, ask anybody who
was in the media that was aroundthe whole Baylor thing back in the day.
I'm not saying this is what thatis, but this was obviously a
bad situation and it's going to chasethe ad. It's gonna chase Kaylin,
and it's going to chase Grub rightthere in town, and people are gonna
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have to answer for it. Andit's not going to be comfortable and it's
unfortunate, but I don't, youknow, as far as affecting this team,
I think they did everything they could. I mean, I guess in
this regard all that turnover is agood thing, but obviously something that needs
to be taken seriously. And sadlythese things weren't handled as sensitively even back
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in my day, you know,where somebody would get into some kind of
trouble and everybody would just look ateach other and be like, well,
when's he going to come back tothe team, right? And you know,
maybe not with something as serious asthis, but pretty serious stuff,
so very unfortunate and sobering, andI think I'm interested to see what what
all the actors involved kind of haveto say about it. Absolutely final thing
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for you. You're a Master's fan, you gotta you have a pick for
us this week. No, you'renot a Master's fan. No, No,
I mean I watch it and I'minvolved, but I don't, like,
I'm not enough. I'm not Idon't understand golf enough to be like
I really like this guy on thiscourse. You know I can't, but
I will say this, like Iheard Tiger the other day say, like
I begor, wasn't it, youknow, which was kind of like as
sincere as Pete Carroll when he wascrying after he got fired, and he
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was like a really jugged you know. It's like, yeah, sure you
can win it. It's like,I mean, you know, and I
do just I hate to say it, but I just have a vision of
Tiger being carted off, crying inhis hands, you know, holding onto
his back. Again. Well,that's the last time we saw him was
going, was being wheeled off agolf course. So we certainly don't hope
but not to see that in thenext forty eight hours. He's got to
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go out there and drag himself aroundto uh, to make everybody money.
And at this point, I thinkit's kind of sad. Yeah, you're
not sad at all. Well,it's kind of a sad ending, you
know, rape, rape, andTiger Wart's being wheeled off a golf list
reaping into his hands. All right, have a great Wednesday, everybody,
enjoy Seattle. Thanks man, Petros. Papa Day is looking back with much
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to play good? Do it?Look at his drive, Carrie carry goodbye,
Hey to the pump pen idother Carorely home run here in Toronto,
a two run shot and a Margorshave a three to one lead. I
love when we have games like this, Jackson, where we can go back
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and say, remember when cal Raleyhit that home run in Toronto on April
tenth, when the Mariners were justgot awful the first two weeks of the
season, and it ignited a twelvewin and fifteen game stretch, And now
they're in first place and I getto build all these highlight packages courtesy of
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Root Sports. I mean, like, these are the moments that try to
build the things that we were talkingabout, right, winning fifteen out of
twenty games, the things that thisteam has needed for the last two years
to turn around bad starts, andoh look we need it again. Well,
hey, I'd rather get it ingame thirteen than Game seventy, like
we've been used to getting it,But the Mariners do in today. And
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yes, our thanks to Root Sportsfor the call our man Dave Simms six
to one the final score. Itcould have ended very, very badly,
but horror Polonko with the games savingsnag in the ninth inning of a ball
that was dying in the into theoutfield. Can you imagine if that popped
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out of his glove and just thecollective Mariner fan reactions if it just plup
and Toronto wins. Me. Imean, I think some Mariners fans heads
might actually spontaneously combust. There aresome Mariner fans, though, I think
that like it when the Mariners sufferjust awful defeats because then they can go
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on Twitter and be get Twitter toughguys, you know, and here we
go again. You don't think that, No, I don't think any Marrior.
Listen, if a person is takingjoy in the Mariners losing, they're
not a Mariner fan. Okay,story, that's fair enough. Our guy
Alex Mayer has done it again.Did you see his latest stat Twitt?
Guy Alex Mayor from the Mariners.Nobody does it better at Alex Mayer thirty
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four, Cal Rawley fifteen home runsversus teams with a color in their name,
seven versus the Blue Jays, fiveversus the Red Sox, too versus
the White Sox, and one versusthe Reds since the start of twenty twenty
three. That's number one in MajorLeague Baseball. I had a Aaron Judge
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and show hey tome Alex Mayor.Mayor is the goat of MLB team's stats.
Oh, he is absolutely fantastic.He is a very good follow on
Twitter. Out at Alex Mayor thirtyfour. All right, well, at
least got service won't be surly todayafter this one six to one win.
Let's hear from the skipper, whatan awesome odding by Logan Gilbert today.
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It's exactly what we needed. Buthe's talking about executing pitches and not backing
off, staying it, controlling counts, all the things that we preach about
on the pitching side. He didit today. I thought, as good
as you can do. Obviously madejust the one mistake to lad but other
than that, I thought it wasjust an outstanding out and we couldn't ask
for anymore super efficient and to getthat deep in the game, it's just
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awesome to see he's he's pitching,he's tron of all great and as he
struggles. If you had throughout thisroad trip to see him step up like
that to day to end it ona positive, but it's really big for
our club and putting an inning togetherlike that. The tenth inning was great.
Big hits, that's what we're capableof doing. But you know,
again Cal goes up there, nottrying to do too much, you know,
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off Miza, just trying to movethe run or hit the ball hard
the other way, and he didhit it hard again this ballpark, and
really against the Blue Jays, CaylRowley has been fantastic. I don't know
what the crew numbers look like,but there's a bunch of home runs in
there, so not a ton offensively. I thought Kikuchi was really good early
on. He's throwing the ball extremelywell, but you know, guys chipping
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in, Demo doing what he's doing, getting on bays, creating opportunity JP
with a knock to drive him in, and then I was just gonna hold
on and hopefully we could bust openlate so again frustrating road trip. We
were really proud of the guys today. Showed up great energy today. Everybody's
good to go and we found away to get it done. So day
off tomorrow and get back at itat home. Logan able to go to
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the slider the way that he wasn'tnews it the way how big was up
for him, you know going intothe game. Yeah, I know his
focus today was to get spin goingand with Logan, and think about where
Logan was just about a year ayear and a half ago, where the
slider, the curve ball is kindof all over the board, and now
to go watch him go out andexecute. He's throwing three to one sliders,
three two sliders. I mean thequality of the pitch and the execution,
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the timing of it. That's asgood as it gets in this league.
You have an explanation for why aguy like Palace had so much so
much success against the flu Jays inthis bluff not really, I just think
he likes playing against the Blue Jays. He spent the jump the winos in
this team coming on there and thenget out of in the night thow because
that Yeah, Moody's not at onehundred percent right now. He's kind of
battling through some things health wise,but you know, he'd been down for
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a couple of days. He wasfresh. He got out there. We
haven't seen the best command on amovie. You know, it's been a
struggle for him on this trip andit wasn't really awesome command today, but
he made pitches when he had toto get through that inning. Big out
of Guerrero there to help Logan outand then you know, getting through the
ninth was huge. Gives you achance to win the game. So again,
it's early in the season. Someguys are working through some things,
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but we're really happy with the waywe competed today. We didn't back off
all day long. Scott given havethe breakstore. Did you think that ball
that clint An was hit was gonnago off past Paulo there? Yeah,
I will say, a huge,huge play in the game. And there's
plays like that that we haven't beenmaking, you know, and it's you
know, you get to it,but Paula got a good jump on it.
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It's funny, you know, yousit in the dugout, you have
premonitions, you kind of see thingshappen before they happen. And just before
that, I said to Manny,hey, we should probably get Handy in.
Move Handy in, And the nextpitch goes right in that spot and
I'm holding my breath and luckily Paulawas able to make the play. So
but that's what you gotta do bigleague games. You gotta make plays like
that late in the game to helpyour pitching out, and we did today.
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It seems like you guys were kindof waiting for a big hit of
the one combat in the last fewdays. What was the dug out like
when you put that one over there. We've been waiting for a big hit
for quite a while. We've hadone, probably since the Julio walk off
at the opening Homestand so I tellyou what it does when guys, somebody
does something like that, just relaxesthe whole brout And now you start to
see, you know that the freedom. You know, the guy's just playing
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baseball. And he saw that inthe advats after it. So again,
hopefully this can springboard, you know, the rest of our club going forward
here when we go go back onthe homestead. He mentioned it there the
Julio walkoff the day before I leftJackson cal Rawley the day after I come
back. I mean the marriage arefour and two. In my brain.
I said that at the beginning ofthe show. In my mind, the
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Seattle Marriagers a good baseball team.They have four wins and two losses when
I'm watching this team play, butI had forgot I don't. Do you
remember the comments made by John Schneider, Not r John Schneider, the Seahawks,
John Schneider. The comments made byBlue Jay manager John Schneider on April
thirtieth of last year, after theMariners beat the Blue Jays ten to eight,
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with Raleigh hitting a pair of homeruns and driving in four. Here
was his quote that day, He'snot very tough to pitch to. When
you execute your pitchers. You knowhe's in two hundred. I know he's
done damage against us. He obviouslyhas big damage potential, but he's also
got big strikeout potential too. Whenyou execute your pitches, you usually get
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the job done. So this isfrom Ryan Davis's report today after the game.
And you know cal Raley was askedabout those comments after the game.
He says, I mean they're allproperly executed, and sell someone hits them
out. It's like the Mike Tysonline. Right, everybody has a plan
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until you punch on them. Now, that's right. I tell pictures all
the time that hitter get paid too. Asked about Schneider's comments, Raley was
diplomatic. I know a lot ofguys have a beef with him in the
league, so his comments aren't surprising. I don't have much to say.
If you don't have anything nice tosay, don't say it at all,
especially if you don't want it tocome back on you. He's had a
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lot of beef with people in theleague, and he's done it to himself.
Gotta love Cal ray Man. It'sso funny because in our position in
the business, when when you hearan athlete just give you know, the
Russell Wilson, the cliches, therobotic statement, right, they don't say
anything. They just say the nicetieswe always say in our business, like
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gosh, I would love just therefreshing you know, take of just give
me the pure, honest truth andgive us what you actually feel. And
then you have a guy with Schneidergoing do that, and we say,
you idiot. If I'm a Torontofan, I'm saying you, Nimron,
why did you say that? You'reonly pissing him off, and he's only
going to continue to hit bombs againstus, and he continues to hit bombs
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against the Sea. It's a goodthing that we've got a guy like that
against another team, because it seemslike there were so many teams out there
that have that guy against us.Right, Oh my god, it was
Rafael Paul Merriw for like fifteen yearsagainst the marriage. Where's the angel outfielder?
There was like an angel outfielder thatwas just that. It was nuts
against us for I feel like adecade. I'm blanking on the name.
I have to go on Baseball Reference. You go four one, four or
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five one. They'll help you outwith somebody please teximonials For next segment.
The Mariners went six to one.Got a Logan Gilbert esque performance. Out
of Logan Gilbert seven to two thirds, five hits, one earned run,
eight strikeouts. The only running gaveup was a bomb to Vladie Guerrero.
Like that'll happen, yeah, likelike forty five times a year, that'll
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that'll happen. So just a fabulousperformance by Logan Gilbert. Yed Munjos come
in clean up and Ryan Stanek pitchesthe scoreless tenth inning with two strikeouts.
So good to see the bullpen withtwo and a third scoreless innings there after.
Logan Gilbert, But I put onTwitter right after the game, who
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is the ace of the Seattle Mariners? And you know, I've been thinking
about this for a while because I'vebeen kind of on Luis Castillo's case for
a while, even dating back untillast September. I don't think people wanted
to jump on I was kind ofearly jump on Luis because I just you
know, this is here's a guythat you paid a lot of money to
to be the ace of your staff, and Luis Castillo has just not been
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the ace of a staff at all. I think he's going on six consecutive
non quality starts. I have todouble check that, but I believe it's
six consecutive outings dating back to lastyear of non quality starts. And you
know, people are saying Logan Gilbertobviously after the outing today. Timing is
everything on a Twitter poll, right, Logan Gilbert fifty four percent, George
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Kirby thirty eight percent, Luis Castilloeight percent. But even before this performance.
Today, I would probably lean towardsGeorge Kirby just because I think of
the upside. When I see GeorgeKirby, I see him as an ace.
I love Logan Gilbert. I havealways loved Logan Gilbert. I don't
know if Logan Gilbert has the longterm upside of a George Kirby, but
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I think he has just that rocksolid, like best number two starter in
the game and a guy that couldbe kind of a low end ace,
but I mean, he is justa guy that has been the most consistent
pitcher. Thus falls are for theSeattle Mariners this season, with one so
so outing and two really really goodoutings in Mariner victories for
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We all good doing? Okay?Welcome home from Maui. Yes, which
is like the vacation spot of SeattleRadio's choice. I suppose I think it's
a vacation spot of most of thePacific Northwest's choice. Right. Well,
it's the most visited island in theworld, So is that right, I
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believe it is. Wow. Yeah, we got one in Greece that's pretty
popular, Santorini. Yes, prettydarn popular, because you know, most
every picture you see of a Greekisland is this one small little town in
Santorini called Ea, but it's spelledo i A. And that is like
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the one that's built up in theside of the hill that everything's white,
right, all the buildings go white. That's not uncommon for Greek villages.
But that one is the one that'son the cliff with with the weird u
with the church, blue tops andall that. And that one is often
very much, very lot of treadon those tires, A lot of cruise
ships roll up. Oh yes,I have cruised over there. We did
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not go to Santorini. We wentto Corfu. Oh well that's on the
other side on the Adriatic. Yes, we went to Corfu and then we
went to katak Alone, which gotus to Olympia and the ancient grounds of
the Olympics, which I thought wasfascinating. Although it was like ninety eight
degrees in one and twelve percent humidity, but other than that, it was
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a fun time. So rough summertimein Greece. That about it. You
really start to feel like one ofthe three hundred Spartan soldiers. But you
know, a lot of people don'tgo to that side. You know,
that's very interesting that you that youvisited that side. You're you're truly a
man of the road less travel.That's right now. A lot of fun.
So while I was in Maui,I was sitting there, I made
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it a point Petros on Sunday,I guess it would have been Sunday morning,
Maui. Time to find myself anoutdoor TV at a bar that actually
opened early so that Caitlin Clark couldbe watched by the masses. And this
pool side bar was surrounded with peoplewatching the women's NCAA Championship game eighteen point
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seven million viewers on average, thebiggest audience for any basketball game, pro
or college, met or women infive years. Were you captivated on Sunday?
Yes, until the I was startedto lose, and then I turned
out much like when produced started tolose. Yeah, I turned it off.
But uh yeah, I was reallysurprised at my interest in the women's
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tournament. Maybe it happened because Iwas in My kids were in spring break,
and I was in the desert,another vacation resort spot that you're quite
familiar with, Dick. I wasout in the Coachella Valley and did you
go to Boomers? Did you goto Boomers? Wife took the kids to
Boomers? Thank god I missed.I missed out. I was still here
doing I had Dodgers Opening Day totake care of, which was interesting in
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the light of the Otani stuff,and a much different kind of opening day,
a lot of tight sphincters. Andand then the next day we had
an event at Santa Nita, whichis a famous race turn down here.
So and so then I wasn't ableto get out. I got out to
the desert, and you know,I don't have my normal accout mom my
office that I can hide in andwatch pornography. So I was just sitting
(04:30):
there with the kids watching I watcheda lot of games, you know,
because I had a vested interest.You know, UCLA was interesting to me.
Then, you know, every timeLSU played it was a Twitter event
and like a racial war. Andthen you had South Carolina who was really
good. And then the Caitlin Clarkstuff was just phenomenal. I mean she
was she just delivered on all thehype. Game in and game out.
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There was just so much excitement andshe was doing stuff that you just haven't
seen from a player in that atthat level, and it was pretty wild
to watch. And I've watched USCof course, I watch the Beeves.
You know, they were they wereinvolved for a while. So I watch
a lot of those teams and thenwas really gratified by all of it until
Iowa lost in the end, andthen then I got Then it was just
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all about all the faces that DannyHurley makes and all that. But it
was a good tournament. And look, it was great, you know,
like they say, everybody's been saying, and I think it's something JFK said
that, you know, a risingtide lifts all the boats, and certainly
she's done that. Now. I'mno marketing genius, and the WNBA has
not really got a foothold ever asfar as nationally goes, and they've got
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to really find a way to keepthis going and market it. Pretty hard
on her though, to start allover again in May. Yes, you
know that schedule. And I respectthese athletes. I'm not one of those
guys that sits there and poop pooswomen's basketball. It's just a matter of
interest, you know. And andwhatever moves the needle is what's gonna generate
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the money. I mean, yousee it now with the NFL and how
powerful it is. And you knowthis better than me. This is a
This is the biggest opportunity the WNBAhas had since it starts. Absolutely and
without question, they got to getBeaker going well. And they that's what
head looks like to me, BeakerBaker. Oh that's her head. Okay,
I got you. I didn't getthere. Didn't get you. She's
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great, She's got her boyfriend inIndiana. She's gonna go there. You
know, you know the Indiana fever. He works there. No, I
did not know that. McCaffrey.Did you see that so WNBA plays forty
games? Did you see how manyIndiana Fever games are gonna be a national
television out of forty very few,only thirty five of them, thirty six
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games. Ninety percent of their gamesare going to be on on national television.
But I'm wondering what you meant.You said, rising tides lift all
boats, and I'm wondering if that'sgoing to Are we going to see a
sustainability in women's college basketball because ofthis, similar to what we saw bird
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Magic. I was looking at thenumbers. The four or five years after
Bird Magic were higher viewership numbers thanthe four five years before Bird Magic.
So there was a little bit oflyft for men's college basketball after seventy nine.
I'm wondering if we're going to seethat after twenty twenty four for women's
basketball. We might, And youknow, some of the kind of crab
(07:29):
apple or nastiness kind of feeling,especially from the Yukon people toward Caitlin Clark,
you know that, and to LSUpeople. My god, that drives
this too, yeah, you know, and the more people like super Bird
or Tarasi or whatever talk about herin not the most glowing way, which
is how everybody talks about her.Because everybody's talking about her. We never
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talked about Shamikua Holdt's claw like this, or I mean, I know,
Cheryl Miller, She's supposed to bethe best player that ever lived. She
came from USC you know, Myersfrom UCLA. I mean, you can
really argue, Dick. And I'mnot one that really gets deep into these
conversations. But and I'm not likea guy that likes to talk about who's
the goat and all that. It'squite simple. It's Michael Jordan. But
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it's true that this woman, CaitlinClark, in the last three months,
three weeks, has done more forwomen's basketball than Ann Myers, Cheryl Miller
and Rebecca Lobo or whoever you wantto throw in there combine. Yeah.
I mean, and that's no disrespectto them. They're all great athletes.
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I mean, you can't you can'tgauge what the public interest is going to
be. It's the brightest super novathe sport has ever seen. Right,
and this happened with Red Grange.You know, when college football got popular
one hundred years ago, you know, when you say somebody's great and people
show up and in fact they aregreat in that moment that people show up
(08:56):
for it, then that you've gotexactly what you just described, a super
nova. So I hope it garnersmore interest and gets that league a little
bit better of a foothold that they'vebeen trying to so desperately get for so
long. Well, and I wasdisappointed to hear Brianna Stewart, who you
know, won titles here in Seattle. She's a she's a great Seattle athlete,
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now back east, but she saidthat Clark needed a title to be
considered one of the greatest of alltime. I could, I could.
I could understand the argument that youneed a title to be considered the greatest
of all time, but one ofthe greats I thought that was that was
ludicrous because she's obviously one of thegreats of all time in college basketball.
It all comes off as as sournesstoward toward because it's so clear how how
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fabulous she was and all you Imean, and I'm not a basketball expert,
and let alone a women's basketball expert. You know, I don't watch
sports. I was watching a lotof these games and I was like,
wow, that girl fouled out andjust burst into tears. You know,
you don't see that. You know, there's a lot of crying in foot
bath. You know, there's alot of emotion out there. So it's
kind of getting used to what thesport is like and all that. And
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she's the leading scorer of all timeand third all time and assists. Yeah,
I mean that that just right there. I mean that alone is is
so remarkable that it's hard to believethat people would be kind of I think
people there's a little bit of jealousybecause of the interest. Yeah, that's
fine, I got it. Andyou know, and then the men just
it took second stage. There weresome entertaining games, but there just wasn't
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the captivating nature to the men's tournamentthat there was the women's tournament. And
you know, it all gets youcome together with Hurley doing an unbelievable job
leading you gone to the second straightchampionship. Likable, but yeah, what's
that time? You know, it'sfunny because at times he can be likable.
You hear him in interviews and stufflike that. He is kind of
and then on the court, mygot he looks like the biggest ass of
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all time. But you know hekind of has this this uh double sided
face to him. But why doesn'tYukon get the respect of Duke Kentucky,
North Carolina, Kansas when they havebeen by far the best college program of
the last twenty five years. Haveyou ever been to stores? Well?
Have you? No? I haveme neither? Is that why? I
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don't know? I guess there,I mean Iowa, Iowa doesn't have any
I've been to Iowe either, andneither has many people, and they get
more headlines than Yukon does. I'vebeen there. It's God's country, though
nobody says stores is God's country.You know what I'm saying. They don't
do the wave at Kinnick. Youknow, I don't know they all see
Honestly, if I had to reallyanswer it as a West Coast person like
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you are, I'd say it's becausethey're all chowderhead a holes. Okay,
annoying. You know, the samereason nobody likes Red Sox fans. Okay,
I think it's I think it's thatsimple. They certainly are great.
They've bounced to a few different conferencesthat might have something to do with it.
I don't know, you know.All I know is the biggest a
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hole every year, and coaching iseither Bobby Hurley, Danny Hurley or the
dad that coached high school and wasa probation officer. It's a tough it's
a wrestling match between the three everyyear. But look the reason nobody likes
the men's tournament. All the playersleave early, so you never get a
chance to really fall in love witha player or a team like you would
if guys play together for two orthree years like they used to quote unquote.
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And that's one part of it.The other part of it is Yukon
has won every game they've played inthe tournament the last two years by double
digits and is covered. You know, so there's been a lot of intrigue
down to Stratch, so that hasn'tThat hasn't helped either, But I'm sure
they did good numbers and everybody mademoney. It was great that that the
women took center stage this year.It was fun and it was kind of
(12:46):
a bresh of a breath of freshair. Speaking of going to pro early,
how about your guy, Bronnie,He's headed to the NBA Draft.
How is he going how are wegoing to orchestrate this ww Eastye, well,
so that Bronny plays with Lebron beforeLebron calls it quits. It's starting
to kind of feel like that,right, Yes, it's starting to.
(13:07):
But uh, he's still in thetransfer portal and in the draft without an
agent, gotcha, So he's sortof in uh limbo the ozone. I
guess I don't know the ether ofof basketball. Uh, it's kind of
interesting. I mean, I Ilook at it as one side of it,
as a meritocracy, right, Imean, how do you get drafted
as an as an NBA player.Gotta be good enough, there's no other
(13:31):
criteria. Yeah, I mean,I mean I guess you can't be a
murderer or well, I don't know. Well, I mean, you know
what I'm saying, like that,you have to be really special, like
you you can't just pass the eyeballtest and hey, he's tall, you
know, right, I mean it'sthe ultimate meritocracy. And then you think,
(13:54):
what's the other side of it.Well, it's another word that starts
with M. It's meglomania, it'sLebron. Yeah, it's and you know,
there's a big struggle here in LosAngeles, because it feels like Lebron's
just pushing around a week ownership groupand gets whatever he wants, And it
would be hard to believe that theywouldn't do this for him. And it's
confounding to watch the tentacles of thegiant octopus of clutch sports move and get
(14:18):
people that are supposed to be credibleto say things about a kid who's a
great kid by all accounts, butcertainly is not what they're saying he is.
If you're six foot two, itdoesn't matter how good of a defender
you are. If you can't shoot, you're not going to the NBA.
And I'm not an expert, andI can tell you that, and you
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can to get Sham Sherania. Theymust have bought him a truckload a Dracarna
warm to say that he's an elitedefender. I mean, at one point,
does you have a heart problem?Not become an excuse and become a
hindrance. Right like mid season whenhe was just very mediocre and everybody was
(15:03):
showing up to all the games andthey were trying to like he'd have two
points and they would lead the highlightwith it. Mid season they would say,
well, you know, you're criticizinghim, but he has a you
know, he's coming off a heartprocedure. Right, It's like, okay,
well you're going to draft a guycoming off a heart procedure, Like
what whose minutes dwindled as the yearwent on? Like, just explain this
(15:26):
to me, you know, Butit's never been explainable. There were five
kids in his league. He wasnot first team All League in his league.
Now, there were five kids inhis league that should have played in
the McDonald's All American before he did. It was a crime what they did
with him in high school and howthey've overhyped this, And it's unfortunate because
(15:50):
it's a big topic. You know, it's like whenever LeVar Ball would open
his mouth, but it's worse LaVar'sballs. Two out of three those kids
could play. Yeah, you know, and this guy it's not like he's
a kid or a bad player.But I mean, what are we doing,
uh to get people to say,like Chris Mannix all these people to
say these things. Yeah, itkills everybody's credibility and shows how susceptible we
(16:11):
are to be star efforts. I'mtired of the lies tired of it.
Petros Papadagas joining us. Brought toyou by Sweet James. Uh, we've
got the Husky camp going on.Bill Belichick is walking around with his sleeves
cut off of his Washington Husky uhsweatshirt. Kind of cool to see.
Uh. Maybe the goat in NFLcoaching helping out at U practice and obviously
(16:33):
you know then he practice has beensoured the last couple of days with the
the Tybo Rogers news and we hada a I will call over zealous reporter
going after Jedfish, who was notthe coach of the Washington Huskies when this
when this thing went down, thatwas Did you did you see that that
video? I did? Yeah,you know, I mean, you know,
(16:57):
these are sensitive topic and very difficult. I mean, ask anybody who
was in the media that was aroundthe whole Baylor thing back in the day.
I'm not saying this is what thatis, but this was obviously a
bad situation and it's going to chasethe ad. It's gonna chase Kaylin,
and it's going to chase Grub rightthere in town, and people are gonna
(17:18):
have to answer for it. Andit's not going to be comfortable and it's
unfortunate, but I don't, youknow, as far as affecting this team,
I think they did everything they could. I mean, I guess in
this regard all that turnover is agood thing, but obviously something that needs
to be taken seriously. And sadlythese things weren't handled as sensitively even back
(17:41):
in my day, you know,where somebody would get into some kind of
trouble and everybody would just look ateach other and be like, well,
when's he going to come back tothe team, right? And you know,
maybe not with something as serious asthis, but pretty serious stuff,
so very unfortunate and sobering, andI think I'm interested to see what what
all the actors involved kind of haveto say about it. Absolutely final thing
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for you. You're a Master's fan, you gotta you have a pick for
us this week. No, you'renot a Master's fan. No, No,
I mean I watch it and I'minvolved, but I don't, like,
I'm not enough. I'm not Idon't understand golf enough to be like
I really like this guy on thiscourse. You know I can't, but
I will say this, like Iheard Tiger the other day say, like
I begor, wasn't it, youknow, which was kind of like as
sincere as Pete Carroll when he wascrying after he got fired, and he
(18:27):
was like a really jugged you know. It's like, yeah, sure you
can win it. It's like,I mean, you know, and I
do just I hate to say it, but I just have a vision of
Tiger being carted off, crying inhis hands, you know, holding onto
his back. Again. Well,that's the last time we saw him was
going, was being wheeled off agolf course. So we certainly don't hope
but not to see that in thenext forty eight hours. He's got to
(18:48):
go out there and drag himself aroundto uh, to make everybody money.
And at this point, I thinkit's kind of sad. Yeah, you're
not sad at all. Well,it's kind of a sad ending, you
know, rape, rape, andTiger Wart's being wheeled off a golf list
reaping into his hands. All right, have a great Wednesday, everybody,
enjoy Seattle. Thanks man, Petros. Papa Day is looking back with much
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to play good? Do it?Look at his drive, Carrie carry goodbye,
Hey to the pump pen idother Carorely home run here in Toronto,
a two run shot and a Margorshave a three to one lead. I
love when we have games like this, Jackson, where we can go back
(20:00):
and say, remember when cal Raleyhit that home run in Toronto on April
tenth, when the Mariners were justgot awful the first two weeks of the
season, and it ignited a twelvewin and fifteen game stretch, And now
they're in first place and I getto build all these highlight packages courtesy of
(20:22):
Root Sports. I mean, like, these are the moments that try to
build the things that we were talkingabout, right, winning fifteen out of
twenty games, the things that thisteam has needed for the last two years
to turn around bad starts, andoh look we need it again. Well,
hey, I'd rather get it ingame thirteen than Game seventy, like
we've been used to getting it,But the Mariners do in today. And
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yes, our thanks to Root Sportsfor the call our man Dave Simms six
to one the final score. Itcould have ended very, very badly,
but horror Polonko with the games savingsnag in the ninth inning of a ball
that was dying in the into theoutfield. Can you imagine if that popped
(21:06):
out of his glove and just thecollective Mariner fan reactions if it just plup
and Toronto wins. Me. Imean, I think some Mariners fans heads
might actually spontaneously combust. There aresome Mariner fans, though, I think
that like it when the Mariners sufferjust awful defeats because then they can go
(21:26):
on Twitter and be get Twitter toughguys, you know, and here we
go again. You don't think that, No, I don't think any Marrior.
Listen, if a person is takingjoy in the Mariners losing, they're
not a Mariner fan. Okay,story, that's fair enough. Our guy
Alex Mayer has done it again.Did you see his latest stat Twitt?
Guy Alex Mayor from the Mariners.Nobody does it better at Alex Mayer thirty
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four, Cal Rawley fifteen home runsversus teams with a color in their name,
seven versus the Blue Jays, fiveversus the Red Sox, too versus
the White Sox, and one versusthe Reds since the start of twenty twenty
three. That's number one in MajorLeague Baseball. I had a Aaron Judge
(22:08):
and show hey tome Alex Mayor.Mayor is the goat of MLB team's stats.
Oh, he is absolutely fantastic.He is a very good follow on
Twitter. Out at Alex Mayor thirtyfour. All right, well, at
least got service won't be surly todayafter this one six to one win.
Let's hear from the skipper, whatan awesome odding by Logan Gilbert today.
(22:30):
It's exactly what we needed. Buthe's talking about executing pitches and not backing
off, staying it, controlling counts, all the things that we preach about
on the pitching side. He didit today. I thought, as good
as you can do. Obviously madejust the one mistake to lad but other
than that, I thought it wasjust an outstanding out and we couldn't ask
for anymore super efficient and to getthat deep in the game, it's just
(22:52):
awesome to see he's he's pitching,he's tron of all great and as he
struggles. If you had throughout thisroad trip to see him step up like
that to day to end it ona positive, but it's really big for
our club and putting an inning togetherlike that. The tenth inning was great.
Big hits, that's what we're capableof doing. But you know,
again Cal goes up there, nottrying to do too much, you know,
(23:14):
off Miza, just trying to movethe run or hit the ball hard
the other way, and he didhit it hard again this ballpark, and
really against the Blue Jays, CaylRowley has been fantastic. I don't know
what the crew numbers look like,but there's a bunch of home runs in
there, so not a ton offensively. I thought Kikuchi was really good early
on. He's throwing the ball extremelywell, but you know, guys chipping
(23:34):
in, Demo doing what he's doing, getting on bays, creating opportunity JP
with a knock to drive him in, and then I was just gonna hold
on and hopefully we could bust openlate so again frustrating road trip. We
were really proud of the guys today. Showed up great energy today. Everybody's
good to go and we found away to get it done. So day
off tomorrow and get back at itat home. Logan able to go to
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the slider the way that he wasn'tnews it the way how big was up
for him, you know going intothe game. Yeah, I know his
focus today was to get spin goingand with Logan, and think about where
Logan was just about a year ayear and a half ago, where the
slider, the curve ball is kindof all over the board, and now
to go watch him go out andexecute. He's throwing three to one sliders,
three two sliders. I mean thequality of the pitch and the execution,
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the timing of it. That's asgood as it gets in this league.
You have an explanation for why aguy like Palace had so much so
much success against the flu Jays inthis bluff not really, I just think
he likes playing against the Blue Jays. He spent the jump the winos in
this team coming on there and thenget out of in the night thow because
that Yeah, Moody's not at onehundred percent right now. He's kind of
battling through some things health wise,but you know, he'd been down for
(24:41):
a couple of days. He wasfresh. He got out there. We
haven't seen the best command on amovie. You know, it's been a
struggle for him on this trip andit wasn't really awesome command today, but
he made pitches when he had toto get through that inning. Big out
of Guerrero there to help Logan outand then you know, getting through the
ninth was huge. Gives you achance to win the game. So again,
it's early in the season. Someguys are working through some things,
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but we're really happy with the waywe competed today. We didn't back off
all day long. Scott given havethe breakstore. Did you think that ball
that clint An was hit was gonnago off past Paulo there? Yeah,
I will say, a huge,huge play in the game. And there's
plays like that that we haven't beenmaking, you know, and it's you
know, you get to it,but Paula got a good jump on it.
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It's funny, you know, yousit in the dugout, you have
premonitions, you kind of see thingshappen before they happen. And just before
that, I said to Manny,hey, we should probably get Handy in.
Move Handy in, And the nextpitch goes right in that spot and
I'm holding my breath and luckily Paulawas able to make the play. So
but that's what you gotta do bigleague games. You gotta make plays like
that late in the game to helpyour pitching out, and we did today.
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It seems like you guys were kindof waiting for a big hit of
the one combat in the last fewdays. What was the dug out like
when you put that one over there. We've been waiting for a big hit
for quite a while. We've hadone, probably since the Julio walk off
at the opening Homestand so I tellyou what it does when guys, somebody
does something like that, just relaxesthe whole brout And now you start to
see, you know that the freedom. You know, the guy's just playing
(26:06):
baseball. And he saw that inthe advats after it. So again,
hopefully this can springboard, you know, the rest of our club going forward
here when we go go back onthe homestead. He mentioned it there the
Julio walkoff the day before I leftJackson cal Rawley the day after I come
back. I mean the marriage arefour and two. In my brain.
I said that at the beginning ofthe show. In my mind, the
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Seattle Marriagers a good baseball team.They have four wins and two losses when
I'm watching this team play, butI had forgot I don't. Do you
remember the comments made by John Schneider, Not r John Schneider, the Seahawks,
John Schneider. The comments made byBlue Jay manager John Schneider on April
thirtieth of last year, after theMariners beat the Blue Jays ten to eight,
(26:49):
with Raleigh hitting a pair of homeruns and driving in four. Here
was his quote that day, He'snot very tough to pitch to. When
you execute your pitchers. You knowhe's in two hundred. I know he's
done damage against us. He obviouslyhas big damage potential, but he's also
got big strikeout potential too. Whenyou execute your pitches, you usually get
(27:10):
the job done. So this isfrom Ryan Davis's report today after the game.
And you know cal Raley was askedabout those comments after the game.
He says, I mean they're allproperly executed, and sell someone hits them
out. It's like the Mike Tysonline. Right, everybody has a plan
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until you punch on them. Now, that's right. I tell pictures all
the time that hitter get paid too. Asked about Schneider's comments, Raley was
diplomatic. I know a lot ofguys have a beef with him in the
league, so his comments aren't surprising. I don't have much to say.
If you don't have anything nice tosay, don't say it at all,
especially if you don't want it tocome back on you. He's had a
(27:51):
lot of beef with people in theleague, and he's done it to himself.
Gotta love Cal ray Man. It'sso funny because in our position in
the business, when when you hearan athlete just give you know, the
Russell Wilson, the cliches, therobotic statement, right, they don't say
anything. They just say the nicetieswe always say in our business, like
(28:11):
gosh, I would love just therefreshing you know, take of just give
me the pure, honest truth andgive us what you actually feel. And
then you have a guy with Schneidergoing do that, and we say,
you idiot. If I'm a Torontofan, I'm saying you, Nimron,
why did you say that? You'reonly pissing him off, and he's only
going to continue to hit bombs againstus, and he continues to hit bombs
(28:32):
against the Sea. It's a goodthing that we've got a guy like that
against another team, because it seemslike there were so many teams out there
that have that guy against us.Right, Oh my god, it was
Rafael Paul Merriw for like fifteen yearsagainst the marriage. Where's the angel outfielder?
There was like an angel outfielder thatwas just that. It was nuts
against us for I feel like adecade. I'm blanking on the name.
I have to go on Baseball Reference. You go four one, four or
(28:53):
five one. They'll help you outwith somebody please teximonials For next segment.
The Mariners went six to one.Got a Logan Gilbert esque performance. Out
of Logan Gilbert seven to two thirds, five hits, one earned run,
eight strikeouts. The only running gaveup was a bomb to Vladie Guerrero.
Like that'll happen, yeah, likelike forty five times a year, that'll
(29:15):
that'll happen. So just a fabulousperformance by Logan Gilbert. Yed Munjos come
in clean up and Ryan Stanek pitchesthe scoreless tenth inning with two strikeouts.
So good to see the bullpen withtwo and a third scoreless innings there after.
Logan Gilbert, But I put onTwitter right after the game, who
(29:37):
is the ace of the Seattle Mariners? And you know, I've been thinking
about this for a while because I'vebeen kind of on Luis Castillo's case for
a while, even dating back untillast September. I don't think people wanted
to jump on I was kind ofearly jump on Luis because I just you
know, this is here's a guythat you paid a lot of money to
to be the ace of your staff, and Luis Castillo has just not been
(30:00):
the ace of a staff at all. I think he's going on six consecutive
non quality starts. I have todouble check that, but I believe it's
six consecutive outings dating back to lastyear of non quality starts. And you
know, people are saying Logan Gilbertobviously after the outing today. Timing is
everything on a Twitter poll, right, Logan Gilbert fifty four percent, George
(30:21):
Kirby thirty eight percent, Luis Castilloeight percent. But even before this performance.
Today, I would probably lean towardsGeorge Kirby just because I think of
the upside. When I see GeorgeKirby, I see him as an ace.
I love Logan Gilbert. I havealways loved Logan Gilbert. I don't
know if Logan Gilbert has the longterm upside of a George Kirby, but
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I think he has just that rocksolid, like best number two starter in
the game and a guy that couldbe kind of a low end ace,
but I mean, he is justa guy that has been the most consistent
pitcher. Thus falls are for theSeattle Mariners this season, with one so
so outing and two really really goodoutings in Mariner victories for
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