May 4, 2026 • 41 mins
In the first hour, Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain react to the Mariners getting swept by Kansas City over the weekend and the offensive issues plus the vibes inside the team right now, discuss the UW Spring Game from last week, then chat with Mariners starting pitcher Bryan Woo live from T-Mobile Park before they react to some Fun w/ Audio clips.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Where we go.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I love being across the street from t Mobile Park.
We also are gonna love it even more when the
boys and girls here at Jimmy's get their little sidewalk
cafe open. We're doing the show outside. I mean, how
many places can you go and seeattle and have a
little cocktail, a little beverage outside, and a day like
today have a sidewalk across the street from the stadium.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
So uh, you know the first thing.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
That came up My first thought, Dick when I heard
about the potential for a little sidewalk seating here at
Jimmy says, well, what about the din and dash opportunity
for ah?
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Yeah, and they fix that right.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Well, all of us have done that over the years.
I mean I've done it well back in the day.
I haven't done it for a long I wouldn't say
all of the fifty you never did it. I've actually
died and dash at all? Never done that, Okay, four nine,
four or five one? How many people admitting to dining
and dashing there and the listening on it, you, sir,
have you ever dined and dashed ever in your life?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
One time?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Never had you beautiful blonde sitting next to you late
night at Denny's back in the day in high school.
You know what, I will tell you the time I
did do it that I do remember. It was the
Denny's and it was the one that was on in Ballard,
Remember the one that they wanted to make a historical
landmark because of the stupid roof.
Speaker 5 (01:11):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Right.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I asked for the check and I waited for maybe
thirty minutes for the bill never showed up.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
I was like, you know what, I'm tired of wait,
I'm gon leave. You couldn't have just put a twenty
out the hell, I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I just left, sort of that poor bastard who was
waiting on me at the Ballard Denny's thirty years ago,
whatever it was.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I'm sorry, ayoja. I want to see how many people.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
But the point is now they have these QR codes
that you can scan yep, like at the airport and
just order from your phone, so they're not worried about that.
But I can't wait for that. That's coming very soon.
But here's what we got. We got a lot of
things to get to today and not a lot of
time to do it. We're gonna start a brand new
feature on the radio show, which may only lasts one day,
by the way, it may be done by tomorrow. Mariner's
(01:53):
on the thirties, all right. The goal today is to
talk to a Mariner player at the bottom of every
hour until we get to six o'clock.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
What's the odds that we accomplished that, well.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Never tell me the odds.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
First of all, I'm like Han Solo on Star Wars
Day on May the fourth.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
By the way, I.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Think they're pretty good. Okay, we got we got two.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Professionals in the clubhouse right now, and Jessamin mcinturr and
Mike Benton was like, you know some Looney Tunes producer
from back in the day, Like if Anders and Jackson
were across the street first, it would be like ten
to one on forget, it's not gonna happen. But we
got two real pros, all right. Mike Benton and Jessmon
mcinturr are over there. Yes, I know her name is McIntyre.
(02:32):
I color macinturr. She's over there, by the way. So
I think they're pretty good. So the goal is at
three point thirty to talk to Brian wu Cole Young
at four thirty and then Emerson Hancock, who was freaking
phenomenal on Saturday night with fourteen strikeouts, but the freaking
team lost the game because the bats didn't show up
on Saturday, ruining, absolutely ruining, ruining Randy Johnson's big night
(02:56):
on Saturday. Emerson Hancock going out and paying tribute right
to the big unit with fourteen freaking k's on Saturday, unbelievable,
and then Luis Castillo goes out and loses again over
the weekend. Look, I think we know one thing now,
and we can talk about being sixteen and nineteen. We
can stress out about being three games under if you want.
(03:16):
I'm not even close to stressing out. What are you
a couple of games at a first place?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
You got like twelve.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Teams in the American League that are all bunched up
right there with each other.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Whatever.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
It wake me up on the first of June, and
I'm still feeling that way. I will say this though,
the pressing issue is Luis Castillo.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
And here's the problem with Luis Castillo.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
We can talk all you want about his numbers, all
about everything is velocity blah blah blah yaht and the
act the team is one in five Dick in his
last six games.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
That can't go on. That can't continue.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
You can't have a guy like Luis Castillo, who is
supposed to be one of your best arms and one
of the better pitchers in baseball, going one in five
and losing five of every six games you play with
him as your starting pitcher.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
I mean, we talked about this. In his previous five starts.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Up until Sunday, he had put forty four runners on
including hit batsman in twenty two and a third innings
for an eight point six CRA and a whip barely
under two. Now he's put on fifty five runners in
his last.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Twenty eight innings pitched. I mean it's too much.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
So look, I mean, we know where this is going
at some point, whether fair or unfair. If this doesn't stop,
he's gonna make Jerry's decision very easy when Bryce Miller
gets out.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Well, you're right about being concerned.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
I will say, whatever my worry level was before I
entered the stadium yesterday about Luis Castillo, it was less
when I left, Okay, because I thought he looked better
than he had in any one of those other starts.
He had three great innings to start, he ran into
trouble in the fourth. He gave up the two hits
and then walked the guy, and then two runners scored
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on outs. Right, it was a s fielders choice in
a sacked fly that got the second and third runs
of the game.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
So, while was Luis good very good yesterday?
Speaker 6 (05:00):
No, but I thought he took a step to hit
ninety eight on the gun, which.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
I don't believe.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
I don't know this for a fact, but I don't
believe he's hit ninety eight over the last three or
four starts.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
So I was at least encouraged with what I saw
from Luis yesterday.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Well, I mean, look, this is a results driven business,
correct and all. That's fine as long as he backs
it up with a start that looks great his next
time out.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
But you can't sit there and just say, well all
of the runs were scored on outs as velocity. Well,
first of all, when you're putting three runners on an inning, like.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
I said, he got himself in there.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
You're gonna give up runs on sackflies and ground balls.
I mean, who cares how the runs are allowed? As
long as they're allowed. I don't care how he stops
teams as long as he stops teams. But you know, look,
I mean, and he may be better than he's shown.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
I think he probably is.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Better than he's shown in the last month and a half.
But at some point, again, it's just not gonna matter.
You know, they keep losing games with Luis Castillo and
his next start. The good news for him is this
those good news and bad news. Good news is his
next start is in Chicago. The bad news is that
comes into place in Chicago that is notorious for the wind. Right, Yeah,
(06:14):
so who knows how he'll play, how he'll prefer. He
may look better and not be able to put up,
you know, a good game because the wind's blowing out
the entire day. So look, I mean, obviously, if these
kind of games continue, and if the Mariners keep losing
games with Luis Castillo in their rotation, they're gonna have
to make a change. And this is the thing, it's
(06:34):
not even about Bryce Miller. Has anybody been keeping an
eye on what kan Anderson's doing right now in Double A, Arkansas?
I mean, guys, it's stupid. Five starts, he's got thirty
eight strikeouts and four walks. He's got a point three
to seven e er, he's gonna whip under point seven.
How many guys have made the jump right from double
A to the major leagues under Jerry Depoto, Tons of
guys have made the jump right from double A. So
(06:55):
this isn't just a Bryce Miller thing. This is a
Kate Anderson. Oh that's that's right.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
And I think you know bicce midd will get the
first spot to maybe unload Louis Castile. We'll see how
he does in the next couple three starts. But back
to yesterday really quick. I mean I felt bad for
Luis Castillo because I looked I kept staring at the
lineup in center field and I went, my god, this
is anemic.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
No Cow, no Donovan, no Rayley, no Canzone.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
You had Johnny Parada, you had Louis Reevos, you had.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Connor Joe in the lineup yesterday.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
I mean it was just the weak contact percentage yesterday
for the Mariner bats. I mean almost no no player
could have gotten in under those circumstances on the mound.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Yes, well, I thought it was about the weather though,
the weather's nice.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Hitting the ball, good hitters because they're hurt exactly, Yes,
I mean, that's kind of part of this man. This
is why you talk about depth a lot. And I
look at the Mariners offense in the last what is it,
four games that Luis Castillo has started, They've scored nine
runs in four games combined. They had eight in the
Astro game when he got tattooed for seven runs and
ten hits in three and a third, but they won the.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Game eight to seven.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
They did lose the other game that he started in
April eight to seven, So they scored fifteen runs in
two games for him. Then they've scored nine in the
previous four, so not all this is on him when
it comes to winning and losing. But if you just
talk about performance, and I'm not saying that this is
all gonna be predictive of what's to come. Chris Crawford
used that word I believe today to describe Jose Ferrer
(08:28):
and is exactly right.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
The numbers by Farrer don't look great.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
But it doesn't necessarily need to be a predictive thing
for how the guy's gonna pitch in late July and
early August. I just see a baseball team that doesn't
have to deal with this because they have answers. They've
got Bryce Miller, They're gonna eventually have Kate Anders. I mean,
Emerson Hancock, first of all, is going nowhere, Like forget it.
(08:53):
There is not a chance in hell Emerson Hancock is
not in this rotation. When Bryce Miller is reactivated, that
conversation's off the table for me. I don't know what
Jerry and Justin are thinking. Maybe they're thinking something wacky
that we're not even considering right now. But I mean,
the dude, the dude's an All Star. He's a freaking
at All Star right now. Now, he's an All Star,
(09:13):
and him being left off the American League All Star
roster would be a joke with the way he's pitching
right now. So if you wouldn't have known that Emerson
Hancock was supposed to start the year in Triple A Tacoma,
you would think that this guy is one of the
best pitchers in the American League. If you were in baseball,
if you were a baseball idiot and a baseball ignorant
and just went to the game yesterday and you told
(09:35):
your buddy, got you know who's that guy? And I
told you, alwa, he's one of the best arms in baseball.
He's going to be an All Star and up for
the cy Young you would have believed it. That's how
good he is right now. He's not going anywhere. So
this is a Bryce Miller Luis Castillo conversation. The Hancock
part is done.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
It's over.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
It's just the glass half full, glass half empty conversation.
And you can choose to look at it both either
way you want, because I think both half merit.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
The glass half falls.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
You're talking about young players, Emerson, Hancock, Kate Anderson, Cole Young,
Colt Emerson.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
I mean this, this farm.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
System is now coming to fruition up at the big league,
big league team.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
But you can also if you want to be glass
half empty, you can say something's missing. I mean, yes,
the injuries are a concern, the defense.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Is a concerns and the defense stick that's putting it
lightly dick when you say it's a concern.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
And the overall just five.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
Like the clubhouse, I just I just don't see the
fun and I think I think the looseness and the
fun sometimes almost have to come before the wins, and
it almost seems like this team is relying on wins
to bring the looseness to the baseball team, and that
might be a reflection of the manager because the manager
is not a you know, energetic, charismatic character.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Right.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Well, the clubhouse part, I don't know what's happening in
the clubhouse. I haven't been in the clubhouse in two weeks,
so I have no idea what the vibe is inside
the clubhouse. I mean, jessin Benton there today, maybe you
can ask them kind of, hey, what's the vibe there whatever,
And if guys are sulking around and you know, there's
finger pointing and all that stuff. I haven't heard reports
from anybody on any of that, so.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Just talking about what they look on the field, I mean.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Just yeah, right, lack of days.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Fine, well, Julio, Randy A Rose ran forgetting the count.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Yes, that's fair, That's totally fair.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
I mean Randy on Saturday night, Julio, I think the
guy would have scored anyway on that play to center,
but it was a bad look.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
JP Crawford defensively.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I mean that's what you're talking about, Like you're not
talking about like how the team's getting a wall on you,
how they're executing. Yes, right, So I mean I would
not say the clubhouse. I would just say their execution
on the field looks like they're.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Not focused, and there's no question about that.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
I think at times we do tend to overplay that
a little bit, but when you're sixteen and nineteen, everything
gets magnified. And look, man, I mean, this is the
deal with this baseball team. I think we have to
we're kind of in some ways tak fucking out of
both sides of our mouth right now a little bit.
And here's what I mean by that. Everything that you
just said about the defensive lapses and the brain forts
(12:08):
that we saw over the weekend against Kansas City is
totally fair because it happened.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
It's right in front of our face.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
I mean, you got to be like bag dad Bob
minister of propaganda to deny what our eyes showed us
over the weekend against Kansas City. But at the same time,
we just got done saying, dude, they're missing a bunch
of guys, like they're not there, Guys are hurt. And
if this team is healthy and they're all playing together,
maybe they're making those lapses. But maybe they're making them
(12:37):
when they're up four to one in the eighth inning,
right and nobody notices that it's.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
The starter's making the air right back right, but Dick doesn't.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Again, if you're winning games, it doesn't stand out.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
It stands out.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
When you lose, it stands out like Randy had the
brain fart on Saturday night against Kansas City.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Right if they win the game, it's not.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Something that we're really talking about, or at least it
was not as much as we're talking about. So I
think all this stuff compounds itself when the team is
losing ballgames. You're talking about an American League where you've
got the Yankees and Rays kind of for now, kind
of not running away, but separating themselves a little bit
from the pack.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
And then you got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Eleven teams that are set twelve that are separated by
five games. I'm gonna make that. I'm gonna make that
nine teams by three games. That's how bunched up this
thing is in the American League. So at least the
Mariners can say, hey, we've been banged up. The thing
with Cal Rowley. I'm looking forward to hearing from Dan Wilson.
I don't know what the hell's going on this is
(13:38):
now three days in a row. Right, Like on Saturday
night he got scratched before the game. You're thinking, all right,
you know, maybe he tweaks something in BP. Whatever, Fine,
just give the guy day off.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Blah blah blah. This is now three days in a row.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
So at some point, if this continues, you're gonna have
to talk about maybe an Iel stand or maybe signing
a catcher, or maybe making a move for somebody, because
this can't go on much longer without him making the eye.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
I mean, the big picture is I find myself alarmingly
unconcerned about this team's chances to make the playoff.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
I don't think I am completely fair to say alarming
or no, I.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
Said, I am, I am, I'm surprising myself.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
How calm I am?
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Well, why would why would you freak out? Like, why
would you freak out?
Speaker 4 (14:20):
I mean, ask Twitter? I mean the dick that's Twitter.
Stop with the Twitter.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Why would you freak out? It's freaking May the fourth
that got sick. I just told you there's nine teams
that are separated by by three games and this, so
why would you lose your minds?
Speaker 7 (14:33):
After you just mentioned wanting to hear from Dan Wilson
on col Yes, I have.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
That ready to go if you would like.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Okay, fins go, No, no, finish that thought quick.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
I mean, I just let's let's remember what this team
is done, because I saw people saying, oh, there, we're
just gonna have to rely on another miracle. Finished like
last year. It wasn't like just last year. Twenty twenty one,
they finished thirty two and eighteen. Twenty twenty two, they
finished thirty nine and twenty seven. Twenty twenty three, they
finished thirty eight and twenty four. Twenty twenty four, they
finished sixteen and twenty twenty five, they finished twenty two
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and twelve. That's what this team does over a half
a decade. They play their best baseball in August.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
And I mean they see, this is the funny thing.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
I'm trying to give you an out there, and you
just freak me out a little bit actually, to be
honest with you, because now you're asking to do something
that again.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
But they just do.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
That's what they do. At some point, that's not gonna happen.
At some point that's gonna stop. At some point they're
gonna find themselves with their pants down right, having to
rely on saving their ass.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
Unfortunately, like you said, this isn't the American League this
year where you're gonna need ninety plus to go to
the play.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
I mean, like, it's just, guys, this is again. You know,
there's reasons why the team is playing the way they are.
Part of its injury, part of it was guys not
getting off to a hot start. Part of it was
the bad start they had when they began the year
four and nine or whatever the hell it was, blah
blah blah. And they've been playing catch up ever since then.
And we're coming off a bad sweep against what we
(15:51):
think is a bad team in Kansas City, and now
you have a really good team in Atlanta coming into town.
So Cal Rawley, though Jackson you mentioned it out for
the third game in a row. Here's Dan Wilson moments
ago on cal situation and with Cal, you.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Guys said you were waitning MRI results.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Has more information coming with that.
Speaker 8 (16:09):
Yeah, I mean I think, uh, you know, he's getting
you know, he's getting himself into a good spot. He's
he's testing himself a little bit more today. We'll have
more information once we you know, see how he feels
after we've you know he's done some work today and
and uh, you know decision will be forthcoming here within
the next day or so.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Uh that doesn't sound good.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Well, pretty soon you're gonna have ten days with the
ten day the I L.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
I mean something sound good? I mean, am I crazy here?
Speaker 6 (16:40):
Guys?
Speaker 3 (16:41):
That decision will be coming in the next day or so?
What decision?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
And why would a decision need to be made? Because
he's hurt that.
Speaker 7 (16:48):
It's exactly what you said a few seconds ago, Softie,
I L is coming, and the decision of what kind
of I L feels like that's what the decision is
gonna be.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Right, So he's got to he's got a right side,
some soreness on his right side.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
What do you mean by that, Jackson? I guess sixty
day I L is in the offing.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
I don't think anybody can make that.
Speaker 9 (17:08):
Just I'm just scared right now because if he goes down.
I mean, we talk about playoff fears and all that.
If cal Ray goes down for an extended period of time,
then suddenly, like we're having an.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Entirely different tonal conversation.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
I think, I mean, look, I get that, but first
of all, let's just pump the bricks.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
I'm scared.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Okay, let's let's not do that, Just not do the
whole don't even mention sixty day. That's ridiculous. Strike it
from the record. Okay, all right, can we rewind?
Speaker 9 (17:36):
Bro was just.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Questioning Jackson's panic, No questions.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Now, Jackson's just he he likes to panic, right, That's
that's why he's here.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
He balances out the show.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
But the point is is that we are dealing with
the real possibility that in the immediate right that cal
Rawley might have to spend a week or so away
from the baseball team. And if that's the case, then
they're gonna need guys to step up. I mean, really,
what they're gonna need is for their pitching staff to
be phenomenal, continue to be balls out, and they have
(18:06):
been generally pretty damn good this year. They're losing games
that they should win. I mean, I'm sorry, guys, but
your starting pitcher strikes out fourteen, that's.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
The game you win.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
You don't lose a game when you're starting pitcher strikes
out fourteen hitters.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
You don't see its historic.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Did you see that? Greg Bell dropped a great nugget today?
Speaker 6 (18:23):
Yeah, the Royals were the first team in baseball history
to win a game where they don't walk, don't hit
a home run, and strike out seventeen.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Somebody else tweeted that report.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
Yeah that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Yeah, well only in Seattle, Man, that's what we do.
We make teams look amazing. But yeah, that's the disappointing
part is that when you're getting pitching like that, and
there's no fan base in baseball that knows that better
than us what it's like to get great pitching and
still lose baseball game. So we'll see Cole Young, I know,
will join us around four thirty today, hoping to hear
from Brian Wu, hoping to hear from Emerson Hancock. We
(18:55):
got Millon, we got Krueger, we got Greg coming up
at six, recapping the Hawks mini camp over the weekend,
as we continue live from Jimmie's on a beautiful Monday
before the Braves in Seattle.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Right here on ninety three three KJRFN.
Speaker 10 (19:11):
Now back to Softie and Dick Gone, your home for
the Huskies, Krak and the twelfth Man Sports Radio ninety
three point three kjr FM.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
All right back here at Jimmy's Jimmy's on First as
opposed to Jimmy's on Broadway. That'd be weird if we
were at Jimmy's on Broadway because the baseball stadium is
on First Avenue right, unlest they moved it to Capitol Hill,
that'd be pretty cool. I bet you can have a
hell of you if you build a stadium on Capitol Hill,
put it in.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
The right spot, overlooking the entire thing.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
You have one one open section.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Yeah, it brings up a great question if you could
build a stadium in one area of town that does
not have a stadium yet, where would you want it built?
So when that thing blows forty thousand people are killed.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
Against that's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
And it takes you.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
About four hours to get there, hic Jackson wouldn't suck
at all? Right, Friday night, seven o'clock getting from downtown
Seattle to Mount Rainier.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
I mean you'd be lucky to make it by Monday,
You kidding me?
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Imagine like a late October game Chili. Yeah, I mean
it does.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
It does bring up a question because that's a nice
little transition. You didn't even know it, Dick, and you
transitioned into it about what we saw on Friday at
the spring game over at you Dub. But you know,
I heard Ashley and Chuck this morning talking a bit
about the crowd, and there's a lot of conversations about
crowds now right in sports. We talk about the spring
game crowd on Friday. I was a little bit disappointed
at the crowd for Randy's ceremony on Saturday wasn't a
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little bigger than it was on Saturday night. But I
don't know, man, I mean to me, spring games the
whole thing. I appreciate what Jed Fish is trying to do.
His enthusiasm is pretty cool for stuff like this. If
you hear what he said Friday about Demon Williams, by
the way, and then he could play three more years
at UTUB because of the five for five fans, right,
(20:57):
I mean, maybe he's right. I mean I I I
guess if you tilted your head, you could paint a
picture where Jedfish stays at you Dub and Demon Williams
isn't good enough yet to go to the NFL, and
he's not coveted yet by other big time programs around
college football. I mean, I don't know who LSU's quarterback
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is going to be this year. But maybe Lane Kiffin
is gonna be telling himself, did they get Sam Levin?
But did they get him after Demand or before it
was after Demonder? Right, Okay, maybe Lane Kiffin is telling
himself in late November, I'm glad that we didn't get Demand.
We got the right guy with the guy that we have.
Maybe he's ruined the day he didn't get Demon Williams.
(21:38):
Maybe he should have stepped in and sued the NCAA
on DeMont Williams behalf.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
I don't know. But my point is this.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
My point is that I appreciate what Jedfish is trying
to do.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
I think it's.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Really really hard, very hard to convince people to get
in their car on a Friday night, yeah, and fight
traffic for what turned out to be a carnival. It's
not a game, right, I mean, it's not even a
real game. It's a practice.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Well, Jed says when he was interviewed by the Big
Ten Network at the end.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Of the first quarter. But Friday, it wasn't a real game.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
We're talking about letting coaches of other sports kick fuel
goals and call plays.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Which I'm fine with that. Fine, whatever. I mean there's
room for that, like, let's have some fun.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
But again, if you're doing it on a Friday night,
and you know what, actually, I appreciate them trying it
on a Friday because let's not forget what they were
doing on a Saturday wasn't really working either, right. I mean,
they've tried, they've tried to make adjustments to this thing.
They've tried to be paid, you know, people out, they've
tried different things. A lot of programs won't do different things.
They're kind of stuck in their ways and they're stubborn
(22:45):
and all that stuff. So I actually really do appreciate
Washington trying to figure out a way to make this work.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
My concern about the Spring Game unless you're a.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Team like in the SEC for example, or honestly, I'll
say something nice about Oregon, a place like Oregon where
there's nothing else going on, exactly at Austin Stadium, in
a place like Eugene. My concern, Dick, is that the
Spring Games are going the way of the Pro Bowl,
that it's just it's unfixable.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
There's just nothing you can do, right, you try, you try,
you try.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
I don't think they're going away though, right, they're not
gonna die like the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
They're just gonna be on what they are.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
No, they one hundred percent may go away.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Really, Pat Chun mentioned that last time he was on
with us that you may not see a spring game
in three or four years from now.
Speaker 6 (23:31):
For here, you're not talking about spring games everywhere because
someplace everywhere just very essentially.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Maybe maybe they stay in fifteen twenty places. Dick, I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I'm just saying that the idea that every team is
going to do a spring game, I think in our
lifetime that will cease to exist. I think at some
point in time we'll see teams say the hell with it,
and again they may try and reinvent the wheel. When
I say the way of the Pro Bowl, I don't
even mean going away. I just mean something totally different
than what it was. Yeah, Like growing up, you and
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I would watch the Pro Bowl AFC versus the NFC
sixty one to fifty eight a Looha stadium whatever, all
of our favorite players, either the buye before the Super
Bowl or the week after the Super Bowl. And then
they moved it, and then they changed it, and then
they took it out of Hawaii. Then they put it
back in Hawaii, then they brought the game back, then
(24:22):
they canceled it, then they did this Pro Bowl Games thing.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
It might morph into something different.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
I just again, I just think it's really hard to
justify for a lot of people, with how bad traffic
is getting out there and doing it. And I appreciate
them trying. I just don't know how much of this
is fixable, man.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
Yeah, I think.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
I mean, there's no way that the University of Washington
could have predicted we were going to have a seventy
eight degree day on Saturday, but you already.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Had Roddy was fine.
Speaker 6 (24:48):
How many hundred thousand people did you already have in
Montlake for the Wintermere Cup?
Speaker 4 (24:53):
I mean opening day of boating season. I mean there's
a built in.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
Crowd there, right, And I believe they have done it
windimur Cup days before, but a lot of windermur Cup
days was fifty five degrees in raining too.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
But sure, I mean, in hindsight looking.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
Back, it's like, wow, that well, that could have been
an opportunity to fill a stadium if you already have
tens of thousands of people down there watching the boat race.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
But they've tried that before.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Yeah, And we've had saturdays during when you're a cup
where there's been a lot of people there already and
they haven't stuck around. They haven't stuck around right, so
we'll see. I mean they're trying. There's only so much
you can do. Well, I'll tell you what. Let's get
over to T Mobile Park right now. Because joining us
on the radio show one of our favorites. And we
appreciate this guy. We call him one of our favorites
because he just agrees to come on the radio show
(25:38):
all the time. If he said no, we wouldn't like him.
But we love him because he always says yes when
so many other players, probably smartly by the way, say no.
Brian Wu Mariner All Star Starter, is joining us right
now on the radio program from T Mobile Park.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Brian, how are you man?
Speaker 11 (25:54):
Good?
Speaker 4 (25:55):
We're good.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
We're across the street at Jimmy's. You want to beer
or something?
Speaker 11 (25:59):
By the way, Oh man, with this weather, no, no, you.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Know what, maybe maybe one of these days will convince
the skipper to let you come over and hang out
with us before a game. But Brian, before we get
into what's going on with you and talk about your
game as of late. You were once a young guy
right in this rotation. You were once in Emerson Handcock's shoes,
trying to kind of earn your place in the major leagues.
(26:25):
Can you give us a take what it was like
from your perspective and the dugout on Saturday night, watching
that young kid strike out fourteen hitters on Saturday.
Speaker 11 (26:34):
Man, oh man, it was it was so much fun.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
I think, you know, we've a lot of us came
up together, and you know, we've we've all been playing
or hanging out and known each other since, you know,
we've been drafted, so coming up and getting to know
Emerson as a person and just how good of the
guy is and how hard he works, and you know,
to watch all that kind of come to fruition and
(26:59):
then to a night like like the other night was
just it was incredible. Everybody's so stoked and excited to
you know, see him have success like this, and then
just to have a game like that is you know,
it's just one of those really really special nights.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
Well, let's go for a young strikeout artist like Emerson
on Saturday to an old strikeout artist.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Did you bump into Randy Johnson on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Yeah, Yeah, we we got to talk a little bit,
talked a little bit on Sunday, caught up with him.
Speaker 11 (27:32):
Obviously, he's uh.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
He's kind of you know, he's just such a you know,
giant statue that every time you see him, you're you're
blown away by helping you even Logan standing next to him,
Like Logan looks small next to him, and it's Logan
towers over all of us. So now he's a great dude.
(27:56):
He's given us, you know, some really good advice and
talks over the years and the times that we've gotten
to to see him, and no, it was it was
special to be able to to take in all that
stuff on Saturday, you know, the ceremony and kind of
the ovation and and the love that you know that
he has here and such a short amount of time.
(28:19):
But the impact that he had on on the organization
and the fans and all that stuff.
Speaker 11 (28:24):
Man, it's it's really really cool to see.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Well, I was gonna say, you were negative to his
last time he pitched his cle you were nine when
he retired, for God's sake, So for you, it'd be
like meeting Sandy Kofax or you know, somebody like that.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
So I mean, do you remember much about him.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
As all when when he threw as a kid, or
is it just way before your time?
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Honestly, No, I mean I got to watch him a
little bit. He had a short time in San Francisco. Uh,
so I don't I didn't get to watch him a
ton like in his prime or remember watching him a
bunch of his prime. But I mean I've seen obviously
ountless videos of his games and like the little amount
(29:05):
of like information there is on uh you know, ideas
and stuff coming up. And obviously the talks with Nolan
Ryan are kind of pretty well known within the pitching
community and like what went on there, and we asked
him and talked to him about those. So no, it's
(29:28):
He's just kind of one of those names where whether
you've seen him or not, like it's it's a figure
in the game, that's a figure in pitching, right, So
just one that you try to sit back and appreciate.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Well, Brian Wo was with us, And Brian is the
problem with talking to you, man? You keep giving us
all these great questions we want to ask you with
with all these great answers you're giving us, and we
got to ask you man, because you mentioned Randy's talks
with Nolan Ryan, which you're right, you know, kind of
pretty well known famous by now. Have you had any
conversations like that with a veteran you know, maybe it
was Randy, was there a veteran guy coming up, or
(30:01):
maybe a guy that you're still lean on now that
you go to for advice.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
I wouldn't say one conversation in particular. I think you know,
our staff as a whole, starters, relievers, everybody. You know,
it's a pretty tight knit group. So it's I would
say it's a lot more just kind of day to
day casual conversations. Either we're having them in the dugout
or you know, we're reviewing games or outings or kind
(30:31):
of you know, how guys are feeling.
Speaker 11 (30:33):
It's it's uh, it's.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
It's an everyday process. I would say, you know, I've
had a ton of great conversations with people throughout the years,
but within our our staff, it's kind of an everyday thing.
I think whether you're going well, you know, like I'm
I'm talking to to Emerson about what he's feeling right now.
You know, he's on his own and coming and then
(30:58):
you talk to you know, Bryce about things that he's
working on and coming back from rehab, and you know,
we're talking to Louis about whatever it is things he's
working on, how he's you know, tweaking this or committing,
you know, staying kind of committed to the same things that.
Speaker 10 (31:14):
He always does.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
So it's it's just a constant communication between between all
of us.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
Yeah, Brian, we're joining us.
Speaker 6 (31:23):
Brian, I know the last couple starts having gone the
way you wanted. But I was looking back at your
game log and you had a couple of game bumping
the road in late July at twenty twenty three, and
you pitched unbelievable in August. You did the same last year.
You had a couple of game bump in July last year,
and you pitched unbelievable in August. So what is it
about your process for getting out of that rough patches,
(31:43):
because you've been really good at it before.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
I think it's a balance between you know, trying to
learn and adjust from those bad ones, but also not
putting too much stock into it. You know, it's it's
such a long season, Like you said, you're gonna the
best in the game have bad starts. You know, in
their best seasons. And I think the worst thing that
(32:08):
you can do is have about outing and think about
all the things that you need to fix and change.
And you know, I think most of the time you're
much better off just getting right back to what you do.
You know, you might have some some bad starts or
some bad luck in a row, and it it makes
it tough. You know, you want to question the things
that you're doing and what you need to change and whatnot.
(32:29):
But more often than not, the best answer that I've
found is just staying committed to who I am and
what I do, and you know, not trying to change
or put too much stock into the bad ones.
Speaker 11 (32:41):
Just get right back to work and you know things
will be a right.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Well, I got to ask maybe the most important question
of all, Brian before you go. Brian wu with us
on the radio show. You grew up in Oakland in
the Bay Area. Were you a Warrior fan growing up?
Speaker 1 (32:55):
By the way, I was a Warrior fan.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Yeah, let me ask you. Let me ask you this.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
If Steve Kerr is truly done coaching the Golden State Warriors,
do we want him as the first head coach of
the Sonic reboot in a couple of years.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
If he's oh wow, I.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Mean, if he's available, man, it's it's hard to find.
I think, you know, someone who is more experienced and
has been through, you know, more than he has. I
think it's always difficult with the rebuild, and then obviously
with the Warriors as you've had so many good years
and then kind of you know, a fading dynasty so
(33:35):
to speak. I think he would be an incredible choice. Obviously,
I'd like to keep him as long as we can.
I don't know what's going to happen with with the
Warriors here in the next couple of years and what
direction they want to take. But I've always been obviously
a fan of his just what he's been able to do,
uh with the Warriors, and I don't know the way
(33:58):
that he carries himself and a lot of the lessons
that he speaks on, and you know, the things that
he he accomplished as a player and someone who you know,
wasn't the most talented and made it work on a
really a lot of good teams and has held a
lot of positions in basketball. And you know, guys like
that are are you know, they're hard to come by.
(34:20):
So obviously I'd love to see Seattle have some basketball
back in town. And if I think Steve would be
a pretty good starry.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Well we'll see when the Soups come back and they
play Golden State. Maybe you'll root for Seattle, maybe.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Possibly rooting for basketball. Oh gee, see here I am
telling people how much we like you. For God's sakes.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
All right, Brian, listen, good luck in your next start
on Wednesday against this Braves team Coke get him.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Thanks for doing this and we'll talk soon.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Man, Thanks Man, Yeah, absolutely, thanks guys.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
All right, Brian Wiu with us on the radio show
again to Jim. Love talking to him, Love having him on.
Kind of guy you can talk baseball with right for hours, Dick.
I mean, he is awesome, so no doubt he's gonna
bounce back. But to bounce back, he's gonna have to
do it against the pretty damn good team on Wednesday
in Atlanta. All right, we're gonna break a little fun
with audio and then Hugh Mellan gonna join a little
more for with you coming up on ninety three three KJRFM.
Speaker 10 (35:22):
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Speaker 2 (35:42):
All right, here we go big thanks to our new sponsor,
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on ninety three three KJRFM, and we start, by the
way with a little baseball.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
Hey, Dick, did you happen to hear that?
Speaker 4 (35:55):
What's that?
Speaker 3 (35:56):
Dick?
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Yankees broadcaster John Sterling, who retired a few years ago
Dave Simms took his job as the new radio voice
couple of years ago, passed away today at the age
of eighty seven. Sterling called thousands of games before his
retirement in twenty four, including five thousand, sixty consecutive games
from eighty nine to twenty nineteen. Called over one third
(36:19):
of the Yankee games, or almost one third of the
Yankee games and almost half by the way of their
playoff games. Here's a sample of some of Sterling's best
calls for those that don't know what he sounded like.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
Sung on and.
Speaker 12 (36:30):
Jovna Dave One, let us high, hell Us bar, Yege's win,
Yege's win, Bernee Williams, Homer's deep by the love Bil
seats and the Yankees beat the Orioles five to four
to win Game one of the American League chabbionsp Series.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
Burn Baby, Burnie.
Speaker 5 (36:55):
And Rizzo is gonna be picked off. He's in the
middle between Seve and third. Hedges now throws to second,
on the way to third, back to second, back to third,
tagged out end of inning. Boy, if that wasn't the Yankees,
that's what they do. Run the bases like drunks. His
grounded is short. DDI fields and throws the first in
(37:18):
time ball game over. Yankees win. The Yankees when and
masa hero Tanaka pitch is a complete game shutout, the
sun will come out Tanaka. Bet your bottom dollar with Tanaka.
(37:39):
The sun will shine anyway. Tanaka pitch is a complete
game shutout.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
I don't know s.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
There's just so few of those guys left in Major
League Baseball. The fact that he was never awarded the
Ford Frick Award while he was living, it's a shame.
It's a damn shame. By the way, little known fact
about John Sterling. You know he married amer KJR producer. Really,
that's right, Jennifer Contreras, who worked here before I started
in ninety four. I was talking to Tom Lee about
(38:09):
her this morning. He claims that they met when Jennifer
was covering a Yankee game at the Kingdome. Ended up
getting married, had kids, including triplets together. Wow, by the way,
they got divorced a few years ago. But little known
fact that John Sterling married a KJR producer.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
That's about that.
Speaker 6 (38:26):
I mean, you just hear that voice and the images
that come to mind are like transistor radios sitting out
by the sidewalk on like the upper west side.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
I mean it's just really, really way exactly.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
I mean the whole.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
Well, my favorite iconic it is, and my my favorite thing.
Speaker 6 (38:47):
He always did what it'll be a w on one
like That's that's how he like introduced the count right.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Two of the great voices in baseball, and John Sterling
and Bob Shephard, the PA guy, came out of Yankee.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
Stadium and they're now gone.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
Dolence's to Yankee fans, john Sterling's family and friends, but
one of the all time greats and don't be surprised
if he gets that Fort Frick Award next year. By
the way, after passing away, it's a shame it didn't
happen while he was living.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
All right, Hey, Dick, did you happen to hear that?
Speaker 4 (39:14):
What's that?
Speaker 3 (39:15):
Dick? Let's go from baseball to hockey.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
John Chaka was hired yesterday as the new Toronto Maple
leafs GM this morning at his introductory press conference, have
you heard this yet? By the way, Toronto's Sun journalist
Steve Simmons came after Maple leafs CEO Keith Pelly for hiring.
Speaker 13 (39:32):
The guy, Steve Simmons, Toronto's son. For Keith, you talk
about the due diligence that you did on John prior
to hiring him and now hiring him. In the past
say three to four days, I have been in contact
with about twenty people who work in the National Hockey League,
many of whom are prominent names that we would all know.
(39:53):
And of the twenty people I spoke to, one was
supportive of John's hiring and the other nineteen thought it
was a sham. To be perfectly honest, words were used
like con artist, liar, salesman. How did you come to
a different conclusion that I was able to come to
in a very short time.
Speaker 6 (40:10):
I must have talked to different people.
Speaker 13 (40:14):
That's it, because in the hockey world today is astounded
by this announcement, okay, And your response to.
Speaker 10 (40:22):
That is, as we've conducted due diligence, and it was
deep due diligence.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
It was a thorough process, and I'm quite happy with
where we've landed. So this guy was high first of all.
As he's asking those questions about Jacob. He's there at
the press conference. He's sitting right next to the CEO.
I mean, there's three guys at the podium and he's
one of them. So he's watching this entire thing.
Speaker 3 (40:45):
Right.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
He was hired when he was twenty six as the
GM of the Coyotes, and there was all kinds of controversy,
tried to get other jobs while he was under contract,
things like that.
Speaker 4 (40:53):
Well, he left the team during the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
Right, So there's a lot of resouts, a lot of
reasons to be, I think skeptical of the higher There's
also a lot of reasons, I think in the hockey
world to be skeptical of what the Maple Leafs are doing.
I mean, they haven't made the conference finals in twenty
seven years. It's one of the proudest franchises in hockey,
and they're terrible by their own standards.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
Good for Steve Simmons, Benton said, this guy's got a reputation.
Speaker 3 (41:20):
Is that kind of like Potster? Yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 6 (41:22):
His voice, I thought, and the will Toronto guys. I
thought his voice sounded a little like Jeff Baker's.
Speaker 3 (41:26):
A little bit. Yeah, yeah, maybe they all sound the same.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
I don't know all Toronto reporters right like that. That's right,
Jackson made the time for one more what you would
do it? All right, We're gonna break Hugh Miller a
little more at four with Huey coming next to on
ninety three three KJARFM.
Where we go.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I love being across the street from t Mobile Park.
We also are gonna love it even more when the
boys and girls here at Jimmy's get their little sidewalk
cafe open. We're doing the show outside. I mean, how
many places can you go and seeattle and have a
little cocktail, a little beverage outside, and a day like
today have a sidewalk across the street from the stadium.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
So uh, you know the first thing.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
That came up My first thought, Dick when I heard
about the potential for a little sidewalk seating here at
Jimmy says, well, what about the din and dash opportunity
for ah?
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Yeah, and they fix that right.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Well, all of us have done that over the years.
I mean I've done it well back in the day.
I haven't done it for a long I wouldn't say
all of the fifty you never did it. I've actually
died and dash at all? Never done that, Okay, four nine,
four or five one? How many people admitting to dining
and dashing there and the listening on it, you, sir,
have you ever dined and dashed ever in your life?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
One time?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Never had you beautiful blonde sitting next to you late
night at Denny's back in the day in high school.
You know what, I will tell you the time I
did do it that I do remember. It was the
Denny's and it was the one that was on in Ballard,
Remember the one that they wanted to make a historical
landmark because of the stupid roof.
Speaker 5 (01:11):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Right.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I asked for the check and I waited for maybe
thirty minutes for the bill never showed up.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
I was like, you know what, I'm tired of wait,
I'm gon leave. You couldn't have just put a twenty
out the hell, I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I just left, sort of that poor bastard who was
waiting on me at the Ballard Denny's thirty years ago,
whatever it was.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I'm sorry, ayoja. I want to see how many people.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
But the point is now they have these QR codes
that you can scan yep, like at the airport and
just order from your phone, so they're not worried about that.
But I can't wait for that. That's coming very soon.
But here's what we got. We got a lot of
things to get to today and not a lot of
time to do it. We're gonna start a brand new
feature on the radio show, which may only lasts one day,
by the way, it may be done by tomorrow. Mariner's
(01:53):
on the thirties, all right. The goal today is to
talk to a Mariner player at the bottom of every
hour until we get to six o'clock.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
What's the odds that we accomplished that, well.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Never tell me the odds.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
First of all, I'm like Han Solo on Star Wars
Day on May the fourth.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
By the way, I.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Think they're pretty good. Okay, we got we got two.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Professionals in the clubhouse right now, and Jessamin mcinturr and
Mike Benton was like, you know some Looney Tunes producer
from back in the day, Like if Anders and Jackson
were across the street first, it would be like ten
to one on forget, it's not gonna happen. But we
got two real pros, all right. Mike Benton and Jessmon
mcinturr are over there. Yes, I know her name is McIntyre.
(02:32):
I color macinturr. She's over there, by the way. So
I think they're pretty good. So the goal is at
three point thirty to talk to Brian wu Cole Young
at four thirty and then Emerson Hancock, who was freaking
phenomenal on Saturday night with fourteen strikeouts, but the freaking
team lost the game because the bats didn't show up
on Saturday, ruining, absolutely ruining, ruining Randy Johnson's big night
(02:56):
on Saturday. Emerson Hancock going out and paying tribute right
to the big unit with fourteen freaking k's on Saturday, unbelievable,
and then Luis Castillo goes out and loses again over
the weekend. Look, I think we know one thing now,
and we can talk about being sixteen and nineteen. We
can stress out about being three games under if you want.
(03:16):
I'm not even close to stressing out. What are you
a couple of games at a first place?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
You got like twelve.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Teams in the American League that are all bunched up
right there with each other.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Whatever.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
It wake me up on the first of June, and
I'm still feeling that way. I will say this though,
the pressing issue is Luis Castillo.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
And here's the problem with Luis Castillo.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
We can talk all you want about his numbers, all
about everything is velocity blah blah blah yaht and the
act the team is one in five Dick in his
last six games.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
That can't go on. That can't continue.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
You can't have a guy like Luis Castillo, who is
supposed to be one of your best arms and one
of the better pitchers in baseball, going one in five
and losing five of every six games you play with
him as your starting pitcher.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
I mean, we talked about this. In his previous five starts.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Up until Sunday, he had put forty four runners on
including hit batsman in twenty two and a third innings
for an eight point six CRA and a whip barely
under two. Now he's put on fifty five runners in
his last.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Twenty eight innings pitched. I mean it's too much.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
So look, I mean, we know where this is going
at some point, whether fair or unfair. If this doesn't stop,
he's gonna make Jerry's decision very easy when Bryce Miller
gets out.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Well, you're right about being concerned.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
I will say, whatever my worry level was before I
entered the stadium yesterday about Luis Castillo, it was less
when I left, Okay, because I thought he looked better
than he had in any one of those other starts.
He had three great innings to start, he ran into
trouble in the fourth. He gave up the two hits
and then walked the guy, and then two runners scored
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on outs. Right, it was a s fielders choice in
a sacked fly that got the second and third runs
of the game.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
So, while was Luis good very good yesterday?
Speaker 6 (05:00):
No, but I thought he took a step to hit
ninety eight on the gun, which.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
I don't believe.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
I don't know this for a fact, but I don't
believe he's hit ninety eight over the last three or
four starts.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
So I was at least encouraged with what I saw
from Luis yesterday.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Well, I mean, look, this is a results driven business,
correct and all. That's fine as long as he backs
it up with a start that looks great his next
time out.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
But you can't sit there and just say, well all
of the runs were scored on outs as velocity. Well,
first of all, when you're putting three runners on an inning, like.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
I said, he got himself in there.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
You're gonna give up runs on sackflies and ground balls.
I mean, who cares how the runs are allowed? As
long as they're allowed. I don't care how he stops
teams as long as he stops teams. But you know, look,
I mean, and he may be better than he's shown.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
I think he probably is.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Better than he's shown in the last month and a half.
But at some point, again, it's just not gonna matter.
You know, they keep losing games with Luis Castillo and
his next start. The good news for him is this
those good news and bad news. Good news is his
next start is in Chicago. The bad news is that
comes into place in Chicago that is notorious for the wind. Right, Yeah,
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so who knows how he'll play, how he'll prefer. He
may look better and not be able to put up,
you know, a good game because the wind's blowing out
the entire day. So look, I mean, obviously, if these
kind of games continue, and if the Mariners keep losing
games with Luis Castillo in their rotation, they're gonna have
to make a change. And this is the thing, it's
(06:34):
not even about Bryce Miller. Has anybody been keeping an
eye on what kan Anderson's doing right now in Double A, Arkansas?
I mean, guys, it's stupid. Five starts, he's got thirty
eight strikeouts and four walks. He's got a point three
to seven e er, he's gonna whip under point seven.
How many guys have made the jump right from double
A to the major leagues under Jerry Depoto, Tons of
guys have made the jump right from double A. So
(06:55):
this isn't just a Bryce Miller thing. This is a
Kate Anderson. Oh that's that's right.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
And I think you know bicce midd will get the
first spot to maybe unload Louis Castile. We'll see how
he does in the next couple three starts. But back
to yesterday really quick. I mean I felt bad for
Luis Castillo because I looked I kept staring at the
lineup in center field and I went, my god, this
is anemic.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
No Cow, no Donovan, no Rayley, no Canzone.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
You had Johnny Parada, you had Louis Reevos, you had.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Connor Joe in the lineup yesterday.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
I mean it was just the weak contact percentage yesterday
for the Mariner bats. I mean almost no no player
could have gotten in under those circumstances on the mound.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Yes, well, I thought it was about the weather though,
the weather's nice.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Hitting the ball, good hitters because they're hurt exactly, Yes,
I mean, that's kind of part of this man. This
is why you talk about depth a lot. And I
look at the Mariners offense in the last what is it,
four games that Luis Castillo has started, They've scored nine
runs in four games combined. They had eight in the
Astro game when he got tattooed for seven runs and
ten hits in three and a third, but they won the.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Game eight to seven.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
They did lose the other game that he started in
April eight to seven, So they scored fifteen runs in
two games for him. Then they've scored nine in the
previous four, so not all this is on him when
it comes to winning and losing. But if you just
talk about performance, and I'm not saying that this is
all gonna be predictive of what's to come. Chris Crawford
used that word I believe today to describe Jose Ferrer
(08:28):
and is exactly right.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
The numbers by Farrer don't look great.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
But it doesn't necessarily need to be a predictive thing
for how the guy's gonna pitch in late July and
early August. I just see a baseball team that doesn't
have to deal with this because they have answers. They've
got Bryce Miller, They're gonna eventually have Kate Anders. I mean,
Emerson Hancock, first of all, is going nowhere, Like forget it.
(08:53):
There is not a chance in hell Emerson Hancock is
not in this rotation. When Bryce Miller is reactivated, that
conversation's off the table for me. I don't know what
Jerry and Justin are thinking. Maybe they're thinking something wacky
that we're not even considering right now. But I mean,
the dude, the dude's an All Star. He's a freaking
at All Star right now. Now, he's an All Star,
(09:13):
and him being left off the American League All Star
roster would be a joke with the way he's pitching
right now. So if you wouldn't have known that Emerson
Hancock was supposed to start the year in Triple A Tacoma,
you would think that this guy is one of the
best pitchers in the American League. If you were in baseball,
if you were a baseball idiot and a baseball ignorant
and just went to the game yesterday and you told
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your buddy, got you know who's that guy? And I
told you, alwa, he's one of the best arms in baseball.
He's going to be an All Star and up for
the cy Young you would have believed it. That's how
good he is right now. He's not going anywhere. So
this is a Bryce Miller Luis Castillo conversation. The Hancock
part is done.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
It's over.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
It's just the glass half full, glass half empty conversation.
And you can choose to look at it both either
way you want, because I think both half merit.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
The glass half falls.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
You're talking about young players, Emerson, Hancock, Kate Anderson, Cole Young,
Colt Emerson.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
I mean this, this farm.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
System is now coming to fruition up at the big league,
big league team.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
But you can also if you want to be glass
half empty, you can say something's missing. I mean, yes,
the injuries are a concern, the defense.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Is a concerns and the defense stick that's putting it
lightly dick when you say it's a concern.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
And the overall just five.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
Like the clubhouse, I just I just don't see the
fun and I think I think the looseness and the
fun sometimes almost have to come before the wins, and
it almost seems like this team is relying on wins
to bring the looseness to the baseball team, and that
might be a reflection of the manager because the manager
is not a you know, energetic, charismatic character.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Right.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Well, the clubhouse part, I don't know what's happening in
the clubhouse. I haven't been in the clubhouse in two weeks,
so I have no idea what the vibe is inside
the clubhouse. I mean, jessin Benton there today, maybe you
can ask them kind of, hey, what's the vibe there whatever,
And if guys are sulking around and you know, there's
finger pointing and all that stuff. I haven't heard reports
from anybody on any of that, so.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Just talking about what they look on the field, I mean.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Just yeah, right, lack of days.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Fine, well, Julio, Randy A Rose ran forgetting the count.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Yes, that's fair, That's totally fair.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
I mean Randy on Saturday night, Julio, I think the
guy would have scored anyway on that play to center,
but it was a bad look.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
JP Crawford defensively.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I mean that's what you're talking about, Like you're not
talking about like how the team's getting a wall on you,
how they're executing. Yes, right, So I mean I would
not say the clubhouse. I would just say their execution
on the field looks like they're.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Not focused, and there's no question about that.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
I think at times we do tend to overplay that
a little bit, but when you're sixteen and nineteen, everything
gets magnified. And look, man, I mean, this is the
deal with this baseball team. I think we have to
we're kind of in some ways tak fucking out of
both sides of our mouth right now a little bit.
And here's what I mean by that. Everything that you
just said about the defensive lapses and the brain forts
(12:08):
that we saw over the weekend against Kansas City is
totally fair because it happened.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
It's right in front of our face.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
I mean, you got to be like bag dad Bob
minister of propaganda to deny what our eyes showed us
over the weekend against Kansas City. But at the same time,
we just got done saying, dude, they're missing a bunch
of guys, like they're not there, Guys are hurt. And
if this team is healthy and they're all playing together,
maybe they're making those lapses. But maybe they're making them
(12:37):
when they're up four to one in the eighth inning,
right and nobody notices that it's.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
The starter's making the air right back right, but Dick doesn't.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Again, if you're winning games, it doesn't stand out.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
It stands out.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
When you lose, it stands out like Randy had the
brain fart on Saturday night against Kansas City.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Right if they win the game, it's not.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Something that we're really talking about, or at least it
was not as much as we're talking about. So I
think all this stuff compounds itself when the team is
losing ballgames. You're talking about an American League where you've
got the Yankees and Rays kind of for now, kind
of not running away, but separating themselves a little bit
from the pack.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
And then you got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Eleven teams that are set twelve that are separated by
five games. I'm gonna make that. I'm gonna make that
nine teams by three games. That's how bunched up this
thing is in the American League. So at least the
Mariners can say, hey, we've been banged up. The thing
with Cal Rowley. I'm looking forward to hearing from Dan Wilson.
I don't know what the hell's going on this is
(13:38):
now three days in a row. Right, Like on Saturday
night he got scratched before the game. You're thinking, all right,
you know, maybe he tweaks something in BP. Whatever, Fine,
just give the guy day off.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Blah blah blah. This is now three days in a row.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
So at some point, if this continues, you're gonna have
to talk about maybe an Iel stand or maybe signing
a catcher, or maybe making a move for somebody, because
this can't go on much longer without him making the eye.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
I mean, the big picture is I find myself alarmingly
unconcerned about this team's chances to make the playoff.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
I don't think I am completely fair to say alarming
or no, I.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
Said, I am, I am, I'm surprising myself.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
How calm I am?
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Well, why would why would you freak out? Like, why
would you freak out?
Speaker 4 (14:20):
I mean, ask Twitter? I mean the dick that's Twitter.
Stop with the Twitter.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Why would you freak out? It's freaking May the fourth
that got sick. I just told you there's nine teams
that are separated by by three games and this, so
why would you lose your minds?
Speaker 7 (14:33):
After you just mentioned wanting to hear from Dan Wilson
on col Yes, I have.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
That ready to go if you would like.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Okay, fins go, No, no, finish that thought quick.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
I mean, I just let's let's remember what this team
is done, because I saw people saying, oh, there, we're
just gonna have to rely on another miracle. Finished like
last year. It wasn't like just last year. Twenty twenty one,
they finished thirty two and eighteen. Twenty twenty two, they
finished thirty nine and twenty seven. Twenty twenty three, they
finished thirty eight and twenty four. Twenty twenty four, they
finished sixteen and twenty twenty five, they finished twenty two
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and twelve. That's what this team does over a half
a decade. They play their best baseball in August.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
And I mean they see, this is the funny thing.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
I'm trying to give you an out there, and you
just freak me out a little bit actually, to be
honest with you, because now you're asking to do something
that again.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
But they just do.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
That's what they do. At some point, that's not gonna happen.
At some point that's gonna stop. At some point they're
gonna find themselves with their pants down right, having to
rely on saving their ass.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
Unfortunately, like you said, this isn't the American League this
year where you're gonna need ninety plus to go to
the play.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
I mean, like, it's just, guys, this is again. You know,
there's reasons why the team is playing the way they are.
Part of its injury, part of it was guys not
getting off to a hot start. Part of it was
the bad start they had when they began the year
four and nine or whatever the hell it was, blah
blah blah. And they've been playing catch up ever since then.
And we're coming off a bad sweep against what we
(15:51):
think is a bad team in Kansas City, and now
you have a really good team in Atlanta coming into town.
So Cal Rawley, though Jackson you mentioned it out for
the third game in a row. Here's Dan Wilson moments
ago on cal situation and with Cal, you.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Guys said you were waitning MRI results.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Has more information coming with that.
Speaker 8 (16:09):
Yeah, I mean I think, uh, you know, he's getting
you know, he's getting himself into a good spot. He's
he's testing himself a little bit more today. We'll have
more information once we you know, see how he feels
after we've you know he's done some work today and
and uh, you know decision will be forthcoming here within
the next day or so.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Uh that doesn't sound good.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Well, pretty soon you're gonna have ten days with the
ten day the I L.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
I mean something sound good? I mean, am I crazy here?
Speaker 6 (16:40):
Guys?
Speaker 3 (16:41):
That decision will be coming in the next day or so?
What decision?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
And why would a decision need to be made? Because
he's hurt that.
Speaker 7 (16:48):
It's exactly what you said a few seconds ago, Softie,
I L is coming, and the decision of what kind
of I L feels like that's what the decision is
gonna be.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Right, So he's got to he's got a right side,
some soreness on his right side.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
What do you mean by that, Jackson? I guess sixty
day I L is in the offing.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
I don't think anybody can make that.
Speaker 9 (17:08):
Just I'm just scared right now because if he goes down.
I mean, we talk about playoff fears and all that.
If cal Ray goes down for an extended period of time,
then suddenly, like we're having an.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Entirely different tonal conversation.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
I think, I mean, look, I get that, but first
of all, let's just pump the bricks.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
I'm scared.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Okay, let's let's not do that, Just not do the
whole don't even mention sixty day. That's ridiculous. Strike it
from the record. Okay, all right, can we rewind?
Speaker 9 (17:36):
Bro was just.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Questioning Jackson's panic, No questions.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Now, Jackson's just he he likes to panic, right, That's
that's why he's here.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
He balances out the show.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
But the point is is that we are dealing with
the real possibility that in the immediate right that cal
Rawley might have to spend a week or so away
from the baseball team. And if that's the case, then
they're gonna need guys to step up. I mean, really,
what they're gonna need is for their pitching staff to
be phenomenal, continue to be balls out, and they have
(18:06):
been generally pretty damn good this year. They're losing games
that they should win. I mean, I'm sorry, guys, but
your starting pitcher strikes out fourteen, that's.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
The game you win.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
You don't lose a game when you're starting pitcher strikes
out fourteen hitters.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
You don't see its historic.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Did you see that? Greg Bell dropped a great nugget today?
Speaker 6 (18:23):
Yeah, the Royals were the first team in baseball history
to win a game where they don't walk, don't hit
a home run, and strike out seventeen.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Somebody else tweeted that report.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
Yeah that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Yeah, well only in Seattle, Man, that's what we do.
We make teams look amazing. But yeah, that's the disappointing
part is that when you're getting pitching like that, and
there's no fan base in baseball that knows that better
than us what it's like to get great pitching and
still lose baseball game. So we'll see Cole Young, I know,
will join us around four thirty today, hoping to hear
from Brian Wu, hoping to hear from Emerson Hancock. We
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got Millon, we got Krueger, we got Greg coming up
at six, recapping the Hawks mini camp over the weekend,
as we continue live from Jimmie's on a beautiful Monday
before the Braves in Seattle.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Right here on ninety three three KJRFN.
Speaker 10 (19:11):
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Speaker 2 (19:21):
All right back here at Jimmy's Jimmy's on First as
opposed to Jimmy's on Broadway. That'd be weird if we
were at Jimmy's on Broadway because the baseball stadium is
on First Avenue right, unlest they moved it to Capitol Hill,
that'd be pretty cool. I bet you can have a
hell of you if you build a stadium on Capitol Hill,
put it in.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
The right spot, overlooking the entire thing.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
You have one one open section.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Yeah, it brings up a great question if you could
build a stadium in one area of town that does
not have a stadium yet, where would you want it built?
So when that thing blows forty thousand people are killed.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
Against that's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
And it takes you.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
About four hours to get there, hic Jackson wouldn't suck
at all? Right, Friday night, seven o'clock getting from downtown
Seattle to Mount Rainier.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
I mean you'd be lucky to make it by Monday,
You kidding me?
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Imagine like a late October game Chili. Yeah, I mean
it does.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
It does bring up a question because that's a nice
little transition. You didn't even know it, Dick, and you
transitioned into it about what we saw on Friday at
the spring game over at you Dub. But you know,
I heard Ashley and Chuck this morning talking a bit
about the crowd, and there's a lot of conversations about
crowds now right in sports. We talk about the spring
game crowd on Friday. I was a little bit disappointed
at the crowd for Randy's ceremony on Saturday wasn't a
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little bigger than it was on Saturday night. But I
don't know, man, I mean to me, spring games the
whole thing. I appreciate what Jed Fish is trying to do.
His enthusiasm is pretty cool for stuff like this. If
you hear what he said Friday about Demon Williams, by
the way, and then he could play three more years
at UTUB because of the five for five fans, right,
(20:57):
I mean, maybe he's right. I mean I I I
guess if you tilted your head, you could paint a
picture where Jedfish stays at you Dub and Demon Williams
isn't good enough yet to go to the NFL, and
he's not coveted yet by other big time programs around
college football. I mean, I don't know who LSU's quarterback
(21:18):
is going to be this year. But maybe Lane Kiffin
is gonna be telling himself, did they get Sam Levin?
But did they get him after Demand or before it
was after Demonder? Right, Okay, maybe Lane Kiffin is telling
himself in late November, I'm glad that we didn't get Demand.
We got the right guy with the guy that we have.
Maybe he's ruined the day he didn't get Demon Williams.
(21:38):
Maybe he should have stepped in and sued the NCAA
on DeMont Williams behalf.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
I don't know. But my point is this.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
My point is that I appreciate what Jedfish is trying
to do.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
I think it's.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Really really hard, very hard to convince people to get
in their car on a Friday night, yeah, and fight
traffic for what turned out to be a carnival. It's
not a game, right, I mean, it's not even a
real game. It's a practice.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Well, Jed says when he was interviewed by the Big
Ten Network at the end.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Of the first quarter. But Friday, it wasn't a real game.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
We're talking about letting coaches of other sports kick fuel
goals and call plays.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Which I'm fine with that. Fine, whatever. I mean there's
room for that, like, let's have some fun.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
But again, if you're doing it on a Friday night,
and you know what, actually, I appreciate them trying it
on a Friday because let's not forget what they were
doing on a Saturday wasn't really working either, right. I mean,
they've tried, they've tried to make adjustments to this thing.
They've tried to be paid, you know, people out, they've
tried different things. A lot of programs won't do different things.
They're kind of stuck in their ways and they're stubborn
(22:45):
and all that stuff. So I actually really do appreciate
Washington trying to figure out a way to make this work.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
My concern about the Spring Game unless you're a.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Team like in the SEC for example, or honestly, I'll
say something nice about Oregon, a place like Oregon where
there's nothing else going on, exactly at Austin Stadium, in
a place like Eugene. My concern, Dick, is that the
Spring Games are going the way of the Pro Bowl,
that it's just it's unfixable.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
There's just nothing you can do, right, you try, you try,
you try.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
I don't think they're going away though, right, they're not
gonna die like the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
They're just gonna be on what they are.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
No, they one hundred percent may go away.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Really, Pat Chun mentioned that last time he was on
with us that you may not see a spring game
in three or four years from now.
Speaker 6 (23:31):
For here, you're not talking about spring games everywhere because
someplace everywhere just very essentially.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Maybe maybe they stay in fifteen twenty places. Dick, I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I'm just saying that the idea that every team is
going to do a spring game, I think in our
lifetime that will cease to exist. I think at some
point in time we'll see teams say the hell with it,
and again they may try and reinvent the wheel. When
I say the way of the Pro Bowl, I don't
even mean going away. I just mean something totally different
than what it was. Yeah, Like growing up, you and
(24:00):
I would watch the Pro Bowl AFC versus the NFC
sixty one to fifty eight a Looha stadium whatever, all
of our favorite players, either the buye before the Super
Bowl or the week after the Super Bowl. And then
they moved it, and then they changed it, and then
they took it out of Hawaii. Then they put it
back in Hawaii, then they brought the game back, then
(24:22):
they canceled it, then they did this Pro Bowl Games thing.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
It might morph into something different.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
I just again, I just think it's really hard to
justify for a lot of people, with how bad traffic
is getting out there and doing it. And I appreciate
them trying. I just don't know how much of this
is fixable, man.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
Yeah, I think.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
I mean, there's no way that the University of Washington
could have predicted we were going to have a seventy
eight degree day on Saturday, but you already.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Had Roddy was fine.
Speaker 6 (24:48):
How many hundred thousand people did you already have in
Montlake for the Wintermere Cup?
Speaker 4 (24:53):
I mean opening day of boating season. I mean there's
a built in.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
Crowd there, right, And I believe they have done it
windimur Cup days before, but a lot of windermur Cup
days was fifty five degrees in raining too.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
But sure, I mean, in hindsight looking.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
Back, it's like, wow, that well, that could have been
an opportunity to fill a stadium if you already have
tens of thousands of people down there watching the boat race.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
But they've tried that before.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Yeah, And we've had saturdays during when you're a cup
where there's been a lot of people there already and
they haven't stuck around. They haven't stuck around right, so
we'll see. I mean they're trying. There's only so much
you can do. Well, I'll tell you what. Let's get
over to T Mobile Park right now. Because joining us
on the radio show one of our favorites. And we
appreciate this guy. We call him one of our favorites
because he just agrees to come on the radio show
(25:38):
all the time. If he said no, we wouldn't like him.
But we love him because he always says yes when
so many other players, probably smartly by the way, say no.
Brian Wu Mariner All Star Starter, is joining us right
now on the radio program from T Mobile Park.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Brian, how are you man?
Speaker 11 (25:54):
Good?
Speaker 4 (25:55):
We're good.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
We're across the street at Jimmy's. You want to beer
or something?
Speaker 11 (25:59):
By the way, Oh man, with this weather, no, no, you.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Know what, maybe maybe one of these days will convince
the skipper to let you come over and hang out
with us before a game. But Brian, before we get
into what's going on with you and talk about your
game as of late. You were once a young guy
right in this rotation. You were once in Emerson Handcock's shoes,
trying to kind of earn your place in the major leagues.
(26:25):
Can you give us a take what it was like
from your perspective and the dugout on Saturday night, watching
that young kid strike out fourteen hitters on Saturday.
Speaker 11 (26:34):
Man, oh man, it was it was so much fun.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
I think, you know, we've a lot of us came
up together, and you know, we've we've all been playing
or hanging out and known each other since, you know,
we've been drafted, so coming up and getting to know
Emerson as a person and just how good of the
guy is and how hard he works, and you know,
to watch all that kind of come to fruition and
(26:59):
then to a night like like the other night was
just it was incredible. Everybody's so stoked and excited to
you know, see him have success like this, and then
just to have a game like that is you know,
it's just one of those really really special nights.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
Well, let's go for a young strikeout artist like Emerson
on Saturday to an old strikeout artist.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Did you bump into Randy Johnson on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Yeah, Yeah, we we got to talk a little bit,
talked a little bit on Sunday, caught up with him.
Speaker 11 (27:32):
Obviously, he's uh.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
He's kind of you know, he's just such a you know,
giant statue that every time you see him, you're you're
blown away by helping you even Logan standing next to him,
Like Logan looks small next to him, and it's Logan
towers over all of us. So now he's a great dude.
(27:56):
He's given us, you know, some really good advice and
talks over the years and the times that we've gotten
to to see him, and no, it was it was
special to be able to to take in all that
stuff on Saturday, you know, the ceremony and kind of
the ovation and and the love that you know that
he has here and such a short amount of time.
(28:19):
But the impact that he had on on the organization
and the fans and all that stuff.
Speaker 11 (28:24):
Man, it's it's really really cool to see.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Well, I was gonna say, you were negative to his
last time he pitched his cle you were nine when
he retired, for God's sake, So for you, it'd be
like meeting Sandy Kofax or you know, somebody like that.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
So I mean, do you remember much about him.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
As all when when he threw as a kid, or
is it just way before your time?
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Honestly, No, I mean I got to watch him a
little bit. He had a short time in San Francisco. Uh,
so I don't I didn't get to watch him a
ton like in his prime or remember watching him a
bunch of his prime. But I mean I've seen obviously
ountless videos of his games and like the little amount
(29:05):
of like information there is on uh you know, ideas
and stuff coming up. And obviously the talks with Nolan
Ryan are kind of pretty well known within the pitching
community and like what went on there, and we asked
him and talked to him about those. So no, it's
(29:28):
He's just kind of one of those names where whether
you've seen him or not, like it's it's a figure
in the game, that's a figure in pitching, right, So
just one that you try to sit back and appreciate.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Well, Brian Wo was with us, And Brian is the
problem with talking to you, man? You keep giving us
all these great questions we want to ask you with
with all these great answers you're giving us, and we
got to ask you man, because you mentioned Randy's talks
with Nolan Ryan, which you're right, you know, kind of
pretty well known famous by now. Have you had any
conversations like that with a veteran you know, maybe it
was Randy, was there a veteran guy coming up, or
(30:01):
maybe a guy that you're still lean on now that
you go to for advice.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
I wouldn't say one conversation in particular. I think you know,
our staff as a whole, starters, relievers, everybody. You know,
it's a pretty tight knit group. So it's I would
say it's a lot more just kind of day to
day casual conversations. Either we're having them in the dugout
or you know, we're reviewing games or outings or kind
(30:31):
of you know, how guys are feeling.
Speaker 11 (30:33):
It's it's uh, it's.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
It's an everyday process. I would say, you know, I've
had a ton of great conversations with people throughout the years,
but within our our staff, it's kind of an everyday thing.
I think whether you're going well, you know, like I'm
I'm talking to to Emerson about what he's feeling right now.
You know, he's on his own and coming and then
(30:58):
you talk to you know, Bryce about things that he's
working on and coming back from rehab, and you know,
we're talking to Louis about whatever it is things he's
working on, how he's you know, tweaking this or committing,
you know, staying kind of committed to the same things that.
Speaker 10 (31:14):
He always does.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
So it's it's just a constant communication between between all
of us.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
Yeah, Brian, we're joining us.
Speaker 6 (31:23):
Brian, I know the last couple starts having gone the
way you wanted. But I was looking back at your
game log and you had a couple of game bumping
the road in late July at twenty twenty three, and
you pitched unbelievable in August. You did the same last year.
You had a couple of game bump in July last year,
and you pitched unbelievable in August. So what is it
about your process for getting out of that rough patches,
(31:43):
because you've been really good at it before.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
I think it's a balance between you know, trying to
learn and adjust from those bad ones, but also not
putting too much stock into it. You know, it's it's
such a long season, Like you said, you're gonna the
best in the game have bad starts. You know, in
their best seasons. And I think the worst thing that
(32:08):
you can do is have about outing and think about
all the things that you need to fix and change.
And you know, I think most of the time you're
much better off just getting right back to what you do.
You know, you might have some some bad starts or
some bad luck in a row, and it it makes
it tough. You know, you want to question the things
that you're doing and what you need to change and whatnot.
(32:29):
But more often than not, the best answer that I've
found is just staying committed to who I am and
what I do, and you know, not trying to change
or put too much stock into the bad ones.
Speaker 11 (32:41):
Just get right back to work and you know things
will be a right.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Well, I got to ask maybe the most important question
of all, Brian before you go. Brian wu with us
on the radio show. You grew up in Oakland in
the Bay Area. Were you a Warrior fan growing up?
Speaker 1 (32:55):
By the way, I was a Warrior fan.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Yeah, let me ask you. Let me ask you this.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
If Steve Kerr is truly done coaching the Golden State Warriors,
do we want him as the first head coach of
the Sonic reboot in a couple of years.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
If he's oh wow, I.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Mean, if he's available, man, it's it's hard to find.
I think, you know, someone who is more experienced and
has been through, you know, more than he has. I
think it's always difficult with the rebuild, and then obviously
with the Warriors as you've had so many good years
and then kind of you know, a fading dynasty so
(33:35):
to speak. I think he would be an incredible choice. Obviously,
I'd like to keep him as long as we can.
I don't know what's going to happen with with the
Warriors here in the next couple of years and what
direction they want to take. But I've always been obviously
a fan of his just what he's been able to do,
uh with the Warriors, and I don't know the way
(33:58):
that he carries himself and a lot of the lessons
that he speaks on, and you know, the things that
he he accomplished as a player and someone who you know,
wasn't the most talented and made it work on a
really a lot of good teams and has held a
lot of positions in basketball. And you know, guys like
that are are you know, they're hard to come by.
(34:20):
So obviously I'd love to see Seattle have some basketball
back in town. And if I think Steve would be
a pretty good starry.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Well we'll see when the Soups come back and they
play Golden State. Maybe you'll root for Seattle, maybe.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Possibly rooting for basketball. Oh gee, see here I am
telling people how much we like you. For God's sakes.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
All right, Brian, listen, good luck in your next start
on Wednesday against this Braves team Coke get him.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Thanks for doing this and we'll talk soon.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Man, Thanks Man, Yeah, absolutely, thanks guys.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
All right, Brian Wiu with us on the radio show
again to Jim. Love talking to him, Love having him on.
Kind of guy you can talk baseball with right for hours, Dick.
I mean, he is awesome, so no doubt he's gonna
bounce back. But to bounce back, he's gonna have to
do it against the pretty damn good team on Wednesday
in Atlanta. All right, we're gonna break a little fun
with audio and then Hugh Mellan gonna join a little
more for with you coming up on ninety three three KJRFM.
Speaker 10 (35:22):
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Speaker 2 (35:42):
All right, here we go big thanks to our new sponsor,
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on ninety three three KJRFM, and we start, by the
way with a little baseball.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
Hey, Dick, did you happen to hear that?
Speaker 4 (35:55):
What's that?
Speaker 3 (35:56):
Dick?
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Yankees broadcaster John Sterling, who retired a few years ago
Dave Simms took his job as the new radio voice
couple of years ago, passed away today at the age
of eighty seven. Sterling called thousands of games before his
retirement in twenty four, including five thousand, sixty consecutive games
from eighty nine to twenty nineteen. Called over one third
(36:19):
of the Yankee games, or almost one third of the
Yankee games and almost half by the way of their
playoff games. Here's a sample of some of Sterling's best
calls for those that don't know what he sounded like.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
Sung on and.
Speaker 12 (36:30):
Jovna Dave One, let us high, hell Us bar, Yege's win,
Yege's win, Bernee Williams, Homer's deep by the love Bil
seats and the Yankees beat the Orioles five to four
to win Game one of the American League chabbionsp Series.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
Burn Baby, Burnie.
Speaker 5 (36:55):
And Rizzo is gonna be picked off. He's in the
middle between Seve and third. Hedges now throws to second,
on the way to third, back to second, back to third,
tagged out end of inning. Boy, if that wasn't the Yankees,
that's what they do. Run the bases like drunks. His
grounded is short. DDI fields and throws the first in
(37:18):
time ball game over. Yankees win. The Yankees when and
masa hero Tanaka pitch is a complete game shutout, the
sun will come out Tanaka. Bet your bottom dollar with Tanaka.
(37:39):
The sun will shine anyway. Tanaka pitch is a complete
game shutout.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
I don't know s.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
There's just so few of those guys left in Major
League Baseball. The fact that he was never awarded the
Ford Frick Award while he was living, it's a shame.
It's a damn shame. By the way, little known fact
about John Sterling. You know he married amer KJR producer. Really,
that's right, Jennifer Contreras, who worked here before I started
in ninety four. I was talking to Tom Lee about
(38:09):
her this morning. He claims that they met when Jennifer
was covering a Yankee game at the Kingdome. Ended up
getting married, had kids, including triplets together. Wow, by the way,
they got divorced a few years ago. But little known
fact that John Sterling married a KJR producer.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
That's about that.
Speaker 6 (38:26):
I mean, you just hear that voice and the images
that come to mind are like transistor radios sitting out
by the sidewalk on like the upper west side.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
I mean it's just really, really way exactly.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
I mean the whole.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
Well, my favorite iconic it is, and my my favorite thing.
Speaker 6 (38:47):
He always did what it'll be a w on one
like That's that's how he like introduced the count right.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Two of the great voices in baseball, and John Sterling
and Bob Shephard, the PA guy, came out of Yankee.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
Stadium and they're now gone.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
Dolence's to Yankee fans, john Sterling's family and friends, but
one of the all time greats and don't be surprised
if he gets that Fort Frick Award next year. By
the way, after passing away, it's a shame it didn't
happen while he was living.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
All right, Hey, Dick, did you happen to hear that?
Speaker 4 (39:14):
What's that?
Speaker 3 (39:15):
Dick? Let's go from baseball to hockey.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
John Chaka was hired yesterday as the new Toronto Maple
leafs GM this morning at his introductory press conference, have
you heard this yet? By the way, Toronto's Sun journalist
Steve Simmons came after Maple leafs CEO Keith Pelly for hiring.
Speaker 13 (39:32):
The guy, Steve Simmons, Toronto's son. For Keith, you talk
about the due diligence that you did on John prior
to hiring him and now hiring him. In the past
say three to four days, I have been in contact
with about twenty people who work in the National Hockey League,
many of whom are prominent names that we would all know.
(39:53):
And of the twenty people I spoke to, one was
supportive of John's hiring and the other nineteen thought it
was a sham. To be perfectly honest, words were used
like con artist, liar, salesman. How did you come to
a different conclusion that I was able to come to
in a very short time.
Speaker 6 (40:10):
I must have talked to different people.
Speaker 13 (40:14):
That's it, because in the hockey world today is astounded
by this announcement, okay, And your response to.
Speaker 10 (40:22):
That is, as we've conducted due diligence, and it was
deep due diligence.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
It was a thorough process, and I'm quite happy with
where we've landed. So this guy was high first of all.
As he's asking those questions about Jacob. He's there at
the press conference. He's sitting right next to the CEO.
I mean, there's three guys at the podium and he's
one of them. So he's watching this entire thing.
Speaker 3 (40:45):
Right.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
He was hired when he was twenty six as the
GM of the Coyotes, and there was all kinds of controversy,
tried to get other jobs while he was under contract,
things like that.
Speaker 4 (40:53):
Well, he left the team during the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
Right, So there's a lot of resouts, a lot of
reasons to be, I think skeptical of the higher There's
also a lot of reasons, I think in the hockey
world to be skeptical of what the Maple Leafs are doing.
I mean, they haven't made the conference finals in twenty
seven years. It's one of the proudest franchises in hockey,
and they're terrible by their own standards.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
Good for Steve Simmons, Benton said, this guy's got a reputation.
Speaker 3 (41:20):
Is that kind of like Potster? Yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 6 (41:22):
His voice, I thought, and the will Toronto guys. I
thought his voice sounded a little like Jeff Baker's.
Speaker 3 (41:26):
A little bit. Yeah, yeah, maybe they all sound the same.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
I don't know all Toronto reporters right like that. That's right,
Jackson made the time for one more what you would
do it? All right, We're gonna break Hugh Miller a
little more at four with Huey coming next to on
ninety three three KJARFM.
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