May 5, 2025 • 37 mins
In the first hour, Dave Softy Mahler and Hugh Millen react to another series win for the Mariners and the offense staying hot, the Dawgs After Dark UW Spring Game and the next top Huskies wide receiver in the program, then react to some Fun with Audio clips.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Where we go. Dick is out again for the next
few days, so that means.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Yes, it's true, this man has not Dick.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
We play our favorite Ghostbusters drop, of course, which really
doesn't make sense when Dick is actually here humilling in
for Dick.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Fane.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
How are you well, I'm doing well. I'm doing well.
Good to be with you.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Well, it's good to have you back, man, I appreciate it.
There's a lot to get to.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
We're gonna talk a lot about the Dogs after dark
game on Friday night, the spring game up at udub
which was really fun and I thought a great crowd,
lot of energy in the building. But we're gonna get
to a guest from Oakland and talk about how they're
kind of dealing with the fallout of the A's playing
in sacer Meadow, eighty miles up the road for the
next couple of years before they go to Vegas and
their fancy, schmancy new stadium. Bill Krueger is gonna join
(00:43):
us for his weekly baseball visit now, Hugh, I gotta
tell you. I don't know if you caught the update
or not, but Bill Krueger may not want to get
comfortable with this new role every Monday at five o'clock.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Are you aware of why that is?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Well, I think everybody works with you, they go get
a job. So, yeah, he wants a job at the
major league level. I don't know he's treading into danger's waters.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Well.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
I was talking to Billy off the air before today's show,
and I said, look, man, I I appreciate you doing this.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
I appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Popping on with us on Mondays at five o'clock throughout
the baseball season talks the Mariners, talk MLB, but you
might not want to get too comfortable.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
And then I asked him what job he wants in baseball?
He said why?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I said, because the last two guys that have done
this show, Steven Susa and Brett Boone, have both moved
on to bigger and better things than the majors. Susa
Hugh got hired as a scout by the Rays, and
Brett Boone just got hired as the freaking hitting coach
for the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yeah, can you believe him vision Rivals? Well, I didn't
know that he wanted to. I would certainly think he's qualified.
He lives in Texas. Does he not live in Tech?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Oh? He lives in San Diego. Yeah, he's in San Diego.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Yeah, they have planes though that he can, you know.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Get on. Well, okay, I assume this is a full
time job and he has to move. Yes, And I
know Edgar has had you know, kind of I don't know,
but prior to this year, I think he's kind of
dabbled as a a hitting advisor and things like that.
So so so he's gonna have to up and move
from San Diego to to Houston.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Huh that's right, Well, to to Arlington, right, Arlington, Texas,
not Houston, Xas.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Not.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
The point is, yes, he's he's he's moving town. He
spoke to his wife and she said do it. I
don't know, maybe she doesn't want him around. I got
no idea what her thinking is. But yeah, he's the
new freaking hitting coach for the Texas Rangers. When I
was talking to him off the air, and he might
he might jump on with us tomorrow or Wednesday, by
the way, he I'll be ready for that. But I
was talking to him, he said, what the hell happened?
He said, dude, Literally, he's at the USC baseball game
on Saturday, where he's throwing out the first pitch because
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he went to school at USC, Raindye, Johnson, MacGuire, Brett Boone,
a lot of guys went to USC. So he's out
there on Saturday and he's in the stands and he's
talking to former Ranger Michael Young, who is now a
special assistant to the GM in Texas, and they're just
yaking and everything, and Boonie just kind of casually in
his wards tells Michael Young, hey, do you tell Bochie
Bruce Bochie, who's the manager of the Rangers, by the way, Hugh,
(03:05):
if he needs me let me know. The next day,
they fire their hitting coach and he gets a phone
call from Bruce Bochie, are you ready to.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Come be our hitting coach? I hope the sequence was
the inverse of that, but yeah, it will. He's obviously
impressed some people. I don't know. I would ask Boonie
what's your golf handicap today? Right, and then just say
what was your golf handicap two years ago?
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Right?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Right?
Speaker 2 (03:32):
And it's the same. Yeah, that's why he's the hitting coach.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Well, he also likes to get a paycheck in the
mail every month, by the way, too, or every couple
of weeks. So congratulations to Boonie. He's the new hitting
coach of the Texas Rangers. He's on a plane right
now going to Boston where they have an off day
to day, but they play the Red Sox tomorrow. So yeah,
if anybody wants to put their name in the hat
at Hugh Hell, leave us a talkback on the iHeartRadio
at maybe we'll play a couple of them later in
the show. You think you're qualified to be our new
(03:59):
baseball expert on Thursdays during the season, replacing Boonie who
just took the Rangers freaking hitting coach job. Hit us
up with the iHeart Talkback app and we'll maybe we'll
play a couple month later and see if you qualify
to take Boone's spot. But we are fired up for
Bill Krueger to join us on the radio show at
five o'clock. All courtesy of our friends at the soon
to be open eventually one day Occidental Hall on Occidental
(04:22):
next to Lumanfield. That's the same folks, Hugh that own
the Queen Anne Beer Hall where we had our mock draft.
By the way, the Moss Bay Hall and Kirkland the
old Wild Rover location down their former spot of the
Bryce Fisher Show if you remember Bryce from almost twenty
years ago. Now so fired up to have them on board.
And what a great time to have Billy with us
every Monday at five, Hugh, because the Mariners are on
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absolute freaking fire. And do you know where all of
this began? Do you have any idea where all of
this started? Let me see if you're thinking what I'm thinking.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Here as far as the Mariner's success, Yes, where did
this begin? I would say the Rose Arena Grand Slam Boom.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
They're on the air with me on that day. You
were on the air with me. We were doing the
show from Jimmy's on first No, they were four and eight.
They were four and eight heading into that game, and
they are sixteen and five, which is the best record
in baseball since that day. If you take out that game,
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they're obviously fifteen and five in their last twenty That
game made them five and eight.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
I remember you and I being on the air talking
about it.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Hey man, maybe, just maybe, and I'm sure we say
this about a lot of wins by the way early
in the year, Maybe, just maybe this is the game
that sparks them. Maybe this is the game that lights
a fire. Maybe this is the game and the catalyst
that turns them around. And lookye here they're fifteen and
five and their last twenty with the best record in
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baseball since that day.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
How about that?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yeah, I got to crank up the nerd machine and
just see how common it is to have eight straight
series wins. But it just continues, right, Uh sorry, Dave,
but not you Dave, but the other Dave. You know.
But uh yeah, I'm I'm as surprised as anybody. I
(06:12):
don't know if this is gonna continue. But you know
why worry about it? I you know, I just they've
done and they've done it in a way that we
couldn't have expected, right, I mean, I mean here they
are eighth, and runs fourth and home runs uh uh
first and in base based on balls so drawing walks.
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Not only are they first in Major League baseball, the
gap between one and two is great, greater in the
gap between two and six. You know, I love those
and ops you know they're uh they are fifth and
ops day, but second in OPS plus, which takes into
account the ballpark. Which that's that kind of intrigued me.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
So look look at you look at you with the
analytics man.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Well, I mean, well, I just I'm just trying to
find something here that that uh, you know, when Depoto
said our offense really is good, it's the percept. Like
I wanted to strangle him. I wanted to right and
I don't know he you know, the guy infuriated me.
But you gotta you gotta tip your cap right now
to him. That that how this offense is done. Uh
(07:19):
you know, you know, he's he's he's kind of taking
the dub right now, you know, as far as uh
as what he projected for this offense.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Yeah, well, I think first of all, Jerry was right.
The Mariners do have a good offensive team. I'm looking
for my damn drop and I can't find it, by
the way, so shame on me. But second of all, uh,
just going back to the numbers that you were mentioning
there a second ago about the Mariners and and and
where they are right now, I think it's important to
kind of let people know where these guys were in
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those categories a year ago. Right, It's not I mean,
it's one thing to be really really good. It's one
thing to take a gigant. It's another excuse me to
take a gigantic jump from where they were last season, uh,
in those same category. So let me just go over
a few of these and you can just jump in
and grab one that kind of maybe intrigues you the most.
But yes, they're eighth and runs they were twenty first
(08:09):
a year ago. Their fourth and home runs they were
twelfth a year ago. They're fourteenth. And batting average they
were twenty ninth a year ago. Second and on base
percentage they were fifteenth.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
A year ago.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Fifth and ops they were twenty seconds a year ago,
sixth And stolen bases they were ninth a year ago.
First in walks they were fourth a year ago. Maybe
the biggest one, they were eighteenth in strikeouts. By the way,
excuse me, they are eighteenth and strikeouts meaning eighteenth worst,
so twelve from being the best. Obviously, they were first
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last year, meaning the worst in baseball. I mean, those
numbers are just ridiculous. So when Jerry Depoto says they
have a good offensive team team, he was freaking right.
So far he's afinutely right. And how insufferable is this
guy gonna be? It's not gonna happen because they and
Judge is gonna win the MVP if Hora Polaco wins
the MVP somehow, some way, how insufferable team is Jerry
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to Poto gonna be at the end of.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
The year Hueye.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Well, and our boy Chuck is gonna be uh, you know,
he's gonna be peacocking a little bit too, because he's
been on the Polanco uh train from the jump. But
uh no, you're right, it's almost not even worth rooting for,
which is of course silly. I said almost, But yeah, hey,
more power to him. I think, look, you, I think
what is a sensible way to approach life is is
(09:32):
to be willing to change your mind because because at
any point when you made when your mind was was
uh deciding on on some proposition, that was because you
had x amount of evidence. Well, if you have at
a later date x plus y evidence you got more evidence,
then you should change your mind. You know'll follow where
the evidence leads and and and maybe the evidence is
(09:54):
leading to this being a good offense. I think another
stat Dave that that intrigues me is Seattle a year ago.
If we want to kind of try and and analyze
what Jerry was saying a year ago, Seattle left on base,
runners left on base, the Mariners were fourth. I mean,
now that that's both a good stat and allows and
(10:16):
a poor stat, right, but at least it's showing that
you're you're creating traffic. Of course, it also means that
you're not getting clutch hits. They they haven't had a
big jump in that they've gone from fourth to tenth.
But I think I think somewhere somehow that's that's a
stat to watch. And then for me, here's another one
as we sit for today, this twenty twenty five season,
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in all of major league baseball, not just American League,
all major leagues, the team that has used the most
position players at forty is the Seattle Mariners. And and
I think that's I think that's interesting. Whether it's because
of injuries or you know, you know, a manager discretion
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or what have you. But you know, for what it's
worth it, anytime you're first or last in something, you're
gonna get my attention. And so when I see that
that they are number one and most players used, I'm like, okay,
you know why what you know that that that invokes
a couple of questions, Why is that? Is that a
good thing is what does that mean for our team?
(11:22):
But but you know, if the way they're playing, that
means that they're you know, that suggests that there's some
depth and and and you know, some options for the manager. Well,
obviously Ryan Bless getting banged up, Victor Roe Bless getting
banged up, uh and having to replace those guys, uh,
and then Horri Polanco and not being able to face
lefties uh and and sitting out obviously against them is
(11:45):
maybe just a few reasons why they've used a lot
of guys.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
You know, Dylan Moore has been hurt obviously, so there's
been a lot of injuries they've had so far. And
by the way, the Polanco thing, just so people know,
I don't know if this is it's not a huge deal,
but Hori Polanco is hitting three eighty right now, which
would be number two in baseball if he was qualified
behind Aaron Judge. And you don't know if you know
how they do that with a you got to qualify,
you know, I mean, the the RBIs and the home runs,
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all that stuff. When it comes to batting average and
OPI anything that involves an average, ops on base percentage,
batting average, whatever, you've got to be qualified, and so
Major League Baseball says you need three point one played
appearances per game to qualify. Well, he would need one
hundred and two played appearances. Polanco would right now to
qualify for the league lead. He's only got eighty seven
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because he never faces lefties obviously, because he can't hit
right handed. So hopefully that will change and the next
maybe few weeks or so. But every every button that
they've pushed and the Polanco thing, Look, I will be
totally honest, and Jackson can vouch for this. We're at
the five twenty bar and grill the knight the hore
Polanco news came out, I lost my fricking mind on
the ear. I went nuts on the ear the night
(12:51):
the Polaco news came out. And here's why I lost
my mind because and I said this before the season started.
I don't mind the Polanco signing on its own, but
when it's the only thing you did over the off season,
that's where I got pissed off. And that's where I
drew the line. It's like, my god, hey, look if
you're coming at me and asking me what I want
for Christmas, Yeah, I need underwear. I need socks, But
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can I get something else? Can I get maybe you know,
I don't know, some gift cards or whatever. Can I
get maybe a walkman or a you know, a discman?
Or can I get a game Boy or something back
in the day when I'm thirteen years Yeah, the underwear.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
In the socks is great. But if you're if that's
all you're giving me, then this Christmas socks? Man, are
you kidding me? And at the time, that's all they
were giving us.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
All they were giving us was Hori polocko And it's
still is all they gave us, which is amazing.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
This team is doing what they're doing right now.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Well, who would have thought that he'd be up there
with numbers that suggest MVP worthy right right? And you know,
I don't know if you can win an MVP if
you don't get more plate appearances. And we'll see how
he does when that oblique heals and he's hitting from
both sides of the plate. But yeah, I don't know.
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Raise your hand if you get the lyre drop, you
get your lyre drop, raise your hand if you if
you saw Polonco even you know, even threatening to be
an All star let alone. No, Yeah, because yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's for you who have who has your hand up? Well,
you know what I would I would hope that Jerry
Depoto isn't even putting his hand up right now. The
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guy that resigned him right and said, look here, seven
point five million dollars, you're coming off the knee injury
year ago.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
We think you'll be better than you were a year ago.
But nobody saw this coming. Nobody saw Hore Polanco being
in the MVP race, nobody saw Hore Polanco even being
looked at as a shoe in for the All Star Game.
And the guy hit two thirteen. I mean, Hugh, the
guy had a six fifty one OPS a year ago.
His his OPS is up over five hundred points from
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where it was last season. Now, do I expect him
to end the year with a twelve oh three ops?
Speaker 6 (14:55):
No?
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Can he be over eight hundred, which would be phenomenal.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
His war, by the way, is already equal to where
it was last year one hundred eighteen damn games.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Yeah, yeah, no, it's crazy. And then through I think
because of Polonco and and maybe the injuries with the
pitching staff. I mean, there's been a lot of things
that have been grabbing the news. But I think I
think JP, you know, back to I mean he's at
eight o five ops. A year ago he was six
twenty five, right, right, he's I mean it's one hundred
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and eighty points. And then the year the year before that,
he was at eight eighteen. Year before that, he's six
seventy five. So he's been straddlings, you know, every other
year he's either in the sixers or he's in the eights.
You know, he can't seem to be in the sevens
uh for the last several years. But but at any event,
you know, you saw Saturday was a the you know
that was really the rubber match was was Saturday against
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the Rangers, right, and you know you had to somehow
clout out clow out some runs. But but you know
JP taking the very first pitch, you know, and and
going you on that, uh, you know in a two
to one game. Uh, that's big. And so I think
for him to be back to kind of what he
had again in twenty twenty three had been eight eighteen
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is a eight or five now, I don't I don't
hear a lot of talk about him, but that you know,
that's kind of an undercover, you know, suite addition to
get kind of getting some of him back.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Oh yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
And look, I mean I thought I thought the offense
would be better than it was a year ago.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
But I never saw this. I mean, this is just idiotic, right.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
I mean, it was a and to be fair, and
it's kind of a lazy take by me. I just
used the same logic I used a year ago when
I saw a bunch of guys that were way underperforming
the back of their baseball card, and that sooner or later,
this offense is going to erupt and it'll be good
enough with his pitching staff to make the playoffs. And
obviously last year I was wrong about that. But I
just I just went to better over the offseason, thinking, okay, fine,
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we didn't get what we wanted in free agency, we
didn't get what we wanted in the trade market. You
know a lot of guys, Kyle Tucker, Alex Bredman, and
Pete Alonzo, all those guys came and went, and the
biggest money ticket deal that the Mariners made was given
Horey Polanco seven point five million dollars. But they should
be better just by default with all of these guys
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coming back that so underperformed their career stats a year ago.
But nobody saw this coming. All right, hey, listen, let's
get a quick break. Okay, I want to come back
and talk more about this. I want to get to
your thoughts on the Dogs. After dart game on Friday,
We're gonna head down to the Bay Area, by the
way at four o'clock, get their thoughts on the A's
moving to Sacramento.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Are they still rooting for him?
Speaker 3 (17:30):
They're only eighty miles away, for God's sake, So what's
the impression of the A's down there at Oakland? Bill
Krueger will join us at five as well. Fun with
audio too. A lot more humil and coming up as
well on ninety three to three KJRFM.
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Speaker 2 (18:34):
Take that outside.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
All right, Well, Hu Millin's with us until seven o'clock tonight. Uh,
we got Bill Krueger. We're gonna head to Oakland as well.
A lot going on here on the radio show, but
just to kind of wrap up the Mariner conversation that
we had last segment. You know, first of all, I
love when we can be justified, and Jackson you know this, well,
we can be justified in leading the radio show with
Mariner talk. I think that's great because that means good
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things are happening. But you know how many times last
year did we compare where all the hitters ops was
last season versus where their career numbers were, and they
were way under where they typically are. Well, now we're
looking at this year versus last year. Polanco's up five
hundred and fifty two points from where he was a
year ago. Crawford's up one hundred and eighty points from
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where he was a year ago. Col's up one hundred
ninety seven points from where he was a year ago.
A Rose Arena is up forty seven points from.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Where he was a year ago.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
The one guy who was down in OPS, and it's
not all about OPS. I get that Julio Rodriguez is
down thirty six and Luke Rayley, who's been banged up obviously,
is down one hundred and fourteen. I will say this
that ty France was let go by this baseball team
at the end of last season or near the end
of last season, after twenty six games Hugh. Last year,
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ty Franz had an OPS to six fifty three. His
replacement at first base, Rowdy ti Les right now is
at six sixty and he's hitting a buck ninety four
when ty France was hitting two fifty six. So tyzacksy
doing okay with the Twins right now. But I do
I think if there's one spot and we can talk
to Bill about this, I know Rowdy had the big hit.
I get it on Saturday night with the RBI single
to take the lead against the Rangers. I'm not saying
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the Mariners are going to give up on this guy tomorrow,
but I do think that Rowdy Telez, unlike the other
guys on this team, has to really prove his worth
almost every single day with this baseball team, otherwise they
might move on and bring somebody else and to take
his spot. Like the kid Tyler O'Neill right down there
in not Tyler O'Neil, who's who's the hotshot first baseman,
(20:30):
for god's sakes, Jackson, Who's the kid in Tacoma that's
playing first base for the Rainiers?
Speaker 1 (20:35):
He was up here a year ago.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Locklear, Thank you, Tyler Locklear?
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Yes, I was Tyler.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Well, that's the thing. I was mixing up Lockett and Lockley, Like,
what the hell? I had a senior moment there. So
he's waiting in the wings man. So we'll talk to
Bill about that at five o'clock. But it is amazing
what this offense is doing. And I saw a tweet
from Bob Nightingale who said, hey, look, man, if this continues,
Dan Wilson's your runaway manager of the year in the
American League.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
How about that? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Yeah, I mean if it continues, you know that, you know,
I think there it keeps coming back to me. Is
there symbolism?
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (21:07):
In June twenty first, the longest day of the year,
the Equinox, and that's where the Mariners were ten games up.
So so that you know, what do they say, once
bitten twice? I how many times have we been bitten?
But but you know you mentioned Telez and and you know,
just they're doing the things that good baseball teams do.
You know, for Dylan Moore that preceded that the ab
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you know, he can't get the butt down, butt down,
excuse me, and uh, but then he somehow finds a
way to get a ground ball to the right side
of the infield advance. It was Polanco to third right now.
I know a lot of people want to say, hey,
you know, had had Polanco been on second, it was
that a strong enough hit by Telez to score from second,
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you know, because it was it was a you know,
in shallow outfield. But you know, I think that there
would have been different mindsets for the pier, different mindsets
for the batter. But the point is they got him
into scoring position, you know, in a one to one game.
So here here they went two to one. They scored
their first run on the very first pitch of the game,
and they and then they they they do nothing, and
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then they they score in the ninth inning.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
So but you know, and so I think Dylan Moore
just gets a lot of praise for that at bat.
Of course Tillez gets the game winner, but but an event,
it seems to me like the type of things the
good teams do well.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Yeah, I mean, you know, two years ago or three
years ago, now I got them. I'm I'm losing track.
Which which year was the year they made the postseason.
It was twenty two when they made the playoffs. They
they actually were phenomenal in one run games, and they
were phenomenal in extra inning games. And then all of
a sudden, they get to last year and that number
kind of switches and falls apart, and they're not they're
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not getting to clutch it when they need to. They're
not winning those one run games. They're not winning obviously
the extra inning games. Well, so far in one run games,
these guys are seven and three it's only been ten games,
but seventy in one run games and two and two
in extra inning games. I mean, that's that's that's that's great.
I mean that is the exact opposite of where they
were a year ago. Hey, we'll do some fun with
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Audio Hugh. Next segment, we're gonna head to the Bay
Area coming up as well.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Evan gettings from ninety five to seven.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
The game is gonna give us kind of the vibe
of Oakland before they play in Sacramento against the Aids
tonight and the Mariners do the Dogs after dark game,
and we'll spend more time on this U as the
show goes by. All they got about five minutes left
in this segment. But a couple things that stood out
to me. Obviously. Number one was number seven, and that's
the freshman wide receiver raid and Vines Bright, who's from Arizona.
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And because Amari Evans and Denzel Boston were both in
street clothes on Friday, this guy got a chance to
shine again. It's only it's it's it's basically a practice. Okay,
I get all that, But eight catches, one hundred and
thirty yards touchdown, had a nice run as well. This
is a guy that you know, obviously was in high
school a year ago in Old here early in January
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to show up. He should even be here until August.
What you make of what you saw, at least on
tape from my number seven foot, I'll.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Tell you what I saw, Jackson. Are you there, Jackson? Yes,
I'm here you Okay.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
By the way, do you think there's a chance you're
gonna ask him if he's there and he's not gonna
be there like he just left.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Yeah, because there could be a soccer game in the back. Yes,
that's fair. That's fair, all right, so roll the tape. Okay,
all right? Wow, Raydon Vines Bright will be the next
h for sure drafted wide receiver. And if you can
get the odds, if you can get even odds on
day one or day two, he will be a day
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one or day two draft pick. Okay, Mark, this dude
is he is. He's got the size at six one two,
a young guy. I mean, he's got the body movement.
I mean he glides, but his long speed. You saw
the the overthrown post, but you saw him separating. This
guy was tenth in the tenth in the state in
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the one hundred meters as a sophomore in high school.
I think his his draft ranking went down because he
got hurt in the first game of his senior year.
Might have been the second game. He had one hundred
yard game in uh to start his senior year and
then and I think he got hurt in his second
But in any event, I'm just I'm just eyeball on
this cat. His body control, his hands, his explosiveness. When
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when he needs to have quick feet, he has quick feet.
When he needs to speed cut his body control, he can,
he can, he can turn the hoop hard. I mean this,
this this guy has like all the us. Now, this
is just a very brief view of this guy. But
I'm just I'm just trying to get out ahead of
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this and I'm getting out ahead of Raydon Vines Bright
as the next top flight wide receiver at the University
of Washington.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Wow, well that's saying something, man.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
So you're saying he's gonna be what the next drafted
Husky wide receiver because Denzel Boston, Denzel Boston is gonna
come out after this year and he's being mocked by
some people as a first rounder right now.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Oh yeah, yeah, Okay, then clarify what I mean. What
I mean is of of the young guys, you know,
the torch who's gonna who's gonna have the torch? Because
where we had, you know, just a a dearth of
professional level wide receivers, right all of a sudden, you know,
we've been just kind of in the berries. Uh you know,
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at least at least when when you had three guys
go in the top two days, right, just a year ago,
Danzel Boston's gonna come up. Yes, I'm just saying the
next guy to grab the torch as most likely drafted
first or second day guy. I'm going with Raydon Vines Bright.
This dude is I love his I love his size
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because at six one two hundred, he's he's big enough
and long enough to have the size when you want it,
but he's small enough that you see really uh great
body control and change of directions. So so I just
love that kind of tweeer nature of his body. Kind
of big, but not not too big, because it's really
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hard to be sudden when you're six three or six four.
I mean, there's there's advantages to being that size. But
in any event, this this, you know, this guy is
kind of like a Jalen McMillan. Yeah, can we go
that route? Yeah? I think there's there's some Jalen McMillan
in him. I don't know. Uh, thoroughly impressed. Cut paint
me impressed with this dude big time. I love it well.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
I mean when you when he says things like this Jackson, Uh,
they don't just fly out of his mouth for no reason.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
I remember when everybody was banging on Trey Adams as
the next great Husky offensive lineman in the NFL, and
in Trade's defense, he did blow his back out and
was never the same. Here was I was saying, no, no, no,
Kayla McGary is the guy, and Kaylen McGary ended up
being a first round draft pick to Atlanta. And then
I remember Game one of the twenty twenty two season
against ken State, nobody's talking about Troy Fontanu. Hugh Millan
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was talking about Troy Fatana when he became a first
round draft pick with the Pittsburgh Steelers. So, just like
Brett Boone and Steven Suza doing this show and turning
it into a major league baseball job, if Hugh Millan
says you're gonna be in the NFL when you're a freshman,
you're gonna be in the damn NFL. So you better
buckle up, Raydon Vines Bright you're going baby, I love it.
We're gonna break a little fun with audio next on
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ninety three to three KJRFM.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
It's now time for Sufday in Dick's Fun with Audio.
Jimmy g pawn Star, Jimmy mister Garoppolo. Now let's have
some fun with audio.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
All righty Boser goes.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
There we go the moment you've all been waiting for,
at least a few of you, A little fun with
audio slash.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Hey did you hear that?
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Hugh milling in for Dick Fane Jackson Felts back in
the studio. We are at the Emerald Queen Casino Sportsbook
and now we get to roll with a little fwa Hey, Hugh,
did you happen.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
To hear that?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
What's that? Dick?
Speaker 1 (29:02):
We start by the way, I can bring up my
damn list for crying out loud? You know I am.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
I'm having so many senior moments. Later, we start with baseball.
Cal Raley had a grand slam in the MS thirteen
to one win over Texas on Friday. Rangers announcers Eric
Nadelle and Matt Hicks on one O five to three
K r ld were shocked by Cal swing to hit it.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
Out the two to two swinging a drive deep in
the right field. Adle's going back. He turns to look
and it is gone. Cal Raleigh with a grand slam,
his second home run of the ballgame, his fifth this
year against the Rangers. It's five nothing Seattle.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
That pitch wasn't even a strike. It was below the zone.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
It looked like Raleigh reads for it, but he was
able to fully extend his arms.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
And if you just looked at the swing, you wouldn't think, oh,
that's a home run.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
So one of my favorite things to do here is
look at projected numbers for baseball players. It's even funner
when it's only made a fifth. By the way, Kyle
Roley right now has twelve home runs, which leads baseball.
He is on pace, by the way, this year for
fifty nine bombs and one hundred and thirteen RBIs. So
I ask you, my friend, if we're talking about Hori
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Polanco being in the MVP race, how come we're not
talking about Cal Raley being in the MVP race.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Yeah, I mean, we'll see how the team goes and
what his numbers end up. I mean he hasn't traditionally
been an average guy. You know, he's kind of more
obviously a power guy. But you know, I think going
back to watching him in spring training, and you know,
with the media pass, I can get really close to
these guys, stand right behind the fence during the bull
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ten sessions, and he's not, you know, six feet away
from me. And he looks like a guy that I
used to throw to a tight end in the NFL.
And then five feet away is Harry Ford. You know,
who's a bright young catcher in the organization is as
you know, obviously Day but right he looks like kickers
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that I used to hold for compared to like Raley
is a big f and dude, and you know, and
and and obviously his base. You know, they call him
a big dumper. It's a funny nickname. But you know,
if you just know kinesiology and uh and whatnot, you know,
the strongest muscle you have in your bodies, your ass
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and you know, you get you know, obviously it's a
source of power and speed and jumping and what have you.
And so he has the ability to go down and
get balls like that just because of his frame, I mean,
compared to other Mariners. I'm just whoa, that's a big dude.
He looks like he could be in a Seahawk locker room,
not just a Mariner. So I don't know, fun player,
fun player to watch it, and I really, you know,
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I watch his I watch his interactions with people. You
talk about it. I don't know the man, but the
impressions I've had, you know, being around a lot of athletes,
the way.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Everybody loves him, everybody loves them.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
The way you ext the pictures, I'm telling you, I
can just substantiate what everybody believes to be the case.
This guy just he just has it and and there's
a humility to him, but a respect. I mean, he's
just he's If he's your favorite Mariner, there's a damn many,
damn good reasons for that.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
All right, Hey, Hugh, did you happen to hear that.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
What's that Dick Rams gm les Sneid you know that name?
During The Rich Show last week to talk about how
during their trip to Seattle last season, the team's hotel
had a furry convention going on.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
You know what a furry convention is, by.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
The way, Hugh, I do not.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Okay, Well, here's.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Less snead talking about the Furry Convention going on last
year for the second time.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Go ahead.
Speaker 6 (32:52):
Not only have we shared a hotel in Seattle with
a furry convention.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
I think we've done it now twice. I think it's
been twice. I might be wrong.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Let me tell you this.
Speaker 6 (33:03):
You get to December football and you really need a lift.
Then you show up in the lobby there all of
a sudden, you know, you know what, we got a
second win to finishing this thing out.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
These are actually human beings that showed up.
Speaker 6 (33:16):
And I can't say this if you talk about people.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Who are passionate, Yes, they're passionate.
Speaker 6 (33:20):
That's not just Hey, I had to go to this
constume party and get something out of the closet that's
well thought out.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
I've heard of teams trying to get the road team
off their game by pulling a fire alarm at four
in the morning in the hotel. This is next level,
because if it's twice now, the Seattle Seahawks are doing
this to you. Less.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
So what I understand how furry Convention is, and Jackson,
you can correct me if I'm wrong. I don't know
much more than basically people that dress up as animals
that wear clothes, but they walk on two legs instead
of four, and they speak like people, and they're intelligent
like people, and they have emotions like people, but they're
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like walking around wearing like moose heads and wolf heads.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
But it's like the whole outfit, the whole body.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
But they do this like all the time, Like they
wake up and they think they're a wolf or something
or a cat or whatever, and they and they get
together and they have.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
These Oh so there's like legit that like these people
have psychological disorders, like they take they're an actual animal.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
I mean, are they just messing around trying to get
in their heads or is this I got a buddy
of mind all that. I got a buddy of mine
that that runs a school. I won't tell you where
it is, but you've heard stories that, you know, kids
show up and they want to have a litter box
to pee in because they think they're a cat, and
they start licking their hands and stuff things like that,
like it's a paw.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
I don't know if this goes that.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Far or not. I have no idea, all right, I
mean I think they just do this at these conventions.
I don't know if they do this all the time,
but they do. They do dress up as as as
as human like animals that speak and they walk on
two legs and they have emotions and intelligence.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Yeah, all right, So I was in the AFC West.
When you play the Raiders, everybody's seen if you're a
football fan, you've seen in the end zone the guys
that paint their career skulls and they wear solder pads.
Here's the deal with the spikes on the solder pads.
Here's the thing. The spikes are tinfoil, aluminum foil. They
take like You're looking at these guys and you just go,
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how absurd are you? I could come up and just
squash your little aluminum foil spike on yourself.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
But they weren't a costume here, What the hell's the
problem with that?
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Yeah, but do people really think that intimidates the visiting players?
It's so absurd, And so I would say this less
need is a great GM. I don't know why he's
bringing this up. But if you bring it up because
it happened, well I understand. But but if his players
are I mean, I don't well, like is that supposed
to get under the players like spook the players. I
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don't know. I don't know that second wind.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
If you, yeah, if you, if you saw somebody dressed
up as English speaking moose or English speaking wolf walking
around on two legs, that might be a weird the
night before the game. It might weird you out a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
That would not weird me.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
We gave them a second wind. Okay, there you go,
fired up and weird.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Isn't that weird?
Speaker 4 (36:16):
That?
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Like they actually like enjoyed it, and we're like, ooh,
this is fine.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Some people are into some weird things these days.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
Power Yeah, yeah, the games I've started. Look, there's ninety
nine problems with trying to have a good NFL game,
and you know, first and foremost, they're the best players
on the world on the other side of the line
of scrimmage. Like, those are your main problems of the
ninety nine problems. The furry rabbit the night before the
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game is not on the list.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
Okay, we got to get a break, yes, Evan gettings.
From ninety five to seven of the game. Mariners are
playing their first series against the As since they moved
to Sacramento. How are people in Oakland handling this? I
we'll find out next Down ninety three three k j
r f M
Where we go. Dick is out again for the next
few days, so that means.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Yes, it's true, this man has not Dick.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
We play our favorite Ghostbusters drop, of course, which really
doesn't make sense when Dick is actually here humilling in
for Dick.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Fane.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
How are you well, I'm doing well. I'm doing well.
Good to be with you.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Well, it's good to have you back, man, I appreciate it.
There's a lot to get to.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
We're gonna talk a lot about the Dogs after dark
game on Friday night, the spring game up at udub
which was really fun and I thought a great crowd,
lot of energy in the building. But we're gonna get
to a guest from Oakland and talk about how they're
kind of dealing with the fallout of the A's playing
in sacer Meadow, eighty miles up the road for the
next couple of years before they go to Vegas and
their fancy, schmancy new stadium. Bill Krueger is gonna join
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us for his weekly baseball visit now, Hugh, I gotta
tell you. I don't know if you caught the update
or not, but Bill Krueger may not want to get
comfortable with this new role every Monday at five o'clock.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Are you aware of why that is?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Well, I think everybody works with you, they go get
a job. So, yeah, he wants a job at the
major league level. I don't know he's treading into danger's waters.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Well.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
I was talking to Billy off the air before today's show,
and I said, look, man, I I appreciate you doing this.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
I appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Popping on with us on Mondays at five o'clock throughout
the baseball season talks the Mariners, talk MLB, but you
might not want to get too comfortable.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
And then I asked him what job he wants in baseball?
He said why?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I said, because the last two guys that have done
this show, Steven Susa and Brett Boone, have both moved
on to bigger and better things than the majors. Susa
Hugh got hired as a scout by the Rays, and
Brett Boone just got hired as the freaking hitting coach
for the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yeah, can you believe him vision Rivals? Well, I didn't
know that he wanted to. I would certainly think he's qualified.
He lives in Texas. Does he not live in Tech?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Oh? He lives in San Diego. Yeah, he's in San Diego.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Yeah, they have planes though that he can, you know.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Get on. Well, okay, I assume this is a full
time job and he has to move. Yes, And I
know Edgar has had you know, kind of I don't know,
but prior to this year, I think he's kind of
dabbled as a a hitting advisor and things like that.
So so so he's gonna have to up and move
from San Diego to to Houston.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Huh that's right, Well, to to Arlington, right, Arlington, Texas,
not Houston, Xas.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Not.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
The point is, yes, he's he's he's moving town. He
spoke to his wife and she said do it. I
don't know, maybe she doesn't want him around. I got
no idea what her thinking is. But yeah, he's the
new freaking hitting coach for the Texas Rangers. When I
was talking to him off the air, and he might
he might jump on with us tomorrow or Wednesday, by
the way, he I'll be ready for that. But I
was talking to him, he said, what the hell happened?
He said, dude, Literally, he's at the USC baseball game
on Saturday, where he's throwing out the first pitch because
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he went to school at USC, Raindye, Johnson, MacGuire, Brett Boone,
a lot of guys went to USC. So he's out
there on Saturday and he's in the stands and he's
talking to former Ranger Michael Young, who is now a
special assistant to the GM in Texas, and they're just
yaking and everything, and Boonie just kind of casually in
his wards tells Michael Young, hey, do you tell Bochie
Bruce Bochie, who's the manager of the Rangers, by the way, Hugh,
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if he needs me let me know. The next day,
they fire their hitting coach and he gets a phone
call from Bruce Bochie, are you ready to.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Come be our hitting coach? I hope the sequence was
the inverse of that, but yeah, it will. He's obviously
impressed some people. I don't know. I would ask Boonie
what's your golf handicap today? Right, and then just say
what was your golf handicap two years ago?
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Right?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Right?
Speaker 2 (03:32):
And it's the same. Yeah, that's why he's the hitting coach.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Well, he also likes to get a paycheck in the
mail every month, by the way, too, or every couple
of weeks. So congratulations to Boonie. He's the new hitting
coach of the Texas Rangers. He's on a plane right
now going to Boston where they have an off day
to day, but they play the Red Sox tomorrow. So yeah,
if anybody wants to put their name in the hat
at Hugh Hell, leave us a talkback on the iHeartRadio
at maybe we'll play a couple of them later in
the show. You think you're qualified to be our new
(03:59):
baseball expert on Thursdays during the season, replacing Boonie who
just took the Rangers freaking hitting coach job. Hit us
up with the iHeart Talkback app and we'll maybe we'll
play a couple month later and see if you qualify
to take Boone's spot. But we are fired up for
Bill Krueger to join us on the radio show at
five o'clock. All courtesy of our friends at the soon
to be open eventually one day Occidental Hall on Occidental
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next to Lumanfield. That's the same folks, Hugh that own
the Queen Anne Beer Hall where we had our mock draft.
By the way, the Moss Bay Hall and Kirkland the
old Wild Rover location down their former spot of the
Bryce Fisher Show if you remember Bryce from almost twenty
years ago. Now so fired up to have them on board.
And what a great time to have Billy with us
every Monday at five, Hugh, because the Mariners are on
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absolute freaking fire. And do you know where all of
this began? Do you have any idea where all of
this started? Let me see if you're thinking what I'm thinking.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Here as far as the Mariner's success, Yes, where did
this begin? I would say the Rose Arena Grand Slam Boom.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
They're on the air with me on that day. You
were on the air with me. We were doing the
show from Jimmy's on first No, they were four and eight.
They were four and eight heading into that game, and
they are sixteen and five, which is the best record
in baseball since that day. If you take out that game,
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they're obviously fifteen and five in their last twenty That
game made them five and eight.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
I remember you and I being on the air talking
about it.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Hey man, maybe, just maybe, and I'm sure we say
this about a lot of wins by the way early
in the year, Maybe, just maybe this is the game
that sparks them. Maybe this is the game that lights
a fire. Maybe this is the game and the catalyst
that turns them around. And lookye here they're fifteen and
five and their last twenty with the best record in
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baseball since that day.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
How about that?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yeah, I got to crank up the nerd machine and
just see how common it is to have eight straight
series wins. But it just continues, right, Uh sorry, Dave,
but not you Dave, but the other Dave. You know.
But uh yeah, I'm I'm as surprised as anybody. I
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don't know if this is gonna continue. But you know
why worry about it? I you know, I just they've
done and they've done it in a way that we
couldn't have expected, right, I mean, I mean here they
are eighth, and runs fourth and home runs uh uh
first and in base based on balls so drawing walks.
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Not only are they first in Major League baseball, the
gap between one and two is great, greater in the
gap between two and six. You know, I love those
and ops you know they're uh they are fifth and
ops day, but second in OPS plus, which takes into
account the ballpark. Which that's that kind of intrigued me.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
So look look at you look at you with the
analytics man.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Well, I mean, well, I just I'm just trying to
find something here that that uh, you know, when Depoto
said our offense really is good, it's the percept. Like
I wanted to strangle him. I wanted to right and
I don't know he you know, the guy infuriated me.
But you gotta you gotta tip your cap right now
to him. That that how this offense is done. Uh
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you know, you know, he's he's he's kind of taking
the dub right now, you know, as far as uh
as what he projected for this offense.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Yeah, well, I think first of all, Jerry was right.
The Mariners do have a good offensive team. I'm looking
for my damn drop and I can't find it, by
the way, so shame on me. But second of all, uh,
just going back to the numbers that you were mentioning
there a second ago about the Mariners and and and
where they are right now, I think it's important to
kind of let people know where these guys were in
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those categories a year ago. Right, It's not I mean,
it's one thing to be really really good. It's one
thing to take a gigant. It's another excuse me to
take a gigantic jump from where they were last season, uh,
in those same category. So let me just go over
a few of these and you can just jump in
and grab one that kind of maybe intrigues you the most.
But yes, they're eighth and runs they were twenty first
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a year ago. Their fourth and home runs they were
twelfth a year ago. They're fourteenth. And batting average they
were twenty ninth a year ago. Second and on base
percentage they were fifteenth.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
A year ago.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Fifth and ops they were twenty seconds a year ago,
sixth And stolen bases they were ninth a year ago.
First in walks they were fourth a year ago. Maybe
the biggest one, they were eighteenth in strikeouts. By the way,
excuse me, they are eighteenth and strikeouts meaning eighteenth worst,
so twelve from being the best. Obviously, they were first
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last year, meaning the worst in baseball. I mean, those
numbers are just ridiculous. So when Jerry Depoto says they
have a good offensive team team, he was freaking right.
So far he's afinutely right. And how insufferable is this
guy gonna be? It's not gonna happen because they and
Judge is gonna win the MVP if Hora Polaco wins
the MVP somehow, some way, how insufferable team is Jerry
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to Poto gonna be at the end of.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
The year Hueye.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Well, and our boy Chuck is gonna be uh, you know,
he's gonna be peacocking a little bit too, because he's
been on the Polanco uh train from the jump. But
uh no, you're right, it's almost not even worth rooting for,
which is of course silly. I said almost, But yeah, hey,
more power to him. I think, look, you, I think
what is a sensible way to approach life is is
(09:32):
to be willing to change your mind because because at
any point when you made when your mind was was
uh deciding on on some proposition, that was because you
had x amount of evidence. Well, if you have at
a later date x plus y evidence you got more evidence,
then you should change your mind. You know'll follow where
the evidence leads and and and maybe the evidence is
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leading to this being a good offense. I think another
stat Dave that that intrigues me is Seattle a year ago.
If we want to kind of try and and analyze
what Jerry was saying a year ago, Seattle left on base,
runners left on base, the Mariners were fourth. I mean,
now that that's both a good stat and allows and
(10:16):
a poor stat, right, but at least it's showing that
you're you're creating traffic. Of course, it also means that
you're not getting clutch hits. They they haven't had a
big jump in that they've gone from fourth to tenth.
But I think I think somewhere somehow that's that's a
stat to watch. And then for me, here's another one
as we sit for today, this twenty twenty five season,
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in all of major league baseball, not just American League,
all major leagues, the team that has used the most
position players at forty is the Seattle Mariners. And and
I think that's I think that's interesting. Whether it's because
of injuries or you know, you know, a manager discretion
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or what have you. But you know, for what it's
worth it, anytime you're first or last in something, you're
gonna get my attention. And so when I see that
that they are number one and most players used, I'm like, okay,
you know why what you know that that that invokes
a couple of questions, Why is that? Is that a
good thing is what does that mean for our team?
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But but you know, if the way they're playing, that
means that they're you know, that suggests that there's some
depth and and and you know, some options for the manager. Well,
obviously Ryan Bless getting banged up, Victor Roe Bless getting
banged up, uh and having to replace those guys, uh,
and then Horri Polanco and not being able to face
lefties uh and and sitting out obviously against them is
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maybe just a few reasons why they've used a lot
of guys.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
You know, Dylan Moore has been hurt obviously, so there's
been a lot of injuries they've had so far. And
by the way, the Polanco thing, just so people know,
I don't know if this is it's not a huge deal,
but Hori Polanco is hitting three eighty right now, which
would be number two in baseball if he was qualified
behind Aaron Judge. And you don't know if you know
how they do that with a you got to qualify,
you know, I mean, the the RBIs and the home runs,
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all that stuff. When it comes to batting average and
OPI anything that involves an average, ops on base percentage,
batting average, whatever, you've got to be qualified, and so
Major League Baseball says you need three point one played
appearances per game to qualify. Well, he would need one
hundred and two played appearances. Polanco would right now to
qualify for the league lead. He's only got eighty seven
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because he never faces lefties obviously, because he can't hit
right handed. So hopefully that will change and the next
maybe few weeks or so. But every every button that
they've pushed and the Polanco thing, Look, I will be
totally honest, and Jackson can vouch for this. We're at
the five twenty bar and grill the knight the hore
Polanco news came out, I lost my fricking mind on
the ear. I went nuts on the ear the night
(12:51):
the Polaco news came out. And here's why I lost
my mind because and I said this before the season started.
I don't mind the Polanco signing on its own, but
when it's the only thing you did over the off season,
that's where I got pissed off. And that's where I
drew the line. It's like, my god, hey, look if
you're coming at me and asking me what I want
for Christmas, Yeah, I need underwear. I need socks, But
(13:13):
can I get something else? Can I get maybe you know,
I don't know, some gift cards or whatever. Can I
get maybe a walkman or a you know, a discman?
Or can I get a game Boy or something back
in the day when I'm thirteen years Yeah, the underwear.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
In the socks is great. But if you're if that's
all you're giving me, then this Christmas socks? Man, are
you kidding me? And at the time, that's all they
were giving us.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
All they were giving us was Hori polocko And it's
still is all they gave us, which is amazing.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
This team is doing what they're doing right now.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Well, who would have thought that he'd be up there
with numbers that suggest MVP worthy right right? And you know,
I don't know if you can win an MVP if
you don't get more plate appearances. And we'll see how
he does when that oblique heals and he's hitting from
both sides of the plate. But yeah, I don't know.
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Raise your hand if you get the lyre drop, you
get your lyre drop, raise your hand if you if
you saw Polonco even you know, even threatening to be
an All star let alone. No, Yeah, because yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's for you who have who has your hand up? Well,
you know what I would I would hope that Jerry
Depoto isn't even putting his hand up right now. The
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guy that resigned him right and said, look here, seven
point five million dollars, you're coming off the knee injury
year ago.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
We think you'll be better than you were a year ago.
But nobody saw this coming. Nobody saw Hore Polanco being
in the MVP race, nobody saw Hore Polanco even being
looked at as a shoe in for the All Star Game.
And the guy hit two thirteen. I mean, Hugh, the
guy had a six fifty one OPS a year ago.
His his OPS is up over five hundred points from
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where it was last season. Now, do I expect him
to end the year with a twelve oh three ops?
Speaker 6 (14:55):
No?
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Can he be over eight hundred, which would be phenomenal.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
His war, by the way, is already equal to where
it was last year one hundred eighteen damn games.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Yeah, yeah, no, it's crazy. And then through I think
because of Polonco and and maybe the injuries with the
pitching staff. I mean, there's been a lot of things
that have been grabbing the news. But I think I
think JP, you know, back to I mean he's at
eight o five ops. A year ago he was six
twenty five, right, right, he's I mean it's one hundred
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and eighty points. And then the year the year before that,
he was at eight eighteen. Year before that, he's six
seventy five. So he's been straddlings, you know, every other
year he's either in the sixers or he's in the eights.
You know, he can't seem to be in the sevens
uh for the last several years. But but at any event,
you know, you saw Saturday was a the you know
that was really the rubber match was was Saturday against
(15:48):
the Rangers, right, and you know you had to somehow
clout out clow out some runs. But but you know
JP taking the very first pitch, you know, and and
going you on that, uh, you know in a two
to one game. Uh, that's big. And so I think
for him to be back to kind of what he
had again in twenty twenty three had been eight eighteen
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is a eight or five now, I don't I don't
hear a lot of talk about him, but that you know,
that's kind of an undercover, you know, suite addition to
get kind of getting some of him back.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Oh yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
And look, I mean I thought I thought the offense
would be better than it was a year ago.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
But I never saw this. I mean, this is just idiotic, right.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
I mean, it was a and to be fair, and
it's kind of a lazy take by me. I just
used the same logic I used a year ago when
I saw a bunch of guys that were way underperforming
the back of their baseball card, and that sooner or later,
this offense is going to erupt and it'll be good
enough with his pitching staff to make the playoffs. And
obviously last year I was wrong about that. But I
just I just went to better over the offseason, thinking, okay, fine,
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we didn't get what we wanted in free agency, we
didn't get what we wanted in the trade market. You
know a lot of guys, Kyle Tucker, Alex Bredman, and
Pete Alonzo, all those guys came and went, and the
biggest money ticket deal that the Mariners made was given
Horey Polanco seven point five million dollars. But they should
be better just by default with all of these guys
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coming back that so underperformed their career stats a year ago.
But nobody saw this coming. All right, hey, listen, let's
get a quick break. Okay, I want to come back
and talk more about this. I want to get to
your thoughts on the Dogs. After dart game on Friday,
We're gonna head down to the Bay Area, by the
way at four o'clock, get their thoughts on the A's
moving to Sacramento.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Are they still rooting for him?
Speaker 3 (17:30):
They're only eighty miles away, for God's sake, So what's
the impression of the A's down there at Oakland? Bill
Krueger will join us at five as well. Fun with
audio too. A lot more humil and coming up as
well on ninety three to three KJRFM.
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Speaker 2 (18:34):
Take that outside.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
All right, Well, Hu Millin's with us until seven o'clock tonight. Uh,
we got Bill Krueger. We're gonna head to Oakland as well.
A lot going on here on the radio show, but
just to kind of wrap up the Mariner conversation that
we had last segment. You know, first of all, I
love when we can be justified, and Jackson you know this, well,
we can be justified in leading the radio show with
Mariner talk. I think that's great because that means good
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things are happening. But you know how many times last
year did we compare where all the hitters ops was
last season versus where their career numbers were, and they
were way under where they typically are. Well, now we're
looking at this year versus last year. Polanco's up five
hundred and fifty two points from where he was a
year ago. Crawford's up one hundred and eighty points from
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where he was a year ago. Col's up one hundred
ninety seven points from where he was a year ago.
A Rose Arena is up forty seven points from.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Where he was a year ago.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
The one guy who was down in OPS, and it's
not all about OPS. I get that Julio Rodriguez is
down thirty six and Luke Rayley, who's been banged up obviously,
is down one hundred and fourteen. I will say this
that ty France was let go by this baseball team
at the end of last season or near the end
of last season, after twenty six games Hugh. Last year,
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ty Franz had an OPS to six fifty three. His
replacement at first base, Rowdy ti Les right now is
at six sixty and he's hitting a buck ninety four
when ty France was hitting two fifty six. So tyzacksy
doing okay with the Twins right now. But I do
I think if there's one spot and we can talk
to Bill about this, I know Rowdy had the big hit.
I get it on Saturday night with the RBI single
to take the lead against the Rangers. I'm not saying
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the Mariners are going to give up on this guy tomorrow,
but I do think that Rowdy Telez, unlike the other
guys on this team, has to really prove his worth
almost every single day with this baseball team, otherwise they
might move on and bring somebody else and to take
his spot. Like the kid Tyler O'Neill right down there
in not Tyler O'Neil, who's who's the hotshot first baseman,
(20:30):
for god's sakes, Jackson, Who's the kid in Tacoma that's
playing first base for the Rainiers?
Speaker 1 (20:35):
He was up here a year ago.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Locklear, Thank you, Tyler Locklear?
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Yes, I was Tyler.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Well, that's the thing. I was mixing up Lockett and Lockley, Like,
what the hell? I had a senior moment there. So
he's waiting in the wings man. So we'll talk to
Bill about that at five o'clock. But it is amazing
what this offense is doing. And I saw a tweet
from Bob Nightingale who said, hey, look, man, if this continues,
Dan Wilson's your runaway manager of the year in the
American League.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
How about that? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Yeah, I mean if it continues, you know that, you know,
I think there it keeps coming back to me. Is
there symbolism?
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (21:07):
In June twenty first, the longest day of the year,
the Equinox, and that's where the Mariners were ten games up.
So so that you know, what do they say, once
bitten twice? I how many times have we been bitten?
But but you know you mentioned Telez and and you know,
just they're doing the things that good baseball teams do.
You know, for Dylan Moore that preceded that the ab
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you know, he can't get the butt down, butt down,
excuse me, and uh, but then he somehow finds a
way to get a ground ball to the right side
of the infield advance. It was Polanco to third right now.
I know a lot of people want to say, hey,
you know, had had Polanco been on second, it was
that a strong enough hit by Telez to score from second,
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you know, because it was it was a you know,
in shallow outfield. But you know, I think that there
would have been different mindsets for the pier, different mindsets
for the batter. But the point is they got him
into scoring position, you know, in a one to one game.
So here here they went two to one. They scored
their first run on the very first pitch of the game,
and they and then they they they do nothing, and
(22:14):
then they they score in the ninth inning.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
So but you know, and so I think Dylan Moore
just gets a lot of praise for that at bat.
Of course Tillez gets the game winner, but but an event,
it seems to me like the type of things the
good teams do well.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Yeah, I mean, you know, two years ago or three
years ago, now I got them. I'm I'm losing track.
Which which year was the year they made the postseason.
It was twenty two when they made the playoffs. They
they actually were phenomenal in one run games, and they
were phenomenal in extra inning games. And then all of
a sudden, they get to last year and that number
kind of switches and falls apart, and they're not they're
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not getting to clutch it when they need to. They're
not winning those one run games. They're not winning obviously
the extra inning games. Well, so far in one run games,
these guys are seven and three it's only been ten games,
but seventy in one run games and two and two
in extra inning games. I mean, that's that's that's that's great.
I mean that is the exact opposite of where they
were a year ago. Hey, we'll do some fun with
(23:11):
Audio Hugh. Next segment, we're gonna head to the Bay
Area coming up as well.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Evan gettings from ninety five to seven.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
The game is gonna give us kind of the vibe
of Oakland before they play in Sacramento against the Aids
tonight and the Mariners do the Dogs after dark game,
and we'll spend more time on this U as the
show goes by. All they got about five minutes left
in this segment. But a couple things that stood out
to me. Obviously. Number one was number seven, and that's
the freshman wide receiver raid and Vines Bright, who's from Arizona.
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And because Amari Evans and Denzel Boston were both in
street clothes on Friday, this guy got a chance to
shine again. It's only it's it's it's basically a practice. Okay,
I get all that, But eight catches, one hundred and
thirty yards touchdown, had a nice run as well. This
is a guy that you know, obviously was in high
school a year ago in Old here early in January
(24:01):
to show up. He should even be here until August.
What you make of what you saw, at least on
tape from my number seven foot, I'll.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Tell you what I saw, Jackson. Are you there, Jackson? Yes,
I'm here you Okay.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
By the way, do you think there's a chance you're
gonna ask him if he's there and he's not gonna
be there like he just left.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Yeah, because there could be a soccer game in the back. Yes,
that's fair. That's fair, all right, so roll the tape. Okay,
all right? Wow, Raydon Vines Bright will be the next
h for sure drafted wide receiver. And if you can
get the odds, if you can get even odds on
day one or day two, he will be a day
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one or day two draft pick. Okay, Mark, this dude
is he is. He's got the size at six one two,
a young guy. I mean, he's got the body movement.
I mean he glides, but his long speed. You saw
the the overthrown post, but you saw him separating. This
guy was tenth in the tenth in the state in
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the one hundred meters as a sophomore in high school.
I think his his draft ranking went down because he
got hurt in the first game of his senior year.
Might have been the second game. He had one hundred
yard game in uh to start his senior year and
then and I think he got hurt in his second
But in any event, I'm just I'm just eyeball on
this cat. His body control, his hands, his explosiveness. When
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when he needs to have quick feet, he has quick feet.
When he needs to speed cut his body control, he can,
he can, he can turn the hoop hard. I mean this,
this this guy has like all the us. Now, this
is just a very brief view of this guy. But
I'm just I'm just trying to get out ahead of
(25:45):
this and I'm getting out ahead of Raydon Vines Bright
as the next top flight wide receiver at the University
of Washington.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Wow, well that's saying something, man.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
So you're saying he's gonna be what the next drafted
Husky wide receiver because Denzel Boston, Denzel Boston is gonna
come out after this year and he's being mocked by
some people as a first rounder right now.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Oh yeah, yeah, Okay, then clarify what I mean. What
I mean is of of the young guys, you know,
the torch who's gonna who's gonna have the torch? Because
where we had, you know, just a a dearth of
professional level wide receivers, right all of a sudden, you know,
we've been just kind of in the berries. Uh you know,
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at least at least when when you had three guys
go in the top two days, right, just a year ago,
Danzel Boston's gonna come up. Yes, I'm just saying the
next guy to grab the torch as most likely drafted
first or second day guy. I'm going with Raydon Vines Bright.
This dude is I love his I love his size
(26:53):
because at six one two hundred, he's he's big enough
and long enough to have the size when you want it,
but he's small enough that you see really uh great
body control and change of directions. So so I just
love that kind of tweeer nature of his body. Kind
of big, but not not too big, because it's really
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hard to be sudden when you're six three or six four.
I mean, there's there's advantages to being that size. But
in any event, this this, you know, this guy is
kind of like a Jalen McMillan. Yeah, can we go
that route? Yeah? I think there's there's some Jalen McMillan
in him. I don't know. Uh, thoroughly impressed. Cut paint
me impressed with this dude big time. I love it well.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
I mean when you when he says things like this Jackson, Uh,
they don't just fly out of his mouth for no reason.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
I remember when everybody was banging on Trey Adams as
the next great Husky offensive lineman in the NFL, and
in Trade's defense, he did blow his back out and
was never the same. Here was I was saying, no, no, no,
Kayla McGary is the guy, and Kaylen McGary ended up
being a first round draft pick to Atlanta. And then
I remember Game one of the twenty twenty two season
against ken State, nobody's talking about Troy Fontanu. Hugh Millan
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was talking about Troy Fatana when he became a first
round draft pick with the Pittsburgh Steelers. So, just like
Brett Boone and Steven Suza doing this show and turning
it into a major league baseball job, if Hugh Millan
says you're gonna be in the NFL when you're a freshman,
you're gonna be in the damn NFL. So you better
buckle up, Raydon Vines Bright you're going baby, I love it.
We're gonna break a little fun with audio next on
(28:28):
ninety three to three KJRFM.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
It's now time for Sufday in Dick's Fun with Audio.
Jimmy g pawn Star, Jimmy mister Garoppolo. Now let's have
some fun with audio.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
All righty Boser goes.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
There we go the moment you've all been waiting for,
at least a few of you, A little fun with
audio slash.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Hey did you hear that?
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Hugh milling in for Dick Fane Jackson Felts back in
the studio. We are at the Emerald Queen Casino Sportsbook
and now we get to roll with a little fwa Hey, Hugh,
did you happen.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
To hear that?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
What's that? Dick?
Speaker 1 (29:02):
We start by the way, I can bring up my
damn list for crying out loud? You know I am.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
I'm having so many senior moments. Later, we start with baseball.
Cal Raley had a grand slam in the MS thirteen
to one win over Texas on Friday. Rangers announcers Eric
Nadelle and Matt Hicks on one O five to three
K r ld were shocked by Cal swing to hit it.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
Out the two to two swinging a drive deep in
the right field. Adle's going back. He turns to look
and it is gone. Cal Raleigh with a grand slam,
his second home run of the ballgame, his fifth this
year against the Rangers. It's five nothing Seattle.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
That pitch wasn't even a strike. It was below the zone.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
It looked like Raleigh reads for it, but he was
able to fully extend his arms.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
And if you just looked at the swing, you wouldn't think, oh,
that's a home run.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
So one of my favorite things to do here is
look at projected numbers for baseball players. It's even funner
when it's only made a fifth. By the way, Kyle
Roley right now has twelve home runs, which leads baseball.
He is on pace, by the way, this year for
fifty nine bombs and one hundred and thirteen RBIs. So
I ask you, my friend, if we're talking about Hori
(30:18):
Polanco being in the MVP race, how come we're not
talking about Cal Raley being in the MVP race.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Yeah, I mean, we'll see how the team goes and
what his numbers end up. I mean he hasn't traditionally
been an average guy. You know, he's kind of more
obviously a power guy. But you know, I think going
back to watching him in spring training, and you know,
with the media pass, I can get really close to
these guys, stand right behind the fence during the bull
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ten sessions, and he's not, you know, six feet away
from me. And he looks like a guy that I
used to throw to a tight end in the NFL.
And then five feet away is Harry Ford. You know,
who's a bright young catcher in the organization is as
you know, obviously Day but right he looks like kickers
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that I used to hold for compared to like Raley
is a big f and dude, and you know, and
and and obviously his base. You know, they call him
a big dumper. It's a funny nickname. But you know,
if you just know kinesiology and uh and whatnot, you know,
the strongest muscle you have in your bodies, your ass
(31:30):
and you know, you get you know, obviously it's a
source of power and speed and jumping and what have you.
And so he has the ability to go down and
get balls like that just because of his frame, I mean,
compared to other Mariners. I'm just whoa, that's a big dude.
He looks like he could be in a Seahawk locker room,
not just a Mariner. So I don't know, fun player,
fun player to watch it, and I really, you know,
(31:51):
I watch his I watch his interactions with people. You
talk about it. I don't know the man, but the
impressions I've had, you know, being around a lot of athletes,
the way.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Everybody loves him, everybody loves them.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
The way you ext the pictures, I'm telling you, I
can just substantiate what everybody believes to be the case.
This guy just he just has it and and there's
a humility to him, but a respect. I mean, he's
just he's If he's your favorite Mariner, there's a damn many,
damn good reasons for that.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
All right, Hey, Hugh, did you happen to hear that.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
What's that Dick Rams gm les Sneid you know that name?
During The Rich Show last week to talk about how
during their trip to Seattle last season, the team's hotel
had a furry convention going on.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
You know what a furry convention is, by.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
The way, Hugh, I do not.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Okay, Well, here's.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Less snead talking about the Furry Convention going on last
year for the second time.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Go ahead.
Speaker 6 (32:52):
Not only have we shared a hotel in Seattle with
a furry convention.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
I think we've done it now twice. I think it's
been twice. I might be wrong.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Let me tell you this.
Speaker 6 (33:03):
You get to December football and you really need a lift.
Then you show up in the lobby there all of
a sudden, you know, you know what, we got a
second win to finishing this thing out.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
These are actually human beings that showed up.
Speaker 6 (33:16):
And I can't say this if you talk about people.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Who are passionate, Yes, they're passionate.
Speaker 6 (33:20):
That's not just Hey, I had to go to this
constume party and get something out of the closet that's
well thought out.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
I've heard of teams trying to get the road team
off their game by pulling a fire alarm at four
in the morning in the hotel. This is next level,
because if it's twice now, the Seattle Seahawks are doing
this to you. Less.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
So what I understand how furry Convention is, and Jackson,
you can correct me if I'm wrong. I don't know
much more than basically people that dress up as animals
that wear clothes, but they walk on two legs instead
of four, and they speak like people, and they're intelligent
like people, and they have emotions like people, but they're
(34:00):
like walking around wearing like moose heads and wolf heads.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
But it's like the whole outfit, the whole body.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
But they do this like all the time, Like they
wake up and they think they're a wolf or something
or a cat or whatever, and they and they get
together and they have.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
These Oh so there's like legit that like these people
have psychological disorders, like they take they're an actual animal.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
I mean, are they just messing around trying to get
in their heads or is this I got a buddy
of mind all that. I got a buddy of mine
that that runs a school. I won't tell you where
it is, but you've heard stories that, you know, kids
show up and they want to have a litter box
to pee in because they think they're a cat, and
they start licking their hands and stuff things like that,
like it's a paw.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
I don't know if this goes that.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Far or not. I have no idea, all right, I
mean I think they just do this at these conventions.
I don't know if they do this all the time,
but they do. They do dress up as as as
as human like animals that speak and they walk on
two legs and they have emotions and intelligence.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Yeah, all right, So I was in the AFC West.
When you play the Raiders, everybody's seen if you're a
football fan, you've seen in the end zone the guys
that paint their career skulls and they wear solder pads.
Here's the deal with the spikes on the solder pads.
Here's the thing. The spikes are tinfoil, aluminum foil. They
take like You're looking at these guys and you just go,
(35:23):
how absurd are you? I could come up and just
squash your little aluminum foil spike on yourself.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
But they weren't a costume here, What the hell's the
problem with that?
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Yeah, but do people really think that intimidates the visiting players?
It's so absurd, And so I would say this less
need is a great GM. I don't know why he's
bringing this up. But if you bring it up because
it happened, well I understand. But but if his players
are I mean, I don't well, like is that supposed
to get under the players like spook the players. I
(35:52):
don't know. I don't know that second wind.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
If you, yeah, if you, if you saw somebody dressed
up as English speaking moose or English speaking wolf walking
around on two legs, that might be a weird the
night before the game. It might weird you out a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
That would not weird me.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
We gave them a second wind. Okay, there you go,
fired up and weird.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Isn't that weird?
Speaker 4 (36:16):
That?
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Like they actually like enjoyed it, and we're like, ooh,
this is fine.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Some people are into some weird things these days.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
Power Yeah, yeah, the games I've started. Look, there's ninety
nine problems with trying to have a good NFL game,
and you know, first and foremost, they're the best players
on the world on the other side of the line
of scrimmage. Like, those are your main problems of the
ninety nine problems. The furry rabbit the night before the
(36:43):
game is not on the list.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
Okay, we got to get a break, yes, Evan gettings.
From ninety five to seven of the game. Mariners are
playing their first series against the As since they moved
to Sacramento. How are people in Oakland handling this? I
we'll find out next Down ninety three three k j
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