May 8, 2026 • 37 mins
In the first hour, Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain discuss the Friday games this season for the Huskies football team and dynamics with traffic in Seattle, the Mariners pitching situation with Bryce Miller returning soon, how we look back at Jarred Kelenic’s career in Seattle and the trade with the Mets for him then they listen and react to Fun w/ Audio.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Go Hugh mellon Little Live at five with Hughey on
the radio show, his thoughts on obviously everything that's been
going on the last couple of days regarding all these
potential owners, and you never know what other random topics
will come up with Hugh Millan Bilough, you make the
call at six o'clock tonight to make the call. Yeah,
we'll get the fun with audio at three forty five.
But man, I threw out a very unpopular opinion today
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on social media, and I knew it was going to
be unpopular. I know that I'm in the minority. Although
Rich Moore reminded me of one potential problem with this,
and we'll talk about that in a second. So my tweet,
if you saw it four hours ago, I made a tweet.
I responded, extremely unpopular opinion. I love Friday Night. You
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dub games. The more the better for me. I love it.
I think it's great. I think it's awesome on a
Friday night we're doing the show. May as well play
the damn game. Have a day off on a Saturday,
especially in October when the weather might still be okay.
By the way, you're the only game on TV at
that time. The entire country is watching you National TV
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on Fox. I say, the more the merrier. I mean, hell,
if they wanted to switch you, duh, but have them
play every Friday and have high school football play on Saturday,
I'd say.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Go for it.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
So I know him in the minority, but I love
the Friday games.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Man, I'm with you because it's just an entirely selfish
position have right. So it's like, we get the opportunity,
we'll they'll do a little pregame, we'll head over to
the game, and then all Saturday long, you've got off.
I can go to golf tournaments, I can go to
basketball games. I can do whatever I need to do
and not spend all day at Husky Stage.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
And because I've already been there.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
The only problem is that it could be a Mariner
playoff game on both those nights, because it could be
on a Saturday. It could be, But it wasn't Game
five against the Tigers on a Friday night, that fourteen
inning game. I believe it was on a Friday night.
I gotta double check that, but I think that's correct.
But we've had two Husky games on crucial Mariner playof right.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
One was on a Saturday, right, the Arizona game we
played Houston for eighteen innings, and then the fifteen inning
game against Detroit.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Yeah, I think there's been more than that other Mariner
playoff games.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Although did you use the word crucial? Is that right?
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Well?
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Yeah, and recent recent crucial, Mayor, I don't think there
has there been any others.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
In two other Mariner playoff games that took place during
a Husky football game, which I'll be honest with you,
if there's a Marina playoff game in a Husky football
game going on, my priority is Marina baseball. It's the
much bigger event, right, I get it, you know, blah
blah blah.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
We're going to do our job, go to work.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
I tried to buy out of it, give you a
thousand bucks a couple of years ago. The boss said no,
I'm sorry, we'll try it again. I'm sure inflation has
made that price go up. Yes, But the point for
me is that that will be the absolute priority, and
it could be an issue on those Friday nights, one
of them is on the road. But here's the thing
for me, I kind of wonder if the Huskies chances
of winning the Iowa game just went up a little
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bit because Iowa is hosting Ohio State the week before,
and then they got to jump on a plane and
come out here a day early to take on you
dub on Friday.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
So hard fought battle with the Buckeys. Whatever. I'm just
kind of throwing cliches out there. You get it.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Maybe they're beat up a little bit, maybe need an
extra day off to rest and recuperate. Ain't gonna get it. Boys,
Those farm boys better be ready because they got to
get ready with one extra day of rest to come
to Seattle after playing Ohio State.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Now, if we would have told Wilner this situation and
the situation was reversed and the Huskies played Iowa State
and then had to fly on a Friday night to Iowa,
guaranteed he would say that's a significant disadvantage from Dougs.
So when we ask him next week, we will see
if he says this is a significant disadvantage, because I
totally agree with you. But I do think that's the
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one game at Husky Stadium, two defensive teams going up
against each other. Iowa was gonna want to play the
game in the teams. It's just gonna be one of
those thirteen to ten ugly slober knocker type games that
I think the Huskies pull out. But I think we're
all going to have this big eh at the end
of that game. I think that's how I go into
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that game, just expecting it to be well.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
The thing about Iowa, man, I mean they had some
games last year. Now, they put up thirty eight against Rutgers,
they put up forty one against Minnesota, they put up
forty against Nebraska, twenty five against Penn State, thirty seven
against Wisconsin. I mean, there's obviously a chance that U
Dub's defense is better than all those teams this year
versus where they were last year. But Iowa wasn't playing
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every game like that. What they were doing though, Dick,
is they were playing close games. Yes, right, It's like
every game Iowa plays, it's going to come down to
a driver to in the fourth quarter. So do I
like the fact that they've got to play Ohio State
and then come out here a day early to play
you Dub? I love that, But I wonder if we're alone,
totally alone in the Friday night thing. And I get
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it for fans that are coming up here from the
Central part of the state, the eastern of the state,
driving up from Vancouver, whatever, fans that have kids in
high school that play high school football. It stinks, right,
It's terrible for fans like that. And you mentioned that
we're being selfish, and I totally agree. I mean, it's
an absolute selfish perspective for me to have. We're coming
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to work. We're just replacing the show with the pregame,
the halftime, the postgame show, and then we got a
Saturday off on a nice night or a nice day
maybe in October, and go out and do whatever you
want to do. So it is a very selfish perspective
for me. But I love it, and I think the
more the merrier. But I can I understand how most
fans would hate a Friday night game because it's such
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a pain in the ass to get to Seattle. Are
you talking about if it's a five o'clock start, even
a six o'clock start, getting in the car and driving
through rush hour traffic ticket to Husky Stadium. I mean,
it's brutal. I get it the way I would do
if I were you was get there. When I get there,
it's like noon.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
It's interesting because last yesterday we talked about the difference
between the general fan base and the students. I think
the students love this, right, it's my Friday night plans
are done. Yeah, I show to the game party afterwards,
they're on campus already, exactly. The general fans absolutely despise this.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Well.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
I mean, I think that I've tried to drive through
Seattle on a Saturday before a Husky game and it's awful.
And then Friday night, I mean, can we all agree
driving on Friday night in Seattle is much easier post
COVID than it was pre COVID because a lot of
people don't go in on Fridays, a lot of people
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work from home on Fridays. I mean, the numbers are there,
like Wednesday is the busiest traffic day of the week
in Seattle, and then it trickles back down again.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Are you asking me again? What's the what's the What's
my claim.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Is that traffic is much and you could text four
nine four or five one. You're driving to work pre
COVID post COVID. Is Friday easier now or is it easier.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Time of day? Like rush? Yeah? Here?
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Let me I have come into town almost every Seturdaturday
for the last what's eight years, because of Sounders games,
and I rang it. I go in every single Saturday,
and I would say the Friday traffic is significantly worse.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
But you're not going through town. You're just going because
you're starting south and ending.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Yeah, but I go. I go all the way to
get off at Mercers.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
So I mean I experienced a lot of it from
the south, coming from the South end, and it's much
worse on Friday.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Looks I'm the wrong guy to ask, because I don't
mess with I five at all anymore. Where I live,
where you live, we don't have any ida like the
hell's going on on I five because we're not going
that way, right. I'll just say this that I don't
go to downtown Seattle very often anymore at all for anything.
Only time I would drive through downtown Seattle is if
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I'm on I five going to Husky Stadium, for example,
or for some reason having to get to the North End.
I was going to run up to Milk Creek today
to see my pals up at Mill Creek Sports Cards,
and I looked at traffic about eleven thirty. It's an
hour to get there. I'm not doing that, not we'll
just pick a dude. But we'll just do that some
other time. And that's on a Friday afternoon. So I
have no idea, right, I just know this that there's
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a lot of reasons to love a Friday night game,
and there's probably a lot of more reasons to not
love a Friday night game. But this is the new
world that we're living in, guys, and it's something that
you better embrace because college football and Huskies and the
Koog's and the doll the Ducks and the beefs, everybody
is going to be looking for brand new ways to
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maximize revenue streams. And I wouldn't be surprised if down
the road we see the Huskies playing on a Tuesday
or a Wednesday night. Honestly, I mean, I think everything
is on the table for college football. So you text
us four nine, four or five won the idea of
a Friday night game. Hey, we got some good news
for the MS. By the way, Brendan Donovan is back.
Johnny Parada has been demolished or excuse me, demoted demolis.
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He's been demoted less to triple A Tacoma. Donovan's back,
leading off cal Raley behind the plate, Jared Kellnick hitting
seventh to night for the Chicago White Sox, Emerson Hancock,
Luis Castillo, Logan Gilbert over the weekend is I feel
like we're all kind of waiting to see what they
do with this rotation. It's like the number one Mariner story.
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Chuck's talking about it all day. Greg's talking about it,
Ian's talking about at The Times is constantly talking about
it on their Twitter page and their website, their newspaper,
the Mariner broadcasters are talking about it. It's like the
big story around Mariner Nation right now is what the
hell we're gonna do with Bryce Miller and Luis Castillo
when he comes back. But I will just say this
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that this is another example of why this should be
considered to be a World Series contender. And Jeff Passon
wrote a story today. I'm not sure if you saw
this Dick and Jackson for ESPN where he did a list.
I think it was five teams of teams that could
potentially dethrown the Dodgers, and the Mariners were one of
them because of their rotation, right, because of their depth,
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because of their bullpen when they're healthy and you don't
have how many teams in baseball would have this kind
of a problem where they would be bringing a guy
out of Triple A off the IL and having to
consider whether or not to put a guy of Luis
Castillo's talents in the bullpen.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
I know he hasn't pitched well lately. We all get
that he had the one great start against the Yankees
on Opening Day and kind of fell off the face
of the earth of the again. But I think a
lot of people are on baseball expect that at some
point in time Luis Castillo, maybe right, is.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Gonna bounce back.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
And the depth that these guys have, I mean, how
many times over the offseason did we say, you know what, it.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Doesn't feel like, Dick.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
They have the depth and the rotation they used to
have when they used to be seven or eight deep.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
It kind of feels like, maybe, all of a sudden,
now they do. Yes, they absolutely do.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
And I think I just love the split start idea
bringing Miller in after Luis. Luis has had a tough
time going deep into games. Heck, he's only gotten two
times where he's gone six or more. But I'm gonna
use your old Bryce Miller hairball. I mean you've used
it for Bryce Miller in the past. I know in
other pitchers.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Hancock two, Hancock two.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Luis Castillo has given up fourteen of his twenty four
earned runs and two starts. He has had two horrendous starts.
The last start I was at the game, I thought
he looked pretty good. That up and end swinging strike
three of ninety eight miles an hour that he I
don't remember who.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
He came it. It looked like Luis Castillo again.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
So I'm I'm holding out hope that the worst is
over for Luis Castillo and having Bryce Miller pitching behind him. Yeah,
you're not having to worry about him going deep into games.
He goes through two times for the rotation. Get him
on out of there.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Well, the problem is the other games that you're talking about.
He went three and two thirds and gave up three.
He went five and gave up two and put seven
guys on base in five innings, and then he put
eight runners on base in six innings and gave up four.
So I understand one of them.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Are now your Big Era game?
Speaker 1 (11:57):
No, no, no, all, no, I'm talking about the Royal
Game to the Royal Game.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Yeah, but he had.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
He had three ten base runners in five and a
third against San Diego. It's too many base runners, man,
That's been the problem for him, way too many base runners.
And I have generally been a Luis Castillo defender, but
I think you're being ridiculous if you can't just, you know,
be honest about what's going on, whether you're a fan
of somebody or not, whether you're a defender or a
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hater or whatever the hell you want to call it, it's
right in front of your face. I mean, the guys,
put we're we talking about fifty seven base runners on
in thirty four innings. I'm sorry, sixty if you include
hit batters, sixty base runners.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Guys, he's almost got a two whip. That is unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Right, So yeah, he had two games where he was
slaughtered by the Astros in Minnesota, but by Luis Castillo standards,
the other games weren't that great either. So this is
a big start for him this Saturday. If the Mariners
are waiting to see what Luis Castillo does this weekend
against Chicago, if there's ever been a reason to watch
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the Mariners in white sox in the middle of May
on a Saturday afternoon.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
It's this Saturday because of Luis Castilla. I mean, Luis.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Fooled me last year, and like George Bush used to say,
I'm not gonna get fooled again. Like I thought Luis
Castile was done. I thought he was done at the
end of August. He was horrible, right, and then he
was the Mariner's best picture. Yes, from the seventh of
September through the playoffs, he was the Mariner's best starting
pitcher when the you know what hit the fans. So
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I'm not gonna I'm not gonna throw in the towel on.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Luiss, of course, but they got to figure it out.
They're not going to a six man rotation. I would
be stunned. Stunned. I agree if they went to a
six man rotation. Now watch him go to a six
man rotation, But I would be shocked if that was
their decision. I think it's more likely they do what
Adam Jude was talking about, which is let him both
handle the game, right, Let let one guy be the
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long reliever, let one guy be a starter, and maybe
it motivates Castile. He's got Bryce Miller's and they're ready. Hey,
we got a guy ready in the bullpen. Man, if
you get your you know what lit up, we can
just throw somebody else in there. You know what, You
keep his ass, you keep his his his bony ass
over there, because I'm going eight today.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
And if that motivates him, that awesome.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
All right, we're gonna break. We got a lot to
get to. Fun with Audio three forty five. Tony castro
Co will join us and talk some dogs at four,
Hugh Mille at five o'clock tonight. You make the call
at six on ninety three three KJRFM.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Now back to Sofie and Dick on your home for
the Huskies Cracking and the twelfth Man Sports Radio, ninety
three point three kjr FM.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
All right, we're back and I'm busy Friday right here
on ninety three three KJRFM. Fun with Audio three forty
five with us on the radio show Tony castro Con
four o'clock today, Jared Kalnik in the lineup tonight for
the Chicago White Sox, Dick Fane's favorite ex Mariner superstar
uh in the in the lineup hitting seventh tonight for
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Cago Was was it him and Logan Gilbert? I think
Jackson you and I went to the game against the Guardians.
Him and Logan Gilbert made their debut on the same day,
I think at T Mobile Park. Because you remember, before
Julio Is, Jared Kelnick was the hot shot. He was
going to be the big star from the minor NIGS system,
and then this kid named Julio Rodriguez behind him and
turned out for Julio, but not so much for Kellnick,
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and I wonder kind of, you know, what did Mariner
fans think of his career here in Seattle. It's a
guy that played two hundred and fifty two games, hit
two oh four with a six fifty six ops, thirty two.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Home runs one hundred and nine.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Ribis obviously was a disappointment, right considering where we thought
he was going to be and his status as a prospect.
He was one of the top prospects in the Mets organization,
was one of the top prospects in the Mariners organization,
and it just never turned out. I mean, I kind
of find myself rooting for the guy a little bit.
You know, I don't know if you guys feel the
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same way, but how do we remember the Jared Kelnick era?
I know how you feel simple for Dick. I Dick
would push him into traffic if he could. I know
how Dick feels, So you go first.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
I mean I always, I always revert back to the
opposite of love and hate is not the opposite of
each of those. It's indifference. I kind of just feel
indifferent to you know what, Like there was a period
where it was true hate, and it's just it's just
molded into this indifference because at the end of the day,
like if you we really go down the rabbit hole,
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it's okay, well, you made that deal to dump Robinson
Cano's contract, but in that deal you also had to
give up your star closer, a star closer who's turned
into maybe over the last half decade, the best closer
in Major League baseball. Right, So if you if you
throw that in there, then I'm just going to go
back from indifference and get very angry again. And I
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don't want to get very angry again, so I try
to forget.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
That, right, right. I just didn't like the attitude.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
It seemed like he came in with an air of guy,
my bleep does not stink, even though I have accomplished
zero in Major League baseball. And then when it, and
then it magnified because when the struggles started, the cockiness
turned into anger, right, and he just was always throwing
his helmet and he was always and you just culminated
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with him kicking the freaking cooler and costing himself what
a month, a month and a half or whatever. It
was just like so to looking back at it now,
it's just disappointing, you know, back then it was irritating.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Now it's just disappointed.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Well, the deal that you're talking about, So repeat to me, Jackson,
because I want to make sure you have this right.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
The trade where they so we.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
Sent to Robinson Canoe and in return we got Jason
Bay I remember that was.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Right, Bruce swore Zak, Yeah, pretty much the same guys. Well,
I mean but Jay Bruce actually was a pretty decent player.
I mean, he was kind of towards the till of
his career, but he had some good years. So, I mean,
the trade itself actually kind of made sense. Like you
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had to give him twenty million to outpay for Canoe,
and that was the big thing.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
It was Robbie Canoe.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Robbie Cano cost them Edwin Diaz and Edwin Diaz Obviously
he's hurt now, But if Jared Kelnick ended up being
what people thought Jared Kelnick would have been, it would
have been unbelievable sense because he instantly became the Mariners
number two prospects when he showed up. It's like, really, okay,
so we got to get rid of Robbie Canoe.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
We got to pay twenty million bucks.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
It sucks that we have to get rid of Edwin Diaz,
but we're gonna get the mets number two or number
one prospect. He's our number two prospect whatever, And if
this pops, then phenomenal.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
But it just really didn't work out for anybody.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
And it worked out for the Mets with Diaz obviously,
but didn't work out for us at all.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
So the idea, if you will.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Dick, the theory behind the trade made total sense from
a Mariner perspective.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Yeah, I mean, I think at the time we were
excited about it. I think.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
So, I mean, it sucks you have to give up
somebody just to get rid of somebody else, but I
mean that's that's the way it goes right in here,
and when you want to free up a spot, I mean,
obviously Canoe couldn't play anymore right, and certainly couldn't play
at the level of his contract, and so they decided
to Zorenzic made his decision to pay him all that money.
And I'm not going to say the Cano deal backfired,
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But was it a success?
Speaker 6 (19:33):
Wait?
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Wait the Canoe signing in the first place.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Well, yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
I mean, he had a he had a what was
his war his average war over five years, it's pretty good,
like four and a half five whatever it was. We
didn't go to the playoffs. Yeah, the eventual goal, which
wasn't his fault at all. That's like blam. I mean,
you know, Eachiro was here for how many years and
you know went to the playoffs one time? Not his fault, Felix,
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not his fault. So I think you know, all those guys,
Kyle Seger, Robinson, Cano, all of them would be would
be looked at differently if they had been on playoff teams.
And they did their best in a lot of ways
to do that. But you know, Robbie Cano had he
had four years in Seattle, excuse me, five years in
Seattle where he had an eight thirty six, seven seventy nine,
eight eighty two, seven ninety one, eight forty five. Those
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are numbers that he would beg for right now?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Are you kidding me? You'd cut your hand off fun
for numbers like that.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
The day we signed Robinson Cano, remember the same thing
that happened that same morning. I think it was the
same hour. It was, like in the ten o'clock hour
that we signed Robinson Cano. The news came out. Either
of you remember.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Twenty fourteen morning, the exact where it was like this,
remind us, I believe it was Chris Peterson happened the
ex same morning.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Okay, well, Robbie Canoe.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Yeah, Robbie Cano made three All Star Games and finished
in the top ten of the MVP twice when he
was here.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
I would I would.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
I would agree with Dick a little bit, a little
bit that I think it was slightly underwhelming, slightly when
you got Robinson Canoe as a free agent and signed
him to that massive, fat contract. I think we expected
maybe a dominant, dominant player, MVP candidate every baseball he was,
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but he was also thirty one and the and we
knew when they got him that they had to overpay
to get him, right. I remember saying that on the
air that we had to overpay to get Robinson Canoe.
But that is it is interesting how all this comes
back full circle tonight, and I guarantee him there's gonna
be people Dick flipping the game on and Jared Kalenick
hitting seventh Gode God really remember played for the White
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Socks better five year.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Run as a mayor Robinson, Adrian.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Beltra, Adrian Beltray. I think Adrian Beltra close.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
That was my gut right, but Robinson Canoe's war was better.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Yeah, but can you basically just done war though, according
to Brett Boone, not yeah, you can't. Yeah, I mean
I'd have to go back and think about it. My
first reaction is Adrian Beltray, just because I remember Adrian
Beltray throwing guys out from his ass at third base.
I mean, he was unbelievable so good at third base.
I mean him and two guys I think were amongst
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the best I ever saw here were him and David
Bell in Seattle, and they were both phenomenal. Difference between
Belchray and David Bell's that David Bell playing the team
that won one hundred and sixteen games in two thousand
and one. So I don't know, man, I mean I
think all these guys. You know, Adrian Beltray was twenty
six when the Mariners got him. He had that one
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year where he had forty eight home runs and one
hundred and twenty one ribis with the Dodgers, finished number
two in the MVP race. They brought him in with
Richie Sexton and he never came close to putting up
those numbers again.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
And I think that was that they put up in
LA and it was a safeg field thing because you
look at what Adrian did in Texas after he left Seattle.
That's just thirty two, thirty six thirty months. Yet thirty
or more four times. He never did it once in Seattle,
and instead he's doing it when he's in his mid
to late thirties.
Speaker 6 (23:08):
Did he win a World Series for Boston and like
the twenty ten a year after he left us? Yeout
those Yeah, I mean, look, the guy's a Hall of Famer.
I mean, he's an unbelievable player. He just never got
a chance to do it in Seattle, partially because it's
hard to hit here and the team stunk. He's on
the all what could have been team, right, Felix Hernandez
is on that team Beltray's on that team, Robinson Cano
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and Seattle, Kyle Sieger.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
I know, Dickle Likextebus.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Kyle Seeger's balls a lot on this radio show, top
five in war all time in franchise history. If he
was surrounded by better players, and Kyle Sieger had fifteen
cracks at a playoff game, if Felix Hernandez was surrounded
by better players and had eight postseason starts, you imagine
Felix and his prime on the mound in game seven
(23:54):
of an ALCS.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Oh, I mean, dude, I would like Kyle Sieger a
lot more if he was playing thirddays the last couple
of years on this team going to playoffs than if
what he was doing on those teams.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
So do you what do you mean?
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Well?
Speaker 4 (24:06):
I just think I don't because Kyle Seger was the
center point of those losing teams. So I kind of
like directed my ire at him, like we're paying you
one hundred million dollars and you're doing this and the
team's doing this. Whereas if he is on this team,
if he's playing third base and this year last year,
I'd have to go back and look at.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
The number if he was putting up the exact same
numbers right for the Mariners of the last few years
that he put up. When you hated him, I'm wondering,
does that mean that you're iman admitting I'd hate him less.
There's no question I'd hate him less.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
You're saying that this team would not be relying on
him like those teams did.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Is correct.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
And then also the problem with Seeger is that once
he got the deal, he was not good like he
was good before he got the deal, like all of
his three, four and five and six the war seasons
were before he got one hundred million dollars.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Because he was thirty years old. Yeah, I mean he
became old he got thirty. I mean, look at thirty,
thirty one, thirty two, thirty three, look at twenty nine
and younger, look at thirty and later he declined, right,
So I mean that happens a lot in baseball. That's
why I love having guys on free agent contracts. Look
at Josh Naylor last year. For God's sakes. I mean,
(25:23):
if they trade for Josh Naylor last season and he's
got let's say he's got two years left on his
deal versus becoming a free agent, does he do what
he did last September and August. Maybe maybe not. I
just love motivated guys. I love seeing guys that are fighting.
Kenny Walker, Holy crap, right, you saw it right in
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Speaker 1 (26:15):
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ay Dick, did you happen to hear that?
Speaker 3 (26:33):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Dis skip Bailists made his return to ESPN's first take
with Stephen A. Smith this morning. Did you watch live?
Did you watch live? Did you watch live?
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Minutes?
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Okay, I did not watch live. This is the first
clip I'm hearing from this. By the way, took less
than two minutes for the guys to start the Lebron James,
NBA and NBA goat topic here.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
I address for a funeral, your funeral, but it would
be your funeral, It would be it would be your funeral.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
I was the driving force of this show back in
its early days.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
I pushed to.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
Have this man be my permanent partner. In twenty twelve,
you did, and after I left in twenty sixteen, this
man became the driving force of this show. And I
just want to say, you've done a great job with it,
and I do love you, love you too, but but.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
But yeah, exactly. The pleasant trees are now over.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
You've already elevated Lebron James all the way up to
number two on your all time list. Okay, I have
him met nine.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Oh my phenomenal. Even Lebron haters have him at two.
What did you see? The the eight guys in front
of Lebron. I did, okay, I did. I mean, is
it so ridiculous? Uh yeah, okay, yeah, I think it is.
Speaker 7 (27:53):
I think it is.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Well.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
One thing that drives me nuts about the Lebron debate.
It's like he's the greatest score in the history of
the NBA. Well so was career, and nobody ever said
Kareem is number one. You want to talk about dominant.
Will Chamberlain is the most dominant player that's ever played
in the NBA, and nobody ever talks about Will being
the greatest player of all time in the history of
the NBA.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
So this is what we talked about the Aaron A. Jackson.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
The Lebron conversation has gone from let's talk about how
great he is and his career too, let's talk about
what other people think about Lebron versus our opinion about Lebron,
and it's freaking tiresome.
Speaker 6 (28:31):
I'm kind of getting We played the clip not because
it's Lebron, because it's Skip Bayless and stephen A, but
like the phone with audio clips about people debating Lebron, Dick,
I know, you send me a bunch of them.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
It's gotta stop. It's what people think of the Leberal.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
It's a timing thing, right, this is the time when
Lebron James is trying to carry his team single handing
in the playoffs. We don't send those to you other
months of the year. I never send you.
Speaker 6 (29:01):
The exactly It's not we, it's you, Okay, I mean question,
it's topical.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Right now, here's the question. Do you send him clips
of look? Because just peek behind the curtain here. The
way we do things is that every now and then
Jackson will grab a clip or two.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
But for the most part, is that fair to say?
Do you say no, it's about to play half and half?
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Okay, so you think maybe thirty three percent apiece whatever.
We're all chipping in here with fell of audio. But we,
Dick and I do send you a lot of audio.
For the second, does he ever send you a clip
from somebody criticizing Lebron James.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
I'd have to go back in our messages. I'm gonna
have to go slide back into the DMS and look
at it.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
There.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Are you the bag Dad Bob for Lebron James Incorporated?
Are you minister of propaganda? There's no question about that.
But I'm just trying to think of, like.
Speaker 6 (29:52):
Because you also send me the Mike Breen one saying
that Lebron could do this for another nine years.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
And never played that didn't play that one play? What
send him one of somebody ripping Lebron James. That's what
I want to Okay, I'll find, I'll find just just
di di dip your toe in that one.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Everybody is.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
What's nice is that everybody now around the country hates okay,
see nearly as much as we do for just this
ridiculous officiating they're getting in the first two games.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
That's been the big story for Lebron right now, of course,
but that'll come to an end in about eight quarters
from now, Biro, that's almost over. You doesn't kind of
like him in Game three with the points though, yeah,
the points, I do. I don't see him winning a
game in the series problem at all.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
I mean, look, what.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Lebron James is doing right now is amazing, and people
should be talking about how good he is at the
age of forty one. That's why I'm sending to Jackson
right Instead, it's everybody bitching about everybody else and what
they think about Lebron, and it is a little tiresome.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
All right, anyway, whatever, here we go. All right, Dick,
you happen to hear that? What's that? Dick?
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Former Sea receiver TJ. Huschman Zada out of, out of
She's oh close. Joining Emmanuel Acho's Speakeasy podcast this week,
shared this take on the Mike Rabel Diana Rossini.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Drama, Like they were dating that long.
Speaker 7 (31:20):
That's his girlfriend, and that's a decision that he made
and she also made.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
They are both married, and they.
Speaker 7 (31:30):
Chose, Okay, you're gonna be my lady.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Are Yeah, you're gonna be my man. That's what they
chose to do.
Speaker 7 (31:37):
Now, the report said shortly thereafter she gave birth. It
wouldn't surprise me if that's his baby now, but yeah,
that was, she was his girlfriend.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Oh god, dude, it's unbelievable. I told you the other day.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
I can't think of a sports relationship that's been this
on the four front of everybody's mind, Like, Whin's the
last one?
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Well, she's going to talk at some point, right, at
some point. That might be a year from now, but
at some point she's going to talk, And if she's smart,
she's gonna make a lot of money off that interview
with whoever it is, whether barstool sixty minutes sixty exactly,
a major network ESPN, Somebody's gonna pay her millions of
(32:24):
dollars to have that conversation.
Speaker 7 (32:27):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
The shoe that I'm waiting to hear drop is what
is going on with Rabel's wife and Rassini's husband, because
we haven't heard from either one of them, and it's
starting to get into a tabloid style drama.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Is it not right? But I'm just saying, it just
feels kind of like gross. Now, yes, right, yes, because
but I agree with TJ, like, right, she's obviously not
hiding it.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
If she's going to public places with him, she's not
hiding it.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
So I think he's right.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
So we are we are moving on from the there's
no way they're just friends.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Yeah, I'm without moving away from it. But it's interesting
because we've been.
Speaker 6 (33:06):
Everybody's calling in an affair, and Dick, I think you're right.
I think TJ's right. It's not an affair when you're
just openly dating. You're you're the girlfriend.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
You're at bars, you're at pools with other people that
have cell phones.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Every one of them has a video camera. Attached to
their hip.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
That's why I asked the question, are we moving on
from the idea that they're just really good friends, because
if they are doing all that stuff and they don't
want anyone to know about it, then they're as dumb
as the day as long. I mean, because I guarantee
you there's more. I mean this, The creepy part about
this Jackson and Dick in some ways is that there's
a group of people apparently that are sitting on mountains
(33:43):
of evidence that they just aren't waiting to reveal at
the right time.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
Is it just going to continue to trickle out?
Speaker 1 (33:50):
You think there was a radio from nineteen ninety eight,
here's a picture from twenty ten.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
I mean, here's the two of them.
Speaker 6 (33:55):
I don't I hate, I hate to call anybody really
stupid out right, but like you're having this relationship with
Rabel and then you and then after the relationship of
slash affair begins, you name your kid Mike.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Well, I don't know, dude.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
I mean, it's just people have made up their minds
about this, and there's no convincing anybody, and they're gonna
lose the benefit of every doubt, every single one I mean,
whether it's fair, unfair, right, whether it's reality, whether what
we think is happening is actually happening, it doesn't even matter.
I mean, it's just it's so far gone right, so
far gone? God, God, are we got time for one more?
Let's follow you to the nerd not How dick did
(34:37):
you happen to hear that the Angels beat the White
Sox four to three this week thanks to Mike Trout
and Zach Needo both homering.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Nito La shortstop and a total Nerd.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Spoke after the game Jackson's words about the confidence, yes
that he and Trout had going into Tuesday's game.
Speaker 8 (34:53):
I don't think anybody was happier than Mike Trout sitting
next to you in the dugout.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
What do you say? Oh man, he.
Speaker 8 (34:58):
Teks me this morning about ripping Pokemon cards and that
if we found a chars Ar that was going to
hit a homer, and we did so, and we both
hit a homer.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
So I was pretty cool.
Speaker 8 (35:07):
But uh, you know, just a little things to get
my head out of baseball a little bit, you know,
sometimes that's what you need. And uh, you know, I
was able to come through.
Speaker 5 (35:14):
Well thanks to the Pokemon cards and your talent.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Thanks at the time. That's right, thanks Charsar. So he's
obviously saying this in front of the stadium. What are
I don't know?
Speaker 6 (35:22):
And you know what, it's probably of the the original series.
It's like the best Pokemon card.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Have you noticed?
Speaker 4 (35:28):
Like normally when they're doing a interview in front of
the stadium, people.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Are like clapping.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
I think the stadium's like, what the hell did he
just what language did he just speak?
Speaker 1 (35:39):
I know that there's a thing in Major League Baseball
clubhouses about Pokemon cards. It's been going on for a
long time. Pokemon has been around for a while, right, like, yeah,
it's been around forever. I remember dudes in the clubhouse
in the early two thousands getting into Pokemon really. Oh yeah, dude,
you'll be surprised, Jackson, the amount of time baseball players
have on their hands, they get into some really unique
(36:00):
and weird, stuffy I'll tell you guys already, some of
which I can't share on the radio show.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
I have a big I have a big stuff.
Speaker 4 (36:06):
They're celebrating at the Mariners game in August. What's that
called again, Oh?
Speaker 3 (36:09):
The perverb Book. No, it's fourth Wing the Fourth Wing. Yeah, yeah,
they get into that too. Is it still happening? Yes?
Speaker 6 (36:17):
And I did consult a couple people outside about Fourth Wing,
including a buddy of mine whose wife actually writes these
kind of novels. My wife's looking, my my friend's wife,
Lauren writes these kind of books. And Fourth Wing is
one hundred percent that kind of smut.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Smut, and it's smut. And the Marriagers are getting by
just man own it. But everybody who goes to the
game against twenty percent off at Lover's Peg.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
But I was also told it was a lot.
Speaker 6 (36:49):
Of other teams around the United States have already done
these kind of nights about these smut books.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Okay, Well, the Manners seem to be.
Speaker 4 (36:57):
More family friendly than probably most ballparks, though I would think.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Yeah, I'd say you're right about that. I just want
to know where it ends. I'm just thinking, where does
it end? Where does it stop? I mean, if we're
starting off with smut books that you can buy on
line at the grocery store when you're checking out, because
everybody with their season tickets get a porn.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Hub basket worm. Now wondering where does it end?
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Because people are becoming more and more open about things
like this. I think we all agree on that, right.
Society is becoming more and more accepting of a lot
of stuff that back in the day would have freaked
you the hell out and your parents. By the way,
where does it end? Are we going to have a
naked night at T Mobile Park?
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Honestly? Where does it stop? Who's sponsor? Is Rick still around?
Speaker 5 (37:38):
Right?
Speaker 3 (37:39):
It's for Fremont Festival night.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Yes, isn't there a nude beach that there's a big
controversy locally about it a nude beach or whatever.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
Jackson, you've been there
Speaker 1 (37:49):
All right, We're gonna break Tony cashtre Cone joins next
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But man, I threw out a very unpopular opinion today
(00:25):
on social media, and I knew it was going to
be unpopular. I know that I'm in the minority. Although
Rich Moore reminded me of one potential problem with this,
and we'll talk about that in a second. So my tweet,
if you saw it four hours ago, I made a tweet.
I responded, extremely unpopular opinion. I love Friday Night. You
(00:45):
dub games. The more the better for me. I love it.
I think it's great. I think it's awesome on a
Friday night we're doing the show. May as well play
the damn game. Have a day off on a Saturday,
especially in October when the weather might still be okay.
By the way, you're the only game on TV at
that time. The entire country is watching you National TV
(01:06):
on Fox. I say, the more the merrier. I mean, hell,
if they wanted to switch you, duh, but have them
play every Friday and have high school football play on Saturday,
I'd say.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Go for it.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
So I know him in the minority, but I love
the Friday games.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Man, I'm with you because it's just an entirely selfish
position have right. So it's like, we get the opportunity,
we'll they'll do a little pregame, we'll head over to
the game, and then all Saturday long, you've got off.
I can go to golf tournaments, I can go to
basketball games. I can do whatever I need to do
and not spend all day at Husky Stage.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
And because I've already been there.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
The only problem is that it could be a Mariner
playoff game on both those nights, because it could be
on a Saturday. It could be, But it wasn't Game
five against the Tigers on a Friday night, that fourteen
inning game. I believe it was on a Friday night.
I gotta double check that, but I think that's correct.
But we've had two Husky games on crucial Mariner playof right.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
One was on a Saturday, right, the Arizona game we
played Houston for eighteen innings, and then the fifteen inning
game against Detroit.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Yeah, I think there's been more than that other Mariner
playoff games.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Although did you use the word crucial? Is that right?
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Well?
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Yeah, and recent recent crucial, Mayor, I don't think there
has there been any others.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
In two other Mariner playoff games that took place during
a Husky football game, which I'll be honest with you,
if there's a Marina playoff game in a Husky football
game going on, my priority is Marina baseball. It's the
much bigger event, right, I get it, you know, blah
blah blah.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
We're going to do our job, go to work.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
I tried to buy out of it, give you a
thousand bucks a couple of years ago. The boss said no,
I'm sorry, we'll try it again. I'm sure inflation has
made that price go up. Yes, But the point for
me is that that will be the absolute priority, and
it could be an issue on those Friday nights, one
of them is on the road. But here's the thing
for me, I kind of wonder if the Huskies chances
of winning the Iowa game just went up a little
(02:57):
bit because Iowa is hosting Ohio State the week before,
and then they got to jump on a plane and
come out here a day early to take on you
dub on Friday.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
So hard fought battle with the Buckeys. Whatever. I'm just
kind of throwing cliches out there. You get it.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Maybe they're beat up a little bit, maybe need an
extra day off to rest and recuperate. Ain't gonna get it. Boys,
Those farm boys better be ready because they got to
get ready with one extra day of rest to come
to Seattle after playing Ohio State.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Now, if we would have told Wilner this situation and
the situation was reversed and the Huskies played Iowa State
and then had to fly on a Friday night to Iowa,
guaranteed he would say that's a significant disadvantage from Dougs.
So when we ask him next week, we will see
if he says this is a significant disadvantage, because I
totally agree with you. But I do think that's the
(03:47):
one game at Husky Stadium, two defensive teams going up
against each other. Iowa was gonna want to play the
game in the teams. It's just gonna be one of
those thirteen to ten ugly slober knocker type games that
I think the Huskies pull out. But I think we're
all going to have this big eh at the end
of that game. I think that's how I go into
(04:08):
that game, just expecting it to be well.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
The thing about Iowa, man, I mean they had some
games last year. Now, they put up thirty eight against Rutgers,
they put up forty one against Minnesota, they put up
forty against Nebraska, twenty five against Penn State, thirty seven
against Wisconsin. I mean, there's obviously a chance that U
Dub's defense is better than all those teams this year
versus where they were last year. But Iowa wasn't playing
(04:33):
every game like that. What they were doing though, Dick,
is they were playing close games. Yes, right, It's like
every game Iowa plays, it's going to come down to
a driver to in the fourth quarter. So do I
like the fact that they've got to play Ohio State
and then come out here a day early to play
you Dub? I love that, But I wonder if we're alone,
totally alone in the Friday night thing. And I get
(04:55):
it for fans that are coming up here from the
Central part of the state, the eastern of the state,
driving up from Vancouver, whatever, fans that have kids in
high school that play high school football. It stinks, right,
It's terrible for fans like that. And you mentioned that
we're being selfish, and I totally agree. I mean, it's
an absolute selfish perspective for me to have. We're coming
(05:17):
to work. We're just replacing the show with the pregame,
the halftime, the postgame show, and then we got a
Saturday off on a nice night or a nice day
maybe in October, and go out and do whatever you
want to do. So it is a very selfish perspective
for me. But I love it, and I think the
more the merrier. But I can I understand how most
fans would hate a Friday night game because it's such
(05:39):
a pain in the ass to get to Seattle. Are
you talking about if it's a five o'clock start, even
a six o'clock start, getting in the car and driving
through rush hour traffic ticket to Husky Stadium. I mean,
it's brutal. I get it the way I would do
if I were you was get there. When I get there,
it's like noon.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
It's interesting because last yesterday we talked about the difference
between the general fan base and the students. I think
the students love this, right, it's my Friday night plans
are done. Yeah, I show to the game party afterwards,
they're on campus already, exactly. The general fans absolutely despise this.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Well.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
I mean, I think that I've tried to drive through
Seattle on a Saturday before a Husky game and it's awful.
And then Friday night, I mean, can we all agree
driving on Friday night in Seattle is much easier post
COVID than it was pre COVID because a lot of
people don't go in on Fridays, a lot of people
(06:34):
work from home on Fridays. I mean, the numbers are there,
like Wednesday is the busiest traffic day of the week
in Seattle, and then it trickles back down again.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Are you asking me again? What's the what's the What's
my claim.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Is that traffic is much and you could text four
nine four or five one. You're driving to work pre
COVID post COVID. Is Friday easier now or is it easier.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Time of day? Like rush? Yeah? Here?
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Let me I have come into town almost every Seturdaturday
for the last what's eight years, because of Sounders games,
and I rang it. I go in every single Saturday,
and I would say the Friday traffic is significantly worse.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
But you're not going through town. You're just going because
you're starting south and ending.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Yeah, but I go. I go all the way to
get off at Mercers.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
So I mean I experienced a lot of it from
the south, coming from the South end, and it's much
worse on Friday.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Looks I'm the wrong guy to ask, because I don't
mess with I five at all anymore. Where I live,
where you live, we don't have any ida like the
hell's going on on I five because we're not going
that way, right. I'll just say this that I don't
go to downtown Seattle very often anymore at all for anything.
Only time I would drive through downtown Seattle is if
(07:42):
I'm on I five going to Husky Stadium, for example,
or for some reason having to get to the North End.
I was going to run up to Milk Creek today
to see my pals up at Mill Creek Sports Cards,
and I looked at traffic about eleven thirty. It's an
hour to get there. I'm not doing that, not we'll
just pick a dude. But we'll just do that some
other time. And that's on a Friday afternoon. So I
have no idea, right, I just know this that there's
(08:06):
a lot of reasons to love a Friday night game,
and there's probably a lot of more reasons to not
love a Friday night game. But this is the new
world that we're living in, guys, and it's something that
you better embrace because college football and Huskies and the
Koog's and the doll the Ducks and the beefs, everybody
is going to be looking for brand new ways to
(08:27):
maximize revenue streams. And I wouldn't be surprised if down
the road we see the Huskies playing on a Tuesday
or a Wednesday night. Honestly, I mean, I think everything
is on the table for college football. So you text
us four nine, four or five won the idea of
a Friday night game. Hey, we got some good news
for the MS. By the way, Brendan Donovan is back.
Johnny Parada has been demolished or excuse me, demoted demolis.
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He's been demoted less to triple A Tacoma. Donovan's back,
leading off cal Raley behind the plate, Jared Kellnick hitting
seventh to night for the Chicago White Sox, Emerson Hancock,
Luis Castillo, Logan Gilbert over the weekend is I feel
like we're all kind of waiting to see what they
do with this rotation. It's like the number one Mariner story.
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Chuck's talking about it all day. Greg's talking about it,
Ian's talking about at The Times is constantly talking about
it on their Twitter page and their website, their newspaper,
the Mariner broadcasters are talking about it. It's like the
big story around Mariner Nation right now is what the
hell we're gonna do with Bryce Miller and Luis Castillo
when he comes back. But I will just say this
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that this is another example of why this should be
considered to be a World Series contender. And Jeff Passon
wrote a story today. I'm not sure if you saw
this Dick and Jackson for ESPN where he did a list.
I think it was five teams of teams that could
potentially dethrown the Dodgers, and the Mariners were one of
them because of their rotation, right, because of their depth,
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because of their bullpen when they're healthy and you don't
have how many teams in baseball would have this kind
of a problem where they would be bringing a guy
out of Triple A off the IL and having to
consider whether or not to put a guy of Luis
Castillo's talents in the bullpen.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
I know he hasn't pitched well lately. We all get
that he had the one great start against the Yankees
on Opening Day and kind of fell off the face
of the earth of the again. But I think a
lot of people are on baseball expect that at some
point in time Luis Castillo, maybe right, is.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Gonna bounce back.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
And the depth that these guys have, I mean, how
many times over the offseason did we say, you know what, it.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Doesn't feel like, Dick.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
They have the depth and the rotation they used to
have when they used to be seven or eight deep.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
It kind of feels like, maybe, all of a sudden,
now they do. Yes, they absolutely do.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
And I think I just love the split start idea
bringing Miller in after Luis. Luis has had a tough
time going deep into games. Heck, he's only gotten two
times where he's gone six or more. But I'm gonna
use your old Bryce Miller hairball. I mean you've used
it for Bryce Miller in the past. I know in
other pitchers.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Hancock two, Hancock two.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Luis Castillo has given up fourteen of his twenty four
earned runs and two starts. He has had two horrendous starts.
The last start I was at the game, I thought
he looked pretty good. That up and end swinging strike
three of ninety eight miles an hour that he I
don't remember who.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
He came it. It looked like Luis Castillo again.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
So I'm I'm holding out hope that the worst is
over for Luis Castillo and having Bryce Miller pitching behind him. Yeah,
you're not having to worry about him going deep into games.
He goes through two times for the rotation. Get him
on out of there.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Well, the problem is the other games that you're talking about.
He went three and two thirds and gave up three.
He went five and gave up two and put seven
guys on base in five innings, and then he put
eight runners on base in six innings and gave up four.
So I understand one of them.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Are now your Big Era game?
Speaker 1 (11:57):
No, no, no, all, no, I'm talking about the Royal
Game to the Royal Game.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Yeah, but he had.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
He had three ten base runners in five and a
third against San Diego. It's too many base runners, man,
That's been the problem for him, way too many base runners.
And I have generally been a Luis Castillo defender, but
I think you're being ridiculous if you can't just, you know,
be honest about what's going on, whether you're a fan
of somebody or not, whether you're a defender or a
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hater or whatever the hell you want to call it, it's
right in front of your face. I mean, the guys,
put we're we talking about fifty seven base runners on
in thirty four innings. I'm sorry, sixty if you include
hit batters, sixty base runners.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Guys, he's almost got a two whip. That is unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Right, So yeah, he had two games where he was
slaughtered by the Astros in Minnesota, but by Luis Castillo standards,
the other games weren't that great either. So this is
a big start for him this Saturday. If the Mariners
are waiting to see what Luis Castillo does this weekend
against Chicago, if there's ever been a reason to watch
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the Mariners in white sox in the middle of May
on a Saturday afternoon.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
It's this Saturday because of Luis Castilla. I mean, Luis.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Fooled me last year, and like George Bush used to say,
I'm not gonna get fooled again. Like I thought Luis
Castile was done. I thought he was done at the
end of August. He was horrible, right, and then he
was the Mariner's best picture. Yes, from the seventh of
September through the playoffs, he was the Mariner's best starting
pitcher when the you know what hit the fans. So
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I'm not gonna I'm not gonna throw in the towel on.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Luiss, of course, but they got to figure it out.
They're not going to a six man rotation. I would
be stunned. Stunned. I agree if they went to a
six man rotation. Now watch him go to a six
man rotation, But I would be shocked if that was
their decision. I think it's more likely they do what
Adam Jude was talking about, which is let him both
handle the game, right, Let let one guy be the
(13:54):
long reliever, let one guy be a starter, and maybe
it motivates Castile. He's got Bryce Miller's and they're ready. Hey,
we got a guy ready in the bullpen. Man, if
you get your you know what lit up, we can
just throw somebody else in there. You know what, You
keep his ass, you keep his his his bony ass
over there, because I'm going eight today.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
And if that motivates him, that awesome.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
All right, we're gonna break. We got a lot to
get to. Fun with Audio three forty five. Tony castro
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Speaker 2 (14:30):
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Speaker 1 (14:39):
All right, we're back and I'm busy Friday right here
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four o'clock today, Jared Kalnik in the lineup tonight for
the Chicago White Sox, Dick Fane's favorite ex Mariner superstar
uh in the in the lineup hitting seventh tonight for
(15:00):
Cago Was was it him and Logan Gilbert? I think
Jackson you and I went to the game against the Guardians.
Him and Logan Gilbert made their debut on the same day,
I think at T Mobile Park. Because you remember, before
Julio Is, Jared Kelnick was the hot shot. He was
going to be the big star from the minor NIGS system,
and then this kid named Julio Rodriguez behind him and
turned out for Julio, but not so much for Kellnick,
(15:21):
and I wonder kind of, you know, what did Mariner
fans think of his career here in Seattle. It's a
guy that played two hundred and fifty two games, hit
two oh four with a six fifty six ops, thirty two.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Home runs one hundred and nine.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Ribis obviously was a disappointment, right considering where we thought
he was going to be and his status as a prospect.
He was one of the top prospects in the Mets organization,
was one of the top prospects in the Mariners organization,
and it just never turned out. I mean, I kind
of find myself rooting for the guy a little bit.
You know, I don't know if you guys feel the
(15:56):
same way, but how do we remember the Jared Kelnick era?
I know how you feel simple for Dick. I Dick
would push him into traffic if he could. I know
how Dick feels, So you go first.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
I mean I always, I always revert back to the
opposite of love and hate is not the opposite of
each of those. It's indifference. I kind of just feel
indifferent to you know what, Like there was a period
where it was true hate, and it's just it's just
molded into this indifference because at the end of the day,
like if you we really go down the rabbit hole,
(16:29):
it's okay, well, you made that deal to dump Robinson
Cano's contract, but in that deal you also had to
give up your star closer, a star closer who's turned
into maybe over the last half decade, the best closer
in Major League baseball. Right, So if you if you
throw that in there, then I'm just going to go
back from indifference and get very angry again. And I
(16:50):
don't want to get very angry again, so I try
to forget.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
That, right, right. I just didn't like the attitude.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
It seemed like he came in with an air of guy,
my bleep does not stink, even though I have accomplished
zero in Major League baseball. And then when it, and
then it magnified because when the struggles started, the cockiness
turned into anger, right, and he just was always throwing
his helmet and he was always and you just culminated
(17:20):
with him kicking the freaking cooler and costing himself what
a month, a month and a half or whatever. It
was just like so to looking back at it now,
it's just disappointing, you know, back then it was irritating.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Now it's just disappointed.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Well, the deal that you're talking about, So repeat to me, Jackson,
because I want to make sure you have this right.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
The trade where they so we.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
Sent to Robinson Canoe and in return we got Jason
Bay I remember that was.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Right, Bruce swore Zak, Yeah, pretty much the same guys. Well,
I mean but Jay Bruce actually was a pretty decent player.
I mean, he was kind of towards the till of
his career, but he had some good years. So, I mean,
the trade itself actually kind of made sense. Like you
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had to give him twenty million to outpay for Canoe,
and that was the big thing.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
It was Robbie Canoe.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Robbie Cano cost them Edwin Diaz and Edwin Diaz Obviously
he's hurt now, But if Jared Kelnick ended up being
what people thought Jared Kelnick would have been, it would
have been unbelievable sense because he instantly became the Mariners
number two prospects when he showed up. It's like, really, okay,
so we got to get rid of Robbie Canoe.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
We got to pay twenty million bucks.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
It sucks that we have to get rid of Edwin Diaz,
but we're gonna get the mets number two or number
one prospect. He's our number two prospect whatever, And if
this pops, then phenomenal.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
But it just really didn't work out for anybody.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
And it worked out for the Mets with Diaz obviously,
but didn't work out for us at all.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
So the idea, if you will.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Dick, the theory behind the trade made total sense from
a Mariner perspective.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Yeah, I mean, I think at the time we were
excited about it. I think.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
So, I mean, it sucks you have to give up
somebody just to get rid of somebody else, but I
mean that's that's the way it goes right in here,
and when you want to free up a spot, I mean,
obviously Canoe couldn't play anymore right, and certainly couldn't play
at the level of his contract, and so they decided
to Zorenzic made his decision to pay him all that money.
And I'm not going to say the Cano deal backfired,
(19:30):
But was it a success?
Speaker 6 (19:33):
Wait?
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Wait the Canoe signing in the first place.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Well, yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
I mean, he had a he had a what was
his war his average war over five years, it's pretty good,
like four and a half five whatever it was. We
didn't go to the playoffs. Yeah, the eventual goal, which
wasn't his fault at all. That's like blam. I mean,
you know, Eachiro was here for how many years and
you know went to the playoffs one time? Not his fault, Felix,
(19:59):
not his fault. So I think you know, all those guys,
Kyle Seger, Robinson, Cano, all of them would be would
be looked at differently if they had been on playoff teams.
And they did their best in a lot of ways
to do that. But you know, Robbie Cano had he
had four years in Seattle, excuse me, five years in
Seattle where he had an eight thirty six, seven seventy nine,
eight eighty two, seven ninety one, eight forty five. Those
(20:22):
are numbers that he would beg for right now?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Are you kidding me? You'd cut your hand off fun
for numbers like that.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
The day we signed Robinson Cano, remember the same thing
that happened that same morning. I think it was the
same hour. It was, like in the ten o'clock hour
that we signed Robinson Cano. The news came out. Either
of you remember.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Twenty fourteen morning, the exact where it was like this,
remind us, I believe it was Chris Peterson happened the
ex same morning.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Okay, well, Robbie Canoe.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Yeah, Robbie Cano made three All Star Games and finished
in the top ten of the MVP twice when he
was here.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
I would I would.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
I would agree with Dick a little bit, a little
bit that I think it was slightly underwhelming, slightly when
you got Robinson Canoe as a free agent and signed
him to that massive, fat contract. I think we expected
maybe a dominant, dominant player, MVP candidate every baseball he was,
(21:19):
but he was also thirty one and the and we
knew when they got him that they had to overpay
to get him, right. I remember saying that on the
air that we had to overpay to get Robinson Canoe.
But that is it is interesting how all this comes
back full circle tonight, and I guarantee him there's gonna
be people Dick flipping the game on and Jared Kalenick
hitting seventh Gode God really remember played for the White
(21:43):
Socks better five year.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Run as a mayor Robinson, Adrian.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Beltra, Adrian Beltray. I think Adrian Beltra close.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
That was my gut right, but Robinson Canoe's war was better.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Yeah, but can you basically just done war though, according
to Brett Boone, not yeah, you can't. Yeah, I mean
I'd have to go back and think about it. My
first reaction is Adrian Beltray, just because I remember Adrian
Beltray throwing guys out from his ass at third base.
I mean, he was unbelievable so good at third base.
I mean him and two guys I think were amongst
(22:21):
the best I ever saw here were him and David
Bell in Seattle, and they were both phenomenal. Difference between
Belchray and David Bell's that David Bell playing the team
that won one hundred and sixteen games in two thousand
and one. So I don't know, man, I mean I
think all these guys. You know, Adrian Beltray was twenty
six when the Mariners got him. He had that one
(22:41):
year where he had forty eight home runs and one
hundred and twenty one ribis with the Dodgers, finished number
two in the MVP race. They brought him in with
Richie Sexton and he never came close to putting up
those numbers again.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
And I think that was that they put up in
LA and it was a safeg field thing because you
look at what Adrian did in Texas after he left Seattle.
That's just thirty two, thirty six thirty months. Yet thirty
or more four times. He never did it once in Seattle,
and instead he's doing it when he's in his mid
to late thirties.
Speaker 6 (23:08):
Did he win a World Series for Boston and like
the twenty ten a year after he left us? Yeout
those Yeah, I mean, look, the guy's a Hall of Famer.
I mean, he's an unbelievable player. He just never got
a chance to do it in Seattle, partially because it's
hard to hit here and the team stunk. He's on
the all what could have been team, right, Felix Hernandez
is on that team Beltray's on that team, Robinson Cano
(23:30):
and Seattle, Kyle Sieger.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
I know, Dickle Likextebus.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Kyle Seeger's balls a lot on this radio show, top
five in war all time in franchise history. If he
was surrounded by better players, and Kyle Sieger had fifteen
cracks at a playoff game, if Felix Hernandez was surrounded
by better players and had eight postseason starts, you imagine
Felix and his prime on the mound in game seven
(23:54):
of an ALCS.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Oh, I mean, dude, I would like Kyle Sieger a
lot more if he was playing thirddays the last couple
of years on this team going to playoffs than if
what he was doing on those teams.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
So do you what do you mean?
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Well?
Speaker 4 (24:06):
I just think I don't because Kyle Seger was the
center point of those losing teams. So I kind of
like directed my ire at him, like we're paying you
one hundred million dollars and you're doing this and the
team's doing this. Whereas if he is on this team,
if he's playing third base and this year last year,
I'd have to go back and look at.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
The number if he was putting up the exact same
numbers right for the Mariners of the last few years
that he put up. When you hated him, I'm wondering,
does that mean that you're iman admitting I'd hate him less.
There's no question I'd hate him less.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
You're saying that this team would not be relying on
him like those teams did.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Is correct.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
And then also the problem with Seeger is that once
he got the deal, he was not good like he
was good before he got the deal, like all of
his three, four and five and six the war seasons
were before he got one hundred million dollars.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Because he was thirty years old. Yeah, I mean he
became old he got thirty. I mean, look at thirty,
thirty one, thirty two, thirty three, look at twenty nine
and younger, look at thirty and later he declined, right,
So I mean that happens a lot in baseball. That's
why I love having guys on free agent contracts. Look
at Josh Naylor last year. For God's sakes. I mean,
(25:23):
if they trade for Josh Naylor last season and he's
got let's say he's got two years left on his
deal versus becoming a free agent, does he do what
he did last September and August. Maybe maybe not. I
just love motivated guys. I love seeing guys that are fighting.
Kenny Walker, Holy crap, right, you saw it right in
front of your face. We're gonna break a little funnel
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Speaker 1 (26:15):
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ay Dick, did you happen to hear that?
Speaker 3 (26:33):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Dis skip Bailists made his return to ESPN's first take
with Stephen A. Smith this morning. Did you watch live?
Did you watch live? Did you watch live?
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Minutes?
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Okay, I did not watch live. This is the first
clip I'm hearing from this. By the way, took less
than two minutes for the guys to start the Lebron James,
NBA and NBA goat topic here.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
I address for a funeral, your funeral, but it would
be your funeral, It would be it would be your funeral.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
I was the driving force of this show back in
its early days.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
I pushed to.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
Have this man be my permanent partner. In twenty twelve,
you did, and after I left in twenty sixteen, this
man became the driving force of this show. And I
just want to say, you've done a great job with it,
and I do love you, love you too, but but.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
But yeah, exactly. The pleasant trees are now over.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
You've already elevated Lebron James all the way up to
number two on your all time list. Okay, I have
him met nine.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Oh my phenomenal. Even Lebron haters have him at two.
What did you see? The the eight guys in front
of Lebron. I did, okay, I did. I mean, is
it so ridiculous? Uh yeah, okay, yeah, I think it is.
Speaker 7 (27:53):
I think it is.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Well.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
One thing that drives me nuts about the Lebron debate.
It's like he's the greatest score in the history of
the NBA. Well so was career, and nobody ever said
Kareem is number one. You want to talk about dominant.
Will Chamberlain is the most dominant player that's ever played
in the NBA, and nobody ever talks about Will being
the greatest player of all time in the history of
the NBA.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
So this is what we talked about the Aaron A. Jackson.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
The Lebron conversation has gone from let's talk about how
great he is and his career too, let's talk about
what other people think about Lebron versus our opinion about Lebron,
and it's freaking tiresome.
Speaker 6 (28:31):
I'm kind of getting We played the clip not because
it's Lebron, because it's Skip Bayless and stephen A, but
like the phone with audio clips about people debating Lebron, Dick,
I know, you send me a bunch of them.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
It's gotta stop. It's what people think of the Leberal.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
It's a timing thing, right, this is the time when
Lebron James is trying to carry his team single handing
in the playoffs. We don't send those to you other
months of the year. I never send you.
Speaker 6 (29:01):
The exactly It's not we, it's you, Okay, I mean question,
it's topical.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Right now, here's the question. Do you send him clips
of look? Because just peek behind the curtain here. The
way we do things is that every now and then
Jackson will grab a clip or two.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
But for the most part, is that fair to say?
Do you say no, it's about to play half and half?
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Okay, so you think maybe thirty three percent apiece whatever.
We're all chipping in here with fell of audio. But we,
Dick and I do send you a lot of audio.
For the second, does he ever send you a clip
from somebody criticizing Lebron James.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
I'd have to go back in our messages. I'm gonna
have to go slide back into the DMS and look
at it.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
There.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Are you the bag Dad Bob for Lebron James Incorporated?
Are you minister of propaganda? There's no question about that.
But I'm just trying to think of, like.
Speaker 6 (29:52):
Because you also send me the Mike Breen one saying
that Lebron could do this for another nine years.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
And never played that didn't play that one play? What
send him one of somebody ripping Lebron James. That's what
I want to Okay, I'll find, I'll find just just
di di dip your toe in that one.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Everybody is.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
What's nice is that everybody now around the country hates okay,
see nearly as much as we do for just this
ridiculous officiating they're getting in the first two games.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
That's been the big story for Lebron right now, of course,
but that'll come to an end in about eight quarters
from now, Biro, that's almost over. You doesn't kind of
like him in Game three with the points though, yeah,
the points, I do. I don't see him winning a
game in the series problem at all.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
I mean, look, what.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Lebron James is doing right now is amazing, and people
should be talking about how good he is at the
age of forty one. That's why I'm sending to Jackson
right Instead, it's everybody bitching about everybody else and what
they think about Lebron, and it is a little tiresome.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
All right, anyway, whatever, here we go. All right, Dick,
you happen to hear that? What's that? Dick?
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Former Sea receiver TJ. Huschman Zada out of, out of
She's oh close. Joining Emmanuel Acho's Speakeasy podcast this week,
shared this take on the Mike Rabel Diana Rossini.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Drama, Like they were dating that long.
Speaker 7 (31:20):
That's his girlfriend, and that's a decision that he made
and she also made.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
They are both married, and they.
Speaker 7 (31:30):
Chose, Okay, you're gonna be my lady.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Are Yeah, you're gonna be my man. That's what they
chose to do.
Speaker 7 (31:37):
Now, the report said shortly thereafter she gave birth. It
wouldn't surprise me if that's his baby now, but yeah,
that was, she was his girlfriend.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Oh god, dude, it's unbelievable. I told you the other day.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
I can't think of a sports relationship that's been this
on the four front of everybody's mind, Like, Whin's the
last one?
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Well, she's going to talk at some point, right, at
some point. That might be a year from now, but
at some point she's going to talk, And if she's smart,
she's gonna make a lot of money off that interview
with whoever it is, whether barstool sixty minutes sixty exactly,
a major network ESPN, Somebody's gonna pay her millions of
(32:24):
dollars to have that conversation.
Speaker 7 (32:27):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
The shoe that I'm waiting to hear drop is what
is going on with Rabel's wife and Rassini's husband, because
we haven't heard from either one of them, and it's
starting to get into a tabloid style drama.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Is it not right? But I'm just saying, it just
feels kind of like gross. Now, yes, right, yes, because
but I agree with TJ, like, right, she's obviously not
hiding it.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
If she's going to public places with him, she's not
hiding it.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
So I think he's right.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
So we are we are moving on from the there's
no way they're just friends.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Yeah, I'm without moving away from it. But it's interesting
because we've been.
Speaker 6 (33:06):
Everybody's calling in an affair, and Dick, I think you're right.
I think TJ's right. It's not an affair when you're
just openly dating. You're you're the girlfriend.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
You're at bars, you're at pools with other people that
have cell phones.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Every one of them has a video camera. Attached to
their hip.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
That's why I asked the question, are we moving on
from the idea that they're just really good friends, because
if they are doing all that stuff and they don't
want anyone to know about it, then they're as dumb
as the day as long. I mean, because I guarantee
you there's more. I mean this, The creepy part about
this Jackson and Dick in some ways is that there's
a group of people apparently that are sitting on mountains
(33:43):
of evidence that they just aren't waiting to reveal at
the right time.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
Is it just going to continue to trickle out?
Speaker 1 (33:50):
You think there was a radio from nineteen ninety eight,
here's a picture from twenty ten.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
I mean, here's the two of them.
Speaker 6 (33:55):
I don't I hate, I hate to call anybody really
stupid out right, but like you're having this relationship with
Rabel and then you and then after the relationship of
slash affair begins, you name your kid Mike.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Well, I don't know, dude.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
I mean, it's just people have made up their minds
about this, and there's no convincing anybody, and they're gonna
lose the benefit of every doubt, every single one I mean,
whether it's fair, unfair, right, whether it's reality, whether what
we think is happening is actually happening, it doesn't even matter.
I mean, it's just it's so far gone right, so
far gone? God, God, are we got time for one more?
Let's follow you to the nerd not How dick did
(34:37):
you happen to hear that the Angels beat the White
Sox four to three this week thanks to Mike Trout
and Zach Needo both homering.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Nito La shortstop and a total Nerd.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Spoke after the game Jackson's words about the confidence, yes
that he and Trout had going into Tuesday's game.
Speaker 8 (34:53):
I don't think anybody was happier than Mike Trout sitting
next to you in the dugout.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
What do you say? Oh man, he.
Speaker 8 (34:58):
Teks me this morning about ripping Pokemon cards and that
if we found a chars Ar that was going to
hit a homer, and we did so, and we both
hit a homer.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
So I was pretty cool.
Speaker 8 (35:07):
But uh, you know, just a little things to get
my head out of baseball a little bit, you know,
sometimes that's what you need. And uh, you know, I
was able to come through.
Speaker 5 (35:14):
Well thanks to the Pokemon cards and your talent.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Thanks at the time. That's right, thanks Charsar. So he's
obviously saying this in front of the stadium. What are
I don't know?
Speaker 6 (35:22):
And you know what, it's probably of the the original series.
It's like the best Pokemon card.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Have you noticed?
Speaker 4 (35:28):
Like normally when they're doing a interview in front of
the stadium, people.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Are like clapping.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
I think the stadium's like, what the hell did he
just what language did he just speak?
Speaker 1 (35:39):
I know that there's a thing in Major League Baseball
clubhouses about Pokemon cards. It's been going on for a
long time. Pokemon has been around for a while, right, like, yeah,
it's been around forever. I remember dudes in the clubhouse
in the early two thousands getting into Pokemon really. Oh yeah, dude,
you'll be surprised, Jackson, the amount of time baseball players
have on their hands, they get into some really unique
(36:00):
and weird, stuffy I'll tell you guys already, some of
which I can't share on the radio show.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
I have a big I have a big stuff.
Speaker 4 (36:06):
They're celebrating at the Mariners game in August. What's that
called again, Oh?
Speaker 3 (36:09):
The perverb Book. No, it's fourth Wing the Fourth Wing. Yeah, yeah,
they get into that too. Is it still happening? Yes?
Speaker 6 (36:17):
And I did consult a couple people outside about Fourth Wing,
including a buddy of mine whose wife actually writes these
kind of novels. My wife's looking, my my friend's wife,
Lauren writes these kind of books. And Fourth Wing is
one hundred percent that kind of smut.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Smut, and it's smut. And the Marriagers are getting by
just man own it. But everybody who goes to the
game against twenty percent off at Lover's Peg.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
But I was also told it was a lot.
Speaker 6 (36:49):
Of other teams around the United States have already done
these kind of nights about these smut books.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Okay, Well, the Manners seem to be.
Speaker 4 (36:57):
More family friendly than probably most ballparks, though I would think.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Yeah, I'd say you're right about that. I just want
to know where it ends. I'm just thinking, where does
it end? Where does it stop? I mean, if we're
starting off with smut books that you can buy on
line at the grocery store when you're checking out, because
everybody with their season tickets get a porn.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Hub basket worm. Now wondering where does it end?
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Because people are becoming more and more open about things
like this. I think we all agree on that, right.
Society is becoming more and more accepting of a lot
of stuff that back in the day would have freaked
you the hell out and your parents. By the way,
where does it end? Are we going to have a
naked night at T Mobile Park?
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Honestly? Where does it stop? Who's sponsor? Is Rick still around?
Speaker 5 (37:38):
Right?
Speaker 3 (37:39):
It's for Fremont Festival night.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Yes, isn't there a nude beach that there's a big
controversy locally about it a nude beach or whatever.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
Jackson, you've been there
Speaker 1 (37:49):
All right, We're gonna break Tony cashtre Cone joins next
on ninety three to three KJRFM.
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