Furness Show 10-17: Greg Cosell, Danny O'Neil, Mariners Roundtable

Greg Cosell from NFL Films joins the show to talk about what the film says about Seattle's defense against Jacksonville and looks ahead to Houston on MNF.  Danny O'Neil from The Dang Apostrophe joins the show to talk about the feeling around Seattle as it's now 2-2 in the ALCS.  We hear your talkback messages about your feelings with the Mariners and Blue Jays tied in the ALCS.  Mariners roundtable with Ian, Softy, Chuck, and Bucky: what are we feeling right now as we're down to a 3 game series to go to the World Series between the Mariners and Blue Jays.  More talkbacks and Fact or Fiction.  Softy joins for cross talk.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
Headlines headlines right to by Frost Brod cores light, choose chill.
This is really simple and make this quick as hard
headlines go, because really what matters is what's happening across
the street at Tea Mobile Park. We are live at
Jimmy's on first game five, ALCS tied to two games apiece.
Biggest change for today for the Marriors, who start Bryce Miller,
is this who Eio Rodriguez will bat lead off today?

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As opposed to Randi or Rosna in his career batting
first in a game? Whoio Rodriguez one hundred and twenty
seven played appearances not a small sample size anders three
eighty seven, four five seven, fourteen, one point one three
nine ops in those situations.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
I think it's pretty good.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Numbers are fairly similar when just batting first overall in
his career. Julio leads off today, Bryce Miller takes them out.
Kevin Gossman the other side, tied to two games apiece.
All right, Husky s tomorrow morning, nine am taking on
Michigan pregame six o'clock Right here in ninety three point
three KJRFM.

Speaker 4 (01:06):
Bidblo game for both teams.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Washington has a chance to climb into the college football
playoff conversation if they get a win tomorrow and starting
and getting on a little continue their heater here, so
we'll see what happens when again tomorrow morning, early game.
Kraken are still unbeaten in regulation. They lost in a
shootout yesterday, which is a bummer. But take a look
at this two to zero to two. One of six
teams in the NHL that's unbeaten in regulation, six out

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of a possible eight points playing all playoff teams. So far,
they're a better hockey team. They next take on Toronto.
Oh oh weird Toronto in Toronto. That's tomorrow, four o'clock,
three to thirty pre game right here in ninty three
point three KJRFM. By the way, NLCS almost over now,
Dodgers lead three games and nine Great Cosel coming up
in a second. We've got Chuck and Softy At two

(01:50):
o'clock today, a little mariner, a round table, Daniel O'Neil
talking all things mirrors at one thirty.

Speaker 4 (01:55):
Here's what I want from you guys. All I heard.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
I listened to the postgame show last night with Chuck
and Buck. I listened to the postcast with you and
Crawford yesterday. Anders Yep. I've been here at Jimmy since
ten thirty this morning. People are losing their mind. You
want to vent or you want to say relax to people.
I don't care, Mariner fans. I want to hear from you.
Get on the talkback line. We want to hear from you.
At one forty five. All you have to do is

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go to the iHeartRadio app, the red microphone. You'd say
what you want to say. Scream, yell, holler, or say
hey man, it's okay, it's too too. Whatever you're feeling,
this is the time to hear from you, Mariner fans.

Speaker 4 (02:30):
One forty five today, talk back Mike. Away we go.
Let's talk Seahawks football with Greg co Sel.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
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Speaker 2 (02:49):
All right, here we go, Jimmy's on first hanging out today.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
What a great Dave listen. A lot of baseball coming
up today.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Let me just quickly tease the show again because Greg
cosel is with us, as you just heard. Coming up,
we're gonna get to Danny O'Neil at one thirty talking
Mariners one. We want to hear from you. Send in
your thoughts where you're at right now. This is a
very softy like topic two to two series, the last
two losses here at home. Mariner fans want to hear
from you. Go to the iHeartRadio app, the red microphone

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fire away and give us your thoughts. Stressed, pissed, excited,
still confident, Give me your feelings, Mariner fans, iHeartRadio App,
Red Microphone nine three point three KJFM. We'll do some talkbacks.
Andrews coming up at one forty five, but without further ado.
He's with us right now. No game on Sunday. We've
got to wait till Monday for the Seahawks and the Texans.

Speaker 4 (03:38):
It is the great Greg Cosell. Oh, Greg, how are
you Ian?

Speaker 5 (03:42):
How are you God?

Speaker 4 (03:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (03:43):
That's right, I forgot it's Monday night football this week. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
Yeah, we have and what we're really hoping for in
Seattle because We're not good here, Greg at multitasking, Like,
we're not good at multitasking at all. What we need
is a Mariner win tonight and a Mariner win on Sunday,
and then we can focus on Monday night football on Monday.
Because I know this Andrews backed me up. Is there
any chance that this town can multitask and do all

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those things at once on Monday?

Speaker 4 (04:10):
Absolutely no chance.

Speaker 5 (04:13):
A game second, it would be Monday as well. Game
seven is Monday.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
Yeah, yes, it would be earlier. It would probably be
what a five o'clock game, I think, Yeah, five o'clock
hard time, Yeah, five o'clock Pacific, and then seven o'clock
Pacific is the Seahawks game right next door where Jimmy's
on first right next door over there at lumin Field, Greg.

Speaker 5 (04:31):
So yeah, yeah, wow, yeah, see what happens.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
That's what big markets do. You you're in Philadelphia, you
know big markets do that. You have lots of things
going on at once. We're just not used to it here,
that's all.

Speaker 4 (04:40):
That's all.

Speaker 5 (04:42):
Yeah, but this is a good thing to be used to.
You know, you got the Mariners and then you got
the Seahawks playing really good football.

Speaker 4 (04:47):
I'm with you, all right, let me get into the Hawks.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
First of all, they go to Jacksonville get a big
win last week, Greg and the defense, which we talked
about a lot last week at Nauseaum about what their
struggles against Baker Mayfield and the Bucks. That defense last
this week really pretty much shut down Trevor Lawrence and
Jacksonville even without some key guys in that secondary.

Speaker 4 (05:06):
What did you see from that Seahawk defense?

Speaker 5 (05:09):
Yeah, I think the D line was the really dominating
four seen because they did not blitz very much at all.
They only rushed five or more on eight of Trevor
Lawrence's fifty dropbacks. That is a very low percentage of
blitz pressure. The other forty two were four man D
line pass rushers. For the most part. There was a

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sim pressure thrown in here or there, but they really
generated a high pressure rate. I mean they and that
increased dramatically on third down. The D line really generated
a ton of pressure on Trevor Lawrence and you saw
what happened. The Jaguars were awful on third down. They
were four for sixteen and it was just a really

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really strong performance. They stunted effectively at times, they had sacks,
a couple of sacks where the stunts were really effective.

Speaker 4 (05:59):
It was just it was one of those.

Speaker 5 (06:01):
Performances by a d line that you hope you can
get almost every week because now you can keep seven
in coverage and then you feel that the numbers game
benefits you.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
Greg, I don't think we've mentioned this guy's name since
they signed him, brought him in in the spring, and
obviously he's been hurt quite a bit, but you know
you've watched him for many, many years.

Speaker 4 (06:21):
Trevor Lawrence is now a Seahawk. I'm not sure. I'm sorry,
DeMarcus Lawrence, this is a Sewk.

Speaker 5 (06:28):
I thought you were giving me a scoop there, and
I'm like, did I just miss something?

Speaker 4 (06:31):
I don't know. What does he do for this team
that on that edge?

Speaker 5 (06:37):
Well, first of all, he's very, very good in the
run game. You know, he understands how to set the edge.
He understands how to play run defense. And that's all
off and overlooked when you talk about defensive ends because
we all think about how many sacks does he have?
But he's a really good He's one of those technique players.
You know, he understands the fundamentals of the position. He understands,

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you know, to go back to the old Bill Belichick saying,
you know, do your job. He's one of those guys.
But he can rush the quarterback. I mean he did
have that sack on third and nine to late in
the first half. That came out of a stun concept
where we saw Williams with a strong push. He was
the penetrator.

Speaker 4 (07:16):
Lawrence was the.

Speaker 5 (07:19):
The looper, I believe, and Lawrence ran him down. Lawrence
ran down Lawrence, as it were. But DeMarcus Lawrence is
just a really, really good player. Not the same pass
rusher he was years ago, but just a really solid
football player.

Speaker 4 (07:32):
Did you like that, scoop, I gave you Lawrence for
Lawrence here? Did you like that? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (07:36):
The other guy who needs to be talked about, and
this is what they hoped when they drafted him. You know,
the second defensive player drafted a year ago is Byron Murphy.
He's starting to really play well. I mean, he's becoming
disruptive as an inside pass rusher in he's starting to
more consistently show the quickness off the ball and threw
the rush that defined his tape in college. When I

(07:58):
you know I did him in great detail when he
came out, and I thought this guy would be a
really good pro. And obviously his rookie season was hampered
by some injuries. We couldn't really get to see him
play with the traits that we saw in college. And
now that's really starting to show up.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
You know, we've been doing this for a long time.
When that was on that that was my next question
for you. It was Byron Murphy like, that's that's that's
how I know you and I've been doing this for
a while.

Speaker 5 (08:20):
You you mean I'm thinking, like you, I better get
a check out.

Speaker 4 (08:25):
Yeah, I would.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
I would schedule that as ap because I got baseball, hockey,
and football on my mind right now.

Speaker 4 (08:31):
I'm all over the place.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
But I want to go back to Murphy for a
second because now the first sack, I think, you know,
Lawrence held the ball for like six seconds, like six
and a half seconds on that full sack. But what
are specifically like when we when we talked about Murphy
before and then after the draft last year, and you
mentioned like he had those injuries, he was never really
I'm guessing never fully healthy last season. He's got a
lot on his plate right now. Premature baby just came

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and and yet he comes out and has that type
of game. What is it that separates him from other
What is it that really separated him from other guys
last year? And why do you think it take besides injuries,
takes a little bit of time for some of these
d linemen really make an impact.

Speaker 5 (09:07):
Well, I think just the transition from the fact that
it's college football now you're playing against grown men. But
what he has is that combination for his body type
because he's not tall, as you know, he has tremendous
foot quickness for that body type you normally don't see.
And I'm not gonna sit here and say he's Aaron Donald,
that's silly, But I mean, he has that tremendous foot

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quickness for a man who's built like that, and therefore
he can play low and generate power, you know, because
you know, power is one of those things that you know,
what is the saying in football you have to be
lower than the guy you're playing against. And he's naturally
lower than the guy he's playing against. So he has
really great foot quickness combined with power. That's why he

(09:48):
was viewed. Look, I remembered the draft last year. I
don't make lists, as you know, but I know there
are a lot of people who thought he was the
best non quarterback prospect in the draft, and he was
a really good price aspect because of his combination of traits. Now,
I don't know where you're going next, but there's another
guy who you know that I really liked coming out,
and now that he's healthy, he is a major factor

(10:10):
in this defense. And you can probably you can probably
say the name without me having to, and then we
can talk about him.

Speaker 4 (10:17):
Nick Emon Worri. You got it, and you see now.

Speaker 6 (10:22):
What he is.

Speaker 5 (10:23):
I mean, I thought he was the best safety prospect
coming out. He's so multi dimensional. He's essentially their slot corner,
which you know, he's their nickel, and he can do
all that. And now that he's fully healthy, you're seeing
just how multiple he is in what he can do.

Speaker 4 (10:40):
And you see that.

Speaker 5 (10:41):
You know, Mike McDonald had experience with that with Kyle
Hamilton in Baltimore, and I think him and Orri is
somewhat of a similar player. And you know, just length, movement,
can do a lot of different things. You can line
him up anywhere, and I think, you know, we talked
about this before the season when we started, before he
got hurt, and I think he's just a key and

(11:03):
absolute key to what they can do going forward with
this defense.

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Speaker 4 (11:18):
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Speaker 2 (11:23):
They got food before the game just south of the stadium,
so good place to stop before the game. Greg, let's
what are the Seahawks defense? We just talked about what
are they gonna see in and CJ. Stroud in that
Texans offense?

Speaker 5 (11:33):
Well, you know, it's funny. Every week's a different week,
as you know, so you don't want to sit here
and say, oh boy, the Texans O line hasn't played great,
which they haven't, so therefore the Seahawks are going to
do the same thing. Now, Ian they could do the
same thing, I mean, because they're better than the O
line they're playing against. But you know, the coaching staff
for the Texans knows that too, so we'll see how
the Texans choose to come out. They've not been able

(11:55):
to run the ball very well until they had their
get well game against the Tennessee Titan, you know, and
again the Titans are not a very good football team.
The Texans had really struggled with pass protection Stroud. You know,
you know what it's like if your quarterback is under
a lot of pressure. It's just human nature. No matter
how good you are or how great you are in

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the pocket, and Stroud is a pure pocket quarterback, you
start to anticipate that you're going to be pressured. So
therefore you start to perceive that it's going to be
there before it's there. You want to make sure, if
you're the Seahawks and Seahawks fans, that you feel that
you can get Stroud to play like that early. You
can get him playing fast. That's the term we often
use that your quarterbacks just start to play fast, which

(12:38):
means that physically they play fast and then mentally they
slow down. That's sort of the way it works. If
you start playing fast physically, you start playing slower mentally.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
All right, I believe that Sam dartled and that Seahawks
offense are going to have a pretty big test against
that Texans defense.

Speaker 5 (12:55):
Yes, yeah, this is a really good defense. That's the
strength here is a really really good defense. They play
a high percentage of nickel because of Jalen Petrie. You know,
he is in a sense a totally different player, but
he's there. Nick Vinari, he doesn't come off the field,
even though he's not a pure corner, you know, just
like Evin Wori is not a pure corner. He doesn't

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come off the field. So they're a high percentage nickel defense.
You know, you've got to be able to protect against
those two edged players. Ian I mean, Will Anderson is
a top three speed to power pass rusher in this league.
You know, both Charles Cross and Abe Lucas they better
be prepared to set a firm base and be strong
because Anderson will run right through you.

Speaker 4 (13:37):
The deal.

Speaker 5 (13:38):
Danelle Hunter is a little different. He can be speed
to power on occasion, but he's a little bendier. He's
a little more flexible. You know, he can have more moves,
so to speak. But you have to block those two guys. Now,
the question is are they going to field? They have
to keep people in to do that or can they
do one on one pass protection with Lucas and Cross,

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which you'd love to be able to do.

Speaker 4 (14:02):
I feel like Lucas has struggled this year, Am I
right in that regard?

Speaker 2 (14:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (14:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (14:07):
And Cross has been very good. I mean, yeah, that's funny.
You know, we talked about Cross in previous years and
he had struggled, and this year I think he's played
his best football. And Lucas I think has had some
tough snaps and some tough reps.

Speaker 4 (14:20):
What is it with Lucas? Is it just the first step?
Is it? I mean, because he's boy.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
When he was healthy the last time, which was his
rookie year four years ago, it felt like he could
leave him on an island and he was a lead
out there. And I don't know if the injuries have
just caught up to him. He is healthy, like, as
far as I know, he's healthier than he's been since
that rookie year. But what do you see on tape
from Abe Lucas.

Speaker 5 (14:40):
I can tell the thing that they're going to absolutely
will have worked with him on this week, and you know,
being fortunate enough to go to a great event called
Olne master Minds and learning a lot about you know,
offensive tackle play. The thing you have to do is,
particularly if it's going to be you know, there's three
kinds of pass sets. There's short sets, there's forty five
degree sets, and there's vertical sets. Now, if you're talking

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about forty five degree in vertical sets, you must be
able to get to your spot and set a firm base.
If you get caught where you're still moving and you
don't have a firm base and you're playing against Will Anderson,
he is going to run through you. And he does
tend to line up more on that side of the
of the offense than the other side. So Lucas is

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going to see a lot of Will Anderson. And I
guarantee that Will Anderson is I'm not nobody in the
NFL thinks, oh, this week is going to be easy.
It's the NFL play. You know, every coach has never
talked like that. They ingrain that in players. But I
guarantee Will Anderson believes, based on tape study, that he
can have some really good reps against a Lucas. If
Lucas he needs to set that firm base. You know,

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the term they use is you got to set your house.
If he doesn't set his house before Anderson gets into
his chest, he's going to get driven back.

Speaker 2 (15:51):
I wonder the running the football saying we talk about
a lot, and Mike McDonald said on Thursday Greg that
he's still kind of backed up his their philosophy of
still splitting reps with Sharbone and Walker much to the like,
I don't want to say chagrin, but I think a
lot of us kind of raise an eyebrow myself, a
lot of us on the air, Hugh Millen, You and

(16:13):
I have talked about that as well.

Speaker 4 (16:15):
I just I don't quite get what they're doing in
that regard.

Speaker 5 (16:18):
Well, you know, I've tried to study that in detail
when I watch each guy run, you know, and this
could is the only thing that I truly can come
up with. Okay, And maybe it's the answer, maybe it's not.
Kenneth Walker is a is a big play back, He's
a searcher. So what happens a lot if he doesn't
feel like the whole is clean, he bounces. So what

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happens a lot is instead of getting three or four
hard earned yards, which keep your offense on schedule and
open up your playbooks see that's the thing. Now you're
opening up your playbook. Charboneau has nowhere near the talent.
Charbone I guess its charmon Ague has nowhere near the talent.
But he will just hit it up in there, and
even though he doesn't look quick doing it, he might

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get two or three yards and all of a sudden
it's second and seven and not second and twelve. You know,
Walker does have that tendency now every once in a while.
Obviously he does get outside and you see the speed
and the juice and it looks really good. But I
would guess they're working with him on the fact that, hey,
you've got to hit it up in there. We want
those three yards. We don't want minus two, we want

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those three yards. And then there's a balance because the
thing with the running backs, and I've learned this from
coaches over the years, is you don't want to take
away their instincts. So you got to be careful about
how you deal with that, because you don't want him
to run robotically where he thinks, Okay, the play's designed
to hit this gap. I better just run into that
gap no matter what, because then you're taking away.

Speaker 2 (17:45):
His instincts all right, I'm gonna wrap it up before
I get to baseball, and back to baseball in Game five.
Here in a second, Greg, guy, we're here. Jimmy's on first.
I had a general question I thought of you last
night in this regard you. When we tell people that
have listened to you over the years with us, you
know this what you're You're not watching anything with any
subjective nature. You watch it as objectively as you can.

(18:06):
You watch a tape, and that's what you come up with.
I feel like I think a lot of it. This
is one of the strangest years in the National Football
League I can remember, and last night it was brought
home with a team that had one loss all year
to Seattle in Pittsburgh and the battle of the forty
year old quarterbacks and somehow Joe Flacco after being there,

(18:26):
you know, less than two calendar weeks, get to win
for Cincinnati. Greg, is this the strangest year you can
remember it a while? And again, that's a subjective question,
which you're not into. But I gotta ask you that anyway,
I thought of you last night.

Speaker 5 (18:38):
Well, I know when we shot the matchup show, sal
Pell had this stat about parody that it's been and
I don't remember the exact stat, but it's something like
the most in forty four years. It's some ridiculous stat.
But how about my buddy Joe Flackhall. You know, he's
right from South Jersey here, so I know Joe Jone's
going to be able to throw the ball like that
when he's fifty years old or sixty years old, gonna

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look exactly the same.

Speaker 2 (19:02):
That's what it's all about. Then, Oh my gosh, I mean,
but that's isn't it crazy? Like you? Part of it
is probably the injuries, right, there's a lot of key
injuries around the leage, quarterback injuries and so forth. I
think that probably changes that changes the dynamic. And we've
seen that, you know with our guy Sam Darnold, I mean,
a healthy Sam Darnold has made a massive difference here, right,
Like that's it's as simple as that, like Sam Darnld
being out by the difference.

Speaker 5 (19:22):
Just as a quick as side, it seems that Smith
and Jigg has done okay lining up outside.

Speaker 3 (19:27):
Huh, what.

Speaker 4 (19:32):
You're not saying?

Speaker 2 (19:32):
He's not saying that for me because I was never
the one that question that. But that was the thing
is like people, Oh, can he do this?

Speaker 4 (19:37):
Is he going to be? Can he play action?

Speaker 5 (19:39):
Can you all the same up on the outside on
eighty one of his offensive snaps this season? So I
guess it's it's kind of worked out, okay, when you
know when they signed a Cooper Cup and everybody got
all excited of what a terrible thing, and you know,
I told you how silly that was, And I think
it's kind of worked out.

Speaker 4 (19:53):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
That's why we have you on because we like to
hear when you tell people that they're silly. Not this host, obviously,
but others along the way outside of my break outside
my breaking news about a Lawrence coming to Seattle not
named DeMarcus.

Speaker 4 (20:05):
All right, Greg, you're absolutely the best.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
Thanks for joining us today on this baseball Friday for
us here at Jimmy's on first and we got Monday
night football.

Speaker 4 (20:15):
Can't wait. I know what you'll do.

Speaker 2 (20:16):
You'll tape it and watch it on Tuesday morning because
those eight thirty starts you don't like back east?

Speaker 7 (20:21):
Do you.

Speaker 4 (20:24):
Start your game? Oh gosh right, that's all right.

Speaker 5 (20:27):
Yeah, Well I've already had my milk and cookies and
I'm sleepy.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
What does the tape say on the milk and cookies
for Greg. Are we going chocolate chip? What are we
going with?

Speaker 4 (20:39):
That's what I want to know about. I'm a guy.
There you go. I love that. Greg, Thank you so much.
We'll talk to you soon, all right.

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sounds like in Seattle. Here, show your ugly faces a
triple for whatever, Danny. That's your friend, Dave softye mall

(22:15):
or that's what I recognize. I recognize the born. Hey, yeah,
these are with you. Go ahead, go ahead tell you Danny.
What's Upboddy?

Speaker 9 (22:25):
Not much?

Speaker 4 (22:25):
How are you softy?

Speaker 10 (22:27):
Uh?

Speaker 9 (22:27):
Well, I'm about to lose my voice, man, and it's
only one thirty, so I may have to take a
little bit of a time out.

Speaker 11 (22:33):
Is I was thinking of you because on Tuesday morning
it was about the best four days of sports that
I can remember for fellows like me.

Speaker 9 (22:42):
The Mirrors Yeah, won three playoff games.

Speaker 11 (22:45):
Devon Williams had thrown for four hundred, running for one
hundred with you and the audience Seahawks. The Seahawks had
beat the long Hair in Jackson, but what the hell happened?

Speaker 9 (22:56):
Wow, Well, here's the deal man, and you look. I'm
I'm trying to save my best stuff for three o'clock.
So I don't want to blow my entire wad right now.

Speaker 4 (23:04):
I was telling you, I don't want you to blow
your entire wad either. No, I know you don't. I
know you don't, all right, you know I like you,
but not that Well.

Speaker 9 (23:10):
So here's the thing, Danny. I don't know if there's
a game in Mariner history that could impact the Mariner
fan base mood quicker one way or the other to
an extreme the way this game will at three o'clock today.
We win this thing at three o'clock today, and we're
spending the next two days until Sunday night dreaming about
winning one game to go to the World Series.

Speaker 4 (23:31):
We lose this game today, there's.

Speaker 9 (23:33):
Not enough freaking pepto bismol for me to put into
my gut between now and Sunday night. So I don't
know if they've ever played a more impactful game, honestly,
in their team's history.

Speaker 12 (23:44):
The last two times they've been in the American League
Championship Series.

Speaker 9 (23:48):
They've been behind three to one.

Speaker 4 (23:49):
At this point.

Speaker 5 (23:50):
This is right.

Speaker 11 (23:50):
This is the best spot they've been in since nineteen
ninety five.

Speaker 4 (23:53):
And in nineteen ninety five.

Speaker 11 (23:54):
We're so hopped up off the double. They're in the
playoffs for the first time. We don't even realize how
special that was. But right now I agree with you
when this game and everything feels different.

Speaker 4 (24:05):
Yeah, no doubt.

Speaker 9 (24:06):
All right, I got some French fries to you, guys talking.
I'll talk to you at two o'clock. That's Dave Saftie Mahler.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
Yeah, Danny, there's some there's a level of I was
telling Anders off the air, I came here, calm, everything's fine.

Speaker 4 (24:21):
I'm feeling the.

Speaker 2 (24:22):
Stress now, man, this place is. There is a lot
of stress along Sodo right now.

Speaker 4 (24:27):
Man, it is.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
It's amazing how a few days can change the whole
dynamic of how we feel.

Speaker 9 (24:33):
Yeah, and there is something big.

Speaker 11 (24:36):
Basketball playoff series are the same way, where when they're
going you just overreact in the moment to each individual
result in a way that's different the NFL playoffs.

Speaker 9 (24:48):
You build up to one game and then you react
to it for an entire week.

Speaker 11 (24:52):
It's not the same sort of thing where here you've
had three straight days of playoff games, and I'm glad
to hear that there's excitement and that we don't have
The series is tied to two. However, you felt when
this series started in Toronto, there's no logical reason that
you should feel the Mariners have a worse chance now

(25:13):
than they did when this series started. When the series started,
they're in Toronto against a deep lineup with the Blue
Jays and their bullpens.

Speaker 4 (25:21):
Tax because of what happened against Detroit, they're not The.

Speaker 11 (25:24):
Pitching staff is more arrested, but that's not a concern
at this point. They're in as good as shape to
win this series as they were when it began.

Speaker 4 (25:32):
That's a no. And that's the thing, Danny.

Speaker 2 (25:34):
If they would have been down too oh came back
and won the last two and it's two two right now,
everyone would feel different. I'm glad you brought up the
difference between football and this because I think that's a
that's an important part of the puzzle here. You know
we are listen. You mentioned ninety five. I would almost
equate ninety five with what happened with the Kraken three
years ago, and from this standpoint, huh that that was

(25:56):
the first Those were the first seven game playoff series
that we had had since the heyday of the Sonics
in the in the late nineties early two thousands.

Speaker 4 (26:06):
We just we weren't used to it.

Speaker 2 (26:07):
Because the last playoff for the Mariners, they played one
home game best of you know, five down two notugh,
and they lose in eighteen. There was nothing like there
just wasn't that same excitement level, the stress of a
seven game And in ninety five, much like with the
crack of three years ago, it was new, right, it
was new. We're happy to be here, this is fun.
Let's just enjoy the ride. There's forty nine years of

(26:29):
a bleak history here, we're no success and so now
we're on the precipice of going to something we've never
seen before. That's called the World Series. And it was
so close, it felt like a few days ago, and
now it feels so far away. But Danny, one win today,
like Softy said, you win today. That feeling is back,

(26:51):
and it's.

Speaker 12 (26:52):
Why they say things like momentum in baseball isn't any
better than the next days starting pitcher I'm bummed at
what happened the last two nights and I'm disappointed, and
I'm surprised because I thought that the clear advantage the
Mariners had in this series was starting pitching, and that
should have been.

Speaker 4 (27:09):
Really true these past two games, and it wasn't. It wasn't.

Speaker 11 (27:13):
The Mariners got out pitched, and that's a huge, huge bummer.
But it doesn't tell us what's gonna happen tonight.

Speaker 12 (27:19):
And if the Mariners win tonight, I think they flip
back to being a team that even though they're going
back to Toronto, I like their chances of winning one
of the next two games if they're able to win tonight.

Speaker 4 (27:29):
So yeah, I would.

Speaker 11 (27:32):
I would agree with Softy that I'm gonna have a
hard time finding much optimism if.

Speaker 4 (27:37):
They don't win tonight, But if they do, I'm going
to feel just just as high as I did after
Game two. And that's the thing. It's just, it's it's
all the perception of the reality of the day to
day thing.

Speaker 2 (27:46):
In baseball, unlike any other sport, it can change, not
just in a game, it can change in an inning,
right like it can change in an inning. I our
good buddy Mike Benton. He's overcovering it for us as
our reporter across the street. He's watching Andrews was laughing
and Enters were laugh and he's he's watching VP. He's like,
oh my gosh, the Jay's are just hitting missiles right now.
There's I'm like, Mikey, it's batting practice.

Speaker 4 (28:09):
Relax.

Speaker 3 (28:11):
He's supposed to.

Speaker 9 (28:12):
Happen at batting practice.

Speaker 4 (28:13):
That's the whole purpose.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
It's the only the only thing that worries me is
what you said. And this is why I think it's
also just such a crazy you know, up and down
and ebb and flow. Seattle has the deciding, decided pitching
advantage in all but one game as far as the
starter in this series so far, and that's when they
threw Gossman. Well, all those games they just they're starting pitching.

(28:35):
Seattle's was awful. And guys that are like one hundred
years old, like Sure's are, or you know, their arms
are falling off, like Bieber just shut you down, like
how And and against guys that you think are just
gonna have this huge advantage. Now you've got Gospan against
Miller on paper advantage Toronto.

Speaker 4 (28:52):
That's why Seattle wins today, Danny, that's why they win.

Speaker 11 (28:58):
I heard someone else had a theory that what we
need to do is get back to complaining about the Manners,
because that's when they do best. Get we got a
little too optimistic and happy about him, and we need
to be demeaning.

Speaker 12 (29:09):
Them, which I honestly don't believe. But no, you're exactly
right about how the series has gone.

Speaker 11 (29:15):
Bieber had not pitched well, and sure there had been
got off it up until last.

Speaker 8 (29:20):
Night, and they went out and put on Vinci's performances.

Speaker 4 (29:23):
Hey, when Bryce Miller went out in.

Speaker 11 (29:25):
Game one, I thought, not just the way he pitched,
but how long he lasted changed the entire outlook of
the series.

Speaker 4 (29:33):
And I've now been I'm probably about seven hours into.

Speaker 8 (29:37):
Completely talking myself into the idea that when he went
on the DL and or the injured list and discovered
whatever tell he had that was going on and found
a couple extra miles of velocity, that it entirely.

Speaker 4 (29:48):
Changed and he's back to being like he was a
year ago. So I am optimistic.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
Which night's game daniel'neil joining us brought to my Northwest
handling systems. I would just I kind of look around,
first of all, and it's been ugly at times with
some stuff in the stands and things like that.

Speaker 4 (30:05):
There's another part of me that just loves the fact
is Toronto. I mean the two teams.

Speaker 2 (30:09):
I kind of wanted to see the Yankees, but now
the more I think of it, if you're not gonna
see the Astros in the Alcs, make it this team
with the fan base from north of the border, and
there are a ton I was talking a softy off there.

Speaker 4 (30:21):
There are a ton of Blue Jays fans here.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
I mean the get in price two days ago is
like three hundred plus dollars to sit in the upper
reaches of the upper deck in the corners. The get
in price today is less than hundred bucks. And I
think a lot of Blue Jay fans because it's not
a clincher from the merit for the Mariners, a lot
of Blue Jays fans and be able to buy tickets
on the secondary market. So the atmosphere is gonna be
a little different today. But again it's it's one inning,
Like one inning can flip an entire baseball series, can't it?

Speaker 12 (30:45):
Yes, it can, And really it's just a matter of
going out and putting up a couple of runs early
and it's not gonna be really hard.

Speaker 11 (30:51):
I was someone who used to when I was there,
make a point of going to multiple games in the
series when Toronto was there because I wanted to hold
ground and defend our.

Speaker 4 (31:01):
Stadium against the connuct invasion.

Speaker 9 (31:05):
And there have been times when it has really annoyed.

Speaker 4 (31:08):
I tend to think Canadians are great.

Speaker 12 (31:10):
People and extremely enjoyable, but as a visiting fan base,
they're like any visiting fan base.

Speaker 4 (31:16):
They become obnoxious when they get to be too many
of them.

Speaker 12 (31:19):
It would be absolutely fantastic to have a bunch of
them there tonight and have them absolutely drowned out by
the decibels of Mariner.

Speaker 2 (31:26):
You spend all your loonies and tunies on these tickets,
and guess what, it didn't matter when it was all
said and done, right. I know, I read your column.
You're you're a little bit superstitious. It does feel so
I'm gonna be very careful how I word this. What
do you think when we're talking next Friday, what do
you think we're talking about?

Speaker 12 (31:44):
Well, I think we're talking about the first I think
we're gonna be talking about.

Speaker 11 (31:48):
A Mariner season that has continued that is ongoing. I'm
not gonna say anything more than that, but I feel
that we will be talking. We will still be talking
about competitive baseball games that this team is playing.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
Hey, I'll say this, Dave Nehal said it best. It
just continues, and we'll do that next Friday, my friend,
it just continues.

Speaker 13 (32:08):
All right, that's a that sounds great, And I will
leave everyone with this one observation. There was a time
in the year two thousand where I went up to
Victoria and it was a point when I was still
still prone to imbibing or imbibing too much. And as
we went to various drinking establishments, we came across a
bunch of people who were wearing hazmat suits with Florida

(32:29):
Lee's written on them, and they would had a whiteboard
that they would erase and put a word up, and
anytime somebody said the word, they had to all drink.

Speaker 4 (32:37):
And we thought it was the Greek system.

Speaker 11 (32:39):
We thought it was a fraternity sorority event, and it
turned out to be the Canadian Navy. So just remember
that when you're a wash of all the Blue Jay
fans tonight, that their military was once mistaken for a frat.

Speaker 2 (32:53):
Perfect Danny, have a great week. Tell people that day apostrophe.

Speaker 4 (32:59):
It is the dang apostrophe that comes out of New
York City.

Speaker 11 (33:02):
And if you want to hear stupid, horrible references to
foreign military comparisons like the one you just heard, you
can go to Danny O'Neil dot com, enter your email
and I'll send you an email each and every week.

Speaker 4 (33:14):
You're the best. Thanks Budy, I'll talk to you next week.
Take care, guys. Danny O'Neil.

Speaker 2 (33:18):
When we come back to Jimmy's on first right outside
the left field gate, where people are primed up and
ready to go, we're gonna hear what you are feeling
and thinking today on our talk back line. You go
to the iHeartRadio app red microphone at ninety three point
three KJR.

Speaker 4 (33:32):
Speak into it. We got a bunch already. We'll hear
from you.

Speaker 2 (33:34):
Two o'clock. Chuck Pal just walked back in from inside
the ballpark. He's going to join Softy and me. We'll
talk about Randy or Rosmarina get and replaced in the
top of the lineup and prove you tonight's game. All
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Speaker 6 (34:07):
Hey, it's well for Mount Vernon. There's part of me
that wants to scream. There's part of me that wants
to stay calm because it is too too. The part
that's concerning is the pitching changes. Seem like Dan Wilson
is giving up and with the grit that this team has,
I just want to see him be aggressive with the

(34:28):
bullpen today and use our best guys.

Speaker 5 (34:31):
In any spot we can.

Speaker 6 (34:32):
Thank you, Ian, love your show.

Speaker 7 (34:36):
My biggest concern is JP said it when we were
on the downhill slide in August versus September, and he said,
when we get down, we have a hard time getting
out of that slump.

Speaker 14 (34:48):
And I can see it in the player's eyes, I
can see it in the vibe at the stadium. So
we've got to believe in ourselves and I on you
and LINK don't know if we.

Speaker 11 (35:02):
Have that ability.

Speaker 4 (35:05):
All right.

Speaker 2 (35:07):
Time to take a deep breath, Good to hear from
you guys. We got a couple more of our talkbacks
where they get to it a second where a Jimmy's
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I listened last night. There's a hell of a job,

(35:28):
great recap. Loved listening to those guys. This is the
first place for fans to come to. They go commercial
free for a long time. Take your thoughts. It could
be either yes or no. There will be no in
between tonight when they hit the air. When those guys
hit the air after the game, there's no in between.
It's elation or despair, nothing in between. Now, they'll do

(35:51):
a good job, probably of talking you down if it
isn't good. But I know how you guys are feel
Let's get a couple more talkbacks in.

Speaker 5 (35:58):
I actually want to speak to some completely different when
it comes to the MS.

Speaker 10 (36:02):
I know this is not what everybody wants to talk about,
but just got to say, how much money do you
think the Mariners are making off of ticket sales and
shirt t shirts and jerseys and hats and everything else. Well,
I a ton right, I'm just kind of hoping that
ownership sees that, Hey, winning makes us money.

Speaker 4 (36:23):
That's just my only point. I just hope they're seeing this.
I would tak for everybody.

Speaker 15 (36:28):
I know it feels.

Speaker 2 (36:30):
If we get to last real quick, simply Seattle dot com.
That's sup place to get your gear. Number two, there's
a story came out yesterday. Two hundred and nine million
profit already this year. That's after payroll, right in the
middle of the league or so. And reinvest some of that,
and Josh Naylor would be my thing. I would yeah,
I would just point that out.

Speaker 15 (36:47):
Okay, there we go, let's go everybody. I know it
feels frustrating. We're still too all. It's not how we
wanted to get here. But if we all would have
been told in April, hey, you're gonna be in the
ale freaking CS two to two with a home game
to pretend to go up three to two, we all
would sign up.

Speaker 5 (37:02):
Let's go.

Speaker 15 (37:03):
Everyone on board. My one and a half year old son,
he's all in. Everyone needs to be all in.

Speaker 4 (37:08):
Let's go.

Speaker 15 (37:09):
Even if we lose today, we still go to Toronto
and we still have a chance. It ain't over until
the big Dumper sings, Baby, let's go love.

Speaker 4 (37:16):
We will leading off by the way, golambs, So do
I love that great one?

Speaker 2 (37:20):
Let's do this, take a quick break, come back, Softy's here,
Chuck is here, We'll go around the horn coming up next,
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Speaker 2 (37:37):
Choose chill. We don't have to take too long here. Mariners,
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Jimmy's on.

Speaker 4 (37:45):
First way you go, uh.

Speaker 2 (37:46):
Huskys Tomorrow nine am, six am pregame show God he
will not have a voice, but it starts at six
am with Softy in the Hawks before Michigan is the
big noon kickoff. Husky's in ann Arbor cracking, still unbeaten
in regulation two one lost a shootout yesterday in Toronto.

Speaker 4 (38:02):
Oh weird in Toronto tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (38:04):
Wow, let's let's just take you know what, alexiak you
know he just called up John Hayden. Why don't you
go take Austin Matthews. Go, you have Austin Matthews and
just knock him into next week tomorrow in Toronto when
the cracking are there.

Speaker 4 (38:17):
Why do you do this?

Speaker 9 (38:17):
Why do you take Austin Matthews and Andrews, that guy
that you met in the stands yesterday? Yeah, why do
you take Austin Matthews and shove it up that guy's ass?

Speaker 2 (38:26):
Three three, three thirty pre games, Hayden gets to get
a chance to kill Austin Matthews.

Speaker 4 (38:31):
Four o'clock, drop of the pluck. Let's go all right?
Why from Jimmy's on first, there is nothing like one Baseball.

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Speaker 2 (38:55):
And Dick Mofty's here, Dick's not, Bucky's here, Chuck's here,
and uh, you know what Softie says yesterday we should
I'm going to be there early, and I knew he's
going to be here early, reving the crowd up, getting crazy.

Speaker 4 (39:07):
Let's see if Chuck will come over.

Speaker 2 (39:08):
I didn't want to bother Bucky because you got a
post game show. By the way, in all seriousness, just
in all seriousness, I told check this earlier. I listened
last night driving home. I want I'm doing cracking. I
missed the first five innings. Listen to you guys. Got
a great recap, you guys. You a hell of a
job at the postgame. Okay, in all honesty, hell of
a job with the postgame. I don't know, all right,
I heard it.

Speaker 9 (39:25):
I thought it was just okay average, Because let's let's
be honest with you, friend, my enjoyment of your postgame
show has a lot to do with what happens across
the street.

Speaker 4 (39:37):
Well, we're going to enjoy a good time. I mean,
he would.

Speaker 9 (39:40):
Ian would always tell me when the Huskies would lose
a game, that's when the Cougars want to tune in
to hear the Husky Hank post game show. Makes sense, right,
we we lose a game like that, the last thing
I want to do was talk about it. I want
to just go to my hole in my house wherever
that is, stick my head in it, and stay there
until the next day.

Speaker 4 (39:57):
He's alone. There's zero part of me that wanted to
talk about it.

Speaker 2 (40:00):
Nobody wanted to talk about you. Guys, did a good job.
You kind of help people calm down. I think a
little bit yesterday. But let's let's go around the horn.
First of all, let's just do that general feeling. We
just heard a bunch of talkbacks from listeners.

Speaker 4 (40:12):
Yeah, let's see. I want to go from calm to now.
I'll start with you.

Speaker 2 (40:15):
Go ahead, Oh yeah, yeah, looking at you. I'll looking
at you. I'll come to chuck in a second fire away.

Speaker 9 (40:21):
This is a very odd sensation for me right now.
I don't know what to think, honestly, guys. I mean
because if you would have told me back in March,
for example, that the M's would be tied to two
with the three games left to go for a shot
to go to the World Series, I think you would
have said, sign me up. But I also think, and
I think there's a lot of different things that can

(40:41):
be true at one time, right, Yess that's accurate that
we would have taken that I also think that blowing
a two to nothing lead coming back home with three
games at Tea Mobile Park would be one of the
worst things that I've ever experienced as a Mariner fan
of my life. Ten game lead last year, obviously one
hundred and sixteen wins in two thousand and one. Look,
the favorite, Bucky, as you know and Chuck, in the

(41:02):
major leagues, doesn't always win the World Series, right, I mean,
the favorite in baseball is not like the favorite in
the NBA or the favorite in the NFL, not how
that works. It's much tighter in baseball. So you get
two games away from the World Series, and you've got
five games left, and you can't win two of them,
with three of them in your own park, they would
be I think, I think, and we can debate this

(41:24):
as time goes by, maybe the biggest buzzkill and the
biggest down and the biggest heartbreak of my life as
a Mariner baseball fan. I will say this though, before
these guys jump in and I was telling this to
you and Danny, I don't think there's been one game
in my life as a Mariner baseball fan like today
where the game today could swing our mood from one

(41:45):
extreme to.

Speaker 4 (41:46):
The other the way this one can.

Speaker 9 (41:48):
At three zero eight today, we win this game, and
we spend the next forty eight hours Bucky until five
o'clock on Sunday night dreaming of being about being nine
innings away from the World Series. We lose it, and
as a totally there's not enough anti diarrhea medication for
me to take between now and Sunday and five o'clock.
I will go into full blown panic mode if the

(42:09):
Mariners lose this game today. So this is this is
the swing, this is the election, this is the entire thing.
This is America versus Canada. It's good versus evil, It's
World Series versus a gigantic collapse today at three o'clock. So,
for the love of Christ or you, please get this
thing done today so we can at least But you

(42:32):
go into Sunday dreaming about making the world seen it
on the table for you.

Speaker 4 (42:37):
I hear you. I'll just tell you this. I can
envision a game on Monday that is more emotionally driven.

Speaker 9 (42:45):
Yes, than the one you're talking about today. We sign
up for that right now. We just sign up for
game seven right now. Sure, I mean, just split these
next two.

Speaker 16 (42:54):
Sure, I mean, what would even be more would be
to lose this one and then go win two in
a row.

Speaker 4 (43:00):
Oh why not? I mean do I want it?

Speaker 16 (43:02):
No?

Speaker 4 (43:02):
No, I want just win two, move on and then
just win four. Maker travel plans, get ready to go
to LA. Yeah I was that. I want it easy.
But is it going to be easy?

Speaker 15 (43:12):
No?

Speaker 4 (43:13):
It doesn't better. Do you think that the.

Speaker 16 (43:16):
Cubs that were still around when they finally broke the
curse did it feel better because of the torture they
went to? Well, we're gonna have that at some point
in time. It does feel like we're as close as
we've ever been right now. Never been this close before. No,
I mean tied, I suppose, but we were never. We
never up to zero in the Emergicantly League Championship series.

Speaker 4 (43:35):
So to me, I feel it.

Speaker 16 (43:37):
I mean, I've been a Mariner fan more than I've
been a radio talk show host, and most certainly a
lot longer than I was a Mariner.

Speaker 4 (43:43):
I feel it.

Speaker 16 (43:44):
At the same time, I'm kind of here for the ride.
I enjoy every bit of it, the upstand, the downs.

Speaker 17 (43:48):
This team doesn't handle prosperity well at all.

Speaker 4 (43:53):
Twenty five minutes, really, the last five years.

Speaker 17 (43:55):
The Depoto Mariners, they just don't handle prosperity at all.

Speaker 4 (44:00):
And so, I mean, we at one point were.

Speaker 17 (44:03):
In Detroit up three to nothing in the fifth inning,
and Tiger fans are leaving.

Speaker 4 (44:08):
The stadium being their own team. And yet they're like, Nah,
it's too easy. Now, let's beat schoobl in game five
and take fifteen innings in order to do it.

Speaker 17 (44:19):
We were ten and one after the Josh Naylor Gino
Suarez trades. We look like the best team on planet Earth. Nah,
let's go six and twenty one for the six and
fifteen for the next twenty one games and then really
put ourselves in the corner and then we'll win the division,
make the playoffs, get a bye, and get into the

(44:42):
and get into the postseason that way. I mean, maybe
we lose this game tonight, Maybe we do, but I'm
kind of with Bucky, it wouldn't surprise me if that's
right up their ally.

Speaker 4 (44:53):
Yeah, we went and then win two.

Speaker 17 (44:55):
We lose one hundred and five, one hundred to five tonight,
and then we went in forty four innings.

Speaker 9 (45:01):
At game number seven. Yeah, your ticket to the world.
But your point, and Bucky, you're exactly right. I think
the longer you wait, the more special something becomes. Right, Like,
we waited a long time for that two thousand and
five Seahawks season yep, and the super Bowl had to
wait another eight years, nineteen long years of frustration in
ninety five with the Maritors and the Yankees and that
win against the California Angels, all that stuff. Your point

(45:24):
is well taken that if they get this done, what
we're going through right now, by Sunday night or Monday night,
if it does happen, we'll make it.

Speaker 4 (45:32):
A little more special.

Speaker 9 (45:33):
But you know what makes it a little more special
already is the previous forty eight damn years.

Speaker 4 (45:39):
I don't need this anymore. I don't need anymore you've
been testing. I've got enough.

Speaker 9 (45:44):
I have enough to make this meaningful because of the
last forty eight years. And I heard your show last night.
I agree with you, and you guys are freaking phenomenal. Okay,
but here's the thing that pisses me off with the
last two days. I can handle losses. You lose the game,
you play your ass off, you play hard, you lose,
four three, five, four, six, five, whatever. But what pisses
me off is Josh Nayler getting thrown at third base

(46:05):
with two outs, Luis Rievoss getting picked off at first,
Victor rope lest the other day with his play card
stuffed in his mouth, not even paying attention to what
the hell's going out there on right field, and then yesterday.

Speaker 4 (46:18):
With Brian Wu.

Speaker 9 (46:18):
Look, obviously something's going on with Brian Wu. He's probably
gotta be hurt, he's gotta be not ready yet to pitch.
People talked about this on your show yesterday. If Luis
Castino gets run, it was set up perfectly for Brian
Wu to enter the game and take over. What better
situation to go from an All Star caliber pitcher to
an all star pitcher in the biggest game of the

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year and the Mariners ignored it. There's only there's two possibilities.

Speaker 4 (46:43):
Either A.

Speaker 9 (46:44):
Dan's an idiot, which I don't think he is, or
b Brian Wu is simply not healthy period.

Speaker 2 (46:49):
By the way, what what's a brighter red his face
with that maple leaf on that guy's jersey? Right now,
you gotta face deep, deep breath. Let get back to
pitching in a second. Let's start with order today because
we talked about this off year. Uh the guy leading
off for Seattle all time is the first batter in
a game. His splits are three eighty seven, four, twenty five, seven, fourteen,
one point one three nine. Ohps, you probably did that

(47:12):
in the minors. But still pretty good, right, Not bad?

Speaker 4 (47:14):
Yeah, not bad.

Speaker 2 (47:15):
His name's Juil all time leading often in baseball. His
splits twenty three, three thirty six, five, thirteen, eight forty nine.

Speaker 4 (47:22):
Julio top of the order.

Speaker 2 (47:23):
Dan Wilson under a lot of criticism and people kind
of going, what's going on? He managed today or they
all manage? I'm sure it's a group effort. What do
you think about Julio leading off as a post Randy?

Speaker 6 (47:34):
I like it.

Speaker 17 (47:34):
I mean, I think I'd rather have Polanco there, frankly
leading off right now, and then Raleg's second and then
Julio third.

Speaker 4 (47:41):
But I like it over a rose arena.

Speaker 17 (47:43):
I think a rose arena should have been removed from
that spot about three four weeks ago.

Speaker 4 (47:48):
He just wasn't creating the spark that.

Speaker 17 (47:50):
You need at the top of the order, and so
what you want more than anything, I need a guy
that can get the second.

Speaker 4 (47:56):
Mase without any help.

Speaker 17 (47:58):
And that's when I went out of my leader hitter
Rose Arena has bat at bats right now. I thought
maybe he's gonna come out of his slump with a
home run that he hit meaninglessly at the end of
Game three, and then yesterday might have been the worst
he looked at the plate all year long.

Speaker 4 (48:12):
So I like the shake up, and I'm perfectly happy
with Julio.

Speaker 16 (48:16):
One hundred percent. I mean, it's not based on outcomes.
That's where you can't go as a manager. You can't say, well,
you're over for your last state or ten or twelve.
You can't go based on outcome. It's based on how
competitive are you that leads to the outcomes. If you're
scorching balls, you're making good swing decisions, you're hitting balls
on barrels, and you're getting out, you don't tell somebody, well,

(48:38):
that's just not good enough, because somebody else might get
two knocks and they didn't. They got jammed a couple
of times. So to me, it was based on the
swing decisions. Yesterday, there was one ab where he took
two fast balls that were strikes and then swung in
a pitch that was in the middle of the left
handed batter's box, and then it bounces off the catcher
and he doesn't even want to jog down to first
It's one in a million that they overthrow the ball,

(48:59):
but it's it's kind of important. Just jog your ass
down to first base and.

Speaker 4 (49:03):
Make them earn it. Make them throw it. You didn't
make the murn it at the dish, make him urn
it at least thrown down the first base. Yeah, I
may okay with it.

Speaker 16 (49:09):
I'm not one that's gonna be quick to start shaking
things up because that looks like a panic. And if you,
as a manager of panicking, then the team's like, oh man,
oh wow, we really you're you're putting undue pressure. This
isn't one of those This is simply yeah. Everybody except
for Randy A. Rose Arena is getting a promotion to
some degree. Right, they're just all saying, I think this
is better for us, and Randy a Rosna hopefully it

(49:31):
lights a fire under his ass and he's like, all right,
all right, I'm gonna show you what I'm all about
and maybe dials it in a little bit more.

Speaker 9 (49:37):
First of all, it's not unheard of for a manager
to juggle.

Speaker 4 (49:39):
His lineup a lot. I mean, the Mariners used to
do that up until like three months ago.

Speaker 17 (49:44):
We haven't taken him out of that leader spot since
we put him in, and even then I thought it
was experimental.

Speaker 4 (49:49):
And then whatever the reason, he's just gotten locked. Correct.

Speaker 9 (49:51):
They went with this consistent lineup, like we didn't even
bother look at the lineups because we knew what they
were gonna look like every single day for the last
couple of months. So it's not unheard of, obviously for
a manager to.

Speaker 4 (50:02):
Do something like this.

Speaker 9 (50:03):
It does wreak a little bit of desperation, but I
think you are desperate. You're in Game five of the ALCS.
You're pulling starting pitchers after two winnings, which you would
never do in the regular season. You're putting starters in
the bullpen, which you would never do in the regular season.

Speaker 4 (50:18):
So obviously there is some desperation on both sides, and.

Speaker 9 (50:22):
Obviously in Milwaukee and in LA as well with the
Dodgers because they're doing things differently.

Speaker 4 (50:26):
So I don't got a big problem with it.

Speaker 9 (50:28):
I guess my whole perspective is it can't be any
worse than what you see in the last two nights
against Toronto. If they come out there today, and they
struggle Bucky to get on base, and they struggle to
move guys over. It's not gonna matter because they'll do
exactly what they've done the last two days. But I
just think, for me, the key for a game like this,
and I hate to put it on the guy because
he was so great in game one.

Speaker 4 (50:47):
Logan, Gilbert, George Kirby, luiskis Steel.

Speaker 9 (50:49):
That's three starts in a row, three starts in a
row where our guys have not been good enough from
a starting rotation. That's got to stop tonight because I'm
concerned eyes that Brian Wu is just simply put not
available now. I actually wonder is luiska Steel available tonight
after what he did yesterday? Would they put him back
out there the next day? Does he if he can

(51:11):
offer somethingle And they say that, how with whatever we
had planned for game six and seven, let's go with Logan,
Let's go with Kirby and win this thing, because I'm
not convinced playing Wu can even play well.

Speaker 2 (51:20):
Let's let's let's go to the thing for a second.
Soft He brought it up a couple times now because
that I'm look at the text line, everyone's asking the
same question, here's your all star pitcher. Obviously it's been
out for a while. They put them on the active
roster for the ALCS. Buckey, what read between the lines?
What's going on there? What do you think the plan is?
Because it feels like there's two games in a row
that if nothing else, you could run him out there
and see what he's got.

Speaker 4 (51:41):
Right, Yeah, it's entirely speculation.

Speaker 16 (51:43):
We don't know, and obviously they're not gonna tell us
because why would you show your hand to your opponents. Right,
It's nice to have them wondering what the heck's going on,
but it also makes us as fans sit here and wonder.
I think based on his working up his workload before
this series, during the Division series, I think that they
were working them up and he was feeling good. The
last day in Toronto, he throws kind of a SIM

(52:03):
game to Revos and some other guys, throw some to
some live hitters. I would almost guarantee that the next
day there was discomfort. Yeah, discomfort to where because if
there's no discomfort, if he shows up the next day
he's like, I'm ready to rock and roll. He's starting today,
or he would have started yesterday. The fact that he
isn't and they keep running him out to the bullpen.

(52:24):
So we knew when he sent him out to the bullpen,
and Dan goes, well, I just thought it'd be good
for him to get acclimated in a situation which we
might use him. That to me is it's almost a
in case of emergency break glass. It still is an
ace up your sleeve. And I have a feeling he's active.
He's not on the shelf, but I don't think that
he is. He rebounded from the live game well enough

(52:46):
that they feel like we can start him in a game.
Otherwise we're gonna put ourselves at behind the eight ball,
which Chuck's been worried about. Maybe goes out there and
forty pitches in halfway through the second inning, my pecks
acting up.

Speaker 4 (52:57):
I don't feel right, and now all of a sudden,
you have to summ.

Speaker 16 (53:00):
Figure out a way to cover eight innings through your bullpen.
So I don't think they want to do that. I
think instead it's like, Okay, you're good enough to go
bullpen session. No, you're good enough for twenty twenty five
thirty pitches, all right, then maybe we're gonna use that
for two innings.

Speaker 9 (53:13):
Let me ask you, do you see Chuck any scenario
where he was not available last night, but bang, twenty
four hours later, he's available today.

Speaker 17 (53:21):
The only thing that I can try to read from
it is because Dan keeps saying we're looking for the
right situation.

Speaker 4 (53:29):
If that's the case, then they feel really good about
how he is.

Speaker 17 (53:32):
That means they're putting him in in a games on
the line, a's up the sleeve.

Speaker 4 (53:37):
Let's put Brian Wu in the game.

Speaker 9 (53:39):
Was that not last night in the third inning when
they desperately needed something out to stop the bleeding.

Speaker 4 (53:44):
Yeah, I would have thought that would have been a
good time. I thought it would have been.

Speaker 17 (53:47):
But the other possibility is they're scared of what they're
going to see, and so they really don't want to
put him in unless it's just ideal.

Speaker 4 (53:58):
First, is he game seven?

Speaker 9 (54:00):
Well?

Speaker 17 (54:00):
See to me, it was game three that you put
him in when you're already down six to two, seven
to two.

Speaker 4 (54:06):
Now, let's le average.

Speaker 17 (54:08):
See what he's got, George, Kurt, excuse me, Brian Wu
for three innings at the end of that game, and
if he's fantastic, start him in game seven.

Speaker 4 (54:16):
And if he's not there, then.

Speaker 17 (54:18):
We don't have to think about this anymore, and we
don't have to worry about how we use it.

Speaker 4 (54:22):
Bucky, you said something there that just jumped out of me.

Speaker 2 (54:24):
Because regular season, if that happens, where a guy throws
a sim game and he has discomfort, they say the
next day he's got just some discomfort.

Speaker 4 (54:32):
We're gonna shut him down for a couple of weeks.

Speaker 2 (54:34):
Yeah, you're not gonna do that in the playoffs, because
what you guys say, you don't want to tip your hand.
All right, let's we'll put a rap on it with this.
This baseball's crazy, Bucky. I want to start with you, like,
I don't know if there's momentum or not, but it
just feels like one inning can change everything. And as
down as people are feeling right now, they come out
and all of a sudden, Bryce Miller looks like he

(54:55):
has in his first couple starts in the postseason. Maybe
Gospan doesn't have it for them. That'd be kind of weird, right,
Like you've you've somehow had your three aces of softy
talks about come out and get lit up, and instead
now you go a young Bryce Miller who for all
intents and purposes, everyone's healthy. He's five, right, he's number five. Yeah,
he comes out, he's good, and all of a sudden
it all flips. And now that's that to me is

(55:16):
how base that's looking cool. Things about baseball is like
it can switch just like that. So crystal ball what
happens today?

Speaker 16 (55:23):
So first of all, the beauty of baseball is that
the the ebbs and flows they hang in every single pitch.

Speaker 4 (55:29):
We just don't think of them as every single pitch.

Speaker 16 (55:31):
It's not like it's not like a name four or
Game one twenty, right, we don't think of him as
And that's what it is. You change how a pitcher's
feeling by capitalizing one mistake. A pitcher changes how you
feel as a hitter by shoving it where the sun
don't shine in one at bat.

Speaker 4 (55:47):
All of that is what happens.

Speaker 16 (55:48):
This boils down to you better have a gut check
moment after the last two nights. They better have looked
in the mirror when they were getting done taking a
shower or brushing their teeth before they laid their head
on their pushy pillow and said, we tomorrow get to
show up and prove that we're better than these guys
are not. And it starts with Bryce Miller. I think
Bryce Miller goes out there and absolutely shoves. He has

(56:09):
to be not perfect, but he can't miss to the
bad zones. Two guys in a row missed to Jimenez
when he's trying to just roll over a ball to
move a runner from second base, and they throw it
down and in and he goes yard both times. Those
are horrible misses. A miss where you catch two inches
of the plate versus missing an inch off the plate

(56:29):
if it's on the right side of the plate and
it's the correct pitch choice. Those don't kill you. Those
you can overcome. I think he has to go out there.
Him and Cal have to be on the same page.
He has to understand here's where I miss. I miss
out of the zone. I don't miss over the heart
of the zone. If he does that, he's gonna go
through three four innings, maybe more, and then I wouldn't
be surprised if Brian wu is brought in tonight. But

(56:50):
they're not going to bring him in if they're down
three or four runs. They're not gonna risk his long
term health in a game where you're just trying to
keep it close because they still trust it, Gabe, Spire,
they still trust in Bizarre, they still trust it.

Speaker 9 (57:02):
They still Trustspire. Anythink they still trust inspired? You have
to You got no choice, Yeah, you have to.

Speaker 4 (57:07):
Well you have to run them out maybe, but do
you trust them deep down? This doesn't matter. Are you
still fifty to fifty? Yeah?

Speaker 9 (57:13):
Because guys, I mean, look, the law of averages.

Speaker 4 (57:15):
What you guys just said.

Speaker 9 (57:17):
If you're asking me to bet on a Mariner starting
pitcher shoving it as you said, and I'm not having
four guys in a row, go yets up, I'll say
I take I like those odds. Eventually my rotation is
gonna deliver. I also think eventually you're gonna play three
games at home, and you're gonna show up for one
of them. For God's sakes, right, you tell me they
sweep and and they go six and zero in Seattle

(57:39):
this year the Blue Jays do lave Averages says, eventually
the Mariners would step up and get a victory. So
you know, I would take the Mariners. But I don't
think at this point anything can shock anybody. Look, guys,
I mean I'm a Mariner fan for forty eight years.
Where there's blood, there's dread, all right. I wake up
with dread in my system. I'm programmed to expect the

(58:00):
worst as a Mariner fan, and this would be a
crushing blow for me.

Speaker 4 (58:04):
As a baseball fan to not have this happen.

Speaker 9 (58:07):
You think about the elation of Monday nights and how
fired up we were and where we are now and
where we could be tonight if they lose this game.

Speaker 4 (58:14):
So I'm begging these guys, man, don't do this to us.

Speaker 9 (58:17):
Get this win and let us dream for forty eight
more hours about making the World Series and then maybe
go do it.

Speaker 4 (58:22):
Do you get the last word before the postgame tonight?
Go ahead? Well, I mean the prediction game. What do
you want to say? They're crazy baseball. I thought George
was gonna be good. He wasn't. I thought Luis was
gonna be good. That's why it's gonna be good today.
He wasn't.

Speaker 17 (58:34):
So I'm gonna just keep doubling down. I think Bryce
is gonna be good, and maybe he won't be, but
I guarantee you know. Toronto Blue Jay fan was sitting
at home saying Andre Semenez is gonna wake up this series.
He's gonna be the victory they wanted the guy benched. Yeah,
how do you figure it out? So I'm just gonna
stick with what I've said all along. We're a better
team and we should win this series. And you can

(58:56):
pull out all your statistics about out. No, Toronto was
a better hitting during the regular season. Yeah, but we
spent three quarters of our year with.

Speaker 4 (59:03):
Dylan Moore in the starting line. Right. Well, you know what, Luke.

Speaker 17 (59:06):
Rayley, and we have Josh Naylor, Gino Suarez, Victor Roblaze
back and they don't have Bobashett. We're a better offense.
We have better starters and we have better relievers. We
should win this series. Whether we do or not, that's
up to how.

Speaker 2 (59:19):
They execute postgame show tonight right after here at Jimmy's
on First with Chuck and Bucky. Sam By will come back,
Dootle Factor Fiction Softie comes up at three o'clock.

Speaker 4 (59:27):
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Speaker 3 (01:00:01):
For the first two games, they actually had me believing
let's go.

Speaker 15 (01:00:06):
I'm so fired up from this game.

Speaker 4 (01:00:07):
I want it so bad.

Speaker 15 (01:00:08):
I got to remind myself, you know, thirty two, I
don't remember what it's like to win. Really, we're just
a bunch of losers. But let's change that. It's been
so much fun. I have a one and a half
year old son. I've been watching the game with my
in laws, my wife him. He goes crazy every time
Big Dumper comes up. That's what it's all about.

Speaker 4 (01:00:24):
So win or lose.

Speaker 15 (01:00:25):
I'm really proud of this team, but I want to
go to the World serious. So let's a buckle up.
Let's win Game three. Let's take that control. Do it
for the USA, baby, Let's.

Speaker 4 (01:00:33):
Go Perkat Game five?

Speaker 2 (01:00:37):
All right, appreciate everydy texting or a calling in today
on the talk back line. It's Andrew's quick self final
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Speaker 4 (01:00:45):
Yeah, I just.

Speaker 3 (01:00:48):
I couldn't have said it any better than what you
guys did last segment. That was awesome. By the way,
I love kind of hearing all the hosts. Almost all
the hosts on KJR get to share their opinions. But
I just really, really they really want this. Uh And
I don't really have anything else to say. I just
I think Bryce Miller shoves tonight. I agree with Chuck
and uh, it's it's it's gonna be fun to watch.

(01:01:09):
I am trying as hard as I can to just
enjoy the ride at this point, but it's been it's
been hard not to kind of look a ton passed
and like what this means and everything, if that makes sense.

Speaker 2 (01:01:18):
I just I have this weird ever since Monday, and
even after the loss on Wednesday, and even last night.
It's a weird sense of calm and this team seems
to be its best when there's adversity. I agree, they
seem to be at his best when their backs are
against the wall and there's a there's a feel. He
talked about it. I think with EEno Saris yesterday we
talked about it was she the other day. I'm Molly

(01:01:39):
WAPs as well. Resiliency's kind of a key word with
these guys.

Speaker 4 (01:01:42):
Yep, I.

Speaker 2 (01:01:44):
We'll we'll talking about Softie when Softie rejoins us for Crosstock.
I'm gonna bring this up with him. We were just
talking about this off the air. There is one thing
that's just even if they win the series, it's kind
of a bummer. And that's the fact that yesterday or
today we're two potential clinching games at home in front
of our fans in Seattle that deserve it so much.

Speaker 4 (01:02:05):
Yes, and they weren't able to do that at home. Now,
just go win in Toronto.

Speaker 2 (01:02:09):
Maybe there's part of us that thinks that's even sweeter
to shove it down there and whatever we call that
place now, Rogers, the skuydom Er, whatever the hell it.

Speaker 3 (01:02:15):
Is, center spelled with an E at the enter center Center.

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I just refreshed to make sure that this line is
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Speaker 2 (01:04:35):
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San Francisco forty.

Speaker 4 (01:05:09):
Nine ers, So basically, pick him, go get him for Atlanta.

Speaker 3 (01:05:11):
Hey, if they tie, it still counts for me too.

Speaker 4 (01:05:13):
That's right call. And we've already had a tie this
year we have all right, So four nine four or
five to one.

Speaker 2 (01:05:18):
Fact, if for some reason you disagree and you're gonna
want to spend your Sunday when the Seahawks are off
rooting for the forty nine ers in your text fiction,
but I say, just text fact. It starts the great
weekend win tonight.

Speaker 4 (01:05:29):
By the Marators. Niners lose clinch on Sunday.

Speaker 3 (01:05:34):
And you know what, you know what makes me feel
this pick even better because I got a couple of
texts on the text line saying, didn't Christopher kid pick this?
He actually picks the other side. He picked San Francisco.
So that tells me that this is a great pick
because if you look at kids record that's.

Speaker 4 (01:05:47):
Also one or something like that.

Speaker 2 (01:05:49):
Yeah, he's worse. He's like worse than me, and that's
really bad because I'm not having a good year. All
right again, Atlanta win the game fact four nine four
or five to one. If you disagree Fiction four nine
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Speaker 4 (01:06:26):
Rock Faine.

Speaker 2 (01:06:28):
The next few hours, Mariners and Blue Jay's top of
the hour right here, nine three point.

Speaker 4 (01:06:32):
Three k draft all right back at Jimmy's.

Speaker 2 (01:06:45):
Dick Faine is here, Dave Softy Maler is here. Fans
still making their way into the But now I know
why people got here early. Although you told me, I
saw you tweat today, they do pretty good job getting
people in.

Speaker 9 (01:06:54):
So the gates open two and a half hours before
the game, so three oho eight would have been one
at twelve thirty eight whatever or something like that. Is
that correct using the junior college math.

Speaker 4 (01:07:02):
There there's there. There seems to be like an initial surge.
Well you look down to the left and right all
the way back down.

Speaker 9 (01:07:08):
Right right as the as the gates open, there's always
a big line to get in. Then there's like an
hour or so where there's no lines, and then as
you get closer to the game, about twenty five thirty
minutes away from first pitch, there's a huge line. But like,
for example, the line for left field by the mit
here goes all the way down first Afternue when Snake's
back around, but it moves very fast. I saw that

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line yesterday and I was petrified, like I'm not going
to get in there till the fifth inning, for God's sakes, right,
So I was actually very pleasantly surprised at how fast
that line did move.

Speaker 4 (01:07:38):
You're yelling at people to get inside. What are we
waiting for? People, guys?

Speaker 9 (01:07:42):
Let's go Well wait, here's the thing though, ticket prices
if tanked dramatically, what were they Wednesday? I think they
were over three hundred bucks for this game on Wednesday
when people thought there was a chance this would be
the clinching game, right. I mean, you're sitting there, if
you're a Marita fan after the first two games, you're
asking yourself, Okay, if I'm gonna buy tickets for one
game Friday, which one am I gonna buy tickets for me?

Speaker 4 (01:08:01):
Probably Friday?

Speaker 9 (01:08:03):
Okay, maybe Thursday, but probably Friday, because you're thinking I
got a one to two chance of that game being
a clinching opportunity for this baseball team, and that's the
one you want to see. You want to see these
guys clinch this at home and go to the World Series,
And like you talked about in crosstalk, he it would
have been nice. You know, Frankly, I don't give a
damn where they clinch it. They could clinch this thing
in North Korea for all I care as long as
they clinch it, right, But it would have been cool

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to see these guys do something like that at home.

Speaker 4 (01:08:27):
And that's gonna have to.

Speaker 9 (01:08:27):
Wait, obviously, because that will not be possible this season,
at least for the American League Championship.

Speaker 4 (01:08:33):
But tickets are going back up a little bit.

Speaker 9 (01:08:34):
They were down to about one hundred and twenty bucks
to get in the door about four or five hours ago.
Now they're about one hundred and seventy, which makes me
a little bit nervous that our French from the North
are buying them up. Yeah, you know what happened to
be honest, there wasn't a line in Blaine at the
border their way down.

Speaker 4 (01:08:47):
Oh oh, I.

Speaker 9 (01:08:49):
Think I think of all three games that we've seen
so far in this series, this will be the largest
contingent of Blue Jay fans that we've seen so far
in this little three game set at home here at
T Mobile. And you know what, Look, I've said my
piece on it. It makes me absolutely bat you know what,
angry that this many Blue Jay fans are in the building.

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I hope it pisses off John Stanton and Chris Larson,
and this ownership group is as much as it bothers me.
It absolutely infuriates me, boils my blood that this many
Blue Jay fans are in the stadium. I find it humiliating.
I think it's embarrassing and it's gotta be stopped.

Speaker 4 (01:09:28):
How you do that?

Speaker 9 (01:09:29):
I don't have any idea, man, I don't have any idea.
I mean, there's a lot of tickets on the secondary market.
I was talking to Anthony bay Rudi the other day
from Vena Kings dot com for game number three I
think it was, or maybe last night.

Speaker 4 (01:09:41):
They all run together.

Speaker 9 (01:09:41):
Now he had to eat like three hundred tickets for
that game because they were just overpriced.

Speaker 16 (01:09:46):
What was what?

Speaker 4 (01:09:47):
So you were in the building the last two nights? Yes?
What was it like in terms of like compared to
a regular season Blue Jays?

Speaker 9 (01:09:52):
Not even close? But every Blue Jay fan was in
my section, every single one. They all said, where do
Softy s? Where does that schmuck sin?

Speaker 4 (01:09:59):
Where does Sid? I'm gonna go find him and sit there.

Speaker 2 (01:10:02):
There's I mean, look at there's just look outside, there's
an awesome Matthew Toronto.

Speaker 9 (01:10:05):
I was on with our buddies up in Vancouver yesterday
and I was getting on them a little bit, you know,
for rooting for Toronto.

Speaker 4 (01:10:11):
You know see, not like not everyone up there. There's
a lot of people up there. They know that I
know him.

Speaker 9 (01:10:16):
I got a friend of mine who's from there, and
he can't stand him, not stand Toronto.

Speaker 2 (01:10:20):
My guys, Dolly and uh, Dolly and Donnie, who I'm
on with every week, Dolly and don Donny and Dolly,
they hate Toronto because the whole Toronto it's like us
for New York, right, Like you're just sick of it?

Speaker 9 (01:10:30):
What just think about how arrogant you have to be
to think that an entire country should be rooting for you,
because we are the only hope that you've got. Okay, look,
if you're a Canucks fan, how in the world can
you root for a Toronto fan who also happens to
be a fan.

Speaker 2 (01:10:45):
The right and then how can you do? Then they
get shoved down their throat and they're like, we don't
want to be Toronto. And a lot of people grew
up America fans around this area, right, that's the best
thing is And and there are a lot of Canadian
American fans.

Speaker 4 (01:10:56):
But boy, if there's a Blue Jay fan right, there's
another one walking. There was a lot of them out there.

Speaker 2 (01:11:01):
Man.

Speaker 4 (01:11:01):
Do you ever have a pest in your house? Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:11:03):
Yes, doesn't I feel like what it's like you need
to call an exterminator like I mean Anders.

Speaker 9 (01:11:08):
I don't know if you've told the story on the air,
but Anders was in a little bit of a breu
ha ha yesterday.

Speaker 4 (01:11:13):
Not by his choice.

Speaker 9 (01:11:14):
It wasn't his fault.

Speaker 4 (01:11:16):
It was not his fault at all.

Speaker 9 (01:11:17):
There was a douchebag jackass blue Jay fan in the stands.
Who who knows. Maybe he had a little bit too
much to drink, Maybe he's a little bit angry, Maybe
he's just an a hole.

Speaker 4 (01:11:25):
I have no idea.

Speaker 9 (01:11:26):
I say yes, yes, yes, Hangers and his buddy the
Crossfire right in in the in the stands yesterday and
this jackal got thrown out of the stands last night.
So you know, there's a there's a cockiness to them,
you know, for a fan base and has not won
anything of significance in what thirty two years or whatever
it is, there is a cockiness to that fan base,

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man that I just find to be extremely unappealing, unappealing,
and Andrews. You found out firsthand yesterday.

Speaker 3 (01:11:54):
I really did. And I hated the Blue Jays second
to only the Astros before last night. For me, just
because of personal experience, it has now overtaken them.

Speaker 2 (01:12:02):
Ooh wow for you. Wow, good for you. And you're
a Dodgers fan of things don't go well? Right, absolutely,
let's go. I think everyone in tel but we don't
have to worry about that, you know, don't worry about it.

Speaker 9 (01:12:12):
I remember in two thousand and one when the Mariners
lost to the Yankees and it was the Diamondbacks in
the World Series. This is one of the offshoots of
playing in the ALCS, and hopefully they win it. But
one of the offshoots I remember now playing in the
ALCS if you lose, is that you don't give a
crap about.

Speaker 4 (01:12:27):
The World Series.

Speaker 9 (01:12:28):
Yeah, you are completely beyond crestfallen. You're bummed out and
your heartbroken, and you just don't give a damn about
the World Series matter. And I'm really curious to see
how we react to that. Honestly, we won't have to
worry about it. I hope you're right, man. For your sake,
I hope you're right for you and Mark James, I
hope you're right. Oh God, holy hell, man, you know what.
I gotta be honest with you. I could have ripped

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your head off the other day on the air. Listen
you and you're telling one buddy, I did not get
picked off at first. God do those things? I'd go
back with Chuckson's see, how was a better baseball team?
There's been better baseball team, right?

Speaker 4 (01:13:03):
Do you believe that? Of course? But sometimes a better
team doesn't win, So you're not supposed to say they're
a better baseball team. What do you want me to do?
You know what I'm talking about? Man, Stop being so superstitious,
cheap here half American, half Canadian trap shot. Well this,
this half Canadian has never been a Jameson's son of effection.
I don't even I don't even like the Argonauts. Good
for you, I hate the Raptors. Yes, all right? What

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do you got coming up?

Speaker 9 (01:13:26):
Lee Sterling at three forty five will join us with
some picks for the week. Hugh Millin's coming up, petros
Is coming up, John Willener coming up A lot to
get you here from Jimmy's Factor Fiction three thirty five,
and a lot of talk about the UW Michigan game tomorrow,
which nobody's talking about because of the baseball game.

Speaker 2 (01:13:40):
Save your voice, Huge, you had an early pregame show
up on six am, Baby, six am, take care.

Speaker 4 (01:13:45):
I see for the mild.

Speaker 3 (01:13:47):
Mannered and marginally objectionable Inverness.

Speaker 4 (01:13:51):
This is paddle Day, saying so long everyone,