Furness Show 3-30: Chris Crawford, Nathan Bishop and Nicky Scarlotta

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
We're all just here on a Monday.

Speaker 3 (00:04):
Well, I'm telling you this is as Monday as it gets,
Ladies and gentlemen, this is as Monday as it gets.
Mariners eight nothing over the Guardian split that season opening
series two games apiece. Absolute beat down yesterday by the MS.
The Yankees are in town. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the Yankees
are in town.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
My least favorite New York team.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
I bet all right, cracking loss the Sabers in a shootout.
Did get a point three to two on Saturday afternoon
on the road. Next again to finish off six straight
away from home, take on the Oilers five o'clock or
five thirty pre game six o'clock is a drop of
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Speaker 1 (00:43):
NFL.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
A lot of news coming out of the NFL owners meetings.
We'll get into some of this. Maybe the most important
thing Mike McDonald's saying today DeMarcus Lawrence is expected to
play this year.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
I do like to hear it.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
Kyle Shannon and thrilled the San Francisco forty night as
we'll open the twenty twenty six season with a trip
to Melbourne, Australia to play the Rams.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Quote.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
I don't see any pro it's cool for the league
to play globally. I think that's awesome, but as far
as the team doing it, no, there's not much benefit
to it. I love it, Kyle Shannon, you're my favorite
coach right now, next to Mike McDonald.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
God bless you.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
All right, let's get the show start here real.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Oh that was my ben Sorry because that's where my
mic used to be, so I turned it off by accident. Yeah,
just you know, all right, Okay, that was on me.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
That was on me, all right, great, do one shoe
got to start the show's okay. I think the one
thing that everyone listening can relate to that we go through.
You guys all have corporate people that come to town
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Speaker 1 (01:44):
We do, and we did it badly.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
Our poor producers man, whether it be Ashley, whether it
be Kid, whether it be Jess Andrews is doing softy
show later you guys. You guys are doing heavy lifting, man,
So I thank you for that. We'll get through this.
We'll get to the.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Next case and is our business and not our practice.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
We will get through the next two hours on the
I think we're on the radio. If not, then we're
just talking to ourselves for a couple of hours.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Four nine, four five one. If you can't hear us.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
All right, we got a lot coming up. We think
today molliwat Monday, good weekend for the baseball team. And
not often you say that when it's a two and
two weekend, but when you look a little bit deeper
into and we'll talk to the boys about this coming
up in a minute. A Cleveland's good playoff team from

(02:29):
a year ago. B If you would have said, hey,
Josh Naylor is going to go oh for fifteen for
the weekend, Julio Rodriguez is going to go one for
fifteen over the weekend. Cal Rawly is going to be
two for fifteen over the weekend. I'm like, what they

(02:50):
How bad was it?

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Like?

Speaker 1 (02:52):
How bad was the weekend?

Speaker 3 (02:53):
That would be my thought, or of just the four games,
and yet here they are two and two because Brendan
Donovan and Dominic can Zone and Luke Rayley and Randy
Rora carry the mail, which is a sign of a
good team when you have that depth, because if we

(03:15):
know this, the best players are going to crank it
up like they're gonna be better. Right, They're gonna be better.
They're gonna they're gonna they're gonna get going. So in
the meantime for the season opening series boom, you end
up going to and two because these guys are doing
their thing and you're pitching still really good for the

(03:35):
most part. I mean, I know they had a bullpen
issue in the tenthning the other night.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
I get that.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
But you know it's funny by watching Brian wu beat
himself up in the postgame presser on I guess was Saturday, right,
and I'm like, dude, you're fine. That's a quality start
demand on a different level. Absolutely, Emerson Hancock yesterday had
a no hitter going through six pitch count. Guy, I'm
out of the game early, old manny and yelling at

(04:03):
the clouds. Hates it while also understanding it. Can I
hate it and still understand it because that's that's where
I was.

Speaker 4 (04:10):
Out with that.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
That's a good question.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
I hated it. I also saw it coming. I think
we all saw it coming. I don't know, somewhere Nolan.
Ryan's going, what's wrong with these kids these days? Why
can't they just keep throwing the ball? Hell, they'll love
guys that have Tommy John surgery or all these other surgeries.
When they they pitched twenty pitches, it doesn't matter, like
the arm is of very fragile things. But I get

(04:34):
in the case of Hancock, in case we really have
all these guys right now, because Logan Evans is done
for the year, right and because Bryce Miller is out
right now, and so you're already down kind of testing
the depth of your starting rotation.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
I get it. I just didn't like it.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
Well, I get it, and I hated it because I
wanted to see this kid was so good yesterday and
good for him, good for him and people sitting there
watching this game. And by the time he came out,
it was already a blowout and you're like, okay, oh, well,
I guess we can go. I mean it, just it
was kind of a bummer. But again, I understand it.
I don't need baseball guy yelling at me telling me

(05:11):
I don't understand that.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
I understand.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
We all understand.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Well, So it's a lot more finely tuned these days.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
It is, so we'll talk to the boys about that
coming up. But a good weekend, Like it's just a
good way to go two and two against that team
with without your best players hitting good for them. Good start,
tough start continues. The Yankees are going to come in today.
Six point forty is the first pitch for that game.
Do we all figure out the television situation? Do we
all get through that? Okay? We okay? Everybody get through it?

(05:37):
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and we all get through television Opening weekend TV one
on one. Do we get through that? Okay? Jess, I
don't ask you because you do things differently though you
live in a very great area.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
I went to Opening Day and went to the game yesterday.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
Well there you go.

Speaker 3 (05:58):
So yeah, so the two games you really worry about,
But yeah, we had two local broadcasts and we had
the two national broadcasts. While I'm on it real fast,
let me just shout out to Angie Mentink. There was
so she had the strokes plural about a month month
and a half ago. Anyway, a handful of people knew

(06:22):
about I don't know if you did, Jess, but a
handful of us knew about it, and you know, and
first of all, good everyody kind kept the quid, respecting
her privacy and jared her husband everything else. Thinking And
when I heard about it, I'm like, damn, that's awful.
She's going to be out for a while and hopefully
she'll come back at some point this season. I saw
her last Tuesday out at the Old Roots Sports Headquarters studios,

(06:44):
which we used for the KRACK and Hockey Network. And
I saw her out there and had a great conversation,
had a big hug, and I just said you good,
and she's like, I'm good. I'm gonna be on the Thursday.
And I'm like, god, that is so awesome. Yeah, yeah,
and so great. Great to see Angie back. She's probably
one of the most not probably she is one of
the most beloved media folks in our market, not just now,

(07:08):
but but ever. We just it's we all kind of
feel the connection. I thought the line that she had
in one of the two articles written the Seattle met
had the first one about you know, people can relate
to me. You know, I'm a mom, I thought, and
I'm gonna say this because I think it even translates
to dudes. All the women have it a lot worse
than guys do.

Speaker 5 (07:27):
But you know, I.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
Gain weight, I lose weight, I look old, I have
gray hair, whatever, whatever, all the things that change, it
is very relatable. And Angie's a beautiful woman. Don't don't
get me wrong, But I thought what she said was
really was it was. It was good because, yeah, we
can relate to her.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
She's a mom.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
She's a product of our school in this city. Whether
I went there or not doesn't matter. It's Utub's here,
has kids that have played sports against a lot of
our kids growing up. And she's just as she's in
and then all of a sudden she's got this a
second healthcare after she had breast cancer a few years ago.
I thought it was awesome to me. One of the
highlights the weekend was just seeing her on opening night
and seeing her in the dugout and doing the reporting job.

(08:05):
She's took over for Jen in that regard with that
this year and is going to do a great job.
And we love Angie. So I'm just glad to hear
that she's back. Glad to see that she's back as well.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
When I hung out with her on opening day, this
was prior to the clubhouse opening, and we were up
in the press box area, but in the back table.
It's not like sitting in the press box, and we
scared Ryan Divish with our conversation. I'll just leave it
at that. Well, but if you can rattle that person
with talking next to him, I'll just say that that

(08:34):
was authentic Angie.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
I love it.

Speaker 3 (08:36):
Well, good love to see Angie back. So those are
all the good things this weekend. Then, of course the
two national games were what they were, Peacock and Apple
and away we go back to the Mariners, and I
think everyone's got it figured out by now, whether you
have to buy the stream or don't have to buy
the stream you got. In fact, I was at a
place Saturday night, Formula brooming brewing in issaquah cool spot.

(09:01):
Never been there before me neither. It's really cool. Right
off find ninety kind of right by is Quahana Kamota.
Actually see a little area there.

Speaker 2 (09:06):
Oh yeah, talk to them about Mike needs a little
yeah bobcat situation.

Speaker 3 (09:11):
Yeah, that place is, so you went to form and
they we were wondering. We went there to watch the
Purdue game and Perdue Arizona and after we got off
here with the hockey and so we went there and
met my daughter and her boyfriend there and the Purdue
lum and we're watching and my daughter is like, she's
done with college basketball and done being a Purdue wife.
Basically over the last four years, she's just kind of

(09:33):
tapped out. She's like, I'm good, Like I've I've had
enough Perdue basketball to last my lifetime. And anyway, she's like,
w's She's like, I want to forget the Merita game
on And it popped up on one of the many
TVs they have a formula, which I thought was a
good sign from this standpoint, because that's what you want
to have, is are the bars gonna be able to
show games and and all that kind of stuff, And

(09:53):
they had it on there. I think they had comcasts.
It wasn't like a big issue to find it or
anything like that, but I think it was a I
think it was on comcasts. I think they had the
sports package because they had a soccer game and it
looked like it was the same little grid. So anyway,
good for them. All right, mullywop guy's coming up in
a minute. We'll check in with those guys coming here
in just a few minutes and and talk to them
about all things Manors opening weekend. Just after two o'clock,

(10:16):
we're gonna requent you with an old friend. He went
viral three years ago, Scarlatta. He he went, he went viral.
If you will play the audio for you coming in
and it was just awesome. We've kept in touch with
I have at least kept in touch with him over
the years. It kind of started like basically a new

(10:36):
career for this guy, like he's now kind of I
think him and his brother's twin brother like influencers, right,
that's what they do, and they're fun. They're fun and
they're just New York to the core. He's a huge
sports fan.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
I think they're Suton Islands. So there's different just so
you know there's differences.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
I will well, I'll figure that out with him at
that point in time. But yeah, well we'll talk to
him coming up at two o'clock. Get a pre that's
a that's our preview of the Yankee series. We'll do
it with him coming up at two pm today as well,
So lots going on malliwap Monday. Nicky coming up. We
will get to the audio in case you didn't hear
it with MJ in the midday and Chris Kidd earlier.

(11:11):
We'll probably do that. We'll carve some time out after
NICKI in the two o'clock hour the audio of him
of Bill Simmons kind of throwing a little wet blanket
on NBA expansion talk, and I got some thoughts on
that as well, just from some things that I've kind
of gleaned over the last few days. But it wasn't

(11:31):
great what he said. Now there's a lot of reasons
for that, and I'll kind of explain the context coming
up in the two o'clock hour. As always, you can
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You're ready to molly wop first regular season mallywap of

(11:52):
the year.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
Let's comming up next.

Speaker 6 (12:09):
It's Monday, and that means one thing it's time to
mollywap uncensored, unscripted and filled with the passion that all
Mariners fans can relate to, and brought to you by
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with the Mollywop boys, Nathan Bishop and Chris Crawford with

(12:32):
my oh why, here's Ian Fernets.

Speaker 3 (12:35):
And of course the postcast as well with Crawford and Anders.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
After every Mariner game. It's must listen.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
As I tell them, I know they do a YouTube thing,
I like to wait till they post it on the
podcast because I'm old and I like to have things
done simple. And I figure out a podcast a few
years ago. And that's about as deep as I'll go.
So make sure you go listen to the postcast with
the boys as well. Nathan Bishop Chris Crawford are here.
Sometimes you need a good chuckle, specially when we're we're
fighting some things studio wise here and we got that

(13:02):
because I'll tell people behind the curtain, here's what we do.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
We do this on a zoom. We'd rather do stream yard,
but we have to do zoom.

Speaker 3 (13:08):
For various technical reasons, but we do it on a
zoom and on the little thing where it says everybody's name.
I got Nathan Bishop, I got Jessamin McIntyre, which would
be the studio.

Speaker 1 (13:17):
I got Ian Finesse.

Speaker 3 (13:18):
And we do do this every now and then as
the years go on, we put in different names. In
nineteen eighty six, the NHL Entry Draft and the fourth
round of the eighty first pick overall, the Quebec Nordieks
took a goaltender out of the from the Peterborough Pete
of the Ontario Hockey League. His name is wait for it,
Ronald Frederick Bradley tug Nutt. So Ron Tugnutt is on

(13:41):
today as one of our one of our guests, Ron,
how are you.

Speaker 4 (13:46):
I'm doing good.

Speaker 7 (13:46):
I should have tried to do like a French Canadian accent,
but I don't want to get fired from this.

Speaker 4 (13:50):
But that is Ron tug nuts That stuck with me forever,
my friends.

Speaker 3 (13:56):
You know what, almost six hundred games in the NHL,
So there was tug Nutt was making a difference across
the league. Stop laughing, Nathan. For many years, all I
could think of was he retired in ninety four. I
was thinking, can you imagine our boy Eddie Oulchek with
that name. I was just thinking, I want to hear

(14:19):
ed Zoe with that one. Oh, that would have been good.
All Right, we move on, gentlemen. Weekend one is out
of the way, four games split with the Cleveland Guardians
in the two games to two, and then the Yankees
are in town, which will preview as well. We always
do this, we start out with opening comments. Go ahead,
Nathan Bishop.

Speaker 8 (14:39):
Wow, you know, I think that that was about as
good as I expected the team to look. They were,
in my opinion, significantly the better team on the field.
The fact that it was a two to two split
was really just kind of a baseball being baseball kind
of experience. I feel like we're going to have to
really emphasize these first couple of weeks. Everything that we're

(15:01):
saying is based off this tiny sample size with this team.
We're commenting on four baseball games that have happened thus far.
But this was the most runs of the Marinis scored
through four games since twenty nineteen, So that's seven years
since they've gotten off to this kind of start, their
second and major league baseball in home runs and they
did all of that with Josh Naylor, Julio Rodriguez, and
Cal Rawley just taking a giant douce all over the
field at the plate for four games. So I think

(15:24):
that's a really good sign for people that were optimistic
about this offense. They wanted to point towards the length
of the lineup and the fact that there weren't those
black holes. And I was notably a skeptic coming into it,
but you saw it in that first four game series.
If you're getting that kind of run production without needing
your heavy hitters who you know are going to hit
over the course of one hundred and sixty two games,

(15:46):
that's a great sign, man. And the fact that it's
two and two, well whatever.

Speaker 6 (15:49):
Man.

Speaker 8 (15:49):
They lost a couple of close games on opening Day
and on Saturday a weird extraining game that happens, but
just going play to play stuff on the field, I
think the team looked pretty darn good.

Speaker 7 (16:00):
Chris so In Week one, the Seahawks played the Seattle
Or The Seahawks played the San Francisco forty nine Ers.
Five twenty nine left in the game, brock Perdy completes
a pass short left to Christian McCaffrey pushed out of
bounds at the Seattle forty nine by Devin Witherspoon.

Speaker 4 (16:18):
It's a seven to seven game.

Speaker 7 (16:20):
The forty nine ers are driving and going in for
a field goal. Why am I bringing that up? That
play was at the two point four percent of the
Seattle Seahawks season. We have played two point four percent
of the Seattle Mariners season. Imagine making a judgment about
the Seattle Seahawks with five twenty nine left in the

(16:40):
second quarter, and imagine making judgments about the Seattle Mariners
at that point in the season. This is just a
long way to say, there's a long way to go,
and I know people are really frustrated by what they
saw from cal Ralely, from Julio Rodriguez, from Josh Naylor,
from Gabe Spire, from the manager. There's a lot of
baseball left to be played, and just you know, I

(17:02):
think Nathan hit the nail on the head as he
usually does. The fact that if you just took it
from a pure eye test, the Seattle Mariners looked like
a much better team than the Cleveland Guardians. And the
Cleveland Guardians are going to be a team that's competing
for a playoff spot, partially because the AL Central is
not a great division, but also partially because they're a
scrappy baseball team with a really good manager that is

(17:24):
going to give a lot of teams trouble. I would
have liked to have seen some better end game decisions.
I would have liked to have seen those Big three
get off to a better start, But overall, a two
and two start against a pretty good baseball team, you can.

Speaker 4 (17:38):
Do a lot worse.

Speaker 3 (17:39):
I'm going to get back to the big three, as
you mentioned in a second, and then we'll get to
pitching as well from the weekend, because I think we
saw some really positive things from the starters, especially along
the way. We'll get to all that in a heartbeat.
I mentioned this in our first segment, Chris, and I'll
start with you. What a great situation to have opening
weekend again to quality opponent in which you start looking

(18:03):
through here, Okay, Julio one for fifteen? Uh Naylor, oh
for fifteen. I mean you go through the list. Obviously
Cal had the what one hit?

Speaker 1 (18:11):
Two hits?

Speaker 3 (18:12):
Cal had two hits on the weekend, and you come
away and you split a four game series with a
quality team. That's great. We'll get to those guys in
a second, maybe more importantly, And Nathan just talked about
the length and the depth of the lineup. Yeah, Luke
Flipp and Raley, ladies and gentlemen, I mean Luke Raley,
Dominic can zone those guys having massive weekends. And then Chris,

(18:35):
we talked about it when it happened. Brendan Donovan is
going to help this team and make them better and
we saw that already.

Speaker 4 (18:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (18:41):
Absolutely, It's just so much more of a complete lineup
to start twenty twenty six than it was to start
twenty twenty five. And I thought Brendan Donovan had an
outstanding series. I thought Cole Young looked really good too.
But yeah, this is the thing. Do I think the
Seattle Mariners can be a World Series contender if the
Seattle Mariners have their big three all hitting below one hundred,

(19:03):
which I think all three of them.

Speaker 4 (19:04):
Are right now.

Speaker 7 (19:05):
Yes, absolutely not. What a crazy thing to say. But
it also shows that you don't have to rely on
those guys to win baseball games because you're starting pitching
is good, because your bullpen has talent, because you have
extended this lineup as you mentioned you can win games
with those guys not being at their best, knowing at

(19:25):
some point these guys are going to be at their best.
And by the way, another thing I wanted to point out,
Kyle Rawly didn't hit his first home run until Game
five last year, and everything worked out just fine.

Speaker 3 (19:37):
Lot refresh our memories on that, like, did he hit
a few home runs last year?

Speaker 4 (19:41):
He did.

Speaker 7 (19:42):
In fact, he hit somewhere between fifty nine and sixty one.
As I seem to recall Ron Tugnet's memories, getting a
little long, but it is. Yeah, if everyone's gonna be
just fine. But we did see, like those who watched
all four games like they passed the eye test everything
asked the eye test. And a large reason for that

(20:03):
is because this this lineup is so much more complete
than it has been in the past.

Speaker 3 (20:08):
Nathany agree that kind of the glass half full is
just like looking at, you know, a weekend in which, okay,
your big guys aren't carrying you, but Rayley canzone Cole
Young at times, a Rozarena had a solid weekend, and
certainly Brendan Donovan's been a nice, nice edition to this team.

Speaker 8 (20:23):
Yeah, I mean, anybody who's watched this. The Marigne teams
over the course of time, for any length of time,
has seen so many lineups that, yes, have a few
good to great hitters in them, and when those guys
aren't hitting, it's just nothing, nothing happens. That's part of
what I think has kind of held Julio Rodriguez back
at the early part of his career was he was

(20:44):
asked to carry a pretty crappy group of positional guys
in twenty twenty one and excuse me, twenty twenty two,
twenty twenty three, and he struggled under that weight. Well, now,
when Julio gets off to a slow start and you've
got guys like Brendan Donovan, the guys you already mentioned,
Brendan and hits two home runs, Luke Raley hits three,
Dominic Canzone hits two home runs on opening days, just

(21:05):
makes me look like an idiot. My son's running around
the house flipping me off because he's so happy to
see me look bad. I mean, that's the sign of
a good baseball team, because no baseball teams players are
at their best for one hundred and sixty two games.
That's just not how it works. So there's no reason
to me if you are upset about Luke Railey and

(21:26):
excuse me Luke Raley, Josh Naylor, cal Raley and Huio
Rodriguez having a bad week when the Marriorers went two
and two and outse where their opponent by nine runs. Brother,
take a deep breath, go outside. The NFL draft will
be here soon enough for you. The NFL regular season
will be here soon enough. Just this is what baseball is.

Speaker 4 (21:44):
Man.

Speaker 8 (21:45):
Then they look like a better team. It's because that
lineup one through nine. The worst hitter on there is
Leo Reebos, who's just a pain in the butt to
get out because he will not swing at balls. He
will only swing at pitches in the strike zone. He's
like if JP Crawford could still move side to side,
that's what Leo Revos would be.

Speaker 3 (22:04):
Took only like eight minutes to get a shot at
Chris's kidd. Okay, But it's funny because you're saying that
I sincond. Yeah, this is not a lineup that has
the you know, the Cooper Hummels and the Tommy Lastella's,
the Zebby backup catcher, Zebby Zavalla, whatever the hell his
name was, and all that. It's just it's a better
base it's a deeper baseball team, which in it's Chris mentioned, Yeah,

(22:28):
you're not going to have those guys, Like, there's gonna
be times when you can need somebody else the some
of the parts and some of the parts offensively. I
think we're fun, Nathan, just to stay with you real quick.
How about this? How about Donovan? Like it feels like
forever this team's been looking to find that leadoff hitter,
and maybe they found the guy.

Speaker 8 (22:46):
I mean, there's a reason why every single person who
pays attention to baseball, who gets paid money to cover
baseball was screaming about Brendan Donovan being the number one
trade target for the Seattle Marriers this past offseason. He
is as obvious a pickup for them as Josh Naylor
and Aohano Suarez were at the trade deadline last year.
He just fits everything this team likes to do on

(23:08):
offense and everything they needed on offense. And they needed
a guy who could control the strike zone at the
top of the at the top of the lineup, who
could play adequate defense all over the field, and who
hits for just enough power. As you saw over this
weekend that if you make a mistake to him, he
can put it out to right field. So it really
really really changes things. And again not to just be

(23:29):
labor a point, but it just has a trickle down
effect on the rest of the lineup, where now guys
are not being asked to do things that they don't
do well. A perfect number one hitter is a guy
who gets on base, which is why having Julio Rodriguez,
as much as I love him in that spot, is
tough because he's just not a guy who lets enough
balls go by to draw enough walks to really be

(23:49):
that table setter guy that you'd like to see there.
So he's a great fit man in every way.

Speaker 3 (23:54):
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(24:15):
in right now? It was the first quarter of the
Seahawk game something like that.

Speaker 7 (24:19):
It was, yeah, two point four percent of the season.
Maybe rounding a little bit up.

Speaker 3 (24:23):
Okay, but can I'm gonna make this anyway? Is it
safe to say that Donovan's your leadof hitter and we're
not gonna do this song and dance all year? I mean,
it's kind of a bummer because it takes a topic
off the table for us. I mean we had that,
that was a topic every other week last year.

Speaker 7 (24:35):
Yeah, I think the only topic is going to be
potentially who's hitting leadoff against left handers? Because the first
time that they faced the left hander this year, we
had Rob Refsnyder hitting at the top of the lineup,
And I actually liked that decision. I think that's the
right call. Brendon Donovan is not good against left handed pitching.
It's the biggest bugaboo in his game is that he's
just not gonna be a guy who hits for any

(24:58):
power against.

Speaker 3 (24:58):
Cam Let me jump in, let me jump in a
What is that going to have to be the norm? Then?
Is he not going to be in against lefties?

Speaker 7 (25:05):
I think he's going to play against lefties. I just
think he's not going to be nearly as effective they
hit him six. I would actually drop him probably further
down in the lineup there. Maybe you drop him to
eighth or ninth. I think ninth makes sense as that
second lead off guy, something that I think sometimes gets overstated.
But that'll obviously be dependent on when JP Crawford gets

(25:26):
back in this lineup. But I do believe Rob Refschneider
is going to be a solid option at the top
of that lineup against righty's. I'm not worried about the
top of this lineup at all, which is something that
I cannot say I have said very often for the
Seattle Mariners.

Speaker 8 (25:41):
I think if you also are concerned about the ratings
and just our ability to have like that really fun
hot topic conversation, I will, without wanting to manifest anything,
just point out that Brendan Donovan has not stayed super
healthy throughout the course of his career. So there's a
good chance we'll have thirty to forty games or so
where we can argue about that over the summer. So
that's some to look forward to.

Speaker 3 (26:00):
Yeah, what, yeah, I mean, we can't losing Topics four
games end of the season, Like we got that, got it?
I mean, it's it's we can't be going down that road.
All right, Well, let's let's let this is Molly want Monday.
So let's go ahead and just discuss. I'm gonna start
with Cal for a second, Chris, and I'll let you.
I'll let you start because you brought it up. He
didn't hit his first home run til Game five last year,
but he didn't have a good WBC. Uh, and obviously

(26:24):
this weekend was not great for him as well. We
all know what this guy can do. I would, and
nobody knows what's going on in his head. And I'm
gonna almost guessing right now, but I wonder how much
pressure he puts on himself, Like, and to follow up
what he did last year is impossible, and no one
would expect him to follow that up. But it just
from the WBC to this first weekend, I mean, that's

(26:45):
that's not the cow we're used to see.

Speaker 7 (26:48):
No, it wasn't the best version of Cal or anything
close to it. And I would imagine that some of
this was just a case of maybe trying to do
a little bit too much, and you know that that
makes sense, right, Like a guy who wants to get
off to a hot start, who all of a sudden
has so much attention on him, and I think he'll
handle it with a plump because he's done nothing but

(27:09):
succeed as a major league player, obviously to a much
different level in twenty twenty five than in twenty twenty four,
twenty twenty three, twenty twenty two. But yeah, just you know,
some pitches that he swung at outside of the strike
zone that we just typically don't see. Struck out fifty
five or six percent of his plate appearances, which is
just a absolutely bonkers number, hasn't barreled of baseball yet.

(27:33):
His best swing was he after Donovan hit the home
run to hit the leadoff homer, was the foul ball
that he hit.

Speaker 4 (27:42):
He's gonna be fine. He's gonna be fine. But I
do think it's a case of him maybe pressing just
a little bit.

Speaker 8 (27:49):
Yeah, I think, Mariner fans, I'm sure Cal's gonna be fine.
Like what Chris is saying, He's We've got a four
year track record here of him being either the best
catcher in baseball or one of the best three to five,
Like that's I don't see any reason why any of
that's going to change. I think we as fans need
to think about how we're going to react if cal
Rawley has a twenty twenty two through twenty twenty four

(28:11):
cal Rawley season as opposed to a twenty twenty five
because that's going to feel on some just gut level
like a disappointment because he just hit sixty home runs,
he won the home run Derby. In my opinion, he
was the face of the twenty twenty five regular season
for the entire sport. It was cal Rawley's year last year.

(28:31):
So how are we going to react if he goes
back to being a two twenty hitter that hits thirty
one home runs and plays great defense behind the plate,
because that's who he was from twenty twenty two through
twenty twenty four. And I think the challenge is on
us to remind ourselves and us on this program that
if he does that, and if he's something like, you know,
seventy percent of what he was last year, to make

(28:52):
sure that everybody remembers that's still a damn good baseball
player and probably either the best one on this team
or the second best depending on what kind of season
Hue Rodriguez has, He's going to be just fine. He's
probably not going to hit sixty home runs again because
I think they keep showing that graphic. Not a ton
of people have done that in the American League and
baseball has been going on since the Civil Wars. So

(29:13):
probably not going to see that happen again. But yeah,
he's going to be okay. We need to be okay
with him not being what he was last year.

Speaker 3 (29:20):
Yeah, well, I think you know, last year he carried
a team to the playoffs and division title. Offensively with
that year he had, as we just talked about and
we've talked about a lot of in the offseason, they're
a deeper baseball team this last year. They probably needed him,
Chris to hit sixty this year. They don't need him
to hit sixty this year for them to get to
the playoffs. Before we get to the break, and we'll

(29:41):
do a quick segment after this, but Chris, I'm gonna
throw this one out there again. This is the sample
size is really small, but I think it's worth talking
about expectations for Josh Naylor because we saw this the
version of Josh Naylor.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
We saw.

Speaker 3 (29:55):
I think Nate brought this up last week. The version
Josh Naylor we saw last year was crazy good. What
are the expectations, Chris? What are realistic expectations for Josh
Naylor over one hundred and sixty two games here?

Speaker 7 (30:07):
I don't think it's crazy to have similar expectations. Like
he had an eight thirty one OPS with Seattle. His
career high OPS is eight forty two. Like, I don't
think it's insane to think he could put up similar numbers.
The difference is to stolen bases, right, like going nineteen
for nineteen and fifty four games, which literally puts you
on a fifty seven stolen base case. That is not

(30:30):
going to happen, Folks, That's just not going to happen.
I hope it does. We love our Triple B's, our
big Beef boys, and we would love to see that happen.
But everything else, offensively, it's well within reason for him.
He's been about an eight twenty to eight forty ops
guy since twenty twenty three. I don't see any reason now.
Maybe it's a little different. Maybe we see a few

(30:52):
more balls go over the fence, Maybe we see or
maybe we see a higher batting on base percentage. Either way,
I think the production is going to be pretty similar,
the difference being the stolen bases. I just cannot imagine
teams aren't going to pay more attention to Naylor once
he starts getting on base. But again, he doesn't have
to be a nine hundred ops guy to be successful

(31:14):
in this lineup. If he's the guy who he's been
from twenty twenty three on, he's going to be a
really good baseball player and help the Seattle Mariners win
a lot of games.

Speaker 1 (31:22):
All right, we'll take a quick break. We'll come back.

Speaker 3 (31:23):
I want to touch in on the pitching because it
was I mentioned this suggests in the opening segment. I
kind of chuckled watching Brian Wu beat himself up the
other day, like the guys like the Master of Perfection. Dude,
you had a quality start. You were fine, like you
you were okay. There was no issue with Brian Wu.
And yet I need to be better than all this,
Like no, dude, you're good, like you're you're fine. That

(31:44):
was I mean, starting pitching for the weekend, I think good.
And tonight Castile goes to the mat against the Yankees.
We'll talk about the Yankees series. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the
Yankees are in town. We'll talk about that next to
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Speaker 3 (32:37):
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Speaker 1 (32:54):
Chris.

Speaker 3 (32:54):
The starting pitchers the four Stars this weekend gave up
a combined six earned runs total in four games. Bullpen
was what it was. Maybe we'll split it up starters
and bullpen thoughts on both.

Speaker 4 (33:08):
Starting pitching looked really good.

Speaker 7 (33:09):
When when Logan Gilbert five and a third, three run
baseball is easily your worst start, you're doing pretty dang good.
I was really impressed with what I saw from George Kirby.
From Brian wo up until the sixth inning, and I
don't think you could say enough good things about how
good Emerson Hancock looked. And boy, that's a really intriguing

(33:29):
thing if he is that version, that version of the
guy who was going to be the next big starting pitcher,
not that long ago, twenty nineteen, I guess that's a
little bit long ago. But he looked really good. That
sweeper looked awesome. The bullpen looked okay, like you know,
Andres Munoz gives up that homer to Chase, please test
him before the game's the latter because that's apparently the

(33:52):
greatest baseball player of all time.

Speaker 4 (33:55):
But it wasn't a bad pitch.

Speaker 7 (33:56):
It was ninety seven running away from him and he
happens to take it out. Gabe Spire maybe didn't look
the best. Bizardo had some command issues, but overall I
would give the pitching an a. I thought they looked
really good against the deceptively tough lineup. Jose Ramirez is
a superstar, chased a lotter obviously is on his way.
There's a bunch of scrappy, pesky hitters that are tough

(34:17):
to get out, and the Seattle Mariners did a pretty
darn good job of handling him.

Speaker 8 (34:21):
Nathan Pitching, I'm gonna politely. I think that this is
everything Chris just said about the Guardians being pesky. I
agree with They were twenty eighth in WRC plus last year.
They were one of the very worst hitting teams in
baseball by that metric. I thought Emerson Hancock looked awesome.
I was watching that sweeper move in ways that it
hasn't moved. It's like, that's the thing. There's results with

(34:43):
Emerson Hancock where he's pitching against a bad The other
start that he had going back to last year where
he looked good was against the Colorado Rockies, another really
really bad hitting team. So there's that. There's the results
against bad offense. But then you can see that sweeper.
It's noticeably different than how it has been in other
parts of his career. So that's the thing to watch.
Can he carry that well, that sweeper shape carry him

(35:05):
against more competent offensive guys. I thought the starting rotation
was great, and if Emerson Hancock is eighty percent of that,
they're going to continue to be great because they're all
great pitchers. The bullpen. I think the guys that struggled
will be fine. The big hit that Spier gave up
was J Joser Ramirez golfing of perfectly fine pitch off
of his ankles that Randy A. Roseraina probably could have

(35:27):
gotten if he could have gotten into second gear, but
maybe it was neither the time nor the place for
him to consider doing so. And uh so, Yeah, I
think they're gonna be fine. I think the big issue
is gonna come down too close and late whether we're
gonna really use Casey Lakama in every high leverage situation
moving forward. But you know that's less to do with
the actual arms himself, the whole other X factor.

Speaker 3 (35:48):
Yeah, and I want to I think I think that
was a postcast topic. If I'm not mistaken, is the
high lest I mean, is Matt Brash is still in
the roster?

Speaker 1 (35:55):
Correct? Chris?

Speaker 4 (35:56):
Yeah, okay, definitely is he?

Speaker 8 (35:59):
Okay, I just I'm not sure. So I thought that
we'd like Amina though.

Speaker 1 (36:02):
Is also Dan Wilson know that?

Speaker 3 (36:05):
Yeah, that's the quest. I mean, the lack of deployment
of Brash. That was kind of the question. I think
you guys talked about it on one of those postcasts.

Speaker 4 (36:13):
Chris yeah, that's the thing.

Speaker 7 (36:15):
And it's not like he wasn't completely unavailable because we
saw him getting hot in that situation. And you know,
it's also worth pointing out Josier Ramirez was better against
left handed pitching, one of the rare switch hitters that
was better against left handed pitching last year than right handers.
There were a lot of mistakes from Dan Wilson in
this series. I thought the way he handled pinch hitting

(36:35):
was a mistake. I thought the bullpen usage was a mistake.
I don't have any issues with the line of construction
or anything like that.

Speaker 4 (36:43):
And again, his.

Speaker 7 (36:44):
Clearly a guy people like playing for. But the concerns
that I had about Dan Wilson coming into twenty twenty six,
as small as that percentage is of games played, No
questions were answered, none of them whatsoever. Unfortunately, there was
more confirmation biased than questions answered.

Speaker 3 (37:02):
Well, boys, let's get to this. The Yankees roll into town.
They are three and zero. Nice little three games sweep
to start the season for the Yankees, if I'm seeing
this correctly, Chris. After three games that yeah, yeah, yeah,
the Yankees. They scored thirteen runs and allowed one in

(37:23):
three games. That's a plus twelve run differential after three games.

Speaker 7 (37:29):
Yeah what Yeah, I will tell you this that you
can do the math here. The Yankees are on pace
to go one hundred and sixty two, and oh the
Giants are on pace to go oh and one hundred
and sixty two.

Speaker 4 (37:42):
Yankees are a good baseball team.

Speaker 7 (37:43):
I will also point out that Giants lineup just looks
like I haven't used this one in a while, ten
pounds of crap in five pound bag.

Speaker 4 (37:50):
But they have a lot of talent. It is a
talented baseball team.

Speaker 7 (37:54):
You know, Aaron Judge, I don't think should have won
the MVP, but he's one of the best hitters in
baseball without question, and one of the best hitters of
my lifetime.

Speaker 4 (38:02):
It's a good baseball team.

Speaker 7 (38:04):
And the interesting test here now, too is a couple
lefties on the mound for New York, one of them
a really good one in Max Freed. This is a
really good test, a really good test. A series win
here would be, as early as it is, and as
much as I'm being a hypocrite, a really strong sign.

Speaker 3 (38:20):
So what I'm hearing, Nathan is that the Yankees are
good at baseball? Is that true? Can you confirm.

Speaker 8 (38:27):
I mean, I don't know they Aaron Judges made what
one World Series in ten years, and the ear in
the big leagues, like if George Steinbrenner were still alive,
he wouldn't be standing for any of this nonsense. And
I think that they're all like a bunch of frauds
and they keep you know, they couldn't keep one Soda
because they couldn't afford him because they're broke, which is
really sad. And they can't keep any of their stars

(38:47):
other than Aaron Judge because they're paying him to be
the whole team and all he does is just hit
home run after an in the regular season and what
does he do in the postseason, Bob he falls a
plot because he's not a big time playoff. Why he's
got no rings. So I'm sure they're perfectly fine and talented.
I expect the Marriors to look like they belong on
the same field with them in a way that they

(39:08):
haven't always done, because I actually think they can go
toe to toe with him. I love the left handed
pitching matchup that Chris touched on because that is going
to be a bugaboo for this lineup, and I want
to see how they can handle it with guys like
Donovan and those other guys we talked about Naylor and
some other guys getting kind of shorthanded on the lefty
on lefty, So that'll be a really fun thing to see.
If they get swept, it'll be fun to scream about it.

(39:28):
And then they get to go play the Angels and
do whatever. The only team in Major League Baseball to
hit more home runs than your Seattle Marriage thus far,
the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, California, right next to
Disneyland Resorts.

Speaker 1 (39:39):
Mike Trout, let's let's do this.

Speaker 3 (39:41):
We always highways like to finish it off, all right,
So you got three of the Yankees and then a
day off, and then you head to Disneyland to take
on the two and two at so far Angels as well.

Speaker 1 (39:50):
Chris, what are the expectations for the week?

Speaker 7 (39:54):
You should go four and two, You should you should win.
This is treading up games. Yeah, it's not going to
be like a The Angels are pesky like, They've got
some guys who can hit and none of them are
hurt yet. So then that's a little bit more difficult
series than it might be. In July, but yeah, I'll
say a four and two week.

Speaker 8 (40:12):
Yeah, I agree, you're a better team than the Angels,
but they're gonna make those games annoying, and you're they're
not gonna be as easy as you'd like for them
to be because of the reasons that Chris said. I
really am just mostly excited for the Yankee series. If
they can win two out of three there, it's gonna
be awesome. Let's go two and one in each series
and be four and two, and then they put them
in at eight and nope, six and four when we
talks in a.

Speaker 3 (40:32):
Week, Well, what the hell if if they if they
keep winning or doing good things, it's make the show
really difficult and challenging.

Speaker 8 (40:39):
Hey man, six and four puts them on pace to
win what one hundred and five games or something.

Speaker 7 (40:43):
Like that, ninety six and sixty six, So basically is
right exactly what it would be.

Speaker 4 (40:47):
By the way, speaking of annoying, I was just thinking
about it the other day. Sorry, Oh well, yeah, very
much so. By the way, that's he's not even on
this show. I know.

Speaker 7 (40:57):
I know you guys don't have stream Yard because you
found out about that sound effects sport and you didn't
want me hitting the joint button over and over and
over again. And that's totally fine, but I was thinking
about the annoying Do you guys remember when that series
against the Angels where it froze on the Jose Suarez
pitch and he kept playing that pitch over.

Speaker 3 (41:16):
And oh, yes, yes, yes over again.

Speaker 4 (41:21):
I miss you read sports.

Speaker 3 (41:22):
That was the best rip. All right, so let's do this.
Chris working with tonight postgame.

Speaker 7 (41:29):
Good postcast, locked on, locked on Mariners. Please check us out.
We go live right after every game and check out
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Speaker 4 (41:44):
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Speaker 1 (41:46):
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Speaker 3 (41:47):
Go check it out postcast after the game tonight. Thanks boys,
we'll talk to you in a week's time.

Speaker 1 (41:51):
There you go.

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Speaker 1 (42:39):
They yeah, yeah, yeah, the Yankees. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (42:41):
Three game series starting tonight. By the way, the lineup
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Speaker 3 (44:07):
Today, it was the first time in three years my
club crunch has been normal.

Speaker 5 (44:11):
And guess what happens?

Speaker 3 (44:12):
Dever Cole gets up six runs in the first inning
to the Seattle maddenis, Oh God, I love that. That
was I believe. I believe three years ago. Nicky Scarlatta,
how are you, buddy?

Speaker 10 (44:30):
Nick Bella is what are we doing?

Speaker 5 (44:32):
How are we?

Speaker 3 (44:33):
Uh? You tell me, my man, you tell me how
are things going?

Speaker 2 (44:36):
Hey?

Speaker 3 (44:36):
Your Yankees are three and oh they got a plus
twelve run differential right now.

Speaker 10 (44:41):
Yeah, you know what that makes me think. So it's
not gonna last.

Speaker 3 (44:47):
It's been a while. For those who missed that viral
moment on Instagram years ago, we had nikkiya a couple
of times after that. It's been a while, probably been
at least a years since we had you on. But
wanted to get you out with the Yankees. Let's and
I could talk to writers and all those others stuff
to preview the Yankee series. I told Jessman, my great producer,
I said, now let's get nick we gotta get Nikki on.

Speaker 4 (45:05):
Man.

Speaker 3 (45:05):
Let me ask you this, Yeah, let me ask how
what did that that viral moment? How did that change
your life?

Speaker 8 (45:16):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (45:16):
Man, honestly, and I'll tell you why. That moment made
me realize the power of social media. You know, at
the time, I was still in my union construction job
in Manhattan, and uh, obviously when the when the video
blew up, I had a couple of connects with simply
Seattle and the man who sent the jersey. You guys
flew me out and stuff, and it really made me realize, like, wow,
social media really is a powerful tool. And now fast

(45:37):
forward three years, my brother and I have been doing
social media and acting full time as a career the
last two and a half years and been blessed by God. Man,
So you gotta say, thank God.

Speaker 1 (45:46):
That's unbelievable. So does acting going on?

Speaker 3 (45:49):
I mean the social for people on follow I got
to follow them on Instagram especially, and probably I'm sure
TikTok and stuff too.

Speaker 2 (45:54):
Treasure.

Speaker 3 (45:55):
Yeah, you and you and your you and your brother,
but and your dad's a big part of it as well.

Speaker 1 (45:59):
What's how's the get going, man? What's going on with that?

Speaker 10 (46:02):
Oh, it's going great, it's growing. Grady In. We're actually
in the We got into seg the hacking Union stelg Astra.
We got in about a year ago. We did a
show that's releasing June twelve in the Power Universe, which
is fifty cent show. It's releasing June twelfth, season five
of Raising Canaan. We have our movie script almost eighty
percent done, so it's we're rocking and rolling them.

Speaker 3 (46:24):
Man, it feels too like everything you're doing is based
on you and your family and being real.

Speaker 1 (46:31):
Is that safe to say?

Speaker 3 (46:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (46:33):
Man, it's safe to say. And the only thing I
would say is sometimes I do AMPTI accent up a
little bit when I get excited, but then sometimes, like
I'm talking now, I'm kind of calm because if I
talked like that twenty four seven, I'd probably pass out.
You know what, My help wouldn't be looking through good.

Speaker 3 (46:49):
Your Dad's a big part of it. Two, I gotta
tell you this, So tell people about your dad. What's
what's Joe like? Because I if people haven't seen the videos,
He's cooking for you guys all the time, and it
usually ends up just being all almost like a battle
like it's like a war zone in there. Sometimes what's
Joe Like?

Speaker 10 (47:06):
I would man's he's I'm biased for saying this, but
he's the best cook, in my opinion, in the world.
And it's crazy because he was a construction worker's whole life,
but he was never like a chef or anything. And he,
you know, picked it up from my grandma over the years.
She told him and I was passing it down and
he just has the passion for the patients and his dishes.
Were actually trying to do a cook control with him

(47:27):
and get a cookbook work in in the next like
three to six months because I got to give the
people what they want. They want the recipes.

Speaker 3 (47:33):
Well, listen, Sunday sauce, and I I gotta tell you this, Honestly,
I did the Sunday sauce yesterday. All day.

Speaker 1 (47:40):
I was it's fantastic.

Speaker 3 (47:42):
Like and listen, you're talking about a half Canadian white
kid out here in the Northwest, but I'm watching him.
I'm watching your dad. I had to listen. I had
the short ribs, you know, got those things going, and
I mean the whole sausage everything. Man, it was, and
it was it was good. We're gonna have leftover, so
now I can't wait. It was awesome. But and part
of it is, you know, lots of wine in the sauce.

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Some wine goes in you, some wine goes in the sauce.
And I'm trying to channel matter, Joe, is what I'm doing, Buddy.
I'm trying to channel your dad through me. Is what
I was doing last night watching Little March Madness and
making the sauce. It was I was thinking that because
you guys have, how much fun do you have, the
three of you, especially.

Speaker 10 (48:21):
Ah Man, It's it's amazing. It's SIT's so fun being
in the kitchen with event and recording it. And it's
also even amazing to see like the response on the
internet of how many people support it and they're like, oh,
this reminds me of my family growing up, this and that,
and you know, they really love it, man. So it's
amazing and a blessing to be working on my father
like this, and my twin brother obviously as well.

Speaker 3 (48:39):
Yeah, Nicki Scarlotta joining us here from New York, and
we of course remember him from a few years ago.
Our simply Seattle friends and the Mariners brought you out,
which was awesome.

Speaker 1 (48:47):
Is okay?

Speaker 3 (48:48):
Listen, Nobody in New York's listening right now. One of
them is, well, Jess is from New York, but we're
not gonna count her because she's been here long enough.
Are you kind of a closet Mariner fan?

Speaker 1 (48:59):
If it's not with the Yankees, I am.

Speaker 10 (49:01):
Yeah, I tell you listen, you guys showed me so
much love, and I really really love your guys team.
If I'm not rooting for the Yankees, I'm rooting for Seattle.

Speaker 9 (49:08):
Man.

Speaker 10 (49:08):
That's why it was a pain when that we had
to versue you guys last year in playoffs.

Speaker 1 (49:11):
You know, I know, well, okay, who was the MVP
last year? Who should have been the MVP?

Speaker 10 (49:17):
The big dumper, the big dump.

Speaker 3 (49:23):
The big dump. So you would have if Nicky had
a vote, you would have you would have voted the
Big Dumper over over Aaron Judge.

Speaker 10 (49:30):
I'll tell you why I would have leaned that way,
because it's like, whenever again you're gonna see Ketcher hit
sixty home runs. It was like the most surreal thing ever,
you know, I switched hitting Catcher hitting sixty something home ups. Wow,
you know, and everyone's gonna listen, Aaron Judge. He had
an amazing season. He batted three thirty I think, with
like fifty two or fifty three homers. But you know, me,
as a Yankee fan, I'll trade the MVP and I

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want the championship.

Speaker 3 (49:53):
Well, what's the deal, man, This guy can't do they
have enough around him? What's going on with this Yankee team?

Speaker 5 (49:57):
Tell me?

Speaker 3 (49:58):
I mean they obviously the Giants are awful, buddy. Let's
let's be honest. The Giants aren't very good, right, So like,
you just beat up on this, you beat up on
the JV team this weekend, So that that's fine, then
plus twelve and all that do the Yankees have enough
around Aaron Judge. What's the talk back in New York
about this year's Yankee team?

Speaker 10 (50:13):
Honestly, and I think it's they're kind of in a
sense running it back. They have the same roster as
last year. You know, we paid all the pitchers, we
brought them some bullpen arms, made trades last year before
the deadline, and then you have it's kind of a
question of the young guys. You know, Volpi's on the
ir right now. You've got Caballero at short stop, do
Mingas and Spencer Jones are both you know in Triple A.

(50:33):
So it's kind of like we have to be sustainable
because the Yankees love to start hot and then by
July late June, you know, they get into the mid
season slump. Then they usually finish the season strong. But
what happens is in my opinion, am I humble opinion?

Speaker 4 (50:47):
Ian?

Speaker 10 (50:48):
I don't think the home run or nothing approach works
today with the advanced pitching and everything. I think we
need more contact hitters, we need people stealing bases, and
we got to focus more on defense because we already
got Judge and Stanton, if they're healthy, those are top hitters.
We need a lot of contact. In my opinion, we
need more hitting for average on the New York Yankees.

Speaker 1 (51:06):
How's the football situation going for you guys back there
these days?

Speaker 10 (51:09):
I mean, it's good for me because I'm a Giants fan,
and at least there's optimism for the Jets fans and
a lot of my boys are Jets fans. I can't
say it's looking too good. They just traded for Gino Smith. Again,
It's like twenty ten all over again.

Speaker 3 (51:21):
But what shop I wanted to ask you, what's the
reaction to Gino running it back with Gino for the Jets? Like,
what's the reaction in New York for that?

Speaker 10 (51:30):
Honestly, man, I think the Jets fans were like, Okay, listen,
Gino Smith. He had a good year two years ago. Obviously,
last year he didn't play well, but in a sense
he's better than justin fields, right, So it couldn't get
worse from last year because last year that was like
the worst team I've ever watched in my life. They
were the first team since nineteen thirty three to not
record an interception. It within like a whole regular season.
Their leading passer was justin fields with twelve hundred yards,

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their leading receiver with Gabret Wilson with four hundred yards,
and then he got hurt in Week seven didn't even
play the rest of the season. So yeah, the Jets
is just a sad dumps the fire and they deserve better, sadly.

Speaker 3 (52:03):
But as a Giants fan, you had to suffer through
the Russell Wilson experience last year. Buddy, that's no fun.
I'm gonna tell you right now that like this, it's
not vintage Russ you had. You had Sierra Russ. You
didn't get you didn't get Seahawk Russ. You got Sierra
Russ last year.

Speaker 10 (52:16):
I wish we got Seahawk Russ. We'd being in a
nice spot.

Speaker 6 (52:19):
You know.

Speaker 10 (52:20):
That's the thing. It's so weird. Like it's like I
feel like Russ the older he got, he got like inconsistent.
Like that second game on the season, he threw for
like four hundred and forty yards and three touchdowns. Then
the next game it's like he couldn't complete a pass.
I just didn't understand it all.

Speaker 3 (52:33):
Right, before we let you go again, tell people where
they can find your stuff, because I think it's pretty cool.
You're in sagging. After you got all these things going on,
people want to catch up with you and find out
where how can they do so?

Speaker 10 (52:44):
Yeah at Nikki Scarlatta at Scarlatta Twins my twins page
at Joe Just Scalata is my twin. I just started
my podcast up about three months ago. It's going really
well the side of podcast. It's a lot going on
right now. But I want to definitely take a trip
back out to Seattle.

Speaker 2 (52:58):
Man.

Speaker 10 (52:58):
I miss the atmosphere, the seafood, I missed the energy.
It was such a great time.

Speaker 2 (53:02):
June first is the Mets series. If you want to
come out from oh.

Speaker 3 (53:05):
There you go, huh, come out and see the Mets.
Like you can't be a Mets fan, right because you're
the one or the other.

Speaker 1 (53:10):
How's that.

Speaker 10 (53:11):
Let's not let's not get crazy and I'm not a
Mets fan.

Speaker 2 (53:14):
Okay, there's no cross pollines.

Speaker 3 (53:16):
Yeah, no, cross pollination has just said you can't do that, right,
it's one or the other.

Speaker 2 (53:19):
Oh yeah, I'm Mets just and Islanders. So I'm a loser, Nikki.

Speaker 10 (53:23):
Ooh, that's it's it's been a rough twenty five years.

Speaker 2 (53:27):
Yeah, my face shows it.

Speaker 10 (53:30):
We'll get out of here, but listen, one hundred percent.
I would love to. And I want to bring my
father and my brother the next time too, because my
dad's never been out there. He's never been on the
West coast. So I would love to. And uh, going
back to what I was saying before, I think Soto
going to the to the Mets over the Yankees in
the off season kind of reignited the Yankees Mets rivalry.
I was kind of dead for the last like sixteen

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years since the subways Herei's are two thousand.

Speaker 4 (53:53):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (53:54):
I love it all right, give it.

Speaker 3 (53:55):
Give us one more time, give us your thought, give
us the marriage one more time before you say god.

Speaker 10 (53:58):
I mean, how can I not the able man might
beat the Yankees tonight. You never know because Castille's pitching, right.

Speaker 1 (54:04):
Yeah he is. He got castile.

Speaker 3 (54:05):
Because that's going to hurt you blood pressure, man, that's
gonna hurt your blood pressure.

Speaker 10 (54:09):
I have high cholesterol at twenty seventy and I don't
know how much more it could take.

Speaker 3 (54:13):
Well, it's the Sunday Sauce, Nikki. It's the Sunday Sauce
has given that to you, right, just but you know
what they say a little much little glass of wine.
You'll be fine that he'll he'll cut through it perfectly,
all right.

Speaker 10 (54:24):
Yeah, well we'll be all right, we'll be good, we'll
be good, we'll be healthy.

Speaker 1 (54:27):
Hey, listen.

Speaker 3 (54:28):
Great to hear it from you, man, And really, more
than anything, congratulations. The story is awesome. The success that
you and your brother and your dad. I mean, just
the fact that there's a viral moment on social media
with of all things, the Seattle Mariners, of all things,
of all teams, the Marators and a social like who
would have put that thing together, but it did. And
look at your having great success. Man, I'm so happy

(54:48):
for It's great to catch up and hopefully you get
out here in June. I know, Jess, we'll talk to
you about that, and hopefully we'll see in person soon.

Speaker 10 (54:54):
Bud ah Man, I would love it, and thank you
as always for having me. Man, God bless and I
can't I can look forward enough to the game tonight.
I'm really excited for it, even though it starts a
little late here in the East coast, but we'll be
around today.

Speaker 3 (55:07):
Nine to forty Eastern time. Huh, that's not too late.
You should be fine. You're not having him get up
for construction anymore. So you're okay, you can do that.

Speaker 10 (55:13):
You know, my dad wanted to stay up. But my
dad will be sleeping by at least ten time thirty
by the second in and I think he's knocking out.

Speaker 3 (55:19):
Well, no cal Rawley in the lineup tonight, so you
guys have a little bit better shot.

Speaker 1 (55:23):
So he's uh, he's got.

Speaker 10 (55:24):
He's not playing tonight.

Speaker 1 (55:25):
Yeah, you know, it's got. It's four days, got to
take a day off. I guess. I don't know. He's
a switch hitter. I don't know why he's not playing,
but yeah, whatever.

Speaker 10 (55:31):
I know, well, you know, as he started a little cold,
maybe they just want to give him a day. You
let him recalibrate, you know.

Speaker 1 (55:35):
I think that's what they're doing. I think that's what
they're doing.

Speaker 3 (55:37):
All Right, we'll talk to you soon.

Speaker 10 (55:38):
Thanks Nicky, Thanks thanks, thank you guys, talk soon, all right.

Speaker 3 (55:41):
All right, I love it. There you go, Nicki scarletta
Scarlett of the the icon that he is from three
years ago. Guy, It's crazy how time flies. We have
three years ago, that viral moment, and the cool thing
now is how it has just like social media. I mean,
we talk about it often. It's one of those things
that sometimes it frustrates a lot of us. I don't
love it at times, but then there's a good that

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comes out of it, and that's a great story. This
guy was his blue collar working in the unions, grinding
away on a day to day basis and construction in
New York, and all of a sudden, that one moment
has given him a brand new lease on life career,
him and his brother and the acting they're doing. All
that very very cool, all right, four one four to
five one. That is kumadadge text line four nine, four
to five one to combadage text line. What I'd like

(56:23):
to do, Jess is if I could, Yes, if we
have that? Do you have Bill Simmons audio?

Speaker 2 (56:29):
Sure? And I have it ready.

Speaker 3 (56:31):
Okay, this is what the Bill Simmons podcast. MJ and
Chris played this earlier, and I was driving in I
listen and I heard it, and it just there's a
couple of things that jumped out of me. But of
course everybody knows Bill Simmons been, you know, one of
those media guys, been around forever and very successful and
very has very good contacts, very.

Speaker 1 (56:47):
Dialed in with the NBA, sure is. And here's what
he says about Seattle.

Speaker 11 (56:52):
If you live in Seattle and you read and consumed
all this stuff the last week or so, you're like,
this is amazing, We're getting the Sonics back.

Speaker 4 (56:59):
Here we go. That's not what's happening.

Speaker 1 (57:00):
And I think it's.

Speaker 11 (57:01):
Really weird how the league is handling this. Why not
just be transparent and say, hey, we're just curious to
see what we get for these expansion teams. This doesn't
mean we're going to have expansion. Instead, you've completely led
this poor Seattle people on who now think they're getting
a team. And I don't know if that's true. If
the goal is we have to right or wrong in Seattle.
First of all, you never should have took the team

(57:22):
from Seattle in the first place. Criminal when it happened,
I still can't believe it happened. They let it happen,
and they didn't rectify it for almost twenty years. You
better know you're going to have a team in Seattle
in the next three years, because to extend this to
make it seem like it's going to happen and then
pull the rug out from under them again would be
pretty stuck.

Speaker 2 (57:41):
It would be it would be I think that was
a good term to use too.

Speaker 3 (57:45):
The first part of what he said, though, can you
peel like the first ten or fifteen seconds again real quick?

Speaker 2 (57:49):
Yes, please, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 11 (57:53):
If you live in Seattle and you read and consumed
all this stuff the last week or so, you're like,
this is amazing, We're getting the Sonics back.

Speaker 4 (58:00):
Here we go.

Speaker 11 (58:00):
That's not what's happening. And I think it's really weird
how the league is handled in this. Why not just
be transparent and say, hey, we're just curious to see
what we get for these expansion teams. This doesn't mean
we're going to have expansion in state.

Speaker 1 (58:13):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (58:14):
So it's an interesting thing that he's thrown out there,
because I think the feeling all along for all of
us out here and those who cover it, those who
are dialed in with it, those who are talking to
people that are in the know about it, is that
the NBA, and this is one of the things I've
had a problem with the NBA. And then you listen

(58:35):
to the show, everybody knows. I just think Adam Silver
is a zero in a lot of ways, and I
guess maybe especially compared to Hayes, his predecessor, and nobody
out here likes David Stern.

Speaker 1 (58:46):
It's just David Stearn's.

Speaker 3 (58:48):
One of the main culprits in the team leaving. His
ego was one of the main culprits in the Sonics leaving,
not the one, but it was certainly a contributing factor Silver.
But because David Searn can control stuff in the NBA,
if David Stern said this is what was going to
happen in the NBA, it did. I'm going to move
a team from here, I'm going to expand a team there.
I'm going to relocate. I'm going to do this, but

(59:08):
I'm going to block a relocation Sacramento, what have you.
I don't know if Silver has that same juice. I
don't think he does. But the one thing with Silver
and the NBA that has been really apparent over the
last couple three years, especially cincerally in the last five
six years since climate Pledgerina became a viable option to
play NBA games in is that they have been very

(59:30):
cautious with what they say about Seattle and or any expansion.
They have been very calculated, very measured in some ways
very conservative about what they've done in terms of expansion,
to the frustration of many of us, me included, And
for them to come out last week and say, Okay,

(59:50):
we had the vote and we are moving ahead, you know,
exploring the two markets Seattle in Vegas, and basically we
had the third the twenty three votes for that, we'll
probably have the twenty three votes. I'm paraphrasing here. He
didn't say this, but we'll have the twenty three votes
later on. So I'm not sure where Bill Simmons is
getting that from. I do know that he's kind of

(01:00:11):
a James Dolan guy, the Knicks owner, maybe a mouthpiece
for him. Maybe that's where he's hearing it from him.
Right And as we were talking about it earlier, Andrews
and I were talking about it, because he pointed out,
he goes, you know, Simmons is a guy that really
has been anti expansion, you know, and from from the
media standpoint. So I just don't put a lot of

(01:00:33):
stock into that. Simmons has great contacts, very good reputation
in that regard. I don't think he threw it out
there flippantly, but I think he's I think he's a
little wrong. I think he's off track. I think we're
very much in line. I do believe that we're going
to see a basketball thrown up in the air at

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center Court at Climate Pledge Arena in the fall of
twenty twenty eight. I believe it's also going to be
a team that will have a group of owners but
that ownership group will be led by Samantha Hallway and
the One Roof group as well. It doesn't pencil out
to have another group come in buy an expansion team,

(01:01:15):
pay that expansion fee, and not be a primary tenant
or even a secondary tenant under the same umbrella, instead
coming in where you would have to be negotiating with
basically one Roof for everything. It just doesn't pencil out.
It doesn't make any sense. You never say never, but

(01:01:36):
I think what I saw is it's fifteen percent equals
majority ownership in the NBA. So let's say that the
Kraken ownership group has fifteen and whatever the other eighty
five percent comes from, it comes in. There's no concerns
about money. I don't think we're going to see another
a bidding process. I don't even think the NBA would

(01:01:59):
be have any type of appetite for that. They know
who's going to own the team here, and if there
is a team in Vegas, they know it's probably gonna
be Bill Foley owns the Arena and the Golden Knights.
But I did catch my attention today when Simmons said
that when those guys played that earlier on MJ in
the Midday Show, I did catch my attention, like, okay,
but I think it's I would say my cause of

(01:02:23):
concern or how much I'd put probably like a two
out of ten, but yesterday it might have been a one.

Speaker 2 (01:02:30):
Well, when I listened to that, it sounds like someone
who is aware of Seattle but hasn't lived through it
because we've seen all of the toying with and it
sounds like he's like just catching up on how much
this market has been toyed with or used as a
carrot right on the end of the stick. And so
I don't put a lot into it, but I get

(01:02:50):
why he'd be saying that. It's just that we in
this market have been saying that for far longer than
he's catching on too.

Speaker 3 (01:02:56):
We've been through the ringer. I mean, it's just it's
we've been through the ringer. It's been so long, so
many times we've dealt with this nonsense going over and
over again. But I think I do believe, not just
because of last week's announcement and press conference and vote.

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I think that we're further down the road and we're
closer than we've ever been before.

Speaker 1 (01:03:22):
And this is very real. It is very very real.
Wet'll take a break, four nine, four to five one
and we'll check your texts.

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Speaker 3 (01:03:49):
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Speaker 5 (01:03:53):
Hey I in Seattle.

Speaker 7 (01:03:54):
Sports guy here with a quick Seattle update.

Speaker 12 (01:03:57):
Dan Wilson appeared very confused after the Guardian series as
the only pitch cac legamina, as he was under the
impression that Matt Brest was overworked, as we only saw
him run on the red carpet before the opening ceremony.
In News that John Stanton doesn't spend money on his players,
if someone could please show him on TV and tell
him that he might want to spend money on a
comb as his hair is comparable to the sitting current

(01:04:19):
US president.

Speaker 2 (01:04:21):
We'll check in next weekend. Good stuff there, dude, I
love that guy.

Speaker 1 (01:04:27):
Good stuff there.

Speaker 2 (01:04:28):
He's fun. He even checked in to make sure he did.

Speaker 1 (01:04:32):
He did.

Speaker 3 (01:04:32):
It's good to have him check in, by the way,
for I get text Brady Henderson down at the from
ESPN dot com down at the owners meet air the
league meetings in the NFL down in Phoenix. Today, Bob
Ferguson signed the income tax into law. Yeah, it doesn't
go to effect for a couple of years, but this
is from Brady Henderson. With Governor Bob Ferguson signing Washington's

(01:04:54):
millionaire attacks and the Laundaday. Schneider reiterated that it will
hurt all the local pro teams. As he noted before,
he said not having a state income tax has been
a big benefit to the Seahawks in terms of signing
free agents. I mean, I can tell you that it's
a benefit for and Schneider said it to those guys today,

(01:05:15):
and it's true. It's a benefit to the Mariners, it's
a benefit to the Seahawks, it's benefit to the Kraken.
The Governor made mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I
think to Christaniel's like, well, hey, you know, it doesn't
matter in California because again we have to overpay to
get people to come here for a lot of the
teams Seahawks, Mariners, and Kraken. Why because we're not California.

(01:05:36):
It's not sunny, it's not warm, it's rainy, it's dark.

Speaker 2 (01:05:40):
It's a different testation, it's a.

Speaker 3 (01:05:41):
Different place to go. And not having the state income
tax for millionaires and don't think for a second that
won't drop lower than a millionaire. But not having that
state income tax for millionaires was a benefit for free
agency for all three of the major pro teams.

Speaker 1 (01:06:00):
And now it might go away. There's a lawsuits coming.

Speaker 4 (01:06:03):
We'll let those guys.

Speaker 2 (01:06:04):
It'll be a whole thing.

Speaker 1 (01:06:06):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, all right.

Speaker 3 (01:06:09):
Four nine four five one. That is the Tacoma Dodge
text line. Let me see en me move down here.
I like to start the bottom where we first got
ones coming.

Speaker 1 (01:06:17):
We had a lot of text today, we did. We
do have a lot of texts. Is that what it is? Okay? Yeah,
I appreciate that.

Speaker 3 (01:06:24):
Let me go to the early early are By the way,
it's always like thirteen, so it's one one pm. I'm
not a military time guy.

Speaker 2 (01:06:32):
Oh just minus twelve, Bean minus twelve.

Speaker 3 (01:06:36):
Let's see uh loud and queer on the iHeart app.
Put a Monday vacation next week for spring break. Let's
go this week and get this over week. Yeah, absolutely, lot,
and yeah we were we were worried about getting on
the air today, but we're getting a lot of texts
early in the first three or four minutes.

Speaker 1 (01:06:49):
Yes, we're there, No, we're good to go.

Speaker 2 (01:06:52):
That was just the most reassuring thing I could say
to Ian at the time with the technological I believe
we are good to get on the air.

Speaker 1 (01:07:00):
Yes, that'll always.

Speaker 2 (01:07:02):
Just start with that.

Speaker 3 (01:07:05):
Now, it's not nearly as dangerous as flying an airplane,
but that'd be like as a as a talk show
radio talk as a radio talk show host. To hear
you say that, that's like hearing the pilot say.

Speaker 1 (01:07:17):
I think I think we'll be good to land. I
think I think we'll be good to land today.

Speaker 2 (01:07:21):
Everything's okay, Yeah, I think we're good.

Speaker 1 (01:07:23):
Yeah, okay.

Speaker 2 (01:07:24):
Not not just like the reassured, I.

Speaker 3 (01:07:26):
Kind of get the feeling that that thing that you
have to run in there, especially after they did. Whatever
they did is like flying a plane.

Speaker 2 (01:07:34):
There's a reason a lot of instruments.

Speaker 3 (01:07:35):
There's a reason Softy and me and Chuck have never
ventured into that room.

Speaker 2 (01:07:40):
Good for you, and don't do it. I played myself
into this.

Speaker 1 (01:07:44):
And attempted to learn how to do that.

Speaker 2 (01:07:45):
It's like I basically played myself onto special teams. That's
what I did.

Speaker 3 (01:07:53):
Time of the TV two O six, MLB and Apple
and Peacock, anything else. Nickelodeon on Tuesday, probably let's do it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:00):
Slime on the mounds.

Speaker 3 (01:08:01):
Yeah, you know, Chuck was talking about it this morning.
It was a good point about Rob Manford. He's just
trying to, you know, like kind of spread the tentacles
out there all these different places, kind of like the
NFL does. But Chuck said something we've said on the
show a number of times, and it's true. Major League
Baseball is a very provincial, very geographically centric sport. It's

(01:08:22):
not like the NFL. It doesn't have a widespread popular
You care about your team, you really don't care about
a lot of the teams. The NHL is the same way. Frankly,
to be honest with you, and that's why you need
to make it as easy as possible. That said, I
think we've all figured it out.

Speaker 5 (01:08:36):
I believe from.

Speaker 3 (01:08:37):
What I understand, it was more on MLB than it
was on the Mariners in terms of the last minute
let's you know, what's the distribution look like and all that.

Speaker 1 (01:08:45):
So, but we're here, We're good.

Speaker 3 (01:08:47):
It's on tonight. Brad's going to be on the pregame. Angie,
I believe, Ryan Roland Smith, Goldie. We're all good, all good,
and no col but the Yankees are in town. Let's go,
let's go.

Speaker 1 (01:09:00):
I love I.

Speaker 3 (01:09:02):
My favorite West Coast games six thirty six forty.

Speaker 2 (01:09:05):
Oh my gosh. When I moved out here, that was
the biggest thing that I ever noticed. You know, it
started I moved out here during baseball season, and then
it became the summer and I'm sitting at the ballpark
watching the sunset in July as a game ends. Are
you kidding me? And then football season was what my
biggest thing was Monday night football. Because you have worked

(01:09:27):
the next time.

Speaker 1 (01:09:27):
I do not know how they do it back East.

Speaker 2 (01:09:29):
I was a psychopath.

Speaker 3 (01:09:31):
That's how we've Over the years. I covered a bunch
of games back there. I mean at least two in
DC that were Monday or Sunday night. We had Philadelphia,
We've had We've had a bunch of when I was
still doing that, we had a bunch of East Coast
primetime games and eight twenty kickoff PM is just insane.

Speaker 2 (01:09:51):
That was my life though, That's what I grew up on,
and so it didn't.

Speaker 1 (01:09:54):
Could believe how people went to those games.

Speaker 2 (01:09:57):
And they all sold out.

Speaker 1 (01:09:58):
They did, they did?

Speaker 3 (01:10:00):
I see a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:10:01):
Do I like this one?

Speaker 4 (01:10:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:10:04):
Two o six. Even with Nicki Scarlatta, you should have
just gotten out of the way and let him and
Jess go back and forth to see if she slips
back into her East Coast accent like she used to
when she talked with coach Lenny Wilkins.

Speaker 1 (01:10:16):
You probably did when you were talking to him off
the air, I'm assuming.

Speaker 2 (01:10:18):
Right, and probably on the air as well. But yeah, no,
it slips when you kind of like feel at home
with someone, it does slip. But I don't know. I
have what they call a sympathetic ear when I tend
to just uh talk like the people around me, and
uh so as soon as I hear my blood from

(01:10:42):
home and Nicky and I off the air, though we
did say island to island.

Speaker 3 (01:10:46):
He's explain to me where he lives.

Speaker 1 (01:10:49):
Where you lived.

Speaker 2 (01:10:50):
Staten Island is basically, oddly enough, not considered a burrow,
but it is an island closer to the city. I
live on Long Island, and I grew up in Nassau County.
So it goes like the Bronx, which is where Staten
Island is. It's just off the Bronx. Obviously you have
to take a ferry there and then goes Queens. Then

(01:11:12):
it goes Nassau County. So I was closer to Queens
than I was to the longest part of the island
is Suffolk County, and so that's where like Montauk and
you know the Hampton said, everything is is Suffolk County.
I grew up on the south shore of Nassau County.
Was that yeast really confusing? Okay? So we we didn't

(01:11:34):
grow up close together, but we grew up in similar situations. However,
mine was a little more beach, his was a little
more ferry.

Speaker 3 (01:11:44):
Gotcha, okay, Okay, I I well, we went back there
for the Super Bowl. The thing that was like crazy
was like I don't know how people learned that subway system.

Speaker 2 (01:11:55):
Oh want to know what you know?

Speaker 3 (01:11:56):
I think I think so Like it took me a
couple of days, like we I was dialed in after
like day two, but we had to take path train
to subways train and this and that, and I'm like,
now it's actually pretty good, like because I like hate
I don't like driving. I mean I'm not I just
don't like driving that much. And so I do like
the fact you could just jump on a train and
go anywhere.

Speaker 2 (01:12:16):
You get a lot of steps, You do.

Speaker 1 (01:12:18):
Get a lot of steps. Do you get a lot
of steps?

Speaker 3 (01:12:20):
See about the ninety nine dollars MLB TV two of
the games are still blacked out, so dumb. Just in
the defense of that, like if you and again, I
know it's different, and I don't think baseball and hockey
specifically can afford to make it challenging and expensive. But look,
you're used to it with the NBA, NFL, the NFL.
You got to have in today's NFL, you have to

(01:12:41):
have your local affiliates.

Speaker 1 (01:12:44):
You have to have.

Speaker 3 (01:12:46):
ESPN for Monday night football, you have to have Prime
Video for Thursday night.

Speaker 1 (01:12:52):
Football, and then you doesn't everyone have Prime I think
so and then on occasion you have to have peacock.

Speaker 2 (01:12:59):
And you can have a family prime right, yeah, I
think you can. You know the gray area that I
live in. So I'm just used.

Speaker 1 (01:13:09):
A lot of people loving nick a lot of people loving.

Speaker 2 (01:13:12):
Him, and if you do not follow them, they're just
pure joy on on social media. I have. I am
not on social media as much as I used to be,
but if you want to follow someone and a group
of people, their family stuff is so heartwarming and hilarious.

Speaker 3 (01:13:31):
Well, I'll land on this one two six, Okay, great
hearing NICKI and screw Ferguson. Hopefully, hopefully he'll come out
here this year. Be fun to have him out here.
How many studio for all?

Speaker 2 (01:13:45):
I'm already texting with him about it.

Speaker 3 (01:13:47):
All right, let's get them, must make that happen. I'm
sure our guys simply said, I don't want to do
it too. So okay, Soft is he down at T
Mobile or Jimmy?

Speaker 1 (01:13:57):
Well check in with the soft one coming up?

Speaker 5 (01:13:58):
Mixed?

Speaker 3 (01:14:26):
Is this uh day or show day? Three in a
row for you? And Jimmy's on first?

Speaker 5 (01:14:32):
Yes, and tomorrow will be four in a row.

Speaker 3 (01:14:34):
Are you do you have a room there. You just
stay in there.

Speaker 5 (01:14:37):
What do you do? I should have a room here,
I should have a suite here by the way.

Speaker 1 (01:14:40):
You should have a sweet da.

Speaker 5 (01:14:41):
You know they have a rooftop bar by the way
with a h with a swimming pool up there. I
do know that you should do our show there one
of these days when he gets hot.

Speaker 3 (01:14:48):
Your your friend in mine?

Speaker 1 (01:14:50):
Ben?

Speaker 3 (01:14:50):
Is he running around there that runs a hole?

Speaker 4 (01:14:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:14:52):
Benjay's here, Ben's here the whole game, Ben.

Speaker 3 (01:14:55):
Ben mentioned that a couple of times last summer, and
we never made Why don't you get on that.

Speaker 1 (01:14:59):
You got nothing else going on.

Speaker 5 (01:15:00):
Nothing else going on at all. Yeah, I'll just take
care of that for.

Speaker 3 (01:15:02):
You, Okay, I appreciate that. Y God, you know, I
think the last time I was this is really bad.
The last time I might have been in that hotel
or the the bar upstairs on the roof yeap, might
have been when we had the going away party for Clayton.

Speaker 13 (01:15:15):
Yeah, it's been a while for me as well since
I've been up there. But really is there's no reason
for us to go up there right unless we're you know,
either staying over or working up there. I mean, it's
I guess kind of weird if we're just hanging out
up there.

Speaker 1 (01:15:25):
Well, I mean here lling Well listen, it's you and
me and it's a bar. I mean, what do you mean?

Speaker 13 (01:15:31):
We are kind of creepy anyway, so it kind of
fits everything, but it's personally. We're back here tomorrow, man,
We're here four days in a row and then uh.
I think Thursday we're gonna be at U Dub for
uh spring practice day number two. Not there tomorrow because
we have a short ter show because of crack and
hockey tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (01:15:47):
Yes, against the Oilers. God man, every game they play
is just freaking balls to the walled dale bite and
playoff action.

Speaker 4 (01:15:53):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:15:54):
It's been good.

Speaker 5 (01:15:54):
Yeah, the game feels like a playoff game right now.

Speaker 3 (01:15:56):
And they're playing and they're playing a lot better. Yeah,
they just have the schedules, so down.

Speaker 13 (01:16:00):
Are they gonna make it the two points out and
now we tend to go make it?

Speaker 5 (01:16:04):
What's your gut feel?

Speaker 1 (01:16:05):
I think they're gonna miss it by a point or two?

Speaker 5 (01:16:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:16:08):
I bet I say that just because I'm trying to
be realistic and I want to be wrong. You know,
how you prepare for misery. Listen, there's a philosophy on
this show route to be wrong. We like to be
wrong on this show.

Speaker 5 (01:16:21):
That's why most people tune into your show.

Speaker 1 (01:16:22):
That's why they do. They say, we want a TV show.

Speaker 5 (01:16:26):
Why do you listen to for Nest? Because I want
to see what he gets wrong.

Speaker 3 (01:16:29):
It's well one to three, you could shock it up
every day, So.

Speaker 5 (01:16:32):
Then just do the opposite.

Speaker 10 (01:16:34):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:16:34):
So what are your top f What are your top
five takeaways from the first four games of the marriage Buddy?

Speaker 13 (01:16:38):
Top five? I actually had fifteen fifteen. I gotta whittle
it down to five.

Speaker 1 (01:16:43):
Wow, wow, five?

Speaker 5 (01:16:45):
My god.

Speaker 13 (01:16:46):
Well, my biggest concern that I've got is the same
concern that I had after game one. Is anybody checked
on the kid that ran the basis to make sure
he's okay?

Speaker 5 (01:16:55):
They get to turn his ankle on Thursday night.

Speaker 3 (01:16:57):
Well but he got he made it through. His dad
helped him.

Speaker 13 (01:17:02):
Nobody's bothered to find out about the kid like to
run the bases and we're just done.

Speaker 5 (01:17:06):
We just discard the guy.

Speaker 1 (01:17:08):
I think he's okay.

Speaker 13 (01:17:09):
I think he's I want to find out what happened
to the kid. Cal Rawley is in a bit of
a slump. I'm gonna keep it on.

Speaker 3 (01:17:14):
Gets fired, so gets the night off today, Yes, as
a lot of people thought it would have been yesterday.

Speaker 1 (01:17:19):
But do you think they threw him out there to
the national TV?

Speaker 13 (01:17:21):
And I mean I don't think so. If they're making
decisions based on stuff like that, then.

Speaker 1 (01:17:26):
That's idiotic, you would think.

Speaker 5 (01:17:27):
And that is ridiculous. I mean, don't even get me
going on that.

Speaker 13 (01:17:30):
There there's no I I want to live in a
world ian where I don't believe that my favorite baseball
team operates like that. That we're gonna be on Peacock
with Jason Bennetti and who was the Okay, who's the
guy doing color?

Speaker 5 (01:17:43):
Rick Manning? Is that right?

Speaker 4 (01:17:45):
I had?

Speaker 3 (01:17:45):
I knew the guy forgot said, I knew Ryan rolland
Smith and the other two guys. I had no idea
who they were, Rick.

Speaker 13 (01:17:51):
Manning and some dude with blankets on his lap sitting
in center field.

Speaker 1 (01:17:54):
I did like that they put what the hell was that?

Speaker 3 (01:17:56):
How about to play out?

Speaker 1 (01:17:57):
That was Adam something?

Speaker 4 (01:17:59):
Right?

Speaker 5 (01:17:59):
Is this? I don't even I don't even remember who
he was.

Speaker 13 (01:18:03):
I just I just know that they're not great personalities
and they're not big names. And I think if NBC
has taken over Sunday Night Baseball, which they are.

Speaker 5 (01:18:12):
They got to do better than that. Man, that's not
good enough, not at all.

Speaker 1 (01:18:15):
It didn't feel big.

Speaker 13 (01:18:17):
I don't need to have the biggest name as long
as the dude's got some personality. But those guys, I
thought both of them were taking a nap during the game.

Speaker 3 (01:18:23):
I'm glad hyphen was on because he helped a little bit.

Speaker 1 (01:18:26):
Yeah, but you.

Speaker 5 (01:18:28):
Know what, if I'm doing a national game, I'd rather
just hear new announcers.

Speaker 13 (01:18:31):
I don't even need Ryan rollingd Smith on. Yeah, just
just let them be local. Let him be our local, yo.

Speaker 4 (01:18:36):
Coal.

Speaker 3 (01:18:36):
Bottom line is, you're two and two in your and
your your big guys haven't hit at all. That's a
good sign.

Speaker 5 (01:18:42):
That's time.

Speaker 13 (01:18:43):
All these got eighteen plate appearances. He's got ten k's
in those eighteen plate appearances. So yeah, he's kind of
continuing what he did in the WBC in the regular season.

Speaker 5 (01:18:52):
But whatever, man, I mean, it's four games.

Speaker 13 (01:18:54):
I just I'm not even ready yet to start talking
about this baseball team, and yet here we are talking
about the baseball team.

Speaker 3 (01:18:59):
Well, you're out of Jimmy's that's what you're doing. That
you want to talk You want to talk about Duke?
How about Duke the meltdown?

Speaker 5 (01:19:05):
That wasp came Boozer's ass. If you're a Duke fan, lot.

Speaker 3 (01:19:09):
Well, not just him, the whole, the whole group. I
mean Blue Night nineteen point lead, all inbound the ball.
Just hold it.

Speaker 1 (01:19:15):
You don't have to get his brother didn't have to
pass it in the first place.

Speaker 13 (01:19:17):
Take a foul or hit the roof of the arena. Yeah,
just chuck it, Just throw right up in the air.

Speaker 3 (01:19:22):
I was talking to some about that today, like like
with that little time there's the clock ticks down to
what four or five seconds?

Speaker 1 (01:19:28):
Yeah, just throw it away.

Speaker 5 (01:19:30):
The other end, Yeah, throw the ball up in the air.

Speaker 13 (01:19:32):
Well, you don't want to throw it away because then
Yukon would get a shot to at least touch it,
maybe with a second or two left to go.

Speaker 5 (01:19:38):
But you get I mean, I get your point.

Speaker 13 (01:19:39):
There was there was all five Ukon players were up front, right,
nobody was back, two guys back. So whatever, it couldn't
have happened to a nicer group of u you know,
spoiled brats.

Speaker 1 (01:19:49):
Are you anti Duke?

Speaker 5 (01:19:50):
Blue Devils?

Speaker 13 (01:19:51):
You know, I'm I'm not as big an anti Duke guy,
as I am kind of an Antiken Zaga guy. Yeah,
but there's reasons why I'm an Antiken Zaga guy because
I'm a Hosckey fan living in Seattle and gets sick
and tired of people shoving the Zax Dick fane down
my throat every single year. So I'm not I don't
have as much hatred for them as I do other
programs Oregon out there, but yeah, they kind of rubbed

(01:20:12):
me wrong a little bit.

Speaker 3 (01:20:13):
Yeah, I think Duke's one of those teams is easy
to dislike, and so when something like that happens to them,
Although Hurley's Hurley's kind of hard to like as well,
So you're like, oh, he's a psycho. You're rooting for
the lesser of two evils at that point, one coach
who's a knucklehead, and an entire program that feels like it's,
you know, the spoiled children of North Carolina.

Speaker 13 (01:20:31):
So Hurley's like the Hannibal Lecter of college basketball. Honestly,
he just I feel like he should be coaching a
basketball game with a hockey mask.

Speaker 2 (01:20:38):
Go on.

Speaker 3 (01:20:38):
Well, and then because he takes the glasses off for
a while and it's like, but his facial expressions, I
swear the guy's going to have bad things happened to
with at some point on the sideline, like he his.

Speaker 5 (01:20:49):
Blood pressure wise, right yeah, like like sure, like.

Speaker 3 (01:20:52):
Like you know, I mean, like you can't get to
that point all the time. And he's out way for
forty eight straight minutes, forty straight minutes of a game
and oh my god.

Speaker 13 (01:21:00):
Well, I hope he stays in college basketball forever because
I think college basketball needs kind.

Speaker 5 (01:21:04):
Of a heel like that. Yeah, he goes to the NBA,
that act would not work. No, NBA.

Speaker 13 (01:21:09):
No, you can push guys around in college basketball. He
can't do that in the NBA unless you're winning a
buttload of championships.

Speaker 4 (01:21:14):
Right.

Speaker 3 (01:21:15):
No, Well he's won though, so he's won a couple. Yeah, right,
he's won a couple on thee.

Speaker 5 (01:21:18):
I'm talking in the NBA. Oh yeah, Larry O'Brien.

Speaker 1 (01:21:21):
Did you hear the sound from Bill Simmons.

Speaker 13 (01:21:24):
Yeah, we're gonna play it today on the show what'd
you think? I'll tell you three forty five?

Speaker 1 (01:21:28):
Oh is this fun with audio?

Speaker 3 (01:21:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:21:30):
Yeah, I'm gonna fit from USA Soccer guy there.

Speaker 13 (01:21:34):
Say this that I think there's a couple of things
that he has said that I kind of agree with that.
If you were sitting in a different city in America
and somebody told you that, hey, expansion might be bad
for the game, I totally get that. I mean, there's
been more blowouts and ass kickings in the NBA in
the last month, and maybe there have been in like

(01:21:55):
the last decade. Man teams are tanking. Yeah, the quality
of play is not good.

Speaker 5 (01:22:00):
See him.

Speaker 13 (01:22:00):
Blowouts almost every night in the NBA by twenty five
to thirty points. So it's not a ludicrous argument that
somebody could say that two more teams is going to
water down the product even more.

Speaker 5 (01:22:10):
But I don't care because I want my team.

Speaker 3 (01:22:11):
Yeah, right, water down or not exactly doesn't matter us exactly.
You don't care how water day. The only thing I
don't want to want water down is my drink, my
contail exactly. Let Let let let my new Sonic two
point oh be the team that's getting hammered by fifty
every night.

Speaker 5 (01:22:25):
I'll sign up for that. That's fine.

Speaker 13 (01:22:28):
Maybe not after year two or three, but for the
first couple of years I'll be more than half.

Speaker 3 (01:22:31):
All right, So what are you coming up?

Speaker 13 (01:22:33):
Let's see hum Millain's with us today, Mike the course
he's going to be with us today, Bill Krueger, little
funwell audio. Lots of topics to hit on the Mariner's
opening weekend, the crack and the ABS system debut to Faceball. Yeah,
lots of thoughts on that Duke kN ending yesterday. Man
Seahawks meetings happening right now? Are the NFL meetings happening

(01:22:54):
in Arizona. Lots to go over with Huean millin coming
up next.

Speaker 1 (01:22:58):
All Right, we'll top the top of your head if
you have to channel something.

Speaker 13 (01:23:00):
All right, see you about to you for the mild
mannered and marginally objectionable in Pernesse.

Speaker 3 (01:23:06):
This is paneled day saying so long everyone

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