Furness Show 5-18: Ian is back! Mollywhop Monday with Chris Crawford and Nathan Bishop, plus Seahawks schedule

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Now from the Star Rentals Sports Tests your ninety three
point three KJRFMS sports headlines.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
All right. Headlines are brought to you by Frost Brewed Cores,
Light Shoes, Chill. Mariner's got swept by the Padres this weekend.
Just one hit yesterday, three runs and one hit. Okay,
you go figure that. Medwalks Yeah, Vetter Cup the guitar
heads back to San Diego. They took all six games
this year from Seattle, two games out of first. Twenty
year old Cold Emerson was a story number one prospect

(00:31):
and MLB made his debut yesterday over two did a
walk and score a run back out of tonight. Six
point forty hosts the White Sox, who are pretty good lately,
seven and three in their last ten games. Caitlin Clark
Fever beat the Storm yesterday eighty nine seventy eight. She
had twenty one points, just missed a triple double. They
take on the Sun this Wednesday at CPA. Aaron Rye

(00:53):
becomes the first English born golfer in more than one
hundred years to win the PGA Championship. Great story. We'll
touch in on that at some point today. Just kind
of what makes it a good story. It's a good
just non typical golf story, which I'll leave it at that.
Nashville is reportedly set to host Super Bowl sixty four
and twenty thirty. They're going to vote on that tomorrow.

(01:14):
New stadium Orceate renovation coming in to play there so
they get rewarded for that. Aaron Rodgers signs a one
year deal with the Steelers. No surprise there. Canadian Sabers
Night Game seven and the NHL Playoffs Eastern Conference Semifinals
four to thirty face off in Buffalo Knights and Avalanche
Game one the conference finals at five this Wednesday. NBA
Conference Final starts night, the Pukes hosting the Spurs. Five
thirty just wrote that all reader for that Nicks host

(01:37):
the Calves Eastern Conference Finals tomorrow, and that, by the way,
is because the Calves absolutely destroyed number one seed Detroit
yesterday and what was a worthless exercise in time and
everyone's energy for game seven? Let's go.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
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Speaker 2 (02:06):
All right, here we go, let's let's crank it up.
It's Monday. Hi everybody, I'm Ian. I'm back with you.
I was gone for a while. That's Jessaman, she's here.
Andrews was hosting today. Was that our little Andrews first
solo host?

Speaker 3 (02:22):
Well he was with Chris Kidd, Yeah, but kind.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Of lead solo kind of his show.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
Yeah, every on Friday for you.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Okay, okay, I look at differently because that was like
not our show, you know. Also it was a little
bit out of the comfort zone. I think it was
a big day for him. I like, that's my point.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
I think the sound great.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
I think he did great. He's he is. He is
a star in the making. I'm very proud of him.
I just I think it's awesome to see. I think
when we you know, I mean, if you look at
this radio station, uh, you know, Softy and Fame, we're
organically grown from here and they've been here for thirty
plus years, and so many others that have come here

(03:02):
were kind of the same way. Some have come and
gone over the years, obviously, but you know a lot
of it, you know, I came from outside the market.
But in a sense started thanks to a KJR thing
because David Lockhart being Salt Lake to do sports radio
when I was doing hockey play by play there. So
I just like seeing the young guys get a chance.
And I think Andrew's is going to be really good
at this job as years gone. So I got an opportunity.

(03:23):
I think it's Ashley tomorrow, which is cool because she's
going to do great filling in for Greg. So I
love seeing those opportunities given to our folks out there
that deserve it, that works so hard. I appreciate you
guys taking care of business while I was gone for
a couple of days, taking some vacation, just doing actually
did a little golf tournament planning on both days, so

(03:43):
it wasn't even vacation. It was like, I mean, I was.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
You just needed more time to do your other jobs.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
Well, just getting ready for the golf tournament in July,
and so we had some meetings I had to get done.
And everyone wants to have lunch meetings, which is me.
Check my time. It's twelve o'clock.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
Yeah, you're on twelve to three. That's lunch.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
You're always like, hey, do you want to do a Hey,
let's just do lunch. I go, I'm on twelve to three.
Oh yeah, that's right, that's right. Yeah, even when I
was on one to three. Maybe someday again i'll be
on one to three. But when I was on one
to three, it was like, I can't do lunch unless
we do it at eleven, and even then it's kind
of cutting into I mean, I'm known for my preparation,
so you're.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
Cutting it close when you have to be on the
air at noon.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yes, so I missed a couple of things, including schedule
by the Seahawks, which I'll get into a little bit. Mariners.
We will. Yes, for those asking, we have the full
Mullywop slate coming up. No one playing the role of
anybody today. Nathan and Chris will be here at one pm. Man,

(04:45):
there's a lot to get into, a lot to get into.
So that's what we'll do coming up at one o'clock.
And then plenty of time for your texts four nine,
four or five one to come on outch text, plenty
of time for your talkbacks. Jess, even though she's flying
solo and working hardback the to day, she loves to

(05:05):
hear your voice.

Speaker 3 (05:06):
I always love it.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
So fire away those thoughts, comments, questions, concerns. Go to
the red Higheart Radio iHeartRadio app the little red microphone
and speak into it and away you go. I gotta
tell you about my weekend. I would or my Saturday,
at least my Saturdays. Yesterday was honey dew stuff that sucked.
Nobody likes, nobody wants to hear about that. And although
everyone can probably many people can probably relate to it.

(05:29):
But yes, cleaning out refrigerators go at Costco on a Sunday.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 4 (05:36):
That is how I realized that Mike and I would
never get divorced. The first time that I went there
with him and we survived. You survived, yes, and I
was like, oh, yes, we can get married.

Speaker 5 (05:46):
Now.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
I try to go solo to Costco.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
So does Mike.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yeah, I try to go solo. And luckily my wife
she kind of likes doing yard work. And there's nothing
I despise more.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
I mean nothing, oh the trading of the thing.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
I don't like doing it hard work.

Speaker 5 (06:00):
I hate it.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
I just don't interesting. I hate it, absolutely despise it.
So yeah, but I did that. But no, So Saturday,
my friend Darren's birthday fifty six turned fifty six. By
the way, have you heard from those guys? They had
a show meeting yesterday.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
Ian, I've heard everything from those guys.

Speaker 4 (06:19):
Okay, they're doing more producing than you and I ever do.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
They had a show meeting yesterday, an actual show meeting.
Now that was just an excuse to get together and
drink beers on my buddy's place at Lake Sawyer. But
they had a show meeting for people to know. We're
talking about Friday at two o'clock, I lose control of
the show, finished last in my fantasy football league, and
the punishment for me was they get to do my

(06:47):
radio show. Justs is in Charge. Quote from Purple Sheet
rich More, I don't know justice in charge. That was
it handwave. JUSTS is in Charge. So you have heard.

Speaker 3 (06:59):
From them, uh huh quite a bit.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
Two o'clock Friday, you'll I got text this morning. Oh
I'm sure you did. Yes, I'm sure you did. Uh No.
But my Saturday, I want to pump this up because
we hear I hear this. We do a lot with
these guys. So Saturday night, so Darren and his wife
and another couple, they said, hey, let's let's we want
to do a Rainiers game, and so I reached out

(07:23):
and we went to the Rainiers game. Now the weather
obviously was what it was. We actually started our afternoon
at Chambers Beat Distillery. Big fans of and then big
supporters of the Mayor and Maple Valley open my man
Allen and the folks at Chambers Bata Stillery Tasting Room
down there on Bridgeport. Went down there, had some snacks, sad,
some great great craft cocktails. By the way, the whiskey

(07:45):
wagon is back at the Mayor.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
I love.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah, they're bringing it back. They donate so much. They
have trivia on Tuesdays. Pump that up for them a
little bit. They have trivia on Tuesday nights. And so
if you if you're down in the two five three,
like to play trivia Tuesday night trivia Chambers Bay Distillery.
I guess it's just awesome. And again we love those guys,
Alan and Jeff. I can't thank them enough for their
support of the years of the golf room. So we
started Chambers Bay. Just story. But here's what I want

(08:12):
to tell you. So I had not done this in years,
like years, It's been a while, and I think like
that's probably like two renovations ago. I had not been
to Cheeney Stadium to see a Rainiers game a long time,
in a long time, And so for all it's so
for all you guys listening right now, they are a

(08:32):
big sports fans, Mariners are out of town, or you're
down there, you want to have a you know, maybe
a cheaper alternative, or doesn't just maybe you want something
a little different baseball wise. I'm gonna tell you now,
the weather was awful. We never actually sat in our
own seats. We just watched from above undercover, and then
enjoyed some beverages in the old Summit Club up there

(08:52):
as well, and with about four or five hundred of
our closest friends that were all doing the same thing
honkering down from the weather. But did get to see
cold Emerson's final game in Triple A at least for now.
Saw him take a few at bats. That was fun.
But I just want to say, like, the Rainiers do
a terrific, terrific job, even with not great weather. People

(09:14):
were having fun all this. We didn't eve get a
chance to explore the whole stadium. I can't wait to
do that in the future. On a night that says
better weather. But everything they do down there is first class, awesome,
cool atmosphere, tons of kids dancing around having fun. It's
what baseball should be, especially at the minor league level.

(09:36):
But it doesn't feel minor league because the stadium's fantastic
and how they and their game presentation is fantastic. And
you know everywhere you go. If you go walk around
the concourse, the restroom, you can hear Riley Page doing
the play by play and the videos the way they
have video now in minor league baseball, which they had
to because I remember that's where the Abs started. Everything they
do is awesome, it's first class. And I would just

(09:57):
get down to a Rainiers game. I'm just gonna like
you yourself a favor as a sports fan. Get to a basement.
First of all, you're up close, you're right there. I
just I we had a great time, even despite how
cold it was in the weather, we could we could.
I think I think Ben Nelson, my guy Ben, who
kind of runs a show down there. I think he
said they didn't have one rain out last year. They've

(10:19):
had two already this year. They almost had one on Saturday,
but they ended up playing Austin next ra innings. But
it was still it was a great experience, really cool,
despite the weather, despite everything else. Really fun. So head
on down there check it out. Shout out to the
rain Ears. Love those guys. And I can't wait because
every I think it's like most Fridays or every other Friday,
they're at home, Softy Fame Jackson, whoever's doing the show

(10:39):
that Friday during the summer, because guys think vacation, they
do a show down there, and then Chuck or whoever
does color with Riley, yeah on the broadcast. So we
love them. Yeah. And I'm a big and I'm mister
minor league. I worked in minor league hockey for twelve years. Still,
you know, kind of keeping touch, you know, try to
try to stay connected with the TA birds and others.

(11:01):
And I just have a I have a real soft
spot in my heart because if you're working at that level,
you got a passion for what you do, uh, and
the passion is to make sure that everybody has a
great time. And they do a great job down there,
so and.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
They make it affordable for family.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
They do make it affordable.

Speaker 4 (11:13):
That is the biggest thing that I would go The thing.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
I thought was cool is just like there's a lot
of stuff for kids to do, because you know, having
a kid sit and watch a baseball game for nine innings,
even if it is good weather, that's hard to do.
So there's stuff to kids can run around. So anyway,
shout out to him. So we got to got to
watch like the big thing. We're sitting there waiting. It
was like an hour and forty five minute rain delay
or something, so we're waiting, like, God, do we want
to stick around? What are we going to do? And

(11:38):
we want to see cold Emerson. Well, the funny thing
is my buddy Darren, whose birthday was his wife, they
had tickets to yesterday's game. They're using my tickets for
the game yesterday. They got to see him. Anyway, they
got to see him back to back day right, Oh,
cold Everson gets called up yesterday and the marriage assert
thement in the line that was like the only highlight
was the fact that cold Emerson made his major league debut.

(12:00):
But we did get to watch them play down there,
and it was it was cool. So Mariners, I'm gonna
get to some stuff with them. In a second swept
by San Diego, I kind of went through a good
news bad news scenario for all these things. And there's
there's sides on both seen Yawk schedule as well. I'll
spend some time on that, probably at twelve thirty today,
because I didn't get a chance to go through it.

(12:23):
I'm trying to how do I approach it differently because
everyone's already done roster in a schedule roulette and made
their picks and done all those things. I just kind
of went down and said, you know, for me, as
someone that watches it closely, covered it closely for years,
you know what matters most. And there's a couple of
things that matter really to me more than anything else

(12:44):
that maybe are different than what people have talked about.
Maybe not who knows, but I've been on the air,
so what the hell, I'm gonna give a shot May
and then a key stretch. I think there's one part
of the schedule that could really dictate where the season goes.
We'll talk about that. And then as a public service,
as a public service, I'm gonna do a little something
a little different too. We I mean, I was and listen,

(13:10):
if you ever hear people that cover teams in the
media that complain about traveling and going across the country.

Speaker 3 (13:18):
It's such an old trop Shut up, yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:20):
Because I can like, for me a high I've had
some really fun things I've done in this career. A
career highlight for me, honestly, I tell people it was Seahawks.
It was for sixteen years for Fox thirteen. I went
to every game home and away, saw every city except
for Buffalo. I was during COVID the twenty twenty season

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and the last one they were there, and so I
had it was it was glorious. Now was I tired?
Was it hard? Was it travel brutal? All those things? Yes? Yes, yes, yes, yes,
yes yes. But I do a pretty good perspective on
and I love it because people ask me this all
the time, where should I go? So we'll give a
little travel I'll give you the travel highlight this year,

(14:04):
like where you should go? I can just tell you this.
It sucks, it's not a good year for that, but
we'll give it to you.

Speaker 5 (14:10):
Anyway.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
We'll talk about that a little bit too, Like we're
like if I was just look outside looking in, say hey,
you can go to one game, you know, all expense
pace where it would be We'll talk about that. Okay,
let's get to the Mariners and then I gotta I'll
throw a little topic. Atch you for the text line
and also on the on the talk back as well today.
So I swept by San Diego again, just this This

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team is, if nothing, inconsistent, like that's probably the one
strength they have this season is how inconsistent they are,
up and down, up and down three of four. And
I know Nate and Chris will bring up some numbers,
especially like what's their record against teams not named Houston?
I guess you could probably reverse that, what's their record
against teams not named San Diego?

Speaker 5 (14:52):
Right?

Speaker 2 (14:52):
Because they are six games under five hundred against the Padres,
so maybe over five hundredf they didn't play the Padres.
But the Padres are far better bron than the Houston
Astros are. I think we'd all agree upon that, right,
Like the Podreys are a team that is as Andrews
said earlier, he's right. Like the Astros are ten games
below five hundred, the Podres are ten games above five hundred.

(15:13):
So if you're looking for a true barometer about how
good you are, the Astros probably aren't it. The Padres
are and you're not at that level. Okay, So that's
that's the bad news. That's one of the bad news
items is you're having trouble against good teams, and even
in Chicago's here, Chicago's seven and three in their last ten.
The White Sox are they're kind of surging a little bit.

(15:36):
They've pulled up there in the in the American League
Central and they're hanging around and sitting there right behind Cleveland,
one game behind the Guardians. They are two games above
five hundred. So the White Sox are no gimme. We
saw that when they went there a couple of weeks ago.
The Mariners did. So the bad news is you're having
a hard time against the bad teams. Listen, no col

(15:57):
and no Brendan Donovan. I get that. We all understand that.
One of the things we should point out it's not
like Cal was helping you. Like, it's not like Cal
is helping you. I think Cal being out this is
gonna sound strange net positive. And here's why, because you
need to get him healthy because of cal Raleigh that
we saw a pre injured list before he went on

(16:19):
the injured list, that that cal Raley is not helping you.
Beat good teams that cal Rawley's not helping you win
any games. Yes, defensively, sure, fine, whatever, he's not helping you.
He's not helping you. So to me, net positive, just
get yourself healthy. Donovan really good leadoff guy. When he's
been healthy this year, just hasn't been enough. He's been

(16:41):
in and out of the lineup all year. Put him
back on the injured list. Get him healthy. That's a
net positive. Like I know, Kal and nobody Donovan net positive.
The bad news is one hit. You lose three straight games,
two games you didn't. This is what really kind of
had to be bothered someome for the Mariners. You had
two games where you he didn't even have to sit

(17:01):
face Mason Miller, and you still lost. Like Friday Night's
one thing, like he comes in, has a two inning
save or an inning in a third save Mason and
just as like the most dominant bullpen arm closer in baseball.
You're not going to see him on Saturday. He threw

(17:22):
thirty pitches or twenty nine pitches I guess it was
on Friday, right, You're not going to see him on Saturday.
You got to take advantage of that, like you've got
to take advantage of that. And they fall behind big.
They chipped away, they came back, made it kind of close,
but the rest of their bullpen shut things down. That's
that's bad. That's just because he's there. Somebody was that.

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Joe Sheen said last week, he asked me, what's your superpower? Right, Well,
what's the padre superpower? D eight Fernando tatist this year, right,
But it's space and Miller that's a superpower. And you
have a game when you go in there as a
team going all right, if we're close, if we're in
this thing, we don't have to see him. That is
such a positive and you can't get it done. And

(18:08):
then yesterday, yeah he if it wasn't for the score,
he would have been a factor yesterday. But you get
one hit, you have one hit, my aforementioned buddy Dee Darren.
It's like seeing one hitter is almost as rare a
sing a no hitter. Yes it is, Yes it is.
I look up the numbers, but I'm sure Chris or
Nathan can tell us that, yes it is. That's almost

(18:31):
as rare. So you go into that game, you give
up one, you get one hit and again. You lose
all three and you only see Miller once. That's just good.
That's not good. But here's the good news. You're still
only two out of the ALE West lead. Only four
teams in the ALE are above five hundred right now,
and none of those teams that are above five hundred

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are in the American League. West. Oakland still leads the way.
I mean, they are the tallest short person in this
ALE West and have been all your year. They are
five hundred Texas. I saw Texas above Seattle by a
game today. I thought, God, the Rangers must be surging
now they're five and five in the last time. No,
they're just again they're the second tallest short person. So
that's what's going on with the AL West. It really

(19:15):
you can sleep walk your way through this entire season
and still win this division, like still eat probably easily
win this division unless something happens with Texas and they surge.
And well, I'm gonna all ask I'll kind of lean
on Chris and Nate for that a little bit. How
concerned should we be about the Rangers. We'll talk to
Shean tomorrow about that as well. But that's the good news, honestly,

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as inconsistent as you've been four games below five hundred,
just getting beat by good teams. Taking The only reason
your record is really good is because you take advantage
of really one of the worst teams in baseball, the
Houston Astros. But the good news is you're still right there.
So okay, bad news is Logan Gilbert George Kirby both
rocked over the weekend.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
Yeah that's not great.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
That's not good, which we'll talk about or in the
Mulliwop segment. But here's your other good news. Cold Emerson's here,
drew a walk, scoring a run, got people excited. We
want to see cold Emerson up this year, twenty year
old kid, and I thought one of baseball's cool in
this sense. I don't know who he is, don't even care,
but whoever the third base umpire is, and whoever the
third base coach for the Padres is, it's kind of cool.

(20:20):
But he goes out there and they get and it's
a little league day, so he got. He's got. Before
he can even take his first warm up throw to
first base from Josh Naylor, he's out there. He's got
to sign autograph for the kid and shake hands with
the kid. And go through all that stuff. And then
after he does that, the third base coach comes up
from San Diego and you can see him kind of hey, congratulations,
and so to the third base umpire. I thought that

(20:41):
was really cool, What a cool moment. You only get
one first game in the big leagues, and in one
first at bad he'll have his first hit soon enough,
hopefully Tonight scored his first run yesterday on base for
the first time. Is he here for the long haul?
No one knows. I mean, I know they want him
to play. So he's probably got an opportunity to show

(21:03):
that he can, you know, be adequate hitting at this level.
And if he can, even when Donovan comes back, as
as Andrews was saying, maybe this is then Donovan goes
into the role he's probably more suited for, especially if
he's got this issue that's probably gonna linger all year
with us groin. You go into more of a kind
of a super utility role for Donovan. You don't have
to play Randy in the left field, which is just

(21:23):
an absolute horror show. But you got to have Randy's
bat in the lineup because Randy's really good hitting. He's fantastic,
but you don't want him out there in the outfield.
And maybe Donovan isn't cut out to play third every day.
And even though Emerson's your short stop of the future,
maybe he's at third now. So you got a good opportunity.
So that's kind of cool. That's fun. That makes it,
you know, like a game yesterday, it's just kind of
a nothing burger. You watch it just because why it's

(21:44):
on a four o'clock in two because of Emerson's up,
And that's cool. So this good news BN news. But
here's what I did. I had to go check, so
I want to make sure I had the colors correct,
all right, So here's here's the homework assignment today, not
even a homework assignment, but I want to hear from
you guys, and this can be And I think somebody
might have done this earlier, maybe anders it. I don't
even know, but I'll do it at my own little way.

(22:06):
I love doing this because we started doing this, unfortunately
during the worst of times, which was COVID.

Speaker 3 (22:10):
Oh gosh, yeah.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
You know, you're you're and and this is also we're
coming into fire forest fire season, which is no laughing
matter and sucks. And we had a dry winter. Yeah,
we had a dry winter and all those things. Didn't
have a dry Saturday, but we had a dry winter.
So like color code of the old concern level for
the Mariners, where are you? Okay, at four nine, you're

(22:35):
a concern level for the Mariners. Green that's low level,
yellow and elevated condition that's actually homeland security stuff, so
a little bit different. Okay, Orange, harsh condition representing a
high risk, red, severe condition, severe risk high.

Speaker 6 (22:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
Yeah, So what's your concern level for this baseball team?
There's four games under five hundred right now, and I'm
just talking big picture, and I think you have to
go with the context of the following. They are a
team that was on the cusp eight outs away. Oh
blah blah blah. I'm going to their first ever World Series.
Last year they won the AL West. They were an

(23:21):
elite baseball team that was right there, probably should have
could have been in the World Series for the first time.
So the expectations this year high. So I'm not even
talking about your concern level to win the AL West.
I'm just talking about based on what your expectations are
or were as a fan. So whatever your expectations were

(23:41):
as a fan, what's your risk level? Green, yellow, orange
or red. I'm not take take the Al West out
for a second, because I still think they're going to
win that. But based on your assumption that this is
a playoff team already, and you had high expectations with
what you've seen now well through what forty eight games?

(24:03):
With what you've seen through forty eight games, just about
coming up on thirty percent of the season, what's your
concern level? Green, yellow, orange or red? Four? Nine, four
or five one? And also send a talk back as well,
what's your concern level? I'll give you mine later this hour.
We'll get to that coming up next. Let's talk a
little NFL scheduled. Didn't get a chance to talk much
about that since I was gone, I said, didn't get
a chance to talk about it much at all because

(24:23):
I wasn't here.

Speaker 3 (24:25):
Good for you.

Speaker 2 (24:26):
Yes, we'll do that coming up next.

Speaker 1 (24:51):
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Speaker 2 (25:08):
All right, schedule finally came out was that like the
entire show on Friday.

Speaker 4 (25:18):
It was quite long. We did do a lot on
the NFL schedule. I will say that it wasn't.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
The night it came out before five.

Speaker 4 (25:27):
Well, there was a ton of leaks and we also
talked about that too.

Speaker 3 (25:31):
Well, whether you like the leaks or not, but like it.

Speaker 2 (25:34):
Like Chuck Carnold's a team president. He put it on
Instagram like at four thirty Pacific times, like a half
hour before the show was suppressed.

Speaker 4 (25:41):
I mean I could see him doing that though, just
considering the fact that everyone else had it out there.

Speaker 2 (25:47):
And I'm not criticizing Chuck Chuck. If you're listening, last
thing I'm gonna with Chris sid Chuck Arland. I love
Chuck Arland. He's a coop and the president of the
Super Bowl Champions. But no, I thought it was it
like why even bother with this stupid show? They do money?

Speaker 3 (25:59):
Why money?

Speaker 2 (26:00):
But by the time the show comes on and I
think it's on the NFL network, right.

Speaker 3 (26:05):
Yeah, it is, well Well, which is owned by ESPN now, but.

Speaker 2 (26:08):
If you have I don't know. I don't have the
phaser in front of me. Oh there is. I think
I do believe that the NFL network is still blocked
out on like Comcast across the country. Oha. I had
this ardument with a friend. He's like, I can't believe
the NFL network's not on And I'm like, well, what

(26:29):
are you watching right now? It's Flipping may Man And
he's like, well, of course you're watching the the Do
you have to go to esp if they have a
daily show?

Speaker 5 (26:37):
Right?

Speaker 2 (26:37):
NFL network does, like in the morning they have a
morning one. Yes, all right, see, I'm gonna see if
it's still on NFL. No, this this channel is unavailable.
Our contract with the owner of this channel has ended.
As a result, the channel is currently unavailable through Exfinity.
Scan the qr co and tell your.

Speaker 3 (26:52):
Well they got bought by ESPN.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
Well, but that it's it's that's part of the reason.
But the other reason, I mean, they're the NFL network
right now is not on Xfinity. My That's my point
is like, why haven't bother having this show? Like good
chunk of the country can't watch it. By the time
becase show comes on, everyone's already leaked out the schedule,
and the NFL if they didn't want it leaked, they
can easily not leak it. Yes, that's that's very difful.

Speaker 3 (27:15):
Where all the sources come from.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
Well example, a good example is this, the March Madness
comes out. We don't know who's when they reveal the bracket.
That's the first time there's never been a leak that
I could ever think of where March Madness got leaked out,
never got And even the college football playoff as messed up,

(27:37):
screwed up and dysfunctional as college football is right now,
and we're gonna talk about that later this week. Big
big ten meetings going on down in California. That doesn't
get out either. You cannot leak stuff. You can keep
stuff in house. All you have to do with the
NFL just threatened fines if your schedule gets leaked out.
Blah blah blah. I mean, because there are people in
the building that know the schedule. Obviously they have to,

(27:59):
right right.

Speaker 3 (28:00):
I have friends in those buildings, they say.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
And it used to be a grind. We would try
to get the things scheduled because we had a show.
We would do the show at Fox when we were
their partner, and we wanted to have the schedule printed
up and ready to go on the graphics. You know
how long, you know how graphics work. You want to
have all this stuff done beforehand. And like those guys
are great seahwks are they don't like the leaks. The
seas do not like the leak stuff. I'll tell you
that right now. There's a lot of organizations like the
leak stuff. They want of them, so all you have

(28:26):
to just keep it ouse. Okay, that's stuff aside. Yeah,
I'm late to the party one hundred percent. I know
you guys already did this, but I haven't really and
I I saw it on Thursday and then Friday kind
of glanced at I'm like, eh, whatever, I don't really care,
Like when is it coming out? Actually? You know what
I care about is when the hockey schedule comes out
in July. How many conflicts do we have? Can we

(28:47):
try to avoid having every Seahawks primetime game going ahead
to head with a cracking game this year?

Speaker 5 (28:52):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (28:52):
That would be kind of fun, that would be That
would be my hope in my dream, because last year,
I think almost every one of the primetime games the
Seahawks had set for a Sunday night game, we were
playing the crack ahead, a game like just that's a
whole But that's a whole different story. The NHL tunnel
vision mindset. We only you have to sometimes schedule around things,

(29:15):
you know, one of the like you can't schedule around
Mariners Opening Day because that comes out in August and
you've already had your schedule come out in July. They've
gone head ahead with Mariner Opening Day, like the last
two years at home, the home game at CPA, same
day of the Mariner's playing. Can't you can't? That can
be put you can by wait eight, are you listening?
Avoid Seahawk primetime games at least at home if you

(29:37):
want to, if you're on the road, whatever, We're fine
with nobody watching us those nights. Whatever, it's fine, but
avoid those. That's kind of what I care about. Honestly.
There's certain things that matter to me, and I'll just
I'm only have time for one here. The Rams game
is is interesting. The Rams games plural are interesting.

Speaker 3 (29:58):
Yeah, the final one and I'm.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
And I'm trying to well, I'm just trying to wrap
my arms around it. Not seeing them again until late
two of the final three games Seattle and the Rams
Christmas Day and then the last game of the year,
which ten to eleventh, whenever it is of January, whenever
that it'll be Saturday or Sunday. Last year was Saturday, Rightyeah,

(30:23):
last year the forty nine game of Saturday. So whatever
game that is, whatever date that is. So two of
the final three, and that's the one. I just I
this is where there's part of me that really kind
of likes it. There's part of it that really likes it,
and there's part of me that just is this is
just horrible, and it's really for both teams, to be

(30:45):
honest with you, this is one of those rare, rare
instances where both teams are probably in the same mindset,
and I don't know what that mindset would be. They
would never tell you, oh, I hate it. They would
never tell you I love it. They'll just say, Hey,
going to play every game on our schedule, blah blah
blah week to week. But I think it's pretty clever

(31:06):
by the NFL. I think it's also really smart by
the NFL. First of all, Christmas, Whether people like Christmas
games or not, you can let me know. Four nine
four or five to one. I like the fact that
it's a late Christmas game. The five o'clock game.

Speaker 3 (31:21):
You can do all your stuff.

Speaker 2 (31:22):
You can kind of plan around that pretty easy, right,
you really kind of plan around that. And then by
five point fifteen you're like, okay, we've done everything, We're
ready to go.

Speaker 3 (31:31):
Let's settling in, eating.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
Whatever, whatever your you know, friends and family obligations are.
You should be able to have taken care of them
by that. By that time, it's more than anything. Take
Christmas way, It's primetime five o'clock, perfect Seattle and the Rams.
And then they play again two weeks later. The NFL
is basically telling you what they think. These are the

(31:56):
two best teams, and not just the NFC West, but
probably in the NFC, and we're going to have two
showdown games. We're going to take it down to the
wire as we did last year and see what happens.
The fact that the second forty nine er game is
what is it Thanksgiving weekend? Right, that's someday. Yeah, so

(32:16):
that's late as well, but still one, two, three, three,
four or five, six, seven games. So it's game number ten.
So it just tells you. I think it's creative as hell.
I like it. Initially I was like, this is dumb,
and then the more I thought about it, like this
is actually really good, Like because even either team, even

(32:38):
if you stumble a little bit during the season, what
do you want to have the ability to do control
your own destiny? More than likely both teams going into
the Christmas Day game will control their own destiny as
far as the NFC West is concerned.

Speaker 3 (32:54):
Now, that's what the Rams and Seahawks were last year,
and that's.

Speaker 2 (32:56):
What they were last year with the forty nine ers
kind of spitting around there and kind of hanging around,
and they'll be a pain in the ass and do
the same. And the forty nine ers are going to
be better, especially if they're healthy. Depending I mean Bosa
is back and depending on Kittle's injury and things like that,
they're better. They're going to be better at the receiver
position with Evans. I mean, they're they're gonna be better.
But I think it's I think that's one of the
coolest things about the schedule. The problem is the only

(33:18):
thing that's as a fan, you gotta wait till December
twenty fifth. Yeah, like you gotta wait till then that's
the marquee here we are game, and then I mean
it turns into an absolute flat out must win for Seattle.
Like Christmas Day becomes stressful if you like that, great
if you don't understandable, but Christmas Day becomes really stressful

(33:41):
for the for Seahawks and Seahawks fans. But if you
win that one, man, you're in good shape. Except for
one little thing, and I'll get into that later on today,
because there is part of the schedule that it is
just I think I don't know what it is. I
think we get the middle finger here a lot of
times by the NFL, and I'll.

Speaker 3 (33:58):
Explain that all Yeah, worse health is Alaska?

Speaker 2 (34:00):
Come on, didn't script, but good segue because I'm gonna
touch it on something last night. You were at the
game last night, right, yeah, Okay, there was something on
the broadcast last night that I don't really get mad
too often at other broadcasters. I did last night and
it has to do with what you just said. We'll

(34:20):
talk about that next.

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Speaker 2 (35:08):
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book that room today. So, Jess, you were at the game.
I think did you have a field trip down there
with Jackson yesterday? Is that what it was?

Speaker 3 (35:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (35:25):
I mean, Jackson working afternoon drive doesn't get to be,
you know, there as often as I can, and I
wanted to just.

Speaker 3 (35:34):
Let him know what it looked like. And he did
a wonderful job in making connections.

Speaker 2 (35:38):
Jackson is our guy, all right. So I I the
game yesterday was on NBC, Peacock whatever, And first of all,
for the most part, kind of enjoyed the broadcast. A
little different, a little fun. There's part of me that
likes it better than the old ESPN Sunday Night Baseball.
I don't know why. I think maybe Jason Bennetti, Bennett Benettie,
whatever his name is, that does play by places get

(35:59):
and I like the fact that they have an analyst
from each team. Ryan Roland Smith was doing it for Seattle,
and I don't know who the dude was for the Padres.
But uh, but then Anthony Rizzo is like their dugout
sideline whatever a person on yea. So he spent ten minutes,
it felt like maybe it was longer. Maybe it was

(36:21):
a minute, give or take a minute, just on and
on about. He was somewhat effusive in his praise for
team Mobile Park, the fans the state that just like
how it you know, playing here, says God, every time
we've been here. It's funny because he's saying, every time
we've been here, it's been sunny.

Speaker 5 (36:42):
You know.

Speaker 2 (36:42):
When I came here as a player, and he was
the Chicago and the Yankees right like I was always great,
but it was fantastic because they always come in the
middle summer. Now, yeah, this year's Yankees may not agree
with that because they were here early. But but he
was raving by the way, and we all know if
if you're we have of all our faults in this area,
and there's many, our weather usually from now until October

(37:05):
is the best in the country. My wife and I
talk about that all the time. It's like, people, you know,
we live in a world now at our age, people
are fleeing the state retirement on the horizon. Where are
we going to retire? I will never, ever, ever, I
cannot understand Arizona year round. I cannot fathom that I
would not want to be in Arizona right now. I

(37:26):
would not want to be in Arizona.

Speaker 3 (37:27):
Until to a hair dryer.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
Yeah, that, by the way, is one of the crappy
things about the Seahawks schedule. Just give you an early
hint on travel, that, ain't it, Because Arizona would be
for me always near the top of the That's one
of the things I always look at, Hey, when are
we going to When we're going to Glendale Phoenix September. Awful,
it's going to be one hundred and twenty degrees. That's brutal.
You're leaving the best weather in the country to go
to the worst weather in the country. Give me a

(37:53):
Cardinals game in December. I'm telling everyone get down there.
And the statum is, actually, I don't mind the state,
it's not bad, but risk the weather here is great,
There's no doubt about that. But this guy just went
on and on about how far Seattle is away from
everything else. Oh, like, it just feels like we're out

(38:13):
in the middle of nowhere, and I like part of
me is like cool, then no one's gonna move here,
But no, we actually do need people to move here now,
Like this is that's not where we're at anymore. Where
you know, I in just one little small part of
Southeast King County. One hundred and fifty houses when on
the market on Saturday. Think about that. Yeah, like people
were leaving.

Speaker 3 (38:33):
It's a buyer's market right now.

Speaker 2 (38:34):
Usually thirty that are on the market. Yeah, I get
one hundred and fifty on the market according to my
real estate friends. So I'm like, dude, he's raving about this.
So I went and looked it up. Yes see, Like
first of all, you're the guy complaining about having to
come to Seattle one time, one time a year. Really,

(38:54):
the miles that you fly in baseball, I don't think
the equate to what the same thing is for like football.
And we'll getting that two o'clock today. We talk about
the schedule because everyone's going crazy because the forty nine
ers have this massive, crazy travel schedule. This year. They
got about seven thousand miles more than Seahawks have on
most years. So the international trips, yeah, you take it's
like eighteen thousand miles going to the two International Games.

(39:15):
Well yeah, okay, I mean take that out of there.
It's like, yeah, well take this in. Take the Houston
wins out of there. And Marrors aren't very good, right,
I mean you can you can look at numbers of
a way, but I was kind of looking through there.
Look at all these teams that are traveling not half
what the Mariners travel, but there's about what is it
twenty probably about eight teams are traveling just a little

(39:35):
over half with the marriage travel. But they're all Midwest
or East Coast teams. Those teams don't travel much. That's fine,
Carolina this year in the NFL barely travels. But what
I was offended by is, like Rizzo like, just and
maybe this is a perception that people have and players
have that Seattle is so far out in the middle
of nowhere that no one would ever want to go
there and play. I just thought it was an odd,

(39:58):
odd thing to keep going on. He went on on
and on and on about it, and I'm like, dude,
first of all, if you're playing in Seattle, it's seventy
five to eighty five all through the summer. The roof
is open, you're not in sweltering heat, you're not in humidity,
and yeah, you gotta fly a few extra miles. Oakland
by the Oakland, Sacramento's number two in terms of miles flown,

(40:21):
there are about four thousand. No, they're two thousand miles
behind Seattle. So it's not that different. San Francisco is
thirty five hundred miles different than Seattle. San Diego four
thousand miles different than the Scattle. How different is that?
That's one plane trip on a charter in which you
stay for four days or three days. But yeah, I
just thought it was a weird part of the broadcast

(40:42):
last night for us. So when you brought up the
travel of Jess, I'm like, yeah, good, I want to
touch on that because I thought he was just I
thought he was an idiot, Like what are you doing?
Like your job is to sell this thing instead, Hey,
the stadium is great, but it's out here in the
middle of nowhere. We're not in the middle of nowhere.

Speaker 4 (40:56):
A major League baseball team who made it to the
ALCS LNTT.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
And I just I just don't I didn't like it.
That's the only part of the rest of the broadcast
really liked enjoyed it.

Speaker 7 (41:05):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (41:06):
I thought I thought the other guy didn't le Ryan
roll In Smith talk enough. We had waits. But you
know what, when your team's giving up hits and your
and your starter is getting ripped apart and you have
and you only had one hit, I guess there's only
so much that the hyphen could say right at that
point in time outside of Colt And they kind of
almost stepped on the cold Emerson at bat, which I
didn't like. But uh, anyway, good stuff all the way around.

(41:26):
I like Sunday Night Baseball a lot better now than
I did on ESPN. I'll just I'll wrap it up
with that. Outside of Rizzo, I don't need him telling
me that that our place, you know, give me the
ill effects of being in Seattle. I think Seattle's great
summertime is awesome to me. It's one of the best.
It should be one of the best destinations for a
free agent.

Speaker 5 (41:43):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (41:43):
And just when you look at the bigger picture, there's
no marine layer here that that that stuff needs to
stop now. The batting eye something I'll have to ask
a play next, I mean, next time you ask talk
to a player, just when you're down there ask him
about the the four or five o'clock starts and how
that batterye comes into play, because they did talk about
that yesterday.

Speaker 3 (41:59):
Being yeah, it does make a difference.

Speaker 2 (42:01):
It didn't didn't affect Sweeney.

Speaker 3 (42:05):
Right, I will, I'll be down there.

Speaker 2 (42:06):
I mean it, certainly, it certainly did not seem to
affect the Podres. Whatever the batterye was and whatever issues
they were having that that did not seem to matter
at all to them. All Right, we'll take a break,
we'll come back. We're checking in with the Malliwop guys.
We didn't have them on. We didn't have them together
last week because Nathan was unavailable speaking of real estate.
But he he's back, Chris is back. We got a

(42:28):
lot to talk about today. Coming up next, checking in
with Chris Nathan. You asked for it, you got it,
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Speaker 5 (42:57):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (42:58):
They are now two games out of first place, behind
the A's game behind the Rangers, who were in second.
Twenty year old Colt Emerson, number one prospect for the team,
made his debut at third base. Oh we'll get into
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they host the White Sox, who are no longer awful.
By the way. We found that out actually a couple
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(43:19):
They're actually adequate, maybe even better than adequate. Those are
fun days when they were really crappy. You can count
on three wins. That's not the case anymore. The longer
can you do that? Six forty first pitch, Caitlin Clark
Fever beat the storm yesterday eighty nine seventy eight. She
just missed out on a triple double. Aaron Raie first
English born golfer more than one hundred years win the
PGA Championship. Very cool story. Well, I'm going to hit

(43:39):
on that before we're all said and done today, because
why it's cool he is not your typical golfer country
club snob by any means kind of a fun guy
to win it. NFL Nashville going to host the Super
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(44:00):
Game one of the conference finals. Five o'clock on Wednesday.
Conference Finals in the NBA starts night the Pukes in
Oklahoma City hosting the Spurs five point thirty. Knicks host
the Caves Eastern Conference Finals tomorrow. Calves upset Detroit. I
don't even know. It's an upset. Me oot racing by
one hundred yesterday in Detroit.

Speaker 5 (44:18):
Here we go.

Speaker 1 (44:20):
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(44:43):
my oh, why here's Ian Fernett's.

Speaker 2 (44:47):
All right, marm Jesse. Are we on the YouTube today?

Speaker 1 (44:51):
We are?

Speaker 2 (44:51):
Indeed, we don't see them right, No, we haven't figured
that out yet.

Speaker 3 (44:55):
No, we will.

Speaker 2 (44:56):
Are you watching the YouTube?

Speaker 7 (44:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (44:57):
Tell me if you can see this? Can they see
some want people to see it? Can they see that?

Speaker 3 (45:01):
They should be able to? Yes, you see that.

Speaker 2 (45:03):
That's what a Molliwap Monday looks like visually, people, That's
what it looks like visually. Just someday we'll have the
technology to actually do this. There's a thing called stream
yard out there, Chris, I think, is that right.

Speaker 6 (45:18):
I've heard. I've heard it's good. I've heard that it's
pretty much way better than this stupid program.

Speaker 2 (45:23):
I think the zoomage, the zoomage that we're doing right now. Yeah,
I've heard that too. I've heard that too. We'll figure
it out someday. But the meantime that there's a little
glimpse for the folks on the YouTube. That's what it
looks like. When we talk, we like to look at
each other, have a good conversation. Uh, Unlike last week,
in which the role of Nathan Bishop was being played
by Anderson Hurst. They're both here today, which is a

(45:43):
good which is a good thing because I just checked
mentions and texts and listeners and friends and after the
weekend that what It's amazing what happens if things are
really good. I hear, hey, can't wait for molliwap if
things are really bad, can't wait for ally op A three,
like a two in one weekend or something like that.

(46:04):
We just do our show and get on with it.
But there are times when the people need to hear
from Chris and Nate, and today is one of those days.
There's a lot to get to fellas, a lot to
get to Chris. I'm gonna start with you because you
didn't stiff us last week. By the way, for people
who saw this on the on the par Juice, what's
what's the name on the zoom thing today?

Speaker 6 (46:26):
Par Juice. He played a couple of seasons for the
Red Wings and for the Islanders. He was around for
a long time. He played in the World Cup for
Sweden as like a forty one year old or something
like that. But it's a name that is stuck with
me forever and ever I'm in.

Speaker 2 (46:43):
The I do like that though, because I guess probably Chris,
you do because you're you're more of a base or
a hockey guy. The whole situation with ESPN not able
to pronounce half the names of the Buffalo Sabers, the
fact that you can pronounce par juice is something else.
Like I'll give you all that, so thank you, buddy,
Huko Pecat un expected to start tonight. We'll see how
it's pronounced on TV. I'll I'll be watching Edzel's not

(47:06):
doing the game in John's game to ESPNS. I'll watch that,
all right. We'll start with you, Chris, part of juice?
What do you got?

Speaker 6 (47:11):
Uh? So, how crazy is it that the Mariners win
three out of four against the Houston Astros and no
one gives a crap? Right?

Speaker 8 (47:19):
Like?

Speaker 6 (47:20):
How crazy is it that?

Speaker 1 (47:21):
You?

Speaker 6 (47:22):
I know, It's just it's a backwards place and I'm
just devastated like you that the Eddie Vedder Cup isn't
going to stay in Seattle. By the way, with an
English golfer winning the uh that tournament, I wonder if
we could have a English team win another big tournament
coming up. Probably not. I was incredibly frustrated doesn't even

(47:46):
begin to describe it this weekend, And unfortunately in my
mile y recap, I did drop the F bomb, and
I'll do my best not to do it here. No,
I can definitely control myself on this one because of
the the three from me and are pretty pretty harsh.

Speaker 2 (48:02):
You're also an experience player in the depth system here
at kJ are you know? Isn't it weird? Just real fast?
Isn't it weird? How like this happens and you just
don't just turn that off? It's crazy?

Speaker 5 (48:12):
Yeah, it is.

Speaker 6 (48:13):
It is really weird, really weird.

Speaker 8 (48:16):
Yeah, well, Kevin, Kevin, you got to be a big
time like shocky to be able to pull the well, then.

Speaker 2 (48:21):
You get then you get promoted and end up getting
a p somewhere.

Speaker 6 (48:24):
I'll drop the F bomb and get a whole bunch
of stuff. I just I can't get over how crappy
they looked in that series, because you know that series
where they get swept by the Royals. By the way,
I believe they've lost six straight home games. Now that's
a lot of fun. They looked like the better team
for a lot of those baseball games. They didn't look
like the better team for one flipp and pitch, not

(48:46):
one pitch. They got their absolute butts kicked. And I
don't think the Padres are a great baseball team. It's
they have a good record, they have some good pitchers,
they have a really good bullpen. But you know, getting
beat by Avin Sheets and uh, Miguel and Ahar and
Ty France, the ghost of Ty France kicking your butt.

(49:07):
That's just you being a bad baseball team right now.
And I keep saying that it's not predictive stuff. Well,
at some point it is. And we're thirty percent through
the season, and through thirty percent of the season, when
you are not playing Triple A Round Rock or whatever.
He oh, they're Sugarland. I'm sorry, the Sugarland Space Cowboys.
When you're not playing the Triple A sugar Land team

(49:28):
that is the Houston Astros, You've look like dog crap.
You've been awful. You've been a bad baseball team. And
at some point you have to wonder when is it
going to change, When are they going to be willing
to make the necessary changes. Now you saw one of them,
You saw Colt Emerson come up. Of course it comes
with an injury, and I'm sure we'll talk a lot

(49:49):
about that. By the way, Ian, absolutely your fault for
making fun of load management. And then the next thing
we see is the Mariners bench Donovan for load management
and put them on the Absolutely shame on you. I
take force team, thank you. His team just looks awful.
It's embarrassing. It is twenty two and twenty six doesn't

(50:11):
even begin to describe how bad this team has looked
over the first thirty percent, and I'm I'm pretty pissed off.

Speaker 2 (50:17):
Nathan.

Speaker 5 (50:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (50:21):
I feel like a lot of the normal fury that
I would have directed at this team and the people
that put it together over the course of the season
has been muted by just kind of being exhausted with
their whole deal, and also just how bad the American
League has been overall has really muted their expectation. I mean,
my ability to be upset with them, But Chris is right,

(50:41):
outside of playing the Houston Astros, this team and I
really feel like we need to be honest.

Speaker 5 (50:46):
But this is.

Speaker 8 (50:47):
Supposed to be the American League. We knew was going
to be bad. The Marriers were supposed to feast upon that.
They were supposed to be a class above all of
this wreck that they're currently mired in. Outside of the
Houston Astros, this team is fifteen and twenty five against
all other competition, and to be honest, they haven't played
that many great teams. They've lost series to a lot

(51:09):
of mediocre baseball teams that frankly, I think that they're
more talented then. And it's really really, really annoying to
watch day in and day out, and I feel like
they're losing in times games where they just get outplayed.
But I feel like this team feels like it's underplaying

(51:30):
its talent level. And I know that they have injuries
in ways that they haven't necessarily had in the past
couple of years, and that that takes a toll. But
every baseball team has injuries, Every baseball team has stuff
that goes wrong. And this team's inability to win close games,
this team's inability to manage its roster where we keep
ending up with Mason Miller facing Rob Refsnyder in the

(51:52):
ninth and eighty. I know it doesn't matter who faces
Mason Miller, I get it, but Rob Refsnyder is here
to hit left handed hitter pitchers and he's facing the
best relief pitcher who's right handed alive with the game
on the line in the ninth inning. This kind of
stuff keeps happening, and those things are adding up. And
this season, if this were any other baseball season, the

(52:12):
Maritors would be three games out of wildcard three and
eight and a half games out of first place. And
that is, frankly, what their play deserves. And instead we
get to sit around here and say that there are
two games out of first place because the American League
West is the twenty ten NFC West, And you know, great,
that means that nothing has been eliminated from their ability
to do it. But as a product, as somebody who

(52:32):
likes baseball and wants the Mariners to win, this sucks
to watch every single day.

Speaker 2 (52:38):
It just sucks. I hate it. Yeah, I will listen.
I mean, basically, it's last year's NFC South right eight
and nine wins the division through a tiebreaker with Carolina.
I want to all right, let's just rip the bandate off,
Let's just go down the road right now, because is
everybody want I mean, this is this is the topic.
This is everyone in town is talking about this. I
was looking at a show recap email this morning. I'm

(52:59):
gonna call it up right now, just so I have it.
I want to make sure this is what was sent
this morning by Ashley Ryan wrapping up the Morning show.
We have a team filled with injuries, playing bad baseball
and managed by a bad manager right now. So I'm
assuming that's what Chuck said, bad manager. The bandy we're
ripping off is that we really and I think in

(53:20):
fairness to you too, who people do look to every
Monday and say, you know, if anybody in this town
is going to be honest and critical when needed, I
give you guys credits you You guys aren't working for
the flagship. You call it as you see it, and
we joke about it with Nathan all the time, and
Nathan is Nathan. We love you for that. But you

(53:42):
do say it when things are good, you say it
when things are bad. Chris, who does a lot of
this for a living, You're usually tempered in your criticism.
But thought footfall as well. We have avoided, I really think,
and we've avoided the Dan Wilson topic. We haven't gone
down that road. We really haven't thrown stones at that house,
that glass house a lot not this year, at least

(54:03):
last time was probably after a certain game in Toronto
in October. We'll forget about that. So Chris, let's go
down that road right now. How culpable or how much
of a problem is the manager or is.

Speaker 6 (54:16):
He he's definitely a problem. How much of a problem
he is is subjective, of course, because Dan Wilson is
in Rob Reschneider. Dan Wilson isn't Connor Joe. Dan Wilson
isn't Mitch Garver, he isn't Leo Revos, he isn't the
guy who has put those players on the roster. But

(54:37):
this is what I came back to, and I always
come back to this. Anytime a team makes a managerial
change or any type of coaching change in any sport,
is Dan Wilson making the Mariners better? Because if Dan
Wilson is making the Mariners better, this team sucks out
loud like it's a really, really bad roster, and then

(54:58):
you've got to talk about making wholesale changes. No, I
don't think that this is a really bad roster. I
don't think that Dan Wilson has made the Seattle Mariners
better even a smidget. Now, if you want to argue
that he's what he's doing in the clubhouse. That's so
hard to judge because I'm not in there. Nobody's in there.
Jerry and Justin are in there, so they have a

(55:20):
little bit of an idea, but that's really hard to prove,
and it's really hard to prove that a new guy
can't do the same thing as well. But the in
game decision making and Sunday really frustrated me because I
saw a lethargic baseball team. I saw a baseball team
that looked like that loss didn't really bug them, And
that's really frustrating because it should have. This should have

(55:42):
been a you gotta get this w you gotta start,
you know, getting some home wins. You got to at
least salvage something here, and they looked lethargic. And that's
at least a little bit on the manager. Is it
on the twenty six players too, of course, But to
answer your question, Dan Wilson is deaf, definitely culpable, and
Dan Wilson, these are the same issues that we saw

(56:04):
when he took over in twenty twenty four. For a
lot of twenty twenty five and so far in twenty
twenty six, for sure, if you could argue it's actually
gotten worse. So I don't think that they're willing to
make a change. I think that Dan Wilson's popularity in
the city and with the organization makes this an even

(56:25):
more difficult thing. But I'll just be honest with you
right now. I had a night to sleep on it.
I recorded my video at twelve thirty in the morning
because I wanted to take as much time as possible
before I ended up recording. Yeah, I think I would
make the change. I think I would make the decision
right now. I probably would have made it after Game seven,
to be honest with you, but I would absolutely consider

(56:48):
making a managerial change because Dan Wilson is not making
the Seattle Mariners better, and that's all I care about.
I don't care about him managing the clubhouse. I don't
care about the relationship he has with the players. That's important.
I believe a new manager can do the same gosh
damn thing. Dan Wilson is not making the Seattle Mariners better,
and the Mariners need to look at that and decide

(57:10):
whether that's good enough. And I can't imagine how you'd
say that's good enough.

Speaker 2 (57:16):
The I'm gonna come back to something you said in there.
But Nathan, I'll let you have your sake, be cause
I want to circle back in just a heart and
a heartbeat. But Dan Wilson, well, there's six.

Speaker 8 (57:26):
And eleven in one run games. His predecessor was incredibly
good in one run games for over a decade. That's
not saying Scott's Servis was a perfect manager. He clearly
was not. No manager is perfect. But I'm looking at
this roster and I will grant Dan Wilson this year
that cal Rawley being hurt sucks.

Speaker 2 (57:45):
That's really hard.

Speaker 8 (57:47):
As much of a negative as that is, I would
say that cal Raley deciding to have the greatest season
in the history of Major League Baseball for a catcher
probably maybe obscured some of Dan's weaknesses last year. And
having a catcher hit sixty home runs makes you look
pretty smart when you're riding the lineup every single day.
I don't see the stuff that's happening on this roster
right now that makes me think that Dan is dealing

(58:07):
with some sort of toxic, unmanageable group of guys. Like
I see so many things going right for this team
on individual levels. Luke Rayley's having a great season. Randio
Rosereina has been fantastic. Julio Rodriguez is off to one
of his best starts. Josh Naylor after a slow start,
it's just Josh Naylor again. Cole Young has been promising.
Donovan's been fine when he's been healthy. JP Crawford is

(58:28):
the worst shortstop of Major League baseball, but he gets
on base like an absolute stud and has been one
of their more useful bats Like those things should add
up to wins. And you couple it with a rotation
that has not been elite. It has not been twenty three,
twenty twenty four, it's still been one of the better
and probably the deepest rotation in all of Major League Baseball.
You still have Andres Munez back there to slam the

(58:50):
door on close games. And you're six and eleven to
one run games, and you're fifteen and twenty five against
everybody except the worst frickin' rotation I've ever seen in
my life in the Houston Astros. Dude, they are adding
five plus five and making it seven. And I don't
know if that's not the manager's fault, I don't know
what is the man?

Speaker 2 (59:10):
What is the manager's fault?

Speaker 8 (59:11):
When can I criticize the manager If I am watching
this team underperform and just not being able to string
together wins making the same stupid decisions, they are getting slaughtered.
I did some research on the numbers. They are getting
absolutely obliterated in the sixth inning of baseball games, right
when they are subbing out their best hitters for their
worst hitters, and right when they're trying to transition from

(59:34):
their starting pitching to.

Speaker 6 (59:35):
Their relief pitching.

Speaker 8 (59:36):
Those are pivot points that the manager controls, and they
are failing every single day, it feels like in that
point in the game. And it's just I have nothing
against Dan Wilson. I have fond memories of Dan Wilson
as a child. He is a Mariner Hall of Famer.
He is apparently an eighty grade human being that everybody

(59:56):
who talks to you says he's a wonderful man. I
bear him no ill will. The the process through which
he was hired, the fact that there was apparently no
vetting of any kind or any sort of search before
he was hired, coupled with the obvious struggles the're going
to come from somebody that's never managed in baseball before,

(01:00:16):
and seeing it play out like this at what is
at least the best championship window this organization has had
in twenty five years, if not ever. It's really it's
both very very on brand for the Seattle Mariners and
deeply frustrating as somebody who would really like them to win.

Speaker 2 (01:00:33):
I like those stats, those six inning stats, because I
texted you guys on Saturday when I was at the
Rainiers game. Superfan Heather Mariner. Superfan Heather says, too many stats,
they don't matter. Tell Nathan and Chris that Monday. So
I'm telling you that right now.

Speaker 8 (01:00:45):
The Mariners have the twenty second worst ERA the third
time through the opposing bats lineup. So they get through
the first the lineup the first few times just fine.
They come back around the third time and they get
absolutely crushed. And that's when you needed to make adjustments
figuring out how to match up, and they just can't
do it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:02):
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actually that number in a second. But Chris, we go
back to something you said. I don't want to forget this.
I think it is an interesting dynamic with this organization.
First of all, I saw some I met thing with
something on social media. I think it was one of
our Instagram posts that we put up there, equiped from

(01:01:23):
the show, and somebody said, they're not an organization that's
not serious about winning. All they care about is bobbleheads.
And it's the same criticism, that same thing you hear
all the time. I know enough people in the organization.
You know enough people in that organization, Chris, that's not
the case. I don't know anybody.

Speaker 6 (01:01:38):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:01:38):
Owners are different than people in the organization. Okay, if
you tell me an owner doesn't care about anything besides
the bottom line, I'll dance with you. But whether it's
the guy in the business side who does care about
the bottom line, Kevin Martinez, or whether it's justin Jerry
and anybody else, they care about winning like they care
about winning. So don't ever tell me they don't care
about winning. No, but here's a problem with that. At

(01:02:01):
some point, you have to make tough decisions. And you
mentioned the popularity of Dan Wilson, do you think if
this man this is a very hypothetical and I don't
I put in a bad situation. But if the managers
was Jeff Johnson, who worked in the Cardinals organization and
was a triple A manager for sugar Land a couple

(01:02:22):
of years ago and now was a Manor's manager, and
he had the same Game seven Bizarro decision everything else
that Dan Wilson did, do you think it would be
an easier decision.

Speaker 6 (01:02:32):
I think so. Of course, Jeff Johnson or Parju's or
who are they hired, Hardy Wood wouldn't have gotten hired
in the first place in that situation, so it would
be a lot easier because you know, the vetting process
just didn't work. I think the ultimate thing here and
this is not meant to be a huge shot at
the organization. I think the problem is is that making

(01:02:54):
this decision is it's asking an awful lot of the
sustainability of Jerry Depoto and Justin Hollander if you make
that change. Because if you make that change and then
it doesn't work, oh, you're really putting stuff on the
line now because he is a popular guy in that clubhouse.
I'm not in there. But I've talked to enough people

(01:03:15):
to know that the players like Dan Wilson. So if
this doesn't work, you're talking about a lot of stuff.
But to answer your question, absolutely, one thousand percent. If
this is just Joe Q interim who was managing the
Seattle Mariners, I think this decision is a hell of
a lot easier.

Speaker 2 (01:03:34):
It's interesting you bring up the popularity and that was
the criticism of service, right, that was the service criticism.

Speaker 6 (01:03:38):
He lost the clubhouse.

Speaker 2 (01:03:39):
He lost the clubhouse. I think now the organization in
this town that has made more coaching changes than anybody
in a shorter period of time would be our friends
of Seattle Kraken, my other employer, and they would criticize
a lot for it. But I can tell you this,
when when Dave Hackstall was fired, there wasn't a tear
shed by anybody in the locker room, in the organization,

(01:04:04):
in the front office selling tickets, nobody was shedding a tier.
When Dan Bilsman was let go, it was a different feeling,
but it was the same like, yeah, this guy's over
his skis, doesn't know what he's doing. It's not fifteen
years ago when he had Sydney and the rest of
the crew in Pittsburgh and won a Stanley Cup. It's

(01:04:25):
this players did not worry about that. So that brings
us Dan Wilson, Nate. If that's the case, which I
believe it is what Chris said and everyone is in
there at the clubhouse, it tells us this. Those guys
got to pick it up because if this is a
guy you really want, well, prove it, Nathan, prove it.

Speaker 8 (01:04:44):
Oh absolutely. And this team is the I think I saw.
They have the worst batting average with runners in scoring
position in Major League Baseball. I mean, you go, you
look at yourself in the mirror right there, and it's
like I I can do the like twenty thousand foot
view of the advanced statistics all day every day. But
I also played a fair amount of baseball, and I
know when there's a guy on second and third and
less than two outs, if you don't get that run in, man,

(01:05:07):
you're holding yourself responsible. And that's your job as a
baseball player to do it. And these guys are not
getting it done. Every single game. It feels like you
get to the fifth inning and it's one nothing or
one to one or two nothing. I mean, god forbid
they ever just jump on a pitcher and put a
game out of reach by the second or third inning.
And you're right, it's on them to do it. They're
going to have to step up and make the plays

(01:05:29):
at the high leverage points, which is where they're really
failing right now. And that's the also the point that
makes the manager look the worst when you fail, because
those are the points that everybody remembers. If there's ever
another option, and if there was another guy that could
have been there, if Luke Rayley could have been hitting
instead of Rob Refsnyder, They're gonna look at Dan, even
though you can make an argument that the responsibility lies

(01:05:50):
with a guy like Rob Refsninder who hasn't performed. He
hasn't played the way that he has played statistically throughout
his career. So it's gonna be really tough. To your
point in I don't think. I do think it would
be an easier decision to move on from a manager.
I think that the Marina's track record, and this is
not necessarily a shot at them, It's mostly just an
observation of fact. They don't They are not reactionary. They

(01:06:13):
are going to let things have time before they make choices.
They give guys like Donovan Solano a lot of time
to figure this stuff out. Scott Servis was here for
ten years, Jerry Depoto has been here for twelve. Kevin
Mather was given an entire weekend to just hang out
before everybody decided whether or not what he had said
was bad enough to actually let him resign. So they

(01:06:33):
don't make quick decisions in Seattle. That is both a
good and a bad thing. I think from an organizational standpoint, well,
and they have to be harder, but I still don't
think they do it well.

Speaker 2 (01:06:42):
Fellas. They also have the they have a little bit
of leeway because of the year that it is like Nate,
like you mentioned, if in a normal year you're six
out of the Ale West and you're three or four
out in the Wildcard, it's not a normal year in
the American League, which just four teams are above five hundred.
I mean that's so's they do have that going for them,
but it's taught like again, I'll just go back like
this is not something we do on this show. I

(01:07:04):
want to emphasize that. I mean, for all the stuff
I hear people talking about and things like Hey, you
know you got no. No, we don't go after dude's
jobs on this show. We just don't. And I don't
think we're even doing that right now. But I think
it's a conversation that needs to be had when our
morning show, who has a great relationship down at Spring
traunning earlier with those guys as saying he's a bad manager.
That's a pretty strong statement and as are others as well.

(01:07:26):
All Right, cold Emerson's up, let's talk about something good
and how long is he here? I also brought this
up earlier. I kind of see the cal rally going
on the injured list as a net positive. I'll explain
why do you guys and see if you agree when
we come back to and then Chris, you can tell
us why the white socks and all of a sudden
are decent? Like, what the hell's going on there? Real quick?

(01:07:47):
Dawn Mattingly fifteen and four since taking over for the
Phillies fifteen and four? Interesting, Maybe it does make a difference.
We'll come back more and more what Monday next.

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Speaker 2 (01:08:35):
Real quick, I want to hit this this real fast
before we get to the neat memestaps. We like Sunday
Night Baseball now on NBC. I do.

Speaker 6 (01:08:42):
I kind of liked it, yes, but you're asking somebody
who is employed by NBC. So imagine if I said.

Speaker 8 (01:08:48):
No, I'm crashing on me yesterday. So I'm biased against it.
And I still thought the broadcast was fine.

Speaker 2 (01:08:53):
Yeah, it was good. All right. I mentioned this before
the NET I see this as the net positive calendar,
and Chris tell me, if I'm just out to lunch,
he wasn't helping you. Hasn't helped you all year, hasn't
done I mean, I know, behind the plate, I'll give
you that the defensive stuff, okay, but offensively he's I mean,
not much matters between him and Mitch Carver. And that's

(01:09:14):
really sad. Like that's a scary topic of discussion. He
was not right physically. Net positive get off. We talked.
I think we talked about this last week. Do we
not like, hey, get get healthy, like cal get healthy.
I like the fact they put him on the injured list.
Just don't do I think that they said, Hey, the
first five days, you're not doing anything because Chris they

(01:09:36):
need him the second half of the season, don't they?

Speaker 6 (01:09:40):
Oh my gosh, did you? I mean, if you watch
this weekend, did you see a lineup that looked better
without Big Dumper? Like, there's no way in eighties that
you could come to that conclusion. Here, here's what I
will say. They will miss his defense a lot, they
will miss his framing, they will miss that he's a
better thrower than guard. And I think he's a better

(01:10:01):
communicator than Garver from the people that I've talked to,
And that's not really a shot at Garver more than
a compliment for Raleigh, right. And I will also point
out that before them sit down where he missed three
days and whatever, and then he goes, oh, for what
I believe it was over thirty six something along those lines,

(01:10:25):
he was starting to swing the bat better. He was
ten for twenty nine and he was I think he
hit three or four homers in that time. So ultimately,
because of that, that's why I say yes. Because asking
a catcher to play through restrained oblink is asinine. It's malpractice.
So get him healthy because you need your one hundred

(01:10:47):
percent dumper to be able to do the things that
I demand that they do. Yeah, asking him to play
through that injury was insane. You know. You know what
some of this is on Big Dumper two because there
was a bunch of articles written about the Mariners trust
cal Rawly. They trust him with his body, they trust
him to make the right decisions. Homeboy, you made the

(01:11:08):
wrong decision. It was the bad decision to keep playing
through a strained oblique. And yes, the adults in the
room should have told Big Dumper, no, you can't do
this right now, and they should have done it sooner.
But cal Raley's got to be a little less selfish
there and say I need to go get on the
shelf and make myself one hundred percent so I'm ready

(01:11:29):
to roll for the postseason and the second half of
this year because it's gonna matter a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:11:33):
Well, I think, Nathan, I think the thing is, it's
it's like you applaud the guy, and you know, athletes
that want to play through stuff in the toughness level
because we live in a world of the NBA and
and when guys load management, guys taking days off, missing
play out whatever it is, right, I mean, and that's
you do. I can so the three other major sports

(01:11:54):
don't worry about stuff like that. The NBA does, so
I applaud guys, and baseball players sometimes don't have, you know,
the best reputation for being quote tough. But there's a
difference between being tough and just being negligent and hurting
your team. So he's on the injure list. Nathan, you
were pointing you agree with Chris.

Speaker 8 (01:12:11):
Yeah, I the balance point between the thing with Cal
is that we know Cal has played through injuries before.
He's a major league catcher. He's been basically catching almost
every day for the last three years. You don't do
that without get it going through pain, and that's the
tough thing. I was mostly agreeing with Chris that I
think the adults in the room needed to sit him
down earlier, because I just think that the way that

(01:12:33):
Cal's mindset, that's such a fine line as an athlete
to say, well, I'm hurt, but I'm not going to
make it worse by continuing to play, and wow, I'm hurt.
I need to sit down like that. These guys are
not wired to be able to have that level of
nuance with their physical ability. If KL can strap on
the gear, he's gonna want to play, and there needs
to be somebody the marriers can say they trust him

(01:12:53):
all they want. That's great. I'm sure that they do.
They shouldn't completely trust him, and you shouldn't trust any
athlete to do that. And that's not a criticism of
the athlete. That's just athlete mindset says, if I can go,
I'm going to go, especially as the team leader, and
especially as a catcher, which is the most injury prone
position anyway. They're always hurt in some way.

Speaker 2 (01:13:15):
For bumps and bruises are one thing, but when you've
got you know, muscle tissue things like that, then it's
you know that just it doesn't seem to work. It
just doesn't seem to work.

Speaker 5 (01:13:22):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:13:23):
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get to the pitching staff with real quick before we're
done the starting the rotation. Uh, six man not a

(01:13:45):
six man piggyback. Here we go, Kirby and uh, Kirby
and uh and Gilbert get rocked over the weekend. Where
do you want to go?

Speaker 6 (01:13:52):
Do you want to talk about Colt Emerson? We will,
we will before we're we will, we will, yeah, we will, Okay, yeah, okay,
just wanted to make sure, yes, yes, yes, the rotation.
There's been some good stuff. Boy, it's really frustrating to
watch this lineup the third time through. And Nathan brought
up the stats like they have just gotten shellacked, and

(01:14:13):
I don't I need to do a deeper study on
how much of it is predictability, Like if teams are
picking up patterns. I don't think it's a tipping pitches thing.
I don't even really think it's like the stuff just
isn't good enough to get the third time through, but
they are just getting clawbird clawberd clobberd. And there are
you know a bunch of stats about how the third
time through is always the most difficulty. But it shouldn't

(01:14:35):
be this difficult. It shouldn't be like the difference between
like being one of the best pitching staffs in baseball
to all of a sudden pitching like you're in Double
A Arkansas. Like it's just such a massive difference. I'm
encouraged by most of what I've seen. I thought Bryce
Miller looked really solid for the first five innings of
his start. Thought it was a massive mistake for Dan
Wilson to let him continue after those five innings because

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the signs of ruggles were there. But it's mostly encouraging,
but there is some frustration there by why they are
so flip and bad once the lineup gets a chance
to see them more than a couple of times.

Speaker 2 (01:15:10):
Mate.

Speaker 8 (01:15:12):
Yeah, I think that's the biggest thing that you got
to really ask because it's the same group that it
has been for I mean, there's no surprises here. This
is buying large outside of Emerson Hancock deciding that he's
a strikeout pitcher. Now, this is the same group of
guys and it has been for the last four years,
and this the third time through the order penalty exists.
It exists for all pictures everywhere pretty much it hasn't
been this extreme for this group ever as it is

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right now, and I don't know what that is my
there's a possibility. I was looking into it a little bit.
This rotation has, by orders of magnitude, the lowest walk
rate in all of baseball among anti starting rotation, which
is great. But I do wonder if there's a point
where they're working so hard at avoiding walks at all
costs that they get through that third time of the order,

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and when the command drifts a little bit instead of
just kind of nibbling at the corners, now you're getting
too much of the plate and then blamo. And then
also there's just I'm seeing stuff like I don't know
why George Kirby had to give up. However many extras
give Saturday before he got pulled. I mean this, I
don't want to circle it back to a topic we
already discussed. Straight ability to mitigate damage that has not

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necessarily been exercised with the rotation.

Speaker 2 (01:16:21):
All right, if you can, can we do one more segment? Fellas,
I'm asking for a friend. Her name is Jessman. H Hey, guys,
it tells me that we knew need to take a
commercial because we do need. I had on the list
the cool thing this weekend, cold Emerson coming up, and
I do think it'd be good. This is where we
lean on our guy that does prospects, Rotal World. Hell well,

(01:16:42):
ladies and gentleman, NBC Sports Mile. Why Nathan not Nathan
Chris Crawford, because cold Emerson is not me? No, definitely
not you. But we do need to lead on Christ.
I think it's I think it's fair to say we're
excited about cold Emerson. What are the expectations realistically for
emer And then what can you do to stick around
over the next what is it ten days, Chris? Yet,

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over the next ten days, what can you do? We'll
talk about that and wrap things up. Look ahead of
the White Sox series, the juggernaut that is the Chicago
White Sox series. We'll do that next.

Speaker 1 (01:17:21):
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Speaker 2 (01:17:35):
All right, I apologize the guys for keeping around for
the whole hour, but I do this is this is
when I'm getting text from people that are I'll just
say when I'm getting text from people that I like
their I trust their opinion, I value their opinion, and
they say this is a good show today, then we
keep it going because we got to talk Cold to Emerson.
All right, I mentioned this. I got a chance. I

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went down to Cheeniy Stadium with some friends on Saturday
night celebrates my buddy Darren's birthday. Outside of the fact
that it was forty two degrees in raining, it was awesome.
And I said that the first segment Ben Nelson, the
group down at Cheenie stand at the Rainier is doing
an unbelievable job, Like get down there when the weather's good.
Enjoy game. We watched the Sugarland Express and but it

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was fun because we stuck around through an hour and
forty five minute rain delay to start the game because
I want to see Cold Emerson. I guess I didn't
have to stick around because he's going to play in
the big leagues the next day. Chris, what are what
are the realistic expectations for him?

Speaker 6 (01:18:33):
Oh, that's a really good question. I would say the
realistic expectations are solid average regular, a guy who helps
you more than hurts you with the bat, a guy
who helps you more than hurts you with the glove,
and I think he's certainly capable of more, and he's
certainly capable of less. This is a very young player

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who was and I hate you know, batting average is
what it is. But he's in two fifty five in Tacoma.
It's not like he was just tearing the world on fire.

Speaker 5 (01:19:01):
Now.

Speaker 6 (01:19:01):
He had a good on base percentage and he's slugging
pretty well too, And I really am hoping that this
is not a case where the Mariners are deciding to
just transfer everything over and go power over hit, because
I don't think that's going to work for cold Emerson.
But I expect solid defense, I expect very solid base running,
and I expect good but maybe not great offense from

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him in his first taste. But it's really cool to
see him up and you know, a chance to play
your first game on Sunday night baseball. I'm sure the
Mariners were well aware of that potential opportunity, and I
don't blame them for taking advantage of it either, But
I think realistic expectations are a solid average regular.

Speaker 2 (01:19:42):
Player Nathan what are you looking forward to with cold Eerson.

Speaker 8 (01:19:47):
Well, I think when Chris is saying that he's going
to be a solid glove guy, the cool thing is,
and I'm not saying this to be a jerk, that's
going to make him one of the better defenders on
this team. Suum like it's it's going to stand out
the level, not just not just the fact that he
can make plays, but just the fact that he's a
he's a good athlete, and he's young, so he's in
his athletic prime. He'll get around the diamond the way

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that other guys are struggling to do so. And he's
got the arm strength to get the ball across the
diamond too, which is great. I love that in theory,
if he does not get swallowed alive as a twenty
year old in his major league debut, which and I
want to emphasize, if that happens, that doesn't mean he's
a fail prospect. So if he has a rough go here,
just everybody'd be cool. He's twenty years old. But I

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love the fact that this guy has got such a
well rounded game, like he's just going to bring value.
It reminds me of like a comp would be kind
of like a faster Kyle Seeger, kind of of an
experience where there's just there's not really great at anything,
but also kind of good at everything. So I'm not
a scout, I'm not a prospect guy, but I've loved
this guy since the day they drafted him, and so yeah,

(01:20:50):
I think that the idea of him becoming that kind
of not this year, but becoming that, like, I don't know,
top ten ish at his position year in and year out,
a player who makes maybe two to four All Star
Games in his career. I love that for the Seattle
Mariners that and I love that for us as fans.
It could be a really fun career to watch.

Speaker 2 (01:21:09):
That's an interesting thing, Chris. If he ends up being
Kyle Seger, that's good, right.

Speaker 6 (01:21:13):
Yeah, absolutely, And you know, don't think of the end
of Kyle Seeger's career. This guy was just like doing
everything he can to just sell out for power to
be valuable. But if he ends up being that type
of player, I think that's a wonderful thing. And I
think he has a higher ceiling than that. Okay, but
that could be the floor there, which is pretty exciting.
By the way. Wearing number four. I'm pretty disappointed. I

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guess they're not going to retire Mark mcmore's.

Speaker 2 (01:21:36):
Number or Harold Ronalds disrespect.

Speaker 6 (01:21:39):
Well, I'm okay with that one, but I'm not okay
with Mark. He's a very important part.

Speaker 5 (01:21:43):
Of my child.

Speaker 2 (01:21:44):
God, uh, Chris, Why the hell of the Chicago White
Sox at least decent at baseball now?

Speaker 6 (01:21:50):
Because they hit the piss out of the baseball baseball
right now. They have Ding Dong Johnson's all over the place.
And I will go back and say it, I wanted
to Taco murraa coami so freaking bad, and a lot
of organizations passed on this guy, and I get it.
I think he's striking out in about one hundred and
seven percent of his plate appearances, but he still has

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hit seventeen home runs. But they've got guys like him,
Colson Montgomery, Chase Maydroff is going to be a pain
in that took us for a long long time. They've
got some guys who can really hit, and then they
have some pictures that have been Davis Martin might be
the cy young right now. They don't get to face
Davis Martin, thank goodness this time. But the White Sox
have some bashers, and the Mariners need to be careful

(01:22:33):
because if you leave pitches in the middle of the play,
if you are like Nathan was talking about, more concerned
about not walking guys than anything else, well you might
watch them walk around the bases.

Speaker 8 (01:22:44):
The White Sox have hit the second most home runs
in baseball, by the way, too fewer than the Los
Angeles Dodgers, So I think it's pretty clear what the
game plan there is.

Speaker 2 (01:22:51):
They get Brian wo tonight, who had the one little
blip on the radar screen against Kansas City's last two Stars.
So he's been really good, gone six innings quality stars
both times, given up just two runs in those two starts.
So I mean they so wu goes tonight. Just you
got to get this thing going. I mean, there's just
no doubt about that. Along the way, I haven't seen
a line up. I was kind of waiting to see
the lineup here if it would come out while we're
on the air. They're just gonna hold off. We're not

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gonna give those guys out. We're not gonna give that.
I would assume.

Speaker 7 (01:23:15):
This.

Speaker 2 (01:23:16):
The real quick thing for me would be this, do
you think there's much or anything that Chris that cold
Emerson can do that even when Donovan comes back, they
make a move and say Revoss goes down, or do
you think he's just here for the duration of Donovan
being on the eyel.

Speaker 6 (01:23:32):
I think that's going to totally depend on how he
looks like and more than the stats. It's gonna be
how he looks, how how comfortable he looks. If he
acclimates himself, well, then I think cold Emerson is here
to stay. If he scuffles, it is not a big
deal to send the guy back to Triple A and
go to work on things. They We have seen for
every Julio Rodriguez, who I know is bad start to

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his rookie year, But for every one of those, there
are a bunch of guys like Mike Trout and players
who just really struggled in the first taste of MLB action.
But if he acclimates himself, Colt Emerson makes the Seattle
Mariners a hell of a lot better and you don't
have to worry about service time stuff. The contract that
he signed and everything else has taken that away, so
you're not worried about that type of thing. If he

(01:24:17):
makes you better, he needs to stick on the roster
no matter when Brendan Donovan comes back, because he's a
lot better player than Leo Ribas. I'm sorry, I can't
watch the Leo Riobas experience anymore. Thank you for that hit,
thank you for some really pesky at bats, but you
cannot be a starting player on the Seattle Mariners in
the Year of Our Lord twenty twenty six.

Speaker 2 (01:24:37):
And you know why that is because Chris. Let me
go back to episode one of twenty twenty six. Yeah,
what did Chris Crawford say?

Speaker 6 (01:24:44):
I demand it. I absolutely demand it. And that's why
I'm not willing to put up with this. And you
can talk all you want about how, hey they're two
games back, Hey the whole conference sucks. That's not good
enough for me. I need to see a baseball team
that looks like he can win the gosh damn World Series.
And I have not seen a team that can win
the gosh damn World Series at all in the Year

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of Our Lord twenty twenty six.

Speaker 8 (01:25:07):
Really quick, and I totally agree with all of that.
I have similar demands. I expect to be disappointed because
that's traditional. But if you want something to watch on
the short term in the here and now. Just wanted
to update everybody because I know everyone's on the edge
of their seat. The Manders are facing left handed starting
pitchers today and tomorrow, which means our boy Rob Refsnyder
is going to get plenty of played appearances. The tracker
currently has him had seven hits on the season, putting

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him fifteen hits behind AJ Pollock in nineteen fewer games
than Aj has played as a Seattle Mariner. So we
can get Rob a good week here. We can get
him three or four hits in this week. We can
get him back on track. I know everyone is really
glued to their seat here. We are gonna get Rob
Refschneider past AJ Pollock in the year twenty twenty six.

Speaker 2 (01:25:47):
Please and thank you, Chris, the the ref Snyder at
bats over the next couple days and the Pollock AJ
Pollock Rob ref Schneider Tracker. I feel, I feel my
phone will be blowing up with the Mollywop plus Bento
text thread that I have going on one of my favorites.

Speaker 6 (01:26:04):
So quickly for my own mental health. Man, I'll check
it every once in a while, But if you just
see a thumbs up on a random post. It's me
just saying, yeah, I'm still alive, basically because that thing,
that thing's dangerous for my health.

Speaker 2 (01:26:17):
Well, and part of it is we included Benton on it,
So I think that is what.

Speaker 6 (01:26:20):
A terrible decision, Except for I love the updates on
how little Benton is doing in the game, and it's
the only thing I really care about anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:26:28):
My favorite part is the updates on how things are
going in Little League period. Like, as you know, when
you pointed.

Speaker 8 (01:26:34):
Out, can watch the kids play baseball anymore?

Speaker 2 (01:26:37):
What level?

Speaker 6 (01:26:39):
It kind of matches everything?

Speaker 2 (01:26:40):
Really, what world are we living in when you've now
banned red solo cups at a baseball game for for kids? Like,
what world are we living in? That's the only thing
that got me through it, to be honest with you,
for years, it's r I P.

Speaker 6 (01:26:51):
Toby Keith.

Speaker 5 (01:26:52):
You can.

Speaker 2 (01:26:56):
Yeah, you can be.

Speaker 5 (01:26:57):
You can be.

Speaker 2 (01:26:58):
Response, Just go sit in the outfield, have every read cup,
do your thing where you go. Yeah, apparently on bad
Apple ruins it for everyone. Well, let's remember he's in
Snowholmish County. All right, Oh yeah, let's just remember that
he's up in snow Holmes.

Speaker 5 (01:27:10):
I get it.

Speaker 2 (01:27:10):
Now does it make more sense? Okay, Chris, six games
this week, three White Socks, three Royals. What do they
need to do?

Speaker 6 (01:27:21):
Foreign two? They got to have a winning week. They
have to start putting together some winning weeks. I hate
that they play the Royals so freaking much because those
games are never normal. With the way this season is going,
there's going to be like a nineteen eighteen game that
they win or lose. That just sends me to my
grave and I leave my card collection to Nathan. Is

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all I can say is like, this is just going
to be such a disasterrous week. I feel like, but
you gotta go forard two. You gotta have winning weeks.

Speaker 2 (01:27:53):
The Royals are the last play team in the Central
They're only a game and a half behind Seattle right now.

Speaker 6 (01:27:58):
Bonkers, it's ten pounds of crap in a five pound bank.

Speaker 2 (01:28:01):
My friend, thank you for Andrews is smiling right now
and laughing as he's changing in dirty diaper. All right,
Nathan thought the week.

Speaker 8 (01:28:06):
For four and two, And I really can't emphasize enough
that if it's anything less than that now, I mean,
it's fine if they go three and three or two
and four whatever, like we'll just complain about this in
a week. But to Chris's point, games against the White
Sox and the Royals for whatever reason, are just fraught
with emotional turmoil and mental high jinks. And I just
think that this is going to be a completely miserable

(01:28:28):
week in a way that most Mariner weeks are not
even for the Mariners unless.

Speaker 2 (01:28:32):
They go four and two or better.

Speaker 6 (01:28:34):
It's gonna be the exception from Meno after that, that's
going to be I don't like it.

Speaker 8 (01:28:42):
Yeah, we're gonna have to check in the middle of
next week after the A series too, that's gonna be.

Speaker 5 (01:28:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:28:46):
Well, we're gonna find a day next week. Maybe it'll
be Tuesday early because we got Memorial Day next Monday.
So and I'm with you. I think this is an
interesting week. I'll all just circle back. If people just
tuning in, listen to the first at half hour today
for segment. I think it's an important week for the manager.
So I think it's a really important week for the manager.
I'll joke in aside, big thanks to Simply Sales Simply

(01:29:07):
Sale dot com molliwap fifteen to check out. Hey we
want to see mile Why where can I do that.
Chris Crawford YouTube. Go to YouTube search for Maya y.
Ignore the Coudmini at Cabalo videos. Find my pretty face
instead and click on all the videos you can listen.
You can watch us on YouTube. You can watch Chris
Crawford on YouTube. Nathan is only on YouTube.

Speaker 8 (01:29:26):
I feel my greatest contribution to society is that you
cannot find me on YouTube. Nic that's that's my gift
to everybody.

Speaker 2 (01:29:32):
Might tend to agree. All right, Well, we love you
guys both, Thank you so much. We'll talk to you
next week. That's Nathan, that's Chris, It's Molly Wap Monday. Remember,
as Heather said, stats don't matter, so we'll continue that
theme as well. We'll come back talk a little more
Seahawks schedule since I get a chance to do that
coming up.

Speaker 1 (01:29:46):
Next No from the Star Rentals Sports to us Jordan
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Speaker 2 (01:29:57):
Bout to my frostbrewed corsl I choose chill, MS get
swept by the pot? Is this weekend just one hit?
Yesterday three loss? Vetter cup goes back to San Diego.
It's actually not a cup, it's a guitar. I can't
drink out of it. It's just a guitar.

Speaker 3 (01:30:08):
How many cups can you drink out of the Stanley?

Speaker 2 (01:30:11):
Is Stanley's?

Speaker 6 (01:30:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:30:13):
Yeah, I don't know. I should I should ask Jackson
Amazon World Cup. Probably cocka calf?

Speaker 3 (01:30:18):
Is it a is it a cup?

Speaker 2 (01:30:20):
I'm trying to think, well, well, one they brought in here,
when they bring in here the Club World Cup. But
that thing they wouldn't even let us look at, like
we had to say, like fifteen feet away from it.
So I think the Stanley Cups unique in that regard.

Speaker 9 (01:30:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:30:31):
Plus it's just been.

Speaker 3 (01:30:31):
Through hell, like you mean, everybody drinking out of it?

Speaker 2 (01:30:34):
Yeah, I mean it's the guy takes care of it afterwards.
But yeah, anyway, better cup. Wait we go, Cold Emerson,
number one prospect for the Mariners system. At least one
of them is up with the Mariners right now. Wait
for see do we have We don't have a lineup yet,
Come on, now here's a lineup at anyway, he's up.
Played yesterday a couple got a walk and did score
a run in the game. White Sox Night six forty

(01:30:57):
Bryan whoa on the mound as they try to get
things going back here to finish off three game homes
a six game home stand before they head to Kansas
City this weekend. Kate. When Clark Fever beat the Storm
Yesterday eighty nine seventy eight, Aaron Rye becomes the first
English born golfer more one hundred years win the PGA
Championship Yesterday. NFL National is going to host a Super
Bowl in twenty thirty, and Rodgers signs the deal with
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Finals four to thirty in Buffalo. Knights and Avalanche already
set to start the Western Conference Finals at five on Wednesday.
NBA Conference Finals start tonight, the Spurs take on a
team we won't talk about at five thirty, and the
Knicks host the Cavs and Eastern Conference Finals, which begins tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (01:31:34):
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Speaker 2 (01:31:48):
Right to get into the NFL in just a second.
That's bad on me because you played the great NFL
bumper music. Good on you, bad on me. We'll get
in the NFL in second. Were going to wrap up
the schedule. Talk two things first one four nine four
or five one. That is the Tacoma Dodge text line
four nine four or five one.

Speaker 3 (01:32:05):
We do have a lot of talkbacks, by the way.

Speaker 2 (01:32:07):
And I was gonna ask you if you have some talkbacks,
jess go to the iHeartRadio app read microphone. We have
a lot speak thirty seconds in a way.

Speaker 4 (01:32:15):
You go.

Speaker 2 (01:32:16):
One thing, Jessman McIntyre that I did want to mention ye,
just to kind of wrap up our moulliwop conversation. I
thought it was a I'm so hesitant in this in
this world. I hate God, I hate I hate talking
about people losing their job.

Speaker 4 (01:32:36):
I just do.

Speaker 2 (01:32:37):
It's not something and people listen to me for almost
twenty years here on the station. That's not something I
make a habit of doing.

Speaker 5 (01:32:44):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:32:44):
I don't know how often I've already called for a
guys job. To be honest with you, thought about it,
and we're not. I'm not saying that either, like with
with Dan Wilson right now, I'm just saying that the
conversation with Nathan and Chris. I thought was strong because
it might be a big three games for the manager.
It really might be.

Speaker 3 (01:33:06):
Tensions are high down there.

Speaker 2 (01:33:08):
You were there yesterday, I was, and you said, you
said it felt you kind of felt it right in
the clubhouse. And then they went out lost again, so
they'll probably even higher. I do know this, and listen,
Baseball is a weird sport because you got to try,
you try hard anyway, like you don't want to ever
have a bad at bad. It's not like in basketball
where you know, I just had a five minute stint

(01:33:29):
out there, I didn't really give it all, especially on
the defensive end, or hockey where I had a couple
of bad shifts and just you know, got out, works
got you know, lost a couple one on one battles,
what have you. Baseball is a little different way, but
so individual, so individual. You know, I tried to get
to the ball, I couldn't physically couldn't get there. But
with with baseball, if you know all the reports like

(01:33:50):
Dan is very very popular with with the guys in
the clubhouse, they just got to do a better job
for him because at some point, because of the expectations
for this team, is.

Speaker 5 (01:34:01):
They just have to do better.

Speaker 2 (01:34:03):
They can't, they can't keep just scuffling around, And yeah,
it makes it helps because this year your team is
playing in a really bad league with a really bad division,
and so you can you can screw around for most
of the season still win the division. The question is,
is the manager of the guy that can make the
right decisions and the biggest times of the game in
the biggest games of the year. Last year the answer

(01:34:25):
ended up being no.

Speaker 5 (01:34:26):
In Game seven.

Speaker 2 (01:34:27):
He gets a second chance this year. There have been
too many opportunities this season in which people have that
are far more knowledgeable than me have questioned in game decisions. Now,
I will also not lay that entirely on Dan Wilson.
I think at some point you got to look at
You've got other guys in the dugout. You got other
guys on your coaching staff, pitching coach, bench coach, all
those things. But I think it's a big three day,

(01:34:50):
three games for him. So we'll touch on that. The
Aaron Rii story, just real fast, cool story before I
gets back to the Seahawks and some stuff I want
to touch in on the with the schedule that I
didn't get to last week, so I wasn't here. He's
a really quiet, soft spoken guy. Golf's not for everybody,
and one of the reasons golf isn't for everybody, it's
not for every sports fan. If you don't play, you're

(01:35:10):
probably not a huge golf fan. If you do play,
you might be a fan, but you don't not a
fan of some of the guys that win their country clubs, snobs,
kids grew up with a ton of money, all that
type of thing. I get that, that's largely a big
part of it. Aaron Rai's not one of those. He's unique.
He has club iron iron covers on all of his irons.
He wears two gloves, but the iron thing is one
that got a lot of attentions. We can get his story.

(01:35:31):
It's a great story. He does that because his dad
and his mom, very much working class folks, immigrated from India,
ended up living in England. He's an English resident, first
Englishman to win in forever or ever win there one
hundred years. And he has the head covers on because
when he's growing up, his dad spent so much money
on his clubs so his kid could play that he

(01:35:54):
didn't want to damage the clubs, so we had head
covers on all the irons, which most people don't have,
and some guys like look at it, and there's people like,
why do you what's Aaron Ry? What's he doing? He's
got that club head covers to it. It's in tribute
to his dad.

Speaker 4 (01:36:06):
I don't know the etiquette of the sport enough to
know that that would be an odd thing to see.

Speaker 2 (01:36:13):
And he did it to protect the clubs that were
such a massive investment for his own family so he
could play and it pays off because the guy ends
up being the PGA champion. I think it's just cool.
He's a lot more laid back, a lot more mellow,
comes from much more humble background than many golfers do
on the tour. He's a guy you can root for.
He's a guy. In fact, just two weeks ago the

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tournament before this, there was two tournaments in the weekend.
One was what they call a signature event, top guys
playing no cut, everybody gets paid. PJA started doing that
with the live stuff and trying to anyway, he didn't
even qualify for that. He was outside the qualification number,
so he had to play in a smaller event that weekend,
so you can root for this guy. And good for him.
Man paying tribute to his dad. And he said, I'm

(01:36:54):
keeping those things on the second he got to the
PGA tour.

Speaker 5 (01:36:58):
He didn't have to.

Speaker 2 (01:36:59):
He gets free clubs. They don't, They don't pay for
their clubs. Whoever you're whoever you're playing for. Taylor made callaway.
I like, callaway doesn't matter. You get the club whatever
you want. He that wasn't him, so good for him.
All Right, you can play that music again. Pump back,
let's go, let's transition.

Speaker 3 (01:37:19):
Oh, let's do this.

Speaker 5 (01:37:23):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:37:23):
So here's the deal I was I mentioned this earlier.
I didn't get a chance to break down the schedule.
What what was the consensus that you got from everybody
with the schedule?

Speaker 3 (01:37:33):
Lass, I'm easier first half than second half for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:37:37):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:37:37):
A lot being talked about them having.

Speaker 4 (01:37:41):
So many national games not an international game, which is favorable,
good for the schedule. Danny on on Friday, and I
know that they did hard knocks and he kind of said,
you know, he thinks they took one for the team there,
because even though it's not an official rule, if you
do hard knocks, then you likely are not going to

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be forced into an international game.

Speaker 2 (01:38:04):
And they've changed some of the rules. They did change
that one, and they changed the one about every team
having to play national games and all that kind of
stuff in prime time. So but yeah, I think we
talked about that before I went a vacation that they
It really felt like there was a little give and take.
We don't want to go to England or wherever.

Speaker 4 (01:38:22):
I thought they would just because of the dirty like
a connection. I thought that they would have one there.

Speaker 2 (01:38:27):
It's a competitive disadvantage for a team in Seattle.

Speaker 3 (01:38:30):
It is because they're traveling too time zone.

Speaker 2 (01:38:33):
Just I don't know this for a fact, but just
being around Mike McDonald long enough, he doesn't care. He
wants to win football games. What gives me the best
chance to win a football game? Not going overseas?

Speaker 3 (01:38:43):
Okay, that Super Bowl champion he has the right.

Speaker 2 (01:38:46):
Can I deal with hard knocks? I'd rather not, But whatever,
we move on. So all right, So here's what I
looked at. What matters to me. Back to back road games.
That's the first thing I always look for when you
get back to back road games. They have two and
a half, I say two and a half on Washington early,
and then they do have another one, but there's a
bye weekend between they play at Vegas and at San Francisco,
so I don't really count that one. And then this

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is the thing I just hated. This is a part
of the schedule I mentioned before, the Rams and the
Rams two out of three at the end. This is
the third year in a row that they have ended
the season with back to back road games. Third year
in a row back to back road games to end
a season what like what like twenty four, twenty five

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and now twenty six back to back road games to
end of season.

Speaker 3 (01:39:35):
You know what they were doing by scheduling the Rams
last I get.

Speaker 2 (01:39:38):
That, But why not flip flop them? Seattle plays in
La on Christmas and the Rams come here to end
the season. I got again. Three straight years the Seahawks
have finished the season with back to back road games
and again playoff game playoff teams, and that three years
ago wasn't that way, but last year Carolina playoff team

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and the forty nine ers playoff team.

Speaker 5 (01:40:02):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:40:03):
This year they go back to Carolina for Week seventeen,
which is a sixteenth game of the season.

Speaker 3 (01:40:08):
For the second year in a row all the way
to the East Coast, which I'll get back to that
game in a second.

Speaker 2 (01:40:12):
Whatever when they do play the Rams, it's interesting to
the final three games sixteen to eighteen. I mentioned this earlier,
the Rams great key stretch. This to me is a
stretch because I want you to tell me what Corbin
said in the second but let me give you this first,
because I know Corbin had some thoughts on this the
other day when he was with you guys. There's a
five game stretch weeks four through eight at home against

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the Chargers, at home against the forty nine Ers at Denver,
at home against Kansas City, and at home against Chicago.
So those five games, to me, that is the stretch
of the season. Week eight, you're going to come out
of Week eight, and where are you at that point?
Because Chargers good football team, forty nine Ers good football team.

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Denver probably should have been the super Bowl last year.
If Nicks doesn't get hurt, Kansas City, if Mahomes is healthy. Oh,
by the way, ken Walker, if he finally has a
running back, they're gonna be okay offensively. Defensively. I got
my questions because of the fact both their top corners
are gone, but still it's Mahomes's Kansas City and then Chicago,
who many people believe if they're not the second, they're

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the third best team in the NFC. That's a hell
of a stretch. That stretch, to me, is the most
important stretch of the season. You get through that thing
and say in those five games one, two, three, four, five,
you come out of there four and one, you're probably
in great shape, but you could easily come out of

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their two and three. And remember all that matters in
the NFL standings. The only thing that matters the right
hand column, the lost calumn. That's what matters. That's what
matters in the NFL. And where does that loss column
look like? Where are you at in that lost calm
last season? In that you last season green Bay got

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in at nine to seven to one as a wildcard team,
barely got in and the tie basically got them in.
You cannot afford more than seven losses in a season
if you're going to be a playoff team. But this
team doesn't aspire to be a playoff team. This team
aspires to be the NFC West champions. So that stretch

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is really really big. Now, I did say this top
destination for the road, It's a no brainer. It's Vegas,
not even close. It's November fifteenth or Vegas. That's the
only that to me, is the only one worth that's
worth its weight, and Salt is going to Vegas like
it's a horrible road schedule for fans like a whole Yeah,
that's great. I mean I like, I personally like Philadelphia.

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I think Philadelphia is worth going to a game in.
It's not. I don't think it's as crazy. And now again,
I was in a press box, but we walked around
enough for live shots in the stadium. I don't think
Philadelphie's as bad as people make it out to be.
I think it's kind of cool to be there with
the atmosphere everything else. The problem in Philadelphia night game
in December, no thanks, no thank you, what no part
of that? No thanks all day every day. I think

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SOFI is worth going to the last game on January
tenth or eleventh, whenever it is. I think so FI
is great to go to. I love Charlotte, I love Carolina.
But there's a decent chance that you're gonna go to
that game in January third and the weather's gonna be crap.
It rains there. It rains there. We've been there when
it rains. Otherwise, I think they got one of the coolest.

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I'm a big barbecue guy. I base it on food
too well. I was gonna say, and I love me
some Max speed Shop. It's kind of like the Farellis
of barbecue. It's like a bunch of it's kind of smaller,
like a small family owned chain in the Carolinas. I'm
in on that. But outside of that, man, it is
not a great road schedule at all. Denver, no, thank you.

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I think the stadium is just so Average's why they're
gonna get a new one at some point. And at Washington,
I can tell you right now, that's the last place
you want to go. Absolute stadiums in the middle of nowhere.
Stadium is awful. You want no, you want no part
of going to Washington, Arizona. It's going to be one
hundred and twenty five degrees in September twenty. It's a
bad road schedule for fans.

Speaker 5 (01:44:10):
Yeah, it is. Vegas. Vegas is the.

Speaker 2 (01:44:12):
One Vegas one so far to everything else. Stay home,
watch it on TV. That's that's my travel recommendations. For you,
especially now because flights are expensive, right, you just flew somewhere,
you use miles. But I's that's it. So that's my schedule,
that's my hot takes on the schedule. That's all I
got for you. That's all I got because at the
end of the day, you just got to play our

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seventeen away you go. The two road games end the
season is a little harsh. I do love the rams
to the final three. I think that's fun because you
get there, you control your own destiny. Unless you've just
unless you've really kicked it all year. You got a
great opportunity home and then there great opportunity to take
care of business. I love that kind of I kind
of it almost feels it sort of feels like college

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football in a sense.

Speaker 3 (01:44:55):
I was gonna ask that, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:44:57):
You get like Ohio State Michigan at the end of
the year. Always is a big game, always is a
big game. Auburn Alabama used to always be a big
game for I'm talking about for standings reasons. Auburn has
them in as good lately, but you get my point, right,
for a while, I mean, there's been a few Apple
Cups that have been that way. Back in the old
pac twelve. Right, that came down to hey, twenty eighteen,

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twenty twenty one, right, right, Yeah, like those things. I
love the fact that the final game and they've done
a great job of this. They have told you what
they think the NFL has. They don't think the forty
nine ers are in the same category as Seattle on
the rams, because that's why the forty nine ers see
the Arizona Cardinals last game of the year. So overall
schedule is what. It is not great for fans to

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travel to, not places I'd recommend going outside of so
far in Vegas. In Vegas, the stadium I think is overrated.
But it's Vegas and it's November and what the hell,
get the hell out of Dodge and go down there
and have some fun kind of.

Speaker 3 (01:45:51):
The time that people who live in our area.

Speaker 2 (01:45:53):
Yeah, yeah, I go down there. That's yeah. I always
say yes to Vegas. I like Vegas. Not everybody does.
And away you go.

Speaker 3 (01:46:01):
It just depends on the length of the trip.

Speaker 2 (01:46:03):
Let's get a breaking because you said we got some
talkbacks to get to Yeah, we have a lot of
them talkbacks. We get a ton of text as well.
To check your thoughts coming up next? Do you buy
Seattle's closest now?

Speaker 1 (01:46:23):
Call me casino and hotel on Sports Radio ninety three
point three kJ R FM.

Speaker 10 (01:46:31):
The level of yellow. You gotta be concerned, but it's
what we do every year. Pitching's and hit or miss,
offense non existent. Worst manager in baseball by car and
we just forced our young superstar up future of the
franchise yesterday after telling him at one o'clock PM, already
in full uniform in Tacoma.

Speaker 6 (01:46:52):
Then he had to rush up.

Speaker 10 (01:46:53):
To Seattle because they needed him tonight.

Speaker 5 (01:46:55):
Give me a break.

Speaker 10 (01:46:56):
Dan Wilson is John Stanton's puppet. We have the best
staff and baseball, albeit some injuries and a little bit
of struggles, but that's not the main issue.

Speaker 2 (01:47:05):
We can't hit the ball.

Speaker 10 (01:47:07):
We can't hit leftist can't wait for tonight six ten,
twenty two year old prospect, So that's gonna go great.

Speaker 6 (01:47:13):
Sure, we'll just light him up. Give me a break, guys.

Speaker 2 (01:47:17):
A little bitter, Yeah, guy's a little bitter.

Speaker 5 (01:47:21):
That does happen.

Speaker 2 (01:47:22):
That's the question. The first down in the noon hour today.
If you're just joining us, A concerned level for the
Bearner's green yellow orange or red went through it all
before you go back to the voice text. Here, just
a couple of these. It's pretty good this and if
you missed our mulliwop segment, especially talking about Dan Wilson,
that first segment was sensation with those guys two o six.
Yellow is a concern level, so not too bad. But

(01:47:44):
for Dan Wilson, it's red. There's actually a bunch of
those that are saying the same thing, Dan Wilson, red
red for Wilson. I think it's gonna remain yellow until
they make a change. At Maager Beau. I think Dan
Wilson is red. He's holding this thing back. Green. Won't
tell anything else how to feel, but not sure. How
could it be other than green. That's from our buddy
Marcus right now. So Marcus not concerned. I'll give me

(01:48:06):
a couple more voice taxs.

Speaker 7 (01:48:09):
Hello show. I am definitely more of a rout terra
cotta kind of color. It's a red yellow orange e. Nick,
I am very very very concerned. We can't fire the
manager for the Hall of Famer, We can't hit because
they have a Hall of Fame manager of the hitting coach.

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I just see all sorts of.

Speaker 2 (01:48:36):
Just that so I got a couple more here two
oh six orange, which was number two, like this a
second worst one def con three says three six oh
six O two is red. Three straight to say red.
One says bright red orange orange orange red red, Red
says the two O six. They're a hot mess, I
believe for one person in the manager spot.

Speaker 6 (01:48:59):
Interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:49:00):
There's a lot of now so looking through this, there's
a lot of on the text line Dan Wilson criticism.
We have some more talkbacks, Okay, keep going.

Speaker 11 (01:49:10):
Growing up here in Washington State as a kid, I
never realized how far we were from other major cities
until my dad threw all of us kids in the
back of the station wagon in the early nineteen eighties
to take a trip from Seattle all the way to Insinada, Mexico.

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That's when I discovered how far we were from major cities.

Speaker 2 (01:49:40):
Brought up earlier than Anthony Rizzo spent a good chunk
of the broadcast yesterday ripping on how far away Seattle
was from everything else. Beautiful stadium, backhand of compliment, great
weather in the summer, back of compliment. But it's so
far away, God, I felt we went there.

Speaker 5 (01:49:56):
It was just so far.

Speaker 2 (01:49:59):
Okay, really, dude, you're on a charter exactly. You're on
a charter. You're not.

Speaker 5 (01:50:08):
You're not.

Speaker 2 (01:50:08):
You're not like an NBA player or an NHL player
where you're playing back to back games in two different
cities three times over the course of a week or whatever.
It's not the King fella relaxed the TV. But I'm
just about is this player And I'm like, you're you're not.

(01:50:29):
But yeah, it's such a weird. It's just a weird.
I don't know why. I don't know why it bothered me.
You know what, I'm being very petty. I'll be honest
with you. It shouldn't have bothered me, but I do. Look,
I think part of it is this, like like people
always say, I didn't have a brother growing up, but
peop always say this, if you have a sibling, right,

(01:50:52):
you can pick on the sibling. Nobody else can.

Speaker 4 (01:50:56):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:50:56):
I can pick on my city. I can pick apart
my city all day and every day.

Speaker 5 (01:51:02):
But you can't.

Speaker 2 (01:51:04):
You cannot stop it. You're not a part of this family,
all right. You got a couple more.

Speaker 6 (01:51:11):
It looks like this is the ancient mariner again.

Speaker 2 (01:51:15):
Just listening to Molly Watty and I want to tell
you Dan Wilson is a bad manager. Well, yeah, I'll
just go back. Nathan and Chris were and contrary to
what you may think about, Molly, watt mondays, we do

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not go around calling for people's heads. They do not
make a habit of that, and they didn't. They were
right on the cusp of that today. I think he's
Dan Wilson's manager. Managing this year has been a problem.
It just has been. That's not up for debate, decision

(01:52:01):
making and what But I want to give down a
little bit of like, it's not just him. He's getting
stuff from upstairs, He's getting stuff from others in the dugout.
But the hard thing is if the struggles continue and
say you get through, I don't know, maybe maybe you know,
those guys both fought this big week for them. I
tend to agree. I think the next three games are

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big for Dan Wilson, for the Mirrors, just more, maybe
more Dan Wilson, the bigger picture for the Marrors. You're
still two or three games under five hundred by the
end of June or even the All Star break. I
think I think you have some some long it's some
long discussions, some interesting discussions you're gonna have.

Speaker 3 (01:52:37):
Did we get to the use Mariners moves in that
we're just made?

Speaker 12 (01:52:40):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:52:41):
Can you fire? I'll hang on, hang on, hang on,
hang on.

Speaker 4 (01:52:43):
Robinson or Tees has been recalled from TRIPA to come by.

Speaker 3 (01:52:48):
Patrick Wisdom stated.

Speaker 2 (01:52:51):
All right, so Mariner's uh falling roster moves. Robinson Ortez
recalled from Tacoma. Patrick Wisdom infield Regis stated from the
ten day and you're Dimingo Gonzalez is option back to
Triple A. Leo Revos option to Triple A Tacoma. Brennan
Davis was option or selected the forty men roster, optioned

(01:53:11):
to Triple A to Comma, Davis an interesting story. He's
a guy that is having a really good year. He's
a former first round pick by the Cubs, I'm sorry,
second round pick, and he's he was added the spring
training roster. They had to put him on the forty
man or he could decide to go somewhere else. So

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Revos they'll going to Triple A ta Coma, and Patrick
Wisdom brought back up as your as your utility infielder.
The rest of those things are just other paper moves
along the way. Okay, what else again?

Speaker 6 (01:53:45):
X y M's are totally at an orange. I felt
they overachieved last year. We're not that good. Gohawks, go Mariners.

Speaker 2 (01:53:55):
Go Cook's suck at Softy, Jeff gig Hart, thank you
for that, Jeh Jef, why do you not like Softy?
Your pump them?

Speaker 4 (01:54:05):
I'm sure he'll give us a reason to get two
forty five More than likely, I got a couple more.

Speaker 9 (01:54:10):
Hey, Ian Seattle sports guy here with another update on
your Seattle sports. The struggles continue for the Mariners and
Dan Wilson remains on the hot seat, although he is
popular with the players. The news is are gonna go
in a different direction.

Speaker 2 (01:54:23):
And go more negative.

Speaker 3 (01:54:24):
They'll be interviewing shown Figgins.

Speaker 2 (01:54:27):
Also, the Mirrors are have announced forty eight more bobblehead nights.

Speaker 3 (01:54:31):
Those include Ritchie Sexon and Scott's.

Speaker 2 (01:54:33):
Service to focus more on the bobbleheads and take away
from the god awful play on the field. Well, all right,
we got one more.

Speaker 5 (01:54:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (01:54:50):
So this weekend I was watching the Nature Show and
they showed an elephant taking a huge dump and I thought,
that's the biggest turn I've ever seen in my life.
And later I was watching the Mariners play, and I thought,
make that the second biggest.

Speaker 3 (01:55:07):
God, I'll do it.

Speaker 2 (01:55:09):
That's it. That's how we get where's Clifford at? By
the way, Oh, we haven't heard from Clifford lately. Gotta
hope you hear from cliff Well, Clifford's already been replaced
in the little promo rotation for iHeart with a tennis
Is that right? Like a tennis thing? Have you seen that?

Speaker 5 (01:55:25):
Heard that? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:55:27):
Where's Clifford at? I want Clifford? I want the Clifford
promos back, and I want Clifford calling back in on
the talkbacks. All right, let me go back to text
line four nine four five one. Uh, that is it
coming down? It's text line going through here. Let's see
Ian Orange seventy to Red thirty. They're still playing with
broken souls from the ALCS. In regards to what your

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concern level is for the Mariners to six Orange, they
need to make coaching changes. It's an interesting one here
six If this is actually a World Series contender, we're
not even having this conversation to a point. I know
what you're saying, but I would say that to a point,
we're still having the conversation. The reason we're having the

(01:56:13):
conversation is because they the expectation is World Series. It's
at least alcs. What has to be now has to
be You set the bar last year. It's the same
dam team.

Speaker 3 (01:56:24):
Right, Yes, with the absence of not many.

Speaker 2 (01:56:29):
Let's see two oh six, we can paint the rosiest
pictures that it's still fairly early. Not it's a different club.
It's in a different club. Magic and spirit of last
season mostly vantaged, a fading memory, continuing torture of what
it is to be an MS fan. I'd ask that person,
what if they sweep the next three? Would you feel better?

Speaker 7 (01:56:48):
Right?

Speaker 4 (01:56:48):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:56:49):
I mean that's what it comes down to with baseball.

Speaker 4 (01:56:52):
We've been saying that they did the right things that
they should do against bad teams, right, the Astros. They
took care of business there green one and then getting
swept by the Padres at home not a good look.

Speaker 3 (01:57:06):
But they could turn that.

Speaker 4 (01:57:07):
Around in just one series. Mm hmm, get about five
hundred and be just fine.

Speaker 2 (01:57:14):
Okay, I see a bunch of things about the people
leaving the city. I'm not going to get into that today. Yeah,
all right, here we go. Well, it took one all
of one week, and to see how the American League
stinks narrative is lazy and useless. Can we just remain
focused on the ms what they need to do to
become a legitimate contenders. The reason we bring up the
American League stinks narrative, as you said, is because it's

(01:57:35):
the only thing keeping them in it. I thought what
Chris said, and Chris ordinate one of them said is
right on. In a normal year, they would be six
or seven out of first place in the division, and
they would be three or four out of a wildcard
spot right now, with plenty of time to make it up,
but they would be out.

Speaker 5 (01:57:54):
Of it right right. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:57:57):
And I mean, obviously Cal has been playing through something,
so was JP. I mean, Cal's not that JP got
sent down, but he hasn't been to his potential quite yet,
and we don't know what he's playing through, do you guys?

Speaker 2 (01:58:13):
This is from the three six? So do you guys
think that maybe upper management won't fire Dan because it
could control him and afraid of an experienced manager, it
won't have as much control possibility. It's interesting about.

Speaker 3 (01:58:22):
That is there's a lot of text coming in with
that narrative.

Speaker 2 (01:58:25):
That's an interesting one because of this. The POTO hired
a first time manager in Scott Service. Then he hired
a first time manager in Dan Wilson, so they haven't
had an experienced manager under this regime. You're right correct, Yeah,
it's an interesting point that person makes. Let's see lack

(01:58:49):
of contract extensions for GP Logan and George maybe impact
and walking them back. I thought one of them had that.

Speaker 6 (01:58:53):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:58:54):
I'll be honest with you. I'm not the big I'm
I'm not I'm not the biggest guy in contracts. I
should know that better. Hey, furnace, this is all caps.
By the way, M's fans need to r E l
A Axes. Aaron Rodgers would say, a ton of injuries
right now.

Speaker 5 (01:59:08):
I like that.

Speaker 3 (01:59:09):
That's how I know people do talk to text. It's
because it's trying to do that.

Speaker 4 (01:59:14):
A furnace, he might just be, wait, oh well, if
you're gonna be burning just like Jim Rome or something, then.

Speaker 3 (01:59:22):
Might as well be called the furnace.

Speaker 2 (01:59:26):
Three six. So I'm going a Moscow Red level of
concern right now. I think they peaked last year already.

Speaker 4 (01:59:32):
See, I don't think that I think that they are
building towards what Jerry Depoto has been planning on for
the last five years, and he might be a little
late to the party. But I don't think they peaked
last year. I don't think this was the one off.

Speaker 3 (01:59:48):
I really don't.

Speaker 2 (01:59:50):
I'll read this one because it's a good one. The guy,
this is a long time listener. Two six. You don't
call for head coaches to get turfed, but we do
have to consider your ernie. Can't era I did call that.
I did already. Can't fire one hundred percent.

Speaker 3 (02:00:00):
One fair criticism.

Speaker 2 (02:00:02):
I wanted him fire basically the day he got hired.
I maybe a week later, but tell.

Speaker 3 (02:00:08):
You many stories of seeing him not doing his job
when I was on campus.

Speaker 2 (02:00:12):
He yeah, that was a Bill Moose special. That was
a Bill Moose special. That was There was no reason
for him.

Speaker 3 (02:00:19):
I he was just was not a good coach.

Speaker 2 (02:00:22):
I'm trying to think back, how many guys since, I mean,
in twenty years since I've been here home Grin no
wanted I was when they let him go.

Speaker 5 (02:00:31):
Mora.

Speaker 2 (02:00:31):
I actually said I was actually critical on the air
for firing him after one year, which is weird because
Jim Moore likes to slam me on the air when
he comes on with us. Yeah he does. But I
actually was a fiery dude. I actually said I don't
think he should have been fired, and then I got
I got talked to by at the time Seahawks president
Todd la Wiki about that how he needed to get fired.

Speaker 3 (02:00:50):
Okay, Oh, well you're getting it from both.

Speaker 2 (02:00:54):
Mariner managers so many. Who knows, probably a call for
some clearing over his skis. I like Lloyd uh Wedge
just quit. Yeah, I don't. I think Camp might be
the one guy that I've actually said fire him. Oh no,
Paul Wolf Oh and that pain to me because I
liked Paul as a guy, his nice dude. But but

(02:01:16):
he yeah, he needs to go. But pro guys, I
thought about Dave Haxtall, but I didn't say it.

Speaker 4 (02:01:22):
Out loud, for I would think you just questioned. I questioned, Yeah,
it wasn't you were calling for a head.

Speaker 3 (02:01:31):
It just heays that's the right guy.

Speaker 2 (02:01:33):
Dan is okay, not even two years in. Another one
says Dan's okay, he's not the worst manager. Okay, so
you're not the worst manager. That makes you okay? No
softy is it? Jimmy's on first, he'll join us next.

(02:02:05):
Oh alrighty, then yo, how's Ginny's on? First?

Speaker 5 (02:02:11):
Treat good good, so far, so good. Bar just opened up.

Speaker 2 (02:02:15):
Then that's that's a good thing. Yeah, I mean you're
gonna watch that baseball team again. You might need a drink.

Speaker 13 (02:02:21):
If you're sitting here across the street from tim Obile,
you may just stay here and just hang out in
the bar.

Speaker 5 (02:02:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (02:02:26):
I don't know what the hell here comes to White Sox.
But you know this isn't the old White Sox no
yata that we've had in years past.

Speaker 5 (02:02:32):
So no, no, I don't know. Man. I love when
people make proclamations this time of the year. I heard
that Chris Crawford on the year we we gotta go
four and tour.

Speaker 2 (02:02:40):
It's all over well, no, listen, listen, list in fairness,
in fairness for the last four years. When we wrap
it up, I go, what do you want to see
this week? And so I always and you know, if
they always say but then he actually no, actually actually
actually a lot of times they have said, I'll say,
what do you want to see this week? It's not
a five like depending on who you're playing, it's not
a five and one we're you're having a bad week.

(02:03:01):
But I mean, FORI until you win two series, you're fine,
feeling good, right, all good, all good, right.

Speaker 13 (02:03:05):
I mean I don't like the fact that we're seven
and one against the Astros in fifteen and twenty five
against everybody else.

Speaker 5 (02:03:10):
I mean, if I would have told you like four years.

Speaker 13 (02:03:13):
Ago, you'd be at a point in time where you'd
be saying, thank God we have the Astros in our division,
I'm not sure you would have bought that.

Speaker 5 (02:03:20):
Right, correct, I'm just not for them. We stink.

Speaker 2 (02:03:23):
Let me extrapolate some more math out for you. Yeah,
if we take the Padres out there, fifteen and nineteen, okay,
so if you take the right Astros, take the Astros
and the Padres outliers out, you're fifteen and nineteen, so
you're still four under five hundred.

Speaker 5 (02:03:38):
But yeah, but you still kind of stink, though.

Speaker 2 (02:03:41):
Well, you can't beat a good team. Still, you can't
beat a good team. It's but I don't know how
much of it you heard. What's Dave saw I don't
want to take your show away. I don't what you're
doing today. Yeah, Dan Wilson, I'll.

Speaker 5 (02:03:54):
Probably have it up there of the poll, by the way,
coming up in the radio. What's the poll today?

Speaker 13 (02:03:58):
Approval rating? You know they do like this approval ratings
and all that stuff. Yeah, we did one for Dan
Wilson over the weekend.

Speaker 2 (02:04:05):
Okay, and uh we'll get to that. Okay, I need
to vote on that. I need to vote on that.
Hang on, I'm gonna find it. Is it your poll?

Speaker 5 (02:04:12):
Yeah, I just hit it, but it's not turned on
back in the studio.

Speaker 2 (02:04:15):
So okay, there you go, Dan Wilson approval rating.

Speaker 5 (02:04:18):
Don't don't give it out.

Speaker 2 (02:04:19):
I'm not going to give it out. I'm just looking
at I'm just I'm looking if I should if I
should vote.

Speaker 5 (02:04:23):
Just turn my turn my thing of a jigger up,
will you?

Speaker 3 (02:04:25):
I'm working.

Speaker 2 (02:04:28):
Sing them a jigger?

Speaker 5 (02:04:29):
So approve or do you just turn it on? That's
all you do?

Speaker 2 (02:04:32):
All right? All right, there you go.

Speaker 5 (02:04:33):
All right, Apparently it's very difficult to turn it on.

Speaker 2 (02:04:36):
Try it again. It's okay, try it again.

Speaker 13 (02:04:39):
There we go into three o'clock hour and there's two
just two choices I see here.

Speaker 5 (02:04:45):
Approve this option, man, Do you approve or do you disapprove?
That's it? End the story.

Speaker 2 (02:04:50):
You know what, Now if I were to vote, I
think I would say disapprove.

Speaker 5 (02:04:53):
Okay, good, well, you're just a big hater.

Speaker 2 (02:04:56):
I am a hater.

Speaker 5 (02:04:57):
And they win the World Series, you can't go to
the parade?

Speaker 2 (02:04:59):
Okay? Is that a promise? Is that a promise? I
don't have to be downtown for five hundred thousand people.

Speaker 5 (02:05:06):
I agree to that.

Speaker 13 (02:05:07):
By the way, if you made me that deal, you said,
here's the deal, man, the Mariners can win the World Series,
but when they do, you can't go to the parade.

Speaker 5 (02:05:13):
I say, where do I say?

Speaker 2 (02:05:14):
I'm signing up right now?

Speaker 13 (02:05:16):
Mantch it on TV Plus with the ridiculous you know,
SPD rules or the Sports Commission rules. Yeah, whatever it was.
During the Seahawks parade, we couldn't do Jack Squad.

Speaker 2 (02:05:25):
Actually I changed my mind. Well, first of all, I
won't have to be at the parade. I'll be at
Jimmy's on First and we'll be doing everything there. I
want to be a part of it, because nothing entertained
me more in the last calendar year than when you
and the police officers were battling about where you could
go for the Seahawks parade.

Speaker 5 (02:05:40):
You want to go to jail, you want to surf time.

Speaker 2 (02:05:46):
Okay, do you want to surf time?

Speaker 13 (02:05:49):
Could we have done like a GOFUNDMEI you think to
bail me out? Well, think about this or second would
have contributed? Or do you think rich More would have said, Hey,
why do you stay there and do our show?

Speaker 5 (02:05:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:05:57):
Hey, I'll send some gear down with you. Can you
call in? Can he do a phoner from from King County?
Don't think about that for a second now. I know
it was the heat of the moment, so you didn't
have time to really think about it. But let's think
about this in Seattle terms. You can do almost anything
in this city and not get arrested.

Speaker 5 (02:06:14):
You can do drugs in the middle of the street.

Speaker 13 (02:06:17):
Exactly, sleep on the sidewalk, you can you can poop
on the sidewalk.

Speaker 2 (02:06:21):
You can do everything.

Speaker 5 (02:06:22):
I can't take a microphone to go out and interview
Leonard Wildie.

Speaker 2 (02:06:25):
If you would have walked out on live radio with
a microphone to talk to Big Cat, you would have
been putting handcuffs thrown to the throne, to the ground
and take it off to jail.

Speaker 5 (02:06:35):
But the guy doing smack would have been giving a
five star hotel.

Speaker 2 (02:06:37):
The guy next to you, the guy next to you
do it doing crack, doing an IV on his arm
as you as you're trying to go out to do
the air. You're a fine fella.

Speaker 13 (02:06:46):
Your Marden criminal over here on what he do? He
tried to interview Sam Dartle. What that guy do He's
just pooping in the street.

Speaker 2 (02:06:55):
Imagine when that one comes across the prosecutor's desk and
then the guy goes, who is Dave Maller never heard
of it?

Speaker 13 (02:07:02):
Dave Maller, Well, that's the mistake that Eugene Robinson made
when he got caught with a hooker Miami before the Falcons.
He wrote down on his booking form professional football player.
Nobody would have known who he was. He would have
been just Gene Robinson in town for.

Speaker 2 (02:07:18):
The game, accountant and an accountant.

Speaker 5 (02:07:22):
That's right. There was no Twitter, no Facebook, no nothing.

Speaker 2 (02:07:26):
Man, God, that's right.

Speaker 5 (02:07:26):
I forgot. I would have gotten away with it.

Speaker 2 (02:07:28):
That's back in the day when stuff happened before games, right, Barrett.

Speaker 13 (02:07:32):
Robbins, Just just word Otherwise, if you want to get
arrested with a prostitute the night before a big game,
just say that you work in a record store and
nobody will know who you are. Never give your work
Records records, still give your Instagram work.

Speaker 2 (02:07:47):
I work at Tower Records.

Speaker 5 (02:07:49):
I used to love Tower Records, Man, Tower Records, tower books,
used to want to Bellevue. By the way, I drove.

Speaker 2 (02:07:55):
I drove by the the now QFC former home of
Tower Records today and I was just it's I hate
seeing that.

Speaker 3 (02:08:01):
Come on, man, do you guys have Sam Goody?

Speaker 2 (02:08:03):
Sam Goody?

Speaker 3 (02:08:04):
That was our New York one.

Speaker 13 (02:08:05):
We didn't we had Sam good we had we did, Okay,
I don't know that. Yeah, I just remember having one.
What was the one that was up in Northgate for
a while, the record store up in North Gate.

Speaker 2 (02:08:17):
I can picture it right now.

Speaker 5 (02:08:18):
It's still there, by the way.

Speaker 2 (02:08:21):
God, we've lost all the good things. Magnolia High Fi
remember that, you know, car toys, silver platters, platter.

Speaker 5 (02:08:28):
Is still there by the way.

Speaker 2 (02:08:29):
I don't think so.

Speaker 5 (02:08:30):
No Magnolia High Fire. Are they gone? Oh yeah? Yeah? Long?

Speaker 2 (02:08:33):
You know the worst you know the worst part about
Magnolia High Fight. I think the first Magnolia High Fight
that closed was the one in Magnolia.

Speaker 13 (02:08:39):
I thought they had one in best Buy. Now did
they partner with best Buy? Magnolia High Five. I don't
know what a Magnolia.

Speaker 5 (02:08:45):
High Fi and Best Buy.

Speaker 2 (02:08:46):
I think about it as your stereo thing with Jack Roberts.
Came all Jack Roberts.

Speaker 13 (02:08:52):
Yeah, well I got I got two stereo stories. I
got one with my dad, one with Hugh Miller.

Speaker 5 (02:08:57):
My dad. My dad went and bought one.

Speaker 13 (02:08:58):
Of those big, huge entertainment systems with the you know,
the cabinet and all that stuff.

Speaker 5 (02:09:03):
Yeah, my mom made him take it back.

Speaker 2 (02:09:05):
Whoa, the kids don't just take it back? Well you
probably didn't. I mean, like, like I tried, kids, Why
did you know? What did you do that day? Did
not deserve it?

Speaker 5 (02:09:14):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:09:15):
Probably got up, got out of bed.

Speaker 5 (02:09:16):
Yeah, exactly, went to school, exactly. Breathe just was me.
I was just Dave.

Speaker 13 (02:09:24):
This is the kind of stuff you talk about when
your team got swept by San Diego Boys and girls.

Speaker 2 (02:09:28):
Well, listen, you lost the Vetter Cup, and I think
we should all be traumatized.

Speaker 13 (02:09:31):
The better Cup, the Better Cup can take a walk
off a freaking short pier.

Speaker 5 (02:09:35):
Are you kidding me with that? Is that the dumbest
thing we do in this town? Better Cup? Kidding? The
running It's only one person that likes and it's Tim Booth.

Speaker 7 (02:09:44):
That's it.

Speaker 5 (02:09:44):
Yeah, that's it. Everybody else thinks it's dumb.

Speaker 2 (02:09:46):
Wouldn't that be dumb?

Speaker 5 (02:09:48):
Dumb?

Speaker 2 (02:09:48):
Wouldn't that be the reason not to do it?

Speaker 5 (02:09:50):
A hundred percent?

Speaker 2 (02:09:51):
That's why I thought, all right, what do you got
going on today?

Speaker 13 (02:09:53):
He's not even a freaking Mariner of I know, dude,
what are we doing? What have we got today? Humullan's
on today at four, A little more at four with Hugh.
All right, Bill Kruger will join us at five o'clock tonight.
We're gonna talk about Colin Emerson, you can call it
up and uh, his thoughts on George Kirby's game he
had yesterday, and a lot more his take on Dan Wilson.

(02:10:15):
So we'll get to Bill at five and then we'll
do our Softian Dix kaka Mami Hardball pregame show at
six pm before the MS take on the White Sox.

Speaker 2 (02:10:24):
I bet I could see Hugh Millen, a young Roosevelt
High School Hugh Millan spending a lot of time at Tower.

Speaker 5 (02:10:31):
Records, Tons and the Squire Shop.

Speaker 2 (02:10:33):
Yeah, well with Squire Shops, Bill bottom jeans, right, ye, right,
oh yeah, he was bell Bottom, Well was he bell Bottom? Yeah, yeah,
he's definitely the.

Speaker 13 (02:10:43):
Seventies early eighties. Yeah, he would have been right there
in the Belvi Yeh. I never got into the Bell
Bottom craze. I was already in moved on to like
gotcha shorts, remember the plaid short craze.

Speaker 2 (02:10:52):
Or a watch jeans, your bleach sheet and your jeans
and put them in bleach and wash them.

Speaker 9 (02:10:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:10:56):
What do you think is coming next? By the way,
in the fashion world for ice, I.

Speaker 2 (02:10:59):
Think we're coming back to that stuff.

Speaker 3 (02:11:01):
It's very cyclical metro.

Speaker 5 (02:11:03):
Yea retro Bill Bond kids dressed it up as animals
now at school.

Speaker 3 (02:11:08):
I just like Kendrick bringing back the flair Jean.

Speaker 2 (02:11:11):
Oh well, we'll talk about that tomorrow because when they
lose their four straight, we'll talk about that tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (02:11:19):
Kay.

Speaker 2 (02:11:20):
For the mild mannered and marginally objectionable Inverness, this is
paddle Day saying so long everyone,

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