Furness Show 5-8: Gregg Bell in, Eno Sarris and Corbin Smith

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now from the Star Rentals Sports desk.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Your ninety three point three kJ RFM sports headlines.

Speaker 3 (00:06):
Headlines, Good afternoon headlines in the R and R Broadcast
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Especially say him by Frostbured corpse light, Choose chill Mariners. Man,
it doesn't matter what they're down down five to nothing yesterday.
This team never seems to be out right now. Believe
what about that Jessman that's got going again? Ben Williamson?

(00:27):
How about him rookie third baseman. It's like Jorge Polanco
at third? What did they were going to do that?

Speaker 4 (00:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (00:32):
The Morning show had a really good solicitation of nicknames
for him, and I very much enjoyed it.

Speaker 6 (00:39):
Very good is my nickname for Ben Williamson right now?

Speaker 3 (00:41):
Beat Ubs started things all Harby, I double get the
Mariners and the boy Rowdy Tilez Sacramento Boy.

Speaker 6 (00:47):
I was his first home run in his hometown in
twelve years, going back to high school.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
I think it was three run homer in the six
brought the ends within five to four. Leoda Tavares just
got off the plane after being waived by Texas, claimed
by Seattle tied things up with an RBI thing his
first Mariner game in the eighth, and then welcome back
Dylan Moore off the injured list, gave the Mariners a
six five lead in the eighth, Andres Munoz does what
he's done all season, gave up nothing, closed up again

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the scoreless ninth, ten and thirteen save the season.

Speaker 6 (01:16):
The Mariner's now won nine series in a row.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
That's their most consecutive series wins since two thousand and one.

Speaker 6 (01:22):
You know about that season.

Speaker 4 (01:23):
I heard it was decent.

Speaker 6 (01:24):
American League record hundred and sixteen wins season.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
They are firmly atop the American League, less with a
three game leader over the AGA. I hear you.

Speaker 6 (01:31):
We were here last year, ten game lead in June.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
Got you, I know, but they hadn't started as hot.

Speaker 6 (01:37):
I hear you.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
I know, yeah, but I get it. I get it.

Speaker 6 (01:41):
Once bitten twice shy the.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
PAC twelve in the Mountain West Conferences. You remember the
PAC twelve. They've agreed to mediation in their legal fight
over poaching penalties and exit fees that could him out
to more than one hundred million dollars. The process is
set to begin on May nineteenth. I was coming back
from our son's graduation in the police and the impullment in.

Speaker 4 (02:01):
That country as we like to call.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
It, and driving through Colfax, how was reminded us where
you going? I was not going fast at all twenty two,
but I was reminded that the Whitman County Courthouse is
where that whole thing started.

Speaker 4 (02:14):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
The PAC twelve challenging the two remaining Oregon State, Washington
State's court case against the other ten schools that left.

Speaker 6 (02:21):
Was it the Whitman County Courthouse in Colfax, Washington.

Speaker 4 (02:24):
I did delight in that.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
Total a side NBA Playoffs, major upset going on in
the East, not just in Boston, series in Cleveland too.
Last night in TD Garden, the Knicks took Game two
from Boston the same way they took Game one up
by twenty.

Speaker 6 (02:40):
The Celtics blew it again.

Speaker 4 (02:41):
They shot twenty five person.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
Yeah, they're twenty five for one hundred and three. I
heard Ernie Johnson last night on Inside the NBA point
that out.

Speaker 4 (02:49):
It's just terrible.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
By the way, I didn't watch any NBA class games.
I just watched it inside the NBA after the games
are over.

Speaker 4 (02:55):
I mean that's the best round on television.

Speaker 6 (02:56):
So last night was another epic loose.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
Anyway, the Celtics outscored thirty to seventeen last night. By
the next lose ninety one ninety at home, they're down
O two going back to Madison Square Garden Charles Barkley
last night and Shaqim O'Neal saying that really must game,
must win. Game three is for the Knicks. Think about it.
Celtics win and it goes right back to where everyone

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thought it would be in the pressure beyond the Necks to.

Speaker 6 (03:21):
Try to get a third win in the series.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
Anyway, Cleveland's down two after it losing two in a
row home to Indiana. So both the one and two
seeds in the East are down two after two home games.
Going up to the road, Thunder dominated the Nuggets. You
knew that was coming right after Oka City lost at
home in the first game. Yeah, So series now tied
one to one. In the West tonight, those Golden State
Warriors without Steph Curry probably for the next week, which

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means through Game four. The Warriors played Game two against
the Timberwolves after Golden State one game one in Minnesota.

Speaker 6 (03:50):
That's a five.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
Thirty start NHL Playoffs last night. The Maple Leafs now
two to oh up in their series over the defending
Cup champion Panthers, winning four to three last night again
stole ours was out.

Speaker 6 (04:01):
Joseph's Wall was.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
A wall for most of that game when the Panthers
really pressured in the third period. Stars now one o
lead early in that series against the Jets. The Winnipeg's
lost at home last night three to two, and another
just fantastic. I'll say it again later, but if you're
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Speaker 6 (05:04):
One day, I wanted to mention quickly.

Speaker 3 (05:06):
Yesterday, the University of Washington had their first game of
the Big ten Softball tournament. In the middle of the game,
Big ten Networks broadcast Heather tar staying on the third
base coaching box, talked about what is going on in
U Dub athletics and for that I know Dave Softy

(05:27):
Mahler has brought this up. The U Dub goalkeeper Mia Hammant.
She's from Rinn County in the Bay Area of California.
She's been diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of
kidney cancer and go fund me account supporters set up
Monday had a gold to raise fifty thousand dollars for
her medical expenses. It was over eighty two thousand dollars
as of yesterday. How about that Heather Tire on Live

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TV yesterday during an end game interview with Big ten
that were explained her Huskies were wearing orange bows in
their hair during the game to support Harmont and her
cause and awareness for it.

Speaker 6 (05:58):
Hats off to her and all the best of me.
Yeahm U dub goalkeeper.

Speaker 3 (06:02):
How about those Mariners nine straight series wins. It's not hitting.
They're hitting jessmine a lot what they couldn't do last
year in.

Speaker 4 (06:12):
The situational hitting too, exactly.

Speaker 3 (06:15):
And we talked about this last week when I was
filling in for me. And by the way, Ian Farness
is away again today. That's why Greg Bell the News
Tribune is with you with Jessamin McIntyre from one until
three before Dave Softy More and Dick Fame.

Speaker 6 (06:25):
I think they're both in today. Yes they are, they're
coming back.

Speaker 3 (06:28):
And one in three until seven. But the Mariners, you
mentioned a situational hitting. That's exactly what they're doing. And
we talked last week about the fact with two strikes
they used to try to hit the ball to Mercer Island,
no matter the situation, no matter the time of the game,
no matter the score.

Speaker 6 (06:45):
Last year it was eggs.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
Of velocity, launch angles or bust, and it was often busted,
and they led the free world and strikeouts and that
Edgar Martinez comes in at the end of the season.
Last year and for the last six weeks or so,
there was some improvement there of actually making content rather
than striking out pretty much every other time at bat. Well,
this year they're doing the same thing they were doing
last week. They did again this week to beat the

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A's two out of three in Sacramento.

Speaker 6 (07:10):
When there's two strikes, just put the ball in play.
An unproductive out of a strikeout does nothing for you.
If you actually hit the ball, runners can move, Fielders
have to field, throws have.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
To be made, things can happen. My high school baseball
players are taught all the time. If you strike out,
we can't do anything right. But if you hit the
ball and play with even with two strikes, choke up
on the bat, if it's pitched outside, hit it to
the other way. At least the runners can move and
you got some to go. That's what Tavares did on
the go ahead single. That was a slap hit through

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the left side opposite field with two strikes.

Speaker 7 (07:43):
It was perfect.

Speaker 6 (07:44):
He didn't even it was like a sixty percent swing.

Speaker 4 (07:47):
It doesn't have to be a fence swing.

Speaker 3 (07:49):
Yes, it was a two hopper that bounded over the
third baseman's glove into left field, winning run scores.

Speaker 6 (07:54):
It doesn't have to be.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
He didn't have to hit it to the tower bridge
right behind them, right centerfield wall Old Sacramento. Anyway, it
took him an entire season and a half to figure
that out. And now they're doing it and Kevin Sitz
is getting all the praise. But let's face it, that's
just professional hitting. That's not Edgar.

Speaker 6 (08:14):
Why did it take Edgar Martinez come out of out
of retiring.

Speaker 5 (08:18):
Because he simpled it down and he's talked about that,
and it's not quote unquote dumbing down anything. It's getting
them out of their heads and just allowing them to play.
I think he tas all the stats and he listens
to the statisticians giving all this great information, and he's
the distiller of that information, allowing them to not overthink

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when they're playing.

Speaker 4 (08:39):
That's my theory.

Speaker 3 (08:41):
They just start trying. It's hard to hit home runs.
That's what it comes down to. When I watch the game,
I mean that that Tavarro's thing yesterday was exactly the
thing I'm talking about. Of slapping it through the left
side with two strikes, you get a single and win
instead of trying to hit a three, two run homer
to win.

Speaker 6 (08:57):
Anyway. If you missed it, you were working yesterday. It
was a day game.

Speaker 3 (09:02):
Here is how they won their ninth straight series again
most since two thousand and one. Down five to nothing
early to winning six five yesterday in Sacramento.

Speaker 6 (09:10):
That'll take us to break in.

Speaker 3 (09:11):
Ninosaurus, the athletic Major League Baseball writer will join us
on the other side.

Speaker 8 (09:16):
Watch Pulner out to the barn and they moved him
down of the order, comes up with a home.

Speaker 6 (09:23):
Run th lead down the final the fourth in he's
a four to nothing.

Speaker 8 (09:25):
As league Jess off the to Lesi's glove.

Speaker 6 (09:30):
Brown comes around and Store is standing Wilson in the
second base. Now there are a few guys at baseball
right now who.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
Are picking up his like Jacob Wilson on a line
out to the gap.

Speaker 6 (09:44):
Bad Brown can't get to him. Gill a more king cruise.

Speaker 9 (09:48):
Williamson at second base gets the bounderies on the board
that will shut out of a cannon.

Speaker 6 (09:53):
By Ben Williamson.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
Brandon, who has.

Speaker 6 (09:56):
Won the lot this year, wins the most in base ball.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
He is a board smarts have two one, three two
fly ball right field.

Speaker 8 (10:06):
Ready to lads, Hey, everybody's watching.

Speaker 6 (10:09):
Hey, it's good right back, get.

Speaker 10 (10:12):
This ball game a three run bub I'm.

Speaker 6 (10:15):
Ready to last time run at second base in basketball,
two outs, the one two round ball.

Speaker 5 (10:27):
Master.

Speaker 6 (10:27):
Theody arounds on his way home. Welcome to the Mariners.

Speaker 8 (10:32):
Layout e taveres.

Speaker 4 (10:33):
He tied the.

Speaker 8 (10:35):
Game of the King Stern already signed their bull game
and they're sticking with Murdoch here.

Speaker 9 (10:42):
Hey, the game has been right send the field the
Mariners have taken at at any league. Telling Born delivers
to Varius stores and the Mariners are in six to five.

Speaker 6 (10:55):
Deal more weirdeds. You come from talking a head away
one down. Then he run at the play. He's out
of their finals.

Speaker 8 (11:06):
Round and visiting the ball games over Andres Dios has
simply bed and drammle. The Mariners come from behind, I
get and they take another thriller, six to five the
final store.

Speaker 6 (11:23):
They have now won their ninth consecutive series.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
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Welcome back, Greg belfore Ian forness, joining mes Agan as
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Yes, thanks for having me.

Speaker 6 (12:39):
All Right, before we get started, let's tell everybody.

Speaker 3 (12:42):
What your mom is doing right now? I can you
just go into this in the background. What is her
fascination with this?

Speaker 6 (12:52):
How old is she as? So long has she been
doing this? What's going on there?

Speaker 10 (12:56):
Well, my mom is seventy four and she had four
damnit an avid hiker, and but she definitely gets into
things sometimes, and she's always hiked at a brisk pace,
and now she's running her hikes. And right now she's
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she's about seventy miles into it. She has left Jerome, Arizona,
and she's climbed all the way to the top of
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only person in her.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
Age seventy four years young. I've done the drive, those
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drive from Sedona to flag stuff.

Speaker 6 (13:49):
It ain't flat.

Speaker 7 (13:51):
How did she come to this?

Speaker 10 (13:54):
I mean, she's just always been an outdoorsy person and
I always kept a brisk pace, and this is just
things she wanted to do to stay active, and she
started getting into the community. The one hundred and twenty
five mile race, he's actually half of a two hundred
and fifty miles.

Speaker 6 (14:10):
Oh she slacked off, then, yeah, that's half, but.

Speaker 10 (14:15):
There's a whole like these they're called like ultra marathon,
whole ultra marathon community, and she's taken to it and
they love her and they put her on podcasts and
everyone's rooting for her to make it.

Speaker 3 (14:28):
The Cono Kanda is that what they call it? Coco
Conda two fifty ingrid Sarah's seventy four years young, seventy
miles into one hundred and twenty five mile run up
Flagstaff Mountain and oh Man, couldn't be more proud of
I can imagine you know, Sarah so the athletic joining
us as he does every Thursday at this time. All right,

(14:49):
let's talked about your first occupation. That is Majorague baseball.
We talked about the Mariners first place here. They are
three games up. We've talked about why. But in the
A is that sustainable? You know, as you say them,
the a's how are they doing what they're doing? How
are they up to the top of the America League West.

Speaker 10 (15:09):
Yeah, I don't think it's sustainable. And yeah, it's just
a it's I don't know how they're doing it because
the pitching staff is not one of the best in baseball.
If you just look at something like pitching winds above replacement.

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They're eighteenth. But if you look at something like war
like e R they have a four four six era
and they have a park that just makes it really hard.
That park when the winds blowing out, it's crazy. It's
like Wrigley when the wind's blowing out. The Homers are going.
When they're going in, you know, you can have a
pitcher's duel, and so you know, they have some credible

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veterans and JP series and Luis Savarino at the top.
Gunner Hogland has been a call up and they just
he did a good job against the Mariners. It makes
Miller at the back. But that's about it. I mean,
there's a lot of depth pictures that you know have
five RRAs and deserve them basically, and it's not going
to get any easier when it's ninety eight degrees at

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game time in Sacramento, especially if the wind is blowing out.

Speaker 6 (16:16):
That doesn't have to be that.

Speaker 3 (16:18):
They don't have to be playing in that park, by
the way, that is that is the ownership that has
decided that they're going to go play in a triple
A park. I was in Sacramento for the Sacramento be
covering the open A's and Raiders when that park was
built in West Sacramento.

Speaker 6 (16:31):
And you're right.

Speaker 3 (16:32):
The winds come from the hills just west of the
Lejo and aren't nothing to stop them all the way
into West six No.

Speaker 10 (16:40):
You could get touchdowns on it. It's really interesting. So
you know the reason why. So Wrigley and Fenway are
the second most wind affected ballparks in baseball, right, and
if you think about it, they're the oldest, right And
now you think about Tampa and Sacramento are are now
the the most wind affected. And you just said there's

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nothing to stop the wind from coming out of the hills. Now,
the Rigul and Fenway don't aren't as tall as modern ballparks.
And what happens is the size of the ballpark, the facade,
the structure around it creates a wind shadow for the field.
And it's just like you're talking about, they stop the

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wind like the new ballparks, stop the wind.

Speaker 6 (17:27):
Like the Giants tall park.

Speaker 3 (17:28):
The reason all this is never gonna work because the
wind and most times the wind gets blown down by
the grandstand of whatever it's called at and t right
now they make it a.

Speaker 10 (17:35):
Big grand stand there. Yeah, So the fact that these
are minor league parks. Is affecting the play on the
field because they're not up to snuff size wise, and
they're not creating enough of a wind shadow. So yeah,
I mean, I don't know that the Tampa one has
an act of God, you know, like the weather had

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something to do with ile on. But it's a little
embarrassing for baseball right out that you know that there's
a game going on in a minor league park every day.

Speaker 3 (18:05):
It's an act of stupidity that the A's are in
Sacramento that should never have ever happened. And there's a
great ballpark I grew up in my early in my
career covering the A's at the Oakon Coliseum. The only
thing wrong with the Oakon Coliseum was Mount Davis. Al
Davis put up there for the Raiders to get him
back from LA.

Speaker 10 (18:21):
They've done it wrong to be able to see the
hills and every exactly.

Speaker 6 (18:24):
It was one of the most picturesque parks in the country.

Speaker 3 (18:26):
It was played well, everyone loved it until al Davis
changed it in the dynamic.

Speaker 6 (18:33):
There's nothing wrong with Oakland. They had a Howard Tournament.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
I could go on and on about Oakland and my
friends still down as a major League baseball park as
old as it is, sitting there vacant because the owners
wanted to stick it to the city of Oakland and
other in Sacramento. Not to mention that the clubhouse is
out in center field. It's like an a tent. I
could go on and on about West six and Sacramento.

Speaker 6 (18:53):
Anyway, r As.

Speaker 3 (18:56):
Doing as he does every week here and become plumbing
hotline from the Athletic Baseball writer. Well, Yoda Tavares comes.
First of all, he was, as I remember, something of
a touted prospect in the Texas system and coming up
the Rangers. I don't know if you're ready to speak
on this, but the Rangers gave up on him.

Speaker 6 (19:13):
Wave them. Now the Mariners pick him, I think gets
a game winning hit just off the plane yesterday.

Speaker 3 (19:19):
Have you followed Tavares' numbers, his metrics, or what his
potential is versus what his performance has been and what
are the Mariners.

Speaker 6 (19:25):
Getting in him?

Speaker 10 (19:27):
Yeah, he's a really interesting player and he comes from
an interesting team. I think they may have panicked. What's
going on in Texas right now? Is you know, I
just came out with a piece of his you know numbers,
ten numbers that should be worried fome even this point
the season, and the Rangers are chasing more this year
than las year. They're chasing, they're chasing more year over

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year than any other team in baseball. They've just really
exploded in terms of swinging it pitches outside the zone.
And you know some players you see they you know
Dolis Carcia, you see these Luis Robert. You see these
players that can be successful chasing outside of the zone.
They're just really athletic and they make good contact. They're powerful.
It doesn't age very well, but as a team though,

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what it says is you're pressing, and so the whole
team is pressing there, they're chasing outside of the zone.
They fire their hitting coach, they released Leoti Taveres. Some
of these needed to be done, maybe to shake things up.
They have Evan Carter coming up to play center field.
One of the things that Taveries brings to the table

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is excellent center field defense. I don't know, it is interesting.
The first time he ever played centerfield in the right
field in the pros is for the Mariners. They have
a pretty good center fielder. You might have heard of him,
and so I don't know if he's the best fit
in terms of you know, his offense has been solidly

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below average, but not terrible. He's been a guy who's
a switch hitter who makes enough contact but just hasn't
been able to access that power. But they had some success,
you know, with a similar player Ropeless, I think has
some similarities where hey, this is the guy who has
okay played skills, okay contact like pretty good contact, enough power,

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it's not a zero power profile. And the thing that
he has on Robless is I don't Rubless is not
a switch hitter, right. So Tavares comes in and he's
what he's going to be able to be for you
is basically just a league average bat from both sides
that can play every outfield position. And that's obviously something
that they've needed. Even if he doesn't always play in

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center for them, even if he doesn't start every day
for them, he's going to give them an option a
switch hitting defense. First. You know, capable guy who can
put the ball in play off the bench or even
in the right field is going to be a useful
fun and we.

Speaker 6 (21:47):
Saw in Game one he can hit with two strikes situational.

Speaker 3 (21:52):
For the game when he hit Enosarius in the athletic
Joining us live here on the Beacon Plumbing Hotline on
ninety three point three kJ R FM, you mentioned that
story you talked about with the Ten concerning numbers early
in the season. One of those concerns was for Ryan
Presley that was pretty prescient from what happened yesterday. The
closer for the first place Cubs yesterday, This is I.

Speaker 6 (22:13):
Think it's major League Baseball history, and I'm not mistaken.

Speaker 3 (22:16):
The Giants hung him for nine runs in the eleventh
inning to blow out the Cubs fourteen to five at
Wrigley Field. What were the concerns you were noticing for
Ryan Presley in his metrics.

Speaker 10 (22:30):
Yeah, I've got a number called stuff plus that looks
at just the physical characteristics of your pitches, and it's
basically said that he was among the worst closers in
terms of stuff you know, in terms of you know,
velocity and spin and movement, and he's just really taken

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a dive from where he used to be. And it's
something you could see with your eyes. You know. Stuff
plus is actually kind of a scouting stat It helps
you helps you put the other what it means to
have good vertical movement or horizontal movement. And you know,
when you look at the worst closes in the league
by stuff plus, Luke Jackson, Carlos Stevis with the Royals,
and Ryan Presley right there, and so that's something you

(23:15):
can also see in the strikeout right he wasn't striking
guys out and in spring I kind of saw it
with my eyes just seeing this is a guy who's tentative,
who's lost his fastball. Basically he's trying to pitch backwards
off that curveball, and that's not I think that you
can't really have a closer that pitches backward. I think
that you need to have in your closer. You need

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to have a guy who can get swings and missus
in his zone, can be in the zone, can dominate
in the zone. And it can't be someone who's trying
to nibble. And that's why it must be nice and
see I don't have and Moondo. I mean, dude, that's
a great, big old fastball and a great slider.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
I was just going to ask you, what's where does
Munas's stuff plus rank that slider that moves across and
guys have to guess whether it's slider or fastball one
hundred coming.

Speaker 6 (24:01):
Where's stuff plus rank for Andres Munios.

Speaker 10 (24:05):
I know he's always a stalwart, but let me, let
me get the let me dial it in here. He's
he's right there in the top twenty. That might be
surprising that that they're more. But you know, there's a
lot of great stuff in the big leagues. You know,
the top, very top is John Dura, Emmanuel Classe, Mason Miller.

(24:30):
And there's some evidence that maybe this stuff plus number
is not capturing everything because one thing that I just
read on Fangrass is that Munos throws so hard, but
he doesn't have the greatest ride on his fastball. And
it turns out that batters might anticipate people who throw
hard having more ride. They kind of put him in

(24:52):
the class with Mason Miller and Ryan Helsley and and
these guys, and they think, oh, he throws this hard,
I expected to ride. And that's why Munoz actually gets
a lot of ground balls off his four seamer in
a way that you might not expect. So I have
no complaints with him. He's a he's a top closer

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for me.

Speaker 6 (25:13):
You mentioned Mason Miller.

Speaker 3 (25:14):
I remember last year in the middle of the season
when the A's were usually what the A's are, that
Mason Miller was a targeted with a lot of trade rumors.
Does the fact that the A's are now just three
games out of first place, still very early, does that
mean Mason Miller sticks around? You think it increases the
chances that he stays with the Sacramento slash Oakland as.
Who do you think now is he trade? His teams

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are still going to try to pitch for him.

Speaker 10 (25:38):
I think he's gonna He's gonna stick around. I mean
the way that they you know, there might have been
some pressure from the players Union for them to spend
some of their revenue sharing money now that their revenue
sharing again, and so that might be part of it.
They might they were moving in a new park, that
might be part of it. But you see them going
out and signing Luis Severina and trading for Jeffrey Springs

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and you know, extending some of the young players, and
I think what you see is a team that's trying
to build towards Las Vegas. They want to have a
good team when they land in Las Vegas. You can
trade Mason million still be a good team when you're
in Las Vegas, but it'd be better if you have
a standout closer. When you landed there and that's three
years away, you still have made a millioner a contract,

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So it have to be a really good deal, I think,
and people aren't necessarily offering that kind of a really
good deal for closers because they can get injured. They
don't put up the same amount of innings that you
would get from a young starter that you might be
trading for. So I don't think that what's being offered
will line up with what he can do for another

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team and what they want out of him for Vegas
in the right way. I think he'll stick around.

Speaker 3 (26:51):
Just listening to you underline the absurdity the fact that
there's three more years before the A's even go to
Las Vegas, and Las Vegas don't even want them. They
can't even improve the public money to get the damn
stadium built. I could go on and on for the
rest of the show about what they've done to the
Oakland A's, but anyway, you know, the athletic joining is.
I look at the standings. I saw whether the Braves

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were subterranean to begin the season, couldn't hit. Now they're
starting to rise. I think close to five hundred two
games under right now. The Cardinals were absolutely nothing to
begin the season. Now they've won seven or the last ten.
They're in second place in the NL Central, three games
behind the Cubs. We talked about the Mariners in the
A's being surprisingly at the top of the American League West.

Speaker 6 (27:32):
What's what do you have?

Speaker 3 (27:33):
What team do you have your eye on as a
riser or someone that keeping an eye on what's been
a surprise to you so far?

Speaker 10 (27:41):
We tracked something called like run differential, which just gives
you a sense of, you know, how how teams have
john versus their competition. Have they scored more than they've
given off? And the real outliers are the Reds near
the with a with a five hundred record, but they
have a thirty a plus thirty run differential, which is
basically about the same as the Mariners. So that's a

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difference of you know, three four wins there, and so
you'd expect the Reds to be going a little bit
better going forward based on that run differential. And then
the other side one that I pointed out in my
in my piece was the Guardians, who you know, they
have a negative run differential, They have the same run
differential as the Rangers. And yet the Guardians are twenty

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two and fifteen and the Rangers of eighteen and nineteen,
and you know, when you look going forward, you know
they project to be worse than the Rangers. So you know,
it is a little weird for me to look at
the Guardians, you know, right there with the Tigers in
the al Central, and be like, well, I don't see

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who's really underperforming that value I'm pitching. Maybe this guy,
that guy can be better. Maybe hope their ameers can
hit a little better, But there's no real like, oh,
the whole team's playing badly and that's why, and they're
actually winning at the Let me just say it this way.
I don't understand the Guardians. I just I've never understood them.
When you break them down to their component pieces, they
don't make sense. They somehow find ways to win games

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that they shouldn't. Maybe there's something strange about the Guardians.
They've got something maybe figured out that that I don't
have figured out.

Speaker 3 (29:17):
Yeah, ain't no s with the athletic joining us, the
Guardians they've got to get class going. He was almost
perfect last year and then so far this season he
hasn't done.

Speaker 6 (29:26):
Much at all. It's always good to talk to you, sir.

Speaker 3 (29:28):
I'm sure Ian Farness will be on next week with you,
but it's good to talk to you know. So good
luck to mom Incroasarus.

Speaker 6 (29:34):
It's seven miles.

Speaker 3 (29:38):
Wait, how are you talking to her and texting or
how do you take breaks to talk to herself.

Speaker 10 (29:45):
She's like she's gonna she's called on Instagram stuff. She's like,
I'm not going to be coherent at some point, so uh,
just just call me the day after after I've had
a nice sleep. And so we're we're rooting from Afar.

Speaker 3 (30:00):
Good on mom, you know, sorry is great talking. We'll
talk to you next week. Thank you, sir. I'm sorry
to the ethntic. That's incredible. I have a seventy eight
year old mother in law who's something like that. She's
hiked the Andes, he's hunked the hike, the Inca Trails.
He's hiked from Portugal to Spain at seventeen.

Speaker 6 (30:18):
Young man woo one hundred and twenty five mile run.
It's seventy four years old.

Speaker 5 (30:22):
That's like, that'sn't more than an ultra or an ultra
marathon or something. Yeah, seventy four, it's one of those
beyond ultras. I think an ultra is fifty.

Speaker 6 (30:32):
You've gone from Sedona to flag Staff. Yeah, I have.

Speaker 4 (30:35):
Yeah, that's not flat, No, no, it is run.

Speaker 5 (30:38):
I was like, oh, I ran my first marathon in
actually in Arizona. We went from Tempe, or from Phoenix
to Tempe.

Speaker 4 (30:46):
You know something.

Speaker 5 (30:48):
It's that and I trained out here and that was flat.
That was like, I'm like, oh my gosh, I'm gonna
crush my goal time. I just didn't know anything about
the terrain. And but then I've gone hiking in all
of the places that he was mentioning. I've scrambled those
mounds and she's running.

Speaker 6 (31:07):
Up, he's running up.

Speaker 4 (31:08):
Yeah, that's great. Good for Angried, so awesome.

Speaker 6 (31:11):
We'll have to hear next week with the ends game
of her one hundred and twenty five mile run at
age seventy four.

Speaker 4 (31:16):
I love the fact that if she makes it, she wins.

Speaker 5 (31:18):
That makes me happy because that would keep me going
as a competitive person.

Speaker 3 (31:22):
Next to Daily power Play, I'm going to talk to
you about Jim I'm going to reiterate why the Stanley
Cup playoffs are the best professional postseason in sports. We're
gonna talk about Jalen Melroe in virtual reality. This is
a fascinating story to me, and I'm wondering why it's
not more prevalent in the NFL. I think it's about
to be. Corbyn Smith joins us at two o'clock two
thirty two forty thirty five or so we'll get a
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Speaker 6 (33:03):
Case she missed it.

Speaker 3 (33:04):
Last night, the two Canadian teams were featured on CBC
Sports net if. One of the great joys jesssemen of
being a sports viewer in Seattle is the ability to
watch the CBC broadcast of the Stanley Cup playoffs.

Speaker 4 (33:18):
Yeah, you are all in on that broadcast.

Speaker 3 (33:20):
They turned the volume up to like twelve on the
crowd noise, which is already off the hook anyway.

Speaker 6 (33:25):
Winnipeg has got a white.

Speaker 3 (33:27):
Out of fans that are just both just bananas after
how they won Game seven Sunday against the Blues.

Speaker 5 (33:33):
It's been an exciting Stanley Club playoffs. It absolutely has.

Speaker 3 (33:37):
Always is and I hear I look online last night
and people were complaining about the ESPN broadcast, saying it
like it's in a library, and that Cassie Campbell, the
color analyst, was asleep, and Butcher Gross wasn't into it.

Speaker 6 (33:52):
Not I was like, what are you guys talking about?
I don't know what you're talking I don't watch ESPN broadcast.

Speaker 3 (33:57):
Turn on if you have cable and you're already paying
five thousand dollars a month from Comcast. Turn on channel
ninety nine Cbut out of Vancouver every single night, it's
like bonkers. The analysis is top notch, the production, the sound,
the graphics, the in between periods and intermission. Kevin Bix
is great, the former Canuck who's on the panel, Kelly Rudy,

(34:21):
They have a Elliott Freeman who's the Adam Schefter of
the NHL, is on sports nets in between periods, and
of course the great Ron McLain has been doing it
for decades on Hockey Night in Canada. If you are
not watching the Stanley Cup playoffs on CBC, you are
absolutely missing out ESPN, T.

Speaker 6 (34:38):
And T whatever, turn on ninety nine cable. It's on
the promcast system. However, you can get it.

Speaker 3 (34:46):
If you're in a bar restaurant, tell them to put
on CBC and get off of ESPN.

Speaker 6 (34:51):
It's a night and day experience. Let me tell you
last night.

Speaker 3 (34:56):
Empty Net Dallas up three to two to protect its
lead at winniped multimillionaires diving face first and headfirst into
the crease to stop that puck.

Speaker 6 (35:06):
Yep, it was a mouch pit of like.

Speaker 4 (35:08):
There is no load management in that league.

Speaker 6 (35:14):
No load management, none of this NBA. I mean Chris
and I, Chris Christopher Kidna, I had this discussion all
the time, and he talks about the NBA playsfs. I
already told you I don't watch the NBA playoffs.

Speaker 3 (35:25):
I wait till the games are over, then turn on
inside the NBA and it catches me up in twenty
minutes what I missed for four hours. Give me the
Stanley Cup playoffs nine days a week.

Speaker 6 (35:35):
Over the NBA playoffs.

Speaker 3 (35:37):
And like I said, if you're watching on ESPN, you're
doing it wrong and you're cheating yourself out of an
experience on the CBC. Sports Net and it's on every
single night for two months, and it's just off the hook,
especially with the Canadian teams now three of them had
advanced to the second round. Toronto has a two league
going to Miami to take on the Panthers tomorrow night
in Game three. Winnipeg's down one nothing to Dallas in

(35:58):
which should be another wild series.

Speaker 6 (36:00):
Is that the Jets always seem to.

Speaker 3 (36:01):
Play and Edmonton plays Game two tonight in Vegas, having
one on the road against the Golden Knights the other night,
and CBC sports Net will have that tonight at nine
thirty local time.

Speaker 6 (36:12):
Watch it then thank me later.

Speaker 4 (36:15):
Just I love it.

Speaker 5 (36:17):
I didn't know that it was available on comcasts. I
don't have comcasts anymore. I caught the Coherd years ago,
but a.

Speaker 6 (36:22):
Lot of people have. Yeah, I don't know how you
get it on Fubu or whatever. Chris used to try
to educate me on all that stuff.

Speaker 5 (36:29):
I have a gray area situation where I'm able to
access almost in nice things, so I will be looking
for that.

Speaker 3 (36:35):
Please do you saund it My son twenty one years old,
who seems to have no problem getting any protesting.

Speaker 4 (36:40):
It makes me feel young.

Speaker 6 (36:42):
The Seahawks. The most interesting thing to me, I wasn't
at rookie minie camp.

Speaker 3 (36:45):
We're gonna talk at two o'clock to Cormyn Smith, who
was I was at Pullman for my son's car our
son's college graduation. But coming out of it were the
quotes from Mike McDonald about Jalen Milroe in virtual reality
to the News Tribune dot com. I wrote a story
for the News Tribune, my Seahawks beat writer hat that
had been doing for twenty plus years. The Seahawks are

(37:08):
trying to do with Jalen Milroe what the commanders in
LSU did with Jayden Daniels. What is virtual reality? Well
in football, here's what happened. I mentioned this to Mark.

Speaker 6 (37:17):
Before we got in the air, before my show started
here today.

Speaker 3 (37:21):
Jade Daniels was a middling quarterback at Arizona State in
twenty twenty two. He had as many touchdown as interceptions ten.
He transfers to LSU. Is struggling in his first games
at LSU in two thousand. Excuse me, twenty twenty one
was in Arizona State. He transfers in twenty twenty two
to LSU.

Speaker 6 (37:39):
He's struggling early in his time at LSU.

Speaker 3 (37:43):
Eventually, two German entrepreneurs that started a company in Germany
for virtual reality for European football. At the soccer players,
it wasn't catching on the company, wasn't it that soccer
people weren't into it. So they brought their product to
the United SLIS States and one of the first teams
they pitched it two was LSU and LSU Sports Performance,

(38:05):
and those guys were really intrigued by it and they.

Speaker 6 (38:07):
Wanted to know what it would do for a quarterback
in football.

Speaker 3 (38:10):
The virtual reality put on a headset, you look through
it and it puts in realistic video of point of
view of a defense, of coverages, of blitzes, of looks,
defensive fronts.

Speaker 6 (38:24):
But they speed it up at Jessaman at one point
seven five times the speed of a normal game.

Speaker 3 (38:29):
That's really key because when you're training your mind every
day on this virtual reality, you're doing it at a
faster speed than you will in a game.

Speaker 4 (38:36):
Right, so little slow things down from the games.

Speaker 7 (38:38):
It seems.

Speaker 3 (38:41):
Jayden Daniels tried this in Week three of the twenty
twenty three college season for LSU a couple days before
the game. In that game that week in the sec
AD Mississippi State, he went thirty of thirty four for
four hundred total yards four total touchdowns. LSU beat Mississippi
s eate forty one to fourteen, and ever since that
time September twenty six, twenty twenty three, he's used it.

(39:03):
He went on to win the Heisman Trophy that year
as a transfer quarterback who was just a middling ten interception,
ten touchdown guy until VR virtual Reality puts it on,
uses it every game, gets mental reps without having to
beat up his body, wins the Heisman Trophy. Whin's the
Heisman Trophy becomes the second over off I'm mistaken, second
overall pick of the Washington Commanders and your friend Dan Quinn.

Speaker 6 (39:24):
What's happens with Washington? The commanders agreed because Jayden Daniels
and his representatives told him, you draft as you're drafting
the virtual reality program I had at LSU. I'm bringing
it with me.

Speaker 3 (39:34):
And the commander said, great, we got Cliff Kingsbury, a
hotshot young play caller.

Speaker 6 (39:38):
We'll do it, and it worked for you, So why
would he say it worked for him in college?

Speaker 3 (39:44):
And boy did it work for him last year? He
was twenty five touchdowns and nine interceptions, the offensive rookie
of the year. And you know what Washington did, went
to the NFC title game for the first time in
thirty three years.

Speaker 5 (39:56):
A season they were expected to maybe get a I know,
a five hundred record. You know, obviously that's impossible for
seventeen games, but you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (40:04):
So now the Seahawks are saying, hey, Jalen Milroe, he's
got to get some mechanics on his throwing and get improved.

Speaker 6 (40:09):
We're gonna work with Klint Kubiak, but let's try this
virtual reality while we're at.

Speaker 3 (40:13):
It to see if we can speed up the game
for him in the NFL and so that the NFL
actual NFL game will be slower. Mike McDonald's quotes afterwards were,
if this works for Milroe, we're going to have Sam
Donold and Drew Locke put him on too.

Speaker 6 (40:25):
The VR headsets. My story is at the Newstribute dot com.
I think it's fascinating.

Speaker 3 (40:30):
I think every football team down to high school and
middle school and pee we are going to be doing
it before long because of the success that Jaden Daniels had.
We'll see how it does with Jalen Milroe. Mike McDonald,
the Seahawks coach, said that they are in the initial
stages of doing that. We'll talk about more from the
Seahawks up next with Corbyn Smith, Emerald Emerald.

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The Mariners look down yesterday, but they're not out.

Speaker 6 (41:54):
We know that now.

Speaker 3 (41:56):
First place Mariners were down five zip first fourth inning,
excuse me against the A's yesterday in Sacramento. Then the
bats got going. Ben Williamson HARBI double, Rowdy Tellez Sacramento Boy,
three run homer golfed into right field brought him within
five to four. Leedo Tavares, just off a plane in
Waivers from Texas, his first Mariner game, tied things up

(42:17):
on the RBI single in an eighth grade two strike
hitting of putting the ball through the.

Speaker 6 (42:21):
Infield, and then welcome back.

Speaker 3 (42:23):
Dylan Moore gave the Marinders six to five lead in
the eighth inning, Andres Munoz again closed things out with
the scoreless ninth thirteenth save of the season. The Mariners
are now nine straight series wins, the most since two
thousand and one, that team that won one hundred and
sixteen games to set an American League record. They're three
games up on the second place A's in the American
League West. Their home tomorrow night to begin a weekend

(42:43):
series against the Toronto Blue Jays, Toronto usually coming in
in July.

Speaker 6 (42:47):
Pack in the park, right.

Speaker 4 (42:49):
Not nobody's time, folks.

Speaker 6 (42:51):
They switched it up.

Speaker 3 (42:52):
Nobody from cana is gonna come to that because Pucker's
still going up in the Stanley Cup playoffs.

Speaker 6 (42:55):
No one's gonna come down.

Speaker 4 (42:56):
That helps.

Speaker 5 (42:57):
But I think the Mariners are kind of boxing them
out to the barness fans, I should say.

Speaker 3 (43:02):
The Pack twelve in the Mountain West have agreed to
mediation in their legal fight over poaching penalties and exit
fees that amount to more than one hundred million dollars.
The process is set to begin on May nineteenth. That
mediation fight. Pack twelve, of course, reconstituting Oregon State and
Washington State, are bringing a bunch of Mountain West teams
in to form the new Conference NBA Playoffs and a

(43:22):
major upset Boston's TD Garden last night, The Knicks took
Game two from Boston.

Speaker 6 (43:27):
The same way.

Speaker 3 (43:27):
They took Game one, rallying from twenty plus down to
beat the Celtics on their own court for the second
straight night. New York go was the Madison Square Garden
for the series. Game three tomorrow, up two games to
nine on the top seed and defending NBA champs Boston
led by double digits majority last night's game. Then the
Celtics blew it in the fourth quarter, getting out scored
thirty to seventeen and lost ninety one to ninety to

(43:49):
the next. Thunder dominated the Nuggets in Game two in
the dust Bowl. As you expected they would beat him
one forty nine, one oh six in Oklahoma City. I
even hate to even use the words Oklahom the city.
I just can'top I covered that trial and too. I
just can't even believe that that. I'm still unbelievable. Anyway,
the Thunder and the Nuggets are tied one one in

(44:10):
that series that now heads to Denver tonight in the
NBA Playoffs. The Warriors, without injured Steph Curry hamstring injury,
is going to be out probably through Game four. Game
two is tonight for the Warriors in Minnesota. They lead
to Timberwolves one game to none the NHL Playoffs, the
best postseason in sports. The Maple Leafs won last night
over the defending Cup champion Panthers in Toronto, so now

(44:32):
the Leafs are up two to oh in that series,
heading to South Florida to morrow night for Game three.

Speaker 6 (44:36):
The Stars beat the Jets in Game one.

Speaker 3 (44:39):
Jets coming off that dramatic, incredible Game seven win at
home over Saint Louis on Sunday. They lost last night
to the Dallas Stars, so Dallas have won nothing in
that series. Game two will be tomorrow night in Winnipeg. Tonight,
Game two of the Hurricanes Capitals series in Washington, with
the Hurricanes up one I think, gins at four o'clock
at six point thirty on CBC Sports Net. The Oilers

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at the Golden Knights in Vegas with Edmonton up one.
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Now we're gonna talk some Seahawks with my man Corbyn Smith.

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Corvin Smith, colleague, you mine on the Seahawks beat, joining
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Thursday at this time.

Speaker 6 (46:50):
Hello the well traveled Corbyn Smith.

Speaker 10 (46:51):
How are you?

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I'm good?

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How are you man?

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I'm good.

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I drove while you were flying last weekend. I was driving,
so I missed the rookie. I was in Pullman for
our son's graduation.

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Eric.

Speaker 7 (47:03):
I think you've got a pretty good excuse.

Speaker 6 (47:05):
That was decent. I thought for May football, I thought
I could get away with that. Thank you. So what'd
you see?

Speaker 3 (47:09):
Corman and the two practices open to the media as
what caught your eye? Who caught your eye? What was interesting?
About football in May and T shirts and shorts.

Speaker 12 (47:18):
Yeah, as you know, you're not gonna get a ton
of stuff in these practices, at least in terms of
real football stuff. Offensive line, he can look at the athleticism.
Gray's Abel looked the part, so did Bryce Cable Doo.
Cable Do was way bigger than I expected. That's kind
of the stuff you're looking for when you're out of
the practice field for many camps. But it looks like

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an NFL guard. Mason Richmond looks like more like a tackle,
a swing tackle guard type. But all three of those guys,
you can see the athleticism. To me, the biggest thing
that jumped out was just in the two days, the
difference between what we saw on Friday to Saturday with
Jalen Milroe with his fundamentals, and he was talking about
this with us after Friday's practice, that everything all about

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the lower body with him, and he's got a really
good compact throwing motion.

Speaker 7 (48:06):
His upper body. You've got everything you need there.

Speaker 12 (48:09):
He's got a quick release, he gets the ball out
of his hand and it just flies out of his hand.

Speaker 7 (48:14):
It's the lower body.

Speaker 12 (48:15):
He has two narrable base A lot of the time,
and Friday we get to see quite a few throws
in the individual passing drills where that was happening.

Speaker 7 (48:23):
But on Saturday it was.

Speaker 12 (48:25):
Noticeable to me only two balls hit the ground during
the time in one of them was a drop pass,
and he was throwing darts right on the money. Most
of these throws at his footwork looked a lot better
than it did even in Friday's practice. Now we get
to see that with defenders coming after him. Whether that's
going to be maintained or not. But I'm encouraged by

(48:45):
what I see there, especially compared to the film I
watched from a Senior Bowl where he was having all
kinds of issues with his mechanics below his knees.

Speaker 3 (48:54):
So the Seahawks have a new quarterbacks coach in a
new offensive coordinator. What did you notice about how he
was being coach? How interactive, how involved? Clint Kubiak the
new play color and offensive coordinator. What have you noticed
about the coaching if anything?

Speaker 12 (49:09):
Yeah, I didn't really notice, didn't see anything from Kubiak,
but I did get to see the quarterback coach spending
extensive time, and you could see he was looking down
at the footwork a lot during the passing drills and
he was getting his his insight, his advice in after throws.

Speaker 7 (49:25):
There was a couple of times where he was working.

Speaker 12 (49:27):
With him on the footwork on his dropbacks and he
had to remember, I mean, he's done some under center stuff,
but last year that was not part of Alabama's offense really,
so there's gonna be some adjustments there. So they were
working through some of those footwork related things. But the
new quarterback coach seems to be very hands on, which
which I think is a really good thing when he
got a quarterback that's got all the talent that Milroe has.

(49:51):
But the biggest question marks boiled down to the mechanic
related stuff.

Speaker 3 (49:54):
That's Andrew Jonica we're talking about. He came from the
Saints with Kubiak's offensive was quarterback coach for officeve coordinator
Kubak at the Saints last year. This carbon Smith joining
us as he does every Thursday at this time on
the Beacon Plumbing Hot. I'm gonna talk about Seahawks rookie
mini camp last week. When the Seahawks drafted a wide receiver,
it was Tory Horton from Colorado State.

Speaker 6 (50:16):
On the third day What did.

Speaker 3 (50:18):
You notice of him the fifth round pick. You're coming
off an injury from October? Did he If I'm not mistaken,
it was a meniscus and a knee. It's what did
you notice about him?

Speaker 7 (50:27):
Was he full go?

Speaker 6 (50:28):
Was he limited? Was he doing anything in the field?
It was noteworthy.

Speaker 12 (50:32):
Yeah, The only thing that we got to see him
do on Friday and Saturday was catch passes off of
a jugs machine. They're being very cautious with getting him
back in doing drill work and things of that nature.
From my understanding, they're hoping at some point in Ota
is that he's going to be able to start running
routes and doing things like that. They're still trying to

(50:52):
work on the change of direction stuff coming off that injury.
That's the biggest hurdle that he still has to overcome.
He can do the straight line stuff, but he's got
to be able to change directions to run routes. So
until he's ready to do that, the Seahawks are going
to be cautious. So he didn't get to see much
from him. But I thought Ricky White the third had
a really solid mini camp, had a couple of really
nice catches where he was able to deflect high throws

(51:15):
and reel him.

Speaker 7 (51:16):
In get his feet down in bounds. And he's a
guy that I'm really.

Speaker 12 (51:19):
Excited to see when special teams opens up in training
camp because he might instantly be one of their top
special teams players if he is able to build off
what he did at UNLV.

Speaker 6 (51:29):
He blocked four field goals last year and how big
is that.

Speaker 3 (51:33):
That's more than any team in the Football Bowl Subdivision
One guy Ricky White, the Seahawks draft pick from UNLV,
blocked more for field goals than any returned.

Speaker 12 (51:42):
To punt for a touchdown on one of only four
attempts too. I mean, he's just a fantastic special teams.

Speaker 3 (51:48):
When we talked to him today they drafted him the
final day of the draft. He said, yeah, I know.
My special teams is how I'm going to make the
team for the Seahawks and how he has to shine out.
And I asked them about blocking field goals and he said,
just want to. He said, yeah, I had some technique
Special Teams coach out me, but it just wanted it
more than the guy who was trying to block me.
You can bet the Seahawks are going to try to
utilize him. Probably made some gunner outside on punch perhaps,

(52:10):
but that's where they get the late round and undrafted
guys usually make the teams through specialties. Speaking of the undrafteds,
they had about I think eighteen or so they signed,
it were on the field. There's seventy and all that
were on the field, including tryout players. Anyone stand out
from that class. We talked to you last week about
some of the ones that you thought are going to
be standouts. Anybody that caught your eye of rookie free

(52:32):
agents at Vinnicamp.

Speaker 7 (52:34):
Well, here's the stunning thing.

Speaker 12 (52:36):
The guy that was most impressive to me got cut
a couple of days ago, which I normally this time
of year. You know how this goes when undrafted rookies
get cut. It's not something that's a big deal. You know,
they're undrafted players. But Jackson Wood, he got claimed off
waivers the next day. Like, how often do you see
that happen with an undrafted rookie, Like it just doesn't happen.

(52:57):
The linebacker from UNLV, Yeah, the Texans claimed him off
waivers very quickly. Now, listen, Mike McDonald his specialties linebackers.
So if they cut Water after that mini camp. Clearly
he saw some things that he didn't like. But from
my vantage point, I mean he had picked six the
first day and the second day he had a pass breakup.

(53:19):
I mean, as far as things you can notice in
these practices, he checked off the boxes, so that one
really surprised me.

Speaker 7 (53:26):
He would have been at the top of my list.
And then I think when you're looking at.

Speaker 12 (53:30):
The defensive backfield, just again, it's all about viewpoint, visualizing.

Speaker 7 (53:37):
Guys in this time period.

Speaker 12 (53:38):
But ISAs Waxer from Villanova looks every bit six two
to ten and he moves really fluidly. I'm excited to
see what he does when they're actually able to do
more football relates stuff.

Speaker 7 (53:50):
I think he's the guy to keep an eye on.
And Jared Ivy from ole Mith.

Speaker 12 (53:55):
You know, when you see a guy hitting the blocking
sled and they've got guys standing on it, and it
still rocks the guys that are standing on it almost knocks.

Speaker 7 (54:05):
One of them off, that's usually a notable thing.

Speaker 12 (54:08):
And Jared Ivy the violent hands that he plays with,
that was very noticeable on the practice field as well.
So those would be the names that are still in
the roster that stand out. I'm just still really surprised
they moved on from Jackson Woodard that quickly.

Speaker 3 (54:22):
Corbyn Smith joining us he does every Thursday at this
time in the Beacon pumbing hot. I'm taking Seahawks rookie
mini camp to me reading the guy wasn't there again,
I was at the Pullman, so I didn't see firsthand.

Speaker 6 (54:33):
Reading the quote.

Speaker 3 (54:34):
She's the most interesting thing from rookie meaning caamp to
me was this virtual reality initiative that the Seahawks are
going to apparently do with Jaln Milroe.

Speaker 6 (54:43):
We know what I've talked about it. You know about this, Corbyn,
what Jayden Daniels did with VR in a headset from
LSU and the Commanders last year.

Speaker 7 (54:50):
What did you make of that?

Speaker 3 (54:52):
I wrote a story about it at the News Tribune.
A lot of people picked up on it nationally. It's
fascinating that this is maybe the next frontier in football,
not just in an NFL, but at all levels of sports.

Speaker 6 (55:02):
And how could it help Milroe?

Speaker 3 (55:03):
And how enthusiastic I couldn't read by the printed word,
how enthusiastic Mike McDonald was talking about it.

Speaker 12 (55:10):
Yeah, McDonald for Mike McDonald was pretty enthusiastic about I'm
talking about how it's gonna help other positions too.

Speaker 7 (55:17):
That was the first thing that came out of his
mouth when I asked him about that.

Speaker 12 (55:20):
And I haven't had a chance, obviously to see what
this software looks like that these teams are working with,
but from what I'm gathering seeing some things that Jayden
Daniels had said, like, this is a great opportunity for
these guys to go onto a practice field and they
can do dropbacks and they can visualize the secondary and

(55:41):
read through their progressions.

Speaker 7 (55:43):
And I also have been told that this software they
get set up where you could.

Speaker 12 (55:47):
Have receivers running and it gets picked up on the
VR so you can make reads off of that as well.
So the technology is insane, But honestly, the NFL is
behind everybody else. I mean, they just now implemented the
electronic yard markers for first downs, which people have been
begging for like twenty years for them to do that.

(56:08):
So it's kind of good to see that the NFL,
that these teams are embracing some of this technology, and
you know, working on Blitz pickup. I know if I
was playing in the NFL as a running back and
I had VR capabilities to get extra reps picking up blitzers,
That's something I'd be jumping on. So I feel like
they're just scratching the surface with the quarterback stuff what

(56:29):
they can do with this VR capabilities.

Speaker 7 (56:31):
But there's so many other positions that could be helped
by this as well.

Speaker 6 (56:34):
You mentioned a blitz pickup.

Speaker 3 (56:35):
It's not like a running back has to work on
that by smashing into a blitzer fifty one hundred times.
It can just slip on the VR headset and do
mental reps at one point seventy five times faster than
the speed of a game. And as Mike McDonald said,
they're quote cheap reps because they don't have to go
through the physical wear and tear between games of doing it.

Speaker 12 (56:56):
Yeah, most of the time with running backs, I know
this from co coaching the position. A lot of times
the physical stuff is not the biggest issue. It's knowing
what the calls are from the offensive line and knowing
against different opponents. I mean, you have to game plan
this every week because teams do things differently. The running
back's got to be able to know, like that's going
to be my pickup on this particular play, if they're

(57:18):
in this three four, if they're four to two five
or whatever, and you can program all that stuff into
the VR and you could set it up that, you know,
the coaches can get feedback on how often they were
correct on who they're going to pick up, too, so
you can you can tell if a guy actually got
the reps or not, which is going to be key obviously.

Speaker 3 (57:38):
Well, speaking of running backs, Damian Martinez a former Oregon
State bull horse.

Speaker 6 (57:42):
Or just man.

Speaker 3 (57:43):
He ran over Washington in a couple of games he
played back to back with the Beavers. He transfers to
Miami to be the lead back. Last year, the Seahawks
draft him on the third day. Where does he seem
to perhaps fit into you? And all of a sudden,
Kenneth Walker is entering the final year of his contract
and has yet to play an entire season injury free.
To me, Zach Charboney has yet approved, Yeah, he's the
air to be the number one back every down. What

(58:06):
do you see them at running back right now? And
where does Damien Martinez perhaps fit as a rookie.

Speaker 12 (58:11):
You know, it's interesting, Greg, because a lot of people
are going to point to when he was drafted and say, well,
he was a seventh rounder, but this was the.

Speaker 7 (58:19):
Deepest running back class that I've ever seen.

Speaker 12 (58:22):
And my buddy Rob Ring said it was the deepest
running back class that he has ever seen in twenty
plus years covering the draft. I mean, Damian Martinez probably
the fourth round pick in most drafts, but he was
available in the seventh just because of how much talent there.

Speaker 7 (58:35):
Was at that position.

Speaker 12 (58:36):
I mean, he never read a season he finished with
under under six yards per carry.

Speaker 7 (58:40):
I mean, he has been dynamic. He's not a guy
who's gonna catch a lot of passes out of the backfield.
He's more of an early down guy.

Speaker 12 (58:47):
But if I was Zach charbonay K mackintosh like, I'm
keeping my eyes on the rear view near because I
think Damien Martinez, It's clear Mike McDonald is looking to
get that physical, smash mouth mentality back. Damian Martinez is
a back that is going to bring that who also
is a very good zone runner that has a vision.

Speaker 7 (59:07):
So if he combines those things and he is able
to go out there and run the way he did
both at.

Speaker 12 (59:14):
Oregon State and Miami, I could see this being a
situation where hey, ve Sharbona and Kenny mcintoze weren't drafted.

Speaker 7 (59:20):
When Mike McDonald will the head coach, this could.

Speaker 12 (59:24):
Very easily be a situation where you know what, this
is my guy and he could get more reps than
your thinking in that very competitive running back group.

Speaker 3 (59:32):
Damian Martinez a six feet tall and two hundred and
seventeen pounds seventh round pick running back from Miami and
Oregon State. Colvin Smith, appreciate it, man, Joy Colorado and
your next flight to see out.

Speaker 6 (59:43):
What do you come back out? I guess for veteran
minicamp or OTAs.

Speaker 12 (59:47):
I might be out there for a couple of the OTAs,
but I'm definitely gonna be out there for mini camp.

Speaker 6 (59:51):
That's in middle of June, June eighteenth thish or so,
three days the veterans required, the only mandatory camp Colevin. Thanks,
talk to us, see you soon.

Speaker 7 (01:00:00):
Yes, that's good.

Speaker 3 (01:00:00):
Thanks, Greg Corbyn Smith, Emerald City Spectrum. He joins us
every week at this time on the Beacon Plumbing hotline.
He said, And yeah, Damian Martinez could be a factor
in the Seahawks backfield, which is suddenly thinner than makes
a lot of.

Speaker 4 (01:00:13):
People think Damien was.

Speaker 5 (01:00:15):
He joined enemy outside at vMac during rookie mini caamp
and you know you just like you know we said,
they're in shorts and T shirts. But just from a
physical standpoint, he is not the Zach charboney shape. He
is tall and big, and he has the ability to
be a different kind of battering ram in the backfield.

Speaker 6 (01:00:36):
They could use some of that.

Speaker 3 (01:00:37):
Of course, he'll play as much as he contributes on
special teams and pass blocks.

Speaker 6 (01:00:42):
Yes, in the NFL of running.

Speaker 3 (01:00:43):
Back as a rookie has to pass block in order
to get on the field in the offense, and otherwise
he'll get chances of special teams too. With Damian Martinez.

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Speaker 5 (01:02:29):
Bit cracking Mariners and Seahawks, especially considering we just finished
up with Corvin Smith.

Speaker 3 (01:02:35):
We asked what was the most surprised I asked was
the most surprising thing about the Mariners being in first
place to you? And also asked you what excited you
the most about the Seahawks drafting eleven players two weeks ago?

Speaker 4 (01:02:45):
Yeah, this one for the two six.

Speaker 5 (01:02:47):
The reason the Mariners are in first place is because
they're playing nineteen eighties National League small ball, big red
machine baseball. They have a few guys that hit for power,
their stealing bases, taking extra base, and they're putting a
ton of pressure on the opposing defense.

Speaker 4 (01:03:01):
This is sustainable baseball, and they're going to be at
it all year.

Speaker 6 (01:03:04):
They are stealing a lot of bases.

Speaker 4 (01:03:06):
Yes they are. They've brought in speed.

Speaker 6 (01:03:08):
And all kinds of situations.

Speaker 3 (01:03:10):
I mean, there used to be a static base to
base wait for the home run mentality around here in
a lot of places in Major League baseball, but man
Dan Wilson and his staff.

Speaker 6 (01:03:19):
They do run a lot and that has put the
Mariners in scoring position to get clutch hits because of
stealing a bag or two.

Speaker 4 (01:03:26):
And I love that too.

Speaker 5 (01:03:27):
And also I just think that there's a lot of
confidence under Dan Wilson that and we talked about it
earlier in the show that it's not like they're not
using analytics, they're not putting it constantly in people's heads.
You know, if you are constantly talking percentagism even and
that's not what someone should be thinking about. It's they

(01:03:48):
distill it and then they tell them what to do
at the plate or in the base pass. And I
also think that if Dan Wilson gives you the green light,
you don't hesitate when you have the opportunity to see
deal right. You're you're not second guessing yourself, and a
split second can mean a world of difference in being
safe or you know, getting thrown out.

Speaker 3 (01:04:08):
The Mariners are tied for the American League lead and
stolen bases of forty three so far, and only the
Cubs and Brewers have more in Major League Baseball than
the Mariners. And you look at the mine if you're
thinking that's not a stolen base lineup, they'd become one.

Speaker 5 (01:04:23):
You wouldn't look at it on paper and think that
they would be doing what they're doing now.

Speaker 6 (01:04:27):
Wow, forty three stolen bases and what forty tony games?
Forty forty thirty.

Speaker 4 (01:04:32):
Two, thirty four games radio math it is fun.

Speaker 6 (01:04:35):
Yeah, twenty two and twelve I think they are.

Speaker 5 (01:04:38):
Yeah, what else, let's see if we are going to
go over to the Seahawks side of things, there's a
lot coming in now. Seven to one four said I
wanted nick em and Moury, even Moory. Sorry at eighteen.
When I saw us jump up and get him. At
thirty five, I hit the ground and started doing pushups.

Speaker 4 (01:04:55):
U mill In style. This is from Greg and Huntington
beat HB.

Speaker 3 (01:05:00):
I probably was it down there, Yeah, Humel I was
in the room when they draft Edmon Warre and so
was she and he wasn't as excited as he was.
When they had another second round pick a few years
ago named DK Metcalf. Hugh almost ran through the window
into the Lake Washington of the Seahawks facility when the
Seahawks drafted DK Metcalf, trading him back into the second

(01:05:20):
round to get him. But yeah, em and Worry.

Speaker 6 (01:05:22):
I mentioned this.

Speaker 3 (01:05:23):
I wrote it to the News Tribune Newstribune dot com.
They are not shy about talking about his potential to
be Cam Chancellor. Maybe not the player, but in the
role six three two twenty Mike McDonald also he mentioned
Cam Chancellor right after they drafted em and Worry, and
he also mentioned Kyle Hamilton. For those who don't know,
Kyle Hamilton was a rookie with Baltimore. The Mike McDonald

(01:05:48):
was a defensive coordinator at the time, would help draft
em and Worry or excuse me, Kyle Hamilton to the Ravens.
And then Kyle Hamilton became in everything with Mike McDonald's system,
down in the box, high post safety outside Nickel dime
Blitzer and became a Pro bowler for the first time
that season twenty twenty two, and then an All Pro

(01:06:10):
the year after Mike McDonald left last year to be
the Seahawks head coach. Mike McDonald made Kyle Hamilton what
he's become with the Ravens with this scheme, and the
first player that Mike McDonald mentioned after he drafted Nick
Emmin Worry was Kyle Hamilton. McDonald did say that Emmin
Worry is going to start at the beginning of his
NFL careers in Nickels lash dineback. Not necessarily it's safety

(01:06:30):
because they still have Kobe Bryant along with Julian Love,
who they just gave a new deal to.

Speaker 6 (01:06:34):
Of course the pro bowler.

Speaker 3 (01:06:35):
Love all of a sudden, Kobe Bryant, who won the
job last year and made Rashawn Jenkins and others expendable.

Speaker 6 (01:06:41):
He's in the last year of his rookie deal this year.
So you could vision envision the Seahawks perhaps moving on
from Kobe Bryant because Mike McDonald didn't draft him, This
coaching staff didn't draft him.

Speaker 4 (01:06:53):
Right, He's going to have to earn it all over again.

Speaker 6 (01:06:54):
Yes, back to square went in and that's competition.

Speaker 5 (01:06:57):
And also what I hear in that you just describing
where they're going to start even Moory is depth. Depth
in the backfield, which is so desperately needed.

Speaker 3 (01:07:07):
Yeah, he's trying to stack the defenses it. I expect
him to sign another cornerback, whether it's Shaquill Griffin, who
I talked with Ian about yesterday.

Speaker 6 (01:07:14):
Yeah, or somebody else to corner.

Speaker 3 (01:07:16):
I thought they're going to Draft one, but yes, they
are still trying to depth on top of depth on
top of depth on defense.

Speaker 5 (01:07:21):
The Shaquille Griffin situation seems like a no lose situation
depending on what he wants. And you guys had talked
about the fact that it might be Minnesota leveraging another
team or I'm sorry, the agent leveraging Minnesota with another team.

Speaker 4 (01:07:35):
But I don't see him over paying for Shack Griffin.

Speaker 5 (01:07:39):
I would like to see him back, though, especially considering
he's only twenty nine and he knows what he knows
the area. He wouldn't be coming into a new facility. Obviously,
it's a different defensive scheme under Mike McDonald the first four.

Speaker 6 (01:07:51):
Years of his career.

Speaker 3 (01:07:52):
Of course, CERX drafted him, is just didn't resign him
because Jacksonville gave Shaquille Griffin a three year, forty million
dollars deal to go back to his home state.

Speaker 6 (01:08:00):
John Schninder didn't want to match that.

Speaker 3 (01:08:01):
It was yet another example of a starter drafted they
didn't give a second contract to Well Now last year
he played on a one year, five point five million
dollars contract with Minnesota that expired. He's currently a free
agent there. Has been talked around the Vikings in Minnesota
that the Vikings will bring him back, and now there's
negotiations between the Seahawks and Shaquille Griffin that perhaps he
will come here instead.

Speaker 6 (01:08:22):
That's where that stands, all right.

Speaker 5 (01:08:24):
Another one from the two oh six absolutely stoked about Milnroe.
His maturity, confidence and the desire to work hard will
make him our next franchise quarterback.

Speaker 4 (01:08:33):
I'm still pitching myself.

Speaker 3 (01:08:36):
I love Milroe's the pick of Milroe before the potential
in the fact that he is a quarterback the Seahawks
have never had. Can anyone name a quarterback who has
the skill set of Jalen Milroe. Some say Russell Wilson,
but I submit even though Wilson ran for his yard
journally his career, he was running to throw. That was
the purpose of him getting outside the pocket, extending plays.

(01:08:58):
He's talked about this. He wanted his leg see even
when he was a three or four year guy with
the Seahawks, he wanted his legacy to be throwing the
ball right and he wanted to get outside and extend plays,
to make the improv passes that we saw so many
of the best plays in Seahawks history that run were
not Milroe.

Speaker 6 (01:09:14):
Milroy wants to get outside and run you over.

Speaker 3 (01:09:17):
He'll run over middle linebackers thirty two this is college
level course, but thirty two rushing touchdowns the last two
years at Alabama. He ain't trying to just extend plays
to extend plays, He's trying to run you across your
face and get the first down or touchdown. So I
can't think of a quarterback who's two hundred and twenty
pounds that wants to run like.

Speaker 6 (01:09:37):
A fullback or halfback as your quarterback.

Speaker 3 (01:09:40):
Of course, those don't tend to last in the NFL
because your job primarily is to throw the ball and
avoid sacks and turnovers. And that's the part of the
game of trying to work on with Melroe. But fascinating
that they finally, of all the quarterbacks they could have
drafted these last ten years, Jalen Milroe is the one
they take in the third round and the potential of

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using him as a package player with five or six
ten but pays package of plays under Klint Kubiak, it's
a dimension they've never had.

Speaker 2 (01:10:10):
Well.

Speaker 4 (01:10:10):
To end things off as we do every every single
day with a second Keith Miller gets the final ones.

Speaker 8 (01:10:15):
Miller.

Speaker 5 (01:10:16):
Keith Miller may have been the first Schneider draft that
I have heard of, the guys that I've actually heard of,
the guys we took, and I don't know how that
makes me feel.

Speaker 7 (01:10:28):
I called it the.

Speaker 3 (01:10:28):
People's choice draft, Keith, because everyone universally across the country
even we're loving the Seahawks draft. Of course, it doesn't
mean anything until they actually play. But what was so
unusual about this draft, of course, is there were urgent,
glaring needs and they went right after them right away,
with Gray's Abel, with nick Emmon Worry at safety. They

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drafted two wide receivers after trading away dk Metcalff and
cutting Tyler Lockett, and they finally drafted a quarterback at
third one in sixteen years, among others. But that they
just did what you would think they needed to do.

Speaker 4 (01:11:02):
It made sense.

Speaker 3 (01:11:04):
It makes sense, and need doesn't always equate to drafting.
You draft the best player, but this year, the best
player coincided with need. That's something that John Schneider has
not had out from happen here and then we'll see
if this it was a new approach, especially in the
offensive line with grades abel as an interior guard first
interior offensive lineman drafted by the Seahawks since two thousand

(01:11:25):
and one. We'll see Ota is coming up in a
couple of weeks. Then the only veteran mini camp, Mandatory
Mini Camp is in the middle of June. Then they're
off for six weeks training camp against July. The NFL
schedule again coming out next week May fourteen. We'll find
out if the Seahawks are potentially going to London to
play the Jaguars or an outside chance they could go
to Dublin to play the Steelers.

Speaker 4 (01:11:46):
Wasn't that who they played when they went to London?

Speaker 6 (01:11:48):
They put the Raiders.

Speaker 4 (01:11:49):
Oh it was the Raiders. Okay, that's what it was.

Speaker 5 (01:11:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:11:51):
I was at that game and I just yeah, for
some reason, I thought it was the Drags.

Speaker 6 (01:11:56):
Loved it.

Speaker 3 (01:11:56):
We were so fun the outdoor press boxes and and
at the Alons Arena in Munich.

Speaker 6 (01:12:04):
Car just fantastic. Got next Dave Safti Maler.

Speaker 3 (01:12:07):
I think he might have a thing or two to say,
including about his first place Mariners. He joined US three
kJ R f M. Welcome back Greg, both filling in

(01:12:31):
for Ian Frost, pinchioning for a day Ian will.

Speaker 6 (01:12:33):
Be back tomorrow. Is that correct?

Speaker 7 (01:12:35):
You think so?

Speaker 4 (01:12:36):
That is correct?

Speaker 6 (01:12:36):
Thank you?

Speaker 3 (01:12:37):
Jess Man, joined by Dave Softy Mahler. The Immortal has
walked back into the studio. I know what, I know
what Ferness is doing. You know what Ferness is doing?
What do you think he's doing? Tell me if we're
all thinking.

Speaker 6 (01:12:48):
The same thing.

Speaker 4 (01:12:50):
I think we're all thinking golf course.

Speaker 6 (01:12:51):
No, is he not a Catholic partying his ass off? Man?
You kidding me?

Speaker 13 (01:12:59):
First America Pope in the history of the papacy, and
Furnessa's not here.

Speaker 6 (01:13:03):
I don't know. I don't think that's a coincidence. I
think it was pre planned before the pope was announced.
It was what the day off. See now you're ruining
the bit. You're ruining the bit from Chicago, good Lord Pope,
Holy Moly.

Speaker 7 (01:13:18):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 6 (01:13:19):
I mean, is anybody are you Catholic?

Speaker 7 (01:13:21):
Jest?

Speaker 6 (01:13:21):
You're not Catholic?

Speaker 10 (01:13:22):
Are you?

Speaker 6 (01:13:22):
I was raised you Catholic? Okay, I'm Jewish man, So
I'm surprised you brought it up.

Speaker 5 (01:13:27):
Well.

Speaker 6 (01:13:27):
I was intrigued by the whole thing.

Speaker 13 (01:13:29):
I was sitting there home watching the broadcast, and they
just I think it was ABC or somebody just had
a camera right on the drapes right above the whatever
they're what's that little area they called they're the little
the deck, the patio, whatever it is where the guy
comes out and does the whatever. Yeah, and I'm watching
the camera the whole time, and I'm thinking, my I've
been looking at this for like thirty minutes, right, It's like,

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what in the hell am I doing? So I actually
went upstairs to grab something and by the time I
came down and they had announced it that he was
going to be the new pope. So I don't know, man,
I uh, one day though, that was that was a
pretty amazing thing. I mean, whether you're a fan or not,
you know, you got to admit it. Say worldwide story, right,
maybe the most recognizable person on the planet I guess

(01:14:10):
would be on the list potentially, right, I mean top
three recognizable, most most recognizable person him the president. I
mean who would be number two or number three? Third
basement for the Mariners.

Speaker 7 (01:14:23):
I don't know.

Speaker 13 (01:14:24):
You tell me MESSI, yeah, there you go, soccer exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
your first place Mariners, just like you predicted. Yeah, well
how you predicted. I did say that when ninety three.
Technically you said the American still in basis. You said that,
I said Polanco would hit five hundred. I said, would
be like, yeah, Brooks Robinson down at third base. You

(01:14:46):
know what I U I tell you what, man, We're
going to talk about this today because Dick is back
and I'm trying to remember when he took off for vacation.

Speaker 6 (01:14:53):
I think like his February first.

Speaker 13 (01:14:57):
That was Greg Bell, by the way, Greg Bell, not
it came from Greg Bell. Dick's first day off was
last Tuesday of the twenty ninth. So what's their record, Jess,
can you look that up for me real quick? I
don't I haven't logged onto the Quickly my Heart desktop here.
I'm curious what their record is.

Speaker 4 (01:15:16):
Fourteen I know that.

Speaker 13 (01:15:17):
I'm saying their record since Fain left on vacation. That's
what I'm asking you for. I know what their record is.
I'm saying, if they go down the toilet when this
guy comes back, you gotta get rid of him, right,
I mean.

Speaker 6 (01:15:27):
Just go to the schedule. What the hell's their record
since last Tuesday the twenty nine account?

Speaker 3 (01:15:31):
Now you put it on live Not that hard, man,
It's not that and there's compassions understanding, and then there's
Dave Softy mollit.

Speaker 6 (01:15:40):
Five and two since Fame was out, Okay, not exactly.
That's pretty good though. Man, well look if they go
two and five in the next seven games, he's out
of here. Yeah, we're gonna We're gonna send him back
on the road. All right.

Speaker 3 (01:15:50):
About the Blue Jays, By the way, we were talking
about this, this is the first time I can remember
the Blue Jay's not coming in the middle of summer,
and the Canadians aren't coming down because they don't even
know baseball seasons started yet, right, Pucks are still going on.

Speaker 6 (01:16:01):
That's right. And they're boycotting the country too. They're not
traveling as much.

Speaker 5 (01:16:05):
I was.

Speaker 13 (01:16:06):
Jimmy's the Hotel Silver Cloud, they're way down on their
inventory because the knuckle heads are not traveling down here
for the series this weekend.

Speaker 3 (01:16:13):
So Sturday Sunday for those who don't know. Yeah, Blue
Jays and annual invasion is now in May this year,
that's right.

Speaker 7 (01:16:18):
But it's on a weekend.

Speaker 6 (01:16:20):
It's always on a weekend, which pisses me off.

Speaker 13 (01:16:22):
How about you making a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday in the
middle of April and just be done with.

Speaker 6 (01:16:26):
Others still want to draw, all right, they still want
some people they well they do.

Speaker 13 (01:16:30):
But you know what, damn it, this drives me freaking
nuts how they just completely almost embrace this thing. Like
I would love to hear John Stanton, Chris Larson, somebody
come out and say, you know what, this makes us
sick to see all these Blue Jay fans in the building,
Like didn't Schneider and McDonald address that the amount of
opposing fans that came into lim and Field, and how

(01:16:53):
it was disturbing for them to see that.

Speaker 3 (01:16:55):
The really can't do tons because I sold those tickets
to bropus But they acknowledged it.

Speaker 6 (01:17:01):
Yes, this ownership has not even acknowledged this. Instead, they
put Blue Jays jerseys in the front.

Speaker 13 (01:17:06):
Right, I mean, come on, guys, so yeah, I mean,
you know, things are going pretty good right now for
the baseball team, so you don't want to be too
much of a party pooper, but let me ask you,
this stuff just drives me freaking banana.

Speaker 3 (01:17:17):
Let me ask you this, Well, you're enjoying the first
place manners, how much of you thinking they were ten
games up in June last year?

Speaker 6 (01:17:23):
How much how much much? Not at all?

Speaker 13 (01:17:25):
No, I thought, I mean last year was no, because
last year was a complete aberration. I mean, your ten
games up in June, you're supposed to make the playoffs.
End of story, like they became what Jason Stark was
on your show, Jess said, the first team in the.

Speaker 6 (01:17:37):
Wild card era. Although push on that because I.

Speaker 13 (01:17:40):
Think he's wrong because the Angels blew a ten game
lead too in ninety five in the wild card era.
Oh yeah, okay, so whether it's the first or the
second team really is kind of beside the point. It's
either once or twice in thirty years that a team
had a ten game lead and did not make the playoffs.
So if what you're getting at is am I tempering
my enthusiasm him for the baseball team because they had

(01:18:02):
a ten game lead a year ago, No, because I
don't even know how good this team truly is. I mean, I,
like I said, I was pretty optimistic over the off
season that they'd be in the race because the division
is terrible. I was irritated, still am irritated about the
lack of movement over the off season. You know, the
Polonko thing on its own was fine, but don't make
that the only thing you do, and that was the
only thing that they did. And so far they're okay.

(01:18:24):
But you know, I don't know if you guys have noticed,
but Polanco's starting to back off a little bit. He's
hitting two hundred with a six h five ohps the
last week. He's starting to kind of come back down
to earth a little bit hidden from the other side
of the plate.

Speaker 3 (01:18:35):
Now right, Yeah, no, I get that, So Williamson, I
don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:18:41):
Man.

Speaker 13 (01:18:41):
By the way, Jess, the Mariners are, they're not They're
not five and two, they're six and two May first
day off.

Speaker 6 (01:18:49):
Ye, they're playing pretty good without Dick. Man, Dick comes back.

Speaker 13 (01:18:54):
If these guys go down the toilet, we're gonna start
to go fund me and put them on a freaking
cruise and get him out of here until I October.

Speaker 6 (01:19:00):
So today, well, Dick is back today. Uh, we'll talk
with him obviously.

Speaker 13 (01:19:04):
Matt Ends is the current head coach at Fresno State
who was Gray's Abeles coach at North Dakota State for
four years.

Speaker 6 (01:19:09):
He'll join us at four o'clock on the radio.

Speaker 13 (01:19:11):
Kevin Collaboro will join us at five o'clock on the
radio show a little fun with audio as well.

Speaker 3 (01:19:15):
So you see he also had you too, Thank you.
He also Jalen Sundel, you could ask you about that.
I think he's going to be the next starting center
for the sea really, Dave Softie Next, I am Dave
Softye marrionin. Dick Fanner up next, Thanks for listening. It's
good to be back. Ian Finess to be back at
his normal spot tomorrow. Up next, Dick Dave Softie Maller
for Jessman McIntyre. Have a great day in ninety three

(01:19:37):
point three kJ R F M

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