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Speaker 1: The TV deal.

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Speaker 2: So he's over at the studio getting all dulled up

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Speaker 2: four o'clock. Pregame at three thirty. Big Al Kaniski will

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Speaker 2: and talk some baseball. But the chairman of your Seattle

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Speaker 2: picks times when things are going well to jump on

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Speaker 2: us right now from Jimmy's on First How are you man?

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Speaker 3: I'm I'm great, But I have to correct the record.

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Speaker 1: I've been here every year. I know you have been.

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Speaker 3: You have tortured me every year about.

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Speaker 2: Undeserved, deserve, fair, unfair? What do you think you tell me?

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Speaker 2: Critique us?

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Speaker 3: Go ahead, I'm not gonna critique the media. You guys

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Speaker 3: do your thing. We do our thing.

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Speaker 3: I just want to record to show I stand up

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Speaker 1: It every year. I love it. I love it.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot to be good, feel good about this yere.

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Speaker 1: Though, well, there certainly is a lot to feel good about.

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Speaker 2: There's always questions, and we appreciate you coming over to

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Speaker 2: answer as many of those questions as you can. But

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 2: I mean, you and I were talking off vi air

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Speaker 3: Well, first of all, it still hurts. Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 2: Well Marin or chairman John Stanton with us on the air,

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Speaker 3: Well, I probably put Naylor on that list too. I

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Speaker 3: But your question is how did we do I would

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Speaker 1: That's right, well.

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Speaker 2: I asked the question driving it here on my social

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Speaker 1: Is this the year? Over and over again? Why do

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Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe a little double dip with the Mariners and

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Speaker 3: I can't tell you how enthusiastic I am about the

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Speaker 3: You would say what I'm excited about playing four hours?

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Speaker 1: To see in his face when he said that, By

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Speaker 3: We grew up in an environment where you had these

440
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Speaker 3: cable packaging is most people had cable television or satellite

441
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Speaker 3: TV at home. We were able to get paid by

442
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Speaker 3: the regional sports networks and we had a contract that

443
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Speaker 3: ran out through twenty thirty for that. And that business,

444
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Speaker 3: which was run by someone else, failed, We took it

445
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Speaker 3: over and we tried to run it ourselves for a

446
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Speaker 3: couple of years, and I think our guys did a

447
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Speaker 3: great job of producing the games, but we couldn't get distribution.

448
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Speaker 1: You know, we.

449
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Speaker 3: Were limited by some agreements that we inherited, particularly with

450
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Speaker 3: the big cable television operators, as to how we could distribute.

451
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Speaker 3: So this year had agreed to partner with Major League Baseball,

452
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Speaker 3: and they had run four teams broadcast last year. They

453
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Speaker 3: were going to run six teams until about the first

454
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Speaker 3: of February, and then all of a sudden you have

455
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Speaker 3: the failure of a group that had I think it

456
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Speaker 3: was nine different teams broadcasts, and all of a sudden,

457
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Speaker 3: now instead of managing five or six teams, they're managing

458
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Speaker 3: fourteen teams. And they had to do distribution agreements with comcasts,

459
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Speaker 3: with Cox, with Charter, with Direct TV and others, and

460
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Speaker 3: you know, frankly, it just took him a while. So

461
00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:28,000
Speaker 3: there is a tendency. It's a we make comparisons sometimes

462
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Speaker 3: to the trade deadline that play teams trade players at

463
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Speaker 3: the last minute, and a lot of cable deals and

464
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Speaker 3: those kinds of things get done. To west Man, it

465
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Speaker 3: won't happen again. We have deals now that are in place.

466
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Speaker 3: I think the most important message, Softy is anyone who

467
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Speaker 3: was able to watch a Mariner game last year can

468
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Speaker 3: watch the game on basically the same distributor, not necessarily

469
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Speaker 3: the same channel, but the same distributor that they had

470
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Speaker 3: last year. And you know, for us, we have we

471
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Speaker 3: signed he was fifty thousand customers onto a fans onto

472
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Speaker 3: a streaming service that we ran last year with Root.

473
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Speaker 3: I think that number will be much bigger. You know,

474
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Speaker 3: people our age are still pretty much satisfied with cable television.

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Speaker 2: Yeah I'm a football guy now by the way, Okay,

476
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Speaker 2: well I ditched it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah enough, you're that much younger than me. I still

478
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Speaker 3: have cable.

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Speaker 1: So you know.

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Speaker 3: The dynamic is that all of the ways that people

481
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Speaker 3: consume media, consume content have changed, and we have to

482
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Speaker 3: be responsive to those. My number one goal is for

483
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Speaker 3: anyone who wants to be able to watch a Mariner's

484
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Speaker 3: game to be able to turn on whatever device they

485
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Speaker 3: use and be able to watch the game. Sure, and

486
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Speaker 3: I think we share that goal with Major League Baseball.

487
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Speaker 3: We call it reach. We think reach is as important

488
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Speaker 3: as any revenue for us because we want to build

489
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Speaker 3: fans and have the whole community excited about Major League

490
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Speaker 3: Baseball and Seattle Mariners Baseball.

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Speaker 2: Let me give you one more and then you'll get

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Speaker 2: out of here, I promise you, because I want to

493
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Speaker 2: give you a chance to address this before you go.

494
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Speaker 2: Because you mentioned the Kraken. You're spitting out their schedule

495
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Speaker 2: like you're the number one fan. You mentioned the NBA,

496
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Speaker 2: You mentioned the Seahawks. When people think about John Stanton

497
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Speaker 2: in the NBA, there's a comment that comes to mind

498
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Speaker 2: about a big house. Remember that back in the day,

499
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Speaker 2: maybe it was fair, maybe it was unfair. Give people

500
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Speaker 2: now your thoughts on how much this franchise will embrace

501
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Speaker 2: the return of the NBA and what kind of role

502
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Speaker 2: you guys can play and making that happen.

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Speaker 3: We would embrace the return of the NBA regardless of

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Speaker 3: what they do in terms of location. But you know,

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Speaker 3: I think that the folks at the Krack and have

506
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Speaker 3: the inside track. They've done a great job. We all

507
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Speaker 3: know that Climate Pledgerina is already outfitted to support NBA basketball,

508
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Speaker 3: and I would assume that one of the things that

509
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Speaker 3: league will look at is facilities, and that's a spectacular,

510
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Speaker 3: first class facility. They spend a lot of money up

511
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Speaker 3: grading it from the old Key Key Arena and the

512
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Speaker 3: you know, the arena that we were at least I

513
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Speaker 3: remember from the Seattle World's Fair in sixty two. And

514
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Speaker 3: you know that I think his first class. I have

515
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Speaker 3: no knowledge of what the group, the Hansoon Group is

516
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Speaker 3: doing with respect to bidding for this, but I would

517
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Speaker 3: expect that the I guess we call it the Holloway group,

518
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Speaker 3: the Sam's Sam one roof right, Yeah, with one roof

519
00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:33,679
Speaker 3: has the inside track, and you know I don't expect

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Speaker 3: to have to address that in any other way.

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Speaker 1: Well, let's go on a world series. Let's go when

522
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Speaker 1: all right, that's all I ask you. I don't ask much.

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Speaker 1: All that one was a world series.

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Speaker 3: It's always it's always good to see another way Woodridge Wolverine.

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Speaker 2: That's right, man, Hey, thanks for doing this, and let's

526
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Speaker 2: do it again soon. All right, let's do it maybe

527
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Speaker 2: a couple of times a year. You come by and

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Speaker 2: say helloon. Next time we'll have a cocktail lunch waiting

529
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Speaker 2: for you. How about during the playoffs?

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Speaker 1: Done? Fine?

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Speaker 2: Fine, fine, John Stanton with US Mariners chairman. All right, well,

532
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Speaker 2: a lot to talk about there. I know we're late.

533
00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:03,280
Speaker 2: I can see Jackson fuming in the studio back in Seattle.

534
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Speaker 2: You know what, Jackson, it's Ian show.

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Speaker 1: What the hell?

536
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Speaker 2: Will blow his clock to Kingdom? Come, we're gotta break.

537
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Speaker 2: Bill Kruger will join us at three. We got face

538
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Speaker 2: off at four o'clock with Tampa Bay and the crack

539
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Speaker 2: of coming at four right here on ninety three three KJRFM,

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Speaker 2: A comedy.

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Speaker 5: You Lose, You're Out Beatie's March Madness. Now back Jasati

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Speaker 5: and Dick on your home for college Basketball's shining Moment.

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Speaker 5: What Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ R FM.

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Speaker 1: All right, we're back at Jimmy's on first. Are you

545
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Speaker 1: here with us right now? Are you with us right now?

546
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Speaker 1: You're you?

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Speaker 2: You're on this show? Like I don't want to just

548
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Speaker 2: kick you out of here. I mean, Jackson's back in

549
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Speaker 2: the studio. Jackson needs his airtime. You need your airtime.

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Speaker 2: I don't you know what if you guys want to

551
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Speaker 2: do this, I don't need a new airtime at all

552
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Speaker 2: because Jackson. Listen, they got it. No, no, they got a

553
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Speaker 2: brand new cocktail menu here at Jimmy's. They got a

554
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Speaker 2: brand new menu launching here. I mean the lunch menu

555
00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:04,439
Speaker 2: is my favorite lunch menu of all time because it

556
00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:07,119
Speaker 2: includes a grilled cheese sandwich, a meatball sub, and a

557
00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 2: smashburger and a ruben sandwich.

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Speaker 1: Okay, here at Jimmy's on first. So we're hanging out live.

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Speaker 2: Ian's getting dalled up for his cracking broadcast applaying all

560
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:17,440
Speaker 2: his foundation make up the whole thing. So he's gonna

561
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Speaker 2: be obviously off the rest of the day. We're gonna

562
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Speaker 2: be hanging out until three twenty or so. Bill Kruger

563
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:24,520
Speaker 2: will join a three big al Kiniski will join us

564
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:27,600
Speaker 2: from Tampa Bay around three eighteen, three seventeen or so,

565
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Speaker 2: and we'll.

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Speaker 1: Talk some hockey. But I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I thought an interesting conversation with John Stanton,

568
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:34,880
Speaker 2: you know. Look, I mean, the guy was eight outs

569
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:37,320
Speaker 2: away from a freaking World Series, for God's sakes, and

570
00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:39,280
Speaker 2: went out. And I actually thought the team did a

571
00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:42,560
Speaker 2: pretty good job of improving the roster over the offseason.

572
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Speaker 2: I got a lot of questions about this team, but

573
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Speaker 2: I think everybody's got questions about him.

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Speaker 1: And there's gonna be some.

575
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Speaker 2: Kind of power drop, some kind of power step back,

576
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Speaker 2: if you will. Jackson from Cal Rowley, He's not gonna

577
00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:55,760
Speaker 2: hit sixty home runs again. No catcher ever did that

578
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Speaker 2: in baseball history. It's absurd to expected two years in

579
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Speaker 2: a row. The question is how much does he step

580
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Speaker 2: back to Josh Nageler that we saw in the final

581
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:06,280
Speaker 2: couple months of the year that was on pace for

582
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Speaker 2: you know, ninety stolen bases.

583
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Speaker 1: Are we gonna see that?

584
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Speaker 2: How much of an impact is SoSE Ferreer gonna make

585
00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:15,399
Speaker 2: in the bullpen? Brendan Donovan, who's played the majority of

586
00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:18,480
Speaker 2: his career at second is now playing third. How's that

587
00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:22,320
Speaker 2: gonna look? What's the leash on Cole Young at second base?

588
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:25,120
Speaker 2: I mean, the guy's been killing it, obviously, but how

589
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:26,879
Speaker 2: much do they you know, how much rope do they

590
00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:29,040
Speaker 2: give the guys? So I think for a team that's

591
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:30,960
Speaker 2: got a damn good roster, Jackson, there's a lot of

592
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Speaker 2: stuff to talk about.

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Speaker 4: There's a lot of question marks, and a lot of

594
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Speaker 4: it for me, I said a little bit this yesterday,

595
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Speaker 4: is the fact that I am very, very skeptical that

596
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Speaker 4: this team has gotten over the Toronto Yankees hump to

597
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Speaker 4: win the American League. But a lot of that is

598
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Speaker 4: protecting myself, and some of that also is fair, as

599
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Speaker 4: you just pointed out, expecting that all of these things

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Speaker 4: can happen, and especially I mean Stanton brought up to

601
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Speaker 4: the health of this team, that they are going to

602
00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 4: be much healthier than they were last year.

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Speaker 3: Soft year.

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Speaker 4: There's a lot there and a lot of fair things

605
00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 4: to make you say, yeah, I'm not sure if they

606
00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:08,160
Speaker 4: have taken the step to win the American League after

607
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:09,960
Speaker 4: a lot of things went right last year.

608
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Speaker 5: But listen, there's a lot of reasons to think that they.

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Speaker 1: Can do it.

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Speaker 4: And and it's one of those weird things where everybody

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Speaker 4: else around the nation is betting that the marriage are

612
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:21,000
Speaker 4: gonna win the American League. They are the odds on

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00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:25,479
Speaker 4: favorite everywhere, right, And I guess I'm trying not to

614
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Speaker 4: buy into that too much until I see it in

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Speaker 4: a couple months.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well, look, I mean there's always gonna be skepticism until

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Speaker 2: there's a reason not to be skeptical, right, And I

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Speaker 2: think one of the things about last year, and all

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Speaker 2: of us talked about this all year long, was the

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Speaker 2: opportunity that was presented by the American League that there

622
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Speaker 2: was no obvious runaway king of the Hill last year

623
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Speaker 2: in the AL. How much different is that gonna be?

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Speaker 2: What do the Yankees look like? What do the Guardians

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00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:54,400
Speaker 2: look like? To the Astros win eighty seven games?

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00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:54,640
Speaker 1: Again?

627
00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:57,320
Speaker 2: Do they bounce back and win ninety four ninety five?

628
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Speaker 2: So you had a window last year obvious We're winning

629
00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:03,160
Speaker 2: ninety games was good enough to win the West. I

630
00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:05,360
Speaker 2: think the goal here should be not just making the

631
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Speaker 2: World Series, but give yourself the easiest path possible on

632
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Speaker 2: the way to doing it. We're gonna break into a

633
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Speaker 2: little fun with audio. Bill Krueger joins at three Big

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Speaker 2: Al from Tampa Cracking Hockey at four, We're live a

635
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Speaker 2: Jimmy's Come on Buy and Sa Loo on ninety three

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Speaker 2: three KJRFM.

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Speaker 5: It's now time for softay in Dig's one with Audio.

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Speaker 6: Jimmy g Pawn Star, Jimmy mister Daroppolo.

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Speaker 5: Now let's have some fun with audio.

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Speaker 2: All right, boys and girls, We're back on a Thursday

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Speaker 2: after in an opening day. Coming up tonight, Tanner, Baby

642
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:39,360
Speaker 2: Logan Gilbert Game one of a.

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Speaker 1: Buck sixty two.

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Speaker 2: Baby, Here we go the March to October and the

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Speaker 2: World Series begins this afternoon and my friends at t

646
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Speaker 2: Mobile Park at seven to ten. Softy and Free in Furness,

647
00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:53,080
Speaker 2: getting all dolled up, getting the foundation laid, the makeup

648
00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:57,400
Speaker 2: applied for the Big Cracking TV broadcast Hockey three thirty

649
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Speaker 2: pre game four o'clock face off right here from Tampa

650
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:03,600
Speaker 2: but Bay on ninety three three KJRFM. Right now, though

651
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:07,240
Speaker 2: we do it every day on our afternoon show. Well

652
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 2: thing called fun with audio Slash. Hey did you hear that?

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00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:12,800
Speaker 2: Here's how it works, Hey, Jackson, did you happen to

654
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:13,680
Speaker 2: hear that what's Dave?

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Speaker 1: What's that Dick? We start, by the way. In the NBA.

656
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:21,120
Speaker 2: Gary Payton go out speaking with King five's Chris Eagan

657
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:24,800
Speaker 2: yesterday and talked about jersey retirements at Clement Pledge Arena

658
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Speaker 2: for old Sonic players.

659
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Speaker 1: When the NBA comes.

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Speaker 7: Back, if you thought about that day, number twenty goes

661
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Speaker 7: up into the rapter.

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Speaker 8: Most people are gonna be like, we can't wait till

663
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Speaker 8: Gary's get up there. That's fine, I get it. I

664
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Speaker 8: get that. I'm not worried about that. I'm worried about

665
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Speaker 8: Devla Shrimp, Sean Kemp, Sam Perkins, Xavier McDaniel.

666
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Speaker 1: I'm worried about them.

667
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Speaker 8: Nat is the only one who's got he is when

668
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Speaker 8: it comes back, we need a lot of other guys.

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Speaker 1: That shit.

670
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Speaker 8: You did it, and it would have been done by

671
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Speaker 8: now in eighteen years. But we're not worried about that.

672
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Speaker 8: I'm not worried about the number twenty going up there.

673
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Speaker 8: A lot of people are gonna probably be worried about

674
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Speaker 8: that day, and I've been waiting for that day. But

675
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Speaker 8: I want my guys to go in there first, and

676
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Speaker 8: that's that's why I wanted to both.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So Gary is the kind of guy where he

678
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Speaker 1: will hold them to that.

679
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Speaker 2: By the way, when they call him and say we

680
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Speaker 2: want it, we want to retire in your number, he'll say,

681
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Speaker 2: have you done forty, No, we'll do that first.

682
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Speaker 1: What about eleven, No, we'll do that first, Jackson.

683
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Speaker 2: My question to you is this, when they come back

684
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Speaker 2: yep one, ten, nineteen, twenty four, thirty two, forty three.

685
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Speaker 2: That's Gus Williams, Nate, Lanny Spencer, Fred Brown, Jack Sigma, yep.

686
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:32,960
Speaker 2: Do we want all six of those plus Blackburn to

687
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Speaker 2: be already hanging up in the rafters like they were

688
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Speaker 2: when they left eighteen years ago, or do we want

689
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Speaker 2: to do another ceremony and raise them all back up again.

690
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Speaker 4: See, I think you can do that in the first

691
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Speaker 4: game and sort of make it a nod to hey,

692
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Speaker 4: let's get the building back to how it was and

693
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Speaker 4: raise them like kind of in that first game, make

694
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Speaker 4: a big video presentation and say the CPA is great,

695
00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:00,760
Speaker 4: we love CBA, but let's take it back to how

696
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:03,480
Speaker 4: it should be and raise them all at once on

697
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:05,360
Speaker 4: night like like the crack of the game. The first

698
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:08,920
Speaker 4: game they raised thirty two and that was awesome. You

699
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Speaker 4: raised all of them in front of game one at

700
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Speaker 4: once at one time and then make a huge and

701
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Speaker 4: then seven. Yeah, exactly, and then throughout the year. I

702
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Speaker 4: thought you were about to ask me what's the first

703
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Speaker 4: number in addition to that, because sorry, Gary, it needs

704
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Speaker 4: to be twenty.

705
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Speaker 2: Well he might he might not say yes, honestly. I

706
00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:28,480
Speaker 2: mean he's a stubborn guy. Man, Gary is a stubborn

707
00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:31,240
Speaker 2: op and he might say I ain't doing it. He

708
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:34,520
Speaker 2: might wait until they do forty and eleven. And that's fine.

709
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Speaker 2: But I kind of like your idea of like setting

710
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Speaker 2: everything up the way it was before. Like what was

711
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:46,920
Speaker 2: the movie with Matthew McConaughey where they they were they

712
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:49,800
Speaker 2: they recreated his house on Earth.

713
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:51,760
Speaker 1: Interstellar?

714
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:54,520
Speaker 2: Remember that when they recreated that that?

715
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Speaker 1: Do that? Do that? Just recreate everything the way it was.

716
00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:02,920
Speaker 2: We all walked in there, nothing's there, and then they

717
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:06,880
Speaker 2: have a ceremony where everything gets recreated like Interstellar and

718
00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:10,759
Speaker 2: Matthew McConaughey's house on the space station and everything just

719
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:15,160
Speaker 2: goes up and it gets put back. Grin, it gets

720
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Speaker 2: put back where it was, right. Okay, yeah, well that's

721
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Speaker 2: what I do. All right, Welcome to three to seven.

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Speaker 4: Speaking of Red, do you do the red seats, like

723
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Speaker 4: had the red seats.

724
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Speaker 7: Why not?

725
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Speaker 2: Why not just put it back freaking put it back

726
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:33,440
Speaker 2: the way it was. I'm telling you, man, this has

727
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Speaker 2: the potential when they play their first game in October

728
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Speaker 2: of twenty eighth, Yeah, to just feel like the world's

729
00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:42,440
Speaker 2: longest offseason, right we go in there. Yeah, there's a

730
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Speaker 2: couple changes, but we're just gonna put it all back

731
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Speaker 2: the way it was.

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Speaker 1: All right, Hey, Jackson, she happened to hear that. What's that? Dick?

733
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Speaker 1: Stephen A.

734
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Speaker 2: Smith was talking about NBA expansion to Seattle in Vegas

735
00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:57,719
Speaker 2: on ESPN's First Take recently and seemed to suggest that Nashville, Tennessee,

736
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Speaker 2: might be a better city for the league to expand too.

737
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Speaker 6: I got to tell you something, Nashville is a growing city.

738
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Speaker 5: A lot of people love.

739
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Speaker 6: Nashville, Okay, and you know, obviously they they they're you know,

740
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:15,080
Speaker 6: they're they're a very successful city right now. They are

741
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Speaker 6: a thriving city. I'm certainly not getting on an advocating

742
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Speaker 6: that Memphis loses a team, because I don't want that

743
00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:23,320
Speaker 6: to happen to that city. But in the same breath,

744
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:26,640
Speaker 6: you know, you wonder about Nashville comparing that to Seattle

745
00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:30,520
Speaker 6: and wondering what kind of possibilities may present itself in

746
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:32,440
Speaker 6: that regard. I don't think that will happen.

747
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Speaker 1: Seams.

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Speaker 6: You're right on the money in terms of Seattle in

749
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Speaker 6: Las Vegas. But I have found myself thinking about Nashville.

750
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Speaker 1: Nashville.

751
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Speaker 2: I've heard I've never been there. Have you been there

752
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:45,560
Speaker 2: by the wayst Oh? Yes, you guys both have you?

753
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:47,400
Speaker 2: It's a great spot, it is.

754
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:50,320
Speaker 5: But like stephen A are you dumb?

755
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Speaker 1: Are you stupid?

756
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Speaker 3: Stephen A.

757
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Speaker 4: Smith comparing Nashville, Tennessee to Seattle, Washington and Las Vegas, Nevada?

758
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:03,879
Speaker 2: From a business perspective, it doesn't make any sense from

759
00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:06,520
Speaker 2: a player's partying and going to Are there.

760
00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:07,919
Speaker 1: Strip clubs there by the way? Yes?

761
00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:08,520
Speaker 3: Yes?

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00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:11,720
Speaker 1: Then the NBA go love it. Okay. If there's strip clubs,

763
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Speaker 1: the NBA love it.

764
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:14,960
Speaker 3: There's also a lot of drunk bachelor.

765
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Speaker 1: Then they'll love it. Okay, that's the point.

766
00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:22,839
Speaker 2: Look, it'll probably happen eventually, But Seattle and Vegas are

767
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:25,279
Speaker 2: up right now. And that was the cool thing about

768
00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:27,560
Speaker 2: yesterday is that hey, this isn't like hey, we are

769
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Speaker 2: thinking about expanding the two cities. Let the bidding begin

770
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:33,480
Speaker 2: from across the world. No, this is we are only

771
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:36,400
Speaker 2: talking to Seattle in Las Vegas, and that's where you

772
00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:38,360
Speaker 2: feel so good about this whole thing.

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Speaker 1: All we're gonna break.

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Speaker 2: Bill Krueger will join us next segment courtesy of the

775
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Speaker 2: Queen Anne Beer Hall, the Ox Haul down the street

776
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:49,160
Speaker 2: here as well, and then Big Al Kanishki from Tampa

777
00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:51,960
Speaker 2: Bay will join coming up about three fifteen or so

778
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Speaker 2: for Cracking Lightning on ninety three three KJRFL.

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Speaker 5: I'm for our weekly conversation with Bill Kruger, brought to

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Speaker 5: you by the brand new Occidental next to Lumanfield. On

781
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Speaker 5: Occidental Seattle's newest hot spot for sports fans, with massive

782
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Speaker 5: HD screens and a menu packed with Seattle's best smash

783
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Speaker 5: burger wings and the best local craft beers in town.

784
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:16,640
Speaker 5: Now with Bill Krueger. Here's Saftie and Dick all right

785
00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:17,040
Speaker 5: here he.

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Speaker 1: Is back again.

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Speaker 2: I am pleased to say that the folks at the

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Speaker 2: Queen Anne Beer Hall, the Occidental Hall, the Moss Bay

789
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Speaker 2: Hall in Kirkland have all met Bill Krueger's growing asking

790
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Speaker 2: price for a weekly segment on this radio station. We

791
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:36,120
Speaker 2: have fired fourteen people to make way for Bill's finances

792
00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:38,880
Speaker 2: and he's with us right now on the radio show again.

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Speaker 2: He will join us on Monday at five throughout the season,

794
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Speaker 2: but he's with us now on ninety three three KJRFM,

795
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Speaker 2: just four hours before opening day.

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Speaker 1: Billy, how are you, ma?

797
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:48,400
Speaker 7: I'm good.

798
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Speaker 1: Yeah.

799
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Speaker 7: You know, you keep adding halls to the to the equation.

800
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:53,760
Speaker 7: You have to get as together all those beer sales.

801
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:59,120
Speaker 7: Yeah for me, you know, I'm only here because Dave

802
00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:02,239
Speaker 7: maler Is, it's truly my agent and probably has a

803
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:03,320
Speaker 7: calling in that business.

804
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 2: Well, maybe when it's all sad and down, we can

805
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:07,680
Speaker 2: work together and make each other a couple of bucks

806
00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:10,160
Speaker 2: doing what I have no idea, But you know, John

807
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:13,719
Speaker 2: Stanton was just with us, you know. Obviously at about

808
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:15,160
Speaker 2: two o'clock we had him on the air for a

809
00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:17,760
Speaker 2: half an hour and asked him a couple of questions.

810
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:20,480
Speaker 2: He answered a couple of questions he wouldn't answer, you know, Billy.

811
00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:22,360
Speaker 2: I asked him if he's in favor of a salary

812
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:25,920
Speaker 2: cap in baseball, and that's one thing he would not answer, obviously.

813
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:28,480
Speaker 2: You know, he wouldn't answer if Randy Johnson's getting a

814
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:31,319
Speaker 2: statue down the road, because every player that's got their

815
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:33,880
Speaker 2: number retired so far and now has a statue.

816
00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:36,120
Speaker 1: So maybe Randy Johnson is next.

817
00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:39,160
Speaker 2: But I guess the view from the thirty five forty

818
00:38:39,239 --> 00:38:43,320
Speaker 2: thousand feet has his office, the ownership office, the people

819
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:47,040
Speaker 2: that provide the salary to build a winner. Are they

820
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:49,759
Speaker 2: doing enough for this franchise? And did they do enough

821
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:51,120
Speaker 2: over the off season in your.

822
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Speaker 7: Mind, Well, this is a very good team that doesn't

823
00:38:56,160 --> 00:38:58,440
Speaker 7: need a whole lot to be a great team. I mean,

824
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:01,080
Speaker 7: this team when you take Brian, when you take a

825
00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:04,280
Speaker 7: healthy Brian Wu and you turn them loose. In the playoffs,

826
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Speaker 7: the Mariners are playing the Dodgers, and oh, by the way,

827
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:09,360
Speaker 7: in my opinion, the way the Dodgers slapped it around

828
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:12,000
Speaker 7: against the Blue Jays, the blue Jays had them, they

829
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Speaker 7: wouldn't have gotten away with that with the Mariners. I'm

830
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:15,960
Speaker 7: telling you right now. But you know, there's a right

831
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:18,640
Speaker 7: of passage in baseball, right in a lot of sports.

832
00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:21,960
Speaker 7: You know, the great teams that win multiple championships may

833
00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:24,560
Speaker 7: not get there the first year. So I think this

834
00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:27,400
Speaker 7: is the coming out party for the Mariners. This is

835
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:29,560
Speaker 7: the year they are going to go to the World Series.

836
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Speaker 7: They added Naylor in a five year deal. They went

837
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:35,279
Speaker 7: and got Brendan Donovan, who's an all fields guy that

838
00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:37,920
Speaker 7: could lead off. Those are two great pickups for air

839
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Speaker 7: and the bullpen of second left hander. You've got five

840
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:43,759
Speaker 7: premium starters. Granted Bryce Miller is not ready to start

841
00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:47,759
Speaker 7: the season. Thrive five probably as good as anywhere in baseball.

842
00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:50,239
Speaker 7: This team can play the cold for first two and

843
00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:52,919
Speaker 7: a half months and win two, one, three to two,

844
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Speaker 7: and then turn it around and win some high scoring,

845
00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:58,680
Speaker 7: crooked number games. So it is a very good team.

846
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:02,440
Speaker 7: They've got young players in the offing. There's always room

847
00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:04,560
Speaker 7: with the deadline to make a move. I think. I

848
00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:07,279
Speaker 7: think management has got this team in a really good

849
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Speaker 7: place and they're gonna win ninety plus games for sure.

850
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Speaker 2: Well, this is a guy in Naylor because you mentioned

851
00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:15,560
Speaker 2: Josh that last year in the fifty four games he

852
00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:18,920
Speaker 2: played billy with the Mariners. If you translate that to

853
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:22,439
Speaker 2: over a buck sixty two, he's a sixty stolen base,

854
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:25,840
Speaker 2: one hundred RBI guy. I mean, I got a hard

855
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:29,760
Speaker 2: time imagining he does that in a buck fifty five

856
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:32,239
Speaker 2: or you know, over the course of a buck sixty two.

857
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:34,920
Speaker 2: I mean, that's the kind of production he put up

858
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Speaker 2: in two months for the Mariners last year, and I

859
00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:38,920
Speaker 2: got a hard time seeing that happening.

860
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Speaker 7: Well, I think the stolen base is obviously been watered

861
00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:48,440
Speaker 7: down pretty appreciably, and and Naylor's got in tremendous instincts.

862
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:52,320
Speaker 7: He anticipates, he reads pictures, he reads situations. You know,

863
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:55,960
Speaker 7: pictures are not watching runners. They just aren't. They aren't.

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Speaker 7: It's so interesting because the stolen base is easier, and

865
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Speaker 7: the pitchers are made been easier because I think they're

866
00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:04,600
Speaker 7: being told, hey, look, don't slide, step, don't do anything

867
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Speaker 7: that disrupts your ability to make a hit or swing

868
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Speaker 7: in this. And so those bases are there to be taken,

869
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Speaker 7: and he's going to take some. I don't think he's

870
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:15,719
Speaker 7: gonna steal that many. You know, he hit twenty and

871
00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:18,040
Speaker 7: drove in ninety two and hit three hundred and got

872
00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:20,279
Speaker 7: on base and the really high clipped and played some

873
00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 7: tremendous first base. This guy can play further off the

874
00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:25,920
Speaker 7: base than just about anybody I've ever seen play first

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Speaker 7: He's tremendous, and he brings a grit, a leadership quality

876
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:33,440
Speaker 7: that rubs off on other players in the team. So

877
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:36,840
Speaker 7: I don't know about thirty sixty, But he's going to

878
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:37,960
Speaker 7: be a really good player.

879
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:38,560
Speaker 1: Yeah.

880
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:40,600
Speaker 2: Well, there's only one thing about him I don't like,

881
00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:42,560
Speaker 2: by the way, Bill, and that's the fact that her

882
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:44,839
Speaker 2: first basement is five foot ten. You know, I'd rather

883
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:46,760
Speaker 2: have him be six foot one, to be totally honest

884
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:49,200
Speaker 2: with you, playing first base. That's the only thing that

885
00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:51,239
Speaker 2: bugs me about him. But there's going to be some

886
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:54,640
Speaker 2: kind of a power drop from cal Raley, right. I mean,

887
00:41:54,640 --> 00:41:56,960
Speaker 2: it took one hundred whatever years for a catcher to

888
00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:00,160
Speaker 2: hit sixty home runs. It's absurd to think it's going

889
00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:03,160
Speaker 2: to happen twice in two years. The question is how

890
00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:05,440
Speaker 2: big of a step back power wise, and how big

891
00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:09,759
Speaker 2: of a step forward average ops, strikeout wise? How much

892
00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:13,080
Speaker 2: of a more well rounded hitter can cal Rowley be

893
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:13,640
Speaker 2: this year?

894
00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:18,360
Speaker 7: Well, I think this guy leaves no stone unturned. He's

895
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:21,480
Speaker 7: he's he envisions himself as a great player, and you know,

896
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:24,440
Speaker 7: I don't think he had any thought that would manifest

897
00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:27,239
Speaker 7: into a sixty home run season and how the kind

898
00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:29,640
Speaker 7: of numbers that he popped up last year. But it's

899
00:42:29,719 --> 00:42:33,359
Speaker 7: clearly within his capability. He is a big boy, and

900
00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:36,000
Speaker 7: he's got a lot of extension and the other thing

901
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:39,799
Speaker 7: he's done is he almost slugged. He slugged like six'

902
00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:42,560
Speaker 7: eighty right. Handed you, know he was not a very

903
00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:44,439
Speaker 7: good right hand hit or two years ago and last

904
00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 7: year he became the equivalent of the is left HAND

905
00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:49,719
Speaker 7: i actually hit for a higher average in a higher.

906
00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:55,239
Speaker 7: Ops SO i think this. SURE i think he liked

907
00:42:55,239 --> 00:42:56,880
Speaker 7: to and he had a stretch of time where he

908
00:42:56,960 --> 00:42:59,719
Speaker 7: was pushing to. Eighty the idea that he could get

909
00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:02,160
Speaker 7: him two forty seven to two seventy, FIVE i mean

910
00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:05,239
Speaker 7: that would be. Unbelievable and even if his homers were

911
00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:08,120
Speaker 7: to drop into the forties and he still drove, in you,

912
00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:10,279
Speaker 7: know on undred and twenty runs and caught all the

913
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:13,960
Speaker 7: time and caught like he, did you, know that would

914
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:16,799
Speaker 7: be that would be. FANTASTIC i, think just this guy

915
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:20,640
Speaker 7: posting and playing and being the leader and being a

916
00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:24,960
Speaker 7: run producer and hopefully not getting caught up in some

917
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:28,319
Speaker 7: kind of well he's one off the pace from last,

918
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:30,799
Speaker 7: year well the three off the, pace you know that

919
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:33,160
Speaker 7: just you, know let's not let's not have him turn

920
00:43:33,239 --> 00:43:35,640
Speaker 7: Into Roger merris and watch his hair fall. OUT i,

921
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:38,120
Speaker 7: mean just let him be a great. Player sixty home

922
00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:41,319
Speaker 7: runs is it's only been. Done sorry if you don't like,

923
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:43,160
Speaker 7: this what three other? Times?

924
00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:43,680
Speaker 5: Right?

925
00:43:44,239 --> 00:43:44,600
Speaker 1: Oh By?

926
00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:47,799
Speaker 7: Yankees so you, know BECAUSE i discount the, others.

927
00:43:47,520 --> 00:43:48,480
Speaker 1: You know, THAT i know you.

928
00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:51,080
Speaker 7: Do but you know the other thing that really we've

929
00:43:51,120 --> 00:43:53,640
Speaker 7: really learned about, this and you, Know naylor has kind

930
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:56,200
Speaker 7: of hit it that he likes hitting A T Mobile.

931
00:43:56,239 --> 00:44:00,200
Speaker 7: Park the reason that we've gotten so negative on Tea

932
00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:02,719
Speaker 7: and granted it is a little colder in the early

933
00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:05,319
Speaker 7: part of the, season and at one point this park

934
00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:07,120
Speaker 7: was gigantic up the middle of the field and they

935
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:09,719
Speaker 7: brought that, In but this club has never had a

936
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:11,520
Speaker 7: guy that could really pull the ball into the seats

937
00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:13,880
Speaker 7: on a record. Basis if you think about, it he

938
00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:16,440
Speaker 7: kind of the bond is and go back To griffy

939
00:44:16,719 --> 00:44:20,040
Speaker 7: and that's about. It everything else there's. Nobody so all

940
00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:21,799
Speaker 7: of a, sudden we got a guy that can get

941
00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:24,600
Speaker 7: out in, front get off off you, know off the

942
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:27,200
Speaker 7: off speed a little, bit flick that breaking ball and

943
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:29,400
Speaker 7: hit it in the. Seats and while you can hit

944
00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:32,960
Speaker 7: homers AT T Mobile, park yeah you can if your left,

945
00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:35,680
Speaker 7: hand and it's about time we have left hand hitting

946
00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:38,840
Speaker 7: to take advantage of where home runs can go in the.

947
00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:42,600
Speaker 7: Ballpark your, Question, yeah there's going to be a drop

948
00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:46,480
Speaker 7: off there from Him colo's. Hovers but you can't get

949
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:49,120
Speaker 7: caught up in just the. Total if you hit more

950
00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:52,680
Speaker 7: doubles Like riga should hit more, doubles Like donovan should

951
00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:54,520
Speaker 7: hit a lot of, doubles Like nahlers should hit a

952
00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:58,080
Speaker 7: lot of. Doubles hit more. DOUBLES i love doubles because

953
00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:00,960
Speaker 7: the stress never goes off the. Pitcher i'm a big

954
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:04,800
Speaker 7: believer in. That so, slugging, yeah home, runs then, okay

955
00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:06,799
Speaker 7: you don't have to hit two hundred and. Thirty they've

956
00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:08,359
Speaker 7: gonna hit two hundred. Plus that'll be a nice.

957
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:08,839
Speaker 1: Right.

958
00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:11,080
Speaker 2: Well Bill krueger is with us on the radio. SHOW

959
00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:12,520
Speaker 2: i totally agree with. That by the, WAY i remember

960
00:45:12,560 --> 00:45:15,520
Speaker 2: with the day when The mariners Traded Harry ford For Jose.

961
00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:18,920
Speaker 2: Ferrer the reaction, was that's all we got For Harry

962
00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:21,600
Speaker 2: ford was a. Reliever are we going to be looking

963
00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:26,000
Speaker 2: at this trade in Mid august Early september saying Thank

964
00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:28,319
Speaker 2: god The mariner's Got Jose ferrer in their.

965
00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:33,400
Speaker 7: BULLPEN i think this guy is you, know you're just

966
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:35,640
Speaker 7: seeing the tip of the. Iceberg he's a, big strong

967
00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:39,480
Speaker 7: guy to pitch for a horrendous. Team he's he's got

968
00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:41,640
Speaker 7: a great, arm but he's kind of a one trick.

969
00:45:41,719 --> 00:45:44,319
Speaker 7: Phony AND i think The mariners are really. Good it's

970
00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:47,359
Speaker 7: sorting out where the strength. Lies AND i think you're

971
00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:50,160
Speaker 7: gonna see this guy throw more, sliders AND i think

972
00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:54,320
Speaker 7: you're gonna see him round out and be a better

973
00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:56,600
Speaker 7: version of. Himself you, know spire game here and he

974
00:45:56,680 --> 00:45:59,040
Speaker 7: was on the. Scrap he'd getting one cup of coffee

975
00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:01,759
Speaker 7: Every september for like three years straight With Kansas. City right,

976
00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:04,239
Speaker 7: now now he's one of the premium left handers in the.

977
00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:07,880
Speaker 7: League this club has a way of making pitchers that

978
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:10,000
Speaker 7: haven't done it yet where you do it finding their.

979
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:13,000
Speaker 7: Potential so this guy's got a big, arm and they

980
00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:15,799
Speaker 7: sorely needed the second left hand in the. BULLPEN i mean.

981
00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:19,120
Speaker 7: Inspire you, know he's he would be he'd be like

982
00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:21,799
Speaker 7: he'd need an, oxygen you, know to get through the,

983
00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:23,640
Speaker 7: season to put up With he's the only left. Hand you,

984
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:25,040
Speaker 7: KNOW i got no left hand in the, rotation at

985
00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:28,520
Speaker 7: least not Until Kate anderson shows. Up so critical. Pickup

986
00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:31,160
Speaker 7: and the thing you got to realize is that you,

987
00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:33,480
Speaker 7: know that's that's that's where the market was what's the

988
00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:35,759
Speaker 7: thing they needed the, Most and he probably could have

989
00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:39,040
Speaker 7: said to a. Cornerback couldn't get that For Harry. Ford

990
00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:41,680
Speaker 7: so they wanted to get a left handed. Reliever so you,

991
00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:43,640
Speaker 7: go we got WHAT i think they thought was the best.

992
00:46:43,640 --> 00:46:46,520
Speaker 2: Guy, yeah who was the who was The putts they

993
00:46:46,560 --> 00:46:49,440
Speaker 2: got at the deadline from the pirates or? Somebody who

994
00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:50,640
Speaker 2: was the guy we picked up last?

995
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:54,120
Speaker 1: Year what was his? Name you, Remember? Billy who is

996
00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:54,759
Speaker 1: the guy we? Got?

997
00:46:55,080 --> 00:46:59,080
Speaker 2: Ferguson, Yeah Turt, Ferguson, Yes, Ferguson, Yeah. Ferguson and he

998
00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:01,480
Speaker 2: ended up being a big fat. Zero SO i, MEAN

999
00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:06,799
Speaker 2: I i Appreciate, Jerry LIKE i always Think, bill my

1000
00:47:06,920 --> 00:47:09,320
Speaker 2: philosophy on this is simple when it comes to drafting

1001
00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:12,359
Speaker 2: and it comes to. Trades it's the philosophy, like we

1002
00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:15,319
Speaker 2: need a, reliever we got to draft a defensive.

1003
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:16,000
Speaker 1: End draft of.

1004
00:47:16,040 --> 00:47:18,000
Speaker 2: Wide you guys can figure out if we got the

1005
00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:20,239
Speaker 2: right guy or, not and that will be you, know

1006
00:47:20,640 --> 00:47:24,480
Speaker 2: obviously answered over. Time but they, tried and they went

1007
00:47:24,520 --> 00:47:26,879
Speaker 2: out and Got Caleb. Ferguson it just didn't work. Out,

1008
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:29,799
Speaker 2: so my, god if they had A Jose ferrera on

1009
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:32,480
Speaker 2: this baseball team a year, ago who knows where they

1010
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:34,520
Speaker 2: would have. Been But Bill krueger is with us on

1011
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:36,319
Speaker 2: the radio. Show and you, know another big thing we're

1012
00:47:36,320 --> 00:47:38,520
Speaker 2: gonna keep an eye. On you mentioned the countdown With

1013
00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:40,560
Speaker 2: Cal rowley and all that he's either the pace and

1014
00:47:40,600 --> 00:47:44,560
Speaker 2: all that stuff Is Julio. Rodriguez If julio gets off

1015
00:47:44,600 --> 00:47:47,480
Speaker 2: to a slow start this series and then next week

1016
00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:49,960
Speaker 2: against The, yankees a lot of people are gonna be

1017
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:51,960
Speaker 2: running around, going, well here we go. Again the guy's

1018
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:54,480
Speaker 2: off to a slow start in uh in Late march

1019
00:47:54,800 --> 00:47:58,040
Speaker 2: and Early. April how important for him do you think

1020
00:47:58,080 --> 00:47:59,480
Speaker 2: these first couple of weeks.

1021
00:47:59,239 --> 00:48:02,920
Speaker 7: Are you, KNOW i think he's got a big picture

1022
00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:04,759
Speaker 7: in the long runway of. HIMSELF i don't think he

1023
00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:06,920
Speaker 7: gets too caught up in. IT i think everybody else.

1024
00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:12,719
Speaker 7: DOES i think what's important is to see, him you,

1025
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:16,200
Speaker 7: know from the standpoint of his timing and the way

1026
00:48:16,239 --> 00:48:18,400
Speaker 7: he's hailing pitches like he did the second. Half you,

1027
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:20,759
Speaker 7: know he flatted his bat a little. Bit he was

1028
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:24,360
Speaker 7: on the, fastball and by being on the, fastball everything

1029
00:48:24,360 --> 00:48:28,160
Speaker 7: else falls into place for. Him so and he has

1030
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:31,440
Speaker 7: a way to steer around deep slumps because he can

1031
00:48:31,520 --> 00:48:33,120
Speaker 7: run so. GOOD i, mean he can hit that three

1032
00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:35,839
Speaker 7: hopper to the shortstop and get a base Hin so

1033
00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:39,000
Speaker 7: he's still got that in his. Bag he'd like to

1034
00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:41,600
Speaker 7: see him start. Quicker that would be, Great.

1035
00:48:41,400 --> 00:48:41,759
Speaker 3: It would be.

1036
00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:44,799
Speaker 7: Fantastic but it's a long it's a long, season and

1037
00:48:44,920 --> 00:48:47,640
Speaker 7: obviously what happens the second half and beyond is more

1038
00:48:47,680 --> 00:48:49,920
Speaker 7: important than what happens in the first. Half i'm not

1039
00:48:50,120 --> 00:48:54,759
Speaker 7: trying to to send abysmal start from From. Julil i'm

1040
00:48:54,800 --> 00:48:57,799
Speaker 7: just saying that it's not like life or. Death BUT

1041
00:48:57,880 --> 00:49:00,480
Speaker 7: i think he saw What cal did last, year And

1042
00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:03,719
Speaker 7: cal became the centerpiece of this. Team AND i think

1043
00:49:03,840 --> 00:49:06,200
Speaker 7: in his own mind he's the centerpiece of this. Team

1044
00:49:06,640 --> 00:49:09,560
Speaker 7: and that's. Good that's that's healthy. Competition let's see this

1045
00:49:09,600 --> 00:49:12,359
Speaker 7: guy come out and Say i'm the centerpiece of this. Team.

1046
00:49:12,560 --> 00:49:16,759
Speaker 7: Right he can do it, all AND i just want

1047
00:49:16,800 --> 00:49:18,960
Speaker 7: to see him, just you, know be a little cleaner,

1048
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:23,279
Speaker 7: mechanically get on time on the, fastball so don't get

1049
00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:26,160
Speaker 7: so long and so much for. Playing and he flat

1050
00:49:26,160 --> 00:49:27,680
Speaker 7: in his bat last year a little. BIT i saw,

1051
00:49:27,719 --> 00:49:29,359
Speaker 7: it and he was quicker to the, ball and then

1052
00:49:29,360 --> 00:49:31,320
Speaker 7: he could see the, fastball and he could see the breaking.

1053
00:49:31,360 --> 00:49:34,400
Speaker 7: Ball he's on time and then he. Is he's trouble

1054
00:49:34,560 --> 00:49:36,759
Speaker 7: because he's got all kinds of power to right. Center

1055
00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:38,920
Speaker 7: it's your. Nightmare. RIGHT a guy that can run with,

1056
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:40,960
Speaker 7: power can hit the ball out of the ballpark the right.

1057
00:49:41,040 --> 00:49:43,799
Speaker 7: Center that's the toughest guy in the world to try

1058
00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:47,560
Speaker 7: to get out if you're you're a. Pitcher so that's

1059
00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:50,160
Speaker 7: what you hope and dream. For he's a really good.

1060
00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:52,440
Speaker 7: Player can he be a great? PLAYER a really good

1061
00:49:52,440 --> 00:49:55,279
Speaker 7: player still makes his team, good, right he catches everything in,

1062
00:49:55,360 --> 00:49:57,560
Speaker 7: center but a really great, player oh my, gosh and

1063
00:49:57,600 --> 00:49:59,160
Speaker 7: he could be. That it's all.

1064
00:49:59,200 --> 00:50:02,040
Speaker 2: There, hey before you, go we got like thirty seconds

1065
00:50:02,040 --> 00:50:04,360
Speaker 2: because you've got to get the. Crack in, hockey ninety.

1066
00:50:04,400 --> 00:50:07,279
Speaker 2: Games ninety was enough to win The west last. Year

1067
00:50:07,680 --> 00:50:08,520
Speaker 2: will it be enough this?

1068
00:50:08,600 --> 00:50:12,160
Speaker 7: Year you, know it's a really good question because everybody

1069
00:50:12,239 --> 00:50:14,240
Speaker 7: kind of looks at the vision and, says, oh it's watered.

1070
00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:17,160
Speaker 7: Down you, know it's, terrible And houston's done and the

1071
00:50:17,239 --> 00:50:19,719
Speaker 7: strangers can never figure it. Out i'll tell you. WHAT

1072
00:50:20,719 --> 00:50:23,239
Speaker 7: i kind of look at The astros and they Replaced

1073
00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:29,520
Speaker 7: Slamber balbez and if The Big donkey is, Back albarez he's,

1074
00:50:29,600 --> 00:50:33,080
Speaker 7: back and parades is. BACK i, MEAN i think The

1075
00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:34,520
Speaker 7: astros are going to be a little better than your,

1076
00:50:34,520 --> 00:50:36,880
Speaker 7: think AND i Think texas will always be not as

1077
00:50:36,960 --> 00:50:39,239
Speaker 7: good as you, think even though they've kind of added

1078
00:50:39,239 --> 00:50:41,520
Speaker 7: to their. Pitching The a's are going to, hit but

1079
00:50:41,600 --> 00:50:43,840
Speaker 7: they can't. Pitch soon as it gets warm, there they'll be.

1080
00:50:43,880 --> 00:50:46,360
Speaker 7: Done and The angels are going to chase one hundred plus.

1081
00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:48,960
Speaker 7: Loss SO i think the marriage can win over. Ninety

1082
00:50:49,840 --> 00:50:51,560
Speaker 7: we'll get him in the. PLAYOFFS i think they should

1083
00:50:51,560 --> 00:50:54,640
Speaker 7: win the. Division AND i think you, know you always

1084
00:50:54,680 --> 00:50:56,120
Speaker 7: have to say to, yourself well you need a little

1085
00:50:56,160 --> 00:50:58,160
Speaker 7: bit more than. NIGHT i think that's always the good

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Speaker 7: way to think about.

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Speaker 1: It, yeah no, question And, bill great. Stuff thrill that

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Speaker 1: you're back on the air.

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Speaker 2: TODAY i feel sorry for the people that were fired

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Speaker 2: to meet your financial, demands but screw. Them we are

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Speaker 2: glad to have you back on the air and we

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Speaker 2: will talk about the opening series On monday at five.

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Speaker 2: O'clock all courtesy of the local beer, Halls Occidental Moss

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Speaker 2: bay And Queen.

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Speaker 1: Anne you're the best and we'll talk On.

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Speaker 7: Monday pal all, Right, dave thanks, much