Softy & Dick 3-27 Hour 1: Mariners Outlook, Julio, Bryce Miller

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Where go Opening night tonight for the Mariners and A's
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coming up. I almost said the Oakland A's, by the way,
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that'd be incorrect. I might even just call him the
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Oakland A's just to piss him off.
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By the way, Well, piss them off, only piss ownership off.
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I wouldn't piss anybody else. I think anybody would care.
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I think it'd piss off the ownership for sure.
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But I think if we can take a shot at
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the A's ownership for doing what they did, they did
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those people thirty.
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Down there, man, there's no question about that.
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Well, here we are, we're live across the street from
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Jimmy's getting ready for the game coming up at seven
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to ten. Uh, We're gonna have a lot of people
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on the radio show here from a lot of people.
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twenty talking to NFL Talking to NFL Draft and you know,
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every opening day, guys, there's like one kind of major storyline.
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And I don't know what you guys think the major
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storyline is right now.
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Maybe it's just predictions for the season.
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Maybe it's the optimism, the skepticism, the pessive pessimism, whatever
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is you want to be a part of, you know.
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Just pick one.
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I'm kind of optimistic right now because it's opening night
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and I'm fired up for baseball. Cal Raley though we
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heard the news yesterday that cal Raley. Uh, you guys
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put the dots together for me, all right, you guys
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make the connection here, Jackson, you be a part of
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this as well. So cal Raley gets a new contract
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for one hundred million dollars. On Tuesday and Wednesday, all
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of a sudden, he's at the workout and says, you
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know what, I.
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Got to go home. I got food poisoning. Are you
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a kidding me?
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The guy went out and had fun top Tuesday night,
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top shelf evenings, top shelf the guy.
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The guy shut down a bar somewhere, which is what
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he's supposed to do when he signs one hundred plus
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million dollars deal. Guy signs a contract. Jackson all of
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a sudden, he wakes seven old guys. But by the way,
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I got food poisoning.
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I think I think we just may have reached the
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wrong word. I mean, if he's partying, if he's having
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a big night and he wasn't food poisoning, maybe he
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was just I got after a little bit too much
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celebrating and heelebrating.
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Abut if the Mariners just admitted in a press release
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Cayl Rowley got after hammer, He's not feeling well.
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He's going home. His blood alcohol level was in the nines.
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But that would be good.
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You know a tweet that says cal Raley got hammered,
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but guess what, He's gonna hammer the baseball for the
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next six months.
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That's funny, it's creative. But they would never do that.
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I'd never do it the fifty four They never do
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no way.
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Well, anyway, he is playing tonight, He's in the lineup,
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pitting third behind the plate. Logan Gilbert's on the mound.
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Castillo goes tomorrow, Bryce Miller Saturday, and then Brian who
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will go on Sunday. So let's just go round the room, right,
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Let's just share some thoughts. We get some Texas four nine,
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four to five one for textimonials as well, on on
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just kind of what we think we're looking at this year.
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You know, we got a season where on the surface,
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the Mariners, You if you just looked at the names,
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if you looked at the name Randy A. Rosarine, if
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you looked at the name JP Crawford, Julio Rodriguez, cal Rawley, Logan, Gilbert,
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Luis Castillo, Bryce Miller, Brian Wu, Matt Brash, Anthony Munoz,
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Gregory sam Tochi, thinking there's some good.
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Talent, there's some talent on this team.
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Yeah, I'm just hearing like crickets from people when it
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comes to excitement for this baseball team.
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Why is that?
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Jackson, Well, for me, it's just because I think the
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team absolutely dropped the ball last year when we had
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such a lead and it looked like, oh my gosh,
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twenty twenty two wasn't just an aberration. We're gonna keep
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this thing rolling, and look at twenty twenty three, it's
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just a one year off. And then they just fell apart.
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And then after falling apart, they didn't even build back
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the boat. They basically just said, Okay, we're gonna try
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to sail the ocean on a piece of wood. And yes,
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you give cal Rawley an extension. Yes, I guess you
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bring back Jorge Polonko on the seven plus million dollar deal.
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But at the end of the day, it still is
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not a rebuilt boat. And this SS Mariner is not
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going to sail the High Season to the playoffs unless
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every single player at thinks stays healthy.
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This SS Mariner is not going to sail the High
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Seas to the playoffs everybody stays healthy.
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Well, everybody doesn't need to stay healthy because the team
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only needs to win eighty seven games to make the playoffs.
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Said every I say, all right, well I mean this.
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I think you're giving way too much credit to the
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rest of the teams in this division, is what you're
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doing there, because you're assuming then that you know some
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team's gonna win ninety two, ninety three, ninety four.
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By the way, just time I was second, we should
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be recording this, Jackson, I am, I was back when
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the season's over, Okay, yeah, I think, I mean it's.
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When the Rangers won one hundred and five games.
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You can still finished at some point in this segment,
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also have to say exactly how this season ends and numbers,
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wins and all that.
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Jackson's point, though, that I totally agree with, is why
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why the skepticism?
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If there's been one hundred Mariner stories.
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Since June the eighteenth, when the ten game lead happened, right,
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there's been one hundred Mariner stories, ninety nine of them
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have been negative and one has been positive, and that's
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cal Raad, right, And so I mean.
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When the streaming thing, but I get your how is that?
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I mean that we got rid of Hanneger. We're using
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that as a positive for the season.
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I mean, I think a.
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Streaming their games.
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I think there's people that did I mean, Jackson, you're
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on social media as much as I am.
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I mean that was that was looked at it as
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a good thing for the team.
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I'm not saying it's gonna have any effect on their
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bottom line if that's.
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What your point is.
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I told my point is if that's the second or
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third best story since Sween the eighteen, then that tells
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you all you need to see, of course, But however,
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I do think that if there's one time to be optimistic,
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it is right now.
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It is opening day.
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And what I my number one storyline is did the
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struggles offensively last year primarily occur because we had a
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bad manager with a bad plan and a bad hitting coach.
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And we got it fixed in the last six weeks
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of the season with Dan Wilson Edgar Martinez? Or did
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we have a bad offense because of unfixable things? And
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the two unfixable things are guys that just can't hit anymore,
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like hojor Planco.
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Maybe he just can't hit anymore.
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Maybe Rowdy tell Is isn't any good, right, I mean,
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maybe Donovan Solano is terrible. Maybe all these guys that
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they they just can't hit. And the fact that this
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ballpark is such that it is so far into most
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of these guys' heads that there is nothing that they
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can do to fix it over the first three months
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of the season. And that's what we have to figure out.
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We got to figure out can they be a requisite
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offense over the first three months of the season or
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are we just going to be mired in hit two
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fifteen with the six ninety oh ps until July first.
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Well, but let me just say this that I get
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all that, what do you think is gonna happen?
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Though?
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I think those questions are kind of like, all right,
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we're waiting to see.
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Well, you ask for the storyline. I'm giving the story.
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That's my story. That's what I'm looking for. Right What
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I think is gonna happen is I think there is
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going to be a marginal improvement in the offense. I
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think Edgar Kevin Seizer, Dan Wilson will give them a
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marginal improvement. I think we will see much less of
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just the shut your eyes, swing for the fences, swinging
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at bad balls, not taking not taking balls, not walking.
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I think we will see we will see much less
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of that this year, which should incrementally improve their runs
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per game. And that's really all you need with this team. Yeah,
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you just need an incremental improvement in runs per game.
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Give me one more, give me zero point seventy five
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more run per game this year than last year, and
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that's gonna equal five or six more wins, and that's
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gonna equal the playoffs.
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Well, I think they are gonna make the playoffs. I
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think they're gonna push ninety, if not more than ninety wins.
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I think everything comes together this year. I'm very optimistic
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right now about this baseball team. And I'll give you
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the exact reason why. It's the exact reason why I
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kept hanging on and hanging on and hanging on all
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last year, you know me, right, I was like the
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last man standing with the offense.
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And finally I was like, all right, you guys are right.
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They suck and I had to jump off the wagon
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at the end.
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And you know, they came close to making the playoffs,
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but obviously it wasn't enough. I just think the idea
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that Julio and JP and Polanco and Garver and all
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these guys a Rose Arena whatever, that they're all gonna
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stink again collectively.
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I'm just not buying it.
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I'm just playing the numbers game, guys, and I just
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think that this will sort itself out.
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Now.
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Not everyone's going to bounce back, and there might be
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some like hell, Cal may have a down year, right,
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I mean, Luke Rayley had a nine hundred oh ps
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at Teamobile Park last year. He may bounce. He may
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come back from that right a little bit these seasons.
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But he should balance it out with a better Potentially
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the pitching staff, you know, might come back a little bit,
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and they're gonna get hurt, and they're they're already hurt,
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you know, Kirby is starting the year on the fifteen day,
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il I mean, Brash obviously coming off Tommy John surgery,
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so he's not even close to being able to pitch yet.
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He may not be here for three or four weeks.
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But I just think that eventually the numbers will sort
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themselves out and good players will become good players again.
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And look, I mean, I just think that the talent
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is there. The talent is there. I mean that's why
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last year. You might remember that little video rant that
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I had on social media.
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I think it was during the Tigers series.
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You and I were at Husky Stadium for a little
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thing that Jed Fish was doing, and I was like,
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why is Scott Service here?
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Like?
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What are we doing? Remember that?
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Remember that whole ran about to Poto and Jerry Depoto
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has got to look at himself in the eye. Does
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he want to really hitch his wagon to Scott's Service?
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Really?
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Is he really that tied into Scott's Service? To Scott's
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Service owe him something fierce where he just can't fire
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the guy. I mean, he's been here for ten years,
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he's in his fifties. Is he really gonna want to
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go down on the same ship as Scott's service, and
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he fired I mean, like you said, he fired him,
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he fired him too late. So I just think that
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in the end, the reason why I felt that way
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is because I saw a team that was underperforming.
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And look, I'm upset.
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I'm not happy with the lack of additions they made
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over the offseason, but I still think that the players
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you had a year ago were better than the team performed.
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The collective was better, all right, some of the parts
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did not equal what they should have equalled, which was
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a playoff team. You lead the damn league in the
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RA you make the playoffs. I mean, it's the first
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time since like two thousand and eight or whatever where
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a team led the American League in the ERA and
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missed the postseason.
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That was the Blue Jays lost like eighty.
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Five or ninety games that year for whatever it's DoD reason,
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maybe because they played in the Hitters Park. I got
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no idea, but this pitching staff is good enough to
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be top three or four in the league.
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The offense is going to get better.
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I do have some concerns, but I do think overall,
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my optimism meter is very high right now with this team,
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and part of it is because of what you said.
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I think the division's wide open, absolutely wide open. There's
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no great team. Now, there may be three really good teams,
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and one of them may miss the playoffs. By the way, Rangers,
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Astros and Mariners, maybe a dogfight with those three for
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the division champions.
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You'd agree, if there's really good teams, they're all making
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the playoffs, right, right, really.
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Good teams, one of them could miss the playoffs. But
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when there's three.
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Wildcards, I mean, right, but if you're really good, you're probably.
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Making But the American League East is probably gonna have
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two teams make the postseason. Baltimore and the Yankees are
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playoff teams, The Twins and Guardians might be playoff teams,
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and then three teams in the AO West. Only six
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of those teams. Of those seven make the playoffs. I
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mean the Mariners could win, guys, Look, the Mariners could
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win eighty eight games and miss the postseas could Okay?
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I mean, look what they've been doing the last couple
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of years has not been typical, right. I mean, you
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win that many games and you're probably supposed to be
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in So that's a concern for me. I mean, I
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look at a guy like Rowdy Teles, by the way,
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Rowdy Telez, and this is on the concern part. Rowdy
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Telez got released by the Pittsburgh Pirates in September and
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was a free agent for six months and nobody signed him.
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And now he is our starting first baseman. So to me,
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that storyline, how long do they give this kid? I mean,
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he looks the part right, He's big, he's tall, he's
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six four to two seventy. He's a freaking lumberjack. He's
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gonna be a fan favorite. I'm sure he's gonna hit
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some mammoth home runs. But why was he available for
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six months? Why did the Pittsburgh Pirates let this guy go?
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And he sat around rotting for six months until the
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Mariners picked them up. So things like that, the infield's
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gonna be better. Joy Polanco and JP Crawford both hit
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two oh two.
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A year ago. Both of them did. They're not gonna
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be that terrible?
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Now will they be good enough to be you know,
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everyday average starting shortstops in third basement? I don't know,
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but I gotta think they're gonna improve. There's no way
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they're both gonna hit two oh two.
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I was thinking about that driving in thinking about Rowdy
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ti Les and how I would equate that to the
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Seahawks starting a guy at running back. So I equate
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running back in the NFL and first base in Major
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League Baseball as pretty similar as far as the amount
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of impact they have on a game.
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I thought of the name Damian Pierce.
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Remember Damian Pierce about two years ago, had kind of
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a good season, then he just fell off the face
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of the earth. I'd be like the Seahawks waiting six
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months in free agency right having no plan at starting
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running back whatsoever, and then a month before the regular
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season started they signed Damian Pearson said, you're our starting
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running back. How confident would you feel as a Sea
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can if that's the situation? So yeah, I'm in between
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as far as predictions go. I'm in between you and Jackson.
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I think what Jackson, would you say again?
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Remind me, I'm gonna go eighty four wins and we
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missed the playoffs by three games.
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Cool, Okay, I'm gonna go eighty eight.
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Got it.
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I'm right in between you and Jackson. I think we
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do make the playoffs. I think that it's gonna be
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a struggle because the high ends there.
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You talked about those names.
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The high end talent is that we have seven or
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eight dudes that every team in baseball would die to have, right,
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But we also have five or six regular players that
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you're just like, almost no team in baseball would start
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up a d H, a first baseman, a second basement,
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a short stop, and a third basement.
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That's five positions.
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I don't know about that. JP Crawford. I think JP
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Crawford would steaming.
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He's a good player. He had a terrible year. Terrible year,
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Horey Polanco, I give you, give you.
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Okay, I hope, I hope. So I'm rooting for JP
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to turn it around.
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But at least four positions that almost no team in
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baseball would have its starters. So the high ends there,
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But what I think is going to cost this team
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and and their ability to win, like ninety three, ninety four,
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ninety five, is still that that low That six seven,
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eight nine in the lineup is just I just don't
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seeing it being anything other than.
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Well, yeah, I get that, really, I tell you get that.
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I do think, Dick, if you looked around the league,
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you'd find that with a lot of teams that I
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mean everyone's got holes, dude.
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I mean everyone's got but not half the line even
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the Astros have holes.
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Well, I mean, if you're just talking about six seven,
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eight nine, I mean that's that's not technically.
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I've been getting technical on you here. I get the
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lineup you're going to give JP.
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I mean I wasn't even considering ja.
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Wait, look, here's here's what you're rolling out there today.
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Roe Bless, Julio cow Rawley, A Rose Arena, Luke Raley, Polanco,
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Routed t Les, Ryan Bliss.
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And JP Croft.
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I like the top five, okay, so I would say
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that Crawford's gonna have a bounce back year. Ro Bless,
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Julio cow Rawley, A Rose Arena, Luke Rayley. I mean
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they've got holes. They're not they're not perfect, all right.
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They're not the Yankees lineup, you know, they're not even
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the Astros lineup, and they may not even be the
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Rangers lineup. But I do think that the other teams
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that you mentioned there, that I mentioned there, they don't
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have this pitching staff, they don't have this bull pen, okay,
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so they should be able to survive with that and
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then hopefully make, you know, make some moves and on
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as the year goes by. I think they're they're a
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lone ninety win team. I'm telling you that's enough. Ninety
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three and sixty is just so I can play this.
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Sixty nine drugs just win ninety.
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Three, I say, I think ninety three wins the division
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by four five game.
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And very might it might? Well, all right, well let's
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do this. We got a lot of stuff to get to.
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Dan Wilson has spoken, Julio Rodriguez has spoken.
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We're gonna hear from Taylor Soceta as well.
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On the radio show Jessman McIntyre's across the street at
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Temobile Park. Brett Boone will join us at four courtesy
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of Venue Kings. Lant Zerline gonna join us from the
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NFL Network at five point twenty and talk some draft
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courtesy of our friends at the Queen Anne Beer Hall.
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A lot to get to from Jimmy's on First, getting
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ready for Opening Night, Baby Mariners, and A's right here
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on ninety three three KJRFM Baseball fans everywhere, Welcome to
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the twenty twenty five baseball season and our opening Dave
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broadcast live from Jimmy's on First.
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Does he have another season of frostration, disappointment and heartache
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in him, a new season of full tank and an
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old spirit that's been slept around like a Jerry Depoto bubblehead.
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Now betting Dave Sufty.
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Muller Real are going to start things here in the
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third Julio starts things.
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What's a bang that is blasted all the way up
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to the second deck.
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It just took us seat out, a majestic breath taking
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home run from Julio, Julio Rodriguez right there. Obviously a
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down year for number forty four. You get good odds
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on the MVP. By the way, if you want to
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slap some coin on Julio to win the MVP plus
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eighteen hundred, I believe now at the Amber Queen Casino
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might be worth fifty bucks to win nine hundred.
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If Julio wins the MVP.
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Well, I just don't know if he plays in a
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park where it's even possible for him to win the MVP.
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I think part of I think part of winning the Emmy,
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because the MVP is it's simply a numbers game unless
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you're on an awesome, awesome team, and then you can
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have maybe B plus a minus numbers if you win
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a hundre games, But these these hitters and hitters parks
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get twenty five percent of an advantage on Julio Ronriguez.
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I he doesn't get I just don't know if he's
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gonna be good enough to overcome.
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Well, he's gonna steal a lot of bases. That'll be
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a part of it. Is defense will be a part
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of it. Obviously, all of that. But Julio Rodriguez meeting
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today for just a minute or so, not very long, uh,
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making an appearance in the clubhouse with the media before
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today's game one of one hundred and sixty two.
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What does it mean to you that in this offseason
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the front office really kind of is running it back
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right a lot of the same guys. What kind of
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confidence that give that they know that this thing can
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be brought further with the guys they're here right now.
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I mean there's a lot you know, they thrust us
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and they trust what we're doing. The trust up you know,
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the environment that we have. You know, I think that's
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very important too, and in a winning team, and that's
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the fact that they run running back with everybody that
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we have. He says, a lot you know says a lie,
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and they believe what we're doing right now.
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And that's just it we see in this clubhouse, I
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gets a really tight knit crew. And again to running
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backs more a question. But how cool is to do
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it with that group of guys.
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Awesome, you know, because obviously a lot of a lot
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of people understand the business side of baseball, but also
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like you can play a lot of friendships, you know,
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within it, and that's real, you know, that's real, and
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like we have a lot of friendship. We'll have a
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lot of guys here that want with him to fly
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for and I think that's very special to have in
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the team.
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What's he gonna feel like to be back on the
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field at tea Mobile and seeing the fans, just seeing
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all these got all these fans just eager to see
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you guys playing.
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It feels natural, you know, it feels not the year man,
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like this feels at home. So I'm very excited to
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show up the in front of everybody tonight.
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And like all of them, I hope they should be
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a holler right.
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Yeah, I was.
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I was a holiday for us.
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So Julio in the second half of the year.
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Let me ask you if you'd take these numbers to
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eighty five eight eighteen ops for Julio Rodriguez, would you
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take that? That's where he hitting the second half of
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the year, eight eighteen ops, eight eighteen Hopefully would get
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more than that.
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That's what he did in the second half of the year.
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He's six ninety in the first half and raised that
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one hundred and twenty eight points in the second half
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of the year.
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Here is home numbers. Hang on a second. His home
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numbers were absolutely brutal. Uh, he was not very good
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at home.
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He did have an eight to ninety five ops in
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September after an eleven twenty two ops in July. Really,
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Julio's problem last year was the first three months of
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the year.
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He was terrible.
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April, March, May and June he was just in the
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in the in the toilet. He just could not get
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the engine started whatsoever, and then found a way to
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kind of turn it on. Had kind of a doubt.
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August a little bit, his power numbers were down. But July,
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in September, October he was putting up MVP type numbers.
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But just again, like you said, had a hard time
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at home.
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I mean, this is concerning I mean, you look at
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Julio's first season.
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At home eight ninety two ops year one.
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In twenty twenty two, it goes down over one hundred
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points to seven eighty five and twenty twenty three, and
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then goes down one hundred and thirty points last year.
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Now, he's got to get it together, for sure.
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For a guy that obviously is going to be the
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highest paid player on this team for a long time,
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he's got to get it together.
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There's no question about it.
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But I've just been barking at the moon the same
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story I'll say today that I've been saying for two years.
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Get the guy some damn help.
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Yeah, yeah, And your help has been Randy or Arena
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and Luke Rayley and Mitch Garver and Cal Rally.
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And I mean, look, Cal's great, but he's already here, right.
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I mean, Julio is putting up those numbers that we
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talked about with cal Raley for the majority of the
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year hidden behind him. I mean, he needs more help
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than that. He needs to have guys that can bank
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on him and protect him. I mean, and don't tell
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me about how much money he's making. Patrick Mahomes is
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making fifty million dollars a year, and the Chiefs need
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to go out and find him an offensive line. Just
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because you're a high paid guy and you're a phenomenal player,
506
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doesn't mean you can do everything by yourself. So you
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want the best out of Julio Rodriguez and get the
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guy some damn help. But I just think again, the
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year that he had a year ago. If he has
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another year like that, I think a lot of people
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are gonna start to get concerned about this and the
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home numbers obviously, that's why I don't like them playing
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as many games as they are in April at home.
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I'd love to see that switched a little bit. I'd
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love to see the freaking roof closed. I think this
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pitching staff can handle it. Man, there's a reason why
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Alex Ronrigez would always come out and complain about the
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roof being open, because he was a better hitter when
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the damn thing was closed.
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Well, here's the really, really optimistic side of things. It's basically,
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once Edgar Martinez and Dan Wilson took over, Julio lit fire.
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I mean September eight, ninety five ops three, twenty eight
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batting average, seven home runs and twenty two RBIs.
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And Edgar just pounded into Julio Rodriguez.
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And Julio's mentioned many, many times the type of relationship
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he has with Edgar Martinez. Right, Edgar Martinez just pounded
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into him. Just hit the ball up the middle, just
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line drive, line, drive, line, drive, line, drive. And Julio
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started doing that, and he was hitting the ball to
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all fields and just by osmosis because he was hitting
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it harder. It was going over the fence without him
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even trying to hit home run.
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Yeah.
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Well, I'm looking to cross the street and there's two
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guys that are featured on the north side of T
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Mobile Park. It's Luis Castillo and Julio Rodriguez. Look, I
537
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think Cale Roley's the face of the team right now.
538
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Absolutely. I think that for.
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The betterment of the team, that probably needs to change.
540
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To be honest with you.
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How many franchises have their fifth starter on the Well.
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He was the number one guy a year ago, but
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you're right, twenty twenty three. I mean, I don't know
544
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if they just decided to keep it up or whatever.
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Maybe maybe they want to have a veteran guy up there.
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I got no idea, but I think for the betterment
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of the Mariners. Julio needs to be Julio. He needs
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to be a star. He needs to be an MVP candidate.
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He needs to be a guy that every kid across
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the country wants to emulate, like Griffy Right, I mean again,
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I mean I'm not trying to put a ton of
552
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pressure on Julio, but that's what you're looking for, right.
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You're looking for a Hall of Fame player, is what
554
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you're looking for.
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You sign a guy to a gajillion dollar deal when
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he's twenty two years old, you're looking for a Hall
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of Fame player that people want to travel to watch
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play and look, cal Rawley obviously is incredible. You don't
559
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need to be an MVP candidate to be the face
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of a team and the captain of a team. You know,
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Jason Veritek for years in Boston was that gritty guy
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that people loved, the blue collar dude, hard working guy
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that they got behind. But he wasn't an All star
564
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catcher every single fricking year, but they loved him. It's
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exact same reasons why they love Cal Ray here. And
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that's why Met fans loved Lenny Dykes for back in
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the day right, the same kind of thing. But Julio
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Rodrigaez to me, as far as he goes, so go
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the meritors. I don't think they can get to where
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they need to be with Julio Rodriguez having the kind
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of year he had a year ago. And I'm not
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breaking new that's not some kind of unbelievable or shattering opinion.
573
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I just think it's an obvious thing that all of
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us have to keep an eye on.
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I mean, he needs to have a twenty twenty two
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type season, and that's that really should be his baseline
577
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every year. It's a six war season, eight fifty three ops,
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twenty eight home runs, seventy seventy five RBIs. Now, the
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RBIs are gonna come and go, depending on where he's
580
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hitting in the lineup.
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Obviously, but I mean, he should be a six.
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War player, and he's only had one six war season
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and that was his rookie year, and then it went
584
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down to five point three.
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Then it went down to four point three.
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So we got to at least bring that trend back
587
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up to twenty twenty three standards, if not getting all
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the way back up to where he was his rookie wee, well,
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and I.
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Think again, the start is something that a lot of
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people like to talk about. You better got off to
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a hot start. I think for him it's important, I
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really do. I think he's still a young guy. He's
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been in the league now for three years, but he's
595
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still a fairly young guy. And I think that that
596
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stuff kind of gets in your head. I mean, he's
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actually twenty four. Sorry, but he gets off to a
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slow start, and he's striking out, and he's not putting
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the ball in play, and he's getting, you know, rung
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up by umpires on balls that he thinks are not strikes,
601
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and he's looking back and disgusted the way he was
602
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a year ago in the first half of the year,
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the first month of the year. I think that's gonna
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get into his head. So I think it's it really
605
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is a big deal. It's not a cliche I think
606
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to say that Julio Rodriguez needs to have a good start,
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a hot start for this team.
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All Right, how about we do this.
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We're gonna break We'll do a little fun with audio
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coming up next segment of the radio show Jessman's across
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the Street at t Mobile Park. We're gonna hear from
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Brett Boone at four courtesy of Benu Kings. We're gonna
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hear from Taylor Tosto as well. Coming up at four
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point thirty, Lanton Zerline talking draft. Around five point twenty
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courtesy of the Queen Anne beer Hall. Oh, we're gonna
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hear from Dan Wilson to the skipper of the Ems
617
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his his first opening day. How about that as the
618
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manager of the Mariners. Dan Wilson coming.
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Up as well.
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We're gonna hear from him. We're live of Jimmy's come
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on by Dix Bying. We got his credit card. Next
622
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on ninety three three KJRFF. Right now, what do you
623
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say we get away from this for a second. Go
624
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across the street to T Mobile Park, joining us right
625
00:25:11.759 --> 00:25:13.160
now on the radio show. He's going to make his
626
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debut on Saturday against the A's Mariner starting pitcher Bryce
627
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Miller is with us on the radio show from T
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Mobile Park.
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Bryce, how are you? What's going on?
630
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I'm doing good?
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How are you good? Good?
632
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Thanks for doing this, man, I appreciate it, dude. Everyone's
633
00:25:27.960 --> 00:25:31.119
all fired up. Mayn Opening Day is a special special time.
634
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What about for you guys? You got a six month marathon.
635
00:25:34.680 --> 00:25:37.759
Now a six month slog coming starting today. What does
636
00:25:37.799 --> 00:25:39.799
today kind of mean to you guys in that clubhouse?
637
00:25:39.839 --> 00:25:40.000
Man?
638
00:25:41.359 --> 00:25:43.920
Yeah, for sure, we're all fired up to be back.
639
00:25:44.519 --> 00:25:47.079
I think I think I saw earlier we have the
640
00:25:47.119 --> 00:25:51.160
second most returning players out of every team in the league,
641
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so it feels good. You know, there's a lot of
642
00:25:53.839 --> 00:25:57.480
familiar faces in the clubhouse, and we all all share
643
00:25:57.519 --> 00:25:59.759
a common goal, so we're ready to go, ready to
644
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get and get after it.
645
00:26:01.400 --> 00:26:05.240
How long does that juice, that excitement lasts before it's like, okay,
646
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now we're into the season now and it's day to day. Uh.
647
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For for us us starters, we you know, we only
648
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play once a week, so I'd say probably once we
649
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get two or three ins then it's kind of back
650
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to the grind. But the position players, the hitters, they
651
00:26:24.279 --> 00:26:25.920
get they get in there every day, so I'm sure
652
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it takes a little a little bit less time for them.
653
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But no, we're all we're all excited and ready to
654
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go and ready to see Logan go out there and
655
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throw it today.
656
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Yeah, I know that with Bryce Millers with us across
657
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the street and Bryce, I remember Dick and I were
658
00:26:38.279 --> 00:26:40.759
talking about this a year ago and looking at the
659
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year you were having and we kind of noticed that, Man,
660
00:26:42.880 --> 00:26:45.160
this guy's pretty damn consistent. And I just went and
661
00:26:45.160 --> 00:26:47.119
looked to the numbers before you came on, and I
662
00:26:47.200 --> 00:26:48.720
know you can't do this, but I'm gonna do it
663
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anyway to make you look good. If you took out
664
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your worst three starts from a year ago, you had
665
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thirty one starts. Okay, if you took out your worst three,
666
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you had a two, two, three ERA and twenty eight
667
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games last season. Like to use a golf analogy, if
668
00:27:03.079 --> 00:27:06.519
you can just avoid the triple bogie, it's unbelievable. I mean,
669
00:27:06.559 --> 00:27:08.680
tell me about that, Tell me about how consistent you
670
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were and how you try and maybe clean that up
671
00:27:10.839 --> 00:27:11.599
a little bit more.
672
00:27:13.240 --> 00:27:15.880
Yeah, for sure, I wish, I wish they'd give us
673
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a mull again every every now and then. But but yeah, no,
674
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it's uh, it was. It was a really good season
675
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last year, you know, especially circling the second half. For me,
676
00:27:26.359 --> 00:27:28.960
it was really good. That was my focus going into
677
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the year was to to finish the year strong, and
678
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I think that was that was the better half of
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my year, And going into the last game of the year,
680
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I felt felt good, and body felt good and everything
681
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felt felt really good overall. So you know, going into
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this year, it's just continue the consistency and try to
683
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limit those blow up starts and look up at the
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end of the year and I think we'll be in
685
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a good spot.
686
00:27:53.160 --> 00:27:55.880
So you were a two pitch pitcher coming out of college,
687
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a seven pitch pitcher last year, and did I read
688
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where you're adding an eighth pitch?
689
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Now?
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Do you get a cutter?
691
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Now?
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Is that right?
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Yeah?
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So I'm I added a cutter at the end of
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the year, but it wasn't very good, so I just
696
00:28:08.920 --> 00:28:11.720
kind of upgraded it a little bit, I'd say, so
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I still have seven but okay, but yeah, it's a big,
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big jump from from twenty twenty three when I got
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called up and it was, you know, fastball, slider only
700
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and mainly mainly fastball. It was really mainly a one
701
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pitch guy. But yeah, no, I've put a lot of
702
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work in and added a bunch of stuff, and I
703
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feel comfortable with all of my pitches, so I think
704
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there's a lot of ways for me to attack hitters
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and get guys out. So, like I said, I'm excited
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for this year and ready to put together, you know,
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thirty two and plus some postseason starts.
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Yeah, well, Bryce Miller's with us, and dude, you just
709
00:28:48.039 --> 00:28:49.839
brought up what you did in the second half. I
710
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just took a quick peak at your second half numbers,
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and holy hell, I mean maybe it's you They should
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have given the big contract too, and not cal Rawley.
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By the way, Oh wow, are you kidd me?
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I mean one point nine e r A. And this
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is the time of the year where we can talk
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about numbers. Once the season starts, we'll stop doing this.
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Point eight four one e r A. Tell me about
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the confidence that you picked up in the second half
719
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of the year that you think you can carry over
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into this year.
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Yeah, it was big for me. I think it was
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you know, I was able to sustain success for you know,
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the whole second half of the year last year, and
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day in and day out, you know, go out and
725
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give us, give us a chance to win. And that's
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at the end of the day. That's my goal is
727
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to keep us in games, getting deep into games and
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and keep us there, you know, for for us to
729
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to take the lead at some point. So it's I
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think it's a lot easier whenever I do have. I
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have cow behind the plate, and I have you know,
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the four other starters surrounding me, and they're also you know,
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successful every day, so it makes it a lot easier,
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you know, pitching whenever you have greatness around you. So
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I learned a lot from all of our other our
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other guys and just try to go out there and
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and compete in attack and uh that's my plan to
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do that again and and look up at the end
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of the year and uh be in the postseason.
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Mariner starter Bryce Miller joining us here on ninety three
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point three KJRFM. You mentioned Cal there obviously a big
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day a couple of days ago for Cal, and talk
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about your on field relationship with Cal.
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I know, he kind of treats every picture a little.
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Bit different and kind of he kind of gives you
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some crap, doesn't he all all the pictures, he gives
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some crap when he goes to the mound at times.
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Yeah, he does. He He's he's good at that. He
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kind of uh he he keeps it light on the
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mound kind of like uh, which I don't I don't
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have any brothers, but I feel like it seems like
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a brother relationship. When he runs, when he runs out there.
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But no, he's he's great back there. You know, I
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trust anything that he calls. And you know, he works
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his butt off every day to be available and to
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be ready to go. So he definitely deserves deserves that
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extension he got, and I'm glad he's here for for
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the next few years.
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Yeah.
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All right, Well listen before you go, though, Bryce, Bryce
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Miller's with us.
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We got it, we got it.
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This is just us three talking, okay, regarding cal So,
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he gets the big contract extension on Tuesday, and then
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all of a sudden, conveniently.
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Wednesday, he doesn't feel very good.
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Well, no kidding, What do you think he went out
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and did on Tuesday night aftergetting a hundred five Are
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you buying that that he had food poison eager to
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cow just maybe kind of get after it a little
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bit after getting a hundred million bucks guaranteed.
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Yeah, I'm not. I'm not sure what he did. I
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know last week he spent some time at the steakhouse,
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and so he was spending money last week at Mastros
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down in Arizona.
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So there you go.
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He might have just it might just be some delayed
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meat sweats.
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That's probably more likely. Exactly.
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Hey, final fake from me, Bryce, each your ow warming
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up the wing out there for the first pitch. I
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want over under miles per hour on the e dro
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first pitch to Dan Wilson tonight.
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Let's see, didn't a few years ago, wouldn't he like ninety.
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Two or something?
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Yes, yes, yes, yeah, I'll set it at ninety and
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I'm taking over.
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There you go.
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He's also fifty two years old. By the way, Hey,
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you're a You're an A and M guy, right, Texas.
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A and M guy. You're an aggie.
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Yes, sir, you're rooting for.
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Texas Tech tonight against Arkansas.
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Yeah, I'll cheer for him.
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Wow, look at you.
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Yeah, I don't. I don't have any I got nothing
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against Texas Tech as long as the the Longhorns aren't
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in it.
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That I'm good. There you go. I love it.
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On the same conference, Hey, good stuff, man, go get
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him have a hell of a year.
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Appreciate this and we'll talk to Max Man.
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Yes, sir, appreciate it.
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You bet.
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Bryce Miller with us on the radio show. Yeah, delayed
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meat sweats, he said, that's that's more likely. That might
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be an official designation by the way. On the Dreadless,
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he's out with delayed meat Sweats after getting one hundred
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million dollars on Tuesday.
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All right, we're gonna break Brett Boone.
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We'll see if Booney buys the idea that cal Rawley
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had food poisoning or was he out celebrating his new deal.
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On Tuesday night, Brett Boone, courtesy at Venue Kings, makes
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his twenty twenty five debut, We're Live a Jimmy's right
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here on ninety three three KJRFM