April 16, 2025 • 30 mins
Keith Law, national MLB writer joins the show to talk all things Mariners, including the M's future superstar Julio Rodriguez. Should the Seahawks kick the tires on a CB Jalen Ramsey or is he washed up... Marc went 3/3 last night with his betting picks, can he continue that success on Wednesday...
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's just not happening. So I'm going to ask you question,
it's a loaded one. What's wrong with Julio Rodriguez? Why
can't he take that next step to get to the
next level.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I have no idea. I honestly don't. I wouldn't even
know how to begin me. First of all, I don't
accept the premise that there's something wrong with Julio Rodriguez
at all. Like, he's twenty four. He is, you know,
he had a tremendous year to actually both twenty twenty
two and twenty twenty three, he was an All Star,
he was top ten in the league in MVP voting.
It's sixty homers across those two seasons. I don't think
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it was one hundred percent healthy through all of last year.
His secondary indicators this year are actually all pretty good.
He's just had kind of a little bit of bad
luck on balls and play.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
You know.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I just I kind of don't accept the premise of
the question here that there's anything wrong with him.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Well, is he better than batting two hundred?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Though?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yeah, of course he is, right, this guy git okay,
So I don't think batting average is particularly valuable. However,
since He just cited that last three years two eighty four,
two seventy five, two seventy three, seventy seven play appearances
this year and he's batting two hundred. You can't nobody
should be making any judgments about a player's ability or
projection for the rest of the season based on seventy
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seven play appearance. That's barely a tenth of a season.
It's probably a twelve or thirteen percent if you want
to be pedantic about it. But that's nothing. There, absolutely nothing.
Superstars have entire months where they hit two hit for
a batting average of two hundred, and as long as
he is still drawing walks, which he is, so he
is getting on base at and above average clips and
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hitting for at least some power, I'd like seeing it
for more power. I think he has more power than
in him, but he's still hit him for some power.
Then the batting everage is going to work itself out
over a larger sample.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Well, what's his ceiling, Keith, Oh, I think.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
He's an MVP. I think that is absolutely his ceiling.
And he's and he's shown that arrighty right, he was fourth. Okay,
the MVP voting is not perfect he's fourth and MVP voting.
Just two years ago he was seventh of the year
that he won the Rookie of the Year award. You know,
I think his approach in terms of some of his
twin decisions on his touch selection took a small step
back last year, not alarmingly so. But that is also
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the sort of thing you would expect to see get
better as a hitter embarrasson mid twenties, which are typically
the peak years for any and that is probably the
one thing I would like to see more of. He
is walking again in a tiny temple, but he is
walking at a higher rate this year than he did
in any of the three full seasons I can before it.
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If that turns out to be something more than just noise,
if he does continue to walk at a higher rate,
that is absolutely going to lead to better results, because
I believe that he's indicative of him trying to stay
within the strike zone.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Keith Aul joining us here on MJ in the midday.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I guess everybody here is you know, you go to
t Bobi Park Keith and it's all forty four jerseys
and everyone's waiting for him to kind of I mean, listen,
you're following in. You know, they want him to be
the next Keang Griffy junior in each row, So we'll wait,
right only twenty four, but it's like we're just waiting
for him to take that next step. And based on
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the small sample size as you mentioned, obviously there's a
whole season to go, but coming off a which was
hurt last year, but it was a down season for
him last year. We just don't want to see that
become the norm, where it becomes a continuum of twenty
twenty four.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
That's basically what everybody hears worried about.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
It is this. This is the front. I've seen this
phenomenon the play out in pretty much every market in
the country. It's playing your best player. When the team
under performs, there is often an expectation, well, the best
players should have been better, Mike Truck should have done
more to carry the Angels to the playoffs. And that's
not that certainly, I don't I can't speak to other sports.
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That's not true. In baseball. You can know one player
can get his team to the postseason. No one player
can make a bad team a winning team. The Mariners
problem the last couple of years is the offense hasn't
been good enough, and now this year is a little
bit different where obviously, you know, losing George Kirby is
not helping. Louise Castillo is clearly not right. His velocity
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is down, his stuff is worse across the board in
two starts, but still like he's not starting as hard
as he typically.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
But by the way, let me ask you this, why
do you think that is about Louis Castillo? Because I
know as well, especially yesterday, why is that?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Well, I don't know if he's hurt, right, there's that
is a lot that's information that it may not be
public at all. But I also don't cover the team
every day, so there's going to be a gap in
between what I know and what the folks who cover
the team regularly might know. And I you know, that's
probably a better question for some of them. Also, he's
not that young anymore. He is seven or eight seasons
in the big leagues at this point. He's thrown a
lot of innings, He's thrown a lot of mid nineties fastballs.
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It goes at some point. I'm not saying it is.
I'm certainly not going to make that judgment off of
two starts. I'm just saying that that is also a possibility.
But his velocity is down. The break on the slider,
which was never a particularly good pitch, but it was
often just good enough because he's through it hard. Now
it's not as hard and the break is less than
it used to be. He's just this version of Louis
Caste may not even be a number five starter. I
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am hoping that with more time, you know, if it's
a minor injury, they work it out, or he just
needs a few more reps, or the weather in a
warm up. There's a lot of things that could happen.
I'm not trying to down the alarm here, but that
is much more of a contributor to the You know,
the marriers are what Eton nine. It's not panic time,
but like, what's not gone right for them? Hey, George
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Kirby's not there, He's put the San Youngkin's on there.
Luis Castillo, who's been an All Star multiple times and
an above average starter, doesn't look like one right now.
Those are bigger problems than Judeo Rodriguez getting off to
start that's below what we expect from him.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Key fall here on MJ in the midday and they
become plumbing hotline. So a lot of fans were really
disappointed in the off season where the Marrigers didn't do
anything other than re signing Jorge Polanco, bringing in Donovan
Solano who's thirty seven years old, and then at the end,
right to around spring training, signing Rowdy Telez, who was
on the open market for about four and a half
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half months after his time in Pittsburgh. And obviously you
lose Victor Roeblisz for three months if he elects to
have surgery. He's done for the year. You know, Ryan Bliss,
you saw that whole situation. He is pretty much done
for the year. So what do you do? I mean,
you know Keith and not that you know this or
that you talked to Jerry Depoto, but this team has,
you know, this side of Chavez Ravine arguably the best
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pitching staff in baseball prior to Luis Castillo's recent struggles.
And why would you not try to go after Alonso
or at least Paul Goldschmid or somebody to bolster a
lineup that was had the second fewest runs in baseball
last year next to the one hundred and twenty plus
lost Chicago White Sox.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Well, those guys were those guys had mistakes written all
over them. Has looked done last year and as best
he's a plitcher first base.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
He's not being like Keith Wouldn't you? I bet?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
I believe if Keith Law was the president of baseball
operations for the Mariners, you would have done something. You
would have tried to go after a legitimate bat to
just kind of not waste this pitching staff, and Jerry
de Poto.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Would I well, first of all, there was one guy
who was a good fit. That was Christian Walker, and
I think he just ended up more costing more than
they wanted to pay for a hitter in his thirties,
where you're basically paying for declining, you're overpaying in time
to get the production in the short term. He would
have been a great fit for them. I also understand
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them passing. I happen to know this is one situation
where just from top because I my main beat is prospects,
and the Mariners had the best farm system in baseball
in my opinion, and what that means is I also
heard a lot about, Hey, the Mariners were trying to
trade for a hitter. This offseason, they were trying to
trade some of the fruits of the farm system. They
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were trying to trade somebody off the pitching sex. They
were really trying to trade Luis Castillo, which he really
is just a disaster this year. That's the worst possible outcome.
They shopped him, they couldn't move him, and now they
may be stuck with a guy he's just not what
he used to be. You know, I've been very critical
of the Orioles, for example, for not going out and
getting the picture that they need. I am less critical
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of the Mariners because I know the Oriols weren't shopping
aggressively to try to get the picture they needed. I
know the Mariners were try. You may say they didn't
try hard enough, and I can't argue because the results
are ultimately they didn't get it. They did not get
a big back and they needed a big bat. I
agree with them. This is a below average offense for
a team that should be going to the postseason given
the pitching staff. But I do think they made the
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effort and maybe they just weren't pushing the right guys.
Maybe they had to be offering someone different from the
farm system. But I do think they correctly diagnosed the
problem with the roster and made an actual effort to
go get that guy, and it just didn't work out.
And you know, at some point that excuse runs out. Obviously,
I think that's what happened this offseason. But if they
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run through another year and it's a below average offense
and they go into the next off season and the
same thing happens again, then I think the story changes.
You could say, look, at some point, you just have
to change your the way you're valuing these guys. You
have to be willing to pay more even if you
think you're paying more in getting less, because you have
to fix the major league off.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Keith laugh here on MJY in the midday on the
Beacon Plumbing Hotline. Ben Williamson got his call up for
the first time yesterday, had his first hit in Major
League Baseball, scored his first run. Where do you rate
him and how good can he really be? I mean,
we know he's he's great at the defensive side, at
the hot corner, but not so great with the bat.
But do you see him being an everyday MLB player
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or do where he perhaps have to go back to
Tacoma sooner than later.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Well, he's definitely a big league something. The question of
whether he's a big league player is probably going to
come down to how the defense translates. And I will
admit to a little bit of a blind spot for
he has an elite defensive third basement. That's a tough profile,
right those We don't see a lot of guys who
play every day in the majors at third base because
they can really feel. Typically those guys hit. We want
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third baseman to hit. That is seen as a corner
position that produces a lot of offense. That's not going
to be him. I don't love a swing. It's going
to be contact or power. He doesn't have a deef
an idea to strike zone. We'll see if the swing
translates against a Juleiu Kitchen. I have some I am
somewhat skeptical on that, but it's upstanding, upstanding defense, and
maybe that's enough. Maybe that is enough. And I know
they want to try him the second base too, because
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obviously blasts out and they think Williamson is a good
enough defender, is that he should be able to be
a defensive asset there as well. That maybe enough it's
certainly going to be enough to keep him around. I
don't know that there's a whole lot of feeling beyond that.
But that said, you're just getting more. He's gonna add
some value. He might end up being able to give
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them as much value as they were going to get
from Bliss. It's going to look different. It's going to
be better defense, maybe a little less pop, but it
should allow them to fill the gap because obviously they
don't want to bring up like a cold Young or
a cold Emerson too soon just because they had an injury.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Yeah or yeah, I know they and the farm system
is unbelievable, there's no question about it. So do you
you don't see maybe Zarro Montes any Harry Ford is
one of those guys getting a call up here prior
to the Major League Baseball or Star Breaker. Do you
think that the poto is just going to stay as
he is for the time being.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
I don't think any of those guys is likely to
be ready. I think a lazarro is in. I think
he's in High A. He might be. I thought he
actually thought he was in High A. All those guys,
Emerson Barmela is not back from the injury, sell us
in throwing a ball. You're not going to see the others,
most likely Ford. The issue is just going to be
but where does he play? Is he the catcher? Well,
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they have a pretty good catcher right now, and nobody's
really sold the Ford S David catcher. Cole Young is
the one who's close. He is the obviously, he was
the first pick, first to joining the organization. Out of
that entire group, he's the closest to being able to
help in the majors. But they also see him as
this guy's one of our best prospects, top three or
four in the system. You don't want to rush him
just because we need something at the big league level.
(11:55):
And I agree with that. I just think he's of
all the guys we're talking about here, he's the you'll
see in the majors at some point this year. Maybe
it's later than we all start break that it's happened
in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Keith, before we let you go. And by the way,
I appreciate the time you brought it today. I always
love that. I always love when you get national guys
and they got their Seattle centric stuff down to a t.
How do you see this team just adjusting because, like
you said, I mean, we got one hundred and forty
five games to go and it's a long season. That
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is going to be those dog days of summer coming up.
Do you see this team finding a rhythm and not
being in a position like last year where they blew
the ten game lead to the Astros, and maybe finding
some continuity and some sort of successful consistency.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I took them to win the division this year. I
do still think they're the best team on paper in
the division. You know, that is a little bit contingent
on George Kirby comes back and pitches most of the
season form and that Luis Castillo is in horrible for
the rest of the season, or maybe they have to
go out and they have to go make an addition.
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I mean, I think regardless regardless of where they are
in the standards, whether they're actually in first place in
July or just sort of somewhere in the fringes of
the playoff race, they're going to have to trade for
something at this season. Now, if you'd ask me this
three weeks ago, I'd say with the bat obviously they
still need a bad and that it's still true, but
it's also quite possible that we'll get to the ly
and say the rotation is actually more of a weakness
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than we thought it was going to be because primarily
because of those two guys I just mentioned, and maybe
they have to do something different. But I think this
team is more than good enough to make the playoffs. However,
they're almost certainly going to have to make an addition.
It's only because the teams they are competing with are
likely to make additions when they get to the all
start a trade deadline.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Keith Law always follow him on Twitter. Keith Law is
his handle, very easy to get to. Keith.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
We appreciate the time, look forward to doing it again
sooner than later. Thanks again, yep, my pleasure. All right,
Keith Law here on MJ in the mid day. All Right,
so maybe I'm being too hard on Julio, but well
we'll see, We'll see how how the season plays out.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
I get it. I know it's early. I'm hoping that
a month from today. So what do we got? Today?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Today is April the fourteenth, I believe the sixteenth, sixteenth,
one month from today, on May sixteenth, Julio's batting at
least two fifty all right, batting more than his weight
two fifty a month from today, and maybe even higher because,
like you heard just there, he has MVP ceiling potential.
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That could be his ceiling. We haven't seen it yet.
And when your second through six hitters last night go
one for nineteen.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
You're not gonna win many games. You're not gonna win
any games.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
The fact that they were even in it thanks to
Dylan Moore, was nothing short of a miracle. But what
he said, that's the thing to look out for coming forward.
That's why maybe Jerry Depot was looking to move Luis Castillo. Castillo,
I don't know, man, I'm hoping that that fifth inning
last night was just an anomaly. He did not look good, man.
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He got rocked his stuff as vlo Is down. He
just doesn't look like the guy that was the ace
of this staff for the better part of the last
couple of years. He just doesn't look like that guy anymore.
And now you can see why the Mariners were trying
to trade him and maybe get a Christian Walker or whatever,
but didn't happen. Sod be interesting to see as time
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goes by. I'm gonna continue to monitor and I'm gonna
continue to be on Julio because I believe too. Like
he said, he has MVP potential. I care about production.
Potential is only good if it eventually materializes into production.
If I don't see that equate one with the other,
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then potential means absolutely nothing.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Nothing. Coming up.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Next, there's a guy who's on the market. Could he
be a fit here in Seattle? We'll tell you who?
And would you be willing to pay his salary? Next
on MJ in the midday right here on Seattle Sports
Leader ninety three three kJ artham mentally and physically. And
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I know the toughest thing to do in sports is
hit a baseball, but I'm talking about on your body
every single game.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Now.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
I know there's one hundred and sixty two in baseball
as opposed to seventeen plus playoffs if you're lucky in
the NFL, so your body gets a chance to recover
unless you're playing Thursday and night football in a short
week or something.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
To that extent.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
But yeah, I just yeah, I can't believe that this
poll is going that way. I think somebody said it
pretty good on the text line four nine four or
five one. It said, well, hitting a baseball.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Is its hardest thing in sports. Period.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Note no one's arguing that. I'm talking about what is it.
What's tougher to do on your body? Gaming in game out?
Tougher or takes more skill? And again you're getting into
hitting at Baseball's the hardest thing in sports. What Otani
is done is way more difficult. What's harder on the
body playing both ways in football? What's harder playing baseball?
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If you disagree, you don't know sports. I don't care
how emotional you get. Baseball's way harder than football. Okay, sure,
sure it is. Whatever you say, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
You like and.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Take get twenty five carries a game in football like
sakuon Barkley or thirty. And you tell me what's tougher.
Tell me what's tougher. Julio's overrated in and out is
better than Dixon. Australian accent is hard to listen to.
MJ my new favorite KJR guy. Keep offending the Chad
ak Mel Karen's and I'll continue to listen. From the
two five to three, Thank you very much for that one.
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All right, this is a good one. From the two
zero six. What Showhey is doing is better than what
Travis Hunter wants to do at the next level. First
of all, Hunter hasn't done anything in the NFL yet. Secondly,
show Hay is arguably the best hitter in all of baseball.
When he's on the mound, he's arguably one of the
best pitchers in all of baseball. Physically, it's harder, might
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be harder for Hunter to do what he wants to
do in the NFL, but let him do it first
before we start comparing the two. If he becomes the
number one receiver in the NFL in a shutdown corner,
then yes, it would probably be a better or more
difficult achievement to accomplish. But let's see him do it first.
Because show Hey is doing something that a lot of
people thought couldn't be done at the major league level.
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Well said, I don't disagree with any of that, Show
Hey Otani, and I don't think he gets enough of
the praise that he should because he's not an American
born player. He's not, but nonetheless he's still unbelievable and
work crazy price of a mission.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
You need to Hey.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Neither is Luca, Neither is joke joker. Yeah, yeah, neither
is a lot of these guys.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Joker might be getting it though, they're finally starting to
see it. Yeah, in my opinion, I could be wrong though,
but from what I've seen there given, they're like.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Yeah, he's the best he's ever seen. Like he's he's
that dude.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I've never seen a skill set of him in my
entire life at that size, I've never in my life.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Yeah, I love I love how Shack was like, oh
I could dominate. I'm shut the f off stop. He might.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Yeah, he might not be what you are athletically, but
you're gonna have a very tough time guarding.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
It's really about Shack. Shack was just physically imposing and dominant.
But that's that's what he was. Just Yo, what is
he gonna do if with Joker takes him out to
the perimeter.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Nothing? And then and then Joker puts him between his
legs and drives right by him. He can't do it.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Yeah, So so like I love the conversation, but it
was like Shack Shack.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Shack a lot of times when you compare eras Shack
becomes the grumpy, get off my mom guy.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
But continue what you were saying, Yeah, he just does so.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
This this is a lot of things here that you know,
ridiculous skill set, No doubt, being a cy young pitcher
an MVP hitters way more difficult requires a skill set
no one has but Otani. I will never argue that that.
I will never argue definitely not. I'm talking about what's
tougher to do that. I'll go ahead and fade Travis Hunter.
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He'll never get to the level of doing it both
ways the way Otani is.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
That'll never in any sport, any athlete. We'll never see
this again. So at the beginning of the show, and
I talk.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
About appreciating, appreciate Otani, appreciate Steph Curry because we may
we may never we probably will never see anything like
these guys again.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
I appreciate show. Hey, oh you need everybody should all right?
What about this?
Speaker 1 (20:50):
So the Dolphins are looking to move on from cornerback
Jalen Ramsey. I'm gonna just kind of follow on this
really quick. He has a guaranteed salary of twenty four
point two three five million in a cap number of
sixteen point six one million in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
I'm not interested.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Uh, Jayleen Ramsey, things seem to go good in the
beginning wherever he goes, and then they they like bottom
out afterwards and he ends up wanting to go somewhere else.
He's not the cover corner that he was seven or
eight years ago. You're not getting prime Jalen Ramsey. And
for this money, no, I think this ofthin is gonna
be hard pressed to find a team who wants him
for this price. He gets twenty five million in twenty
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twenty six, twenty six million in twenty twenty seven, and
thirty six million to twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Yeah, I'm I'm good. I'm good.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
I'll take my chances week will and I'll go with
Rieke on that one. Reek well, or I'll go with
somebody in the draft. We'll go with somebody the draft.
I just don't think that Jayleen Ramsey's worth it anymore.
That's so I'll leave it at that, all right. Coming
up next, I've been on a hot streak. Do I
have another? Can I make it four wins in a row?
Speaker 3 (22:00):
On the NBA? Coming up next?
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Beat the books MJ in the midday right here on
ninety three to three kJ R f M. I got
the Orlando Magic. I don't love them. On the number
minus five and a half. So what I'm gonna do
is this. I'm gonna take them on the money line.
I know it's a lot minus two twenty to win
one hundred. I have faith in Orlando at home to
win this game. All they've got to do is win.
(22:23):
Give me the Grizzlies and Warriors over two twenty seven
and a half.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Give me the.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Magic on a money line, the Warriors on a money line,
and the over there there's a three leg parlay.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
There we go.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
All I gotta go back over to the casino today and
cash those tickets. So I hope you're listening to me.
I'm here to win you money, Seattle. That's what I'm
here to do for you.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
All Right.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
We got two games tonight, Hoyvey. I don't love either
one of them. I really don't keep bulls Mavericks Kings.
By the way, for the Eastern Conference Finals playing and
the Western Conference Final playing. On both of these games,
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the loser are done. This is no like you lose
like Atlanta last night and you get to play again
on Friday, or you lose like Memphis last night and
you get to play again on Friday. No, no, no, no,
this is single elimination. I'm a little perplexed the Bulls,
who have owned the Heat all season long, they're only
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a one and a half point favorite at home. Why
is that? That's what we call a ratty line. That's
a ratty line. I don't like ratty lines. They make
me very feel just kind of like, why is that?
I don't really get it. So I'm not in fraud
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by either matchup. But you guys are gamblers and it's
my job to get give you a pick. Give me
the Bulls tonight minus one and a half. I'll take
the Bulls the Heat seasons over the Heat or a joke.
I know they've come on recently, but they don't have
Jimmy Butler. I don't trust in them. I just don't.
I think the Bulls at home this will be revenge
because the Bulls almost beat the Heat a couple of
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years ago in Miami. Would have ended their season, but
the Heat went on to the finals where they lost
of the Nuggets. I think the Bulls get revenge and
I'm gonna go with the Bulls at home tonight.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
This afternoon at four thirty. Give me the Bulls minus
one and a half.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Not as strong of a feel that I did yesterday
when I gave you those three winners. But if I
have to pick one, give me Chicago minus one and
a half tonight. Have no feeling on Mavericks Kings. The
King should win their four and a half point favorite.
But you know the Mavericks don't have Kyrie Irving, Luka
(24:55):
Dancitz a Laker, so you know, and Fernico Harrison.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Boy, that could be the worst thing. Man.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
You lose tonight against Sacramento and a play in Oh boy,
that is uh, that would not be good.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
So that's what I'm looking at right now.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Take the Chicago Bulls tonight minus one and a half.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Hopefully I'll hit it and I can make it one, two, three,
four in a row. Be four in a row.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
All right. I have a question for you, has nothing
to do with gambling. I got fed these on a
plane ride, not on the Alaska Airlines ride, but on
a Southwest Airlines ride. They're the greatest crackers, well not crackers,
the pretzels. They're the companies called Stellar and they are Stellar.
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But there's Stellar Mini pretzel braids and then and the
brand is Maui Monk. Basically what it is It's a
vegan butter braid with Maui onion styles seasoning and monk fruit.
And this is to die for. I can only tell
you they sell something like this, the Hawaiian Potato chips,
and they sell a Maui onion Hawaiian potato chips which
(26:04):
you can get at an Amazon Fresh, which I love
those two.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Can you just.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Kind of because I put the borest thing out one
time and you all just just came hard on the
text line big time? Can you tell me where I
can find the Stellar mini pretzel braids Maui monk flavor.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Please just let me know.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
I'm kind of um. This was my last little little
thing today. Now, yes, you can order them on Amazon.
At one point Costco carried them. I can't find them
anywhere right now.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
I just can't. I don't know why. I just wherever
I go, I They're just.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
There was one store. Oh you want to repeat the
the the bets please sure? From the two five three
Chicago Bulls minus one and a half Tonight one and
a half also going to do this. This is for
Chris Kidd and me. This is such a foolish argument.
From the two five three Jerome Bettison that it took
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him twenty minutes to get out of bed after a game.
Baseball players can play two games in one day if
need be physically impossible. In football, Amen, that's what I'm
talking about. I'm not saying hitting in baseball. Hitting a
baseball is the hardest thing to do in sports. And
what shoe Hey Otani is doing, what shoe Hey Otani
is doing is something that hasn't happened since Babe Ruth
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when there were like four teams and there were a
bunch of white racists who didn't allow black players in
baseball back in the twenties. So how much can you
even count that because it was segregated leagues. What shoe
Hey Otani is doing is the most remarkable thing of
all time. It's tougher, it's tougher. So yeah, it's just
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tougher to do that in football. I believe it. It
only took your own bed at twenty minutes aget out
of bed. Man, I can't even imagine. John Stockton used
to be iceed down for hours in a hotel room
before a game, and they thought he wouldn't be able
to play. In somehow, some way he willed his way
onto the court because he was one of the greatest
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point guards in NBA history, no doubt about it. But
there's nothing one more from the three six to zero
tougher on your body, football, harder to do baseball, pitching
and hitting are not related. Perfect. Couldn't agree with you,
could not agree with you any more on that. I
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just I couldn't agree with you. One more thing anders
Hurst reminded me about. Anders Hurst is the maybe the
president of the Julio Rodriguez Fan Club. Since twenty twenty three,
Julio is top ten in Major League Baseball in war
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and top.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Four in the American League in war. That's great. How
is translating to the Mariners playoffs? Has only translated once?
And then they and that was it.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
They didn't do anything, So that war stuff is great.
Mike Trout was a three time MVP in the beginning
of his career. How many playoff series has he won?
Speaker 3 (29:13):
One?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
I think he won one. Maybe he hasn't done crap
in the playoffs? Nothing, nothing, Remember all that old argument
back in the day Mike troutfs Bryce Harper. Bryce Harper's Yeah,
I mean, Mike Trout's a surefire Hall of Famer, but
Bryce Trout I meansun be Bryce Harper that combined them
there for a second, Bryce Harper, He's doing it in
Mike Trout's hometown of Philadelphia, and he's more of a
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Philadelphia and than Mike Trout is anymore. They don't even
claim Mike Trout anymore because he hasn't done crap. So yeah,
Chicago Bulls Tonight minus one and a half. Don't go
too big, don't bet your kid's future college tuition.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Just just go enough to.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Be interested in it, right, Just go enough to be
interested in I'm gonna go with the Bulls tonight. I'm
gonna go with Kobe White and the Bulls tonight. That
give me I think the heat, I think the heat
or without Jimmy Butler, and I think it's been a
season that just needs to end a sap.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
All Right.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
You're not gonna believe what a major, major personality on
a major network had to say about a guy who'll
be the number one pick in the draft and who
he compared him to. We'll get to that next on
MJ in the midday ninety three to three KJRFM
It's just not happening. So I'm going to ask you question,
it's a loaded one. What's wrong with Julio Rodriguez? Why
can't he take that next step to get to the
next level.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I have no idea. I honestly don't. I wouldn't even
know how to begin me. First of all, I don't
accept the premise that there's something wrong with Julio Rodriguez
at all. Like, he's twenty four. He is, you know,
he had a tremendous year to actually both twenty twenty
two and twenty twenty three, he was an All Star,
he was top ten in the league in MVP voting.
It's sixty homers across those two seasons. I don't think
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it was one hundred percent healthy through all of last year.
His secondary indicators this year are actually all pretty good.
He's just had kind of a little bit of bad
luck on balls and play.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
You know.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I just I kind of don't accept the premise of
the question here that there's anything wrong with him.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Well, is he better than batting two hundred?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Though?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yeah, of course he is, right, this guy git okay,
So I don't think batting average is particularly valuable. However,
since He just cited that last three years two eighty four,
two seventy five, two seventy three, seventy seven play appearances
this year and he's batting two hundred. You can't nobody
should be making any judgments about a player's ability or
projection for the rest of the season based on seventy
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seven play appearance. That's barely a tenth of a season.
It's probably a twelve or thirteen percent if you want
to be pedantic about it. But that's nothing. There, absolutely nothing.
Superstars have entire months where they hit two hit for
a batting average of two hundred, and as long as
he is still drawing walks, which he is, so he
is getting on base at and above average clips and
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hitting for at least some power, I'd like seeing it
for more power. I think he has more power than
in him, but he's still hit him for some power.
Then the batting everage is going to work itself out
over a larger sample.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Well, what's his ceiling, Keith, Oh, I think.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
He's an MVP. I think that is absolutely his ceiling.
And he's and he's shown that arrighty right, he was fourth. Okay,
the MVP voting is not perfect he's fourth and MVP voting.
Just two years ago he was seventh of the year
that he won the Rookie of the Year award. You know,
I think his approach in terms of some of his
twin decisions on his touch selection took a small step
back last year, not alarmingly so. But that is also
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the sort of thing you would expect to see get
better as a hitter embarrasson mid twenties, which are typically
the peak years for any and that is probably the
one thing I would like to see more of. He
is walking again in a tiny temple, but he is
walking at a higher rate this year than he did
in any of the three full seasons I can before it.
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If that turns out to be something more than just noise,
if he does continue to walk at a higher rate,
that is absolutely going to lead to better results, because
I believe that he's indicative of him trying to stay
within the strike zone.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Keith Aul joining us here on MJ in the midday.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I guess everybody here is you know, you go to
t Bobi Park Keith and it's all forty four jerseys
and everyone's waiting for him to kind of I mean, listen,
you're following in. You know, they want him to be
the next Keang Griffy junior in each row, So we'll wait,
right only twenty four, but it's like we're just waiting
for him to take that next step. And based on
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the small sample size as you mentioned, obviously there's a
whole season to go, but coming off a which was
hurt last year, but it was a down season for
him last year. We just don't want to see that
become the norm, where it becomes a continuum of twenty
twenty four.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
That's basically what everybody hears worried about.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
It is this. This is the front. I've seen this
phenomenon the play out in pretty much every market in
the country. It's playing your best player. When the team
under performs, there is often an expectation, well, the best
players should have been better, Mike Truck should have done
more to carry the Angels to the playoffs. And that's
not that certainly, I don't I can't speak to other sports.
(03:44):
That's not true. In baseball. You can know one player
can get his team to the postseason. No one player
can make a bad team a winning team. The Mariners
problem the last couple of years is the offense hasn't
been good enough, and now this year is a little
bit different where obviously, you know, losing George Kirby is
not helping. Louise Castillo is clearly not right. His velocity
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is down, his stuff is worse across the board in
two starts, but still like he's not starting as hard
as he typically.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
But by the way, let me ask you this, why
do you think that is about Louis Castillo? Because I
know as well, especially yesterday, why is that?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Well, I don't know if he's hurt, right, there's that
is a lot that's information that it may not be
public at all. But I also don't cover the team
every day, so there's going to be a gap in
between what I know and what the folks who cover
the team regularly might know. And I you know, that's
probably a better question for some of them. Also, he's
not that young anymore. He is seven or eight seasons
in the big leagues at this point. He's thrown a
lot of innings, He's thrown a lot of mid nineties fastballs.
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It goes at some point. I'm not saying it is.
I'm certainly not going to make that judgment off of
two starts. I'm just saying that that is also a possibility.
But his velocity is down. The break on the slider,
which was never a particularly good pitch, but it was
often just good enough because he's through it hard. Now
it's not as hard and the break is less than
it used to be. He's just this version of Louis
Caste may not even be a number five starter. I
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am hoping that with more time, you know, if it's
a minor injury, they work it out, or he just
needs a few more reps, or the weather in a
warm up. There's a lot of things that could happen.
I'm not trying to down the alarm here, but that
is much more of a contributor to the You know,
the marriers are what Eton nine. It's not panic time,
but like, what's not gone right for them? Hey, George
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Kirby's not there, He's put the San Youngkin's on there.
Luis Castillo, who's been an All Star multiple times and
an above average starter, doesn't look like one right now.
Those are bigger problems than Judeo Rodriguez getting off to
start that's below what we expect from him.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Key fall here on MJ in the midday and they
become plumbing hotline. So a lot of fans were really
disappointed in the off season where the Marrigers didn't do
anything other than re signing Jorge Polanco, bringing in Donovan
Solano who's thirty seven years old, and then at the end,
right to around spring training, signing Rowdy Telez, who was
on the open market for about four and a half
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half months after his time in Pittsburgh. And obviously you
lose Victor Roeblisz for three months if he elects to
have surgery. He's done for the year. You know, Ryan Bliss,
you saw that whole situation. He is pretty much done
for the year. So what do you do? I mean,
you know Keith and not that you know this or
that you talked to Jerry Depoto, but this team has,
you know, this side of Chavez Ravine arguably the best
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pitching staff in baseball prior to Luis Castillo's recent struggles.
And why would you not try to go after Alonso
or at least Paul Goldschmid or somebody to bolster a
lineup that was had the second fewest runs in baseball
last year next to the one hundred and twenty plus
lost Chicago White Sox.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Well, those guys were those guys had mistakes written all
over them. Has looked done last year and as best
he's a plitcher first base.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
He's not being like Keith Wouldn't you? I bet?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
I believe if Keith Law was the president of baseball
operations for the Mariners, you would have done something. You
would have tried to go after a legitimate bat to
just kind of not waste this pitching staff, and Jerry
de Poto.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Would I well, first of all, there was one guy
who was a good fit. That was Christian Walker, and
I think he just ended up more costing more than
they wanted to pay for a hitter in his thirties,
where you're basically paying for declining, you're overpaying in time
to get the production in the short term. He would
have been a great fit for them. I also understand
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them passing. I happen to know this is one situation
where just from top because I my main beat is prospects,
and the Mariners had the best farm system in baseball
in my opinion, and what that means is I also
heard a lot about, Hey, the Mariners were trying to
trade for a hitter. This offseason, they were trying to
trade some of the fruits of the farm system. They
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were trying to trade somebody off the pitching sex. They
were really trying to trade Luis Castillo, which he really
is just a disaster this year. That's the worst possible outcome.
They shopped him, they couldn't move him, and now they
may be stuck with a guy he's just not what
he used to be. You know, I've been very critical
of the Orioles, for example, for not going out and
getting the picture that they need. I am less critical
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of the Mariners because I know the Oriols weren't shopping
aggressively to try to get the picture they needed. I
know the Mariners were try. You may say they didn't
try hard enough, and I can't argue because the results
are ultimately they didn't get it. They did not get
a big back and they needed a big bat. I
agree with them. This is a below average offense for
a team that should be going to the postseason given
the pitching staff. But I do think they made the
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effort and maybe they just weren't pushing the right guys.
Maybe they had to be offering someone different from the
farm system. But I do think they correctly diagnosed the
problem with the roster and made an actual effort to
go get that guy, and it just didn't work out.
And you know, at some point that excuse runs out. Obviously,
I think that's what happened this offseason. But if they
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run through another year and it's a below average offense
and they go into the next off season and the
same thing happens again, then I think the story changes.
You could say, look, at some point, you just have
to change your the way you're valuing these guys. You
have to be willing to pay more even if you
think you're paying more in getting less, because you have
to fix the major league off.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Keith laugh here on MJY in the midday on the
Beacon Plumbing Hotline. Ben Williamson got his call up for
the first time yesterday, had his first hit in Major
League Baseball, scored his first run. Where do you rate
him and how good can he really be? I mean,
we know he's he's great at the defensive side, at
the hot corner, but not so great with the bat.
But do you see him being an everyday MLB player
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or do where he perhaps have to go back to
Tacoma sooner than later.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Well, he's definitely a big league something. The question of
whether he's a big league player is probably going to
come down to how the defense translates. And I will
admit to a little bit of a blind spot for
he has an elite defensive third basement. That's a tough profile,
right those We don't see a lot of guys who
play every day in the majors at third base because
they can really feel. Typically those guys hit. We want
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third baseman to hit. That is seen as a corner
position that produces a lot of offense. That's not going
to be him. I don't love a swing. It's going
to be contact or power. He doesn't have a deef
an idea to strike zone. We'll see if the swing
translates against a Juleiu Kitchen. I have some I am
somewhat skeptical on that, but it's upstanding, upstanding defense, and
maybe that's enough. Maybe that is enough. And I know
they want to try him the second base too, because
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obviously blasts out and they think Williamson is a good
enough defender, is that he should be able to be
a defensive asset there as well. That maybe enough it's
certainly going to be enough to keep him around. I
don't know that there's a whole lot of feeling beyond that.
But that said, you're just getting more. He's gonna add
some value. He might end up being able to give
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them as much value as they were going to get
from Bliss. It's going to look different. It's going to
be better defense, maybe a little less pop, but it
should allow them to fill the gap because obviously they
don't want to bring up like a cold Young or
a cold Emerson too soon just because they had an injury.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Yeah or yeah, I know they and the farm system
is unbelievable, there's no question about it. So do you
you don't see maybe Zarro Montes any Harry Ford is
one of those guys getting a call up here prior
to the Major League Baseball or Star Breaker. Do you
think that the poto is just going to stay as
he is for the time being.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
I don't think any of those guys is likely to
be ready. I think a lazarro is in. I think
he's in High A. He might be. I thought he
actually thought he was in High A. All those guys,
Emerson Barmela is not back from the injury, sell us
in throwing a ball. You're not going to see the others,
most likely Ford. The issue is just going to be
but where does he play? Is he the catcher? Well,
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they have a pretty good catcher right now, and nobody's
really sold the Ford S David catcher. Cole Young is
the one who's close. He is the obviously, he was
the first pick, first to joining the organization. Out of
that entire group, he's the closest to being able to
help in the majors. But they also see him as
this guy's one of our best prospects, top three or
four in the system. You don't want to rush him
just because we need something at the big league level.
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And I agree with that. I just think he's of
all the guys we're talking about here, he's the you'll
see in the majors at some point this year. Maybe
it's later than we all start break that it's happened
in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Keith, before we let you go. And by the way,
I appreciate the time you brought it today. I always
love that. I always love when you get national guys
and they got their Seattle centric stuff down to a t.
How do you see this team just adjusting because, like
you said, I mean, we got one hundred and forty
five games to go and it's a long season. That
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is going to be those dog days of summer coming up.
Do you see this team finding a rhythm and not
being in a position like last year where they blew
the ten game lead to the Astros, and maybe finding
some continuity and some sort of successful consistency.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I took them to win the division this year. I
do still think they're the best team on paper in
the division. You know, that is a little bit contingent
on George Kirby comes back and pitches most of the
season form and that Luis Castillo is in horrible for
the rest of the season, or maybe they have to
go out and they have to go make an addition.
(13:07):
I mean, I think regardless regardless of where they are
in the standards, whether they're actually in first place in
July or just sort of somewhere in the fringes of
the playoff race, they're going to have to trade for
something at this season. Now, if you'd ask me this
three weeks ago, I'd say with the bat obviously they
still need a bad and that it's still true, but
it's also quite possible that we'll get to the ly
and say the rotation is actually more of a weakness
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than we thought it was going to be because primarily
because of those two guys I just mentioned, and maybe
they have to do something different. But I think this
team is more than good enough to make the playoffs. However,
they're almost certainly going to have to make an addition.
It's only because the teams they are competing with are
likely to make additions when they get to the all
start a trade deadline.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Keith Law always follow him on Twitter. Keith Law is
his handle, very easy to get to. Keith.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
We appreciate the time, look forward to doing it again
sooner than later. Thanks again, yep, my pleasure. All right,
Keith Law here on MJ in the mid day. All Right,
so maybe I'm being too hard on Julio, but well
we'll see, We'll see how how the season plays out.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
I get it. I know it's early. I'm hoping that
a month from today. So what do we got? Today?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Today is April the fourteenth, I believe the sixteenth, sixteenth,
one month from today, on May sixteenth, Julio's batting at
least two fifty all right, batting more than his weight
two fifty a month from today, and maybe even higher because,
like you heard just there, he has MVP ceiling potential.
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That could be his ceiling. We haven't seen it yet.
And when your second through six hitters last night go
one for nineteen.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
You're not gonna win many games. You're not gonna win
any games.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
The fact that they were even in it thanks to
Dylan Moore, was nothing short of a miracle. But what
he said, that's the thing to look out for coming forward.
That's why maybe Jerry Depot was looking to move Luis Castillo. Castillo,
I don't know, man, I'm hoping that that fifth inning
last night was just an anomaly. He did not look good, man.
(15:09):
He got rocked his stuff as vlo Is down. He
just doesn't look like the guy that was the ace
of this staff for the better part of the last
couple of years. He just doesn't look like that guy anymore.
And now you can see why the Mariners were trying
to trade him and maybe get a Christian Walker or whatever,
but didn't happen. Sod be interesting to see as time
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goes by. I'm gonna continue to monitor and I'm gonna
continue to be on Julio because I believe too. Like
he said, he has MVP potential. I care about production.
Potential is only good if it eventually materializes into production.
If I don't see that equate one with the other,
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then potential means absolutely nothing.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Nothing. Coming up.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Next, there's a guy who's on the market. Could he
be a fit here in Seattle? We'll tell you who?
And would you be willing to pay his salary? Next
on MJ in the midday right here on Seattle Sports
Leader ninety three three kJ artham mentally and physically. And
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I know the toughest thing to do in sports is
hit a baseball, but I'm talking about on your body
every single game.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Now.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
I know there's one hundred and sixty two in baseball
as opposed to seventeen plus playoffs if you're lucky in
the NFL, so your body gets a chance to recover
unless you're playing Thursday and night football in a short
week or something.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
To that extent.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
But yeah, I just yeah, I can't believe that this
poll is going that way. I think somebody said it
pretty good on the text line four nine four or
five one. It said, well, hitting a baseball.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Is its hardest thing in sports. Period.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Note no one's arguing that. I'm talking about what is it.
What's tougher to do on your body? Gaming in game out?
Tougher or takes more skill? And again you're getting into
hitting at Baseball's the hardest thing in sports. What Otani
is done is way more difficult. What's harder on the
body playing both ways in football? What's harder playing baseball?
(17:22):
If you disagree, you don't know sports. I don't care
how emotional you get. Baseball's way harder than football. Okay, sure,
sure it is. Whatever you say, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
You like and.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Take get twenty five carries a game in football like
sakuon Barkley or thirty. And you tell me what's tougher.
Tell me what's tougher. Julio's overrated in and out is
better than Dixon. Australian accent is hard to listen to.
MJ my new favorite KJR guy. Keep offending the Chad
ak Mel Karen's and I'll continue to listen. From the
two five to three, Thank you very much for that one.
(17:55):
All right, this is a good one. From the two
zero six. What Showhey is doing is better than what
Travis Hunter wants to do at the next level. First
of all, Hunter hasn't done anything in the NFL yet. Secondly,
show Hay is arguably the best hitter in all of baseball.
When he's on the mound, he's arguably one of the
best pitchers in all of baseball. Physically, it's harder, might
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be harder for Hunter to do what he wants to
do in the NFL, but let him do it first
before we start comparing the two. If he becomes the
number one receiver in the NFL in a shutdown corner,
then yes, it would probably be a better or more
difficult achievement to accomplish. But let's see him do it first.
Because show Hey is doing something that a lot of
people thought couldn't be done at the major league level.
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Well said, I don't disagree with any of that, Show
Hey Otani, and I don't think he gets enough of
the praise that he should because he's not an American
born player. He's not, but nonetheless he's still unbelievable and
work crazy price of a mission.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
You need to Hey.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Neither is Luca, Neither is joke joker. Yeah, yeah, neither
is a lot of these guys.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Joker might be getting it though, they're finally starting to
see it. Yeah, in my opinion, I could be wrong though,
but from what I've seen there given, they're like.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Yeah, he's the best he's ever seen. Like he's he's
that dude.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I've never seen a skill set of him in my
entire life at that size, I've never in my life.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Yeah, I love I love how Shack was like, oh
I could dominate. I'm shut the f off stop. He might.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Yeah, he might not be what you are athletically, but
you're gonna have a very tough time guarding.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
It's really about Shack. Shack was just physically imposing and dominant.
But that's that's what he was. Just Yo, what is
he gonna do if with Joker takes him out to
the perimeter.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Nothing? And then and then Joker puts him between his
legs and drives right by him. He can't do it.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Yeah, So so like I love the conversation, but it
was like Shack Shack.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Shack a lot of times when you compare eras Shack
becomes the grumpy, get off my mom guy.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
But continue what you were saying, Yeah, he just does so.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
This this is a lot of things here that you know,
ridiculous skill set, No doubt, being a cy young pitcher
an MVP hitters way more difficult requires a skill set
no one has but Otani. I will never argue that that.
I will never argue definitely not. I'm talking about what's
tougher to do that. I'll go ahead and fade Travis Hunter.
(20:24):
He'll never get to the level of doing it both
ways the way Otani is.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
That'll never in any sport, any athlete. We'll never see
this again. So at the beginning of the show, and
I talk.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
About appreciating, appreciate Otani, appreciate Steph Curry because we may
we may never we probably will never see anything like
these guys again.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
I appreciate show. Hey, oh you need everybody should all right?
What about this?
Speaker 1 (20:50):
So the Dolphins are looking to move on from cornerback
Jalen Ramsey. I'm gonna just kind of follow on this
really quick. He has a guaranteed salary of twenty four
point two three five million in a cap number of
sixteen point six one million in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
I'm not interested.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Uh, Jayleen Ramsey, things seem to go good in the
beginning wherever he goes, and then they they like bottom
out afterwards and he ends up wanting to go somewhere else.
He's not the cover corner that he was seven or
eight years ago. You're not getting prime Jalen Ramsey. And
for this money, no, I think this ofthin is gonna
be hard pressed to find a team who wants him
for this price. He gets twenty five million in twenty
(21:36):
twenty six, twenty six million in twenty twenty seven, and
thirty six million to twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Yeah, I'm I'm good. I'm good.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
I'll take my chances week will and I'll go with
Rieke on that one. Reek well, or I'll go with
somebody in the draft. We'll go with somebody the draft.
I just don't think that Jayleen Ramsey's worth it anymore.
That's so I'll leave it at that, all right. Coming
up next, I've been on a hot streak. Do I
have another? Can I make it four wins in a row?
Speaker 3 (22:00):
On the NBA? Coming up next?
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Beat the books MJ in the midday right here on
ninety three to three kJ R f M. I got
the Orlando Magic. I don't love them. On the number
minus five and a half. So what I'm gonna do
is this. I'm gonna take them on the money line.
I know it's a lot minus two twenty to win
one hundred. I have faith in Orlando at home to
win this game. All they've got to do is win.
(22:23):
Give me the Grizzlies and Warriors over two twenty seven
and a half.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Give me the.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Magic on a money line, the Warriors on a money line,
and the over there there's a three leg parlay.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
There we go.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
All I gotta go back over to the casino today and
cash those tickets. So I hope you're listening to me.
I'm here to win you money, Seattle. That's what I'm
here to do for you.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
All Right.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
We got two games tonight, Hoyvey. I don't love either
one of them. I really don't keep bulls Mavericks Kings.
By the way, for the Eastern Conference Finals playing and
the Western Conference Final playing. On both of these games,
(23:12):
the loser are done. This is no like you lose
like Atlanta last night and you get to play again
on Friday, or you lose like Memphis last night and
you get to play again on Friday. No, no, no, no,
this is single elimination. I'm a little perplexed the Bulls,
who have owned the Heat all season long, they're only
(23:34):
a one and a half point favorite at home. Why
is that? That's what we call a ratty line. That's
a ratty line. I don't like ratty lines. They make
me very feel just kind of like, why is that?
I don't really get it. So I'm not in fraud
(23:56):
by either matchup. But you guys are gamblers and it's
my job to get give you a pick. Give me
the Bulls tonight minus one and a half. I'll take
the Bulls the Heat seasons over the Heat or a joke.
I know they've come on recently, but they don't have
Jimmy Butler. I don't trust in them. I just don't.
I think the Bulls at home this will be revenge
because the Bulls almost beat the Heat a couple of
(24:17):
years ago in Miami. Would have ended their season, but
the Heat went on to the finals where they lost
of the Nuggets. I think the Bulls get revenge and
I'm gonna go with the Bulls at home tonight.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
This afternoon at four thirty. Give me the Bulls minus
one and a half.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Not as strong of a feel that I did yesterday
when I gave you those three winners. But if I
have to pick one, give me Chicago minus one and
a half tonight. Have no feeling on Mavericks Kings. The
King should win their four and a half point favorite.
But you know the Mavericks don't have Kyrie Irving, Luka
(24:55):
Dancitz a Laker, so you know, and Fernico Harrison.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Boy, that could be the worst thing. Man.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
You lose tonight against Sacramento and a play in Oh boy,
that is uh, that would not be good.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
So that's what I'm looking at right now.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Take the Chicago Bulls tonight minus one and a half.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Hopefully I'll hit it and I can make it one, two, three,
four in a row. Be four in a row.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
All right. I have a question for you, has nothing
to do with gambling. I got fed these on a
plane ride, not on the Alaska Airlines ride, but on
a Southwest Airlines ride. They're the greatest crackers, well not crackers,
the pretzels. They're the companies called Stellar and they are Stellar.
(25:41):
But there's Stellar Mini pretzel braids and then and the
brand is Maui Monk. Basically what it is It's a
vegan butter braid with Maui onion styles seasoning and monk fruit.
And this is to die for. I can only tell
you they sell something like this, the Hawaiian Potato chips,
and they sell a Maui onion Hawaiian potato chips which
(26:04):
you can get at an Amazon Fresh, which I love
those two.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Can you just.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Kind of because I put the borest thing out one
time and you all just just came hard on the
text line big time? Can you tell me where I
can find the Stellar mini pretzel braids Maui monk flavor.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Please just let me know.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
I'm kind of um. This was my last little little
thing today. Now, yes, you can order them on Amazon.
At one point Costco carried them. I can't find them
anywhere right now.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
I just can't. I don't know why. I just wherever
I go, I They're just.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
There was one store. Oh you want to repeat the
the the bets please sure? From the two five three
Chicago Bulls minus one and a half Tonight one and
a half also going to do this. This is for
Chris Kidd and me. This is such a foolish argument.
From the two five three Jerome Bettison that it took
(27:00):
him twenty minutes to get out of bed after a game.
Baseball players can play two games in one day if
need be physically impossible. In football, Amen, that's what I'm
talking about. I'm not saying hitting in baseball. Hitting a
baseball is the hardest thing to do in sports. And
what shoe Hey Otani is doing, what shoe Hey Otani
is doing is something that hasn't happened since Babe Ruth
(27:25):
when there were like four teams and there were a
bunch of white racists who didn't allow black players in
baseball back in the twenties. So how much can you
even count that because it was segregated leagues. What shoe
Hey Otani is doing is the most remarkable thing of
all time. It's tougher, it's tougher. So yeah, it's just
(27:47):
tougher to do that in football. I believe it. It
only took your own bed at twenty minutes aget out
of bed. Man, I can't even imagine. John Stockton used
to be iceed down for hours in a hotel room
before a game, and they thought he wouldn't be able
to play. In somehow, some way he willed his way
onto the court because he was one of the greatest
(28:08):
point guards in NBA history, no doubt about it. But
there's nothing one more from the three six to zero
tougher on your body, football, harder to do baseball, pitching
and hitting are not related. Perfect. Couldn't agree with you,
could not agree with you any more on that. I
(28:30):
just I couldn't agree with you. One more thing anders
Hurst reminded me about. Anders Hurst is the maybe the
president of the Julio Rodriguez Fan Club. Since twenty twenty three,
Julio is top ten in Major League Baseball in war
(28:54):
and top.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Four in the American League in war. That's great. How
is translating to the Mariners playoffs? Has only translated once?
And then they and that was it.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
They didn't do anything, So that war stuff is great.
Mike Trout was a three time MVP in the beginning
of his career. How many playoff series has he won?
Speaker 3 (29:13):
One?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
I think he won one. Maybe he hasn't done crap
in the playoffs? Nothing, nothing, Remember all that old argument
back in the day Mike troutfs Bryce Harper. Bryce Harper's Yeah,
I mean, Mike Trout's a surefire Hall of Famer, but
Bryce Trout I meansun be Bryce Harper that combined them
there for a second, Bryce Harper, He's doing it in
Mike Trout's hometown of Philadelphia, and he's more of a
(29:35):
Philadelphia and than Mike Trout is anymore. They don't even
claim Mike Trout anymore because he hasn't done crap. So yeah,
Chicago Bulls Tonight minus one and a half. Don't go
too big, don't bet your kid's future college tuition.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Just just go enough to.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Be interested in it, right, Just go enough to be
interested in I'm gonna go with the Bulls tonight. I'm
gonna go with Kobe White and the Bulls tonight. That
give me I think the heat, I think the heat
or without Jimmy Butler, and I think it's been a
season that just needs to end a sap.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
All Right.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
You're not gonna believe what a major, major personality on
a major network had to say about a guy who'll
be the number one pick in the draft and who
he compared him to. We'll get to that next on
MJ in the midday ninety three to three KJRFM
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