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On today’s Daily Puck Drop, Jason “Puck” Puckett and Jim Moore discuss the red hot Mariners offense.  Cal Raleigh is once again clutch for the Mariners and Puck and Jim give Julio and J.P. their praise for their recent play.  Julio starting to show signs of turning the corner and J.P. has been red hot since the first week of the season.  Jim and Puck also cover the Cougars and a new quarterback that has joined the team.  Jim wonders how good the team will be this year and they talk about how excited they are to watch the Cougs play at Ole Miss and their expectations for Jimmy Rogers in year one. MLB Insider Ryan Divish joins for his weekly visit from the Valley Furniture store in Havre, Montana.  Ryan starts off wondering how the Mariners keep winning and the way they are doing it.  The offensive numbers continue to improve, especially from J.P. Crawford and now Julio is putting up better numbers.  How much credit does Edgar Martinez get and what is the key element he is sharing with them?Puck wraps up the show with, “Hey, What the Puck!?”  (3:15) Jim and Puck talk about the Mariners and their incredible start to the season offensively (1:02:22) MLB Insider Ryan Divish *Edited version (1:23:45) “Hey, What the Puck!?”  

On the latest episode of the Sports Pit with Jason “Puck” Puckett, Steve Sandmeyer and Matt “Stretch” Johnson, Puck and Sandy have pulled Stretch away from watching game seven of the Blues and Jets and they actually opened the show talking about the sport of hockey and why it’s so different from the other sports, especially in the playoffs and why it doesn’t translate more to the mass media and sports ran in the U.S. They transition to talking about the Mariners and the unpredictable nature of sports and how the Mariners continue to surprise this season and why they are so fun to watch Stretch details how he because the Sounders play by play voice, calling games for five years. Puck and Sandy share their stories of starting off doing games at small radio stations in small towns. Sandy shares his favorite sporting memory and it took place in a Mt. Vernon gym watching high school wrestling. The show wraps up with the conclusion of the Jets beating the Blues in double overtime and Puck patronizes Stretch. 

On today’s Daily Puck Drop, Jason “Puck” Puckett is joined by Jim Duquette, MLB Network Radio and John Canzano from JohnCanzano.com.  Puck opens up the show discussing last nights Mariners and that loss was squarely on the shoulders of Dan Wilson.  Jim Duquette, MLB Network Radio, stopped by for his weekly chat to discuss Dan Wilson’s managerial decisions in the 11th inning against Oakland. Plus, the health concerns of Bryce Miller, is the struggle real for Juilo Rodriguez, who is the team to beat in the A.L. West and is their a dominant team in the American League?John Canzano, JohnCanzano.com, opens up the conversation discussing the role of television in today’s sports climate.  Is there too much sports on nowadays?   John and Puck also discuss whether or not UCLA and USC will regret joining the Big 10?  Are Oregon and Washington in a better position than the L.A. schools in the future of the conference?  John discusses what to expect in year two under Jedd Fisch and what are the expectations for Jimmy Rogers in year one in leading the Cougars.  They also discuss John’s piece on Bill Belichick and his young, controlling girlfriend. Why do we care so much about this story?  Because it’s a real life car crash happening in real time. Puck dives into the NBA and last nights games involving the Nuggets/Thunder and the Celtics obsession with the three-point shot. Puck wraps up the show with, “Hey, What the Puck!?”  Puck wonders if Kalen DeBoer will look back ten years from now and regret taking the Alabama job. (1:22) Puck on Dan Wilson blowing last nights game (10:52) Jim Duquette, MLB Network Radio (41:53) John Canzano, JohnCanzano.com (1:12:14) Puck on the NBA (1:20:24) “Hey, What the Puck!?”  

On today’s Daily Puck Drop, Jason “Puck” Puckett is joined by Jim Moore at the start of the show and then Puck plays a portion of The Sports Pit podcast with Steve Sandmeyer and Matt “Stretch” Johnson. Puck and Jim start off talking about Jim’s visit to Pullman to move his kids out and Puck wonders if the loosely tied furniture he had tied to his truck made it all the way from Bend, Oregon to Pullman.  They still laugh at the success of the Mariners, and yet Puck is still worried that the other shoe will drop on the team, but they are playing a very entertaining style of baseball right now that looks like it will carry over for the entire summer.   Before Jim leaves, they make fun of all the Seahawks rookie minicamp talk and Puck tells Jim about his son having a perfect game broken up in Little League. After Jim says goodbye, Puck plays a portion of The Sports Pit with Steve Sandmeyer and Matt “Stretch” Johnson where they discuss a lot about the NHL playoffs because they recored the episode during Game 7 between the Jets and Blues and Stretch is a huge hockey fan.  They marvel at the toughness and sportsmanship of hockey. Puck wraps up the show with, “Hey, What the Puck!?”  No better tradition in sports than the handshake line in hockey.  Nothing compares. (2:37) Puck and Jim (51:41) The Sports Pit (1:22:55) “Hey, What the Puck!?”  

On Friday’s Daily Puck Drop, Jason “Puck” Puckett is joined by Chris Egan, KING 5, who is filling in for Jim Moore, because he’s picking his boys from college.  Puck also welcomes “The Scout”, his weekly visit with anonymous baseball scout who currently works for a major league team.  Puck and Egan open the show talking about the tragedy that touched the Umpqua Community College softball team that Puck and Canzano talked about a few weeks ago.  Egan started off his television career in southern Oregon and wanted to pay his respects.  They also touched in on the amazing start for the Mariners, plus, Grey Zabel getting Steve Hutchinson’s number 76 and Egan details two incredible stories that will air next week on KING 5 involving one of the states top baseball players and a story about courage, perseverance, addiction and triumph involving a Edmonds Community College softball player. It’s truly an unbelievable story that will inspire you.  Puck welcomes “The Scout” his weekly chat with an anonymous MLB scout.  They try and make sense of the offensive start for the Mariners, the play of Jorge Polanco, his thoughts on Samad Taylor, Tyler Locklear, Jonny Farmelo, health of Bryce Miller, Logan Evans rise and the dominance of Andres Munoz. Puck wraps up the show with, “Hey, What the Puck!?”  (1:00) Puck and Egan (41:58) “The Scout” (1:01:42) Puck shouts out the Ingraham baseball program and former O’Dea hoops star Mitch Johnson, who’s taking over the San Antonio Spurs (1:11:06) “Hey, What the Puck!?”  Select coaches telling parents and kids they love “multi-sport” kids, but the make them choose their sport are the worst 

On today’s Daily Puck Drop, episode 608! Jason “Puck” Puckett welcomes his regular Thursday guests, Mike Garafolo, NFL Network, Michael-Shawn Dugar from The Athletic and Brad Adam from ROOT sports. Puck starts off the show laughing about another Mariners win and how unexpected this start to the season is for the Mariners. In their win on Wednesday they won in a fashion that they haven’t done before as Puck explains. Mike Garafolo, NFL Network, recaps the NFL draft and what he liked about what the Seahawks did in addressing a number of needs. They also discussed the Sheduer Sanders slide and why it happened and can he change his ways once he gets to the NFL. Michael-Shawn Dugar, The Athletic, visits with Puck for his final visit before the start of next season.  Puck and Dugar spend the majority of their time discussing Jalen Milroe and what his impact will be on the team and how soon will he play?  Milroe has accuracy issues, is that something he can improve on at the NFL level?  Puck and Dugar agree that having Milroe push Sam Darnold is a good thing for Darnold.  Despite the contract, Darnold can’t feel comfortable being the starting quarterback.  Brad Adam, ROOT Sports, dials in from his hotel in Dallas as he is getting ready to spend his off day golfing with Mariners coaches.  Once Brad gets done telling Puck about his pre-golf stretching and drinking routine they get into the Mariners and the unbelievable start of the season for Jorge Polanco.  The show wraps up with, “Hey, What the Puck!?”  The best storyline in baseball is Jorge Polanco and it’s not close. (1:05) Puck on the Mariners and the fact they keep winning (11:24) Mike Garafolo, NFL Network (36:40) Michael-Shawn Dugar, The Athletic (1:01:33) Brad Adam, ROOT Sports (1:24:15) “Hey, What the Puck!?” 

On today’s Daily Puck Drop, Jason “Puck” Puckett is joined by Jim Moore, the Go-2-Guy, Rob Staton from SeahawksDraftBlog.com and our MLB Insider Ryan Divish. Puck and Jim start off the show laughing at the offensive surge from Jorge Polanco and the Mariners. It just continues, My Oh My!   Jim’s wife Kathy crashes the party and Puck wonders why isn’t she doing the podcast over Jim! Puck and Jim also dive into the Cougars home football schedule and TV partners and times announced, plus they discuss Bill Belichick’s book tour and his psychotic young girlfriend, Tyrese Haliburton’s dad running onto the court to confront Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Atlanta Falcons fining their defensive coordinator for his sons prank on Sheduer Sanders.  Rob Staton, SeahawksDraftblog.com, joins Puck to wrap up the NFL draft and loves what the Seahawks did over the course of three days.  They chat about Grey Zabel’s impact, Jalen Milroe’s role on the team, the athleticism of the class, and how every pick just made sense for Seattle.  Rob heaps a lot of praise at John Schneider and Mike Macdonald. Ryan Divish and Puck discussed the incredible start to the season for Jorge Polanco and the Mariners offense and try to make sense of what they have done.  The simple answer is that they don’t have any answers for what is going on, but rather they are just sitting back and enjoying the wave of offense.  The injuries continue to mount for Seattle with now Dylan Moore and Luke Raley going to the IL.   How long will Logan Gilbert be out for and is George Kirby getting closer to coming back?   The bullpen needs help and help is on its way with Matt Brash.   What’s going on with Bryce Miller?  It feels like Miller will eventually make a visit to the IL as well.  Lastly, Puck and Divish wrap up talking NWA wrestling and their love affair with Dusty Rhodes. Puck wraps up the show with, “Hey, What the Puck!?”  The Mariners offensive surge is awesome, but the starting pitching is starting to worry Puck. (3:28) -Puck and Jim (37:30) -Rob Staton, SeahawksDraftblog.com (1:02:45) -MLB Insider Ryan Divish (1:23:06) - “Hey, What the Puck!?” 

On today’s Daily Puck Drop, Jason “Puck” Puckett welcomes  MLB Network’s Jim Duquette, The Ringer’s Danny Kelly and John Canzano from JohnCanzano.com to the show. Puck opens up detailing Canzano’s breaking news on the 2025 Pac-2 television deal involving Oregon State and Washington State home games. It’s a win-win for the two schools. Jim Duquette drops by for his weekly visit to talk all things baseball.  They chat about the red hot Mariners offense, Jorge Polanco, Logan Gilbert’s injury timeline, Jarren Duran incident in Cleveland, and will the Rockies break the record for most losses in baseball history. The Ringer’s Danny Kelly pays one final visit to recap the NFL draft.  Danny gives his overall grade plus thoughts on how the Seahawks plan to use Jalen Milroe, their favorite pick (the ‘Bama fullback) and the absurdity over the Sheduer Sanders coverage. John Canzano joins Puck to discuss the television deal for Oregon State and Washington State for the upcoming football season.  Why having ESPN and CBS is a good thing and may be a sign of things to come for a future deal.   John gives his latest thoughts on expansion and says he thinks the conference is focused on one particular school at the moment.  Plus, what does the Sanders media circus tells us about new age broadcasting and how we now cover stories?Lastly, “Hey, What the Puck!?”  The television deal for Washington State and Oregon State is a smashing success in the eyes of Puck. (1:00) Puck on the Pac-2 television deal (10:35) Jim Duquette, MLB Network (32:48) Danny Kelly, The Ringer (1:02:17) John Canzano, JohnCanzano.com (1:27:53) “Hey, What the Puck!?”  

On episode 6 of the edited version of the  Sports Pit with Jason “Puck” Puckett, Steve Sandmeyer and Matt “Stretch” Johnson, talk about the M's, NFL Draft and Mel Kiper's ESPN meltdown.  If you want to listen to the full one hour and 10 minute show, go to PuckSports.com and sign up to become a Puck's Posse member to gain full access to the show. Please enjoy this sneak preview! 

On today’s Daily Puck Drop, Jason “Puck” Puckett  and Jim Moore, the Go-2-Guy, open up the show discussing the red hot Seattle Mariners, Jorge Polanco and they are flabbergasted that they and he are playing so well. It begs the question, can the Mariners keep it up?   They also dive into the Seahawks draft weekend and what a runaway success it was and they reached talked about their favorite part of the class.  Jim loved Damian Martinez and Puck loved that virtually every pick was a team captain and they never entered the transfer portal.  Michael-Shawn Dugar, The Athletic, joined the show to recap the draft and offer his perspective and what he made of  the new class.   How will they deploy Jalen Milroe?  Was it unfair of Mike Macdonald to come out and say that Sam Darnold will be on the field 90 percent of the time and the other 10 percent goes to Milroe?  What was notable about this class and what set it apart from other classes under John Schneider?After Dugar leaves, Puck and Jim clean some house on other stories like rookies asking to wear retired jerseys. What was Abdul Carter thinking by asking Lawrence Taylor to wear 56?  And why is  number one retired by the Titans for Warren Moon?Lastly, “Hey, What the Puck!?”  The NFL as a whole embarrassed itself with the Sheduer Sanders saga. (3:25)  Jim and Puck on the M’s offense and Seahawks draft (33:11) Michael-Shawn Dugar, The Athletic (50:06) Puck and Jim on Bill Belichick CBS Morning News interview (1:16:03) “Hey, What the Puck?!”