On today’s Daily Puck Drop, Jason “Puck” Puckett welcomes his Friday guests, Jim Moore, Chris Egan from King 5 and The Scout.  Puck and Jim open up the show touching in on the Mariners, the Ballard Beavers baseball team playing in the state semifinals, calling up Cole Young and Jim makes a case to call up Harry Ford as well. 

Chris Egan drops by and picks up on the train of calling up Young and Ford and says it’s time for both to come up to help out a struggling offense.  Charlie, Egans dog makes a surprise visit to the show.  The three have a good chat about a Seattle Times article on former Major League Baseball player Travis Snider, who has started a company to change the culture of youth sports and make it more about fun.  Before Egan departs he shares a new study on the three sports that are best for your physical and mental health…shocker, what is number one. 

Puck welcomes The Scout, an anonymous MLB scout who has spent the past 30 years covering the sport.  They start off their conversation talking about two high school baseball players that square off Friday in the 3A semifinals, Ballard vs. Mount Vernon.  Xaiver Neyens, who plays for Mount Vernon, will be a top 20 draft pick  and Truitt Madonna plays catcher for Ballard and is committed to UCLA and is expected to go somewhere between the 4-5th round.  The Scout has also spent the past week covering the Tacoma Rainiers and gives his thoughts on Cole Young and Harry Ford and when Mariners fans should expect to see them on the big league club.  

The show wraps up with, “Hey, What the Puck!”  We could all still learn that youth sports and all sports is just about fun! 

(1:00) Puck and Jim 

(34:47) Chris Egan 

(1:03:41) The Scout 

(1:25:17) “Hey, What the Puck!”