Speaker 1: Welcome to episode number ninety nine of the Marine Layer Podcast.
Speaker 1: It's a mail bag episode. We'll answer some of the
Speaker 1: best questions you guys left us over the past week.
Speaker 1: We'll take a look around baseball with our MLB wrap around,
Speaker 1: focusing on Baltimore. They have acquired Corbyn Burns from the Brewers.
Speaker 1: We'll close out the show with ruthless replies.
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Speaker 1: Rolling and we welcome you to this episode of the
Speaker 1: Marine Layer Podcast, part of the Just Baseball Podcast network,
Speaker 1: recording here on Thursday evening, February First. You know, well,
Speaker 1: I kind of feel bad for Mariner fans.
Speaker 3: You know why, why.
Speaker 2: Don't you enlighten me.
Speaker 1: We've had a few days now, a few hours, a
Speaker 1: few sections to sit here and observe some of the
Speaker 1: feedback from the Jorge Polanco trade, and there's a lot
Speaker 1: of PTSD out there.
Speaker 3: Dog I still as something that I thought was.
Speaker 1: A no brainer trade when we talked about it on
Speaker 1: Wednesday's show, and it's had its chance to sort of
Speaker 1: sit and season itself and marinate over the course of
Speaker 1: the week and for people to finally start buying in.
Speaker 1: It's going the opposite direction now, it's it's still the
Speaker 1: I'm worried the Mariner's overpaid for trying to upgrade their roster,
Speaker 1: and it stinks because there's so much I feel like
Speaker 1: there's so much negativity baked in that to to us
Speaker 1: as a fan base, that some people, even with a
Speaker 1: logical and trade that fit like a puzzle piece to
Speaker 1: the Mariner's roster, is somehow still viewed in a negative light.
Speaker 2: Wow, you're telling me that Mariners people online and on
Speaker 2: social media are being negative. They're being negative about something reasonable.
Speaker 2: Let me let me tell you this. If the mariners
Speaker 2: won the World Series one day in six games, there'd
Speaker 2: be bands on Twitter or online complaining that they didn't win.
Speaker 3: For it's a fair point. Yeah, it's a fair point. No,
Speaker 3: it's a good I gotta chuck.
Speaker 1: I gotta chuckle out of this because on our local
Speaker 1: radio show here in Corvallis, I was I was on
Speaker 1: there talking about the trade earlier this week, and it
Speaker 1: was right off of that, like I was brought in
Speaker 1: to talk about it, and what prompted it was a
Speaker 1: text or texting and saying, Oh, I'm worried they paid
Speaker 1: too much for hojor blonko. I'm just trying to sit
Speaker 1: there and think. It's like, do you guys want to
Speaker 1: do you want a second baseman who can hit? Okay,
Speaker 1: well he's not free.
Speaker 2: These same people that are complaining would be complaining during
Speaker 2: the season if there was no production at second base.
Speaker 2: So no matter what, of course they're going to find
Speaker 2: something to complain about. This is just how it goes.
Speaker 2: But we appreciate all of you listeners of the podcast
Speaker 2: and all you watchers on YouTube, and we know if
Speaker 2: you're watching and you're listening, you like us, are a
Speaker 2: fan of the Jorge Polanco trade. So that's why we
Speaker 2: appreciate you fans.
Speaker 3: And we certainly appreciate the love.
Speaker 1: A little bit of love we got back in exchange
Speaker 1: with Justin Topa on his way out and when it
Speaker 1: was announced it was officially him posted a little bit
Speaker 1: of goodbye on Instagram and just really nice it was.
Speaker 3: It was good to see that with Justin Topa.
Speaker 1: We we're excited to see him when he when he
Speaker 1: comes back to Seattle in June.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think what you're getting at is so we
Speaker 2: posted on Instagram on our story just kind of like, dude,
Speaker 2: we're always rooting for you, added Justin Topa in the post,
Speaker 2: saying like twins are getting a great reliever, and he
Speaker 2: responded to us like he actually replied like he could
Speaker 2: have just liked the message or maybe he would have
Speaker 2: just seen it and kind of moved on, but no,
Speaker 2: he responded to us like he's like, thank you guys,
Speaker 2: like I really appreciate it, and we said like absolutely, obviously,
Speaker 2: again we're always fanciers. Hopefully we'll get a chance to
Speaker 2: catch up in June when when you come back to Seattle,
Speaker 2: and he responded again he's like, yeah, one hundred percent,
Speaker 2: let's do it, like like you know, catch up at
Speaker 2: the field and all, which he didn't have to do that,
Speaker 2: but he did, which just goes back to us talking
Speaker 2: about one why we're from a personal standpoint and from
Speaker 2: a baseball standpoint, really upset to see him go, and
Speaker 2: because he's just an A plus dude and we've gotten
Speaker 2: to kind of witness that a bunch now. So yeah,
Speaker 2: we'll always be rooting for justin Toba.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's someone all of all of our listeners should
Speaker 1: should be, should be rooting as much as possible when
Speaker 1: he's in Minnesota. Hope and I hope he makes an
Speaker 1: All Star team. Hope he establishes himself in a great
Speaker 1: role with the Twins, and you know, hopefully for his sake,
Speaker 1: they have some success and and and it benefits him
Speaker 1: greatly and he improves his stock as a major leaguer
Speaker 1: and really sort of solidifies himself as a big leaguer.
Speaker 1: Let's get into this mailbag. I'm excited for this mailbag.
Speaker 1: We've got an interesting, diverse set of questions. We wanted
Speaker 1: to mix in baseball questions and live questions as well.
Speaker 1: I think we have we have a nice assortment of them.
Speaker 1: So let's start out with our first one. This one
Speaker 1: we got from at Mariner's Steve on X or Twitter,
Speaker 1: the question is, do you guys have more confidence in
Speaker 1: Josh Rojas or Luis Urias to produce at third lyle
Speaker 1: what's your answer?
Speaker 2: It's close. I feel like for me it's probably Rojas.
Speaker 2: And maybe that's because we've actually seen him play in
Speaker 2: a Mariner's uniform, and I feel like there's some people
Speaker 2: out there that are a little bit higher on Luis
Speaker 2: Urrius and the idea of him bouncing back. I have
Speaker 2: seen a lot of people that are really really of
Speaker 2: the full belief that he's going to have a good
Speaker 2: year here, and I hope he does. I just would
Speaker 2: like to see it in person in Seattle to really
Speaker 2: believe it. And what we saw at Josh Rojas, I
Speaker 2: feel like a lot of people liked it. For Get
Speaker 2: about the impact he had once he got traded over here,
Speaker 2: because he had a really tough start to his season
Speaker 2: in Arizona for the first few months before the trade.
Speaker 2: When he got over here, he was hitting out of
Speaker 2: that nine spot. He was getting on base of time,
Speaker 2: he hit for a little bit of power, upgrade a
Speaker 2: second base over Colton Wong. Of course, now he's going
Speaker 2: to slide to third, where he has more experience. I
Speaker 2: don't know like I like Josh Rojas as a player.
Speaker 2: I've always said if he is a nine hitter in
Speaker 2: a good lineup, that is perfectly okay. Right now, Josh
Speaker 2: Rojas is a nine hitter in a good lineup, so
Speaker 2: I would say, ever so slightly, rojast I thought of
Speaker 2: this differently.
Speaker 1: It depends on what you're looking for in your third baseman,
Speaker 1: right I think Rojas is the safer option. I think
Speaker 1: Arias is the higher upside at third for what a
Speaker 1: third baseman should probably bring, which for the Mariners case
Speaker 1: would be more offense at third. I think Arias would
Speaker 1: provide that he's got the higher offensive ceiling than Rojastos.
Speaker 1: Rojas and his career has topped out of one ten
Speaker 1: w orc plus Arrius at a one to twelve. But
Speaker 1: I think with the Batti has a little bit more
Speaker 1: of a power profile. They both have a decent walk tool,
Speaker 1: so that sort of bounces into Louis Arias's favor. If
Speaker 1: you need one win above replacement, my guy's Josh Rojas.
Speaker 1: If you need two to two and a half, your
Speaker 1: guy's Louis Sirius. That's how I plant that I'm honestly
Speaker 1: kind of leaning towards Louise no offense to Josh, but
Speaker 1: I'm kind of leaning towards Orias. He just kind of
Speaker 1: he feels more like an everyday third basement than Josh
Speaker 1: Rojas does. I just don't know if Rojas has the
Speaker 1: bat to do it and the powers, more specifically, the
Speaker 1: power to be an everyday third basement.
Speaker 3: So I would actually, I would lean Louis Airius in
Speaker 3: this one.
Speaker 2: You're coming around on him. You're starting to sip the
Speaker 2: tea on Louise Arius a little bit, because that wasn't
Speaker 2: That wasn't either of our take a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 2: and now all of a sudden, you seem to be
Speaker 2: again buying in.
Speaker 1: Well, now he's got the benefit of platooning, so he's
Speaker 1: going to have the advantage most of the time at
Speaker 1: the plate, and that's going to benefit his offense. I'm
Speaker 1: just thinking of in the sense of what a third
Speaker 1: basement is. When you think of a third baseman, you
Speaker 1: think of good defense, You think of a complete offensive
Speaker 1: player that hits for power and average and gets on
Speaker 1: base as well. The Mariners don't have the complete package
Speaker 1: in either of these players, but Josh Rojas profiles much
Speaker 1: more as a second baseman than he does as a
Speaker 1: third baseman, and that's why it just it's kind of
Speaker 1: weird to see him over there at third. We've gotten
Speaker 1: used to Gino hitting a bunch of bombs and playing
Speaker 1: good defense over there at third the last two seasons,
Speaker 1: and while they might not have that, Arias is a
Speaker 1: little bit closer to that Gino profile than Rojas is.
Speaker 1: And ROAs walks a lot, and overall his approach at
Speaker 1: the plate is good, but when it comes down to it,
Speaker 1: his lack of power is kind gonna be a detriment
Speaker 1: to his third base production. And that's why it's for
Speaker 1: anyone who watched last season, he could say, oh, obviously Rojas, Well, no,
Speaker 1: I don't think it's that obvious. To be honest, there
Speaker 1: is more upside in the bat of Luis Arias if
Speaker 1: he can turn it around and have a full, healthy
Speaker 1: season over there.
Speaker 2: You remember what ZIP said, ninetieth percentile projection for Luis
Speaker 2: Airius is one twenty six WRC plus Rojas's ninetieth percentile
Speaker 2: was not that, So you're right if you're looking for upside.
Speaker 2: The belief is Urius Urias. We're gonna have to learn
Speaker 2: it to make sure to get his last name right.
Speaker 2: Maybe we can ask him at some point, or somebody
Speaker 2: can ask him, is your guy? Urius? Is your guy
Speaker 2: if you want the higher ceiling. So, yeah, I think
Speaker 2: that's a fair I think that's a fair assessment. Also,
Speaker 2: remember Luis Airius when he hit that home run in
Speaker 2: the WBC off of Roki Sasaki.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was down in my sad saw that the
Speaker 3: other day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean long before we ever thought he was
Speaker 2: going to be a Mariner. But hey took Roki Sasaki
Speaker 2: deep in the WBC, and you can argue, I mean, again,
Speaker 2: this is a few years down the road, because Sasaki
Speaker 2: has a few years till he's going to get to
Speaker 2: the big leagues. But you could argue that is one
Speaker 2: of the five best pitchers on the planet. He's just
Speaker 2: playing in Japan right now.
Speaker 3: That's true. So my final answer will be Louis.
Speaker 2: Airius, Okay, I'll go Rojas for now. I guess I'm
Speaker 2: taking a safer route, but prove me wrong, Luis. I
Speaker 2: would love to see you get back to your twenty
Speaker 2: one twenty two form. Second question, we got this one's
Speaker 2: on Instagram. It comes from Lariana Grande. It says, what
Speaker 2: would it take to land Cody Bellinger at this point,
Speaker 2: trade France and Raleigh to first base? Question mark. So
Speaker 2: what they're saying is, will you trade France, move Rayley
Speaker 2: to first and then Bellinger would play the outfield. But
Speaker 2: the big question is what would it take to land
Speaker 2: Cody Bellinger. I think I've got my answer to this.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna hold off yours is.
Speaker 1: The Mariner's franchise, jumps in a rocket ship, flies off
Speaker 1: to space, through a wormhole into an alternate universe, and
Speaker 1: lands on Earth two, and then Cody Bellinger agrees to sign.
Speaker 2: Oh, you asshole, you stole my answer. That's what I
Speaker 2: told you pre recording. I said, what do the Mariners
Speaker 2: have to do to get Cody Bellinger? I said, live
Speaker 2: in an alternate reality? And then TJ just elaborated.
Speaker 1: Well, there's a difference between living in an alternate reality
Speaker 1: and then actually the physically getting in a rocket ship
Speaker 1: and flying through a wormhole A la.
Speaker 3: God damn it. What's that movie star trek? No, maybe
Speaker 3: Matthew Mcconaugheyughell.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Now I'm not gonna wait oh, Interstellarre interstellar.
Speaker 1: There there we go, like that, literally that that's what
Speaker 1: they would need to do.
Speaker 2: I'm glad I got that on the fly, but otherwise
Speaker 2: we would have been sitting here for I don't know
Speaker 2: how long trying to think of interselling.
Speaker 3: I did.
Speaker 1: Okay, so I did kind of take your alternate reality thing,
Speaker 1: but you know, alternate reality, interstellar, YadA, YadA, something like
Speaker 1: that would happen for Cody Bellinger to sign in Seattle.
Speaker 1: But like, realistically, Cody Bellinger's on the market to play
Speaker 1: center field. The Mariners have a center fielder that will
Speaker 1: be there for the next fifteen seasons hopefully. And if
Speaker 1: Cody were to not play center field, he would need
Speaker 1: probably need to be egregiously overpaid, which we know that
Speaker 1: will not happen in Seattle. And he would also want
Speaker 1: to hit to go play in a good environment for himself,
Speaker 1: which Seattle is also not. A couple negatives working there
Speaker 1: against him.
Speaker 2: The other possibility I threw out was the Mariners would
Speaker 2: have to change ownership groups get a new ownership, then
Speaker 2: maybe they'd think about Cody Bellinger, but that's not happening
Speaker 2: as far as we know. So if they were to
Speaker 2: sign him. Yes, we're doing something like trading one of
Speaker 2: Rayley or France and then moving either trading Raley and
Speaker 2: keeping France at first, or trading France and moving Rayley
Speaker 2: to first for Bellinger makes sense, Yeah, it would, But
Speaker 2: signing Cody Bellinger to play for the Seattle Mariners, even
Speaker 2: though it would be a great fit, seems like a
Speaker 2: pretty big reach. I think, like if you're looking at
Speaker 2: one of those top tier free agents still on the market,
Speaker 2: between the two Arms and Jorgan Montgomery, Blake Snell and
Speaker 2: the two Bats, and Matt Chapman and Cody Bellinger, I
Speaker 2: think if you were to list them out, Chapman honestly
Speaker 2: might make the most sense at this point. I don't
Speaker 2: think they're getting any of them. Chapman might make the
Speaker 2: most sense. I would put Snell at two, and then
Speaker 2: some combo of monk Imri and Bellinger after that. So,
Speaker 2: even of the big remaining free agents who will all
Speaker 2: probably not be Mariners, I think Bellinger is very unlikely.
Speaker 1: Do you think there's been a single word spoken between
Speaker 1: the Mariners and any of those top four free agents?
Speaker 2: Says somebody said today, and again, this is why I
Speaker 2: don't know what to believe, because somebody said today, I
Speaker 2: have not listened to The New Extra Innings yet, which
Speaker 2: is Ryan Divish's podcast, but somebody said a division on
Speaker 2: that podcast that apparently the Mariners have had no contact
Speaker 2: at all with Blake's Now this winner.
Speaker 3: Now, that's what I was about to bring up.
Speaker 2: Now Jared Caravis says they're in on it. I don't
Speaker 2: know who to believe, because I'm sure they each have sources.
Speaker 2: I mean again, I think they're both very good at
Speaker 2: what they do, so I don't really know. It doesn't
Speaker 2: seem like it's happening though.
Speaker 1: No, it doesn't not good enough dialogue for anything to
Speaker 1: actually happen. So in summary, it would have to be
Speaker 1: some combination of roster shuffling and magical acquisition of two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty million dollars to pay Cody Bellinger, which
Speaker 1: I don't think really either of those happening. After the
Speaker 1: Polanco trade, everything seems pretty set, all right. Third question, Lyle,
Speaker 1: this is from Travis Sorry, Travy Lem's sixteen on Instagram.
Speaker 1: What is your favorite Seattle spot to eat?
Speaker 2: Well, there's a couple different answers I have for this.
Speaker 2: Number One, we're going to take a pause, because one
Speaker 2: of our favorite spots to eat is the Gotcha' Pub
Speaker 2: eighty five. I'm glad ass DJ that is over in Kirkland.
Speaker 2: It's off eighty fifth Street. Awesome place to hang out
Speaker 2: with your friends. It's got twenty two TVs in the place,
Speaker 2: awesome pizza, full food menu, full drink menu, and they've
Speaker 2: got happy hour specials from two to six pm on
Speaker 2: Monday through Friday. It includes three dollars domestic beers, four
Speaker 2: dollars manny Is, Blue Moons, four dollars mac and Jack's
Speaker 2: four dollars, Wells four dollar house wine. So you want
Speaker 2: a great meal, some great drinks, go hang out with
Speaker 2: your friends, play some pool, watch some games. Head over
Speaker 2: to gotch Just Pub eighty five in Kirkland. Back to
Speaker 2: your question. Aside from that which I heavily recommend, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna take this in two ways. There's another Kirkland food
Speaker 2: spot I like my hometown. And then there's an actual
Speaker 2: Seattle food spot. Because I didn't know exactly what the
Speaker 2: question if he means in the city specifically or just
Speaker 2: near where you guys live. Kirkland, there's a Taraaki place.
Speaker 2: It's just a local business. I love it. It's called
Speaker 2: Nassai Nassai Teraiaki. I've eaten there forever. I think they
Speaker 2: make awesome dishes, have great teraaki chicken. So if you're
Speaker 2: ever in Kirkland and wan Teraraaki, I would recommend that
Speaker 2: favorite Seattle food spot in the city Lowells. And for
Speaker 2: those who don't know Lowells, it's a breakfast spot slash
Speaker 2: lunch spot. It's in Pipe Place Market. Awesome food and
Speaker 2: my favorite part of it is if you go up
Speaker 2: to the third floor of the restaurant, you can sit
Speaker 2: right on the glass look out at the entire city.
Speaker 2: You're right on the water, you can see the ferris wheel,
Speaker 2: you can see the stadiums. Like if you look the
Speaker 2: opposite way, you can see the city between the food
Speaker 2: and the view at that place, I love of going
Speaker 2: a low So when we were kids, especially when I
Speaker 2: was a kid, my dad used to often like to
Speaker 2: let my mom kind of sleep in on some weekends
Speaker 2: because obviously she did a lot during the week And
Speaker 2: what my dad would do is he'd let my mom
Speaker 2: kind of sleep in and he'd take me and my
Speaker 2: brother a lot of the time down to Pike Place.
Speaker 2: We'd walk around and we'd usually go eat it Lulls.
Speaker 2: Since I was kind of a young kid, I always
Speaker 2: love going there, and I still love going there now.
Speaker 3: It's a heartwarming, nostalgic memory.
Speaker 1: Lyle.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe miles a little bit. The Athenian right next there.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I've eating their food, but they
Speaker 1: have a great bar in the back that my dad
Speaker 1: told me about that he had been going to and
Speaker 1: he had to work a little bit more downtown and
Speaker 1: he would go in there and you just walk straight
Speaker 1: in and then you walk back to the left and
Speaker 1: it's the same views.
Speaker 3: You get the views of the water. They have these
Speaker 3: old like little cubicle like.
Speaker 1: Tight like very scrunched in booths for you to sit
Speaker 1: in and enjoy your beverage or whatever snack you might
Speaker 1: order back there. It's it's really fantastic. And during the
Speaker 1: summer or during the crowded winter days, it could be
Speaker 1: kind of hard to get in there and eat because
Speaker 1: there's so many people rummaging around. But if you ever
Speaker 1: have an opportunity there like those are those are two
Speaker 1: good historic spots down there in the market.
Speaker 2: So have you ever been to Luwells or just Athenian?
Speaker 3: I don't think I've ever been to Lowells.
Speaker 2: Now see, I've been to Luwells a time, but never Athenian.
Speaker 2: So yeah, like maybe we have to do both.
Speaker 1: It's I really don't think I've been to the I
Speaker 1: haven't been to the Athenian to eat though. Whenever we
Speaker 1: eat down there, it's at the Pipe Place Brewery, oh,
Speaker 1: which is a little bit a little bit farther down
Speaker 1: into the market.
Speaker 3: But oh, that place is good.
Speaker 2: Too, I would say. And just to wrap up my answer,
Speaker 2: what do I usually get at Lulls? I feel like
Speaker 2: I usually get the French toast, at least growing up
Speaker 2: that's what I always got.
Speaker 1: It was really good, it's pretty, it's pretty tasty. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I probably I will have to go check it out
Speaker 1: next time we're down there. We go once a year
Speaker 1: to the Pipe to Pipe Place at least to go
Speaker 1: go shop and go eat there. So that's certainly a
Speaker 1: certainly an option. I have two options here. I think
Speaker 1: I have a little more expertise in the Seattle food scene,
Speaker 1: having grown up there, opposed to Lyle, who is across
Speaker 1: the water, which I respect. That's why you chose one
Speaker 1: from your hometown and one in Seattle. I don't have
Speaker 1: any besides our friends at Pagatcha's Pub eighty five. Any
Speaker 1: Kirkland spots to promote. Not a frequent food spot of mine, unfortunately.
Speaker 1: So there are are two for me. The first one
Speaker 1: that is very notable to me, So me, my dad,
Speaker 1: my brother and my uncle always have like a men's
Speaker 1: night every year that we go out and will eat somewhere.
Speaker 3: Either he lives on the east side, we live on
Speaker 3: the west side. Will usually alternate year to year on
Speaker 3: which spot will go to.
Speaker 1: So when we were in high school, we went to
Speaker 1: this Brazilian steakhouse a couple of times that was fantastic.
Speaker 1: It's called the Grill from ip A n E m
Speaker 1: A I Panema I Panema. I think that is very
Speaker 1: good on First Avenue near Belltown.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 1: It's some good stuff, you like, unlimited meat and they
Speaker 1: just keeps coming and coming and coming and coming and coming,
Speaker 1: and they will just keep like serving all sorts of
Speaker 1: different meat. There's a salad bar two for all the vegetarians.
Speaker 1: It's pretty good, I will say, uh. And then the
Speaker 1: other one that I've been to that is good. I mean,
Speaker 1: these are two fancy options too. I do have one
Speaker 1: more affordable option that I'll actually pay for myself. Uh.
Speaker 1: But the other fancy option is the MAT. The MET
Speaker 1: is phenomenal that that stuff is. Uh, it's top quality food.
Speaker 1: Uh there at the MET. So I have those two,
Speaker 1: and then my affordable option is Paseo for sandwiches. There's
Speaker 1: a couple locations around North Seattle, uh and elsewhere for
Speaker 1: for these just massive sandwiches that are that are incredible
Speaker 1: and I can't get enough of them. They will fill
Speaker 1: you up and they'll put you asleep, but it's worth
Speaker 1: every penny that you spend on them.
Speaker 2: Where's the MET located? Again?
Speaker 3: I actually don't know if I've ever been pine your square.
Speaker 2: I think, oh, okay, yeah, I was gonna say, I
Speaker 2: haven't been to that Brazilian steakhouse that you name, But
Speaker 2: if I was gonna pick a type of meal, I'd
Speaker 2: want to go out to have oh Brazilian steakhouse as
Speaker 2: somebody who you know can borderline eat like a caveman
Speaker 2: in terms of what their appetites like like me. Oh,
Speaker 2: it's a perfect place in the world because for somebody
Speaker 2: like me, because you just eat until you are quite
Speaker 2: literally full. So if you.
Speaker 1: Pay one flat price and it just like you pay
Speaker 1: for unlimited and it just keeps coming and coming and coming.
Speaker 3: It's it's a treat.
Speaker 1: It's it's not good if you have high cholesterol, but
Speaker 1: if you if you have some tolerance, it's it's some
Speaker 1: good stuff. So those are those are mine. Psale also
Speaker 1: has a couple of branches too. I know un Bien
Speaker 1: is owned by the same people, and they also also
Speaker 1: do sandwiches, and there's a bunch of spots all over
Speaker 1: the city and it's good stuff. It is it is
Speaker 1: well worth it.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that question, by the way, it was from
Speaker 2: TRAVILMS sixteen on Instagram, So shout out to you for
Speaker 2: the question. We appreciate it. Certainly sparks some dialogue. So yeah,
Speaker 2: that's a good one. Next one, we'll get back to
Speaker 2: baseball a little bit here. This one comes from CSL goits.
Speaker 2: I think I got the last name right, Yeah, CSL goits.
Speaker 2: This is also on Instagram, he says, or they say, uh,
Speaker 2: you guys were pretty close with the Polanco Kepler idea.
Speaker 2: Does Trader Jerry go for another right fielder? I do
Speaker 2: like that. I do appreciate the shout out about the
Speaker 2: Polanco Kepler thing. I will say, while we appreciate it,
Speaker 2: I certainly don't think we were the only ones that
Speaker 2: floated those ideas out there. I think a lot of
Speaker 2: people had similar thoughts in mind about a package deal.
Speaker 2: But we appreciate it. That said, I guess there's a
Speaker 2: chance they could sign some low level outfielder to a
Speaker 2: five million dollar contract or something like that, but I
Speaker 2: think that's just about set in terms of the lineup.
Speaker 2: I think the offense is just about set with who
Speaker 2: they're going to roll out there.
Speaker 1: They're open to adding another outfielder. We saw some discourse
Speaker 1: from Morosi. He had a couple of notes post trade
Speaker 1: on the Polanco trade and he said the Mariners were
Speaker 1: inquiring about Max Kepler and even the price was too high.
Speaker 1: I'm imagining Miller Wu was entered into the discussion there
Speaker 1: and that's where the conversation ended. But with Jerry asking
Speaker 1: about that means he he'd be open to adding another outfielder.
Speaker 1: The problem is when you look at it now, if
Speaker 1: you were to add another outfielder, something needs to.
Speaker 3: Happen, so there would be people off the roster.
Speaker 1: Off the current roster you would have, you would either
Speaker 1: move Rayley into first and ty France would do something else,
Speaker 1: go somewhere else, trade move positions that doesn't sound realistic,
Speaker 1: or you would push dom kin Zone off the roster.
Speaker 1: I don't think Jerry wants to push dom Kinzone off
Speaker 1: the roster, not with some of the moves and confidence
Speaker 1: they've given him this offseason. So in discourse, outfielders seems
Speaker 1: like an option still, but in reality, looking at the roster,
Speaker 1: it doesn't. Jorgel Hilaire is still a free agent. Makes
Speaker 1: no sense.
Speaker 3: But if you want another one that I guess could be,
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I like it, Yeah, it's good whatever, Yeah it's a possibility.
Speaker 3: Still, I wouldn't write it off.
Speaker 2: You'd just be committing to some of the worst outfield
Speaker 2: deep in baseball from Jorge Hilaire if you signed them.
Speaker 2: That's not why you're signing them, but you'd be committing
Speaker 2: to that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Here's the other thing about what Morosi reported, and I
Speaker 2: got to thinking about this, are we sure that reporting
Speaker 2: was accurate in terms of the timeline. Again, like MOROSSI
Speaker 2: may have gotten a note and tweeted it out a
Speaker 2: day or two ago, but are we sure that that
Speaker 2: kepler news isn't from weeks ago, like before the Hanniger
Speaker 2: and Raley trades, because that would make more That makes
Speaker 2: more sense to me. I would have a hard time
Speaker 2: believing after they traded for Hanneger and Raley that they
Speaker 2: were still in on Kepler. Something told me again, Yeah,
Speaker 2: like the Polanco trade had been in the works for
Speaker 2: a long time. It sounds like I would bet you
Speaker 2: at some point there were calls about what would a
Speaker 2: package look like. I would bet you after they traded
Speaker 2: for Hanneger and Raleigh, less likely they were calling about Kepler.
Speaker 1: If they were asking about that before and the interest
Speaker 1: subsided after, then they won't.
Speaker 3: Be adding another outfielder. I don't think that makes sense.
Speaker 1: That makes more sense roster wise than them still looking
Speaker 1: around and poking and trying to find another outfielder.
Speaker 3: There's still are a few out there.
Speaker 1: Doesn't make as much sense though, And I don't think
Speaker 1: Jerry wants to give up on Don Kim Zone and
Speaker 1: Ty France unfortunately, but they think that's going to be
Speaker 1: better for the roster this upcoming season.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's unfortunately. I want to see Ty
Speaker 2: Frans bounce back. I want to see dom Canzone thrive.
Speaker 2: I don't want those guys like I want to see
Speaker 2: those guys here.
Speaker 1: Okay, then I used I used poor wording on that.
Speaker 1: So they're going to be on the roster this year.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be at spring training coming up here in
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks. Let's get to our next question.
Speaker 1: This comes from Ellie who runs Tried and takeover from
Speaker 1: on Instagram. Which parks have you been to and could
Speaker 1: you rank them all? So I'm going to throw the
Speaker 1: floor to you first.
Speaker 2: I don't think I can rank them all. So I've
Speaker 2: been to nineteen so far of the thirty. I've been
Speaker 2: stuck at nineteen since the summer of twenty twenty two,
Speaker 2: so it has been a long time since I've gotten
Speaker 2: to a new one. The only West Coast stadium I
Speaker 2: have not been to yet is Dodger Stadium. It's funny.
Speaker 2: I was supposed to go in April twenty twenty, but
Speaker 2: obviously COVID happened. There was no baseball, et cetera. Unless, oh,
Speaker 2: unless you count Colorado as the West coast, do you, I.
Speaker 3: Don't Western, not West coast.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, so I've been to nineteen. Haven't been to
Speaker 2: Colorado or La yet. But favorite ones. I think Oracle
Speaker 2: is my favorite, and I haven't been to Oracle since
Speaker 2: I was ten. I would love to go back because
Speaker 2: it's an unbelievable ballpark, but that one's up there. I
Speaker 2: would say Citizens Bank Parks definitely up there. In Philly,
Speaker 2: PNC Parks absolutely up there, which you and I went
Speaker 2: to together, Bush Stadium, and Saint Louis is incredible. I
Speaker 2: put Wrigley and Fenway in different categories. Awesome ballparks like
Speaker 2: those are on the list two. In terms of the
Speaker 2: ones I loved, the difference is those are almost historical
Speaker 2: baseball landmarks rather than these new, upscale, state of the
Speaker 2: art stadiums like Oracle, PNC, Bush Stadium ones like that.
Speaker 2: So favorite one, I would probably say Oracle that I've
Speaker 2: been to, and all the other ones I listed are
Speaker 2: not far behind.
Speaker 3: I've been a fourteen. I ranked all fourteen. Oh you
Speaker 3: gonna hear them?
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 3: I've wriggly won.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you, Lyle, I've not had more fun
Speaker 1: at a baseball game that I don't have a dog
Speaker 1: in the fight than the time you and I went
Speaker 1: to Wrigley Field summer of nineteen I've never had a
Speaker 1: better experience at a ballpark than that. Like, wasn't that
Speaker 1: just a magical Like wasn't that a magical experience?
Speaker 3: That was unreal so fun.
Speaker 2: Like Cubs fans are unbelievably cool, Like they're they're smart,
Speaker 2: they're into the game, Like people are just having a
Speaker 2: blast at Wrigley. It was a summer day, but it
Speaker 2: was like it was a weekday, but it was passed.
Speaker 1: It was so first of all, it was a weekday.
Speaker 1: We were driving in We had started the day in
Speaker 1: Sioux City.
Speaker 2: Oh, so let's do it all the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's get so we're driving across the country. We
Speaker 1: were going from Seattle to Cape Cod at this point.
Speaker 1: This is smack right in the middle of that trip.
Speaker 1: So we had started the day in Sioux Falls in
Speaker 1: South Dakota, and we were going to plan on ending
Speaker 1: the night in Chicago. We ended up somewhere we were
Speaker 1: our hotel was somewhere south of Chicago. I don't remember exactly,
Speaker 1: but it was right near the freeway to get back
Speaker 1: on and start hitting east again through through Indiana and such.
Speaker 1: So we had we had had a full day of
Speaker 1: driving at that point. As we got into Chicago through
Speaker 1: rush hour traffic. We were trying to get there on time.
Speaker 1: We park in someone in someone's parking spot behind their house.
Speaker 1: We paid what forty bucks I think, Uh the park
Speaker 1: We were just driving at a stadium and you're like,
Speaker 1: all right, it's time to look for parking. We're just
Speaker 1: driving through a neighborhood and there's Wrigley and we park
Speaker 1: in someone's backyard and we scramble in and get there,
Speaker 1: get in there in time. I mean, you could just
Speaker 1: feel the energy. It's packed, the place was sold out,
Speaker 1: it was warm. We get in there and like we sit,
Speaker 1: We like run right up to our seats and sit down,
Speaker 1: and I remember just sitting there thinking I'm looking around.
Speaker 3: It's like just felt like baseball.
Speaker 1: So it felt like the seat sucked like this, like
Speaker 1: not this. The visual of the seats, the seat itself
Speaker 1: was awful. I remember it was tilted down like this.
Speaker 2: They're metal bleachers. No, it wasn't even that.
Speaker 1: It was like old wooden chip wooden seats that were
Speaker 1: from like the forties.
Speaker 2: You're right, that were that were like warped.
Speaker 3: Forward and we were almost sliding up.
Speaker 1: But like I didn't care because it felt like baseball,
Speaker 1: and I like, I love the location to the locations,
Speaker 1: like a neighborhood ballpark that's like kind of like Ebett's Field,
Speaker 1: just tucked right in there amongst all the houses. You have,
Speaker 1: all the vendors outside and inside, and it just feels
Speaker 1: like a family atmosphere. And even though it's not a
Speaker 1: brand new, updated ballpark, the experience and just the feeling
Speaker 1: of a summer baseball game there is like nothing I've
Speaker 1: ever felt anywhere else.
Speaker 2: And Wrigleyville is so cool, Like they have all these
Speaker 2: bars that people go to right around the stadium. I
Speaker 2: wish Seattle had something like that, Like these ballpark districts
Speaker 2: that are in some of these cities. It makes such
Speaker 2: a difference, I think. Also, yeah, let me just give
Speaker 2: people a little more context about our drive. It was
Speaker 2: like five six days. I mean, we stopped in Cordelaine
Speaker 2: the first day, but I'd say the highlights of the
Speaker 2: trip where we went to Mount Rushmore. So that was
Speaker 2: pretty cool. I mean, how often are you in the
Speaker 2: middle of nowhere South Dakota went to Wrigley I said,
Speaker 2: we went to PMC, which, by the way, we went
Speaker 2: to PNC. Those tickets were one dollar because the pirates
Speaker 2: were awful. Then one dollar to see maybe the nicest
Speaker 2: park in baseball. We went to a few. Oh here's
Speaker 2: my favorite part. We went to the Field of dream
Speaker 2: site in Iowa. How often are you in Dyersville, Iowa
Speaker 2: in the middle of nowhere? And this is before the
Speaker 2: actual baseball field got built for the games. It was
Speaker 2: just the movie site. I learned very shortly before this
Speaker 2: trip starts. He just like, oh, yeah, I've never seen
Speaker 2: the movie. I was like, you've never seen Field of
Speaker 2: Dreams And he's like, no, is like and in the
Speaker 2: month time we plan this drive, it's like you you
Speaker 2: never bothered to sit down and watch it between all
Speaker 2: the Game of Throne stuff you were watching. He was
Speaker 2: like no. I was like, well, that seems like a
Speaker 2: mistake because you're not going to appreciate what we're seeing.
Speaker 2: So so that happened. But I was gonna say the
Speaker 2: reason we drove cross country by the way we were
Speaker 2: in We were both broadcast interns for two summers in
Speaker 2: a row in the Kite Codley. Second summer, tej I
Speaker 2: wanted to get his car out there. We did the
Speaker 2: cross country drive and saw a bunch of cool stuff
Speaker 2: along the way.
Speaker 1: So yeah, don't get many opportunities to drive all the
Speaker 1: way across the country, So when the opportunity presents itself,
Speaker 1: you do it.
Speaker 3: You take that option.
Speaker 1: Anyway, that's a long winded way of me saying Wrigley
Speaker 1: is my favorite ballpark I've ever been to. Okay, t
Speaker 1: Mobile slightly biased is two Oracles three, Petco Park, four,
Speaker 1: Fenway Park, five, Camden Yards six, PNC Park seven, and
Speaker 1: then there's a pretty big gap City Field at eight,
Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium nine, New Yankee Stadium to clarify is at nine,
Speaker 1: Angels Stadium at ten, Chase Field at eleven, Rogers Center
Speaker 1: at twelve thirteen is Old Yankee Stadium. In fourteenth was
Speaker 1: Guaranteed Rate Field in Chicago. The two Chicago stadiums bookend
Speaker 1: the list.
Speaker 2: I've been to Guaranteed Rate two. I've been once. I
Speaker 2: wanted to get it off the list. I will probably
Speaker 2: never go back unless it's an extenuating circumstance. If I'm
Speaker 2: in Chicago for a baseball game, unless the Mariners are
Speaker 2: playing at the White Sox and I really want to
Speaker 2: go see them, I'm just going to Wriglely. Guaranteed Rate
Speaker 2: was awful. We bought. You did this too, We bought
Speaker 2: cheap seats for the third level. It's like, well, we'll
Speaker 2: walk around the ballpark. See what else that offers. Oh no,
Speaker 2: they don't let you down to the first level. If
Speaker 2: you buy third level seats, you're stuck there. Like they
Speaker 2: don't let you walk around the ballpark. Also, the food's
Speaker 2: like not very good. But yeah, you.
Speaker 1: Know how all that baseball energy I was talking about
Speaker 1: around Wrigley there is none of that guaranteed rate field.
Speaker 3: It is not quite complete opposite.
Speaker 1: It's like sitting there in a mall, an empty mall,
Speaker 1: watching a baseball game, an open air mall.
Speaker 3: It's stuck.
Speaker 1: Was not a fan, No, yeah, and I will be.
Speaker 1: Oakland Coliseum would be last have I been?
Speaker 3: But I have not.
Speaker 2: Oh I've been there. That one's last on my list.
Speaker 2: I can tell you that it is. Yeah, you've been
Speaker 2: to a couple. I haven't been Doe, so credit to
Speaker 2: You've been to Camden. I've only been outside of Camden,
Speaker 2: never do a game. E've been to the Rogers Center,
Speaker 2: So yeah, there's some others I still have to get
Speaker 2: to for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Rogers Center all is just is a mall as
Speaker 1: well just so slightly newer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, teacher the fourteen, I'm at nineteen. But for being
Speaker 2: the ages we're at, i'd say we've gotten to a
Speaker 2: lot of stadium so far in our lifetime. Hopefully we
Speaker 2: get to all thirty. Okay. Fifth question a little bit
Speaker 2: more back to Mariner's news. This one comes from this
Speaker 2: was on Twitter, and this question comes from want to
Speaker 2: make sure I get the at name right. It was. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's from Bravo Tim or his name is Bravoch. It's
Speaker 2: at Bravo Tim on Twitter. He says, wasn't a decision
Speaker 2: or at least an update for what's next regarding the
Speaker 2: RSN situation supposed to be made by the end of January.
Speaker 2: Have you heard anything we did?
Speaker 3: We?
Speaker 2: Yes, we remember hearing the same thing saying we supposed
Speaker 2: to hear something in January about the RSN stuff. No,
Speaker 2: we haven't heard anything, Like we haven't talked to Jeff
Speaker 2: Baker about it again since then. We haven't heard anything
Speaker 2: from anybody else about it since then. If we do,
Speaker 2: it'll probably be along with the rest of you guys,
Speaker 2: if somebody posts something about it on Twitter. But for
Speaker 2: right now, they're not making information public about it as
Speaker 2: far as we know, and we're probably in wait and
Speaker 2: see mode.
Speaker 1: We'll have a good idea once the Mariners start broadcasting
Speaker 1: their games and that strain on the production model of
Speaker 1: the Mariners really starts setting in and the expenses of
Speaker 1: running a television network really starts to set in. Because
Speaker 1: that's what has happened over the past month. The Mariners
Speaker 1: have had full ownership of Root Sports. They've yet to
Speaker 1: make any changes, but I wouldn't take that as changes
Speaker 1: aren't coming, because changes are almost certainly coming. They've made
Speaker 1: that very apparent that they do not entail to run
Speaker 1: the current network as it is given their current financial state,
Speaker 1: and it sucks, but that's what it is.
Speaker 2: If you go back and listen to that Jeff Baker
Speaker 2: interview that we did, we asked them how much longer
Speaker 2: do you think Root Sports has left? And he doesn't
Speaker 2: know for certain, but he said I wouldn't be surprised
Speaker 2: if at the end of the baseball season it's no
Speaker 2: longer a thing, which is really tough, and the Marrigers
Speaker 2: are gonna have to figure something else out. A lot
Speaker 2: of teams will but all up in limbo for right now.
Speaker 2: We're waiting to find out.
Speaker 1: And if we're saying that the Arrison situation in the future,
Speaker 1: I think we floated it back then when talking to Jeff.
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball wants to get as many teams as
Speaker 1: possible under their broadcast umbrella so they can do seventeen teams,
Speaker 1: and the Mariners, given their current situation, want probably want
Speaker 1: to be one of those seventeen teams because I don't
Speaker 1: think they have another option to put their games on television.
Speaker 1: Besides doing that, I'm.
Speaker 2: Guessing major League Baseball in the long term probably wants
Speaker 2: to expand their bandwidth on that too.
Speaker 1: M Yeah, except for the teams that will just straight
Speaker 1: up refuse it because they don't need it. The Yankees,
Speaker 1: the Red Sox, the Dodgers, the Giants, wilch of the first,
Speaker 1: Phillies first two Yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Was gonna say first three for sure, Red Sox, Yankees, Dodgers, Yeah,
Speaker 2: and probably the Giants two.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think the PHILLIESOU do okay too. There might be
Speaker 1: a couple other ones too. The Angels are doing okay
Speaker 1: down there in southern California. Besides that, yeah, it might
Speaker 1: be everyone else. Talk about disparity, no competitive balance.
Speaker 2: No, there is not there really really is not.
Speaker 1: Next question, this is perfect that I'm asking this to you.
Speaker 1: What's your favorite Mariners friendship on the team. This comes
Speaker 1: from shawna an at caid Zach Demo fan on Twitter.
Speaker 2: There's a few different ways you could go about this, Honestly,
Speaker 2: at one point I would have said Topa and Sauce,
Speaker 2: but obviously Topa's not here anymore. But those guys were
Speaker 2: always really good friends, and they were they were very
Speaker 2: different characters because I mean, for anybody that listened to
Speaker 2: the interview with Topa just watches Hope on the field
Speaker 2: and how he goes about his business, he's much more
Speaker 2: like super like we've talked about, but like when he's
Speaker 2: not on that a little quieter, a little more reserved.
Speaker 2: And then you got Sauce out here cooking up conspiracies
Speaker 2: about Babe Ruth and Ted Williams, and he's out here
Speaker 2: talking trash about the Seahawks to his other reliever friends
Speaker 2: who are fans of other teams. Like, they're very different
Speaker 2: in that way, but they were always very very good
Speaker 2: friends as far as we know. Current one I did
Speaker 2: like the Bryce Miller and Brian wou thing, like those
Speaker 2: guys are known to be good friends. They did a
Speaker 2: couple segments together this year. One of them they went
Speaker 2: and tried Skyline Chili and Cincinnati, which I think Skyline
Speaker 2: Chili is disgusting.
Speaker 3: But I did one other thing we found out on
Speaker 3: that road trip.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we went to Skyline Chili on that road trip.
Speaker 2: It was I mean, I had like, I didn't even
Speaker 2: order a full thing. TJ did and he was like, wow,
Speaker 2: this is not good.
Speaker 1: I was. I was real live, my expectations set through
Speaker 1: the roof.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but Bryce Miller and Brian Wood seem to have
Speaker 2: a blast with it with that Mariner segment they did
Speaker 2: on the Mariner Social channels and they were kind of
Speaker 2: grilling each other back and forth and sharing some laughs.
Speaker 2: So those guys seem like they're good friends. So I
Speaker 2: like that one.
Speaker 1: You know, I think it's kind of hard to measure friendships.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go with the two boys that appeared
Speaker 1: on the Pitching Ninja podcast together with Pitching Ninja our
Speaker 1: friend Rob Friedman Logan and George Kirby. I think those
Speaker 1: two an interesting mix of personality, two different ways to
Speaker 1: approach I guess being themselves, but it works out, and
Speaker 1: there are two keys in the cog of that rotation.
Speaker 2: Yes, they are. That was a fun one. Last question
Speaker 2: we've got here on the mail bag before we get
Speaker 2: to some other stuff. This one comes from Kyle at
Speaker 2: Kyle A W three Williams on Twitter. He says, what
Speaker 2: are your guesses for the eight bullpen spots on opening Day?
Speaker 2: What do you got?
Speaker 1: There's four locks, Munno, Sprash, Sauce, and spire Lon and
Speaker 1: I both have those. I think Austin both is almost
Speaker 1: so he's leaning toward Locke because he can start and relieve,
Speaker 1: and with the Sclaffani off the roster, the Mariners are
Speaker 1: going to need someone like that in their bullpen. I
Speaker 1: think Perlander Burrow with the trade of Justin Topa, is
Speaker 1: nearing towards a spot as well, given he stays healthy
Speaker 1: and looks good during spring training, doesn't walk a bunch
Speaker 1: of batters. Then that comes down to the final two spots,
Speaker 1: and I'm assuming the Mariners carry an eight man bullpen
Speaker 1: like they have much of the last three seasons. I
Speaker 1: think Jackson Khar is going to make the roster. Yes,
Speaker 1: I did sit on this podcast and say that Jackson
Speaker 1: Coar has been one of the worst pitchers in baseball
Speaker 1: since he's debuted, if not the worst pitcher in baseball,
Speaker 1: but he is on a major league contract, is not.
Speaker 1: I don't believe he's been optioned to the miners, and
Speaker 1: therefore I think he would be lean. It would be
Speaker 1: leaning towards him being on the major league roster to
Speaker 1: start the season. My final one would be Trent Thornton, uh,
Speaker 1: someone who spent some time in the big leagues with
Speaker 1: the Mariners last year, has had varying levels of success
Speaker 1: and is more proven in the eyes of Scott Servis
Speaker 1: and Jerry Depoto than some of these other guys that
Speaker 1: they brought in in the offseason. It's just kind of
Speaker 1: hard to judge some of the minor league deals they
Speaker 1: brought guys in on and saying they're gonna make the
Speaker 1: big league roster when we haven't watched them pitch yet.
Speaker 3: So we can reevaluate this question. As spring training goes along, we.
Speaker 2: Have seven of the same eight. I have Muno's brash Spire, Sasto, Vothe, Thornton, Barroa,
Speaker 2: and then that eighth spot. What it's really going to
Speaker 2: come down to is who wins it in spring training,
Speaker 2: and maybe the seventh and eighth spots or spring training battles,
Speaker 2: but especially that last one. There's a handful of guys
Speaker 2: that'll be in it. Jackson Cohor will be in it.
Speaker 2: Ty Id Coock will be in it. Edward Bizzarro be
Speaker 2: in it, who was in the bullpen for a bit
Speaker 2: last year. There's a few others too, like Cody Bolton,
Speaker 2: they acquired Ty Butchery, they signed, Like, there's gonna be
Speaker 2: a handful of guys in the running for this. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go with ty Idcock. I know he got sent
Speaker 2: to the miners last year at one point after getting
Speaker 2: called up and then got hurt, but he had some
Speaker 2: awesome stuff at certain points when he was up. No,
Speaker 2: he's only getting better and better as he's learning to
Speaker 2: be a pitcher even more. He hasn't thrown that many innings,
Speaker 2: and truthfully, I just love to see him thrive. Like
Speaker 2: obviously we're probably a little bit biased because he's the
Speaker 2: front of the pod, but I think he's going to
Speaker 2: be right in the mix, and we're rooting for him
Speaker 2: to be on the big league team. So eighth guy
Speaker 2: at least right now before we see any spring training battles,
Speaker 2: give me ty Idcock that.
Speaker 3: Would be super cool.
Speaker 1: And regardless of what mix of relievers make the bullpen
Speaker 1: this year, it's I'm very interested to see what the like,
Speaker 1: what kind of styles this bullpen is going to be.
Speaker 1: The Mariners bullpen last season adopted the style of heavy sinkers,
Speaker 1: lots of ground balls, lots of velocity. How are the
Speaker 1: shapes of these new guys gonna gonna add on to this?
Speaker 1: Are they going to embrace that? Or are they going
Speaker 1: to have a couple of different styles in there? Are
Speaker 1: they going to have more of a Is somebody else
Speaker 1: going to be a more Matt brash type who throws
Speaker 1: a flat fastball and a slider and is not a
Speaker 1: ground ball savant, or are they going to have more
Speaker 1: sinker balls.
Speaker 3: I think that's going to be something to see.
Speaker 2: I forgot to throw Carlos Vargas into that next. You
Speaker 2: will absolutely be in the running too, because I mean,
Speaker 2: he may be this year's topa in the sense of
Speaker 2: different type of arsenal, but he may start in the Miners,
Speaker 2: get some work for a little bit, come up to
Speaker 2: the big leagues, and he has the stuff to be lethal.
Speaker 2: So keep that name on watch too.
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Speaker 1: the wrap Around today, Lyle. Right before we hit record,
Speaker 1: the Orioles have sprung a trade for right handed pitcher
Speaker 1: from the Milwaukee Brewers Corbyn Burns. They will send back
Speaker 1: their number six prospect, Joey Ortiz, left handed pitcher DL Hall,
Speaker 1: and a compensatory pick in the twenty twenty four draft reaction.
Speaker 2: They didn't have to give up very much for him either.
Speaker 2: You're talking about two guys in dial Hall, who was
Speaker 2: once a top one hundred prospect. Now he's mostly a
Speaker 2: reliever that's going back to Milwaukee. And then Joey Ortiz,
Speaker 2: who per arm Layton of Just Baseball, who does some
Speaker 2: awesome prospect write ups. You should go check him out
Speaker 2: if you're into prospects. He has Ortiz at six in
Speaker 2: terms of the Oriol's top prospects, and that's a loaded system.
Speaker 2: But that means there's five guys ahead of Ortiz. That's
Speaker 2: all they had to give up for Corbyn Burns, a
Speaker 2: guy who was a cy young winner, is going to
Speaker 2: be pitching on opening Day in this rotation. What the
Speaker 2: Oriols one weakness last year starting pitching, Well, they've got
Speaker 2: a starting arm now that along with Grayson Rodriguez, along
Speaker 2: with John Means, along with some other guys in that rotation,
Speaker 2: Kyle Bradish. Obviously, we should say that's a really good
Speaker 2: rotation and Burns is going to be pitching at the
Speaker 2: top of it.
Speaker 1: He's making about fifteen and a half million dollars this year,
Speaker 1: so I'll say, while we're saying, yeah, it's an underpay,
Speaker 1: the Brewers could only negotiate.
Speaker 3: Against one year. Because he has not owed anything beyond
Speaker 3: this year.
Speaker 1: The Orioles are gonna extend him and normally under the
Speaker 1: Angelo's family would have said no, they're not gonna extend
Speaker 1: him because the Angel's family doesn't spend money. Well, something
Speaker 1: we have not talked about here on this podcast. The
Speaker 1: Orioles have been sold. They are sold to a couple
Speaker 1: of private equity billionaires that are heading this thing. And
Speaker 1: let's just say they have significantly more capital and they
Speaker 1: seem like they're significantly more willing to spend on players
Speaker 1: as owners of the Orioles. So not only are they
Speaker 1: going to acquire the Orioles, but they're also gonna require
Speaker 1: of the regional sports network that broadcasts the Orioles. And
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say like that means that Corbyn Burns is
Speaker 1: probably getting paid now what I told you. I will
Speaker 1: believe the Orioles will spend money on good baseball players
Speaker 1: when I see a Jeff pass And notification that Corbyn
Speaker 1: Burns has signed a two hundred and fifty million dollar extension.
Speaker 1: When that happens, I will believe things have turned for
Speaker 1: the Orioles.
Speaker 3: They're only a week end of new ownership.
Speaker 1: It's a bit of an accelerated timeline, but you can
Speaker 1: already see like the pushes there and the the optimism
Speaker 1: from the availability of funds with the front office is there,
Speaker 1: and the Oriols are.
Speaker 3: Their shaping up pretty nicely. I gotta say, you didn't
Speaker 3: want to believe it.
Speaker 2: But if, and again it's an if the new ownership
Speaker 2: starts spending money on really good players, you're talking about
Speaker 2: a potential I don't want to say dynasty, but you're
Speaker 2: talking about a team that's gonna be in World Series
Speaker 2: contention every year. Because what do the Orioles have. They've
Speaker 2: already got a ridiculous young core in place Adley, They've
Speaker 2: got Gunner Henderson, They've got some real guys in the
Speaker 2: rotation at this point. They've got like they've got real
Speaker 2: bats in the lineup already, but some of the best
Speaker 2: guys aren't even here yet. Like so built around Adlee
Speaker 2: and Gunner and Cedric Mullens and some others. You got
Speaker 2: Jackson Holliday who is twenty years old, but he's gonna
Speaker 2: be up in the big leagues this year. I'm almost confident.
Speaker 2: You've got a couple other prospects. They've got a catcher
Speaker 2: with Samuel Bissio, who's supposed to be like toward the
Speaker 2: top of prospect rankings here in the near future too.
Speaker 2: He's got ridiculous upside. They got Kobe Mayo, they've got
Speaker 2: still got cursed at and Kowser on the way like,
Speaker 2: they've got a ridiculous farm, and they've already got a
Speaker 2: young core in place, and now you have ownership that
Speaker 2: potentially is willing to spend real money. Those three things
Speaker 2: right there are quate to being world serious contenders year
Speaker 2: in and year out.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't throw around the word lightly judging that they
Speaker 1: won exactly. They won as many playoff games as the
Speaker 1: Mariners did last season. But if they like next, I
Speaker 1: think next year will be a little bit of a
Speaker 1: better gauge. I was under the assumption this year that
Speaker 1: the Orioles were a little bit lucky, especially with their
Speaker 1: one hundred and one win total, so it might be
Speaker 1: a tiny bit overinflated. I'm not going to put a
Speaker 1: crown on their head yet, but you know what, they
Speaker 1: are exciting to watch, and you know it's gonna get
Speaker 1: fans to the ballpark. By going out and acquiring all
Speaker 1: stars to pitch in your rotation, to compliment your young core,
Speaker 1: that's gonna that's gonna get people a reason to come
Speaker 1: out and buy season tickets and spend a bunch of
Speaker 1: nights at the ballpark in a given year, and that
Speaker 1: revenue will go back into the new owner's.
Speaker 3: Pocket and they will they will keep this train rolling.
Speaker 2: So isn't there a free agent next year that says
Speaker 2: to have an East Coast preference and is going to
Speaker 2: be looking for a fat contract and probably wants to
Speaker 2: play for a winning team. I'm not saying it's happening
Speaker 2: for sure, but could you imagine if this new Oriols
Speaker 2: ownership group pulled that off and sign one.
Speaker 1: So and he's just sitting and he's just sitting just
Speaker 1: a stone's throw away from DC while they're just looking,
Speaker 1: and he told them no, told them no.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Stakes, Like, if this ownership group is really gonna
Speaker 2: spend I'm not guaranteeing it, but don't sleep on that idea.
Speaker 2: You've got all these young guys paired with bringing one
Speaker 2: Soto in.
Speaker 3: We need to see what kind of money they're throwing around. Though.
Speaker 3: First there is a.
Speaker 1: Different I will say there's are they a one big
Speaker 1: contract ownership group, are they a two big contract ownership group,
Speaker 1: or are they like, let's bankroll this thing. Let's remember,
Speaker 1: as we love to hear from everyone in the Mariners organization,
Speaker 1: young players get expensive very quickly, and they understand that too,
Speaker 1: and especially with the caliber of players they have, that's
Speaker 1: something they'll have to envision if they can. If they
Speaker 1: sign Corbyn Burns, sign Juan Soto, manage to extend all
Speaker 1: of these guys when their contracts come up and have
Speaker 1: no problem and don't blink an eye. That's a hat
Speaker 1: tip right there. Talk about a one to eighty of ownership.
Speaker 1: That's incredible.
Speaker 2: So Jackson Holiday, I'm pretty sure as a Scott Boris client,
Speaker 2: so maybe you can throw that one out because or
Speaker 2: maybe you bring him back in free agency. But again,
Speaker 2: he hasn't even hit the big leagues yet, so we
Speaker 2: can worry about that years and years down the road.
Speaker 2: But yeah, if they signed Burns and Soto, they extend Adley,
Speaker 2: and they extend Gunner Henderson right there, major hat tip
Speaker 2: to them. Major. Yeah, there's not much else going on
Speaker 2: in terms of transactions these days. Reese Hoskin signed a
Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago with the Brewers. So speaking of Milwaukee,
Speaker 2: they've got a new first baseman they Matt Moore signed
Speaker 2: signed with the Angels, which I don't think makes much sense,
Speaker 2: but share go do you do you You're gonna get
Speaker 2: your money. Other than that, it's still kind of a
Speaker 2: standstill in free agency these days. There's not and the
Speaker 2: trade routes there's not much going on.
Speaker 3: And it's a combination.
Speaker 1: It is Scott Boris holding up the market and the
Speaker 1: Arison effect is real, not just the Mariners. I think
Speaker 1: the framing of this week was really great around the
Speaker 1: Seattle sports community when it came to talking about how
Speaker 1: Jerry to Poto attacked this offseason, and I thought Mike
Speaker 1: saw friend of the Pod, brought up a great point
Speaker 1: on his show on Brocken Salk about the keywords that
Speaker 1: stood out when they talked to Jerry this week was
Speaker 1: find a way. And the Mariners, despite the situation, managed
Speaker 1: to find a way to remake their roster and make
Speaker 1: it better than.
Speaker 3: It was last season.
Speaker 1: And a lot of other teams in baseball with similar
Speaker 1: budget restraints have sat on their hands and done nothing
Speaker 1: and just said, all right, well we'll just run it back,
Speaker 1: even if they're contending, we'll just run it back. But
Speaker 1: the Mariners didn't. They give fans a little bit more
Speaker 1: of a reason to be optimistic last year. Not the organization,
Speaker 1: the front office. Very clear distinction.
Speaker 2: Correct. Yeah, I talked about it. I put a little
Speaker 2: social media clip out about it. Jerry deserved a ton
Speaker 2: of credit for what he's done. He had hands tied
Speaker 2: behind his back, didn't have much payroll to work with,
Speaker 2: didn't have much help from up above in the ownership group.
Speaker 2: Made it happen anyway, We'll stand by it. This Mariner's
Speaker 2: roster is definitely better than it was at the end
Speaker 2: of twenty three, and the lineup is a step improved.
Speaker 2: That's credit to Jerry. It's a major credit to Jerry.
Speaker 1: Let's get to ruthless surprise. Okay, loll do you want
Speaker 1: to read the first ruthless reply. This is now the
Speaker 1: third time we have done this segment. We go through
Speaker 1: and we dig up some of the best comments from
Speaker 1: our Instagram comment section, our YouTube comments section, and our
Speaker 1: TikTok comments section.
Speaker 3: You bring the heat. You're gonna be featured, Yes you
Speaker 3: are again.
Speaker 2: Fun music that'll be played under this. If you're listening
Speaker 2: on the audio side YouTube, we probably have to leave
Speaker 2: it off, but that's okay. We're gonna read them anyway. Yeah,
Speaker 2: first one. This one comes from TJ doing a TikTok
Speaker 2: comparing Julio's first two seasons to Ronald Acuna's first two seasons.
Speaker 2: TJ put his head in the middle of a couple
Speaker 2: of stats. Some people weren't happy you left as he
Speaker 2: blocked the numbers showing they were supposed to show. But
Speaker 2: we get a comment that has nothing to do with that.
Speaker 2: It says, no one wants to see your ugly ass
Speaker 2: mug today. The next time you do one of these,
Speaker 2: can you put a bag over your head please? You'd
Speaker 2: be doing everybody a real service.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I need to be more careful where I put
Speaker 1: my face in all of these, otherwise I'm gonna piss
Speaker 1: someone off. I didn't realize face location was that was
Speaker 1: that infuriating. But man, this was one of one of
Speaker 1: a few comments on there that was not too appreciative
Speaker 1: of head placement. But hey, you know what, you gotta
Speaker 1: look at me. You gotta look at me while I
Speaker 1: read off these stats, and the point still stands.
Speaker 3: People.
Speaker 2: Again, it sounds like this guy though, he just doesn't
Speaker 2: want to see your face period. So maybe the next
Speaker 2: time you do this again, do everybody a favor. Just
Speaker 2: grab a brown paper bag and put it over your head.
Speaker 1: Brown paper bag. Or you know, he can find a
Speaker 1: different podcast too. If he doesn't want to watch me,
Speaker 1: that's fine. Or you can just just listen to my voice.
Speaker 1: That's even better. That's a great way to support us.
Speaker 1: Next comment, Lyle, this was around one of our Babe
Speaker 1: Ruth discussions. This was this the YouTube? Was this the YouTube?
Speaker 1: Comment underneath the sauce when we were talking to Sasato
Speaker 1: the toba. Okay, so we're talking to Topa about Babe
Speaker 1: Ruth and replied, there's ten minutes of Babe Ruth footage
Speaker 1: on YouTube? Are we allergic to Google? Love the show?
Speaker 1: But again, why easily disregard reality? Well, do you want
Speaker 1: to know some reality? There was a wonderful thread on
Speaker 1: Twitter the other day of Babe Ruth clips. And I'm
Speaker 1: sitting there and I'm watching this, watching Babe Ruth play
Speaker 1: and run around and sitting there and thinking, I'm like,
Speaker 1: there's no way this dude was one of the greatest
Speaker 1: players of all time.
Speaker 3: There's no way.
Speaker 1: Look at him run You're telling me this man was
Speaker 1: great at defense in the outfield.
Speaker 3: I'm not buying it. I'm not buying it.
Speaker 2: Also, if people are about these Mariners relievers cooking up
Speaker 2: this conspiracy, guys, this is like the most harmless conspiracy
Speaker 2: you can possibly draw up, or people really getting mad
Speaker 2: about this. It's just supposed to be funny or honestly,
Speaker 2: I think it's fun. I think it's a fun topic
Speaker 2: to bring up. But you never know what the Internet
Speaker 2: will do to people. It'll piss somebody off in some
Speaker 2: way when you least expect it.
Speaker 1: I thought it was anybody here knows Babe Ruth like
Speaker 1: you're like a family member of his, defending.
Speaker 3: Him, like you don't own him, owe him anything.
Speaker 2: He's already famous. The best part about that thread was
Speaker 2: we quote tweeted it saying, don't show this to anybody
Speaker 2: in the Mariner's bullpen, and then Sauce replied does He's like, well,
Speaker 2: did you have been to notice that what he's pitching
Speaker 2: you can't see his face, makes you think, man, man
Speaker 2: double down. He's standing firm on his take, and I
Speaker 2: respect it, Sauce, I do. Oh Man, Okay, you did
Speaker 2: another TikTok recently. Actually maybe it's the accunon one.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 2: Regardless, you did a TikTok and we get to reply
Speaker 2: saying I like this guy commentating more so, look at
Speaker 2: that teach. You're a fan favorite. Now our podcast is
Speaker 2: a fan for you are a fan paper. I, however,
Speaker 2: have been sent to the doghouse.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're in the hot seat. What is your response
Speaker 3: to this?
Speaker 2: Blame my family roots? I guess I don't know. I
Speaker 2: can't control how I sound. This is my voice. My
Speaker 2: voice is my voice.
Speaker 3: Well, well, I have a comment that will actually make
Speaker 3: you feel much better.
Speaker 1: The comment that we have right after that is a
Speaker 1: compliment to both of our skills and our thought making
Speaker 1: and our in our brainstorming when it comes to generating
Speaker 1: content day to day and continuing throughout the off season
Speaker 1: to have fresh engaging content for our listeners and our
Speaker 1: followers to watch, engage like, et cetera. Dislike, well, however
Speaker 1: they want to engage it. Well, this person definitely disliked it.
Speaker 1: While someone said quote, maybe the worst TikTok I have
Speaker 1: ever seen that gratulations.
Speaker 2: That's shortened to the point right there, no beating around
Speaker 2: the bush, no long explanations, just bam, hit it right.
Speaker 2: Maybe the worst TikTok I've ever seen. I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you why I'll tell you exactly why that's false.
Speaker 2: It didn't have anything to do with baby Gronk. Therefore
Speaker 2: it is not the worst TikTok you've ever seen.
Speaker 3: That's a good point.
Speaker 2: Okay, next one, we got some short and sweet replies
Speaker 2: this month. I gotta tell you this is another TikTok reply.
Speaker 2: How do I get you morons off by for you page? Well,
Speaker 2: let me break some news to you, buddy. There's a
Speaker 2: few things you can do. There is the mute button,
Speaker 2: there is the block button. Sounds like you might need
Speaker 2: to take class on social media one oh one, because
Speaker 2: there's solutions all around your problem here. You could get
Speaker 2: us off your timeline with the snap of a finger,
Speaker 2: just like Thanos snap us away. Instead, you're sitting in
Speaker 2: our replies saying how do I get you off my
Speaker 2: four you page? Well? Balls in your court, pal, you
Speaker 2: can do whatever you want.
Speaker 3: And I think that we're on your for you page
Speaker 3: for a reason.
Speaker 1: As much as you might think that you hate us,
Speaker 1: I don't know if yax, do you actually do you
Speaker 1: if we keep popping up, do you actually do you
Speaker 1: actually hate us? You might like us, You might secretly
Speaker 1: like us, And that's why we keep coming back up,
Speaker 1: or he hate watches us.
Speaker 2: He's one of those people that says, I want to
Speaker 2: see how many stupid things these guys can say, So
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna click on their page and watch which.
Speaker 2: Guess what, pal, Hey, the views count the same. So
Speaker 2: you know what, we appreciate you actually a step forward
Speaker 2: more than that we love you.
Speaker 3: How about that haters pay the bill more.
Speaker 1: In fact, haters engage more than people who like us
Speaker 1: to It's great.
Speaker 3: They like it.
Speaker 2: If you don't have haters, you don't have fans.
Speaker 1: That's true. If you don't have haters, you're doing something wrong.
Speaker 1: Next one, this one comes from our TikTok comments. I
Speaker 1: swear to God, you guys say shit. That is, you
Speaker 1: guys say shit just to say shit.
Speaker 3: Quote.
Speaker 1: Take his contract. You can have him, no shit, No
Speaker 1: one wants it. You were dumb enough to take him.
Speaker 1: This was regarding Anthony desk Lefani, who is now a
Speaker 1: Minnesota twin because someone else took him.
Speaker 2: We talked about getting Deskofani's contract off the books if
Speaker 2: they were to make other moves. We said, somebody can
Speaker 2: just take his money and that'll be the end of it.
Speaker 2: You don't have to get much back. We were told
Speaker 2: that's a stupid idea. Well, now here we sit, seems
Speaker 2: like somebody else kind of wanted Anthony Deskofani. That's just me.
Speaker 2: I don't think the Twins took him out of pity,
Speaker 2: just my two cents.
Speaker 1: This guy was going more along the lines of like, hahaha, losers,
Speaker 1: you're stuck with that insurmountable twelve million dollars.
Speaker 3: Well, Jerry's laughing in your face.
Speaker 1: Now there is no more twelve million dollars of Anthony
Speaker 1: Deskofani on this roster, not anymore, man.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you that comment was in TikTok's review filter.
Speaker 2: It got filtered, saying maybe it was a little too mean,
Speaker 2: you know what, I think we can take it though, TikTok,
Speaker 2: we can take it on the chest. And speaking of that,
Speaker 2: this guy doubled down because a couple days later we
Speaker 2: got a similar reply. It was also filtered. It says,
Speaker 2: is there anyone that you don't think is a final piece?
Speaker 2: Let me preface this. This was another piece of content
Speaker 2: we did talking about maybe and a rise of Mayben
Speaker 2: Blake snell about what else can the Mariners do? So
Speaker 2: he says is there anyone that you don't think is
Speaker 2: a final piece? Question mark? This show is a joke
Speaker 2: because you just throw shit out. Buddy, I've got some
Speaker 2: news for you. Welcome to the MLB off season. This
Speaker 2: is what goes down.
Speaker 1: I think this dude, he might have did he leave
Speaker 1: two comments on the same one because these comments are
Speaker 1: from the exact same day. He must have been in
Speaker 1: a bad mood. We must have pissed him off and
Speaker 1: he was like, all right, I'm going in.
Speaker 2: I think it's two separate pieces of content, but it's
Speaker 2: on the same day. That means he's scrolling through. Well,
Speaker 2: I don't like this one. Let's type of reply. Well,
Speaker 2: I don't like this one. Let's type something out. Yeah's
Speaker 2: he had some anger to get out. It seems like
Speaker 2: some he had some real, real anger to get out.
Speaker 3: We'll take all the haters we can get. Thank you, sir.
Speaker 2: I gotta read this last one. You gotta let me read.
Speaker 3: This last one. Okay, yeah, you could do it.
Speaker 2: This one I think is my favorite. I don't recommend
Speaker 2: anybody really goes on to Reddit because Reddit is probably
Speaker 2: worse in terms of their replies than almost any other
Speaker 2: social media feed. If you even want to call it that.
Speaker 2: But if you're looking for stuff like this that uses
Speaker 2: the Ruthless Replies to use a to use in our
Speaker 2: Ruthless Replies portion of the show, then Reddit is a
Speaker 2: perfect spot to do that. We did an interview with
Speaker 2: Don Canzone a few weeks ago. Some of you may
Speaker 2: know that the link to it was posted on Reddit.
Speaker 2: It just says dom Canzone on the Marine Layer Podcast.
Speaker 2: In case any Mariners fans in that Mariner's threat of
Speaker 2: Reddit wanted to check it out, there is a reply
Speaker 2: I love this one. I don't know why there's a
Speaker 2: reply that says I'd love to see a Dom interview,
Speaker 2: Just not with these yahoos. They're one of the worst
Speaker 2: MS related YouTube garbage that perpetuates so much nonsense. These
Speaker 2: guys were big on the Otani is going to be
Speaker 2: a Mariner and Helmick is a future All Star trains.
Speaker 2: Seven hundred million dollars from LA and nine hundred mlb
Speaker 2: of bats of evidence tell me they're not worth listening to.
Speaker 2: I have breaking news. TJ Marine Layer Podcast officially canceled.
Speaker 2: Reasoning wanting the greatest player to ever play, Wanting the
Speaker 2: greatest player to ever play on their favorite baseball team.
Speaker 1: I guess if you're optimistic, that automatically means you're canceled.
Speaker 3: We're not allowed to hope good things.
Speaker 1: You know what, showey Otani should have been a Texas Ranger,
Speaker 1: should have signed a twenty year, one billion, four hundred
Speaker 1: million dollar contract with the Texas Rangers. Oh and then
Speaker 1: his kids, who also happened to be two way sensations,
Speaker 1: are automatically guaranteed to be Texas Rangers for the entire
Speaker 1: the entire of their professional playing careers as well.
Speaker 2: Oh and then, by the way.
Speaker 1: The Mariners are never allowed to win a World Series ever.
Speaker 3: It's written in the mob bylaws. Now, maybe that person
Speaker 3: will listen to us.
Speaker 2: Actually, it's funny you say that. I just got a
Speaker 2: text from this dude. He says, you guys, all right,
Speaker 2: he heard your negativity teach. He could hear it through
Speaker 2: the airwaves.
Speaker 3: Sorry, I wanted to be more like everybody else.
Speaker 2: Well you've succeeded. Man. I love doing this segment again.
Speaker 2: We say it at the end of each of these.
Speaker 2: It's all in good fun and it's basically our way
Speaker 2: of reminding people. If you sign up to do something
Speaker 2: like this podcast. Social media putting yourselves out there. There's
Speaker 2: always gonna be people like this that respond with negative thoughts.
Speaker 2: The best thing you can do is truly laugh it off,
Speaker 2: because number one, it probably says more about the people
Speaker 2: replying than it does about you. If there's actually people
Speaker 2: out there that don't like you, most of them aren't
Speaker 2: gonna reply. They'll just be like, well, I won't listen.
Speaker 2: But even more so than that, I think it's just
Speaker 2: fun for us to laugh at because, you know what,
Speaker 2: I genuinely enjoy seeing some of these. Sometimes some people
Speaker 2: don't like reading comments. Usually I think we're pretty good
Speaker 2: about laughing them off, so I enjoy it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: To be honest, like, we've done so much of this
Speaker 1: and gotten so many comments that it's it's more entertaining
Speaker 1: than anything for me. It's just like you can't you
Speaker 1: can't let what other people think about you affect the
Speaker 1: way you operate. So when stuff like this comes up,
Speaker 1: it's it's funny and it again all in good fun.
Speaker 1: And if you want to leave us something good in
Speaker 1: the comments section, beware, I caution you because you are
Speaker 1: gonna end up on this segment.
Speaker 2: We give people the warning every month. You want to
Speaker 2: be featured on this podcast, leave us an awful reply
Speaker 2: saying how terrible we are at doing sports podcasting, and
Speaker 2: you're probably gonna end up on this portion of the show.
Speaker 2: So you can always send us a question for a
Speaker 2: mail bag too if you want to be brought up
Speaker 2: in a much nicer light. But if you just want
Speaker 2: to guarantee you your spot being on or your question
Speaker 2: being on this tod all you have to do is
Speaker 2: tell us how awful we are and we'll probably read it. So, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's ruthless replies. Third one. We're going to keep doing
Speaker 2: them because it's a bunch of fun and usually provide
Speaker 2: some good laughs. Hopefully you guys had some good laughs
Speaker 2: out of it too. With that, I think that'll just
Speaker 2: about wrap up this edition of the Marine Layer podcast.
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