WEBVTT - Episode 108: Mailbag

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to episode number oneh eight of the Marine Layer Podcast.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a mailbag episode. We'll answer your best baseball and

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<v Speaker 1>non baseball questions on today's pod.

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<v Speaker 1>Let's get it rolling, and we welcome you to this

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<v Speaker 1>episode of the Marine Layer Podcast, part of the Just

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<v Speaker 1>Baseball podcast network, Recording here on Sunday, March. When you're

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<v Speaker 1>listening to this, Lyle and I will be at spring training,

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<v Speaker 1>but for the time being here on Sunday. Before we leave,

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<v Speaker 1>we have a lot of really good questions to get

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<v Speaker 1>to here on this edition of the podcast. I do

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<v Speaker 1>really like the batchup questions we have here today. I

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<v Speaker 1>think for the mail bags, this is the most diverse

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<v Speaker 1>mail bag episode we've had.

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<v Speaker 2>We got some really good questions like if you're looking

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<v Speaker 2>forward to, like you said, diversity, and not just some

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<v Speaker 2>really good baseball questions, but creative questions and some non

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<v Speaker 2>baseball questions as well. You're in for a good one

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<v Speaker 2>this episode. But Dog, I do have to say before

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<v Speaker 2>we start, happy birthday at it today on Sunday.

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<v Speaker 1>Thanks Dog. Yeah, not my birthday on Wednesday, but on Sunday. Yes,

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<v Speaker 1>So the Mariners will be getting the newest version of

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<v Speaker 1>TJD twenty six version of TJ I don't even know

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<v Speaker 1>what to expect, to be honest, like what they're gonna get,

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<v Speaker 1>but well, I guess we'll have to see. Hey, twenty

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<v Speaker 1>six is the new twenty one, no judging how my

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<v Speaker 1>twenty one was?

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, probably not all right? Well, fair enough.

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<v Speaker 1>I appreciate you looking out for me though.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, I will say, speaking of birthdays, when we get

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<v Speaker 2>down to spring training, one of the questions I'm itching

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<v Speaker 2>to ask this one probably won't even like be on

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<v Speaker 2>social media or anything like that. But when we were

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<v Speaker 2>done recording with Dom with Dom Canzone, we were talking about, Oh,

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<v Speaker 2>him and I have the exact same birthday. We're both

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<v Speaker 2>August sixteenth, nineteen ninety seven, and I asked Dom, I said,

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<v Speaker 2>what time were you born at? And he said, honestly,

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know. I'm gonna have to ask my parents

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<v Speaker 2>and get back to you. So when we get down

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<v Speaker 2>to spring training, I'm gonna ask him and see if

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<v Speaker 2>you ever followed up on that, because I'm genuinely curious.

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<v Speaker 2>I was born like a little bit before five am.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm guessing he wasn't born that early. So yeah, I'm

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<v Speaker 2>kind of itching to find out.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that would be uh, that'd be pretty wild. Let's

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<v Speaker 1>get into these mail bag questions up first. This is

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<v Speaker 1>a question we got on Twitter from at a understore

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<v Speaker 1>Underscore Stuart fifty one. The question is, Lyle, would you

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<v Speaker 1>rather relive a season through the low light tapes of

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<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty two Jesse Winker or twenty twenty three Colton

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<v Speaker 1>Long All recorded outs from the season are on tape.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, there's a couple different ways you could go about this.

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<v Speaker 2>You could think of it as do you put one

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<v Speaker 2>of these guys on the twenty twenty four roster, or

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<v Speaker 2>do you think of it as you're going to go

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<v Speaker 2>back and watch their seasons in the years they were

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<v Speaker 2>with the Mariners. I looked at it the latter way,

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<v Speaker 2>in the sense of Winker in twenty two long and

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<v Speaker 2>twenty three. If it's between those two, I would pick

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<v Speaker 2>Jesse Winker because, look, he played some of the worst

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<v Speaker 2>defense I think we've ever seen in the outfield at

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<v Speaker 2>T Mobile Parker. That being said, he wasn't good at

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<v Speaker 2>the plate, but technically he was above average. I know

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<v Speaker 2>they traded for him to be a real impact bat

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<v Speaker 2>and he was not that. But he led the American

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<v Speaker 2>League in walks as WRC plus was over one hundred.

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<v Speaker 2>I know Jesse Winkers stand by any means, but between

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<v Speaker 2>the two, I think I'd pick Winker because definition he

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<v Speaker 2>was slightly above average.

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<v Speaker 1>But who is the more useful player on a baseball team?

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<v Speaker 1>I was trying to think so when my answer to

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<v Speaker 1>this question is, if I were to pick one of

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<v Speaker 1>these two and actually have to physically rewatch their entire

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<v Speaker 1>season again on this twenty twenty four roster, it would

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<v Speaker 1>be Colton Wong. As much as that pains me, you'd

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<v Speaker 1>probably it would probably be Culton. Look, I don't think

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<v Speaker 1>I could I could make myself sit down and watch

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<v Speaker 1>another season of Jesse Winker in the outfield can't do it.

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<v Speaker 1>I physically cannot watch that man try and field another

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<v Speaker 1>ground ball. So it would it would, unfortunately, have to

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<v Speaker 1>be Culton Wong. Now if I were to sit down

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<v Speaker 1>and just watch the video, it'd be Jesse Winker because

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<v Speaker 1>I'd be laughing my ass off of watching him try

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<v Speaker 1>to field.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, but Winker was on a team that got to

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<v Speaker 2>the playoffs. I'm not saying he was the driving force,

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<v Speaker 2>but he was on a playoff team. We know how

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<v Speaker 2>frustrating twenty twenty three was for everybody last year. So

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<v Speaker 2>when you look at the teams, you'd have to watch.

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<v Speaker 2>I know, the players on each teams weren't that different,

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<v Speaker 2>Like the core was still the same. But I feel

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<v Speaker 2>like that and the advanced numbers of plate I feel

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<v Speaker 2>like i'd still take Winker. I don't know, like like

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<v Speaker 2>as we've talked about, like Colton Wang. I mean, his

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<v Speaker 2>defense was no Gold Glove level either last year. I

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<v Speaker 2>think you're leaving that out.

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<v Speaker 1>No, I mean no.

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<v Speaker 2>Remember remember all the times he had to try to

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<v Speaker 2>relay the ball in on a cutoff play from from

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<v Speaker 2>shortened the outfield, and he'd like three hop it to

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<v Speaker 2>the plate.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I mean we could take personality into account here too.

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<v Speaker 1>I know Jesse Winker wasn't was the most well liked

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<v Speaker 1>guy too, so that that probably doesn't help with the

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<v Speaker 1>clubhouse chemistry. Not like and all these all these leaders

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<v Speaker 1>on this team, JP, cow et cetera. Like they do

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<v Speaker 1>you think they look at Jesse Winker and like the

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<v Speaker 1>ultimate form of respect? Hmmm?

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<v Speaker 2>No, oh, okay, if we're gonna go personality one hundred percent,

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<v Speaker 2>Colton Wong, what resonates with me is not just how

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<v Speaker 2>well he was and how respected he was. Remember when

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<v Speaker 2>we had Tye peed on and he said Colton Wong

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<v Speaker 2>sat down with him for a half hour and just

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<v Speaker 2>talked baseball life, like acclimating yourself into the big leagues,

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<v Speaker 2>how to handle yourself one day as a big leaguer.

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<v Speaker 2>Of we're going to talk about the human being, the

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<v Speaker 2>personality Colton Wong, like by light years. I wish we'd

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<v Speaker 2>gotten to know Colton Wong better in the time he

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<v Speaker 2>was here last year, just as the person. I know

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<v Speaker 2>he didn't have a good year, but he seems like

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<v Speaker 2>just an ultimate ultimate good guy. So by that's by

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<v Speaker 2>that retrospect for sure.

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<v Speaker 1>M hm. So yeah, I think if I just had

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<v Speaker 1>to sit down and watch, it'd be Winker, It'd be Winker.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, what a unique season. He essentially turned into

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<v Speaker 1>rawl of Banya's with more walks and less power. That

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<v Speaker 1>like that, that's pretty impressive.

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<v Speaker 2>Remember his I will say if you wanted, if you

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<v Speaker 2>wanted quotes to hang on to, though, it's Winker. Remember

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<v Speaker 2>his interview after the doubleheader against the Nationals where he

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<v Speaker 2>said He's gonna use Dylan Moore's Manscape code between games

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<v Speaker 2>or whatever it was.

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<v Speaker 1>And my other favorite Jesse Winker moment, Like my friend

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<v Speaker 1>Caleb at the time worked at like a sports card

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<v Speaker 1>shop and he just randomly after a day game was like, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>Jesse Winker came in today. He was like, oh, super

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<v Speaker 1>nice guy. It's like, well, yeah, it sounds like Jesse

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<v Speaker 1>Winker was as dedicated to his card collection as he

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<v Speaker 1>was to his baseball physique. So that was pretty cool.

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<v Speaker 1>I thought that was a kind of random moment. Never

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<v Speaker 1>heard about Coltonwong going into a sports card shop.

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<v Speaker 2>Maybe he's not a collector, not like not like our

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<v Speaker 2>guy justin Topa or in this case, like Jesse Winker.

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<v Speaker 2>Second question we got in the mailbag This one's on Twitter.

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<v Speaker 2>It's from Starcadian. He says, this is a unique one.

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<v Speaker 2>If a sorcerer emerged out of leftfield then offered you

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<v Speaker 2>a barter which would grant you a super team composed

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<v Speaker 2>of the best Mariners of all time in their prime

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<v Speaker 2>for one season, but if that team failed to win

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<v Speaker 2>a World Series, you would doom the team and franchise

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<v Speaker 2>to another twenty year playoff draft. Would you do it?

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<v Speaker 1>Yes? Absolutely? Are you kidding me? They already missed it

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<v Speaker 1>without a curse for twenty years at least if they

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<v Speaker 1>missed it for twenty years in a row this time,

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<v Speaker 1>you know there's nothing you can do about it. And

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<v Speaker 1>you know the other way I thought about this is

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<v Speaker 1>he essentially, just like rehashed what two thousand and one was.

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<v Speaker 1>The baseball gods came together to create the perfect baseball

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<v Speaker 1>team for the Seattle Mariners, the perfect baseball team. And

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<v Speaker 1>you know what the baseball god said after the two

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<v Speaker 1>thousand and one season, Well, now your debt will be

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<v Speaker 1>paid in a twenty year playoff drought. And that's what happened.

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<v Speaker 2>But how can you possibly say you're okay with living

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<v Speaker 2>through another drought even if you have all these guys

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<v Speaker 2>on one field because we're.

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<v Speaker 1>Used to it already. That's why no, I because when

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<v Speaker 1>they have tried to make the playoffs for forty seven

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<v Speaker 1>years as a franchise.

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<v Speaker 2>It doesn't work.

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<v Speaker 1>So at least when there's an external power keeping you out,

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<v Speaker 1>you can just kind of shrug your shoulders and know

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<v Speaker 1>that at least for one season, it might be the

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<v Speaker 1>greatest season you'll ever watch, and you'll cherish those memories forever.

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<v Speaker 2>Let me make this as abundantly clear as I can

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<v Speaker 2>possibly speak. I cannot and will not live through another

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<v Speaker 2>twenty year playoff drought. Do you know how long twenty

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<v Speaker 2>years is? As I like to put it, our first

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<v Speaker 2>day of kindergarten until the day we graduated from ASU,

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<v Speaker 2>we said, zero postseason games for the Mariners, not just

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<v Speaker 2>that time span. It ranged longer than that our wavelength

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<v Speaker 2>at thinking on, this is totally polar opposite. Here's why

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<v Speaker 2>I said, I'm not taking that risk. The Dodgers exist,

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<v Speaker 2>The Braves exist. Those guys have super teams every year,

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<v Speaker 2>and they don't win the World Series. The Dodgers have

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<v Speaker 2>won one. Okay, the Dodgers won once in twenty twenty.

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<v Speaker 2>The Braves won in twenty one. For the last couple

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<v Speaker 2>of years, those two teams have had loaded rosters and

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<v Speaker 2>lost in the first round. I'm not putting that to chance,

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<v Speaker 2>even with prime Junior and Prime Edgar and prime a

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<v Speaker 2>Rod and prime Randy Johnson. I'm sorry, I'm not because

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<v Speaker 2>there's teams like the mid eighties when Diamondbacks that still

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<v Speaker 2>get there. I'm not taking that one year risk on

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<v Speaker 2>the chance to win the World Series. If you know,

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<v Speaker 2>then you get a twenty year drought following. No, I'm

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<v Speaker 2>taking the chances that they have now where you can

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<v Speaker 2>just keep this core together and compete for a playoffs

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<v Speaker 2>about every year, and if you get in, you're starting pitching,

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<v Speaker 2>you ride with it.

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<v Speaker 1>Now.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not taking that risk. I cannot live through another

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<v Speaker 2>twenty years. Dude.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, it's either the option where you're guaranteed a great team,

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<v Speaker 1>or we can live in the current reality where the

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<v Speaker 1>thought of a great team just doesn't even enter the

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<v Speaker 1>minds of the people in control of that give you

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<v Speaker 1>got it that way.

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<v Speaker 2>But they could be a good team that gets into

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<v Speaker 2>the playoffs, whether it's an a as, an AOS winner

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<v Speaker 2>or wildcard, and they ride their starting pitching and see

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<v Speaker 2>where it takes them. I like, I'm taking that chance

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<v Speaker 2>with the idea, without the guarantee over your head that

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<v Speaker 2>oh you are you are going to miss the playoffs

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<v Speaker 2>for twenty straight years. I'd rather have the chance and

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<v Speaker 2>the hope to hang on rather than knowing, well, you're

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<v Speaker 2>gonna miss for another twenty years. No, I can't. I

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<v Speaker 2>cannot deal with that. Man can do it.

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<v Speaker 1>Like it just the just could. But could you imagine

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<v Speaker 1>the opportunity to live through that two thousand and one season.

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<v Speaker 1>Could you think about that? Think of how amazing that

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<v Speaker 1>summer would be. Could you think about that one hundred

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<v Speaker 1>and sixteen wins? This team could win more games than that.

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<v Speaker 1>Wouldn't that not be the most fun you've ever had?

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<v Speaker 2>Okay? But just to get bounced in five games in

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<v Speaker 2>the ALCS again, the Dodgers won one ten in twenty

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<v Speaker 2>twenty two, I think it was one ten. Then they

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<v Speaker 2>lost in the first round of the Padres. You know

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<v Speaker 2>how disappointed and miserable you'd be at the crashing end

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<v Speaker 2>of that season, Like, I can't do that. It would

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<v Speaker 2>be really fun. Like I know what Jared Carabas said

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<v Speaker 2>the other day of Oh, it's almost more fun to

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<v Speaker 2>be a good regular season team than postseason team when

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<v Speaker 2>we had him on two weeks ago now, but I can't.

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<v Speaker 2>But what Carabas is saying is like year over year,

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<v Speaker 2>you're a good regular season team. The problem is the

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<v Speaker 2>Mariners would be good one regular season, potentially get bounced

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<v Speaker 2>in the Alds or alcs and then missed for another

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<v Speaker 2>twenty years. I'm not putting that to chance. They can't do.

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<v Speaker 1>It just the th can we just like think of

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<v Speaker 1>like what the like we built on our social platforms,

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<v Speaker 1>what the all time starting nine would because like just

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<v Speaker 1>thinking like hey, Rod at short, Edgar at d H,

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<v Speaker 1>John Olrud at first, prime, Brett Boone at second. You

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<v Speaker 1>have Robinson Cano coming off the bench, Nelly off the bench, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>Nelly off the bench. In the outfield, you're gonna have

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<v Speaker 1>Junior j Rod, Jay Rod probably now each year Jay Buhner,

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<v Speaker 1>like those would be your four outfielders. Come on, you're

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<v Speaker 1>telling me you don't want that.

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<v Speaker 2>You tell me, are you guaranteeing that they win a

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<v Speaker 2>World Series with that team? Again? Let me say again,

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<v Speaker 2>oh one Mariners, twenty twenty two, Dodgers and the Braves

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<v Speaker 2>of the last two years.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna ask which team is gonna beat Prime Randy Johnson,

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<v Speaker 1>Prime Felix, and then I don't know, let's who else

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<v Speaker 1>is in that playoff? Garcia, I mean Castillo, Kirby, Yeah, Eddie,

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<v Speaker 1>Edwin Diaz Andres Munos, Matt Brash and the bullpen Sasaki, Sasaki,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know. Twenty fourteen. Tom Wilhelmsen would be like

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<v Speaker 1>the worst member of that bullpen.

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<v Speaker 2>Dude, I can't put it. I cannot put it.

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<v Speaker 1>To I know you're dreaming. I know you're thinking about it.

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<v Speaker 2>You're thinking about it.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh, I'm thinking about a pretty good team. To me,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know where. I don't know who's beating that

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<v Speaker 1>team to problem, that seems better than the oh one

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<v Speaker 1>Mariners is that's for sure?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, of course it is, because it is Prime Junior

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<v Speaker 2>and Prime A Rod and a bunch of other guys

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<v Speaker 2>in Julio. But I like again, guys have off days,

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<v Speaker 2>and if it's collective, they're gonna lose. And then if

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<v Speaker 2>they lose, they missed the playoffs for twenty years.

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<v Speaker 1>M you know, I think a Rod and his spray

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<v Speaker 1>tan powers will get it done.

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<v Speaker 2>I think we're gonna have to agree. Yeah, Unfortunately, I

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<v Speaker 2>think we are going to have to lightheartedly agree to

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<v Speaker 2>disagree on this because there is there is like no

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<v Speaker 2>scenario on earth that I would endure another twenty year

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<v Speaker 2>playoff drought for I cannot go through that ever again,

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<v Speaker 2>like bottom line. So I think that's where we stand. Okay,

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<v Speaker 2>Before we get to our next question, let's talk to

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<v Speaker 2>Our third question comes on Twitter from James Roberts. He says,

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<v Speaker 2>this feels like an obvious one to ask, but I'll

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<v Speaker 2>ask anyways, how good does Cole Young have to perform

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<v Speaker 2>to make the team out of camp? Because he's looked

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<v Speaker 2>really good and surely is better for second and third

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<v Speaker 2>base duties than other in house options. I will say

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<v Speaker 2>I understand what his thinking is long term. I don't

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<v Speaker 2>think at the current moment, with Cole Jong having played

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<v Speaker 2>less than fifty games above Lowe, he is currently suited

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<v Speaker 2>better than the third base options.

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<v Speaker 1>Uh. Look, could I sit the bar at two thousand

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<v Speaker 1>and four Barry Bonds? If he did that, maybe they

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<v Speaker 1>would consider. I was thinking along the lines of like,

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<v Speaker 1>how this could work. Do you remember Juan Soto's call up?

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<v Speaker 1>You remember how small the sample size for him was

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<v Speaker 1>above Lowe? I think he played twenty five games above Lowe.

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<v Speaker 1>Something like that. I mean Juan Soto, I think it

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<v Speaker 1>was less.

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<v Speaker 2>I thought he played like ten or fifteen games.

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<v Speaker 1>It was not very many games, and he went up

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<v Speaker 1>to the big leagues and he was great right away.

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<v Speaker 1>There was no issue for Juan Soto right away. He

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<v Speaker 1>came up as a nineteen year old, had a nine

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<v Speaker 1>hundred ohps as a rookie. It is, in theory with

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<v Speaker 1>the Juan Soto comparison possible, but I'm thinking, like in

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<v Speaker 1>terms of spring training performance. I mean, even if he

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<v Speaker 1>hit five hundred and led the Cactus League in bombs

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<v Speaker 1>like probably still not right like probably like he would

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<v Speaker 1>they would start him in Double A like instant off

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<v Speaker 1>the bat, and they'd feel very comfortable about it. But

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<v Speaker 1>you know, Cole Young hasn't like looking at what Soto

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<v Speaker 1>did and the kind of numbers he put up, like

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<v Speaker 1>he slowed nearly six hundred in Double A, he slogged

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<v Speaker 1>over seven hundred in a plus ball like, Cole Young

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<v Speaker 1>hasn't done that. So unfortunately, even though he's done very

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<v Speaker 1>well in the minor leagues, he hasn't done well enough

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<v Speaker 1>to say I'm going to force your guys's hand to

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<v Speaker 1>put me at the big league level. He could do that.

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<v Speaker 1>This year as a twenty year old and go into

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<v Speaker 1>Double A this year and start hitting three forty with

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<v Speaker 1>a you know, with an on base percentage over four

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<v Speaker 1>hundred and slug say six hundred, then the Mariners would

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<v Speaker 1>really have a conundrum on their hands. At that point,

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<v Speaker 1>you sit there and think, Okay, are we making our

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<v Speaker 1>team worse by not putting him on the big league

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<v Speaker 1>roster as it sits right now? I don't think so.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm sure you just misspoke, But I'm circling back to

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<v Speaker 2>something a plus ball that I think you mean high

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<v Speaker 2>a right.

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<v Speaker 1>Like that's it means the same thing.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, of course it means the same thing. But you

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<v Speaker 2>may have just coined a new term there. You should

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<v Speaker 2>you should trademark it a plus ball.

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<v Speaker 1>I can't. I don't think I could take ownership for that.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't think I'm the only person who said a

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<v Speaker 1>plus ball.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh then maybe maybe I'm just living under a rock.

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<v Speaker 2>And that's the first time I've heard that saying uh,

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<v Speaker 2>I would say your thinking is right also, I'm sure, James,

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<v Speaker 2>and the question is just thinking in terms of like

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<v Speaker 2>what the needs were entering the off season. But obviously,

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<v Speaker 2>when you think of your second and third base options.

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<v Speaker 2>Of course, Jorge Polanco, from where we sit, is a

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<v Speaker 2>much much better option at the moment than Cole Young.

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<v Speaker 2>The only option would be either if Polanco slid to

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<v Speaker 2>third and Young came up and played second, or if

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<v Speaker 2>Young just started playing more third base and came up

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<v Speaker 2>as a third baseman. But I think he profiles more

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<v Speaker 2>as a second basement anyway. And all that being said,

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<v Speaker 2>you're talking about Wuan Soto playing X amount of games

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<v Speaker 2>above Hi A, like he played X amount of games

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<v Speaker 2>in Double A. No, Cole Young has only played like

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<v Speaker 2>less than fifty games in High A. Everett like he

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<v Speaker 2>has not hit Double A yet. Lonsto got called up

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<v Speaker 2>from Double A. So I am all aboard the Cole

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<v Speaker 2>Young train. If you've listened to some of the recent podcasts,

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<v Speaker 2>you've heard me say I think there's a real world

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<v Speaker 2>Cole Young gets up by the end of the year.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm certainly sticking by that with the way he's looked

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<v Speaker 2>so far. But to make the camp out of spring

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<v Speaker 2>training playing about forty eight games in High A, and

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<v Speaker 2>that's the highest level he's played at at twenty years old,

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<v Speaker 2>just doesn't seem likely. Now. If you want to change

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<v Speaker 2>the actually go ahead, let me.

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<v Speaker 1>Say I was gonna say, Julio Rodriguez is the second

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<v Speaker 1>highest ceiling out of any prospect the Mariners have ever had,

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<v Speaker 1>behind Ken Griffey Junior. He played an entire season in

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<v Speaker 1>Double A before getting called up. He crushed Double A,

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<v Speaker 1>but he played an entire season as a twenty year

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<v Speaker 1>old in Double A. I have a hard time seeing

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<v Speaker 1>Cole Young do it like at this moment, doing anything

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<v Speaker 1>less than that to earn a call up.

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<v Speaker 2>I think, yeah, I would agree with that. Now. I

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<v Speaker 2>think if he keeps hitting like this, he's not going

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<v Speaker 2>back to Everett. He's just gonna start the year in Arkansas. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>but but he would have to play really well in

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<v Speaker 2>Arkansas to get a call up even at the end

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<v Speaker 2>of the year, which I think may happen. But you

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<v Speaker 2>just you can skip Triple A and go from Double

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<v Speaker 2>A to the Major Some guys do that. Julio did it.

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<v Speaker 2>You've seen other guys do it at certain points, like

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<v Speaker 2>Evin White did it. But I don't think you can

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<v Speaker 2>go from High A to the big leagues at twenty

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<v Speaker 2>years old. That's just too much of a jump. So

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<v Speaker 2>I am very excited to see what Cole Young's done

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<v Speaker 2>so far this spring, I'm almost positive he's not making

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<v Speaker 2>the roster out of camp. I'll put it like that.

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<v Speaker 1>But if Cole Young goes and crushes triple A this

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<v Speaker 1>year and the Mariners third base situation does not get better,

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<v Speaker 1>like let's say there's injuries or in once the dead

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<v Speaker 1>deadline rolls around, they have to go acquire a pitcher

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<v Speaker 1>instead of an infielder, and third base is still a

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<v Speaker 1>black hole at that point, Or say Polonko goes over

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<v Speaker 1>to third and second base at that point is a

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<v Speaker 1>black hole again for what seems like the twentieth year

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<v Speaker 1>in a row a row without Robinson Cano or Brett Boone.

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<v Speaker 1>Then you make you make that decision of what makes

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<v Speaker 1>your team better in August and September and we can

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<v Speaker 1>revisit that, and then Lyle can parade around this podcasting

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<v Speaker 1>I told you so, I told you so, I told

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<v Speaker 1>you so. I was right. Ah wow.

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<v Speaker 2>So I will be doing exactly that if Cole Young

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<v Speaker 2>gets called up. I will say, though, if they're unsatisfied

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<v Speaker 2>with what's gone on at third base by the trade

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<v Speaker 2>deadline and Young still not up, like if cool Young

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<v Speaker 2>gets up, for example, tail end of September, if the

0:21:45.520 --> 0:21:47.960
<v Speaker 2>Mariners are making a playoff push, you see Cole Young

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<v Speaker 2>get up similar to how some other young high prospects

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<v Speaker 2>have gotten up that way in the past, Like remember

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<v Speaker 2>Xander Bogart's got up really late in his rookie year

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<v Speaker 2>and was on the playoff roster. Even junior Cameron Aro

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<v Speaker 2>for the Rays last year is one of the top

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<v Speaker 2>prospect and all of baseball got up really late and

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<v Speaker 2>was on the postseason roster for Tampa last year. You

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<v Speaker 2>might see something like that with Cole Young. I was

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<v Speaker 2>gonna say, if it's the trade deadline, you can't trade

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<v Speaker 2>for a bat and you need a solution, I think

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<v Speaker 2>we might be looking at Tyler Lockley before we see

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<v Speaker 2>Cole Young. And I mean by that I'm not banking this.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not banking on this happening. But if you want

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<v Speaker 2>to speculate theories for why ty France is starting to

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<v Speaker 2>not see third base reps but have some buzz around

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<v Speaker 2>him playing more third base again, it's that Locklear is

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<v Speaker 2>a first baseman and man Oman does he crush baseball.

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<v Speaker 2>So if they think the offense is gonna need a

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<v Speaker 2>spark in July or August, you might see Lockley out

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<v Speaker 2>because that's a college bat who's already been in Double

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<v Speaker 2>A is going to start back in Double A. And

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<v Speaker 2>if he hits the way everybody thinks he's gonna hit,

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<v Speaker 2>he may be up mid season.

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<v Speaker 1>What kind of numbers would you need to see from

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<v Speaker 1>Cole Young to feel comfortable with him being on the

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<v Speaker 1>big league roster this year? Like not like not out

0:22:57.359 --> 0:22:59.280
<v Speaker 1>of need, not out of force, need not out of

0:22:59.359 --> 0:23:01.480
<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty one on Jared Keln to call up and

0:23:01.520 --> 0:23:03.920
<v Speaker 1>save the day on the big league roster, only for

0:23:04.000 --> 0:23:06.199
<v Speaker 1>him to struggle all season. Like if you were to

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<v Speaker 1>feel comfortable calling Cole Jung up from Double A because

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<v Speaker 1>you feel like he's ready, what numbers do that? What

0:23:12.880 --> 0:23:13.560
<v Speaker 1>does that look like?

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<v Speaker 2>So AKA, the Mariners have legitimately had their hand force.

0:23:17.760 --> 0:23:19.640
<v Speaker 2>They say this guy cannot be in the miners anymore.

0:23:19.680 --> 0:23:21.960
<v Speaker 2>He needs to help the big league club win games.

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<v Speaker 2>I would say one forty one fifty WRC plus has

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<v Speaker 2>to be hitting three hundred or above.

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<v Speaker 1>Probably it's got to be better. Like he's had good

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<v Speaker 1>numbers in the minor leagues. He would need to, I

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<v Speaker 1>would think, need to exceed those numbers this season in

0:23:37.640 --> 0:23:41.760
<v Speaker 1>the worst hitting environment he'll play in period in Arkansas. Yeah,

0:23:42.359 --> 0:23:44.439
<v Speaker 1>and you know his it would be right now. His

0:23:44.480 --> 0:23:46.840
<v Speaker 1>minor league numbers, despite the four hundred on base percentage,

0:23:46.880 --> 0:23:49.280
<v Speaker 1>the OPS has been anywhere from eight hundred to eight

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<v Speaker 1>fifty and in the minor leagues that's not a one

0:23:51.080 --> 0:23:54.800
<v Speaker 1>forty one to fifty WRC plus, so especially not in

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<v Speaker 1>Double A, it's going to be need to be a

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<v Speaker 1>little bit higher than that for us to feel more

0:23:59.000 --> 0:24:02.000
<v Speaker 1>comfortable with him coming up. It's possible. Wouldn't put wouldn't

0:24:02.040 --> 0:24:05.280
<v Speaker 1>wouldn't put it past him. He's as talented as could be,

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<v Speaker 1>But for the time being, seems unlikely. And I like

0:24:10.280 --> 0:24:13.480
<v Speaker 1>your locklier thing like at third base, that seems like

0:24:14.119 --> 0:24:16.719
<v Speaker 1>more of a realistic option. So we'll have to see.

0:24:16.840 --> 0:24:18.520
<v Speaker 1>It's up to the Mariners to decide what they're going

0:24:18.600 --> 0:24:21.440
<v Speaker 1>to do here coming down the stretch in twenty twenty four,

0:24:21.440 --> 0:24:24.880
<v Speaker 1>if they really need somebody in that spot. Okay, next

0:24:24.960 --> 0:24:28.080
<v Speaker 1>question comes from Ellie at Try and Takeover. She sent

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<v Speaker 1>us this on Instagram. The question is, if you had

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<v Speaker 1>to choose a career outside of sports media, what would

0:24:35.440 --> 0:24:35.960
<v Speaker 1>you choose.

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<v Speaker 2>This made my skin crawl because we've talked about this

0:24:40.480 --> 0:24:44.399
<v Speaker 2>on the podcast. But I just hated school with a

0:24:44.440 --> 0:24:47.080
<v Speaker 2>burning passion. I wasn't like the disruptive kid in class

0:24:47.119 --> 0:24:49.960
<v Speaker 2>or anything like that. But I wasn't exactly attentive either,

0:24:50.000 --> 0:24:52.119
<v Speaker 2>because I was so bored all the time. All I

0:24:52.160 --> 0:24:54.600
<v Speaker 2>wanted to do was talk about sports. So here we are.

0:24:54.920 --> 0:24:57.960
<v Speaker 2>If I have to pick another career, what I came

0:24:58.080 --> 0:25:01.240
<v Speaker 2>up with was probably taking the route of going into

0:25:01.240 --> 0:25:03.680
<v Speaker 2>baseball operations, which is, we have a couple of friends

0:25:03.720 --> 0:25:05.879
<v Speaker 2>who are in that field now and really like it

0:25:05.920 --> 0:25:08.000
<v Speaker 2>and really enjoy it. I think if I wasn't talking

0:25:08.040 --> 0:25:10.520
<v Speaker 2>about sports, it'd probably be that, because then you're still

0:25:10.560 --> 0:25:12.959
<v Speaker 2>around baseball all the time. You're around the field, you're

0:25:13.000 --> 0:25:16.440
<v Speaker 2>around teams, you're you know, you're looking into numbers, you're

0:25:17.000 --> 0:25:19.840
<v Speaker 2>just around baseball, and you're living and breathing baseball. I

0:25:19.880 --> 0:25:22.120
<v Speaker 2>think if I wasn't in sports media, it would probably

0:25:22.119 --> 0:25:23.960
<v Speaker 2>be that, but it would still have to be something

0:25:23.960 --> 0:25:24.480
<v Speaker 2>in sports.

0:25:25.880 --> 0:25:29.560
<v Speaker 1>You don't see any possible thing outside of sports that

0:25:29.600 --> 0:25:32.400
<v Speaker 1>you could do, Like would be would you own a gym?

0:25:32.800 --> 0:25:34.920
<v Speaker 1>Could you own a gym?

0:25:35.000 --> 0:25:39.040
<v Speaker 2>Maybe? But like then you're getting into I guess we've

0:25:39.080 --> 0:25:41.880
<v Speaker 2>honed some skills in with this podcast that I probably

0:25:42.000 --> 0:25:44.560
<v Speaker 2>previously never really thought we'd have to have, like having

0:25:44.560 --> 0:25:48.000
<v Speaker 2>a little bit of marketing skill and sales skills like

0:25:48.000 --> 0:25:49.639
<v Speaker 2>those weren't like those are things we do with this

0:25:49.680 --> 0:25:52.880
<v Speaker 2>podcast that I didn't really think i'd ever need back

0:25:52.880 --> 0:25:55.320
<v Speaker 2>when we were in college. But I think it's another

0:25:55.520 --> 0:25:59.560
<v Speaker 2>level when you talk about owning land property, like that's

0:25:59.600 --> 0:26:02.959
<v Speaker 2>a lot work. That'd be great. But I mean I've

0:26:03.000 --> 0:26:06.040
<v Speaker 2>thought about the whole like would you be a personal trainer?

0:26:06.119 --> 0:26:08.600
<v Speaker 2>Thing Like, like I don't know, I feel like.

0:26:08.560 --> 0:26:11.120
<v Speaker 1>You could do that diet. Do you think you could

0:26:11.160 --> 0:26:14.160
<v Speaker 1>do like be a dietitian because your diet's pretty good.

0:26:15.880 --> 0:26:17.600
<v Speaker 2>Maybe, but I feel like I've learned so much just

0:26:17.640 --> 0:26:19.280
<v Speaker 2>from other people, Like I feel like I've learned just

0:26:19.320 --> 0:26:21.400
<v Speaker 2>from kind of watching YouTube videos and seeing what other

0:26:21.400 --> 0:26:24.800
<v Speaker 2>people do. I don't know about dietitian. Maybe I would

0:26:24.800 --> 0:26:30.199
<v Speaker 2>say more likely like something involving because like I wouldn't

0:26:30.200 --> 0:26:32.280
<v Speaker 2>say I'm some like fitness guru who goes around and

0:26:32.320 --> 0:26:34.119
<v Speaker 2>like does a bunch of group classes and things like that.

0:26:34.119 --> 0:26:35.960
<v Speaker 2>I kind of just do my own thing, Like maybe

0:26:35.960 --> 0:26:39.440
<v Speaker 2>i'd do someone on one sessions with people, but I'd

0:26:39.480 --> 0:26:42.640
<v Speaker 2>say that's much much further down the totem pole. If

0:26:43.359 --> 0:26:46.000
<v Speaker 2>I don't know, baseball didn't exist or something like that.

0:26:46.119 --> 0:26:49.520
<v Speaker 2>So maybe, like I guess, I could see myself in

0:26:49.720 --> 0:26:53.320
<v Speaker 2>like a real other alternate verse doing that and being

0:26:53.440 --> 0:26:55.840
<v Speaker 2>somewhat satisfied with it. But I would say more likely

0:26:55.880 --> 0:26:57.040
<v Speaker 2>than not, it's gonna be in sports.

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<v Speaker 1>Interesting, you know, I would say the same. I have

0:27:00.800 --> 0:27:03.040
<v Speaker 1>a very different answer. I'm not sure if I've talked

0:27:03.080 --> 0:27:04.919
<v Speaker 1>about this on the podcast. If I wasn't gonna go

0:27:04.920 --> 0:27:08.720
<v Speaker 1>into journalism and focus on sports in college, I wanted

0:27:08.760 --> 0:27:10.520
<v Speaker 1>to be in tech. I wanted to be I wanted

0:27:10.520 --> 0:27:13.480
<v Speaker 1>to be a computer science major. That stuff always really

0:27:13.520 --> 0:27:17.200
<v Speaker 1>interested me in high school. Funny thing is it's probably

0:27:17.240 --> 0:27:18.960
<v Speaker 1>good I didn't. I don't know. I don't know. I

0:27:19.000 --> 0:27:20.639
<v Speaker 1>don't quite know if I would have cut it. Do

0:27:20.680 --> 0:27:22.960
<v Speaker 1>you want to guess what my SAT score was on

0:27:23.040 --> 0:27:26.000
<v Speaker 1>the on the AP computer science class? Do you want

0:27:26.000 --> 0:27:26.359
<v Speaker 1>to guess?

0:27:26.680 --> 0:27:29.320
<v Speaker 2>I'm sure it was higher than my Well, I didn't

0:27:29.320 --> 0:27:31.359
<v Speaker 2>take AP computer science, but I'm sure your SAT score

0:27:31.359 --> 0:27:32.359
<v Speaker 2>was probably higher than mine.

0:27:32.800 --> 0:27:36.399
<v Speaker 1>No, not SAT. What my the AP Computer Sciences like?

0:27:36.480 --> 0:27:38.199
<v Speaker 1>One through five? You want to guess what the score was?

0:27:39.320 --> 0:27:39.520
<v Speaker 2>Two?

0:27:40.440 --> 0:27:40.640
<v Speaker 1>One?

0:27:41.200 --> 0:27:41.600
<v Speaker 2>Oh?

0:27:41.680 --> 0:27:43.640
<v Speaker 1>I thought I did great I thought I killed it.

0:27:44.200 --> 0:27:47.840
<v Speaker 1>I thought I studied my ass off. I I thought

0:27:47.880 --> 0:27:49.800
<v Speaker 1>I nailed the test and I got a one. And

0:27:49.840 --> 0:27:53.200
<v Speaker 1>I was sitting there on my computer just like flabbergasted

0:27:53.480 --> 0:27:56.320
<v Speaker 1>at the score. I'm like, how is that possible? I

0:27:56.359 --> 0:27:58.480
<v Speaker 1>got a one. I was kind of pissed off that

0:27:58.560 --> 0:28:01.200
<v Speaker 1>class was about us, hard of a high school class

0:28:01.200 --> 0:28:03.720
<v Speaker 1>that I had ever had that in chemistry. But I

0:28:03.720 --> 0:28:06.760
<v Speaker 1>actually enjoyed the computer science. I like, I enjoy building things,

0:28:06.840 --> 0:28:09.280
<v Speaker 1>especially like on the lap, like on a laptop, and

0:28:09.640 --> 0:28:13.919
<v Speaker 1>tinkering around and sort of trying new things, which you

0:28:13.960 --> 0:28:17.159
<v Speaker 1>know correlates into say video editing and creating content for

0:28:17.200 --> 0:28:20.159
<v Speaker 1>this podcast, but in a different sense for computer science.

0:28:20.200 --> 0:28:22.960
<v Speaker 1>So I was thinking that computer science would be a

0:28:23.000 --> 0:28:26.520
<v Speaker 1>cool path to go down. Didn't end up happening. I'm

0:28:26.560 --> 0:28:29.600
<v Speaker 1>obviously sitting here talking about sports with my journalism degree instead.

0:28:30.040 --> 0:28:32.200
<v Speaker 1>But I thought that would have been cool. Now that

0:28:32.280 --> 0:28:35.840
<v Speaker 1>I'm an adult, I feel like something travel related, something

0:28:35.880 --> 0:28:38.120
<v Speaker 1>that would allow me to travel more than I do

0:28:38.280 --> 0:28:40.560
<v Speaker 1>right now, I think would be a path. I don't

0:28:40.600 --> 0:28:43.600
<v Speaker 1>exactly know what that would be. Lao floated the idea

0:28:43.600 --> 0:28:46.400
<v Speaker 1>of a flight attendant in theory. A flight attendant sounds great.

0:28:46.680 --> 0:28:49.120
<v Speaker 1>The problem is the customer service part. I don't know

0:28:49.120 --> 0:28:50.840
<v Speaker 1>if I have the patience for that, dealing with other

0:28:50.880 --> 0:28:53.680
<v Speaker 1>people that much, especially on a plane, like stuck in

0:28:53.720 --> 0:28:57.560
<v Speaker 1>a metal tube with a bunch of three hundred strangers

0:28:57.600 --> 0:29:02.280
<v Speaker 1>for hours on end when they're hungry and tired and

0:29:02.920 --> 0:29:06.200
<v Speaker 1>antsy and I was crying babies, and who knows what

0:29:06.800 --> 0:29:09.280
<v Speaker 1>will happen. Maybe the door will fly off on the

0:29:09.320 --> 0:29:11.000
<v Speaker 1>plane as well, and you have to deal You have

0:29:11.040 --> 0:29:14.320
<v Speaker 1>to deal with that as well. It's like, yeah, I

0:29:14.800 --> 0:29:17.400
<v Speaker 1>don't quite know if that would be it a like

0:29:17.480 --> 0:29:20.800
<v Speaker 1>a pilot sounds cool. The problem is the steps to

0:29:20.880 --> 0:29:24.480
<v Speaker 1>being a pilot is a huge, huge pain in the ass,

0:29:24.480 --> 0:29:27.520
<v Speaker 1>and it is so expensive to become to get all

0:29:27.560 --> 0:29:31.800
<v Speaker 1>those flight hours to become a pilot, especially a commercial pilot. Man,

0:29:32.280 --> 0:29:34.480
<v Speaker 1>I don't know if I could, I if I would

0:29:34.480 --> 0:29:37.080
<v Speaker 1>have the wherewithal to get through all of that. So

0:29:38.200 --> 0:29:41.280
<v Speaker 1>that I guess that's my complicated answer. Tech then something

0:29:41.280 --> 0:29:42.440
<v Speaker 1>travel related.

0:29:42.640 --> 0:29:44.520
<v Speaker 2>I honestly have three answers to that, because there's a

0:29:44.560 --> 0:29:47.680
<v Speaker 2>few follow ups. Number one, TJ. Everybody, as you can tell,

0:29:47.800 --> 0:29:50.560
<v Speaker 2>makes really fiscally responsible decisions. He decided not to go

0:29:50.600 --> 0:29:52.800
<v Speaker 2>into tech and be in sports journalism.

0:29:52.960 --> 0:29:57.240
<v Speaker 1>So yeah, well so if I think about this, it's

0:29:57.280 --> 0:30:00.280
<v Speaker 1>one industry that pays extremely well. But now I just

0:30:00.360 --> 0:30:03.240
<v Speaker 1>laid a shit ton of people off, so you know,

0:30:03.880 --> 0:30:06.720
<v Speaker 1>I would actually it's I'm still at least gainfully employed

0:30:06.720 --> 0:30:08.040
<v Speaker 1>in this. If I was in tech right now, I

0:30:08.040 --> 0:30:10.720
<v Speaker 1>could be unemployed. So at this very moment, though, I

0:30:10.720 --> 0:30:16.480
<v Speaker 1>would have pretty goo unemployment benefits, I would say, so, yeah, yeah.

0:30:14.240 --> 0:30:18.040
<v Speaker 2>That's fair. My other two one to the pilot thing,

0:30:18.040 --> 0:30:19.520
<v Speaker 2>I mean, you should ask my brother about it, because

0:30:19.600 --> 0:30:21.320
<v Speaker 2>I mean, my brother has his pilot's license and all

0:30:21.360 --> 0:30:24.880
<v Speaker 2>that flies planes. But to your point, it took them

0:30:24.920 --> 0:30:27.680
<v Speaker 2>a long time, and like you said, it's a lot hours.

0:30:27.880 --> 0:30:30.600
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, a lot of hours really expensive. Again, I don't

0:30:30.640 --> 0:30:33.160
<v Speaker 1>know if it's like the piloting specifically, but more of

0:30:33.240 --> 0:30:36.200
<v Speaker 1>just like how I end up at the destination if

0:30:36.200 --> 0:30:38.600
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna, like, you know, I scroll on TikTok and

0:30:38.640 --> 0:30:41.160
<v Speaker 1>I see these pilots documenting like, oh, yeah, I just

0:30:41.480 --> 0:30:44.080
<v Speaker 1>hopped to Australia. That was our international flight. Now I

0:30:44.120 --> 0:30:45.840
<v Speaker 1>get to spend three days here. It's like, oh that

0:30:45.880 --> 0:30:48.960
<v Speaker 1>sounds pretty cool. And it's all paid for and work related,

0:30:49.000 --> 0:30:51.200
<v Speaker 1>and you get to see the world for your job,

0:30:51.240 --> 0:30:53.280
<v Speaker 1>and I think that's pretty cool. And you can, yeah,

0:30:53.280 --> 0:30:54.800
<v Speaker 1>I mean you still have like a home base, you

0:30:54.840 --> 0:30:57.000
<v Speaker 1>still have a house and live somewhere with the family

0:30:57.040 --> 0:30:59.400
<v Speaker 1>and all that stuff, but you also get the plus

0:30:59.440 --> 0:31:01.720
<v Speaker 1>of going out on the road and hitting all these

0:31:01.720 --> 0:31:04.720
<v Speaker 1>spots and super cool, super cool. And that was kind

0:31:04.720 --> 0:31:06.480
<v Speaker 1>of one of the reasons I got into sports, because like,

0:31:06.520 --> 0:31:08.040
<v Speaker 1>once you make it to the top level, you get

0:31:08.040 --> 0:31:11.600
<v Speaker 1>to travel all over the place for sporting events and such.

0:31:11.840 --> 0:31:15.360
<v Speaker 1>Haven't made it there yet, I haven't. I've the farthest

0:31:15.400 --> 0:31:17.280
<v Speaker 1>I've gone on the road for a sporting event is

0:31:17.320 --> 0:31:20.640
<v Speaker 1>down the road to Eugene. That's it. But we're working up,

0:31:20.640 --> 0:31:22.640
<v Speaker 1>we're taking taking baby steps.

0:31:23.080 --> 0:31:25.280
<v Speaker 2>Well, by the time this podcast is out, that'll change.

0:31:25.280 --> 0:31:27.040
<v Speaker 2>You're traveling to Arizona technically true.

0:31:27.400 --> 0:31:30.640
<v Speaker 1>That is true. Yeah, that is true. So you know,

0:31:30.720 --> 0:31:32.720
<v Speaker 1>one step at a time. It is still a little bit,

0:31:32.880 --> 0:31:35.560
<v Speaker 1>a little bit early, but you know, we'll make it early.

0:31:35.680 --> 0:31:37.800
<v Speaker 2>But like I said, like obviously long term, we hope

0:31:37.800 --> 0:31:40.120
<v Speaker 2>to do a lot more stuff with this if it

0:31:40.200 --> 0:31:42.240
<v Speaker 2>keeps you know, if it keeps building up and everything,

0:31:42.280 --> 0:31:44.080
<v Speaker 2>like like we said, I think it'd be pretty cool

0:31:44.080 --> 0:31:45.800
<v Speaker 2>to go to the winter meetings a lot, and yeah,

0:31:45.880 --> 0:31:48.080
<v Speaker 2>keep going back to spring training and whatever else could

0:31:48.200 --> 0:31:48.960
<v Speaker 2>kind of pop up.

0:31:49.120 --> 0:31:51.520
<v Speaker 1>So yeah, yeah, I mean I have a better one.

0:31:51.560 --> 0:31:54.360
<v Speaker 1>If they send the Mariners to say like Japan, Korea

0:31:55.200 --> 0:31:58.040
<v Speaker 1>or the UK or I think France, they might play

0:31:58.120 --> 0:32:01.080
<v Speaker 1>game in France or something whatever. I know, No, you're

0:32:01.120 --> 0:32:03.560
<v Speaker 1>not a huge international traveler, but if you know, if

0:32:03.560 --> 0:32:06.479
<v Speaker 1>we're making the moolah by then like, let's go.

0:32:07.160 --> 0:32:09.360
<v Speaker 2>I'll be honest for that. I would. I would do

0:32:09.360 --> 0:32:11.320
<v Speaker 2>it because it would probably be a pretty cool experience

0:32:11.320 --> 0:32:13.080
<v Speaker 2>to see the Mariners in a different place.

0:32:13.120 --> 0:32:15.080
<v Speaker 1>And I think I could change your mind on travel

0:32:15.120 --> 0:32:17.480
<v Speaker 1>at that point once we actually go experience it and

0:32:17.520 --> 0:32:19.800
<v Speaker 1>you put a smile on your face and you like, actually, TJ,

0:32:19.920 --> 0:32:21.560
<v Speaker 1>I think that's a good idea. We should do this more.

0:32:21.720 --> 0:32:24.040
<v Speaker 2>All right, last thing I will say, and then we'll

0:32:24.080 --> 0:32:27.640
<v Speaker 2>move on to the next question. But standardized tests, to

0:32:27.680 --> 0:32:31.400
<v Speaker 2>your point about taking the SAT are not only are

0:32:31.400 --> 0:32:33.520
<v Speaker 2>they the worst, but they're so outdated, like so much

0:32:33.560 --> 0:32:36.000
<v Speaker 2>the school system just outdated as a whole. And maybe

0:32:36.000 --> 0:32:38.760
<v Speaker 2>I'm biased because I was an atrocious test taker aka

0:32:39.000 --> 0:32:41.280
<v Speaker 2>like I mean, I didn't get like a one hundred

0:32:41.320 --> 0:32:43.320
<v Speaker 2>on the SATs or anything ridiculous like that. I don't

0:32:43.320 --> 0:32:45.080
<v Speaker 2>even think you can get a score that low. But

0:32:45.720 --> 0:32:49.320
<v Speaker 2>I just wasn't, you know, getting flying colors scores on

0:32:49.520 --> 0:32:52.440
<v Speaker 2>standardized tests. So and I wasn't good at taking them.

0:32:52.760 --> 0:32:55.760
<v Speaker 1>So and there's all sorts of problems with standardized tests too,

0:32:55.840 --> 0:32:58.680
<v Speaker 1>like for someone to have a test score that high,

0:32:58.720 --> 0:33:01.080
<v Speaker 1>the amount of money, Like it all boils back to money,

0:33:01.080 --> 0:33:05.239
<v Speaker 1>funny enough with everything everything in this country, but like

0:33:05.600 --> 0:33:08.080
<v Speaker 1>the amount of hours and like tutoring and training you

0:33:08.160 --> 0:33:11.280
<v Speaker 1>have to do to get those high SAT scores, Like

0:33:11.360 --> 0:33:13.280
<v Speaker 1>not everyone can achieve that. Not everyone has the time

0:33:13.320 --> 0:33:15.720
<v Speaker 1>to do that, so like it kind of sucks. And

0:33:15.760 --> 0:33:18.400
<v Speaker 1>notice how like during the pandemic when they just canceled

0:33:18.400 --> 0:33:21.960
<v Speaker 1>the SATs, the world didn't crumble, right, funny Or.

0:33:22.080 --> 0:33:24.440
<v Speaker 2>Some people are just naturally really good test takers. But

0:33:24.960 --> 0:33:26.760
<v Speaker 2>I certainly was not one of those people. And also

0:33:27.000 --> 0:33:28.680
<v Speaker 2>at least for me, I can tell you I have

0:33:28.800 --> 0:33:32.480
<v Speaker 2>learned so much more in my lifetime just watching YouTube

0:33:32.560 --> 0:33:35.920
<v Speaker 2>videos and learning that way, like watching in a shortened

0:33:35.960 --> 0:33:38.880
<v Speaker 2>form and then doing rather than sitting for weeks and

0:33:38.920 --> 0:33:41.800
<v Speaker 2>weeks and weeks on end at a desk being attempted

0:33:41.800 --> 0:33:44.160
<v Speaker 2>to learn something I didn't care about, and then paper

0:33:44.160 --> 0:33:46.120
<v Speaker 2>plops on your desk and say take a test on it.

0:33:46.200 --> 0:33:48.720
<v Speaker 2>So yeah, anyway, I could go on a rant about

0:33:48.720 --> 0:33:53.360
<v Speaker 2>that forever, but change the schooling system. Okay, next question,

0:33:53.400 --> 0:33:56.440
<v Speaker 2>another fun question. This one comes from I want to

0:33:56.440 --> 0:33:58.720
<v Speaker 2>make sure I get the name right, because we got it.

0:33:59.000 --> 0:34:00.800
<v Speaker 2>I don't want to say late, but it was like

0:34:00.960 --> 0:34:02.760
<v Speaker 2>we found it a little bit later on we're like, oh,

0:34:02.800 --> 0:34:05.160
<v Speaker 2>we should talk about this one. This is from Orla McCaffrey.

0:34:05.200 --> 0:34:08.160
<v Speaker 2>This is on Instagram. She says, best spot to watch

0:34:08.200 --> 0:34:10.600
<v Speaker 2>the sunset in Seattle. What's yours?

0:34:12.360 --> 0:34:15.279
<v Speaker 1>So I have a great spot for this. It is

0:34:15.280 --> 0:34:18.600
<v Speaker 1>on Queen Anne. Here's my directions to get there. The

0:34:18.600 --> 0:34:22.839
<v Speaker 1>park's name itself is called Marshall Park, So Marshall Park

0:34:22.920 --> 0:34:25.960
<v Speaker 1>is right next to Carry Park. Everyone knows. I assume

0:34:26.000 --> 0:34:30.160
<v Speaker 1>if you're a Seattle light or your Seattle area person

0:34:30.239 --> 0:34:34.319
<v Speaker 1>like Lyle, or you visit Seattle and you need to

0:34:34.360 --> 0:34:36.960
<v Speaker 1>go to a sightseeing spot, I'm pretty certain you know

0:34:37.480 --> 0:34:40.600
<v Speaker 1>what Kerry Park is. Kerry Park is on Queen Ane Hill,

0:34:41.160 --> 0:34:44.080
<v Speaker 1>overlooks the skyline, overlooks the Puget Sound. You can see

0:34:44.080 --> 0:34:46.800
<v Speaker 1>the ferries, you can see the Olympic Mountains. It's nice.

0:34:47.200 --> 0:34:51.440
<v Speaker 1>It looks you know, southwest ish more south than west,

0:34:51.440 --> 0:34:53.839
<v Speaker 1>but it looks southwest. And I'd say the sunset from

0:34:53.880 --> 0:34:57.720
<v Speaker 1>Kerry Park is fine. But if you're at Carry Park

0:34:58.200 --> 0:35:00.680
<v Speaker 1>and then you turn right on High Island Drive which

0:35:00.719 --> 0:35:03.160
<v Speaker 1>is where Kerry Park is on, and you walk all

0:35:03.200 --> 0:35:05.760
<v Speaker 1>the way to the end of the street. Walking west,

0:35:06.239 --> 0:35:11.399
<v Speaker 1>you get to Marshall Park. And Marshall Park is right

0:35:11.440 --> 0:35:15.000
<v Speaker 1>next to Eighth Place, I believe, And Eighth Place runs

0:35:15.400 --> 0:35:17.759
<v Speaker 1>right along this just top edge of queen An Hill

0:35:17.800 --> 0:35:20.640
<v Speaker 1>in the just nicest houses ever that are worth multi

0:35:20.640 --> 0:35:23.920
<v Speaker 1>millions are up there right and they're all gated off.

0:35:23.960 --> 0:35:27.800
<v Speaker 1>But there's this really nice walkway too along this along

0:35:27.920 --> 0:35:30.719
<v Speaker 1>Eighth Place and you can look straight out west you

0:35:30.719 --> 0:35:33.480
<v Speaker 1>see the Olympic Mountains and you see the sunset there.

0:35:33.719 --> 0:35:36.920
<v Speaker 1>I took front of the pod Victor Wren there after

0:35:36.960 --> 0:35:40.200
<v Speaker 1>our freshman year of college. We walked up there during

0:35:40.239 --> 0:35:43.640
<v Speaker 1>the sunset and it was gorgeous. You can see everything.

0:35:43.640 --> 0:35:46.040
<v Speaker 1>You can see the sun like sort of fitting in

0:35:46.080 --> 0:35:51.440
<v Speaker 1>between the mountains and Magnolia, which is the hill across

0:35:52.040 --> 0:35:55.520
<v Speaker 1>from where Queen Anne Hill is, and it's it's spectacular.

0:35:55.560 --> 0:35:58.640
<v Speaker 1>I think it's a fantastic spot to see a sunset,

0:35:58.719 --> 0:36:02.280
<v Speaker 1>little niche and you know, again not the most popular

0:36:02.800 --> 0:36:05.240
<v Speaker 1>park on that street, but if you want a sunset,

0:36:05.280 --> 0:36:07.320
<v Speaker 1>I couldn't recommend that more. I think it's awesome.

0:36:08.120 --> 0:36:10.719
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I've never been. I've now I have another spot

0:36:10.760 --> 0:36:12.520
<v Speaker 2>to check out because I've certainly been to Kerry Park

0:36:12.560 --> 0:36:16.040
<v Speaker 2>but never never Marshall Park. Yeah. Victor who We've mentioned

0:36:16.080 --> 0:36:18.560
<v Speaker 2>him before. He does like he made our YouTube background.

0:36:18.560 --> 0:36:20.040
<v Speaker 2>He's done a few different things to help us out

0:36:20.040 --> 0:36:22.520
<v Speaker 2>where he does a bunch of video editing and that's

0:36:22.520 --> 0:36:25.080
<v Speaker 2>his job and he's really good at it. So that

0:36:25.160 --> 0:36:26.600
<v Speaker 2>is what he does. No, he does well, he does

0:36:26.600 --> 0:36:29.719
<v Speaker 2>a variety of stuff with under Armour, I know. But yeah,

0:36:29.880 --> 0:36:34.719
<v Speaker 2>So anyway, my favorite spot to watch a Seattle sunset

0:36:35.000 --> 0:36:38.239
<v Speaker 2>is it's got to be gas Works Park. Maybe that's

0:36:38.239 --> 0:36:41.520
<v Speaker 2>a cliche answer and a basic answer, but I know

0:36:41.600 --> 0:36:44.279
<v Speaker 2>you see the water at Carry Park, but the fact

0:36:44.360 --> 0:36:48.520
<v Speaker 2>you're literally right on the water at gas Works and

0:36:48.840 --> 0:36:51.080
<v Speaker 2>like especially when it gets to night time, like after

0:36:51.120 --> 0:36:53.400
<v Speaker 2>the sunsets and you have the skyline kind of like

0:36:54.440 --> 0:36:56.719
<v Speaker 2>lighting up the water and you got a perfect view

0:36:56.719 --> 0:36:59.640
<v Speaker 2>of the space Needle and the Columbia Tower. I love

0:36:59.719 --> 0:37:02.040
<v Speaker 2>Yas Works Park. I think that, especially on a nice day,

0:37:02.600 --> 0:37:05.960
<v Speaker 2>love that view. Like Harry Park's great, personally, I like

0:37:06.000 --> 0:37:06.759
<v Speaker 2>gas Works better.

0:37:07.320 --> 0:37:09.480
<v Speaker 1>I love gas Works too. I mean that's a spot

0:37:10.719 --> 0:37:13.080
<v Speaker 1>for for us Seattle kids. I like all the time

0:37:13.200 --> 0:37:17.480
<v Speaker 1>that we would be at sunset. Wise, I was thinking,

0:37:17.600 --> 0:37:21.040
<v Speaker 1>like the sun gets kind of blocked out there, which

0:37:21.040 --> 0:37:22.440
<v Speaker 1>is what I was thinking. I know, it lights up

0:37:22.480 --> 0:37:24.680
<v Speaker 1>the sky and looks nice, but I'm just I was

0:37:24.719 --> 0:37:27.359
<v Speaker 1>just thinking, I'm like the sun kind of tucks behind

0:37:27.400 --> 0:37:29.919
<v Speaker 1>Queen Anne when when it's going down at that point,

0:37:29.920 --> 0:37:33.560
<v Speaker 1>because Queen Anne is directly west of gas Works Park

0:37:34.200 --> 0:37:37.400
<v Speaker 1>and it would drop behind there. But for sunset, still

0:37:37.400 --> 0:37:39.480
<v Speaker 1>a very good place to go, especially during the summer.

0:37:39.760 --> 0:37:42.000
<v Speaker 1>It's warm, you can see the whole skyline, you can

0:37:42.040 --> 0:37:44.760
<v Speaker 1>see all the boats out on Lake Union. It's super

0:37:44.960 --> 0:37:48.640
<v Speaker 1>super super nice, and uh yeah, it's it's a good

0:37:48.640 --> 0:37:50.839
<v Speaker 1>spot throughout I mean through the years. I mean, I'm

0:37:51.160 --> 0:37:53.480
<v Speaker 1>I'm just thinking when I went there during during high

0:37:53.480 --> 0:37:56.600
<v Speaker 1>school and we do all sorts of hooligan shit, I'll

0:37:56.640 --> 0:38:00.480
<v Speaker 1>just leave it like that at uh at gas Work Park,

0:38:00.520 --> 0:38:02.200
<v Speaker 1>and then you know how it's sort of grown over

0:38:02.200 --> 0:38:04.600
<v Speaker 1>the years and still still one of the best spots

0:38:04.640 --> 0:38:04.960
<v Speaker 1>to go to.

0:38:06.160 --> 0:38:08.600
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, be on the lookout for TJ of all people.

0:38:08.640 --> 0:38:09.640
<v Speaker 2>That's how we should put it.

0:38:09.960 --> 0:38:11.560
<v Speaker 1>Now, you ever, have you ever been up on the

0:38:11.880 --> 0:38:17.920
<v Speaker 1>gas structure, like climbed up it. No, yeah, I have once. Well,

0:38:18.360 --> 0:38:22.600
<v Speaker 1>there you go. They do some they do. It's they

0:38:22.920 --> 0:38:24.680
<v Speaker 1>made it a little harder, I believe now.

0:38:25.080 --> 0:38:26.520
<v Speaker 2>But I think it's gated.

0:38:26.560 --> 0:38:29.640
<v Speaker 1>No, it's an interesting it is. Well, yeah, you got

0:38:29.760 --> 0:38:31.520
<v Speaker 1>to find a way through it. It's always has been

0:38:31.560 --> 0:38:34.640
<v Speaker 1>gated off. You just got to find a way through it. Okay, Okay,

0:38:34.719 --> 0:38:37.279
<v Speaker 1>so it's a but like the view, I'll say, the

0:38:37.360 --> 0:38:39.799
<v Speaker 1>view up there at night is unbelievable.

0:38:39.920 --> 0:38:43.120
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that honestly might even be more it the sunset,

0:38:43.160 --> 0:38:45.680
<v Speaker 2>Like after the sun goes down and it's it's dark,

0:38:45.719 --> 0:38:47.800
<v Speaker 2>but you have the whole skyline lighting up. Yeah. I

0:38:47.840 --> 0:38:51.160
<v Speaker 2>love it. So yeah, No, those those are those are

0:38:51.160 --> 0:38:53.880
<v Speaker 2>good places to watch a sunset. Okay, I'll throw it

0:38:53.920 --> 0:38:55.719
<v Speaker 2>back to you now to get through some more of

0:38:55.800 --> 0:38:57.960
<v Speaker 2>these questions. But I will say the next view are

0:38:58.000 --> 0:39:00.480
<v Speaker 2>definitely mariners related. I thought the last we got were

0:39:00.520 --> 0:39:02.879
<v Speaker 2>some fun non mariners related ones. But it's a mix

0:39:02.960 --> 0:39:04.040
<v Speaker 2>of everything in the mailbag.

0:39:04.800 --> 0:39:09.920
<v Speaker 1>The next one comes from Evanhole Evanholmes dot seventeen on Instagram.

0:39:09.920 --> 0:39:13.280
<v Speaker 1>The question is who will be the Mariner's most valuable

0:39:13.360 --> 0:39:15.680
<v Speaker 1>hitter not named Julio Rodriguez.

0:39:17.160 --> 0:39:20.120
<v Speaker 2>I went with Mitch Garver for this. As everybody knows,

0:39:20.480 --> 0:39:25.560
<v Speaker 2>the DH position has been a disaster since Nelson Cruz left,

0:39:26.040 --> 0:39:28.799
<v Speaker 2>like and I don't think that's an unfair statement. Last

0:39:28.880 --> 0:39:32.000
<v Speaker 2>year it was a turnstile constantly. They couldn't find a

0:39:32.040 --> 0:39:34.799
<v Speaker 2>solution there. Now they've got one. And not only do

0:39:34.840 --> 0:39:37.120
<v Speaker 2>they have a solution at DH, but it's a solution

0:39:37.160 --> 0:39:39.160
<v Speaker 2>at DH for a guy that put up a one

0:39:39.480 --> 0:39:42.840
<v Speaker 2>thirty eight WRC plus last year. I know it was

0:39:42.840 --> 0:39:45.600
<v Speaker 2>in a shortened sample size, but that was higher than Julio's,

0:39:45.760 --> 0:39:48.279
<v Speaker 2>that was higher than JP's, that was higher than the

0:39:48.280 --> 0:39:51.920
<v Speaker 2>rest of the team. Mitch Garver is vitally important to

0:39:51.960 --> 0:39:54.560
<v Speaker 2>the Mariners in twenty twenty four and beyond because if

0:39:54.680 --> 0:39:57.120
<v Speaker 2>you have a true DH, you can plug in there

0:39:57.160 --> 0:40:00.839
<v Speaker 2>almost every day. Who's providing pop, getting on base, striking out.

0:40:01.400 --> 0:40:03.640
<v Speaker 2>This lineup is gonna look so much different. I will

0:40:03.680 --> 0:40:05.920
<v Speaker 2>say ty Frantz is probably a sleeper for this, especially

0:40:05.960 --> 0:40:09.279
<v Speaker 2>if he bounces back. But who's who's my pick? Non

0:40:09.360 --> 0:40:13.200
<v Speaker 2>Julio Wise to be the most impactful Garber And.

0:40:13.200 --> 0:40:15.520
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna go off a similar train of thought, but

0:40:15.560 --> 0:40:19.440
<v Speaker 1>at a different position, And I think Jorge Polanco first off,

0:40:19.600 --> 0:40:22.520
<v Speaker 1>because if we're thinking, like literally, like who is gonna

0:40:22.520 --> 0:40:25.319
<v Speaker 1>be the most valuable hitter besides Julio Rodriguez, Well, it's

0:40:25.320 --> 0:40:27.520
<v Speaker 1>probably gonna be one of the guys hitting behind him.

0:40:27.760 --> 0:40:30.240
<v Speaker 1>You mentioned one of the guys hitting behind him, Mitch Garverer.

0:40:30.480 --> 0:40:33.600
<v Speaker 1>Another guy who's gonna be hitting behind him is Jorge Polanco.

0:40:34.440 --> 0:40:38.160
<v Speaker 1>Jorge Polanco, based off the past production over the last

0:40:38.200 --> 0:40:42.120
<v Speaker 1>four years at second base, I mean, I would imagine,

0:40:42.120 --> 0:40:44.239
<v Speaker 1>if he's healthy this year, is gonna be like one

0:40:44.320 --> 0:40:47.600
<v Speaker 1>of the most valuable players on the roster just because

0:40:48.400 --> 0:40:50.719
<v Speaker 1>of the production at that position in the past. Like

0:40:50.840 --> 0:40:52.920
<v Speaker 1>what happens if the Mariner's gonna one to twenty five

0:40:53.120 --> 0:40:56.120
<v Speaker 1>w RC plus at second base after years of like

0:40:56.200 --> 0:40:58.839
<v Speaker 1>an eighty to seventy w RC plus at second base,

0:40:59.040 --> 0:41:02.840
<v Speaker 1>I can't, Like, it is unbelievable the amount of value

0:41:02.920 --> 0:41:07.160
<v Speaker 1>that carries on this roster. I was thinking that if

0:41:07.280 --> 0:41:11.520
<v Speaker 1>JP were to replicate or even exceed his twenty twenty

0:41:11.560 --> 0:41:16.760
<v Speaker 1>three season. In twenty twenty four, that's an option now.

0:41:17.640 --> 0:41:19.640
<v Speaker 1>As of right now, I don't think that's gonna happen

0:41:19.640 --> 0:41:22.600
<v Speaker 1>for JP. So instead I'm gonna count on more of

0:41:22.640 --> 0:41:29.240
<v Speaker 1>a progress progress from Jorge Polanco playing a full healthy

0:41:29.280 --> 0:41:33.560
<v Speaker 1>season with the Mariners this year, instead of anticipating JP

0:41:33.680 --> 0:41:36.360
<v Speaker 1>is going to set a new career high after blowing

0:41:36.440 --> 0:41:39.640
<v Speaker 1>his old status quo for offense out of the water

0:41:39.760 --> 0:41:42.920
<v Speaker 1>last season. So I think you and I took similar

0:41:42.960 --> 0:41:46.360
<v Speaker 1>trains of thought to arrive at different answers, which I

0:41:46.360 --> 0:41:48.680
<v Speaker 1>think is good and shows you the depth of this roster.

0:41:50.000 --> 0:41:54.520
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, look for how much second base and DH the

0:41:54.560 --> 0:41:57.200
<v Speaker 2>DH spots have struggled the last few years for the Mariners.

0:41:57.760 --> 0:42:00.640
<v Speaker 2>Think about what happens at both Garb and Polanco that well.

0:42:00.960 --> 0:42:03.080
<v Speaker 2>I mean, think about the Mariners missed the playoffs by

0:42:03.120 --> 0:42:05.839
<v Speaker 2>two games last year, They won eighty eight games and

0:42:05.920 --> 0:42:09.040
<v Speaker 2>had virtually no offensive production from second base until Josh

0:42:09.080 --> 0:42:12.440
<v Speaker 2>Rojas got there, and then virtually nothing for a lot

0:42:12.520 --> 0:42:14.759
<v Speaker 2>of the year at the dhpot. In spurts, you had

0:42:14.760 --> 0:42:17.760
<v Speaker 2>it with Mike Ford. Imagine if you have Jorge Polanco

0:42:17.800 --> 0:42:20.640
<v Speaker 2>and Mitch Garver both on the field and put up

0:42:20.680 --> 0:42:22.800
<v Speaker 2>a one twenty to one to twenty five WRC plus.

0:42:22.840 --> 0:42:25.239
<v Speaker 2>That is a team that, again, you you heard me

0:42:25.280 --> 0:42:27.960
<v Speaker 2>on a previous show recently talk about the Mariners can

0:42:28.000 --> 0:42:31.239
<v Speaker 2>win the West if those guys do that, and the

0:42:31.280 --> 0:42:33.560
<v Speaker 2>rest of the lineup hits like why not think about

0:42:33.600 --> 0:42:35.560
<v Speaker 2>how much better that makes your team? It makes it

0:42:35.640 --> 0:42:39.640
<v Speaker 2>monumentally better. So, oh and let me add this last

0:42:39.640 --> 0:42:42.319
<v Speaker 2>thing too. When when TJ talks about the fact that

0:42:42.719 --> 0:42:44.400
<v Speaker 2>he doesn't know if JP's going to repeat what he

0:42:44.440 --> 0:42:46.920
<v Speaker 2>did last season, I think all TJ means by that is,

0:42:47.480 --> 0:42:49.840
<v Speaker 2>maybe he doesn't put up a one thirty four WRC

0:42:49.880 --> 0:42:51.600
<v Speaker 2>plus again, he could still be from one twenty to

0:42:51.600 --> 0:42:53.440
<v Speaker 2>one twenty five, And in fact, I think that's right

0:42:53.480 --> 0:42:55.360
<v Speaker 2>where he will be, which, by the way, that's a

0:42:55.400 --> 0:42:57.919
<v Speaker 2>really good season. Just maybe it's not one thirty four again.

0:42:58.600 --> 0:43:01.200
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, just just think about this way. And the previous

0:43:01.239 --> 0:43:04.319
<v Speaker 1>career high for JP at before last season was one

0:43:04.360 --> 0:43:06.359
<v Speaker 1>o three and then you jump up to one thirty four.

0:43:06.400 --> 0:43:09.319
<v Speaker 1>That's it's a pretty big jump. And usually that is

0:43:10.080 --> 0:43:12.000
<v Speaker 1>that's about as big of a jump as you can

0:43:12.200 --> 0:43:14.920
<v Speaker 1>get an offense in a season. So now if you

0:43:14.960 --> 0:43:17.120
<v Speaker 1>were to jump from one thirty to one sixty five.

0:43:17.239 --> 0:43:18.799
<v Speaker 1>Then you and I are going to sit here and

0:43:18.800 --> 0:43:20.760
<v Speaker 1>reconsider in season.

0:43:21.040 --> 0:43:22.760
<v Speaker 2>He does that JP might win the MVP.

0:43:23.320 --> 0:43:26.520
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, win the MVP, and well the question wouldn't be

0:43:26.520 --> 0:43:28.400
<v Speaker 1>besides Julio would be besides JP.

0:43:29.040 --> 0:43:32.680
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, there you go. All right. Next question another fun one.

0:43:32.760 --> 0:43:36.640
<v Speaker 2>This comes from WB dot Ryan thirty six on Instagram.

0:43:36.680 --> 0:43:39.320
<v Speaker 2>He says, who is your favorite player on the Mariners

0:43:39.520 --> 0:43:43.320
<v Speaker 2>that isn't actually that good? So we took the approach

0:43:43.360 --> 0:43:46.440
<v Speaker 2>of this and picking an all time Mariner that fits

0:43:46.480 --> 0:43:49.080
<v Speaker 2>the mold of this question. And there are a lot

0:43:49.160 --> 0:43:50.960
<v Speaker 2>of answers you can go with, but I'll flip it

0:43:51.000 --> 0:43:51.759
<v Speaker 2>to you first.

0:43:53.160 --> 0:43:55.160
<v Speaker 1>Because I was trying to think of like a current

0:43:55.320 --> 0:43:59.560
<v Speaker 1>version of the may A current Mariner who I loved

0:43:59.600 --> 0:44:01.480
<v Speaker 1>that wasn't actually that good. And then I'm like, well,

0:44:01.520 --> 0:44:03.920
<v Speaker 1>all the Mariners that weren't actually that good end up

0:44:03.920 --> 0:44:07.920
<v Speaker 1>being like essentially Abe Toro, who I don't like. So

0:44:08.440 --> 0:44:12.439
<v Speaker 1>that doesn't work out. Do you remember the first two

0:44:12.480 --> 0:44:16.480
<v Speaker 1>months of the Nick Franklin era in twenty thirteen? It

0:44:16.600 --> 0:44:17.200
<v Speaker 1>was dreamy?

0:44:18.160 --> 0:44:19.960
<v Speaker 2>Of course, I remember the Nick Franklin era.

0:44:20.719 --> 0:44:23.680
<v Speaker 1>Man when he came up, I mean, I thought that

0:44:23.760 --> 0:44:26.120
<v Speaker 1>dude was going to be an All Star like he was.

0:44:27.800 --> 0:44:30.400
<v Speaker 1>He was stunned. Sat I remember me, my brother and

0:44:30.400 --> 0:44:32.320
<v Speaker 1>my dad sat at the kitchen table that year and

0:44:32.360 --> 0:44:34.920
<v Speaker 1>we were thinking, Okay, who is going to be the

0:44:34.960 --> 0:44:37.600
<v Speaker 1>next Mariners All Star infielder? Is it going to be

0:44:37.680 --> 0:44:43.279
<v Speaker 1>Nick Franklin, Brad Miller or Kyle Seger's the That's the

0:44:43.400 --> 0:44:45.920
<v Speaker 1>level of discussion we were having about the early stages

0:44:45.960 --> 0:44:49.200
<v Speaker 1>of Nick Franklin's career with the Mariners in twenty thirteen.

0:44:49.480 --> 0:44:51.560
<v Speaker 1>And he had nearly an eight hundred ops as a

0:44:51.600 --> 0:44:54.960
<v Speaker 1>second baseman in the first half of twenty thirteen, and

0:44:55.000 --> 0:44:57.920
<v Speaker 1>then in the second half he hit under two hundred essentially,

0:44:57.920 --> 0:45:00.719
<v Speaker 1>and then eventually got left off the roster, bounced around

0:45:00.800 --> 0:45:03.360
<v Speaker 1>for a few years in the big leagues before retiring.

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<v Speaker 1>But his early stages were amazing. I thought, I was like, wow,

0:45:07.480 --> 0:45:10.400
<v Speaker 1>this is well. The Mariners don't get good players like this.

0:45:11.400 --> 0:45:16.000
<v Speaker 2>Do you remember just the pattern that Mariner's shortstop prospects

0:45:16.000 --> 0:45:18.120
<v Speaker 2>had for a while, because that happened with Nick Franklin.

0:45:18.520 --> 0:45:20.480
<v Speaker 2>Then Brad Miller tore it up for half a year

0:45:20.480 --> 0:45:22.200
<v Speaker 2>when he got up and to be fair Miller, I

0:45:22.239 --> 0:45:24.919
<v Speaker 2>mean Miller's had a ten year big league career, and

0:45:25.000 --> 0:45:27.600
<v Speaker 2>he's had some good spurts when he was with the Mariners,

0:45:27.800 --> 0:45:30.200
<v Speaker 2>but then Chris Taylor came up, had half a really

0:45:30.239 --> 0:45:32.960
<v Speaker 2>good season and then didn't really do anything. And Kittel

0:45:33.080 --> 0:45:34.719
<v Speaker 2>came up and had half a really good season, and

0:45:34.760 --> 0:45:37.759
<v Speaker 2>obviously they traded him away. He's been great with the Diamondbacks.

0:45:37.760 --> 0:45:40.040
<v Speaker 2>But that was a trend for a while, and it's

0:45:40.080 --> 0:45:43.640
<v Speaker 2>all started with Nick Franklin, who was a huge prospect

0:45:44.000 --> 0:45:46.280
<v Speaker 2>unfortunately didn't do much.

0:45:46.480 --> 0:45:51.239
<v Speaker 1>HM shocker wow. I wonder how they evaluated him. Were

0:45:51.320 --> 0:45:55.759
<v Speaker 1>Jack Sie's the checkpoints is batting average and RBIs.

0:45:56.000 --> 0:46:02.360
<v Speaker 2>The man literally said home runs and RBI's awesome, like

0:46:02.400 --> 0:46:03.080
<v Speaker 2>Dick Franklin's.

0:46:03.080 --> 0:46:05.520
<v Speaker 1>My answer, though he was that was that was to

0:46:05.520 --> 0:46:08.400
<v Speaker 1>say special first half of twenty thirteen.

0:46:09.719 --> 0:46:12.239
<v Speaker 2>Mine's a deep cut. But I've talked about him on

0:46:12.280 --> 0:46:18.279
<v Speaker 2>here before briefly. Carlos Pagero loved that. Dude, absolutely loved him,

0:46:18.360 --> 0:46:20.719
<v Speaker 2>which didn't make much sense because he didn't have any

0:46:20.719 --> 0:46:23.400
<v Speaker 2>sort of big league career. But you know what, those

0:46:23.400 --> 0:46:27.080
<v Speaker 2>Mariner teams in the early twenty tens were so bad

0:46:27.160 --> 0:46:29.400
<v Speaker 2>that you had to have something to hang on to.

0:46:29.520 --> 0:46:31.680
<v Speaker 2>That was fun and gave you energy, and you know

0:46:31.719 --> 0:46:34.800
<v Speaker 2>what it was for me. Every time Carlos Paguero stepped

0:46:34.800 --> 0:46:38.759
<v Speaker 2>to the plate, you knew, once in every twenty year

0:46:38.840 --> 0:46:42.720
<v Speaker 2>or so at bats, he was going to absolutely pummel

0:46:42.760 --> 0:46:46.279
<v Speaker 2>a baseball. And you know, there were some spurts where

0:46:46.280 --> 0:46:48.239
<v Speaker 2>he did just about that. Honestly, maybe it was less

0:46:48.280 --> 0:46:50.320
<v Speaker 2>than every once every twenty at bats, but even still,

0:46:50.520 --> 0:46:52.400
<v Speaker 2>you knew once in a blue moon he was going

0:46:52.480 --> 0:46:55.920
<v Speaker 2>to absolutely rocket a baseball into orbit, and he would.

0:46:55.960 --> 0:46:58.239
<v Speaker 2>You would see him hit tape measure bombs every now

0:46:58.280 --> 0:47:01.960
<v Speaker 2>and then. Love the guy. He was big, he was strong, everything,

0:47:02.040 --> 0:47:04.319
<v Speaker 2>so never did much. But I'll tell you what, what

0:47:04.400 --> 0:47:06.320
<v Speaker 2>was I looking forward to in the early twenty tens.

0:47:06.320 --> 0:47:08.720
<v Speaker 2>It wasn't winning games. It was seeing Carlos S. Paguero

0:47:08.760 --> 0:47:09.400
<v Speaker 2>at thatts.

0:47:11.880 --> 0:47:14.960
<v Speaker 1>I had another idea for this question, which was Russell Branyan.

0:47:15.040 --> 0:47:17.560
<v Speaker 1>But he was actually kind of good for the Mariners

0:47:17.600 --> 0:47:19.719
<v Speaker 1>at points, so I don't know if he would have

0:47:19.800 --> 0:47:20.680
<v Speaker 1>really qualified.

0:47:21.160 --> 0:47:23.720
<v Speaker 2>No, he had one big year that was an nine,

0:47:23.800 --> 0:47:26.320
<v Speaker 2>So yeah, yeah, I don't think Brandon qualifies.

0:47:27.480 --> 0:47:31.400
<v Speaker 1>Well, it was a thought. He was a lot of

0:47:31.400 --> 0:47:34.360
<v Speaker 1>fun to watch overall as a baseball player, probably not

0:47:34.560 --> 0:47:36.440
<v Speaker 1>great but at least what the Mariners. He was so

0:47:36.600 --> 0:47:39.440
<v Speaker 1>didn't qualify, but shout out to Nick Franklin. He's on

0:47:39.520 --> 0:47:42.240
<v Speaker 1>my Mount rushmore of what could have been alongside Brad

0:47:42.239 --> 0:47:44.239
<v Speaker 1>Miller Dustin Acley. Oh, they all played on the same

0:47:44.280 --> 0:47:48.000
<v Speaker 1>team together. Funny, funny, how that works out. Okay, before

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<v Speaker 1>Next question coming from Tyler D. Millard on Instagram. Which

0:49:04.160 --> 0:49:07.160
<v Speaker 1>players do you think make the opening day lineup and

0:49:07.320 --> 0:49:11.000
<v Speaker 1>how many of them will still be here in October?

0:49:13.080 --> 0:49:16.800
<v Speaker 2>So projecting the opening day lineup is gonna be a

0:49:16.840 --> 0:49:19.799
<v Speaker 2>little bit tough because obviously there's some platoons involved. Now,

0:49:19.840 --> 0:49:23.280
<v Speaker 2>if you were to assume that Brian Bao or Lucas

0:49:23.280 --> 0:49:25.800
<v Speaker 2>Giolito was going to start opening Day for the Red Sox,

0:49:25.800 --> 0:49:27.760
<v Speaker 2>you would assume it would be some left handed bats,

0:49:27.760 --> 0:49:30.960
<v Speaker 2>So it would probably be Rojas over Ris if Arias

0:49:31.040 --> 0:49:33.399
<v Speaker 2>is even healthy, it would probably be don Canzone over

0:49:33.440 --> 0:49:37.480
<v Speaker 2>Mitch Hanneger. But the starters are all the same like

0:49:37.520 --> 0:49:39.359
<v Speaker 2>Hannager is gonna get playing time, Arias is gonna get

0:49:39.360 --> 0:49:41.680
<v Speaker 2>playing time if he's healthy. Again. Platoons take a factor

0:49:41.680 --> 0:49:46.919
<v Speaker 2>into this still here in October, unless there's injuries, which

0:49:46.920 --> 0:49:49.400
<v Speaker 2>of course is possible, like if a player gets injured

0:49:49.400 --> 0:49:51.600
<v Speaker 2>and is not on the field in October because they're

0:49:51.640 --> 0:49:53.960
<v Speaker 2>on the il, that's always a possibility. But in terms

0:49:54.000 --> 0:49:57.080
<v Speaker 2>of being out of the organization, I don't know if

0:49:57.080 --> 0:49:59.480
<v Speaker 2>there's many guys that are currently projected to be in

0:49:59.480 --> 0:50:01.439
<v Speaker 2>the opening day lineup that would be off the team.

0:50:01.480 --> 0:50:04.239
<v Speaker 2>I don't think there's that many. Maybe the one guy

0:50:04.320 --> 0:50:07.120
<v Speaker 2>is is Aris at third base, like for example, if

0:50:07.320 --> 0:50:11.800
<v Speaker 2>he's not playing well, or if he you know, is

0:50:12.120 --> 0:50:13.920
<v Speaker 2>hurt for a while and the team tries to move

0:50:13.960 --> 0:50:15.799
<v Speaker 2>on and do something else or something like that, because

0:50:15.800 --> 0:50:17.680
<v Speaker 2>again there is a chance he starts on the el

0:50:17.719 --> 0:50:20.840
<v Speaker 2>if you can't throw the ball, maybe him. But I

0:50:20.880 --> 0:50:23.440
<v Speaker 2>don't think there's a lot. I think most of the

0:50:23.440 --> 0:50:25.600
<v Speaker 2>guys that they've traded for they already have in house.

0:50:25.960 --> 0:50:28.960
<v Speaker 2>They're envisioning as being four pieces of the team.

0:50:29.480 --> 0:50:32.560
<v Speaker 1>I think opening day lineup would be for the most

0:50:32.719 --> 0:50:36.680
<v Speaker 1>part the same, barring and upgraded the deadline. But if

0:50:36.719 --> 0:50:41.240
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna say, overall opening day roster, would the number

0:50:41.800 --> 0:50:45.879
<v Speaker 1>six players six different players make sense? I was thinking

0:50:45.920 --> 0:50:49.000
<v Speaker 1>about it this way. There's gonna be turnover in the bullpen.

0:50:49.040 --> 0:50:51.600
<v Speaker 1>There is every single season that, especially if this current

0:50:51.600 --> 0:50:54.520
<v Speaker 1>iteration of the Mariners, there's been like three to four

0:50:54.560 --> 0:50:57.319
<v Speaker 1>guys at least that have cycled out over the course

0:50:57.320 --> 0:51:00.400
<v Speaker 1>of the season in the bullpen. So there's those three

0:51:00.920 --> 0:51:05.640
<v Speaker 1>to four one starter potentially it could be Emerson Hancock

0:51:05.640 --> 0:51:09.640
<v Speaker 1>in there over Let's say Brian who either gets hurt

0:51:09.800 --> 0:51:12.360
<v Speaker 1>or his reaches his innings limit and they slow and

0:51:12.640 --> 0:51:15.480
<v Speaker 1>slow him down a little bit. So there's like one starter,

0:51:15.560 --> 0:51:18.080
<v Speaker 1>and then I would say one player on the bench

0:51:20.160 --> 0:51:22.600
<v Speaker 1>once you reach October that could be swapped out. It

0:51:22.600 --> 0:51:24.360
<v Speaker 1>could be just it could be as simple as a

0:51:24.400 --> 0:51:27.239
<v Speaker 1>Sam Haggerty being put in there, or it could be

0:51:27.280 --> 0:51:30.040
<v Speaker 1>when you add a position player and you bump, say

0:51:30.120 --> 0:51:32.719
<v Speaker 1>Demo down and that bumps the next bench player down

0:51:33.160 --> 0:51:36.520
<v Speaker 1>to something like that. As of right now, especially now

0:51:36.520 --> 0:51:40.920
<v Speaker 1>that they have four outfielders they feel confident in, that's

0:51:41.200 --> 0:51:45.719
<v Speaker 1>probably the outfield probably stays the same, and the infield

0:51:45.800 --> 0:51:48.640
<v Speaker 1>as of right now probably stays the same. Sans Urius

0:51:48.640 --> 0:51:50.839
<v Speaker 1>who could get swapped out or even like you know,

0:51:50.960 --> 0:51:54.120
<v Speaker 1>there could be some world Josh Rojas really doesn't do

0:51:54.200 --> 0:51:56.600
<v Speaker 1>that well this year, and if they really need to

0:51:56.600 --> 0:51:59.520
<v Speaker 1>make a push, they would consider it. But at this

0:51:59.719 --> 0:52:04.360
<v Speaker 1>very point, more unlikely than not. The only position player

0:52:04.480 --> 0:52:07.080
<v Speaker 1>well I could truly see being added in season would

0:52:07.080 --> 0:52:10.279
<v Speaker 1>be a backup centerfielder because to be honest, they don't

0:52:10.320 --> 0:52:13.400
<v Speaker 1>have a backup center fielder right now to back up Julio,

0:52:14.719 --> 0:52:17.120
<v Speaker 1>so that would that would be like one guy. Otherwise,

0:52:17.120 --> 0:52:18.520
<v Speaker 1>it's just kind of hard to see at this moment.

0:52:19.719 --> 0:52:23.480
<v Speaker 2>That's actually a good point. If Julio, heaven forbid, goes

0:52:23.560 --> 0:52:25.279
<v Speaker 2>on the IL at some point this year, or just

0:52:25.360 --> 0:52:27.480
<v Speaker 2>has off days or is day to day for a

0:52:27.560 --> 0:52:31.239
<v Speaker 2>few days, yeah, who is playing center field? Like I

0:52:31.239 --> 0:52:34.560
<v Speaker 2>would say maybe, or I was gonna say, if it's

0:52:34.600 --> 0:52:37.200
<v Speaker 2>an actual situation where they have to make a roster move,

0:52:37.280 --> 0:52:39.200
<v Speaker 2>you can call Kate Marlow up. He could certainly play

0:52:39.239 --> 0:52:42.560
<v Speaker 2>some centerfield. But the if Julio's day to day for example,

0:52:42.600 --> 0:52:45.239
<v Speaker 2>or has an off day, I don't really know of

0:52:45.360 --> 0:52:49.320
<v Speaker 2>this outfield group who's playing center field. I mean, Mitch isn't,

0:52:50.360 --> 0:52:54.279
<v Speaker 2>dom is in. Really I don't really think is I

0:52:54.560 --> 0:52:57.719
<v Speaker 2>don't know, maybe it's demo, maybe it's not. It might

0:52:57.800 --> 0:53:00.800
<v Speaker 2>be demo or yeah, they probably have to cull Kato

0:53:01.800 --> 0:53:07.920
<v Speaker 2>or or maybe some odd Taylor, right, yeah, potentially yep, somebody, somebody,

0:53:08.200 --> 0:53:10.640
<v Speaker 2>but somebody who's probably not on the opening twenty six

0:53:10.760 --> 0:53:14.520
<v Speaker 2>man roster. Mm hmm, yeah that is. I mean, obviously

0:53:14.600 --> 0:53:18.680
<v Speaker 2>you're on. Most teams do not find positions to back

0:53:18.800 --> 0:53:21.800
<v Speaker 2>up their superstars like intently, but you do have to

0:53:21.840 --> 0:53:23.759
<v Speaker 2>have somebody that can stand out there and play some

0:53:24.160 --> 0:53:26.600
<v Speaker 2>competent defense out there. Julio's gonna have off days or again,

0:53:26.800 --> 0:53:28.640
<v Speaker 2>hopefully never hits the IL, but if you were to

0:53:28.800 --> 0:53:32.400
<v Speaker 2>then then yeah, that's a good point. Okay, we got

0:53:32.480 --> 0:53:34.959
<v Speaker 2>two fun questions to wrap this one up. The next

0:53:35.000 --> 0:53:39.600
<v Speaker 2>one comes from Eternal Bushett on Instagram. He says favorite

0:53:39.640 --> 0:53:40.359
<v Speaker 2>ballpark food.

0:53:42.840 --> 0:53:45.160
<v Speaker 1>Hmm. I had to think like long and hard about

0:53:45.200 --> 0:53:47.879
<v Speaker 1>this one only to come to the most basic answer ever,

0:53:48.600 --> 0:53:51.320
<v Speaker 1>Just like I like a good cheeseburger at a stadium,

0:53:51.360 --> 0:53:55.279
<v Speaker 1>I think stadiums can do all. Every different stadium you

0:53:55.320 --> 0:53:57.239
<v Speaker 1>go to can have a different version of something you like,

0:53:57.320 --> 0:53:59.680
<v Speaker 1>whether it be a different company that makes the burger

0:54:00.160 --> 0:54:02.800
<v Speaker 1>or different style of burger. Depending on what city you're in.

0:54:03.440 --> 0:54:05.880
<v Speaker 1>For example, I think of t Mobile Park, like Kid Valley.

0:54:05.880 --> 0:54:08.279
<v Speaker 1>If we're thinking chains, I think His Good Burgers. But

0:54:08.719 --> 0:54:12.960
<v Speaker 1>if you want more of a niche chain, Burger Great State.

0:54:13.080 --> 0:54:14.960
<v Speaker 1>When they were in the ballpark, I thought had the

0:54:15.000 --> 0:54:17.760
<v Speaker 1>best food in the park. Unfortunately they're not there anymore.

0:54:17.840 --> 0:54:20.040
<v Speaker 1>They were down there in the pen in the corner

0:54:20.160 --> 0:54:23.319
<v Speaker 1>behind the masses. I thought that was my favorite meal

0:54:23.440 --> 0:54:26.640
<v Speaker 1>while they were there, but they're unfortunately not there anymore.

0:54:27.680 --> 0:54:29.080
<v Speaker 1>So I think a burger. I think it's the most

0:54:31.000 --> 0:54:34.520
<v Speaker 1>most easy to replicate throughout a stadium while also getting

0:54:34.719 --> 0:54:40.040
<v Speaker 1>some uniqueness city to city, ballpark to ballpark. But overall,

0:54:40.080 --> 0:54:42.000
<v Speaker 1>my favorite thing to consume it a ballpark is beer

0:54:42.480 --> 0:54:44.520
<v Speaker 1>because there's a lot of beer, and there's a lot

0:54:44.600 --> 0:54:47.359
<v Speaker 1>of different beer all over the country. So I think

0:54:47.400 --> 0:54:49.759
<v Speaker 1>that would be the easiest one for me.

0:54:50.520 --> 0:54:53.359
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, do you have a go to beer you usually

0:54:53.400 --> 0:54:54.160
<v Speaker 2>get at the ballpark?

0:54:55.440 --> 0:54:57.279
<v Speaker 1>Well, I like the Mariners value beers. I think that

0:54:57.400 --> 0:55:00.719
<v Speaker 1>is an incredible concept in a ballpark, especially you know,

0:55:00.800 --> 0:55:03.879
<v Speaker 1>we're in our mid twenties. We don't if we can

0:55:04.239 --> 0:55:06.759
<v Speaker 1>not shell out fourteen dollars for a beer or like

0:55:06.880 --> 0:55:09.839
<v Speaker 1>we were at City Field a year and a half ago,

0:55:10.040 --> 0:55:12.080
<v Speaker 1>or my brother and I each spent sixteen dollars on

0:55:12.160 --> 0:55:15.319
<v Speaker 1>a tall Boy. It just it' said, that's a bit much.

0:55:15.560 --> 0:55:18.759
<v Speaker 1>I would rather go like value beer, where you can

0:55:18.840 --> 0:55:20.920
<v Speaker 1>buy two at a time and you can get two

0:55:21.040 --> 0:55:24.440
<v Speaker 1>six dollar beers for twelve dollars and take them both

0:55:24.520 --> 0:55:27.520
<v Speaker 1>back to your seat and enjoy and they're throughout the game.

0:55:27.560 --> 0:55:29.640
<v Speaker 1>You don't have to go during happy hour anything like that.

0:55:29.840 --> 0:55:34.320
<v Speaker 1>I do like body a Rubens Beer, Ruben's Brewing and

0:55:34.360 --> 0:55:37.560
<v Speaker 1>Ballard shout out Ballard. So you know, support the support

0:55:37.640 --> 0:55:40.239
<v Speaker 1>the home neighborhood a little bit, and it's good. But

0:55:40.320 --> 0:55:42.279
<v Speaker 1>there's a lot of good options. T Mobile has among

0:55:42.320 --> 0:55:47.000
<v Speaker 1>the best beer options in the in all Major League Baseball.

0:55:47.120 --> 0:55:49.319
<v Speaker 1>So it's a it's a real treat to be able

0:55:49.360 --> 0:55:52.080
<v Speaker 1>to be able to do that. So that's my answer,

0:55:52.960 --> 0:55:53.480
<v Speaker 1>not just beer.

0:55:53.560 --> 0:55:55.840
<v Speaker 2>T Mobile Park has maybe the best food options in

0:55:55.920 --> 0:55:56.800
<v Speaker 2>Major League Baseball.

0:55:57.000 --> 0:55:58.160
<v Speaker 1>Like it's up there.

0:55:58.719 --> 0:56:03.560
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's a I would say. Okay, so my favorite

0:56:03.600 --> 0:56:06.040
<v Speaker 2>all time ballpark food is Dippin' dots, which I mean

0:56:06.080 --> 0:56:07.879
<v Speaker 2>that's what I always got when I was a kid.

0:56:08.160 --> 0:56:10.399
<v Speaker 2>Funny story. I mean, I mean, if you just want

0:56:10.440 --> 0:56:12.000
<v Speaker 2>to peek behind the curtain me growing up going to

0:56:12.040 --> 0:56:14.200
<v Speaker 2>Mariners games. I don't know why we ever established this

0:56:14.320 --> 0:56:16.360
<v Speaker 2>and put it in place, but it was something we

0:56:16.400 --> 0:56:19.000
<v Speaker 2>always did growing up. That always in the sixth inning,

0:56:19.920 --> 0:56:22.720
<v Speaker 2>my brother and I would usually go like with my parents,

0:56:22.760 --> 0:56:25.040
<v Speaker 2>and we go get Dippin' Dots because we loved them.

0:56:25.080 --> 0:56:26.560
<v Speaker 2>We wanted to get desserted the game. That's what we

0:56:26.600 --> 0:56:28.960
<v Speaker 2>would do, and I feel like I usually got cookies

0:56:28.960 --> 0:56:32.120
<v Speaker 2>and cream Dippin' dots, although I would often venture out

0:56:32.160 --> 0:56:35.200
<v Speaker 2>into some other flavors too. So all time favorite food

0:56:35.200 --> 0:56:38.160
<v Speaker 2>at the ballpark, I'd say Dippin' dots. Favorite food at

0:56:38.239 --> 0:56:40.719
<v Speaker 2>t Mobile Park, especially that I've tried over the last

0:56:40.760 --> 0:56:43.600
<v Speaker 2>couple of years. There's a couple of sandwiches from Marination

0:56:43.719 --> 0:56:45.480
<v Speaker 2>that I think are really good, Like that barbecue pork

0:56:45.520 --> 0:56:48.960
<v Speaker 2>sandwich I had was really good, good choice, or that

0:56:49.200 --> 0:56:50.960
<v Speaker 2>barbie it was early in the year. It was those

0:56:51.000 --> 0:56:53.239
<v Speaker 2>games in April you and I were at. I tried

0:56:53.280 --> 0:56:56.840
<v Speaker 2>that barbecue brisket Casadia that was down at Edgar's that

0:56:57.080 --> 0:56:59.279
<v Speaker 2>was really good. I would say one of those two

0:56:59.360 --> 0:57:01.919
<v Speaker 2>foods would be my favorite Team Mobile Park food.

0:57:03.239 --> 0:57:06.720
<v Speaker 1>Stadium wise, Edgars has some really good sandwiches. I forget

0:57:06.800 --> 0:57:08.760
<v Speaker 1>what they're called, just blanking.

0:57:09.360 --> 0:57:13.000
<v Speaker 2>That was really good. Again, that barbecue brisket Casadio is really.

0:57:12.800 --> 0:57:16.680
<v Speaker 1>Good, and like Ballard Pizza Company always has really good

0:57:16.680 --> 0:57:19.560
<v Speaker 1>food at t Mobile Park. I like that. And there's

0:57:19.560 --> 0:57:23.280
<v Speaker 1>some more creative options too, like Charlie's Cheese Steaks is

0:57:23.280 --> 0:57:28.200
<v Speaker 1>also pretty solid for ballpark fair And then Moto Pizza

0:57:28.240 --> 0:57:32.120
<v Speaker 1>I think is is like like you had it, It's

0:57:32.160 --> 0:57:34.400
<v Speaker 1>pretty good, just very expensive in the ballpark.

0:57:34.800 --> 0:57:39.120
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's here's the problem with Moto Pizza. It's really expensive.

0:57:39.280 --> 0:57:43.280
<v Speaker 2>It's always a super long line, and it's it's fine.

0:57:43.360 --> 0:57:45.240
<v Speaker 2>I don't I'm not gonna say it tastes like Little

0:57:45.280 --> 0:57:47.240
<v Speaker 2>Caesars or something like. It's probably a step up from that,

0:57:47.400 --> 0:57:51.640
<v Speaker 2>but it's especially when you have East Coast roots like

0:57:51.680 --> 0:57:53.320
<v Speaker 2>the two of us have and you get accustomed to

0:57:53.400 --> 0:57:56.760
<v Speaker 2>having like New York pizza and stuff, it just doesn't

0:57:56.800 --> 0:57:59.800
<v Speaker 2>really compare Moto Pizza. So I'd usually venture out into

0:57:59.840 --> 0:58:02.160
<v Speaker 2>other options at the ballpark, probably the Motto Pizza. But

0:58:02.200 --> 0:58:03.440
<v Speaker 2>I did get it to try and try it.

0:58:03.840 --> 0:58:05.640
<v Speaker 1>And I'm sure the brick and mortar place is a

0:58:05.680 --> 0:58:08.680
<v Speaker 1>little bit better than the stadium one, like give them credit.

0:58:08.720 --> 0:58:10.400
<v Speaker 1>I know their brick and mortar place probably still is

0:58:10.440 --> 0:58:14.680
<v Speaker 1>a month long weight line to get it. But if

0:58:14.720 --> 0:58:17.240
<v Speaker 1>you can't even like match Pagliachi, then like you probably

0:58:17.240 --> 0:58:19.400
<v Speaker 1>shrug your shoulders. And I would just in the ballpark

0:58:19.520 --> 0:58:21.960
<v Speaker 1>rather just go to Ballard Pizza Company because it's it's

0:58:22.040 --> 0:58:24.120
<v Speaker 1>probably better than Motal Pizza and you could get your

0:58:24.160 --> 0:58:27.439
<v Speaker 1>pizza way faster, so you can you can get.

0:58:27.360 --> 0:58:30.640
<v Speaker 2>The cal zone like c al all capital letters, you

0:58:30.680 --> 0:58:33.080
<v Speaker 2>can get that. Or you mentioned Charlie's cheese steaks. So

0:58:33.200 --> 0:58:35.360
<v Speaker 2>early in the year, TJ and I were doing some

0:58:35.440 --> 0:58:37.480
<v Speaker 2>food reviews. We kind of stopped doing them as the

0:58:37.560 --> 0:58:39.960
<v Speaker 2>season went on, but TJ got one of those cheese

0:58:39.960 --> 0:58:42.680
<v Speaker 2>steaks and I remember he was like he near got

0:58:42.760 --> 0:58:45.120
<v Speaker 2>it all over himself trying to try it. It was huge,

0:58:45.160 --> 0:58:46.840
<v Speaker 2>it was filled up, and he was like trying to

0:58:47.120 --> 0:58:50.040
<v Speaker 2>get the big bite in without spilling on himself. Yeah,

0:58:50.200 --> 0:58:51.560
<v Speaker 2>like you get a lot of food if you go there.

0:58:52.040 --> 0:58:54.640
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that was a mess, And I mean didn't ty

0:58:54.760 --> 0:58:58.080
<v Speaker 1>Fung in Theory is probably maybe the best overall restaurant

0:58:58.160 --> 0:59:00.400
<v Speaker 1>they have in there, but not like the ballpark version

0:59:00.480 --> 0:59:00.640
<v Speaker 1>of it.

0:59:01.200 --> 0:59:03.000
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, So if I was gonna go to dn't typhoon,

0:59:03.040 --> 0:59:04.960
<v Speaker 2>you probably just go to the restaurant. I feel like,

0:59:05.040 --> 0:59:06.840
<v Speaker 2>like my family and I used to so that was

0:59:06.840 --> 0:59:08.680
<v Speaker 2>always my brother's spot to go for his birthday. He

0:59:08.800 --> 0:59:11.400
<v Speaker 2>loves it, so we would go at least once a

0:59:11.480 --> 0:59:12.880
<v Speaker 2>year for his birthday. So I feel like if I

0:59:12.960 --> 0:59:14.360
<v Speaker 2>was going to go, id just go to the restaurant,

0:59:14.400 --> 0:59:15.920
<v Speaker 2>then go to the ball right right.

0:59:16.640 --> 0:59:19.840
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's a good point. Yeah, I can't think of

0:59:20.160 --> 0:59:22.680
<v Speaker 1>I'm trying to think of anything in like any other

0:59:22.800 --> 0:59:25.960
<v Speaker 1>ballpark would have that could top what I chose, like

0:59:26.320 --> 0:59:30.400
<v Speaker 1>off of the Hamburger point. Apparently, like the Yankee Stadium,

0:59:30.560 --> 0:59:34.840
<v Speaker 1>like Aaron Judge, Burger is supposed to be unbelievable, like yeah,

0:59:35.680 --> 0:59:39.760
<v Speaker 1>wagou patties, like it looks unbelievable, and if I'm sure

0:59:39.760 --> 0:59:41.200
<v Speaker 1>I took a bite of it, I don't think anything

0:59:41.240 --> 0:59:45.400
<v Speaker 1>else could top it across the country. Unfortunately, again, they

0:59:45.440 --> 0:59:48.400
<v Speaker 1>sell one hundred of them per game, or ninety nine

0:59:48.440 --> 0:59:50.600
<v Speaker 1>of them per game. I think it might be ninety nine.

0:59:50.800 --> 0:59:52.920
<v Speaker 1>It's ninety nine, Yeah, ninety nine of them per game.

0:59:53.920 --> 0:59:56.560
<v Speaker 1>So yeah, it's a little probably a little difficult to

0:59:56.600 --> 0:59:58.880
<v Speaker 1>get your hands on. But I would say that that

0:59:58.920 --> 1:00:01.200
<v Speaker 1>would probably end up be the number one thing if

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<v Speaker 1>you could, if you could manage it, I couldn't think

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<v Speaker 1>of anything else.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, well, the last thing and then we can get

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<v Speaker 2>to our final question. I remember we got recommended when

1:00:10.320 --> 1:00:13.040
<v Speaker 2>we get our cross country drive from Seattle to the

1:00:13.120 --> 1:00:15.760
<v Speaker 2>Cape League. Before our second summer calling baseball games in

1:00:15.800 --> 1:00:17.640
<v Speaker 2>the Cape Cod League, we went to go see the

1:00:17.680 --> 1:00:20.720
<v Speaker 2>Pirates in Pittsburgh at PNC and people were raving about

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<v Speaker 2>that primanty bro sandwich, Like, what was the hype? I

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<v Speaker 2>tried it. I didn't know it was very good.

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<v Speaker 1>That was so tasteless. Again, I think I wanted to

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<v Speaker 1>would prefer going to the brick and mortar over the

1:00:31.880 --> 1:00:34.120
<v Speaker 1>P and C Park location. I feel like the brick

1:00:34.160 --> 1:00:37.000
<v Speaker 1>and mortar place would be good. But you know, it

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<v Speaker 1>was a sandwich filled with French fries. It was just

1:00:39.200 --> 1:00:41.040
<v Speaker 1>like a load of carbs. I didn't think the meat

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<v Speaker 1>was very good either, So I yeah, I'm with you.

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<v Speaker 1>I was like very disappointed in that sandwich. I had

1:00:47.120 --> 1:00:49.880
<v Speaker 1>my expectations set a lot higher. I've had some very

1:00:49.880 --> 1:00:53.680
<v Speaker 1>good sandwiches in my life. Unfortunately that was not one

1:00:53.720 --> 1:00:57.120
<v Speaker 1>of them. So I would if I'm ever back in Pittsburgh.

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<v Speaker 1>I'd like to try the actual place and then give

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<v Speaker 1>it a fair review. Yeah, instead of a rain delayed

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<v Speaker 1>French fry and whatever meat sandwich? Like, do you remember

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<v Speaker 1>what the meat was in there? I don't.

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<v Speaker 2>Was it not just check in or something?

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know. I couldn't even tell it, Like felt

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<v Speaker 1>like a sausage patty.

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<v Speaker 2>But yeah, for those who don't know, Primanty Bros. Is

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<v Speaker 2>one of the Pittsburgh staples. It's a sandwich shop. They

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<v Speaker 2>do some really unique sandwiches. Again, they put French fries

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<v Speaker 2>in a lot of them. But yeah, at the ballpark, eh,

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<v Speaker 2>could have been a lot better. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, Okay, let's wrap it up with our final question

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<v Speaker 1>here of this mail bag. This is asked by I

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<v Speaker 1>gotta look here because it's very small, Eric Schultz. He

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<v Speaker 1>left us a comment on YouTube. What is your favorite

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<v Speaker 1>baseball and non baseball movie?

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<v Speaker 2>Favorite baseball movie? The problem is I love all of them.

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<v Speaker 2>There's gonna be so many I leave out. If I

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<v Speaker 2>have to pick one, it's probably Moneyball, But I legitimately

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<v Speaker 2>love every baseball movie that's been made or just about

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<v Speaker 2>so Moneyball is my favorite. I will say for those

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<v Speaker 2>who haven't seen Eight Men Out. I could not recommend

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<v Speaker 2>it enough because when people think of baseball, Mount Rushmore's

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<v Speaker 2>Eight Men Out never gets put on there because you

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<v Speaker 2>have the Sandlot, you have a league of their own,

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<v Speaker 2>you have Major League, you had like, there's so many

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<v Speaker 2>other movies that come to mind first for people, but

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<v Speaker 2>Eight Men Out is and all those movies I just

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<v Speaker 2>mentioned are great, but Eight Men Out really tells the

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<v Speaker 2>story of the nineteen nineteen White Sox and how they

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<v Speaker 2>threw the World Series and then there was you know,

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<v Speaker 2>the trials for it, and then they hired their the

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<v Speaker 2>first Commissioner of Baseball and then they get banned from baseball.

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<v Speaker 2>It's it's super interesting and I think it's really well done.

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<v Speaker 2>But for whatever reason, it's not one of those Mount

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<v Speaker 2>Rushmore baseball movies everybody thinks of so favorites Moneyball. But

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<v Speaker 2>if you need a baseball movie to go watch and

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<v Speaker 2>you potentially haven't seen it, I recommend Eight Men Out

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<v Speaker 2>big time.

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<v Speaker 1>So my favorite baseball move. So, actually, before I get

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<v Speaker 1>to my answer, what's your favorite non baseball movie?

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, well, there's two ways I could go about this.

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<v Speaker 2>So I love a lot of really stupid movies, Like

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<v Speaker 2>when people ask me what my favorite movie is, It's

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<v Speaker 2>probably either Happy Gilmore or Step Brothers, which maybe is

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<v Speaker 2>right up my alley. But if you want to get

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<v Speaker 2>away from that, as you know, as people who listen

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<v Speaker 2>to this podcast, No, TJ and I both really love

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<v Speaker 2>Star Wars, So I mean the Star Wars movies, the

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<v Speaker 2>Marvel movies, especially those Avengers movies like those are probably them.

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<v Speaker 2>If I had to pick one Star Wars movie might

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<v Speaker 2>be Episode three, Episode three, or episode five, so one

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<v Speaker 2>of those. But now turn it back to you.

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<v Speaker 1>So my favorite baseball movie is Moneyball because I love

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<v Speaker 1>the front office aspect of it and it's just really

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<v Speaker 1>well done, even though they kind of, you know, left

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<v Speaker 1>out the fact the A's had the two thousand and

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<v Speaker 1>two al MVP. But I digress and in Asaiah in

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<v Speaker 1>the best rotation in baseball anyways, So that was a

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<v Speaker 1>good movie. I thought it was really well done. Jonah Hell,

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<v Speaker 1>Brad Pitt phenomenal, great great job. Non baseball movie is

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<v Speaker 1>I'm thinking between three. First one is episode three, Revenge

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<v Speaker 1>of the Sith the Star Wars one of the best

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<v Speaker 1>movies ever. Acting is excellent. I could recite a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of the lines. It's like deep, detailed, emotional, like the

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<v Speaker 1>most fleshed out Star Wars film there is. It peaked

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<v Speaker 1>then went downhill after Unfortunately, next up another Star Wars movie,

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<v Speaker 1>Rogue one, one of like one of the most underrated movies.

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<v Speaker 1>I feel like ever the story is great, the cinematics

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<v Speaker 1>of it. It takes the older Star Wars stories, like

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<v Speaker 1>the story building and the and the thought process and

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<v Speaker 1>the character the character development and all of that, and

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<v Speaker 1>then paired it with the cinematics and the sort of

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<v Speaker 1>visual greatness of the new movies, and it was the

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<v Speaker 1>perfect combination, like The Death Star in four KHD fucking incredible, amazing.

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<v Speaker 1>So and in Once you like catch up on all

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<v Speaker 1>the Star Wars lore, and you watch the cartoons, and

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<v Speaker 1>you watch say like and Or and all this stuff,

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<v Speaker 1>and you get tied into all the other characters they

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<v Speaker 1>feature in that film, like Saw Gerrera and Cassie and

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<v Speaker 1>Andor and others, and continues on and on and on

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<v Speaker 1>and on. Super cool. And then the last one, if

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<v Speaker 1>I want like a laugher, Caddyshack, Like the I will

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<v Speaker 1>argue the most quotable movie of all time is caddy Shack.

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<v Speaker 1>If you sit me down to watch Caddy Shack. I

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<v Speaker 1>could probably quote the whole movie. You can like find

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<v Speaker 1>a quote from the movie for every situation in real life.

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<v Speaker 1>It's it is that funny, and that this is coming

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<v Speaker 1>from someone who doesn't like old movies. That one is

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<v Speaker 1>a classic and one of the best best ever.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm taking happy yo more of a Caddy Shack. Sorry.

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<v Speaker 1>Have you ever heard about Ty Burrell's uh Round of

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<v Speaker 1>Golf with the Dalai Lama? It's amazing.

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<v Speaker 2>Wow. The problem is, I mean, I really do need

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<v Speaker 2>to sit down and watch Caddy Check again start to finish,

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<v Speaker 2>because I've only seen it in parts. I need to

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<v Speaker 2>watch it all the way through. But I was even

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<v Speaker 2>trying to think of other movies for the two of

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<v Speaker 2>us that we could even rattle off here, because I

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<v Speaker 2>knew with the two of us it was gonna be

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<v Speaker 2>sports movies, it was gonna be you know, comedies, and

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<v Speaker 2>it was gonna be probably Star Wars. Like I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>the only other ones that come to mind are probably

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<v Speaker 2>other comedy movies, like I like Wedding Crashers a lot.

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<v Speaker 2>I think that's a really good movie. That's a good

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<v Speaker 2>I was trying to think about others that like that

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<v Speaker 2>really kind of come to mind of of like, oh,

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<v Speaker 2>what movies do I love to sit down and watch,

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<v Speaker 2>But it's kind of it's kind of all in that

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<v Speaker 2>realm for me at least.

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<v Speaker 1>M Yeah, and the problem is with me lately, I

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<v Speaker 1>just haven't watched enough good movies, like I haven't. I

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<v Speaker 1>haven't watched enough movies period. Oppenheimer was amazing. I don't

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<v Speaker 1>know if I would put it like way up there

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<v Speaker 1>on my terms of the list. I need to watch

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<v Speaker 1>it a few more times to solidly put it up there.

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<v Speaker 1>And like it was, it's kind of like dramatic. I

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<v Speaker 1>liked a little bit more like either sci fi or

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<v Speaker 1>lighthearted movies for it to be that way instead of

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<v Speaker 1>like a non fiction film like Oppenheimer was.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, but.

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<v Speaker 1>Like something like that for example, or if they were

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<v Speaker 1>to come out with a new Star Wars movie, I'd

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<v Speaker 1>probably watch it. It probably won't be as good, but

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<v Speaker 1>I bias, so it might be up there, right.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I'd probably watch it too. Yeah, I don't watch

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<v Speaker 2>that many. I feel like Oscar type movies, and I

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<v Speaker 2>probably should in the sense of like I saw arg

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<v Speaker 2>Allile back and that was good, But I like those

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<v Speaker 2>type of movies. I feel like I don't sit down

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<v Speaker 2>and watch that much those ones that are you know,

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<v Speaker 2>in Oscar nominations and people like go out of their

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<v Speaker 2>way to sit down in the theater and really watch.

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<v Speaker 2>I guess, like you, it's either lighthearted stuff or it's

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<v Speaker 2>sci fi that I watch. But hey, just that's just

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<v Speaker 2>who we are, I guess, right, mm hm. So yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>well that was a really good round of mail bag questions.

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<v Speaker 2>I gotta say, like, like round of applause to all

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<v Speaker 2>our listeners and fans that send in some really good ones.

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<v Speaker 2>Like we say, like we love answering Mariner's questions, and

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<v Speaker 2>there's always gonna be a good handful of them included

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<v Speaker 2>in these. But when people really kind of get out

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<v Speaker 2>of the box and think hard about some creative questions

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<v Speaker 2>for us, we always appreciate it because I think they

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<v Speaker 2>spark some creative answers. Hell, the two of us sat

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<v Speaker 2>here and debated for ten plus minutes or whatever it

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<v Speaker 2>was about would would you corral all the all time

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<v Speaker 2>great Mariners if it meant twenty years without a postseason drought?

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<v Speaker 2>And we sat here debating it. So those questions are fun.

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<v Speaker 1>That was Yeah, that was a fun one. Dog. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>just telling you I want to relive two thousand and

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<v Speaker 1>one again. Well I want it, yeah, I.

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<v Speaker 2>Mean I have no memory of it, I mean not

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<v Speaker 2>real memories of it. So yeah, I'd love to relive it,

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<v Speaker 2>just not for twenty years without another postseason appearance. That's all.

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<v Speaker 2>So shout out to all the listeners. Shout out to

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<v Speaker 2>all the fans. You guys did a great job with

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<v Speaker 2>these mailbags. When we keep doing mail bag seriously, keep

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<v Speaker 2>them coming because these are really fun questions. With that,

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<v Speaker 2>that'll just about wrap up this edition of the Marine

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