May 28, 2025 • 29 mins
Ty Dane Gonzalez from Locked on Mariners and Emerald City Spectrum joins to talk about the Houston series, Polanco's possible injury, the rotation, and much more. Jackson and Anders teach PR for sports teams...would you trade off a Thunder Finals win for an expansion announcement?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, moving into the four o'clock hour.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Now it's time to continue talking to some Seattle Mariners
as they begin this series tonight against the Washington Nationals.
Joining us right here on KJR.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
First Chance.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I've had to talk with this gentleman, Ty Dane Gonzalez.
He hosts the Lockdown Mariners podcast. He also writes for
Emerald City Spectrum. Ty, good to meet you over the phone. Man,
how's it going?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Nice media too, Jackson. Really appreciate you guys having me on.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Yeah, we appreciate you giving us some time.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Well, listen, man, we Anders and I spoke in that
first hour pretty extensively about Sunday's game specifically and the
decisions by Dan Wilson. And there's a lot I think
to really disagree with. I'll just get your two cents
to start off on bringing in Casey there in the
ninth inning, after he pitches two innings on Saturday, Wilson
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and his staff elect to pitch him again in the
ninth he gives up the walk off, and I guess
I don't know what the bullpen situation was, but I
would just really question, you know, the specific decision there.
And there's a few decisions to talk about, but specifically
the decision to.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Bring Legomina in there in the ninth inning.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yeah, this is something we talk about on our show
a lot. Dan Wilson's decision making blows my mind. I
just I don't really get it sometimes, I really don't.
I am of the belief here, especially in that situation.
I know there's going to be a lot of people
who disagree with me. I don't care, first and foremost,
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but I'm of the belief that Audrius Munos should be
pitching in that situation, right, that you shouldn't be saving
Munos for a saved situation that may or may not exist.
And oh look, it didn't exist at the end of
the day. Now again, you know, we don't know what
the bullpen situations are. We don't know who's availables is not,
who might be dealing with, you know, maybe a back
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thaying or what have you on a certain day. It
does seem like the Bears were trying to avoid using
Munios on Sunday by any means necessary, unless they absolutely felt.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Like they had to.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
I think you can make a great argument that they
absolutely had to in that situation. They disagreed, and you
know what happened happened, right, So yeah, I just I'm
not a huge fan of the end game decisions that
Dan Wilson has made. I think there's a lot of
things you know that happens behind the scenes that you
know none of us are really privy to. That makes
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Dan Wilson a good manager. I think that they, you know,
the players have really bought into his messaging. But in
terms of the things that you know, we can see
that the fans can see. Not a huge fan of them.
I think, you know, there's a little little too much
traditionalism there with how he manages his ball club.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Yeah, much different than Scott service Ty. Thanks so much,
Anderson Hurst here with you.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
So yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
One other one earlier in the game that we kind
of talked about was leaving cast you in for that
sixth inning gets to us career I think career high
of one hundred and fourteen pitches almost gets his career
high of one hundred and fifteen. He gives up the
game time double a cam Smith. It's kind of it's
maybe we do again. We don't know the full context
of who was available, who wasn't, But what is your
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thoughts on leaving Castillo in there after he had some
hard contact leading up to that point.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Yeah, I didn't like that either. I mean, you have
the off day on Monday, so you should pretty much
have everyone available to you. Castillo had been laboring, you know,
it's not like he had been dominating throughout that game.
He had kind of settled in there. And obviously he's
a VET. You know, he is the vet in your rotation.
He's a guy that you know you want to go
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to war with at any point, and you know you
had pitching some huge, huge moments for you. But in
that situation, I just I didn't think that made really
any sense whatsoever. That's just a lot to ask of
a guy here, and who, again, is battling. He's not cruising,
he's battling to go that deep in a sorry and
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especially you know, look, I'm not saying that you're running
the risk of injury here or anything like that, but
it is a lot to put on a guy's arm,
especially when you have dealt with a lot of injuries
the right course of the year. I just from any
way that you look at it, I just I really
did not like that decision.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Ty.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
I want to kind of follow up on that, and
ty Dane Gonzalez is our guest. He's the host of
the Locked On Mariners podcast, also writes for Emerald City Spectrum,
which also Anders writes for as well covers the Sounders there. Tye,
So following up on that, it's an interesting dichotomy where
you look at, you know, the way that Dan Wilson
treats his starting staff specifically like guys like Wu and
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guys like Miller, more younger guys in making sure they
don't throw too much, you know, kind of babing them
a little bit for lack of a better word, and
then he'll go out and let Castillo throw one hundred
and fourteen pitches and you more of an older pitcher.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Right.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
It's this interesting dynamic that kind of frustrates me of
kind of like pick a lane, you know, are you
going to think about pictures, you know, and potential for
injury and wanting to extend their arms for thinking about
September and potentially October, or are you going to you know,
let them rock like the Rock did on Sunday and
go one hundred and fourteen And it kind of confuses
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me which road he's going to go down when we
see this on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Yeah, so this is kind of where we get into
the territory of like what do we know and what
we don't know? Yeah, you know, what we don't know
and what's going on behind the scenes that maybe we're
not privy to it.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
You know.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Again, maybe there were beyond Munnos, a couple of guys
that they just really didn't want to use on Sunday.
And that's why he pushed Castillo because even with Luis,
he haven't really done this with him this year. He's
been you know, if you're exiting your your final inning
of the day, you know, around or what you would
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think would be their final inning of the day at
around you know, ninety four ninety six pitches, which is
around where Cassillo was at the end of what should
have been his last inning on Sunday they usually call it.
So that's it made that incredibly weird. At the very least,
I thought, Okay, maybe they're bringing him in before he
gets to one hundred pitch mark to get another out
or two, you know, just kind of squeeze as much
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and joic as you can out of them. But yeah,
the fact that he just kind of continue to let
him go out there, and even when the Astros, you know,
generated some traffic there, and even after the game Tine
hit like he continued to let him out there. I
just I don't know what that was about. I really don't.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Yeah, well, let's move to the offensive side of the ball.
And something I've been concerned about and I'm really curious
to what you think about this time, but Jorge Polonko
has not been the same player in the month of May.
I wonder if there's some injury stuff going on there.
He obviously still can't bat right handed, so against left
handed pitching, do we maybe see an iel stink coming,
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because even when he is batting left handed, he just
does not look like the same player right now.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Yeah, they've been really mum on that situation. I just
read about this on the Amerald City Spectrum actually just
about fifteen or so minutes ago. I think part of
it is, yeah, like he's clearly reaggravated something, or the
Mariners have just deemed, for reasons unknown, that he can't
play in the field and he can't hit from the
right side of the plate, or that he shouldn't you know,
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however you want to look at that, But you know,
I look at the numbers here, and the league has
clearly made an adjustment to him, and he just hasn't
been able to adjust back yet. He saw one hundred
and thirty eight fastballs in March and April, and he
slashed three seventy five four nine five against him. He
also saw one hundred and forty nine off speed and
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breaking pitches in March and April. Was actually pretty good
against him, not as good as he was against the fastball,
but still pretty good against him. Four six, three ninety four,
six eighty eight he did with twenty nine point seven
percent of the time on those pitches though. But now
we're seeing more off speed and breaking pitches. He's seen
one hundred and thirty six non fastballs and about of
May and he's slashing one oh seven two nineteen one
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o seven with a thirty three point nine percent with rate,
and he's only seen eighty seven fastballs, and even against those,
he's flashing two hundred and two fifty three sixty seven.
So to me, it just kind of seems like he's
all kinds of out of sorts right now. So I
would think that, yeah, there's probably something physical going on there,
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because We were obviously expecting regression from him. This was
obviously going to happen because he was hitting well above
even the most optimistic expectations. But he's gone instead of
just normalizing, he's kind of gone from one extreme end
of the spectrum to the other. So I think, yeah,
some of it is just natural regression that you know,
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the league has made an adjustment to him and now
he just has to adjust back. But also because of
howse of beer the regression has been, there has to
be something physical going on. I just I can't really
think of any anything else other than that.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Well, you know, the injury situation for the Mariners is
what is specifically on the pitching staff and you already
have you know, Rodblaze out and Raley's coming back hopefully soon.
But you know, to lose him, you know, whatever the
numbers have been, you know, and you kind of had
those good stats right there, you definitely can't, I think,
afford to lose the potential of that kind of bad
(09:13):
Ty diggins All is our guest from the Locked On
Mariners Show, and tyber I wanted to ask you about
the Nationals coming up this series starting tonight over at
Teamobile Park, before we get there quickly. Going back to
that pitching staff, this is something that Andrews and I
were talking about the last hour where it looks like
you're going to hopefully have you know, some arms back soon,
and you obviously get Kirby back and you know, we'll
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see how he continues to develop after what happened last week.
But getting these pictures back healthy, looking at Logan Evans
and how he's done, you know, the two and one, three, three, three,
era and five starts so far, looking at how Emerson
Hancock's done, He's going Thursday, I'm wondering getting these pictures
back healthy, getting Logan Gilbert back. You know, do you
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have the thought to roll out a six man rotation?
This kind of goes to the earlier question of you know,
extending arms, right, Do you go to a six man
rotation for a little bit while you're getting so much
success out of you know, Hancock and out of Evans,
or do you get back down to five and then
send them back to Tacoma?
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I personally would But Daniel Kramer, great writer over at
MLC dot competent an article today talking to Trent Blank,
the director of pitching strategy for the mayors and Jerry
Depoto as well about the possibility of running a six
man rotation, and they said, yeah, it's on the table,
but it's not something that we're planning on right now,
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which I find interest in considering that. You know, after
Bryce Miller threw his live VP on Thursday, said that
he's kind of on a six day routine, and we
know that George Curry has been on a six day
routine since he started his rehab assignment. Like you would
think that that means six man rotation, right, But you know,
Trent Blank in that article said that, you know, some
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of the guys in the rotation, they don't like having
the extra day off, so that's something that you have
to account for. But it's going to be really interesting
to see kind of how they maneuver this because they
have another off day in the middle of this homestand
they get an off day after the twin series wraps
up on Sunday before they face the Orioles for three
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more and then they hit the road after that.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
But so.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Kirby will only pitch once during that stretch, so he'll
get his five full days off in between starts. But
when you get to the Oriole Series and then the
road series against the Angels of the Diamondbacks. You're gonna
be playing nine games and nine days, So in theory,
Kirby is going to have to start twice in the
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span of six days. So that doesn't really align with
the timeline that they put him on. Maybe that's when
they bring Millard back into the rotation. Maybe they allow
Logan Evans to start one more time during that stretch
and then they just have Miller slotted in before Kirby
is supposed to start in that push, just curried back
another day. I don't know, but yeah, to me, the
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six man rotation makes a lot of sense, especially with
how few off days they have coming up. You know,
at the end of the at the end of June
and into the started to Live, they're going to play
seventeen games in seventeen days. Oh wow. So to me,
it just it would make a lot of sense with
you know, Miller saying that this is something that he's
just going to have to manage. So we don't know
what that's going to look like. We don't know, you know,
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how long it's going to take for George Korey to
be kind of in the full swing of things. We
don't know what Logan Gilbert's going to look like when
he gets back all these things. It just feels like,
with what you've gotten out of Logan Evans and Emerson
Hancock to your point, that just makes a lot of
sense to roll with a six man rotation at least
until the All Star break.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Yep, Ti Dang, It's all on with us, host of
the Lockdown Mariners podcast and writer for Emerald City Spectrum
for your Seattle Mariners. So opposite of Polonco, we kind
of got Julio who started off pretty cold in the
month of April but has really come into his own
a little bit in the month of May with the
seven eighty six ops. How have you evaluated his growth
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as a player and is this one of those things
where he's going to hopefully grow out of these slow
starts in his first five years in his career or
four years in his career? Excuse me so, but like,
how do you evaluate where he's at offensively? We all
know about what he does with the glob but how
do you evaluate where he's at offensively at this point
the season in his career.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Right now, as far as the month of Mago's. I'm
actually seeing some really positive signs from him. I mean,
he's not striking out much. He's also not walking much,
which means that he's being aggressive early on accounts. He's
and he's making a lot of contact. But you know,
you look at the bat of ball data, like he's
hitting a fair amount of line drives, he's in a
fair amount of fly balls, Like he's not hitting the
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ball on the ground a ton. You know, he's two
seventy six three fifteen, four seventy one in the month
of May. Like I'm seeing some good stuff there. You know,
he's hitting for power, just generally hitting the ball hard,
create quality contact more often than that. The one thing
I would like to see from him more is I
would like to see him run a bit more. Now.
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I wonder if he has been dealing with something. He
did get scratched from the lineup on Thursday with a
back thing, and it does seem like when he's run
down the first base line a few times he looks
a little stiff, So I do wonder if he's been
dealing with something. But he only has one stolen base
in the month of May, and this is kind of
a team wide issue too. This is something that I
would just like to see from the team a bit
more in general, and I think has kind of led
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to some of the offensive issues that they've had this month.
They're just not running at all as a club. They
were running a ton in the month of April and
they've just completely gone away from that. I mean, Julio
has the same amount of stolen bases as Mitch Garver
does this month. That's probably.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
So.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Yeah, So I would like to see Julio run more.
But overall, like in terms of what he's doing with
the bat right now, I'm seeing some really positive signs
and I think we're getting close. I think we're getting
close to seeing the the Julio that we all kind
of want to see.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
It feels like Julio is sort of heated up in
the months of June July over the last couple of years,
and if he's making that transition in May, then I
think we're written for a really good summer. If he's
heating up even earlier this year than in past, so
I think there's certainly reason to be very optimistic. I mean,
good day Sunday, and we'll continue to see I think
a good Julio, as the temperatures continue to warm up
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as they really started to today and we're going to
see continuing here this week here in Seattle in this
homestand ty. But before we wrap up, one of your
thoughts on the Nationals. I don't know too much about
them here, other than the fact that this is a
team with a twenty four to twenty nine record, fourth
place in the National League East saw them losing a
series to San Francisco over the weekend. What should our
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Mariner fan expectations be for this three game series against
the Nationals this week.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
I'll tell you this, the Nationals are incredibly left handed heavy.
I've never seen anything like this. It is possible that
you might see a lineup with nine left handed hitters
tonight from the Nationals.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Their best hitters are left handed.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
They have a couple of switcheaders that are obviously going
to hit left handed. You know, it gets the right
he gets, you know, right handed. Heavy Mayor's pitching staff,
So that's going to be a fascinating matchup for them.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
Really, the two.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Guys you have to worry about here c j Abrams
and James Wood. Those guys are incredible, and the rest
of the lineup not Green. Nathaniel Low who's obviously been
a guy that's been rumored a lot for the Mariners
in trade talks of the offseason. He's kind of he's
repressed pretty significantly. He's about nine percent below league adage
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right now as a hitter, Kyvirit Ruiz, Luis Starcia, Josh Bell.
Those are guys that, like they can obviously do damage
against you. You know, you can't just kind of write
them off. But they've all been well below league average
so far this year. So if you handle Abrams and Wood,
you should be able to uh manage your way around
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the rest of the salina. What's going to be interesting here, though,
is the pitching matchups on the on the national side
of things, You're going to see a couple lefties in
the series, like you saw a couple of lefties in
the Astro series. So get ready to see Donovan Solano,
Mitch Garber, guys like that. Probably not a whole lot
of for a Pelonco except for tomorrow against Trevor Williams.
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And Tremor Williams is the guy that throws a lot
of change ups and the Marrors not particularly good at
hitting changeups, so I don't think this is a great
matchup for for the Mayor's offense on paper, especially with
the struggles that we've seen from them so far. This
might be a low scoring series because of you know, again,
the Nationals line up beyond Abrams of Wood should be
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handled pretty pretty well by this marriage pitching staff, at
least on paper. So yeah, it's gonna be gonna be
a fascinating matchup for the Mayors as a whole. That
that that matchup on Thursday. Kensey Gore, he's the guy
that's missed a lot of bats. Amara's strikeout rate has
gone up in the month of May, so we'll see
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how that goes. But also, the Maras have handled you know,
the best pitchers in the game really well, you know,
Terri Schooglar Crochet, Michael King, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. So maybe
that's the one that they get up for. Who knows,
So we'll see, But it's definitely a winnable series for
the Marrors.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
I would say that you talk about their bats and
it just sounds like a potential get right start for
George Kirby you know, after what he's returned last week,
and I would love to see George Kirby go out
there and look like the George Kirby old. This coming well,
that's tomorrow. He pitches on Wednesday, feels like a Monday.
I was about to say, you know, coming up in
a couple of days, but that's feeling a Monday after
Memorial Day. Ty, I'm gonna make sure this isn't the
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last time we talked to you here on the three
to seven show. Man, this was awesome. Thanks for all
the great information. We'll make sure to read your stuff
Emerald City Spectrum, your podcast Locked on Mariners.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Appreciate the time, Man.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Yeah, I appreciate it, zactly.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Take care, Ty, Dane Gonzalez.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Great stuff here as we look ahead for the Marriners
starting the series against the Nationals. Reading between the lines,
and it sounds like if we get the good pitching performances,
then I think expectations win two out of three, no
doubt about it. Well, you know, Anders, it's funny because
you know a mayor fans, we often sometimes clown on
the team for you know, taking priority of bobblehead.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Nights and you know where the wins.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
You're caring about the bobblehead nights and whatever's going out
at the stadium. I am not part of necessarily that
crew overwhelmingly, but there was something that else that happened
in the sports the world that reminded.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Me of it over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
A quite embarrassing social media post by a soccer franchise
that is going to make Mariner fans say, thank goodness,
that isn't us.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
We'll get to that next.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
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Speaker 2 (20:11):
This is not David Softy Maller, That is not Dick Fane.
This is Jackson Felts. That is anders Hurst, who welcome
you back to the show today. Softies in Greece, I believe,
traveling to London today to meet up with our Tottenham
Hotspur friend Adam Nathan Grouse.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Well, I mean at least we.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Want to chance, we want a trophy last week, Anders,
more than Manchester United can say. Now our coach might
get fired the next week. So if you never know,
no comment, Andrews is Jackson Feltz Here. We are taking
you up till seven o'clock tonight. John Wilner coming up
at five o'clock. We're gonna hear a little bit from
Dan Wilson five thirty Sounders head coach Brian Schmitzer at
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five forty five. Hey, Andrews, you just told me we
have a couple mayor tickets available for tonight's game. We
think we have a six forty first pitch t mobile park.
You get to go and see Logan Evans on the mound.
Try to take care of that lineup that ty Dan
Gonzalez just talked about. We're gonna give these tickets away,
but I want to give these tickets away to somebody
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who knows us, Anders, who knows us for the last
six No, for the last eight months, it's been eight months,
I think maybe even nine months. For a lot of
the last year, Andrews and I as well as a
Christopher Kidd who produces the ten to one show.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
We have had a podcast.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
It's not sports related, but we've been doing a podcast
off for the side. We've been posting about it. I
think we even shared it to the de Kjar Twitter
at some point. And for those who may or may
not know this podcast, I'd like to give these tickets
away to somebody who knows this this podcast. It's also
listed somewhere, but I'm not gonna tell people where. I'll
just give you one hint. It's not sports related.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Not sports related.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
If you know the name of that podcast, text it
in to four nine, four or five one, your first
your last name, and the name of the podcast that myself,
Andershurst Christopher Kidd do on a mostly weekly basis. And
for those of you who want to go to tonight's game,
Tonight's game, Tonight's game six forty tea mobile park logan
Evans on the mound, text in four nine, four to
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five one the name of the podcast that Chris anders
and I do. It's not sports related, and we'll get
one of those people tickets for tonight's game. All right, Anders,
So imagine for a moment that the Seattle Mariners are
in a game now, let's just let's say right now,
and it's it's tonight at Tea Mobile Park, and let's
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say that tonight at Team Mobile Park, they have a
special deal where it's one dollar for every let's say
soft Serve helmet cup.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Right, let's just throw that out there.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
And gets everybody out there, Let's sell the soft Serve
helmet cups. And they sell a record number of helmet cups.
And it's just amazing how many fans went to the
game and buy the soft ser helmet cup.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
But the Mariners are losing and they're down.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Let's say they're losing five nothing in the eighth inning, okay,
and Mariners social media decides to send out a post saying,
look at this, everybody, we sold six and eighty two
soft Servant helmet cups. It's a new record at t
Mobile Park. Hurrah, Hurrah, we sold more soft ster helmet
cups than we ever have. How do you think that
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social media post would go over for a team that
is losing five nothing at.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
The time to a rival, by the way, not Great Bob,
not Great Bob.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Ladies and gentlemen, the DC United Soccer club. This last weekend,
they are facing their rivals from New York. They are
losing two nothing late in the game, and they send
out a big old graphic that says six eighty two
hot dogs sold. So it's a special deal where they
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have one dollar hot dog nights and they sold over
sixty one hundred hot dogs at their stadium in DC
over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
While they're losing. They send out this post and it
doesn't get received very well, and and it's hard. You don't.
It's you're a fan of a team who says.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Look, everybody, we sold.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
All this food, yes, but your product on the field
is losing right now.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Yeah, I mean okay.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
So I try in these situations to put myself into
the mind of being a social media admin for a
terrible team.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
That's an interesting position to be. It is hard.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
It is very hard because you're trying to hype everyone
up and like kind of make everything positive and make
your team sound big. And I understand that, and like,
when your team sucks like a lot, it becomes very hard,
very fast to put anything positive on there.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
And and DC's DC is a bad team. They're a
bad team, like they're very bad.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
So at that point it's like, all right, well, I
might as well just promote this and you know, show
that we did this. But still you have to have
some sort of like scope on like, hey, maybe we
shouldn't do this. It's not gonna be received that well,
let's just send it like an hour after the game. Yeah, no,
like the next day or something, not late in the game.
That's when you're if we're losing the end. The Marriers
(25:26):
have been so much better. I think they're I think,
you know, all of the narrative of all they only
care about bobbleheads. That's I don't believe any of that crap.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Well, I mean I think they've they've been, They've they
they understand that this is a concept you don't see much.
But it's sort of just like, listen, you're bad, you're
you're a bad team, but understand the time and the
place to send a post about how many hot dogs
you sold.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
Yeah, And like I always try and separate like the
business operations people from the sports operations people, because that's
how these franchises work. Right. You have you own a team,
You're like, Okay, I'm gonna put these people in charge
of like helping us make money in certain ways, and
they're going to put these people in charge to help
us put the best product on the field.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Coordinate between the people.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Yes, there should be a coordination like a general like
shared vision, as they say, and sometimes they don't match
up very very well. So yeah, no, I couldn't imagine
if the Mariners did like a post like that where
they were celebrating how much how many garlic fries they
sold in one night after losing to a division rival
and being a last place team by the way, so wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Go over well, it did not for DC indeed, but hey,
they sold a bunch of hot dogs. And it's before
we break this is this is probably is a bigger conversation,
but just to quickly, you know, face the reality. Oklahoma
City Thunder. They beat the Minnesota Timberwolves last night. They
go up three to one in the series over Minnesota,
and it sort of is looking like the sad reality
(26:54):
that they might do this and they might go to
the NBA Finals and Indiana and the New York Knicks.
It's gonna be up to one of them to stop them.
But they're gonna clearly be favored. I mean, looking at
the odds. I got this from bed online right now,
I mean, they are heavy, heavy favorites, you know, minus
four hundred right now to win the championship. They are
(27:15):
so favored to win the whole thing. And like I listen,
I know we're likely gonna get the announcement this summer
that the Seattle is getting an NBA expansion franchise. You think, Well,
for everything we've heard from Silver, from Bruce Harel, from
other parties, it sounds like it's gonna happen this summer,
that the border governors and everything will start really the
(27:37):
ball moving in July to get us an expansion team
by the end of the year. But still it doesn't
help by the fact that I think we're about to
face the sad reality that Oklahoma City Thunder may be
about to raise a title, and that's gonna hurt me,
just to my cor no matter, no matter as much
as I'll be raised in July or whatever month it is,
(27:58):
it's gonna hurt like hell coming up in a couple weeks.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
Yeah, So I'm going to ask you this question, and
I don't want you to answer now, but I want
the text line to answer now because we do have
textimonials next segment, and I want you to answer possibly
in the five point thirty or the five o'clock out.
I want you to think about your answer a little
bit so context. I asked this to Ian earlier today
as well. You know my wife Augustina and I she
(28:23):
is from Argentina, right, and they just ended a draft
of their own when they won the World Cup in
twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Right.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
She mentioned this concept to me that like, hey, there's
a bunch of people that believe it actually came right
after Diego Maradona died. So she says, you have to
kind of have one good thing end before another one begins.
So I'm thinking this kind of in this in this
spectrum of the of the Sonics here, what if the
(28:51):
OKC winning the finals is what like energy that brings
the Sonics back into the NBA fold. So my question
to you is, if you if you could guarantee that
the Sonics come back, we'll say before the twenty twenty
seven season. I think that's what they would do if
they announced it soon yea and say they would they
(29:12):
would announce expansion later this year. But the OKAC wins
the NBA Finals, would you take that trade right now?
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Or now?
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Let's hear what listeners have to say, I'll give you
my answer. Coming up later on Textimonials Next John Wilner
five o'clock, we'll get to that answer as well, coming
up here on Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM
All right, moving into the four o'clock hour.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Now it's time to continue talking to some Seattle Mariners
as they begin this series tonight against the Washington Nationals.
Joining us right here on KJR.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
First Chance.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I've had to talk with this gentleman, Ty Dane Gonzalez.
He hosts the Lockdown Mariners podcast. He also writes for
Emerald City Spectrum. Ty, good to meet you over the phone. Man,
how's it going?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Nice media too, Jackson. Really appreciate you guys having me on.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Yeah, we appreciate you giving us some time.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Well, listen, man, we Anders and I spoke in that
first hour pretty extensively about Sunday's game specifically and the
decisions by Dan Wilson. And there's a lot I think
to really disagree with. I'll just get your two cents
to start off on bringing in Casey there in the
ninth inning, after he pitches two innings on Saturday, Wilson
(00:52):
and his staff elect to pitch him again in the
ninth he gives up the walk off, and I guess
I don't know what the bullpen situation was, but I
would just really question, you know, the specific decision there.
And there's a few decisions to talk about, but specifically
the decision to.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Bring Legomina in there in the ninth inning.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yeah, this is something we talk about on our show
a lot. Dan Wilson's decision making blows my mind. I
just I don't really get it sometimes, I really don't.
I am of the belief here, especially in that situation.
I know there's going to be a lot of people
who disagree with me. I don't care, first and foremost,
(01:33):
but I'm of the belief that Audrius Munos should be
pitching in that situation, right, that you shouldn't be saving
Munos for a saved situation that may or may not exist.
And oh look, it didn't exist at the end of
the day. Now again, you know, we don't know what
the bullpen situations are. We don't know who's availables is not,
who might be dealing with, you know, maybe a back
(01:54):
thaying or what have you on a certain day. It
does seem like the Bears were trying to avoid using
Munios on Sunday by any means necessary, unless they absolutely felt.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Like they had to.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
I think you can make a great argument that they
absolutely had to in that situation. They disagreed, and you
know what happened happened, right, So yeah, I just I'm
not a huge fan of the end game decisions that
Dan Wilson has made. I think there's a lot of
things you know that happens behind the scenes that you
know none of us are really privy to. That makes
(02:29):
Dan Wilson a good manager. I think that they, you know,
the players have really bought into his messaging. But in
terms of the things that you know, we can see
that the fans can see. Not a huge fan of them.
I think, you know, there's a little little too much
traditionalism there with how he manages his ball club.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Yeah, much different than Scott service Ty. Thanks so much,
Anderson Hurst here with you.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
So yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
One other one earlier in the game that we kind
of talked about was leaving cast you in for that
sixth inning gets to us career I think career high
of one hundred and fourteen pitches almost gets his career
high of one hundred and fifteen. He gives up the
game time double a cam Smith. It's kind of it's
maybe we do again. We don't know the full context
of who was available, who wasn't, But what is your
(03:14):
thoughts on leaving Castillo in there after he had some
hard contact leading up to that point.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Yeah, I didn't like that either. I mean, you have
the off day on Monday, so you should pretty much
have everyone available to you. Castillo had been laboring, you know,
it's not like he had been dominating throughout that game.
He had kind of settled in there. And obviously he's
a VET. You know, he is the vet in your rotation.
He's a guy that you know you want to go
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to war with at any point, and you know you
had pitching some huge, huge moments for you. But in
that situation, I just I didn't think that made really
any sense whatsoever. That's just a lot to ask of
a guy here, and who, again, is battling. He's not cruising,
he's battling to go that deep in a sorry and
(04:01):
especially you know, look, I'm not saying that you're running
the risk of injury here or anything like that, but
it is a lot to put on a guy's arm,
especially when you have dealt with a lot of injuries
the right course of the year. I just from any
way that you look at it, I just I really
did not like that decision.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Ty.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
I want to kind of follow up on that, and
ty Dane Gonzalez is our guest. He's the host of
the Locked On Mariners podcast, also writes for Emerald City Spectrum,
which also Anders writes for as well covers the Sounders there. Tye,
So following up on that, it's an interesting dichotomy where
you look at, you know, the way that Dan Wilson
treats his starting staff specifically like guys like Wu and
(04:39):
guys like Miller, more younger guys in making sure they
don't throw too much, you know, kind of babing them
a little bit for lack of a better word, and
then he'll go out and let Castillo throw one hundred
and fourteen pitches and you more of an older pitcher.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Right.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
It's this interesting dynamic that kind of frustrates me of
kind of like pick a lane, you know, are you
going to think about pictures, you know, and potential for
injury and wanting to extend their arms for thinking about
September and potentially October, or are you going to you know,
let them rock like the Rock did on Sunday and
go one hundred and fourteen And it kind of confuses
(05:12):
me which road he's going to go down when we
see this on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Yeah, so this is kind of where we get into
the territory of like what do we know and what
we don't know? Yeah, you know, what we don't know
and what's going on behind the scenes that maybe we're
not privy to it.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
You know.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Again, maybe there were beyond Munnos, a couple of guys
that they just really didn't want to use on Sunday.
And that's why he pushed Castillo because even with Luis,
he haven't really done this with him this year. He's
been you know, if you're exiting your your final inning
of the day, you know, around or what you would
(05:48):
think would be their final inning of the day at
around you know, ninety four ninety six pitches, which is
around where Cassillo was at the end of what should
have been his last inning on Sunday they usually call it.
So that's it made that incredibly weird. At the very least,
I thought, Okay, maybe they're bringing him in before he
gets to one hundred pitch mark to get another out
or two, you know, just kind of squeeze as much
(06:09):
and joic as you can out of them. But yeah,
the fact that he just kind of continue to let
him go out there, and even when the Astros, you know,
generated some traffic there, and even after the game Tine
hit like he continued to let him out there. I
just I don't know what that was about. I really don't.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Yeah, well, let's move to the offensive side of the ball.
And something I've been concerned about and I'm really curious
to what you think about this time, but Jorge Polonko
has not been the same player in the month of May.
I wonder if there's some injury stuff going on there.
He obviously still can't bat right handed, so against left
handed pitching, do we maybe see an iel stink coming,
(06:48):
because even when he is batting left handed, he just
does not look like the same player right now.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Yeah, they've been really mum on that situation. I just
read about this on the Amerald City Spectrum actually just
about fifteen or so minutes ago. I think part of
it is, yeah, like he's clearly reaggravated something, or the
Mariners have just deemed, for reasons unknown, that he can't
play in the field and he can't hit from the
right side of the plate, or that he shouldn't you know,
(07:14):
however you want to look at that, But you know,
I look at the numbers here, and the league has
clearly made an adjustment to him, and he just hasn't
been able to adjust back yet. He saw one hundred
and thirty eight fastballs in March and April, and he
slashed three seventy five four nine five against him. He
also saw one hundred and forty nine off speed and
(07:36):
breaking pitches in March and April. Was actually pretty good
against him, not as good as he was against the fastball,
but still pretty good against him. Four six, three ninety four,
six eighty eight he did with twenty nine point seven
percent of the time on those pitches though. But now
we're seeing more off speed and breaking pitches. He's seen
one hundred and thirty six non fastballs and about of
May and he's slashing one oh seven two nineteen one
(07:58):
o seven with a thirty three point nine percent with rate,
and he's only seen eighty seven fastballs, and even against those,
he's flashing two hundred and two fifty three sixty seven.
So to me, it just kind of seems like he's
all kinds of out of sorts right now. So I
would think that, yeah, there's probably something physical going on there,
(08:18):
because We were obviously expecting regression from him. This was
obviously going to happen because he was hitting well above
even the most optimistic expectations. But he's gone instead of
just normalizing, he's kind of gone from one extreme end
of the spectrum to the other. So I think, yeah,
some of it is just natural regression that you know,
(08:39):
the league has made an adjustment to him and now
he just has to adjust back. But also because of
howse of beer the regression has been, there has to
be something physical going on. I just I can't really
think of any anything else other than that.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Well, you know, the injury situation for the Mariners is
what is specifically on the pitching staff and you already
have you know, Rodblaze out and Raley's coming back hopefully soon.
But you know, to lose him, you know, whatever the
numbers have been, you know, and you kind of had
those good stats right there, you definitely can't, I think,
afford to lose the potential of that kind of bad
(09:13):
Ty diggins All is our guest from the Locked On
Mariners Show, and tyber I wanted to ask you about
the Nationals coming up this series starting tonight over at
Teamobile Park, before we get there quickly. Going back to
that pitching staff, this is something that Andrews and I
were talking about the last hour where it looks like
you're going to hopefully have you know, some arms back soon,
and you obviously get Kirby back and you know, we'll
(09:34):
see how he continues to develop after what happened last week.
But getting these pictures back healthy, looking at Logan Evans
and how he's done, you know, the two and one, three, three, three,
era and five starts so far, looking at how Emerson
Hancock's done, He's going Thursday, I'm wondering getting these pictures
back healthy, getting Logan Gilbert back. You know, do you
(09:56):
have the thought to roll out a six man rotation?
This kind of goes to the earlier question of you know,
extending arms, right, Do you go to a six man
rotation for a little bit while you're getting so much
success out of you know, Hancock and out of Evans,
or do you get back down to five and then
send them back to Tacoma?
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I personally would But Daniel Kramer, great writer over at
MLC dot competent an article today talking to Trent Blank,
the director of pitching strategy for the mayors and Jerry
Depoto as well about the possibility of running a six
man rotation, and they said, yeah, it's on the table,
but it's not something that we're planning on right now,
(10:34):
which I find interest in considering that. You know, after
Bryce Miller threw his live VP on Thursday, said that
he's kind of on a six day routine, and we
know that George Curry has been on a six day
routine since he started his rehab assignment. Like you would
think that that means six man rotation, right, But you know,
Trent Blank in that article said that, you know, some
(10:55):
of the guys in the rotation, they don't like having
the extra day off, so that's something that you have
to account for. But it's going to be really interesting
to see kind of how they maneuver this because they
have another off day in the middle of this homestand
they get an off day after the twin series wraps
up on Sunday before they face the Orioles for three
(11:15):
more and then they hit the road after that.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
But so.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Kirby will only pitch once during that stretch, so he'll
get his five full days off in between starts. But
when you get to the Oriole Series and then the
road series against the Angels of the Diamondbacks. You're gonna
be playing nine games and nine days, So in theory,
Kirby is going to have to start twice in the
(11:41):
span of six days. So that doesn't really align with
the timeline that they put him on. Maybe that's when
they bring Millard back into the rotation. Maybe they allow
Logan Evans to start one more time during that stretch
and then they just have Miller slotted in before Kirby
is supposed to start in that push, just curried back
another day. I don't know, but yeah, to me, the
(12:04):
six man rotation makes a lot of sense, especially with
how few off days they have coming up. You know,
at the end of the at the end of June
and into the started to Live, they're going to play
seventeen games in seventeen days. Oh wow. So to me,
it just it would make a lot of sense with
you know, Miller saying that this is something that he's
just going to have to manage. So we don't know
what that's going to look like. We don't know, you know,
(12:27):
how long it's going to take for George Korey to
be kind of in the full swing of things. We
don't know what Logan Gilbert's going to look like when
he gets back all these things. It just feels like,
with what you've gotten out of Logan Evans and Emerson
Hancock to your point, that just makes a lot of
sense to roll with a six man rotation at least
until the All Star break.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Yep, Ti Dang, It's all on with us, host of
the Lockdown Mariners podcast and writer for Emerald City Spectrum
for your Seattle Mariners. So opposite of Polonco, we kind
of got Julio who started off pretty cold in the
month of April but has really come into his own
a little bit in the month of May with the
seven eighty six ops. How have you evaluated his growth
(13:04):
as a player and is this one of those things
where he's going to hopefully grow out of these slow
starts in his first five years in his career or
four years in his career? Excuse me so, but like,
how do you evaluate where he's at offensively? We all
know about what he does with the glob but how
do you evaluate where he's at offensively at this point
the season in his career.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Right now, as far as the month of Mago's. I'm
actually seeing some really positive signs from him. I mean,
he's not striking out much. He's also not walking much,
which means that he's being aggressive early on accounts. He's
and he's making a lot of contact. But you know,
you look at the bat of ball data, like he's
hitting a fair amount of line drives, he's in a
fair amount of fly balls, Like he's not hitting the
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ball on the ground a ton. You know, he's two
seventy six three fifteen, four seventy one in the month
of May. Like I'm seeing some good stuff there. You know,
he's hitting for power, just generally hitting the ball hard,
create quality contact more often than that. The one thing
I would like to see from him more is I
would like to see him run a bit more. Now.
(14:09):
I wonder if he has been dealing with something. He
did get scratched from the lineup on Thursday with a
back thing, and it does seem like when he's run
down the first base line a few times he looks
a little stiff, So I do wonder if he's been
dealing with something. But he only has one stolen base
in the month of May, and this is kind of
a team wide issue too. This is something that I
would just like to see from the team a bit
more in general, and I think has kind of led
(14:31):
to some of the offensive issues that they've had this month.
They're just not running at all as a club. They
were running a ton in the month of April and
they've just completely gone away from that. I mean, Julio
has the same amount of stolen bases as Mitch Garver
does this month. That's probably.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
So.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Yeah, So I would like to see Julio run more.
But overall, like in terms of what he's doing with
the bat right now, I'm seeing some really positive signs
and I think we're getting close. I think we're getting
close to seeing the the Julio that we all kind
of want to see.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
It feels like Julio is sort of heated up in
the months of June July over the last couple of years,
and if he's making that transition in May, then I
think we're written for a really good summer. If he's
heating up even earlier this year than in past, so
I think there's certainly reason to be very optimistic. I mean,
good day Sunday, and we'll continue to see I think
a good Julio, as the temperatures continue to warm up
(15:23):
as they really started to today and we're going to
see continuing here this week here in Seattle in this
homestand ty. But before we wrap up, one of your
thoughts on the Nationals. I don't know too much about
them here, other than the fact that this is a
team with a twenty four to twenty nine record, fourth
place in the National League East saw them losing a
series to San Francisco over the weekend. What should our
(15:46):
Mariner fan expectations be for this three game series against
the Nationals this week.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
I'll tell you this, the Nationals are incredibly left handed heavy.
I've never seen anything like this. It is possible that
you might see a lineup with nine left handed hitters
tonight from the Nationals.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Their best hitters are left handed.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
They have a couple of switcheaders that are obviously going
to hit left handed. You know, it gets the right
he gets, you know, right handed. Heavy Mayor's pitching staff,
So that's going to be a fascinating matchup for them.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
Really, the two.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Guys you have to worry about here c j Abrams
and James Wood. Those guys are incredible, and the rest
of the lineup not Green. Nathaniel Low who's obviously been
a guy that's been rumored a lot for the Mariners
in trade talks of the offseason. He's kind of he's
repressed pretty significantly. He's about nine percent below league adage
(16:40):
right now as a hitter, Kyvirit Ruiz, Luis Starcia, Josh Bell.
Those are guys that, like they can obviously do damage
against you. You know, you can't just kind of write
them off. But they've all been well below league average
so far this year. So if you handle Abrams and Wood,
you should be able to uh manage your way around
(17:00):
the rest of the salina. What's going to be interesting here, though,
is the pitching matchups on the on the national side
of things, You're going to see a couple lefties in
the series, like you saw a couple of lefties in
the Astro series. So get ready to see Donovan Solano,
Mitch Garber, guys like that. Probably not a whole lot
of for a Pelonco except for tomorrow against Trevor Williams.
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And Tremor Williams is the guy that throws a lot
of change ups and the Marrors not particularly good at
hitting changeups, so I don't think this is a great
matchup for for the Mayor's offense on paper, especially with
the struggles that we've seen from them so far. This
might be a low scoring series because of you know, again,
the Nationals line up beyond Abrams of Wood should be
(17:46):
handled pretty pretty well by this marriage pitching staff, at
least on paper. So yeah, it's gonna be gonna be
a fascinating matchup for the Mayors as a whole. That
that that matchup on Thursday. Kensey Gore, he's the guy
that's missed a lot of bats. Amara's strikeout rate has
gone up in the month of May, so we'll see
(18:06):
how that goes. But also, the Maras have handled you know,
the best pitchers in the game really well, you know,
Terri Schooglar Crochet, Michael King, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. So maybe
that's the one that they get up for. Who knows,
So we'll see, But it's definitely a winnable series for
the Marrors.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
I would say that you talk about their bats and
it just sounds like a potential get right start for
George Kirby you know, after what he's returned last week,
and I would love to see George Kirby go out
there and look like the George Kirby old. This coming well,
that's tomorrow. He pitches on Wednesday, feels like a Monday.
I was about to say, you know, coming up in
a couple of days, but that's feeling a Monday after
Memorial Day. Ty, I'm gonna make sure this isn't the
(18:42):
last time we talked to you here on the three
to seven show. Man, this was awesome. Thanks for all
the great information. We'll make sure to read your stuff
Emerald City Spectrum, your podcast Locked on Mariners.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Appreciate the time, Man.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Yeah, I appreciate it, zactly.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Take care, Ty, Dane Gonzalez.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Great stuff here as we look ahead for the Marriners
starting the series against the Nationals. Reading between the lines,
and it sounds like if we get the good pitching performances,
then I think expectations win two out of three, no
doubt about it. Well, you know, Anders, it's funny because
you know a mayor fans, we often sometimes clown on
the team for you know, taking priority of bobblehead.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Nights and you know where the wins.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
You're caring about the bobblehead nights and whatever's going out
at the stadium. I am not part of necessarily that
crew overwhelmingly, but there was something that else that happened
in the sports the world that reminded.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Me of it over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
A quite embarrassing social media post by a soccer franchise
that is going to make Mariner fans say, thank goodness,
that isn't us.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
We'll get to that next.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
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traveling to London today to meet up with our Tottenham
Hotspur friend Adam Nathan Grouse.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Well, I mean at least we.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Want to chance, we want a trophy last week, Anders,
more than Manchester United can say. Now our coach might
get fired the next week. So if you never know,
no comment, Andrews is Jackson Feltz Here. We are taking
you up till seven o'clock tonight. John Wilner coming up
at five o'clock. We're gonna hear a little bit from
Dan Wilson five thirty Sounders head coach Brian Schmitzer at
(20:51):
five forty five. Hey, Andrews, you just told me we
have a couple mayor tickets available for tonight's game. We
think we have a six forty first pitch t mobile park.
You get to go and see Logan Evans on the mound.
Try to take care of that lineup that ty Dan
Gonzalez just talked about. We're gonna give these tickets away,
but I want to give these tickets away to somebody
(21:13):
who knows us, Anders, who knows us for the last
six No, for the last eight months, it's been eight months,
I think maybe even nine months. For a lot of
the last year, Andrews and I as well as a
Christopher Kidd who produces the ten to one show.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
We have had a podcast.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
It's not sports related, but we've been doing a podcast
off for the side. We've been posting about it. I
think we even shared it to the de Kjar Twitter
at some point. And for those who may or may
not know this podcast, I'd like to give these tickets
away to somebody who knows this this podcast. It's also
listed somewhere, but I'm not gonna tell people where. I'll
just give you one hint. It's not sports related.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Not sports related.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
If you know the name of that podcast, text it
in to four nine, four or five one, your first
your last name, and the name of the podcast that myself,
Andershurst Christopher Kidd do on a mostly weekly basis. And
for those of you who want to go to tonight's game,
Tonight's game, Tonight's game six forty tea mobile park logan
Evans on the mound, text in four nine, four to
(22:16):
five one the name of the podcast that Chris anders
and I do. It's not sports related, and we'll get
one of those people tickets for tonight's game. All right, Anders,
So imagine for a moment that the Seattle Mariners are
in a game now, let's just let's say right now,
and it's it's tonight at Tea Mobile Park, and let's
(22:38):
say that tonight at Team Mobile Park, they have a
special deal where it's one dollar for every let's say
soft Serve helmet cup.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Right, let's just throw that out there.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
And gets everybody out there, Let's sell the soft Serve
helmet cups. And they sell a record number of helmet cups.
And it's just amazing how many fans went to the
game and buy the soft ser helmet cup.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
But the Mariners are losing and they're down.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Let's say they're losing five nothing in the eighth inning, okay,
and Mariners social media decides to send out a post saying,
look at this, everybody, we sold six and eighty two
soft Servant helmet cups. It's a new record at t
Mobile Park. Hurrah, Hurrah, we sold more soft ster helmet
cups than we ever have. How do you think that
(23:25):
social media post would go over for a team that
is losing five nothing at.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
The time to a rival, by the way, not Great Bob,
not Great Bob.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Ladies and gentlemen, the DC United Soccer club. This last weekend,
they are facing their rivals from New York. They are
losing two nothing late in the game, and they send
out a big old graphic that says six eighty two
hot dogs sold. So it's a special deal where they
(23:59):
have one dollar hot dog nights and they sold over
sixty one hundred hot dogs at their stadium in DC
over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
While they're losing. They send out this post and it
doesn't get received very well, and and it's hard. You don't.
It's you're a fan of a team who says.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Look, everybody, we sold.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
All this food, yes, but your product on the field
is losing right now.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Yeah, I mean okay.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
So I try in these situations to put myself into
the mind of being a social media admin for a
terrible team.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
That's an interesting position to be. It is hard.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
It is very hard because you're trying to hype everyone
up and like kind of make everything positive and make
your team sound big. And I understand that, and like,
when your team sucks like a lot, it becomes very hard,
very fast to put anything positive on there.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
And and DC's DC is a bad team. They're a
bad team, like they're very bad.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
So at that point it's like, all right, well, I
might as well just promote this and you know, show
that we did this. But still you have to have
some sort of like scope on like, hey, maybe we
shouldn't do this. It's not gonna be received that well,
let's just send it like an hour after the game. Yeah, no,
like the next day or something, not late in the game.
That's when you're if we're losing the end. The Marriers
(25:26):
have been so much better. I think they're I think,
you know, all of the narrative of all they only
care about bobbleheads. That's I don't believe any of that crap.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Well, I mean I think they've they've been, They've they
they understand that this is a concept you don't see much.
But it's sort of just like, listen, you're bad, you're
you're a bad team, but understand the time and the
place to send a post about how many hot dogs
you sold.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
Yeah, And like I always try and separate like the
business operations people from the sports operations people, because that's
how these franchises work. Right. You have you own a team,
You're like, Okay, I'm gonna put these people in charge
of like helping us make money in certain ways, and
they're going to put these people in charge to help
us put the best product on the field.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Coordinate between the people.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Yes, there should be a coordination like a general like
shared vision, as they say, and sometimes they don't match
up very very well. So yeah, no, I couldn't imagine
if the Mariners did like a post like that where
they were celebrating how much how many garlic fries they
sold in one night after losing to a division rival
and being a last place team by the way, so wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Go over well, it did not for DC indeed, but hey,
they sold a bunch of hot dogs. And it's before
we break this is this is probably is a bigger conversation,
but just to quickly, you know, face the reality. Oklahoma
City Thunder. They beat the Minnesota Timberwolves last night. They
go up three to one in the series over Minnesota,
and it sort of is looking like the sad reality
(26:54):
that they might do this and they might go to
the NBA Finals and Indiana and the New York Knicks.
It's gonna be up to one of them to stop them.
But they're gonna clearly be favored. I mean, looking at
the odds. I got this from bed online right now,
I mean, they are heavy, heavy favorites, you know, minus
four hundred right now to win the championship. They are
(27:15):
so favored to win the whole thing. And like I listen,
I know we're likely gonna get the announcement this summer
that the Seattle is getting an NBA expansion franchise. You think, Well,
for everything we've heard from Silver, from Bruce Harel, from
other parties, it sounds like it's gonna happen this summer,
that the border governors and everything will start really the
(27:37):
ball moving in July to get us an expansion team
by the end of the year. But still it doesn't
help by the fact that I think we're about to
face the sad reality that Oklahoma City Thunder may be
about to raise a title, and that's gonna hurt me,
just to my cor no matter, no matter as much
as I'll be raised in July or whatever month it is,
(27:58):
it's gonna hurt like hell coming up in a couple weeks.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
Yeah, So I'm going to ask you this question, and
I don't want you to answer now, but I want
the text line to answer now because we do have
textimonials next segment, and I want you to answer possibly
in the five point thirty or the five o'clock out.
I want you to think about your answer a little
bit so context. I asked this to Ian earlier today
as well. You know my wife Augustina and I she
(28:23):
is from Argentina, right, and they just ended a draft
of their own when they won the World Cup in
twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Right.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
She mentioned this concept to me that like, hey, there's
a bunch of people that believe it actually came right
after Diego Maradona died. So she says, you have to
kind of have one good thing end before another one begins.
So I'm thinking this kind of in this in this
spectrum of the of the Sonics here, what if the
(28:51):
OKC winning the finals is what like energy that brings
the Sonics back into the NBA fold. So my question
to you is, if you if you could guarantee that
the Sonics come back, we'll say before the twenty twenty
seven season. I think that's what they would do if
they announced it soon yea and say they would they
(29:12):
would announce expansion later this year. But the OKAC wins
the NBA Finals, would you take that trade right now?
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Or now?
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Let's hear what listeners have to say, I'll give you
my answer. Coming up later on Textimonials Next John Wilner
five o'clock, we'll get to that answer as well, coming
up here on Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM
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