May 5, 2026 • 13 mins
Seattle Mariners play-by-play voice Aaron Goldsmith joins Softy and Dick Fain to talk about the M’s first month of the season and where they sit now around 500, the status of Luis Castillo including his place in the rotation and what the future of the starter group looks like when Bryce Miller returns, the team defense, and John Sterling passing away.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now back to Softie and Dick gone your home for
the Huskies, Cracking and the twelfth Man Sports Radio ninety
three point three kJ r FM three.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Two high Py, What doesn't happen? Proford? That's up going.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Two run the ball? Run all right, hey, before we
get to that guy.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Aaron Goldsmith update from the NHL Draft lottery. Toronto was one.
The Maple Leaves have one. They will pick first. San
Jose they will pick second, Vancouver will pick third. Your Seattle, Kraken,
we'll pick wait for it, seventh in the upcoming NHL draft.
Uh here to join us right now to talk about
that and give us his take on who the Kracking
(00:49):
should take at number.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Seven and the NHL Draft.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Our friend Aaron Goldsmith from the Mariner TV broadcast, joining
us right now on the show. Aaron, you probably like
Tobian kid right, like the rest of us too.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
What's your thought on I think he is a very
high ceiling soft the very high.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Well, we appreciate the insight, but yeah, Kracken are going
to pick seventh. Toronto has won the lottery. Well, hey, listen,
it's good to finally do this. The last time we
tried to do this the station almost burned down with
a generator fire or an electrical fire. The time before that,
I forgot and we didn't call Goldie, So that was
my fault. It's a miracle that we were actually able
(01:28):
to pull this off. So we've been looking forward to
having you on Why don't you give us your thoughts
Aaron on the first thirty six games of the year
and your view from high above the field from your
broadcast booth on what you've seen in the first month
or so of baseball.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Well, it's been a mixed bag, and you can probably
say that about most teams, maybe outside of the team
that's here a team Oble Park, to the Braves and
the Dodgers, and maybe the Yankees to some extent as well.
But it's been a mixed bag of results for the
Mariners obviously, which is probably to be expected. A lot
of teams are going through that. The injuries recently have
not helped at all. The bullpen is really in a
(02:04):
tough spot. I think before we knew that Cal Rawly
would play today. So let's just go back to last night.
When you find out that gave Spires on the injury list,
You're I'm certain about cal Rawley's immediate future, which does
he need to.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Go on the IL.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I have a hard time kind of thinking back the
last time the Mariners twenty six man roster has been
this kind of influx and beat up with as many
really high profile, important guys that have been unavailable. So
it's going to be a tough stretch of time I
think for Dan Wilson to manage that bullpen, in particular,
the back end that bullpen has been hit really hard. Obviously,
(02:38):
they've lost the best lefty and they're setup man as well,
so they're eager to have Brendon Donovan come back. I
think it's a tough book to judge entirely given the
help of the team, but there are definitely some things
that they need to clean up. But they've also had
some things that they've been very good at so far
this year. And the important thing is that they haven't
buried themselves right. There is still in the certainly the
(02:59):
front half of the season, and they still are in position.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
To do really good things this season.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Well that's a day despite being banged up, like you mentioned,
I mean, they're fourth in the AL and run differential.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
There's only three teams in the league over five hundred
right now? Do you think that continues? Is this league
really this mediocre or.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Do you think we will see a multitude of teams
with ninety plus wins.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
At the end of the year. Well, I think the
West is certainly that mediocre, and maybe that gives the Mariners,
not maybe, I think it certainly does give the Mariners
a little more leeway to try to figure some things
out and to get healthy. I mean, the A's right
now are leading the division and I had to look
that up. I'm not a big division standings guy on
(03:40):
Sinko to Mayo, but the Mariners are right there, even
though they have not played great baseball so far, and
so there isn't really a team in the American League
outside of what the Yankees have done so far this
year and the Rays have been a surprise, but outside
of New York, really where you go, Yeah, that could
be a real problem a team, I mean outside of that.
(04:02):
I don't know who you're talking about, so not you specifically,
but you know what I'm saying. So, yeah, it's it's
a good time for the Mariners, if there is such
a thing to be he banged up and figuring some
things out. I think there's still plenty of runway left
or not just for the Mariners, but be you know,
to be fair about it for everybody.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Okay, Well, in the immediate the Luis Castillo situation is
at top of mind because here comes Bryce Miller very soon.
Kate Anderson's ripping up double A Arkansas. You know, Kruger,
Bill Krueger. Aaron was on the show with us yesterday
and kind of had the idea that maybe with the
bullpen injuries, that Bryce Miller is a bullpen arm when
(04:38):
he gets activated. Hancock's going nowhere obviously, but how do
you see that thing playing out in the next maybe
who knows, a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
It's very tricky, right, It's a good problem to have.
Every team would love to have a upper tier starting pitcher,
and we've seen Miller be that in the past, come
back and get healthy, and every team would to have
a logjam in their five man rotation. It's tough, man.
What you don't want to do is if you put
a guy in the bullpen, then when Heaven forbid, there
(05:10):
is an issue down the road, and just the odds
being what they are, there will be an issue at
something down the road with another Mariner starter, because that's
just what happens in baseball today. Well, now you don't
have anybody stretched out who can make it an immediate
impact for you. Right, if you have somebody down a
triple A, you call them up and you plug and play.
They're ready to go.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
You have to build.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Somebody back up again, which I think would be an issue.
I don't know what the answer is. You could go
to a six man rotation. There are complications with that
as well. What you didn't lose something in your bullpen
because of that? Just a strict number of pictures you're
allowed to carry you piggyback two guys. I don't know
(05:51):
it is. I keep coming back to this. It's a
good problem to have. The opposite end of this problem,
guys is you're down too starting pittures and now you
have to rush you guy, even though Kate Anderson's in
magnificence so far, you have to rush you out of
the major leagues. Right, So it's a good place to be.
I mean, heck, I'm not trying to foreshadow anything that,
(06:12):
but there might not be indeed for six man rotation
by the time Bryce Miller is ready to go. Who
knows right, But they're in a good place that they
have in excess of something that is the most premium
position in baseball, which is starting pitching.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Well, what, Aaron, what's wrong with Castile? I mean, what
do you see? Like maybe you've had conversations with him.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Fifty five base runners allowed as last twenty eight and third,
that's a lot of base runners for him. What do
you think is going on with Luis Castile?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Well, for starters, I did think he looked significantly better
his last time of the Mount. We saw the fastball
was more like what we saw from the fastball in
his season debut against New York, we saw even ninety
eight flash. I thought he threw maybe his best pitch
of the year when he ran ninety eight up and
in on a lefty for a punch out. I mean,
that's that premium stuff from Luis Castillo. Now, is he
(07:02):
going to be the same guy that he was back
in the wild Card Series against Toronto a few years back? No,
I think those days are past him, but he should
still He certainly is still capable of being a serviceable starter,
and I mean for the Mariners it might be therefore,
but for other teams, it would be two or three.
Just give them the Mariner's rotation debt. I don't think
(07:24):
that there needs to be mass panic after four starts. Now,
there are parts of those four starts that weren't good.
There's just no way around it. I think Louise would
be the first one to tell you that. But all
things are magnified, whether you're on the mound or the
maunter's box. All things are magnified in the first of
the season because we don't have anything else to judge
it on. Right if if there was a runway of
(07:46):
a month and a half or two months before those
those starts don't seem as bad as they were, even
though the impact remains the same, you just have you
have more to work off of. So he needs to
be able to get deeper into games. He knows that
the Mariners know that he's been hit around too much.
They've been nat where he hasn't had a good feel
for the slider. But we also I think with a
(08:08):
guy like Luis Castillo, in my opinion, he's earned the
right to get back on the horse and figure it out.
And I think we've thought signs of that hit last time,
but it does need to be trending more in that
direction than what we saw in the week prior to that.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
You mentioned the word panic.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
I'm not panicked about this defense, but I am concerned
about the defense because I don't think it looks as
sharp as it did last season.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Are you in agreement with that and how does that
get cleaned up? If so?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I don't think the Mariners have been a premium that
I'm not suggesting that this is what you're saying. To
be clear, that the Mariners have not been a premium
defensive team for any number of the last handful of years.
They just they don't have those kind of defenders. Kind
of defenders that they have are the ones is a
broad brush, They're accept the rule, but generally speaking, they
have the kind of guys who are going to make
(08:54):
the plays in the box right, They're going to make
the plays when the ball is hit to them a lot,
especially Rangy Julio has proven over the course of his
career that he's an exception to that. We've seen Cal
be a premium defender behind home plate as well over
the course of his career. But beyond that, right those days,
JP of the of the immense ranger behind him. He
(09:17):
just needs to make the plays in the box. And
I think for the vast majority of JP's career, everyone
has felt very confident when the ball gets hit to him,
like he's you in still a recent error, which I'm
sure is among the things you're referring to, like you
feel good when the ball is hit the JP cropert.
That's what the Mariners need to get back to, right.
(09:38):
I don't believe they're going to grade out exceptionally well
on ass above average or defensive run saves, of which
a grade well because of one player, Coule Young.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
Right now, he's got probably half of the drs.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
And I also think when you start looking at the
advanced stuff, that's not meant to work on a six
week sample. That's meant to work on a six month sample.
But the eye test against the Royals in particular was
not good. I think they misplayed, They misplayed balls that
they should have made the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
They have to get back to the batch.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
I think that's really the realistic expectation. If they can
do that, this can be a World Series caliber team.
But they got to make the plays that are no doubt.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Hey, Goldie before you go. I'm certain and Aaron Goldsmith's
with us. I'm certain that there's some little seven or
eight year old kid running around who wants to be
Aaron Goldsmith, screaming for their parents all day long. So
what you guys do is important, and when one of
the brethren passes away, it resonates through the sport. We
(10:42):
saw a lot of people paying tribute last night all
over baseball to John Sterling, who died at the age
of eighty seven, one of the legendary Titans and baseball
radio history.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Any thoughts on the on the passing.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Of a guy that called almost half of all Yankee
postseason games.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yeah, it hit me hard and everyone else in our industry.
I think unfortunately. I think there's a perception of John
in his later years of diminishing eyesight and not seeing
the ball clearly and the things that that led to.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
But I think when you really go back and you.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Listen to the body of work from John Sterling in
the most critical media market in the world, what John
did was remarkable. It really was, and his greatest gift
was who he was, and that he didn't pray from
He found a way to be remarkably unique in an
industry that is becoming more and more kind of homogenous
(11:42):
and everyone of sounding more and more alike. And I'm
sure I'm guilty of that to a certain degree. And
John was unapologetically him and it was great. And I
listened to so much the Yankees baseball on the radio
on my phone for the last decade blot. Not because
I cared about the Yankees. I didn't care about Yankees
(12:03):
at all. I wanted to hear John and Susan because,
you know what, it was a really good time. They
were having a great time, and because they were having
a great time, I had a great time. And I
became very friendly with John over the last few years,
and once I worked at the Courage eventually to say
hello to him and introduce myself when I was a
young major league broadcaster, and he was an absolute prince
(12:26):
of a man who was always the best rest guy
and treated everybody with extreme grace, which maybe is not
expected of a Yankees personnel, but that certainly was the case.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
With John and with Susan. And he'll be sorely missed.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
And it does whenever something like this happens, which no
one obviously likes, it is a nice reminder of the
power of baseball, the power of baseball and the radio
in particular, and the everyday picture of it. And for decades,
this man was in everyone's radio, coming through their speakers
wherever they were around the world at the sometime, and
(13:02):
a powerful impact he had, not just on Yankees fans,
but on baseball fans around the world.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Well said, hey, listen man, great stuff, and glad that
we finally had a chance to get together and have
you on with us. On the show, they say, absence
makes the heart grow fonder, and I am now fonderer
of you because we had to wait this long to talk,
So thank you.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Thanks Goldie.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
Hey, my pleasure, guys, good talking.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
You see you man, Aaron Goldsmith with us. We're gonna
break the textimonials. And then John Wilder joins at five
that guy Julio Rodriguez gonna join us.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Yeah, how about brob fy Leurie right here on ninety
three three kJ A r FM
Now back to Softie and Dick gone your home for
the Huskies, Cracking and the twelfth Man Sports Radio ninety
three point three kJ r FM three.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Two high Py, What doesn't happen? Proford? That's up going.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Two run the ball? Run all right, hey, before we
get to that guy.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Aaron Goldsmith update from the NHL Draft lottery. Toronto was one.
The Maple Leaves have one. They will pick first. San
Jose they will pick second, Vancouver will pick third. Your Seattle, Kraken,
we'll pick wait for it, seventh in the upcoming NHL draft.
Uh here to join us right now to talk about
that and give us his take on who the Kracking
(00:49):
should take at number.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Seven and the NHL Draft.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Our friend Aaron Goldsmith from the Mariner TV broadcast, joining
us right now on the show. Aaron, you probably like
Tobian kid right, like the rest of us too.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
What's your thought on I think he is a very
high ceiling soft the very high.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Well, we appreciate the insight, but yeah, Kracken are going
to pick seventh. Toronto has won the lottery. Well, hey, listen,
it's good to finally do this. The last time we
tried to do this the station almost burned down with
a generator fire or an electrical fire. The time before that,
I forgot and we didn't call Goldie, So that was
my fault. It's a miracle that we were actually able
(01:28):
to pull this off. So we've been looking forward to
having you on Why don't you give us your thoughts
Aaron on the first thirty six games of the year
and your view from high above the field from your
broadcast booth on what you've seen in the first month
or so of baseball.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Well, it's been a mixed bag, and you can probably
say that about most teams, maybe outside of the team
that's here a team Oble Park, to the Braves and
the Dodgers, and maybe the Yankees to some extent as well.
But it's been a mixed bag of results for the
Mariners obviously, which is probably to be expected. A lot
of teams are going through that. The injuries recently have
not helped at all. The bullpen is really in a
(02:04):
tough spot. I think before we knew that Cal Rawly
would play today. So let's just go back to last night.
When you find out that gave Spires on the injury list,
You're I'm certain about cal Rawley's immediate future, which does
he need to.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Go on the IL.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I have a hard time kind of thinking back the
last time the Mariners twenty six man roster has been
this kind of influx and beat up with as many
really high profile, important guys that have been unavailable. So
it's going to be a tough stretch of time I
think for Dan Wilson to manage that bullpen, in particular,
the back end that bullpen has been hit really hard. Obviously,
(02:38):
they've lost the best lefty and they're setup man as well,
so they're eager to have Brendon Donovan come back. I
think it's a tough book to judge entirely given the
help of the team, but there are definitely some things
that they need to clean up. But they've also had
some things that they've been very good at so far
this year. And the important thing is that they haven't
buried themselves right. There is still in the certainly the
(02:59):
front half of the season, and they still are in position.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
To do really good things this season.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Well that's a day despite being banged up, like you mentioned,
I mean, they're fourth in the AL and run differential.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
There's only three teams in the league over five hundred
right now? Do you think that continues? Is this league
really this mediocre or.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Do you think we will see a multitude of teams
with ninety plus wins.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
At the end of the year. Well, I think the
West is certainly that mediocre, and maybe that gives the Mariners,
not maybe, I think it certainly does give the Mariners
a little more leeway to try to figure some things
out and to get healthy. I mean, the A's right
now are leading the division and I had to look
that up. I'm not a big division standings guy on
(03:40):
Sinko to Mayo, but the Mariners are right there, even
though they have not played great baseball so far, and
so there isn't really a team in the American League
outside of what the Yankees have done so far this
year and the Rays have been a surprise, but outside
of New York, really where you go, Yeah, that could
be a real problem a team, I mean outside of that.
(04:02):
I don't know who you're talking about, so not you specifically,
but you know what I'm saying. So, yeah, it's it's
a good time for the Mariners, if there is such
a thing to be he banged up and figuring some
things out. I think there's still plenty of runway left
or not just for the Mariners, but be you know,
to be fair about it for everybody.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Okay, Well, in the immediate the Luis Castillo situation is
at top of mind because here comes Bryce Miller very soon.
Kate Anderson's ripping up double A Arkansas. You know, Kruger,
Bill Krueger. Aaron was on the show with us yesterday
and kind of had the idea that maybe with the
bullpen injuries, that Bryce Miller is a bullpen arm when
(04:38):
he gets activated. Hancock's going nowhere obviously, but how do
you see that thing playing out in the next maybe
who knows, a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
It's very tricky, right, It's a good problem to have.
Every team would love to have a upper tier starting pitcher,
and we've seen Miller be that in the past, come
back and get healthy, and every team would to have
a logjam in their five man rotation. It's tough, man.
What you don't want to do is if you put
a guy in the bullpen, then when Heaven forbid, there
(05:10):
is an issue down the road, and just the odds
being what they are, there will be an issue at
something down the road with another Mariner starter, because that's
just what happens in baseball today. Well, now you don't
have anybody stretched out who can make it an immediate
impact for you. Right, if you have somebody down a
triple A, you call them up and you plug and play.
They're ready to go.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
You have to build.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Somebody back up again, which I think would be an issue.
I don't know what the answer is. You could go
to a six man rotation. There are complications with that
as well. What you didn't lose something in your bullpen
because of that? Just a strict number of pictures you're
allowed to carry you piggyback two guys. I don't know
(05:51):
it is. I keep coming back to this. It's a
good problem to have. The opposite end of this problem,
guys is you're down too starting pittures and now you
have to rush you guy, even though Kate Anderson's in
magnificence so far, you have to rush you out of
the major leagues. Right, So it's a good place to be.
I mean, heck, I'm not trying to foreshadow anything that,
(06:12):
but there might not be indeed for six man rotation
by the time Bryce Miller is ready to go. Who
knows right, But they're in a good place that they
have in excess of something that is the most premium
position in baseball, which is starting pitching.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Well, what, Aaron, what's wrong with Castile? I mean, what
do you see? Like maybe you've had conversations with him.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Fifty five base runners allowed as last twenty eight and third,
that's a lot of base runners for him. What do
you think is going on with Luis Castile?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Well, for starters, I did think he looked significantly better
his last time of the Mount. We saw the fastball
was more like what we saw from the fastball in
his season debut against New York, we saw even ninety
eight flash. I thought he threw maybe his best pitch
of the year when he ran ninety eight up and
in on a lefty for a punch out. I mean,
that's that premium stuff from Luis Castillo. Now, is he
(07:02):
going to be the same guy that he was back
in the wild Card Series against Toronto a few years back? No,
I think those days are past him, but he should
still He certainly is still capable of being a serviceable starter,
and I mean for the Mariners it might be therefore,
but for other teams, it would be two or three.
Just give them the Mariner's rotation debt. I don't think
(07:24):
that there needs to be mass panic after four starts. Now,
there are parts of those four starts that weren't good.
There's just no way around it. I think Louise would
be the first one to tell you that. But all
things are magnified, whether you're on the mound or the
maunter's box. All things are magnified in the first of
the season because we don't have anything else to judge
it on. Right if if there was a runway of
(07:46):
a month and a half or two months before those
those starts don't seem as bad as they were, even
though the impact remains the same, you just have you
have more to work off of. So he needs to
be able to get deeper into games. He knows that
the Mariners know that he's been hit around too much.
They've been nat where he hasn't had a good feel
for the slider. But we also I think with a
(08:08):
guy like Luis Castillo, in my opinion, he's earned the
right to get back on the horse and figure it out.
And I think we've thought signs of that hit last time,
but it does need to be trending more in that
direction than what we saw in the week prior to that.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
You mentioned the word panic.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
I'm not panicked about this defense, but I am concerned
about the defense because I don't think it looks as
sharp as it did last season.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Are you in agreement with that and how does that
get cleaned up? If so?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I don't think the Mariners have been a premium that
I'm not suggesting that this is what you're saying. To
be clear, that the Mariners have not been a premium
defensive team for any number of the last handful of years.
They just they don't have those kind of defenders. Kind
of defenders that they have are the ones is a
broad brush, They're accept the rule, but generally speaking, they
have the kind of guys who are going to make
(08:54):
the plays in the box right, They're going to make
the plays when the ball is hit to them a lot,
especially Rangy Julio has proven over the course of his
career that he's an exception to that. We've seen Cal
be a premium defender behind home plate as well over
the course of his career. But beyond that, right those days,
JP of the of the immense ranger behind him. He
(09:17):
just needs to make the plays in the box. And
I think for the vast majority of JP's career, everyone
has felt very confident when the ball gets hit to him,
like he's you in still a recent error, which I'm
sure is among the things you're referring to, like you
feel good when the ball is hit the JP cropert.
That's what the Mariners need to get back to, right.
(09:38):
I don't believe they're going to grade out exceptionally well
on ass above average or defensive run saves, of which
a grade well because of one player, Coule Young.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
Right now, he's got probably half of the drs.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
And I also think when you start looking at the
advanced stuff, that's not meant to work on a six
week sample. That's meant to work on a six month sample.
But the eye test against the Royals in particular was
not good. I think they misplayed, They misplayed balls that
they should have made the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
They have to get back to the batch.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
I think that's really the realistic expectation. If they can
do that, this can be a World Series caliber team.
But they got to make the plays that are no doubt.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Hey, Goldie before you go. I'm certain and Aaron Goldsmith's
with us. I'm certain that there's some little seven or
eight year old kid running around who wants to be
Aaron Goldsmith, screaming for their parents all day long. So
what you guys do is important, and when one of
the brethren passes away, it resonates through the sport. We
(10:42):
saw a lot of people paying tribute last night all
over baseball to John Sterling, who died at the age
of eighty seven, one of the legendary Titans and baseball
radio history.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Any thoughts on the on the passing.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Of a guy that called almost half of all Yankee
postseason games.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yeah, it hit me hard and everyone else in our industry.
I think unfortunately. I think there's a perception of John
in his later years of diminishing eyesight and not seeing
the ball clearly and the things that that led to.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
But I think when you really go back and you.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Listen to the body of work from John Sterling in
the most critical media market in the world, what John
did was remarkable. It really was, and his greatest gift
was who he was, and that he didn't pray from
He found a way to be remarkably unique in an
industry that is becoming more and more kind of homogenous
(11:42):
and everyone of sounding more and more alike. And I'm
sure I'm guilty of that to a certain degree. And
John was unapologetically him and it was great. And I
listened to so much the Yankees baseball on the radio
on my phone for the last decade blot. Not because
I cared about the Yankees. I didn't care about Yankees
(12:03):
at all. I wanted to hear John and Susan because,
you know what, it was a really good time. They
were having a great time, and because they were having
a great time, I had a great time. And I
became very friendly with John over the last few years,
and once I worked at the Courage eventually to say
hello to him and introduce myself when I was a
young major league broadcaster, and he was an absolute prince
(12:26):
of a man who was always the best rest guy
and treated everybody with extreme grace, which maybe is not
expected of a Yankees personnel, but that certainly was the case.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
With John and with Susan. And he'll be sorely missed.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
And it does whenever something like this happens, which no
one obviously likes, it is a nice reminder of the
power of baseball, the power of baseball and the radio
in particular, and the everyday picture of it. And for decades,
this man was in everyone's radio, coming through their speakers
wherever they were around the world at the sometime, and
(13:02):
a powerful impact he had, not just on Yankees fans,
but on baseball fans around the world.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Well said, hey, listen man, great stuff, and glad that
we finally had a chance to get together and have
you on with us. On the show, they say, absence
makes the heart grow fonder, and I am now fonderer
of you because we had to wait this long to talk,
So thank you.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Thanks Goldie.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
Hey, my pleasure, guys, good talking.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
You see you man, Aaron Goldsmith with us. We're gonna
break the textimonials. And then John Wilder joins at five
that guy Julio Rodriguez gonna join us.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Yeah, how about brob fy Leurie right here on ninety
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