October 14, 2025 • 37 mins
Ian feels eerily calm when it comes to the Mariners playoff run and he can't remember feeling this way before. Joe Sheehan, The Joe Sheehan Newsletter joins Ian to recap the last week of Mariner victory and also tell us what he sees from a numbers-perspective as they match up against the Blue Jays in game 3 and 4 here at home. We take feedback from the listeners through talkbacks! They tell us their feelings on the Mariners at the moment.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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What's sorry? Headline? What do I want to start? Well,
I guess we could start with baseball.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
The Alcs two nothing over Toronto home runs again and
just talking about this with MJ in the midday a
moment ago.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Home runs are the thing.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
We'll get to more of that with Joe Sheen in
a second, because we talked about this pre playoffs. This
plays into the Mariners favor, the fact that yes, indeed
they can hit home runs, and they've done it so
far rather nicely to nothing serious lead Game three tomorrow.
Game four is Thursday, and hopefully that's all we have
to worry about. Monday Night football. Last night two games,
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Bears overcame the Commanders in a close one final score
twenty five twenty four, Sorry Jess Falcons.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Daniel's fumble at the end caused them to lose.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Jake Moody, who got cut by the forty nine ers,
kicks the game winning field goal for the Chicago Bears.
Falcons over the Bills twenty four fourteen. I think Drake
London is still catching balls and I think Bjhon Robinson
is still running wild over the bills. That's a disappointing
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Same with Dick and Dave coming up later on. They'll
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Speaker 3 (01:46):
This is a good thing, so much good guys. We
have a lot going on.
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I always wish this we have these days and these
times of the year, and we add baseball into the mix.
Why can't this happen? And I don't know May, June
and July when we're just struggling first stuff to discuss,
but there is a lot going on. Also, it is
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Kracking ticking on Montreal at Climate Pledge Arena. Joe Sheen
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will join us day. I had a guy text me earlier,
No Kook talk today, actually didn't even matter.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
MK is out of the country.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
He's in Saudi Arabia in a plane competition and that's
even weird. He It's like that sounds weird, but yeah,
he is a beast.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah, so we don't And so with that going on,
no John Len today, two of my favorite things to do,
but we just don't have time and we need to
get to Joe Shian and Josh has been busting my
chops for however long, jess about you still have me on? Well, yeah, buddy,
we're in the Goal World series. Like, let's just be honest. Really,
that's kind of where I want to start today. And
you know two things I want to hit on one and
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I we I'm gonna play it again at some point
this week, maybe tomorrow. Chris Chris Crawford had a great
When we do Molly want mondays, we start with the
kind of an opening statement from Chris and with Nate
and Chris had just a great and he just said
it so well. Yesterday he talked about, you know how
everyone shouldn't be enjoying this and don't be that guy
or that woman. Don't be that person that is chastising
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those who were quote jumping on the Mariner.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Bandwid Yeah, be that person.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
And I and I said this a zillion times. Nothing
pissed me off more than hearing the snobby looking down
my nose Seahawk fan that, yeah, I know, you saw
them play in the Bearing era. You saw them play
when Tom Flores was the coach and things were bad,
and now you're mad in the twelve since twelve, you're.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Just don't do that. Just don't do that, and don't
be like that.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
If you're a baseball guy and you've been, yeah, you've been,
you know, charting games and keeping score on your own.
You notepaded games forever, and you can't. Don't be like
the guy that sat next to my kid at the
game two of the Alds.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Sit down.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Don't be that person. What we have seen and what
we're experiencing in this town is, frankly, it's unprecedented, and
probably the only time you can compare it. N other
thing you can compare it to is the maybe when
the Sonics went went to the finals in ninety six,
when they took that really deep playoff runt and got
there and get Michael and Scotty and that Bulls Dynasty team.
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And what I mean by that is the whole town
is coming alive, and you're just kind of there's this
this crescendo, right of like waiting a day off day.
Next day is a game day. You build up, you
build up, get to the game, keep that high. After
there's a game the next day. I mean, back and
forth we go. That's what we're at right now. That's
what the beautiful thing about seven game series or six
game or five game series, whatever it is, it's the difference.
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It's the only advantage really that the NBA, NHL and
in this case Major League Baseball have over the NFL,
NFL's one and done college football playoff one and done.
This is just, you know, we just build this great
momentum and with that momentum comes people jumping on the bandwagon.
It has been to me the best thing about this, honestly,
the best thing about this. And I'm you know, I've
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I'm fighting some internal demons with some things with the organization,
and but the best thing about this, and what kind
of keeps me going and fired up is not the
fact that I've been a Seattlementer's baseball fan for a
long time and through bad times, through well, frankly, never
good ownership. The thing that's kept me going is seeing
this city just come together and fired up. And you know,
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for me, and I think a lot of people can
relate to this, my family, you know, watching the games.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
God, I'm so glad my kids graduated from college.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
And he's you know, working on everything right now while
he still lives at home until he can get to
get that financial world set to go to to move out,
and so watching games with him. My wife, who is
a very casual sports fan, she's sitting there watching with
great interest in all the games. And how many of
you guys can relate to that? And here's the best thing.
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Here's the best thing about this, and this is what
I like the best is that it's going to continue
for another couple of weeks.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Yes, because I'm sorry too, and oh it's over.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
It's over, and you can text me about jinxing it
and soft he's probably driving off the road or whatever
right now.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
It's fine. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Now I'll say, no hitter, I'll say this, I'll say
shut out. Doesn't matter. It's done. And the reason it's
done is they're better. It's readily a parent. I know
it's a seven game series, and no way that this team,
the Toronto Blue Jays, is going to come back and
win four games, four games in the next five like
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they're just not gonna do it, like they it's it's
not going to happen. Seattle is basically an absolute wagon.
They've been that way for the last couple of months,
regular season, trickling now into the postseason. And my only
complaint with them is I'm bored. I'm just bored. What
I'm bored?
Speaker 4 (07:32):
How can this team.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Because it's they're not I mean, outside of the fifteen
inning game, the last two games have been boring.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
I'm bored.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I'm just getting to the World Series. I mean, I
just I'm just bored. It's it's I'm sorry. I mean
yesterday was I mean, basically, they gave up one run,
Emerson Hancock came in and gave up more. I understand that.
But but but they they're just dominating these guys. And
I say that obviously tongue in cheek.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
I'm not bored.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
But get me to the World Series and the Dodgers
getting and holding on for dear bloody life last night
to get that wine and they leave one nothing over Milwaukee.
The road teams are now three to zero in the
ALCS and NLCS. Dodgers and Brewers play again later on
today at five o'clock. But it just I'm I'm daring
to dream right now. This inevitable, what it feels like,
(08:20):
an inevitable West Coast matchup Dodgers and Mariners, and let's
make it happen. Starts a week from Friday. By the way,
I think the only question now we have is this,
do we close it out? And the Marion's close it
out in four five. It ain't going back.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
It's not going back like it's it's not going to
go back to Toronto. Think about it.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
What would Toronto have to do to go back home.
They'd have to win two or three here. That's not happening.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
That's not happening.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
It's not happening. So I joke about it tongue in cheek.
I'm kind of bored. In a serious note, what I'm thinking,
I love them the most about this is just how
everyone is revved up. My friends at simply Seattle are
selling T shirts and sweatshirts and hoodies off the charts
Simply sale dot com, malliwop fifteen to check out, by
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the area are thriving. Watch parties are the thing now,
which I think is kind of fun, because you know,
when everyone got big TVs and flat screens in their
house and all that, nobody wanted to leave the house.
That's the other thing that says people want to leave
the house. I was just talking to checking in with
my guys at the Queen Anne Beer Hall, also on
Lost Babyer Hall, and and the occidental beer hall down
in in Sodo there next to the stadiums. I mean,
(09:31):
they're they're doing great. Everyone's watching games. They want to
go out and have viewing parties.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
It's cool. This is what's all. This is what.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Sports are all about. So four nine, four five one
we'll get some texts at one five. More importantly, what
we'd love to do is hear from you via our talkbacks.
Have not heard from you guys for a while. I'm
gonna tell you my overriding emotion right now, honestly, is calm.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
It's cool.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
I feel that's the exact same way actually, and it's
own f Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I probably felt more stressed, just as a fan and
someone who wants to see the team go far. And
so we can talk about it into late January February,
maybe even who knows. I found myself more stressed the
last five minutes of the Seahawk game than I have
at any point in this series against Toronto.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Something.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I just I'm watching it. I mean, Vlad can't hit
this pitching staff. Even though Kirby wasn't great yesterday, that's
all right, Bizardo was like really good, thanks for coming right. So,
so like I just feel calm. I want to know
what your overriding emotion is. I'm calm, I'm ready to go,
I'm ready, I'm I'm kind of more. I'm both calm
and excited about what's next. But I want to hear
(10:40):
from you. Just give me your overwriting emotion. Like we're
not going to overcomplicate this. We're not going to make
this some crazy ass sports radio topic. No, no, just
simple as this, just very simple. What's your overwriting emotion
right now? As a matter fan, I want to hear
from you. Guys just loves to hear from you as well.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
I do.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
All of them. So yeah, so here's what you need
to do.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
The iHeartRadio app, little red microphone, click on that red
microphone and fire away. Just give me your raw motions.
What are you just what are your e motions? Minor, calm, complacent,
ready and maybe a little anticipate, anticipating in the next series
coming up. But how are you feeling? Go to You
can text four nine, four to five to one. But
I want to hear from you too. Okay, we want
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There's a red microphone there. You click on it, you
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We'll play some of those coming up at one forty
five today when we come back. Joe Shean never has
been on the radio station this late in the year,
never ever, ever has he been here this late. So
we're gonna see how that goes. I say that tongue
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in cheek. I'm excited to talk to Joe. We'll get
to him. Our baseball guy, Joe Sheen from the Joshian
Newsletter joined us. Coming up next on this Cracking Ticket Tuesday,
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Speaker 2 (12:44):
It is the fourteenth of October twenty twenty five. My
friend Joe Sheen is back on the radio show here
in Seattle, even though he has been busting my chops
now for a little while, saying, well, you know, I'm
sure you won't talk to me once football season starts.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
All how wrong you are, Joshi, And you're.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Not wrong often, but you're wrong there here you are,
and my guess is you're gonna be here for a
couple more weeks, my friend, how are you good?
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Man?
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Hey? Look, I've always said I'm not going to come
on in October. You're the ones, dude. Yeah, once the
Marriagers go away, you guys shut it down. You're all
pauty and stuff.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
But it comes with the weather out here this time
of year, Joel.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Though it's sun weird, it's sunny today and it feels
like it's going to be sunny the rest of the
week because that's just kind of our mood out here
right now.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
And give us a break.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Forty six out of forty nine years, this team, you know,
it wasn't doing well at this time of the year,
So you got to understand that part of it too,
my friend.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Yeah, forty nine years, and this is as close as
they've ever gotten. They've been with the two games in
the World Series back in one and now this year.
And it's just the thing about it is, I got
to I'm trying to remember, like how I felt about
that oh one team, you know, two games into the ALCS,
and that was the one who's the sixteen win team,
Like it felt like they were supposed to win in
the course and Yanks ended up beating them off the road.
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Because I'm the big Homer, this feels more like they're
in control, not just being up to nothing, but being
up to nothing. With Kirby and Castilla lined up, possibly
Brian ruined Game five, they're the bullpen is better than
the James bullpen. Like everything is in their favor now.
Could they lose four out of five? Yes, that's the
way baseball goes if you go historically, James Smith on
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Blue Sky had this great. He does all the research
for Yes Network on the Gage and stuff. Twenty eight
teams have lost the first two games at home in
a best of seven. Twenty five of them have lost
the series. So just three times and not since ninety
six has a team been in the Mariners position and
lost the series.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
I mentioned this first segment, and listen, everyone watches a
game differently watches it. You know, some people watch with
different types of emotions because we're human beings. Some people
watch some numbers. And I told just in the first segment,
I feel this weird, calm, relaxed. I just I feel
like they're just that much better and you just kind
of sad it. You feel like they're in control. It
just I haven't in this series. It just hasn't felt
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like they've been threatened. The Tigers, they lose game one
at home, they win the next two, lose Game four,
and have a stressful Game five. Like the Tiger series,
there was some stress like yesterday, Yeah, three to three,
they Ja's come back and immediately a three run home
run by playoff Polanco. Thanks for coming, and they just
they kind of ran away with it. And on Sunday,
Bryce Miller, who will get to in a second, was terrific.
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I know you like him a lot was good too.
I just I don't feel like the J's and again,
baseball's weird.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
You said it.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I don't feel like the J's with what Sales got
pitching coming up, can hang with this team.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Joe, Well, I go back to what I've.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
Been saying about the Marinis for a few months now,
which is that they can win. And think about just
these two games. They won a three to one game
and they won a ten three game. That said that
Tiger Series, they won a game eight four, and they
won an extra inding game three two. They can win
a lot of different types of games because they can
they can score, and they can pitch. And that's been
the kind of a mantra for me with the team
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for a while. So I look at I agree with you.
I think you know, it's it's hard to make the
argument because the raised the Jays did have a better
record during the season, and if you look at the
underlying numbers these human the two teams are about equals.
So it's hard to make case that the Jays are
that better, But then you look really and a lot
of it is that pitching advantage. The Jays have one
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high end starter in Kevin Gaustman. They traded for Shane Deeber,
Who's just not the Shane Deeber he was with the
Guardians earlier in the decade. You know, he won the
short season side un Award. He's been that number one
starter in the past. He's not that guy Trey Yesovitch. Hey, look,
yesterday was his fifth major league start, and you have
to expect that a guy is with that little experience. Remember,
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this is his first full profession, first full, first professional
season at all. So I don't think it's that big
a surprise for got to go out there in a
playoff game as good as he looked against the Yankees
and slip a little bit, and up against guys like that,
you have Gilbert who did look good yesterday, Asto and Miller.
Miller is the number five on the Sea right now,
and Bryce Miller a year ago looks like at number two. Obviously,
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the elbowishes this year. He never got his command straight,
but in two playoffs starts has been really good. That's starting.
Pitching depth to me is the difference in this series.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Josh and Joshian newslterd Joshian dot Com joining us is
weekly visit. I'm going to come back to Miller and
some other things pitching wise in a second. I do
want to touch in on the Dodgers Brewers game last night,
because you wrote about it and something. My son and
I were watching the game last night, going what is
David robertson here? Anyway, we'll get to that in a second.
Touch on something with you and I talked about right
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before the season started, and that was we had brought
up before on our show, I think with Chris and
with Nathan on Mondays. This was back in July maybe,
and I don't think he even brought it up with
you the next day, but I remember we were talking. Boy,
the marriage are really reliant on the home run ball,
and I wonder if that is sustainable. Well in the
regular season, it proved to be. I brought that up
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to you before the playoffs started, and Joe, you told me, hey, playoff.
You know, teams are in the playoffs that are relying
on the home run ball usually have success. Now the
Yankees obviously are done, but boy, the Mariners seem like
they're taking that little stat and running with it in
the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
These are the two teams who were most reliant on
the home run during the regular season. The Yankees and
the Barons were exactly fifty percent. Of The Yankees were
a little bit higher than that. And you know, this
is a descriptive stat as much as it is anything else.
But when you get to the postseason, you find that
long sequence offense single walk, double, a bunch, let's do
five things in a row and score two runs. It
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is a lot harder to sustain than walk home run.
I want to say I will started arguing about this
may be ten twelve years ago now, and by and large,
ian most people have accepted that this is the way
to win in the postseason, short sequence offense, because against
playoff pitching, you're just not going to be able to
create these long strings of runs. Not to say it
never happens. We saw the Brewers do it against the
Cubs a couple weeks back. I mean, it does happen,
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but you're more likely to be able to rely on boom.
We got two runs on one swing. So you'd rather
be the Narriners type of offense in the playoffs. The
Jays also have plenty of power, just had to get
shown up so far. So the Jays had nine homers
against the Yankees in four games, so they clearly have
that kind of power as well. But you'd rather be
a team that could have these, that can have short
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sequence offense. And this is what the business in the
Guardian's probably in recent years, the Guardians have had good
regular season teams and they get to the playoffs and
they just can't score. The Tigers, to a lesser extent,
have run into this. But I would much rather be
built around guys that can go deep than have to
try to strength to the other three or four events.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Joshian will always say the following to me when I
ask him questions that you know he has great sustain
for him, says, what am I talking to this guy
for Alsa? Well, it's a very this will be a
Jochian quote. Well it's a very small sample size, but
I'm gonna ask anyway. I know it's only two games
in small sample size, how concerned would the Jays be
about their you know, zillion dollar franchise player, mister Guerrero
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not hitting yet?
Speaker 5 (19:55):
What if I extended to also a small sample size
six games that we include the absolute destruction he performed
on the New York Yankees. So now let's say that
bad I mean this is I saw. I don't want
to mean the writer, but the writer basically had a
headline there was something wrong with his lives, like, oh,
you know, Jame's gotta be worried about Blag Guerrero. It's
two games. There's just there's no there's no there's absolutely
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no signal in two games of baseball. There's no signal
in four games of baseball or eight games of baseball.
But that's what the playoffs are. The playoffs are all
at small example, and it doesn't mean anything that a
guy goes zero for nine. He can go nine for
nine the next two days. Uh, it just doesn't. He
can go for nine again, it still doesn't mean anything.
This is what happens in the playoffs. Horry Polanco turns
into you know, Rogers Hornsby for a week, and the
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Mariners get to be two games away from World Series.
It weren't in both directions. You think about the history
of baseball, the World Series MVPs aren't all superstars. Billy Hatcher. Uh,
Stephen Keers a couple of years ago with the Red Sox.
It's this is a this is one of the great
things about postseason baseball to me is that you get
random guys turning having the week of their lives and
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going into the book and going into the history books.
So I love that. So maybe it's Polanco this year
for the Marriagers, or maybe they'll get to the World Series.
There will be dominant Canzela or somebody. I don't know,
but I just I love that.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
About the game well, which also tells you how fragile
it can be. A too nothing lead feels pretty secure
right now, but it's also fragile, right like, like all
of a sudden, the Jay's explode tomorrow and something happens,
You're like, uh, oh, what happened? Right like that that
could certainly happen as well well.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
So I mean yesterday, you would have gone into yesterday's
getting figuring, Oh you got Logan Gilbert going and Gilbert
goes three nas. He doesn't really have any swinging miss stuff.
You get five swings and missiles on fifty eight pitches.
Guess to leaving the third. If you tell a Mariners
fan you're going to be tied in the excuse me
and the fourth and Gilbrok's going to be out of
the game. They're not going to be very happy about that.
And it turned out to be a laugher of a win.
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So you know again, it's yeah, baseball's designed to be
evaluated at one hundred and sixty two games postseason. You
kind of just got to ride the wave.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Joe, What what did you see in Bryce Miller that
the box score didn't see?
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Yeah, this is let me get technical for a second.
There's a concept called iv B. When you and I
were watching baseball as kids, we would have talked about
a rising fastball, welerizing fastball doesn't exist. You can't throw
a ball upwards from a mound sixty feet away, but
there's an illusion that's created. And in recent years, with
all of the technology we have, we've been able to
quantify that illusion in a number called induced vertical break IVB,
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and what it basically measures is the ball should be
here and this picture, through a combination of velocity and
releasing spin, has it up here. And if you watch
that game the other day, you saw Bryce Miller, who
has elite IVB. The best is like twenty he was
at nineteen the other day, or if he was at
nineteen and eighteen's a number like fourteens basebline seventeens average
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above seventeen year league. Bryce Miller was delivering high fastballs
that looked like they were going to be lower in
the zone. And if you watch that game, Jays were
constantly swinging under the ball, they were popping it up,
they were hitting leak fly balls, they were swinging through
pitches to strike out. That's a skill that every pitcher
is chasing right now, that high IVB fastball. It enables
you to work up in the zone and fool the
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batter into thinking even though your fastball's hittabily, your ninety
six is in today's game kind of you know the
buy in, But because it moves in a way that
hitter isn't expecting, that's that's what makes it effective. You know,
Miller I didn't even think he looked that good against
the Tigers, obviously in the second half. Came back from
the elbow injury, didn't look good at all in the
second half. He's only pitching because Brian lou injured his peck.
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But he went out and he had he just pounded
that high IVB fastball through four of the pitches. And
you and I talked about him a lot earlier this year,
where he's got this really broad, great repertoire, and that
actually helps you working later in gage. The more pitches
you have, the better you'll be going the third time
to the lineup. So I expect him next year to
be a very strong pitcher again. But for the last
two starts, he's given me this Narritors exactly what they needed.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Joshi Joshian dot Com, Joshian Newsletter. Let's talk nationally for
a second. A lot of America fans probably flipped over once
our game was done in Seattle, or actually in Toronto,
but done being here in Seattle, and maybe you're flipping
around money at football's on. You're like, oh, there's two
money at football games, and I'm exhausted from watching the
Mariners blow out the Jays. Oh how about this? The
NLCS is on. Oh we have a game all of
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a sudden and a close game and it's a one
run game. My son has to do the same thing. He's like,
what are they doing right there? Why is Sasaki coming out?
And you're going to a thirty seven year old, maybe
borderline journeyman at this point. I'm not sure walk us
through for folks who didn't see it last night. Kind
of some drama in the Dodgers Brewers game.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
In that ninth inning, we'll go back to the top
of the knight Pat Murphy second and third, two outs.
He potentially walks Shahiotani to pitch to Mookie Bets, which
Rob Thompson had done in the previous series. Avenue Rebey
walks Bets Forces in the second run. That's true not
to be an important insurance run, because at the bottom
of the beginning he goes to Sasaki to replay Splake Stell.
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It was absolutely lightsile last night, eight shutouts. We've seen
Sasaki be exactly that good in the play. We saw
wipe out the Phillies last week, three perfect innings against them.
So he correctly goes to Sasaki. Saki gets to pop out,
then goes walk double sacrifice fly, and he gave the
two batted balls were hit very hard. He was having
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trouble commanding, but even at that he's so far better
than the next option in that Dodger bullpen. I really
didn't think Roberts would take him out of the game.
And I disagree with the decision to take him out
of the game because he went to play Trent, who
in the past has been an absolutely nasty slider monster.
He said by the stock the vras. He's won the championships,
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but right now he's not a good pitcher. He had
an area of over eleven. It was twelve runs in
night innings. We'll let Andrews do the map on that
one in September, and then of course, you know, he
really blew the game Game two against the Phillies, came
in with a four nothing lead in the night, gave
three straight hits. Excuse before one leave the night give
three straight hits. Sasaki had to rescue him. Then, Trident
is not a good pitcher at this point. And even
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if you look at last night, he didn't pitch well.
He walked in trail us and he almost walked Bryce
to Ray, swung in a pitch seventeen eighteen feet over
his head. He was swinging a lacrosse stick whatever they
call those things, to try to reach the pitch. He
got away with it. So it's one of those situations
where well it worked, but it wasn't a good decision,
and the fact that it worked doesn't really justify the decision.
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I didn't and I think if it makes Roberts more
likely to use trying it in a big spot later
in the series, he's going to end up giving that
win back. So tough loss for the Bruise because you know,
they are the underdogs here. They were able to play
a close game. They had the tying run on third
and the ninth. That's a game you kind of had
to steal in a best of seven because there are
going to be a couple of games in the series
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where the Dodgers just go, you know, for five to
nothing in the fifth and you're not going to have
a chance to win it. They had a chance to
win this one and they didn't. They didn't call it help.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
What's what's the big what's the big difference between these
two teams in terms of you know why you think
the Dodgers might have the advantage besides leading one.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Er right now?
Speaker 5 (26:56):
Yeah, not to repeat my little material, but it's a
starting rotation. Remember the Brewers are down Brandon Woodriff, who
has been their ace for a long time. Miss twenty
four back in twenty five, it's very well, he's out
with a lat straight. Ryan Wu and Brandon Woodriff are
very similar. Here is at what is a pack? Can
I get them confused? But they're both out. They've both
been out for their teams and it's really been a
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big had a big impact on the postseason. But without Woodriff,
the Ruers are now faking everything. They have one true
starter in Freddy Peralta, and then they're using openers and
they're using bullpen games trying to get the PACSI in
the twenty seven outs. The Dodgers aren't doing that. The
Dodgers did that last year. The Dodgers got through October
using openers and short starts and everything. This year they're
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putting Snell, Yoshinova, Ya Moto Shoheio Tani, and Tyler Glasnow
on the mound and basically saying, go ahead and beat us.
Their four man rotation. So it's a six man rotation
and it seems out of the bullpen. Clayton Kursall's out
of the bullpen. The other four guys have basically been
untouchable since August since they they went to this six
man rotation in early August. The Dodgers' rotation has been
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the best in based off and we've seen that in
this posting. Yamamoto had one shaky start and the rest
of the time, the Dodger starters are just blowing people away.
So the Brewers, like say, the Brewers play really good ball,
the good defensively, they make miracle plays bouncing off the
wall turning into double plays. They have some power. It's
not if they have no power, but they're really trying
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to win these games three two, two, one four three.
I don't think they're going to be able to win
games if they've got to score five and six runs
against this Dodger staff. That's the big difference. Dodgers are
just from inning one through inning six are just shoving
monsters starting pitching Joe.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
One week from today, we'll either be talking about a
preview of the World Series for us here in Seattle,
which I believe will be doing. They'll be after either that,
or we'll be talking after a Game seven disappointment. But
I have a feeling we'll be talking about either the
Brewers or the Dodgers in much greater length. So until then,
for folks who want to and this is a good time, boy,
no better time to subscribe to the Joshan news Letter
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Speaker 5 (28:58):
Sir Joshian dot com exserts of everything I've been doing,
which is basically daily writing on all of the playoff games.
There's a whole page full of archive material as well.
I will put my World Series preview up for free
whenever that happens, so likely as not that goes up
next Tuesday or Wednesday, so we people check that out
free if they want to get a sense of one
of these I do, but I hope you can subscribe.
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It's been a really fun run writing about these Mariners.
I had them as the second best team in baseball
coming out of the trade deadline, and that looks like
it's going to hold up here for another couple of weeks.
So hopefully well check.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Out the newsletter and I can vouch for him. He did.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
You've been kind of bullish on them for the most
part this year, so we look forward to talking next week.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Joe.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Enjoy the games. Thank you so much. I'll talk to
you in seven days.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
Thanks An, Joe.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
She and Joshian Newsletter will take a break come back
your talkbacks. We'll hear from you coming up next.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
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Speaker 7 (30:33):
Super relieved, super happy, the Mariners are finally doing something
that's never happened before. And for Dave Neehouse to say,
bringing to Rye for at Grandma because this World Series time,
I would say, I'm feeling all those Mariners were feeling
doing some of the slowest home run across seen.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
And I'm excited my eighty five year old grandmother.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
Vision is going to be coming down to two hans.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
And we're hopefully going to be watching some World Series Baseball.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
Are listening to it.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Thanks appreciate that good way. By the way, uh MJ.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
In the midday ten to one here on nine three
point three k TERRFM, he had Carl Ravitch on yesterday.
Who's calling the games on the radio on ESPN Radio.
If you have like Serious XM or just the app,
you can get it. He's with Eduardo Perez Junior, former manner.
By the way, and Carl and Tim Kirchen and it's awesome,
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actually a really good broadcast. So if you find yourself
not buy a television, those guys do a great job
on ESPN Radio. And no we're not even in the
ESPN radio affiliate that went away well.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
A few years ago.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
But I can tell you this, Carl did a great job,
and hearing him with MJ yesterday was really good. I
listened about it at forty five. I had three innings
of it yesterday driving home after we got off the air.
And Carl and those guys did a great Jeb Kirchen
I just have a hard time with because I hear
him and I just I think I think him. I
always think of him on with the gas Man. He
was on with the gas Man for years and years,
(32:05):
Okay gas Man, It's just oh, I just I keep
hearing that back in the background. All right, we's gotta
got more. Let's go a couple more talk.
Speaker 8 (32:11):
Wow, what can I say? Live in the dream. Been
waiting for this for way way too long. Whether it's
two o'clock start, five o'clock start, the day can't go
fast enough before first pitch, as always go, Hawks still
go Koog's let's go do work and let's get this
done and always suck at LUTs.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
I don't know who that guy is. I want to
meet him. To me, I have met him. That's the
thing is like, you never know. Maybe I've met that.
If I've met you, I'd love.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
To know who you are, because that guy cracks me
up when we do the talkbacks along the way. Yeah, yeah,
the start times we know this five five thirty three
o'clock or the next three coming up.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
I don't know if we're going to get to three.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
I think we're going to get to the next two
and be done with it, I truly, and then have
a week off. Yeah, it's gonna hapen, all right, We've
got a couple more Justice.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
I can't believe how at peace.
Speaker 9 (33:03):
I am been watching this team since their inception in
eighteen seventy seven, and I've been wound tight more times
than I can count in my entire life. But after
that three run shot by Polanco, I really felt like
we're just going to win the whole thing. The Dodgers
will not know what hit them. Okay, So at Peace
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and I am never that way, Okay, Scott and Paul Scott.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Hey, Scott, Sorry I stepped on you twice the okay, Scott,
just Scott is me and I just saw a tweet
from Softi's he's just losing his He'll.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Be on it too.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
He's he's a wound a little tight right now.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
He's just an absolute disaster right now.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
I've Scott. I feel the same way, and I'm never
like that. I'm just that's not my fandom. I'm I
would I was. I mentioned this to Jess and you
guys at the start of the show today. I felt
a little more stressed about the seahawks final five minutes
against Jacksonville than I did most of the time yesterday.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
When they tied it up.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
At three, I'm like, uh, okay, this isn't good, but
we got the one already, so whatever, you come home
soself have a chance to win it. I think, Scott,
you're right When when Polanco hit that and I initially
didn't think it had enough to get out, and it's like, whoa, Okay,
three runs. At that point in time, I'm like, game over.
There's no chance this team's going to come back and
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score three again, much less four to win it. Against
Seattle's pitching at that point, and that proved to be
the case. That's the cool thing about fandom. Everyone feels differently,
Everyone has a different set of emotions. My normal fallback
way to be treating things right now would be just
to be losing my mind and stressed out. I think
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that they're just that much better that My only thing
is what happens next year, our next, next, the next series,
I should say, next series?
Speaker 3 (35:02):
All right, Jess, one more? All right, here we go.
Speaker 9 (35:04):
Well, I feel great about the ms being in.
Speaker 6 (35:08):
Possibly I just cannot tempt fate.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
So I will grin when they're in Gritten when they're
in I like that.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
I like grin when they're in Grin when they're in
That might be our guy coming up.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
In just a couple of minutes.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
How do you feel, Jess? You know you have to
cover it, so it's a little different. Like you're in
the clubhouse and you're you're in the press conferences. It's
a little bit different for you because you're truly working
media for this series. You and beck Anders are working media.
Speaker 4 (35:36):
But I've gotten to know this team for the past
sixteen years, and that goes beyond the field. It goes
to you know those who I've seen work so hard
to make this thing happen. And I know that you
guys were talking during Mollybob, how you watch the game,
who you were with and everything, and I was I
was driving from Memphis to and my husband's on the
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phone with me, looking up random radio stations from Memphis
and tracking me and telling me the next radio station
I could listen to when I got to the next town,
because it was two hour drive from Memphis to Tupelo,
where we were staying. Then I got there in the
sixth inning and we stayed on the speaker phone. I
had just had it sitting on my chest and watched
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the game together. That's how into this team we both are.
And now Mike, who's you know, grew up a Red
Sox fan, He's into it too. And I don't think
that you had to grow up a fan of this team.
I've gotten to know them. I am extremely emotional about it,
just from a different perspective.
Speaker 5 (36:35):
And I'm happy.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
I'm just happy for the city.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
I'm happy for everything.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Yeah, I'm I'm really, I'm really, I'm just I'm thrilled.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
For the city.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
And I say and when I say city, I mean,
the region is what is how I should point out.
I think I'm gonna do something a little differently tomorrow.
We're gonna check in not with enemy territory, but friendly
Canadian territory tomorrow, I do believe.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
Okay. So yeah, yeah, you like that. I like that.
I like that a lot. I think I'm gonna do
that coming up tomorrow. I like it.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
All right, We're done for a completely different emotional take.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
Dave Softy mall along with Richard L. Faine. Is he
crying right now? How is he? Is he gonna be okay?
Speaker 4 (37:24):
He looks like he might be.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
Okay. I know I've got to go. I've got to go.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
I mean, I have work to do here at the
TV studio.
Speaker 4 (37:31):
So he's gonna be okay, right, He's he's fine. Dick
Faine is in the studio as well. Richila l is here.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
Okay, good, all right, Dave soft Tomorrow, Richard el Faine
coming up next to ye
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Headlines brought to you by Frost Brewed cors like choose chill?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
What's sorry? Headline? What do I want to start? Well,
I guess we could start with baseball.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
The Alcs two nothing over Toronto home runs again and
just talking about this with MJ in the midday a
moment ago.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Home runs are the thing.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
We'll get to more of that with Joe Sheen in
a second, because we talked about this pre playoffs. This
plays into the Mariners favor, the fact that yes, indeed
they can hit home runs, and they've done it so
far rather nicely to nothing serious lead Game three tomorrow.
Game four is Thursday, and hopefully that's all we have
to worry about. Monday Night football. Last night two games,
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Bears overcame the Commanders in a close one final score
twenty five twenty four, Sorry Jess Falcons.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Daniel's fumble at the end caused them to lose.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Jake Moody, who got cut by the forty nine ers,
kicks the game winning field goal for the Chicago Bears.
Falcons over the Bills twenty four fourteen. I think Drake
London is still catching balls and I think Bjhon Robinson
is still running wild over the bills. That's a disappointing
loss for Buffalo Crack and take on the Canadians first
of sixth straight on the road, four o'clock drop of
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the Black, three point thirty pre game with the Captain
Mike Benton right here in your home for the crack
of nine three point three. K r FM Al and
Fits have the call for you coming up at four pm.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
The Krack can play today, their first of six straight
on the road. They are a three thirty pre game,
as I mentioned in the headlines, So we're kind of
squeezing as much as we can in in our show.
Same with Dick and Dave coming up later on. They'll
squeeze in what they can as well before we get
to that. And I mean just to listen and trust
me when I say this, I am no one's complaining.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
This is a good thing, so much good guys. We
have a lot going on.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
I always wish this we have these days and these
times of the year, and we add baseball into the mix.
Why can't this happen? And I don't know May, June
and July when we're just struggling first stuff to discuss,
but there is a lot going on. Also, it is
a Kraken ticket Tuesday. So when you hear the sounder
play call at two oh six two eight six ninety
(02:11):
five ninety five, and you'll have a chance to win
tickets to the kracking game coming up. I'm looking at
the thing October twenty eighth against Hey gets a team.
They're playing tonight on the road, Montreal Canadians.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
So there you go.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
So each hour when you hear beat caller number ten
two O six two eight six ninety five ninety five,
and we'll send you the cracking game October twenty eighth
against the Montreal Canadians. So sometime before we say goodbye,
we will hand that off to Before we hand it
off to Softy and Fain, we will be giving away
a pair of tickets for October twenty eighth and the
Kracking ticking on Montreal at Climate Pledge Arena. Joe Sheen
(02:47):
will join us day. I had a guy text me earlier,
No Kook talk today, actually didn't even matter.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
MK is out of the country.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
He's in Saudi Arabia in a plane competition and that's
even weird. He It's like that sounds weird, but yeah,
he is a beast.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah, so we don't And so with that going on,
no John Len today, two of my favorite things to do,
but we just don't have time and we need to
get to Joe Shian and Josh has been busting my
chops for however long, jess about you still have me on? Well, yeah, buddy,
we're in the Goal World series. Like, let's just be honest. Really,
that's kind of where I want to start today. And
you know two things I want to hit on one and
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I we I'm gonna play it again at some point
this week, maybe tomorrow. Chris Chris Crawford had a great
When we do Molly want mondays, we start with the
kind of an opening statement from Chris and with Nate
and Chris had just a great and he just said
it so well. Yesterday he talked about, you know how
everyone shouldn't be enjoying this and don't be that guy
or that woman. Don't be that person that is chastising
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those who were quote jumping on the Mariner.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Bandwid Yeah, be that person.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
And I and I said this a zillion times. Nothing
pissed me off more than hearing the snobby looking down
my nose Seahawk fan that, yeah, I know, you saw
them play in the Bearing era. You saw them play
when Tom Flores was the coach and things were bad,
and now you're mad in the twelve since twelve, you're.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Just don't do that. Just don't do that, and don't
be like that.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
If you're a baseball guy and you've been, yeah, you've been,
you know, charting games and keeping score on your own.
You notepaded games forever, and you can't. Don't be like
the guy that sat next to my kid at the
game two of the Alds.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Sit down.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Don't be that person. What we have seen and what
we're experiencing in this town is, frankly, it's unprecedented, and
probably the only time you can compare it. N other
thing you can compare it to is the maybe when
the Sonics went went to the finals in ninety six,
when they took that really deep playoff runt and got
there and get Michael and Scotty and that Bulls Dynasty team.
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And what I mean by that is the whole town
is coming alive, and you're just kind of there's this
this crescendo, right of like waiting a day off day.
Next day is a game day. You build up, you
build up, get to the game, keep that high. After
there's a game the next day. I mean, back and
forth we go. That's what we're at right now. That's
what the beautiful thing about seven game series or six
game or five game series, whatever it is, it's the difference.
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It's the only advantage really that the NBA, NHL and
in this case Major League Baseball have over the NFL,
NFL's one and done college football playoff one and done.
This is just, you know, we just build this great
momentum and with that momentum comes people jumping on the bandwagon.
It has been to me the best thing about this, honestly,
the best thing about this. And I'm you know, I've
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I'm fighting some internal demons with some things with the organization,
and but the best thing about this, and what kind
of keeps me going and fired up is not the
fact that I've been a Seattlementer's baseball fan for a
long time and through bad times, through well, frankly, never
good ownership. The thing that's kept me going is seeing
this city just come together and fired up. And you know,
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for me, and I think a lot of people can
relate to this, my family, you know, watching the games.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
God, I'm so glad my kids graduated from college.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
And he's you know, working on everything right now while
he still lives at home until he can get to
get that financial world set to go to to move out,
and so watching games with him. My wife, who is
a very casual sports fan, she's sitting there watching with
great interest in all the games. And how many of
you guys can relate to that? And here's the best thing.
(06:33):
Here's the best thing about this, and this is what
I like the best is that it's going to continue
for another couple of weeks.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Yes, because I'm sorry too, and oh it's over.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
It's over, and you can text me about jinxing it
and soft he's probably driving off the road or whatever
right now.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
It's fine. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Now I'll say, no hitter, I'll say this, I'll say
shut out. Doesn't matter. It's done. And the reason it's
done is they're better. It's readily a parent. I know
it's a seven game series, and no way that this team,
the Toronto Blue Jays, is going to come back and
win four games, four games in the next five like
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they're just not gonna do it, like they it's it's
not going to happen. Seattle is basically an absolute wagon.
They've been that way for the last couple of months,
regular season, trickling now into the postseason. And my only
complaint with them is I'm bored. I'm just bored. What
I'm bored?
Speaker 4 (07:32):
How can this team.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Because it's they're not I mean, outside of the fifteen
inning game, the last two games have been boring.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
I'm bored.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I'm just getting to the World Series. I mean, I
just I'm just bored. It's it's I'm sorry. I mean
yesterday was I mean, basically, they gave up one run,
Emerson Hancock came in and gave up more. I understand that.
But but but they they're just dominating these guys. And
I say that obviously tongue in cheek.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
I'm not bored.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
But get me to the World Series and the Dodgers
getting and holding on for dear bloody life last night
to get that wine and they leave one nothing over Milwaukee.
The road teams are now three to zero in the
ALCS and NLCS. Dodgers and Brewers play again later on
today at five o'clock. But it just I'm I'm daring
to dream right now. This inevitable, what it feels like,
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an inevitable West Coast matchup Dodgers and Mariners, and let's
make it happen. Starts a week from Friday. By the way,
I think the only question now we have is this,
do we close it out? And the Marion's close it
out in four five. It ain't going back.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
It's not going back like it's it's not going to
go back to Toronto. Think about it.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
What would Toronto have to do to go back home.
They'd have to win two or three here. That's not happening.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
That's not happening.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
It's not happening. So I joke about it tongue in cheek.
I'm kind of bored. In a serious note, what I'm thinking,
I love them the most about this is just how
everyone is revved up. My friends at simply Seattle are
selling T shirts and sweatshirts and hoodies off the charts
Simply sale dot com, malliwop fifteen to check out, by
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(09:09):
the area are thriving. Watch parties are the thing now,
which I think is kind of fun, because you know,
when everyone got big TVs and flat screens in their
house and all that, nobody wanted to leave the house.
That's the other thing that says people want to leave
the house. I was just talking to checking in with
my guys at the Queen Anne Beer Hall, also on
Lost Babyer Hall, and and the occidental beer hall down
in in Sodo there next to the stadiums. I mean,
(09:31):
they're they're doing great. Everyone's watching games. They want to
go out and have viewing parties.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
It's cool. This is what's all. This is what.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Sports are all about. So four nine, four five one
we'll get some texts at one five. More importantly, what
we'd love to do is hear from you via our talkbacks.
Have not heard from you guys for a while. I'm
gonna tell you my overriding emotion right now, honestly, is calm.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
It's cool.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
I feel that's the exact same way actually, and it's
own f Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I probably felt more stressed, just as a fan and
someone who wants to see the team go far. And
so we can talk about it into late January February,
maybe even who knows. I found myself more stressed the
last five minutes of the Seahawk game than I have
at any point in this series against Toronto.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Something.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I just I'm watching it. I mean, Vlad can't hit
this pitching staff. Even though Kirby wasn't great yesterday, that's
all right, Bizardo was like really good, thanks for coming right. So,
so like I just feel calm. I want to know
what your overriding emotion is. I'm calm, I'm ready to go,
I'm ready, I'm I'm kind of more. I'm both calm
and excited about what's next. But I want to hear
(10:40):
from you. Just give me your overwriting emotion. Like we're
not going to overcomplicate this. We're not going to make
this some crazy ass sports radio topic. No, no, just
simple as this, just very simple. What's your overwriting emotion
right now? As a matter fan, I want to hear
from you. Guys just loves to hear from you as well.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
I do.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
All of them. So yeah, so here's what you need
to do.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
The iHeartRadio app, little red microphone, click on that red
microphone and fire away. Just give me your raw motions.
What are you just what are your e motions? Minor, calm, complacent,
ready and maybe a little anticipate, anticipating in the next series
coming up. But how are you feeling? Go to You
can text four nine, four to five to one. But
I want to hear from you too. Okay, we want
to hear from you today. Go to the iHeartRadio app
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There's a red microphone there. You click on it, you
speak for thirty seconds, send it boom, just well download it.
We'll play some of those coming up at one forty
five today when we come back. Joe Shean never has
been on the radio station this late in the year,
never ever, ever has he been here this late. So
we're gonna see how that goes. I say that tongue
(11:42):
in cheek. I'm excited to talk to Joe. We'll get
to him. Our baseball guy, Joe Sheen from the Joshian
Newsletter joined us. Coming up next on this Cracking Ticket Tuesday,
ninety three point three KJRFM.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
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Speaker 2 (12:44):
It is the fourteenth of October twenty twenty five. My
friend Joe Sheen is back on the radio show here
in Seattle, even though he has been busting my chops
now for a little while, saying, well, you know, I'm
sure you won't talk to me once football season starts.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
All how wrong you are, Joshi, And you're.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Not wrong often, but you're wrong there here you are,
and my guess is you're gonna be here for a
couple more weeks, my friend, how are you good?
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Man?
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Hey? Look, I've always said I'm not going to come
on in October. You're the ones, dude. Yeah, once the
Marriagers go away, you guys shut it down. You're all
pauty and stuff.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
But it comes with the weather out here this time
of year, Joel.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Though it's sun weird, it's sunny today and it feels
like it's going to be sunny the rest of the
week because that's just kind of our mood out here
right now.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
And give us a break.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Forty six out of forty nine years, this team, you know,
it wasn't doing well at this time of the year,
So you got to understand that part of it too,
my friend.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Yeah, forty nine years, and this is as close as
they've ever gotten. They've been with the two games in
the World Series back in one and now this year.
And it's just the thing about it is, I got
to I'm trying to remember, like how I felt about
that oh one team, you know, two games into the ALCS,
and that was the one who's the sixteen win team,
Like it felt like they were supposed to win in
the course and Yanks ended up beating them off the road.
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Because I'm the big Homer, this feels more like they're
in control, not just being up to nothing, but being
up to nothing. With Kirby and Castilla lined up, possibly
Brian ruined Game five, they're the bullpen is better than
the James bullpen. Like everything is in their favor now.
Could they lose four out of five? Yes, that's the
way baseball goes if you go historically, James Smith on
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Blue Sky had this great. He does all the research
for Yes Network on the Gage and stuff. Twenty eight
teams have lost the first two games at home in
a best of seven. Twenty five of them have lost
the series. So just three times and not since ninety
six has a team been in the Mariners position and
lost the series.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
I mentioned this first segment, and listen, everyone watches a
game differently watches it. You know, some people watch with
different types of emotions because we're human beings. Some people
watch some numbers. And I told just in the first segment,
I feel this weird, calm, relaxed. I just I feel
like they're just that much better and you just kind
of sad it. You feel like they're in control. It
just I haven't in this series. It just hasn't felt
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like they've been threatened. The Tigers, they lose game one
at home, they win the next two, lose Game four,
and have a stressful Game five. Like the Tiger series,
there was some stress like yesterday, Yeah, three to three,
they Ja's come back and immediately a three run home
run by playoff Polanco. Thanks for coming, and they just
they kind of ran away with it. And on Sunday,
Bryce Miller, who will get to in a second, was terrific.
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I know you like him a lot was good too.
I just I don't feel like the J's and again,
baseball's weird.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
You said it.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I don't feel like the J's with what Sales got
pitching coming up, can hang with this team.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Joe, Well, I go back to what I've.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
Been saying about the Marinis for a few months now,
which is that they can win. And think about just
these two games. They won a three to one game
and they won a ten three game. That said that
Tiger Series, they won a game eight four, and they
won an extra inding game three two. They can win
a lot of different types of games because they can
they can score, and they can pitch. And that's been
the kind of a mantra for me with the team
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for a while. So I look at I agree with you.
I think you know, it's it's hard to make the
argument because the raised the Jays did have a better
record during the season, and if you look at the
underlying numbers these human the two teams are about equals.
So it's hard to make case that the Jays are
that better, But then you look really and a lot
of it is that pitching advantage. The Jays have one
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high end starter in Kevin Gaustman. They traded for Shane Deeber,
Who's just not the Shane Deeber he was with the
Guardians earlier in the decade. You know, he won the
short season side un Award. He's been that number one
starter in the past. He's not that guy Trey Yesovitch. Hey, look,
yesterday was his fifth major league start, and you have
to expect that a guy is with that little experience. Remember,
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this is his first full profession, first full, first professional
season at all. So I don't think it's that big
a surprise for got to go out there in a
playoff game as good as he looked against the Yankees
and slip a little bit, and up against guys like that,
you have Gilbert who did look good yesterday, Asto and Miller.
Miller is the number five on the Sea right now,
and Bryce Miller a year ago looks like at number two. Obviously,
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the elbowishes this year. He never got his command straight,
but in two playoffs starts has been really good. That's starting.
Pitching depth to me is the difference in this series.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Josh and Joshian newslterd Joshian dot Com joining us is
weekly visit. I'm going to come back to Miller and
some other things pitching wise in a second. I do
want to touch in on the Dodgers Brewers game last night,
because you wrote about it and something. My son and
I were watching the game last night, going what is
David robertson here? Anyway, we'll get to that in a second.
Touch on something with you and I talked about right
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before the season started, and that was we had brought
up before on our show, I think with Chris and
with Nathan on Mondays. This was back in July maybe,
and I don't think he even brought it up with
you the next day, but I remember we were talking. Boy,
the marriage are really reliant on the home run ball,
and I wonder if that is sustainable. Well in the
regular season, it proved to be. I brought that up
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to you before the playoffs started, and Joe, you told me, hey, playoff.
You know, teams are in the playoffs that are relying
on the home run ball usually have success. Now the
Yankees obviously are done, but boy, the Mariners seem like
they're taking that little stat and running with it in
the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
These are the two teams who were most reliant on
the home run during the regular season. The Yankees and
the Barons were exactly fifty percent. Of The Yankees were
a little bit higher than that. And you know, this
is a descriptive stat as much as it is anything else.
But when you get to the postseason, you find that
long sequence offense single walk, double, a bunch, let's do
five things in a row and score two runs. It
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is a lot harder to sustain than walk home run.
I want to say I will started arguing about this
may be ten twelve years ago now, and by and large,
ian most people have accepted that this is the way
to win in the postseason, short sequence offense, because against
playoff pitching, you're just not going to be able to
create these long strings of runs. Not to say it
never happens. We saw the Brewers do it against the
Cubs a couple weeks back. I mean, it does happen,
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but you're more likely to be able to rely on boom.
We got two runs on one swing. So you'd rather
be the Narriners type of offense in the playoffs. The
Jays also have plenty of power, just had to get
shown up so far. So the Jays had nine homers
against the Yankees in four games, so they clearly have
that kind of power as well. But you'd rather be
a team that could have these, that can have short
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sequence offense. And this is what the business in the
Guardian's probably in recent years, the Guardians have had good
regular season teams and they get to the playoffs and
they just can't score. The Tigers, to a lesser extent,
have run into this. But I would much rather be
built around guys that can go deep than have to
try to strength to the other three or four events.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Joshian will always say the following to me when I
ask him questions that you know he has great sustain
for him, says, what am I talking to this guy
for Alsa? Well, it's a very this will be a
Jochian quote. Well it's a very small sample size, but
I'm gonna ask anyway. I know it's only two games
in small sample size, how concerned would the Jays be
about their you know, zillion dollar franchise player, mister Guerrero
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not hitting yet?
Speaker 5 (19:55):
What if I extended to also a small sample size
six games that we include the absolute destruction he performed
on the New York Yankees. So now let's say that
bad I mean this is I saw. I don't want
to mean the writer, but the writer basically had a
headline there was something wrong with his lives, like, oh,
you know, Jame's gotta be worried about Blag Guerrero. It's
two games. There's just there's no there's no there's absolutely
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no signal in two games of baseball. There's no signal
in four games of baseball or eight games of baseball.
But that's what the playoffs are. The playoffs are all
at small example, and it doesn't mean anything that a
guy goes zero for nine. He can go nine for
nine the next two days. Uh, it just doesn't. He
can go for nine again, it still doesn't mean anything.
This is what happens in the playoffs. Horry Polanco turns
into you know, Rogers Hornsby for a week, and the
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Mariners get to be two games away from World Series.
It weren't in both directions. You think about the history
of baseball, the World Series MVPs aren't all superstars. Billy Hatcher. Uh,
Stephen Keers a couple of years ago with the Red Sox.
It's this is a this is one of the great
things about postseason baseball to me is that you get
random guys turning having the week of their lives and
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going into the book and going into the history books.
So I love that. So maybe it's Polanco this year
for the Marriagers, or maybe they'll get to the World Series.
There will be dominant Canzela or somebody. I don't know,
but I just I love that.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
About the game well, which also tells you how fragile
it can be. A too nothing lead feels pretty secure
right now, but it's also fragile, right like, like all
of a sudden, the Jay's explode tomorrow and something happens,
You're like, uh, oh, what happened? Right like that that
could certainly happen as well well.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
So I mean yesterday, you would have gone into yesterday's
getting figuring, Oh you got Logan Gilbert going and Gilbert
goes three nas. He doesn't really have any swinging miss stuff.
You get five swings and missiles on fifty eight pitches.
Guess to leaving the third. If you tell a Mariners
fan you're going to be tied in the excuse me
and the fourth and Gilbrok's going to be out of
the game. They're not going to be very happy about that.
And it turned out to be a laugher of a win.
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So you know again, it's yeah, baseball's designed to be
evaluated at one hundred and sixty two games postseason. You
kind of just got to ride the wave.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Joe, What what did you see in Bryce Miller that
the box score didn't see?
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Yeah, this is let me get technical for a second.
There's a concept called iv B. When you and I
were watching baseball as kids, we would have talked about
a rising fastball, welerizing fastball doesn't exist. You can't throw
a ball upwards from a mound sixty feet away, but
there's an illusion that's created. And in recent years, with
all of the technology we have, we've been able to
quantify that illusion in a number called induced vertical break IVB,
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and what it basically measures is the ball should be
here and this picture, through a combination of velocity and
releasing spin, has it up here. And if you watch
that game the other day, you saw Bryce Miller, who
has elite IVB. The best is like twenty he was
at nineteen the other day, or if he was at
nineteen and eighteen's a number like fourteens basebline seventeens average
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above seventeen year league. Bryce Miller was delivering high fastballs
that looked like they were going to be lower in
the zone. And if you watch that game, Jays were
constantly swinging under the ball, they were popping it up,
they were hitting leak fly balls, they were swinging through
pitches to strike out. That's a skill that every pitcher
is chasing right now, that high IVB fastball. It enables
you to work up in the zone and fool the
(23:07):
batter into thinking even though your fastball's hittabily, your ninety
six is in today's game kind of you know the
buy in, But because it moves in a way that
hitter isn't expecting, that's that's what makes it effective. You know,
Miller I didn't even think he looked that good against
the Tigers, obviously in the second half. Came back from
the elbow injury, didn't look good at all in the
second half. He's only pitching because Brian lou injured his peck.
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But he went out and he had he just pounded
that high IVB fastball through four of the pitches. And
you and I talked about him a lot earlier this year,
where he's got this really broad, great repertoire, and that
actually helps you working later in gage. The more pitches
you have, the better you'll be going the third time
to the lineup. So I expect him next year to
be a very strong pitcher again. But for the last
two starts, he's given me this Narritors exactly what they needed.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Joshi Joshian dot Com, Joshian Newsletter. Let's talk nationally for
a second. A lot of America fans probably flipped over once
our game was done in Seattle, or actually in Toronto,
but done being here in Seattle, and maybe you're flipping
around money at football's on. You're like, oh, there's two
money at football games, and I'm exhausted from watching the
Mariners blow out the Jays. Oh how about this? The
NLCS is on. Oh we have a game all of
(24:15):
a sudden and a close game and it's a one
run game. My son has to do the same thing. He's like,
what are they doing right there? Why is Sasaki coming out?
And you're going to a thirty seven year old, maybe
borderline journeyman at this point. I'm not sure walk us
through for folks who didn't see it last night. Kind
of some drama in the Dodgers Brewers game.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
In that ninth inning, we'll go back to the top
of the knight Pat Murphy second and third, two outs.
He potentially walks Shahiotani to pitch to Mookie Bets, which
Rob Thompson had done in the previous series. Avenue Rebey
walks Bets Forces in the second run. That's true not
to be an important insurance run, because at the bottom
of the beginning he goes to Sasaki to replay Splake Stell.
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It was absolutely lightsile last night, eight shutouts. We've seen
Sasaki be exactly that good in the play. We saw
wipe out the Phillies last week, three perfect innings against them.
So he correctly goes to Sasaki. Saki gets to pop out,
then goes walk double sacrifice fly, and he gave the
two batted balls were hit very hard. He was having
(25:15):
trouble commanding, but even at that he's so far better
than the next option in that Dodger bullpen. I really
didn't think Roberts would take him out of the game.
And I disagree with the decision to take him out
of the game because he went to play Trent, who
in the past has been an absolutely nasty slider monster.
He said by the stock the vras. He's won the championships,
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but right now he's not a good pitcher. He had
an area of over eleven. It was twelve runs in
night innings. We'll let Andrews do the map on that
one in September, and then of course, you know, he
really blew the game Game two against the Phillies, came
in with a four nothing lead in the night, gave
three straight hits. Excuse before one leave the night give
three straight hits. Sasaki had to rescue him. Then, Trident
is not a good pitcher at this point. And even
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if you look at last night, he didn't pitch well.
He walked in trail us and he almost walked Bryce
to Ray, swung in a pitch seventeen eighteen feet over
his head. He was swinging a lacrosse stick whatever they
call those things, to try to reach the pitch. He
got away with it. So it's one of those situations
where well it worked, but it wasn't a good decision,
and the fact that it worked doesn't really justify the decision.
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I didn't and I think if it makes Roberts more
likely to use trying it in a big spot later
in the series, he's going to end up giving that
win back. So tough loss for the Bruise because you know,
they are the underdogs here. They were able to play
a close game. They had the tying run on third
and the ninth. That's a game you kind of had
to steal in a best of seven because there are
going to be a couple of games in the series
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where the Dodgers just go, you know, for five to
nothing in the fifth and you're not going to have
a chance to win it. They had a chance to
win this one and they didn't. They didn't call it help.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
What's what's the big what's the big difference between these
two teams in terms of you know why you think
the Dodgers might have the advantage besides leading one.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Er right now?
Speaker 5 (26:56):
Yeah, not to repeat my little material, but it's a
starting rotation. Remember the Brewers are down Brandon Woodriff, who
has been their ace for a long time. Miss twenty
four back in twenty five, it's very well, he's out
with a lat straight. Ryan Wu and Brandon Woodriff are
very similar. Here is at what is a pack? Can
I get them confused? But they're both out. They've both
been out for their teams and it's really been a
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big had a big impact on the postseason. But without Woodriff,
the Ruers are now faking everything. They have one true
starter in Freddy Peralta, and then they're using openers and
they're using bullpen games trying to get the PACSI in
the twenty seven outs. The Dodgers aren't doing that. The
Dodgers did that last year. The Dodgers got through October
using openers and short starts and everything. This year they're
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putting Snell, Yoshinova, Ya Moto Shoheio Tani, and Tyler Glasnow
on the mound and basically saying, go ahead and beat us.
Their four man rotation. So it's a six man rotation
and it seems out of the bullpen. Clayton Kursall's out
of the bullpen. The other four guys have basically been
untouchable since August since they they went to this six
man rotation in early August. The Dodgers' rotation has been
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the best in based off and we've seen that in
this posting. Yamamoto had one shaky start and the rest
of the time, the Dodger starters are just blowing people away.
So the Brewers, like say, the Brewers play really good ball,
the good defensively, they make miracle plays bouncing off the
wall turning into double plays. They have some power. It's
not if they have no power, but they're really trying
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to win these games three two, two, one four three.
I don't think they're going to be able to win
games if they've got to score five and six runs
against this Dodger staff. That's the big difference. Dodgers are
just from inning one through inning six are just shoving
monsters starting pitching Joe.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
One week from today, we'll either be talking about a
preview of the World Series for us here in Seattle,
which I believe will be doing. They'll be after either that,
or we'll be talking after a Game seven disappointment. But
I have a feeling we'll be talking about either the
Brewers or the Dodgers in much greater length. So until then,
for folks who want to and this is a good time, boy,
no better time to subscribe to the Joshan news Letter
(28:56):
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Speaker 5 (28:58):
Sir Joshian dot com exserts of everything I've been doing,
which is basically daily writing on all of the playoff games.
There's a whole page full of archive material as well.
I will put my World Series preview up for free
whenever that happens, so likely as not that goes up
next Tuesday or Wednesday, so we people check that out
free if they want to get a sense of one
of these I do, but I hope you can subscribe.
(29:19):
It's been a really fun run writing about these Mariners.
I had them as the second best team in baseball
coming out of the trade deadline, and that looks like
it's going to hold up here for another couple of weeks.
So hopefully well check.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Out the newsletter and I can vouch for him. He did.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
You've been kind of bullish on them for the most
part this year, so we look forward to talking next week.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Joe.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Enjoy the games. Thank you so much. I'll talk to
you in seven days.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
Thanks An, Joe.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
She and Joshian Newsletter will take a break come back
your talkbacks. We'll hear from you coming up next.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
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Speaker 7 (30:33):
Super relieved, super happy, the Mariners are finally doing something
that's never happened before. And for Dave Neehouse to say,
bringing to Rye for at Grandma because this World Series time,
I would say, I'm feeling all those Mariners were feeling
doing some of the slowest home run across seen.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
And I'm excited my eighty five year old grandmother.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
Vision is going to be coming down to two hans.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
And we're hopefully going to be watching some World Series Baseball.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
Are listening to it.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Thanks appreciate that good way. By the way, uh MJ.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
In the midday ten to one here on nine three
point three k TERRFM, he had Carl Ravitch on yesterday.
Who's calling the games on the radio on ESPN Radio.
If you have like Serious XM or just the app,
you can get it. He's with Eduardo Perez Junior, former manner.
By the way, and Carl and Tim Kirchen and it's awesome,
(31:33):
actually a really good broadcast. So if you find yourself
not buy a television, those guys do a great job
on ESPN Radio. And no we're not even in the
ESPN radio affiliate that went away well.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
A few years ago.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
But I can tell you this, Carl did a great job,
and hearing him with MJ yesterday was really good. I
listened about it at forty five. I had three innings
of it yesterday driving home after we got off the air.
And Carl and those guys did a great Jeb Kirchen
I just have a hard time with because I hear
him and I just I think I think him. I
always think of him on with the gas Man. He
was on with the gas Man for years and years,
(32:05):
Okay gas Man, It's just oh, I just I keep
hearing that back in the background. All right, we's gotta
got more. Let's go a couple more talk.
Speaker 8 (32:11):
Wow, what can I say? Live in the dream. Been
waiting for this for way way too long. Whether it's
two o'clock start, five o'clock start, the day can't go
fast enough before first pitch, as always go, Hawks still
go Koog's let's go do work and let's get this
done and always suck at LUTs.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
I don't know who that guy is. I want to
meet him. To me, I have met him. That's the
thing is like, you never know. Maybe I've met that.
If I've met you, I'd love.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
To know who you are, because that guy cracks me
up when we do the talkbacks along the way. Yeah, yeah,
the start times we know this five five thirty three
o'clock or the next three coming up.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
I don't know if we're going to get to three.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
I think we're going to get to the next two
and be done with it, I truly, and then have
a week off. Yeah, it's gonna hapen, all right, We've
got a couple more Justice.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
I can't believe how at peace.
Speaker 9 (33:03):
I am been watching this team since their inception in
eighteen seventy seven, and I've been wound tight more times
than I can count in my entire life. But after
that three run shot by Polanco, I really felt like
we're just going to win the whole thing. The Dodgers
will not know what hit them. Okay, So at Peace
(33:26):
and I am never that way, Okay, Scott and Paul Scott.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Hey, Scott, Sorry I stepped on you twice the okay, Scott,
just Scott is me and I just saw a tweet
from Softi's he's just losing his He'll.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Be on it too.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
He's he's a wound a little tight right now.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
He's just an absolute disaster right now.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
I've Scott. I feel the same way, and I'm never
like that. I'm just that's not my fandom. I'm I
would I was. I mentioned this to Jess and you
guys at the start of the show today. I felt
a little more stressed about the seahawks final five minutes
against Jacksonville than I did most of the time yesterday.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
When they tied it up.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
At three, I'm like, uh, okay, this isn't good, but
we got the one already, so whatever, you come home
soself have a chance to win it. I think, Scott,
you're right When when Polanco hit that and I initially
didn't think it had enough to get out, and it's like, whoa, Okay,
three runs. At that point in time, I'm like, game over.
There's no chance this team's going to come back and
(34:33):
score three again, much less four to win it. Against
Seattle's pitching at that point, and that proved to be
the case. That's the cool thing about fandom. Everyone feels differently,
Everyone has a different set of emotions. My normal fallback
way to be treating things right now would be just
to be losing my mind and stressed out. I think
(34:54):
that they're just that much better that My only thing
is what happens next year, our next, next, the next series,
I should say, next series?
Speaker 3 (35:02):
All right, Jess, one more? All right, here we go.
Speaker 9 (35:04):
Well, I feel great about the ms being in.
Speaker 6 (35:08):
Possibly I just cannot tempt fate.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
So I will grin when they're in Gritten when they're
in I like that.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
I like grin when they're in Grin when they're in
That might be our guy coming up.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
In just a couple of minutes.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
How do you feel, Jess? You know you have to
cover it, so it's a little different. Like you're in
the clubhouse and you're you're in the press conferences. It's
a little bit different for you because you're truly working
media for this series. You and beck Anders are working media.
Speaker 4 (35:36):
But I've gotten to know this team for the past
sixteen years, and that goes beyond the field. It goes
to you know those who I've seen work so hard
to make this thing happen. And I know that you
guys were talking during Mollybob, how you watch the game,
who you were with and everything, and I was I
was driving from Memphis to and my husband's on the
(35:57):
phone with me, looking up random radio stations from Memphis
and tracking me and telling me the next radio station
I could listen to when I got to the next town,
because it was two hour drive from Memphis to Tupelo,
where we were staying. Then I got there in the
sixth inning and we stayed on the speaker phone. I
had just had it sitting on my chest and watched
(36:18):
the game together. That's how into this team we both are.
And now Mike, who's you know, grew up a Red
Sox fan, He's into it too. And I don't think
that you had to grow up a fan of this team.
I've gotten to know them. I am extremely emotional about it,
just from a different perspective.
Speaker 5 (36:35):
And I'm happy.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
I'm just happy for the city.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
I'm happy for everything.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Yeah, I'm I'm really, I'm really, I'm just I'm thrilled.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
For the city.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
And I say and when I say city, I mean,
the region is what is how I should point out.
I think I'm gonna do something a little differently tomorrow.
We're gonna check in not with enemy territory, but friendly
Canadian territory tomorrow, I do believe.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
Okay. So yeah, yeah, you like that. I like that.
I like that a lot. I think I'm gonna do
that coming up tomorrow. I like it.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
All right, We're done for a completely different emotional take.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
Dave Softy mall along with Richard L. Faine. Is he
crying right now? How is he? Is he gonna be okay?
Speaker 4 (37:24):
He looks like he might be.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
Okay. I know I've got to go. I've got to go.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
I mean, I have work to do here at the
TV studio.
Speaker 4 (37:31):
So he's gonna be okay, right, He's he's fine. Dick
Faine is in the studio as well. Richila l is here.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
Okay, good, all right, Dave soft Tomorrow, Richard el Faine
coming up next to ye
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