Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - Are the Mariners Desperate Enough For Offense to Call Up Jarred Kelenic?

Episode Date: September 21, 2022

The Mariners have won just one of their last five games against two of the worst teams in the American League and yet, their magic number for ending the longest playoff drought in major American sports is now down to 10. Ty and Colby open the show by talking about the beauty of having a playoff spot in hand rather than chasing it, then reflect on a dreadful offensive performance in Oakland before asking the question: "is it time to call up Jarred Kelenic?"Be sure to follow or subscribe to Locked On Mariners wherever you prefer your podcasts! For questions and other inquiries, email: [e-mail] the show on Twitter: @LO_Mariners | @danegnzlz | @CPat11For more of Ty and Colby, check out their Patreon: patreon.com/controlthezone/BlueChewTry BlueChew FREE when you use our promo code LOCKEDON at BlueChew.com,-just pay $5 shipping. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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are in the description of the show wherever you're watching or listening to this. The Mariners get one hit off of the A's last night and it didn't even leave the infield. We'll be going over these offensive struggles and discuss if it's time to call up Jared Kellnick but first Colby there is a beauty and actually being in wild card position rather than chasing a wild card spot because you know despite the mariner's going one and four over their last five they've actually knocked like five or six numbers off of their magic number including last night their magic number now falls to 10 because the Orioles lost to the tigers again and the white socks lost to the guardians in a wild extra inning's game it was three to three when when

they got to extras the game ended up being 10 seven cardians. It was pretty insane. But the Mariners now, you know, 10 wins or losses by the Orioles or white socks away from ending this playoff trout. But they're limping to the postseason. But again, I mean, this is just kind of the beauty of actually being in a spot rather than chasing it, right?

Yes. This is when we talked about the margin of air that the Mariners had. They're testing it. They're seeing how far they can go, but this is why it was important to build up the margin of air. And this is why, you know, when we talk about strength of schedule, we kind of always had this little like asteriskness to it because the Mariners, traditionally, or well, at least this year, they have played better against good teams and they have poor teams. I don't think that's about them playing down to the competition or anything like that. I just think it just happens to be that way. But it does go to show, you know, as we get ready.

for the playoffs here, that the Mariners can beat anybody. They can be beaten by anybody. And that makes them an incredibly dangerous and also frustrating team, which is why, you know, the confidence level of Mariner fans is kind of ebbs and flows with each game. And, you know, we see it even when we record, the Mariners play well, you know, people, listen to the show when they don't play well. People maybe just, yeah, we're not going to listen to the day. There's no reason to.

So, yeah, this Mariners team is incredibly frustrating right now. Yes, there are explanations for some of it, but there's no good explanation to getting one hit by the Oakland A's, really ever. But particularly this Oakland A's team, offense is just atrocious right now. And, you know, it's one of those things that we keep on waiting for certain players to turn it around. We keep on waiting for, well, they can't be this bad with the bases loaded forever, right? And yet here we are, 145 games into the year. And nope, they are. This is who they are.

They didn't get the home run last night. So they lose. It's pretty much what the Mariners have become. Will somebody hit that big home run for them? No. Okay, they lose. I mean, it's not a good way to win games. It's not a way to win games that is conducive to, you know,

making deep playoff runs if that's your one trick. So, this team won 14 in a row at one point this year. Wasn't really a lot of home run. I mean, there were home runs, but like they found a way to score runs in different ways. And that's how they won those games. And right now it's, hey, did Carlos Santana or Julio hit a home run? No, okay, I guess they lost. That's just not a good way to build your baseball team.

Yeah, we'll talk a little bit more about the game and a little later on in the show. But I saw a really interesting note today. It came from the baseball Reddit R slash baseball. The Mariners of all the AOL Wildcard contenders right now, the White Sox are not involved in that, by the way. So I don't actually know what their record is. But the Mariners record against teams with a winning percentage below 500 is the worst of all the AL wildcard contenders. They're 43 and 33 against what you would consider to be bad teams, which doesn't sound too bad on paper, but you look at a team like the Blue Jays who are 44 and 21 against those same kinds of teams.

The Mariners, meanwhile, have the best record against teams with a winning percentage above. 500 um 38 and 33 so like this team just literally makes no sense uh and it's it's weird how i mean i don't believe in a especially in baseball it's really hard to you play down to your opponent um but it does kind of feel like that's happening here i mean like statistically you look at the record you look at just how this team plays its games against bad teams compared to good teams and the way that they're able to win those games it's like night and day it's apples and oranges it's like a tale of two completely different teams is there a way to to explain that colby is there like is there an actual way to actually to play down to your opponent like what what's going on here why does this continue to happen for this particular mariners team yeah i don't know um it doesn't feel like an energy thing like they

they need the juice to play well or anything like that. It doesn't feel like, you know, their struggles get exasperated. It doesn't feel like they're worse with the bases loaded against bad teams and they are good teams. It just for whatever reason, it seems to be that, you know, the Mariners, I don't do,

is it maybe just because we cut them some slack against good teams? That, you know, because again, And they're only five games over 500 against the good teams, and they're 10 games over against the bad team. So maybe it's just us lower expectations when we go into these big series against these really good teams. I don't know exactly what it is, but it's kind of hard to explain. I don't have any numbers to back it up, but at least on the surface, it doesn't seem like the problems with this team get exposed even more when they play bad teams.

It just seems to work that way. And kind of the opposite, really. You kind of look at the disasters that happened against the Braves. They haven't really happened in this little five-game stretch, and yet they've lost four or five. So it's just kind of one of those things. I don't know what it is exactly. Again, there are some explanations for some of what's happening over the last five games,

but they border on excuses because those are all problems that, honestly we did see coming and we should have seen coming the team that's been remarkably healthy all year getting banged up towards the end here and relying on guys who have traditionally been banged up and just you know all these little things that that are you know we've kind of talked about we've hinted at they're all kind of coming into play at the same time right now and that's not good again thankfully they have the buffer and thankfully you know they have a couple weeks here to get this thing figured out but yeah it's it's not the way you want to go into the playoffs playing this poorly.

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you're listening to the Locked-on Mariners podcast. Thank you again for making us your first listen. And again, the Mariners could really use some blue shoe because it looks like they're up there swinging pool noodles. Especially yesterday. My word, they get one hit. I finally made him crack. I finally made him crack.

I finally made him crack. So they get one hit last night. And it doesn't even leave the end field. And it was Carlos Santana of all people, by the way, who gets an infield single, which honestly makes it even funnier. They end up getting the one run because of a walk. And that's it from this offense. And on top of that, Luis Castillo doesn't have his best night.

Just absolutely blows up in, I believe, the fifth inning. Yeah, the fifth inning wasn't even able to finish that inning. It was just a mind-blowingly frustrating game yesterday. And I honestly, I don't even know where to begin with it because, you know, it's all bad, right? Like, you know, obviously the offense needs to score more, but also your ace, your rotational ace can't do that against the ace either. Right. Like, so it was just bad, all over, all over. Like, it's just, it's bad, bad, bad, bad, bad. No matter where you look at this performance for the Mariners, it all sucked. So let's just start with Castillo. I mean,

why did the doors get blown off there all of a sudden? Because he was kind of cruising. I mean, like he gave up a couple hits. I think he had like a walk or so, but whatever. You know, he had a one-nothing lead. He got through the first four innings at like 53 pitches, I think. And then it just, he got two outs. And then Tony Kemp hits the three run home run. And he can't find the strike zone from that point forward.

And he can't get anyone out and can't even finish the inning. What went wrong? Yeah, probably all started with that two-out walk to Nick Allen, the guy who's at like 2-10. you can't walk that guy especially Oakland right now has like two hitters in their lineup that are actually producing for that I've actually produced for the last you know three weeks a month one of them is Tony Kemp and you can't get that guy a shot to beat you when he's one of only two or three guys in that lineup that can beat you so you can't walk the the nine-hole hitter

you just it can't it's it's you know a cardinal sin to walk somebody with two outs but even more so when it's you know the nine guy like the guy who can't hit. You got to make that guy beat you by swinging the bat. So that's probably where it starts. And then he just lost the change up just right down the middle of the plate. Kemp put a good swing on it. And then, you know, after that, you kind of say, well, okay, one bad pitch. But, you know, then he follows it up. He couldn't get out of the fifth. And it's just, it's unfortunate because you're right, he was cruising. And we've seen this now from Castillo last couple times out. He'll cruise. Something will go wrong. And then he just can't really find

a way to stop the bleeding. It's, it's similar to what we've seen from you say Kikuchi in the past, where, you know, just looks great, dominant, all right. And then something doesn't go on schedule. Something comes, you know, it goes off the rails slightly and he just can't adjust. And for Castillo, it's mostly because of his command and control. And typically what that means is there's something mechanical that he loses, maybe the front shoulders flying open. But, you know, for a guy like Castillo, he's a veteran enough. He should recognize that. And this is where the catchers and the coaches can help him.

I have to assume there's something mechanically going on here. Maybe it's just, you know, his landing is a little bit off. Maybe it's his shoulders flying open early. But his change up flattened out on that pitch as well. So typically speaking, there's some kind of disconnect there between your upper body and your lower body when that stuff starts to happen. So hopefully somebody much better at that. like, I don't know, Pete Woodworth, sees that and knows, you know, can make the fix pretty easy. So, yeah, it's just a matter about Castillo being able to self-correct when he's, you know, when he's feeling out of sync.

And if he can't do that, then it's really important that Kirk Casale and really Kirk Casale, and really Kirk Casale, who's worked with Castillo quite a bit to notice those things and get them ironed out. And so far, Casali catching Luis Castillo has been a disaster. So yeah, so we got a we got a note here from one of our listeners who added us on Twitter today. Bob Potter who says Luis Castillo's ERA with Casale is 506 and with Raleigh, it's 137. So obviously something is happening there where they're just not in sync or what have you because the performances. I mean, it's striking the difference between him with Casale and him with Raleigh. Right. And Raleigh caught the starts against the good teams.

you look at Casale's a couple starts here, Oakland. I think two against Oakland and two against Oakland. One against Chicago. Yeah. Like, so I don't know if that's the thing, but it does maybe point to the significance of Cal Raleigh and just how good he is.

And Raleigh's just not available right now. We'll see if he's in the lineup today. That's when service said he thought he would be back. So we'll see if he's back today. Yeah. I mean, Mitch was supposed to be back in the lineup a day later after they pulled him. And it took a week. And well, we can bash Mitch Hanager later.

So it's one of those things where I just think it's Castillo, just, you know, something goes off schedule. Something doesn't quite right. He loses his release point. It's something small, I think. I don't think it's anything major. I don't think it's anything to be super concerned about. I just, I think there's something small that when he loses it, he just can't seem to find it. it right now. And so I think that's incumbent on him and the coaching staff really to kind of,

you know, review the video, pinpoint what it is and then find a way that he can correct it, you know, midstream before he has to, you know, before significant damage is done, basically. All right. So let's switch over to this offense. I don't like, we don't need to harp on it any further last night was awful. Is there something that they can do personnel wise to maybe try to send a jolt into this offense something just trying trying to do something different here is I mean the big one here of course we're seeing it on Twitter a lot of pounding of the table for for Jerry Kellnick Jerry Kellnick's obviously on an 11 game hit streak down in Tacoma right now he has like five

or six multi-hit games sprinkled in there he's sitting home runs, you know, sitting for a lot of power right now as well on top of that. So it's, it's quality contact too. It's not just little dink shots here every night that that's getting him on base. So clearly like there, there's something that is leading to success from there, but, you know, he was having success in AAA before he got called up the last time and then he got called up and, you know, it was still the same exact Jerry Kelnick that we've seen at the major league level for, you know, most of his major league career. Um, you know, but I do look back at at last September. And in the heat of a

playoff race, Jerry Kellnick was arguably the Mariners best hitter in September. Again, you're kind of at a point now where you're desperate. But are you desperate enough to take that shot on Kellanick again to give him

what would it be now his fourth shot in 2022 alone at the major league level? Like, they got to do something because the offense is it's impotent right now. there's just nothing nobody's rising to the occasion. So it's just one of those things where, you know, you got to try something and maybe it's mixing up the batting order. Maybe it's, you know, it's just there's not a lot you can do because you can't acquire better players. That needed to be done in late July and August.

And we've talked about that quite a bit, despite many people telling us, Mitch Angear is the answer to this offensive woes. How's that working out for you? So yes, they got to try something. And if it's Kelnick, fine, I guess. You know, there's also, they could try Luis Terenz a little bit here. They could try Kyle Lewis. Neither of those guys exactly smashing the ball in AAA, though. So we'll see.

Calnick wasn't in the lineup last night for whatever that's worth. Probably nothing, just a day off. But, yeah, I do think, you know, there's some merit to it, especially when you look, Taylor Tremel just kind of looks lost at the plate right now, which is unfortunate, but also, you know, hasn't really gotten a lot of opportunity, but maybe that's because he's, you know, he's not hitting right now. So it's, it's kind of a chicken or egg thing there. But you kind of look at what you're getting right now from Lamb and Trammell and even Hanager, like, at least Jared Kellanick can catch a fly ball.

Like, at least there's that. And he might run into a home run every once in a while. So I understand the want for it. I just, I don't think that's going to be the magic pill. that automatically fixes the offense. So I just, you know, they're kind of in a tough spot. Again, they could call up, you know, maybe a veteran like Jonathan VR is a possibility. Just to try and, you know, get summer. I guess on the good news, it sounds like, is that Gino is going to be back after 10 days. Like he's going to serve his IL stint and then he will be back.

D.H. only, which not ideal. Interestingly, he was wearing a first base club yesterday. So we'll see. We'll see how that goes. But yeah, it says it's going to be a while before he can throw, which I mean, that creates the same issues, though. Like if he plays first base or DH. Like it's still tough for hands. Yeah.

Like it's it's it's not about, you know, the fact that he is dehing necessarily. That's the problem. It's the fact that someone's got to play third base. That isn't Geno Svarez. Yeah. And that's a huge downgrade. But yeah, I mean, you just look at right now Toro and. and Lamb and Tramel, like they're nothing.

They're nothing right now. They're not helping you. So you can send down one of those guys and call up Kelnick and take a shot on it, I guess. I mean, again, the good news is you're not facing elite starting pitching for the rest of the year. And you don't need to use Kelnick every single day. But, you know, to have that thump off the bench, to have a guy who can go in late defensively, that's not Sam Haggurty, you know, and play a pretty good question. corner spot for you. Even to have a guy who's like in center field would be nice. So you don't have to

use Dylan Moore if Julio needs a day because of his back. So I do think there's some merit to calling up Kelnick. I just don't see the Mariners doing it. It just, it's, it's tough. And we also don't know how Kelnick and the organization are feeling about each other right now. So yeah, I just, you're kind of in a in a tough spot here because of the well because of what you didn't do you know a few months ago and and now you're kind of you know reaping the the rewards i guess we want to call it that of that consequences yeah so it's just one of those things where you know hey does it suck that cow Raleigh Julio sworez all got hurt at roughly the same time sure, but you also relied on Mitch Hanigur to stay healthy.

After, you know, spending four months of saying like, well, we can't count on Kyle Lewis for anything. Whatever we get from is a bonus. You went into the deadline counting on Kyle Lewis. Like, you said you weren't going to do that all season and then you did it. Yeah. We see Mitch Haniguer and Kyle Lewis as our deadline acquisitions. No, no. No.

And like, we're not going to beat a dead horse here. but like it's it's very you know it was stupid when you when you see these offensive struggles it's very easy to kind of point to that as a you know crucial moment where look you know they weren't going to fix the offense but can't tell me that tyler and aquin wouldn't help right now well it's the frustrating thing was is that we heard and it was pretty much backed up just by evidence that Jerry and his crew were not interested in rentals at all. Zero interest in rentals. They were never interested in Brandon Drury because of it. That's stupid. Let's just call it what it is. I think Jerry does a great job and he deserves a lot of credit for what he's built, but that's

swinging a miss by him to not be interested in a guy. Like we are well beyond the time where club control should be greatly considered. We're past that. right it's no longer you're no longer acquiring talent for the long run you're acquiring talent for right now so that means you have to give up control years to get a rental you do it if it impacts your team enough you don't go crazy with it you're right we're not advocating giving up emerson handcuff for brand and drury although i've seen worse ideas but you know we're talking about like give up a guy who's four years away from the big leagues for a guy who helps you right now that has to be on the table And so, you know, just their unwillingness to do that, it was, it turned out to be, I don't want to say detrimental, but it turned out to not be the right decision.

And we're kind of living through that consequence right now. And it's unfortunate, but that is the reality. Yeah. We still don't know if this is ultimately going to lead to their demise because like, you know, season's not over here. We don't know how the playoffs are going to play out. We don't know how, you know, guys are going to, or if guys are going to be able to get back on the horse, you know, further remove that they are from their injuries. And ultimately now the Mariners are in a spot where they have to count on that happening. You know, whether you think that's realistic or not to set your expectations that guys are going to figure it out, that's what the Mariners have to hold out hope for. They have to get down on their hands and knees and beg and pray that, you know, Mitch Hanager is going to figure it out. Ty France is going to figure it out. Julio Rodriguez is going to be okay, you know, with his back issue.

Ty, France taking a step back again last night. So. Yeah. It's great. It's great. And like I mentioned, you know, the last night was going to be the toughest pitching matchup that they had and facing Sears because Sears has been pretty good this year.

But he's not that good. He's not, you know, give up one run on a walk. Good. And they had opportunities, right? Sears was, you know, back against the ropes and the first inning and they just couldn't take advantage of it. Yeah, the second inning, he threw like 45 pitches. Or was it the second inning. Yeah, you got one run out of it and it was on a walk.

No, you need a hit. And that's why, you know, well, the Mariners walk a lot. Like, that's great. But you know what walks get you? One base. That's all they're ever going to get you. You know what? A single can get you with the base is loaded?

Two runs. You know what a walk get you? One. Like, yeah. take the walk if they give you the walk, but at some point, walking is just not the answer, especially when your other master plan is home run. Jerry's literally said, oh, our offense right now is kind of, you know, we draw a walk and we hope the next guy hits a home run.

Yeah. That's what dumb teams do. You can do it. But if you don't get that home run, you lose. You need a counterattack. You need a plan B. And unfortunately because Adam Fraser and J.P. Crawford haven't had good years, you kind of lost that, that, you know, well, this guy's not going to hit home runs, but he's going to hit singles. Not as often as you wanted. And now the rest of the offense has to pick up the slack. And it's just, it's a vicious circle. And guys are picking each other up. I mean, the number of times running around third base, one out. And you just have to hit a ground ball to the shortstop. And this team will pop up or they'll strike out. It's just, it's mind boggling. And, yeah. Yes, you want multiple runs in an inning.

And that's, you know, ultimately how you're going to win games and how you're going to blow teams out. But this offense is so bad that when you get that opportunity to get the one, you have to get the one because they're not going to get a ton of opportunities. Well, it's really disheartening, especially when you see one of the other teams that you're in the mix with here that you're now trailing by two and a half games and the standings just scored 18 runs against the Phillies in a game, which Kyle Gibson, a pretty decent pitcher started.

yeah it's like i mean that's that's scary right because you know what that offense is capable of and you it's starting to kind of shape up here where you might have to face them and now you know the one thing that we haven't talked about here on the show and we won't get too deep into it but um we should mention it because it got announced right after we we stopped recording yesterday um it looks like the vaccine requirement to enter canada is going to be lifted on september 30th so if you do go to Toronto, you should have everyone. You know, Robbie Ray should be able to start in that series. So that feels a little less daunting now,

but it's still like not ideal because of the atmosphere that's going to take place in Toronto. And that offense, that offense can do some damage. If Luis Cassi or Robbie Ray pitches the way that they have in their last couple starts, I mean, it's over for you because you're not going to be able to outscore the Blue Jays, right? I mean, they're having.

been rare occasions where the Mariners' offense has picked up the slack and been able to, you know, go toe to toe with some of the best, you know, teams in the world like the Braves, you know, that's a couple Sundays ago, which they, you know, they won eight to seven, but that's a rarity for this offense right now. You're going to need to, you know, hold the Blue Jays or the rays or the Astros, the Yankees or the Guardians, whatever team that you end up playing in the postseason, you're going to have to win those games by holding them to two three runs and then winning three to two four to three what have you like that's how the mariners are going to that's the blueprint for how the mariners are this particular mariner's team is going to win games in the postseason uh but again they got to score those runs

and even scoring three runs scoring four runs feels like a massive task it feels like a massive hill for the for the mariners to climb up and you know what's crazy too is like you know they they were actually scoring runs fairly efficiently before this road trip began they were averaging almost five runs a game over there last like since the end of August. But now that's just completely falling apart, you know, and it's just it's starting to snowball now because like even when they were averaging, even in that stretch where they were averaging like almost five runs a game. You know, there were a couple games though where they scored like one run or they got shut out, I think. But the next day, you know, they come back and score like

five or six, right? And so we're not even seeing that. I mean yesterday or the day before yesterday, you know, they exploded for nine, but then right back to just getting shut down by a bad team, by a bad pitching staff. You need to rack up consecutive wins here where you're, you know, because you got to get on a role as an offense. You got to get in a groove. You got to be able to rattle off like five, six runs for the next like four games, right? Like do that especially and you can do that against these pitching staffs. Like that's not even for this offense, even with the struggles that it has, even with the injuries and the lack of talent at the bottom of the, of the lineup, you can score four or five, six runs against the A's against the Royals.

So that's my challenge for the for the Mariners over the next three games. Score four, score five, score six over the, you know, each of these next games. Have to, have to, have to, because you've got to get on a roll. Right. You just got to start winning again. Every day we get further and further away from the idea that the Mariners can host the wild card round. It's just you're two and a half back of Toronto now. You do have the tiebreaker on them, which is good.

And Toronto does have a tough schedule. But Toronto is the only wildcard team right now that's actually playing well. Seattle and Tampa are both struggling Baltimore's in the tank. So Toronto is just kind of starting to run away with it. And again, if you're Seattle, you'd rather be the six than the five, but you want to be the four. Like that's the goal. So again, you know, the Mariners, their magic number is 10. So on that count, everything is actually pretty good.

If the Orioles or Mariners win one game in their next five, if either of those happens, then I guess at least the Mariners will clinch their playoff spot at home, which is something we were worried about. So if you're looking for a silver lining, that's the best I can offer you because last night's game was atrocious. It needs to be buried and forgotten. and they have to play better. Just period.

We can sit here and we can, can they do this, can they do that, just play better. Play better, period. Stop with the excuses. Oh, this guy was pretty good. Oh, this guy,

I don't care. I don't care. You should beat the Oakland days. You should beat the Kansas City Royals. Burn the film. Burn the tape. Move on. On to the next day.

There's one thing that I'm rooting for, though, talking about clenching-wise, that was brought to my attention last night. Apparently on September 28th, It's Bark at the Park night at T-Mobile Park. Brandon Gustafin of Seventh and Seattle sports pointing this out to me last night. Yeah, I want the Mariners to clutch in a full, full stadium, full of dogs, full of good boys, just losing their minds after the Marys.

I will now go down with a ship. Bark in the Park is the worst promotion of the Marys have ever done. You're trying. It's a remarkable how much you're trying to get us canceled. I love dogs. I don't love dogs at the ballpark. There, I said it, unless they're good boys. They're all good boys.

Not all. There's some menaces out there, but like, yeah, Brandon's dog is very cute. So, uh, it's just so adorable. But I'm not a big fan of it. Uh, although to be fair, to be fair, I've never gone. Like, I would never bring my dog to park in the park because no, but that does sound like, to me, that does sound like a nightmare as a, as a dog owner, like to actually bring your dogs to the park with,

all the sounds, all the sights, all the smells, like... All the other dogs. Yeah, all the other dogs. Like, yeah. But no, maybe I just need to experience one, like, buy a ticket up there, but don't bring a dog. But could you imagine they clinch and then all the dogs are just barking, bark, bark, bur, bark. Come on. Come on.

I'll say this. If the Mariners do clinch on that night, I will not think about the dogs for a single second. They'll never enter my mind. So I don't care. But, um, oh, he said the thing. He said the thing. guys. He said, I don't care. Okay, well, whatever. So there you go. So I'm not a fan of Bark in the Park Night.

Something told me that you wouldn't be. Yeah, I just, whatever. Like I said, I don't go. Those are usually on like a Tuesday or a Wednesday, though. Obviously, I can't, you know, I don't live close enough to go to those games on a regular basis. So, yeah, I mean, we got, we got to wrap it up. But yeah, I'm not a fan of Bark in the Park Night. but in the Mariners' Cledge on Bark in the Park Night I will be a fan of it so there you go. That's how I will sign off on that. For the love of God, hit.

Please hit. Hit the dang ball. We're going to be back after tomorrow's game. So we'll have two games to talk about. I would like a lot of runs to talk about and I'm not talking about from the green and yellow side. Talking about the Navy and Teal side. Northwest Green.

God, I said it again. I said it again. Northwest Green. I'm sorry. And you think I'm trying to get myself canceled. I know, I know. All right. Well, that's going to do our show. Thank you so much for joining us here on Lockdown Mariners.

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