Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - D.C. is a Cut Up (The Fleet's In)

Episode Date: July 15, 2020

A few episodes ago, Jason Hernandez & D.C. Lundberg talked about the Oakland A's selling cardboard cutouts of fan photos to be placed in the seats of the Oakland Coliseum. Since then, the Mariners (among other teams) have followed suit. J.D. & D.C. talk about what exactly the Mariners are offering and for what price, and then discuss the other teams that will have cardboard fans. 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.

Thank you for tuning in to Locked-on Mariners, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day. Here's your host, D.C. Lundberg. What a beautiful evening here in the Lilac City, ladies and gentlemen. Temperatures in the low 70s. There was an absolutely gorgeous sunset earlier. This is a very picturesque part of the country, although there is something here that I am very allergic to. In any case, welcome to Locked-on Mariner's gang. part of the Locked-on podcast network or T-L-O-P-N or T-L-O-P-N or T-Lopin, if you will,

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if you're scoring at home. A little while ago, Jason Hernandez and I talked about something very cool that the Oakland Athletics are doing. They are offering fans the chance to have their photos turned into cardboard cutouts to be placed in the stands

at the sewage treatment plant known as the Oakland Coliseum, and fans are allowed to collect their cutouts at season's end, and for a higher price, you may request a seat in the foul ball zone, and if a ball hits your cutout, you can keep it. And their pricing is pretty fair.

We kind of joke that the Mariners wouldn't do something like this, and if they did it would be really, really expensive. Well, guess what? A few other teams have followed Oakland's lead, and one of them is the Seattle Mariners. Here with me to talk about this once again is duck hunting enthusiast Jason Hernandez, host of Locked on Ducks.

How are you doing, Jason? Quack, quack, quack. Stupid dog. Stupid dog, yes. Who didn't try to shoot that dog when they were a kid? I wanted to shoot that stupid dog every time I missed a duck on duck hunt. I hated it so much. I know.

The damn thing would laugh at you. Jason and I are approximately the same age. We were born in the mid-80s. I'm a Nintendo kid through and through. I don't know about Jason, are you? Oh, I'm totally Nintendo. I'm full-on Nintendo. all the way. Okay, so we might have had the same childhood growing up and not

noted, but yeah, everybody our age wanted to shoot that dog and duck hunt. We're straying far afield. So Jason, the Mariners are doing this. We joked it was going to be really expensive. Guess what? Were we wrong? We were wrong, ladies and gentlemen, really, really wrong. For the Mariners announced, I believe today, did they announce this today? Yes, today. We're recording this on July 14th, the evening of July 14th. This is Wednesday mornings program. So last night they announced this, that the Mariners are offering the fans

the chance to submit photos of themselves for a small fee to join the Seattle Mariners Seat Fleet, which is an interesting name. For reasons I won't get into, kind of sounds like they're selling suppositories. Okay, I got into it. In any case,

for the low, low price, ladies and gentlemen, of just $30. What? $30. Are you kidding? That is cheap. Whoa. They, good on the Seattle Mariners

for offering this at a price which pretty much everybody can afford. You may purchase. I'm going to read this right from the page, actually. Introducing the launch of the Mariners' seat fleet for just $30. You can purchase a recycle-friendly version of yourself that will sit in on all the Mariners game action

at B-P park this season while you're safe at home. Plus, the Mariners will donate a portion of every purchase to nonprofit organizations supporting COVID relief efforts in our communities. What's more? If your cutout catches a foul ball during a game, we'll mail you the baseball.

Wow! So the Mariners are, and there's no price difference. There's no price tiering. It's $30, although you do not get to choose where your seat is in the stadium. But for $30, who cares? I don't care. And you get to keep the baseball

if a foul ball, catches your cutout. And once again, if I do this, and yes, I'm strongly considering this, I want my cutout to not only catch a foul ball, I want a foul ball to hit my cutout in such a way that it just takes the head right off. I just think that would be really funny. A la Major League were Wild Thing Vaughn gets a wild pitch and knocks off the head of the cutouts. I will say Bob Euchar stated that Charlie Sheen was the best athlete on the field during filming. and if you watch the movie, they cast actors who knew what they were doing, and in real life, Charlie Sheen could at 86 miles an hour on that radar gun.

Oh, absolutely. Yeah, we digress, though. I'm going to go to the, there are four frequently asked questions that the Mariners have posted on their site. And by the way, this is MLB.com slash mariners slash fans slash seat-hyphen fleet. If you want to check out the website for yourself, they've announced it on Twitter as well. And if you follow me on Twitter or the show, I retweeted it on a book. Both accounts, which Jason alerted me to. I'm the one that brought it to his attention.

For reasons. Yep, and that's one reason you're on the show today. The other reason is because we talked about Oakland doing this last time. But the frequently asked questions are, first one, will I be able to select my seat location? No, Mariners' seat fleet cutouts will be placed randomly throughout Barbie's Dream Park. Second one, if I order multiple Mariners' seat fleet cutouts, will they be seated together?

Yes, all cutouts purchased on the same order. We'll be seated together. So if you want to go in together on somebody, pull some money together and put it in one order, and they will put you together. Third question, will I get my Mariners seat fleet cutout back at the end of the 2020 season? Their answer? No. Mariners seat fleet cutouts will only live within park and not be returned after the conclusion of the season.

Question four. What if the season gets delayed or canceled? Answer, all payments made to purchase a fan cutout are final. and in no event shall such payment be refunded for any reason, including two, but not limited to, delay, suspension, or early termination of the 2020 MLB season. They're going to start the season. They're going to start the season.

But, you know, for $30 again, you know, that's fair, because they have to pay the money to process these things, to get these things manufactured, so of course they're not going to refund the money. I get that. I get that totally. They're also made of recycled and recyclable material, so they're going to reuse the material. that are out there in these cardboard, or I guess,

recycled material cutouts as a word. And that is why they are not allowing, or that is why you cannot pick it up, because they're going to reuse them. The Mariners are into reusing anything. And see, and for me, that's a bummer, because I'm such a keepsake type of guy. I have so much baseball junk laying around.

I still have two boxes of Alex Rodriguez, A-Rod's 40-40 Crunch, for example. I have boxes of Frosted Wheaties with Ken Griffey, you're on the box. This is the kind of stuff that I keep, ladies and gentlemen. So, of course, I would want my cutout, but they're not offering that opportunity. So does that make you a real true to the blue Mariners round? Sorry, I had to do it.

I don't know. I was actually contemplated in that question, and I'm actually not sure. One more point that I want to make before we go to the trivia question and then talk about some of the other teams that are doing this in the second half, because we've pretty much finished with this. They also have on their website, they say, quote, Please note we are unable to create cutouts that include the following. Commercial advertisements including slogans, websites, social media handles, and phone numbers.

What moron would post or phone number? Actually, what I want to do is I want to hold up a sign that says 867309, but that's just me. Second one, offensive or negative references to any MLB team. So we can't talk about the asterisks? No, I'm sorry. No. Damn. The other one is opposing MLB team's clothing.

which is a given. Statements or endorsements of political candidates. That's a given. That's also a given and thank you. Also, third party marks logos branding on clothing or in the background of a photo. Also a given. No free advertising. So we can't wear our fancy locked-on shirts, can we?

No, we cannot wear our brand new, excellent, slick-looking, locked-on t-shirts that all of us hosts got in the mail a couple days ago. Shout out to David Locke, by the way, for that. Thank you, Mr. Locke, for sending these to all of us locked on hosts.

I'm not going to speak for the other locked on hosts, especially since I have one here to comment, but thank you. I do appreciate it very, very much. I appreciate it. I think it's awesome. Yep.

With that, we're going to get to the Mariners trivia question. Last time, I asked who led the Mariners in batting average two years ago. Today, I will ask who the Mariners' E-R-A-Lier was.

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Answer to the trivia question. Okay. 2018, two years ago. Manner's ERA champion. Gee, why did you choose that year? Maybe because that's the last time you and I saw a game together. I just chose that year arbitrary for the last show, and I had to write a trivia question quick, so I said, well, I did batting average last time. What the hell I'll do ERA this time?

starters or anyone, because I have a guess. This is among anyone. Let's go with someone that we saw get a save. Edwin Diaz. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. You are correct, sir. Yay! Erra.

Erra. Edwin Diaz led the team with a 196 ERA that season. Ooh, that's pretty damn good. That's very, very good. Second was Rowanus Elias at 265, and then James Pazos at 288. Those were the only three pitchers with a sub-3 EAS. for the Mariners that season, and none of them would return in 2019. More locked-on mariners.

Yeah, ugh, indeed. More locked-on mariners after this. When I looked it up, I... Yeah, that's great. We talked about them a lot on the game we did. Yeah, we too. Yeah, now we too. Now back to Locked-on Mariners and your host, D.C. Lundberg.

52nd, maybe? I think so. Anyways. Thank you, Joey Martin. We are back on Locked-on Mariners. I am D.C. Lundberg, as our announcer, Joey, Martin just told you, here again with Jason Hernandez. Hello. Hello indeed, talking about cardboard cutouts.

The A's are doing it. The Mariners are doing it. And in the second half, we're going to tell you what other teams are doing it. Jason compiled a list of these teams, what their pricing is, et cetera, and some other perks. And let's go over them. Jason is also the sub-host for Locked-on Angels right here on Tloppin. So we may as well begin in Anaheim. Go for it, J.D.

What are the Angels doing? Absolutely nothing. I haven't seen anything about the Angels doing this. I went through about most of the teams and found only 10 teams that were doing something as far as allowing fans get cutouts. And no one in the ALE East, by the way, I think they're too good for cutouts. The Baltimore Orioles are too good for cutouts. I think they won four games last season. You know, this was on intentional talk earlier in the week where the question was asked. what's going to, what's it going to be more of? The home run leader on their team's home runs or their amount of wins for the Orioles.

Oh, that's rough. And unanimously, it was the number of home runs. That's rough. Someone's going to get 14 home runs on the Orioles. I don't think they're going to get 14 wins. Okay. We're even close to that. All right.

All right. So 10 teams. And let's start, let's go east to west. Because I think it's kind of interesting. And then we'll save one for last. Actually, no, I'm going to bring them first. Let's do it. For reasons.

Okay. So the feel good, I think, is the Philadelphia Phillies. What they're doing is something pretty remarkable, to be honest. So they are not having cutouts out in public. However, what they're doing is they're having cutouts for hospital workers. They sent out emails to hospital workers, and it's part of the Phillies healthcare heroes. and this was only sent out to hospitals in the Philadelphia area. This is free of cost.

I don't know if they get to keep it or not, but a limited amount of space is available. And if you are a healthcare worker, you can have your picture at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia for free. If you're a health care worker in the Philly area, that is really, really cool. That's an awesome opportunity to thank the health care. care workers in that area.

Absolutely. Good on the Phillies. Absolutely. I know a lot of fans are really wanting to have their cutouts there, but you know what? It's fine. It's for a good cost. Let's make it a little bit special and lift these people up a little bit who have been through a hell of a lot these last six months. Exactly. Yep. Good on the Phillies. So 10 things. I'll start with the New York Mets, which I think is hilarious. Yes. So the New York Mets, they have their cutout fans. They're charging 86

$86. Yeah, that just seems like a really arbitrary price. I don't know why they would do that. I don't know either. I can tell you one fan base in particular does not like that. So don't let this opportunity go through your legs if you're a Mets fan. What? I'm just a guy.

I love the way you phrase that, Jady. You can keep your cardboard cut out after the season, but it can't be guaranteed because, you know, elements in New York. So for $86. Milwaukee. $50. And just like Bob Uker, yours can be in the front row.

For $50, you can also keep the cardboard cut out at the end of the season. And check it out at the brewer. So the brew crew has that option. The Chicago White Sox had this, but it sold out for $50. And they can also keep their cardboard cut out, but space was very limited

and only in certain sections of Kamisky Park. And that was 50 bucks for the shy socks. And thank you for saying Kamisky Park. Oh, of course. I honestly do not know what the current name of that stadium is, and I couldn't care less. I don't know either. I have no idea what it's called.

It's Kamisky Park, gang. Kansas City, Kauffman Stadium. This is for season ticket holders only. Let me point that out. For $40, STHs only can get their cardboard cut out, and they can also keep them at the end of the season. Of course, elements, you never know.

You can keep it if it's in good condition. You never know. Texas, also $50. That's a brand new ballpark. So you're telling you're telling you the first fans in that new ballpark are going to be cardboard cutouts. Really? It'll still be better attended than the first game at Marlins Park probably.

Oh! Hey-oh. So for the Rangers. and I loved what it said on their website, and I thought this is hilarious. They cannot guarantee the condition of their cutout because of extreme comfort. What?

I kid you not. That's what they said because of extreme comfort. Keep in mind, it's a retractable roof ballpark in Arlington. That's why. So that's where the Rangers is 50 bucks. You can keep that. Then we get into the big boys. The Houston Astros, they allow a cardboard cutout for $100.

But you do not get to keep your cardboard cut out because they're afraid they'll find some hidden cameras in them. Also, they pasted Apple watches on the chests. And that's just too expensive to give away. What? What are we saying? Are we wrong? Are we saying anything wrong? Houston is a buzz over this.

Let me just say that. Oh, nice. Yes. All right. Then we get to the West Coast teams. four West Coast teams are doing this as of right now the San Francisco Giants for a hundred dollars

they have cardboard cutouts which you can collect and keep but the Giants are doing something a little bit different you can choose your seats and you can choose where you want to have your cutout and they have virtual celebrity fans am I saying this right yes virtual fans so you can sit next to

Carlos Santana as DC said. No, not that Carlos Santana. That Carlos Santana. How did you phrase it before? Guitar God Carlos Santana. Guitar God Carlos Santana. I'm not wrong. He is one of the greatest musicians ever.

You know what? You're not wrong. No, I'm absolutely not wrong. I love me. So we're going to go on a tangent here. I do love Santana's music. love those old school rock and roll songs, but give me the

Eagles also. I mean Glenn Frye was amazing and I love the Eagles songs because recently on ESPN they've been showing the Eagles concerts from the forum from right here in SoCal. They've been showing those

if you haven't checked it out. I just thought about something about the Carlos Santana cut out. Yeah. They should make two of them. They should make one, they should make one standard one and then one directed at the other team with him holding a sign saying, you've got to change your evil ways. Oh, I love the payoff.

Well done, sir. Thank you. There's a baseball player named Carlos Santana, obviously also. The Mariners had him over the previous offseason. And I've always wondered that when his hitting coach is talking to him, when he's trying to adjust something or when he falls into some bad mechanics, I've always wondered if the hitting coach tells the baseball player you've got to change your evil ways.

That'd be awesome if they did. I would hope so. Some of the other celebrities are quote-unquote celebrities listed, Brian Wilson, I guess he's a famous baseball player. The pitch are not the Beach Boys guy. Yeah, Bruce Lee's in there, Jerry Garcia, Joe Montana, Juan Marischel, Kevin Mitchell, Kirk Royder, Metallica's in there.

Speaking of awesome bands. Tim Linsigam. Tony Bennett. his heart occupies a different seat because he left it there and he doesn't know where it is. Yeah, and Will Clark. One of my favorites.

Yes. Will the Thrill. So the Giants have that option, which is really awesome. I'm wondering why Steve Perry is an adoption. Remember when he popped up when the Giants made the World Series last time? Yes.

I'm kind of surprised he's not an option. Right. Wow. And then we go to the most expensive one by far. Yes. And this is not even close. And it's kind of criminal

that the Dodgers are charging this much. So anywhere from $175 to $300. And there's no foul ball seats. You don't get tickets. You will get to keep your cardboard cut out. But 175 to sit in the loge and field level dugout club

home run section, which is the pavilions, $300. That's a pretty penny. Seriously, Dodgers? 300. The sad part is people are going to pay that. $300. Come on, Dodgers. That's too much.

Then we get to the last two teams. The Seattle Mariners, as we mentioned, 30 bucks. You get to keep the ball if it hits it. That's the first team I've mentioned where you can keep the foul ball. The other team where you can keep the foul ball for a price is the Oakland A's. So only two of the 30 teams. Fans can keep the foul balls.

Two. Two of the 30 total. Two of the 10 doing this. And I got to say, of all the ones that we've mentioned, the Mariners have the cheapest price. They've got the best deal. I mean, if you want a foul ball, that's your best chance. That's your best bet. But you've got to be wearing Mariners.

Gear Gang. But still, that's an excellent deal. Yeah. And there's one team that I hadn't mentioned, and it's the one that was the first team to do this, the Oakland Athletics. Yeah, we talked about them at length, but let's do it again. Yeah. So for $89, you can get a cutout. It's cheaper if you're an STH.

Then they had a foul ball section, which was 140. That sold out for 150. This one is really, really cool. might be my favorite section out of all of them throughout baseball. That's right, because this is new. This was an update from what we had talking about last time, which had not been announced yet. So for $150, this is the ALS-Cure Project Foul Ball Zone in right field.

Why is it called this? So Stephen Piscotti is one of the members of the Oakland Athletics, a very, very beloved Oakland Ice Player. Yep. in the newly created ALS cure project foul ball zone proceeds will benefit the Piscotti family foundation to find a cure for ALS if you remember from two years ago Gretchen Piscotti succumbs to the disease and this was a very emotional time for Stephen Piscotti

he moved to Oakland to be closer to his family and to be close to his mother his mother would attend several games which that was awesome and she lived long enough to see his debut with Oakland and to see some of his biggest games in Oakland, which is awesome. Yes. And he's sticking around in Oakland. He says he still has family out there. He wants to, that's the thing, he wants to stay in Oakland.

Each cutout in that section includes an autographed photo from Stephen Piscotti. And if your cutout catches a foul ball in that section, you'll not only get the foul ball, but he will sign it. He will personally sign it from Stephen Piscotti. that's an amazing deal. But also, that's a great cause. That's a very, very specific cause. So that's one that I like a lot. And that's kind of a heartwarming thing, too.

In a way, yes. I mean, Piscott is a straight up good dude. He really is. He's one of the good guys in baseball. I mean, I liked him when he was playing in St. Louis as a member of the Cardinals. He was beloved in St. Louis. He's super beloved. Yeah.

He's super beloved. Bolivor loved in Oakland, more so in, I think more so in Oakland than in St. Louis. Well, he is a hometown guy. Yeah. So for 150, at that section, you get to keep the ball, it gets signed, you keep the cutout, and you also get the autograph photo from Piscotti, and you get the two free tickets. That's a very good deal. It's a very, very good deal indeed, and again, like you said, going to a very good cause,

spearheaded by one of the better people in Major League Baseball right now. Yeah, but the two teams that I think are most worth that I think are Oakland and Seattle. I agree. Because of all the stuff you get and Seattle because of the price and you can keep a foul ball. I cannot believe that Oakland and Seattle are the only two teams allowing the fans the chance to keep a foul ball that their cutout hits. Well, the thing is, a lot of teams like to sell those baseballs in their team shop and hawk them as game-used balls. They sure do. I will say the Mariners are one of those teams

that sells foul balls like that and they're still going to be giving them away to fans. Absolutely. But here's the thing, there is a chance that a foul ball does not hit a cutout, so not every foul ball is going to be mailed to a fan. If it hits like a railing or something or a stare, they can still sell it.

Yeah, or if the foul ball hits, you know... That's a message to the eight other teams out there do better by your fans. Do better. The Dodgers, do better. $100. Come on. Dodgers.

Come on, man. What are you doing? Come on, Houston. Let them keep the cutouts, although I understand why. I mean, the same could be said for Seattle, but they're going to reuse them at least, so that's fine.

And at least it's cheaper in that way. That's the thing. It's so cheap that I can kind of get past it. But at the same time, I would really love to have that as a memento. Because I am a collector. But I still think you've got to do it, D.C., because you have a chance of getting a foul ball.

You could be one of the only things. fans in all of Major League Baseball to have a chance at a foul ball of the season, one of only two teams. That's right. And I could represent all of Spokane. Oh, boy. Because I might be the only Spokaneite doing this. I don't know.

So that begs one final question before we head off. Which jersey would you wear? Oh, that's got to be the turn ahead the clock jersey, my friend. That's an easy choice, huh? It's a no-brainer. I mean, I have two other jerseys. one's kind of like a mesh batting practice type jersey that I don't even think is official. And I have a teal jersey with my name on it.

But it's got to be the turn ahead of the clock. It's got to be the turn ahead of the clock. And the thing with the teal jersey is that I bought that about 40 pounds ago, if you know what I mean? So it doesn't exactly fit anymore. It's a little baggy. Anyway. No, it's not a little baggy. It's too small.

Ah, got it. Yeah. And the problem is you can't, the problem is you can't choose your seat. So like I said on the show where we did the, where we talked about, the Oakland Athletics one, I cannot pay extra money to be seated next to a really cute 20-something. But still, for 30 bucks, I think it's a good deal for you. It's a good deal for me. I will probably do it if it doesn't sell out by payday.

Let's put it that way. You know what? If you do it, I might go in on it as well, because I do want a chance out of foul ball. I'll tell you what. Let me know if you want to do it within the next few days. And we'll pull the money and we'll go in together. We'll do it on the same order so we can. and have our cutouts together.

Hey! You want to do that? Yeah. All right. So we have just set that up here on Locked On Mariners and now we're stuck with it. Jason, where can the nice people find you on Twitter? Where can they listen to your excellent Locked-on Anaheim Ducks podcast, which is, of course, about the Anaheim Ducks hockey team.

Yeah. So you can find me on Twitter at Stimpy J.D. And the show is at L-O-U-U-U-Dx on Twitter. That's the Locked-on Anaheim Ducks. All you have to do is type in Locked Locked on Anaheim Ducks, and it'll be the first thing that pops up on Google or Yahoo or Ask Jeeves or Alta Vista. I'm really going way back here.

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Yeah. Thank you very much, J.D. Next time on Locked-on Mariners Gang, I will be joined by guest panelists Les Nesman, Arnold Ziffel, and a flashlight. You will not want to miss that, so please remember to download right and subscribe to this program on the podcasting apps that J.D. already mentioned. Follow this program on Twitter at L.O. underscore Mariners. Follow me personally on Twitter at D.C. underscore Lundberg. Until next time, ladies and gentlemen, have a wonderful day. This is Joey Martin speaking for Locked-on Maritors, part of the Locked-on podcast network.

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