Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - ESPN's Mina Kimes on Seattle Mariners Fandom, Saying Goodbye to 'Around the Horn,' and More

Episode Date: May 29, 2025

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The wonderful Mina Kimes joins us to talk about her Mariners coming up here on the Locked-on Marriss podcast. You are Locked-on Mariners, your daily Seattle Mariners podcast, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day. Ahoy, Sailors, and it's Thursday, May 29, 2025. This is Titing as all for the Lockdown Marys Podcast, part of the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day. As always, if you want to hear from me and Colby even more and help support the show, you can check out our Patreon. All you have to do to check that out is click the link in the description of this episode. So we've talked about this before. Colby and I have had a list of guests we've most wanted to interview since we started doing this years back. We've been incredibly fortunate enough

to check off quite a few names off that list from Jerry DePoto to Aaron Goldsmith. Well, today we got to check off yet another huge name from that list. Here's our chat with ESPN's Mina Kimes. Incredibly excited to welcome NFL analyst for ESPN, host of the Mina Kimes show featuring Lenny, of course. Cannot forget Lenny. Seahs fan, Maris fan. She just wrapped up her Around the Horn career tied for the fifth highest winning percentage in the show's history. She's an absolute ball knower.

Her name is Mina Kimes, and she joins us now on the Lockdown Merritt podcast. Mina, thanks for taking the time. Thank you so much for having me. We all got to do final FaceTimes on Around the Horn, which, you know, most people used to say, like very emotional, loving things. I think right before I went, one of my friends, Harry Lyle's, like, teared up, giving him. And then I immediately went after him with a go-ems. Mariner's are winning the world theory. So not really totally appropriate. But yeah, definitely it's been fun to do that show and I'm going to miss it a lot. So before we hit record, I asked you, you know, we were

chatting a little bit and I asked you, you know, are you familiar with the show? And you said, Yeah, I am actually. And you mentioned that you have or that you had tweeted something or skeeted. Posted. Sure. Yeah, we'll just go. We'll go posted on blue sky. And we decided to hold off on what that was until we started recording.

So please do sure. Yes. I have listened to the show. And I actually didn't know what either of you guys look like. So now I know. And I did a post that I, actually posted right after I listened to this podcast and I'm going to read it to you. Okay.

It's on blue sky. The ideal two person podcast has one fairly upbeat normie, usually the host and one grump who loves to complain, unbeatable formula. Yeah. And really people reposted and they were like, this is like my show. No, it's not your show. It was specifically I would posted it right after listening to the lockdown meritist podcast, unbeatable formula. That's called you a grump, tie. Take that. That's right. That's right. You're the, you're the umpy normie.

That's right. That's right. Totally. Just say it. It's, it's, it's, I, you can't have too much positivity. You can't have too much negativity. You need the yin. You need the yang. It's every great show. That's right. You hear that comment section? We just said so. You know why you need a grumpy dude. Sorry. Let me just get in. Because when, and again, I've listened to many episodes of this show, when something, it's like Simon Cowell. on the original American Idol or the X Factor or whatever. When something good happens and they're happy, it means so much more. If a guy who's like a little bit like, convergingly is like, you know what?

That was great. Carly's awesome or whatever. You're like, yeah, because you know, it takes a lot to impress that person. That's right. That's right. You're welcome. You're welcome comment section. There you go.

There you go. I'm on. Colby Patnode officially Mena approved. So I mentioned your success on Around the Horn. Obviously, like you said, it aired its last episode a few days ago. That show personally meant a lot to me. You know, I watched it since I was a kid. I don't know if it necessarily inspired me to get into this field, but it definitely opened

up my interest in it because, you know, it made sports talk incredibly fun. It turned it into a game. And it also meant, you know, coming correct with your talking points or else, you know, you're going to get muted. You're going to lose. So you better do your research and know what the hell you're talking about. I just absolutely loved it. And I was gutted when I heard it was no longer going to air. So I'd love to just hear you quickly talk about your experience on that show and what it meant to you before we get into the mirrors. Yeah. So one of the few shows on ESPN that regularly talk baseball, by the way, relative to this show. You know, around the horn, like a lot of folks,

I was a sports writer first, and it was sort of my launching pad to being on television. Now I don't write anymore at all. But, you know, I'm a full-time analyst on NFL Live, which is our football show. But a lot of writers like myself got their shot on Around the Horn. And also, like, taught me how to do television, talking about a wide variety of sports in a very small amount of time, you know, reacting to other people. So it was really, really instrumental in my career. And it was fun to go back and revisit.

You know, I've been doing it for eight years, hundreds of shows at this point. It's funny, I posted probably the clip of mine that I feel like most people associate me with most with around the horn, didn't even happen on the actual show, which was our producer, broke the news that Shohayatani signed with the Angels

and not the Mariners to me. In between a commercial break, I was so distraught, which in retrospect, like, I don't know how you guys felt when that happened. I don't know what part of me even believed it would happen. Now I'm just like, you fool, you sweet summer child. Like this horrible ownership.

Come on. Yeah. But I literally, I somehow convinced myself what was going to happen. And you can see me go through like the 12 stages of grief like in real time holding up the show as I processed that and like lost my ageed well. By the way, rare old take that actually aged well. But yeah, it's a show. And I, you know, the guys are great. I mean, they were OGs are awesome.

I became friends with a lot of the. original cast Jackie McMullen, Tim Kalashaw has become a really dear friend of mine, has Loki the coolest television and movie taste of any old dude on earth. He loves like explosions in the sky. So anyways, Around the Horn, R-I-P, amazing show. We'll be missed a great deal by me.

Absolutely. Colby, you were curious about being his dream around the horn lineup, right? Yeah, just like who are the four? Because like for me, I come home from school every day and I wanted to see Woody Page. I wanted to see what he wrote on the, chalkboard. I wanted to see Jay Adande and Kalashaw and just argue, Blackestone, argue about the Mavs or whatever was going on. I was just wondering, like, if you could put together your,

like, dream team essentially around the horn guest, who would be your four? It's a great question. Definitely Kalashaw. I would say Jackie McMillan, who's just like the goat, honestly. And I was so intimidated by her. I mean, first started doing it. Isola, Frank Isola, because he is like a, will often take like the opposite side so it, you can have like a good disagreement. He's very, I wouldn't say he's anti-analytic, but him and I like do not see eye to eye in a lot of things with which makes fun for television, make fun, makes for fun television. And then, um, I'll throw in Bomani, Bumani Jones.

He's a friend of mine. Oh, Bumani's the best. Yeah. Yeah. Awesome. Love that. That's a great call. That's a great call.

Um, So, so again, you, uh, you mentioned, uh, you know, what you said during your last face time on around the horn. The Marys are one in the world series this year. So let, let's talk about this Marys ball club. I guess firstly, just give us your general thoughts on the club. Good. Glad we're recording after dub. Yeah. Yeah. Not after the Astro series. Yeah. Yeah. I, I, I feel good. I think I still have a lot of skepticism. isn't about the offense. That's obviously been a little bit substantiated over

the last few weeks, but I keep telling myself, you know, that'll be matched by the regression to the mean on pitching when those guys come back. You know, I think that last year it was such obviously bullshit.

Like, we were just not a good team. Even when we had the division, you know, lead and whatnot. And I think, Kobe and I did an episode, like, right before they blew the 10-game lead in the division where we're like, this is awesome, but how are they doing this? So, yeah, totally. In my sport, it's like no one gets angry at me than a fan base of a team that, you know,

is not as good as their record, like the Vikings a few years ago where they're unsustainably winning the one-score games. If you look at all the real metrics, they show you that. And I think someone who's sort of numbers driven like me, I was very skeptical of the team last year. I think this year there there's enough to counter some of that skepticism in things that I think will be better. And then there's actually signs of there's reasons to be optimistic that feel real, right? Like what we're seeing out of Julio this year, for example. Yeah.

So, and then, you know, I mean, Cal being, you know, the best athlete in the face of the earth. That's right. So I mean, yeah, right. Good Lord. So anyways, I feel good. I don't think they're this juggernaut. I'm not that, you know, of much of a homer. But I do think that they are a good team.

And I also think they should win the division. More from our conversation with Mina Kimes in just a moment. But first, a reminder of this episode of the Lockdown-Ares podcast is brought to you by Wonderful Pistachios. Looking for a snack that's both delicious and nutritious. Crack into a good source of protein with wonderful pistachios. Wonderful pistachios is one of the highest protein nuts. Each one-out serving has six grams of protein, giving you over 10% of your data. daily value. Plus, they're packed with fiber and better for you unsaturated fats to help

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So are you cautiously optimistic, more pessimistic, like, prove it to me and then I'll believe type of thing or what? Yeah, I think that's right. I think I was really a hater this off season, and I think I'm still having trouble overriding some of that. And then there's like, is there a little part of you that's like, hates to see them rewarded? Yes.

Yeah, yeah. I love this, but like I hate that. Yeah. Yeah, I hate that. It gives John Stanton all the more reason to not spend money. Yeah. Yeah. I think I'm pretty moderate.

I really try not to be a homer with my teams, not in how I feel, but how I analyze them. And I think I'm pretty realistic about the merits without being a Debbie Downer. I really don't think I am. You mentioned them just a second ago. I mean, what do we have to do in order to get Cal Raleigh some more national attention? I mean, the guy's clearly best player at one of the most. premium positions of the sport he's the second most valuable player in the game by f4 right now i mean he's on pace for one of the greatest catcher seasons ever we just talked about about that on the show that we

just recorded today um what more does this guy have to do in order to get some love outside of seattle you know what i was just looking up the um his the uh the the the homer in the head of the drought pardon me and it only has 200 000 views on youtube which i was like where various fans where we at maybe they're watching it on TikTok and try to know but um yeah I I I don't follow him super I haven't watched any interviews like what is his person do you feel like he could use more national does he have a personality that maybe could use a little more time I mean he's got a little bit of a person I mean he's like he's more about his business but like you know what you see kind of tamps that down a little bit so it's hard but there's definitely more personality there but he's much more of the mode of like

you know, I handle my business and he's really tight with the city of Seattle. Like he'll show his personality there, but yeah, I mean like, yeah, he could probably show a little bit more, but I don't know if that's really his personality type. Yeah, but I mean, like you see him interacting with like, yeah, but you see him like interacting with like Logan Gilbert and like they have a lot of, I mean, those guys have

known each other for forever now and they've been roommates and, you know, teammates for forever now. So. Yeah. So, yeah. So you kind of see it there with like his um his like friendships and all that you kind of see it come out a bit more he was on uh mooky betts's podcast uh last year when they played against each other and he was like pretty good on that like okay well you guys have motivated me i'm going to make it my mission maybe i put a little sign on my tv backdrop cow rally ralea MVP campaign starts here at minimum Yeah, we need to show big dumpers some more love.

I mean, the best nickname in professional sports right now, right? There's so few nicknames where you hear it and you're like, huh? And then he walks out, you're like, oh, like you see it. So I live in Toronto. So I only get to see the mirrors like three times a year. And so my wife came with me to the final game last month. And we're sitting behind whole plate and we're watching him, you know, taking swings in the on deck circle and we're just like wow yeah wow like I watch the guy

every day you know this is my job like I have to watch all the games and even me like seeing him in person I'm just like wow you think he knows what a BBL is should I ask him if I get the opportunity you should absolutely ask him what a BBL is okay I might have the opportunity by the way yeah do it yes do it do it yes if you have the opportunity ask him what a bbl is if you don't get that opportunity Aaron Goldsmith Ryan Rollinsmith anyone who might be watching the show ask him ask him please Colby Colby you got anything for being yeah you know Tyne we're having a conversation at the end of the show that we recorded earlier today the Seahawks have dominated this town for the last decade plus I've rightfully so when you look at the the success they've had but as they've kind of

taking a step back a little bit. A lot of new faces this year. Ty and I were talking about like, who is like the biggest sports star in the city of Seattle right now? We were thinking are the top three all Mariners? Oh, like is that Cal Raleigh, Julio? Yeah. Is it JSN?

Is it Logan? Is it, I mean. I was talking to someone who, um, uh, whatever I was saying. The Devin Witherspoon's agent. And I was like, you know, Devonler Spood might be the most common Seahawks jersey in like two years because there really are so few faces of the team at this point. And you're right. Like maybe JSA, but it's really been quite the turning of the page with the Seahawks.

And yeah, it might be. I would say Julio and Cal are probably in the top three, which is because there's no basketball team, which is wild. I don't know how popular hockey is there. You guys can tell me. I'm not, I don't pretend like that. Yeah, well, they don't really have like a star player right now. Yeah. I was, so I went to the All-Star game, well, it's it two years ago?

I was in Seattle. Yeah. At the time and hiding it, not to people who were at the game. It was very obvious. And I was there to, Kenny Main and I were hosting the celebrity softball game. By the way, I was, I got up to the. final thing. I remember this vividly because my just great Seattle story. And I fell down because my feet both cramped up and I couldn't move. And Bobby Wagner ran over. It was like, get this pregnant

woman a Gatorade. I don't know, Bobby Wagner. He's like at a six sense. Good guy, Bobby Wagner. But anyways, we love BWax. Honestly, truly one of the best students. But this is a rowball. I also, sorry, I know why I'm like telling name dropy stories. But Jeff Patton introduced me to Felix, who is hanging out and I froze up like a total loser like full on like the only other person I've ever frozen up around is Marchion Lynch who I completely I I just was like understandable yeah yeah and also Marchon doesn't like meeting people so he's not like also understandable yeah but Felix I was like you just meet so much to me and he was like cool right But anyways, sorry, this is such a roundabout way of answering your question.

That was the home run derby where Julio hit like, he, I mean, it was freaking, he didn't win, but he had. And I swear to Gad in that moment in, were you guys there in this in the stadium? No, no, no. Being in that stadium and just in city of Seattle, I was like, Julio could run for mayor like right now in a snap election and win. Like I've never the amount of like charisma and just buy in from the city just watching him just smash like it was just honestly it gave me. It reminded me of like watching the Legion of Boom in like 2013 in Seattle. It's just that kind of moment. So there's a great picture from that afternoon.

Um, I think it was when he like took his time out during the day. Yeah. Yeah. I'll try. I'll try and fight it and if I do. I'll put it up on the screen. Just the whole crowd standing. Like yeah.

Yeah, so. Yeah, just like, by the way, after that, I was after the Homer Derby, I was hanging at our hotel. And I was like, is that Marchion Lynch just standing outside of our hotel? And I looked at it was. And you could just, and so I was watching the window, people driving by and literally everyone had me like, is that Marciaun Lynch? And he was just standing outside, like, ripping a sick or something. And like, everyone was, wait, what? Like, hey, yeah, he's the best.

Love it. Love it. Yeah, I've been so blessed. So many great. For real. Yeah. For real. You know, something Colby and I also talk fairly often about are the, you know,

the similarities between the current iterations of the Marys and the Seahawks. And obviously there are only so many parallels you can make because football and baseball are such different sports and roster building in both sports is wildly different. But, you know, both teams have long tenure front offices. Both have gone through a recent major coaching change. Both for the last few years have been fringe playoff contenders. if you had to pick one of them to be the likeliest to kind of break through that

and win a championship in the next say three to five years, who are you taking? I'm taking the baroners. Crazy. Yeah. Right? We are too. We are too.

I just, I think about saying that like even four or five years ago. People would have ripped you to shreds. It's just, I mean, the organization, the farm system. Like,

how can you, like, it's the future is so bright. Now, I have to preface this by saying, like I'm very big Gino guy. So I'm not a huge fan of the way this off season is gone for the Seahawks. Yeah.

So I'm a little more down on the Seahawks as far as this year goes and the immediate future as maybe some other people in the fan base. So that does play a role here. One thing the Seahawks have is better ownership. I mean, well, also ownership matters less in football for obvious reasons. And yeah, I will never praise. No. No, but yeah, like to Coli and I, again, we've been talking about this for a long time. We've actually even put this out on Twitter a few times.

And I'm sure you can guess so like the overwhelming majority answer is the Seahawks. Really? Yeah, yeah. I mean, well, you know, again, the mares are the mares, right? Yeah. The mares have a certain reputation that, you know, they're not going to get rid of until they actually went for real. So ready to be so angry at the trade dead. You guys think we're going to do anything?

Give me some. I mean, I know it's not a great market. Yeah, that's the issue. I mean, like, right now the meta of the market is, you know, it's a seller's market, right? Not because of the expanded playoffs and just so many teams just kind of want to straddle offense in general. You know, there's just not going to be that many sellers. But, I mean, the mayors are positioned as well as any team in the sport right now to go out and get whoever is available because of just how good their farm system. is and how even better it's going to get here in the next couple of months.

So, but yeah, I mean, like this year, though, there's, you know, Kyle Tucker's not going to get traded by the Cubs. They're not going to trade them. Vlad just signed his extension with the Blue Jays, so he's not going to be available. So there isn't going to be an elite player available. So it's more like, you know, we're looking at maybe there's another Rania Rosarena out there, hopefully. It's been good to see him turn things around.

Yeah. Yeah. I think they're going to at the deadline this year. I think they're going to push some chips in. It sounds like they wanted to in the offseason via trade, but nobody wanted prospects, and they didn't properly plan for that. But I do think they might overpay a little bit. They might go out and get aggressive, especially if they're in first place. I mean, if you're in first place at the All-Star break, like, that's real.

It doesn't matter if you're one game or eight games. It doesn't matter. You are in prime position. And they have gotten aggressive. They got pretty aggressive last year. at the deadline. And so I do think they could have another deadline like that. I do think those type of pieces,

the Justin Turner's and the Randy Rosarine, is similar players will be available. So I actually kind of think they are going to be a little bit aggressive out there and kind of push the chips in. It's probably a matter of how much money ownership is willing to kick into the budget, depending on, you know, how big they go. Yeah, I actually think they want to be aggressive. Yeah.

I think they want to be aggressive, though. So at least, I really hope they do. Because I really don't want to do the episode. I don't know. That was terrible. Something better. Tried in something.

I don't know. We'll workshop it. We'll workshop it. But yeah, I really don't want to do the episode after the trade deadline if they don't do anything. We've had to do that after 2023 when they traded Paul Sewald and then didn't do anything. And they tried to trade away to Oscar and Annas. And then, oh, well, look at that.

Julio is like the best player on the planet in the month of August and all of a sudden we're in first place man it would have been great if we just you know added someone at the deadline but no yeah yeah yeah anyway uh yeah don't get me wrong about the 2023 deadline i i will go on about that for days um some of your favorite mariners memory oh um a personal memory i think one of the first games i went to at the kingdom was when I was like seven or something, very young, under 10. And this could have been so many games, right, but Edgar Martinez hit the game-winning home run.

God, I wish I should have read down what year this was. I think, yeah, he's my all-time favorite mariner. And I think it was kind of solidified in my mind at that moment, just like anything good that happens when you're under 10 years old, just forms who you are as a personality. Good choice, though, right? favorite player um i was 10 for the double so that's also pretty you know pretty for a part of my prefrontal cortex i think uh from that age um other i mean other favorites a lot of i so so i'm actually

not from seattle i grew up all over the country my dad was from seattle so we always went to Seattle every summer, spend time with my grandparents, and we would always go to at least one or two Mariners games. And then wherever we were living, whether it was like in Arizona or California or whatnot, we would try to go to games when they visited. But, you know, going to the kingdom when I was really young, some of my earliest sports memories, certainly more earlier than football and basketball ones, because that was a big part of growing up for me. And also just like, you know, my age. lined up, I don't know how old you guys are, probably the lawyer going to be, but like it lined up perfectly with those years. And then, you know, for the 2001, I think I was in at the end of middle

school at that point. And we were just, I mean, that season, we were, my family watched like every game on television that we could that year. And yeah, that was obviously pretty formative too. Colby, anything else before we let me to go? You just, you don't care about my favorite memory? Not at all. No. I want to know. What is it? Yeah, I was actually at the cow drought ender. I got to see that live. And I was sitting there in the stands for three hours.

And I couldn't get my shoulders to relax. I was so bunched up. And it took until about, I don't know, 15 minutes after the home run and all that, that my shoulders finally like unlocked. And I got to see Scott Service drunk on the field. So that was a lot of fun. But, yeah, more recent. But yeah, yeah, that one always stands out.

would have killed to be on that to be there that was oh my god yeah they played the um for some reason i think like when there was no live sports ESPN kept playing like the 90 the double game on ESPN or something class yeah uh yeah a lot of people i think younger hadn't seen it in its entirety it's really worth rewatching and it's because we always watch the moment but like the entire game like randy i mean it's just so tense and like it's similar to you're like oh my god i feel i was in the crowd for this i would have been like literally just so stressed the entire game and then absolutely yeah i i uh yeah so it's funny you brought up the the cal home run um they were watching the video because i actually watched it again last night

as well and you know they have the full at bat on there on youtube and it's like i didn't remember it being like an eight pitch at bat yeah yeah like you just kind of like forget those things even though it was like only like three it was like three years ago not even no I forgot that too I yeah it's a slider it's right yeah uh yeah he I also forgot that like I remember he had he had heated up you know but it's it was kind of funny saying that 202 or whatever he's who is batting pop up on the bottom of the screen I was like gal like yeah I got my memory you know it's just yeah it is really really funny to revisit and to go back to your question at the beginning about like how do we get Cal I mean he's so adorable in that moment he looks so happy yeah it is so cute he was like it like a

like a giant baby played baseball I feel like yeah we had a Brian O'Keefe who um got called up for like the hangover game the next day to play uh he uh you know career minor league dude got called up for this for this moment so we talked about that but he told me you know so so Cal Pinchette in that game for the for the for the for the drought under and he was like I went down to the cages down the clubhouse and I was watching him take some hacks and they were the worst swings I've ever seen in my entire life wow and then he went up there and did that what's gotten into him guys like what is it is it the hitting coach is it like what do you attribute this to this season I mean And the big thing, the big thing is like he's hitting from the right side now.

Like that was kind of like the biggest weakness for him. He's actually producing for the right say. He's hitting for average and he's hitting from the right side. Yeah. His splits were so dramatic. Yeah. Very, very different. I mean, from 2021 to 2023, he only had seven home runs from the right side.

He had 13 last year from the right side. And now he already has eight. So, yeah. So that's been a big part of it. I think, yeah, you know, Kevin Siteser, Bobby, my getting honest that, you know, the hitting coaches, their philosophy that they've kind of brought in as well as Edgar, obviously, you know, kind of staying up the middle. Cal's talked about this. Yeah, it's, it's helped them.

It's helped them. You know, it's funny, though, you know, we had Gary Hill Jr. Mara's radio broadcaster on the show last week. And, and he was talking about, you know, how, like, they, they have that philosophy of, like, trying to stay up the middle more. But they're pulling the ball. So as much as they were last year. It's just, you know, I don't know. just laid into more success.

Yeah. So interesting. Yeah. The nice thing is he's ours for the next six years. They got that extension done and out of the way. God, what has aged better than that? You know, holy smokes. So what are your next couple months looking like before training camp kicks off?

Yeah. I do still podcasting. My show, if you guys are listening to this and you're a football fan, the Meantime show featuring Lenny is all your. We talk about the entire league, but there's always a lot of Seahawks talk. I know I sound, I've been kind of negative on some of the Seahawks stuff, but I'm very positive about the defense. So you can tune into that. And we are doing, I'm doing a series of interviews with players over the next few weeks as well.

You can check out at YouTube.com slash at Mina Kimes. Maybe Calrell. Yeah, I don't know. We'll see. You guys have to give you some questions to ask him other than the BBL one. Definitely got out. Sounds good. Well, Mina, I want to thank you for being so gracious with your time.

It was such a pleasure to finally get the chance to meet you and speak with you. And I hope we can do it again sometime. Thanks so much. Maybe around the world series. Keep it up, guys. Yeah, let's do it. Let's do it. Thank you.

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