Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - Fan Mailbag

Episode Date: October 12, 2020

Today, D.C. opens up the Fan Mailbag. He answers questions about Ty France, the M's offseason, bowling, and his gym membership. He then talks about the PBA Playoffs which are taking place at this time, which include Marshall Kent, a local bowler from Yakima. 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. Yes, indeed. I am D.C. Lundberg, and I think I'm coming down with a cold. In any case, Locked-on Mariners is about to come at you, the email edition or the mail-bag edition of Locked-on Mariner's, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network brought to you today by Bilt Bar, the best-tasting protein bars in the history of history. Find them at built bar.com and put together a box of the flavors you would most like to try. The new flavors are fantastic in addition to the 12 classic flavors that they already had.

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home. Show today is probably going to be on the shorter side. We're going to do a fan mailbag for the entire show, and Jason Hernandez is not available to do this one. So I'm going to, so Lewis, I'm going to save your letter for next time so we can both reply to it. So Jason and I can both reply to it on the air. We are going to begin with a letter that came to us from somebody who did not leave a name or a hometown, kind of disappointing. Question is simple. All they say is What the hell is a dinner bucket? I was talking about bowling, evidently, on one of my previous shows.

Dinner bucket, when bowling, when you throw your first shot in a frame, the pins that are remaining that you need to knock down for your spare attempt, certain formations have different nicknames, and the dinner bucket is one of them. It's the 24-58 combination for a right-hander or a 3-4,

no, 356-9 for a left-hander, almost all the bowlers are right-handed. There are a few left-handed bowlers out there. But it's that combination of four pins that is called the dinner bucket. That is the nickname for that spare formation. It's a 4-6-7-10 has a bunch of nicknames. Big 4, double pinnuckle among them. 7-10 is goalposts or it's just commonly called the 7-10,

which has been made on television three times in 1980 and then twice in 1991. The 3-10 for a right-hander is called a baby split. It's made all the time, which would be a 27 for left-handers, and the 5-7-10, which is a very tough leave. You've got to have to have some bad luck to leave that one. That's called the sour apple. So it's basically a formation of pins that is a spare attempt. That's what the dinner bucket is, the 24-5-8. Next question comes to us from Aidan Soans.

East Hampton, Connecticut, our regular emailer, I think that's what I said, six shows in a row now for Mr. Soans. and he asks, do you think Ty France will now be a part of the Mariners' future team and fill the void at third base? Also, do you count this Mariners season as a success or a failure? Two different questions to get into. I'll address Ty France first. Yeah, I do think he's a part of the future team. I'm not sure what kind of void there is at third base right now. Kyle Seeger started strong, obviously finished very weakly.

So maybe there is a void there. Ty France can spell Kyle Seeger at third base. so maybe Kyle Seeger won't be an everyday player coming from here on up, maybe four or five starts a week with Ty France spelling him at third base when Kyle Seeger gets an off day. He can play some second base as well, some first base, and he can DH for you. Yeah, he can swing the bat. He's absolutely a part of this future team. And this season is a successor of failure. That's kind of tough to say just because, you know, it's a growing team.

It's a developing team. And there were some developing pieces that did very, very, very. well, Marco Gonzalez, Justice Sheffield, Kyle Lewis, at least for the first two-thirds of the season, and then others who did not fare so well. I would even throw Justin Dunn into that camp, as well as most of the bullpen. Evan White struggled, as did Shedlong Jr. So I think you have to kind of judge the individual players who are developing to see if they had successful seasons or they did not have successful seasons. At large, I would say, you know, closer to the success side than a failure side.

It certainly was by no stretch of the imagination a failure, but it's a very tough question to judge just because this is a developing team. And when you're talking about a developing team, you're talking about the individual players who are developing. So I think you have to go with the individual player seasons were those individual seasons successes or failures. So I hope I answered your question, Aidan. We're going to move on to our next question,

who that comes to us from somebody else who did not leave a name or hometown, kind of bouncing off what Aden said in a sense. He asks, what moves do you think Jerry Depoto will make this offseason? Do you think he will try to acquire some more prospects, or will he try to acquire a, quote, win now piece, end quote, to be competitive in 2021? Nothing Jerry Depoto does should surprise anybody. Actually, let me rephrase that. Anything Jerry DePoto does will surprised me because he's very hard to read. They keep everything behind kind of closed doors, so to speak, which is honestly the way to run a baseball team. You don't want everything out there in the open because that can make negotiations a lot harder. I don't see them really acquiring a win now piece,

but I wouldn't be surprised to, I wouldn't be, I don't think that's going to happen. In terms of acquiring some more prospects, I think the team may more or less kind of stand pat. I don't know who they would trade away. for prospects other than Kyle Seeger, and I think he would have to start the season very strongly next year to be able to have some sort of value since he did finish so poorly. You know, that's a tough question to answer as well.

So I'm really not sure, but I don't see him acquiring a win now piece. So there you go. We're going to take a break at this time. Again, no Mariners trivia question today. So I'm going to jump right into talking to you about postmates. When you need red wine at 4 p.m., it's time to seek some help. But if you need sushi, sushi, it's in the script right there, ladies, not the part of what

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Download Postmates and save with code Locked On. Question or comment on the show? I bet you've got something to say, so send it on over to Lockdown Mariners at gmail.com for consideration in a future mailbag episode. I say this all the time questions about anything. It doesn't need to be baseball related. I've answered some non-baseball related questions already. Send those in.

I'm happy to read those. And you can even ask ridiculous questions like the one I submitted to Locked-on Ducks host, Jason Hernandez. I got two more questions. I'm going to gloss over this next question because this one just made me shake my head in disbelief and I'm kind of hating this. Even though he's a buddy of mine.

This comes up from D.C. Lundberg. If they made a movie about it, an infantile pull hustler, should they title Baby Shark. I hate that song so much. See, I know he hates Baby Shark, so that's why I asked that question. So send me joke questions like that, too.

I'd be happy to get those. Lockedon Mariners at gmail.com once more is that address. This episode of Locked on Mariner's will continue upon the following conclusion of after this. Oh my gosh. Now time for the second half of Locked on Mariners. Once again, your host, D.C. Lundberg. Thank you, Joey.

The second half of Locked-on Mariners is about to come at you right at this exact moment. Our mailbag episode where I reply to your email questions and comments on the air, I thought I had two questions left. I have one because one of them was basically the exact same question I answered earlier, asking me what I thought Jerry Depoda would do in the off season. I got two of those, and I've already answered that. So our last question, and then I'll just kind of go off on a little bit of a, not a tangent, because it's not a negative thing I'm going to talk about.

But our last question comes to us from our old friend and loyal listener, John in Fife, who asks this, is there a personal trainer or someone that you could work with at your gym? Well, yes and no. They do employ a personal trainer, but I am going later on in the evenings when there's hardly anybody there and the gym isn't staffed. my day job I don't get home from until you know quarter after 7 7 o'clock at the very earliest and also then I'm recording the show so I'm not going to the gym usually until at least 10 o'clock at night

which is kind of a benefit because that means there's nobody else there and I get all the equipment to myself which is kind of nice so they do implore a personal trainer I wouldn't even really utilize one anyway because I pretty much know what I need to be doing a little bit on the treadmill not as much as I was planning because somewhere over the course of the last six or seven years, my legs are not as good as they once was when I lost a bunch of weight for the first time.

And a lot of weightlifting, you know, various muscle groups as it were. And like I said, I've done this before. I've lost a bunch of weight before, so I know what I need to be doing. And this is where the Rod Rod Roddy part of the show comes in where he would update his weight loss on the prices right about 30 years ago. It's time for me to reveal the fact that I have yet to lose any weight,

but at the same time, I'm kind of easing into it because my body is not used to all this exercise. And that is, I was going to do that anyway. And then the person whom I was working out with before, when I was losing all my weight in who I trust and has really studied this, also gave me the advice to ease into it. So the fact that I haven't lost anything as of yet is not very concerning to me. Also the fact that I am doing a lot of weightlifting.

So that's going to add muscle weight. So I'm probably losing a little bit of fat and adding a little bit of muscle. So breaking even at this time, I am totally fine with as time goes on and I go to the gym more often and my, you know, workouts become more rigorous. Then breaking even is going to become a problem. But to start off, I'm okay with what I'm doing now, easing into it and doing it that way. And that is going to do it for the emails for this go-around. I thought I had more and I still have some time to chew up in the program.

So if you want to participate in one of these email segments, email a question or comment on any subject. to Locked on Mariners at gmail.com. Going to wrap up the show talking about the playoffs, the PBA playoffs, which began on television Saturday evening on Fox. And they are going to be running every, I believe every Saturday on the Fox network, not FS1, the big network, network television.

And they start with 24 bowlers. The top eight seeds get buys into the next round. And they had the first, four matches, I believe, yeah, four matches last Saturday. And among the participants in that was 12-seated Marshall Kent, who is a local kid. He is from Yakima. He's not a kid, but he is a local bowler from Yakima.

He now lives in Las Vegas, but his roots are in Yakima. So local Seattle fans, if you want to watch some bowling, you now have somebody local to root for. Marshall Kent, very, very good bowler. And as a matter of fact, Mr. Kent, He lost his father to cancer a few weeks ago. So I'm pulling for him even more than I would ordinarily. I want to see this guy pull it off.

This is the second year that the PBA is doing the PBA playoffs, this bracketed system. And the players are seated based on a point system, which they have, you know, how many times is a player won, how many times has a player made a telecast, how much money have they won? That all plays into it. And then they take the top 24 and then bracket them for this one competition. Chris Prather won the event last year,

and he won $100,000 as a result, which in PBA Prize money is huge. It's very, very entertaining, and this is going to run every Saturday or Sunday. It's going to be once a weekend, I believe every Saturday, through early November. So there's going to be network bowling every weekend through the first couple of weeks of November,

and I'm very, very excited about that. And I urge you to check it out. Bowling is a lot of fun, and I hope you check it out, and I hope you agree with that. That's going to do it for this edition of Locked-on Mariners. We'll be back tomorrow, Monday, for a brand-new week of Locked-on Mariners, joining me on this Monday program.

We'll be Darren Stevens, Optimus Prime, and a bag of tortilla chips. I think Optimus is just going to eat all the tortilla chips. In any case, remember to download rate and subscribe to this program, Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Spotify, Stitcher Radio, any podcasting app that you can think of, look for us there. Follow us on Twitter as well, ladies and gentlemen, at L.O. underscore Mariners. And follow me on Twitter at D.C. underscore Lundberg.

Thank you for listening to all this week's shows. They were all really late. I apologize for that. Next week should be better. I really hope it's better. And I'm running out of things to say, and my brain just turned off, so I'll talk to you later. This is Joey Martin speaking for Locked-on Mariners, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network.