Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - Mailbag, Part 2: Yohan Ramírez Love, Prospect Swaps and More

Episode Date: January 26, 2022

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And on today's episode of Lockdown Mariners, we're continuing our weekly. mailbag from Monday's episode getting to all the questions we weren't able to then. We're going to be talking potential prospect swaps for the Mariners, what they could do in center field this off season, and a whole lot more. So if this is your first time joining us, welcome to the show. If you like what you hear, give us a follow or subscribe. Wherever you're listening to this, we'd greatly appreciate it. So let's kick things off with Daisy and the dingo, who we're going to see a few questions from

on today's show. starting with a question about Charlie Colberson, the former utility man of the Diamond, or of the Dodgers rather, and the Rangers. How much sense would a one year, would a little one year bench slash platoon deal for Charlie Culberson make? The dude was 19th in the Biggs last year with 152 WRC plus against lefties. If he sucks, you can just cut him and eat the around $1 million. It would probably cost to sign him. says Daisy and the dingo. Colby, I know that you like Charlie Culberson a little bit,

especially for what he can do against the lefties. Though the baroners right now are probably more so in the market for a left-handed bat, even though, you know, the big fish that they're going after Chris Bryant, Trevor's story, those guys are righties, say it's Suzuki as well. But what do you think about adding Culberson to the mix when you already have, you know, Adam Fraser, Delamore, and Abraham Toro on the roster? Yeah, for me, Colberson is, a decent backup plan. If you want to, like, hypothetically, you don't get story.

You don't get Bryant. There's really not much else on the market. The asking price for Matt Chapman is absurd. So if you want a platoon, say, Toro and Colverson at third base, like a pretty much a straight platoon, that's fine. Culverston actually still pretty good defender at third base and second base. Can even go stand out at shortstop if you need them to, but, you know, don't. you know, he can even go stand in the outfield.

Like the defensive versatility here is fine. He's actually still a pretty good runner. He had 76 percentile in sprint speed in 2021. He did steal seven bags. But again, you're getting him to be a lefty masher. And Seattle has that. Tom Murphy's a lefty masher. Louis Terence is a lefty masher.

Ty France is a lefty masher. Mitch Hanigar. You know, and if they add, say, hypothetically say a Suzuki, he should be a pretty good hitter against lefties. So, yeah, you have to be careful because he was awful against righties and basically the same sample size. So you really only use him against lefties, which means a straight platoon. So if you strike out on the story and Bryant and you can't get a deal done for Chapman or

Donaldson or anybody like that, yeah, Culberson would make sense. You'd probably rather have Dylan Moore. just because Moore is a little bit more. That's what I was going to ask you. Would you would you rather have Moore or Colverson? I don't know. I don't like being in a position where I have to pick Dylan Moore for anything.

But Moore's probably got more upside. He's got more pop. He can actually play shortstop pretty well. He's pretty good outfielder too. Basically, you know, Moore is a more athletic Charlie Culberson. But Colberson can,

you feel better about Colberson hitting than you do, Dylan Moore, at least against righties or lefties. So, yeah, it's, it's one of those things where they're, they're pretty similar and,

I just, you know, they're honestly not even that far off of age. I think Colberson is three years older. So, yeah, kind of comes, do you want the upside on your 26 man or do you want the,

the safety of Colberson? So, yeah, I think if they did it, I'd be fine with it. But I also think that a pure lefty only, lefty killer only type of player who can't play in the outfield at all is not ideal. But it's a good fallback option. Yeah, I'm not disinterested. I think he would be interesting to add towards the end of the off season, you know, just as like extra piece. He's a late February

early March. Yeah, let him compete in spring training you know, all that and see where, you know, if he may fit. You know, if you sign him, it's not going to cost you really anything. It's going to cost you probably a million bucks like Daisy said.

So, yeah, maybe, you know, it depends on it also depends on how the market takes shape, you know, in this like kind of fast acting type of thing that we're expecting. So, you know, guys like

Charlie Colberson might get the short end of the stick here with how fast things are going. So we'll see. Not zero chance he has to get a minor league deal. Brock Holt, I think, did that last year. Like, there's a shot that that happens. But, yeah, again, if you strike out on anybody to handle third base and you're kind of going into the year

with Toro as the main guy, having Colberson in your back pocket is a very nice luxury to have. Would you rather have Culberson at third base than Dylan Moore? Every day or? No, no, no, not every day, but just as you're back up to Toro? I mean, that's pretty much asking me the same thing. I want Dylan Moore or Culberson.

Sure, but I think that's kind of a more specific role, right? Like, if you strike out on pretty much everyone that you're looking at right now, and you're rolling with Toro into the season and Adam Fraser is your second baseman. I'd probably rather have I'd probably rather have Culperson just because I feel like I can bank on him hitting lefties pretty well Dylan Moore I can't bank on anything at the plate

And do you think that he's defensively like I think he's potentially a little bit better I think he's at least as good If not a little bit better So yeah I just give me the guy I can bank on something at the plate And right now that's Colberson not more I hear you

All right let's move on to another question from Daisy. What do you guys think Johann Ramirez's upside is? He was top 10 in relievers league wide by Stuff Plus, which slightly piqued my interest. Yeah, the fastball slider combo was

excellent for the most far when he came up. And the command was a bit better. He walked 12 guys, I believe, in 28 innings-ish of work. That's workable for him, especially. when he's on

I mean the stuff is absolutely nasty I mean Colby you're you're the Johan Ramirez stand so I guess I should let you speak here on Johan yeah one of my bigger tweets back in the day was uh

uh uh johan Ramirez has better stuff than Edwin Diaz and I stand by that and I think I've been proven right actually um on that end and yeah you know Ramirez this year massive improvements particularly in the walk percentage. In 2020, he was up to a 21.3% based on ball percentage. So one out of every five hitters he faced, he walked.

This year, that was all the way down to 10.5. That's still high. It's not good. It's above average, but it is certainly massive improvement. And he did it without sacrifice in any kind of quality of stuff. In fact, he struck out a higher percentage of batters this year than he did in 2020. And that's well above league average. The stuff for Yohan Ramirez is really, really good.

And we even saw him get a couple of big saves. I think both against Houston, actually. And, you know, 35 strikeouts and 28 innings of 108. Fastball is just explosive. The curveball, just gnarly spin or the slider. It's like really good. It's a really good one to mix. And this is kind of the year you would expect.

him to break out. So yeah, Johan's stuff is that of a high leverage reliever and a pretty good one. It's going to come down to whether or not he can get the walks. Can he drop it down to 8%? Can he

get really close to league average 8.4%? Can he do that? If he can, and he can stay healthy, he's probably the best guy in your pen just in terms of raw stuff. And he was pretty close, right? Like, he was down to 10 and a half, which is, like I said,

it's, that's not league average, but it's, it's better for him, you know, from where he was. It's something he can survive with because of the stuff he has. Yeah. I mean, I, yeah, like I said, it's workable. Yeah. His slider last year generated a 52.2% whiff rate. Yeah. Yeah, I saw that. More than half of the times the hitter swung at the slider.

They missed. Yeah. It's a dominant pitch. And that's also at a hundred and ninety-nine attempts. Like that's not a, that's not a necessarily a small sample size. Like that's almost, you know, that's basically 200 sliders. And roughly 100 of those accounted for whiffs. Like that's incredible.

If Johann Ramirez has 50 grade control of his fastball, not even command, just control. 55 control and 50 command of his fastball He's the best reliever in the Mariners bullpen Unfortunately what we've seen so far is is closer to 45 control and 40 command of the fastball But he's gonna have a shot here to make some real noise He's he's better than like I said stuff wise He's better than Giles he's better than Munoz

But obviously stuff only takes you so far So yeah Yohan Ramirez is definitely a guy we need to watch this spring and this is kind of the potential year for a huge breakout for him. Yeah. Yeah, 2020, he was at 21.3% walk rate. Yep. And then he brought that down to 10.5%. Cut it and a half.

Yeah, that's nothing to scoff at here. So I'm very intrigued by Johann Ramirez heading into the season. I think with the stuff and now that he's finding the plate more consistently, it's pretty exciting. I am, yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing a Yohan Ramirez this year. I think, yeah, I think there's a lot of upside there and there's some safety as well in case, you know, one of your

one of your bigger guys and your bullpen starts to regress a little bit, which is natural. That's, that's kind of to be expected. But this bullpen is really exciting. There's a lot of arms that, you know, obviously we're talking a lot about Giles. We're talking about Castillo. We're talking about sadly we're talking about second writer but think about Andreas Monios you think about Yon Juan Ramirez

yeah CWald of course Swanson you know but you yeah Swanson's another guy that that started really coming on last year Hey you know there's a lot of people that believe in White Mills so hey yeah you never know

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We got some other ones from Aden and Cody as well. But let's start here with Daniel, who asks, according to Ryan Dibbisch, Jared Kelnick is the Mariners starting center fielder. Bad for sure. He notes that Kelnick accounted for negative 16 runs saved in 2021, but would Conforto be any better defensively, he asked. The Ms are likely to play Kyle Lewis mostly at DH.

Maybe we'll see what happens with that. So even if you sign Conforto, you still have to play Kelnick. Who would you put in center instead? So this is, this is, well, yeah, that if he's healthy, but that's a big if. So outside of that, though, we've talked about, I mean, not even his general manager is ready to commit to that. Yeah, no. Kyle Lewis wins a gold glove in 2022 or Ty sells you his house. Wow.

Wow. I mean, I don't have a house to sell, but sure. Yeah, Kelnik was not good out there at all. It was bad. It was bad. And we talked about how it's the added muscle. He's not as fast as he was coming up. Yeah.

He's bolted up. It's cost him. Some range. And he's not going, he's not good going backwards. We saw that. Pretty good coming forward. That's based on my watching of Kelnick highlights and whatnot. He makes a lot of his good plays coming in towards the infield.

It's when he has his back turn and he's running, that he seems to... We saw it in Tampa. You know, that was kind of the big one. Arizona, you had one. Yeah, Arizona. Kling off his glove. I think he had one against Boston, too. Maybe it's possible that that problem is mechanical.

He's kind of running on his heels a little bit. bit. And when you run on your heels and you're tracking a fly ball, the ball tends to bounce. And that makes it harder to track into your glove. So all the balls that, you know, bang off his glove, it's possible that he's running a little flat-footed. So he needs to steady his head, run on his toes, and that way the ball will stay level. It's possible that that's all it is. Because he did get to some of those balls. He just didn't catch them, which is a problem. Yeah. A lot of players on the Mariners. It's not very good of catching in 2021. You remember Malick Smith, by the way?

Like, holy cow. Guy could get to anything. He just wouldn't catch it. By the, for what it's worth, stat cast has Kellnick or had Kellnick at negative 1 in outs above average. He had a 0% success rate added. He was at his worst moving towards first base, so in the right center field gap. yeah he was actually pretty good coming in and he was average going towards left centerfield gap

so it's really moving straight back and to right field that was his issue and again defensive metrics not not perfect not you know not as reliable as offensive metrics and things like that so take all of that with a grain of salt so the question though is who would we play in center field outside of Kyle Lewis, of course. Would we be comfortable in Michael Conforto there? Would it be someone else? Would it be Seis Suzuki who

might be average out there? Yeah. So ideally, again, it's Kyle Lewis, but taking him off the board, you know, based on like the guys who are rumored to be or speculated to be of interest

to Seattle, say a Suzuki would probably be the best one in center field. He's a above average to plus right fielder. But you're not, you're probably not going to have a plus defensive center fielder, at least not of the everyday variety. This is kind of why going out and getting a, you know, we talked about this, I think off air a little bit, Billy Hamilton as the 26 guy on your bench where it's like that. I mean, that's not ideal, but you put him in center field after the eighth inning. Jake Moroznik might be a better Charlie Culverson than Charlie Culberson for you, right?

Because he hits lefties well and he feels a position that you need. Yeah. Well, that's true. But, you know, he does that and he also fills a position of greater need. So. Yeah. I just. It might be something to think about.

Yeah. I just, I think based on like who's on the roster right now, Kelnick probably is the best solution. And that's kind of part of the problem. Yeah. Now, I don't think that Kelnick is that bad. Like, I don't think.

I think he's, I don't think he's negative 16 defensive runs saved bad. Like, I don't think that's going to be his career as a center fielder. No. I think he's averaged there at best for a couple of years. Like, I really hope Kelnik worked on flexibility this year and a little bit like he's working on, you know, agility a little bit instead of bulking up even more. But yeah, Kellnick is just, he's a thick dude and he's not as explosive as he once was. So that's why he's, you can't even consider him a centerfielder anymore. So, yeah, ideally Kyle Lewis is healthy and he's ready to go because Kyle Lewis is at least average in centerfield.

And sometimes he's above average. So that would be the ideal, but excluding Lewis based on who's on the roster right now, Kelnick's probably your best option and you'd probably rather have Kelnick in centerfield than Conforto. But I don't think the defensive drop-off between those two is in center field, at least, is honestly that big. Just to be perfectly honest with you. Speaking of outfielders, Mike T wants to know if there's any chance the Dodgers are given up on Cody Bellinger. If so, is taking on his $16 million salary too risky for a potentially huge reward. I don't think the Dodgers are going to give up on him.

The Yop side there is just exponentially high. and he's the Dodgers are not you know scraping for money so I don't think that's that's going to happen maybe in a year's time if he struggles again and I'm talking about to the tune of what he did this past year maybe they think about moving on then but yeah not not this year yeah if he does what he did last year this year he's going to get non-tendered because he's still going to be making 20 million a year and you're not paying $20 million a year for 2020, 2021. He had a 48 WRC plus last year. Yeah, Cody Bellinger.

Like, he was horrific. And that's a huge risk for Seattle too. So if you're the Dodgers, you know, it's, you're not going to give Bellinger away because, like you said, the upside is still there. And if you're the Mariners, aren't you really only interested in taking the risk on Bellinger if you are basically getting him for free? Yeah. Because it's $16 million. That's a pretty big. chunk of what we believe the Mariners have left.

And so if Bellinger figures it out, great. You've hit a home run and you have them for two years. But if he's a disaster, you just flush $16 million and probably some pretty interesting prospects or maybe even a reliever that can help you this year. Like it's a big risk to take for both sides. So I think what ultimately is going to happen here is the Dodgers are going to give Bellinger a good long run here at the beginning of the year. and if he doesn't show improvements,

then I think he might be a guy that they, they move at the deadline because they're going to non-tender him after this year. So it is two years of Bellinger, but it's, it's only one year guaranteed because if he hits like he did last year, you're non-tendering him and you just gave up, I mean, even if it's somebody like Sam Carlson,

you gave up Sam Carlson for a bad player, who you had to pay $16 million to. That's a pretty big risk if you're, Seattle. So I just, I don't, I don't see Ballinger getting traded.

I don't think it makes sense for the Dodgers to do that. And I don't think it, uh, it would make sense for the Mariners to take that risk. Again, unless you can get them for. Diase and Arias or somebody like that.

Areas, you just, you know, yeah, probably pay a little something nicer than that for him because the upside. But, um,

yeah, in the end, I don't think the Dodgers are going to even entertain the idea of moving on from him this off season. So, Yeah, again, if it's just an absolute disaster again where he's, you know, slashing 165-2-40-302 again, yeah, I mean, the Dodgers are not just going to give him $20 million to do that. But I just, I think right now they're going to see or they're going to, they're going to bet on 2021 being an outlier because otherwise Cody Beliger's been.

He wasn't great in 2020. He was okay. 60 game stretch, who cares? I mean, when you're stacking on top of 110 game stretch, that was awful. You have to consider that a downward trend, but... Sure. I mean, he's still slashed 239, 333, 455 with a 113 WRC plus that year. That's still a really good player.

It's not an MVP caliber. That's still a really good player, though. Still an above-average hitter with at least average defense. Like, that's... Is that worth $20 million? dollars. It's not worth $20 million, but again. So there you go.

So he has to be better than that. But there's also the MVP upside along with that as well. Is there? You sure? You sure? You sure? Because right now it looks like 2019 is the outlier. So what I'm saying is that that's the only year he has been MVP worthy. The other years before that, he was good, very good.

Everyday player, All-Star, sure. Yeah. But 2019 is the only year he was, you know, an elite player. And then in 2020 and 2021, he was a little bit better than replacement level over roughly 100 and looks like 161 games, almost an entire full season. So yeah, a replacement level player for $16 million in a prospect. Eh, I'm good. Yeah, I don't know about that. But all right.

So we got, what is it, four more questions. I think it's four more questions to answer. We're going to be getting to those in just a moment. Real quick. A reminder of this episode of Lockdown Mariners is brought to you by betonline. com.A.G. Bet online would like to wish you a happy new betting year as we continue our March to the playoffs and beyond. Bet online remains the number one spot for all the best sports wagering action for 2022. New year and a new updated desktop of mobile website.

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Let's go back to Daisy and the Dingo, who asks, if the. mariners were to engage in a prospect swap which positions would you expect them to look for in return then name a few prospects who might fit the bill so colby i know you got a few ideas on that front get to you in a second here but as far as as far as positions go that they might target for prospects i think you're always looking at arms potential arms maybe a reliever

maybe maybe even a starter that could help you we're looking at third base potentially as a fallback plan to everything else that you got going on outfield potentially we've talked about some young outfielders some some potential prospect swap candidates in that area on fan fiction Friday where are you looking at for a potential prospect swap positionally and then what are some of the ideas that you have with the actual names Yeah, first up, I mean, it's centerfield. If you can find a guy who can play center field every day, that's huge.

And bonus points if you can hit lefty, but it's not required. It certainly doesn't seem like the Mariners care that much based on, you know, some kind of substantiated evidence that they're really interested in Sea Suzuki and no evidence whatsoever that they're interested in Michael Cifordo. But that's a different discussion. So, yeah, center field you're looking for and you're always looking for arms. arms that could be in relief, arms that could start, like, just in general, you're always looking for pitching. Third base could be a possibility, but there's not a lot of those top third base guys out there that aren't going to be.

Right. Daisy, I mean, you know, you've, you've recommended Mark Viantos a couple times on Fan Fiction Friday. So, like, maybe that. But really, I mean, like, Mark Viantos is one of the better third base prospects in the game. I don't even think he's considered a top 100 prospect right now. You know, obviously there's like the big names like Josh Young, of course, but that's kind of a light position right now. Yeah, the other one would be catcher, but again, it's if a team has a young catcher that's pretty close to the big leagues,

they're not giving that guy up. Well, and that's another thing that we should say here too, right? Like if you're making a prospect swap, you want someone that's going to be coming up at the major league level this year, like maybe even someone that made their debut last year, had a cup of coffee, etc. You want someone that's ready,

like either right now or going to be ready by May or June. You know, so that's something that you also have to keep in mind. So that's what, you know, that's what really condenses the possibilities here. And so, you know,

that's why you got to look at guys like Viantos and whatnot. And then, yeah, the catching position. I mean, you set it right there. Right. Like if a team's got,

a young catcher that's like knocking on the door, they're not dealing them. That's just not going to happen. They're going to see what they have first. Right. Well, especially not for prospects. Like they're not, you're not getting, you know,

whoever the top catcher is. Adley Rutchman. I mean, that's a bad example, but you get the point. You're not getting Adley Ruchman for, you know, Julio. Noel V. Marte. Right. I mean, that's, you're just, you're not doing that. So, yeah.

Anyway, so in terms of specifics. I got a couple here from Arizona, which I think makes some sense. Alec Thomas, who you know I like. That's a big one. That's going to be expensive. Right.

Noel V. Marte is my. Thomas is big league ready. He's ready for that challenge. Seems like he's going to hit. He's a good runner. He's a plus defender in center field. He's got some pretty good power, too. Some emerging power. 511, 175.

So, yeah, it's bat speed power. It's not muscle Joey Gallo power. He has performed everywhere along the way, and he's ready to go. You have to give up Noel V because you need upside to pry away a young player from Arizona who should be doing everything it can to clear the lines for their really good farm system. So are they willing to do that? I don't know. But I would do Noelvi Marte for Alec Thomas.

In a perfect world, you could get Thomas for like, Emerson Hancock, but that's just, it's, it's not going to happen. Another, another possibility here, uh, kind of a smaller term thing. Um, maybe somebody like Zach Deloche for, uh, an arm like Levi Kelly or Dre Jameson, maybe Corbyn, uh, Corbyn Martin. Um, Martin has some major league season at 10, 10 games in his career. They have not gone well, but he's still got pretty good stuff. Jamison, you know, really good stuff.

Small frame. He makes Matt Brash look big. But yeah, pretty good stuff. Doesn't throw a ton of strikes, probably a reliever, but that's a guy who could help you in, in 2022. So there's a couple. You know, if you want somebody like, say Nolan Jones, they're probably going to ask for somebody like George Kirby.

Maybe you can do Hancock. and something for Nolan Jones, but that probably not going to be the case. Brennan Davis is a guy that maybe you trade. It's probably George Kirby again. Maybe Noel Vemarte, though. That's a guy to go after. Fidel Bruhan, Brugon, Brugon.

We've talked about him a little bit. Taylor Walls. And maybe, yes, Taylor Walls is, although Walls isn't technically a prospect anymore. That's true. Yeah, yeah. And then the other one I can think of is, Maybe Christian Pache for somebody like Emerson Hancock.

Maybe that's something you can do. Pashet plus defender, plus arm, plus runner, hasn't hit in 67 big league at bats. And there are concerns about his ability to do so. But I think that's why you can get him for Emerson Hancock. So mostly centerfielders is what I came up with. But yeah, there's a few other smaller things where you can swap, you know, Deloche. for a reliever or something like that. But yeah,

Drey Jamison for a Deloche and Alec Thomas for Nelvi-Marte are probably the two favorite I had I had come up with. All right, so let's keep it moving here and answer Daisy's last question. How many times have each of you watched

Sweet 16? My, oh, my. I still have the VCRs that my dad gave to me and probably watch them each over 10 to 15 times a piece as a kit. I don't believe I've actually had those or seen those. Colby, did you have them? Yep, I've had them. I've seen them.

I don't have them anymore. I do have the 1995 team video and the 1996 team video. I found those at a goodwill, and they're in my Mariners collection. So, yeah, I do have a couple of those. But, yeah, overall, I haven't seen those. in a while. You know, I just pretty much YouTube is, you're going to get better.

My Omai is the 95 one, by the way, in case you're wondering. I also have the 1996 one. I probably seen the 96 one more than I have the 95 one. But yeah, overall, I don't know, probably two or three times each. By the way, both of those, if you want to watch those,

are available on YouTube. I wonder what Sweet 116 is about. I don't know. Tough to say. Is that a reference to something? Aiden at SFNI, 58 wants to know, what is your favorite roller coaster

you have written? Do you like roller coasters, Colby? Because I've been on a couple, but my problem with any fair rides, and I've only been to Disneyland. I went for like five days,

but I've only been there once. And I didn't like roller coaster then. So I'd probably be a little bit more open to them now. But my thing with whole with like any kind of fair rides or anything like that is I saw them set up the ring of fire in five minutes. And that has prevented me from going on any ride at a fair or like any kind of like ever. I am not. Let's just say this. It didn't look like they were mechanical engineers. So yeah, I don't do rides that go, you know. more than five feet off the ground, six feet off the ground at fairs.

And I've only been to one theme part. And it was when I was 10. So, no, I don't like roller coasters. I'm not opposed to them. I like some. I just haven't been on many. Like, I've been on the one at the, I guess, if you want to consider it a roller coaster, it was kind of small-ish at the Harry Potter world.

It's like the Buckbeak one. Um, that was okay. Uh, I've been on the California Adventure one at, at Disneyland. Um, just haven't written, just haven't gone on many. Um, but the times I have. Cool. Thumbs up. Um, so to answer your question as in terms of my favorite, I don't really have one, because I don't really have many to pick from. I guess the California adventure one, but that was 16 years ago. So, uh, I couldn't tell you.

you. All right, Cody Anderson, this is our last question. Code underscore mode 15. Do you have any Super Bowl picks? For me, it's Bengals versus Rams. So who are we feeling for conference championship week this weekend? I'm going to go 49ers and Chiefs. Yeah, the same. Rematch of the Super Bowl, what, two years ago? Yeah. And once again, Jimmy Graham will, or Jimmy Graham, same guy. Jimmy Garoppel will miss a wide open, easy touchdown for the win. I don't think Gropolo will even have the chance to do that because Patrick Malams is playing out of his mind right now. So, yeah, I think they get to the Super Bowl. I think Kansas City waxes them pretty considerably. So I can tell you I'm rooting for Bengals 49ers, but I have to pick the Chiefs. Yeah, no, I'm rooting for the Bengals too because like I would like some parity, you know, I would like to see someone new.

I wouldn't, you know, I'm not really into the idea of having a rematch of the Super Bowl two years ago. Plus that Super Bowl was like, eh, it's okay. But yeah, it wasn't very good until the end. Yeah, yeah. And in the end, you know, the NFC championship, not really rooting for either team, you know. But we'll see how that goes. I think, though, the 49ers are hot right now. they're they kind of feel like one of those wildcard teams that go on a run like uh like 2012 ravens um you know like the like the giants teams all that so they they kind of feel like they're playing with uh with that kind of fire but um we'll see should be fun uh this has been a fun playoff this is probably the first time in a while i've actually watched pretty much every minute of every playoff game for the most part like aside from like the Steelers chiefs game that that game was bad for obvious reasons but

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