Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - Reshuffle the Lineup, Scott

Episode Date: August 27, 2021

Join Locked On Mariners hosts Ty Dane Gonzalez and Colby Patnode as they recap last night's frustrating 6-4 loss to the Royals and tell you why the Mariners are in desperate need for a lineup reshuffle. Then, to help cope with last night's defeat, they daydream about a day where the Mariners play in the World Series and wonder who could oppose them from the National League. Finally, contention vs. development: what should the Mariners prioritize over the final 34 games of the season? That and more on today's episode!Be sure to follow or subscribe to Locked On Mariners wherever you prefer your podcasts! For questions and other inquiries, email: [e-mail] the show on Twitter: @LO_Mariners | @danegnzlz | @CPat11For more of Ty and Colby, check out their Patreon: http://patreon.com/controlthezone/Alaska AirlinesIt's now easier than ever to travel globally because Alaska Airlines has joined OneWorld. Visit AlaskaAir.com/OneWorld for more information.BetOnlineThere is only 1 place that has you covered and 1 place we trust. Betonline.ag! Sign up today for a free account at betonline.ag and use that promocode: LOCKEDON for your 50% welcome bonus.Built BarBuilt Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you’ll get 15% off your next order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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no no no no no no you don't get to drop that in there knowing I can't we're on a time crunch tie my takes on Toby McGuire are 100% accurate okay he stinks okay uh sure sure like I said another conversation for another time on another show but on today's episode of Lockdown Mariners I guess we have to talk about that incredibly

frustrating game a little little bit and why a roster reshuffle is absolutely key for this team with 34 games to go. They're now four games back of the wild card. To help us cope, though, we're going to daydream a little bit about the day the Mariners finally make the World Series. I had some fun conversations on Twitter about that earlier this week. We're also going to talk development versus contention. What should the Mariners focus on with a little over a month left and quite a bit of ground to make up the wild card race? But first, I want to remind you to give this show a follow or subscribe to it wherever you prefer your podcast. We'd greatly appreciate it.

I personally am having quite the day with technical issues, among other things. And my reward for that, if you want to call it that, is talking about last night's game. Hopefully, we don't have to linger on it too long because it sucked. The Mariners drop an incredibly frustrating six to four loss to the Royals at T-Mobile Park last night. Jumped out to a 4-0 lead early on. you say Kikuchi was mostly cruising and then the sixth setting came and everything fell apart. The offense left like a billion opportunities out on the field. The lineup construction is a massive problem and we'll get to that.

But man, you know, I think the most disappointing thing for me in this one was Kikuchi. His pitch count was really low. He was really, you know, cruising for the most part was giving up a good deal of hard contact though. And he only generated seven swings and misses on the night. but man, you know, it looked like he might go the distance. And then boom, game over. Kikuchi's night abruptly ends. And the Mariners can't dig themselves out of the hole that the offense and Kikuchi created.

Colby, you know, we try to stay hashtag positive on this show. But it's hard to do that after a loss like this. So tell me, was there any positive that you took away from this game? Yeah, sure. Jake Freely, a couple knocks, including a home run. Looks like he Maybe starting to turn a corner You know you'd like to see him do it for a couple more games

Before you make that declaration But it looks you know Like maybe he's starting to figure some things out Kelnick had a hit last night Should have had another opposite field home run If not for a very nice play by Ben Attendee so that was unfortunate But those two guys swung the bat pretty well

You know, Raleigh had a double He still looks a little overmatched I will talk about that later in the show but yeah there were some positives you know Seattle put up four runs which is pretty good for them unfortunately they probably left about 10 runs on the on you know on the field so uh yeah it's unfortunate and it's it's obviously a bummer that that you say was just cruising and then it just fell off and then at that point it's the one guy you don't want up with the base is loaded uh and you uh and you know and he hits a he hits a grand slam and you put yourself in that position where that that that hurt

because you didn't take advantage of opportunities in the first or the fourth or again in, what was it, the seventh, whatever it was, you had plenty of opportunities to win that game. And you just didn't. And, you know, it's frustrating, sure. But to me, I'm more frustrated with, you know, the horrific at-bats we saw from J.P. Crawford and Mitch Hanigar last night. Yeah. Like, that's much more frustrating to me than say, because I didn't see a lot of this on Twitter,

but you know that there's a portion of the fan base out there. And maybe you are part of this. That was not you specifically, Ty, but you, the listener were a part of this group that thought service shouldn't have taken you, say, out or service, you know what I mean? Like they're going to question that decision because that was the turning point in the game.

And the only thing I questioned about that is why go to Joe Smith? You need strikeouts, right? Yeah. You should have gone to Seawald. And the only, and, you know, again, well, if you go to Seawald there, who closes out the game, well, do you see how it doesn't matter who closes out the game when you lose? Yeah. So you go to Seawald, use your best against their best.

Now, I get it, right? Seawald's sitting back. He's not even thinking about getting ready for another couple of innings in the way Kikuchi was throwing. He might be thinking, that's probably not going to pitch tonight anyway. So Smith is a bet. He can get ready really quick. So I get why maybe Seawald wouldn't have been ready for that, like to just physically, he couldn't get himself ready for that. But, you know, Scott, that's something you have to, you have to consider.

You have to always be thinking, okay, what happens if the wheels fall off here? And so, yeah, it's a little bit on Scott, but I do give him credit for going to the bullpen and not waiting to see if you say could figure it out. It just, it didn't work. You know, it's a bummer. But process over results always. when you're when you're judging a manager and that process made a ton of sense yeah i have no qualms whatsoever about him going to the bullpen there you say lost it in the sixth inning and um that it was going to get ugly really no matter what you just kind of had to shoot your shot there and it probably

should have been seawall but for the reasons that you mentioned you know maybe that was just not an option whatsoever so uh that is you know that's what it is and and and you just got to take it for what it is and move on with that you know the one good thing from the pitching side uh that uh that i saw the the one positive that i took from that matt and dris looked pretty good in his appearance a couple strikeouts in his first inning as a mariner that was uh that was nice to see um but yeah let's talk about these these bats man because oh man that was incredibly frustrating to watch last night um you know another situation where they had first and third no outs cal raleigh hit hit hit a lead off double I believe Luis Terenz had an infield single.

Was that what happened afterward? Yep. And yeah, and then you have J.P. Crawford up to bat. He can't get anything going. Mitch Hanager can't get anything going. Kyle Seeger can't get anything going. And you don't score any runs there. And Ty France doesn't get a single lip-back.

This is, again, this is the problem that we've been talking about on this show for the last couple weeks. Ty France needs to be higher in the lineup. Ty France should not be hitting cleanup He should not be hitting fourth in your lineup Because that is exactly why That's exactly what happens When you have them that far down the lineup Had Thai France come up to the plate

I feel pretty good about him At least making contact To drive in that run from third On a sack fly Feel pretty good about that Oh I mean even a double play Is preferable to a strikeout Because at least the double play you get a run

Yeah These at-bats from Mitch Hanigur specifically are becoming really pathetic and it's incredibly frustrating because again, and we've talked about this, he has not earned the role of a number two hitter. He just has it. Abraham Toro and Thai France have been consistently better than he has over the month of August. You know, it's this, you just, you can't do this. you can't do this anymore. If you're, if you're legitimate about your contention for this wildcard spot,

now you're four back. And you could have won last night. You could have tied the A's on the standings. And you didn't. And you left a ton of runs out there. And plus, like, this wasn't even the worst part about the night.

Brad Keller threw just 11 strikes out of like 36 pitches in the first inning. And they got one run. And a part of that was because of a bad base run. decision by Mitch Hanager. Yep. It's just I don't want to sound like I'm just straight up hating on Mitch Hanager. I know that's probably what it's come off as on this show for a while now for the last couple weeks because we continue to talk about it, but the guy is bad right now.

And he's hurting the team. He's hurting the team more than he's helping for the most part over the last month. Now, when I look at his whole year, he's been fine, right? He's really helped you. Yeah, he's been good. But this past month, he is not helping you whatsoever. He needs to go down in the lineup. Thai France needs to go up.

Abraham Toro needs to go up. J.P. Crawford needs to go down as well as Hanager. I mean, think about this might drip into the next conversation we're going to have anyways. So maybe we'll call this a good old tease. But imagine if you take France and Toro, right, at four and five, and you just flip them to one and two, you leave Seeger at three. have Hanager at four and Crawford at five. I mean, Crawford at five's not ideal, but isn't that better than Crawford at one? Absolutely.

Absolutely. J.B. Crawford doesn't deserve the most at-bats on this team. He doesn't. No. I'm sorry, but he doesn't. He doesn't have the highest upside. Who has the highest upside in this lineup, Thai France?

I mean, technically, Keldnick, but I know, I know what you're saying. Well, sure. Yeah, yeah. Like right now. The highest upside to create. the highest upside to create France it's France and Toro right now and France is not ahead of Toro

Yeah I don't know man it again Just to be fair to Mitch because I know it sounds like like I said We've written Mitch pretty hard in terms of criticism the last Month or so rightfully so But the dude you know he did in five at bats last night He struck out once in the other four balls that he put in play were all hard hit So, I mean, he was he was squaring him up last night.

It just bad luck. But still that one strikeout stands out, doesn't it? Well, and it's again, now another opportunity that he's failed in in the last month. You know, in a key moment that could change the game. He had a chance to beat the Rangers a couple of weeks ago with with bases loaded and just one out. Couldn't come up there and couldn't do it again here. this is a problem. This is again, why you need to have Ty France higher in the lineup.

Because Thai France right now is a better hitter than Mitch Hanaker. Now, do I think that Mitch can bounce back? Absolutely, because Mitch has proven major league hitter. But this year, he's striking out a ton, especially over the last month, and especially at those sliders down and away, or he's hitting home runs. He just can't do that anymore. That guy needs to be hitting four or five for you. he needs to be

this is just it's if you are serious and we're going to talk about this later on in the show if you are serious about contending over the next 34 games and you think this is a real possibility that you're going to be able to compete with the Red Sox here down the line then you need to fix this

this can't go on anymore because it's not the it's not giving you the most upside to win baseball games right now just not so you know I know I know I always say this But, you know, the beautiful thing about baseball, though, is if you lose, you'll get a chance most days to bounce back the next day. And that will be the case for the Mariners tonight.

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is imagine a day where the Mariners are in the World Series. I don't know if you picture yourself watching from the stands at home, at a bar, wherever you prefer to watch this team in its first World Series. But put yourself there. Now, what do you see? Do you see the Mariners winning, piling on top of each other and hoisting their trophy? I assume that's where most people's minds go to. But what about their opponent?

Who are they playing? Or rather in this instance, who did they just defeat? For me, whenever I've daydreamed about the Mariners in the World Series, I've thought about the Phillies. Well, really any NL East team for the matter, you know, I don't know why, but that's usually where my mind goes, whether it's the Phillies, the Braves, even the Marlins. I asked on Twitter who fans picture and I got a lot of fun answers actually

so we're going to go over those but before so Colby I know you couldn't care less about this topic none of this at all is tangible but for the sake of participation I am going to ask you anyway who do you think the Mariners could see in the World Series one day?

The Yankees good one totally original totally like I didn't you know get that answer like 10 times in my tweet sorry it's It's a ridiculous question. Yeah, I got the, I got an Astros one as well.

I got like, you know, let's relegate the Astros back to the National League and, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah. I mean, the DH is coming. So at this point, like, ALNL doesn't really matter. And eventually expansion's coming. So we're probably going to get new divisions anyway. So it might be possible now. So that can happen before the Mariners win in World Series, the expansion. Uh, no.

I doubt, unless it has. happens this winter with the CBA, which I highly doubt. But, yeah, you know, it's, it's for me, like, I don't know, San Francisco just seems like a good, like, just a good Matt, Seattle versus San Francisco. They're relatively close to each other, but they're not rivals, like, at all. Mariner fans don't think about the Giants at all. The Giant fans don't think about the Mariners at all. but you know there are two organizations that play in pitchers parks that you know one has been around forever the other one has been around for a good chunk of time one is won a lot the other one has won nothing this just seems like a natural like series like a west coast series i always think of

um yeah so yeah the giants kind of you know when i was thinking about last night was like yeah you know i think it probably be the giants no idea of that's going to line up ever but uh I don't know. I always think of a West Coast team, but I did pitch the scenario to you yesterday that Seattle goes to New York and beats the Mets in a very specific way. So that would be cool too.

Yeah, Jared Kelnick hit in a home run. Chris Flexing going eights, like with one earn run or Paul Seawall closing the door, all that. That's revenge game. And then the Mariners. Calmerich getting the home run off of Diaz, by the way. Right.

That's the important part. the Mariners erecting a Brody van wagon and statue in front of T-Mobile Park. So shall it be spoken? So shall it be done? So I actually tallied the answers that I got.

So yeah. So the Dodgers led the answers. And that's probably the safe bet, especially if you're thinking the Mariners are going to make the World Series in the next couple years. which we'll see

but yeah Dodgers got 13 votes the Padres came in the second with 12 and then got a lot of brewers as well because of the you know the pilots connection of course

I like that one yes yeah so a lot of folks were into the we're into the brewers got some braves let's see here I got nine braves you mentioned the the giants sorry am I the only one who said giants

no there's eight giants seven Mets got a got a couple pirates actually really yeah got two pirates one nationals four marlins

which honestly that's a pretty cool one because the marlins are young They have, yeah, the Marlins are young. They have a really strong farm system. Kim Ming is probably going to be able to turn that thing around. And that rotation looks stacked for the future. So that one's kind of realistic of both the Mariners and the Marlins pop in the next couple of years, like people are expecting.

So Reds were another one. Cardinals got. got five cardinals. So, yeah, a lot of folks here. I'm going to, I'm going to go into some of these tweets that I got, though. Pay DeWain Brown. I like that one. That's the guy's name on here, by the way.

And I do agree with that sentiment, by the way, paid to Wayne Brown. At SportsC, that's S-P-O-R-T-Z-S-E-A. Dream Scenarios, Mariners versus Brewers. Mariners get to be the team that holds their old franchise off from getting their first World Series. I like that. I think that's pretty cool. That would be a fun storyline. Plus,

both of those teams are fun. You know, the Brewers are a really fun team. What do you think about the Brewers and the Mariners in a World Series one day? Maybe like even in a couple years with how those teams are kind of stacked up right now. That would be fun. Corbyn Burns, Christian Yelich.

I don't, I don't harbor much resentment towards the brewers because I wasn't even alive when the pilots I don't I don't either I don't get why a lot of people are uh I don't get why a lot of people are on the pilots thing because I think most of these people from the looks of it from the look of their pictures look pretty young like they weren't around when the pilots left Seattle yeah I don't I don't get that like I don't know whatever and if you are like old enough to remember that then fine we're sent away just like I'm always going to to resent the Oklahoma City Thunder, even though I don't watch basketball.

But yeah, like if you're not, then why do you care? Like I don't, whatever. I like the brewers. And, you know, back in our old fan-sided days, we, we had an alliance, quote-unquote, with the review of the brew, reviewing the brew, whatever it was called, the fan-sided account. Yeah, we had to get back and forth going on Twitter. So that would be fun. I enjoy those guys.

I don't know if they're still look there. or not but yeah i always had fun with the the folks that were viewing the brew and you know if kellnick's still around he gets to play you know for a world series in his home state uh yeah you know against his scott service yeah yes to wisconsin yeah that's why they get along so well they're both wisconsin boys but yeah ah yes oh my i i just i just fixed it dude ready letter kenny with Scott's service and Jared Keldig I like that

done Charles John Fantius at Guitar Charlie 17 like that name he says Padres hashtag natural rivals are so they say I still don't get the whole Padres

Mariners rivalry quote unquote the better cup it's yeah it's not it's just the Mariners don't have a lot of stop making that happen Well, it's hard to get a rival when you're not good. And you're isolated.

Like you're so far away. Because like Duke, North Carolina, Boston, New York. I mean, those are like closeness plays a role there. But then, of course, you know, there's L.A. versus Boston, like the Lakers versus the Celtics. Well, yeah, both of those teams were great for a decade straight. So Seattle hasn't been great. 49ers. Yeah.

I mean, again, that's division rivals. and there's some bad blood there between, you know, Carol and Harbaugh at the time. But yeah, I mean, even that one, that one's lost a lot of its luster, uh, since the departure of Harbaugh. So yeah, you know, the, the Mariners don't have beef with anybody. They don't get in fights. Um, you know, they don't, they would. I mean, just one would be nice.

But, um, yeah, you know, there's, for Mayor Garrett, man. Guaranteed brawl. Right. And, you know, they're just, they don't have like a lot of instigated. or anything like that. So it's really tough to create one. But yeah, the Mariners don't have a rival.

They don't. And like you said, it's because they haven't been good long enough to, to create one. I know there was a little rivalry between the Mariners and the Yankees, but I mean, the Yankees are everybody's rival.

So that doesn't really count. Yeah. So, yeah, you know, I'm trying to make it the Angels, but the Angels just sucks so bad that I can never get it to a point where the two teams are like dueling.

That's the thing, right? Both teams have to be good for it to be a rivalry. Yeah. Yeah. And it just Seattle's only been good. It can't be a one-sided thing. Seattle's been good for what, like eight years of their 45-year history, like legitimately good for eight, nine years.

Yeah. Yeah. Seattle doesn't have a rival. So I guess they're trying to drum one up, but it just, it doesn't exist. Last one here, Marine Sisto, at Sisto Marine on Twitter. It's actually something I've thought about a lot. She picks the Dodgers. I wouldn't lose either way and could cheer for both Seeger,

others joyfully. Well, you better hope that that World Series happens this year because Kyle Sears probably no longer going to be in Seattle after this season. But we'll see. We'll see. We'll have to see. But overall, I really enjoyed quite a few of these answers. I know it's something that a lot of people probably probably think about, you know, just picturing one day, you know, what if this team finally, finally makes a World Series? Like, what would that look like? What would that be made up of? But yeah, for some reason, I just can't get the of the Phillies and the Mariners together out of my head. Maybe it's because I equate the Mariners to the rays in ways.

Because I equate things like by color a lot, you know. And so, Mariners kind of have a similar scheme to the rays and the rays play the Phillies in the World Series once. So maybe that's why. I don't know. Stop talking. I gave this segment.

I gave this segment eight minutes. That's all you're getting from me. I wasn't asking you to talk any more about it. And that's going to be the end. And that's going to be the end of this. So coming up on the home stretch, we are going to be talking contention versus development. What should the Mariners prioritize in the final stages of the 2021 season?

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So don't wait and take advantage of all the great offers available for the 2021 season. Bet online, your online sports book experts. The Mariners are in a weird spot right now. They're the second team out of a wild card spot in the American League. being down four games with 34 games to go is no small thing to overcome in that short amount of time. So the question is, should the Mariners prioritize doing whatever they can to win, or is this final month or so about development for their young players? Because to contend, you shouldn't be given Cal Raleigh as many ad bats as you are.

You shouldn't construct the lineup the way it is as a whole, as we talked about earlier. But, you know, this is a very fine line the Mariners are walking here. and the situation itself is very much fluid. You know, things can change as the days go by. So Colby, at this stage in the game, if you're Scott Service and the Mariners, what are you focusing on the rest of the way? Yeah, you know, it's about winning right now.

It's about going for this right now. So for me, if I'm Scott's service, I'm pushing my chips in because this team has earned that. right it's yeah they played pretty good ball recently last night now with standing you know they've weathered countless storms either injury or or a you know a moron team president or covid scares all that stuff they've weathered all of it uh personal struggles you know professional struggle all of it has been weathered and they sit here four games back with just two teams to pass um both of them by the way you play you play oakland seven more times you play

Boston three more times. So it's not like you can't make up ground quickly on these teams. You're going to have that opportunity. So for me, it's all about it's all about now. So what does that mean? It means JP can have fewer at-bats because he hasn't earned them. It means that Cal Raleigh, you're going to have to sit on the bench against some righties because Tom Murphy just gives us a better chance, even against right-handed pitching.

It also means, hey, you know what? We might have to sacrifice. some defense here. We're going to go with Luis Trens, that catcher to get that bat in there. It's about taking those chances and really pushing your chips in. And that doesn't mean you're not going to give Raleigh any playing time. That doesn't mean, you know, that you're not playing, you know, Jared Kelnick. Of course you are. But, you know, it means not, it means having a short lease with Logan Gilbert today. If Gilbert gets three and he's only given up one run, but he's walked three guys and spiking sliders left and right, take him out.

I mean, the leashes has got to be super short right now. It means not trying to force Justice Sheffield into games to get him innings. You know, it means, you know, hey, you know, if Kyle Lewis has to has to play right field instead of DH, then he's got to do that. So you have to push you have to push as much as you can in on winning this season. And that means making lineup change, taking out. that bats away from a guy from a guy like Mitch Hanager, maybe Kyle Seeger, definitely, J.P. Crawford. It means, you know, sticking to, it means being really, you know, forceful with your platoons and

matchup plays and not saying, oh, well, this guy needs a day. So even though it's an advantageous matchup, I can't get, I have to take him out of the lineup today. No, you don't. Take him out tomorrow. The most important game for the Mariners is the one that's being played today. and then tomorrow it'll be the game that's being played tomorrow. You can't think about 2022 right now.

There's going to come a point where if Seattle gets eliminated, fine. If Seattle goes in the last two weeks and they're six back with like 15 to play, okay, it's time to Cal Raleigh should get most of the at-bats from catcher. You know, you could put the order however you want to. Fine. But right now, it's all about, it should be all about maximizing your, your chances to win on a nightly basis. And that means lineup changes.

That means, you know, calling up certain guys. It means sending down certain guys. It means changing how you manage your bullpen and all that stuff. So, yeah, you owe it to this team to go all in for the next couple of weeks and,

and see where you are in mid-September. Yeah, for me, the biggest part of this is Logan Gilbert. Because Gilbert, the last few starts has been bad. And it's getting to the point now where, it's pretty much where you were with the bullpen days.

It feels like you're almost punting that game with every start you're giving to Logan Gilbert right now. And hopefully you can turn it around. But I don't know. He's getting close to that. Innings cap potentially. It seems like there's some fatigue coming into play. He doesn't have any confidence in anything other than his fastball really. I just, you know, at a certain point, would you be better off starting Matt Andres in these games?

You know, or going a bullpen day, whatever it may be. I mean, you're going to have to start having those conversations because if you're serious about winning, you cannot be, you know, throwing, you know, games out of the window. Just can't do that. Can't afford to do that at this stage. You know, because you're going to have to have a run here where you're going to have to win like four in a row, five in a row to really make this thing serious because you've got to pick up ground and you're not going to be able to make up all of that just against the Red Sox. Right. You're four back right now. You only play three games against.

them. So that series alone right now as things currently stand and obviously things are going to change. But that series alone right now isn't going to get you ahead of the Red Sox. No. And you need to be able to rattle off. You'd have to... You need to be able to rattle off

a bunch of wins. You'd have to sweep Boston for it to make even that big of a difference. If you're four back in that Red Sox series and you win two or three you pick up one game. That's not doing any game. So yeah, You have to start closing that gap now so that when you get to Boston and you're, you know, and you went two or three, it's a meaningful pickup. Because if you're four or five back or whatever and you take two or three from Boston, you net you net in one win.

That's not good enough. So these games right now, they matter. And so it's time to, it's time to go for it. Yeah, absolutely. I just, you cannot let these games fall by the way. side. And these, and these players absolutely deserve

the chance to compete for this. They've, they've completely earned it. Like you said earlier, they've done everything. They've gone through everything possible that you could go through as a baseball team. And they've come through it better than ever. Right.

And, you know, they've come through all this adversity and all these crazy things that have happened this season. It's just been one thing after another, after another after another and they've been able to survive all of it and be able to compete with a roster

that at the beginning of the season you looked at and you thought could be one of the worst baseball teams in the league and they're not they're one of the top seven teams in the American League right now and for good reason and they absolutely deserve the chance and the support from

their manager from their organization to you know give this everything that they have and right now with the way that the line up is constructed with the over reliance on on logan gilbert with you know cow raleigh getting as many a bouts as he's getting you're not really doing that you're not really giving them that support that they really need right now so you know that's going to do it for today's show though uh thank you for joining us for another week of lockdown mariners we'll be back on monday uh for colby

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