Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - Rock 'n' Roll, Bowling, and Kim Ng

Episode Date: November 15, 2020

Today, D.C. is joined by Jon Miller. After dropping some extra-inning trivia to begin the show, D.C. goes off on a tangent about music. The second half of the show begins with some impressive baseball news, as the duo talk about the first female general manager in Major League Baseball history, Kim Ng. (Who was hired by the Miami Marlins.) D.C. finishes up by going off on another tangent, this one about female bowlers. 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.

Welcome to Locked-on Mariners, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day. Here's your host, D.C. Lunberg. Well, that didn't pick up as well on the mic as I thought it was going to, but I have opened a Snapple Ice T, which gives me real fact number 1457. It is possible to record four outs in one half of a baseball inning. Okay, well, that's kind of appropriate. Welcome to Lockdown Mariners, ladies and gentlemen, parts of the Locked-on Podcast Network. or T-L-O-P-N or T-L-O-P-N.

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on Wednesday, as this is now Saturday. Boy, these last four or five weeks have been, they haven't really been all that great. Which is why the programming schedule has been as wonky as it's been. I just can't seem to buy a break. But we are back. I shouldn't say we're back. We never left anywhere.

We're here in John Miller's with me. Locked on Mariners' contributor, John Miller. John Miller, I sure hope you're as coherent. Oh, my God. Wow. Just say hello. Hello, it is wonderful to be here. Is it really?

Well, for me it is. I'm not sure about you. Okay, fair enough. So anyways, John, let's talk about four outs in a baseball thing. We have no script today, ladies and gentlemen. We're just kind of go off on whatever pops into our brainheads. Four outs in a baseball inning. Do you know which pitcher was the first to record four strikeouts in an extra inning? It's a former mariner.

Extra in any. It's a former mariner, and it happened about 10 years ago. He was with the Blue Jays at the time. If you have no idea, that's fine. It's got to be someone really obscure. It actually is, but this obscure pitcher wound up making an All-Star team. Okay, you better just tell me. It is Steve Delabar.

Oh, my goodness. You remember Steve Delabar? I do. Pitched about a season and a half of the Mariners, I guess. Actually, let's look at his stats right here. He was a 27-year-old first-year pitcher in 2011. He appeared in six games for the Mariners that year. So, you know, just a brief cup of coffee.

First game was in September. And then in the 2012 season, he appeared in 34 games for the Mariners, did pretty well, 417 ERA, and then was dealt to the Blue Jays mid-season. I guess they were in a pennant run. As a matter of fact, he was traded for Eric Thames. The Mariners got Eric Thames in that deal. Remember him? I do.

geez, you are really wrecking my brain with these. Well, that might be the point in today's episode now that we're into it. But Delabar made the All-Star team in 2013 with the Blue Jays. It appeared in 55 games that year with a 4-22 ERA, age 29. And the next year, 30 games, 491 ERA, didn't do much after that. He was a former substitute teacher, and that's why I always called him teach. and when he was with the Mariners, I thought it would be cool

if his bullpen walk-in music would have been teacher-teacher by 38 special. But I think that's going back a little bit too far. Not a bad song, though. It is not a bad song. 38 special is a great band. Probably, let's talk about 38 special a little bit. I don't know why,

because this is just going to be one of those shows. 38 special is, I'm serious, gang. 38 special, I mean, I love my, you know, heavy metal music. at least what they called heavy metal in the 1980s at least, which is now today just considered hard rock. But 38 special might be my favorite band who's not a heavy metal band. They're terrific. I know you and your wife have been listening to a lot of classic rock lately.

Yes, sir. Your wife messaged our little group here in a group chat program that my afternoon music choice, the best of cream, another good band, Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker. Jack Bruce. Could have been. Ginger Baker, excellent drummer. Eric Clapton obviously needs no introduction.

White Room is a rock and roll classic, all-time classic. Another thing, John, that's been going on in our group chat, we've been trying to get your wife to listen to a little bit more Dawkin. Yes. Which is one of my all-time favorite bands. I love Dawkin. And George Lynch, the guitar player, is originally from Spokane. obviously he doesn't live here anymore and his musical tastes

my goodness have they changed over the years and evolved and he's no longer really a heavy metal guitarist he's like more industrial type stuff now which is completely unlistenable but back in the day man he was one of the top guitarists in rock and roll he is good he was very very good

and after Dawkin broke up he had his own band called Lynch Mob which recorded two albums before they parted ways in 1990 and 1992 their debut album was very, very good. If you have not had a chance to listen to it, ladies and gentlemen,

go seek it out as well as Don Dawkins' solo album from 1990, which he recorded after Dawkin broke up. And that solo album was something of a supergroup. John Norum from Europe was one of his guitarists. Steve Baltis from Accept was his bassist. And Mickey D. was the drummer. We later wound up with Motorhead. One of the better drummers out there that nobody knows about as far as I'm

concerned, John. Definitely. Oh yeah. And drummers, as far as I'm concerned, are kind of like the, it's also said about basses. They're the underrated ones. You're going to notice the lead guitar player. Yep. You're going to notice the lead singer, especially if we're talking about someone like Dawkin.

Yeah. Who's going to let it be known that he's there? Yes. But unless they stop playing, you're not going to notice that the drummer or the bass player are gone. That's true, although, you know... Or that are even there. And bands with mediocre drummers and bassists. I mean, they can still be okay, but it's kind of weird.

Same with keyboard players. I mean, there are only so many John Lords to go around. Yes. John Lord from Deep Purple and later with White Snake, if you are indeed scoring at home. Speaking of, one thing that I've been kind of getting into a little bit more is hard rock music that have keyboards, like deep purple-esque aggressive keyboards, which is something that I never really appreciated until recently. Do you prefer your hard rock with or without keyboards, John?

Or does it kind of depend on the band? It really depends on the band. I tend to focus more on a drummer than I would, a keyboardist. Fair enough. And Dockin really didn't have a keyboard player. They used keys, but they used studio musicians for the most part. Most heavy metal bands of the day really didn't have a dedicated keyboard player. So now that we've spent the entire first half of the show talking about music, John,

I think it's time for a little commercial break, wouldn't you? Yes. All right, maybe we'll be back to talking about baseball on the other side of this commercial break. If you've got a question or comment, send it to Lockdown Mariners at gmail.com, and I will consider using it for our future mailbag episode, which I have been wanting to do now for two weeks, but Jason Hernandez's schedule and minds they just have not been able to jive. Jason, there's one specific email that Jason does need to answer on the air.

He was not available to record this weekend, and he's not available to record next weekend as well. So who knows when that email episode is going to be. But if you want to get a question or comment in before that, send it to Locked-on Maritors at gmail.com for consideration. And remember, questions and comments on any subject whatsoever. Remember, it's a family show, so keep it appropriate. Locked-on Mariners, much-a-do about nothing episode, we'll continue after this. Now time for the second half of Locked-on Mariners. Once again, your host, D.C. Lundberg.

Ah, yes, thank you very much, Joey Martin. John Miller and I are back here on Locked on Mariners, where we spent most of the first half talking about nothing to do with baseball, but in fact, music, but that's going to change in the second half, I hope. John, thanks again for joining us here today. Always a pleasure. Absolutely. You mentioned something during our commercial break,

which actually warrants discussion, real discussion. The Marlins have a new general manager, and it is a history-making general manager. John, I will give you the honor and pleasure of announcing this history-making hire. The Marlins have hired Kim Ung as their new general manager, that she is first female GM in Major League Baseball. She is, but she has been in baseball for a very, very long time. She's very well qualified.

This isn't just a token hire. She's got the credentials. That was my first concern, and then I clicked on the four letters. Network's link and opened it up and she has really been great in baseball. She has a very extensive, impressive resume. For the past nine years, she was MLB Senior Vice President of Baseball Operations. She has also served as the assistant GM for the New York Yankees and the Los Angeles Dodgers.

And those Yankee teams, that was back when they had their three world series in a row. She was assistant GM from 1998, pardon me, to 2001. That was their heyday. And then like you said, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and she was there for nine seasons when also they were pretty good. Before that, she was assistant director of baseball operations for the White Sox in the early 90s. Her baseball career goes back a very long way, which actually leads me to wonder why she wasn't considered for a general manager job before this. It really does. And you have to wonder whether that's on her being comfortable in her position as the senior VP of baseball operations. For which team? I'm sorry again?

That was for MLB. Ah, so maybe she just didn't want to leave the league. That's understandable. Yeah, that's not a bad job at all. And for anybody, well, for DC or I and anybody listening who's a true fan, you would love a job like that. True, yes. Just to be working around baseball every day. Absolutely.

Or for me, bowling or curling. I would take any one of the three. Although baseball pays a lot more. Let me tell you. But anyway, some more background on Ms. Ng. She graduated from the University of Chicago in 1990. She was a softball

player. She was actually a very good softball player. And then immediately took a job with the Chicago White Sox upon graduation. She's been in baseball her whole life. So this is, you know, I'm happy about this hire. I think this is fantastic. You know, the history-making aspect of it to me is actually secondary

to the fact that the Marlins have somebody highly qualified to be their general manager. You know, when push comes to shove, this is a business. It's a highly competitive business. Hiring a qualified candidate who's got the resume, credentials, and track record necessary to do the job effectively is much more important than just checking off politically correct boxes. Kim Ong has the resume.

She's got the credentials and she's got the track record. I think she's going to do an excellent job. Absolutely. And talking about the first female general manager in baseball history kind of leads me to think about bowling. And here's why, because I've been watching a lot of older tournaments on YouTube lately because there has not been a lot of bowling. Other than the PBA playoffs, which ended last Sunday,

there's not going to be a telecast until after 3,000, Thanksgiving, and it's not a PBA event. It's just an exhibition. But for a period of time when the women's tour was dark, when there wasn't a women's tour, the PBA started accepting women as members in 2004. And the first woman ever to make a PBA telecast was the great Liz Johnson, John, in 2005, I want to say. It was somewhere, somewhere in that era. And she actually wound up winning a game on that telecast. And those links you sent me, they mentioned something about her.

It was just kind of a priviated one of the announcers mentioned. Yes, it was the banquet open, I believe, 2005. That could be wrong about the year. But she beat Wes Malott on that show. And on the TV shows, which women have made

as finalists, I think there have only been four or five of them. Wes Malat seems to be on all of them for some reason. Just kind of his look at draw. But Johnson did not win that tournament. However, just making a PBA telecast alone is a huge accomplishment in its own right. So very, very impressive. In 2010, Kelly Culek, another brilliant bowler, became the first woman to win a PBA event. And that was the tournament of champions, which is probably the most prestigious event that's on the PBA tour.

That is very impressive. Very, very impressive indeed. And speaking about, Liz Johnson once again two years ago or three years ago, she became the second woman to win a PBA event during the World Series of Bowling, another prestigious event. And I have to say, John, that I honestly, I think I like watching women's bowling a little bit better than I do men's bowling. And every member of the PBA will tell you this. The women are better spare shooters. They're more accurate because they can't rely on the power game and just go through

strike fests like the men do sometimes because they don't have the revolution rate or rev rate that the male bowlers have because they're not as physically strong and honestly I think that makes for a much more interesting game I definitely agree and for those out there listening if you have not try to look up a compilation

of the PWBA shooting spares it is fun to watch They're very, very good spare shooters. They're very accurate. They're much more accurate than the men are when shooting spares because the men don't have to shoot as many spares. But again, I much prefer that style of bowling to just a power game. Plus, the men leave a lot more splits because the balls that they throw, they're just much more powerful because of the rev rate that cuts through the pins in such a way that it leaves a lot of splits.

And the women don't leave as many splits. But if you can, ladies and gentlemen, go look up bowling. I've talked about bowling on this show quite a bit, and you're probably sick of hearing about it, but it's my show. John, that's just going to about wrap up this episode of Lockdown Mariners. Where can the good folks find you on Twitter? I can be found on the Twitter sphere at El Pilot 69.

Thank you very much. We're going to be back, or I'm going to be back, or somebody's going to be back talking about the awards that have been bestowed upon Major League Baseball players later today or tomorrow. Not quite sure yet, but I am sure of one thing, and that is the fact that joining me on the panel will be Felix Unger, Pac-Man, and a suitcase. Please remember to download, rate, and subscribe to this program

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Oh, my gosh. This is Joey Martin speaking for Locked-on Mariner's, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network.