Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - The Mariners Are Content With Ryan Bliss or Dylan Moore as Their Opening Day Second Baseman?

Episode Date: December 2, 2024

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Is second base the best of the Marriss three main areas of need to address internally? We'll talk about that and more coming up here on the Locked-on Marriss podcast. Colby, hit it. You are Locked-on Mariners. Your daily Seattle Mariners podcast. Part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day. Oh, Hoy, Sailors. It is Monday, December 2nd, 2024.

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And if you want to hear from me and Colby even more and help support the show, check out our Patreon. All you have to do is click the link. in the description of this episode. All right. So kicking us off here on Mailbag Monday is Dillam Moore's shoulders. Since the M's have little money to spend this off season, if he had to choose only one of second base or third base to be filled via trade slash free agency,

which would you guys prefer? Assuming the position you don't choose is then filled by in-house players, which of Bliss slash Shinton do you guys? have more confidence in. So it's interesting that you ask that question because Kim Rosenthal today wrote an article talking a little bit about the Marriers and said that the mayors feel that they are positioned well enough to address second base internally with guys like Dillamore, Ryan Bliss, etc. So part of the reason that I picked this question was Colby to get your thoughts on what

Rosenthal had to say. And then we'll talk about, yeah, if he had to choose. choose between second or third, which one would you prefer to address internally? The idea that Dylan Moore and Ryan Bliss is a tandem that should make you feel good about where you're at second base is one of the most idiotic things I have ever heard in my entire life. Don't we know who Dylan Moore is at this point? Like, look, I'm a Dylan Moore. Stan, obviously. This is well known.

Yeah. I love Dillemore. Sure. He's not an everyday player. We know he's not an everyday. Like I love Thanksgiving. Excuse me. Whose flag list was he on?

So. Sure. Yes. Yes, he was. Yeah. Dillmore's not an everyday player. I know he is. I know he was.

Dillmore's not an everyday player. We know this. We know this. He's not an everyday player. Nor is he a strong side platoon player. Every year, seemingly, he gets about a month where he plays every day. And it always starts off pretty good. And then eventually he gets over exposed and he starts to strike out too much.

He misses pitches he should hit. It's just not that guy. He is a guy who should play a couple times a week. You play him all over the place. That's who he is. That's who he should always be. So pairing him with an unproven Ryan Bliss and saying like, yeah, that's good enough at second base. all the while hoping and praying that Cole Young can be a viable major leaguer at the age of 21 years old.

And that's the grand plan. You're stupid. You're stupid. Like that is not the way a World Series contender operates. It's not. So the Mariners are like, oh, we're okay at second base. We really don't need to add at second base. You're stupid.

when you add in the context of, you know, hey, we only have so much money to spend, you know, we're going to spend for some reason. We're just dead set on spending $5 to $8 million of it to go get Turner or Santana. Like, okay, my solution would be don't spend $5 million, $6 million, $8 million on Turner or Santana. Because I'd rather have a second baseman in a third baseman than a first baseman. Because I already have a basement. His name's great. It's actually proven to be a good.

major league hitter. So yeah, don't love the idea that, you know, the Mariners are trying to sell us on Dylan Moore and Ryan Bliss, neither one of whom you should trust to hit right-handed pitching with any regularity, by the way. They're not even natural platoon partners. They're both right-handed hitters who are both going to have more more. I don't think it's like, oh, they're both going to tackle second base. I think it's one of them is until Cole Young shows up.

and then maybe they platoon one of the righties with young or Shenton platoons with one of the, Shenton has played second base in the past. I don't know how recently he last played second base though. He should not be. So. To answer the question, the first part of the question. Yeah. Yeah.

I would much rather they actually try and tackle second base and third base if I had to choose one. Why? There's just more options. There are. There are. And so the correct answer is actually, no, you need to tackle both. You need to address both of those positions. You cannot go into 2025 with a Dillon Moore-sized hole at either second base or third base.

That's not what good teams do. Okay. But since, you know, the information we have right now says that's probably what they're going to do. And since we know it's largely related to their payroll, we'll have to see if there's something they can do to create more space or if there's, you know, a player who's pre-arved that they can acquire to play those spots without giving up from their pitching, blah, blah, blah. But yeah, there's just not a lot of solutions at third base. And that's not just in, you know, in the free agent market and in the trade market.

That's just around baseball. There are not a lot of good third baseman in baseball. You're more likely to find a good quality second baseman than you are a third baseman in baseball right now. And so that's why I would prefer they go and they spend their resources there. There's just more. There's just more talent there. So if you're putting all your eggs in the third base basket, essentially what you're saying is it's Alec Bohm or bust.

Because like that's it really for what's out there. What? You're going to trust Yon Munkata. You're going to have Yon Mankata and Dylan Moore starting every day. Yish. Like and all that in just the pursuit of making sure you land Carlos Santana. If you told me like, hey, the Mariners went out and like the Phillies wanted, you know, Colt Emerson for Alec Bohm and.

And obviously they weren't willing to do that. So they're just kind of kind of try and fix, you know, patch it together with Dylan Moore and Yohan Moncada. But they went out and they got like Nico Horner to play second. I'd be like, okay, that makes sense to me because there aren't that many options at third. If you tell me that like, oh, well, now they went and they brought in Alec Bone, but they're still rolling with Dylan Moore at second base. I'm like, they didn't try hard enough.

Like, get this done. Like, I don't care what the restrictions are. this is the club. You are in your window. You have to find a way, money be damned. You have to find a way. And that means you have to overpay a little bit with prospects to fix second and third base, both of them. Then you just do it.

And you put yourself in this position. You traded a Eugenio Suarez. You were wrong about him. And now you're in this position partly because of that decision. So. I mean, you also non-tender Josh Ross, who could have played second or third. You decided, you know, we're going to go and we're going to do better. And it's like, okay.

But if you don't like, I don't think like this is overstating it. Jerry Depoto is staking his job essentially on Dylan Moore or Ryan Bliss. If this report is true. Because if the Mariners do not make the playoff. Which I have reason to believe that it is because there has been other like little rumblings here and there over the last few weeks about like, yeah, they're probably going to address like two of the three needs. Right. And since externally. They seem hell bent on giving, you know, Carlos Santana $8 million.

There you go, right? And it's obviously factored in with the Jude report. Like essentially, Jerry Depoto is or should be fighting for his job this year. Like this is it. If you don't make the playoffs this year, you're fired. Would they actually do that? I don't know, because Jerry's really good at what John Stan cares most about. So we talked about this last, you know, fall.

So we're not going to spend all- competitive enough ball club to keep you relevant in the late, you know, stages of the season to keep people coming to the ballpark and all that stuff. He's really good at that. And to be fair, I also think you'd be very, very good at building a World Series contender if the ownership group wanted to pursue that avenue. I think Jerry could do that too. So we'll see what they want to do.

But like, make no mistake about it from the outside looking in. Jerry DePoto is banking his, really his baseball career. He's probably not getting a second shot or a third shot at this. If, you know, the Mariners fire him. He's going to bank at that on Ryan Bliss or Dillamore. And by the way, that's the answer to the second part of your question. Austin Shinn shouldn't play third base. I don't think that's realistic.

Yeah. And maybe that's why just because the mayors really don't have an in-house third base option either. And it's like, well, I mean, we have a couple guys who play second in the high miners. Well, then maybe you should have tendered Josh Rojas if you're trying to, you know, thread this needle here, but whatever. We'll see. Things change on a dime in the offseason. You never know who's going to become available. You never know who's going to sign where that makes player X all of a sudden available. Like we don't know for sure that this report is true. And we don't know what the Mariners payroll is. We don't know what if they fought. What do they trade Luis Castillo and you know and blah, blah, blah.

like there are plenty of avenues that open up plenty of other opportunities, but based on what we know right now, yeah, it is not a good, it is not a good situation. The correct answer is you shouldn't be okay with rolling unproven or part-time players at either of these positions. But if I had to choose one,

I would rather they do that at third base because there's just not as many opportunities to upgrade there. All right. So we are going to answer more of your questions here in just a moment. But first, a reminder of this episode, the Locked on Air is, Podcast is once again brought to you by Fanduel. Get ready to tackle the NFL action with Fandul, America's number one sportsbook,

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And you're listening to the Locked On Marriest podcast. It is Mailback Monday. And we're going to answer more of your questions here in just a moment. But hey, our giveaway has officially wrapped up. It's Colby. We are not announcing the winners. on today's show i think we're going to do that on wednesday i think that's the best opportunity for us to do it uh so but uh where where did we wind up what are we ultimately given away i don't know tie

you tell me do you tell me are you are you are you going to be are you are you going to be a jerk you guys did not get to 12.3k by the deadline that is set in our terms and conditions in the description. You got to 12.299. You got to 12.3 between midnight last night and I don't know, about 8 o'clock today. So technically we're not supposed to give away the third. So yeah, I don't know. We should go against our terms and conditions because you guys didn't earn it.

And ties in favor of, like, lowering the bar so that others can reach it. Whereas I like to raise the bar to separate the, uh, we're giving it to you guys. Yeah. Okay. Anyways. We're giving it. We're giving it to you guys. So we made it to 12.3K.

Thank you guys so much for helping us get there. Uh, 12.299 who did it on home. So, Johnny come lately's whatever. So you're giving away the Mitch Hanager card, the Andres Munoz card, and the Mike Cameron card. And I'm also, whoever wins the Mike Cameron card is also getting a $25 gift card to Simply Seattle from yours truly. Just keep on lower that bar so more people can reach it, Ty. It's fine. I'm just trying to be.

Seattle Mariners are giveaways. I'm trying to be appreciative and thankful of our listeners. I was. I gave them a shot. They came up one short. Of course, of course you would be that guy. Did the 2000 Tennessee Titans also get a Super Bowl ring for coming one yard short? Didn't think so.

Everybody gets a parade. You're insufferable. Whatever, you got what you wanted. Yeah, yeah. So yeah. And on the plus side, I get to keep my awesome Victor Robles card and my awesome Cal Raleck card. Until you give it to me. I would send it to you, but Canada mail is on strike.

That's true. It's true. Yeah. That is unfortunate. Plus, those guys in Canada would probably steal the Cal Raleigh. He's hurt them so much. Yeah, that's true. That is true.

So, again, we will announce winners for the three tiers that we made on Wednesday. So be sure to tune in on Wednesday's episode to see if you won. And then we'll tell you all the stuff you need to know about how to claim your prize and all that good stuff. All right. let's get back into your questions here on mailback Monday. D. Panky wants to know, do you think the mayor's primary goal right now is to sign either Santana or Turner

before the winter meetings? I don't think it's their primary goal, but I do think that if they are going to do something before the winter meetings, that's what it's going to be. They're going to sign one of those guys. I don't think that if they do anything else of like significance between now and when did the winter meetings start?

What day is? December 9th. The summer night. So yeah, between now, and next Monday. I don't even know where I was going with that. I just said, yeah, I think it's going to be Turner or Santana. So whatever.

Yeah. I don't think it's going to be anything more significant than that. Probably not. You know, maybe a reliever signing. Maybe a Paul Seawall type of. We'll see if Paul's delusional enough to think somebody is just waiting in the wings to give him a closer job. But yeah. So that that's probably.

like, I mean, it's one of their primary goals because apparently they've decided that is the best use for the money, not a second basement or third basement, even though they have a perfectly good first baseman already on the roster, blah, blah, blah, blah. Fives, though, am I right? So, Kobe, we can't quantify leadership. We can try. So, yeah. I mean, Justin Turner's leadership was so good. It led you back on that playoff. Oh.

I guess not. But, you know, had he been there the whole year, he totally would have made up those three games just on the leadership. You wouldn't even have had to hit to make up those three games on the Astros. But yeah, that's probably what they're most likely to do. I do think we're going to get some like,

I feel like in the next couple days, we should get the draft, the competitive balance pick announcement. And that kind of matters for the Mariners Because they are expected to get at least a competitive balance B pick But keep in mind those picks can be traded And the Mariners have traded for and traded those away And so

You know, that's something to track here And is something that I think comes out before the winner meetings I'm not mistaken So that could change some things And put some players on the table that aren't currently But in terms of like What's their primary goal right now? embarrass themselves as far as I can tell and then see if they can get Turner or Santana done

that that seems to be what their primary goal is before the winter meetings. Ken Rosenthal has upset Colby today if you couldn't tell. I mean, if he's lying, sure. If he's telling the truth, which I think he probably is, then John Stanton has upset me. But that's just Monday. It's just like every Monday. Sure, sure. Zach Fisher wants to know

Can previous player slash coach relationships influence personnel moves? For example, do the hitting coach hires, increase the odds at all that we see a deal for Braves bat this off season? No, we just did this last off season with Brent Brown and the Marlins hitters and even going back to his days with the Dodgers. We talked about Justin Turner, who, yeah, didn't end up becoming a mariner later on, but after Brent Brown was gone. You know, we talked a lot about Jorge Saler and Jazz Chisham because they had hit under Brent Brown and that didn't happen. Now look, sometimes, yes, there are players that are like, oh, hey, that hitting coach that I, you know, played under, you know, a couple years ago is at this spot.

I want to go there. Whatever, right? That does happen. Could be a tiebreaker. But that's not automatic, right? It's not this like thing that we need to start tracking. It's like, it's like when Mike McDonald took over for the Seahawks and everyone's like, oh, well, Patrick Queen's going to be a Seahawk.

And, you know, let's look at all these other Ravens free agents and all that. stuff and did they even sign a player that played for the ravens last year yeah i don't think so yeah um i mean they might have the free agent class was so terrible that it's it's tough to keep track but uh yeah no uh what could happen here is that like if the mariners were already talking to the braids about a particular player they might have some inside info on how that player is in the locker room or the clubhouse or how he work ethic and all that stuff but no it's not like Assy Albies is like, I demand a trade to the Mariners now because of my hitting coaches. They're like, no, stuff like that doesn't happen.

So it could play a very, very small role. But in general, the answer to your question is no. Domkin's own burner wants to know besides the obvious Julio, Cal, et cetera, who are the biggest swing players on the marries for 2025? Whose performance good or bad could massively impact the team's performance? Well, apparently Ryan Bliss and Dillon Moore. Yeah. That's the answer. Cole Young.

I'm not wrong. Justin Turner or Carlos Santana. It is whoever is playing second. It's a mystery third baseman. Yeah. It's Ryan Bliss, which is great to count on Ryan Bliss, the guy who has like a 93 WRC plus and 17 plate appearances or whatever it is.

Cool. Yeah. Bank everything on that dude. Awesome strategy, guys. Awesome strategy. But yeah, no,

seriously, it's Ryan Bliss. It's Dylan Moore. It's Victor Robles. actually because they're putting a lot of eggs in that basket. I mean, if Robles doesn't work, you still have Luke Rayley. Sure. Especially if you can go waste money on leadership.

So. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's Ryan Bliss. It's Dillmore. There are a lot of guys that fit this because they were putting a lot of eggs in certain baskets that I am uneasy about, I would say. Yeah. It's probably nobody in the bullpen, though, because if somebody falters, they'll find a somewhat viable replacement there.

I mean, like, maybe you could say, like, it's Matt Brash, but that's about health. Yeah, like, so. From a positive standpoint, like, yeah, if you get Matt Brash back and he's like actually Matt Brash or at least like close enough.

Sure. If he not only beats every reasonable timeline for recovering from Tommy John, he also comes back with better command and control than he's ever had after a year after Tom. Or he just, he just needs to be the same guy the same guy he was that always happens so if he if he beats both of those odds then yeah sure he's sure i'm gregory santo's if you could just stay healthy would help a lot colby is in a mood today it's just the answer is ryan bliss unfortunately i wish it wasn't

but apparently it is yeah it's ryan bliss and cole young congrats for a player and a 21 year old who might be ready for the big leagues sometime this year or might not cool let's hang let's hang the entire balance of the season on those two guys good job genius imagine if this is actually the way that they like in the uh second base curse but a good rind bliss is a three and a half one player all right fine whatever you know what screw it why not sure ryan bliss is going on my flag player list well then he's he's definitely not going to be a three and a half one player then I mean, he's more likely to do that on my list than he is your list.

True. But also, J.P. Crawford's probably on this list somewhere. Oh, yeah, yeah. That's a good one. All right. Well, we got a couple more questions of yours to answer here in just a moment. But first, a reminder of this episode of the Lockdown, Mirrors podcast is brought to you by Game Time. So I used to live in New Mexico.

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Jake wants to know with the news. of Munitaka Murakami saying 2025 will be his last season in Japan do you think he'd be someone the mayors pursue he's going to command too much money he's going to go to the Dodgers or the Mets or the Yankees

or whoever I know that's a boring answer but the mayor is they've shown zero willingness to spend top dollar on really anyone doesn't matter the age or anything like that so until they prove otherwise I'm just going to assume that they're not even going to try

to be involved in that market. That is unfortunate as that is. There's also, you know, concerns about Murakami and, yeah, transitioning over to Major League Baseball and all that, but yeah. I am not so,

like even if the Mariners wanted to give them, you know, wanted to compete with like the Mets or whatever, not sure that's the best use of money. This is a guy who strikes out a ton in Japan, and I was expecting to come over and not be, not have a strikeout issue in Major League Baseball. Yeah, yeah.

Plus the defense from what I heard is, is middling at best. He's a dude who's seemingly getting worse defensively. I have legitimate questions about that guy, like whether or not he can transition to Major League Baseball. And again, if you're going to give that guy big money, which he's probably going to get, if it takes him a year or two to really settle in

and figure out how to play in Major League Baseball, it's a pretty bad return on your investment. And the Mariners don't take risk like that. So this is actually a risk I'm okay with them sitting out of. But I will say this. I've never seen Miracami play. I've just looked at his numbers. So I don't know.

Maybe I'm wrong here. And I'm just doing some box score scouting. But anybody who strikes out that much in Japan, I have legitimate concerns about their ability to hit on any consistent level in the States. Last question of the day comes from Sal's DR on Blue Sky. Who would make an all-star team? of only ALS players. And if that team play the Dodgers

and a best of seven, who would win? ALS, All-Stars would, yeah, they would, I mean, the Dodgers might win one or two

because they're insanely talented, but just like the, just the depth of talent that a whole division can throw at you. Because, I mean, you're talking about Cal Raleigh catching. Yep.

Probably O'Hopi as the backup. I mean, or it could be Diaz. Before we get into the position players, is the starting five rotation just all mariner's or is framber getting in over like whamber gets in uh or roel blanco like i did one of those two guys probably gets in uh probably for castillo uh like the rangers no no the angels i mean healthy de grom probably right healthy to grom but Are we going to assume?

Well, I think in this case, yeah, let's just assume everyone in the AOS is healthy. Okay, so probably DeGrom, Gilbert, nobody from Oakland, nobody from the Angels. Yeah. So you want to go like Framber, Kirby, Miller. Miller or Wu? Like, I think that's probably the start. Unless maybe I'm forgetting somebody, but I don't think so. Like, nobody from the Angels.

Yeah. I mean, like, are you putting Tyler Anderson? Yeah, no. Voli's a free agent, so he doesn't count. Yeah. So I think three of the, three of the five starters are Mariners. Yeah. Munoz is in that bullpen.

Yeah, Mason Miller's in that bullpen. Yep. Hater's probably still in the bullpen. Yep. I mean, the rest of, they're all middle guys. Texas, like not Yates. Yates is a free agent, so not him. Yeah.

Robertson's a free agent so not him. So yeah, bullpen I'd probably have to do some more digging. Estevez would have been on, but they traded him. So yeah, yeah, yeah, I'd have to do some more digging on the rest of the bullpen arms. But right there, Munoz Miller as your one two punch and then a hater, like, you're already set to dominate. And then you start adding up the lineup and you go, it's cow is the starter behind the plate. And then it's, I mean, there's a couple. couple options. You go Diaz or O'Hopi as the backup.

First base. Well, either Rooker or Yordon's going to have to play in the field. Yeah. And you could play Rooker at first. Yeah, I'd probably put Rooker at first. Second base, Altovae. Third base, Bregman's a free agent. so this is not a lot of good options. Is it Young?

Yeah, it would probably have to be Josh Young. Seeger's playing short. Yep. Left field, Yordon, unless we want him to DH. Is there any other, but anybody else we'd want to DH besides Yordon? I don't think so.

Do we want Trout playing in the field? Let's put Trout and left. Okay. Julio and Center. Center, yep. And then right field is Victor Robles. Is it Butler? Kyle Tucker.

Oh, yeah. Kyle Tucker is the right fielder. Yeah. Butler is on the bench then. He's on the bench. Bladay is probably on the bench. Mm-hmm. Simeon's probably on the bench.

Yep. And then, and then. Oh, Hoppy, the catcher. Or Diaz, whichever one you want. Yeah. Yeah. That team in a 162 game season, probably wins 120 games.

Yeah. Yeah, they would beat the Dodgers. Yeah, they would probably boat race them. Yeah. Yeah, if we forgot anyone, let us know in the comments below. Yeah, we almost forgot Kyle Tucker. Yeah, we did. To be fair, did miss most of the season.

Sure, sure. But yeah, I mean, like, you're talking about legitimately, Julio's hitting like, what, eighth in that lineup? Cowellie might be hitting ninth. Like, I mean, like, the bottom of. three is probably young Julio Cal in some order. Maybe.

Trout, Yordon, Tucker, Altuve, yeah. Rooker. Like, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's a 120 win team. Yeah.

All right. So, yeah, I like that question. It was a good question. More of that, please. If you think of anything creative like that. drop it or you could ask us our thoughts about Ryan Bliss that's always fun yeah Colby

Colby had a great time talking about Ryan Bliss today all right before we get out of your hair because now it's making me hate on Ryan Bliss and I love Ryan Bliss right it's like me and the Sam Howl thing right is like I have no issue against Sam Howl but now I have to hate Sam Howe it looks like I hate Sam Howe

because the people who love Sam How won't shut the hell up about Sam How it's the same thing with Ryan Bliss Yeah. I love Ryan Bliss. Yeah. I don't love how much the Mariners apparently love Ryan Bliss, and it's making me hate the Mariners,

and therefore, by extension, Ryan Bliss. Yeah. All right. So before we get out of your hair, let's spend the wheel for our top five Tuesday topics. See what we're talking about tomorrow. All right. So as you can see, we have the helm up on the screen,

or if you're just listening on podcast platforms. We have the wheel, the main wheel, the helm, as we call it. we only have three topics left and two weeks of a full slate of shows remaining here before we go to three shows a week until the middle of February until pictures and catchers report. So third base options is still on here. It's been on here since the beginning. Could this be the week? This topic is for me this week, by the way. So let's see what I get.

Oh my God. Oh, my God. Hey, we got it. All right. So third base options. Well, as we talked about today, uh, should be a short segment.

Is there even a top five possible? I guess. Stretch. Far more options on this wheel here for Colby to tackle, uh, to potentially tackle at least on tomorrow's show. Let's see what he's going to get. Hey, did you know Andy Bernard went to Cornell?

I had no idea until you just said that. Weird. Ooh, top five batting stances. Okay. That could be fun. I'm interested to see what kind of parameters you set for this, though. Is it like all time? Is it a current?

Is it just mariners? A lot of the current batting stances are all very like similar. Like we kind of like factory set batting stances. a little bit. Yeah. So I think I'm going to go with some unique ones. Yeah. If it's all time like Gary Sheffield, Chuck Knoblock.

Sure. I mean, Tony Batista. Yeah. Kevin Euclis. Yeah. Like pick one of the 1,000 stances that Cal Rick can use. Craig counsel. Yeah.

Yeah. You're some great ones, man. I mean, like, I don't know. Babe Bruce is just kind of iconic. Yeah. Abrose swing literally looks like he's just like I'm just here to hit home it's slow pitch softball batting stance like it's so good so yeah I'll you know I'll probably expand it out try to add some modern ones but there really aren't that many super unique batting stances in 2024 so yeah we'll have to see but yeah that that that could be interesting so there you have it top five third base options top five batting stances coming your way tomorrow on top five Tuesday. So that's going to do it for us.

Thank you so much for joining us here on the Lockdown Marys podcast. Of course, top five Tuesday once again coming your way tomorrow. And then Wednesday we'll be announcing the winners of our giveaway. So be sure to tune in to that episode as well. But for now, Colby Patnode. I'm Tiding Gazzalas.

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