Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - THE SEATTLE MARINERS ARE THE 2025 AMERICAN LEAGUE WEST CHAMPIONS

Episode Date: September 25, 2025

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For the first time since 2001, the ALS Crown resides in Seattle. Colby, hit it. You are Locked-on Mariners. Your daily Seattle Mariners podcast, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day. Ahoy, Sailors, it is Wednesday, September 24th, 2025, or maybe it's Thursday by the time that you're listening or watching this. This is Tadding Gonzalez and Colby Patnaud for the Lockdowner's podcast, part of the Lockdown podcast network, your team

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description of this episode. Folks, the Seattle Mariners are ALS champions. And they do it in pretty spectacular fashion. 9 to 2.2. the final score over the Colorado Rockies tonight at T-Mobile Park. Cal Raleigh becomes the seventh player in MLB history to reach the 60 home run mark. Luis Castillo was also fantastic tonight, almost flirted with perfection.

Just an incredible night at the ballpark tonight, Colby. It was the game that we kind of hoped that they would play yesterday. And they waited a day and they played it tonight. And it was great. It was a lot of fun from the first inning on. The Mariners just never really left it in doubt that they were going to clinch tonight. And it was capped off by obviously Cal hitting 60, which is an incredible feat, obviously. And, you know, there was even a decent chance that Luis Castillo could have gone through seven perfect innings, 21 up, 21 down.

He struck out the only guy to get a hit off of him. It's just the Empire didn't call it. And, you know, he gave up a home run. Just this weird kind of night where, you know, the Mariners leave no doubt that they're better than the Rockies. I mean, the Tacoma Rainieres would probably give the Rockies all they could handle. The Rainier's, by the way, their season ended tonight. So, you know, I guess not all good news. But, yeah, the, hey, maybe Ben Williamson will be here tomorrow.

But, yeah, it was a lot of fun. I mean, again, just from the first inning on, the only question, really, as the game was going on, is like, are the Mariners going to finish their game before Houston does? And like, is Houston going to rob us of our moment of, you know, celebrating on the field and all that? And it got a little close, but, you know, Oakland blew him out. Woof. But, yeah, I'm just an incredible night tonight.

Just so many home runs and a couple guys coming up with hits that they really needed to get. And, you know, stars playing like stars and Luis Castillo. and what very well could be his last start in a Mariners uniform ever. Yeah. Just goes out and is vintage Castillo. Like we, we haven't seen a performance that dominant from him in a long time. And I mean,

really since the last time he faced the Rockies back in like April of 2024, I think it was where he threw like seven no hit innings against them. So yeah, again, not a good team. This is, the Rockies are a dumpster fire. It's not about them tonight,

though. It's not about them tonight. You're really good. is the point. And tonight, you know, you guys, if you go look at the standings page right now on MLB.com,

there's a little why next to the Seattle Mariners name. And you might not know what that means. Because I forgot what it meant for a hot minute. I've never seen it next to the Mariners name before. The last time it was next to the Mariners name, the iPhone would not come out for another month. Okay. The first iPhone or the first iPod.

yeah the first iPod yeah I was like I think that I think I think the first iPhone came out in like 06 oh 7 I don't know yeah the first iPod yeah had not come out yet like think about that so it really is a wild thing to think about it's been 24 years it had been 24 years since the Mariners had gotten this done that's crazy to think about that we're like that's over and done with the whole like since 2001 thing that's done now like they ended the drought and that was one thing that was one thing that's done now like they ended the drought and that was one thing. but now like there's no more since 2001. They haven't been to the ALCS since 2001. There you go. I fixed it. Don't challenge me like that. So yeah, it had been almost 8,000 days since the Mariners were American League West champions. And they're going to be American League West champions for at least the next roughly 365 days.

So that is a very cool. accomplishment and you know it's it's awesome and we're here to celebrate it probably not as much as the mariners are although again 45 great celebration tonight at least what we got to see like compared to last night compared to i mean that was like it was the same as last night i think the difference the key difference is obviously last night you had the big eighth inning hit and it was a close game and so you weren't a hundred percent sure you were going to win well i was you weren't The whole night just kind of felt like a celebrate. I think even hyphen said this on the broadcast,

that it just kind of felt like a celebration game. Yeah, kind of. You know, the whole night just felt like one big party. Yeah, it was awesome night. And obviously it's a celebration for the fans as much as it is for the players on the field. And it might mean more to the fans than it does to even the players because it's

been so long. Like we've been sitting here for 24 years waiting for anything like this. And, you know, it was it was just awesome night. And obviously the night belongs to Cal and Luis, at least when you focus on the game itself that we watched. But really the night as a whole belongs to all of us, including the 28 guys in the clubhouse and including all the guys who really came before them to help kind of finally rebuild this thing to get to a point where they are today. So that's, you know, obviously that's Scott. And, you know, it's guys like Dylan Moore who aren't here anymore, but they had such big roles here. You know, it's, it's the, it's the Sam Haggerties.

It's the Carlos Santanas who are only here for two months. It's the Justin Turner. Kyle Seeger. It's all those guys who were, you know, instrumental and just starting to turn the ship around. And, you know, that's the way baseball works. You don't always get to see the fruits of your labor. but you know tonight's title or tonight's title yeah aOS title you know like it is a title it's a championship there's a new there's a new banner going up there sure yeah i think we'll see if stanton wants to

spend the money but yeah it's it's a title and you know the the groundwork had been laid for this by jerry depoto and justin hollander and you know they made the bold decision after 2018 to tear it down and restart it and you know it looked like it was over in 2022 and expectations changed and then it kind of took some steps back but here we are you know on on just the the backs of the incredible effort by so many players and so many people in this organization not just the the baseball office people the Kevin Martinez's and the clubhouse guys and the social media people everywhere right the graphic designers the the broadcast team like all of it again

eight wins to go eight wins it wants to go it wins to go and you get to the world series but forget that 12 once ago you're a champion you're a world champion let's get the eight first and then we'll talk about the last four I mean might as well win the whole thing might as well the uh but the first eight are the hardest the last four are easy I don't have the wallet to pay the FCC fines like cow rally so apparently the Seahawks social media doesn't either because they said like cow raleigh said let them might as well win the whole thing that's not what they said at sea hawks that is not what he said man up all right but uh yeah double down on that again tonight of course he did uh you could tell he was like looking for a spot to use it and he almost used it earlier and he's just adorable

the little giggle at the end like i got away with it again like it's he's such he's such a dork and i he's such a nerd like the uh i don't know if you saw the little video that i've i've posted from the celebration or maybe you saw it while you were watching the celebration where he like turned around and looked at the camera and gave it like a little thumbs up he's ours man he's ours and we're going to talk more about him in just a moment but first a reminder this episode of the lockdown airs podcast is brought to you by fandwell the NFL season is here and fanduel is making sure you're ready for kickoff with a can't miss offer right now new customers can bet just $5, and if your bet wins, you'll get $300 and bonus bets to use across the app.

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player in major league history to hit 60 or more home runs in a single season the season of cal just continues there's still four games to go so i don't know like let's see how far we can take this thing only needs a home or a night Not even. You can take one night off. Yeah, not even. You take one whole night off and still set a record. But, you know,

and while it may not seem likely, just remember Calhomered four times in the last three games last year. Yeah. To set a record. So he also tied another record tonight. He tied for the most multi-home run games in a single season with 11. Crazy. Crazy.

Just I can't believe the season that you and I have. have covered. Like Aaron Goldsmith said tonight, this is probably never going to happen again. Yeah, hopefully he met the Cal Raleigh thing, not the winning the division thing. I kind of like this.

They should do this again. Yeah, no, but I mean, the Cal thing, like, the season that we're seeing. And this doesn't just go for Cal. Like, this is such rare territory that he's gotten to. I don't know if we'll ever see

another Mariner do this. I don't know if we'll see another catcher regardless of the team ever do this again. It is unbelievable, truly. And tonight, I mean, he gave the people what they wanted. I mean, first and foremost, the home run that he hit tonight, or the home run that he hit in the first inning was ridiculous. He went to a place that only Joe Hottani. and Movon and Daniel Vogelback and Nomar Mazarra have gone.

Just like the who's who of left-handed power hitters. He basically hit it to where they're going to put a new banner. It's minus 100 feet or so, but sure, yeah. Pretty darn close. Pretty darn close. And then they're in the bottom of the eighth. Everyone wanted to see one thing. Yeah.

The MVP chance are echoing throughout that ballpark. And he delivered. And that's not the first time that's happened either. He did that against Griffin Jacks, you know, a few weeks ago as well. Like, that's some MVP stuff right there. Unfortunately, he'll have to hit 62 now to win the MVP and then maybe 63. Actually, yeah. Well, no, 62 will definitely get them there, but then you might need 63 just to be actually.

Yeah. Yeah. Once he just 62, then he'll need 63. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if I'm going to vote for him unless he gets 70 is going to be the new goal post. Once he gets to 63, then it's like he needs to catch Barry.

Yeah. 10 home runs in one game. Like, yeah. Yeah. So we'll see. I mean, like, look, we talked the MVP thing to death. And I think at this stage, everybody's mind is actually made up. And, you know, all this posture.

You're like, well, if it's to 60, then you've got to vote for him. I just think that that's not going to end up being the case. Like, people who want to vote for Cal right now, they're going to vote for Cal right now. People who want to vote for Judge right now, they're going to vote for Judge right now. And look, somebody is going to get screwed. It's just the way it is, unfortunately, you have two incredible MVP-worthy seasons. Somebody's going to walk away with a second-place finish. And there's a decent chance it's Cal.

And that sucks, but that's just the way baseball works sometimes. And so like it is what it is at this point. There's really no case. There's no more cases to be made on either side of this thing. So yeah, certainly a special performance from Cal tonight. To just kind of, you know, tie the first inning in the last inning together. Started the game with a home run, ends the game with a home run to get to 60. And yeah, I mean, that is, we talked about how special 50 is.

Like 50 is just different, you know, even though 49 is still an incredible season, but they're just something different about 50. There's been over 20,000 players in the history of Major League Baseball. Seven dudes have hit 60 in a season before. And listen to the names, right? It's Ons, it's Sosa, it's McGuire, it's Babe Ruth. It's Roger Barris. It's Aaron Judge.

End of list. Well, now Cal Raleigh. Yeah. I mean, think of the players more impressively that we didn't name. There's no Griffey. there's no Otani, there's no Willie Mays, there's no Hank Aaron. No. Like it is absolutely absurd.

Like 60 is like 300 strikeouts used to be. Like it is in an era where we were like the home run is like what teams do. It's what teams chase. Right. There's still only been one person, you know, in the American League to get to 60 since 1961. And again, some of the guys that I listed there. steroids like there's that conversation you know it's wild to think about like the number of players in the american league who have hit 60 in the season ruth maris judge three yankees yeah and one

seattle mariner so it really is something you know funny to think of for all the illustrious history of the yankees the team of the entire sport there's a mariner who shares elite company with, you know, Maris, obviously a great player in his own right, judge, Future Hall of Famer and Babe Ruth, some would argue the greatest baseball player of all time. Like it is absolutely insane what Cal accomplished tonight. And it is almost being somewhat overlooked because of what the team accomplished tonight. You almost take it for granted a little bit because he seems to do it every single. Cal Rale is hitting more than a home run a series.

Like if he doesn't hit a home run for the rest of the year, he will average more than a home run a series. So it really is insane. And by the way, he's doing it while catching over a thousand innings and taking all those foul tips and all the things that go with catching and having to handle two swings

and having to handle a pitching staff. A pitching staff, by the way, that may have turned a bit of a corner in the month of September because the rotation right now kind of dealing over the last, you know, three weeks. So yeah, just so much what Cal does. There's so much on us. I don't need an MVP to validate what Cal Raleigh's done this season and what his season means in the context of the history books and also in Seattle Mariners history. I don't need him to win the MVP to validate that for me.

It should be nice if he did, though. And it is humbling to really think about the opportunity. that we've had to be able to cover this season, to cover a season like this, for it to be one of our guys. It's, uh, yeah, to be part of this in some sort of way.

And for you guys to come along on this ride with us, like it really, yeah, I just, I don't know, that just kind of hit me right now. Like, that's crazy. That's crazy. And,

uh, what a special year. What a special year. It's been for a special guy that, you know, you and I have been talking about and covering since he got drafted. And to see him come up, you know, the beef boy bomb calls, you know, I want to, you know, a person that I want to shout out right now is Keaton Gologley, the former broadcaster for the Modesto Nets who. Sure. I mean, he's a friend of our show. And, you know, he used to sing, you know, bring me the beef boy as a free muscle.

every time that Cal went yard. I mean, you got to bring up Jared Kellnick on a night like tonight then. Those are the rules. Absolutely. Jared Kellnick's best contribution in his entire Major League career, shots fired, is naming Cal Raleigh, giving Cal Raleigh his iconic nickname. And so, yeah, it is, it's just been a wild ride. And I mean, Cal Rale was a third round pick.

Yeah. And people said, oh, he can't catch. He's too big. Like, nobody thought he was going to be an average catcher. He's going to be a first baseman. He's going to be a D-H. It's going to be a first basement. If he hits enough, like he'll, he might, he should, he should give up on switch hitting.

Yeah. He doesn't hit for enough average from the left side and from the right side. The swings too flat. He can't hit for power from that side. So like he's a third round pick who teams were hoping could maybe someday be a, you know, slight average, slightly below average defensive catcher. Now he's a deserving platinum glove catcher MVP candidate who just hit 60 freaking home runs.

in a season. So you know what? Tip of the cap to, you know, Andy McKay, Scott Hunter, and shout out to the player development guys and the guys who drafted him and the guys who scouted them and names will never know

who also get in on the celebration tonight. And again, it really is a team effort from a lot of people behind the scenes whose names will hardly ever get uttered on any show or in any kind of meaningful way who really helped put this thing together. It's truly a night for an entire, organization to celebrate.

And unfortunately, that means you have to let John Stan do it too. All right. We're going to wrap things up and talk a little bit more about the Mariners when in the AL West title for the first time since 2001. It's crazy to say out loud. Go over that in just a moment. But first, a reminder, this episode of the Locktime Marys podcast is brought to you by Ruggiette.

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Email us, lockdown mariners at gmail.com. I want to hear from all of you. You know, because I know for a lot of you, this, you've only seen this team when now four division titles. some of you have never seen them win a division title some of you were i mean i was five years old the last time they won a division title so what is winning the division mean to you and colby what is this team winning the division mean to you it's neat uh i just want somebody posted a list of things here that i think are pretty funny uh right now uh so the last time the mariners won the American League West, just to put it this all in perspective.

Shrek had just been released in theaters. The first Shrek movie. The number one movie in the box office at the time, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Wow. Yeah. The iPod hadn't been released yet. The number one song in the charts was fallen by Alicia Keys. Julio Rodriguez was eight months old.

Like, so it really is an incredible, you know, and that's, not even, that's just some of the things. Like the last 24 years have been absolutely insane. And there's a lot of ways to look at this. But yeah, it took almost 8,000 days for the Mariners to, you know, win their fourth division title. And most of those days were bad. Like they're, the last, you know, the last four years, things have been relatively good. Like, you were, winning a lot of games in the regular season. You were in the hunt every year, but, man, there were some lean, lean years after each year old left, after that kind of era ended. The middle of each year old's era was also pretty bad, but, you know, it was, it was just trying

to survive on Felix Hernandez and not a whole lot else. And so it was just, you know, two decades of hope filled with disappointment and then hoping again and then being disappointed over and over in the cycle repeating. It's. self over and over and over again. So, yeah, it really is insane to think about the last 24 years. And, you know, again, we say this all the time. Like this year's team isn't responsible for any other team, right? They're a completely new entity.

They're something, you can't compare them to 95. You can't compare them to 2010. Like they're not responsible for the 2010 season being a disaster. They're not responsible for any of these past failures or anything like that. but from a fan's perspective, which is what we are, it's hard not to lump them together. And for the last 24 years,

it's been same old Mariners. It's been ownership doesn't care. Still waiting to be proven wrong on that one. But it was, it's just, you know, maybe next year or like, they're never going to do it.

And it doesn't even matter what they do. They're going to fail, blah, blah, blah. And it's just two decades of that, you know, uh,

and just seeing, the primes of Ichero wasted and the primes of Felix Hernandez wasted and you got, you know, the combination of Seeger and Canoe and Cruz wasted and the promise of a bright future with Paxton and Taiwan Walker and Dustin Ackley and Jesus Montero and Justin Smok. Nick Franklin. Like they all sucked. Like for the most part, Paxton was pretty good. But like it was just constant, you know, the Eric Bedar trade.

like you think of all the the the cliff lee trade like all the times the mariners got our hopes up only to dash them later and the number of sports illustrated covers you guys know which ones i'm talking about yes uh you know it was it's it's it failed regimes ownership changes yeah taking jeff clement over troy toulouitzky like draft failures mike sinino who we love over francisco go lindore that would have been better like it's just one of those things where just like for two decades most of the last two debt two and a half decades the mariners have been the joke of major league baseball and while things have certainly been better over the last four years and and you know again i want to give credit to uh jerry and justin and the scouting department and the player like everybody who helped put this team together they all deserve credit tonight But for the better part of two and a half decades, you were a joke.

And to be hopeful about the Seattle Mariners was a fool's errand. Yeah. How could you be? And now we sit here tonight on September 24th as we're recording. And we look at a team that is just won an American League West title. And we look at a team that still has Cal Raleigh locked in long term, Julio locked in for the long term. You still have young pitching. You have the best farm system in baseball also to,

look forward to coming up with guys who are either at the big league level right now or really close to it at the top of your prospect ranks and you have you know you still have the support of guys like randy and jp and nailer might be something like there's so much to be hopeful for here and for the first time really in you know two decades it doesn't feel like it's being forced it doesn't feel like the hope is just for hope's sake it feels like there's legitimate reason to be optimistic that maybe, just maybe, after largely 49 seasons of ineptitude and shame, maybe the Seattle Marys have figured something out and they're here to stay. And this is the era that we have been waiting for for a long time.

And I know a lot of people love to talk about the 95 and the 97 and the early 2000s. Great. I'm happy for you. I'm glad you got to enjoy that. Most of us didn't. all right and so it's it's nice to just finally feel like patience has been rewarded and that your faith has been rewarded and that you know it's just baseball at the end of the day it's really not a huge deal but it is you know it really is and it feels like it is sometimes you and i

live it every day like and i and i get it's not like that for a lot of people but you and i we get on the show every single day and for the last four years we have rarely ever skipped a day. Every single day talking about this team, we went through the 54% thing. We felt the high of, you know, 20, 22, and finally ending the drought, and you and I expected so much more in the coming year.

You know, they traded for Teoscar Hernandez, and I remember I could just do backflips that day, thinking like, that's it, that's the moment. like they're finally like they're going all in and then the rest of that off season happened and it was super disappointing and 2023 was super disappointing and the 54% thing happened and for the last two years we've been living that nightmare of 54% everything everything is 54%. You know and like I said on the on the show earlier today, Gary and Justin have caught a lot of flak from us especially especially from us you know

we got called boot lickers and everything under the sun because of how much we defended Jerry and Justin's vision over the last however many years. But you and I finally had enough. And we started heavily criticizing them and all that. And again, in a lot of instances, rightfully so. But seeing that photo of those two together last night celebrating and seeing them again and seeing Justin Hollander tonight on the broadcast like running around the clubhouse. pouring champagne on guys and all that. Good for them, man. You know, because again, like,

the last few years, especially for you and I, have felt like forever, but I can't imagine how long they felt for Jerry and Justin. Yep. And, you know, and I'm glad that, you know, they finally, they went in at the deadline. They went and got the two best hitters available. and they've been rewarded for that.

And I hope this shows to John Stanton and that ownership group, like, look what happens when you actually give a damn, when you actually push your chips in a little bit. And now I, I get it. Look, they didn't really trade anything for Gino and Josh Nail, like, whatever. But like, they identified, these are the two best guys available. We're going to get both of them. We're not just going to get one of them. We're going to get both of them. They did it.

And look where we are now. And it was the first thing that came out of Dan Wilson's mouth when he talked to the to the crowd today. Yeah. Like, you know, thank you to this group for going out and added the pieces that we needed at the deadline. And that's absolutely right. And so, yeah, again, it's just, it's been a long two years. It's been a long four years on this show hoping for moments like this. Yep.

And so, you know, this is what it's all about, man. This is what it's it's moments like this. It's hoping for moments like this for the opportunity to cover moments like this and to cover seasons like like Cal Raleigh is having that, you know, make getting on the show and obviously, you know, you guys as well. And, you know, how much you guys rock with us and, you know, how much you guys have supported us. Like all of that is what makes this worth it. And, you know, I'm just so unbelievably proud of what we built here. And, you know, what we're continuing to build here with this community. And so incredibly grateful to be finally in this moment right now.

And look, you know, like they've been saying every time a microphone gets in front of put in front of one of these players' faces, like job ain't finished. And like Colby and I have talked about over the last week, like, this ain't the end goal. And a few weeks time, I want to talk about a World Series champion, frankly. and so I think this is the team that could do it this is the most confident I've ever been in a Seattle Ameris team that they could truly win the championship,

win it all. And I think it's going to be a fun next few weeks. I'll just say that. Yeah. And, you know, hopefully, this becomes the norm, you know, where

where if this isn't the result, you're not like, oh, that's a bummer. we'll talk well you know maybe next year it's more about like it's it's unacceptable for this not to be the end result and and for all that and that's the goal but but to get there you have to do it the first time yeah and so you know i i do hope that we do get to a point where us as a fan base and and us on the show like this is expected and we're not we're not like oh man how long do we have to wait before we start doing offseason plan episodes and all that like yeah like i want deep playoff runs every

year. I don't want to just, you know, hey, you know, if everything breaks right, we might compete for a wild card, or maybe even a division if the rest of the league really stinks. Yeah. Well, and I don't want to be coded the way that I have been and how we have talked about this team, you know, over the course of this year where it's like, oh, God, here it comes. They're going to blow it now. Oh, God, they're going to Kauffman Stadium. Oh, God. They're going to Houston and all, like, I don't, I don't want that to be a thing anymore. Right. Right. And like, you know, I'm tired of expecting the worst and hoping for the best,

but that's been the majority, like you said, that's been the majority, I mean, that's been the entirety for me of my fandom. Yeah. You know, with the Seattle Marries.

Last thing that I'll say before we get out of here, you've said this before. Seattle is a baseball town. Tonight prove that. And that's not to say anything about the Sonics, the Seahawks. nothing like that. But this is a baseball town.

Yeah. Seattle's a great sports town. You know, and there's just only so much of a fan base can take before they just throw their hands up in the air and say, I'm not doing that. And Seattle's always been a great sports town. And, you know, for a decade, this town belonged to the Seattle Mariners. And unfortunately, the Mariners didn't, really appreciate it as an org the way they needed to. They didn't protect it the way they needed to.

And the interest dwindled and it fell to basically nothing. And so, you know, a lot of hard work went back into turning this town into a baseball town. But we know Seattle's a great sports town. They just put 44,000 people in a stadium on a Wednesday night against the worst team, maybe in the history of baseball. And, you know, it's the loudest stadium. You know, you had the Savannah bananas coming this We can say it's the loudest stadium we've ever played in. And they play in NFL stadiums. And we know the impact that this fan base can have on a game and on a team. And like Seattle's a great sports town.

And I just hope that we're at a stage now where the teams are in a position to show the rest of the world, at least the rest of the country, that Seattle is a premier sports town. They love their teams. They support them. you know and and so hopefully this team right here is a start to some we thought the 2022 team was a start things didn't happen well for you after that you know sometimes that happens hopefully this team is the start of that and hey you know what we mentioned a lot of people tonight uh but uh one name i haven't heard mentioned at all uh that uh you know i think probably should be mentioned uh how about mitch aniger Mitch Hanigar, another guy who really, him and JP kind of started the foundation of this whole thing way back in 2019.

And obviously, you know, Hanager was here for a couple competitive years before then. But, you know, they stuck around. They stuck around and they were here through most of it. And, you know, haven't heard from Mitch all year. Unfortunately, his career is probably over. But, you know, it is one of those things where it's just like, yeah, thinking of Scott. you know, tonight. I'm thinking of, you know, Mitch and, and Marco and, you know, even Dylan more a little bit. I know. Tom Murphy. Yeah. Tom Murphy. Like just a ton of guys who just,

you know, didn't get the payoff that JP got tonight. But where every bit is instrumental as laid the groundwork to get us here. So again, it's an organization celebration thing. And you're part of the organization. You don't get a paycheck from them. But you're part of, it you you signed the paychecks more or less for for the people inside the organization so celebrate tonight celebrate tomorrow sure why not uh but understand that uh you know this i hope the goal should be this is an announcement uh that this is the seattle mariners era and i hope that's the case and you know i don't know if it's going to be so don't take this for granted ever even if it does end up being the case don't take the nights like tonight i was i was guilty of

taken it for granted in 2020. Yes. You just assumed it was going to happen again. Yep. Can't assume that. But so again, as always, celebrate every time you make the playoffs. It's an incredibly difficult thing to do. Yeah.

And just take some time to savor tonight. Obviously, there's, you know, bigger things to come here in the next few weeks. But it's okay to take the next couple days and really savor this moment to savor, like, the mayor has won the AOS. because, yeah, hopefully they win it again and again and again. Hopefully they're the new Astros, right? They dominate this division for the next decade plus. But it's also possible that they might not win one again for another 24 years.

This might be it. Don't you think after the 2001 season, the mayors were feeling pretty confident that they were going to make another World Series run? So, yeah, never take it for granted, but also, you know, demand that the floor be raised. Yeah. You've seen what it can be. expect it and set that expectation there and shut up everybody outside of this,

this, you know, fan base and this organization who just, same old Mariners, they can never do it, they're a joke, shut them up. And you have an opportunity to do that starting this year. Yeah. So lastly, uh, the Mariners only have one last thing to clench and that is a first round by. The first seed is still up for grabs. Still kind of unlikely just given how limited time there is. But the Blue Jays lost again today.

Yeah. But the, you know, the Blue Jays lost again. But all you need in order to clinch the first round by is a Guardian's loss or a Marys win the rest of the way. You just need one of those things to happen. All right.

Well, that's going to do it for our show. And what a show it was. Thank you guys again for being here for supporting us all the way. And, you know, we're going to keep on going, baby. We ain't done yet.

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