Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - THE SEATTLE MARINERS ARE TWO WINS AWAY FROM THE WORLD SERIES

Episode Date: October 14, 2025

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The Mariners are two wins away from the World Series. 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 Monday, October 13th, 2025. This is Tadangazas and Colby Patnode for the Lockdown Marys podcast,

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For more information, go to patreon.com forward slash control the zone. Link in the description. The Mariners are up to nothing in the ALCS. Yes, they win game one by a score of three to one last night. They win game two tonight into three. And now they're coming back home with a chance to clinch their first ever trip to the World Series as early as Thursday. And, you know, I was at Rogers Center for both of these games, of course. So on this show, I'll be giving you more of a behind the scenes of what it was like in the building while Colby will fill in the lines of what he saw on the broadcast.

and you know we're going to talk about both of these games more so tonight's but definitely want to get into yesterday a little bit as well because we haven't talked to you guys here on this show since then but yeah Colby this is a Blue Jays team that just looked like an absolute wagon in the ALDS against the Yankees especially at home in Toronto but the M's handled them very well last night and tonight just straight up smoked them so I guess let's just start with your impressions of how they handled business these last two nights. Yeah. Aside from one guy, statistically speaking, pitching has dominated the series for the Mariners. It obviously started last night with Logan, or sorry, Bryce Miller. By the time you guys were listening to this, it might have been last night.

But Bryce Miller was incredible in three days rest to give you 18 outs of one run ball. And boy, it sure didn't look like that was going to be the case. after the first two hitters, but, you know, he rallied. There's four hitters, really. Yeah, probably had the best start of his career, you know, just considering all the, the stakes. Yeah. So it really is impressive what he did. And then, you know, your guys in the back end of your dogs in the back end of your pen

look great. And you just shut it down. And that was that. So tonight was a little bit different, or today, stupid afternoon games. is a little bit different just because Logan Gilbert wasn't good. Like straight up he wasn't good.

And it was unfortunately been a start we've seen from Logan all too much this year. And you and I talked about this. This team was not a good matchup for who Logan Gilbert has been all year long. Right. And he only gave you nine outs

and there was some concern. And then, you know, he was really good. You know, and there was some concern. feel like we're not talking about him enough. And he gave you two massive endings with the game still on the line.

This isn't like, you know, Emerson Hancock's two innings where the games basically decided, despite Hancock's best efforts to, you know, undecided, you know, he was, he was great. And he went through the middle of the order once. And he was just fantastic. And it's just been that guy for most of this year. And, you know, shout out to Vargas as well. He pitched very well tonight in two innings of release. a guy who's trust over the last, you know, a couple of months.

So pitch has been the calling card for the Mariners in this postseason. They have basically won every game that they've won because of their pitching. But tonight, the offense also stepped up in a big big, they did it with the home run ball, which is how we've kind of been accustomed to the Mariners winning on the stretch here, and they broke it out today. So really just a good effort all around. again, there were some sketchy parts of the defense. Logan wasn't good.

Hancock couldn't throw strikes. But just really solid 18 innings of baseball. And that's how you walk out of a, you know, what was supposed to be a hostile environment. You could tell me if it was or wasn't. But that's how you walk out of there with two wins. Yeah. So, you know, to address that last part that you said they're like,

I felt like the environment tonight was way more intense than it was. last night. I feel like the buildup to last night's game was better than it was tonight. Tonight or today, whatever, felt way more casual in the buildup to it. Like I almost felt in a way my wife Caroline and I were talking

to each other. It kind of felt like we were just at like a regular season game in the buildup to it. But yeah, like last night like felt like, oh, we're at the ALCS. You know? But the atmosphere last night, I told you

when we were on our live stream on CTZ. Last night being game one. Yeah, last, yeah, game one. Like game one, it didn't live up to what I remembered like the wild card series being like and what that atmosphere felt like. But today definitely did it,

especially early on when like Springer hit that double. And even when Julio hit the three run home run, even after that, and after Naylor, got on and all that. Like when you Savage was able to get out of it, the crowd was super into it. And it was super loud in there.

But yeah, you know, once Polo hit that three run home run, then things started to shift pretty drastically. You know, JP adds on. And then once, you know,

Naler hit the two run home run to make a nine to three, people started leaving. Yeah. You know, people either started leaving or they started watching the Dodgers, Brewer's game on their phone or they were watching Monday night football like I was looking around you know people just kind of started like

it was very much like the people who stayed around were just like doing it because like hey I spent a lot of money to buy these tickets now I'm just going to kind of like chill and we're just going to like talk amongst ourselves like the energy was completely sapped out of that building after Naylor hit that home run. Yeah that's interesting because you know I made a point

even in like the second third fourth inning even after those the Blue Jason made their little comeback and it was three to three. I made the point on socials. I was like, it might be the broadcast, but it seemed quiet. Like,

obviously it really quieted down after Polo hit his home run to the point where you could hear the players talking to each other on the field on the broadcast and all that. But it seemed quiet. Again, sometimes that's just TV. But, yeah, it didn't seem like there was a ton of energy in that ballpark,

uh, really after. I would say, I would say around the third inning. it also kind of started to die down a little bit even though it was tied and I think that was just because like people started to go to the concourse or to get food

or go to the restroom or whatever and so there started to be more empty seats consistently you know and like people would return but then more people you know other people would go to the concourse and you know they would just kind of you know switch out so

yeah it just it felt like the Mariners kind of just snatched the soul from that building tonight and from this fan base. Yeah. And yeah. I mean, I had multiple people come up to me and be like,

good series. Like good luck in the world series, all that. Like I'm like, definitely not doing that. No, I feel uncomfortable, you know,

saying anything in response to that as a Mariners fan. Shut your mouth. You don't know my pain. Yeah. But it definitely felt like a, like the vibe. leaving the stadium today was very much like it in a it's it's over vibe which i mean if these games were in seattle they dropped too it probably would be very similar so right and i mean like

it it is very possible that people just went to their last baseball game of the entire year yeah it's definitely on the table so yeah you know i just thought on tv it played as kind of and i maybe it's just because i'm not a part of that fan base but like watching the mariners on tv you could like feel the stadium and you could feel the crowd. It came through very clearly. And I just didn't feel like it did these last two games. But who cares about that? We're talking about what happened on the field, really.

And, you know, it's an interesting experience to have where you're just kind of like, this is, this is playoff baseball. So nice to see that that really wasn't actually the case until the Mariners kind of jumped up on them. But yeah, interesting. Yeah. And they also did, you know, in credits of the Maris of doing a great job of just shutting that crowd the hell up. Yeah.

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They earned that. Saying that they stole it doesn't, I'm not saying that they all that they didn't earn it. They absolutely earned it, but they still, given the circumstances, right, Bryce Miller pitching on three days, rest. You know, the Blue Jays being not a game. You were well set up to win. Yeah, the Blue Jays being very well rested and coming off of a massive series against the Yankees where they looked so, so dominant. You're going to their ballpark after you had to play 15 innings of an incredibly emotional game. It's all the adults and not be, you know, upset about wording on something. They stole that game. Like, come on. Yeah, yeah. They stole that game. And they were the better team for

nine innings. Don't get me wrong. But they stole that game. game. Yeah. It's not a game that if the Maritors weren't playing in that game, nobody in this fandom would have any opinion on you saying, oh, they stole that win from this other team. Like, because that's what happened. They won a game that they probably, uh, on paper didn't have much business winning. Yeah. So, you know, they had the opportunity here where they were kind of in a way playing with house money, right? They already stole home field advantage. You know, with the win last night, they already made it so that they wouldn't have to win another road game in order to advance of the World Series.

And the mayor has wound up doing what they've done a lot this season, frankly, which is like, take a great opportunity and actually capitalize on it. Like you think about what they did in Houston. They won two or three and it was like, awesome, cool. That's all you really needed to do. But then they went the extra mile and they swept them. right tonight they went the extra mile and not only did they go the extra mile they smoke these dudes like from you know i mean like it felt like this was going to be the game

where you got two high powered offenses they're just going to throw haymakers at one another and from the third any onward the the mirrors kept the blue jays off the board meanwhile while the mayors kept throwing haymakers, right? Yeah. They never really let their foot off the gas. Like this does feel like a team, you know, we're hearing them say things like jobs not finished and, and all these things, right?

Like, their actions are backing that up. At the end of the day, you know, the Mariners are just a better baseball team than the Blue Jays, or at least they happen for the last two days. Like, that that's really what it is. They've outplayed them. They've outplayed them defensively. they've outplayed them offensively.

They've outpitched them. So, you know, they've out homered them. Like, they've just been the better team. And there's still, you know, two big wins to go out and get. But you do have three chances at home to at least get one of them. And if you get one of them, you put Toronto in a really bad spot. I mean, Toronto's not in a great spot right now. They have Bieber going game three, probably Gosman on short rest or a bullpen day in game four,

Max Scherzer, but that's like the husk of Max Scherzer, not prime Max Scherzer. But, you know, like you already put them in a pretty tight spot and you get to counter with Kirby and with Luis at home. You know, and maybe Brian Woofer game five, we'll see if everything is there. But that's also kind of going to be a glorified bullpen day from the sounds of it. So we'll see if that works out for them or not. But yeah, like winning these first two games, you've outplayed them. You outplayed them in their home ballpark after, you know,

an emotionally and physically draining 15-inning win to travel across the country again. After traveling across the country on Thursday to play a 15-in-a-game on Friday, to then have your flight be delayed and fly cross-country on Saturday evening or whatever, to get to the ballpark like 18 hours before you were getting ready to play game one

and then to win game one and then come back 12 hours after you win game one and win game two. Like, that's impressive. I mean, there's no way around it. the mariners have been jetting across the country for the last, you know, seemingly four or five days. And they went into a ballpark. And they did not look like the team that was jet lag.

They did not look like the team that was running low on emotion or running low on fire or motivation or anything. They looked like the heavy favorite. They looked like this is varsity versus JV. And again, there's still two huge wins to go get. Toronto's not going to go down without a punch. Like they, Vladdy's still very good. Spring is still very good. you know,

Farshow is better than he was today, uh, for sure. So yeah, it just, you kind of flipped the script on the blue jays and it looked like you were the team that was well resting. You were the team that,

uh, you know, just demolished your division rival and in an ALDS and didn't need to go 15 innings and beat scuba twice and scratch a claw for everything against the, uh, the tigers. So yeah, it just,

you kind of flip the script on script on them. And it's because you just flat out, out hit them. them you outpitched them you played better defense than they did i mean it really is that and it's again like yeah the vibes yeah the the momentum whatever you want to call it but like no you're just been better than these guys like there's not there hasn't been a lucky break that has gone the mariner's way that has led them to win these games i know you didn't probably get to watch this time but like on the post game show like david ortees and and derrick jeter are shocked shocked i say that the blue

jays lost the first two games to the mariners And it's just like for what? No. Like no. I talked about this with our friend Ben-Rineri on his show, C-level, the other day. Like these two teams obviously do it in very different ways, but I feel like they're equal in terms of talent level. Yeah. Like at least, you know, going into the series.

Now, the last few games, I feel like the Marys by and large have looked like the better team. But going into the series, it felt like these are two equal teams. this is truly like a coin flip series to me. So I don't get how I mean like I guess shocked that like it has looked so much in the Marin's favor that the Blue Jays outside of really just a handful of

innings have looked competitive. Yeah. Or have a look non-competitive rather I should say. Like I think that part is shocking. Sure. But in general the fact that like if if you told me the Marin were going to win both of these games. I obviously would have been like fairly surprised.

But not like, that's not possible. Yeah. So Colby, we've gone way too long without mentioning Polonktober. Polo does it again tonight. The big three run home run, which proves to be the game winner. He had two big RBI last night. He obviously had the game winner against,

tigers. He was a huge, massive, massive reason that you overcame Scoobel in game two. Like, the dude has been incredible. And it takes me back to, you know, a point that I made before the season even began, shortly after Polo signed, like, what an insane bet to take on yourself

to forego going to, to Minut Bay Park or Diken Park now and playing half of your games there or Yankee Stadium and playing half of your games there. Those were the other two teams that were in on him and going you know what?

I want to try and rebuild my value and turn my career around playing half of my games at Team Mobile Park. And yeah. He cracked the code and he's been

outside of you know, like once he got into May and he kind of fell off. But outside of that, he's been incredible. He was really bad in June too. It was like two solid months. He was terrible. Yeah, yeah. Like April, he was like the second best hitter in baseball.

May and June fell off. And then after that, he's been incredibly consistent. He's been one of the mayor's best hitters. He is now having a sensational October has been a huge, huge part of this thing has had the biggest hits of this postseason for the Mariners. So just so, so, so impressive. Just going back to that decision that he made. And obviously the Mariner's gave him the most money and all that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But still, like, was $1 million really worth taking that major of a risk? I mean, I think you kind of have to give credit to the Mariners here for having a, you know, good enough relationship with, with Lolo and for for for for forging. a good enough relationship in what was his worst career year to, for him to even be open to that idea to come back. I think you have, do you have some credit there to, you know,

Edgar Martinez, who worked with him briefly at the end of last year and Dan Wilson as well. I mean, clearly he saw something he liked because like you said, it certainly wasn't the best opportunity to rebuild value, but there was something about the, you know, the team that he liked or something about the clubhouse he liked.

There was something about the coaching staff that he liked. And, you know, maybe he did like it in, the ballpark last year. It just, he was hurt the entire year. So he just never really got an opportunity.

Like maybe he did feel like, no, I can hit in this ballpark. I just got to be healthy. And so, and plus, you know, now he's hitting a T-Mobile Park.

You can hit anywhere. If you can hit T-Mobile Park, you can hit anywhere. And so that's race his value even more. So, yeah, give him credit. I think he's probably played his way out of the Mariners'

off-season plans. You know, we'll see. Certainly wouldn't be upset. I mean, they're getting a lot of playoff revenue. They are. They are. So, again, we'll see if they can land.

Those are discussions for much, much later times. Hopefully. Yes. I mean, at least until next week. I mean, at the very, I mean, at worst, they're playing six games. Yeah. In the series. Game six is on Sunday.

Yeah. So at the very least next week. But, yeah, you know, it's. I still feel like they're probably going to have to pick between Naylor and Polo, and I don't think there's necessarily a bad choice there. But I'm still going with Naylor, who, by the way, also had a very nice day today. Yeah. Yeah, it was clear like he was dealing with the shoulder issue again. And after Dan and the trainer comes out and he looks in some real pain there, especially on a couple of those swings.

and his shoulder kind of went limp on the swing where he struck out. Goes back out there makes a great diving play down the line. And then he hits the two-run jack later on. Yeah. They mentioned on the broadcast that Dan went to Josh in the fifth inning, after the fifth inning and said, we're taking you out. Miles was warming up and he was getting ready to go in. Josh told him to hell you are.

and, you know, he went back out there, made the great play, hit the home run. Naylor's now had three, three hit games in the last four that the Mariners had played. And I mean, we talked about it, like he was having really good swings there early on in the Detroit series. You know, it just he had nothing to show for it. And finally, the results are starting to come in. And, you know, obviously with the birth of his baby, he kind of has less on his mind, I would assume. so yeah yeah so yeah it just seems like he's kind of out there playing a bit more free he's still playing through a lot of pain all that in his shoulder

what else he's dealing with potentially everybody's playing through something right now yeah yeah so yeah um yeah Josh Taylor just having a hell of a postseason right now yeah absolute dog Edward Bizarro absolute dog Cory Polanco yeah that one standing up yeah that one stands standing up crazy. Yeah, a little meal tonight for for Josh Naylor. Yeah,

just can't say enough great things about him. All right. So we're going to wrap up here with a couple of final thoughts on the game tonight. And look at what's ahead in just a moment. But first a reminder, this episode of the Lockdown Marys podcast is brought to you by Monarch Money. Most people can't name all their financial accounts or even what they're worth, whether it's 401Ks,

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Use the promo code locked on MLB at monarchmoney.com in your browser for half off your first year. That's 50% off your first year at monarchmoney.com with promo code LOC, KED, O N-M-L-B. And you're listening to the Lockdown Mariners podcast. So there were a couple of moments tonight where I was like the marons are going to win. The one main one that I really want to mention here is when the guy behind me, well, remember when Cal made the diving throw and it seemed like maybe he was a little shaking up on the play. Yeah. The guy behind me went, oh, please.

Like he was wishing for Cal to be hurt. And I was like, okay. Marries are going to win now. Rent for you, baby. Rent free. Yeah. I was like, oh, okay, you're going to put that energy out there for your club. All right, cool.

Sounds a little desperate, but okay. Yeah. The other one was when the Mariners were up three nothing. Julio had hit the home run. And at the start of the bottom of the first, the Blue Jays still hadn't hit yet. yet in this game. The Blue Jays put on the screen,

rally time. In the first. In the first setting. I mean, it kind of worked, but also like, no, too soon.

Yeah. By the way, they did that in like the seventh inning last night, only once. Yeah. I mean, that's an appropriate time.

Yeah, that's an appropriate time. They did it twice today, including in the first inning before a single Blue Jays hitter. stepped in the batters box. I mean, the hidden advantage of this series is actually the ballpark operations people for both teams because the Mariners wouldn't be caught dead using their rally, you know, their rally caps or their whatever thing in the first inning. No, no, no, no, no.

That's time to go straight music. You know, you try and fire up the crowd a little bit, you know, it's not a time to be like, you know, ballads. or anything like that. No, no, no. It's time to get the crowd up on their feet. So, yeah, ballpark atmosphere. Mariner's really good at creating it. Yeah. And it doesn't seem like something that would be that hard to do. But apparently, whoof. But again, weird vibes. Weird vibes at these games. Very weird vibes. Yeah. And, yeah, this is like to say anything about all J.S fans to be clear, because I'm going, I'm, I'm, I assume there are going to be some Blue Jays fans in her comments.

This is not about you specifically. Don't worry. I get there. And I met some great Jays fans. I have never met like a bad Blue Jays fan. Yeah. I'm just saying there was this one guy behind me. Sure.

There's one in every like every fan base has these idiots. Yeah. And I hope specifically the bearers sweep the Blue Jays for that guy. For that guy alone. Yeah. You know when I knew the Mariners, we're going to win this game. is when they cut the final out

or when they had the double play I mean when Hancock on the mound but no it was when Mitch Garver hit a triple that was crazy because Dalton Varsha one of the best defensive players of baseball just didn't

play well today I don't know how well you could have you saw it on the broadcast but on the diving catch that he made to end that whatever the inning was it was the third inning on Genos fly ball. That was a god-awful route. That was not a great catch.

That was a terrible route that he made up for by, you know, making a nice recovery. Which is kind of the same as like when he made that bobbling catch that went viral earlier this year. Where like that was a, yeah, that was a terrible play. Great recovery. Dalton Varsho had a god-awful night in center field.

And I don't really know why. because the skies were fine yeah so that like loop single that kind of dumped right in front of them too and i don't know that was just it was weird because varsho's really good don't give me wrong he's very good out there and and like i assumed he was going to catch that ball and when he didn't and he was kind of like a circuitous route trying to like that's why i'm mentioning it by the way because i was like uh what's going on like this guy's like really good yeah because like if randy has a moment like that you're like okay i mean randy's not good yeah so Yeah, yeah.

Yeah. Like Randy would do that. Yeah. Hey, Oscar Hernandez would have a moment like that. Varsho is the elite of the elite. So for him to have that many misplays in one game, it was weird. But when he didn't catch that, I was like, okay, like, come on.

It's, they're done. JP had the most JP hit you've ever seen in your entire life. Very JPM. You know, foul off a bunch of good hittable pitches and then just kind of flick the bat at the ball and have it dump into shallow left field. I was like, okay, yeah, this one's over at that point. Yeah. So let's quickly talk about what's ahead.

What are you interested to see in game three? Mariners win. Well, yeah. It's a good start. Yeah, yeah. I do not care how it happens. Neither do I. Neither do I.

Neither do I. Just have more runs than the Blue Jays at the end of game three. Or you could give up fewer. That's also an option. Plenty of ways to win baseball games. You can score more or give up fewer. Yeah, yeah. Either one.

They both count the same. But, yeah, you know, Beaver starting game three, it'll be interesting to see how the Blue Jays kind of manage that situation because the Blue Jays are up against it here. Like they can't take as many risks as the Mariners can. Yeah. So, you know, Beaver kind of gets caught in a bad spot in the second or third inning.

how quick of a hook is Schneider going to have? And we've seen so far in the series that he's going to have a pretty quick hook on these guys. And so if you can get his pitch count up a little bit, get runners on base, can you get into that bullpen early? And this is the one stretch where you have three days and three games in a row. So if you can get into the bullpen early in game one with what they probably are going to do with some kind of bullpen game and game four, you know, it can really have an impact over these next couple of games. So I want to see them put pressure on Bieber throw strikes for the most part. I think he's been pretty good since returning from Tommy John in the middle of this year. But again, there's first year back from Tommy John.

Stuff isn't usually quite where it was. Command isn't quite where it was. And obviously you kind of have a limited pitch count. So I think there's a real opportunity to get to the Blue Jays bullpen in game three early, which has double bonus A, the Blue Jays bullpen isn't that good. So you can attack that. But also B, it can set them up to be in a real tight spot on, you know, game four and game five so yeah I'm interested to see how Bieber looks I'm interested to see the

marriage game plan against him as well and you know playoff George Kirby's pretty good so it will be interesting to see how Kirby looks in what is now his fourth no third appearance in this playoff series yeah yeah yes two starts full season appearance total it would be his fifth total. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah. And he's been pretty darn good in all of them so far.

And this is a, I don't want to say it's a better matchup. Like the Blue Jays lineup is better than the Tigers, but obviously Kerry Carpenter just owns George Kirby and Kirby, and Kirby, you know, typically speaking, you feel better about him facing a bunch of righties than you do lefties. But I think, you know, how soon you get into that bullpen in game three is going to be critical for the game four and if you need it, game five. Yeah. How nice is it to say if you need it?

it after two games yeah well and that and that kind of leads into what I'm most interested in the sea here is like again can you continue to go the extra mile you have the opportunity here to just like do away with the Blue Jays great opportunity especially because now like again you basically stole game one yep Logan didn't pitch well in game two but you got through it and you didn't have to use Mooney you didn't have to use Brash you didn't have to use Spire so you are now in the meat and potatoes of your rotation. You are potentially

going to get Brian Wu back in game five if you need to play it. And your bullpen is in fantastic shape. You have the huge advantage here. Can you just ride this wave of momentum that you've built here in these first two games

and just get them the hell out of here? So really interested to see that. Really interest to see just what the vibe is going to be with this team. Obviously the vibe in the ballpark is going to be insane. I assume. I don't think Mariner fans are going to rest on their laurels because they have a two nothing

lead. No. No. We'll see. There's a lot of concern about like how many Blue Jay fans are going to be there. It's like there'll be some. I don't think it's going to be like a normal, regular season game though, where it's a Blue Jay's home game more or less. I don't think it'll be close to 50-50, but I understand

some trepidation there. Sure. But yeah, the ballpark should be jumping and it should be, you know, hopping and people should be excited. And we'll see if the emotions carry over from the ALDS. I mean, this is kind of to the point now where people are like, this is what I wanted them to get to and I was going to be happy. And now it's like, well, two wins away from doing something you've never done in your franchise's history, which is guaranteed to be hosting two World Series games at a minimum.

Like that's all you need to. Think about it this way, Todd. Jordan Levitt, long-time subscriber to our Patreon and all that long-time listener. He told me this last night, and it was just crazy to think about it in this perspective. Entering today, the Mariners only needed to go seven and six the rest of the year to win the World Series. Which, by the way, ironically, winning seven of 13 games is a 53.8% win percentage. We round up on the show. 54% would have won you.

Why? Yeah, I just math, baby, math. They won today. What that means is that the Mariners only need to go six and six for the rest of this year to win the World Series. Yeah. It's crazy. Yeah. But another way to look at this.

Yeah. Another way to look at this too is like you only have to win two of the next five. Blue Jays have to win four of the next five. if I told you the Blue Jays only had to win two of the next five and the Mariners had to win four of the next five, how would you feel? Not great. Yeah. Not totally defeated because, you know, you got Kirby and Castillo at home. But like, yeah.

Yeah. Is there any part of you whatsoever? And you guys can answer this too, by the way. Sure. If the Mariners go up three and O, how nervous are you that they're about to be the 2004 Yankees? be honest be honest about it oh yeah

I mean dude they were up 10 to 3 tonight and I was watching Emerson Hancock failed to throw strikes and I was like they're gonna lose 11 to 10 like the thought

like okay that wasn't like the main thought I had no but like it creeped in the back here you're like it creeped into my mind because I'm just like no no no get out of there get out of there no no but plus I'm like dude this is too easy like what's like like no this isn't no no like the tie and run the tie and run will come to the plate before the end of this game i guarantee it and it just no yeah you know i'm just like picturing it in

my head like Vladie is going to come up with like the bases it'll be like 10 to 6 and glad he's going to come up it's like 10 to 7 or something and then he makes it then he makes it 11 to 10 to 10 and they're all walking off and this crowd is losing its mind blah yeah i did it like that that that That thought, that vision popped up. I think that's natural for Mariner fans. Anybody who's paid attention to the Mariners at all for the span of more than 30 minutes had that thought today. I guarantee it. I got to tell you, though, being surrounded by another team's fan base and watching them doom does help.

It really does help. It kind of gives you like some perspective where you're like, oh, well, well, I'm not here. we're going to lose, but like, they are like, like they think it's over. So I'm like, okay. Yeah. It does help. You,

you guys should try it. You guys should go to a Mera's Away game. What? So, like, why would I travel to Donald of Major League baseball to go watch the angels in that. It just,

it just, it helps with the perspective a little bit. I'll just say that. It does help a little bit with the perspective. But, uh, I don't know. But, yeah, it's been a fun two days, you know, and well, fun three, a great sports weekend for the city of Seattle or just, you know, Pacific Northwest sports in general.

Crackett or undefeated. Seahawks just got a big win in Jacksonville. Barrers obviously, you know, survive the ALDS. Three games and four days. And now the heavy favorites to advance to their first World Series ever. Udub's quarterback had 500 total yards and four touchdowns. and they're going to Michigan where they win, they'll be a top 25 team. Even WSU was a 32 point underdog,

and they went down to Old Miss, and they only lost by three. So, you know, if you're anything but an Oregon Ducks fan, you're probably pretty happy right now. If you're a Ducks fan, you don't deserve to be happy anyway. So how about that? Screw you.

The Sounders also won, and they did the wind dance. They did the Bears wind dance. That was really cool. One to nothing win. They scored in the fourth minute, and that was that was it yeah it's also it's also cool like seeing how the other

Seattle teams have kind of rallied around the mirrors like we've heard from cracking players talking about like you know because they were at game five of the ALDS and they're talking about like you know not for all of it but sure yeah not for all of it but they were like you know we want to keep it going and we you know we love what those guys are doing we heard that like the sea hawks erupted when when they were you know watching game five and the and the mirrors walked it off hotel yeah Yeah. And again, like the sounders doing the wind dance after one of the goals, like super cool. Just super, super, super cool. Again, this is a baseball town.

Yep. It just hasn't always known it. And that's not to say it's also not a, you know, football town and all that. It's a great sports town. Yeah, yeah. But it is a baseball. This is, this has been a sleeping diet. And it's finally getting the national recognition that it deserves. And it's finally getting the moment. that it deserves. Yep. And, great sports town. It was so,

so fun these last few days to be a part of this thing. And I really hope, I really hope that was the last baseball game that I've gone to this year. We all do. But yeah, it's, because Colby doesn't want to hear me say five and oh. Good Lord.

Yeah. And meanwhile, I've sat through 29. innings to see two losses. Awesome. Ty sat for fewer innings to see his three of his four wins. And I sat through to see my two losses. Awesome. Justice. Yay. But yeah, you know, it's also something like it feels like the only team I can,

the 2016 Cubs. Like other than that, I don't think I've seen a fan base that like wants this more than Mariner fans want whatever it is that's about to happen. so it's really cool to see it it's it's very much in line with that right it's sure only half as long but sure yeah yeah yeah obviously not as many years as like the cubs not as many years as like the o four red socks you know all that but like the o five white socks yeah but it's um i mean they're the only team that's never made it to the world series like you know and then go in two more games to get there people yeah but i mean like it's very possible but

the end of this week. We're no longer saying that. Yep. All right. That's going to do it for us. Thank you so much for joining us here on the lockdown errors podcast for Colby Pat note. I'm Tedding Gonzalez. Be sure to give us a follow on Twitter at L0 underscore mirrors. You can follow me at Teddy Gonzalez and Colby at C-Pat 11. That's C-PAT-1-1. We're also on blue sky. You can follow me at TDG, Colby at MLB-Colby in the show at Lockdown Mariner's. You can also find us on Instagram at Lockdown Merrers. Have yourself a beautiful

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