Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - Top 50 Seattle Mariners Moments Tournament: Round 1

Episode Date: February 24, 2026

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The Mariners are celebrating their 50th season this year. We're honoring that by pitting the best moments in franchise history against one another in a March Madness-style tournament. We need your help to determine who moves on. The first round kicks off coming up. 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 Tuesday, February 24, 2026. listening to the lockdown marries podcast for the lockdown podcast network. Now the number one sports podcast network. My name is Tadang Gonzalez and I'm joined as always by my co-coes Colby Patnode. We're two lifelong Marys fans who can cover on the team for over half a decade. And today we're kicking off our top 50 Mariners Moments tournament.

We'll be breaking down each matchup of round one over the next, you know, half hour or so. And either while we do that or sometime thereafter, we need you to click the link in the description of this episode, whether you're watching on YouTube or listening to it on your preferred podcast platform to go to the Google Forms page to vote on each of these matchups so we can figure out, you know, which moments are moving on to round two. Now, Colby, you did most of the heavy lifting on this. So tell the listeners how this was all put together and when voting closes and how exactly we made a 50 seed bracket work. Because obviously that's not a normal number you see for a tournament of this size. No, it doesn't break down clean where everybody. everybody gets a first round matchup.

So, you know, we probably could have expanded to 64, like the NCAAs, or we could have cut down to a nice round number. But this is a Mariners 50th season. So we have to have 50 moments. That's how it works. And because of that, the best way to do this would be to turn out to be to give the top 14 moments as selected by Ty and myself to give them essentially a buy week. let them go into the second round and then have the 18 matchups of the other 36 seeds go head to head in round one to advance. So that's kind of where we're at right now.

That's what we kind of had to do to make it work. So keep that in mind. Also keep this in mind, the first 14 seeds that we're going to talk about briefly here, Ty and I generally agreed on those seedings. Like, you know, there might be a little bit of a discrepancy for where we think it should be. but those are actually seated properly. 15 through 50, I've seated those myself,

and they're mostly trying to get good matchups in round one. So just because a moment is ranked 18th, and you think it's worse than the one that's ranked 42nd, doesn't mean I disagree with you necessarily. We're looking for matchups here in round one. So keep that in mind. Also keep in mind that if we excluded your favorite moment from our little game here,

it's probably because we hate you. and we wanted to see you you suffer. That's right. It's a personal attack on you. Yes. You watching right now. Yes. It's all on you. So take that.

Anywho. So yeah, the first 14 seeds, the, you know, the biweek seeds, whatever we're going to call them, the first 14. I think I think they're pretty standard. I don't think these will surprise anybody.

But number one overall seed, you guys might be able to, to guess. It's the double, obviously. Still number one. Oh, Adam Fraser's double. Oh, nice. Yes. Number two seed is the rainmaker, Cal Raleigh, ins the drought with the walk-off home run.

Number three is Felix's perfect game. The number four seed is Gino's Game 5 Grand Slam. So that's our most recent one. The number five seed is Polos walkoff in game five of the ALDS. So back-to-back 20-25ers there. The sixth seed is, the comeback win in game two of the ALDS against the Blue Jays. The number seven, yep.

The number seven is the, the clinching moment of the 1995. When the Mariners clinched the division of 95, Randy Johnson striking out, you know, Tim Salmon, all that. The number eight seed is Edgar's game four grand slam of the ALDS, the famous Rybright and Mustard call of Dave Nehouse to force the game five that we all. all know very well.

The nine seed is also Edgar. Edgar inducted into the Hall of Fame. You know, it's kind of our only not on the field moment on the list, but it was such a big deal for, you know, the fan base and for us in general that we felt like it was important to include and important enough to give it a top seed. So there you go. Edgar inducted in the Hall of Fame is the nine seed. The 10th seed is each year's 258 hit when he broke the record for the single season

hit record. The 11 seed is Cal hitting 60, 60 home. homers. So we'll see how far recently buys can take that one, but also it's pretty darn impressive. The 12th seed is Griffey Jr., or Griffey Sr. and Griffey Jr., going back to back. Just an awesome baseball moment. In general, the 13th seed is the Mariners winning the 116th game, striking out A-Rod and all that to win 116. the

in the final buy team the final you know buy seed whatever we're calling it each year old Star Wars throw so there you go there's the first 14 if you don't hear them throughout this first round that's why

they're automatically in the second round so don't worry about it and also because we hate you yes that's right you specifically if you think we're talking about you we are yeah that's right you you I'm watching you

All right. Let's get into these matchups. So we're going to start with the 32 seed versus the 33 seed. It is Julio's Home Run Derby in Seattle versus Julio's Home Run Derby in L.A. This is already really tough. Not for me. I mean. Start off with a banger.

Yeah. Thank you for, you know, acknowledging the matchup is good. But to me, this is Seattle. Like hit 41 home. in the first round in Seattle. I mean, he didn't win either of these. Yeah. Which is weird that they both made the list, but like, they're so iconic.

Like, I get the one in L.A. kind of launched him as like a national brand, but. It put him on the map. It really was the moment that put him on the map, which is like, it's so silly to say that about a home run derby, but it really, that really was the moment. I mean, you could argue the home run derby is what put Cal really on the map of the national discussion a little bit.

But to me, this is an easy one. His home ballpark. And he sets the record for most home runs in a single round. Like that's- And that image of him going to the crowd and all. Yeah. It's pretty cool. Yeah.

I mean, to me, this one, the home run derbies were pitted against each other, not only because I thought it was a good matchup, but also because like, let's get some of these similar results out of the way, right? You'll notice that throughout the list. There are a lot of similar events that were pitted against each other. So we can kind of weed those out pretty quick. But, yeah, to me, this is Seattle. I actually thought, you know, when I was writing this,

I thought Seattle was the first derby in L.A. was, I had it mixed up what year was, which, but no, Seattle, the second derby, 41 homers in round one, the whole ballpark, like rooting for them. It's pretty cool. Go watch it if you guys have it. By the way, there will be a link also in the description where you can go watch some of these moments, or at least, you know, highlights of these moments in case you have forgotten or you're not quite sure what we're talking about.

So you can go do that as well. But, yeah, so, you know, home run derby, which basically which one of Julio's homerun derbies was better. Yeah. I mean, one thing we didn't discuss is like these are the 50 best moments, but that's up to you guys, right? Do you want to go like most significant? Do you want to go like just overall, which one was better, like more impressive, which

one was more meaningful? You guys get to decide all that. Like, that's up to you. But, yeah. So I don't know, maybe the first one because Julio, like you said, put him on the map kind of to a national audience. but I don't know, the one in Seattle where he hits 41 in round one, like that's pretty cool. That's pretty cool.

Yeah, yeah. Quick question. Julio versus Prime Griffey. Modern rules. Julio. And the derby, really? Julio, yeah. I hope Julio does the derby this year.

That'd be great. Pretty much the only reason I'd watch. Matchup number two is Carlos Gien's squeeze butt. to win the 2000 ALDS versus the White Sox versus Etro and Ken Griffey Jr. being carried off the field after the 2009 season finale. So Griffey and Etriot, that's the 48 seed.

The Guillen Squeezebant, that's the 17 seed. Yeah, 2000 team horribly overlooked in Mariners history. That was a really good team. They got to an ALCS themselves. That was A-Rod's last year on the team. Yeah. You know, funny enough, this Gien, who wins the game, sweep the white socks, two to one.

Just really an underrated moment, I think, in Mariners history from an underrated team in Mariners history. So, yeah, it's interesting. But, you know, as somebody who was high school senior or well, junior, I very vividly remember. No. Yeah. Yeah.

I very vividly remember, you know, each year old being carried off the field, Griffey being carried off the field. They thought it was his last game. They weren't sure if he was going to come. back and you know fans were were chanting one more year and and then each year oh got hoisted up that was the mike sweeney team also uh you know it was just a surprise 85 win team uh it was year one of jacksie i think if i remember incorrectly uh so yeah it was just looked like good times were coming and then 2010 happened but that moment it's a really it's an iconic picture

um and uh yeah i thought it was a fun moment and it kind of honors like two legends at the same time, two of the most important players in your franchise's history. So I know there was an interesting matchup. Gian's squeeze bunt, though, I think probably should carry the day, but we'll see. All right,

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round one of the top 50 Mariners Moments tournament. the third matchup on our poll here 16th seed louis soho's little league grand slam the 1995 a o s tiebreaker game versus the 49 seed mitch hanniger's what a night game what a night what a night yes the game that got the mariners to 162 where they had a shot to make the playoffs and still didn't so it's soho yeah It should be, but this is the recency bias I talked about and how it might carry the day. Luis Soho's Little League Grand Slam was the biggest hit in franchise history until about like a week later. So it kind of gets overshadowed by, you know, the whole Edgar and the ALDS thing. But Soho's Little League Grand Slam, the weak ground ball that somehow gets by J.T. Snow rolls down the line. Wild throw, Mark Langston, who was traded for Randy Johnson, is pitching. for the angels. He's absolutely dueling Randy back and forth. And, you know, the wild throw gets

by the catcher. And then there goes little Louis Soho sliding it ahead of the tag of Mark Langston. Like that is how I like my irony served. Of course, what accompanies that is the whole 95 chasing down the angels. All that has to factor in a little bit here. The Hanager game, one a night is is really good. Don't get me wrong. It is a seminal like Mitch Hanager moment of his entire career. And in Hanager should probably be a Mariners Hall of Famer. So like I get why. And again, that happened recently.

People remember that off the top of their head. They don't have to be reminded of it. So I think, I think this matchups on upset alert, but I would be upset if this was an upset because the Soho hit is, is so much more important and so much more consequential. Sorry, Mitch, than what he did because that was actually to get into the playoffs for the first time ever.

Hannigers was just to keep them alive for another day and it didn't end up paying off anyways. That was yet another game 162. I sat there with a little bit of hope and then watched a quickly dwindle on the out of town scoreboard. So, yeah, anyways. I'm calling an upset alert here,

but I hope I'm wrong. I think reasoncy bias will carry the day here, though. Yeah, yeah, we'll see. I mean, you know, we got a lot of Mariners fans. We've got a lot of listeners who weren't alive for the Luiso little league grandson, myself included. But if you guys don't want to be dragged

radically down the rabbit hole of recency bias by these Gen Ziers over here who are just now learning how to vote. You're a millennial or you're, you know, Gen Xer, you better get, you better get in the comments section and click that link and vote so you can keep

your precious moments from 95 on this list. All right, because I'm telling you right now, the younger millennials and the Gen Ziers, they will take this thing and everything. Our top five moments will all be from 2021 and, you know, ahead. So 49 seed more like 6-7 seed am I right Yeah it's it's the so lowly grand slam

All right fourth matchup here Mike Cameron hits four home runs in one game versus the bearer's first ever game in 1977 It's only on the list Because Dave Nehousis listed it as like his second or third most memorable call, like most memorable moment. So obviously one kicked it off, but it was, you know, 19 years before they were remotely relevant.

So I'm predicting this might be the biggest blowout in round one. I'm biased too. This was the day after my birthday that Cammy hit these four home runs. So yeah, that was. Yeah. Yeah. Four home runs and four in his first four at bats. Yeah.

I thought he was hitting five. almost good warning track for number five yeah yeah I'm guessing this one will be a blowout would be my hunch but you know

50 moments to not go back to when the franchise literally started like the first moment it existed it would have seemed a little cheap so I didn't give it the easiest matchup but I'm pretty sure that one was going to lose

no matter who it was matched up against to be honest but we'll see you never know I mean, again, none of this happens without that 77 team. Well, without the pilots leaving and then, you know, the government suing major league baseball and then that whole perpuffle. But yeah, blah, blah, blah. The 77 team built a foundation of just painfully bad baseball that this franchise is built on. So give it some respect.

Diego Sigi, baby. Our fifth matchup, 25 seed versus the 40 seed. Griffey hits the warehouse in the home run derby in 1993 in Baltimore. Didn't win that derby, by the way. And then Blower is perfectly predicting Toiasisopos home run. I'm going upset alert here. Yeah, I am too.

As someone who as someone who speaks into a microphone about Mara's baseball every day, I have a soft spot for Mike Blowers making that call. That's insane. That's like that is actually, and then on top of that,

you got Rick just losing his you know what in the booth as it's happening. Somehow the quintessential you know, Rick Riz call when he wasn't even really, he was doing color. And it's still like my favorite Rick Riz call. And one of the last great Dave Nehouse calls as well.

Yeah. Yeah. Griffey was the first player to hit the warehouse on the fly and he did it at the homereturdy. Initially when we first did these, it was like Griffey's home run just Griffey winning the derby like in Boston and all that. But it's like, what is Griffey's most iconic moment in the derby?

It's actually hitting the warehouse. Yeah. On the fly, Utah Street. So we'll see how that one goes. Again, you know, upset is kind of a relative term. The seating is just based on matchups, not actual, you know, where they rank. So whatever. Maybe Blowers predicts should be the 25 and Griffey should be the 40, but who cares? I think Blowers is probably going to carry the day there.

But, you know, Griffey. And again, we ceded it to put you off. Yeah, you specifically. You think we're talking about you because we are. We are. There you go. Absolutely. Yeah, I think Blowers probably wins that one, but we'll see.

We'll see, you know. Again, it's not up to us. It's up to you guys. So you guys can pick whatever you want. All right. Our six matchup, 29 seed. Marin has clinched the ALS this past year, 2025 in that drought, that 24-year drought. Yep.

Versus the 36 seed, Griffey, homering in eight straight games, which really isn't like a moment. It's like an extended moment, I guess. Yeah, it just kind of, you know, it is what it is. But some of these like the Mariners come back when in Toronto, that's not a moment. That's several moments that led to the final moment. And that's kind of what we have. Well, yeah, because we were talking about like Carlo Santana's home run, Adam Fraser's double. Or like, you know, JPs.

Yeah. Blueprint. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. That way we could have a few more, you know, extra entries in here instead of having to take four or five.

When we get to the seventh matchup, you'll see that we didn't do that for every single game, though. But, uh, yeah, I mean, yeah, some games are just better than others. What can I say?

Some games, there are, there are just too many iconic bomas that you kind of have to separate them. But anyways, early voting on this one, by the way, Ty, it might surprise you,

is tied. 50-50 split so far on this one. Only four hosts. But yeah. Yeah, I'm going to go with them clenching the ALS. I think so, too. I just say, like, there really wasn't an iconic moment for that. It was 9 to 1 or 9 to whatever against the Rockies and Luke Jackson was on the mound.

It just kind of at that point we were to do it was going to happen one way or another. It's less about the game and that very specific moment and more just about 24 years of constantly chasing other teams in this division, specifically like decades. of chasing the Astros and Griffey tying a major league record with a great call by the way from I believe Ron Fairley is uh I mean that probably deserves more flowers uh but sure I also I think recency by us comes in to play a little bit here but yeah it's probably be the clinching of the division is anything that progresses the team further into the playoffs is probably going to have a huge edge over moments that don't do that but we'll see yeah yeah all right our seventh matchup. Really

pulling on the heartstrings here. This one I did actually put together just to screw with you. Yes, you tie. Not you the list of tie. Okay. Okay. Me. Yeah. The 20th seed, Leo Rivas is game tying double and single. Game five. It was actually single. Yeah, I got to change it.

Yeah. But the game time hit that he had in game five of the ALDS. You know, I always thought it was a double two. I'm pretty sure last week when we talked about Leo Rivas, I also said it was a double. I don't know why. I just always said it in my head that it was a double. Anyway, you know what we're talking about. The Leo Rivas moment on his birthday, no less.

Crazy. Pinch hitting, bottom of the seventh, I believe it was. Yeah. Yeah, pinch hitting for Canzone, who they brought in to hit for Garber, I think. Yeah. And then went back to the lefty. And then so Dan was going to have Canzone staying there. And then he was talked into having Revas go up.

there by I think Manny Acta and he delivered you know second pitch line drive base it to tie the game and we don't get the 15th inning walk off without without Leo Rivas tying it up there so I mean Kerry Carpenter hits that two run home running you're thinking it's over yeah it's over like it has that thought has to at least cross your mind sure like you're a Mariners fan of course and then Leo Rivas of all people Leo Rivas what every it's it's it's it's the davis Schneider of it all, right? It's just kind of like, who the heck is this guy? You need, you need guys like that to go on a playoff front. Yeah. The 45 seed, each row sees the moment speech, which some say it's the

catalyst for the moment we just talked about. So it's not often speeches make make me tear out. That was one of them. That was certainly one of them. That was, yeah, when he, when he started talking directly to the current club. I mean, how could that not fire you up? Especially with, again, with how the last like 24 years had gone. So. Yeah, I mean, we've seen the Mariners try to rally around, uh, these speeches before. Like they have this big ceremony and then like the, the, the player will speak directly to the club and then the team will kind of like adopt it.

They did with Griffey. They don't remember exactly what. Yeah, but there was nothing like this one specifically. This one was this one actually. Well, plus plus plus plus plus also you know each other's with them every single day like each other Yeah, yeah yeah part of this club to so sure but I mean this one really caught fire because it actually worked in the in the team fall you know made the playoffs after the inspirational speech from the Hall of Famer as for the first time it actually worked so yeah I I can't imagine each row

speech pulls off the upset here but we'll see each is is you know so iconic that It's possible I mean I can't put anything past each year on his fan so uh We'll see how that goes. But yeah, I'd be pretty surprised if he could pull the upset there. And you're listening to the lockdown Mariner's podcast, part of the Locktime Podcast Network, your team every day. As always,

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forward slash Control the Zone. Link in the description of this episode. So we've only gone over seven of the 18 matchups. and you know brevity not really our strong suit but we kind of need to get this we need to get this thing going here so uh speed run time lightning round uh matchup number eight riffy breaks his wrist making that catch obviously we all know what we're talking about versus each row's spider man catch yeah hopefully we all know what we're talking about here uh versus each row spider man catch against the angels so two very similar catches so you guys don't remember them again go watch the companion video. It's linked in the description. They're both great catches. This one's a toss up.

I can see it going either way. The Griffey one's probably more iconic. Each other else play, you know, pretty cool. I think this will be one of the closer matchups in round one. Yeah. All right. Matchup number nine. Griffey robs Barfield in Yankee Stadium, Jesse Barfield,

versus Mike Cameron, robbing Derek Cheater at Safeco in 2000. The year that he took over for Griffey. two elite defensive center fielders. I think that was Griffey's rookie year, if I'm not mistaken. It might have been year two. But, you know, kind of early in their career, their mariner careers, making catches, iconic catches against the Yankees, one of them in Yankee Stadium, one of them at Team Mobile Park,

the one against Seidco Field, the one against Cameron was Jeter who hit it. So that's a nice little added bonus. To me, Griffey Robbing Barfield is the significantly better catch. But we'll see it. This is another one, like the previous. matchup I think could go either way. So we'll see how it goes. But again, if you guys don't know what we're talking about right away, watch the video.

It's in there. You can compare the two catches. They play back to back with no cuts in there. Just watch them. And you can decide which one's better or more iconic, which, again, whatever, whatever qualifier you want to use for how you vote on these things, do it. Yeah. The Barfield robbery, that one played a lot on MLB TV in between names.

So I've seen, I've seen that clip a ton. It's such a great point. Young Rick Riz on the call, too. You also get the like the Griffey smile running into the field, running off the field, like jumping up and like, I caught it. I caught it. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. A brilliant. It's quintessential. Quintessential Griffey. But yeah, Cammy, Robin Jeter at Safeco, the year that he took over for Griffey is. Yeah. His first week at at Safeco after replacing Griffey.

Like, yeah. I think that one will be close. All right. Our 10th matchup is the 31 seed. James Paxson throwing a no hitter against the Blue Jays in Canada at the Rogers Center versus the 34 seed, Randy Johnson throwing the first no-hitter in Mariners history. I think I know who's going to win this.

I'm very biased, though. I was at one of these games. This will be addressed because it's kind of like recency bias. I don't think most of our listeners or viewers watched Randy Johnson throw the no-hitter live. Our demographic skews younger. But then again, maybe none of them watched Paxon either. But it's kind of like a recency-bias thing versus like an icon thing.

and this year we're celebrating Randy Johnson. So we'll see, you know, top of the mind and all that. We'll see which one wins. I think this will be a, I think, I think, I think Randy probably wins this one, but I think it's going to be pretty close. We'll see. All right, our 11th matchup,

the 18 seed Mariners clenched the AOS in 2001 with Mike Cameron and Mark McLemore holding the, the American flag. Iconic picture. We'll be a statue. It's going to get a statue this year. Yeah. Versus the 47 seed,

Dave Nehouse, Chris and Safeco Field, with the first pitch. If you guys haven't, if you guys forgot about it, when I was pulling the clips to do the video I put together yesterday, again, go watch it, link in the description.

I was all teared up because Dave was teared up. He's walking out to the mound, like crying into his hand. I'm like, oh, no, I'm going to end up voting for the upset. Yeah, it's a great clue. Even if you know you're going to vote for, you know, McLemore and Cammy and the flag and all that. Like, go watch it just for that moment because it's really cool to your day to see

Dave, you know, choked up and he's wearing his tucks and it's an awesome visual. He's looking fly out there. Yeah, yeah, he was. Go check that out at the very least. Even if you know you're going to vote for the other one. I assume the 2001 will win that. It's such an iconic moment, but like Dave Nehouse being the first person to throw a pitch at then Safeco Field against the Padres.

It's pretty cool moment in Mariners history. And him with the, you know, in the tucks ball over his head. and he's like waving his hand. Like it's a pretty cool moment too. So here comes our essential 16 seed versus one seed matchup of the round. The first seed that did not earn a buy week. Very hotly debated. Yeah.

So the 50 seed, Lenny Randall blowing the ball foul. Perhaps some of you have seen that clip. Yeah. Yeah, very fine. Versus the 15 seed, the 2001 all-star game at Safeco Field. which is a Mariner's moment and it's a collection of moments. It's definitely a Mariner's moment because of the eight All-Star is each row leading off, you know, beating out Randy to first, you know, all that. But then there's.

But then there's also like Ripkin, you know, hitting the home run and then his moment with A-Rod and getting pushed a shortstop for an inning. Vlad's, Vlad Sr. almost killing Tommy Lassorda. All of that is in the clip that I pulled, by the way. so go watch that it's just it was such a great all-star game and such a great like look how amazing Seattle is as a city perfect weather team was going to win 116 that year eight all-stars like yeah it was I I had this game recorded on VHS tape and I probably watched it 20 it's my favorite baseball game ever it's the last great all-star game that we got and it's like by the way if you have like the original copy of the broad

It's like quintessential 2001 television too. Yeah. Yeah. So it's great. It's great. Anyway, I get the Lenny Randall thing. It's funny and all that. But like this should be a blowout.

Yeah. The 2001 All Star game is to me it's like a probably not going to win. But it's a, I mean, it's tough to call it a dark horse when it's the the first seed out of the biweek teams. But like this could be a final four moment. I just think that is such a quintessential Mariners moment. And it was, you know, the second All-Star game, but the first one at Team Mobile Park or Safeco Field. And, yeah, just each year old beating Randy to the bag and all that fun stuff.

Just awesome stuff. So if that loses, I won't do anything because there's nothing I can do. But, you know, it seems like a no-brainer to me. Our 13th matchup, I hate you for this. Another matchup I put together with you specifically in line. This is the one that I texted you about when you were like, hey, can you check all these matchups? This is the one that I was like, I hate you for this. But it's a good matchup, right?

That's why I hate you for this. Our 23rd seed, Felix Hernandez's final start versus 42 seed, Victor Rubles' game saving catch against the Astros. You're going to make us all pick between one of these? You will suffer. And I think I'm taking the Robles catch. The greatest pitcher in franchise history says goodbye. Tears streaming down. And there's the Dillamore catch to kind of salvage it all.

And you're sitting here like, no, the catch that he, you know, the Mariners didn't need him to make to win the division and all that. That's way better. Like, okay. Interesting. I think recency bias is really going to take over with this one. I think what you're worried. I think what you're worried about with the what a night game is actually going to show up in this matchup rather than that matchup.

We'll see. I mean, like, look, again, the Felix's last star thing is like the heartstrings thing and the Robles thing is actually like important. You know, so we'll see how it all goes. But I do think recency bias is going to play a huge role in this entire, you know, poll or this entire bracket that we're doing. So we'll see how the older stuff kind of hangs up, you know, hangs up again. it, but the Felix thing's not that old. That's what, 2019? Yeah. So, I mean, it's really not that long ago,

but we'll see how it goes. But yeah, I think that, I think that's a good matchup right there. All right, a 14th matchup, the 26th seed. This one's, this one's an interesting matchup because it's kind of unhinged and kind of cheating in a way. We'll get to it in a second. So the 26 seed is, Etreau's inside the park home run at the Allster game in San Francisco,

uh, versus the 39 seed, Lou Padella. getting ejected. You just pick your favorite. We couldn't figure out just one. So we were like, so we decided to cheat with this specific

spot in the tournament. You guys get to pick your favorite. Just think about Lou getting injected and whatever. Taking the hat all around Jacobs Field or when he picked up the base and threw it yelling after yelling at CB Buck. Whatever image pops up in your head

when you think about Lou getting ejected, that's what's facing off. against each rows inside the park home run. So I don't really know how that's going to go. I really don't. You know, when I think about Lou getting outchecked, I think about, yeah, one of the moments that you mentioned him picking up for space and throwing it.

Twice. We watched that on a stream on the Patreon and it's hilarious. I couldn't find it when I was putting the video together. But if you happen to stumble across Dave Nehouse calling Lou's ejection in Cleveland, where he's kicking the hat all the way to the dugout, hilarious. Griffey's there. He's hiding his laugh behind his hat. And he's like,

kick it again, kick it again. Oh, he kicked it again. It's a really fun moment. New injections are all great. So again, pick your favorite one. We weren't going to single any one of them out. And it's going up against the inside the park or wrong, for which I believe Yichro won the MVP of that All-Star game as a result.

I believe so, yes. You know, Ichero, it's going to get some votes just because Yichiro's name is in it. But we'll see how that goes. I think that could be a pretty interesting matchup. All right. So our, where are we, 15th matchup?

Yep. The no-no. 30 seed. Yeah. Iwakuma's no-hitter versus Baltimore versus the 35-seed. Chris Bosio's no-hitter. I'm going to assume this is going to

lean heavy in favor of Kumas. Oh, yeah. Because of reasons. I just, I don't know how many of our younger listeners even know who Chris Bosio was. So I think that was like one of his first start. for the Mariners.

Was it? Yeah, it was against the Red Sox at the kingdom. So like, that's a pretty sure. Chris Bosio started for the Marys the night that I was born. There you go. Tie Fax. Yeah, it's going to be cool. Yeah, I assume so.

But again, no hitters are impressive no matter who throws them. Apparently, you guys didn't think so, though, because our play and matchup, which is coming in here in a minute. did not go the way of the no-hitter. So, yeah, I assume Kuma will win. But, hey, again, if you're, if you're Gen X or you're an older millennial and you want respect for the 90s Mariners, you better vote

because I'll tell you what, you're not going to like the results if you tell. Yeah, yeah, no. All right, our 16th matchup, we're getting close to the end here. 19 seed, Etra walks off Mariano. We've all seen it, right? And if you haven't seen it,

go watch the video. Go put yourself up on game. versus the 46 seed Griffey's old time religion Homer versus the diamond bags Game time Homer in the 8th Yeah amazing call by Dave Neal Religion lives

Yeah perfectly set up yet again by Dave Just such a good feel for the moment And then boom yeah And then Eitro walking off Mariano Rivera I mean two of the best ever do it going head to head And each row wins that matchup Yeah that's a fun matchup I assume each role

Correct me if you're I'm wrong. Wasn't that game on ESPN? I don't think so. I thought that game was on national TV. I don't think so. I only know from the day. I think it was also like I think it was also on what was it at the time?

Fox Sports Northwest. I think that was the mayor's wrong. Yeah. I don't think it was right yet. It might have been. I think I thought it was on both. I thought it was on ESPN and maybe, but whatever. Either way. Amazing moment. That's my pick there.

Yeah, the old time religion is my pick. but it's because of the call. I mean, it's tough to separate the call. Like, obviously, the home run. And I totally understand. I mean, it is an all-time call by Dave. And so, yeah, that's going to be hard. But, yeah, I mean, like, each year old against Mo, like, everybody knows that one.

So I assume that one will win. All right. Our 17th matchup, 22 seed, very recent, Cal Raleigh wins the 2025 Home Run Derby versus the winner of our play-in matchup, the Dillamore Grand Slam versus the Astros. And that one beat the combined no hitter against the Dodgers

by what four. Yeah, yeah. So there you go. I think it's going to be Cal pretty easily here. I do too. But I also don't care all that much about home run derbies.

And, you know, Dillins was kind of like the, like, you will respect us. Like, we're not here to get, beat by you guys every single time out now. It took them a couple years to actually beat them and win the division and all that. But that was kind of the moment where it was Scott and the boys. And, you know, remember they threw a JP after that and they almost got into a brawl.

And that's kind of, in a way, that's kind of what kicked off the Mariners Houston rivalry that we know right now is that moment. So I think that one has a puncher's chance. But the Cal Raleigh went in the derby. And obviously with Cal being the star that he is right now and the recency of it, I feel like that'll carry the day here. But, you know, I think there's a small outside chance that Demoslam could put up a good fight here. And then our final matchup of round one, the 27 seed against the 38 seed, J. Bionner's leaping catch going into the bullpen flipping over on that short porch at Fenway Park.

38 seed. King Griffey Jr. robs. Luis Gonzalez in Detroit. I'm not sure how many, I'm not sure how many people are going to be familiar with this catch, because it's like, it's one of those iconic, uh,

griffy moments. I almost said each row. You probably see the still shot of it. Yeah. It's one of those iconic griffy moments that ultimately just kind of gets buried by every other iconic thing that he did. Yeah. Again,

go watch the video guys to compare these catches. It is the last like two minutes of the video, so it's really easy to find. The griffy catch. is significantly more difficult. I think the Buneer catch is more iconic. They still show it at Team Mobile Park all the time. So, yeah, we'll see how this one goes.

But like in terms of difficulty, the griffy catch should win in terms of like iconic moment. Buneer's catch will probably win. So we'll see how that one goes. But yeah, I think those are two great catches. And to put them up head to head. And again, this is why no hitters went up against no hitters. Great catches went up against great catches.

So we can kind of streamline some of these things. And so yeah, that's it. You guys let us know. The link to vote will be in the description down below. And I think we'll probably run this particular set of polls until Monday morning. And then that'll give us a day or two to kind of, you know, put together the next round, the next, you know, bracket for round two. And we'll go from there. All right.

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