Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - What Ending the Drought Means to Mariners Fans, Part 2

Episode Date: September 30, 2022

The Seattle Mariners can clinch their first playoff berth in 21 years with either a win or an Orioles loss on Friday night, which means there's no better time to wrap up our "What Ending the Drought Means to Mariners Fans" miniseries than today. Please enjoy the final instalment and thank you to all who submitted videos!Be sure to follow or subscribe to Locked On Mariners wherever you prefer your podcasts! For questions and other inquiries, email: [e-mail] the show on Twitter: @LO_Mariners | @danegnzlz | @CPat11For more of Ty and Colby, check out their Patreon: patreon.com/controlthezone/BetOnlineBetOnline.net has you covered this season with more props, odds and lines than ever before. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The Mariners magic number is now one. So today may very well be the day we've all been waiting for. In fact, Scott Service says that it is. So let's start today right with more messages from Mariners fans talking about what ending this drought, this 20-year playoff drought, means to them. You are Locked-on Mariners. Your daily Seattle Mariners podcast. Part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day.

It is Friday, September 30th, 2020. Remember that date, Mariners fans. This is Tidane Gonzalez for the Lockdown Mariners podcast, a very, very special episode of the Locked on Mariners podcast. Brought to you by Bet Online. Bet Online has you covered all season long with more props, odds, and lines than ever before. Bet Online is where the game starts.

And thank you so much for making us your first listen, subscribe, like, and turn on alerts. if you're watching on YouTube or subscribe and leave a five-star review on your preferred podcast platform. If you like what you hear and if you want to hear from us even more, please consider sending up for our Patreon link as well as our social accounts is in the description below. And this right here is the second and final part of our mini series in which we've had Mariners fans express what the team ending. It's 20-year playoff throughout that well-documented, annoying,

gross 20 year playoffs you're out means to them and with Seattle's magic number now at one she probably rephrase the question a little bit what will tonight mean to you what the manners would mean to me after all these years making the playoffs uh feel like you know every year watching my grandpa it can be rough sometimes being a mergers fan and uh you know 2014, 2016, we thought we were in there for sure. We're scoreboard watching this year. It's not like that. 99.9, whatever, present chance we should get in. It's just been fun this year, man, watching Julio and that pitching staff they put together.

It's been great. It goes back to, I've been a marriage fan since King Griffey Jr. baseball in 64, you know? You know, I lost my grandma this year, my grandpa's wife, And I would love just to share this moment with him watching the mirrors in the playoffs because, you know, you just never know. All right, I love you guys' content. Thank you so much. Hi, my name is Matt Merwine.

This is me crying at you, who was no hitter. The Mariners going to the playoffs means that my girls get to see me cry again. This is a picture of the kingdom exploding. Growing up in O'Carbor on Whibby Island, my dad would drive the family down to the kingdom. After the game, we drive all the way home, fall asleep in the tan Ford minivan. When we get to the post season, tell him the Bones sent us. Hi, that's me, that's my brother, that's my sister.

We're at Safeco Field. Safeco Field is how my brother knew it. He passed away in 2008. He never knew T-Mobile. One of his dreams was for the Mariners to go to the World Series. He was my best friend and I can't wait to make that happen for him. This is my passport book. I'm a 43-year-old man. When I take this customer service and have to stamp it, they think I'm a special guy. They're very kind. The M's making the playoffs would be a family dream come true.

I've been a Mariner fan my entire life, and I accredited that to my grandpa. I've seen all the greats come through from Griffey to Edgar to Arod and Buneer, everyone I haven't mentioned, Felix. But this team is something special with Julio and Svier. Suarez and freaking Ray and Castillo and Kirby everybody. There's so many names.

This team has so many names that previous teams just didn't add up to this is the team that's going to make it. If there's going to be a team in Mariners history, it's going to win the World Series, it's going to be this team, and they're going to win, they're going to beat the Astros, they're going to beat everyone along the way, and there's nothing

that anyone can do to stop us. So go Mariners. What's up? Locked-on Mariners podcast. Name's Alex McKinsey. I'm in the nice state of Washington. I live in the Olympia area, Centralia area. And I've been a Mariner fan for so long.

Probably going back about 25 years, through the bad times and the good times. I remember 95. Here comes junior, rounding third. The Mariners win the American League pennant. I remember it all. And this is some of the better mariners I've ever seen in my whole entire life.

And I'm the biggest J-Ron fan. in the whole world. I'm so glad he's erupting in the world of sports. I just wish the whole world would know who this kid was because he's electric. He's an amazing human being. And it's just fun to watch every night. And the fact that they're making the playoffs this year is it just goes to show the clubhouse and how things have meshed inside there. And I'm really proud to be a Mariners fan. So thanks guys. Hey guys, huge fan of the podcast. Michael Bada from Samman, Washington 24 years old. and what the Mariners would mean to me to make the playoffs is that I just get to root for the team I love in the city I love and hopefully watch my team make a deep run at it. Another thing is that I would love to experience playoff baseball for the first time in Seattle.

That'd be really fun. Thanks guys. who's fans of the podcast. Colby, Ty, what's up? My name's Chad. I'm from Alaska. I've been a Mariners fan. Since I was a wee lad,

um, that making the playoffs this year would be unbelievable. I'd probably cry. I'd probably cry more than I cried on each year's speech. Um, I mean, most importantly, I really want the Mariners to make the post season and the drought,

just because my older brother is one of those Seattle Mariners fans that just won't believe that they can actually do it this season. And he also told me at the beginning of the year that Julio would be traded within two years. Yeah, that's not happening. And also, I want to give you a shout out, Colby. You are the Mariners fan that I strive to be. So thank you guys. Thank you guys for making my workday, just 30 minutes better every day. Yeah

Love you guys Go ahead Hi everyone My name is Andrew I've been a Mariners friend Since 97 Since I was born And currently

Actually in Connecticut For schooling But man What it would mean For the Mariners To break their Wayoff route I've never known them

To be in a playoff series I've never known them to You know really have many winning seats It's always been, I love baseball, but they've always been bad.

You have all the other team. And now I get to follow them. And even, you know, not following along too much, you know, as of the last few years, but all of a sudden we got Thai France, we got Ullera Rodriguez, we got Mitch Hanaker, got this solid pitching core. And it's not just the Seahawks thing, like this is the Mariners. Like they're out over there and we're winning, you know, over here on the East Coast, it's the Red Sox of the Yankees.

But the Mariners are being you guys, and that feels good to say. Hey, Ty and Colby and Marinus fans. My name is Ethan. I've been a Marinus fan for so long. I mean, since I was three, it seems. My dad and I bonded over watching the Mariners, going to Marriss games, watching Ichiro, almost said Hilo, Ichiro, and seeing him being inducted was so awesome.

They haven't made the playoffs in my lifetime. I missed it by a couple years, but it's just so exciting. I'm so excited. I can't express it all in this video. We have Julio, who I almost mentioned, Julio, our new superstar leading us into the future. That is so bright. And I just can't wait. I cannot wait.

It's going to be incredible. Let's go. Let's go Mariners! Hey guys, what's up? My name's Josh. I've been a Mariners fan my entire life. What the drought ending would mean to me would be really cool for me personally to be able to experience this with one, not only my grandma, who's the biggest reason I'm a Mariners fan, but it would also be my wife. Because for me and my wife, fortunately or unfortunate, I guess, we root for different NFL teams who have both had varying levels of success, but we never really, but we kind of, we both experience each other's, successes and failures through each other where this is the first time we're going to for however this season ends it's we're going to be able to experience it together and i just think that's something

that i've really kind of i don't know i never thought would really i always never thought would really happen and the way it's happening is just especially after you know the that the most insane ninth inning i've ever seen in my life like i i don't know how it's going to end but i cannot wait to see how it goes Hey guys, my name's Andy. I am 36 years old and I've been a Mariners fan my entire life. I don't even remember the first game I went to. I just know that the cannon was there and it was loud. I remember watching the Griffies play together. And I've just been an obsessive fan through all of the lows of the past 20 years. And the Mariners making the playoffs this year would mean the world to me. I've tried to imagine how I would react hearing Rick Riz say,

and the Mariners are finally headed to the playoffs. And I think I might just break down and cry and just watch that highlight over and over and over again. I mean, I cried when the Seahawks won the Super Bowl, and I would probably cry when the Mariners make the playoffs again. It is something that I just, I cannot believe, is actually finally happening. Hey friends, my name is Vergesender Payne. I currently live in Savannah, Georgia, but I'm originally from the Pacific Northwest.

And I've been a Mariners fan since basically in utero. It's been really drilled into me as my dad was a baseball lover. And I grew up, I was born in 93, and my early childhood years were, you know, in the 90s and early 2000s. And so I saw a lot of really good Mariners baseball. Literally my first memories are high-fiving people in the kingdom. I associate Mariners baseball with a lot of these early childhood memories, and I'm so grateful for this upcoming playoff group because I get to return to that kind of Mariner joy, but I have an adult understanding of baseball now. And I'm so grateful for the community,

and I'm so grateful for this next generation to be able to experience Mariner Baseball in a way that, unfortunately, I wasn't able to pass the age of seven. More of your video submissions coming up, but real quick, a reminder of this episode of Lockdown Mariners is brought to you by BetOnline. Betonline.net is your number one source for football betting info this season. Find all of the latest player developments, team matchups, news, podcasts, and in-depth articles and analysis on every game you can find. And as always, Bet Online remains your continued source for all your sport wagering information with live betting and up-to-the-minute scores for every sport out there.

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My name is Tristan Pratt, and I've been a fan of the Mariners since 2010, I want to say. I don't sure if that's right, but it was somewhere in that range, which doesn't seem like a long time, but considering the playoff droughts older than me, yeah. Speaking of, what it would mean? Um, everything for the drought to end? I mean, we're talking about me seeing the M's do something I've never seen them do before. We're talking about me actually caring about playoff baseball. and wanting my team to advance in the next round of playoff baseball for once. Even looking into the future, we're talking about the M's having a chance to win Seattle's

biggest championship since 2013. Dead series. So that's my two cents. Go M's, go Hawks, go Crack and Go Sop. Hey, everyone, Quinn here to talk about what ending this playoff drought means to me. I've been a Mariners fan my entire life. My family had season tickets back in 93, going to the kingdom. I have so many great memories of watching baseball games with my parents, both my mom and dad.

Now I watch them with my three kids. I am ecstatic to watch them make it and see what they can do and possibly make a deep run in it because this pitching is real. It is definitely real. Anyways, we'll be ready in this family for October 7th in the Wild Card Series. Hi, I am Hudson and I've been a Mariners fan for pretty much all my life. Since I moved to Seattle when I was about three, I got into baseball and Mariners is all I've known. For the past couple, like a decade.

It would mean a lot to me for the Mariners to make the postseason. They're the only sports team that I really pay attention to very, like a lot. And seeing them make the postseason would be the best thing ever. I don't care if you could eliminate in the first wild card round as much as I don't want them to. It would be just so nice to see them make the post season. Wow, the fact that we're talking about this makes me so happy. Well, bye.

Hey guys, Brian Ahern here in Yakima, Washington. I was born and raised in Redmond, Washington, so I've been a lifelong Mariners fan. Grew up watching this guy here, Griffey. And just wanted to say that being a lifelong Mariners fan has been difficult at times and it has been so enthralling and invigorating and I am getting the same feelings that I got with this team this year as I did watching this guy round second round third all the way home in 95 this is big for us super exciting thanks for keeping everyone along the ride at locked on mariners it's been awesome I appreciate you guys go ems hey locked on mariners this

This is Nick Whitaman from Lexington, Kentucky. I've been trying to think all week how to respond to your guys' video requests about what it would be like for the Mariners to make the playoffs in. I mean, last time they made out, I was five. So there's not much that I don't remember anything. And now we're at a point where, you know, the first playoffs that they have coming around, I could be sharing with my new little son, who's actually named after my great-grandfather, who got me to love the Mariners so much. So it's just, it's going to be emotional, it's going to be exciting.

It's one of those that I hate to see that, you know, in the 14 and 16 years, we couldn't do anything for Felix and we couldn't do stuff much with each row after 01. But now we've got Julio and we've got just this new group of guys. It's just going to be so exciting. It's going to be fun and just going to try and enjoy the ride. Thanks for all you guys do. Hi, my name is Jace. I'm from Spokane, Washington. I have been a marriage fan since 2000.

2001, the Air was born. I can't ever really remember time that I didn't grow up rooting for them. I used to listen to Riz, Dave Nehouse on the radio, so much in fact that when I was living in South Asia, I would stream the radio feed on the internet. And what the Mariners making the playoffs would mean to me is really just a once-in-lifetime moment. When, you know, once the next time that I'm going to have my favorite sports team break out of 20 plus year playoff drought? Um, dancers never. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to celebrate joy and to break out of so many things for me. So, yeah.

Hey, what's going on everybody? My name is Grant Hawker and I am from Albany, Oregon. I'm and I've been a Mariners fan for about 10 years. I went to my first game when I was 12. And so I'm a huge fan. as you can see here. I've got six jerseys. My wife doesn't appreciate it. She's also an Angels fan. And so she doesn't appreciate seeing all the, she doesn't appreciate the money, doesn't appreciate seeing Mariners gear everywhere she goes. But for me, I've never seen the

playoffs. I was a year old the last time that they made it. And so for me, it's excitement, it's newness. It'd be ushering in a new era of hopefully playoff baseball of us being a team that people fear, again, which I think they already do now. And so for me, that's what making the playoffs would be. It would be something I've never seen. A new experience. And hopefully, something that we continue to see. And so I've got six jerseys right here. I'm going to have a bet with my friend that if they break this drought, that he will buy me a new jersey and make that seven so I can wear one every day of the week. And so I've got Ichero, I've got two Griffey, I've got a Julio, and I've got J.P. Crawford. So Ty, Colby, I want to hear your opinion.

What should I get next? Because I'm getting that seventh jersey. With that being said, go Mariners. Grant, I'm editing right now. I just saw your video, just heard your question. For me, I think I need to go with Thai France here, right? Got to go with my namesake here, even though that he's kind of a fake tie, right? Because it's short for Tyler, whereas for me, I'm just Thai. I am just, just Thai. But my pick is Thai France in the Navy, if you can find it.

Because the Navy, to me, I know a lot of people don't like the Navy. but I'm a big fan of the Navy, and the Navy's been a lot of good luck for the Mariners this season. It's the jersey that they've worn the most this season. I think that's my pick. All right, back to some more videos. Hi, my name is Evan. I'm 26 and from South Carolina. I've been a Mariners fan since 2004 when I got into my very first game when we went to go visit family out in Seattle.

You know, I never really got attached to the Braves or any team from Georgia, so I didn't really have a baseball team that I was a fan of like that. and just getting to go out there, you know, just experience that, you know, just your first pro game. Those types of things, you know, can really make a big impact on a nine-year-old, especially getting to meet guys like Yichro and Belcheray after the game. And, you know, finally making the playoffs the first time since I've been aware of the team and following the team would just be absolutely huge. As a fan of other Carolina sports teams, we haven't really had a ton of great success in recent years, you know, or have made it, you know, to the championship just to fall short. So this would just be absolutely huge as the very first sport that I loved and the first team that I really loved finally breaking this drought and trying to make something happen for the city and for everybody. Hello, I'm Connor and I'm doing my best Colby Pat note impression right now.

No lighting. So anyways, what it would mean for me for the bareness to make the playoffs, It would mean the whole world because baseball is my first love and I would watch baseball over everything any sport It's basically all I do it's I look forward for it every day Off days are torture, but I understand I it's needed love the bullpen. I love Leo. I love Andre Bunoz It makes me so excited for his off season. I need tickets to go This this is just a beautiful year and it's the fun baseball thing for what 20 years there's a CITRO so yeah baseball is this is amazing also I'm

Colby now what's up Colby what's up hi my name is Eiko I'm a manned fan from Salt Lake City Utah I grew up in Seattle I'm in 2008 so this is the first time the memory make my other make the playoff I guess second time in my life the first time I'm gonna be able to remember my time in 2001 I'm not gonna remember that what would that mean to me You know, it's been awesome to see how the team of the city of Seattle and brought enthusiasm and energy and goodbye to the Pacific Northwest. And this is the team that you want to have there to playoff because I think every one of us

can identify with one of the players and the fun that they play with and the smile that they bring to all of us. So it needs a lot in this playoff, they need more than this game. This is Alex from Portland, Oregon. I have been a fan of the Mariners for about 25 years or so. I am in my early 30s. Some of the fondest memories for me is specifically the 2001 Mariners with Ichiro and Brett Boone and John Olerud and all the others.

And truthfully, the last 20 years or so, you know, there hasn't been many great memories. They've been good here and there and they've missed the playoffs by a game or two, but you kind of knew that it was a flash in the pan and that, you know, the next year would be back. to their crappy ways. And the word that keeps coming to mind for me is hope. This is the first time that I can recall that, you know, we're going to expect them to be good for years to come. This is just the beginning. And that is just really, really, really exciting. Pat note of Locked-on Mariners, I hope you guys recognize me. You know, we started this project, what would making the playoffs mean to you as a Mariners fan? And it was, um,

It was something that I was hoping would draw a good response and it has, and I'm really grateful for that and really grateful for you guys for helping us on this project. You know, what the Mariners making the playoffs means to me is a little bit different. You know, Ty and I started our journey together right at the start of, you know, the rebuild. And we've kind of been, you know, plugging away and trying to make our footprint in the Seattle Mariners community as lifelong Mariners fans. and it feels almost poetic for the Mariners to in their playoff or out with Ty and I on a covering the team on a daily basis here on the podcast. So, you know, it's baseball is such a generational game. It's handed down from, you know, father to son, mom to daughter, cousin, uncle, what have you,

friend to friend. It's a game that transcends generations. It's a game that we can bond over. And, you know, for the Mariners fans, they haven't had a ton to bond over. There's been a lot of, you know, he did discussions about when the playoffs is going to end, who's patient, who's not patient, and all that. And, you know, hopefully come today as you're listening to this or, you know, in a few short minutes to come, you know, we can put that all aside and we can come together as a fan base and just celebrate

what is truly a remarkable accomplishment. It's been 20 years, guys, since the Mariners have made the playoffs. And that's 20 years too long. So I know I went over a minute. but this is my show so I can do what I want. So I just want to say thank you guys so much for your submissions. You know, I listen to them and I start to tear up because I hear, you know, I want to pass this game on to my son.

And my three-year-old daughter loves Julio Rodriguez. She's such a big fan now. And that stuff really matters. It really hits hard. So thank you guys. I'll be crying along with you when they do clinch, hopefully on the field in front of 40,000 screaming fans. But thank you guys for your participation in this.

It means a lot to me. And I'll let somebody else talk now. So thank you guys so much. Go Mariners. Hi, everyone. It's Ty. I've been a Mariners fan since, well, I've been alive for 26 years. So let's go with that.

26 years. I was born May the 1st, 1996 in Bremerton, Washington, just a little past midnight, which means that just a few hours before I was born, the Mariners wrapped up an 8-to-nothing shutout win over the Rangers with Chris Bosio, getting the start. My dad always talks about watching that game and even watching it with the doctor at times and joking around about how I was just destined to be a massive Mariners fan and that's certainly rung true

because, you know, I love the Seahawks. I love the Sonics. I want the Sonics to come back, but nothing truly compares to my love for this team, the Seattle Mariners. And this has always been my biggest sports wish long before this was a 20-year playoff drought, long before even the Seahawks won their Super Bowl because this the Mariners making the playoffs it it means that I actually get to experience what championship baseball and Seattle is like for the first time of my life you know I've seen playoffs I've seen Super Bowls for some of the other teams that I root for but I've never experienced what championship baseball is like in Seattle and some of you have during the 90s uh with the griffy teams and everything uh but you know I don't really I didn't grow up in there

that era and I don't really remember the last few appearances that the Mariners made in the postseason when I was alive. You know, the last time the Mariners were in the postseason, I was five years old. So I have very faint memories of those last few appearances like Arthur Rhodes's earrings, but that's about it. So, you know, the one thing that this means to me ending the drought is that I actually get to experience that, that I get to create those memories. to create new memories of postseason baseball in Seattle. And a little deeper than that, it's kind of like a closing of a chapter in my life and the start of a new one.

Because for as big of a part of my life, the Mariners have taken up, they've become an even bigger part of my life over the last four years, and especially over the last year or so since we started locked on mariners. They are a part of my daily routine. I eat, breathe, and sleep the Seattle Mariners.

quite frankly and I've been honored with the opportunity to help tell the story in a in a small form albeit but to help tell the story of this organization to help tell the story of the Seattle Mariners and I'm so incredibly grateful and humbled by that and I thank you so much for coming along with us on this journey all of your videos just absolutely destroyed me they were incredible God they were incredible and you know it was it was kind of cathartic in a way to hear you guys talk about what this means to you and to hear people feel the same way about this team that I do and to connect with you guys on that level. It just, it means so much to me. It means so much to me to be able to share this with Colby,

who I've been talking about this team with for the last four or so years, as he said in his video, you know we basically started podcasting right around the same time that the rebuild started and you know we have long believed in what jerry depoto was building uh and his and his staff what they were building in seattle and to see this kind of culminate what we're seeing right now uh is truly special honestly um there aren't words that can truly describe how how i feel about this and uh it's it's amazing and i'm getting emotional right now So that's probably my cue to hop off of here. But again, I thank you so much for, like I said, coming along on this journey with us.

And I'm looking forward to starting a new era of Mariners baseball, one that comes with such great optimism and upside and hope. And to finally get rid of this drought, it's everything. It means everything. And so, yeah, I'm true. truly, truly grateful for this moment. And I'm never going to forget this for my entire life. All right.

That's going to be a wrap on this episode and a wrap on this mini-series. Again, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for all of your incredible video submissions. As I said earlier, they absolutely wrecked me emotionally in the best possible way. It was incredible getting to see some of your faces and getting to hear your stories and getting to see what this moment means to you. This is going to be an incredible night if it goes the way that I think we all expect, including Scott Service himself, who said last night, we're going to end the drought tonight.

So it's going to be a lot of fun. So if you're going to the ballpark, have a wonderful time. if you're at home watching, if you're across the country, if you're across the world, if you're in a different country like I am, let's all celebrate this moment together. It's going to be one hell of a time. So, yeah. So with that, that's going to do it for our show. Thank you so much for joining us here on the Lockdown Mariners podcast for Colby Pat Node.

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