Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - Where Do We Go From Here? Which Is the Way That's Clear?

Episode Date: September 25, 2020

Hey, kids; rock and roll; rock on; ooh, my soul. Yes, After briefly talking about the classic David Essex song, D.C. and guest Jason Hernandez talk about the Mariners Seat Fleet cutouts. Since there were fewer home games than anticipated, the Mariners are making it up to the fans in a pretty cool way. It's Friday, which means the Friday Mailbag. Jason sticks around to answer fan emails with D.C., which including questions about Safeco Field, the Mariners' future, and home & away jerseys. At the end, D.C. gets schooled by Jason on proper Spanish pronunciation and Mexican geography. 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.

This is Locked-on Mariners, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day. Here's your host, D.C. Lundberg. So where do we go from here? Which is the way that's clear? The question on everybody's mind, I'm sure, is, which 70s glam rock song is D.C. going to accidentally make reference to during the advertisement reads today? That D.C. would be me, and this is Locked-on Mariners, of course, parts of the Locked-on podcast network, or T-L-O-P-N, or hit it, J-D.

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if you're scoring at home. Right off the bat, bad news for you. Astros beat the Texas Rangers 12 to 4 last night, so the Mariners, well, their season is done. But the good news is I have Jason Hernandez on the show today, host of Locked-on Anaheim Ducks. Jason, how you doing today? I'm doing, well, here's how I'm doing.

Welcome to Locked-on Mariners. part of Tlopin. Brought to you by Locked Auto, the best podcast your car will ever need. That's how I'm doing. Which is basically the opposite, that's basically the opposite mistake I made yesterday. I combined Rock Auto and locked on and got Rock On,

the great David Essex song from 1973. And I'm not, you know, I make music references on this show all the damn time. Not usually on accident. However, that one happened to be on accident. I did not know until today, actually, that Rock On was covered in 1989 by Michael Damien. Oh, interesting. I didn't. Oh, I did not know that.

And now you know, and it's not very good. It's not my cup of tea. Jason, the Mariners are doing something pretty cool with the seat fleet cutouts because there were far fewer home games than they anticipated. how are they making this up to the fans? Well, this is going to be something kind of interesting. So on the FAQ a little bit earlier this season, it was apparently said that these were going to be recycled. But because there are so few games anyway this season,

the Mariners are going to make up for that by allowing the fans to pick up their seat-flate cutouts if they want. Otherwise, they'll be recycled. Yes, they will. I anticipate a lot of them will be recycled anyway. Probably. But at least you have a chance. At least you have a chance to pick it up now.

Yes. And the Mariners are assigning people dates and times to come pick them up. Are they not? Yes. Yes, they are. And since you're in Southern California and I'm in Spokane, we're going to try to get ours, but it might not be able to work. Let's see what happens.

Let's see what happens indeed. It's really awesome for the Mariners to do that. Considering how much they charged, they could have easily said, now forget it. True. But really, cool on. 30 bucks. 30 bucks, and you do get to keep it anyway.

And their home season's done. Yeah, their home season is done. They have four against the Oakland Athletics, a double header on Saturday. Yeah, the double header is on Saturday. Thank you very much, Jaddy, for picking up right. Yes, indeed. I picked up the spare. You picked up the spare after I was...

After I left a Greek church, you pick it right up. That was a tough spare. No, it wasn't. That was more like a four-pin outstanding that he just kind of happened to knock down. Saturday double-header flanked by two single game. What am I saying? Single game on Friday. Double-heder Saturday and another single game season finale on Sunday.

You know, stumbling through this whole thing, Jason, is a good way to stretch the show out. But you people at home are saying, what is this moron doing? How did he get his show? What? You know what's he doing? on the air. We're all a little tongue tied because the Mariners are out now. That's what it is. Okay, good.

And this was me six and a half months ago when everything happened. Yes. And then finding out the ducks were out. And it's still that way. And we still have at least two and a half months to go before I see any hockey. It's been that long. Yes, but you know what the good news is, Jason? There's good news? Yes. There's bowling on TV on Sunday.

But isn't that the last bowling of the year? No, because there's the PBA League. It's team bowling, and they're playing the basically entire tournament on television. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, the entire Elias Cup is going to be played out on television for the entire world to see. And then in the coming weeks, they're going to pick up where they left off in March with the World Series of Bowling, with the Chameleon Championship, the Cheetah Championship, and I forget the other one,

but there is lots of bowling on the horizon for bowling fans to enjoy. I'm sure there's a couple of bowling fans out there, at least. If you are a bowling fan, please do email me at Lockdown Mariners at gmail.com. Let me know who you are. The PBA League is doing something very, very cool this year. They added two teams, which are comprised of PWBA members. There are two all-women's teams competing this year, which I think is fantastic. I mean, how can you say no to that?

These women are terrific bowlers. And that's going to do it for the first half of the show. So let's get to the Mariners trivia question, eh? Why did my voice do that? Mariners trivia question for the day. As you are listening to this today, September 25th, it is Joel Piniero's birthday. Happy birthday to former Mariners pitcher Joel Pinniero, against whom was his major league debut?

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He started the game with six innings, gave up five hits, two runs, both of them earned, two walks, a home run, and four strikeouts. He also earned his first Major League win this day. Do you have a question or comment for me? Send it to Lockdown Mariners at gmail.com, and I will use it for our mailbag segment. I'm not going to do it every week over the offseason, but we'll do them every couple of weeks, depending on how many emails I get and how often. But send your questions and comments into Lockdown Mariners at gmail.com

so I can read them and reply to them on the air. It need not be about baseball. The music references I sprinkle in throughout the show. Ask me about rock and roll. I love rock and roll. More Locked on Mariners following this from Built Bar. Ladies and gentlemen, we're going to play a game that I like to call Guess the Language. Today's advertisement will be read in another language,

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Nice. I was just about to say, why the hell did I do that? Who does? I do some black deep things on this show. Welcome back to Lockdown Mariners. Once again, your host, D.C. Lundberg. Still looking for that blue jean, baby queen, prettiest girl I've ever seen. See her shake on the movie screen, Jimmy Dean.

This is the second half of Locked-on Mariners, ladies and gentlemen. Brought to you by David Essex. And we have Jason Hernandez from Locked on Anaheim Ducks with us. Hello again, sir. Yo, indeed. Time for the Friday mailbag segment. I got a grand total of two emails. And we'll read both of those questions.

First question comes to us from Aidan Sohn's fifth mailbag segment in a row for this gentleman from Connecticut. And he asks, and Jason, I'm glad you're here for this one. And I'll tell you why in a second. He writes, as someone who hasn't. even set foot in Washington, I have a question about Safeco Field. And yes, he wrote Safeco Field in the email. That's not

me changing the words. Yes. Good man, Aiden. Keep sending emails. Keep sending them. Please do. Absolutely. And then he says, I still call it that. We all do. Yes, thank you. Where are the best seats in Safeco Field and what areas should I avoid

or areas that I should go to in the park? I will offer an answer first, J.D. And Jason has been to every major league stadium that's standing right now, except for the one in Arlington, which hasn't been open to fans yet. He's kind of a ballpark guru, went on a ballpark tour

over the course of a few seasons, but where I always set... Only two seasons. Okay, so a couple of seasons. Yeah. All right. Where I sat in Safeco Field when I lived in Seattle was the field level in right field, because at the time those seats were

fairly inexpensive and there was a decent chance of getting a home run ball because the home runs were flying out to right field much more than they were left field. There's really not a bad place to sit in the park. The bleachers are a little uncomfortable, but they're uncomfortable in any stadium. So my answer would be field level in right field, as close to the foul pole as you can get. What say you, J.D. I'm glad you asked. So I do like those field level seats down there. I also particularly like even though they're expensive the club level seats to the left of the

press box that's great foul ball territory you also have the baseball museum of the Northwest and the Mariners Hall of Fame they got some cool jerseys there so that's a cool place to go if you can get those club level seats then it's totally worth it you can't also go wrong

with the view level as long as you're in the first couple of rows in the view level those are good seats too They are not super far from the action, especially compared to other stadiums. So that's what I'm going to go with. I'm going to go with the club, if you can get it, but view level behind home plates. There you go. All right.

Thank you very much, Aden, for writing in once again. Always great to hear from you. Our second email comes to us from Lewis. I believe it's Olinic. He says from Beaverton, Oregon, slash, oh my goodness. gracious. Guanawhato, Mexico. Did I say that?

Oh my God. What? Is it spelled G-U-A-N-A? Yes. It's spelled, okay. It's Juana-Huato. Oh. This is another reason I'm glad you're on the program today, J-D.

Yes, because my last name is Hernandez. Yeah. He's in Juana-Huato. Interesting. Way down there. I blew that sky high, didn't I? Say that again, the way you said it before? No.

You grin, no way. Okay, folks, for those of you that are not Mexican, it's G-U-A-N-A-J-U-A-A-U-A-T-O. Yep. I'll go more about Wana-Huato in a little bit, but ask a question first, please. He asks two questions, actually. The first one is, and they're both pretty long questions, so here we go. One, are 60 games too small a sample size to project the fortunes of the Mariners, headed into 2021, given that the team has fared better than expected in this abbreviated season.

It looks as though the full-on rebuild we were prepared to endure this year and next could bear fruit sooner than once thought. If you were Jerry Depoto, would you look to trade young assets who have shown value in 2020 to acquire win now pieces this offseason? Or would it be better to stand pat and see how far the current roster gets with a full season, of internal development next year. I think 60 games is far too small sample size to project anything

in Major League Baseball, quite frankly, JD. I agree with that. 60's too small. Yep. And I would stand, Pat, because, especially because I don't think the pitching is there yet. And pitching is what's going to win in this league as it has in every other season

in Major League Baseball history. And the bats, the offense is fine, although it has been inconsistent, there are some pieces that could use a little work. Shed Long Jr. had a very bad season, for example. But like I've said twice, I'm willing to throw this season of his away, see what he has to offer next year. He was good in his cup of coffee last year. I think that the Mariners would be foolish to try to trade some of their young assets for maybe the final piece to resistance, which may or may not be there.

Because I think there are a few pieces away, especially on the pitching side. Have you got an opinion on that, JD? Okay. I got a couple opinions. First off, I do think the Mariners are fine as is. Yes, I do believe that the pitching needs to get a little bit better, but it needs to develop a little bit better. The Mariners have some great prospects.

In fact, they have three of the top ten prospects in all of Major League Baseball. So keep that in mind. You don't want to give them up right away, because that'll get you in a lot of trouble. Just ask, oh, I don't know, the Angels, who boasted one of the worst prospect polls in all of baseball for a few years, Look where they're at now. They're also on the outside looking in because they're not going to win all their games.

The Astros are not going to lose all their games. The Angels are going to be out of the playoffs once again, and Mike Kraut is wasting his prime. That being said, do the Mariners really have any of those big-name superstars? I'm going to air by saying, no, they don't. They have a great talented rookie in Kyle Lewis, who will have hopefully a great sophomore season. But something else to keep in mind.

The collective bargaining agreement has not been renewed yet, and there's some rumors that we could be on a strike in 2022 because of the way that Manfred has handled this season. Blach, folks, it's not been ideal. Not at all. Not been ideal. That's kind of the understatement of the year, is it not? Yeah, I think.

That's one of the understatements of the year. So the Mariners have to absolutely stay pat because we don't know what 2022 is going to bring. We don't know what salaries are going to look like after the CBA expires in about 13 months. So there's too many question marks. in that regard, stay as is. Yep, stay as is.

I do agree. His second question is, well, here it is. This may be inconsequential to many, but it bothers me to see the Mariners use their road uniforms when playing as the designated home team, even in the opposing ballpark. Is there a reason for them to be doing so now? Aside from batting in the bottoms of the inning,

I consider there to be a psychological advantage to playing as the home team, and wearing the whites instead of the grays is part of that. In the past, when circumstances have forced the meritors to play as the visiting team in Seattle, they have worn the uniforms that corresponded with that designation. I have no, I think it's probably just arbitrary what uniforms they brought with them on the road. I have no idea. It's kind of funny on TV seeing the quote-unquote home team wearing the road grays.

Other than that, I think it's just kind of, I think it is kind of inconsequential. I'm going to play devil's advocate here. it's a Manfred thing. I know I'm kidding. It's probably not really, but it could be a Manfred thing. Manfred man's been blinded by the light. Yeah.

Okay, so I'm going to answer the 3A question, which was not asked, because I really have no positive answer for that question because it's a man for a thing. Probably there's no good reason why the Mariners should wear the road grays if they're the home team. It's ridiculous. It's dumb.

It's not just the Mariners. It's other teams. I hate it. Yeah, I have no idea why that's happening because that has not been the case in years past. He's right about that. Now that I've answered that, I'm going to hijack your show for about a minute.

So Huanawatto Mexico, it's... Okay. So my family is to Michoakan, which is just the next state over, which is Ciudad in Mexico, like the Central District. So Huanawato is in that district, and it's surrounded by Halisco in Michoakan,

and Kedaro, which is where my family... I have family in Ketaro, and most of them are Michoakan. Most are in a little town called Irazio, which is kind of a suburb of Moralia, which is the capital of Michoakan. Juana Hwato is one of the biggest cities in the central district. Now, it's kind of surprising hearing that there's Mariner fans down at Huanahua'u, because where my family is from Mishuacan, there's a lot of Dodger fans. There's surprisingly a lot of Padres fans down in, like, Baja, northwestern Mexico. when you get to the bigger states,

it's mostly, I hate to say this, but it's mostly Astros fans, which I really hate. How do you think I feel? Well, maybe not so much anymore, but when you get down to Central Mexico, there tends to be Yankee fans. There tends to be.

Padres fans make sense to me because San Diego is pretty much right on the border with Mexico, is it not? Yeah. It's close. So I'm going to educate you a little bit on Mexican fandom. If I may.

So Baja California, Baja California, they're mostly Dodger fans, Padres fans. So Nora tends to be Padres fans for some reason. Chihuahua is where you see, you know, Arizona fans, some Astros fans. When you get to like Nuevo Leon, that's where you see a lot of Astros fans. Central Mexico, because there are no teams near them,

they tend to go for the front runners. So there's a lot of Dodger fans down there. There's a lot of Yankee fans down there. Not as many Astros fans, thank God. But it's mostly the two big teams, Yankees and Dodgers. So when I hear Mariners fan and Juanahua, that's kind of surprising, and that's kind of awesome that you have someone from that area listening to your podcast. So that's really cool.

Keep listening. Keep sending emails. He has Beaverton, Oregon slash Juanahua. Oh, so you probably lived in Mexico, but lives in Beaverton now. Lewis, we're curious about this. So please email me. tell me why you have two cities listed, because I'm genuinely curious about that. For the same reason that I've had Mujalakan for a time as a listed city because my family's from there.

Okay. But if he's Mexican, it's probably Luis, not Lewis. It's L-O-U-I-S. Yeah, but they say Luis in Mexico. Even with the O in there? They don't call anyone Lewis. Like, oh, Ola, Louis. How's that?

Louis. I'm Swedish. J.D. You have to remember this. They would say, I do flaco Luis. If you understand that. This Mexican has hijacked your show, so you should probably wrap it up before I hijack it even more.

Yeah, I think it's time to go, is that, J.D? Oh, yeah. But thanks for the emails, both of them. Yes, absolutely. And I can't believe that we're going to get it in over 20-minute show out of a Friday email segment with his two emails. Oh, buddy.

Well, you stretch it out a little bit, and you gave this Swede a geography lesson. I wish I could tell you about the geography in Sweden, but I can't. Because I've lived here all my life. See, you've never been to Sweden. I've been to Mexico way too many times to count. I've never been out of the country. You're close to Canada.

I've never been to Canada. Drive up. I don't have a passport or one of those drivers. What is it called? Then I can't help you out there. You should wrap up. Yeah, especially since I forgot the name of the driver's license that can get you into Canada. and when Shannon listens to this show,

she's going to kill me. In any case, Jason, where can the nice people find you on Twitter? And what show do you host here on Tlopin? I host a hockey show called Locked-on Anaheim Ducks, which is about the team that has not played hockey in six and a half months. My God. You can follow that show on Twitter at L-O- underscore Ducks. Today, I also have a mailbag episode.

I had a few questions, which are answered. And you could follow me personally at S. Stimpy J.D. But yeah, we have the draft coming up. We have a live show next week. Yes. On the podcast network on Locked on Live. So make sure to follow the accounts for that.

Yes, indeed. And if you're a hockey fan, you should probably begin paying attention because this will be the last NHL draft that does not feature the Seattle Cracken. Named, of course, for former Mariner Quinton McCracken. Yeah. Yes, that's ridiculous. Oh, fun times. I suppose.

What the heck am I doing? Thank you very much, Jason. It's the weekend, ladies and gentlemen. Get through Friday, and then it's the weekend at least. We'll be back on Monday when I will be joined by Abner Kravitz, Huckleberry Hound, and an air conditioner. Please remember to download rate and subscribe to this program on Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Spotify, Stitcher Radio, or any podcasting app that springs into your brainhead.

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