Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - Who Will Make the Seattle Mariners' ALDS Roster?

Episode Date: October 2, 2025

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What will the Mariners' ALDS roster look like? We'll discuss coming up here on the Lockdown Marrars podcast. 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 Thursday, October 2nd, 2025.

This is Tadda Gonzalez and Colby Patton for the Lockdown Marys podcast. Part of the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day. As always, if you want to hear from me and Colby, even more and help support the show. You can check out our Patreon. All you have to do to check that out is click the link in the description of this episode. On the show today, we're talking all about the Mariners' ALDS roster. What should it look like? What will it look like? I'll also tell you a little later on what our plan is for the next few days here on the show so you know what to expect from us as the playoffs kick off. But we're going to start here by talking about what the Mariners ALDS roster

should look like. And now for the most part, it's probably going to be chalked, though there are a couple of interesting discussions to have here, mostly on the pitching side. And it really starts with how many starters are you going to roll with? How many starters are you going to plan to have

over the course of the series, especially if it goes to the distance, goes five games? So we'll see if Brian Wu is healthy. That's still kind of up in the air. that's a big piece to this. But let's just assume that Wu is healthy, that he is going to be able to start either game two,

game three, what have you. Three starters or four, Colby? Yeah, four. You're going to carry four starters. You know, in game four,

if you get to a game four, asking, I don't know, whoever's starting the game one, to, you know, go again on the road is a bit risky, especially if you start Luis in game one, which is a real possibility. Heck, even if you start Logan Gilbert in game one, it's pretty risky to ask them to go out on the road for a second start. But they're going to go with four. And obviously, Bryce Miller is

the odd man out here. He has been the least consistent of a very inconsistent group out of this Mariners rotation. He has a really good shot for his stuff to play up out of the bullpen, something that cannot be said for like Luis Castillo, for example, probably can't be said for Luis Castillo. Miller does have some experience coming out of the bullpen in college. He did that for a few years. So he does have some kind of background and getting hot, fast, and all of that stuff.

He gives you length out of the lineup, and the fastball splitter combo should play very, very well in those mid, maybe even late innings, especially if you have a pocket of right-handed hitters coming up. that you want to try and navigate. So if you're going with four, especially, you know, Wu, you know, dinged up and all that as well. You want to be careful there.

You want to have some length out of the bullpen just in case Wu, you know, has to leave a game or whatever. So you're going to carry four starters. I think all five starters make the playoff roster, but I think only four of them are in the quote unquote rotation. And that's probably going to be consistent as long as the Mariners are in the playoffs. They will roll with a four-man rotation. So how many pitchers in general should the Marys carry into the ALDS?

Yeah. So the rules are like they are in the regular season. So the most pitchers you can carry is 13. And by the way, real quick, when they went into the wildcard round in 2022 and then the ALDS in 2022, they had 12. Yes. They should only carry 11. Okay. They are probably going to carry 12,

would be my guess. But they should only carry 11. You have your five starters that take up the five spots. And then it really comes down to who do you trust in the bullpen? Well, I don't trust anybody in the bullpen because they're bullpen guys. But you're going to trust Munoz. You're going to trust Brasch. You're going to trust Bizarro and Spire.

So those are four no-brainers. That gives you nine, which leaves you two spots. And you start going like, okay, well. Ferguson probably. I mean, almost certainly has. He's got playoff experience.

He's the second lefty. So Ferguson is the 10th guy. And after that, is there somebody you're just rushing to put on this playoff roster? Like, oh, we have to give this guy leverage innings? No, because after that,

your options are, you know, Casey Legamina and Emerson Hancock and Carlos Vargas, not Trent, Thornton, that'd be fun. But, Troy Taylor

Like Austin Kitchens They didn't add Gregory Santos to the taxi squad Which leads me to believe he's not an option anyways So Yeah Like I would do 10 if you could But I mean that that seems a bit ridiculous You don't need a seven man bench

But I think you can get more creative with that extra bench spot Than you can with the extra bullpen ad So I think I personally would add Hancock to be the 11th pitcher over Vargas, but it's between those two guys. It kind of has to be between those two guys. Yeah. Do you have a roster written out? Yes. Yeah, I have one as well. Let's see. Let's see if they line up. So mine is the starters Wu, Kirby, Gilbert Castillo. Bullpen is Munoz Spire, Brashbazardo, Ferguson Miller. I'm going with Vargas, but it could

be Hancock as well. I just Vargas has been one of those two guys. Yeah, Vargas has been Dan Wilson's favorite toy this year. So I just can't imagine he gets left off the roster, but we'll see. I think ultimately they both will make the roster. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And we'll get into that later on. Yeah. Three catchers, Raleigh Garver Ford. Yep. Enfielders, Nailer, Polanco, Suarez, Crawford, Rivas. I'm going Ben Williamson here. Same. uh no i think they won't go in that direction we'll talk about that a little later on but i'm going

ben williamson for late game third base defense after you know hopefully you have a lead and you know gino's had his last that bad of the night i'm going williamson i'm putting him out there yeah uh then in the outfield i'm going hulio randy dom can zone victorublas luke raleigh and samad taylor yeah for bench uh for uh base running purposes Yeah, I think the last roster spot is really the one that's up for debate here, because it could be Cole Young, it could be Samad Taylor, it could be Miles Mastroponi. So my question is, what does Cole Young bring to the table? Well, he's a better defender than Jorge Polanco, but you might have that covered with Reeves.

But Revis is also your backup shortstop. So if something happens to JP, you don't really have a backup second baseman, although Samad Taylor has played there before. So if you're going with him, you know, then that is also probably checked. Same with Master Boney. So, but Cole Young is a guy who gives you a quality of bat. He didn't play for like two months, two months for like two weeks straight. Is Master Bonney on your roster?

No, he's, he's, well, for my last bench spot, I have three guys that I'm considering. It's Master Bonney. It's Taylor and it's young. And I do think part of this is, is who are you playing? because if you're playing like Detroit, you know, and you know you have to face scoobel a couple times, you might prefer Samad Taylor to the two lefties

because he's a righty. Now that's a very niche, you know, situation. You're probably not going to use that player anyways. The Mariners don't have a ton of platoons that they deploy any longer. So it's probably not going to come into play here, but it might matter, might make enough of a difference

because Samad Taylor is the only right-handed hitter in that trio. So that's something that could come into play here. Cole Young is probably the best overall player, although he's really struggled recently, although he also has been given a lot of playing time. So it's kind of tough there. Also, is there something about like wanting to give him the playoff experience

because maybe there is. Harry Ford is up here for the whole month of September to kind of give him this experience so that when he's added to the playoff roster, which we know he's going to be, the mayor is going to carry three catchers. You lock that down. That's written in stone.

But yeah, I think Cole Young is really on the borderline here because I think the thing that Miles Masterpony has going for him is that he can also play the outfield. And that's something Samad Taylor has going for him as well. Those two guys can also play second base. Masterbony has played third base. And, you know, Taylor and Masterbony can play the outfield. Cole Young's pretty much locked in as a second base only guy. So his quality of that bat, that quality of the at bat you think you're going to get from him has to be so much higher. than Master Boney or Taylor because Taylor and Masterbony have more versatility.

They're better base runners. They have more speed. And, you know, if Cole Young could play shortstop, if I felt confident that he could play shortstop, I think he'd get that, it would give him the tiebreaker alone. But the arm strength is a real thing this year for some reason. And yeah, it's one of those things. I got three players there for that last spot. And I think Young might be the.

a third player in that regard. So I'm not 100% sure where they go. And again, it might matter. They look at Detroit and say, oh, they got all these lefties. Let's go with Samad Taylor. Fine. If it's Cleveland and they're worried about, you know,

hey, who's going to face Hunter Gaddis if we really need them to? I mean, these guys probably aren't getting an app at bat. So it doesn't really matter all that much. So it kind of comes down to defensive versatility and base running. Yeah. And so I think Taylor has a real shot here to make this roster, despite, does what Taylor play a game for the Mariners this year? I can't remember.

Like I know Riley Thomas did. Yeah, he was up. He was up for, I think, a couple of games at least. So, yeah, and Taylor stole something like 45 bags in the minors this year. So there is that element to it. I think he set the Rainier's record. The career, Rainier's record, I believe. Career Rainier's record, yeah, yeah.

But anyhow, yeah, I think it's one of those guys. Really didn't give any consideration to Ryanier's record. Island Thomas. I know he's on the taxi squad. Didn't really give any consideration to Colt Emerson. You know, again, I know. But yeah, I think it's three guys for one spot. And if I had to guess right now, I would say Samad Taylor has the advantage. And if I were writing out the roster, like I got to pick, I think I'd probably pick Miles Mastroponi just because I'm, I've seen him, you know, play pretty regularly with the Mariners. He gives you a good app back and play multiple positions.

I kind of trust him because I've seen him. But that, that specialty, that little niche of like, hey, we need a big stolen base here. Robles is already in the game. Like Canzone's at first, Samad Taylor is more likely to steal that bag. So it really comes down. Samad Taylor to me is the, the, God, what's the guy's name that used to play for the Royals? Terrence score. Terrence score.

Thank you. Yeah. That's the role I envision for Samad Taylor. Taylor here. I don't know if he's quite that good, but no, but that's essentially what I'm thinking, right? Yeah. Like he is a stolen base specialist.

Like that is his role on this specific roster. And we should be clear about this. This specific play or this specific roster spot, this, you know, for us, if we're going with 11 pitchers, this, you know, 15th man. If he's getting an at bat, something's gone wrong. Yeah. So. Like if I was writing out this roster, I wouldn't put a position next to this guy's name, right?

I'd just put a star there. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Basically. And that's why I didn't even consider Cole Young for a second. No, I think the mayor is going to consider Cole Young. But yeah, I think he's probably on the outside looking in.

Yeah, it's just, yeah, the arm strength has been a bit of a problem. I think that at least is somewhat linked to the elbow thing that he was dealing with in spring training. That's just me trying to connect the dots. That's not what I've heard or anything like that. So I don't necessarily see the value in him from a defensive standpoint. There are better base runners that I can consider here. And ideally, he's not taking a single abat. Something has gone completely wrong if Cole Young is taking an abat in a series.

It's worth noting that. you can add players in the middle of a series if there is an injury. So if Leo Rivas gets dinged up or J.P. Crawford, you know, can't play, then you can add a guy like Cole Young. And so, yeah, it makes sense. I'll say that Cole Young's got more power than the other two. But again, it's kind of like, is he going to get an at-bat? Probably not.

I'm not pinch-hitting Cole Young. You might be surprised, but probably not. It's very hard to work up a scenario where like that's your best option to take a swing. Again, something has gone very wrong. Right. But if that's the role of this player, then like Miles Mastroboni, eh, kind of the same, like he's not better defensively than anybody else you would have on this roster at any spot late in the game. Whereas Cole Young might be better at second base.

Like Cole Young at second base and Leo Rivas at, you know, at shortstop late in a game is probably the best you can do defensively. out of everybody we've mentioned here. So will the Mariners actually bench J.P. Crawford for defense? I highly doubt it, which they should, but I doubt they will. Just like I kind of doubt that they'll bench Gino for defense, even though they really should. And Williamson is a great ad to do that with because it's not just going from okay to good.

You're going from below average to like elite at a premier defensive position. And late in the game, when you're hugging that, line and you're trying to prevent doubles, you need range out of your corner infield guy and Williamson's got it and Gino just doesn't. Yeah, I mean, Ben Williamson literally won you a game with his glove in Sacramento this year. So yeah. Yeah.

Also, by the way, you should strongly consider taking Randy a Roserina out of the game. Randy and that whole left side of the field. Those three players, they should all be replaced late defensively if you're up. But will they? I don't know. I kind of doubt. I don't know. We'll see.

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what do you think it's going to look like? Three catchers, Cal Mitch and Harry. Yep. Infielders will be Nailer, Polanco, Crawford, Swares, Rivas, and I think Williamson still makes the cut, but they could go either way there. outfielders are going to be Randy, Julio, Victor, Dominic Canzone. And for now, Luke Rayleigh, although I feel like Rayleigh could be a surprise omission. Just because he's not the first lefty off the bench, right?

That's probably going to be Canzone. Now, Canzone's in the lineup, obviously, blah, blah, blah. But, you know, he's a good base runner, but he's not a base stealer. He's got Pop, but he hasn't really hit for power this year. he's a really good bunter. Hopefully they don't bunt ever. It worked out great for the Red Sox last night, though. Boy, I'll tell you.

But I do think Rayleigh still gets on. And then, so yeah, I think it's Cal, Mitch, Harry, Naylor, Polo, JP, Gino, Randy, Julio, Robles, Canzone, Rayleigh, Rivas, and Williamson, I think. Now, Williamson, again, it kind of goes to, do you want the elite third base defense, or do you want the plus base running from Samad Taylor? that's what I think it comes down to and for me I think I would rather have the defense

but you know that's a toss up the pitching staff would be Wu Kirby Logan Louise Miller Munoz brash bizardo Spire Hancock Ferguson and Bargis yeah so we are

in agreement on 25 of the 26 spots I think it's going to be Masterbony over Williamson I think they'd I think they trust Master Bunny to just kind of do a little bit of everything, right? I think I think he's like the guy that you put on the roster if you need to, you know, replace Polo or if you need to replace Gino or if you want, you know, a better base runner out there. Like he offers a little bit of everything.

And if his turn through the order does come around and he does have to take it an app bat, hopefully not. But if he does have to take an app bat, he's at least shown the ability over the course of this year to, you know, work counts, maybe work a walk, you know, at least foul off some pitches, frustrate the opposing pitcher. Yeah. So. Yeah.

I think you just don't want to give up on your meme opportunity that we set up earlier this year. Oh, yeah. They got so close to happening a couple times. So close. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

If he does it in the post season, who boy. But. Yeah. We'll always have that Crawford box home run. I literally forgot that happened until just now, by the way. Yeah. Again, I'd probably prefer the elite third base defense. That is such an important position.

I do too, by the way. I just, I think they're going to go with Master Bunny. I think they just trust them to do a bit more stuff. That's why I was thinking they might not add Rayleigh to the roster, particularly if they do face Detroit. Like if they're planning on seeing Scoople twice, Rayleigh's not going to play in those games, almost certainly.

And then there's Tyler Holton coming out of the bullpen. What's the other guy's name? Hurter. Hurter? Yeah. Yeah. So I don't think that that's, there's going to be many opportunities. I do like Rayleigh as a late game defensive replacement out in left field in particular, or right field, depending on, you know,

what Victor and Canzon. doing that day. You know, the lineup will probably be an interesting, would probably be an interesting discussion too. Defense versus, you know, offense. But yeah, I think there's a shot that really just might not be given that many opportunities. Like, he's not going to play over Canzone.

We know that by now. He's the backup first baseman, but Miles Master Boney can play first base too. So you can carry him. So I wonder if because Master Boney can also play the infield, And he's just going to give you a slightly better at bats against lefties. I mean, Rayleigh doesn't look helpless against lefties.

It's just the production is the production. And it's not there. And Rayleigh's been start, stop all year. The one nice thing about Luke, though, is that if you do get into a situation, you're down three to two in the ninth. Will Vest is on the mound. And, you know, Robles is on first. Yeah.

Mitch Garver is coming up. Like Luke Rayleigh against the righte can end that game. much more likely than Garber can. So it's kind of, you know, do you want to carry him for that one potential swing? Or do you want to be like, look, he's definitely not starting at least two or three of these games. So that's why I think Rayleigh could be kind of a surprise omission. But I think because he can play all three outfield spots, because he can stand at first base, and because he does have tremendous raw power off the bench, I think he ultimately does make it regardless of who the opponent is.

He's also the best bunter on the team And we know they're going to bunt I mean, to be fair Is there another good bunter on the team Or is he the best by default? Like he's good at it, don't get me wrong, But like, who's the second best buntor on this team, Ty? It sadly might be Victor Robles

Who usually needs three attempts to get it down. When's the last time Victor got a first pitch bunt down? Never, never. The only bunt attempt that is in my brain right now, from Victor Robles is the one that he popped up against. I forget who. We know Polos sucks at it. I think it was the Cardinals.

JP sucks at it. Dylan Moore's not even here, but I'm going to take a shot at him. Dylan Moore is the worst bunter I've ever seen in my life. You're never going to ask Julio. You're never going to ask Randy or Cal or Naler. You can trust Harry Ford to get a bunt down. It's almost like you just shouldn't bunt.

Ask Alex Cora how he's feeling about bunting right now. So, yeah, it's one. of those things how much is that going to come to play i don't know but again i think raleigh will make it regardless of the uh the opponent but i just think if they're playing detroit there might be a little less incentive to carry that that lefty uh bench player and maybe they go with more speed in a right-handed bench player like samad taylor so just keep that in mind but yeah i feel pretty good about what the roster is going to look like i feel like we have a rough idea maybe one maybe one truly up for grabs in my opinion yeah yeah i maybe they would consider luke jackson over hancock

but i don't know i just feel like they they've made this tweak with hancock the stuff played up really well yeah the stuff played up really well because of it against the rockies but stuff is stuff right like the stuff was really good uh it's still a you know 60 60 grade sweeper and and 95 miles an hour from that low arm slot up and in. That's going to be a problem for right-handed hitters. Yeah. So. So, yeah.

So I think Hancock makes it. I don't think that's too up in the air. So yeah, I think the bullpen, like if they carry 12 arms and woo is healthy and Wu is healthy, I think it's chalk. I don't really think there's anything up in the air there. I think they just drop, they drop Jackson. Yeah. And they drop,

uh, see, whoever the other guy was. Whoever was in that spot. Yeah. Well, they dropped the last. Well,

they replaced Logan Evans with master bow. Right. So they technically wasn't even a spot. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah. Let Evans isn't going to make it.

Um, I guess the surprise pitcher who could make it would be Michael fulmer. Yeah. Uh, who, you know, I believe has some playoff experience.

No, he hasn't. Never has. Yeah. never really I looked it up I looked it up okay

well either way I think he might but he's a veteran he's pitched a lot of games yeah yeah yeah I honestly have surprised

it went with Luke Jackson over him the first time I don't think Luke Jackson is making the playoff roster though so yeah I guess you know

if you're looking for a surprise on both sides I would say fulmer might be the surprise pitcher um offensively. I just, I don't see any path for Rylan Thomas, short of an injury.

Well, I mean, it's like, I would rather have Rayleigh than Rylan Thomas. Yeah, and you're not adding him over any of the other outfielers, obviously. No. I mean, and again, he doesn't make more sense than Samad or Master Boney or even Cole Young because of how you already have your outfield. And he can't do anything but play the outfield.

I guess Colt Emerson kind of by default would be the surprise offensive player to make it. That would be crazy. That would be crazy. The Guardian started a rookie center fielder. They won that game. Although granted, his first opportunity to make a play did not go well. But I don't think Emerson would be like in the lineup or anything.

But the Mariners are not really in a position where they need to take a shot like that. You know, like their bench guys just need to be guys that they trust, guys that they have clear defined rules for. You need somebody who can come off the bench and hit a home run versus a lefty, Garber. You need somebody who can do it versus a righty, Rayleigh. You need speed, Robles.

You need infield defense, Revis. You need outfield defense, Rayleigh or Robles, depending on, you know, who's available at the time. Yeah. You need that third catcher so that in case, you know, Garver's D-Hing one day and they bring in a righty. You can take him out and not have fear for not having a catcher. That's Harry. Like everybody has a role.

And for the most part, they're very niche roles. But that's kind of the point. And the Mariners have all those boxes checked. All right. So we are going to wrap things up here. Tell you a little bit about what's to come on the show over the next few days. And just a moment.

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And you're listening to the Locktime Mariners podcast. So we are waiting on the winner of the Guardians Tiger series, game three today at noon Pacific time. Hopefully that game goes like 24 innings. That would be great. Hopefully they don't wrap that game up until it is dark. out in Cleveland. But we will know finally who the mayors are playing in the ALDS. And we will finally be able to preview that series tomorrow.

So, yeah, that's going to be what tomorrow's show is all about. And then we'll find out what time the mayors are playing on Saturday, depending on if the Red Sox or the Yankees when, again, I don't know why that matters. Do you have a wild guess? I don't. I'm just going to say, go Red Sox. for personal reasons. Oh, okay.

I like it. I like it. For reasons that do not matter to me whatsoever in terms of like who the Mariners might have to face. I don't care from that angle. Do you remember which result leads to which time? Yeah, the Yankees win. The Mariners will play up five on Saturday. If the Red Sox win, the Mariners will play at one on Saturday.

The game on Sunday is locked into the, I believe, 538 times. slot no matter what but yeah the red sox win you get an earlier game on saturday the yankees win you get the second to last game on saturday gotcha gotcha also what's with the 0838 thing in the playoffs i don't know it's something about like they do don't they like do like the opening day thing where they like announce the roster one by one and you go and you stand on the foul line and they do the national anthem and all that and they like to get their establishing shots with the crowd waving the towels or whatever. So yeah.

I mean, but why not just like 540? Why not? Yeah. You know, 5.10. Like I don't know. Weird.

It's. Yeah. Also something to do with spacing, I guess, probably. I don't know. Sure. Yeah.

It's two minutes. And also, but also like, why is it dependent on the Red Sox or the Yankees? They're both insanely popular. They're both going to play the same team in Toronto. So they're both East Coast teams. Like, what are we doing?

Anyway, whatever. So yeah, so we'll find out everything tonight. And then we'll attack all of that on the show tomorrow. I'm also planning on talking to Stacey Joe Ross again from 710 Seattle Sports. Loved having Stacy on a couple months ago. So I'm going to visit with her. I'm not sure if that's going to be on tomorrow's episode or maybe I'll just drop it on Saturday morning before the game. I'll figure that out.

And you guys will find out here. a couple days. Colby is going to the game on Saturday. Docs and Colby real quick. He's going to the game on Saturday. So Ben Reneree of C-Level and I are going to be doing the postgame show on Saturday after the game. And obviously Anders and Chris are going to be doing their postcast as well. Our post-game show, Ben and I's will come out a little later on after that. And then Sunday, Colby will be back and we'll do the post-game show together on Sunday. And then, you know, mailbag Monday we're we're not taking any days off here uh during the playoffs so long as there's you know games so yeah um so that's that's what you have to to look forward to here uh and then

tuesday is game three right so we'll do a post game show after that one of course just if there's a game we're doing a post game show after so just expect that uh so yeah so that's about it um i guess to to wrap up here after watching these uh two games between the the guardians of Tigers, Colby, do you have a preference now? No. No, you're still just like, give me whoever. You're better than both of these teams. It also doesn't matter that you're better than both of them.

And like I said, they both have points and counterpoints. Do you want to face scoble twice? Absolutely not. Do you really want to test the Guardian's version of Chaosball with the heater that they're on and their bullpen that they can throw at you? not ideal, but like, yeah, I don't know. It went to three games. Like these two teams did their job.

Now, for an added bonus, if they could play like 18 innings tonight, that would be great. That would be cherry on top. But no, I really don't care. Again, you're better than both of these teams. You should beat both of these teams. But it's the playoffs, man. Anything can happen regardless of what you play. I mean, put the Colorado Rockies in a tournament.

they're probably two in Q. But you put like the Marlins in a tournament like this, they might make a run. You know, it's totally possible. So it's just one of those things. Who you play doesn't really matter all that much. It just matters how well you play. But, yeah, I don't have a strong preference either way.

Again, I have more of a rooting interest in Yankees, Red Sox because I have a specific time. I want that game on Saturday to start because it makes my commute easier. So selfishly, go Red Sox. but also do I ultimately care if the Yankees win? No, I don't. You're not going to see them until the LCS at best. So I don't really care about the outcomes of any of these games.

But just to curse a couple of teams, I guess. I'll say go guardians, go Cubs, and go Red Sox. There you go. Go Cubs. I go Cubs. Yeah, I don't know. I don't want to face San Diego's bullpen in the World Series, I guess. I don't know.

already thinking that far ahead, huh? Well, I was trying to think it's like, okay, is it likely the Dodgers beat the Phillies in the divisional round? No. So the odds of me getting Padres Dodgers to go to the World Series, pretty slim. Brewer's Cubs in a five-game series, that's kind of cool. So I guess for that reason, go Cubs. But, again, I really don't care. All right.

So, yeah, we'll talk about the series tomorrow. tomorrow we'll have a start time, all that good stuff. So talk to you guys then. That's going to do it for our show. Thank you so much for joining us here on the lockdown Marrars podcast. Colby Patnode. I'm Tedding-Gazalus. Be sure to give us a follow on Twitter at L0 underscore Mariner's.

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