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Joining us right now on the radio show. This guy like Stap, I

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was gonna have him wait until four o'clock, but nicktime broadcasters like this guy

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don't wait for anybody. Aaron Goldsmith with the perfect hair day one of one

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hundred and sixty two and the hair is perfect. How are you, fellas?

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No, just because I'm on ten minutes earlier, does I mean I got to go ten minutes longer with you guys? No, it means you

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can leave ten minutes. I'm trading to see you guys. Happy Opening Day,

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Happy Opening Day to you. Man. Jerry was here with us about

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half an hour ago, says this is the best team they've had since he's

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been here. Do you concur one hundred percent? Yeah, one hundred percent.

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I mean, here's my biggest take on the Mariners. This from the

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final out of last year to first pitch tonight. And I get it.

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If I was a fan, I would feel the same way because I did

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feel the same way, guys. I followed this team right when everyone was

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traded, right, we saw the salary dumps who saw the trades and some

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players that people had real emotional connections to. Right, all of a sudden,

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you just want to walk out of the movie. You just want to

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get up and leave the theater. And I think a lot of people probably

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did that, and I understand the frustration for doing that. I don't fault

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anybody for it, but anybody who got up and left the movie early didn't

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notice how the Mariners finished building their roster right from January into February into where

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we are right now. They missed out on signing a free agent bat and

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Garver, a really missing piece in Polanco right a bullpen arm. I felt

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like kind of put them over the top in Santo's unfortunately won't see him for

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probably the first month or so. But I think this is the longest lineup

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the Mariners have had in Scott's and Jerry's era. Now ninth season, and

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we know what the pitching staff is. It might be it might be the best pitching staff in baseball when it's all said and done. We'll see.

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But I think there's there's a reason why Fangrafs has Mariners playoff odds is top

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five in the American League. I mean, it's a it's a really good team. Now, they got to go out there and they got to do

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it right. They got to stay healthy. They got to do it. But I don't think from from constructing a ball team, I don't think give

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them the way that the off season started, and given the parameters that the

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Mariners were working with in I don't I honestly can envision a better way for

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it to turn out the way that it did. It was remarkably creative, and again I think it's the best route they've had. No, I agree

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with you. How about defensively though, That's the one place is particularly in the infield, that I'm a little bit concerned because I just felt Gino was

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a security blanket over there. You know, those two hops that he would

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just scoop up throat at first, You wouldn't even think about a ball that went over there. I think it's completely fair. You know, Rojas has

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really played a lot of third base. Mariners needed him at second base last

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year after the trade. It's not like Rojas has not played third orius It's

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not like he hasn't played third. But can they be what Gino was now?

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To be fair, Gino came to Seattle with a rap of not being

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a great defensive third baseman. I was very pessimistic about what that would look

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like. Now, give Gino a lot of credit for his hard work. I think give Perry Hill a lot of credit for his hard work as well.

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Can Perry uplift the current crop at third base? I think there's reason

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to believe. So will they be as good as Geno? I don't know.

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We'll find out, but I do think defensively, I wouldn't say it's

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a concern at least not for me, but it is something where you go,

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Okay, well let's see how this plays out. But up the middle,

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hey, you've got cal Rawly highly regarded offensively. JP Crawford, I

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don't he has won a Gold Glove? Is he still a Gold Glove shortstop?

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I don't know. He's very solid though. You can win a World

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Series with JP Crawford on your roster. I know that much. And then obviously Julio and centerfield. So I do like them up the middle. From

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that standpoint, how many years now is this for you? In Seattle?

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Twelve years? Okay? And he looks exactly the same that you were hired

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when you were seven years old. Now you're nineteen and you look exactly the

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same. Well when he got here, it's unreal. We had the same

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amount of brown hair. Wow is that true? Wow? Yeah? Yeah,

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and now mine's almost intense. But you have it still, Yes,

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I do. But do you have a quoff man. It's very nice. He dyes his hair white. That's it's like a reverse. I think I'll

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just get ahead of it. Well, because I asked that, because you've

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seen kind of the evolution of this thing, right, and almost a whole

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new generation of fans. And Jerry was with us, as I said,

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Eric, and we talked about the fifty four percent things. I mean,

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it's a conversation. People discuss these things. They discuss salary, they discuss

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fifty four percent. And I've always thought all of this is way better than

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apathy because I see what apathy looks like in so of you. I completely

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agree. I think it's funny if you went back, I don't know,

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you like you go pick your era of bad Mariners baseball, okay, And

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if you told that group of fans that there would be a three year stretch

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where the Mariners would either be in the playoffs or be eliminated from the playoffs

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on the final day of the season, and would be like, off the

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top of my head, I'm not entirely sure, but it's somewhere in like the fifth most wins in that neighborhood in baseball in that three year span.

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A lot of people will be like, yeah, I like, sign me

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up for that. I want to I want to root for that team.

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I mean, Huy, this will be his third year, right, he

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has played one game that doesn't count for anything so far. He played one

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meaningless game and it was a game one sixty two last year. So I

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agree with everything you said, Softy. I think this is a team that

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now has in my mind, the greatest expectations it's ever hads. I mean

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to me, it's win the division. Like truthfully, they have the talent

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to win the division now if they lose out in the division by a game,

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because the Astros are a really good team and you make the wild card,

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I don't think that's anything to sneeze at, right, But I think

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this team has everything required right now to win the West, a really good

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division obviously, And I'll take it a step further. Nobody, nobody wants

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to face the Mariners in October. If this pitching stays upright and has this

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look come October, you don't want any part of them, no question.

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Just get in, get in, baby, Let's get in. I mean,

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look at the Diamondbacks. For gods ago, they had no right to

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be in the World Series, but they got in and they found a way.

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Uh listen, enjoy it today. Man. Always good to see you.

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You look awesome. You're always the best dressed broadcaster every single year.

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While you're going, we'll talk soon May. It's great being with you guys.

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All right, Bud, Aaron Goldsmith with us on the program We're Gonna

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break Pat Shun you uw Ad will join us at four twenty today. We

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got some breathing room. How about that. That's the ninety three to three KJRFL