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9-28: Mariners part ways with Dan Wilson, Seahawks lose and Gary Hill · The Gregg Bell Show

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  Speaker 2: Good morning. Busy weekends for both of us.
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  Speaker 3: And we weren't even around for the biggest story of
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  Speaker 3: the Seattle sports weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. We were both in transit.
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  Speaker 3: I was in Washington, D.C. in the rain for the Seahawks'
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  Speaker 3: first loss since last November. Jessamyn was in Pullman to
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  Speaker 3: watch the Cougars lose to Arizona in a game that
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  Speaker 3: was kind of close until the end. And you said
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  Speaker 3: it got really cold there when the sun went down, huh?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think that they had a cold snap,
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  Speaker 2: which wasn't showing up on my weather report immediately. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it did get quite chilly, which I thought might give
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  Speaker 2: us an advantage because those boys who play out there
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  Speaker 2: in Pullman, they definitely have a little more experience than
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  Speaker 2: those in Tucson, Arizona.
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  Speaker 3: That's the thing about college football today. You'd think, well,
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  Speaker 3: Arizona guys aren't used to playing in the cold. But
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  Speaker 3: the Arizona guys could be from North Dakota. They could
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  Speaker 3: be from UMass. Everyone transfers from everywhere anymore.
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  Speaker 2: I know. There's no just like four-year or five-year players anymore.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Busy, busy weekend. We knew it was coming. The Seahawks
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  Speaker 3: or the Mariners making changes and they do it from
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  Speaker 3: Dan Wilson. I'm still not convinced he just didn't say
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  Speaker 3: enough and resigned because I know it looked like and
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  Speaker 3: Dan Wilson was pretty upset and emotional after the game,
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  Speaker 3: but We're going to talk about the timing of this.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of people say, well, give Rick Riz his day.
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  Speaker 3: Why couldn't you do it today? There's a leadership reason,
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  Speaker 3: I think, that Dan Wilson wanted to– if the decision
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  Speaker 3: was indeed made this past week, is what the statement
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  Speaker 3: from Jerry DiPoto said, conversations this past week, then as
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  Speaker 3: a manager and a guy that spends 162 games the
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  Speaker 3: last two years, 300-plus games, spring training– You want to
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  Speaker 3: go out on your terms with your guys and telling
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  Speaker 3: them in person yourself. You don't want that to come
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  Speaker 3: out on the Monday, the day after the season when
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  Speaker 3: the guys are taking off and leaving and going on
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  Speaker 3: vacation or going back home to their families on the
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  Speaker 3: Monday after the season ends. You want to be able
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  Speaker 3: to look those guys in the eye and tell them yourself.
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  Speaker 3: And that's why I think it happened yesterday is that
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  Speaker 3: they gave opportunity for Dan Wilson to get in front
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  Speaker 3: of the clubhouse and call a meeting, an impromptu meeting
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  Speaker 3: an hour before the season finale and tell them himself.
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  Speaker 3: And from a leadership perspective, that's how it should be.
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  Speaker 3: For him personally, it would have been much worse if
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  Speaker 3: the Mariners had made this decision today or tomorrow and
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  Speaker 3: then the players are already gone and Wilson's left putting
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  Speaker 3: out some hollow statement or a press conference in front
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  Speaker 3: of us in the cameras instead of his players. I
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  Speaker 3: have no problem with the timing of this for the
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  Speaker 3: fact that it gave David Wilson the opportunity to say
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  Speaker 3: goodbye to his guys.
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  Speaker 2: It was a lot of goodbyes yesterday.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: It was. It was.
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  Speaker 3: Including with Rick Riz. A lot of people thought that
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  Speaker 3: this news obviously upstaged Rick Riz's final day, but Rick
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  Speaker 3: Riz had a final week and final season, really, of
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  Speaker 3: a curtain call.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 2: We all knew that that was happening.
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  Speaker 3: And the Mariners had celebrated him throughout the season and
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  Speaker 3: the weekend. And you'll hear Rick Riz's final call here
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  Speaker 3: in a few minutes yesterday. It was on Mariners radio,
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  Speaker 3: it was on Mariners television. It was broadcast live to
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  Speaker 3: the fans. Sold out park of 44,700 yesterday. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: 49451 at Tacoma Dutch text line. The first question I'd
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  Speaker 3: ask is your thoughts on the timing of this announcement.
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  Speaker 3: If you're still buying the fact that Wilson was fired,
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  Speaker 3: I think he just said, OK, if you guys want
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  Speaker 3: to go a different direction, I'll step out.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if we'll learn more about that, to
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  Speaker 2: be honest.
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  Speaker 3: That should be a question for Jerry DiPoto at one
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  Speaker 3: o'clock today. We'll see if that gets it. I'm in
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  Speaker 3: New York or else I'd ask it. But that would
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  Speaker 3: be what I'd ask. Whose decision was this and how
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  Speaker 3: to go down? And, of course, the number one question
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  Speaker 3: is who next? If Jerry DiPoto and Justin Hollander are
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  Speaker 3: staying for year 12 of this for DiPoto, who is
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  Speaker 3: going to accept this managerial job after the last two?
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  Speaker 3: Who's going to accept playing the way Jerry DiPoto demands
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  Speaker 3: the Mariners play? And that's iPad baseball. And that's handedness.
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  Speaker 3: And that's all that we saw and were frustrated by
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  Speaker 3: this entire season.
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  Speaker 2: Or might they go in another direction? And realize that
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  Speaker 2: that isn't working.
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  Speaker 3: Wouldn't you think that you're going to have to change
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  Speaker 3: the guy on top of the baseball operations to go
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  Speaker 3: a completely different direction?
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how he's going to pivot out of
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  Speaker 3: something he's done for 11 years. And what field manager
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  Speaker 3: is going to– are you going to give anybody autonomy here?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that leadership is beginning to– that leadership question
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  Speaker 3: and accountability question, and even the players we're talking about
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  Speaker 3: this past weekend, including Cal Raleigh, including Logan Gilbert– If
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  Speaker 3: they want to get a different accountability level in the dugout,
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  Speaker 3: they need to give autonomy and authority to that manager.
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  Speaker 3: And they need to throw away the iPads and let
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  Speaker 3: the manager manage baseball games as he knows how to
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  Speaker 3: do it, not as the front office knows how. That's
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  Speaker 3: the kind of change that needs to happen with the Mariners.
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  Speaker 3: Are they willing to do that? On the show today,
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  Speaker 3: what I saw and heard and learned from the Seahawks'
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  Speaker 3: first loss since last November here on the East Coast
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  Speaker 3: in Washington in the rain yesterday, they got what they deserved.
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  Speaker 3: And they still came within probably two plays from winning
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  Speaker 3: that game. The Mariners' decision to fire Dan Wilson, did
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  Speaker 3: he decide to resign? The press conference at 1 p.m.
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  Speaker 3: today will carry it live. You'll hear my and a
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  Speaker 3: couple other Seahawks beat guys talking in the locker room
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  Speaker 3: yesterday in Maryland to Jadarian Price.
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  Speaker 2: You got it. You got it.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks. Price got benched. He was wearing a raincoat in
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  Speaker 3: the first quarter yesterday. From the time he fumbled with
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  Speaker 3: 11 minutes left in the first quarter, he didn't carry
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  Speaker 3: the ball again until 12 minutes left in the third.
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  Speaker 3: And he only had two more carries over the final
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  Speaker 3: 49 minutes of that game. And they were throwing on
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  Speaker 3: the goal line because Price wasn't in. And they didn't
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  Speaker 3: run the ball because they had no faith at all
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  Speaker 3: that anyone was going to run the ball. They ran
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  Speaker 3: just 18 times for 44 yards. And Jessamyn, this team
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  Speaker 3: is not going to win. We've talked about this a
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  Speaker 3: lot with Sam Darnold throwing 45 times. I knew he
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  Speaker 3: threw for 379 yards. But he threw 45 times, including
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  Speaker 3: three straight times on the goal line when they failed
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  Speaker 3: at fourth and goal. That's not at all how the
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  Speaker 3: Seahawks can win and how they're going to play to win.
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm surprised how many pass plays they actually ran.
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  Speaker 3: What they ultimately did on offense, Jessamyn, is they sent
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  Speaker 3: a message to Jadarian Price and it cost them a game.
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  Speaker 3: They decided to bench him and not give him the
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  Speaker 3: ball and not trust him and say, here's our message
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  Speaker 3: to you, dude. You got to hold on to the
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  Speaker 3: ball in this league. to play for us. And it
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  Speaker 3: cost them the game. It made him throw the ball.
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  Speaker 3: It made him throw the ball three straight times on
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  Speaker 3: the goal line when he was on the bench. And
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  Speaker 3: they sacrificed the game for the longer view and the
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  Speaker 3: longer development of Jadarian Price. Offensively, they did. Now, they
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  Speaker 3: made huge mistakes on defense. Their kickoff coverage and special
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  Speaker 3: teams play was terrible. Starting field position for the commanders,
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  Speaker 3: way too good. But offensively, they subverted what they wanted
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  Speaker 3: to do on offense for the longer good of Jadarian Price.
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  Speaker 3: They got him for four years, not just for a
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  Speaker 3: rainy Sunday in September 2026 in Maryland. They got him
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  Speaker 3: for the rest of the season, 15 more games, 14
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  Speaker 3: more games, plus the playoffs, and they've got him for
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  Speaker 3: three more years after this. And that's what yesterday was
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  Speaker 3: about for him. You'll hear from Jadarian Price and what
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  Speaker 3: he called the consequences he paid yesterday for fumbling for
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  Speaker 3: the second time in as many games. 11 o'clock? We're excited.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to talk live with Gary Hill Jr., friend
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  Speaker 3: of ours, the Mariners broadcaster who was right there next
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  Speaker 3: to Rick Riz for a very emotional day for Gary
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  Speaker 3: Hill yesterday. His buddy, his good friend, Rick Riz on
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  Speaker 3: his final day. And then the same day, someone that
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  Speaker 3: they are close to. If you're a Mariners broadcaster, a
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  Speaker 3: baseball team broadcaster, you're close to the manager. You travel
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  Speaker 3: with them. You stay in the hotels with them. You
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  Speaker 3: eat with them. You meet with them every day. You
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  Speaker 3: spend six weeks with them in Arizona in spring training.
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  Speaker 3: You get close to those guys. And yesterday was a big, big,
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  Speaker 3: big day for Gary Hill Jr. A lot of speculation
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  Speaker 3: on whether he is now going to move into the
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  Speaker 3: lead broadcaster role for the Mariners. Of course, he's been
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  Speaker 3: the number two broadcaster next to Rick Riz for the
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  Speaker 3: last couple years. We will talk live at 11 o'clock
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  Speaker 3: with Gary Hill Jr. about his big day yesterday, a
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  Speaker 3: very emotional day for the Mariners and Mariner broadcaster Gary Hill.
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  Speaker 3: We'll talk to him at 11 o'clock, 11.30 p.m. We'll
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  Speaker 2: Hello, and you know what? I was under 50%, in fact.
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  Speaker 2: People did not believe me on that one. Yeah, yep.
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  Speaker 3: Ian Furness will join me, talk about what's on his
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  Speaker 3: show from 12 until 3. Let's talk about the timing
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  Speaker 3: of the Dan Wilson management. manager no longer manager 2027
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  Speaker 3: they'll have a new one this is the third time
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  Speaker 3: in four years the Mariners gonna have a new manager
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  Speaker 3: some took issue with it from stealing from Rick Rizzo's
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  Speaker 3: farewell day but again from the leadership perspective is why
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  Speaker 3: I believe Wilson wanted it this way he told his
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  Speaker 3: players before the season finale that he was leaving that
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  Speaker 3: statement passive voice it was concluded makes me wonder again
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  Speaker 3: was it John Stanton was it Jerry DiPoto or was
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  Speaker 3: it Wilson who said, you know what, I'm done with this.
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  Speaker 3: I did what you asked me to do. I came
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  Speaker 3: in in the middle of a season a couple years ago.
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  Speaker 3: I got two full seasons. I took you to the
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  Speaker 3: brink of the world. See, I'm done. Wilson was asked
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  Speaker 3: yesterday if this was a mutual decision or if DiPoto
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  Speaker 3: or Stanton or the front office made it. Dan Wilson said, quote,
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  Speaker 3: I've been in baseball a while, and this is what happens.
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  Speaker 3: Managers shoulder the blame and shoulder the responsibility, and this
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  Speaker 3: is obviously difficult. And my family and I are, like
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  Speaker 3: I said, still processing it, and we'll get through. So
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  Speaker 3: he didn't answer that question. But let's be clear. The
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  Speaker 3: wrong guy's leaving here. Jerry DiPoto, 11 years, two playoff appearances,
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  Speaker 3: 10 years of not winning the AL West. But two
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  Speaker 3: dozen Mariner owners are profiting. The team drew 2.88 million
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  Speaker 3: fans this season. Another sellout yesterday, 44,700. The Mariners averaged
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  Speaker 3: 35,558 people per game. That's the seventh best attendance in
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  Speaker 3: Major League Baseball. It was the Mariners' best attendance season
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  Speaker 3: in 22 years, since 2004. The team's been in the
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  Speaker 3: top half of Major League Baseball in revenue, bottom half
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  Speaker 3: of player payroll. The business model is flourishing. We've talked
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  Speaker 3: about this many times. The baseball operation, the return on
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  Speaker 3: investment for those two dozen owners is flourishing. The baseball
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  Speaker 3: operations is failing. Yet the two dozen owners who are
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  Speaker 3: making the money and the ROIs are high, they don't mind.
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  Speaker 3: the president of baseball operations and how it's going. Cause
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  Speaker 3: it's working from their perspective. They're getting the ROI they want.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 3: So the baseball president of baseball operations stays and they
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  Speaker 3: aren't going to the world series for the 50th consecutive year.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that's really the dichotomy here. That's, that's the rub.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I go back to the beginning of
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  Speaker 2: the season because I think we asked this question several
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  Speaker 2: times on this station, whether it was world series or
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  Speaker 2: bust this year. And, even a post-season birth, I don't
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  Speaker 2: think would be enough for people. And I just... I
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  Speaker 2: find it like how, so if you were a World
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  Speaker 2: Series or bust at the beginning of the season and
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  Speaker 2: they don't get a sniff at the postseason, how disappointing
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  Speaker 2: is that? And I think that's why this is being
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  Speaker 2: considered one of the worst, most disappointing seasons in Mariner history.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think it's even one-up, Jessamyn, do you? I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it's the most disappointing. Going from eight outs to the
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  Speaker 3: World Series to 10 games under.
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  Speaker 7: 500?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if it's even a debate. You might
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  Speaker 3: be right. I think it's by far. I mean, 100
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  Speaker 3: lost teams. We knew they were bad. Joe Lefevre, the Kingdom,
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  Speaker 3: Maury Wills. Come on. Those teams suck. This team was
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  Speaker 3: eight outs from the World Series. And not only that,
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  Speaker 3: played in a division that was the worst ever for
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  Speaker 3: a division. They've never before.
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  Speaker 2: That adds to it.
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  Speaker 3: In a full season.
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  Speaker 2: That adds to it.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Never before in Major League Baseball over a full season
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  Speaker 3: has a division winner won without a winning record until yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: 81 and 81 won the division. If you were just mediocre,
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  Speaker 3: you should have won the AOS, and they were sub-mediocre,
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  Speaker 3: 10 games under. 500. No way. No way you can
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  Speaker 3: run the baseball operations back as they are, and they
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  Speaker 3: are going to. And now the challenge is to have
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  Speaker 3: the same baseball operations, the same analytics, the same iPad baseball,
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  Speaker 3: hire a new manager and expect different results. 49451 at
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  Speaker 3: Tacoma Dodge Tech. How do you think of that plan?
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  Speaker 3: What's your view of that plan? Same baseball operator, new manager.
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  Speaker 2: It will be interesting to hear from Jerry DePoto at
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  Speaker 2: one o'clock, which we will have live.
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  Speaker 1: We will.
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  Speaker 2: From the press box. Will it be? From the press box.
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  Speaker 3: Are we going to hear more smug? I told you so.
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  Speaker 3: I know best. Trust in me. I'm doing you a favor.
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  Speaker 2: I really hope he doesn't do a throwback to the 54% thing. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: that sounds pretty good right now or something like that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think he will.
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  Speaker 3: Do you realize if they had won 54% of their games,
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  Speaker 3: they'd be the number two seed in the American League
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  Speaker 3: right now?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I do. I did that.
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  Speaker 3: They'd have a first round bye.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: 54% would have even been good enough and they didn't
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  Speaker 3: even achieve that.
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  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 3: 49451 on the Tacoma Dodge text line. If you were
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  Speaker 3: in The Jerry DePoto press conference at one o'clock this afternoon.
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  Speaker 3: What would you ask? First, well, just to let you know,
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  Speaker 3: you would have to check your eggs at the door.
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  Speaker 3: They wouldn't let you bring your carton of eggs in
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  Speaker 3: and throw them at Jerry DePoto. Or your shoes.
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  Speaker 2: Just your voice. Just your voice.
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  Speaker 3: What would you ask?
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  Speaker 2: All right. Who was the politician who got a– was
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  Speaker 2: that George W. Bush?
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  Speaker 3: George W.
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  Speaker 5: Bush? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: The second George Bush? Was that a press– it was
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  Speaker 3: over in– I think it was either Europe or North Africa?
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  Speaker 2: I don't remember exactly where it was. I just know
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  Speaker 2: that he got a shoe thrown.
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  Speaker 3: He dodged it.
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  Speaker 2: So that will not be happening. And I'm wearing boots today,
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  Speaker 2: so I will not be throwing anything.
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  Speaker 3: Jessamyn will be there. You want to hear what Dan
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  Speaker 3: Wilson said? We'll do that next on the next segment.
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  Speaker 3: But let's first talk about Rick Ritt.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. I wanted to get to that.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: 41 years of broadcasting for the Mariners. This was his
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  Speaker 3: final call on Mariners radio on TV and to the
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  Speaker 3: 44,700 fans in the stadium yesterday. It's been a heck
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  Speaker 3: of a ride this year.
• 16:03
  Speaker 8: Some ups and downs and all around us, but the
• 16:07
  Speaker 8: Mariners will wind down 2026. In our 50th season. Man,
• 16:12
  Speaker 8: how about the celebration we had about a month ago.
• 16:14
  Speaker 8: Here's the pitch on the way to Zach Netto. And
• 16:17
  Speaker 8: it's a strike at the count 0-1. Bringing in the
• 16:19
  Speaker 8: 50 greatest players in the history of the franchise. All
• 16:23
  Speaker 8: in one place. What a celebration to celebrate the history.
• 16:27
  Speaker 8: Of this franchise. And to bring Jay Buhner back today.
• 16:29
  Speaker 8: Ken Griffey Jr. Swing and a fly ball. Deep in
• 16:32
  Speaker 8: the right field. Ken's on going back. He's there and
• 16:34
  Speaker 8: he makes the catch. And the ball game is over.
• 16:38
  Speaker 8: The Mariners win the finale of 20-26.
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: 7-3 over the Angels.
• 16:42
  Speaker 8: To take the final two games of the season. So
• 16:47
  Speaker 8: the players will walk off the field with a win
• 16:50
  Speaker 8: here in game number 162. What a crowd this afternoon
• 16:55
  Speaker 8: of 44,761 fans. A bittersweet ending, but ending on a
• 16:59
  Speaker 8: positive note with a couple of wins back-to-back. The guys
• 17:05
  Speaker 8: out there at second base doing their happy dance.
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: I love that.
• 17:09
  Speaker 8: I love these guys, folks. And I tell you what,
• 17:12
  Speaker 8: they're going to get you to the promised land. They're
• 17:15
  Speaker 8: going to get you to the postseason next year. There's
• 17:17
  Speaker 8: going to be a lot of work done between now
• 17:19
  Speaker 8: and spring training. And it's going to be a fun spring,
• 17:22
  Speaker 8: and I want to see you there. So a tough year,
• 17:25
  Speaker 8: of course, with the expectations for this ball club here
• 17:29
  Speaker 8: in 2026. And it didn't happen this year. It almost
• 17:33
  Speaker 8: happened last year. It's going to happen next season. So
• 17:36
  Speaker 8: keep supporting this ball club because I love these guys.
• 17:39
  Speaker 7: Not only are.
• 17:40
  Speaker 8: They great players, they're great guys. So that's it for
• 17:45
  Speaker 8: the 2026 season. And on behalf of everybody up here
• 17:48
  Speaker 8: in the broadcast booth, I want to say thank you
• 17:51
  Speaker 8: for supporting the Mariners and supporting what I have done,
• 17:54
  Speaker 8: what I've been here for 41 seasons. I can't thank
• 17:57
  Speaker 8: you enough. It has been a joy and a privilege
• 18:00
  Speaker 8: to bring you Mariners baseball. And I will never forget you.
• 18:03
  Speaker 8: I will never forget my time here in Seattle. But
• 18:06
  Speaker 8: I'm still going to be around. So a wonderful chapter
• 18:10
  Speaker 8: in my life comes to an end right now. I'm
• 18:12
  Speaker 8: looking forward to the next chapter, and I want to
• 18:14
  Speaker 8: celebrate it with you. Anytime I see you, please, let's
• 18:17
  Speaker 8: talk some Mariners baseball. So thank you so much.
• 18:21
  Speaker 9: I love you guys.
• 18:22
  Speaker 8: Final score, the Mariners 7 and the Angels 3 here
• 18:26
  Speaker 8: at T-Mobile Park.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: Rick Riz yesterday on the final out of the Mariners'
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: final game, a 7-3 win over the Angels at T-Mobile Park.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: And then they came back from commercial break. They connected
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: his radio feed to the entire stadium PA. The players
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: stood on the field and looked up at the radio
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: booth to listen to a extended goodbye from Rick Riz.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: Ken Griffey Jr. was on the field standing next to
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: Jay Buhner.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: And they all raised their hats.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: They did. It was a cool little poignant moment. at
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: the end of a very disappointing season. And I got credit,
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: Rick Riz, a company guy to the end. Hey, stick
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: with these guys. They're going to get us to the
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: promised land. He's right through the final out, past the
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: final out, still toeing the party line. You got to
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: appreciate that about the end of a 41 year career
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: for Rick Riz and the Mariners on the last broadcast.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: We'll talk to Gary Hill Jr. about that emotional day
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: in the broadcast booth at 11 o'clock. The Mariners broadcaster
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: with Rick Riz will talk to us at 11 o'clock,
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: but up next, How Dan Wilson announced his own firing
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: or his own resigning, whatever you want to call it.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: I think he resigned. What he said, the players' reaction
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: to their manager gone. 1045, you're going to hear from
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: Jadarian Price in the locker room here on the East
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: Coast yesterday when I talked to him after his fumbles
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: and benching in the Seahawks' first loss in 10 months. 11.35,
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• 20:03
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• 20:07
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• 20:22
  Speaker 3: Back here in New York City. I mean, just across
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: the river in Brooklyn, actually, from Manhattan. And we're here, 93.3,
• 20:29
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• 20:33
  Speaker 3: Coming up tonight, the undefeated 2-0. Undefeated, kind of undefeated.
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: Philadelphia Eagles at the Chicago Bears, 5-15. You'll hear that
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: live on KJR. Dave Softy, Mahler, and Dick Fane will
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: take you up to that broadcast from Westwood 1 at 5-15.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: I thought I was going to be talking leading about
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: the Seahawks and my trip here to the East Coast
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: to see them lose yesterday in Washington because of three turnovers,
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: two by Sam Darnold, an awful interception pick six that
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: he admitted he should have just dirtied the ball on.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: And we are going to talk about that, the benching
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: of Jadarian Price for his second fumble in as many games.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: But then the Dan Wilson news broke about the time
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: the Seahawks were losing yesterday here in Washington. And so
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: we're going to talk about Dan Wilson being out as
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: the manager. The team's going to be searching for its
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: third new field manager in four years. Dan Wilson called
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: an impromptu team meeting an hour before the first pitch
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: of the season finale because after talks in the past
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: week among the baseball decision makers, the Mariners decided to
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: make a move. It was concluded. Both in the statement,
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: that's how it was phrased, passive voice, no ownership, no
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: noun before the verb. And you'll hear Dan Wilson saying
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: the same thing. It was concluded. This was Dan Wilson
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: after the game yesterday, his final one as Mariner manager.
• 21:45
  Speaker 10: This state, sorry, this season has been very difficult. And,
• 21:50
  Speaker 10: of course, the results have not been what any of
• 21:52
  Speaker 10: us have expected. As a result, it was concluded that
• 21:56
  Speaker 10: today is my last day as manager of the Seattle Mariners.
• 22:00
  Speaker 10: I'm still processing this with my family, and it's a
• 22:03
  Speaker 10: very difficult day.
• 22:05
  Speaker 9: We love this city. We love this community.
• 22:10
  Speaker 10: And we appreciated the organization for what it has meant
• 22:12
  Speaker 10: to the family since.
• 22:14
  Speaker 9: Coming here as a player in 94.
• 22:16
  Speaker 10: We feel extremely blessed by all the opportunities we've been afforded.
• 22:19
  Speaker 10: We've raised our family here, and we will continue to
• 22:22
  Speaker 10: call Seattle home. First, I just want to thank my wife,
• 22:27
  Speaker 10: who has been my rock. and solid foundation through this
• 22:31
  Speaker 10: baseball journey. Jumping back into baseball brought many obstacles, but
• 22:36
  Speaker 10: we weathered them together.
• 22:38
  Speaker 9: And thank you for everything. It's always better together.
• 22:43
  Speaker 10: Secondly, I'd like to thank the incredible coaching staff and
• 22:48
  Speaker 10: support staff that has worked so tirelessly over these last
• 22:52
  Speaker 10: couple years.
• 22:54
  Speaker 9: They have stuck with it, and they have stuck with
• 22:56
  Speaker 9: me through thick and thin.
• 22:58
  Speaker 10: My gratitude cannot accurately be expressed for their countless hours
• 23:03
  Speaker 10: of analyzing video, working with players, and making us better
• 23:07
  Speaker 10: on the field. I will cherish each relationship with these
• 23:11
  Speaker 10: staff members, and I wish them all continued success going forward.
• 23:16
  Speaker 9: Thank you for giving all of yourselves every day.
• 23:20
  Speaker 10: I also wish to thank the special group of players
• 23:22
  Speaker 10: in that clubhouse. It has been an honor and a
• 23:25
  Speaker 10: privilege to work with you over these last couple seasons.
• 23:29
  Speaker 10: You are an incredibly talented group and have shown overwhelming
• 23:31
  Speaker 10: resiliency over the last couple of seasons. You fight and
• 23:35
  Speaker 10: it is exactly that fight that will bring you back
• 23:38
  Speaker 10: to prominence. Thank you for all your dedication and hard
• 23:41
  Speaker 10: work every day.
• 23:43
  Speaker 9: And thank you for fighting as you did each and
• 23:44
  Speaker 9: every ball game.
• 23:47
  Speaker 10: I love all of you and your families and pray
• 23:49
  Speaker 10: for continued blessings as you continue on with your baseball journeys. Lastly,
• 23:55
  Speaker 10: I'd like to thank the Seattle fans.
• 23:56
  Speaker 9: You are our inspiration.
• 23:59
  Speaker 10: Hearing Team Mobile Park back in October last year, and
• 24:02
  Speaker 10: seeing the support you gave us even during a difficult
• 24:04
  Speaker 10: season is greatly appreciated.
• 24:07
  Speaker 9: Thank you for always being there. I don't know what
• 24:10
  Speaker 9: the future holds.
• 24:12
  Speaker 10: The Mariners organization has expressed interest in a role going forward,
• 24:15
  Speaker 10: and I look forward to investigating those options.
• 24:17
  Speaker 7: In the future.
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: Dan, was this your decision or was this a decision
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: made for you?
• 24:25
  Speaker 9: You know, this was, you know, I've been in baseball
• 24:28
  Speaker 9: a while, you know, this is what happens. Managers shoulder
• 24:31
  Speaker 9: the blame and, uh, shoulder the responsibility.
• 24:34
  Speaker 10: And, um, you know, this is, uh, obviously difficult and, uh,
• 24:39
  Speaker 10: my family and I are still, like I said, still
• 24:40
  Speaker 10: processing it and, and, uh, we'll get through it.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: You've been part of this organization, like you said, for
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: more than 30 years, just what are the emotions here
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: to end this chapter like this?
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 24:49
  Speaker 9: I mean, um, you know, not how we wanted to
• 24:52
  Speaker 9: turn it, you know, how we wanted it to turn out.
• 24:53
  Speaker 9: That's just, you know, how these things go.
• 24:55
  Speaker 10: And, um, you know, uh, it's, it's, it's been a
• 24:59
  Speaker 10: difficult season and it's been, you know, a difficult stretch. Um, but, uh,
• 25:05
  Speaker 10: you know, you kind of contrast that with the joy and, and,
• 25:08
  Speaker 10: and the incredible, um, season that we had last year.
• 25:11
  Speaker 9: And, uh, um, you know, baseball is, it's, it's never,
• 25:15
  Speaker 9: you know, it's, it's never over until it's over. And, and, uh, um,
• 25:19
  Speaker 9: this was, you know, clearly a, um, you know, different
• 25:22
  Speaker 9: type of season.
• 25:23
  Speaker 10: Um, and, uh, But, you know, all in all, it's
• 25:28
  Speaker 10: still kind of processing everything that's going through.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: That was Dan Wilson yesterday after the Mariners' season finale
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: announcing his own departure as Mariners' manager. Credit to Ryan Divish,
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: the beat writer for the Seattle Times, for asking the
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: first question that everyone wanted to know. Was this his
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: decision or was it the team's front office, the president
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: of baseball operations, Jerry DiPoto, chief owner? John Stanton's decision,
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: and you heard his answer. He didn't really answer that.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: He said, this is the way it goes in baseball.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: The manager shoulders the blame, shoulders the responsibility. The statement
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: that the Mariners put out in passive voice, not assigning
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: ownership to who concluded, just saying it was concluded. Dan
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: Wilson will no longer be the Mariners manager after two
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: full seasons. The players had, of course, a lot to
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: say about this. Adam Jude had a story in the
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: Seattle Times today. Cal Raleigh called yesterday, quote, a hard day.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: You feel terrible. You feel responsible. And I think every
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: guy in this clubhouse does. Starting pitcher Logan Gilbert said, quote,
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: it's definitely shocking because of the success that we had
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: last year. But it was so drastic of a turnaround
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: this year. Unfortunately, I feel like we let him down
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: in that regard, and he had to pay the price
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: for us underperforming. That's well said by Logan Gilbert. Gilbert
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: went on to say, I love Dan. Like, who he
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: is as a person, his values, his integrity, very apparent.
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: He lives it out. It means a lot as a player.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: That's the type of guy you want to play for.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: Starting pitcher Brian Wu said, quote, you build a relationship
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: with a guy like that, and it's really difficult to
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: see him just wear everything this year. He meant to
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: everyone in this clubhouse and the building. It's hard to describe,
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: but as a group, we failed him much more then
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: he failed us, Brian Wu said of Dan Wilson. The
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: only thing that you can ask for in terms of
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: a relationship like that is just truth, and that's what
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: you got from him every day, Wu said. I don't
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: want fluff. I don't want bull, expletive. I want the truth,
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: whether I like it or not, and he's always there
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: to give it to you. Those are the Mariners players
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: yesterday after Dan Wilson announced as no longer. the manager
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: of the Seattle Mariners, after they go 10 games under.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: 500 in the most frustrating, most disappointing season of the
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: 50 of them, of Mariners baseball. Once again, no World
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: Series in Seattle for the 50th consecutive year. All signs are,
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: including reported by Daniel Kramer of MLB.com, which is affiliated
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: with the team, all signs are that Jerry DiPoto and
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: Justin Hollander will come back in 2027, that John Stanton
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: and the ownership group have decided the president of baseball
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: operations is Jerry DiPoto will return for the 12th time,
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: 12th season in a row. 10 of his first 11
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: seasons without a division championship. And here we go. The
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: same baseball operations head with a new task to rebuild
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: the baseball operations of the Mariners.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm very curious as to what direction they'll go
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: with their new manager. I am very curious.
• 28:38
  Speaker 7: I don't.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: Don't know if they will decide to pivot and go
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: away from iPad baseball, as you like to call it.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: I just, I have to think, how are they going
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: to attract anyone but a first-time manager? What is Manny
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: Acta thinking right now? Who's been on this staff for
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: a couple years. The coaching staff, the manager's coaching staff
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: is going to change.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: Now there's... Well, and Edgar as well. You put him
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: in that category as well.
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: And I would, Manny Acta has managed before. would he
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: want to come back? He saw firsthand what Dan Wilson
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: was hamstrung by and the pieces he was left to
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: work with and the roster construction and the dictates from
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: up high on how to play and that handedness of
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: batting Rob Refschneider in clutch situations, even though your gut
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: said to keep Domkin's own or Luke Raylor, whoever else
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: Refschneider was replacing in the game, just to leave one example.
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: Why would Maniakta come back for that? Steven is out there,
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: the former A's manager, local ties. from the South Sound
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: of Olympia. I have to think they need to get someone, Jessamyn,
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: with managerial experience. And as our friend Larry Stone likes
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: to say, with the gravitas of being a major league
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: manager and having won before. But How much gravitas can
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: someone have and yet still be subversive to how Jerry
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: DiPoto demands the Mariners play? And that to me is
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: the rub here. How are they going to find a
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: manager with a track record of success in Major League
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: Baseball when the leadership requires you to do exactly what
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: they say, how they play? Is he going to change
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: his stripes, Jerry DiPoto, for year 12 after the first
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: 11 of doing it one way?
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: Well, I think right now he kind of has to.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: Does he?
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: I think so. I mean, yeah, I know that you
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: conflate the success of the team financially with the lack
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: of success on the baseball field. But I think that
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: if you want to win, you do have to make
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: a move to keep the business side successful. I agree
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: with you. Because the park was full. The park was
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: full because of the success we saw on the field
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: last year. People were pumped for this team because the
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: majority of it stayed the same and we saw how
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: close they got. So I really don't think that there
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: is another choice to do the same exact thing. I
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: don't think that you have that choice.
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: I agree with you. But the mandate is, is it
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: from Jerry DePoto or is it from John Stanton and
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: the ownership group?
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: That's a good question too.
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: That would be another question I'd ask Jerry DePoto. What
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: is your mandate from ownership? With this managerial chain, what
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: is your mandate? What have you been told why you
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: had to make the move or Dan Wilson making a
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: move for you? And what is your mandate from ownership
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: on who you get next? Or is ownership so hands
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: off because the business product is flourishing that it is
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: solely autonomously up to Jerry DePoto on whom to hire
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: as the next manager with what background and what qualities?
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: And is that some of the problem? Now, John Stanton
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: obviously had a say in pulling Dan Wilson out of
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: a ceremonial role in the organization to become a first-time
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: manager to replace Scott Service two and a half years ago.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: Jerry DiPoto didn't make that move, but you know that already.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: But is John Stanton so detached and so satisfied with
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: he and his investors' return on their investment on the
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: baseball business side that he is going to leave this
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: decision to Jerry DiPoto? I sure hope not. But– You
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: could see them doing it. You could see them saying, hey,
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: we're good on our side. You go fix your side,
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: Jerry DiPoto. And therein lies the problem. You're asking the
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: same guy who's been in charge of baseball operations for
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: the last 11 years to fix the baseball operations. He's
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: going to fix it with the tools and the thinking
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: he knows how. But, man, as a grammatarian or someone
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: who writes for a living and someone who teaches communication
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: to grad students at the University of Washington, that passive
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: voice statement, it just bugged the hell out of me.
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: That just personified, exemplified in writing the lack of accountability
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: in this organization. Put someone's name on that. I, Jerry DePoto,
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: decided that we are not going to have Dan Wilson
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: as manager next year. Or John Stanton and the ownership
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: group have decided. Not it has been concluded. By whom?
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: I write on my students' papers all the time and read.
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: I still use a pen, not typing. Oh, yeah.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: No, I'm the same. I'm the same. It goes in
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: my brain better if I write it down instead of typing.
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: By whom? Every time they use passive voice, I write
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: in the margin. By whom? By whom was it concluded
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: that they needed a change at manager? Own that stuff.
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: But the lack of accountability and leadership in this organization
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: starts at the very top, including in how they relieve
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: their manager of duties. That was pretty telling. I thought
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: it was a very symbolic use of passive voice. But, hey,
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: they're asking baseball operations to change with the same head
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: of baseball operations that's been here for the last 11
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: years and has failed to win the division 10 times
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: and has failed to go to the World Series 11
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: times out of 11 years for an organization that has
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: failed to make the World Series in all 50 years
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• 34:05
  Speaker 3: this is going to work? Whew. 49451, they got the
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• 34:17
  Speaker 3: Or at the very least, there should be multiple guys going.
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: The baseball operations problems run that deep. Up next, let's
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: go to the Seahawks, what I came here to the
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: East Coast for. I was in the locker room yesterday.
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: I saw Jadarian Price. He was in the corner of
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: the room. He was kind enough to talk about the
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: worst day of his so far young NFL career when
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: he fumbled for the second time in as many games
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: and got benched, was wearing a raincoat for much of
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: the first half while Emmanuel Wilson replaced him. You'll hear
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: from the rookie first-round pick, the supposed replacement, For Kenneth Walker,
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: who was benched yesterday, and his word, consequences, he paid
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  Speaker 3: the team, for him, for Rick Riz. All that's coming
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: up on a packed show on a Monday on 93.3 KJRFM.
• 35:16
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• 35:38
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• 35:41
  Speaker 3: day after the Seahawks lose for the first time in
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: 10 months. turning the ball over three times, 33-31 at
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: the Washington Commanders. The day after, Dan Wilson relieved of
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: his duties, or did he quit, as manager of the
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: Seattle Mariners after two full seasons. Jerry DiPoto at 1 o'clock,
• 35:58
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  Speaker 3: First time since last November. And Jadarian Price was part
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: of the reason why. He fumbled on his third carry,
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: trying to gain an extra yard in his own end.
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: Got hit before he fell. Originally, it was ruled as down.
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: But then a quick replay review showed the ball was out.
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: Boston at the 21 handed the Commanders the first points
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: of the game and sent a winless team off to
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: a fast start against the Super Bowl champions. Mike McDonald
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: benched their rookie first-round pick onto the sidelines in a
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: raincoat for the first and second quarters. He was watching
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: Emmanuel Wilson run for him. After the fumble with 11
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: minutes left in the first quarter, Jadarian Price didn't carry
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: the ball again until the third quarter. And in the
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: final 49 minutes after his fumble, he carried the ball
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: just twice. This was Jadarian Price in the locker room.
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: I talked to him yesterday in Landover, Maryland, after the loss.
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: This is the rookie running back, what he said. What
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: do you make of the run game today and not
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: being able to get much going?
• 37:48
  Speaker 11: I made a mistake early on, so I just got
• 37:54
  Speaker 11: to deal with the consequences that come with that.
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: What's the fix for you? Two fumbles.
• 38:02
  Speaker 11: Just be more focused on the situation instead of trying
• 38:05
  Speaker 11: to make a move.
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: You were trying to get extra yard or two there
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: when you landed and fumbled on that time. Is it
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: a push and push and just go down? And of
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: course you're trying to get every yard you can.
• 38:15
  Speaker 11: Yeah, just trying to get every yard I can, but
• 38:17
  Speaker 11: I just got to focus on checking the ball.
• 38:19
  Speaker 10: Do you think that, is that a fundamental fix at all,
• 38:23
  Speaker 10: or is it just a mindset thing?
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: How do you kind of define what that is?
• 38:26
  Speaker 8: Yeah, mindset thing.
• 38:28
  Speaker 10: Is there any message from the coaching staff to you
• 38:31
  Speaker 10: in the first half after the fumble, or how did
• 38:33
  Speaker 10: you feel like you responded from it?
• 38:35
  Speaker 11: Just that it was, my name would get called again,
• 38:38
  Speaker 11: so I just had to be patient and stay ready
• 38:41
  Speaker 11: and flush in the pass.
• 38:43
  Speaker 10: In terms of the flushing, is that pretty simple to do,
• 38:46
  Speaker 10: or do you have to kind of talk yourself through that?
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: How did you go back out there with confidence for that?
• 38:51
  Speaker 11: I understand that's the game of football, whether it's a
• 38:53
  Speaker 11: good or bad play. I know the next play is
• 38:54
  Speaker 11: the most important play, so I just told myself that.
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: The goal line situations as an offense, what do you
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: guys need to improve there?
• 39:04
  Speaker 11: Another mindset thing. We just got to understand that once
• 39:06
  Speaker 11: we get in there, we just got to get.
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: It across the line. You haven't been with this team.
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: They haven't lost since last December. What do you notice
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: about them now versus after the two wins you were
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: there for? Is there any change or the same? The approach,
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: the messaging from the coaches, the whole postscript to this
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: compared to the first two games?
• 39:27
  Speaker 11: Uh no no our culture stays the same throughout the
• 39:30
  Speaker 11: season nothing changes it's just things happen this game that
• 39:33
  Speaker 11: we didn't want to go our way um just got
• 39:35
  Speaker 11: to respond better.
• 39:38
  Speaker 7: Thank you sir.
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: Jadarian Price in the locker room yesterday in Landover, Maryland
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: after the Seahawks 33-31 loss. It struck me just listening
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: to that now. I didn't notice it before. He sounds
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: like Doug Baldwin.
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: He sounds exactly like Doug.
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: I was just, when we were, I was like, wait
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: a minute. Are we playing a Doug Baldwin redo from a,
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: he kind of speaks in a very lower tone. And
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: of course the locker room, as you could tell, was
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: quieter than it's been since last November. It's usually blaring bass.
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: You can't even hear it. But that was Price yesterday.
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: So now what? Well, after the game, Mike McDonald said
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: that was a calming time to calm things down when
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: he took him out of the game. He came in
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: for two more plays in the first half, both pass plays.
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: And then he got a pass thrown his way to
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: start the second half. But no doubt, Price was a
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: reduced figure after his fumble. And the run game, they
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: decided to go away from the run after he fumbled.
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: And you cannot, the Seahawks cannot win throwing 45 times
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: and rushing for 18 times for only 44, 45 yards,
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: 44 a total. You know what else, Jessamyn? They missed
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: Anthony Bradford yesterday, the right guard. The Seahawks ran eight
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: times to the right side yesterday for a grand total
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: of minus one yard.
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: That is not great.
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: That's almost unbelievable.
• 41:02
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: Abe Lucas struggled without– they did again the– duo of
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: alternating between Christian Haynes, who started, and rookie Bo Stevens.
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: But my, how has it changed in a year? Anthony Bradford,
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: everyone's whipping post in the Pacific Northwest. People are now
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: longing for him to come back. He's on the injured
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: reserve list. He won't be back for a couple more games.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: Hey, we do have some breaking news coming right now
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: from the Mariners, Greg. Seattle Mariners president of baseball operations,
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: Jerry DiPoto, and general manager Justin Hollander announced that bench
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: coach Maniakta, infield coach Perry Hill, hitting coach Kevin Seitzer,
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: and first base coach Eric Young Jr. will not return
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: to the Mariners coaching staff in 2027.
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: Thank you for that. Well, that takes Maniakta out of
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: the equation.
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: That is.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: What we will hear more about at one o'clock. And
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: that is just some breaking news. I didn't mean to
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: interrupt a Seahawks conversation, but that is important for all
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: of us to make sure that we get out there
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: immediately and we can react more with Gary Hill coming up.
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: So they're cleaning house as you expect they would. If
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: you change a field manager, he's going to bring in
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: his own guys, who those own guys will be. We'll
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: find out the pitching coach though. In the pitching side,
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: the pitching strategy guy, they're under two-year contracts, I understand.
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: So they apparently are returning. Pete Woodworth is going to
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: return as the pitching coach. But everybody else is gone.
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: The hitting side.
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: Edgar was not mentioned. Edgar was not mentioned.
• 42:35
  Speaker 12: But he was more of an emeritus.
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: Correct.
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: We'll see if he wants to come back.
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: But he was considered a part of the staff.
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: Up next, we'll talk more Mariners. Gary Hill Jr., We
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: met Brenner's broadcaster on a very emotional day at the
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: yard yesterday, including with his great friend Rick Riz on
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: his final call after 41 years. 49451 on the Coma
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: Dodge text line at 1130. We'll read back your thoughts
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: on how the Seahawks handled Jadarian Price yesterday. Tough love.
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: Good for it. It was for the long haul. It
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: wasn't for yesterday's game, but it might have cost him
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: the win. We'll read back your text at 1130. 1135
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• 43:20
  Speaker 1: Now, from the Star Runnels Sports Desk, your 93.3 KJRFM
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: sports headlines.
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: Gary Hill Jr., Mariners broadcaster, going to join us right
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: after headlines. Brought to you by Frostbrook Coors Light. As
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: cold as the Rockies one day after the Mariners announced
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: Dan Wilson is out as manager. Mariners President of Baseball
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: Operations Jerry DiPoto and General Manager Justin Hollander announced a
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: few minutes ago that bench coach Manny Acta, infield coach
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: Perry Hill, hitting coach Kevin Seitzer, first base coach Eric
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: Young Jr. all will not return to the Mariners coaching
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: staff in 2027. Seahawks lost for the first time in
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: 10 months, 33-31 at previously winless Washington. In rainy suburban D.C.,
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: we said all week the only way they'd lose is
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: if they turned the ball over, and the Seahawks did
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: that three times. Two interceptions by Sam Darnall, one for
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: the clinching pick six with four and a half minutes left.
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: Tadarian Price lost the fumble for the second time in
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: as many games, then the rookie got benched. Seahawks' three
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: turnovers gave the Commanders 21 of their 33 points. Seahawks
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: now return home. They play the winless Chargers and the
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: unbeaten 49ers on the next two Sundays at Lumen Field.
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: Week three of the NFL saw 12 one-score games, most
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: ever on one Sunday. 49ers now 3-0 by outscoring Arizona 36-30.
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: Cardinals are 1-2. The Rams blew a 16-0 lead last night,
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: lost at Denver 30-26 to fall to 1-2. The Chargers
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: lost again at Buffalo, and they're coming to Seattle on Sunday.
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: Clint Kuviak's Raiders are 3-0. They won at New Orleans tonight.
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: The 2-0 Eagles are at the 1-1 Bears. 5-15 kickoff
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: from Chicago right here on 93.3 KGRFM. This morning's NFL news.
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: The Vikings are trading quarterback J.J. McCarthy to the New
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: York Giants, according to NFL Network.
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: J.D.
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: McCarthy, the reason that Sam Darnold is in Seattle and
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: not Minnesota.
• 45:00
  Speaker 7: J.D.
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: McCarthy now going to the Giants. Washington Huskies got pounded
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: physically to Big Ten's middle tier, Minnesota. Lost to the
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: Gophers 27-24 at Husky Stadium. UW now 3-1, heading to
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: USC on Saturday. Kraken lost their final preseason game at Vancouver,
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: 4-3 to the Kraken's opener Thursday at Calgary, right here
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: on 93.3 KJFM, your home for the Kraken. The Sounders
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: beat Minnesota in 3-1, second straight win for the Sounders.
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: Suddenly they've gone from 13th and out of the MLS
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: playoff bracket to 8th in the Western Conference and in
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: the playoff derby as of now. Big emotional day yesterday
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: at the Yard in Soto. The Mariners finishing a very underwhelming,
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: most disappointing season in franchise history by winning 7-3 yesterday
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: over the Angels. They finished 10 games under.
• 45:47
  Speaker 7: 500.
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: Rick Riz's final broadcast after 41 years in the booth.
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: Colin Mariner Games, and the man that's been next to
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: him for the last couple years, the man that was
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: right next to him yesterday, the man who's been on
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: the road and home for him for years, Gary Hill Jr.,
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: Mariner's broadcaster. He joins us live on the Beacon Plumbing Hotline.
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: Good morning, Gary, and I hope you've had a chance
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: to exhale from what had to have been an extraordinarily
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: emotional day yesterday. Yeah, it really was.
• 46:13
  Speaker 4: Thanks for having me. Yeah, it was an emotional day,
• 46:16
  Speaker 4: an emotional weekend, and I still feel like I'm in
• 46:19
  Speaker 4: recovery and sorting through all the feelings that were yesterday, man,
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: it was quite a day. That's for sure.
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: Can you put us in, and you may, you will
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: have to be better with words than I am, but
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: you're paid to talk for a living very well. Can
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: you put it, can you put into words what yesterday
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: was like for you to sit there and be a
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: side Rick Riz throughout, as you said, the weekend and
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: the broadcast itself. And again, Knowing and I'm guessing you
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: either had an inkling or knew something was coming with
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: Dan Wilson. And let's face it, a Mariners broadcast team
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: baseball broadcaster gets close to the manager, sees him, travels
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: with him, eats with him, stays with him from February
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: to October. Just can you just describe your personal feelings
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: of witnessing all of that yesterday in one day?
• 47:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, honestly, there were a lot of emotions to sort through.
• 47:11
  Speaker 4: First of all, with Rick, who was the center of attention, obviously,
• 47:15
  Speaker 4: in our radio booth for obvious reasons. And for me,
• 47:18
  Speaker 4: you know, a Tacoma kid, I grew up listening to
• 47:22
  Speaker 4: Dave and Rick on my little clock radio next to
• 47:26
  Speaker 4: my bed, listening to Mariners baseball every single night, falling asleep.
• 47:29
  Speaker 4: And it's really them that sparked this for me. They
• 47:33
  Speaker 4: changed my life, literally. They're the ones, when I listen
• 47:37
  Speaker 4: to It's like, that is what I want to do.
• 47:40
  Speaker 4: I want to be the Mariners' play-by-play guy. And I've
• 47:45
  Speaker 4: been working towards that my entire life since. And so
• 47:50
  Speaker 4: to be next to Rick, not only yesterday, but during
• 47:53
  Speaker 4: the course of this entire season, it's been surreal. Because
• 47:56
  Speaker 4: I'm like everyone else. Because he has been there, game in,
• 48:02
  Speaker 4: game out. month after month, year after year. And you
• 48:06
  Speaker 4: just think about where you were in life when you
• 48:10
  Speaker 4: started listening to Rick and where you are now. I mean,
• 48:13
  Speaker 4: for me, it was elementary school. And here I am,
• 48:16
  Speaker 4: you know, next to him all these years later. I'm married,
• 48:18
  Speaker 4: a couple of kids. You know, my life has changed
• 48:21
  Speaker 4: in so many ways. And I know everyone has those
• 48:23
  Speaker 4: similar stories. So it was an emotional day from that aspect.
• 48:27
  Speaker 4: And I have all year, and this has been, I think,
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: the greatest part of the season for me, all season
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: just watching everyone walk up to Rick and share their
• 48:37
  Speaker 4: stories with him. And everyone has very personal stories about
• 48:42
  Speaker 4: a moment or about being with a loved one, or,
• 48:45
  Speaker 4: you know, I met you this time, just running you
• 48:48
  Speaker 4: into the grocery store or whatever. And everyone has these
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: stories about the impact he has made on them during
• 48:55
  Speaker 4: the course of the season and are during the course
• 48:57
  Speaker 4: of their lives. And, it just, it adds up over
• 49:01
  Speaker 4: time and it really has made an impact on me
• 49:03
  Speaker 4: this year. Just how many lives he has impacted just
• 49:08
  Speaker 4: by being there, our friend, right? Every single year, our
• 49:13
  Speaker 4: summer friend.
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: Our companion.
• 49:15
  Speaker 4: So there was, that was the backdrop of everything. And then,
• 49:18
  Speaker 4: you know, the news of Dan Wilson, who is a
• 49:22
  Speaker 4: wonderful human being, and he's done so much for the Mariners.
• 49:27
  Speaker 4: And at the end of the day, it was a
• 49:30
  Speaker 4: really disappointing season, right? We all had extremely high expectations,
• 49:35
  Speaker 4: all of us, fans, broadcasters, front office players, coaching staff,
• 49:41
  Speaker 4: you know, we, we heard world series talked about going
• 49:45
  Speaker 4: into the season and those expectations weren't met. And that's
• 49:48
  Speaker 4: the reality when, you know, when you look at a
• 49:51
  Speaker 4: record and at the end of the day, you know,
• 49:54
  Speaker 4: that onus usually falls on the manager. So it's unfortunate
• 49:58
  Speaker 4: because Dan Wilson is, he is such a wonderful person,
• 50:02
  Speaker 4: but that was the backdrop of the whole day too.
• 50:04
  Speaker 4: It was a day where, that was just supposed to
• 50:07
  Speaker 4: be the start of the next journey, right? The last
• 50:09
  Speaker 4: game of the season. And then the playoffs are supposed
• 50:11
  Speaker 4: to start tomorrow. And that wasn't the case. That was
• 50:13
  Speaker 4: the end of the season. So I don't know. I
• 50:15
  Speaker 4: still feel like I'm sorting through everything that happened yesterday.
• 50:18
  Speaker 4: There was emotions all over the place, good and bad,
• 50:23
  Speaker 4: just with everything that happened, not only yesterday, but the
• 50:26
  Speaker 4: course of the entire season.
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm going to get back to Rick Riz, and
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: I'm going to ask you what your favorite moment of
• 50:33
  Speaker 3: the year is. On or off, in or out of
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: the broadcast booth it was with Rick Grays. But let's
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: get back to Dan Wilson real quick. What did you
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: notice about how this season wore on him? The body
• 50:43
  Speaker 3: language we saw watching on television or when I was
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: out at the yard sitting behind third base and looking
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: into the Mariners' dugout, it looked to be a personal
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: toll to him. Did you notice anything about how this
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: failure's accumulated and this lack of accountability that we hear
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: that the players have been talking about for the last week?
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: Did Dan Wilson himself talked about as a factor in
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: this year's team. How much did you think Wilson wore
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: that and how much this season went south?
• 51:14
  Speaker 4: I think he wore the whole season. You have to
• 51:18
  Speaker 4: know that Dan Wilson loves the Mariners and he cares
• 51:23
  Speaker 4: deeply for the Mariners. Nobody wanted to get the Mariners
• 51:28
  Speaker 4: to the World Series more than Dan Wilson. What you
• 51:32
  Speaker 4: saw was the effects of that wasn't happening, right? They
• 51:36
  Speaker 4: weren't playing up to expectations. And what you saw is
• 51:40
  Speaker 4: because he cares. That's the thing. And so, and I
• 51:45
  Speaker 4: think that's the most frustrating part when you look at
• 51:47
  Speaker 4: how this season developed because of the expectations and they
• 51:51
  Speaker 4: weren't met. And I think that's what you saw. I
• 51:54
  Speaker 4: think that was it, is he cares. He wanted to
• 51:56
  Speaker 4: get them to the next level, you know, past the
• 51:58
  Speaker 4: point where they were the year before. Because it did
• 52:02
  Speaker 4: feel like, when last year ended, as heartbreaking as it was,
• 52:08
  Speaker 4: it did feel like, okay, you're bringing nearly everybody back.
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 52:13
  Speaker 4: Make a run at this next year. I mean, you
• 52:15
  Speaker 4: never know what happens in the playoffs, right? In a
• 52:18
  Speaker 4: three-game series, five-game series, whatever.
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: But it felt like a beginning, right? It felt like
• 52:23
  Speaker 3: a beginning, did it not? It did.
• 52:25
  Speaker 4: And it did feel like a beginning. And for me,
• 52:28
  Speaker 4: when I look at this scenario, the most frustrating part,
• 52:33
  Speaker 4: it's not like So many of the West won 95
• 52:36
  Speaker 4: games and ran away.
• 52:37
  Speaker 3: It was a weak West.
• 52:38
  Speaker 4: It was not a good division. And I, the American
• 52:42
  Speaker 4: league's wide open, wide open. And that's the most frustrating
• 52:46
  Speaker 4: part because it was all there for the Mariners this year.
• 52:50
  Speaker 4: And they just, it didn't happen.
• 52:54
  Speaker 3: Gary Hill, Jr. Mariners broadcaster joining us on the beacon
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: plumbing hotline. You got to have a great Rick Riz story.
• 52:59
  Speaker 3: Your favorite one to tell us. him or your relationship
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: with or something maybe it was in an airport or
• 53:05
  Speaker 3: a hotel or a restaurant or what have you but
• 53:09
  Speaker 3: i'm gonna pin you down and ask what your favorite
• 53:11
  Speaker 3: memory of rick riz favorite moment was you know.
• 53:15
  Speaker 4: This is a great question there's so many but you
• 53:18
  Speaker 4: know what really stood out to me it was the
• 53:21
  Speaker 4: first day of spring training after rick had made the
• 53:24
  Speaker 4: announcement this would be his last year And our broadcast
• 53:29
  Speaker 4: booth is low, so fans can just kind of walk
• 53:32
  Speaker 4: up to our broadcast booth and kind of poke their
• 53:34
  Speaker 4: head in. And it was the first day, our first game,
• 53:38
  Speaker 4: and we get done with the game, and just all
• 53:41
  Speaker 4: of a sudden I look down, and people are lining
• 53:44
  Speaker 4: up at our window and lining up all the way
• 53:47
  Speaker 4: back to the back aisleway, right? This line is getting
• 53:50
  Speaker 4: longer and longer. And it was just people walking up
• 53:54
  Speaker 4: to our booths, wanting to just say hi to Rick,
• 53:58
  Speaker 4: say thank you to Rick, maybe get a quick picture,
• 54:01
  Speaker 4: an autograph ball, whatever.
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: But all these people.
• 54:04
  Speaker 4: Were lined up and I will never forget it because
• 54:08
  Speaker 4: to me, it's just symbolic of everything that happened during
• 54:11
  Speaker 4: the course of the season, everywhere he went, everyone he
• 54:15
  Speaker 4: ran into. It was just, thank you. And I just,
• 54:19
  Speaker 4: I just so appreciate that. I love Mariner fans. I
• 54:22
  Speaker 4: think Mariner fans are the greatest in baseball and I,
• 54:25
  Speaker 4: To me, it was just so heartwarming from that very
• 54:28
  Speaker 4: first day to just see that. And it just kept
• 54:32
  Speaker 4: occurring during the course of the year, but those are
• 54:34
  Speaker 4: moments I'll never forget.
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: Gary, I'm going to put you on the spot. There
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: are a lot of Mariner fans and listeners, such as myself,
• 54:42
  Speaker 3: who would love for you to be the number one guy.
• 54:44
  Speaker 3: I don't want to get you in trouble with your
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: current number, but is that something? I know you said
• 54:49
  Speaker 3: you're a Tacoma guy, and you wanted your professional career,
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: your whole life to be a Mariner's broadcaster. Is that
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: in the cards? I'm sure they'll have an interview process,
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: but are you staying with the club? Will you be,
• 55:02
  Speaker 3: and are you planning on maybe being the number one
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: guy or am I too premature? Tell me to pipe down.
• 55:11
  Speaker 4: No, I appreciate the question. I will, I will only say,
• 55:14
  Speaker 4: I won't say number one, anything like that. That's, that's for,
• 55:19
  Speaker 4: this is still Rick's time to celebrate. So we'll, We'll
• 55:23
  Speaker 4: talk about that more in the off season, but I
• 55:25
  Speaker 4: will be with the Mariners. I will be on the
• 55:27
  Speaker 4: broadcast team. And for me, I take this, I feel
• 55:34
  Speaker 4: the weight of the history of Mariners broadcasts on the radio.
• 55:39
  Speaker 4: And it started with Dave Niehaus all those years ago
• 55:41
  Speaker 4: and handed to Rick Riz after that. And this season
• 55:44
  Speaker 4: upcoming is going to be the first time where we
• 55:48
  Speaker 4: won't have Rick and or Dave on the radio. Like
• 55:52
  Speaker 4: it really is an end of an era. And that's
• 55:54
  Speaker 4: something that I feel and I take a lot of
• 55:58
  Speaker 4: responsibility for. And so moving forward, I can't be Dave.
• 56:02
  Speaker 4: I can't be Rick. I'm just going to be me.
• 56:06
  Speaker 4: And just know, Mariner fans, that I love you so much.
• 56:13
  Speaker 4: I love talking Mariners baseball with you every day. And
• 56:17
  Speaker 4: there is no one that cares more about our radio
• 56:20
  Speaker 4: broadcasts and Mariners fans when they take the air than
• 56:24
  Speaker 4: I do. And so I don't know what it will
• 56:27
  Speaker 4: look like next year or who will be with me
• 56:29
  Speaker 4: or that sort of thing. So those are details to
• 56:31
  Speaker 4: figure out, but I will be a part of it.
• 56:34
  Speaker 4: And I'm, I'm just thrilled, you know, because this is,
• 56:39
  Speaker 4: this was a passion that was sparked when I was
• 56:41
  Speaker 4: a little kid. I just can't remember wanting to do
• 56:43
  Speaker 4: anything else. You know, next to Rick and I'm here
• 56:47
  Speaker 4: every day.
• 56:47
  Speaker 12: It's, It's wild.
• 56:49
  Speaker 4: I'm living out the dream.
• 56:50
  Speaker 3: I really am. That's awesome. Gary, you answered that far
• 56:55
  Speaker 3: more eloquently than I asked it. And I appreciate how
• 56:58
  Speaker 3: you said it and deferring to Rick as well. But
• 57:02
  Speaker 3: that's great to hear that you'll be back. You do
• 57:04
  Speaker 3: a hell of a job with what you do. We
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: hear the care and the passion in what you do.
• 57:07
  Speaker 3: And thank you. And thanks for always joining us when
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: we call you on no notice. And thanks for describing
• 57:11
  Speaker 3: what had to be a really emotional swinging day yesterday
• 57:14
  Speaker 3: for you. Thank you very much, Gary O.
• 57:16
  Speaker 7: Jr.
• 57:17
  Speaker 3: Anytime.
• 57:18
  Speaker 4: I always appreciate the chats and hopefully we'll connect in
• 57:20
  Speaker 4: the off season a few times. Appreciate it.
• 57:22
  Speaker 3: Yes, sir. Anytime. Gary Hill Jr., the Mariners broadcaster on
• 57:26
  Speaker 3: a very unique day in team history yesterday, the end
• 57:29
  Speaker 3: of an era of 41 years of Rick Risby and
• 57:31
  Speaker 3: the Mariners broadcaster on top of a hall of famer,
• 57:36
  Speaker 3: a team hall of famer, Dan Wilson, let go as
• 57:39
  Speaker 3: manager will not be back in 2027 and just announced
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: in the last half hour, Most of his coaching staff
• 57:45
  Speaker 3: not returning either. Manny Acta, Kevin Seitzer, the hitting coach,
• 57:48
  Speaker 3: not coming back. Eric Young Jr., the first, but not
• 57:51
  Speaker 3: coming back. Only pitching coach Pete Woodworth and that side
• 57:54
  Speaker 3: of the coaching staff confirmed as a second year of
• 57:58
  Speaker 3: a contract for next year that looks like will be
• 58:01
  Speaker 3: coming back. Of course, the new manager will get to
• 58:02
  Speaker 3: decide that on who's coming back. 49451, your reaction to
• 58:08
  Speaker 3: all of this, the news swirling about the Mariners, and
• 58:10
  Speaker 3: now just the news coming out that The coaching staff
• 58:13
  Speaker 3: will leave, too. That's kind of not a surprise, right?
• 58:16
  Speaker 3: Because the new manager is going to bring in his
• 58:17
  Speaker 3: own guys anyway.
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: It's just not the regular tread that we've seen, though.
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: You know, there is a lot of retention of bench
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: coaches sometimes. I mean, it's not just like college football where, okay,
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: this guy's bringing all his guys. I mean, it's not
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: the most shocking thing, but do they have someone in mind?
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: Why would they make that announcement right now? That's my question.
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: Do they already have someone tapped?
• 58:44
  Speaker 3: Or to give those guys a chance to find another job.
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: That's fair. That's fair.
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 58:49
  Speaker 3: I mean, don't hang on to November if other staffs
• 58:51
  Speaker 3: are getting filled up by new managers as well. So
• 58:54
  Speaker 3: that also is in play. Jerry DiPoto will talk at
• 58:57
  Speaker 3: one o'clock in what, 40 minutes time? No, actually an
• 59:01
  Speaker 3: hour and 40 minutes time. Live from Seattle, we will
• 59:04
  Speaker 3: carry that press conference live. The Mariners president of baseball
• 59:07
  Speaker 3: operations answering questions from the media. I'd be interested to
• 59:11
  Speaker 3: hear if I'm in New York or else I'd be
• 59:13
  Speaker 3: there to ask questions such as, what are you looking
• 59:16
  Speaker 3: for next? What's the mandate? What has ownership told you?
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: What is your own mandate for finding a new manager?
• 59:21
  Speaker 3: Does he have to have managerial experience, which the two
• 59:24
  Speaker 3: managers he has hired in 11 years have not? Scott's service, yes,
• 59:28
  Speaker 3: was excellent. on major league staffs and in dugouts, but
• 59:30
  Speaker 3: never was a manager. And of course, Dan Wilson had
• 59:33
  Speaker 3: never had any experience coaching or managing at any level
• 59:37
  Speaker 3: when he replaced Scott service and then coached two full
• 59:39
  Speaker 3: seat managed two full seasons is now a prerequisite for
• 59:43
  Speaker 3: the franchise to have someone with experience. Will they continue
• 59:46
  Speaker 3: to play iPad baseball? Will they continue to be analytics
• 59:49
  Speaker 3: driven as much as they were to a fault? Those
• 59:52
  Speaker 3: are the questions I would have for, Jerry DiPoto, not
• 59:56
  Speaker 3: sure he'd answer them, but I think that's a question
• 59:58
  Speaker 3: fans want to know. 49451, what would you ask if
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 3: you were there? Jessamyn, you're going to be there. I
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 3: will be there.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: I will be there. I kind of want to know
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: what the identity of the team was and how you
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: would reflect on it from last year. But I think
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: everything that you are saying will be asked.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 3: I hope so. Maybe not answered.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: I will give way. Well, Jerry is very good. at
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: not answering questions. We've heard that plenty of times, but
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: I would want to know what identity he wants for
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: this team moving forward and how he would define what
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: we've already seen.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 3: And let me just say, hats off to Gary Hill Jr.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 3: Since I had the show with Chris Kidd back in 2024,
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 3: he would pick up the phone on a moment's notice,
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 3: sometimes on road trips, and Detroit is on a bus,
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 3: and he always says yes. Always. Last night, Late last
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 3: night after a hugely emotional day, Jessamyn texts him at
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 3: whatever time it was, sure, I'll come on. And you
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 3: can hear in his voice, the Tacoma guy, like you said,
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 3: you can hear in his voice how much he cares
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 3: and how much he wants to be a part of
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 3: the Mariners' success and how much he wants to describe
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 3: it for you. I hope he gets the number one spot.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 3: I know they'll probably do a national search or whatever.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 3: Give Gary Hill Jr. the job, man. That guy– He's there.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: He works hard.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 3: He cares. He knows his stuff.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: And he clearly knows his stuff because I've known him
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: since he was engineering those broadcasts. And he has become
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: a voice that people know. And I think that when
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: you bring a new voice in, it's a little more jarring,
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: but people do know Gary Hill. And I think it
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: would be great to have him in that spot.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 3: Next, you're a part of the show. You're a part
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 3: of the big goings-on in Seattle sports, the benching of
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 3: Jadarian Price, the Seahawks' first loss in 10 games. Sam
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 3: Darnold throwing two interceptions. Should he have played? People on
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 3: the text line are saying Drew Locke should have started
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 3: yesterday to give Sam Darnold another week off. And now
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 3: the managerial change for the Mariners after a most disappointing
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 3: season in franchise history. A Jerry DiPoto press conference at
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 3: 1 o'clock. We'll carry it live here on KJR. But
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 3: up next, you'll be a part of the show with
• 1:02:02
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• 1:02:07
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• 1:02:24
  Speaker 13: The fact that Jerry is still here is very upsetting.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 13: People say that Dan had autonomy on the field. There
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 13: was an article, I believe, by Ryan Divish Saturday that
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 13: confirmed that. But it also said at the beginning of
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 13: the season, Jerry had a meeting with Dan, pretty much
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 13: telling him the team's philosophy and data and analytics. So
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 13: if your boss gives you autonomy, you're still going to
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 13: follow his direction.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 7: Jerry DiPoto needs to... but out from the day-to-day operation,
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 7: in-game operation of the Mariners. Leave it up to the manager.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 7: That's why you hire them.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 14: I think the problem is that the Mariners don't have
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 14: any competition from any other ball clubs to really drive
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 14: them to put a quality product out there. That was
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 14: the problem with the Seahawks for a while. It was
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 14: never the problem for the Sonics because we had the Trailblazers.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 14: But the Mariners, they don't seemingly care because they're going
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 14: to make money regardless because they're the only game in
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 14: this corner of the country.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 15: Hey, Dan Wilson here. You know, we had a tough
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 15: one this year, and I spoke with Jerry about it,
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 15: you know, and Uh, I decided that he should probably
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 15: step down and he decided that I should step down,
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 15: you know, so I'm going to go ahead and step
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 15: down as, as we decide. He decided, you know, uh,
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 15: that was a tough one, uh, but we're going to
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 15: keep going. Uh, you know, the guys are going to
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 15: keep fighting.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 5: Starts at the top. The ownership group needs to be fired.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 5: Jerry DePono needs to be fired. Dan Wilson was a scapegoat.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 5: He probably should have never been hired. The poor guy
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 5: has done so much for this organization, and then to
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 5: let him go the way he did, I just feel
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 5: like it's just everybody dumping on him. He's not the problem.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 5: The problem's at the top. It's always been at the top.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 5: It's been at the top for, I don't know, 20,
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 5: 30 years now.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 3: Hey there, Dan Wilson again.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 15: I just want to let you know that I was
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 15: fired today. I mean, I stepped down today, heard Jerry DePoto,
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 15: and I quote... I'm doing you a favor. Not really
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 15: sure what that means. I asked to speak to John Stanton,
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 15: but was told he was in a meeting with the
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 15: accountants about profits and that there would be a massive
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 15: reduction in free hot dogs next year. Not sure what
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 15: that means either.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 3: Tough one today.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 6: Hi guys, special assistant to Jerry DePoto here, checking in
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 6: with a quick update.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 7: Mr.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 12: DePoto will speak at 1 p.m.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 6: Today, but he will only answer questions that he feels like,
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 6: and he.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 3: Will augment the rest.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 7: Also, he will really keep.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 6: Touch with his iPad and only be answering questions off
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 6: his iPad, as that's how he monitors life, this baseball team,
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 6: how our analytics work, and how everything else with the
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 6: organization runs. Feel free to ask as many questions as
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 6: you want, but he'll only answer the ones he's prepared for.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: Well, banner day for the Talkbacks.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was Jessamyn's kind of day for the Talkbacks.
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 2: There were a lot, and they were all on one subject, Greg.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 2: The Seahawks lost their first game of the season yesterday,
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 2: and we are only talking about the Mariners' moves.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 3: There are some on the Talkback, 49451, talking about the
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 3: Seahawks as well. 253, Greg, do you really think that
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 3: missing Bradford was the reason why the Seahawks were defeated?
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 2: No.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 14: No.
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 3: Does Bradford play defense? No. Special teams in the Seahawks
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 3: scored how many points? No, I didn't say it was
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 3: the reason they lost. I said they felt it in
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 3: the run game. Eight times to run to the right side,
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 3: minus one yards. It was part of the reason they
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 3: got away from the run and just abandoned it. Brian
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 3: Fleury's game plan was not to throw 45 times and
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 3: rush 18. But they didn't run effectively, and the fumble
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 3: of Jadarian Price changed the game plan. It changed the
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 3: running game, and part of the game plan of running
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 3: the ball suffered. 18 carries, 44 yards, suffered because their
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 3: starting right guard wasn't available. That was my point about that. But, no,
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 3: I don't think– I don't think that Bradford was the
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 3: reason that they lost. A lot of people on the
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 3: text line saying hi to Stephen Vogt, who makes his
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 3: offseason home in Tumwater. He and his wife, Alyssa– And
• 1:06:45
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  Speaker 3: Seahawks questions. Keith253 wants to know if it's red alert
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  Speaker 3: at running back for the Hawks. No, I think it's
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 3: yellow caution flag, not red alert. They're going to give
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 3: the ball to Jadarian Price. They sent the message yesterday,
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 3: and you heard the kid say, those are my consequences.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 3: He got the message.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 2: Oh, he took it. I thought he did a really
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: good job.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 3: He said he has to learn to focus more on
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 3: holding onto the ball, meaning instead of gaining extra yards
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 3: at the end of runs, he's going to worry about
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 3: holding onto the ball more. Of course, he should always
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 3: do that. A couple questions on the text line. Josh
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 3: Jobe got worked yesterday by– Terry McLaurin. Let's just be honest. McLaurin,
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 3: 34-year-old wide receiver.
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, but those were precision tosses, Terry. And I
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 2: thought that JSN and McLaurin looked like identical. They were
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 2: mirror images of each other because they were both very
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 2: well covered.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they were. But there were other times, though, that
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 3: Josh Jones got beat. The touchdown, Job just got turned
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 3: around and then got out-jumped for it.
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: And the penalty, yeah.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 3: The two penalties on the receivers late in the game,
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 3: the one on A.J. Finley... There was no helmet contact.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: Nah, that one was rough, yeah.
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I think the Commander's one on the
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 3: sideline was against Rashid Shaheed. It was even worse. That ball,
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 3: he hit him in the chest with his shoulders. He's
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 3: trying to break the pass up, and they called unnecessary
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 3: roughness and gave the Seahawks a first down for that.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 3: Those are two really bad penalties.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: I thought that they let them play the game out
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: a lot yesterday. I thought I saw a lot of contact.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 3: Except for those two penalties that ended up giving first
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 3: downs to each team in the fourth quarter.
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 2: I was like, are we doing make-goods? What is happening?
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 3: Well, the second one was a make-up call for the
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 3: first one. The one on A.J. Finley. And that cost
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 3: the Seahawks a defensive stop. The question about Josh Jogian
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 3: worked by McLaurin a little bit yesterday. There are two
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 3: or three messages on the text line, including from the 360.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 3: Is Seattle going to bring up Trevon Diggs, or could
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 3: they lose him to another team? That's an interesting question.
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 3: Diggs is sitting on the practice squad. The league knows it.
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 3: The league knows the Seahawks have a 2021 All-Pro. Of course,
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 3: he hasn't played a full season since 2022. But they
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 3: know that there's an All-Pro sitting on the Mariners practice squad,
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 3: or the Seahawks practice squad, who's yet– to play and
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 3: they've been trying to ramp him up to get his
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 3: feet under him. He hadn't practiced from January to late
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 3: August when he joined the Seahawks. That's a question I'm
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 3: probably going to ask Mike McDonald today at his three
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 3: o'clock press conferences. Is Trevon Diggs ready? And if so,
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 3: does he become your third corner or do you move
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 3: him in potentially to challenge Job as a corner? Now
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 3: Job has been good. They gave him an $ 8 million contract.
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 3: They basically chose Job over Rick Warren. and what Wolin
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 3: signed with the Eagles. But that's a good question because
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 3: there will be a time that the rest of the
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 3: league says, this guy should be ready to play. Now
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 3: I'll take a flyer on him. And the NFL rules
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 3: allow you to sign a guy off another team's practice squad.
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 3: And if you put them directly onto your 53 man roster,
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 3: it's how Cody White's now playing and catching touchdown passes
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 3: for Clint Kubiak's Raiders off the Seahawks practice. Or in
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 3: that case, he decided to sign with the Raiders practice
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 3: squad instead of the Seahawks. But yeah, the rules are
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 3: that you can, you can take someone and sign someone
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 3: off of someone else's practice squad onto your active roster.
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 3: It is an interesting question on where Trevon Diggs, is
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 3: he ever going to play? Is he now ready after
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 3: now three games to play again? 360 says, not having
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 3: Julian Love really hurt us. Just one game. We'll come
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 3: back from it. Appreciate the cool. I absolutely love the show.
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 3: That's cool. Thank you. But yeah, they missed Love in
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 3: the back. They had two practice squad players starting yesterday.
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 7: A.J.
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  Speaker 3: Finley up from the practice squad signed in the 53
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 3: a couple weeks ago. And then just this past week,
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 3: they signed Rodney Thomas to the practice squad, who had
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 3: been elevated for the first two games and started both
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 3: because of injuries back in the secondary. But, yeah, Julian
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 3: Love helps everybody, including the cornerbacks, for sure. Tons of
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 3: text we can't get to right now about the Mariners.
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 3: Rod at 206 with the Mariners and made the playoffs,
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 3: but they fired Dan Wilson in the middle of the season.
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 3: I say no. They were so broken fundamentally, I don't
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 3: think it mattered. But, yeah, there's tons more we just
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 3: didn't get to. We'll try to get to them again later.
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 3: Thanks a lot for all the text. Appreciate it. And
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 3: we appreciate the talkbacks as well. Up next, Ian Furness
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 3: will tell us what he's got going on in his show. Remember,
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  Speaker 3: the window closes in about eight minutes now. Army, Louisiana Tech,
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  Speaker 3: total point 46.5, under. If you agree, text FAC to 49451.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 3: If you disagree, text FICTION to 49451. But, yeah, I
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 3: hear you, 360. On the bright side, Navy lost. Monday
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 3: was a good day. maybe lost army one.
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 2: There you go. Something happened.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 3: Squids lost army one. That was a good day on Friday.
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  Speaker 3: from the text line real quick. Will Jerry DiPoto's press
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  Speaker 3: conference at 1 p.m. be televised from the 206? I
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 3: don't know that. I do know it'll be live here
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  Speaker 3: on KJR. at 1 o'clock during Ian Furness' show, who
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  Speaker 3: joins us now from the Elliott Bay Studios back in Seattle.
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  Speaker 3: Hello from New York, sir.
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  Speaker 5: Hello.
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  Speaker 12: How are you?
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 3: I'm well, thank you. Your reaction to this whole weekend,
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 3: the Seahawks losing because they just handed the ball three
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 3: times to Washington, the Mariners doing what we knew was
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 3: going to happen. Do you think it was– whose decision
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 3: do you think that was?
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  Speaker 12: I mean, it was probably mutual.
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  Speaker 1: Really?
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 12: I mean, I think, but I thought it was an
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  Speaker 12: interesting comment he made about another role inside the organization,
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 12: which he's going to think about. So that would tell
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 12: me that because they know they, that would tell me
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 12: he didn't just step down because if he did, you know,
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  Speaker 12: then they wouldn't have to pay him.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 3: And maybe, and maybe he didn't step down, so they'll
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  Speaker 3: still have to pay him.
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  Speaker 12: That's the thing, right? So why would you even, you know,
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 12: like if you're resigning, why would you think about another
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  Speaker 12: role inside the organization? Or they would come to you
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 12: and say, listen, man, this is, I mean, we'll find
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  Speaker 12: out at one o'clock, but, um, and yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 12: I know he, he dodged the question yesterday. Dan did, but, uh,
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  Speaker 12: and at this point, does it matter?
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 3: I guess.
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 12: I mean, really, does it matter at this point? I know,
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 12: I know, I know people want people's heads on a platter.
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 12: I get that, but I don't think it matters.
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 3: How much are you with me that the wrong guy
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 3: is stepping aside? Or that in addition to the manager,
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 3: the president of baseball operations needs to leave for the
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  Speaker 3: baseball operations to change?
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  Speaker 12: I think the hard thing here, Greg, is that we're
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  Speaker 12: not hearing from the owner and ownership. The people above
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 12: Jerry and Justin. Because I don't think what we know
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 12: is really what Jerry and Justin are dealing with and
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 12: how much their hands are tied and how invested and
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 12: how willing to invest in the team. this ownership group is,
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 12: what the ownership group thinks of the job that Jerry
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 12: and Justin are doing. I'd love to hear that. What
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  Speaker 12: do you think? Like two playoff appearances, one division title
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 12: in 11 years? What do you think? Is that good enough, John?
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 12: But we're not going to hear from John. And I
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 12: want to just let me make this perfectly clear. Because
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 12: I hear people say, well, we don't hear from the
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 12: Seahawks owners. No, no, you don't need to. Because during
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 12: the Paul Allen and Jody Allen tenure, you went to
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 12: the Super Bowl four times. You won twice. You want
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 12: more division titles than this team will ever have playoff appearances,
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 12: the Mariners. I don't need that. to hear from Paul
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 12: and Jody. I see the investment. I see the decisions.
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 12: I see when they make a mistake and they fire
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 12: Jim Moore and have to just pay him to leave
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 12: after one year. We see all those things. Because no
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 12: ownership group, no GM, no anybody is perfect. We all
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 12: know that, right? But I see the accountability. This baseball ownership,
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 12: I don't. I'm willing to give Jerry and Justin. I
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 12: just don't know. I don't think any of us know
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 12: how much their hands are truly tied. I've been around
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 12: Jerry enough times, talked to him enough times off the record,
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 12: on the record. He wants to win. He wants to win.
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 12: Is he doing a good enough job? We don't know
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 12: because we don't know the seatbelts that are put around him.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we know the results, right? He's only won one division.
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 12: Right, and that's true.
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 3: And that is true.
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 12: And that part, Greg, that's probably not defensible, to be
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 12: honest with you.
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 3: Okay, the Seahawks. I mean, they gave the ball away.
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 3: What did you think about benching Jadarian Price? Because it
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 3: was a benching. They brought him back so they didn't
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 3: lose him completely for the next week or so.
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 12: Yeah, I kind of thought that would happen after that
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 12: play because it's two and two weeks. Rain or not,
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 12: it doesn't matter.
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 3: Two more than Kenneth Walker did in four years here. Yeah.
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 3: He never lost a film.
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 12: And there were questions about his hands coming out of college.
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 12: I didn't love his postgame I heard with you. I
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 12: didn't love that, I'll be honest with you.
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 4: Why not?
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 12: I thought he sounded just, I don't know, immature. Listen,
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 12: you haven't earned the right to be a three-word answer guy.
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 3: Okay?
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 12: You haven't earned that yet.
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 3: He did go to Notre Dame and had all the
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 3: national spots. You know what we forget?
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 12: Yeah, but he never started. He never probably got talked
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 12: to at all. I mean, it was the other guy.
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 3: That's true. Jeremiah Love.
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 12: You know what we forget?
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 3: It was only his second NFL game. He didn't play
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 3: at all in the preseason.
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 12: No, I know.
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 3: Or third. Third NFL game. What do you got today?
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 12: Well, we will dive into Mariners. We'll dive in. We've
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 12: got hardcore football with Hugh Millen coming up at 1220
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 12: and Mike Sando at 2 p.m. today. So, away we go.
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 3: And you've got the Jerry DiPoto press conference live at
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 3: 1 and your reaction to that.
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 12: Yeah, we'll react to that. I think fans want to
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 12: hear him. And, I mean, I can probably pick out
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 12: what the texts are going to say right now. But
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 12: that will be highly entertaining. We'll get to all that today.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Appreciate it, man. I'll see you tomorrow back in Seattle.
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  Speaker 12: Safe travels.
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 3: Thank you, sir. Ian Furness is up next, 12 until 3.
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 3: And again, 1 o'clock, Jerry DiPoto's press conference explaining the
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 3: state of the Mariners, the change in its managerial seat
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 3: is no longer Dan Wilson's. Jerry DiPoto will talk about
• 1:21:23
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