Lyle and TJ welcome Mariners broadcaster Aaron Goldsmith to discuss the insane final three weeks of the Mariners season, what it was like to call a historic home run chase, who the unsung Mariners were this season, looking ahead to the ALDS, and more.
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00:00 --> 00:09 [SPEAKER_02]: But when episode number 302 of the Marine Layer podcast, we welcome on Mariners Broadcaster Aaron Goldsmith to talk about the Mariners hot finish to the season, calling Cowrawly's home.
00:09 --> 00:13 [SPEAKER_02]: Run Chase, the upcoming American League Division series, and much, much more.
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00:58 --> 01:07 [SPEAKER_02]: And we welcome you to this episode of the Marine Lair podcast part of the just baseball podcast network recording on Tuesday afternoon, September 30th.
01:08 --> 01:13 [SPEAKER_02]: And before we get to go, the I will just add one thing off our conversation from our last episode.
01:13 --> 01:19 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm still going to stand my ground on who I would rather the Mariners play being the Tigers over the Guardians.
01:20 --> 01:22 [SPEAKER_02]: They did not make my case very easy today.
01:23 --> 01:25 [SPEAKER_03]: You watch, Terak Scoob all right.
01:25 --> 01:27 [SPEAKER_03]: You watch what he did to the Guardians.
01:28 --> 01:29 [SPEAKER_02]: I did.
01:29 --> 01:31 [SPEAKER_02]: He was facing a triple A line up essentially.
01:31 --> 01:34 [SPEAKER_02]: A triple A line up in a Hall of Famer.
01:35 --> 01:36 [SPEAKER_02]: Exactly.
01:36 --> 01:38 [SPEAKER_02]: 14 strikeouts in seven and two thirds.
01:38 --> 01:42 [SPEAKER_02]: Not really making my case for a while where I said, yeah, I mean, the Mariners could probably beat him in a playoff series.
01:43 --> 01:51 [SPEAKER_03]: So just remember, if your take as you want to play the Tigers, that's fine, I don't think either side is abhorrently wrong.
01:52 --> 01:58 [SPEAKER_03]: But just remember, you essentially have got to go in all three games that Scoobles not gonna pitch if you want the Tigers.
01:59 --> 02:00 [SPEAKER_02]: Game one wasn't gonna prove that I was right.
02:01 --> 02:03 [SPEAKER_02]: Game two and three are gonna need to prove that I was right.
02:03 --> 02:04 [SPEAKER_02]: I'll see.
02:04 --> 02:14 [SPEAKER_02]: When the Tigers line up as stays in consistent, when they're both pin kinda falters, the starters outside of TerriX Scooble falter, like that is what is gonna need to prove my point.
02:14 --> 02:15 [SPEAKER_02]: So we'll have to see.
02:16 --> 02:42 [SPEAKER_02]: but here's what does need to happen they need to go three games like the guardians need to win on Wednesday on this episode comes out no matter what you should all be guardians fans assert you go as long as possible and then game three how about this guardians lead let's say whoever the i think what jack flarity would start game three for the tigers yeah and for the guardians it'll be likely logan alan right sure not and if not then flights of county
02:43 --> 02:48 [SPEAKER_02]: Jack Flarety gets knocked out in the fourth inning, and guess who comes out of the bolt pin for the Tigers down around?
02:50 --> 02:50 [SPEAKER_02]: Carrot's Google?
02:51 --> 02:53 [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, please.
02:54 --> 02:55 [SPEAKER_02]: So that's the season's going to be over, otherwise.
02:55 --> 03:00 [SPEAKER_02]: They need to be in full-on desperation mode, so you can get the both best of both worlds.
03:01 --> 03:06 [SPEAKER_02]: You can get the flawed starting pitching in bolt pin of the Tigers without having to face Tarot's Google twice.
03:07 --> 03:12 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, because if he does that in game three, you're only getting them ones, which is perfect, which works out I think better for the Mariners.
03:13 --> 03:15 [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if that's gonna happen, but sure.
03:15 --> 03:22 [SPEAKER_03]: You are right that every single person listening to this no matter which dog you have in the fight, you should be rooting for this series to go three games.
03:22 --> 03:24 [SPEAKER_03]: There's no doubt about it.
03:24 --> 03:30 [SPEAKER_03]: Let both these teams use as much gas as possible, make their travel schedule harder, give them less rest days.
03:31 --> 03:32 [SPEAKER_03]: Three games is the goal.
03:33 --> 03:37 [SPEAKER_03]: So even if you're rooting for the Tigers like TJ is, root for the Guardians to win on Wednesday.
03:37 --> 03:39 [SPEAKER_03]: Now I will say, I will say,
03:40 --> 03:43 [SPEAKER_03]: We are going to have a deciding vote here on this pot.
03:44 --> 03:46 [SPEAKER_03]: I'm pro guardians, your pro tigers.
03:47 --> 03:49 [SPEAKER_03]: Goldie gives his take on this, too.
03:49 --> 03:54 [SPEAKER_03]: So if you're curious where the vote is gonna swing, you'll have to stick around and listen what Goldie says.
03:55 --> 03:57 [SPEAKER_02]: Goldie also gives him insight on the Mariners.
03:57 --> 04:06 [SPEAKER_02]: Finish to the season, what turned around the season for the Ambs, also some really fun insight on how one goes into calling a historic home run chase.
04:06 --> 04:12 [SPEAKER_02]: Cause what everyone remembers, while with these home run chases, yeah, it's the guys hitting the home runs, too.
04:12 --> 04:13 [SPEAKER_02]: The hitting the home runs.
04:13 --> 04:14 [SPEAKER_02]: The calls are pretty memorable, too.
04:17 --> 04:27 [SPEAKER_02]: process of how he went about handling a historic once-in-a-lifetime, once-in-a-franchised moment of Cal Rally hitting 60 home runs.
04:27 --> 04:28 [SPEAKER_02]: I thought that was really cool.
04:29 --> 04:37 [SPEAKER_03]: You'll have to listen to it yourselves, but you can tell how much calling cows home run chase and that's 60 at Homer really meant to Goldie.
04:37 --> 04:39 [SPEAKER_03]: You can just hear it in his voice listening to him talk about it.
04:40 --> 04:42 [SPEAKER_03]: It was a really fun conversation as it always is with Goldies.
04:42 --> 04:44 [SPEAKER_03]: So that's going to be the bulk of this episode.
04:44 --> 04:51 [SPEAKER_03]: As a reminder to you guys, Friday's podcast will be a full series preview of Mariners and one of the two A.L.
04:51 --> 04:51 [SPEAKER_03]: central teams.
04:52 --> 04:57 [SPEAKER_03]: We're obviously going to wait for that series to finish on Thursday before we podcast so we can do the full series preview.
04:57 --> 04:58 [SPEAKER_03]: Today we've got Goldie.
04:59 --> 04:59 [SPEAKER_03]: It was awesome.
05:00 --> 05:03 [SPEAKER_03]: And then yeah, Friday we'll be getting everybody ready for the start of the Mariners own series.
05:04 --> 05:06 [SPEAKER_03]: So It's gonna be a quick week.
05:06 --> 05:08 [SPEAKER_03]: Things are gonna go pretty fast and
05:09 --> 05:10 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I'm really excited for it.
05:11 --> 05:13 [SPEAKER_03]: Before that, let's take a quick pause.
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05:42 --> 05:43 [SPEAKER_02]: We won't keep you guys any longer.
05:43 --> 05:45 [SPEAKER_02]: Let's get you to the interview with Aaron Goldsmith.
05:48 --> 05:52 [SPEAKER_02]: All right, we got friend of the podcast and Mariners broadcast her air and goldsmith on with us.
05:52 --> 05:54 [SPEAKER_02]: Goldie thanks for taking some time.
05:55 --> 05:58 [SPEAKER_02]: How have your emotions been these last three weeks of Mariners baseball?
05:58 --> 06:00 [SPEAKER_02]: Where was the low and then where was the high?
06:01 --> 06:02 [SPEAKER_00]: Hey guys, good to be with you.
06:03 --> 06:04 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, the low was Tampa Bay.
06:04 --> 06:06 [SPEAKER_00]: I know that was more than three weeks ago, but that was the low.
06:07 --> 06:09 [SPEAKER_00]: Nobody saw this coming after Tampa Bay.
06:09 --> 06:10 [SPEAKER_00]: That's for sure.
06:11 --> 06:12 [SPEAKER_00]: It's been incredible.
06:12 --> 06:14 [SPEAKER_00]: What a what a fun ride it's been for the Mariners.
06:15 --> 06:21 [SPEAKER_00]: And you think back to that astral series, one of the most memorable series that this franchise has had in a long time.
06:22 --> 06:25 [SPEAKER_00]: And then once you got through that, like you knew it was coming, right?
06:25 --> 06:27 [SPEAKER_00]: Like you knew what was ahead of you.
06:27 --> 06:31 [SPEAKER_00]: And you knew that a division championship was just days away at that point if you took care of business.
06:31 --> 06:35 [SPEAKER_00]: So, it was that homestand had some, obviously, some very memorable moments.
06:35 --> 06:40 [SPEAKER_00]: And then it felt very weird, I don't know what you guys felt very strange, just to kind of like,
06:41 --> 06:45 [SPEAKER_00]: coast to the finish line, like the marathoners were not used to doing that.
06:46 --> 06:52 [SPEAKER_00]: So to play some meaningless games in a good way, a team mobile parked in a year was something that I was not expecting.
06:53 --> 07:01 [SPEAKER_03]: Is it fair to say that that clincher day against the Rockies that Wednesday to the exact opposite of making it a nail biter?
07:02 --> 07:10 [SPEAKER_03]: The way we described it to people is it almost felt like a nine inning party at the park that night because Cal and Julio go back to back early in the game and essentially feels over.
07:10 --> 07:13 [SPEAKER_03]: You're playing the worst team in the league and there was no
07:14 --> 07:20 [SPEAKER_03]: kind of biting on your fingernails, waiting for the final out of the 9th or wait to see cow walk it off like three years ago.
07:20 --> 07:25 [SPEAKER_03]: It was just like you said coast and everybody kind of got to celebrate all the way leading up to the final out.
07:26 --> 07:29 [SPEAKER_03]: So I thought that like there's a nonning party described that well.
07:30 --> 07:42 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it does, because as soon as that you had that first inning, you thought, well, this one's in the bag, which maybe wasn't the greatest, I'm sure the player's didn't feel that way, but for everybody else who's just watching the game, you felt like there was no chance for the Rockies at that point.
07:42 --> 07:44 [SPEAKER_00]: And with the crowd, the crowd was electric, incredible.
07:45 --> 07:49 [SPEAKER_00]: It was, I thought that was one of the great nights in franchise history, truly.
07:49 --> 07:55 [SPEAKER_00]: And certainly, one of the greatest nights in that, in team-level parks history, with Cal hitting 59 and 60,
07:58 --> 08:25 [SPEAKER_00]: What an incredible emotional night in so many ways and just a instead of kind of having that Ninth inning release that we've become so accustomed to over the years with a mariner It's just to kind of be able to put your feet up and enjoy a beverage if you're out in the crowd and just have a really fun time at the ballpark on a night where you're gonna see something Then maybe you probably you haven't ever seen before in your life for the mariner's which was very special and a very fun game to call for sure
08:26 --> 08:31 [SPEAKER_02]: Honestly, the only crowd I compared that Wednesday clincher crowd, too, was the playoff game.
08:31 --> 08:34 [SPEAKER_02]: Is that, is that out of line or is anything else that comes to mind?
08:34 --> 08:40 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the playoff crowd, which pretty soon we'll be able to talk about more than one playoff crowd.
08:41 --> 08:42 [SPEAKER_00]: But that's what we certainly remember.
08:42 --> 08:46 [SPEAKER_00]: That was insane and incredible.
08:46 --> 08:52 [SPEAKER_00]: But that one was like you could feel the bubble enough even an hour before the game.
08:52 --> 08:53 [SPEAKER_00]: And from where we sit in the booth,
08:55 --> 09:19 [SPEAKER_00]: You kind of get a good feel for the timing of the day as you're working on your notes and you're finishing up your scorebook and you're talking to a producer, you're talking to your analysts, whoever might be, you kind of like subconsciously hear the certain PA announcements that always get read every night and like in the back of your mind, when you hear Tom Houghtler say certain things, you know that you're 30 minutes out, 20 minutes out, 10 minutes out, right?
09:19 --> 09:22 [SPEAKER_00]: And your other cue is when you kind of lift your head up every once in a while.
09:24 --> 09:38 [SPEAKER_00]: the lower bowl fill up a little bit more a little bit more and all of a sudden on that day when you looked up at your normal time 15 minutes before you're going to go live you look out and you're like, oh my gosh, the lower bowl is almost full, right?
09:39 --> 09:42 [SPEAKER_00]: And then you look up to the 200 level and you say, well, that's almost full.
09:43 --> 09:48 [SPEAKER_00]: And then the real key is the seats in the upper right field above the
09:51 --> 10:11 [SPEAKER_00]: pretty sparse and on that particular night you're looking up there and you're saying man there's a lot of bodies up there so the whole day kind of felt like it's sped up because of that and just all the normal cues that you have of the ball park you're not used to seeing that many people in there that's soon but everybody wanted to be there and be a part of history so it's the fans to help make that night so special there's no question.
10:13 --> 10:15 [SPEAKER_03]: Did you have one favorite moment from this stretch?
10:16 --> 10:22 [SPEAKER_03]: is there one that sticks out that either was your favorite to call or your favorite to take in is there one that jumps out?
10:23 --> 10:30 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, it's probably unfair to say, because a cow hit in 60 was, that's will never.
10:31 --> 10:36 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to, I feel like I've said a lot of things about cow this year where you say like, well, he can't do this and then he doesn't.
10:37 --> 10:41 [SPEAKER_00]: So I, I don't want a short change cow before giving him a chance, but there's a good,
10:42 --> 10:42 [SPEAKER_00]: good chance.
10:43 --> 10:44 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure you guys would agree.
10:44 --> 10:47 [SPEAKER_00]: We never see somebody hit 60 homeruns again as a Mariners uniform.
10:47 --> 10:55 [SPEAKER_00]: And my best way before somebody thinks I'm crazy, my best way that I can defend that is, you know, Rick's been calling Mariners baseball for 40 years.
10:56 --> 10:58 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's the first time he's ever seen it.
10:58 --> 11:00 [SPEAKER_00]: So could it happen again?
11:00 --> 11:01 [SPEAKER_00]: Of course it could.
11:01 --> 11:01 [SPEAKER_00]: It's baseball.
11:01 --> 11:02 [SPEAKER_00]: Anything can happen.
11:02 --> 11:04 [SPEAKER_00]: But I wouldn't bank on it.
11:04 --> 11:07 [SPEAKER_00]: What we just saw was pure history from Cal Raleigh.
11:07 --> 11:10 [SPEAKER_00]: So to be able to be a part of that in some small
11:12 --> 11:18 [SPEAKER_00]: amazing and truly a dream come true and something that you don't even dream of if that makes sense at all.
11:20 --> 11:25 [SPEAKER_00]: The robelase catch in Houston was something that real mariner fans will talk about for the rest of their lives.
11:26 --> 11:36 [SPEAKER_00]: My vantage point of that was kind of unique because when there is ever a fly ball of the outfield that one of two things can happen.
11:36 --> 11:38 [SPEAKER_00]: One, there's a play at the wall.
11:39 --> 11:44 [SPEAKER_00]: or two, there's going to be what I believe to be a diving catch coming up.
11:45 --> 11:54 [SPEAKER_00]: I always turn my head to the monitor and I want to look at it from the monitor so I can have a much clearer and closer look as to simply where the ball is.
11:54 --> 12:05 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, is it in his glove that it hit the grass, that it go off his glove and over the wall, that it hit the top of the fence, like you can just see much clearer, and I want to be able to see exactly what you see at home.
12:05 --> 12:06 [SPEAKER_00]: So for those two reasons.
12:07 --> 12:18 [SPEAKER_00]: So when that ball left the bat and went out to write right center field, my initial instinct was, I think Julio will have a chance to make a running sliding, diving kind of catch.
12:19 --> 12:21 [SPEAKER_00]: So that was my mindset as I turned my head to the monitor.
12:22 --> 12:30 [SPEAKER_00]: And so as I'm looking at the monitor and calling the play for just those few seconds that that ball was actually hanging up in the air, the camera is
12:31 --> 12:57 [SPEAKER_00]: on Julio right it's on Julio running to his left towards right field and that's all I'm seeing because that's all your scene at home on your TV and then Victor Robles just comes flying in and makes the catch that we'll all be talking about forever and so the surprise in my voice is genuine because that was the
12:59 --> 13:02 [SPEAKER_00]: even conjured up the idea that he could be in on this play.
13:03 --> 13:05 [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't think that was going to be his ball.
13:05 --> 13:16 [SPEAKER_00]: So that was as much of a fun surprise for me as it was for everybody else at home watching it on their TV because we both saw Victor Robles at the exact same time.
13:16 --> 13:21 [SPEAKER_00]: And my guess is that my reaction is probably pretty much in line with what everybody else was on their couch.
13:22 --> 13:51 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, you know what I'm going to say that's what a top five moment in Mariner's history Maybe yeah, maybe I mean I do struggle like I I appreciate where you're coming from That while I I do or DJ I do struggle with that simply because like I don't know what happened on May 27th of 1989 right like Stuff like that happens, but when you talk about nothing memorable probably nothing memorable But when you think about life the context of
13:52 --> 13:54 [SPEAKER_00]: helping to secure a win, right?
13:54 --> 14:06 [SPEAKER_00]: And that, that series in particular, and against that team and that ballpark, gosh, it's hard to, it's hard to think of many, at least defense of plays that have been more meaningful than that to your point.
14:06 --> 14:14 [SPEAKER_00]: There's certainly in my time with the Mariners as my 13th year, I can't think of many that were more impactful than that.
14:14 --> 14:18 [SPEAKER_00]: And just something as unforeseen,
14:19 --> 14:29 [SPEAKER_00]: and as momentum swinging as that was right at that ball drop America's still in that game but man shifts a lot more towards the astro side if that ball drops there's no question.
14:30 --> 14:31 [SPEAKER_03]: It's crazy because
14:32 --> 15:01 [SPEAKER_03]: And this is what I appreciate about that camera angle and Victor Robles basically coming out of nowhere because what you saw and what all the fans saw at home sounds like is essentially what Carlos Correa saw too because he was asked postgame and he says the whole time I'm watching Julio and out of nowhere comes Victor Robles so it's like everybody saw the exact same thing where it was like where he come from yeah I mean it is so funny that for a guy who had a lost season right a guy who had great expectations for a good reason based on the year before
15:01 --> 15:12 [SPEAKER_00]: and then was out since the earliest days of the year and had to sit there in Arizona rehabbing by himself, feeling disconnected, feeling like he can't be a part of things.
15:12 --> 15:24 [SPEAKER_00]: And watching a team that really needed him, like needed his presence on the field in the dugout in the clubhouse, needed him for him to be given that opportunity and to come through in that big of a situation,
15:25 --> 15:26 [SPEAKER_00]: is remarkable.
15:26 --> 15:31 [SPEAKER_00]: And for as much time as he lost this year, he sure made up for a lot of it with that one play.
15:33 --> 15:39 [SPEAKER_02]: How do you prepare for a home run chase differently than you'd normally prepare for a broadcast like the one Call is just on?
15:43 --> 15:46 [SPEAKER_00]: Cal Rally has made me a better broadcast or this year.
15:46 --> 15:50 [SPEAKER_00]: There's no question because I've had to think about things and
15:55 --> 15:58 [SPEAKER_00]: It's been really hard in a really fun way.
15:58 --> 16:02 [SPEAKER_00]: I would gladly sign up for it year over year, over year, and don't give me wrong.
16:03 --> 16:06 [SPEAKER_00]: But there's two things about it that have been difficult.
16:07 --> 16:08 [SPEAKER_00]: One, I have learned about myself.
16:11 --> 16:15 [SPEAKER_00]: I function much better as a broadcaster when it just kind of happens.
16:16 --> 16:18 [SPEAKER_00]: And you don't foresee it.
16:18 --> 16:25 [SPEAKER_00]: Or if you do like a forehome run game and the guy comes up for the fourth at bat, it's just happening fast, right?
16:26 --> 16:28 [SPEAKER_00]: And you haven't had a lot of time to think about it.
16:29 --> 16:32 [SPEAKER_00]: Or that incredible road-lays catch or a walk-off home run.
16:32 --> 16:36 [SPEAKER_00]: Like those things just, it's in the moment in its happening and you just kind of reading React.
16:38 --> 16:50 [SPEAKER_00]: as opposed to what Cal has taken us on, which is, you're just literally waiting for him to hit another home run, like, and it could be for two at bats, for a game, it could be for five games.
16:50 --> 16:58 [SPEAKER_00]: You're just showing up to the ballpark, waiting for him to hit whatever that next milestone home run is, and then you are trying to balance
17:00 --> 17:12 [SPEAKER_00]: being spontaneous and in the moment and having your genuine reaction to what just happened while also knowing that there are some things that you have to say.
17:12 --> 17:17 [SPEAKER_00]: Like when he passes Johnny Bench or a kingriffy junior or Mickey Mantle.
17:18 --> 17:29 [SPEAKER_00]: you have to say those names, you have to say whatever the corresponding number is, like you need to actually document the history, right?
17:29 --> 17:43 [SPEAKER_00]: But like what happens if he passes Johnny Bench on a home run off the hit here cafe windows versus on a one that hits off the foul pole or one that just gets over the seats over the fence and into the seats?
17:44 --> 17:46 [SPEAKER_00]: Or what if it happens on a walkoff
17:47 --> 17:57 [SPEAKER_00]: What if it happens when he humurs for the second time that game or maybe for from both sides of the play like all those things that you're now trying to like balance how do you incorporate that?
17:58 --> 18:05 [SPEAKER_00]: with the history and the moment, and do you focus on the score and the moment in the game and do you focus just on a count?
18:05 --> 18:06 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, it was a lot, man.
18:07 --> 18:17 [SPEAKER_00]: There was one time this year where Curtis Wilson is our producer who I love and is, I've, he's been with the Mariners since the Kingdom days, producing Mariners TV.
18:18 --> 18:25 [SPEAKER_00]: And there was one app at this year for Cal, where I got to talk back, and I said, hey, like, think through this with me.
18:26 --> 18:27 [SPEAKER_00]: If he homeless here,
18:27 --> 18:34 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm not going to get all this stuff right, but this is just, if you Homer's here, it's his 30th home or the year.
18:35 --> 18:37 [SPEAKER_00]: He will have homework from both sides of the plate.
18:38 --> 18:42 [SPEAKER_00]: It'll be his X number of games this year with multiple home runs in a game.
18:43 --> 18:51 [SPEAKER_00]: He will tie Johnny Bench and have the second most in a season by Mariner.
18:51 --> 18:55 [SPEAKER_00]: Like it was, it was like nine bullet points of things that could happen, right?
18:55 --> 18:58 [SPEAKER_00]: And he just said to me, that's what I've got to.
18:59 --> 19:01 [SPEAKER_00]: So now you're like, okay, well,
19:02 --> 19:08 [SPEAKER_00]: I have to say some version of that in about five-ish seconds, right?
19:09 --> 19:17 [SPEAKER_00]: It really forces you to go into a game, prioritizing what is the most important thing.
19:17 --> 19:21 [SPEAKER_00]: And I give Curtis a lot of credit for this, because when this began, when this
19:27 --> 19:40 [SPEAKER_00]: and it became clear at that point like, oh, he's, he is on a path where he's doing things where we're saying the most home runs by a mariner through the end of May or the most by a catcher through, you know, like, memory all that, like the kind of the timeline stuff.
19:41 --> 19:53 [SPEAKER_00]: Curtis kind of pulled us all together in the booth and said let's make sure that we're all in the same page both graphics production and play by play so that we know when he hits the next home run.
19:55 --> 20:01 [SPEAKER_00]: We're all holding hands like what I say is the same thing with the graphics pops up.
20:01 --> 20:17 [SPEAKER_00]: is the same thing that the analyst is going to focus on because there were a lot of forks in the road that you could take and what we didn't want was me being in my silo of what I thought was the most important thing and the production truck being in theirs and the analyst being in theirs.
20:18 --> 20:22 [SPEAKER_00]: and I make the call and then the graphic comes up and takes it another route, right?
20:22 --> 20:23 [SPEAKER_00]: And then the analyst goes in another direction.
20:24 --> 20:32 [SPEAKER_00]: So it really created a lot of teamwork for all of us, which is one of the really fun things about baseball on TV, is it's a team sport.
20:32 --> 20:36 [SPEAKER_00]: You have so many people involved in putting a broadcast together, unlike in radio, we just have a couple.
20:38 --> 20:52 [SPEAKER_00]: And then, for me, it made for a lot of hallway meetings with Gary Hill, because Gary and I would have a little chat an hour or so before every game, and we'd say, okay, if you Homer's tonight, where are you going?
20:53 --> 20:56 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, what should these two things do you think is most important?
20:57 --> 21:01 [SPEAKER_00]: And we'd kick it back and forth, and a lot of times we agree, sometimes we wouldn't.
21:02 --> 21:05 [SPEAKER_00]: And when we wouldn't, we'd bring Alex mayor in on the conversation and say, Alex, what do you think?
21:08 --> 21:16 [SPEAKER_00]: It was a really kind of once in a lifetime thing where you got to a point where we're almost every home run.
21:17 --> 21:37 [SPEAKER_00]: You knew you had something in your scorebook and you would think to yourself, like, I got to say something along these lines and I have to include this name and this number, because this is all time baseball history that we're talking about, it was, it was something that when I was kicking around with the minor leagues, I never knew this was going to be a problem that I'd have to tackle.
21:37 --> 21:38 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's put it that way.
21:39 --> 21:44 [SPEAKER_02]: Did you buy chains go back and watch any of the past like home rent chases like the 98 season or bonds in 07?
21:45 --> 21:46 [SPEAKER_02]: Did you look at any of that?
21:46 --> 21:47 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I was funny to bring that up.
21:47 --> 21:53 [SPEAKER_00]: There was a point late in this year where he was really getting to some kind of big boy territory, right?
21:53 --> 21:57 [SPEAKER_00]: Where I was curious, like, how have other guys handled some of this?
21:57 --> 22:08 [SPEAKER_00]: And so I just went on YouTube and I just searched Barry Bonds, Barry Bonds home runs and there's all these montages as you guys can imagine of all the milestone home runs.
22:08 --> 22:11 [SPEAKER_00]: And it is really funny just like how broadcasting has changed.
22:12 --> 22:13 [SPEAKER_00]: How production has changed.
22:15 --> 22:26 [SPEAKER_00]: The difference between when a guy gets a milestone home run on the road versus at home, which is a subtle thing for the viewer, but is a massive thing for the broadcaster.
22:26 --> 22:31 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, to Cal's great credit, most of his milestones he did get at home.
22:32 --> 22:41 [SPEAKER_00]: He passed Mickey Manel on the road, but the catcher won and the Mariner won and then obviously 60 he got at home.
22:45 --> 23:12 [SPEAKER_00]: it's night and day when he does it at home like when he passed Mickey Manel a road it's like well you want to get excited but part of getting excited is getting having to get over the crowd you have to get when he had sixty i had to get over a sixty percent i had to get over 40 plus thousand people when he passed Mickey Manel in Kansas City i didn't have to get over anybody and so now you're you're needing to be excited without
23:13 --> 23:32 [SPEAKER_00]: kind of going into full gear and that makes it more difficult and and also you just don't have the crowd to emphasize the moment which is the other part of it that helps just make those kind of calls the more importantly moments just sing obviously is when you have a sold out house just going absolutely ballistic.
23:34 --> 23:41 [SPEAKER_02]: But I'd say on the other side, too, that you could say being at home makes it easier for you because you can just lay it out because the crowd will tell you everything that needs to happen.
23:41 --> 23:43 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and that's what you want, right?
23:43 --> 23:51 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, it's creates a different challenge, but a challenge that's probably one of my absolute favorites, which is how do you use the crowd?
23:51 --> 23:58 [SPEAKER_00]: to augment and further enhance the call because it's like right in a wave.
23:58 --> 24:15 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean you you want to get up on the wave and then just ride and so you you want to kind of beat the crowd to the moment or at least be in sync with the crowd like you don't want the this is a real nitty-critty stuff here but you don't want the crowd to like roar before you get up and
24:16 --> 24:34 [SPEAKER_00]: like you want to be either ahead of it or in sync and then it's just a matter of like okay man you now have like three seconds so give it your best bolt your right hook whatever you got like the little cherry on top.
24:35 --> 25:00 [SPEAKER_00]: in three seconds or less and then you gotta get out because you just can't talk over that like you just you don't want to and you can't and it's just too special like the you guys ever I don't watch a ton of golf but when whenever I see highlights of the masters one thing that always strikes me is how like there's nothing like when the guy gets sinks the final put to one of the masters there's like no graphics on the screen
25:01 --> 25:07 [SPEAKER_00]: Like all the screen is is just the guy in his caddy and celebrating.
25:08 --> 25:11 [SPEAKER_00]: Like there isn't like a big banner that says so and so wins.
25:12 --> 25:14 [SPEAKER_00]: There isn't like a lower third score bug.
25:14 --> 25:21 [SPEAKER_00]: There's normally just like that little watermark CBS logo and it's like, okay, well, why did they do that?
25:22 --> 25:30 [SPEAKER_00]: They do that because they're trying to break down every barrier that they can that tells you the viewer that you're watching this on TV.
25:30 --> 25:38 [SPEAKER_00]: They're trying to submers you in this moment as much as they can so that you feel like you're in Augusta.
25:39 --> 25:39 [SPEAKER_00]: you're right there.
25:40 --> 25:42 [SPEAKER_00]: And so we can't get rid of the score bug.
25:43 --> 25:44 [SPEAKER_00]: Like we got stuff like that on the screen.
25:44 --> 25:46 [SPEAKER_00]: We can't go quite CBS style on it.
25:46 --> 25:56 [SPEAKER_00]: But when you have that big of a crowd, the point is like, you want that line to be so blurred as best you can that you're not watching it on TV.
25:56 --> 26:00 [SPEAKER_00]: You want to make people feel like they are there as much as they can be from their couch.
26:01 --> 26:02 [SPEAKER_00]: While simultaneously
26:04 --> 26:13 [SPEAKER_00]: punching the moment in just the smallest way to add like that whipped cream and chariotein top that just makes it stand alone and then get him a heck out of there.
26:15 --> 26:27 [SPEAKER_03]: Did you start to feel butterflies at a certain point of his season whether it was when he was about to pass bench or whether it was 50, 55, 57, like when he would come up to the plate would you start to feel it at all?
26:28 --> 26:33 [SPEAKER_00]: I got very anxious, you guys remember this, he had some spells where it's like, okay, he hasn't homered in.
26:33 --> 26:35 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, for him, it was a long time, right?
26:35 --> 26:37 [SPEAKER_00]: He hasn't hammered in six games, seven games, whatever might be.
26:37 --> 26:39 [SPEAKER_00]: And he's sitting on a number.
26:40 --> 26:44 [SPEAKER_00]: He's sitting on his next swing being really meaningful for any variety of reasons.
26:44 --> 26:45 [SPEAKER_00]: And I got anxious with that.
26:45 --> 26:48 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, I just honestly, I just wanted to get it over with.
26:49 --> 26:58 [SPEAKER_00]: Going back to how this conversation started, I just didn't, it made me uncomfortable going into every game just kind of like everything stops from calbats.
26:59 --> 27:04 [SPEAKER_00]: Nobody wants to talk over a pitch to cow because you don't want to talk over a historical highlight.
27:05 --> 27:08 [SPEAKER_00]: The production truck we run nothing preceding his at bat.
27:08 --> 27:24 [SPEAKER_00]: Like if you notice when the lineup changed and Randy was batting in front of him all the time, if Randy flew out to right field, even if the right field are made an amazing catch, like we never replayed it, we just walked out of the plate.
27:29 --> 27:38 [SPEAKER_00]: and our analysts to their great credit, they were genuinely, generally pretty short when cow would bat.
27:39 --> 27:46 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, they had full right to come in and out between pitches, but they knew they couldn't talk over a pitch.
27:47 --> 27:50 [SPEAKER_00]: You just can't talk over a highlight like that, right?
27:50 --> 27:57 [SPEAKER_00]: And so, and for me, like, I'm not gonna talk about the funny thing that cow did earlier that day during batting practice when he's about
28:00 --> 28:06 [SPEAKER_00]: And part of me was like, I don't want to engage in a conversation now because we can't have a conversation because we're all focused on him.
28:06 --> 28:10 [SPEAKER_00]: So it's just like the whole world stopped every time he would come to the plate.
28:11 --> 28:15 [SPEAKER_00]: And there were moments where like when he's sitting on on 60, it's like, yeah, absolutely.
28:16 --> 28:28 [SPEAKER_00]: But then there are other times where you're, you got a day game in Atlanta and he's on 52 and I'm not so significant number by chance and it's just like, okay, now the world's
28:30 --> 28:38 [SPEAKER_00]: So it was it was it brought its own unique set of rules I would say when Cal hit especially in the back half of the year.
28:38 --> 29:02 [SPEAKER_00]: uh... but i was so when he once you got to fifty nine it was like game on man like the let's let's get this thing and let's get it at that point you knew it's gonna be at home obviously because of no more road games left but it was like you got to get to sixty now because we you cannot in the year on fifty nine and it is great credit he obviously did so it was uh... it's something i'll never forget i will
29:03 --> 29:18 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, there's a chance, I mean, who knows what the Mariners do in the next 20 to 30 years, but like, there's a chance that Calhett and 60 Hall runs is, you know, more than top five memories that I certainly have as the Mariners broadcasts for just because it's just such such historic stuff, man.
29:18 --> 29:22 [SPEAKER_00]: It's just just unthinkable that you would have somebody do that.
29:23 --> 29:35 [SPEAKER_02]: I want to jump back to that low point goalie at the beginning of the month in September when when you said they're in Tampa and things look about as bleak as they had been all season long for a team that had the talent at this point but they just weren't playing well.
29:36 --> 29:37 [SPEAKER_02]: When do you think it clicked?
29:38 --> 29:41 [SPEAKER_02]: What caused it to click was that meeting they had was it something else?
29:43 --> 29:51 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, they didn't play great after the meeting the next couple of games, um, it didn't help that it faced Chris Sale a couple of days later in Atlanta either.
29:51 --> 30:00 [SPEAKER_00]: That's typically when you hold a meeting, you wait till after Chris Sale pitches, uh, and you, you go up against the guy up from, going at, um, in that case, mm.
30:02 --> 30:05 [SPEAKER_00]: I, people could disagree with this, and it's completely fine.
30:07 --> 30:16 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know in situations like this, if you can ever point to something and say, evidence, this is why, right here, this is the reason.
30:19 --> 30:31 [SPEAKER_00]: One thing that I've been just shot from a mountaintop for years is, and I'm sure I've said it to you guys, maybe even here on your pod, is that you just never know when a team is gonna get hot.
30:32 --> 30:33 [SPEAKER_00]: You just never know.
30:34 --> 30:38 [SPEAKER_00]: And they're oftentimes are no signs of it happening.
30:39 --> 30:44 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not like when Julio's struggling in April and May, and we all say the same thing.
30:44 --> 30:45 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, you know what?
30:46 --> 30:48 [SPEAKER_00]: Boy, he had a hard fly out to let feel last night.
30:50 --> 30:51 [SPEAKER_00]: Sign of things to come, maybe?
30:51 --> 30:52 [SPEAKER_00]: Could have seen Julio get the ball in the air.
30:53 --> 30:55 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, it doesn't work like that for 26 players.
30:55 --> 31:01 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, it can so easily go from down and out to on top of the mountain.
31:02 --> 31:04 [SPEAKER_00]: in five days and then roll.
31:05 --> 31:10 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, if you're a really bad team and we all know the bad teams and baseball, that's a different story.
31:11 --> 31:14 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, the Rockies aren't gonna go get hot, right?
31:15 --> 31:17 [SPEAKER_00]: The Rockies aren't gonna go win 10 of 11.
31:17 --> 31:19 [SPEAKER_00]: Like they just don't have a talent.
31:19 --> 31:27 [SPEAKER_00]: But if you're the Mariners in the last handful of years and you've had a talented team and this year the most talented team they've had in a quarter century,
31:32 --> 31:38 [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't start right now, and you get hot for two weeks, three weeks a month, and that's what happened.
31:39 --> 31:40 [SPEAKER_00]: I can't explain it.
31:40 --> 31:48 [SPEAKER_00]: I can't explain why the Mariners won, whatever it was, 14 or 15 games in a row, the last time I made it to the playoffs and propelled them to the postseason.
31:50 --> 31:51 [SPEAKER_00]: Can you circle the meeting?
31:52 --> 31:52 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, maybe.
31:52 --> 31:53 [SPEAKER_00]: I wasn't in the meeting.
31:53 --> 31:55 [SPEAKER_00]: I have no idea what was said.
31:56 --> 31:56 [SPEAKER_00]: Is that coincidence?
31:57 --> 31:57 [SPEAKER_00]: Is it not?
31:57 --> 31:58 [SPEAKER_00]: Is it part of it?
31:58 --> 31:59 [SPEAKER_00]: It's probably part of it.
32:00 --> 32:02 [SPEAKER_00]: Like I don't think I would say that that's the reason.
32:02 --> 32:13 [SPEAKER_00]: I think there's just a really talented team and they finally kind of put it all together and they put it together for an exactly the right time for weeks on end and they wrote it into the playoffs, like good on them.
32:14 --> 32:20 [SPEAKER_00]: They could have done that in April, they could have done that in June, they decided to do it and the very back into the season, which quite honestly,
32:21 --> 32:22 [SPEAKER_00]: actually made it a little more fun.
32:23 --> 32:34 [SPEAKER_00]: So I would much rather than have the sequence be what it was, which is be down and out, and then hottest of sun going into October, than being hot as a sun, and then down and out going into October, right?
32:34 --> 32:40 [SPEAKER_00]: And just scraping it, obviously, the order of operation that they chose to do it in was much preferred.
32:41 --> 32:43 [SPEAKER_00]: So it was the Etsy which then.
32:44 --> 32:44 [SPEAKER_00]: That's exactly right.
32:45 --> 32:46 [SPEAKER_00]: And all the fish left.
32:46 --> 32:49 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Dan's super-triper mustache, obviously made a big impact.
32:50 --> 32:53 [SPEAKER_03]: Do you have a pick of a success story for the year for the Mariners?
32:53 --> 32:57 [SPEAKER_03]: It'll ask you this before we get into some more playoff talk, I should say.
32:57 --> 33:04 [SPEAKER_03]: But of all the different storylines we've watched this year, is there one guy that you say this was the success story for the team this year?
33:06 --> 33:07 [SPEAKER_00]: Hmm, that's a good question.
33:09 --> 33:21 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I mean, there isn't a guy where you're like, I'm incredibly, if I'm wrong, but there isn't a player where you're saying like, oh, we've just waited forever for it to all click and then it clicked, like Julio did Julio things.
33:22 --> 33:23 [SPEAKER_00]: Randy was Randy.
33:23 --> 33:27 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, Cal, nobody expected this, but he's been a productive player for years.
33:28 --> 33:29 [SPEAKER_00]: We would all obviously agree on that.
33:31 --> 33:36 [SPEAKER_00]: Wu's taken to the next level, but I don't think, are you guys surprised about what Brian Wu's done?
33:37 --> 33:37 [SPEAKER_00]: No.
33:38 --> 33:39 [SPEAKER_03]: I always thought he had the potential to be this.
33:40 --> 33:40 [SPEAKER_03]: So, yeah.
33:40 --> 33:47 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I don't think, nobody would have guessed that he would go six innings every start for an entirety of basically whole season, so like that's kind of nichey.
33:48 --> 33:56 [SPEAKER_00]: I think more to like the the the the root of your question, like his overall numbers don't surprise anybody probably, you know, truthfully the
33:57 --> 34:08 [SPEAKER_00]: The stories that I just kind of that resonate with me the most, believe it or not, is maybe Dom can't zone.
34:10 --> 34:16 [SPEAKER_00]: Like I look at a lot of this stuff from the lens of a young dad and I've got three kids, my oldest is almost 11.
34:17 --> 34:20 [SPEAKER_00]: He plays a lot of baseball and
34:22 --> 34:27 [SPEAKER_00]: I remember talking to Dom earlier this year once, so he comes up and he hits that home run in Arizona, right?
34:28 --> 34:30 [SPEAKER_00]: And at that time, you're like, oh, fun story.
34:31 --> 34:37 [SPEAKER_00]: But then he backs it up, and he backs it up some more, and then he starts planning and lefties, and he's in there every day, and he's a really real contributor.
34:38 --> 34:42 [SPEAKER_00]: And I remember talking to Dom and his locker somewhere in the middle of that timeline.
34:43 --> 34:44 [SPEAKER_00]: And I was really honest with him.
34:45 --> 34:46 [SPEAKER_00]: I said, hey, man, like,
34:48 --> 34:51 [SPEAKER_00]: You were nowhere on the radar this year for the Mariners at a certain point.
34:51 --> 34:54 [SPEAKER_00]: Like you guys remember, he came up at some point this season.
34:55 --> 34:57 [SPEAKER_00]: It was with the end for like four or five days.
34:57 --> 34:59 [SPEAKER_00]: Like had up pinched at that, struck out and then they sent him back down.
34:59 --> 35:04 [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, he was, he was reassigned to my early camp early in spring training.
35:05 --> 35:12 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, like we all know like what he could be, you know, if you, if he like lives up to everything that every scout has ever said about them.
35:13 --> 35:18 [SPEAKER_00]: But he was on the dark side of the moon into coma, like for months.
35:19 --> 35:25 [SPEAKER_00]: And there was no chatter, no talk of like, hey, what's Dom can's own doing?
35:26 --> 35:28 [SPEAKER_00]: Or, you know what this team could really use?
35:28 --> 35:32 [SPEAKER_00]: Another left-handed outfield bat, like Dom can's own.
35:32 --> 35:37 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, that was nowhere in the realm of conversation for the Mariners.
35:37 --> 35:40 [SPEAKER_00]: So for him to come up and do what he did,
35:41 --> 35:43 [SPEAKER_00]: and to be a staple in the lineup.
35:43 --> 35:45 [SPEAKER_00]: I find really inspiring.
35:45 --> 35:49 [SPEAKER_00]: And when I had this conversation with him, I just said, like, how did you do that, man?
35:49 --> 35:55 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, how did you stay afloat, stay mentally engaged, and not just want to kick rocks every day?
35:56 --> 36:02 [SPEAKER_00]: And his answer was remarkably genuine for us kind of clichés it was, like it really resonated with me.
36:02 --> 36:04 [SPEAKER_00]: He was upset, he was disappointed.
36:05 --> 36:06 [SPEAKER_00]: But he said, I just knew,
36:07 --> 36:15 [SPEAKER_00]: that when I was down into coma, I had no other option but to be the best outfielder that I could be in the Pacific Coast League.
36:15 --> 36:17 [SPEAKER_00]: That's where I was planted right now.
36:17 --> 36:18 [SPEAKER_00]: That's where I have to shine.
36:20 --> 36:22 [SPEAKER_00]: He also knew that when he came up, you guys know this.
36:23 --> 36:24 [SPEAKER_00]: You only get so many cracks at this.
36:25 --> 36:28 [SPEAKER_00]: He took advantage of his opportunity and ran with it.
36:29 --> 36:34 [SPEAKER_00]: I bring him back to being a dad and when you talk with your kids about playing sports,
36:35 --> 36:40 [SPEAKER_00]: All these, one thing I tell my kids all the time, especially my oldest, is like when you go, you look on a field in the major leagues.
36:42 --> 36:52 [SPEAKER_00]: Every one of those guys, every one of them has had a remarkable amount of failure in their career, like an insane amount of failure.
36:53 --> 36:56 [SPEAKER_00]: And it struck me even on Sunday when Clay and Kershaw is pitching.
36:57 --> 36:58 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, think about his post-season.
36:59 --> 37:21 [SPEAKER_00]: right I mean his games against the cardinals like the amount of October failure that one of the games greatest left handers has gone through like nobody would want to go through that like none of us could handle that mentally and so to see can zone have such a limited impact and be such a small blip on the radar for the mariners and then to come up and to
37:23 --> 37:39 [SPEAKER_00]: Obviously he's not carrying the team like he's not an aircraft carrier for the mariners But he's a complimentary piece that they really needed and that really contributed I just find it really inspiring and it's one of those things where it's like that's something I want to point to my son and say like look Look what he did man like nobody was watching him
37:40 --> 37:41 [SPEAKER_00]: Nobody was paying attention to him.
37:41 --> 37:44 [SPEAKER_00]: He's down at the coma and he comes up here and boom, takes off.
37:44 --> 37:56 [SPEAKER_00]: So stuff like that, like, if you're gonna be a playoff team, you wanna make a deep run, you need guys like that on the periphery of the Julios and the Randy's and the cows and the list goes on and on.
37:56 --> 38:00 [SPEAKER_00]: Like you need, you need dudes like that and great credit to Donald Kent's home.
38:01 --> 38:26 [SPEAKER_02]: I mean he was he last year looked toasted he had the he probably had the best track record of success of anyone on this roster, but just for some reason was whether it be injury or adjustment was just not good last year and then he manages to turn around on a prove it deal with all the pressure in the world on him and puts together not only a good season he puts together his best season hitting in this ballpark
38:31 --> 38:46 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, like, I agree, and I see you're coming from on that totally, I was fairly bullish on him, whether he was with us or the Astros, just because of how old is he?
38:46 --> 38:48 [SPEAKER_00]: 30, early thirties.
38:49 --> 38:49 [SPEAKER_00]: 31, I think.
38:49 --> 38:50 [SPEAKER_00]: 31, yes, I thought.
38:50 --> 38:52 [SPEAKER_00]: It's hard to believe, but yeah, I think it's 31.
38:53 --> 38:54 [SPEAKER_00]: I just didn't think he was cooked at 31.
38:55 --> 38:58 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, it was once he had that surgery in the offseason,
39:00 --> 39:14 [SPEAKER_00]: at least to me and i've nothing to point to other than just my my own bias in a motion i was just kind of all the thought well i don't think he's cooked at thirty one he's been too productive for too long and whether it's for the mariners with somebody else he'll have at worst
39:16 --> 39:40 [SPEAKER_00]: a productive season right and he had more than a productive season a season that we didn't really nobody saw him going from third base to back to second base as much as he did necessarily but it filled the need for the Mariners and yes I've been it's been very good to see him be the guy that they thought they traded for he just came a year too late but not late at all because of where the Mariners are right now.
39:42 --> 39:44 [SPEAKER_03]: It's crazy even back to the Cannes own thing.
39:44 --> 39:47 [SPEAKER_03]: He's got the second highest OPS on the team behind Cal.
39:47 --> 39:48 [SPEAKER_03]: Small smaller sample.
39:48 --> 39:49 [SPEAKER_03]: But crazy.
39:49 --> 40:02 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, like every day I sort I got like a fan graphs custom leader board that I build for all of the Mariners hitters and opposing hitters and I always Sort it by WRC plus just sound like kind of give you an initial curse review of everything and for like
40:03 --> 40:30 [SPEAKER_00]: forever it's been cow and then canzone one two and I just every day when I refresh that list I think is this really is this really true like is this glitching somehow but yes obviously small sample size there's nothing he can do about that but all he can do right is be productive when he's called upon and he's been exactly that so it's been I'm I'm just so happy for him
40:32 --> 40:46 [SPEAKER_00]: if he if that past day the same for him he would have gotten into this offseason not really knowing what the rest of his career is going to look like i mean there's a lot of question marks around them so good on him for being able to capitalize on the opportunity given to him
40:47 --> 41:01 [SPEAKER_02]: So the wildcard round has started, now that we're recording here on Tuesday, the match of we're looking at here to start and we can look at the entire American League, but what we really focus on and who the Mariners are going to play is starting on Saturday, either the Tigers or the Guardians.
41:02 --> 41:10 [SPEAKER_02]: We told you pre-recording Goldie, Low and Iron opposite sides of this, I'd rather play the Tigers, Low would rather play the Guardians, how much thought have you put into this?
41:11 --> 41:14 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, a decent amount without being like maniacal about it.
41:16 --> 41:22 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll profit this by saying, be careful what you wish for, right?
41:23 --> 41:25 [SPEAKER_00]: Anybody can be at anybody in October.
41:27 --> 41:28 [SPEAKER_00]: I would rather face the Guardians.
41:31 --> 41:34 [SPEAKER_00]: One, they don't have Terrix Google.
41:35 --> 41:44 [SPEAKER_00]: I said, which is after today in particular when what he struck out 13 or 14, um, just I don't want any part of that.
41:44 --> 41:45 [SPEAKER_00]: Now Gavin Williams, no joke.
41:45 --> 41:48 [SPEAKER_00]: Gavin Williams shoved against the Mariners.
41:48 --> 41:54 [SPEAKER_00]: That might have been the best game that Gavin Williams pitched all year outside of that near no hit or he had in New York this season.
41:55 --> 41:55 [SPEAKER_00]: Like he looked.
41:57 --> 41:58 [SPEAKER_00]: Diabolical when he faced the Mariners.
41:58 --> 42:02 [SPEAKER_00]: So again, be careful what you wish for but he's not terrible.
42:02 --> 42:06 [SPEAKER_00]: I can guarantee you that So that's part of it.
42:07 --> 42:12 [SPEAKER_00]: The other thing is like The Guardians don't have Riley Green
42:13 --> 42:25 [SPEAKER_00]: Spencer Torkelson isn't like incredible, but he scares me a little bit in postseason just because he can hit 30 home runs There's just some bats like carry carpenter.
42:25 --> 42:35 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't like all three games in the lineup or I not three in the Visual all potentially five like that's just a really good left hand a bat
42:36 --> 42:48 [SPEAKER_00]: Which the Mariners do not match up well against just because of their right-handed starting pitching So like those are some names offensively for the Guardians now I will also say the Guardians took two out of three against the Mariners, right?
42:49 --> 43:01 [SPEAKER_00]: So in the back half of the season, so this isn't to say that the Guardians are nobody's I we all have a tremendous amount of respect for Cleveland They do the most with seemingly the least every year outside of maybe Tampa
43:04 --> 43:07 [SPEAKER_00]: The only guy that scares me in that lineup is Jose Ramirez.
43:08 --> 43:11 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, man, Zardos got almost 30 tanks.
43:12 --> 43:14 [SPEAKER_00]: And he hit one against the Mariners, more than what I think.
43:15 --> 43:17 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, he'll park one over the fence.
43:17 --> 43:21 [SPEAKER_00]: But like, the only guy I'm really afraid of is Ramirez.
43:21 --> 43:23 [SPEAKER_00]: And quads a great player.
43:23 --> 43:25 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, any team would want to have Steven Quan.
43:25 --> 43:29 [SPEAKER_00]: And people go ballistic over all the contact that he makes.
43:30 --> 43:30 [SPEAKER_00]: But like,
43:32 --> 43:33 [SPEAKER_00]: Are you scared of Stephen Kwan?
43:34 --> 43:39 [SPEAKER_00]: You're only scared of Steve and Kwan in certain scenarios and in certain situations.
43:39 --> 43:45 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, if a base hit wins it, that's the last guy I wanna see, right?
43:45 --> 43:46 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, it's the Jacob Wilson factor.
43:47 --> 43:51 [SPEAKER_00]: But like in four-at-backs in a game, there's a chance he doesn't scare you in any of them.
43:52 --> 43:53 [SPEAKER_00]: Again, I love Steve and Kwan.
43:53 --> 43:56 [SPEAKER_00]: If he was a mariner, rock-on man, that'd be sweet.
43:57 --> 43:58 [SPEAKER_00]: But he really,
44:00 --> 44:06 [SPEAKER_00]: He really scares you when he's in a lineup with more damage around him, and that's obviously not the Guardians.
44:06 --> 44:17 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, Guardians have a ton of left-handed hitting, you know, I talk about Kerry Carpenter, but they have a ton of left-handed hitting, but unlike Carpenter, it's over the fence and plugs the gaps, the Guardians don't do that as much.
44:17 --> 44:25 [SPEAKER_00]: So I just, for those reasons, I lean on rather seeing Cleveland, but I can't emphasize it enough.
44:26 --> 44:28 [SPEAKER_00]: either team could sweep you, they just could.
44:28 --> 44:30 [SPEAKER_00]: It's just, it's October baseball, man.
44:30 --> 44:30 [SPEAKER_00]: Anything can happen.
44:31 --> 44:32 [SPEAKER_03]: Right.
44:32 --> 44:35 [SPEAKER_03]: Steven Kwan didn't even have a 100 WRC plus this year.
44:35 --> 44:41 [SPEAKER_03]: So to your point, exactly, in a situation where you just need a hit, I get it, but he's not a thumper.
44:41 --> 44:42 [SPEAKER_03]: Not a bunch of these tiger's bats.
44:43 --> 44:44 [SPEAKER_03]: That was a lot of eye reasoning.
44:44 --> 44:47 [SPEAKER_03]: Is guardians have one real bat, and
44:48 --> 45:05 [SPEAKER_00]: otherwise don't have a level of an ace like terrible and honestly the guarding thing it was no class eight i don't this is a the as obvious of a point is a risk like if you don't have a manual class and you're bullpen and October you're just not a scary mhm like you're just not now that the tigers don't have
45:06 --> 45:08 [SPEAKER_00]: They've never had in a manual class day, right?
45:08 --> 45:10 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, we'll best close it out today and game one.
45:11 --> 45:12 [SPEAKER_00]: And he was amazing.
45:12 --> 45:22 [SPEAKER_00]: So, like, again, anything can happen, and he's a good pitcher, but not having arguably the best closer and baseball for a postseason run changes things immensely.
45:23 --> 45:28 [SPEAKER_02]: not to look at too much, do you peek at the other side of the bracket as well and have some ideas?
45:29 --> 45:33 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, by other side of your friend, a national league or just the other, no, they'll start at the American League bracket.
45:33 --> 45:37 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, I do, just from a very selfish travel standpoint.
45:39 --> 45:44 [SPEAKER_00]: And honestly, it's less travel because like you're going to fly.
45:45 --> 46:11 [SPEAKER_00]: five to six hours for any of these teams right like it has nothing to do with travel time it has everything to do with just ballpark and vibes and places I like to call games um i think a Mariners blue jays postseason round would be awesome like I love Toronto I love Kong games at Rogers Center but to like calling up postseason game at Finway I think would be
46:13 --> 46:15 [SPEAKER_00]: would be incredible, like that'd be sick.
46:15 --> 46:19 [SPEAKER_00]: Then it was my favorite ballpark to go call a game at, so that'd be pretty awesome.
46:21 --> 46:27 [SPEAKER_00]: I have a scary, I haven't thought about it all from a strategic standpoint, like that's all way down the line.
46:27 --> 46:35 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm looking at it just from where I want to call a game from, so it's admittedly a very selfish viewpoint, but that's what you haven't gotten far enough to look beyond that yet.
46:37 --> 46:41 [SPEAKER_03]: Do you have a team in the American League, not name the Mariners that you think is the best or the scariest?
46:43 --> 46:47 [SPEAKER_00]: Hmm, no, no, I don't.
46:48 --> 46:51 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's not to take anything away from any of those teams.
46:51 --> 46:54 [SPEAKER_00]: Like the Yankees scare you just cause a judge, honestly.
46:55 --> 46:56 [SPEAKER_00]: Like he could just win a series by himself.
46:57 --> 46:58 [SPEAKER_00]: Like Judge and Stanton alone, right?
46:58 --> 47:01 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, especially with what Stanton did in October last year.
47:03 --> 47:05 [SPEAKER_00]: But at the same time, like I think,
47:07 --> 47:18 [SPEAKER_00]: I think in a longer series, the Yankees flaws become more exposed, like they're kind of sloppiness and lack of days of baseball that they can play that we saw last October.
47:18 --> 47:20 [SPEAKER_00]: I think that could expose more in a longer series.
47:21 --> 47:26 [SPEAKER_00]: The Blue Jays have been very vulnerable on the road this year, man, but they've been unstoppable at home.
47:26 --> 47:28 [SPEAKER_00]: Like it's just the way that they've played.
47:31 --> 47:33 [SPEAKER_00]: They don't scare, no, none of those teams scare me.
47:36 --> 47:38 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, like I don't know, yeah, good.
47:38 --> 47:39 [SPEAKER_00]: No, go ahead.
47:39 --> 47:51 [SPEAKER_03]: I was just going to say that the team, the two of us said we wanted to stay away from for a while was Boston because they were really good in all three phases, but the Roman injury really adds a tough wrinkle to their season.
47:51 --> 47:56 [SPEAKER_03]: I think into their postseason Avenue, where they're just not the same team without them.
47:57 --> 47:57 [SPEAKER_00]: No, I agree.
47:57 --> 47:58 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that's pretty evident.
47:59 --> 48:00 [SPEAKER_00]: I totally agree with that.
48:00 --> 48:01 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, and yeah.
48:02 --> 48:15 [SPEAKER_00]: Any time you have a clear horse number one, we talk schoolable, obviously they have crochet that you kind of feel like that's a tough mountain climb although it can be done.
48:16 --> 48:19 [SPEAKER_00]: Honestly, the team earlier this year when we play them in the regular season,
48:21 --> 48:34 [SPEAKER_00]: that I thought, man, this is going to be a nightmare in October is the Padre's, which is my absolute world series hope, Mariners Padre's world series would be bananas, like that'd be the greatest.
48:35 --> 48:40 [SPEAKER_00]: Now the Adam injury changes things, right, to their bullpen, but
48:41 --> 48:49 [SPEAKER_00]: I hadn't seen another team this year shorten the game with their bullpen the way that the Bidres did, and even with the Adam injury, they still have a lot of that.
48:49 --> 49:05 [SPEAKER_00]: And just with the guys that they have in their lineup, namely what Tetsis has done in the postseason and Machado, like those are just two legit postseason performing bats to go along with a really good bullpen, especially eighth and ninth inning where you're like man, that's
49:05 --> 49:07 [SPEAKER_00]: That's tough slatter man.
49:07 --> 49:09 [SPEAKER_00]: If they get a lead in that one, it's probably lights out.
49:10 --> 49:13 [SPEAKER_00]: But I would Mariners podgers and world series would be, would be a dream come true.
49:14 --> 49:18 [SPEAKER_02]: Last baseball question for me, how do you think this roster is going to shake out?
49:18 --> 49:21 [SPEAKER_02]: Do you think they're going to go with three catchers?
49:21 --> 49:23 [SPEAKER_02]: Do you think Cole Young's going to make the roster?
49:23 --> 49:23 [SPEAKER_02]: What are you feeling?
49:24 --> 49:25 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
49:27 --> 49:33 [SPEAKER_00]: If you had Harry Ford on the roster, he's, he's almost like a decoy,
49:35 --> 49:38 [SPEAKER_00]: as an insurance plan, so that you could hit for Garver.
49:39 --> 49:50 [SPEAKER_00]: So are you going to, do you forecast needing to hit for Garver often enough that it's worth having your burning up bench spot on him?
49:53 --> 49:55 [SPEAKER_00]: That's, I don't, I don't know the answer to that.
49:55 --> 50:02 [SPEAKER_00]: I think it probably depends on what the other teams bullpen looks like, and if that's something that you feel like you could take advantage of.
50:02 --> 50:11 [SPEAKER_00]: Honestly, I was surprised, Cole Young stayed on the roster as long as he did it in the year, simply because he was just never playing.
50:14 --> 50:16 [SPEAKER_00]: and why he didn't go get that bats into coma.
50:16 --> 50:17 [SPEAKER_00]: They had a reason for it.
50:18 --> 50:21 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure there are reasons better than mine, but I did have the question at least.
50:22 --> 50:25 [SPEAKER_00]: To me, it comes down to like, it's some odd tailor on this roster.
50:27 --> 50:30 [SPEAKER_00]: Leo, like, you go Leo revost you go some odd tailor.
50:31 --> 50:33 [SPEAKER_00]: Leo's got more defensive versatility.
50:34 --> 50:40 [SPEAKER_00]: He gives you, I mean, I haven't seen a lot of some odd tailor admittedly in a Mariners uniform, but based on what I've seen
50:46 --> 51:00 [SPEAKER_00]: but smocking Gucci bag go get you back with the best of them right and in October maybe it's all comes down to like he's maybe on that roster just for that one time you need to go get a bag in the eighth or ninth inning
51:01 --> 51:03 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I mean, we've kind of talked about this.
51:03 --> 51:10 [SPEAKER_03]: I wonder if Reeves and Samad Taylor are both there, despite not seeing Samad Taylor much of the year, is he in their Terrence Goro role?
51:10 --> 51:12 [SPEAKER_03]: Is he the Mariners, Mariners, Goro, and the Pope season?
51:13 --> 51:19 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, remember when the Mariners lost Hagriding before the collapse in 22, now Hagriding.
51:20 --> 51:41 [SPEAKER_00]: how could he hit well right like he played a good out like there he was more than just a runner but you we all remember that feeling of like oh man what if they're gonna what if they need to get a back late in the game and now the one guy who could do that off the bench is not available like that's what some odd tailored would be honestly if they were both on the roster to your point that that wouldn't surprise me um you
51:42 --> 51:57 [SPEAKER_00]: because it really, you know, neither one of them are going to realistically put a bat in their hand, but you are needing the versatility off the bench to be able to go either swipe a bag, or if you pinch it for somebody, and you need somebody to go put a glove on.
51:58 --> 52:06 [SPEAKER_00]: So, they both give you tools, they both would have value, and I could see both of them being on there.
52:13 --> 52:14 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
52:14 --> 52:15 [SPEAKER_00]: That's a lot.
52:15 --> 52:28 [SPEAKER_02]: You could go a man down in the bullpen, especially for the division series where you only think, man, it's like we're going to pitch seven guys out of the 12, the 12 pitchers we have on the roster, seven or eight of them.
52:29 --> 52:31 [SPEAKER_00]: It definitely changes in the five versus a seven.
52:32 --> 52:32 [SPEAKER_00]: There's no question.
52:33 --> 52:35 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, I agree 100% with that.
52:35 --> 52:36 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, good point.
52:37 --> 52:38 [SPEAKER_02]: We'll see.
52:39 --> 52:41 [SPEAKER_02]: I actually think they're going to end up doing three catchers.
52:41 --> 52:55 [SPEAKER_02]: I think it really allows you to be as versatile as possible Within that five game series and then you re-evaluate for however much pitching you'll need for a championship series if you advance that for but right I guess we'll see I think we'll know on Friday Fair enough
52:57 --> 53:06 [SPEAKER_02]: Last thing for you Goldie, I was curious, since there are the announcements about Rootsports earlier this week and all the people that you've gotten to work with your entire time here in Seattle.
53:07 --> 53:21 [SPEAKER_02]: I know most of the on-air broadcast team is going to stay the same going into next year outside of Jen who announced this week that she's not going to continue forward, but everyone else that you worked with behind the scenes, do you have any like stories or favorite
53:23 --> 53:27 [SPEAKER_02]: You know, now that you can reflect on and think back, you know, how positive it was.
53:29 --> 53:30 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, it is it is sad news.
53:30 --> 53:38 [SPEAKER_00]: There's no doubt and it's said for everybody involved from somebody who just started to root a couple of years ago to the people having to make the decision.
53:38 --> 53:40 [SPEAKER_00]: Nobody wants this to happen.
53:41 --> 53:48 [SPEAKER_00]: Rootsports for a lot of people have been their main avenue for Mariners baseball for decades at this point for all lifetime.
53:48 --> 53:53 [SPEAKER_00]: So it is really sad to see kind of that era of Mariners baseball on television come to a close.
53:56 --> 54:18 [SPEAKER_00]: been so grateful for all these years to be able to work with basically the same core group of people in the in the main roles for the Mariners on TV whether be Curtis Wilson who I mentioned who's been our producer since gosh the 90s until current day to our directors who we had a handful of them this year to are the guys who run the audio to our camera men.
54:20 --> 54:36 [SPEAKER_00]: it's it's the ultimate team sport like I can't emphasize that enough and there are so many people on in baseball television production that go on notice because there's just so many people who who make the whole thing run.
54:37 --> 54:44 [SPEAKER_00]: And so I'm I'm very grateful that the vast majority of all those people will will stay and will still be a part of things going forward.
54:44 --> 54:47 [SPEAKER_00]: It just won't have the root branding out anymore.
54:47 --> 54:53 [SPEAKER_00]: and the kind of the behind-the-scenes structure has changed, but it's a wonderful group of people.
54:53 --> 54:55 [SPEAKER_00]: They've helped make it so special for me.
54:55 --> 54:58 [SPEAKER_00]: And honestly, there's just people that I really trust.
54:58 --> 54:59 [SPEAKER_00]: I really trust professionally.
54:59 --> 55:00 [SPEAKER_00]: I trust their judgment.
55:00 --> 55:01 [SPEAKER_00]: I trust how they do their job.
55:01 --> 55:03 [SPEAKER_00]: So they make my job easier.
55:03 --> 55:04 [SPEAKER_00]: They make me better.
55:05 --> 55:09 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm very grateful that virtually all of them will be continuing on the production side as well.
55:10 --> 55:11 [SPEAKER_02]: Last last thing.
55:12 --> 55:13 [SPEAKER_02]: No post-season mustache.
55:14 --> 55:15 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's bad.
55:15 --> 55:16 [SPEAKER_00]: I can't.
55:16 --> 55:18 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, my own barrel look better than yours, man.
55:22 --> 55:27 [SPEAKER_00]: I actually didn't think my look terrible like Monday of last week, but how long is it only like that week?
55:28 --> 55:29 [SPEAKER_00]: Have you like, is that max?
55:29 --> 55:31 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you think there's any more follicles there or is that?
55:32 --> 55:35 [SPEAKER_02]: I think there's a little bit more, but it just, it's not thick.
55:35 --> 55:36 [SPEAKER_00]: That's the problem.
55:36 --> 55:36 [SPEAKER_00]: I know.
55:37 --> 55:41 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the end was like dance filled with like sneaky thick.
55:42 --> 56:05 [SPEAKER_00]: yeah i know um yeah i grew a mustache drink covid just for the fun of it and the whole house revolted um so it's not it's not good it's it's pretty bad actually just not worth it yeah i could we're a fake one i guess that looked pretty good it looks great in your twitter photo i will show that's good point it's very true
56:06 --> 56:10 [SPEAKER_03]: I'll end on this, and I want to make sure I threw this one in there to wrap this up.
56:10 --> 56:26 [SPEAKER_03]: But a couple of years ago, obviously you started to scale back all the national broadcasts you were doing, some of the college football, some of the baseball where you were traveling, and I know a big part of the reason you said you did that is you felt like you wanted to be as ingrained as in Mariners baseball as you possibly could.
56:26 --> 56:29 [SPEAKER_03]: Like for the clincher three years ago, you were calling a Fox game, you weren't there for it.
56:30 --> 56:35 [SPEAKER_03]: Is what you experienced in the last few weeks, especially seeing the clincher, did that make
56:38 --> 56:43 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I definitely thought about that driving home from the ballpark after that clinching game when Calhett's 60.
56:46 --> 57:00 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, I, for as disappointing as it was for me to not be there when Cal had the walkoff against the A's in 22, I kind of, what helped me fall asleep a night was knowing that probably I wasn't going to be on the call for it anyway.
57:00 --> 57:02 [SPEAKER_00]: I just would have been there at a,
57:02 --> 57:29 [SPEAKER_00]: to soak it up like Dave probably would have had the TV call and understandably so and Rick has the ninth inning on radio so if I was on radio I wouldn't have had it anyway so that in the moment and like the months afterwards that kind of helped me a little bit but I still miss being there in the ballpark and all the hysteria that came along with breaking the drought but when I was driving home from the ballpark the other night I kind of sunk in just
57:29 --> 57:37 [SPEAKER_00]: how momentous of a night in franchise history that was, to win the division, and if Cal hit 16 in the same game.
57:38 --> 57:48 [SPEAKER_00]: And even though I'm kind of in this tweener area with the Mariners, like I haven't been there for decades, but I've been there more than a minute.
57:48 --> 57:49 [SPEAKER_00]: This is my 13th year.
57:50 --> 57:55 [SPEAKER_00]: And even great franchises don't often have
57:56 --> 58:01 [SPEAKER_00]: kind of like what I would call put it on the wall type of moments like timeline moments.
58:01 --> 58:11 [SPEAKER_00]: Those are hard to come by even for great franchises and I had never been fortunate enough to be on the call for one of those moments and to be fair like
58:12 --> 58:37 [SPEAKER_00]: cow breaking the drought it's maybe the only like put it on the wall kind of moment that the Mariners have had in my in my time with the ball club so it's not like I've been missing out on these things left and right but I've never I've never had the opportunity to be behind the mic for one yet and so when cow hit 60 I was just just so grateful.
58:37 --> 59:03 [SPEAKER_00]: Man, just so grateful that I was there for that and had the opportunity to call it because Those don't come around very often not just 60, which obviously we we already know how rare that is, but just those kind of moments moments It's like you tell people about 20 years from now that you were there for or that you remember or that you talk about and To have it be that guy who's turned into kind of a franchise icon already
59:08 --> 59:11 [SPEAKER_00]: To have it be that guy and that kind of an accomplishment.
59:11 --> 59:15 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, this isn't like an ERA title or a batting title.
59:15 --> 59:17 [SPEAKER_00]: This is 60 freaking home runs man.
59:20 --> 59:32 [SPEAKER_00]: Like I just, I can remember being in the minor leagues in Portland, Maine in 2009, as a broadcast intern for the Red Sox double 18.
59:33 --> 59:33 [SPEAKER_00]: And on Sunday nights,
59:35 --> 59:48 [SPEAKER_00]: We, and Sundays, we have daygames, and I was making no money, obviously, and Sunday night I would typically drive to the local little Caesars, and I buy a $5 peparoni hot and ready.
59:49 --> 59:54 [SPEAKER_00]: And I, which is like the worst pizza in America, right, but it was five bucks.
59:55 --> 01:00:00 [SPEAKER_00]: So I get a $5 hot and ready in a soda, and I'd sit in my old beater car.
01:00:01 --> 01:00:16 [SPEAKER_00]: And I would listen to Gary Thorne, call Sunday night baseball on ESPN radio, and I would just be pound in this terrible greasy pizza, listening to Gary Thorne on ESPN radio.
01:00:16 --> 01:00:21 [SPEAKER_00]: And I remember thinking like, there's no way I could ever do that.
01:00:22 --> 01:00:28 [SPEAKER_00]: Like Gary Thorne sounded like something that not in my wildest dreams I could ever get to.
01:00:29 --> 01:00:35 [SPEAKER_00]: Like the idea of calling Major League Baseball at that time was like flying to the moon to me.
01:00:36 --> 01:00:48 [SPEAKER_00]: And so to fast forward from that guy to the other night when Calhett's 60 that I was there and was fortunate enough to be behind a mic for it.
01:00:49 --> 01:00:53 [SPEAKER_00]: was like, I can't even believe it's the same person living the same life.
01:00:54 --> 01:01:01 [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm very grateful for being able to be there, for Cal being what he is.
01:01:01 --> 01:01:08 [SPEAKER_00]: It takes great players to have great moments and you can't have any kind of call without a great moment.
01:01:08 --> 01:01:14 [SPEAKER_00]: So I'll always be indebted to Cal Raleigh for that moment in time and I'm just so happy that I got to be there for it.
01:01:16 --> 01:01:20 [SPEAKER_02]: And Goldie, we're grateful we get to listen to you every night, so it's, it really is fantastic.
01:01:20 --> 01:01:26 [SPEAKER_02]: Well, Goldie, thanks for, thanks for taking some time for us, you're going to crush it on the playoff broadcast, and let's hope for some wins.
01:01:26 --> 01:01:27 [SPEAKER_02]: How about that?
01:01:27 --> 01:01:28 [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, thank you, fellas.
01:01:28 --> 01:01:29 [SPEAKER_00]: Good talking with you.
01:01:37 --> 01:02:02 [SPEAKER_03]: him taking everybody along the way of his ride for calling Cal Raleigh's historic home run chase because you get to get into the mind of the broadcast right thought that was really fun I also enjoyed all the playoff talk with them and we're looking forward to hearing him on the radio broadcast all throughout the playoffs because it's going to be a fun ride for everybody for us for him for all the broadcasters everyone and you can hear it listen to Goldie in that conversation so as always we love having them on
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