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00:00 --> 00:05 [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to episode number 370 of the Marine Lair podcast live from Mariners Spring Training in Peoria.
00:06 --> 00:09 [SPEAKER_00]: We have a very, very, very special guest on with us.
00:09 --> 00:14 [SPEAKER_00]: The voice of the Mariners, Rick Riz, and his 41st and final season joins us to talk his favorite Mariners.
00:15 --> 00:23 [SPEAKER_00]: Memories, his excitement for this upcoming Mariners team, and a whole lot more lown I also have some more takeaways from our first four days here in Peoria.
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00:57 --> 00:58 [SPEAKER_01]: Let's get it rolling.
01:11 --> 01:18 [SPEAKER_00]: And we look into this episode of the Marine Lair podcast, part of the just baseball podcast network recording here on Thursday.
01:19 --> 01:20 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, it's Thursday.
01:20 --> 01:22 [SPEAKER_00]: The date is February 26th.
01:23 --> 01:28 [SPEAKER_00]: Loud and I are basking in the sun right here next to field two at the purious sports complex.
01:28 --> 01:31 [SPEAKER_00]: Mariners are playing behind us late in that game.
01:31 --> 01:32 [SPEAKER_00]: We're over there for a little bit.
01:32 --> 01:32 [SPEAKER_00]: It was fun.
01:33 --> 01:34 [SPEAKER_00]: Just get a little bit more crowded.
01:34 --> 01:35 [SPEAKER_00]: It's getting closer to the weekend.
01:35 --> 01:41 [SPEAKER_00]: A lot of people are coming down just for Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and seemingly having a great time.
01:41 --> 01:41 [SPEAKER_00]: It is a little hot out.
01:42 --> 01:46 [SPEAKER_01]: Lil' Hot, it is about as hot as it's ever been at this time of the year in Arizona.
01:46 --> 01:48 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, we're approaching 90.
01:48 --> 01:49 [SPEAKER_01]: It's like a record, I think.
01:49 --> 01:54 [SPEAKER_00]: I was, we were watching the news this morning, and it is a record for Arizona this time of year.
01:54 --> 02:00 [SPEAKER_01]: Look, I'm not gonna complain because I would take this a million out of a million times over the cold Seattle rain, especially this time of year.
02:00 --> 02:02 [SPEAKER_01]: So I'm not gonna complain, but yes, it's a little hot.
02:03 --> 02:11 [SPEAKER_01]: If I could like pick it perfectly, if I got my own pick of the litter, sure, would I choose 78 degrees and set a 90 fine,
02:12 --> 02:14 [SPEAKER_01]: I am going to enjoy the sunshine every minute of that while we're here.
02:15 --> 02:19 [SPEAKER_00]: Just like we all shit and we'll have some nice color when we go back to Seattle on Saturday night.
02:20 --> 02:23 [SPEAKER_00]: There've been a lot of things we've gotten to experience in these four days over here.
02:23 --> 02:26 [SPEAKER_00]: We talked about some of the storylines on Wednesday's podcast.
02:26 --> 02:28 [SPEAKER_00]: Now we have a couple more for you today.
02:28 --> 02:38 [SPEAKER_00]: But I think the overarching one I'm learning through these four days, especially how we're approaching this spring training, we're putting a big emphasis on getting you guys long form interviews with these players.
02:38 --> 02:41 [SPEAKER_00]: We've gotten so many of them on our social media channels.
02:41 --> 02:42 [SPEAKER_00]: almost all of them.
02:42 --> 02:47 [SPEAKER_00]: We haven't got as many of them actually here on the podcast and that's what we're trying to do.
02:48 --> 02:54 [SPEAKER_00]: But what that requires is honestly kind of like what all of you fans have to experience a spring training as well.
02:54 --> 02:56 [SPEAKER_00]: You got to wait a lot of waiting.
02:56 --> 03:04 [SPEAKER_01]: Now I'll say it again pretty awesome place to just be waiting around then in the warm sunshine of Arizona with a bunch of baseball going on and everybody in a good mood.
03:05 --> 03:06 [SPEAKER_01]: But yes.
03:06 --> 03:07 [SPEAKER_01]: there's a lot of waiting.
03:07 --> 03:11 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to spoil the interviews yet because again, we have to actually sit down and execute them.
03:11 --> 03:13 [SPEAKER_01]: As we sit here, we're recording on Thursday.
03:13 --> 03:17 [SPEAKER_01]: We are scheduled to have a few of them in the next couple of days before we leave.
03:17 --> 03:21 [SPEAKER_01]: So I don't want to jinx it because it involves having to actually sit down and do it.
03:21 --> 03:24 [SPEAKER_01]: But I will just fill the people in on this in terms of sitting and waiting.
03:24 --> 03:27 [SPEAKER_01]: Players don't always know they're schedules, like we were mentioning on Wednesday's episode.
03:28 --> 03:31 [SPEAKER_01]: So as a result of that, when we ask some of the
03:32 --> 03:34 [SPEAKER_01]: For example, Thursday or Friday.
03:34 --> 03:40 [SPEAKER_01]: One player said Thursday or Friday, let us check in tomorrow that here being Thursday while we're sitting here recording and I'll let you know where my schedule's at.
03:41 --> 03:43 [SPEAKER_01]: He said, you know what, Friday actually works a little bit better and we do that.
03:44 --> 03:44 [SPEAKER_01]: We said, sure.
03:44 --> 03:51 [SPEAKER_01]: We obviously spent a lot of Thursday waiting around because we were going to check and see if it all still works and we were prepared to do it if need be on Thursday.
03:51 --> 03:52 [SPEAKER_01]: But Friday works better.
03:53 --> 03:55 [SPEAKER_01]: So yes, as a result, that is waiting around.
03:56 --> 03:56 [SPEAKER_01]: But
03:57 --> 04:07 [SPEAKER_01]: You're right, we're at the point where we really, really want to be sitting down with these guys and doing some long-form interviews with them because truthfully you guys, if you want more of a peak behind the curtain, this is the best chance you've really got.
04:07 --> 04:08 [SPEAKER_01]: I at least in terms of what we do.
04:09 --> 04:18 [SPEAKER_01]: I know the Mariners radio network and the Mariners TV broadcast and some of the other outlets like that, especially the ones that are team affiliated, can get some guys during the year.
04:18 --> 04:37 [SPEAKER_01]: but it's not the same for people like us that basically have to do this all on our own the setup the execution the sit down the interview during the year there's just too much going on we're spring training guys a lot more time a hundred percent and the guys the people we can tell you we have gotten and that will be on the schedule for the future as we mentioned on Wednesday's episode
04:37 --> 04:41 [SPEAKER_00]: Rick Reyes, of course today, it is, I mean, it's phenomenal.
04:41 --> 04:52 [SPEAKER_00]: We could talk a little bit about Rick when right before the interview, but Gabe Spiral also be next Wednesday, as we said on Wednesday's episode, right before Team USA debuts officially in the WBC.
04:52 --> 04:52 [SPEAKER_01]: Right.
04:53 --> 04:53 [SPEAKER_01]: Exactly.
04:53 --> 04:55 [SPEAKER_01]: And those guys were both awesome.
04:55 --> 04:57 [SPEAKER_01]: We're expecting the few more that we're
04:57 --> 05:02 [SPEAKER_01]: likely planning to do over the final couple of days to also be awesome.
05:02 --> 05:05 [SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, players just don't know we've know their schedules during spring training.
05:05 --> 05:06 [SPEAKER_01]: They're all over the place.
05:06 --> 05:09 [SPEAKER_01]: So there is a lot of moving pieces, but that's why we're here.
05:09 --> 05:10 [SPEAKER_01]: It's all worth it.
05:10 --> 05:16 [SPEAKER_01]: And I would say in our first spring training down here, when we were here two years ago, with this being our third one.
05:16 --> 05:21 [SPEAKER_01]: We probably were not in a place in terms of longevity and relationships built with players to be setting these interviews up.
05:22 --> 05:23 [SPEAKER_01]: You just need more time.
05:23 --> 05:33 [SPEAKER_01]: And I would say over these last couple years, now we're much more in a spot where we feel more comfortable saying, hey, not just not just you have 60 seconds, but hey, we'd love to actually sit down with you and do this whole thing.
05:34 --> 05:38 [SPEAKER_01]: And this is a spring where we said we really need to put that into action and do it, and we're really trying to do it.
05:38 --> 05:41 [SPEAKER_00]: So this is your call to stay tuned to future episodes to see if we execute those.
05:41 --> 05:41 [SPEAKER_00]: I think we will.
05:42 --> 05:44 [SPEAKER_00]: So look ahead to those future episodes.
05:44 --> 05:46 [SPEAKER_00]: But in terms of this episode, we got some more takeaways today.
05:47 --> 05:49 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm gonna kick it off with this one.
05:49 --> 05:54 [SPEAKER_00]: Some of the Mariners' new acquisitions are absolute grinders.
05:54 --> 05:58 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm gonna highlight two guys specifically that we saw today's on Thursday.
05:58 --> 06:00 [SPEAKER_00]: Brendan Nontovan and Rob Reff Snyder.
06:00 --> 06:07 [SPEAKER_00]: Low and I the last two days have got here as early as we've gotten here all spring training, like 7.45 in the morning.
06:07 --> 06:12 [SPEAKER_00]: Most of the players are in at that point, so they have meetings, they have eating breakfast, et cetera, et cetera.
06:13 --> 06:16 [SPEAKER_00]: Brendan Donovan and Rob Breft's Niner, we were sitting and watching today.
06:16 --> 06:19 [SPEAKER_00]: I think each of them hit for two to three hours straight.
06:19 --> 06:26 [SPEAKER_00]: And we're not just talking like on field BP, where they, you know, they're working on something like spraying the ball the other way, et cetera.
06:27 --> 06:31 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I'm watching Brendan Donovan, early on in spring training this morning.
06:32 --> 06:34 [SPEAKER_00]: And he is, so he starts off,
06:34 --> 07:02 [SPEAKER_00]: he's uh... in the bullpen area of peoria on on the back of the guys like looming over at george curville normally throw their bullpens or all the crowd can see there's the short fence or right before the turf starts it's a great spot to sit and like watch the mariners so bread and out of it before anyone's out throwing is standing on the plate and just going through practice swings he's not like swinging out of his heels what it looked like as he was he was doing he's trying to slash the other way he's trying to do what he does best
07:02 --> 07:06 [SPEAKER_00]: not strike out, get on base and stay alive and it's sort of be a pest.
07:06 --> 07:09 [SPEAKER_01]: Can I just add what a win for Boomer baseball fans out there?
07:09 --> 07:12 [SPEAKER_01]: I know who think of yourself, Brendan Donovan's a big just hit it the other way guy.
07:12 --> 07:18 [SPEAKER_00]: He, I mean, he embodies like all the subscribers, the, the, the, the, the adjectives.
07:18 --> 07:19 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, adjectives.
07:19 --> 07:20 [SPEAKER_00]: I think that have that right.
07:20 --> 07:29 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, of Brendan Donovan, that when that you say grinder, gritty baseball guy, he checks every single box of that.
07:29 --> 07:37 [SPEAKER_00]: And what we're watching today really I think sort of reflected that this could also then steps in on someone's bullpen to get his timing down.
07:37 --> 07:41 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm standing there watching if you watch her vlog when eventually comes out next week.
07:41 --> 07:43 [SPEAKER_00]: You'll see Brendan Donovan.
07:44 --> 07:46 [SPEAKER_00]: standing in the lefty batters box.
07:46 --> 07:49 [SPEAKER_00]: This picture who forgive me, I don't know who it was.
07:49 --> 07:50 [SPEAKER_01]: It was a right hander.
07:50 --> 07:53 [SPEAKER_00]: He was decently tall, but we, we didn't recognize him.
07:53 --> 07:57 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, he didn't recognize him, but he was storing a pen and running down in the standing in the batters box.
07:57 --> 07:58 [SPEAKER_00]: Not swinging.
07:58 --> 08:00 [SPEAKER_00]: He's just trying to get his timing down.
08:00 --> 08:03 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe they also wanted a lefty batter in that box.
08:03 --> 08:11 [SPEAKER_00]: to help out the pitcher and work on throwing to a left handed hitter, but Brennan Donovan is in there taking every single rep seriously.
08:11 --> 08:16 [SPEAKER_00]: He is lifting his leg and getting his timing down every single time.
08:16 --> 08:17 [SPEAKER_00]: He's not wearing batting gloves either.
08:18 --> 08:20 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think he wears batting gloves in general, right?
08:20 --> 08:20 [SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't.
08:20 --> 08:21 [SPEAKER_00]: I thought he did.
08:21 --> 08:22 [SPEAKER_01]: I can't remember.
08:22 --> 08:24 [SPEAKER_01]: We'll have to go look at some highlights.
08:25 --> 08:30 [SPEAKER_00]: But I'm thinking like it's early in the morning, Brennan Donovan has a full day ahead of him.
08:30 --> 08:32 [SPEAKER_00]: He's leading off the game, by the way.
08:32 --> 08:35 [SPEAKER_00]: And he doesn't need to be standing in there.
08:35 --> 08:38 [SPEAKER_00]: You can have Tom Wilhelmson's in a system down here.
08:38 --> 08:41 [SPEAKER_00]: You can have Tom Wilhelmson standing in that lefty box and just stand there.
08:42 --> 08:48 [SPEAKER_00]: But don't bring it down if it wanted to be in that box, getting the reps against this arm to get his timing down.
08:48 --> 08:49 [SPEAKER_00]: And I thought, I mean, I'm like, wow.
08:50 --> 08:52 [SPEAKER_00]: And then he went on like two hours after that, kept hitting.
08:52 --> 08:54 [SPEAKER_01]: And got to hit in Thursdays, spring training again.
08:54 --> 08:54 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
08:54 --> 09:05 [SPEAKER_01]: I would say, too, even before all that went on, before 8am, right when we got here, before Donovan even started stepping inside that box over on the turf in the bullpen's here in Peoria.
09:05 --> 09:10 [SPEAKER_01]: He's out on the turf before 8am, and he's got one of those weighted batting tools in his hands.
09:10 --> 09:17 [SPEAKER_01]: It's not a weighted bat, but it's one of the, you know, it's a stick with a big, heavy, you know, round hammer.
09:17 --> 09:21 [SPEAKER_01]: No, it's not a hammer, but it's, you know, it's a big circular part on the end of it.
09:22 --> 09:24 [SPEAKER_01]: And it's a weighted bat tool that some guys use in warm-ups.
09:24 --> 09:28 [SPEAKER_01]: I want to say even each hero use it in the on deck circles a lot growing like through the years.
09:28 --> 09:31 [SPEAKER_00]: But don't even do a little thing you actually put on your bat.
09:31 --> 09:33 [SPEAKER_01]: No, no, that's like a donut and what makes it a weighted bat.
09:34 --> 09:35 [SPEAKER_01]: Donovan's using, he's using something else.
09:36 --> 09:38 [SPEAKER_01]: Point being, he's out there, like,
09:39 --> 09:57 [SPEAKER_01]: using that tool and like you said more getting his timing down and he's even I think he was doing some bunterials to just get people are going to love that not us but other people before 8 a.m. so like his day started offensively before 8 o'clock in the morning he is going he's hitting through the cages
09:57 --> 10:00 [SPEAKER_01]: basically until he's ready to head over to the game.
10:00 --> 10:02 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it was a whole process.
10:02 --> 10:02 [SPEAKER_01]: It was ours.
10:03 --> 10:04 [SPEAKER_01]: He was always doing something.
10:04 --> 10:09 [SPEAKER_01]: There was no point where I saw a Brendan Donovan standing around and just talking to people and shooting the breeze.
10:10 --> 10:13 [SPEAKER_01]: Aside from maybe the 90s, seconds to two minutes that we spent talking to him.
10:13 --> 10:15 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, because we wanted to get we want to get him on the mic.
10:15 --> 10:17 [SPEAKER_00]: I believe he'll be on our social channels sometime soon.
10:17 --> 10:18 [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to grab him.
10:19 --> 10:22 [SPEAKER_00]: I think I hope tomorrow or today when this episode comes out even more than that.
10:22 --> 10:23 [SPEAKER_01]: We didn't met him.
10:23 --> 10:25 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we didn't talk to him for a minute.
10:25 --> 10:26 [SPEAKER_01]: See how everything was going.
10:26 --> 10:27 [SPEAKER_01]: Sounds like he's loving it.
10:27 --> 10:31 [SPEAKER_01]: He was saying it is nice in Arizona because you don't have to make the three hour bus rides.
10:31 --> 10:32 [SPEAKER_01]: Everything's within an hour.
10:32 --> 10:33 [SPEAKER_00]: No overnight.
10:33 --> 10:38 [SPEAKER_00]: trips anywhere to any of the spring training facilities if you're playing a night game, that part's very nice.
10:39 --> 10:42 [SPEAKER_00]: And the personality of him, I think again, reflects as well.
10:42 --> 10:45 [SPEAKER_00]: He's quiet, but it's not like he's not a talker.
10:45 --> 10:50 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I would say the best way to put it is, he's a little soft spoken.
10:50 --> 10:51 [SPEAKER_01]: I was talking to talk about this.
10:51 --> 10:54 [SPEAKER_01]: And I think what we said is soft spoken, but not quiet.
10:55 --> 10:56 [SPEAKER_01]: Like he is, he is a lot to say.
10:57 --> 10:58 [SPEAKER_01]: He's not overly loud.
10:58 --> 11:03 [SPEAKER_01]: He's not like, he's not Victor Robles, right?
11:03 --> 11:06 [SPEAKER_01]: Like like what do you call it afterverted person?
11:06 --> 11:07 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, extraverted personality.
11:07 --> 11:09 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Donovan's not quite like that.
11:10 --> 11:14 [SPEAKER_01]: But he is very interesting and clearly has things to say and is clearly very driven.
11:14 --> 11:16 [SPEAKER_01]: So that was cool to take away.
11:18 --> 11:18 [SPEAKER_00]: What else to run it up?
11:18 --> 11:22 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, then he went into cages, hit a ton in the cages.
11:22 --> 11:25 [SPEAKER_00]: We talked to him on his way into getting changed and getting ready to lead off.
11:25 --> 11:29 [SPEAKER_00]: So we'll get him for a couple of fun things on our social channel, I think.
11:29 --> 11:30 [SPEAKER_00]: I think he'll let off, and he got hit.
11:30 --> 11:31 [SPEAKER_00]: It's great.
11:31 --> 11:32 [SPEAKER_00]: I love that.
11:32 --> 11:33 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, this dude, it's all business.
11:34 --> 11:36 [SPEAKER_00]: It is all business with this guy.
11:37 --> 11:44 [SPEAKER_00]: This is, I think, part of the meritorious evolution of personalities for what the kind of guys they want to bring in.
11:44 --> 11:51 [SPEAKER_00]: Like Brennan Donovan probably going forward will be the type of personality that they want in their clubhouse.
11:51 --> 11:51 [SPEAKER_00]: Or sure.
11:51 --> 11:56 [SPEAKER_00]: Especially if you're adding externally, you don't have all of the equity built up with everyone else in the clubhouse.
11:57 --> 12:05 [SPEAKER_00]: But you know what, Cal and Julio and Gabe Spire and Dom Canzone, Josh Naila really respect a guy who works as asshole.
12:06 --> 12:06 [SPEAKER_01]: Sure.
12:07 --> 12:09 [SPEAKER_01]: Had you find that crop a name?
12:09 --> 12:33 [SPEAKER_01]: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
12:33 --> 12:33 [SPEAKER_00]: How about that?
12:33 --> 12:59 [SPEAKER_00]: I've been sitting out in the sun all day and my head, my brain is probably being getting fried in between my head and my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my
13:00 --> 13:03 [SPEAKER_01]: So, sure, maybe the sun gets to us.
13:03 --> 13:04 [SPEAKER_01]: TJ can't think straight.
13:04 --> 13:06 [SPEAKER_01]: My eyes have been absolutely burning all week.
13:06 --> 13:07 [SPEAKER_01]: I think I've looked in the sun too much.
13:07 --> 13:09 [SPEAKER_00]: I think we need to get you some sunglasses.
13:09 --> 13:12 [SPEAKER_00]: I think you need to find a really good pair of sunglasses that fit your face.
13:13 --> 13:19 [SPEAKER_01]: I think that might have to be in the cards for next year's spring training and maybe even a little bit before that to be totally honest because it has been a lot of luck.
13:19 --> 13:20 [SPEAKER_00]: Especially if we're not doing any hats.
13:20 --> 13:21 [SPEAKER_01]: Right.
13:21 --> 13:22 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I've...
13:22 --> 13:23 [SPEAKER_01]: My eyes are burning.
13:23 --> 13:24 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not going to complain.
13:24 --> 13:28 [SPEAKER_01]: I love love being down in Arizona, but I've probably gotten a little too much sun.
13:28 --> 13:38 [SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, I would say in addition to Donovan, the other really interesting note was from Rob Raff Snyder, who we also spent a couple minutes with today.
13:38 --> 14:04 [SPEAKER_00]: and got to talk to a little bit another guy we certainly want to get on the social channels later oh you're laughing there's something you want to get to first just go ahead well we introduce ourselves because he's supposed to be in a plus due to it like we've seen if you watch the red sox stock on Netflix or you watched i mean really any interaction with Rob Raff Snyder with the Boston media or any other of the stops in his career it's been noted how you know he's a really good guy he's very easy to get along with can't be that good guy went to u of a
14:05 --> 14:09 [SPEAKER_00]: we'll bring that up when we have a longer conversation with him, hopefully tomorrow.
14:10 --> 14:12 [SPEAKER_00]: But do not bear down people.
14:13 --> 14:13 [SPEAKER_00]: Forks up.
14:13 --> 14:16 [SPEAKER_00]: Rob, if you're listening to this, well, now you know.
14:16 --> 14:18 [SPEAKER_00]: We walk up to Rob Ruff Center.
14:18 --> 14:19 [SPEAKER_00]: I just wanted to do something.
14:19 --> 14:20 [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, Rob, nice to meet you.
14:20 --> 14:20 [SPEAKER_00]: My name's TJ.
14:20 --> 14:24 [SPEAKER_00]: He's like, this Lyle just wanted to say, hi, I hadn't gotten to meet you yet.
14:24 --> 14:26 [SPEAKER_00]: I was like, oh yeah, I recognize you guys.
14:27 --> 14:27 [SPEAKER_00]: The podcast, right?
14:27 --> 14:30 [SPEAKER_00]: They were talking about you inside.
14:30 --> 14:35 [SPEAKER_00]: I was like, I was like, oh, well, that's either good or bad or real bad or real bad.
14:36 --> 14:37 [SPEAKER_00]: He didn't clarify.
14:37 --> 14:38 [SPEAKER_00]: But he was just funny for me.
14:38 --> 14:39 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he was just laughing.
14:39 --> 14:40 [SPEAKER_01]: It didn't be fair.
14:40 --> 14:44 [SPEAKER_01]: Rob Ruff Center come from Boston where there is another very,
14:44 --> 14:46 [SPEAKER_01]: again, we're nobody's.
14:46 --> 14:46 [SPEAKER_01]: Let's make that clear.
14:47 --> 14:55 [SPEAKER_01]: But in Boston is what I'm trying to say, there's a very, very, very popular team-based podcast for the Red Sox in Section 10.
14:55 --> 14:57 [SPEAKER_01]: He and I'm pretty sure he interacted with those guys.
14:57 --> 15:00 [SPEAKER_01]: Like he knows the media, he knows who's around.
15:00 --> 15:01 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe he's a big team podcast guy.
15:01 --> 15:03 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe this guy maybe on his drive to work.
15:03 --> 15:06 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not sure where he's staying in the Seattle area.
15:06 --> 15:12 [SPEAKER_00]: But on his commute to team mobile park, maybe he's just going to want to brush up on the pulse of the fanbase every time on the way in.
15:12 --> 15:19 [SPEAKER_01]: I did hear from somebody that Reftsnotter seemed to know who a lot of the media was before they even got to introduce themselves.
15:19 --> 15:27 [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe it was Shannon that was telling us the Shannon dryer that basically when they started to introduce themselves to him, he seemed to know who almost everybody was.
15:27 --> 15:28 [SPEAKER_01]: He seemed to know who Shannon was.
15:28 --> 15:33 [SPEAKER_01]: It seems like maybe he did his homework on this stuff and he wanted to know, oh, here's who I'm going to interact with during the year.
15:33 --> 15:38 [SPEAKER_00]: And I don't think that's totally irregular, but maybe ref Snyder pays closer attention to it than other players.
15:38 --> 15:41 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know that this is protocol, but I'm just going to take a guess.
15:41 --> 15:48 [SPEAKER_00]: The job of Mariners PR as dealing, being like the bridge between the media and the players for the most part.
15:49 --> 15:51 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, their job is to make the players a comfortable as possible.
15:51 --> 15:59 [SPEAKER_00]: And part of that, I assume include, includes breaking down down on the type of people they're going to be talking to, it's bringing training, and who they're going to be interacting with.
15:59 --> 16:05 [SPEAKER_00]: And it seems like Rob has receptive that kind of information as well as a player possibly can.
16:06 --> 16:06 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, no doubt.
16:07 --> 16:09 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I hope we get on the mic at some point.
16:09 --> 16:10 [SPEAKER_00]: I hope we do too.
16:10 --> 16:14 [SPEAKER_00]: But on top of that, with the storylines, he was heading for just as long as Donovan was.
16:14 --> 16:15 [SPEAKER_01]: Just as long.
16:15 --> 16:19 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, in the cages for a long time, work it on stuff.
16:19 --> 16:21 [SPEAKER_00]: That's who we spent all day waiting for.
16:21 --> 16:22 [SPEAKER_01]: He was out on the field.
16:22 --> 16:23 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, sort of.
16:23 --> 16:26 [SPEAKER_01]: We've spent a lot of the day waiting for somebody who we are.
16:26 --> 16:29 [SPEAKER_01]: still in the works with again plan for later in the week.
16:29 --> 16:29 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
16:29 --> 16:30 [SPEAKER_01]: We do not want to spoil it.
16:30 --> 16:31 [SPEAKER_01]: We don't want to jinx it.
16:31 --> 16:32 [SPEAKER_01]: We'll get it to you guys later.
16:33 --> 16:37 [SPEAKER_01]: When we get all these interviews done, we will tell the full stories like we'll get into all of it.
16:37 --> 16:39 [SPEAKER_01]: We just don't want to jinx anything yet.
16:39 --> 16:39 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
16:39 --> 16:43 [SPEAKER_01]: So anyway, with that we were we were rating on Refts tighter too to see if he had some time.
16:44 --> 16:45 [SPEAKER_01]: But he was headed over to the game.
16:45 --> 16:47 [SPEAKER_01]: He got out of the cage as pretty late.
16:47 --> 16:49 [SPEAKER_01]: But he did tell us something interesting.
16:49 --> 17:07 [SPEAKER_01]: before like he told us something interesting as we were planning to just circle back with them later in the week what he said was i really want to get over to the game i'm not playing today but i want to watch for a while because they're playing the guardians here on thursday the mariners and they're facing a guy by the name of joe can tell out who's a left-handed starting picture
17:08 --> 17:26 [SPEAKER_01]: left-handed starting pitcher, rough-snotter'll play against a lot of left-handed starting pitchers obviously makes sense, but he also says in addition to that he goes, we're going to see this guy the first weekend of the year, so I want to make sure I'm at the game and sitting up on the guardrail and watching because I want to know what I'm ready for in a few weeks and I said to myself,
17:27 --> 17:44 [SPEAKER_01]: like you don't hear that all the time that was like that was pretty that was pretty cool a lot of guys when their days done at spring training it's time to go hit the golf course or hang out with their family for someone who's not in the lineup not in a lot and he's a veteran and he has a guaranteed contract and like his spot on the roster is not in question.
17:44 --> 18:05 [SPEAKER_00]: No, so he doesn't have to be here, but he decided, hey, I want to stay and I want to watch this stuff and mind you this piece of information is not something we're digging out of Rob Raff Snyder He was very open and talked about like I turned to I was like, oh, he's like because we were asking Rob you have a few seconds and he's like I think tomorrow would be better guys Because I just spent all this time hitting I saw my mind now.
18:05 --> 18:06 [SPEAKER_00]: Let me get you guys tomorrow.
18:06 --> 18:07 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a great
18:07 --> 18:13 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm turning away at this point and he got, and then he adds on, yeah, I just want to get over the game and do this.
18:13 --> 18:15 [SPEAKER_00]: I was like, oh, like, he said, didn't even ask.
18:15 --> 18:17 [SPEAKER_01]: He said, we're going to see the starter early in the year.
18:18 --> 18:20 [SPEAKER_01]: So I want to make sure I'm up on the guardrail and watching him a lot today.
18:21 --> 18:23 [SPEAKER_01]: And I thought to myself, that is pretty unique.
18:23 --> 18:26 [SPEAKER_01]: You were like, that was the first time I'd ever heard something like that.
18:26 --> 18:28 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's the personality coming out right there.
18:28 --> 18:34 [SPEAKER_00]: The transparency, the just like relatability of this type of athlete with the rest of us.
18:34 --> 18:39 [SPEAKER_01]: just to add on that again, as I mentioned a minute ago, a minute ago, can tell it was a left-handed pitcher.
18:39 --> 18:48 [SPEAKER_01]: So, Reft's not our major's wanna be ready for this stuff in general, but knowing he may see a left-handed pitcher in the first weekend of the year, he's thinking to himself, oh, I'm probably gonna be in the lineup against this guy.
18:49 --> 18:57 [SPEAKER_01]: So, a lot of players, right, when you're gonna face a starting pitcher, the day before, maybe the series before, however long ahead of time, these guys get ready for it.
18:57 --> 19:02 [SPEAKER_01]: They'll watch video, they'll do the scouting report, they'll be in their haters' meetings, they'll get themselves ready,
19:03 --> 19:11 [SPEAKER_01]: But that's usually, at least to our knowledge, the extent of how offenses get ready for opposing starting pitchers, and they're not doing it weeks and weeks in advance.
19:11 --> 19:17 [SPEAKER_01]: Ref's not or weeks in advance is like, for this one game, I need to be ready in the first weekend of the year, and I was like, that's pretty cool.
19:17 --> 19:21 [SPEAKER_00]: that is an embodiment of the work ethic that this team has.
19:21 --> 19:23 [SPEAKER_00]: It starts with Cal.
19:23 --> 19:30 [SPEAKER_00]: It continues on with the starting rotation and Julio Rodriguez and Josh Nailer and JP Crawford and on and on and on and on and on.
19:31 --> 19:35 [SPEAKER_00]: But that that sentence from Rob Raff Snyder.
19:35 --> 19:44 [SPEAKER_00]: perfectly encapsulates why people are so bullish on this team making it really far in the postseason and potentially going to the world series.
19:44 --> 19:45 [SPEAKER_00]: Ryan Davis puts it perfectly.
19:46 --> 19:57 [SPEAKER_00]: He's been around the mariners longer than just about anybody and he says not only is this group one of the most likable groups that I've ever covered but it's also the hardest working group.
19:57 --> 19:59 [SPEAKER_00]: that I've ever been around.
19:59 --> 20:01 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't have to tell them to go work.
20:01 --> 20:04 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't have to tell Cal to go mentor Luke Stephenson.
20:04 --> 20:07 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't need to go tell Cal to catch a bullpen.
20:07 --> 20:10 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't need to tell Cal, hey, you have to stay in there one more at that.
20:10 --> 20:12 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, these guys want to do this stuff.
20:12 --> 20:14 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you don't have to tell Julio to go get reps in the cages.
20:14 --> 20:19 [SPEAKER_01]: You don't have to tell Logan to make sure he's fully ready for every start.
20:19 --> 20:20 [SPEAKER_01]: You just don't have to do that stuff.
20:20 --> 20:22 [SPEAKER_00]: It's
20:22 --> 20:22 [SPEAKER_00]: very nice.
20:23 --> 20:36 [SPEAKER_00]: This is something as someone who's 27 soon to be 28 and while who's 28, who grew up from essentially 2004 on with the Mariners who are disinteresting, not good,
20:36 --> 20:43 [SPEAKER_00]: Shocked full of drama, no direction, no direction, and according to Ryan Davis, not the hardest working group on planet Earth.
20:43 --> 20:47 [SPEAKER_00]: To now have this is, it's incredible.
20:47 --> 20:50 [SPEAKER_01]: Let's, let's put this sentence on a quote card because I think it's very real.
20:51 --> 20:55 [SPEAKER_01]: More Brendan Donovan's, more Rob Raff Snyder's, less Jesse Winkers.
20:55 --> 20:56 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
20:56 --> 20:56 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
20:57 --> 21:03 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesse Winker, I don't, for what we've heard, doesn't embody that, the kind of stuff we heard today.
21:03 --> 21:04 [SPEAKER_01]: Sure.
21:04 --> 21:06 [SPEAKER_00]: Less, I don't know who else you want to throw in there.
21:06 --> 21:07 [SPEAKER_00]: Less Casey Cochman's.
21:08 --> 21:11 [SPEAKER_00]: Casey Cochman, Richie Saxon, Sean Figgins.
21:11 --> 21:11 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
21:11 --> 21:13 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, exactly that.
21:13 --> 21:15 [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, there's stuff that happened at the game today.
21:16 --> 21:18 [SPEAKER_00]: Cal had a couple of doubles here on Thursday.
21:18 --> 21:18 [SPEAKER_00]: That was nice.
21:19 --> 21:21 [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, Brendan Donovan put a really nice swing on a ball.
21:21 --> 21:22 [SPEAKER_00]: Heated up the middle.
21:22 --> 21:23 [SPEAKER_00]: Cool.
21:23 --> 21:24 [SPEAKER_00]: Timerson got a sun-assisted triple.
21:24 --> 21:28 [SPEAKER_00]: We did a lap and a half around the ballpark and sat in the press box.
21:29 --> 21:30 [SPEAKER_00]: That's a pretty productive.
21:31 --> 21:33 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll down the line up and in the podcast space.
21:33 --> 21:34 [SPEAKER_01]: Really fun, yeah.
21:34 --> 21:38 [SPEAKER_01]: Caled a good game, got him and put a nice swing on a ball like we talked about.
21:38 --> 21:45 [SPEAKER_01]: Cold Emerson at a triple, it was a little sun-assisted, but he still hit it really well, and he had to leg it out to make it all the way to third.
21:45 --> 21:47 [SPEAKER_01]: And he did, and we watched him blister ball the center.
21:48 --> 21:50 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he is, he is looked really good.
21:50 --> 21:53 [SPEAKER_01]: Even the, even the outs have looked really good from cold.
21:53 --> 21:57 [SPEAKER_00]: All right, can we talk a little bit about this risk interview before we actually get it?
21:58 --> 22:09 [SPEAKER_00]: The opportunity that Lionel and I have to sit down with Rick Rez who I think we all as fans have listened to for almost our entire lives is one of the coolest things ever.
22:09 --> 22:24 [SPEAKER_00]: Sitting and listening to him talk about all of his favorite memories, being a broadcaster for the Mariners, what his plans are after, how much he loves this team, and enjoys that worth that work ethic that this team has is incredibly cool.
22:25 --> 22:25 [SPEAKER_01]: So cool.
22:25 --> 22:27 [SPEAKER_01]: The best way I can describe it.
22:27 --> 22:36 [SPEAKER_01]: I said it to TJ immediately after we were done is I felt my entire childhood passing through me throughout the course of the interview.
22:36 --> 22:38 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, sitting down with Rick when we did.
22:38 --> 22:42 [SPEAKER_01]: really had it start to hit me that this is it for him.
22:42 --> 22:56 [SPEAKER_01]: This is it in the booth form and I'm just going through all the memories that I have of Rick Riz growing up and being in the car and being in the house and being wherever I was listening and I can just see it like passing all through in this interview and I'm like whoa it's like
22:56 --> 23:18 [SPEAKER_00]: we obviously saw the info like everybody else didn't saw the news that he was going to be retiring after this year but it really didn't hit me till we got to sit out with them for these 25 30 minutes and he's going through all his stories yeah I can't wait for you guys to listen to this interview you you really hear it all from Rick I think you do it was it put a it put a huge smile on my face we won't keep you guys any longer let's get you to the interview with Rick Riz
23:21 --> 23:25 [SPEAKER_00]: All right, we have a very, very, very special guest on with us.
23:25 --> 23:27 [SPEAKER_00]: It is, he's right here next to me.
23:27 --> 23:31 [SPEAKER_00]: The voice to the Mariners, first 41st and final season.
23:32 --> 23:33 [SPEAKER_00]: It's Rick Rez, you know his voice.
23:34 --> 23:37 [SPEAKER_00]: I just want to say, Rick, this is an absolute honor for us.
23:38 --> 23:41 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to make you feel old, but you are the voice of our childhood.
23:42 --> 23:44 [SPEAKER_00]: We've only ever known Mariners Baseball with Rick Rez.
23:45 --> 23:47 [SPEAKER_00]: So the ability to have you on here with us?
23:48 --> 23:48 [SPEAKER_00]: It's an absolute pleasure.
23:49 --> 23:52 [SPEAKER_02]: TJ and Lyle is an absolute pleasure to be with you.
23:53 --> 23:56 [SPEAKER_02]: Been around for a long time, so thank you.
23:56 --> 24:02 [SPEAKER_02]: We've had a lot of great moments, you know, in Seattle, especially over the last few years, last season getting so close to the world series.
24:02 --> 24:04 [SPEAKER_02]: This year is going to be very special.
24:04 --> 24:07 [SPEAKER_02]: So it's great spend a little time with you too, and talk a little baseball.
24:07 --> 24:10 [SPEAKER_00]: The way I've heard you talk about it, it has sunk in at this point, right?
24:10 --> 24:14 [SPEAKER_00]: Like you, it is, it is clocked in your mind.
24:14 --> 24:15 [SPEAKER_00]: Like this is, this is the last season.
24:15 --> 24:19 [SPEAKER_00]: It's like, oh, I don't want to think about like what it's going to be like, when it's, when it's not it.
24:19 --> 24:24 [SPEAKER_00]: Like you have sort of, it sounds like accepted like this, like this is it.
24:24 --> 24:37 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I've been thinking about it actually for a couple of years, of course, and tell anybody, but, you know, I was thinking about, you know, what I want to see in my last chapter of my life, you know, I still got a long way to go.
24:38 --> 24:38 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm okay.
24:38 --> 24:44 [SPEAKER_02]: Everything's fine, but, you know, I've had certain things happen in my life.
24:44 --> 24:55 [SPEAKER_02]: makes me want to take a look back and say, maybe it's time to take care of myself and you know, if I want to get on a plane and go somewhere, I want to go where I want to go.
24:55 --> 24:59 [SPEAKER_02]: But you know, things have happened in my life.
24:59 --> 25:05 [SPEAKER_02]: I've some past away a couple of years ago, some of my close friends have passed away that little late at the end of the tunnel is getting brighter.
25:05 --> 25:06 [SPEAKER_02]: Like I said, I'm fine.
25:07 --> 25:12 [SPEAKER_02]: But it just makes you sit back and reflect on what do you want for the rest of your life.
25:12 --> 25:13 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm 72 years of age.
25:14 --> 25:17 [SPEAKER_02]: I've been living my dream for 51 years, for two years.
25:18 --> 25:22 [SPEAKER_02]: You know, with eight years in the minor leagues, 41st with the Mariners coming up, three with the Detroit Tigers.
25:22 --> 25:28 [SPEAKER_02]: So I have been so blessed, but these kids keep me hanging on these baseball teams.
25:28 --> 25:30 [SPEAKER_02]: But I'm looking forward to the next chapter.
25:30 --> 25:32 [SPEAKER_02]: Whatever you know that is.
25:32 --> 25:34 [SPEAKER_02]: So I thought about this the last few years.
25:34 --> 25:36 [SPEAKER_02]: This year is going to be really special.
25:36 --> 25:38 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm taking in every drop of the season.
25:39 --> 25:41 [SPEAKER_01]: How fast is 41 years flown by?
25:41 --> 25:43 [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, Lyle, it's flown by.
25:43 --> 25:44 [SPEAKER_02]: It really has.
25:44 --> 25:49 [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I can remember being a 12 year old kid writing my hero Jack Brickhouse growing up in Chicago.
25:49 --> 25:53 [SPEAKER_02]: Jack was the Hall of Fame broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs, right in my letters.
25:53 --> 25:55 [SPEAKER_02]: And I want to be a Major League broadcaster.
25:56 --> 26:05 [SPEAKER_02]: You know, like you, and then going to college, playing it on the JV team, eight years of the minor leagues, and out here, I am at the end of my major league career as a broadcaster.
26:05 --> 26:12 [SPEAKER_02]: It's flown by, it's saying, you know, you take a look around and each season just goes by faster and faster.
26:12 --> 26:16 [SPEAKER_02]: The off season comes, and then the new season comes even faster and faster, but,
26:17 --> 26:30 [SPEAKER_02]: I can remember like it was yesterday guys opening day for me in 1983 with the Mariners with the great Dave Nehouse, you know, after years of the minor leagues, you know, I wasn't in Toledo, Ohio or Alexander, Louisiana.
26:30 --> 26:38 [SPEAKER_02]: I was in the in Seattle, Washington and the kingdom, watch the Mariners take on the New York Yankees, it was Gaylord Perry against Ryan Gidrago.
26:38 --> 26:42 [SPEAKER_02]: Not in the minor leagues anymore, it's been a dream come true.
26:42 --> 26:52 [SPEAKER_00]: How crazy is it that for the I think the first time in your adult life you're going to have your summers back not that you didn't like spending your summers at the ballpark right but the summer is now yours what are you going to do with it.
26:53 --> 26:55 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'm probably gonna go to the ballpark.
26:55 --> 27:13 [SPEAKER_02]: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
27:13 --> 27:15 [SPEAKER_02]: the preparation is the work part of it.
27:16 --> 27:17 [SPEAKER_02]: I still love that.
27:17 --> 27:18 [SPEAKER_02]: I get up at six of the morning.
27:18 --> 27:22 [SPEAKER_02]: I sit at my kitchen table for two hours starting at seven o'clock.
27:22 --> 27:23 [SPEAKER_02]: You get ready for the game.
27:23 --> 27:24 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't have one to have to do that.
27:25 --> 27:32 [SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, I'm looking forward to going to the ball, but mostly spending time with my grandkids.
27:32 --> 27:33 [SPEAKER_02]: Jackson is 20.
27:33 --> 27:35 [SPEAKER_02]: Brighton is 17 now.
27:36 --> 27:37 [SPEAKER_02]: My little girl is not so little.
27:37 --> 27:38 [SPEAKER_02]: She's 11 now.
27:38 --> 27:39 [SPEAKER_02]: She's a figure skater over in one Atchy.
27:39 --> 27:40 [SPEAKER_02]: She's a really good figure skater.
27:41 --> 27:44 [SPEAKER_02]: She wants to skating in the Olympics one day and I believe she will.
27:45 --> 27:46 [SPEAKER_02]: So that's going to be my focus.
27:46 --> 27:51 [SPEAKER_02]: You know my grandkids I can't sparky spend more time with him.
27:51 --> 27:51 [SPEAKER_02]: I love that cat.
27:52 --> 27:53 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know what I do without him.
27:54 --> 28:01 [SPEAKER_02]: But, you know, spent time with my friends and go visit my brother a little bit more in Chicago and my sister-in-law.
28:02 --> 28:06 [SPEAKER_02]: And, but I'm going to come down here every spring, you know, I have placed down here that I have for just six weeks.
28:07 --> 28:08 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm not going to move down here.
28:08 --> 28:10 [SPEAKER_02]: I can't live down here doing the summer.
28:10 --> 28:14 [SPEAKER_02]: But I'll come down here every spring and just relax and...
28:14 --> 28:15 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to enjoy the rest of my life.
28:15 --> 28:16 [SPEAKER_02]: Talk with you guys.
28:16 --> 28:17 [SPEAKER_02]: There we go.
28:17 --> 28:19 [SPEAKER_01]: That sounds amazing.
28:19 --> 28:28 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I'll give TJ the credit for thinking about this and comparing you to each year-owned away, but when you retire, how similar do you think your retirement's going to be to each year?
28:28 --> 28:33 [SPEAKER_01]: Because for those who don't know, and I think a lot of people do, each year I was at the field every day.
28:33 --> 28:33 [SPEAKER_01]: All the time.
28:33 --> 28:34 [SPEAKER_01]: every morning.
28:34 --> 28:35 [SPEAKER_01]: He's out here working out.
28:35 --> 28:36 [SPEAKER_01]: He's playing catch with the guys.
28:37 --> 28:39 [SPEAKER_01]: He doesn't usually stick around for the games, but he's always there pregame.
28:40 --> 28:41 [SPEAKER_01]: Is that going to be you and your retire?
28:41 --> 28:45 [SPEAKER_01]: You're just going to be making your rounds talking to people on a daily basis where you get all the time with your grandkids.
28:45 --> 28:48 [SPEAKER_01]: You don't have to do the broadcasts prep and get on the air.
28:48 --> 28:50 [SPEAKER_01]: But you still make your rounds at the ballpark.
28:50 --> 28:52 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'm still going to be around the ballpark.
28:52 --> 28:54 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm not going to bug Gary.
28:54 --> 28:56 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to let him do his job.
28:56 --> 29:02 [SPEAKER_02]: And hopefully we're going to hire a young guy or whoever, or a young lady, you know, to replace me next year.
29:03 --> 29:05 [SPEAKER_02]: And Aaron, I'm going to let these guys do their job.
29:05 --> 29:06 [SPEAKER_02]: And it's their time.
29:06 --> 29:08 [SPEAKER_02]: You know, I had my time in 1983.
29:08 --> 29:14 [SPEAKER_02]: I had my time over the last 41 years in between the three years in Detroit, which is a heck of a story.
29:14 --> 29:15 [SPEAKER_02]: But I
29:15 --> 29:17 [SPEAKER_02]: I'll still be around the ballpark.
29:17 --> 29:22 [SPEAKER_02]: I want to talk to the people in the suites and help promote the team in some way.
29:23 --> 29:24 [SPEAKER_02]: I talked with Jerry DePoto about scouting.
29:24 --> 29:31 [SPEAKER_02]: I got three high schools real close by, up where I live in, as a quah, 18 high schools, you know, in a 20, 30 mile radius.
29:31 --> 29:33 [SPEAKER_02]: That's something I think I would like to do.
29:33 --> 29:34 [SPEAKER_02]: It's still the up to the Mariners.
29:35 --> 29:38 [SPEAKER_02]: But I'm going to work on my cars.
29:39 --> 29:40 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know too much about them.
29:40 --> 29:42 [SPEAKER_02]: I have a couple of classic cars.
29:43 --> 29:48 [SPEAKER_02]: find out what it's like and travel so I'm still going to be around and I love talking with the fans.
29:48 --> 29:50 [SPEAKER_02]: My favorite part of the day down here is spring training.
29:51 --> 29:57 [SPEAKER_02]: You know it's coming down here to feel one field two and visit with the fans and talk at baseball because the fans have been great to me.
29:57 --> 29:58 [SPEAKER_02]: I love the fans.
29:58 --> 30:00 [SPEAKER_02]: We've got the greatest fans and major league baseball.
30:01 --> 30:02 [SPEAKER_02]: They deserve a champion.
30:02 --> 30:04 [SPEAKER_02]: I think we're going to give them that championship this year.
30:04 --> 30:05 [SPEAKER_02]: Go I'll be around.
30:05 --> 30:10 [SPEAKER_00]: So when I sit back and I think about Mariners baseball and listening to you, I know how much you love 1995.
30:10 --> 30:13 [SPEAKER_00]: You talk about it so, so, so, so much.
30:14 --> 30:21 [SPEAKER_00]: What I didn't realize until I was sitting here and getting ready for this interview is really how close you were to not even being here for 1995.
30:21 --> 30:22 [SPEAKER_00]: How much you sit and think about that?
30:23 --> 30:24 [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, very grateful.
30:24 --> 30:35 [SPEAKER_02]: If it wasn't for Dave Nehouse, I would have missed it because I was here in 83 and after nine seasons,
30:35 --> 30:36 [SPEAKER_02]: terrible idea.
30:36 --> 30:39 [SPEAKER_02]: But he went up to me and he said, Rick, I want you to play for my job.
30:39 --> 30:49 [SPEAKER_02]: And I said, Ernie, I feel sorry for the poor son of we got this kind of replace him because they were up in arms, Ernie, legendary and Detroit, 34 years as the all of him brought cancer for the Tigers.
30:50 --> 30:55 [SPEAKER_02]: But Dave said, you know what, Rick, you know, once you go for it, you know, you're more than welcome to stay right here, of course.
30:55 --> 30:59 [SPEAKER_02]: But once you give it a shot, so I did, and I play for the job and I got it.
31:00 --> 31:04 [SPEAKER_02]: But that first year, just kind of abbreviated things if I can.
31:04 --> 31:09 [SPEAKER_02]: Tom Manahan, the domino speech guy, so the Michael it's the little Caesar speech guy.
31:09 --> 31:16 [SPEAKER_02]: Halfway through my first year and Mr. Elitian, the organization wanted to get her any back because Ernie was beloved there.
31:16 --> 31:17 [SPEAKER_02]: He should have never left.
31:18 --> 31:19 [SPEAKER_02]: And we got her any back.
31:19 --> 31:23 [SPEAKER_02]: My second year there in 1993 and I worked with Ernie for an entire season.
31:23 --> 31:26 [SPEAKER_02]: He did three and he's a play by play and myself and Bob Rathman.
31:27 --> 31:55 [SPEAKER_02]: uh... you know did the other six innings but uh... you know after three years they they let me go they got early back let me go week before christmas and any news going to happen i call Dave kneehouse cabin cremaine randy at a mac chakaram strong and thank goodness thank you guys forget me back uh... when they did because thank goodness i didn't miss the ninety five season i was happy that mr. illits let me go because ninety five was here that's a baseball in sea atle
31:55 --> 31:57 [SPEAKER_02]: It was the year that Ken Griffey Jr.
31:57 --> 31:59 [SPEAKER_02]: Shattered his wrist at the end of May of 1995.
31:59 --> 32:06 [SPEAKER_02]: Had the surger at his wrist, played 7 screws, 9 screws in his wrist, and then came back three months later.
32:06 --> 32:18 [SPEAKER_02]: And, you know, with Randy Johnson and Jr. when he came back and at your Martinez and Dan Wilson and Norm Charlton and the rest of the guys little Joey Korra, Mike Blowers.
32:18 --> 32:39 [SPEAKER_02]: uh... they kept winning the angels kept losing we had the one game playoff louis so hold in the face it's going to run ball six on by so down the right line to the bullpenter flowers here comes to you throw home cut off by lengths and really him gets a violin score score scores every money score you've never know what year it is and that nineteen eighty five one game playoff for the mariner's uh... one they're currently west for the very first time
32:39 --> 32:50 [SPEAKER_02]: And thank goodness, I didn't miss that season because without those guys, guys, the Mariners doing what they did, how they did it, and when they did it, we wouldn't be here.
32:50 --> 32:59 [SPEAKER_02]: Now, you know, and of course the new ownership, you know, with Nintendo coming in, with the new ownership, and with the, but the guys had to get it done on the field.
32:59 --> 33:15 [SPEAKER_02]: to generate that interest, to generate that excitement, to prove to the Northwest, but to prove to majorly baseball that Seattle could not only survive, but thrive in the Pacific Northwest and we are thriving right now because of that team.
33:15 --> 33:16 [SPEAKER_01]: It is crazy to think about.
33:17 --> 33:22 [SPEAKER_01]: If Louis Soho doesn't hit that triple triple in an error, maybe we're not baseball fans because that was before we were born.
33:22 --> 33:30 [SPEAKER_01]: It was two years before we were born and if that'd do feel like that, I mean don't get me wrong.
33:30 --> 33:37 [SPEAKER_01]: We've watched the play a million times growing up, but it is crazy to think about the ripple effects of that season and what it's done for this whole city.
33:37 --> 33:38 [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, no doubt, Lyle.
33:38 --> 33:42 [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, like I said, they were 13 games out of first place.
33:42 --> 33:49 [SPEAKER_02]: On August 1st with two months left to play, it was the largest third largest comeback in Major League history.
33:49 --> 33:53 [SPEAKER_02]: Teams don't come back from a 13 game deficit with two months to play.
33:54 --> 33:58 [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe with six months if there are 13 games out and in the first month of the season, maybe.
33:59 --> 34:02 [SPEAKER_02]: But with two months left to play, that was absolutely remarkable.
34:02 --> 34:14 [SPEAKER_02]: Edgar Martinez, the Hall of Famer, Randy Johnson, Hall of Famer, King Murphy, Junior, the Hall of Famer, and everybody else, Lupinella, taught that team how to win, pushed all the right buttons.
34:14 --> 34:16 [SPEAKER_02]: Norm Charlton, thank goodness, was released.
34:16 --> 34:21 [SPEAKER_02]: I believe by the Phillies, and the Mariners signed him in June of that year, I'll never forget.
34:21 --> 34:28 [SPEAKER_02]: It was Kingdom Mostark, I was there in the press box in the radio booth early, and I heard this, saw this guy go down to the left field line of the bullpen.
34:28 --> 34:32 [SPEAKER_02]: I heard pop, pop, pop, he threw about maybe 10 pitches
34:32 --> 34:39 [SPEAKER_02]: They walked back in, I saw Lewis there, and I found out five minutes later, we say Norm Charlton and thank goodness, Norm Charlton came along.
34:39 --> 34:46 [SPEAKER_02]: So, I mean, all the stars aligned for that team to do what they did to say baseball.
34:46 --> 34:50 [SPEAKER_01]: You mentioned seeing Norm at the ballpark early, warming up.
34:50 --> 34:53 [SPEAKER_01]: In general, how many people beat you to the ballpark on a regular basis?
34:53 --> 34:55 [SPEAKER_01]: Because you're there, I feel like, before everybody.
34:55 --> 34:59 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I usually leave the house around one o'clock in the afternoon and while,
34:59 --> 35:03 [SPEAKER_02]: Jay get to the ballpark at 130 or leave at 130 get there by two.
35:03 --> 35:19 [SPEAKER_02]: I love getting there early and I get my homework done out of the way Which is my notes on the team in the starting pitchers that way I can spend time down in the field in the dugout in the club house Talking with the guys and getting stories and first guy I went to was Lua He was at Lou who was it?
35:19 --> 35:19 [SPEAKER_02]: That's Norm Charlton.
35:20 --> 35:22 [SPEAKER_02]: I go whoa That's awesome, man.
35:22 --> 35:25 [SPEAKER_02]: You know he was making a comeback after a success with
35:25 --> 35:46 [SPEAKER_02]: his team in the Cincinnati Reds, you know, winning a world series in 1990, over the nasty boys, that Charlton was a part of, but that's what I'd like to do, get to the ballpark early and when I did the whole post game show long before, you know, Gary Hill got involved and Aaron, I did the whole post game show, it was just me.
35:46 --> 35:49 [SPEAKER_02]: So I would be the first one there, last one to leave.
35:49 --> 35:53 [SPEAKER_02]: Now we get out of there after the round table, but I love what I do.
35:53 --> 35:55 [SPEAKER_02]: And I loved it.
35:55 --> 35:56 [SPEAKER_02]: I've loved it.
35:56 --> 35:58 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm living my dream for the last 51 years.
35:58 --> 36:00 [SPEAKER_00]: If you could relive one moment again, what would it be?
36:02 --> 36:02 [SPEAKER_02]: Oh my goodness.
36:03 --> 36:19 [SPEAKER_02]: There's so many TJ, but that 95 season, what they did, the capture, the excitement, and the city to see the joy and the jubilation of the fans and the kingdom, the one game playoff, but also Edgar's double
36:19 --> 36:37 [SPEAKER_02]: I would love to read that every day and here now at yours here every day is any coach for the ball club The Mariners were down 5-4 in the bottom of the 11th inning to the Yankees little Joey Corre had a bunch base it down Manly couldn't get the tag out of diving form junior base set up the middle two pitches later.
36:37 --> 36:39 [SPEAKER_02]: Here comes that here with a
36:40 --> 36:43 [SPEAKER_02]: chance to all he said all they wanted to do was just tie the game.
36:43 --> 36:46 [SPEAKER_02]: I wanted to just sit a sacrifice fly that was the beauty of Edwin Martinez.
36:46 --> 36:53 [SPEAKER_02]: That's why he's in all the fame and he took a fast ball for a strike from Jack McDowell who struck him out with a fork ball in the ninth inning.
36:54 --> 36:55 [SPEAKER_02]: He said I was looking for the fork ball.
36:55 --> 37:00 [SPEAKER_02]: He got it, didn't over swing, boom, double down the left field line, the biggest hit in the franchise.
37:00 --> 37:11 [SPEAKER_02]: 50-6 people were going crazy in the kingdom, hugging and kissing each other, and just the joy and the excitement of the fan base knowing, you know what?
37:11 --> 37:12 [SPEAKER_02]: We can do this.
37:13 --> 37:15 [SPEAKER_02]: We just beat the New York Yankees.
37:16 --> 37:26 [SPEAKER_02]: Pract 50-6 people in the kingdom, and the whole world took notice that baseball was going to be all right and Seattle because of those guys.
37:26 --> 37:53 [SPEAKER_00]: Can you compare that to what we just saw this past season in the postseason, which I feel like in almost a similar context, not the same exterior, exterior situation that the Mariners were dealing with in 1995 with the stadium, but what Jorge Polanco did in the 15th inning against the Tigers, that I sort of feel like unlocked the kind of team that we have here at Spring Training with the expectations are incredibly high and everyone knows they can win.
37:53 --> 37:55 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, TJ, it was very similar.
37:56 --> 38:09 [SPEAKER_02]: You know, 95, say baseball, 2025 was the greatest season on the field, because we got to the American League Championship series, which we've done before, but we got to game seven.
38:10 --> 38:15 [SPEAKER_02]: And there were just eight outs away from getting to the world series someplace we've never been before.
38:15 --> 38:21 [SPEAKER_02]: But they have 47 people at Team Mobile Park,
38:22 --> 38:33 [SPEAKER_02]: size McGrath inside the ballpark and the fans created 2.5 earthquake, you know, on the Richter skill, you know, and the excitement was amazing, just like it was in 95.
38:33 --> 38:39 [SPEAKER_02]: I went back to that and I saw it again last year, and it's just the greatest thing in the world if you're a baseball fan.
38:39 --> 38:42 [SPEAKER_02]: You're team getting that far and winning.
38:42 --> 38:51 [SPEAKER_02]: And winning like that, you know, in 15 innings with a walk off base hit by Jorge Polaco and the Mariners are gonna play for the Maracoli Championship series.
38:51 --> 38:55 [SPEAKER_02]: I could still recall what Dave Nehouse said when when Edgar hit the double.
38:55 --> 38:56 [SPEAKER_02]: Not a left-field line.
38:56 --> 38:57 [SPEAKER_02]: Here comes Joey.
38:57 --> 38:58 [SPEAKER_02]: Here comes Junior.
38:58 --> 38:59 [SPEAKER_02]: The throw will be light.
38:59 --> 39:01 [SPEAKER_02]: The Mariners are going to play for the American League Championship.
39:02 --> 39:02 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't believe it.
39:02 --> 39:04 [SPEAKER_02]: My own mind just continues.
39:04 --> 39:09 [SPEAKER_02]: Then here I am with a chance to make that call with Polaco's base in the right field of scored J.
39:09 --> 39:13 [SPEAKER_02]: B. Crawford to put the Mariners in the American League Championship series.
39:13 --> 39:19 [SPEAKER_02]: And it was just one of the great, incredible, remarkable, beautiful moments in the history of our franchise.
39:19 --> 39:24 [SPEAKER_02]: Because of the fans, you fans have supported this team so well
39:25 --> 39:26 [SPEAKER_02]: And I can't thank you enough.
39:26 --> 39:28 [SPEAKER_02]: You guys are the best fans in baseball.
39:28 --> 39:35 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, before we get back to 2026, I do want to talk about Dave here for a second, because he obviously means so much to you and you pay tribute to him all the time, which is amazing.
39:36 --> 39:43 [SPEAKER_01]: I think a lot of people around our age know how much he meant to the franchise, but couldn't appreciate it themselves, because they didn't grow up with him.
39:44 --> 39:46 [SPEAKER_01]: Like me, I met him once briefly at FanFast.
39:46 --> 39:50 [SPEAKER_01]: I was so young, I must have been four or five years old, but,
39:50 --> 39:55 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think I understood the significance of it at the time, so how much did Dave mean to you?
39:55 --> 39:58 [SPEAKER_01]: I know it's a loaded question, but like, can you put it into context?
39:58 --> 40:10 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and the answer is he meant everything to me, and me saying me, he meant everything to the fans and the Pacific Northwest, but me and particularly because he gave me an opportunity.
40:10 --> 40:15 [SPEAKER_02]: You know, I hope every kid, no matter if they're a broadcaster or whatever they're doing life,
40:15 --> 40:18 [SPEAKER_02]: has a Dave Nehouse on their life to give them an opportunity.
40:19 --> 40:23 [SPEAKER_02]: All we ask for in this life in our country is an opportunity to show what we can do.
40:23 --> 40:25 [SPEAKER_02]: Then it's up to us to do something with it.
40:26 --> 40:27 [SPEAKER_02]: And Dave meant everything to me.
40:27 --> 40:30 [SPEAKER_02]: He got me here as a young broadcaster in 1983.
40:31 --> 40:37 [SPEAKER_02]: Finally, after eight years, the minor leagues making 200 bucks a month, 500 bucks a month, 750 bucks a month,
40:37 --> 40:42 [SPEAKER_02]: Washington, the uniform standing issues my first job in 1975 in Alexandria, Louisiana.
40:42 --> 40:45 [SPEAKER_02]: Here I am now in the big leagues because of Dave Nehouse.
40:45 --> 40:46 [SPEAKER_02]: Then I'm here for nine years.
40:46 --> 40:47 [SPEAKER_02]: Go away to Detroit.
40:48 --> 40:52 [SPEAKER_02]: He gets me back and I didn't miss the 1995 season.
40:52 --> 40:55 [SPEAKER_02]: But what he meant to the fans was unbelievable.
40:55 --> 40:56 [SPEAKER_02]: He was the greatest dancer.
40:57 --> 40:59 [SPEAKER_02]: I think in Major League Baseball, when
40:59 --> 41:04 [SPEAKER_02]: the team had so many lean years in the early part of the franchise from that side of the 1977.
41:05 --> 41:10 [SPEAKER_02]: We didn't have our first winning season until 1991 when we won 82 games.
41:11 --> 41:16 [SPEAKER_02]: But the Mariners had Dave Nehouse, and he meant everything to the fans in the Pacific Northwest.
41:16 --> 41:20 [SPEAKER_02]: He tuned in to a Mariners game on KBI at the time.
41:20 --> 41:28 [SPEAKER_02]: Now Seattle Sports, 710 AM, and you heard the beautiful voice to bring baseball alive to fans in the Pacific Northwest.
41:28 --> 41:31 [SPEAKER_02]: He was the greatest storyteller I've ever sent next to.
41:31 --> 41:34 [SPEAKER_02]: He was the greatest storyteller I've ever seen as a broadcaster.
41:35 --> 41:36 [SPEAKER_02]: He's in the baseball hall of fame.
41:36 --> 41:40 [SPEAKER_02]: He's got a statue out of Team Mobile Park.
41:41 --> 41:43 [SPEAKER_02]: But that's all you need to know about Dave Nehouse.
41:43 --> 41:50 [SPEAKER_02]: But without Dave, we would have lost so much listening to those games in the early days.
41:50 --> 41:54 [SPEAKER_02]: And then for the bulk of him to do well, then Major League Baseball in the fans discovered Dave Nehouse.
41:55 --> 42:00 [SPEAKER_02]: Because here comes CSPN, the game of the week, and people were hearing Dave's calls in 1995 here.
42:00 --> 42:02 [SPEAKER_02]: Who's that guy on the saligan so excited?
42:02 --> 42:03 [SPEAKER_02]: Man, he's really good.
42:03 --> 42:04 [SPEAKER_02]: He's great.
42:04 --> 42:06 [SPEAKER_02]: And he went in the Hall of Fame in 2008.
42:06 --> 42:11 [SPEAKER_02]: So answer your question.
42:11 --> 42:26 [SPEAKER_02]: and his family, Greta, his daughter's like my daughter and his son's Matt and Andy, our family's blended together along with Kevin Cremon and his family and without Kevin and Andy, I wouldn't be here.
42:26 --> 42:29 [SPEAKER_02]: But he meant everything to the fans and Seattle in the Pacific Northwest.
42:30 --> 42:33 [SPEAKER_00]: What would it mean to you for this team to finally get the deal done in win a world series?
42:34 --> 42:37 [SPEAKER_02]: Oh my gosh, I might jump out of the booth, I don't know.
42:37 --> 42:38 [SPEAKER_00]: Please don't.
42:38 --> 42:43 [SPEAKER_02]: Oh my goodness, uh, when Junior scored the run in 1995, I was jumping up and down.
42:43 --> 42:45 [SPEAKER_02]: I took my headphones off and day it was making the call junior on and third.
42:45 --> 42:53 [SPEAKER_02]: They're all going to be late, but it would mean everything because we've never been the world only team did has never been to the world series.
42:53 --> 42:55 [SPEAKER_02]: We're one of a handful of teams that
42:55 --> 43:03 [SPEAKER_02]: has never won a series, teams have been there, but haven't won the Padres in a few of the bulklobs, but it would just mean everything.
43:04 --> 43:06 [SPEAKER_02]: Because that's why these guys put on in your form.
43:07 --> 43:11 [SPEAKER_02]: That's why fans tune in, because you want your team to win.
43:12 --> 43:14 [SPEAKER_02]: And the Mariners have an opportunity to do that.
43:14 --> 43:15 [SPEAKER_02]: So close last year.
43:16 --> 43:17 [SPEAKER_02]: And now the fans know they can get there.
43:18 --> 43:21 [SPEAKER_02]: But the most important thing is belief, it's very powerful.
43:21 --> 43:23 [SPEAKER_02]: And those guys in that club are over there.
43:23 --> 43:29 [SPEAKER_02]: Here it is, you know, in the early part of Spring Training, they know they can win the World Series.
43:30 --> 43:31 [SPEAKER_02]: And that's a beautiful thing.
43:31 --> 43:34 [SPEAKER_02]: So I'm looking forward to a great season here in 2026.
43:34 --> 43:35 [SPEAKER_00]: last thing for me, Rick.
43:35 --> 43:40 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, it was the last time you felt an expectation around spring training like this.
43:40 --> 43:44 [SPEAKER_00]: Because speaking for myself, in my life, I can think of 2015.
43:45 --> 43:47 [SPEAKER_00]: There was a lot of hype for that team.
43:47 --> 43:48 [SPEAKER_00]: They just come off.
43:48 --> 43:49 [SPEAKER_00]: They had great pitching season.
43:49 --> 43:51 [SPEAKER_00]: They had cano, they had crews, they had seagull.
43:52 --> 43:53 [SPEAKER_00]: They were on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
43:53 --> 43:55 [SPEAKER_00]: And they flopped.
43:55 --> 43:56 [SPEAKER_00]: They finished sub-500.
43:57 --> 43:59 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't see that with this group.
43:59 --> 44:01 [SPEAKER_00]: And I see the expectation higher than that.
44:01 --> 44:05 [SPEAKER_02]: This is the highest expectation 41 years ever seen here.
44:06 --> 44:18 [SPEAKER_02]: You know, in 1995, when they won, then they traded Mike Blowers and Tino Martinez and you know that Randy's days were kind of numbered a few years later after that.
44:18 --> 44:27 [SPEAKER_02]: But right now, they have had Jerry DePoto and Justin Hollider have done an amazing job putting the pieces of the puzzle together for this team.
44:28 --> 44:32 [SPEAKER_02]: You know, doing an amazing job of scouting and drafting.
44:33 --> 44:51 [SPEAKER_02]: 2018, long ago, over 2019, George Kirby, 2020, ever since Hankak, 2021, Bryce Millen and the fourth round, Brian Will and the sixth round, adding Luis Castillo, the trade with San Diego, bringing over Andrés Munoz, and other deals that they may bring in and Brendan Donovan this year.
44:52 --> 44:55 [SPEAKER_02]: It's going to be a great addition to the off spot, and all started at Gold Glover.
44:55 --> 44:59 [SPEAKER_02]: the maturation of JP Crawford over the last five years.
45:00 --> 45:02 [SPEAKER_02]: I think he deserves more credit, I think then he gets.
45:03 --> 45:07 [SPEAKER_02]: The young players in this organization, the expectations.
45:08 --> 45:10 [SPEAKER_02]: Our sky high for this baseball team.
45:11 --> 45:15 [SPEAKER_02]: And I'm not putting any pressure on that team because they know it already in the clubhouse.
45:15 --> 45:23 [SPEAKER_02]: They're out there and feel one, you know, right now getting ready and they're ready to go all the way and when this whole thing is Cal said, let's win the old dog on thing.
45:23 --> 45:26 [SPEAKER_01]: Speaking of the devil, last one I got for you.
45:26 --> 45:31 [SPEAKER_01]: As you enter your final season, what is in the cards for Cal Raleigh in 2026?
45:31 --> 45:33 [SPEAKER_01]: Load a question, but everybody wants to know.
45:33 --> 45:35 [SPEAKER_02]: It's amazing, Leia, what he did.
45:35 --> 45:37 [SPEAKER_02]: It's so off the charts.
45:37 --> 45:42 [SPEAKER_02]: He had the greatest season in the history of Major League Baseball for a catcher.
45:42 --> 45:45 [SPEAKER_02]: how he didn't win the MVP award, I don't understand.
45:45 --> 45:52 [SPEAKER_02]: I thought it should be a landslide, a landslide, because he did it as a catcher.
45:52 --> 45:52 [SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
45:52 --> 45:58 [SPEAKER_02]: He got beat up behind home play to keep going and going to go to court 121 games played 38 as a designated hitter.
45:58 --> 46:00 [SPEAKER_02]: 60 home runs.
46:00 --> 46:01 [SPEAKER_02]: Think about that.
46:01 --> 46:05 [SPEAKER_02]: If he hits 20 fewer this year, 20, he still hits 40.
46:06 --> 46:09 [SPEAKER_02]: And not too many catchers have hit 40 in back to back years.
46:10 --> 46:11 [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, Mike Piazza may be Johnny Benson.
46:12 --> 46:12 [SPEAKER_02]: That's it.
46:13 --> 46:17 [SPEAKER_02]: Or 30 plus home runs two, three years in a row.
46:17 --> 46:20 [SPEAKER_02]: You can add in, you know, Campanella and a few other great catchers.
46:21 --> 46:21 [SPEAKER_02]: That's it.
46:22 --> 46:26 [SPEAKER_02]: And what he did defensively, he didn't have one pass ball.
46:26 --> 46:28 [SPEAKER_02]: It's our season regular season.
46:29 --> 46:29 [SPEAKER_02]: Right.
46:29 --> 46:34 [SPEAKER_02]: He had more home runs than any catcher in the history of the game at Baseball, surpassing Salvador Perez.
46:34 --> 46:39 [SPEAKER_02]: He had more home runs than any switch hitter in the game at Baseball, another Hall of Famer, Mickey Mantle.
46:40 --> 46:44 [SPEAKER_02]: He tied B-Bruth for the third most home runs in American League history with 60.
46:44 --> 46:50 [SPEAKER_02]: He set the main Mariners record for most home runs in a single season, 60, Jr. had 56, a couple years in a row.
46:50 --> 47:00 [SPEAKER_02]: So it's amazing what this young man has done, so if he hits anywhere between 30 and 40 home runs, it's going to be another phenomenal year.
47:01 --> 47:07 [SPEAKER_02]: And what he did was so off the charts that who knows what he can do this year.
47:07 --> 47:16 [SPEAKER_02]: But to do it again, oh man, it would be incredible because no catcher has ever hit 60 home runs in a single season.
47:17 --> 47:20 [SPEAKER_02]: until Cal Raleigh did it last year.
47:20 --> 47:23 [SPEAKER_02]: It was just amazing to watch his consistency.
47:23 --> 47:28 [SPEAKER_02]: I think he had more home runs than anybody at the All-Star Break other than Barry Bonds and we know what Barry did.
47:29 --> 47:30 [SPEAKER_02]: He did 98.
47:30 --> 47:30 [SPEAKER_03]: Crazy.
47:30 --> 47:32 [SPEAKER_02]: But he did it the right way.
47:32 --> 47:33 [SPEAKER_02]: He works hard.
47:34 --> 47:39 [SPEAKER_02]: And the other part of the MVP, which the writer's missed out on, is the V-part, the valuable.
47:39 --> 47:40 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
47:40 --> 47:43 [SPEAKER_02]: And just one instance out of a thousand,
47:43 --> 47:54 [SPEAKER_02]: Well, long road trip, and wasn't a good trip later on in the year, we ended up in a land that they started winning, came home against St. Louis, and ended up winning 19 at a row 17 out of 18 games.
47:54 --> 48:11 [SPEAKER_02]: Cal Rally, and in the game against St. Louis, early in the Balkan first inning, Logan Gilbert gives up three runs, or excuse me, the bases are loaded, three on and nobody out, and Cal Coast time goes out there, talk with his good buddy, and says the words of wisdom that he says, he calms him down,
48:12 --> 48:21 [SPEAKER_02]: Logan strikes out the next guy, strikes out the following guys, strikes out the next guy, strikes out the side, gets out of the inning without giving up a run, that's Cal Raleigh.
48:21 --> 48:30 [SPEAKER_02]: He knows each and every one of those guys, he's so prepared, you know, when he shows up the ballpark at 2 o'clock in the afternoon or whenever he gets serious, prepared before he gets to the ballpark.
48:31 --> 48:41 [SPEAKER_02]: He knows what it takes to get his pitcher through a ballgame, he knows each and every guy down there in the bullpen, and I can't say enough about Cal Raleigh.
48:41 --> 48:47 [SPEAKER_02]: In my mind, I'm going to say every time it comes up to plume plate, here's America League MVP, because he doesn't deserve your work.
48:48 --> 48:49 [SPEAKER_02]: Nothing against Aaron Judge.
48:50 --> 48:53 [SPEAKER_02]: But Aaron Judge at 331, I get that and his OPS, I get that.
48:54 --> 48:57 [SPEAKER_02]: But it's not about the best offensive player, which I think that was actually.
48:58 --> 49:00 [SPEAKER_02]: But it's about who is the most valuable player.
49:00 --> 49:05 [SPEAKER_02]: And I told people, even on the podcast with guys from New York, I said, put a mask.
49:05 --> 49:12 [SPEAKER_02]: And a chess protector and shin guards and Aaron judge haven't catch 121 games and see what Aaron judge would hit.
49:12 --> 49:15 [SPEAKER_02]: I love Aaron judge, but see what he would hit.
49:16 --> 49:19 [SPEAKER_02]: And in order to find out the MVP award, you got to compare apples to apples.
49:19 --> 49:20 [SPEAKER_02]: You could do that.
49:21 --> 49:22 [SPEAKER_02]: Aaron judge would not hit 331.
49:23 --> 49:25 [SPEAKER_02]: So Cal Rawley should have been the American League MVP.
49:25 --> 49:27 [SPEAKER_02]: I can go for another half hour and I'll run out of time.
49:28 --> 49:32 [SPEAKER_02]: But he had the greatest year in the history of Major League Baseball for a catcher.
49:32 --> 49:33 [SPEAKER_02]: And on top of that,
49:33 --> 49:36 [SPEAKER_02]: He's like, what are the nicest guys I've ever met in a few more years.
49:36 --> 49:39 [SPEAKER_02]: It's amazing, you know, and in my broadcast career.
49:39 --> 50:02 [SPEAKER_00]: In terms of superstars, like we're talking judge, trout, Otani, Betts, Soto, like these guys is he not like the most available, the most like down to earth, down to earth, just normal super star that for me and on my brief time here cover the mariners that I've ever been around.
50:02 --> 50:03 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, do you feel the same way?
50:03 --> 50:06 [SPEAKER_02]: I feel exactly the same way TJ and Lyle.
50:06 --> 50:23 [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, all you have to do is made his mom and dad and his younger brother, his family, you know, where he comes from, you know, growing up in North Carolina's dad's from the northeast and, you know, he grew up with a great work ethic always around the ballpark.
50:24 --> 50:25 [SPEAKER_02]: He loved the game at baseball.
50:26 --> 50:30 [SPEAKER_02]: And I found out, really early, when I asked him, I said, you're a switcher to what's your natural side?
50:30 --> 50:31 [SPEAKER_02]: He said, Rick, I don't have one.
50:31 --> 50:38 [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, his dad started him switchinning both sides played about four years old, you know, 10 swings from left side, 10 swings from right side.
50:39 --> 50:45 [SPEAKER_02]: But he had that work ethic, that love of his family, the love of baseball, and it shows in each every day.
50:46 --> 50:48 [SPEAKER_02]: He's has tremendous respect for us.
50:49 --> 50:50 [SPEAKER_02]: for the job that we do.
50:50 --> 50:56 [SPEAKER_02]: He has tremendous respect for the fan base, and time with them, and now he's doing all these wonderful commercials.
50:56 --> 51:02 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if he finds time to do them, but that point commercial for the plumbing company is really good.
51:02 --> 51:06 [SPEAKER_02]: Really good, and everything he does is really good.
51:06 --> 51:07 [SPEAKER_02]: Everything he touches is really good.
51:07 --> 51:13 [SPEAKER_02]: He wins the home run Derby, and he predicted it when it was eight years old, 20 years ago.
51:13 --> 51:15 [SPEAKER_02]: Nathan, you know, I'm the home run Derby champ.
51:15 --> 51:16 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm the home run Derby champ.
51:16 --> 51:17 [SPEAKER_02]: His dad,
51:17 --> 51:21 [SPEAKER_02]: video taped him and sure enough last year he won the home run Derby.
51:21 --> 51:24 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know how they did it, but he measured his last home run.
51:24 --> 51:28 [SPEAKER_02]: It was an inch farther than Brent Ross, so he continued to the next round.
51:28 --> 51:29 [SPEAKER_02]: But that was the year for Cal Rally.
51:29 --> 51:33 [SPEAKER_02]: It was especially your for Cal, and I can't wait to see what he does this year.
51:33 --> 51:38 [SPEAKER_00]: Well Rick, this has been an absolute honor and I'll speak for the both of us as life-long Mariners fans.
51:39 --> 51:45 [SPEAKER_00]: We have never known Mariners baseball without Rick Rez, so having you here on this podcast, your final season, it means a lot to us.
51:46 --> 51:46 [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for joining us.
51:47 --> 51:58 [SPEAKER_02]: Well TJ and Lyle means a lot to me to be with you and tell a fans a little bit about this baseball team, a little bit about myself because there's great stories to tell.
51:58 --> 52:01 [SPEAKER_02]: And the beauty about baseball is a lot more stories to tell.
52:02 --> 52:12 [SPEAKER_02]: You know, ever since I got here in 1983, in 1926 is going to, you know, be chock full of great stories to tell and all starts and open your day.
52:12 --> 52:14 [SPEAKER_02]: Actually, it starts right down here at Spring Training.
52:14 --> 52:18 [SPEAKER_02]: So I can't wait to see this baseball season unfold and be a part of it.
52:19 --> 52:19 [SPEAKER_02]: It's going to be a lot of fun.
52:19 --> 52:21 [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you, guys, for what you do.
52:23 --> 52:25 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, shout out to the legend, the voice of the Mariners.
52:26 --> 52:28 [SPEAKER_01]: Rick Res, what a cool interview.
52:28 --> 52:33 [SPEAKER_00]: My biggest takeaway is how at peace Rick is with this decision.
52:33 --> 52:38 [SPEAKER_00]: It sounded like he had had this idea that this would be his final season for a couple of years now.
52:38 --> 52:41 [SPEAKER_00]: And I think he has all of the right reasons for it.
52:42 --> 52:46 [SPEAKER_00]: But he also understands that this is not the end for him and the Mariners.
52:46 --> 52:46 [SPEAKER_00]: He here.
52:46 --> 52:48 [SPEAKER_00]: He wanted to, you want to go scout.
52:48 --> 52:51 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a bunch of high schools with great town in the Seattle area.
52:51 --> 52:54 [SPEAKER_00]: And he can go watch some of these kids and have the opportunity to do that.
52:54 --> 52:57 [SPEAKER_00]: But on top of that, he is always going to be around the Mariners.
52:57 --> 52:59 [SPEAKER_00]: He's going to be in the Mariners Hall of Fame.
52:59 --> 53:01 [SPEAKER_00]: He's probably going to have a statue in the ballpark.
53:02 --> 53:05 [SPEAKER_00]: He's got a house down here in Arizona that he can come visit spring training at.
53:06 --> 53:08 [SPEAKER_00]: I do really think he's going to be like each ruin is retirement.
53:08 --> 53:10 [SPEAKER_01]: I think it is going to be very much like each hero.
53:10 --> 53:13 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he's retired, but he's never really left.
53:13 --> 53:16 [SPEAKER_01]: I am going to guess during a lot of spring trainings moving forward.
53:16 --> 53:28 [SPEAKER_01]: Rick's just going to be able to walk in whenever he wants as he should go talk to all his favorite players go talk to all the media go talk to the coaches and he's going to be given tours and interacting with fans there is
53:29 --> 53:33 [SPEAKER_01]: Rick Rizz embodies the Mariners and to not have them around Wouldn't feel right.
53:33 --> 53:36 [SPEAKER_01]: I think I think Rick doesn't want to like not be around.
53:36 --> 53:39 [SPEAKER_01]: What did he say he was going to do during the summer when he's retired?
53:39 --> 53:54 [SPEAKER_00]: Probably go to baseball games right go to Mariners games and just instead of sitting in the booth He's gonna sit in the stands or a suite with a drink in his hand and relax and family family and friends Yeah, that's gonna be a really really awesome opportunity for him and I hope the Mariners paid off for him
53:55 --> 53:59 [SPEAKER_01]: Can they win it in the final year for him and how poetic it wouldn't even just be for him.
53:59 --> 54:11 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it's for him and it's for Dave knee house because As much as Dave knee house is honored within the Mariners organization with the statue and in the Mariners whole fame and all of this stuff.
54:11 --> 54:19 [SPEAKER_00]: I feel like Rick carries the last like lively part of Dave Nehouse with him and brings it to the broadcast every single night.
54:19 --> 54:22 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think that will continue going forward.
54:22 --> 54:30 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think that's going to be something that's Gary's going to do or whoever the new broadcaster is or that Aaron Goldsmith's going to do because that's just not who they are.
54:30 --> 54:31 [SPEAKER_00]: They just have to be authentically themselves.
54:31 --> 54:32 [SPEAKER_00]: But that's who Rick raises.
54:33 --> 54:39 [SPEAKER_00]: Love Dave Nehouse and I feel like there'll be a great way to send them both off in this last year.
54:39 --> 54:53 [SPEAKER_01]: I feel like there could be a very real possibility that if the Mariners are close to getting into the playoffs or the picture shows that they're probably going to get into the playoffs, I wouldn't be shocked if we start to see a Mariners hashtag that's something along the lines of win-it-for-is.
54:53 --> 54:53 [SPEAKER_01]: in 2020.
54:53 --> 54:54 [SPEAKER_01]: I agree.
54:54 --> 54:55 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
54:55 --> 54:56 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm 100% with you.
54:56 --> 55:02 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I wasn't going to say it to Rick in the inner in the interview because he's way too humble for this and he never say anything along these lines.
55:02 --> 55:07 [SPEAKER_01]: But I got to tell you guys there is some room out in Wright Center Field next to that Dave Neighau statue.
55:07 --> 55:08 [SPEAKER_01]: He's sitting at that table.
55:08 --> 55:10 [SPEAKER_01]: There is some room along with it.
55:10 --> 55:14 [SPEAKER_01]: And I don't think there is a more poetic way to honor Rick Riz.
55:14 --> 55:27 [SPEAKER_00]: then putting his statue because he's going to have one next the day me house next to his long time broadcast partner and very good friend and a big reason that he was in Seattle to start and that he came back to Seattle pretty cool.
55:27 --> 55:28 [SPEAKER_00]: That's awesome.
55:28 --> 55:29 [SPEAKER_01]: Man, shout out to Rick Riz.
55:29 --> 55:31 [SPEAKER_01]: That was such a fun interview.
55:31 --> 55:32 [SPEAKER_01]: I hope you guys enjoyed it.
55:32 --> 55:35 [SPEAKER_01]: I hope you guys felt some of your childhood through that interview like TJ and I did.
55:35 --> 55:45 [SPEAKER_01]: Or some of your adulthood, if you grew up listening to Rick Riz throughout your 20s and 30s and 40s or whatever time period of your life, but let's all enjoy on this final year in 2026 because he is a treasure.
55:46 --> 55:47 [SPEAKER_01]: They don't make them like Rick Riz.
55:47 --> 55:49 [SPEAKER_01]: They don't come around all the time.
55:49 --> 55:56 [SPEAKER_01]: So to have him do his final season here in Seattle, pretty cool, and let's hope they, let's hope the Mariners pay it off with a pretty awesome season.
55:56 --> 55:56 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
55:57 --> 56:00 [SPEAKER_01]: I think that just about wraps up this edition of the Marine layer podcast.
56:00 --> 56:03 [SPEAKER_01]: This is going to be our last episode recording here live at Spring Training.
56:03 --> 56:04 [SPEAKER_01]: I am going to miss it.
56:04 --> 56:07 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure by Sunday when we record our next one, I'm going to be missing Arizona.
56:07 --> 56:10 [SPEAKER_01]: So we're going to take in our final two days.
56:10 --> 56:16 [SPEAKER_01]: I certainly hope by the time we're recording next, we have got some very, very fun interviews in the hopper waiting for you guys.
56:16 --> 56:18 [SPEAKER_01]: If we do, we're going to talk about them.
56:18 --> 56:19 [SPEAKER_01]: We're going to fill you in on them.
56:19 --> 56:20 [SPEAKER_01]: We're going to
56:20 --> 56:22 [SPEAKER_01]: do a lot in our last two days here in Arizona.
56:22 --> 56:23 [SPEAKER_01]: We're going to keep you updated through it all.
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56:54 --> 56:54 [SPEAKER_01]: That's TJ.
56:55 --> 56:55 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm Lyle.
56:55 --> 56:57 [SPEAKER_01]: As always, we thank you guys for tuning in.
56:57 --> 56:58 [SPEAKER_01]: We'll talk to you soon.
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