Three, two one. Oh my goodness. Good morning, good afternoon. Whatever it is for you, I hope you're having a fantastic day. My name is Zach Schamler. This is Strong Opinion Sports

episode 393. Welcoming. A couple things I want to say real quick. Number one, one thing I did not

anticipate about this show, but really about the

haircut is the haircut has exposed my forehead tremendously. There's not only a tan line that's pretty bad. The lights are really shiny. Like my

forehead is just the shiniest thing on this planet Earth. I'm like, oh my gosh, I look like a

Twitter egghead. Number two is you guys don't need to tag me in

Seattle Mariners stuff. I've told the story many times that I as a child was a

Seattle Mariners fan and in fact the Mariners are the reason why I do not have a favorite team.

I was a fan of the Seattle Supersonics, they left.

I was a fan of the Seattle Mariners.

They had a terrible front office that made me feel betrayed

I was like a nine 13 year old kid and there was a point where I gave up on being a

Seattle Mariners fan now the Seattle Mariners did make the MLB playoffs and look I I found myself happy for my friends who are Mariners fans

I keep getting tagged and stuff and it's just kind of a waste. It's a wasted

effort for you. I'm not gonna I was kind of disappointed. You know they got into the

playoffs and I'm like thinking maybe this will be the time I can go back and make peace and maybe be a fan again and

it happened and I just felt entirely apathetic I didn't care either where I'm like,

well that's nothing it didn't didn't make my heart

make my heart happy or sad I just kind of like just eh well I don't know who's

on the team anymore I don't really care I don't want to watch it I it's you know it's like when your

ex wife gets married I would imagine it's ever happened to me but I would

imagine that when your ex wife gets married again you're not like angry

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