Hey guys, before we start the show today, I wanted you to hear this part first, stripping

down all the pomp and circumstance, all the music and uplifting energy, and the what's up

doll fans, all of that. And I want to talk to you as someone that has been on this ride with all of you for the last 25 years give or take.

So I've been absolutely nuts about this team since I was a teenager and they were always the team that I followed

but when you grow up in a town with a team that has four Hall of Famer's on it like the 1990 Seattle

Mariners had that's your primary focus.

And as I got older and started to appreciate sports more than just being a wide-eyed kid watching

with stars in my eyes, football became my thing, and the Miami Dolphins became everything not just in

sport but in hobbies and interest it was the Miami Dolphins and I just wanted to

reflect on the last 20 or so years as a fan because as this season goes in a direction that I don't think anybody saw going this way through six weeks I find myself reflecting as a fan.

And I mentioned the manners because

current Mariners outfielder Mitch Hanager wrote a tremendous letter

in the Players Tribune earlier this week, talking about the 11 and three finish the Marers had this season that put

them in position to qualify for the post season on the final day of the regular

season. They had to have a win and they had to have a Yankees or Red Sox

loss. Had they done that, they would have ended the longest

playoff drought in American professional sports at 20 years, but they didn't. They lost. They came up short.

And Mitch reflected upon that. Upon carrying the weight of the

20-year playoff drought and how even though that 20-year drought wasn't the current players

burden to carry, It also was because they wore the

star, the nautical star on their hat, that's the manner's logo. And I say that as a precursor

to absolve anyone in this building of past performances because those should not be attached to anybody that's here now.

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