It's the world completely lost the concept of common courtesy. Am I the only one who is resisting this tide?

People of Seattle

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We are not the antidols and we are not French. They're here that you are

Good morning and welcome to episode 399 of effectively wild detaily podcast from baseball prospectus

Presented by the baseball reference.com play index. I am Ben Lindbergh joined as always by Sam Miller

Today our season preview tour from the bottom to the top of the Dakota projected standings takes us to the Seattle Mariners

Later in this episode Nick Wheatley-Shellar will be talking to Ryan divvish of the Seattle Times

Right now we will be talking to Mike Kerto the longtime voice of the Tacoma Renears. Hello, Mike

Hey guys, it's intimidating to have a professional broadcaster on the show

I feel like the the contrast between us and professional broadcasters is is stronger when we have one on

I don't think you should be intimidated. You're talking to a minor league broadcaster

This is not your major league call up right here

So speaking of that you you wrote the Mariners essay for baseball prospectus 2014 and you start your

essay with an anecdote from the Renears last season

You talk about how there is a game that was delayed by rain

It was it would have been an official game if it had been called and the Renears were losing the game

And you say that there were some players who were rooting for the game to be called and you kind of

present that as a symbol of the Mariners organizational dysfunction and I wondered

Is that

Is that unusual for a AAA team because you know AAA teams just kind of have that reputation of you've got some

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