Episode 384 - Mitch Flees the Country

Mitch Unfiltered

Mitch Levy

Sports, Football

5.0 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2026

⏱️ 103 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

RUNDOWN

Broadcasting from London while trying—and failing—to escape Mariners frustration, Mitch and Hotshot Scott bounce between Seattle baseball misery, European travel mishaps, London culture shock, soccer ticket disasters, and Mitch's realization that even crossing the street becomes dangerous when everything operates backward. They also hit Churchill history, Wembley dreams gone sideways, tourist adventures, and the strange reality that no amount of distance from Seattle seems capable of keeping Mariners disappointment from finding Mitch overseas.

With Mitch away, Brady and Joe take an unfiltered look at a Mariners team that suddenly feels flat, frustrating, and increasingly difficult for fans to embrace. They dig into defensive problems, strikeouts, inconsistent offense, lineup decisions, clubhouse energy, and whether Seattle's identity has become too predictable and too dependent on home runs.

Mitch and Puck wrestle with one of the biggest frustrations surrounding the Mariners right now: when questionable decisions happen during games, who actually owns them? The conversation centers on Dan Wilson, Jerry Dipoto, analytics influence, bullpen management, lineup choices, and whether modern baseball has created too many voices in the room. They also hit on Bryce Miller's interrupted no-hit bid, the controversial piggyback pitching approach, and the growing feeling that Seattle's biggest problem might not be talent.

Mitch and Danny dive into growing frustration around the Mariners' decision-making, debating whether Dan Wilson is truly managing instinctively or operating under organizational marching orders from above. The conversation turns into a bigger argument about modern baseball philosophy, bullpen usage, lineup management, and whether Seattle is overthinking itself out of wins.

GUESTS

Brady Farkas | Host, Refuse to Lose podcast
Joe Doyle | MLB analyst, Over-Slot
Jason Puckett | KJ-Aren'ts / Puck Drop
Danny O'Neil | Host, The Dang Apostrophe

TABLE OF CONTENTS

0:00 | Mitch Flees the Country, Mariners Follow Him Anyway

20:59 | Mariners No-Table: Are the Mariners Becoming Unlikable? Mariners No-Table crew breaking down Seattle's struggles, fan frustration, and growing concerns around the direction of the club.

56:32 | KJ-Aren't's Jason Puckett: Who's Actually Running the Mariners? Jason Puckett and Mitch discuss Mariners leadership questions and organizational philosophy.

1:11:02 | Danny O'Neil: Mariners Micromanagement & Seahawks Prime Time Respect.

1:27:30 | Other Stuff Segment: Floyd Mayweather $175M fraud allegations and financial issues, Tiger Woods rehab return and Vanessa Trump health news, Stephen Colbert replacement programming and Byron Allen, Joey Chestnut probation and Nathan's Hot Dog Contest return, Najee Marshall $5,000 restaurant tip story, Chicago Bulls 1992–93 championship banner auction, Aaron Rodgers retirement announcement, Carmen Electra Playboy return and Baywatch reboot tease RIPs: Kyle Busch (NASCAR driver), Mark Fuhrman (former LAPD detective), Rob Base (rapper, It Takes Two), Barney Frank (former congressman) HEADLINES: Michigan woman caught hiding stolen wine bottle while being booked into jail, Arthur Gea emergency bathroom break during French Open debut, Doctor accidentally fixes irregular heartbeat during unrelated procedure, Woman turns blue after taking common medication

Transcript

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0:00.0	Episode 384 of Mitch Unfilter, not typically the voice you hear at the top of the show,
0:04.7	but our host and our friend Mitch Levy has decided to flee the country for some reason.
0:09.2	And he refuses to work because he doesn't have his work visa.
0:12.5	So now here I am carrying the mail on this FACTA podcast.
0:15.7	I've got reasons for fleeing the country.
0:17.7	Very valid reasons.
0:19.6	Number one, Seattle Mariners, I needed a break. Doesn't
0:23.6	everybody listening right now wish they could flee the country so that they don't have to hear or
0:28.5	see most of these games while I've been here in London have been late games like overnight games,
0:34.4	although the Sunday game, the day that we record this, was actually early
0:39.1	enough 11 a.m. Pacific time that we could keep track of it at dinner. So I was in London in an area
0:46.3	called Hoxton. I don't know if you know, Hoxton, the area of London. Where to sushi restaurant,
0:51.9	my family, my son on his phone telling me,
0:55.7	uh, another hit for Cold Emerson, uh, another double for Cold Emerson, uh, another loss for the Seattle
1:03.0	Mariners, uh, another error by J.P. Crawford. I didn't miss any of it. I, and I don't even eat
1:09.2	sushi. I had a friend on Facebook.
1:12.3	I've known the guy forever. And I just, he just wrote, yeah, I'm taking a break from the Mariners. They're usually a pretty good second half team. So I think I'll check back in the second half. Like fans are just like disengaging. By the way, I think there's still like two games out, right? Oh, they're going to be two games. not over it, which is the sad part.
1:27.1	They're going to be two games out the entire season because the American League West is so bad.
1:31.4	Yeah. out, right? Oh, they're going to be two games. It's not over, which is the sad part. They're going to be two games out the entire season because the American League West is so bad.
1:31.4	Yeah. I thought I'd miss it after a couple of games and I've only missed, I guess, three games
1:36.9	so far in our voyage and I'll miss a lot more. But no, no, I don't even find myself racing to
1:44.0	find out when I wake up who won the game
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