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Hello, good morning, everybody. It is Brock and Salk on Seattle sports on 710 Seattle sports.com and the Seattle sports app plus all the podcast platforms.

Thanks for being us being with us this morning. Yeah, I can already speak. It's going to be a good one. I can tell a lot of stuff today.

We do have Joe Buck to join us. We may not have the Mariners in the playoffs, but we do have Joe Buck to help us get ready for Monday night football tonight,

which obviously is a nice thing. We also have Maura back and super tan was up Maura. Good to have you back.

Thank you. It's going to be a nice vacation. It was wonderful. Yeah. I mean, not long enough, even though it feels like I've

been gone a month. It was only a few days. Okay. Well, it was we were missed Charles and Rob did excellent work in your in your absence,

but it's nice time. I heard Charles got to do his his game show ranked. He did to rave reviews. Nice. Yes, people were very excited about Charles and his,

you know, and people should know that Charles why he mentioned this. He won Wheel of Fortune. Joe Buck, who's going to join us today is

going to be a guest on celebrity wheel of fortune. So it's too bad. If we thought about it ahead of time, we could have had Charles offer him some

place. Get him what it runs up. We've been very funny. So yeah, good for you. Two trips to Iowa in one year. Very, you don't hear

that all the time from people on vacation, but good on you. I was posting pictures of the beach and someone on my

Instagram was like, man, Iowa looks terrible. Yeah. That's beautiful there this time of year. All right. Well, let's get

to the real story, which is the mariners did not end up becoming the greatest mariners team of all time.

Case you're wondering, I had brought up the possibility that that might be the case. And they didn't instead this was an

unbelievably disappointing season. No other way to phrase it. It also didn't turn out to be the least likeable

mariners team of all time, as was suggested at one point during the year. They did have some awful moments.

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