Hour 2: ESPN’s Jesse Rogers previews the Mariners 2026 season
Bump and Stacy
Seattle Sports
4.5 • 540 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Bump and Stacy are joined by ESPN’s Jesse Rogers to get his thoughts on Team USA’s World Baseball Classic loss and what he expects to see from the Mariners this season, they answer your questions about the Seahawks free agency moves and Ken Walker’s deal with the Chiefs in Four Down Territory, they hear why Stephen A. Smith thinks the NBA shoulder consider Nashville ahead of Seattle for expansion in The Timeline, and they break down what Field Yates said about what the Seahawks need to do in the NFL Draft.
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| 0:00.0 | From the Quantum Fiber Studio. |
| 0:03.0 | This is Bump and Stacey on Seattle Sports. |
| 0:06.6 | Streaming through the Seattle Sports app and at SeattleSports.com. |
| 0:11.0 | Now here are your hosts, Michael Bumpus and Stacey Ross. |
| 0:16.1 | Talking WBC and Mariners with ESPN's Jesse Rogers, joining us now on the Evergreen Casino Sportsbook hotline. Jesse, how's it going? Good. Good to be with you guys. What's happening? We are happy to have you. So we do want to get to some Mariners stuff because we're going to jump right back into spring training and get ready for the start of the season next week. Before we do, though, we have to talk about that WBC final kind of some weird |
| 0:38.5 | stories around Team USA entering in with all the expectation in the world a really |
| 0:43.5 | exciting stacked lineup and then it was like none of us were really talking about |
| 0:49.1 | them being dominant or a great team per se so much as all the stories around them. |
| 0:54.6 | What did you make of their run and then obviously of their maybe disappointing end? |
| 1:00.8 | I mean, you have to remember they lost by one run in the ninth inning of the finals. |
| 1:05.3 | So it'd be a whole different storyline if they had won by one run in the bottom of the ninth inning, right? |
| 1:10.4 | So you can't be too overly dramatic about the loss. Yes, it's back-to-back losses in the |
| 1:15.4 | finals, though the whole sort of setup. I mean, it's a made-for-TV, made-for-America event in a way. |
| 1:21.2 | You know, they have a pretty easy road to the semis at least, you know, when they face Dominican Republic. |
| 1:27.0 | So maybe they should |
| 1:28.4 | have performed better. I mean, it is single elimination. Anything can happen, right? Having said that, |
| 1:34.6 | yeah, you thought one through nine there'd be a little bit more firepower because it's not your |
| 1:38.2 | normal, you know, bottom of the order lineup. So a little disappointed. They didn't score more |
| 1:42.7 | runs throughout the entirety of the tournament, |
| 1:45.0 | not necessarily just last night or the last couple games, but they really had trouble |
| 1:49.1 | scoring throughout. But I'm, you know, I don't know if we can make big pronouncements about |
| 1:54.8 | this because of a one run loss in the finals, right? I mean, if this team somehow wasn't getting |
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