Hour 2: ESPN’s Tim Kurkjian on the Mariners WBC Drama
Bump and Stacy
Seattle Sports
4.5 • 540 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Stacy and Curtis are joined by ESPN’s Tim Kurkjian to get his thoughts on whether the Cal Raleigh and Randy Arozarena drama at the World Baseball Classic will spill over into the Mariners season, they answer your questions about the Seahawks bringing back George Holani and some other free agency possibilities in Four Down Territory, they bring you the latest on Bryce Miller following his scrapped bullpen session in The Timeline, and they discuss how important the first month of the Mariners season will be this year.
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| 0:00.0 | from the quantum fiber studio this is bump and stacey on seattle sports streaming through the |
| 0:07.5 | seattle sports app and at seattle sports dot com now here are your hosts michael bumpus and stacey ross |
| 0:15.1 | yes pns tim kirkson joining us now in the emerald Queen Casino Sportsbook hotline. Tim, how's it going? |
| 0:21.6 | I'm well. How are you guys doing? We're good. We're good. There's been some weird stories we've been able to talk about and some fun stories we've been able to talk about. We're going to talk, though, to start about Team USA really lucking out last night. Were you surprised to see Italy win? No, I wasn't. I mean, that Italian team is |
| 0:39.4 | pretty darn good. Mexico has a really good team, but in all the years that I've covered baseball, |
| 0:46.3 | I'm not surprised by anything anymore. The ultimate beauty of the sport is its unpredictability. |
| 0:53.0 | Just when you think you understand it, you realize |
| 0:55.3 | that you don't. So I am rarely surprised anymore with anything that happens in baseball because |
| 1:02.2 | it's just too good of a game to be predicted. A man said, I've seen it all. Nothing surprised |
| 1:07.9 | me. I love it. He said, you idiot. How has the WBC grown? You know, what do you, what do you remember from the start to now? |
| 1:16.9 | How do you view this whole tournament? Yeah, it's really, really gotten bigger and way better |
| 1:23.1 | because more teams and more players are invested in the tournament. |
| 1:29.3 | And when the United States is as invested as it is this year |
| 1:33.2 | compared to, say, the first year, it's pretty obvious. |
| 1:36.4 | These guys want to play for their country. |
| 1:40.2 | And, you know, and Kyle Schwerber, you know, it's got 340, whatever, Major League |
| 1:45.0 | Homers, that 50 in a season won a home run-in contest, and he called a home-running hit in the |
| 1:50.3 | WBC, the biggest homer he's ever hit, and he's played in the World Series before. |
| 1:54.7 | That's really saying something because it's the pride in the country for which he plays, |
| 2:00.3 | and that, of course, is the secret to this entire tournament. |
| 2:04.1 | When I did a lot of games a few years ago in Arizona, I was just really amazed by the festive nature of the crowd. |
| 2:14.0 | And when the ballpark would empty, it was a party going on in the street for the |
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