Get to the freaking auto! From the Quantum Fiber Studio, this is Brock and Salk on Seattle Sports. Brock Ewerd is my hero. James Buehner just punched me in the kidney. We're going to give you a minute. That really worked that way, Sherman. This is a show that has my name on it. Now here are your hosts, Brock Ewerd and Mike Salk. Hello! Hello. Hello, Brock. Good morning to you. I see Gail Sayers. I see the Boston Ghost. I think they called Gail the Ghost. When I'm looking at Larry Salk around and third and on his way home, I see some speed. There's no question. He beats Pete in a sprint. I think so?

Oh, but there's 100%. 100%. He's first. Pete's second. Larry and Mike Hewerd are walking. Wow. Yeah. Yeah, it's not happening for Larry or or Michael Arndell Hewer because those two are out in front. We're not talking about this to start the show. You can talk about this later. No, we've got to talk about the mariner.

You never send me that stuff.

Well, I thought maybe you could be a professional and start the show talking about the Mariners and not my dad running. But hey, you know, it's a tough world we live in, I guess. Apparently seven in a row, apparently nine out of ten is not enough for you, Brock. You can get easily distracted this morning.

So they just simply met my expectations and standards, all right?

That's it. nine out of ten is not enough for you brock you're easily distracted this morning so they just

simply met my expectations and standards all right that's it they're going to be they're going to be

the number one see in the american league this is what i expect of them seven and one since the deadline

for a reason when nine to ten at home on eachie weekend you know the place is rocking and it's bumping

and calmerallies doing things never done before in baseball. Yeah. Yeah, those are my expectations now. Realistic? Well, yeah. I mean, expectations? Kind of. I mean, like, they're kind of realistic. I mean, what it's just to the main. I told you last week. I think they're going to win the AOS. You feel pretty good about that this morning. I told you I didn't think Houston was all that great. They're not. Texas has fallen farther behind by the day. And the Mariners look great. They look great. They look great right now. And I don't, you know, they look locked in. Huh? That's a triple great. That's a triple great. That's a triple great. Yes. Well, here's the thing. We, we were talking last week about how teams lock it in. When they get to a certain point, the good teams that are going to go somewhere in the postseason, they just kind of

reach this elite level of focus where it feels like they don't miss any pitch. They come up

with every ball. It doesn't matter how the game starts. They're going to find a way to win.

They tack on when they need. They just start doing all of the things because they're so

mentally focused.

It's a little early for that.

Like, it's hard to maintain that for months at a time.

You can kind of see it usually click in near the end of the year.

So, I don't know.

I don't know what happens if you start clicking it in like that right now.

But they sure look locked in. And I see't know. I don't know what happens if you start clicking it in like that right now, but they sure look locked in and I see specific things that make me think it.

It's little things like Cole Young taking all those walks in a game and just kind of just,

hey, I know who I am as a hitter and I'm going to not swing at anything I don't want to right now.

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