Hour 2: Ryan Rowland-Smith on the Mariners first homestand
Bump and Stacy
Seattle Sports
4.5 • 540 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Bump and Stacy are joined by Ryan Rowland-Smith to get his thoughts on the first homestand of the season and what he’s seen from the pitching staff, they answer your questions about some interesting Seahawks draft options in Four Down Territory, they hear Marshawn Lynch relive his Beast Quake celebration in The Timeline, and they break down what Cal and Julio need to do to break out of their slow start.
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| 0:00.0 | From the Quantum Fiber Studio. |
| 0:02.9 | This is Bump and Stacey on Seattle Sports. |
| 0:06.6 | Streaming through the Seattle Sports app and at SeattleSports.com. |
| 0:11.1 | Now, here are your hosts, Michael Bumpus and Stacey Ross. |
| 0:16.3 | Mariner's broadcaster Ryan Rollinsmith, joining us now in the Armourkeme Casino Sportsbook Hotline. |
| 0:40.0 | Ryan, how's it going? Good. Hey, good day. Check to you guys. We are happy to have you. And here's the trick of one week down, 25 or so to go, is you naturally, as a sports fan, as a baseball fan, want to know more about your team. So you're trying to figure out what to read into. on the other hand, most of it you can't at all. |
| 0:58.4 | So I'll start with just to kind of like pick and choose. Ryan, when you're looking at the first week of the season, only the first, you know, five, six, seven games, what's something that you are genuinely tracking, either concerned about or interested in or should be encouraging? And then something that you're like, this doesn't matter. This doesn't matter at all right now. Yeah, it's a tough one. And it's especially tough too. And you get through those first |
| 1:04.4 | two, you know, series of the week. And you're still in the, it's early phase for some of these hitters. Because, yeah, it's early phase, uh, for some of these hitters because, |
| 1:13.2 | yeah, let's face it, um, you've got back to back to back hitters who just are still trying |
| 1:18.8 | to find, uh, some kind of, you know, some kind of consistency. And, you know, Cal, um, yeah, |
| 1:25.6 | a big hit a couple of nights ago, came through last night against Bed, which was great. |
| 1:30.2 | And Naylor's starting to, you know, hit the ball hard. |
| 1:34.8 | He's not, swinging miss is way down, which is great. |
| 1:39.2 | He's starting to square balls up. |
| 1:41.3 | He's super aggressive, which I'm surprised about. And then Julio, |
| 1:46.3 | it's, again, swing and miss isn't |
| 1:48.0 | bad. Again, hit the ball well. |
| 1:50.6 | Just trying to find some rhythm. |
| 1:52.3 | And it's tough, but you kind of hit |
| 1:54.1 | the road to the first time as a player and you're like, |
| 1:56.1 | well, you have that time |
| 1:58.0 | to sort of check in on yourself after the whole opening |
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