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Now, here are your hosts, Michael Bumpus and Stacey Ross.

We have some Mariners questions.

Adam Jude has answers.

Seattle Times Mariners reporter Adam Jude,

joining us on the Emerald Queen Casino Sportsbook hotline.

Adam, how's it going?

I'm doing great.

How are you guys doing?

We're good.

We're going to start with the two conversations we just had,

but good to get some insight for Dan Wilson's decision.

It's very controversial, and I know that beat reporters are always hesitant to be like,

this is what I would do.

You just kind of report, well, this is why the decision was made.

Did you find yourself, though, I'm going to try to press agreeing or disagreeing with the move?

Yeah, it's obviously a fair question and when it doesn't work out right, it's it's even more reasonable to second guess it and that's just the job of a manager, right? You try to make the best decision you can in the moment with the information you have and And I feel like, you know, we've seen

Dan Wilson evolve over the last year, year and a half, you know, as a first time, a new big

league manager. I feel like at this time last year, he was more willing to kind of go against

the book, if you will. And in this case, let a left-hander in Luke Rayleigh face a left-handed pitcher.

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