Hour 3 - Bob Nightengale on how the Mariners can right the ship
Bump and Stacy
Seattle Sports
4.5 • 540 Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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USA today’s Bob Nightengale joins Bump and Stacy to talk about the Mariners piggyback situation and more, then in Headline Rewrites they talk about the Devon Witherspoon contract negotiations and the NBA playoffs, in NFL Headlines we can calm down about Lamar Jackson and the Raven’s situation, then it’s What You Need to Know.
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| 0:00.0 | From the Quantum Fiber Studio, this is Bump and Stacey on Seattle Sports. |
| 0:06.7 | 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 | Join now by USA Today's Bob Nightingale. |
| 0:19.6 | And Bob, I wanted to start by asking you about your thoughts |
| 0:22.7 | with the Mariners' choice to piggyback Luis Castillo and Bryce Miller. Neither starter seemed happy about it |
| 0:29.1 | yesterday. Now, granted, they only gave up two runs in a 9-2 win over the A's, a series they could |
| 0:35.7 | desperately use right now. |
| 0:37.5 | So in theory it was good on paper, but I'm sure you saw and heard the quotes and Luis |
| 0:43.0 | Castillo throwing his glove in the dugout. |
| 0:45.3 | No one's happy. |
| 0:46.8 | What's your overall opinion about the Mariners decision to do this? |
| 0:51.3 | Well, you're not going to have a veteran pitcher that's happy about that. |
| 0:54.9 | Everyone has tried that, the pitchers complain. |
| 0:58.3 | You know, for Castillo to, you know, pitch that well, and then, you know, |
| 1:02.1 | only have, what, 62 pitchers or so, then don't even give them a chance to have the win. |
| 1:06.9 | That hurts. |
| 1:07.9 | I mean, you know, wins do mean a lot to starting pitchers and and take that away from |
| 1:12.3 | i'm sure it's infuriating so i've never heard of any pitcher particularly you know a veteran pitcher |
| 1:18.6 | that likes the piggyback thing it's okay to do it with the young guys you know they're just happy |
| 1:23.9 | to be in the big leagues but you really can't do it with the veterans. |
| 1:29.5 | How do you do the Mariners handle this? |
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