Hour 3: MLB Network’s Brian Kenny on why we don’t need to panic about the Mariners yet
Bump and Stacy
Seattle Sports
4.5 • 540 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Bump and Stacy are joined by MLB Network’s Brian Kenny to discuss why we don’t need to be panicking about the Mariners slow start yet, they give you their thoughts on Seattle Kraken President Ron Francis stepping down and the start of the Masters in Headline Rewrites, they bring you the biggest stories around the NFL, including what Kirk Cousins said about the expected QB competition between him and Fernando Mendoza in Las Vegas, and they hear who Daniel Jeremiah wants the Seahawks to select with pick 32 in the NFL Draft.
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| 0:00.0 | From the Quantum Fiber Studio. |
| 0:03.0 | This is Bump and Stacey on Seattle Sports. |
| 0:06.6 | Streaming through the Seattle Sports app and at Seattlesports.com. |
| 0:11.0 | Now, here are your hosts, Michael Bumpus and Stacey Ross. |
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| 0:35.5 | You can watch MLB Network's Brian Kenny on MLB now weekdays at 9 a.m. Pacific throughout the season, and he joins us right now in the Emerald Queen Casino Sportsbook Hotline. Brian, how's it going? Very well, thank you. Good to be with you. We are happy to have you, especially to bring a national perspective to the start of the season, because as you know, and I'm sure anytime you talk to a local market, you get a lot of like, what's happening? Is this all okay? And you have to remind people to kind of take a step back. So I'll start by saying that, yes, Brian, as I'm sure you can assume, there is a little bit of panic among Mariners fans who were expecting that this team for the first time ever could get |
| 1:11.4 | to a World Series and they're starting as one of the worst offenses in baseball. |
| 1:16.3 | Tell us about maybe some of the slow starts you're seeing around the league and does it |
| 1:20.0 | feel like Seattle's is shocking or kind of on brand? |
| 1:25.2 | No, it's a bit of a surprise. |
| 1:26.7 | Look, a few things have developed where the top teams have |
| 1:30.6 | already established themselves. I think the Dodgers might be the best Dodgers team we've seen, |
| 1:35.9 | which is saying something, you know, the best we've seen in a while. And the Yankees have a |
| 1:41.2 | surprise to me where they look excellent, you know, not just |
| 1:44.3 | okay and contending, but they look like the class of the league. |
| 1:47.9 | But I thought Seattle would be right there. |
| 1:50.6 | And I think most people about a week and a half ago felt that. |
| 1:53.7 | So it's a surprise, but you're right. |
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