Hour 3: MLB Network’s Jim Bowden on the Mariners’ slow start
Bump and Stacy
Seattle Sports
4.5 • 540 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Bump and Stacy are joined by The Athletic and MLB Network’s Jim Bowden to discuss the Mariners’ slow start to the season and when it’s no longer “too early” to judge the offense, they give you their thoughts on Michigan’s NCAA national championship win and Myles Garrett’s future with the Browns in Headline Rewrites, they bring you the biggest stories around the NFL, including which team is showing interest in Bobby Wagner, and they tell you what you need to know!
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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. |
| 0:16.4 | Jim Bowden at the Athletic and M.LB Network joining us now in the Emerald Queen Casino Sportsbook Hotline. Jim, how's it going? |
| 0:22.4 | Good, Stacey, Michael. How are you guys? |
| 0:24.2 | We're fantastic. Beautiful weather here. Unfortunately, kind of a cool start for the Mariners so far to start the season. Now, I would imagine most people are still very excited, but I am going to ask you when a team is trying to compete for a World Series, |
| 0:37.8 | not just like, hey, let's get a wild card and see how far we can take this thing. |
| 0:41.6 | How soon do you start to expect them performing? |
| 0:46.4 | Like, is there ever, are slow starts fine and totally normal? |
| 0:49.7 | Yeah, I mean, look, you just want to stay in the race, |
| 0:52.0 | but we have a long history of teams getting off to slow starts. And what matters is, you know, what your record looks like at the end of the season and as you get ready for the postseason. I mean, I remember when the Atlanta Braves, when they're 14 straight divisional titles, I can't tell you how many times they were below 500 in late May and everybody in Atlanta seemed the panic and then |
| 1:12.6 | all of a sudden Maddox, Gladvin, Smolz got locked in and they would make their run and win |
| 1:17.5 | the division and get back to October. So, you know, I'm not, I mean, for the Mariners, I wouldn't |
| 1:22.7 | really be worried about a slow start at all. I think I'd be encouraged the fact that the starting |
| 1:27.1 | pitching looks really good. We all know that Julio Rodriguez always gets off the slow starts anyway. |
| 1:33.9 | We weren't expecting Cal Raleigh to completely repeat what they did last year. But I think when |
| 1:38.3 | you look at the Seattle team, to me, this team looks like a World Series caliber team. And so |
| 1:43.9 | the key is not how you start |
| 1:45.8 | it's how you finish how closely have you been um following cows a b's and if so what have you |
| 1:51.8 | seen out of them yeah i mean i've seen i mean it's been interesting right because he was cold |
| 1:58.2 | during the world baseball classic as well and then you know had to share |
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