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Well, of course, the Mariners lost yesterday. It was a Wednesday after all, and that's been their

ammo all season long, losing on Wednesdays before we talked to Jerry on Thursday, but we will do

that coming up in a half hour. I want to react to someone what I heard from Ryan Divish in the

previous hour and Ryan kind enough to join us at 730, Mariner Beatrider from the Seattle Times,

and I don't just, I'm not going to take his, you know, opinions necessarily as fact because I

don't think they're being presented that way, and I love what Ryan has to say. But there's a

couple of things in there that are very disturbing, if true, and I don't know whether you guys

heard the same things I did or react the same way I do, but one of the first thing that jumps out to

me, right, we went through the guys that are having trouble this year. I'm with Ryan.

Yes, I would still DFA Wong, I would DFA Pollock, I don't see the value in keeping them around,

and I would just move on maybe even just for change sake, but I agree those are not the things

that are going to change this team's fortune. The issues they've had at first base, third base,

center field, catcher, and right field are significantly more important than the issues that they've

had with Colton Wong and AJ Pollock. Okay, fine. When I hear him say or suggest that A. O'Hanio

Suarez at his age, maybe needs to be working harder on his body. That's a red flag for me.

When I hear him say Thai France, who by the way is still in his 20s, needs to start working now on

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