Hour 4: Mike Vorel talks about the Mariners ability to go on a run soon
Bump and Stacy
Seattle Sports
4.5 • 540 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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The Seattle Time’s Mike Vorel joins the show to talk about the Mariners struggles, in Four Down Territory, who in the league could shock the world like the Patriots did, what could make the NFC West a tougher division, and Uchenna Nwosu needs to have a big year, they recap their talks with Buster Olney and Mike Vorel, 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 streaming through the |
| 0:07.6 | seattle sports app and it's seattle sports dot com now here are your hosts michael bumpus and stacey ross |
| 0:15.1 | seattle times columnist mike varell joining us right now. Mike, how's it going? |
| 0:32.3 | Good. How are you guys? We're good. We spent most of our day earlier trying to kind of make sense of the Mariners, which you also tried to do in your latest for the Seattle Times. |
| 0:37.7 | And there was some good news and bad news within that. I'm sure you didn't stumble across anything you didn't know about this team, but what did you kind of settle on as where you stand right now |
| 0:43.4 | with them? Yeah, I feel like there's two, like trying to think from a fan's perspective, there's |
| 0:48.9 | two dominant feelings that are valid, and I think they can coexist, which is kind of a strange thing. |
| 0:55.2 | And number one is that it's totally understandable and valid to be frustrated by this team, |
| 1:00.4 | especially when you have the weight of expectation, the weight of recent history, |
| 1:04.5 | knowing that the expectations aren't what they always have been, |
| 1:06.9 | when you see, you know, when you see playoff baseball in Seattle, |
| 1:09.5 | when you know what this group is capable of where they have been been, you know, all that seasoning. And then you come |
| 1:14.4 | into a year. And even before it starts, you've got the World Baseball Classic stuff. And then it's |
| 1:19.2 | just a team that has had injuries, obviously, but it's just not very good defensively, not very |
| 1:24.7 | clean, struggled to hit with runners in scoring position, just a whole |
| 1:28.8 | bunch of things that are irksome and just no consistency. |
| 1:32.4 | I mean, this has been a team that just is kind of allergic to momentum in so many ways, has |
| 1:37.4 | never won more than four games in a row, has only one back-to-back series once. |
| 1:41.8 | Every time they have a big win, it seems like they have a heartbreaking loss the next night. |
| 1:45.2 | So it's just one of those situations where I think for fans, it's frustrating to hear, |
| 1:51.8 | oh, it's early over and over again. |
| 1:53.4 | Oh, it's a long season when, you know, these things are real. |
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