Get to the freaking auto!

From the Quantum Fiber Studio, this is Brock & Sock on Seattle Sports. Brock Ewerd is my hero. James Butcher just punched me in the kidney. We're going to excuse you what I'm going to. That really work that way, Sherm. This is a show that has my name on that. It's kind of tough. Now here are your hosts. Brock Ewerard and Mike Salk. Hello.

All right, Stacey Ross is here.

I told you it's Friend Day, 253, says, Salk, you know you're enabling Stacey's divinous when you rearrange your show around her.

It's true.

That's true.

Trying to make her feel important.

Yeah, well, I mean, I am important. We're trying to recognize your importance. This is actually my show. I've allowed you to open for me for three and a half hours. Wow. That is nice of you. Thank you. Wow. I do always have felt like an opening act, so that's nice. Just trying to get the audience warmed up for you guys. Stacey, we got to hang out and spend a couple of baseball games together, which was super fun. We did. It was so fun. What did you learn over the course of this year about baseball, about the Mariners, about, you know, just throughout this. And it's a big experience that we all went through. Yeah. What do you think you learned?

Okay, I'm going to isolate it to two things.

What I learned about the Mariners and baseball and then what I learned about postseason baseball, which is you know for me complaining about you and then being wrong or complaining

to you and then being wrong and then complaining to you the next day and then being wrong

are two different things.

So first, in terms of baseball,

I think just we already know that, you know, you can't dwell too much on a low moment in the

regular season. But I think also a reminder that like you can turn certain things around. So I think

of very specifically two instances.

Coming out of that Yankee series was like an ultimate low for so many people. You had been swept. You lost a no hitter into like the seventh inning, up five. It was devastating. And then they bounce back. They sweep the tigers. And then Cal wins the home run derby and the vibes are great. and then you go back to, you know, the beginning of September where you've been horrible on these road trips and then they win like, what, 17 of 18? So just kind of like that this team is much more resilient than I thought and that I would keep saying, keep seeing people say same old mariners and it's like, ah, sometimes that's fair and then and other times it's not and so i they're

just much more resilient than i thought in postseason baseball oh my god uh that every single decision

pitch by pitch matters and that sounds silly but i had not experienced playoff baseball to that

degree before and And so...

When the marathon becomes a sprint.

Exactly.

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