Hello, everybody. Welcome to a special episode of Hock Blogger Mornings.

I'm Brian NMhouser and you can find me pretty much everywhere, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, all the places at HockBlogger.

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And I was bummed.

Last night could not do a Mariners post game after what was a fantastic game two victory

for the Mariners.

And there's been one guy that I've been really eager to catch up with.

It's been a while.

The real OGs of HawkBlogger Mornings know that this man was, I believe, my second guest.

If not my second, he was my third guest on HawkBlogger Mornings.

Jason Churchill, Prospect Insider, my go-to for all things,

Mariners. And man, Jason, how times have changed, dude? How are you doing? I'm good. I'm good.

You mentioned times changing, like the vibes, right? Like the vibe. I'm still seeing the, I don't know

if you're getting any of this or you're feeling any of this as somebody who somebody who's you know kind of grown up here but like you almost don't want to be too excited about it that's what i'm getting from a lot of folks i don't want to be too excited i don't want to be too overconfident which which i understand and then you know you see a lot of the social posts it's like well this is the mariner there's still a chance, you know, the marriage blows. And the social posts. It's like, well, this is the Mariners. There's still a chance, you know, the Mariners blow something.

And there absolutely is.

It's only a two nothing lead.

But the vibes are really, really good right now, which is a lot of fun. They are. And you know what? Like, I get it. I think every single Mariners fan

when they were up 10 to 3

in the ninth inning

were like uh oh I think every single Mariners fan when they were up 10 to 3 in the ninth inning

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