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Episode 261.

We are two days away from the trade deadline.

News is flying left and right, so just to keep you guys with perspective here, it is 1207 Eastern Standard on Wednesday.

So if you're listening to this at any point throughout the rest of the week, and you're like, why the fuck didn't you talk about this or how didn't you react to that?

Just know that that's when we're recording. Some stuff has already gone down. We obviously have Twitter up ready to go as the show is rolling on.

News will be coming out, so as of three minutes ago, Michael Gibbons just went to the Rockies.

No, from the Rockies to the Reds.

So this is a, we're rolling with it in terms of news. We're on top of it.

There's a story that we didn't get to. It's probably because it didn't happen yet when you were listening to this.

Anyways, even though it is the trade deadline and the trade deadline is upon us, there is something that I wanted to talk about before we kind of gotten to any trade stuff.

We got to talk about the Seattle Marars.

We got to talk about America's team.

We got to talk about our work.

In terms of getting like just getting slapped across the like my God.

We're talking about our Mariners, our, your Mariners, our Mariners, America's team.

I mean, this team when was the last time they made the postseason 2001 they haven't.

2001 was that the last time?

Yeah.

Maybe I have no idea.

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