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We do not have Derek Van Riper today, but we have an awesome collection of talent here with Michael Aheto from Lookout Landing and Janus

Schuero from NBC Sports Edge and also Southside Sox.

So we are going to talk today a little bit about the Mariners and the White Sox,

but I'm sure we'll get into some regular baseball stuff.

And I think that to start, we just had the deadline. We could kind of juxtapose the two, uh, deadlines that these two teams had. They're kind of, uh, kind of different teams. And, but I'm going to have to go to you, Michael, because, um, I just think there was, there was so much, uh, talk and, uh, there was so much, like,

rancor about the Mariners, um, a deadline. But my question for you is like, don't you think

that the Mariners got better for this year, uh, after that deadline, even though, like, maybe, you know, sending Ken McGrathman out as the first move

kind of made it seem like they were selling.

I mean, they seem better, right?

Like, Diego Castillo's pretty awesome, even at 96 instead of 97.

I don't know.

Yeah, I never really doubted it once once we saw

graven go um i was really hyped to get toro because actually you're the one that put me on to him

as a peripheral prospect or prospect of the week i think in 2019 or 2020 so i've been on him for a while

now and i mean i was surprised that that was the return.

But I knew that depoto wasn't going to just send out Graveman and just be done with it.

Yeah, he's depoto, right?

Yeah, right. And like a lot of the reports were coming out and saying, you know, like,

the Mariners are talking to this team about this player.

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