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welcome back everyone so this is episode two of the history of the Seattle Mariners and this one is called Ken Griffey Jr and his quest to save the Mariners so we caught a glimpse of Ken griffy right at the end of episode one so yeah this is going to I think this spans six years it says so it's going to be pulling the Mariners out the trenches after what we saw that their first 10 years left a lot to be desired should we say do you think this is going to be a successful period Then do you think they're going to be finishing above 500 this is 1989 to 1995 six year run um yeah I think Ken griffy we we know he's he's one of the greatest ever Mariners isn't he probably the best in some people's minds so yeah hopefully the team performed as well as he did but yeah this is secret base production by John Boyce again we we knew exactly what we were going to get in episode one and we both absolutely loved it um so it was a great recommendation by everyone that's asked us to take a look at this and I can't wait to get into this and learn more about King graffy definitely please give the video a like if you want to see the original video we will put that into the description um yeah completely mirror Nick says episode one was really really interesting there was a lot of information to takeen in there so really looking forward to seeing what they've got for us now for 1989 to 1995 this one let's take a [Music] look the son of Ken griffy is the most beloved baseball player of the last 50 years fans were worried that they wouldn't ever get to see a player make it into the Hall of Fame with a Mariner's hat on his plaque not because Junior wouldn't get in everyone saw that coming 20 years before the fact but because it was rumored that his plaque would be sculpted with his hat on backwards he'd always worn it like that not as any kind of statement but because he was always wearing his dad's Red's hat as a little kid and it kept falling in his face unless he turned it around the public image of Junior was one of a guy who on top of being astounding at baseball had more fun than anyone always laughing starring in funny commercials pulling increasingly ingenious and elaborate pranks on his teammates the story of the real King Griffey Jr was incompatible with what we saw doesn't really look like it's got the Mariners made Junior 1987's number one overall draft pick signing him right out of high school he became a celebrity very quickly tearing through the miners and receiving a spring training invite with big Leaguers in 1989 he played so well that manager Jim Leber had no choice but to start him at center field on opening day he shown us he can do everything the fber said there isn't one thing he can't do others agreed in their 1989 set the brand new Upper Deck baseball card company reserved their number one slot traditionally reserved for a superstar for a 19-year-old who had yet to appear in a single Major League Baseball game he didn't let him down wins above replacement is a metric that attempts to estimate a player's overall value to his team in terms of wins Junior markk in 89 was just over three the best baseball had seen from a teenage position player in over 60 years his season could have been even better had he not missed a month of action after slipping and falling in the shower Junior was already becoming the first great who was that one player before that was like a four who was that I couldn't see the year so I don't know do you remember what we were told about Griffey Jr because obviously we watched a video on his greatest of catches didn't we we did yeah and we were told heavily in the comments one thing in particular that that video didn't show no it's escaped me his swing oh okay apparently he had like the most elegant brilliant swing oh okay of the bat hopefully we get to see that in this yeah that would be pretty cool great Seattle Mariner the first era the era of Forgotten bums piecing together losing season after losing season and a far-flung corner of the country was over and Junior ended it most have no idea of what he went through at age 17 he was shipped off from a Cincinnati home to play Minor leag Ball in Bellingham Washington he literally could not have been sent any further from home Ken Senior a three-time Allstar knew what it was to be a baseball star but his son's Journey was something else entirely Junior was saddled with massive expectations before his 18th birthday the pressure coupled with the loneliness of being so far from home weighed on him enormously he struggled with depression and years later he would disclose that he once made an attempt on his own life in this time but that time and every time senior was there helping him navigate an experience that no one can truly be ready for what was once a combative relationship between the two faded oh sorry he wasn't drafted first he was drafted first in the free agent is that different I don't know much about that really been told about free agent draft yeah i' never heard of that before is that just another term for the draft in the MLB or is it that he had to come in in a completely different route to to the typical draft that's scen I think he's said as senior came to recognize the burden his son was carrying sometimes he said the only privacy he gets is out in center field that's a lot for a young young person take something that a photo the way he was looking at his dad really here's Junior during a game in 1990 chasing down an outfield fly his dad is in the building looking on when Junior pulls a classic Junior move and steals the catch from the left fielder all can do his laugh there he is oh wow that's funny The 40-Year-Old griffy was teammates with his 20-year-old son not only that the two were Neighbors in the Outfield and batted right next to each other in the lineup in one of baseball's best known pieces of trivia they became the first fatherson Duo to hit backto back home runs sure acquiring senior in the first place was probably a publicity stunt but you're going to hear these words from me quite often who cares in '92 thanks to unreliable pitching they followed up their first ever winning season by dipping far into the red seemingly undoing years of positive moment W it's up some ups and downs now for the but the thing is at least there's some UPS I've been waiting for that moment and then wow just absolute what way to get shot down yeah that is Savage that is huge as well that's a horrible they had now finished dead last in the standings for the sixth time in their year history for reasons we'll eventually get into this wasn't such a bad thing meet Jay buer in one of the great heists of the 1980s the Mariners had fleeced the dreaded Yankees out of the power hitting right fielder giving up only Greg Phelps in return okay so here's my chance to solve a decades old mystery for people who watched Steinfeld but didn't watch baseball remember the episode where Frank castanza starts yelling at George Stein Brunner out of nowhere about some guy named J buer what the hell did you trade J buer for you I know what the hell you doing and Stein burner goes on instead about some guy named Ken Phelps my baseball people love Ken Phelps bat they kept saying k felps k felps well this is what Frank was so mad about I'm not here leave a message unlike griffy buer is not a five tool player he doesn't steal bases hit for average or field all that well he is however a master practitioner of bluring bluring is a term buer himself came up with and it refers to the act of vomiting on Q for the purpose of eliciting pukes from nearby sympathy vomers why these are the Seattle Mariners we'll never be able to answer why questions when what who sure we can help you with those questions but not why buer demonstrated his true Mastery of The Craft during a game in 1992 in right field buer executed a blurp spilling his lunch on the turf it must have been a remarkable performance because when left fielder Kevin Mitchell watched from about 200 ft away he became Que e and began puking as well finally gy Jr looked over from center field he couldn't hold it in and began to vomit the entire Seattle Mariners Outfield was vomiting at the same time JB is it not a chance that they maybe just ate something dodgy or I mean it depends how strong people's stomachs are because a lot of people if like you see someone else throwing up or G or then it can make you do the same thing cuz it make but yeah could have they could have had some dodgy through so if I'm inside and somebody throws up I need to get away from the smell but they're outside on the field if somebody's being sick bearing in mind think about how spread out yeah um the fielders are the three Outfield are yeah yeah there's no way I'm throwing up just because one of them is throwing up no no no I'm not having this one I don't like this s smells off no no that's why they throwing up realize a second I said that buun had just executed the triple blurp in the middle of a a baseball game they were throwing up over each other by the time 1993 rolled around Griffey's game reached New Heights and at age 23 was making history to be as great as he was as young as he was on July 25th after homering in each of the previous five nights this shot off Jose Mesa made him the youngest player to ever go deep in six consecutive games then he did it again in the game after that then he did it again in the game after that first pitch from Bank just SW there it goes see you later uper deck griffy has tied the mjor league record holy cow the kid has done it tying the alltime record at eight straight that to this day has only been done by two other players regardless of age when the dust settled on that season he topped a batting average of 300 to go along with who do you think those two are ones eight in a row yeah probably B in that era where he could be bonds could be he said ever so it could be rof um could be could be Ted Williams I don't know I don't know I'm just yeah I'm flat out I have no idea eight it might not be the sort of play as you think it is so when you get runs like that happen it typically can be I think this is all way could you please let us know I was just going to say yeah that beaz let us know those two are 45 homers it all led to the most total bases by a 23-year-old since Hank Aaron back in 1957 at that point Griffey's career totals included 132 homers 1428 total bases and 453 RBI that was the most career dingers anyone his age had hit since Frank Robinson only Mel ought over 60 years prior had accumulated that many total bases while a player so young hadn't driven in over 450 runs since Ted Williams prior to departing MLB to fight World War II combined with his fourth straight gold glove if it wasn't clear before 1993 removed any and all doubt that we were witnessing a once in a generation Talent blossoming before our very eyes just like the 1981 season 1994 was shortened by labor dispute and just like 81 94 was monumentally weird for the Mariners one of the most sought-after records was the single season home run Mark of 61 set by Roger Maris in 1961 in the three plus decades to follow only three guys 1965 Willie Mays 1977 George Foster and 1990 cesil Fielder came within even 10 of that number and those guys lost Pace with him before the season was even half over but in 1994 griffy who we see here in green helped to lead an armada of players in pursuit of Maris and his record Matt Williams Jeff Bagwell Frank Thomas Barry Bonds and Albert Bell were bum rushing the history books but it felt like Junior who of course was capable of going on home run tears without warning had the best shot the strike wiped out the season in August and ever since we've been left to wonder what would have happened I'm left in a state of personal conflict here on one hand Collective action is good and labor strikes are cool on the other hand I was looking forward to seeing where the squiggly lines were going to go on my computer screen the strike also denied us a chance to witness some history that was headed in the opposite direction over the years there had been seven teams in the aest with that much competition the Mariners had no chance of contending but in '94 the American League was realigned they were now only four teams and as luck would have it all four were garbage the strike mercifully abbreviated what probably would have ended up as the worst division in baseball history at the end of it the Rangers were leading the West with a 52 and 62 record the Mariners despite being as bad as ever were only a couple games out it was the closest you see they're coming down Mariners are going up they could have won the division that's crazy how can you be winning your division with a B 5262 records that is crazy whoever that is in yellow you ever had a nightmare yeah I mean yeah even the other two were in a downt Mariners could have done it they could have won the division That season I I still think end of the seon season probably did him a solid yeah there a lot of red they'd ever come to First at the end of a season and if everyone else getting worse is what it took to get the Mariners into contention so be it forget their win loss record though who cares the Seattle Mariners seemed like the team of the future they were wearing new uniforms now with a redesigned logo and an electric blue jersey in a time when domes were still cool they played in the kingom which sat in the shadow of the Cascades and in the middle of a mysterious distant City who cultural exports were computer stuff and Nirvana and the Space Needle around this time I was growing up in places I found ordinary because what do they play is it is it the Mariners you play at the T-Mobile stadium don't know can't remember the name you're asking the wrong guy I such his life you always think the place you live in is ordinary it was easy to assign of Mystique to this far away futuristic paradise and the superhero who lived there after some early '90s Rumblings of a potential move to Florida the anxiety of keeping baseball in Seattle had vanished as well in a turn of events that sounds made up by an 8-year-old a majority stake in the Mariners was bought by Hiroshi Yami the president of Nintendo Yami was a billionaire who had never been to a baseball game didn't know who King Griffey Jr was and seemed to be more interested in expanding Nintendo of America's footprint than actually turning a profit he wasn't prepared for how happy the Mariners actually made people as he put it it was as though the money he spent was alive throughout its history Seattle baseball was regularly in trouble and its only victory was in simply being allowed to exist now they had real identity they had their Superstar they were the coolest team in baseball somehow things had come together it's definitely looking up that's for sure yeah don't want to get to it was the perfect time for things to fall apart ah yeah okay we didn't get to sorry mate while the team was warming up on July 19th four of the king Doom ceiling tiles fell and collapsed into the seats nobody was hurt but Mariners games were immediately relocated to other venues and the player strike ensured that there would be no more Mariners home games throughout the rest of the season the team's ownership group leveraged this to demand public money for a new stadium to replace the kingom which wasn't yet 20 years old if they didn't get this funding they would sell the team likely to someone who would move them out of town there was no way no way this was happening again not now not the minute Seattle basball finally found relevance after all these decades it wasn't fair in a different more normal World a baseball team would build a baseball stadium and play there and that would be that it's as though Seattle baseball has to perpetually fight simply to exist as though it's running a foul of the order of the universe [Music] it's determined that a special election will be held in September of 1995 the public will in effect decide whether an increase in sales tax is worth keeping the Seattle Mariners the Mariners themselves who have never reached the playoffs or even finish better than third in their division have no choice but to convince the public by making their case on the field wow so they increas in sales tax for everybody yes to the so whe whether you want whether you're even into baseball or not you're going to contribute to saving the uh yes the team but yeah I'm bet they're glad they did all this time like down the line but yeah that's crazy I've never heard of that I that is crazy definitely to see tax increase for that wonder how the vote went for that they'll be led by L Panella now 3 years into his decade long career as the Mariners manager and beloved by players and fans like Panella had been Ken griffy senior's teammate in New York and when he became manager of the Yankees senior was traded away a couple years later senior was playing for the Reds who hired penella to be his manager again and under panella's watch senior was traded away again regardless senior always liked penella and so did Junior no one in recent memory can throw a more theatrical temper tantrum than Lou he'll deliver his magnumopus in Cleveland a few years from now in which he enters a sort of Fugue State and doesn't even remember everything he said or did after arguing a call and getting thrown out of the game he indignantly throws his hat into the infield he spends another moment in the umpire's face then spins around and kicks his hat he kicks again more angr this time and just about misses his hat entirely L switches course after this punching the Hat into shallow Center and jawing with the umps some more he Stomps over bends down and flips the hat back in the infield and squares up for a kick this time punting it further five kicks six kicks seven until he navigates back into the dirt finally he picks up his cap and makes his exit but not before he throws it into the crowd with one final flourish a helpful Cleveland Fan throws a back at him which Lou seemed to appreciate after the game point being Lou Panella is the appropriate man to lead this team yeah I think I would have kept AIT history epic breakdown like that in the middle of the DI the Mariners start the season 14 and 12 the evening of May 26th the Orioles Kevin bass smacks one deep in the right center it's the seventh inning of a regular season baseball game in May griffy doesn't have to do what he's about to do but Ken griffy Jr can only be great he has no other choice he Sprints about 20 miles takes off throws himself at the wall makes one of the most iconic catches of the 1990s and hits the ground 10 ft away from his hat metal plate and seven screws inserted into his left wrist it's estimated that the Mariners who haven't done much of anything in six seasons with their Superstar will'll be without him for 3 months this is where the season goes down I would assume this is going to go really fast if it doesn't meanwhile the Mariners and the California Angels are fighting for the division lead while the Mariners spend June trading wins and losses at an even rate the angels are positioning themselves for a run which they finally begin in mid July in this span they go a remarkable 17 and three and even those three losses were squeakers one was a one-run loss one an extra innings loss and one a walk-off those 17 wins more than half came by at least five runs the angels are clobbering the American League in fact up to this point in the season they have far in way the best run differential in all of baseball the Mariners all the way down here at plus three almost the definition of mediocre throughout the Angels streak they've gone nowhere and are now 13 games out of the lead time is running out I mean this is obviously gearing us up for an epic comeback it's going to be a comeback yeah yeah but given how far they're behind yeah the angels are going to have to collapse yeah they are that doesn't sound like the Angels um hopefully they make a small little comeback and then when Kan griffy gets back that that's when they explode Lally sound it's going to help I mean no one's going to pay extra sales tax on that are they no one wants to explode now griffy actually returns to the field a few games ahead of schedule but nothing much changes California is holding steady as a rock at about 25 games over 500 and Seattle is just lying there like a beached whale this is all they'd ever done even now with the public vote less than a month away and the people of Seattle to impress the Mariners had failed to present any other version of themselves it seemed as though they had no other version of themselves across entire 19e history they've experienced one day at 10 games over 500 approximately 24 hours in August of 1991 that's it suppose they somehow rally in this very short window and get there again great they're less than halfway there this is a team with no meaningful pass to speak of and in all likelihood no future there is only the present there is nothing to do but March some run oh oh uh who okay oh oh wow here we go who needs to win if they lose exactly that something terrible has happened to the California Angels they're getting ejected they're fighting with each other in general they're starting to lose it and it's easy to understand why losing nine games in a row while holding the division lead is horrifying enough but this one is like no other over these nine games they've been outscored by 48 runs or just over five per game they've gotten absolutely thumped now it's true that up to this point there have been 369 game streaks in baseball history that were this bad but look at who they happened to almost all of these teams were way under 500 they were already totally cooked by the time the losing streak began and in fact a good number of these streaks belong to some of the worst teams in the history of the game the only team anywhere near the 95 Angels is the 1957 red legs who were 61 and 49 but they were in fourth place and a postseason appearance was pretty unlikely for them these Angels were in first place by a huge margin they were cruising in what feels at first like too little too late the Mariners finally smell blood in the water when they wake up on the morning of September 19th they're suddenly only two games behind [Music] it's their big [Music] day that evening they Rally from a 4 to1 deficit to take the Rangers into Extra Innings in the bottom of the 11th griffy finds himself down to his final strike what's important to know about junior is that he's far more than just a power hitter most pitches aren't home run opportunities but many any including some well outside the strike zone our chance to slap one through and with a man on second that is all the Mariners need and it swung on and lined off the glove of the here comes the Mariners with it down south the Angels lose again one then they watch the news and wait with most of the ballots counted the measure to fund a new Mariner Stadium thereby by keeping them in Seattle currently leads by a thin margin but these are just the voters who showed up today around 45,000 absentee ballots are still out there and they were cast some time ago by voters who hadn't yet seen the lunacy that's currently unfolding these voters have been watching these Mariners the miracle Mariners the votes yet to be counted are from people who know nothing but these Mariners [Music] that the county continues the next day it's announced that with close to half a million votes counted the lead has shrunk to 300 there are still 15,000 votes yet to be counted that night the Mariners come from behind again to knock off the A's 10 to 7 down in Texas the Angels answer with another loss this happens again and again the Seattle Mariner are now leading the American League West if they hold on they're headed to the playoffs for the first time in their history the Angels is insane coupled with that wind stream as well Mar unre it all happened so quickly it's disorienting the Angels cheated Fate by dropping nine in a row down the home stretch and keeping a comfortable lead but then after briefly Gathering themselves they dropped N9 in a row again losing streaks of this size are extraordinary rare in baseball since the Angels were founded 35 years ago they've only suffered a handful and typically during seasons in which they were way out of the playoff race and didn't have much to play for now at the worst possible time they've suffered two in the space of a month no new results from King County votes since the 21st it's time to meet two more Heroes first Tino Martinez just another of the Mariners seemingly endless supply of power hitters his career will be defined by a memorable home runs although many of them come after he leaves Seattle and then there's Dave knous I have zero emotional investment in the Mariners but the way their longtime broadcaster Dave KN house would call Big moments still made my Goosebumps get goosebumps and whether it was his trademark phrases like breaking out the Ry bread and mustard for a grand salami or just his overall infectious enthusiasm that made made a random Tuesday night in August feel like game s of the World Series he simply had a unique way to connect with fans and bring the game to life tragically KN house was taken from us far too soon shortly following the 2010 season leaving a void that's truly impossible to fill for so long through years and years of Misery the one thing Mariner fans could take solace in was knowing they'd be treated to KNE House's pure Brilliance for three hours night after night starting with their first pitch in 1977 and continuing for 34 years and nearly 5,300 games thereafter it's a while that's something we see in American Sports that we don't in in our Sports cuz we have announcers that work for the broadcast company and they will announ they will commentate or announce like on multitude of different games and different teams but they have their own um was it resident and and they're Hing as high a guard as some of the players they're in the they're in there like up in the rafters with the players numbers and stuff like it's yeah it's crazy how they um it's stay on and do that job for so long it's really good it's it's one of the real benefits of the North American Sports because yeah it is such a nice touch to have that and you're right we don't we get blim X players who often from the same little gaggle of clubs yeah that then they just there everything critique peing and breaking down every play whereas in this you just seem to get that raw emotion exactly I love listeners to the Padre's announcer his name eludes me but he's the best in baseball that's all that matters C anoun such a nice touch yeah no it is I like it back and forth game between the Mariners and Athletics down by a run in the bottom of the ninth Tino Martinez steps in with a man on first listen closely here as Dave neow's voice momentarily Fades out before returning closer to the mic here comes the pitch Totino swung on that beled deep the right field and that will be flying away and the mar is winning he was probably spinning in his chair I asked in part one why anyone would want to watch the Mariners in those atrocious early days well there's your reason regardless of the quality or lack thereof of the product put forth on the field house always always always provided an A++ broadcast bad news comes on the 26th the measure has for the time being lost the lead but it's still alive there are still about 3,000 ballots yet to be counted after weeks of sniping at one another from different parts of the country the Angels one they're one and a half behind and they still got 3,000 but that's a big swing needed big swing yeah like they're going to need I don't know I don't know they're going to need some dodgy countings going they you know like one one two one for no three for yes finally have to drag their sorry asses up to Seattle and meet their conquerors in person they get thumped 10 to2 thanks to homers from griffy and J buer it's their seventh consecutive win and the Mariners now lead the west by three games with just six to play [Music] what's going to happen I don't know it's dramatically just cut off yeah the next day it becomes clear oh wow the vote has failed the Mariners lose to the angels that afternoon win their next two games against the Rangers and end up splitting the series in Texas after getting thumped 9-2 and 9 to3 they left exactly enough room for the angels to catch up to him and the angels did they're 14 4 4 game schedule in Zen a TI it necessitates something major league baseball hasn't seen in 15 years a special one game tiebreaker between the Mariners and Angels to decide who goes to the playoffs what comes next for the Mariners and where they end up playing next year no one can really say but if nothing else this much is guaranteed the Seattle Mariners will play one more baseball game the final game of an absurd season will turn out to be its most most absurd for one the timing is odd this is without question the most important game the Mariners have ever played and yet the first pitch is at 1 p.m. on a Monday afternoon well at least it was the biggest story of that that's really strange an afternoon game everyone's at work oh Sur that would be prime time like yeah you'd think that'd be the schedule like everyone gets home everyone gets to the ballpark you want a packed out you want all the all the decks packed out all all eyes on it yeah afternoon right no it wasn't it's time to meet Randy Johnson Randy we [Music] Go's who at 6'1 became the tallest player in the history of Major League Baseball when he entered the bigs in 1988 everyone thought he had greatness in him it showed up in flashes most notably in 1990 when he threw the first no hitter in Mariners history but he led the lean walks 3 years in a row and his ER hung around four placing him around the middle of the pack and then Nolan Ryan came to town before a Mariners Rangers game in 1992 Johnson ran into the future Hall of Famer and confessed that something in his mechanics wasn't working Ryan said Hey try landing on the front of your foot instead of your heel Randy listened and just like that his numbers drastically improved and he was well on his way to becoming one of the most accomplished pitchers baseball has ever seen he was also among the most intimidating he had a 102 mph fast ball but his most devastating pitch was a 90 m per hour slider that had so much on it that it looked like a fast ball it was almost unfair it was called Mr Snappy Mr Snappy I mean this is like some goat pitching coming into the picture into the fold here so we got Nolan Ryan or if you were part of our Discord early on poll saying Ryan Nolan yeah I was thinking we probably should mention that story for people that are coming seeing us for the first time yeah quite a funny that was early on wasn't it yeah it was very early on very very early on I was learning but yeah Randy Johnson it's like yeah there are some big big pitching names coming in I mean names like this Mariners should be just fine there should be yeah they're going to win this game yeah go go otherwise what's the next four parts going to be about and they're back so yeah yeah it's fine they got it future of the organization hanging in the balance Seattle Skipper Lou penella had the Ultimate Ace up his sleeve as he was able to give the ball to Johnson on short rest and it's completely clear why that seemingly risky move wasn't so risky but was in fact the obvious call The Big Unit wasn't just the team's top pitcher but he was the very best in the entire American League by miles in terms of both Ops allowed and erra no one was close to to him he notched at least 12 strikeouts in nine games existing on his own Stratosphere relative to the rest of the league on his way to Fanning nearly 300 batters despite an abbreviated MLB season so while Seattle had the runaway Sai Young winner on the hill the Angels Ace was out of Commish with All-Star Chuck Finley having tossed over a 100 pitches the prior afternoon to get him to this game that meant the Angels hopes rested on longtime Mariner Mark Langston who Seattle had traded to Montreal in the deal that landed him Johnson the Mariners were oozing confidence in a game that they got to host based on the flip of a coin Panella saw a win at see that 172 what was 172 Randy's record for the season oh wow yeah look 172 going up against I mean Langston 156 is definitely nothing yeah he's not the number one though your no up without their number one which is obviously that's probably why mariners was so confident oh still be fairly confident myself if you got 156 yeah yeah yeah got to host based on the flip of a coin canel saw a win as a foregone conclusion so did left fielder Vince [Music] Coleman and Randy was indeed an Untouchable force of nature for the first six Innings of this one retiring each of the Angel's first 17 batters before his bid for Perfection was broken up by his ex roommate of all people Langston was pretty good too allowing just one run through six but then things got away from him in the seventh the Mariners loaded up the bases with former Angel Luis Soho at the dish who then punched a grounder to the right that probably should have been an ending ending 3-1 put out but that instead first baseman JT snow flubbed snow could only watch as the ball blooped into foul territory and underneath the Angel's Bullpen bench by the time right fielder Tim salmon dug it up two Mariners had scored an unfortunate set of circumstances turned disastrous when Langston's throwing error allowed for the ultimate embarrassment four runs scoring on a ball that touched an infielder's glove for what has to be the first and only time in the history of organized baseball thanks to the Fielding work of two angels that would each win gold gloves that season does that go down as an infield Grand Slam or does such a thing not exist I was thinking of that but if he if he got lost under the under the benches with that not cuz I know that if um I'm pretty sure at Chicago when we play it um play at home if the ball gets lost in the ivy as long as the outfielder doesn't go searching for it it gets a ground double that might yeah I'm guessing the rules may have changed nowadays would would that have been a ground rule double I think he probably would have been and then he would have had to stop at second right um because yeah I know if if you start looking for the ball in the ivy they can carry on running I'm pretty sure but if you if you don't and it disappears then it's it's not make double fair play that is baseball for you with the game now blown wide open the M's could just sit back and ride Johnson to the alss title fell aart well that's crazy now the Seattle Mariners are guaranteed to exist for at least a few more days as they move on to make their first ever playoff appearance in the 1995 ALDS what happens and If This Were a work of fiction this is exactly the way we would write it but they lost the vote yeah was going to Happ oh he's got to he did yeah wow so they lost the vote they're having their best season by far yeah their first postseason appearance made to the s yeah yeah against the Yankees probably a very very tough matchup yeah but just to be there after all those poor Seasons must just be incredible and I feel like if the vote was even a few days after this it would have been yes all the way um but I don't know if whether because the vote was very close whether they can appeal it or go through the courts maybe I I think they're going to find some missing ballot boxes yeah yeah back down the back of the sofa that's it and yes is going to win by one Imagine That Could Happen they'd be screaming conspiracy if that happened could happen but no that that was a really yeah another really interesting episode um has been really getting into the depths of this I mean the the the amount of fight that this ball Club has gone through just to exist is crazy I mean this all started in what 193 30 32 something like that and I feel like here we are in 1995 so over 60 years later and it's like almost like they just can't exist especially since they changed to the Mariners yeah um they've constant fight yeah all they've done is exist they haven't really they haven't overperformed at all um and yeah like you say even even existing has been a struggle for them so this is just another bump in the road in their existence um but yeah hopefully well we know they come through obviously but yeah it' be interesting to know how they come about it and yeah get that vote turned the other way yeah no definitely you would imagine that they're going to hopefully pull something amazing off yeah or would someone be able to come in from outside an outside investor maybe because the vote is only to get the money isn't it yes um so might be on something there no it's a good sh it's a good sh um could they might be a they see the Promise in the team now with Ken Griffey you got um Randy um they're in the postseason for once maybe a businessman thinks maybe they're um they're going to do something and put some money in we do obviously know they don't go on to uh win the World Series yeah um I'm not hating on that okay look I'm there too it's fine um but yeah no I can't wait can't wait to get into episode three um let us know your thoughts down below we hope that you enjoyed that one as much as us please pick up um anything that we've said incorrect or not anything no actually do just do it we did ask a few things there i' really appreciate your support and guidance on as well to help keep us on a on the straight and narrow um but 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