Brock and Salk

Brock and Salk go back and forth about how every time the Mariners receiev some type of shot in the arm this season, it only lasts in the short term. They then debate who the most irreplaceable Seahawks are for this season. In Blue 88, topics range from Mike Macdonald's defense, Bo Nix and the opnening weekend of college football.

Salk opens up the show by discussing the Mariners third walk-off loss in four days and how if the Mariners were currently winning 54% of their games, they'd be a playoff team. They later re-air their conversation with Jeff Passan where he breaks down what has gone wrong for the Mariners, who is to blame and what they can do moving forward.

How have the M's been so bad at finding the right hitters to succeed here? Salk says if he needed to build an offense that is going to play 81 games here and also go elsewhere and win games, he would go after three qualities. Then, we take your calls on what's going wrong with this Mariners team.

Brock and Salk call back Brock's emotional moment on his FOX college football broadcast on Saturday. They later welcome on ESPN's jeff Passan to dive in with him on all that has gone wrong with the Mariners and what needs to change.

Brock and Salk take callers to get their two cents from Mariners callers on where the team is at. They then discuss what a manager truly can and can't do in baseball and tie it back to Dan Wilson. In Blue 88, they go over Seahawks game week, Mike Macdonald and UW Football.

There was a article released by NFL.com that has the early projections for who will make the NFL Playoffs, where did the Seahawks land? The Seahawks are projected to finish 3rd in the NFC West. With the right scheme, can this Seahawks team have the best receiver core in the NFL? // Need to Know: The Mariners lose on the road to the LA Angels and the Mariners are slowly started to run out of chances to get to the postseason. We are now officially in Week 1 of the NFL season, the Seahawks take on the Broncos on Sunday. College Football is in full swing as the UW Huskies took down Weber State 35-3. // Taking Your Phone Calls: Talking anything Mariners or Seahawks, who do either team need to do to have success? // Answer The Question Jerk

Ryan Divish was on the Marine Layer Podcast to talk about the move to fire Scott Servais as manager and he gave even more thoughts on that move and potential offseason moves on the Mariners roster. Divish also talks about how the batters eye in T-Mobile Park could be one reason why batters have trouble hitting in the park which leads to players not signing here. // Need to Know: The Mariners lose on the road to the LA Angels and the Mariners are slowly started to run out of chances to get to the postseason. We are now officially in Week 1 of the NFL season, the Seahawks take on the Broncos on Sunday. College Football is in full swing as the UW Huskies took down Weber State 35-3. // Diving deeper into the conversation the Marine Layer Podcast had with Ryan Divish. If the Mariners want to land an impact bat in the offseason will cost you either one of your starting pitchers or trading Randy Arozarena to free up cap space. What would be the value for Arozarena and who will be the player to be named later in the original Arozarena trade? Was the relationship between Scott Servais and Jerry Dipoto on the rocks as the season progressed negatively before it resulted in Servais being fired?

What do the Seahawks need to do this season to have success and find the postseason? If this defense could be league average and mid-tier in the running game, this team should find success // Need to Know: The Mariners lose on the road to the LA Angels and the Mariners are slowly started to run out of chances to get to the postseason. We are now officially in Week 1 of the NFL season, the Seahawks take on the Broncos on Sunday. College Football is in full swing as the UW Huskies took down Weber State 35-3. // Bryan Woo and Bryce Miller had okay outings against the Angels over the weekend but were not able to secure the wins. These two pitchers had fantastic ERA’s and innings pitched, they are having great second halves of the season and are performing extremely well this year as they did at this time last season. Of the starting 5 for this Mariners p[itching staff, Woo is the most unique and has less walks than George Kirby with 2.5 walks per nine innings. // Blue 88 Baseball Edition: What will happen with the AL Wild Card race, are the Red Sox and Tigers teams that will keep the Mariners out? Who is a better player: Aaron Judge or Shohei Ohtani? Aaron Judge is accomplishing feats that nobody has done in decades. Ohtani could have a 50/50 season which has never happened before. Why is there not one dominant team in the MLB this season?

Lyle Goldstein & TJ Matthewson from the Marine Layer Podcast are in for Brock & Salk. The Mariners drop 2 of 3 games to the LA Angels, the Mariners have struggled to win against the AL West opponent. The Mariners pitching staff has struggled on the road and are ranked 20th in the league in terms of away ERA. // Need to Know: The Mariners lose on the road to the LA Angels and the Mariners are slowly started to run out of chances to get to the postseason. We are now officially in Week 1 of the NFL season, the Seahawks take on the Broncos on Sunday. College Football is in full swing as the UW Huskies took down Weber State 35-3. // Around the Weekend: Washington State took down Portland State 70-30. The University of Miani defeated state rival Florida 41-17 under former WSU QB Cam Ward. Ward called out Florida fans saying the Pac 12 was the real conference for play and crowd noise. Dabo Swinney is proving himself more and more insufferable. Brian Kelly the coach of LSU Football is furious over their loss to USC in their opening weekend. Ja’Marr Chase wants a top tier contract and wants one cent more than Justin Jefferson. Ricky Pearsall was shot in the chest over the weekend during an attempted robbery in San Francisco, thankfully the shot missed all vital organs.