Mike Salk

Salk heard Mike Blowers mention on the broadcast that Haggerty is starting to "swing harder" because of his confidence and Salk thinks it's an interesting concept. Haggerty isn’t the breakout star of this team, but he is exactly what they needed this year. Nobody is more excited than Salk to talk w/ Mariners Pres. of Baseball Operations for another episode of The Jerry Dipoto Show. Jerry shares his high praise for Tuesday's 13-inning game, elaborates on the decision to move Flexen to the bullpen, how careful they've been with Julio and a ton more.

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Salk shares the biggest things he's learned about the Mariners from this season: Stop panicking, Don’t panic, Don’t get too confident, Health and depth matter, and Scott is an excellent manager. Salk is joined by Greg Bishop from Sports Illustrated who is writing a story on the biggest Seattle sports icon - is it Sue Bird? Brock Huard joins us from Brewster WA to discuss the series season win against NY and who he owes an apology to for his previous comments.

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Mariners beat Yankees again & everybody's pumped about the first season series win against them in 20 years. We hear from more upset Yankee fans who simply cannot believe the Mariners could win and they have to blame their manager. Revisiting yesterday's conversation w/ ESPN's Jeff Passan to hear some perspective on this season and what's possible for the rest of the season. Salk asks - which Seahawk would you like to have their break-out season?

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Mariners reliever Matt Brash joins Mike Salk to discuss why last night's game was special, how he grown into his role in the bullpen and what some of the differences are in the array of spectacular sliders we see from this pitching staff. Plus, a Ranked list themed around last night's game.

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The answer of 'who was the biggest hero' could go to any number of players from last night's extra-innings win, but Salk, Maura, and Justin all chose a different guy who they believed earned that title. Salk opens the phone lines to Mariners fans who want to gush about the team, what the win meant, and who they chose as the hero of the game and we hear some angry quotes from Yankees fans who were very upset over the loss.

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With everything that happened last night it's hard to keep everything in context between Luis Castillo's ace start, Andres Munoz electric inning & Matt Brash's performance. Salk's main takeaways: bullpen is nails and Scott outmanaged Boone (not just tactically) in many ways. ESPN's Senior MLB Insider Jeff Passan joins Salk for his weekly appearance to discuss last night's game, the strikeouts being up and the Wild Card race before Brock Huard's appearance to gush over the huge Yankees win.

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That Mariners game was an unreal experience and we're all dog tired & excited to discuss what happened. Salk has watched a lot of memorable games in his life, but last night's was a special one. Both Salk and Maura share observations from Seahawks Training Camp and which position groups stood out to them the most and who they're worried about from injuries and lack of use. Salk believes this is the fastest team he's seen and loves to see it.

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Brock and Salk discuss why Pete Carroll it seems that Pete Carroll has been reluctant to praise Drew Lock. He was over the moon about him in his presser when the Russell Wilson trade happened. Then, we do a little Buy or Sell and another edition of Ranked.

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Brock & Salk are joined by Joe Fann to discuss the big decisions that need to be made by the Mariners on who will be on the active roster once more players return from injury. Will Kelenic be sent down? Kyle Lewis? Others? Logan has started to struggle and the hard contact against him has led to more damage, Salk wonders if we are getting closer to the Kirby/Gilbert piggyback Jerry mentioned. With Brock in-studio, we play special round of an old favorite -- "Answer the Question Jerk."

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Brock Huard in-studio Salk continues to wonder why Pete didn’t sound too enthused about Drew Lock after he had the consensus better day and thinks maybe it's because he's overcorrecting. Seahawks DE Boye Mafe joins the show from Seahawks Training Camp to discuss biggest things he's learned so far, what Pete is like and how he can make the most immediate impact? Salk asks Brock if he would like the Seahawks to sign Roquon Smith.

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