Welcome to The Enni Way, a podcast about the Mariners with Sarah Enni. Our guest this week is Nathan Bishop, former Managing Editor of Lookout Landing and The Light Bat, and contributor to KJR’s Mollywop Mondays. We talk about the lack of clear narrative identity for the 2026 team and ask important questions, like: is Julio putting together the Full Julio Season? Is Randy too cool to be a Mariner? Does Kade Anderson know where Seattle is? Is Sasquatch real? We ask: what is the fan theory of the case this year? And finally, we consider George Kirby.

Links:

The Light Bat Publishing Inc. Clearinghouse on Bluesky’s Rob Refsnyder hit tracker

My conversation with Jage on his podcast, Words from the Wharf, where we warned against making declarative statements about the Seattle Mariners

My newsletter about the Ichiro statue’s broken bat

Jeff Sullivan, Jon Shields, Patrick Dubuque, Meg Rowley (listen to her episode of The Enni Way here), Scott Weber, Matt Ellis, Colin O’Keefe, David Skiba, and Samuel Joseph

Theme music by Jerome Barnes

Welcome to The Enni Way, a podcast about the Mariners with Sarah Enni. Our guest this week is Ben Ranieri. Ben is a former player and beat writer for FanNation of Sports Illustrated and Sodo Mojo, who now runs the Sea Level podcast. We talk about the debut of the Bryce Miller/Luis Castillo piggyback; Dan Wilson, splitting the baby, and team identity; what JP’s offer to play third says about him as a player and a leader; what we’ve seen from Jhonny Pereda; what do we want out of the Kansas City series (normalcy!); Cal’s return timeline; and which Mariner Ben is tracking especially closely.

Theme music by Jerome Barnes

Welcome to The Enni Way, a podcast about the Mariners with Sarah Enni. Our guest this week is Shannon Drayer, clubhouse reporter for the Seattle Mariners for Seattle Sports (710 AM) radio. We talk about the radio competition that led Shannon to her sports journalism career; Cal’s epic slump and how he might work his way out; how the Ms are going to handle Bryce Miller’s return to the lineup; and I float my Mariners Buddy Cop theory.

Find Shannon on Seattle Sports’ website and YouTube, and on X.com

Theme music by Jerome Barnes

Welcome to The Enni Way, a podcast about the Mariners with Sarah Enni. Our guest this week is Larry Stone, who retired in 2023 after 44 years as a sportswriter, 27 of those at the Seattle Times. He’s a four-time winner of the Washington Sportswriter of the Year award, a former president of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, and the co-author, with Edgar Martinez, of Edgar: An Autobiography.

How 2025 Mariners compare with 2001 team and others in MLB playoffs by Larry Stone for the Seattle Times

How the Mariners’ George Kirby is learning to control his ‘Furious George’ tendencies by Adam Jude for the Seattle Times

Julio Rodriguez, Ichiro are Mariners stars, but they have more in common than that by Larry Stone for the Seattle Times

Angels owner Arte Moreno draws MLBPA criticism after saying fans don’t prioritize winning

On his path to the Hall of Fame, Edgar Martinez never forgot his humble hometown in Puerto Rico by Larry Stone for The Seattle Times

Josh Naylor’s connection to Mariners fans grows even more with cleat giveaway by Ryan Divish for the Seattle Times

Theme music by Jerome Barnes

Welcome to The Enni Way, a podcast about the Mariners with Sarah Enni. Our guest this week is Meg Rowley, managing editor of FanGraphs and co-host of Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast.

Democracy at the Ballpark: Sport, Spectatorship, and Politics by Thomas David Bunting

The Mariners season preview episode of Effectively Wild

Welcome to The Enni Way, a podcast about the Mariners with Sarah Enni. Our guest this week is Kate Preusser, managing editor of Lookout Landing, the SB Nation website dedicated to all things Seattle Mariners.

Theme music by Jerome Barnes

Kate on Bluesky and X

Lookout Landing on Bluesky and X

An early example of Kate’s fan posts: The Unbearable Lightness of Batting: On Edgar and Reshaping Narratives

Kate’s piece about Victor: 40 in 40: Victor Robles and annus horribilis, mirabilis

War Pigs by Black Sabbath

Lookout Landing’s reporting on disgraced former president and CEO, Kevin Mather

Kate’s crockpot & goo setup as chronicled on Bluesky and on the Meet at the Mitt podcast

Holding Kourt, Kourtney Turner’s podcast about being a WAG (wife and girlfriend) of a professional baseball player

Josh Naylor welcoming Jen Powel, MLB’s first female umpire (MLB)

Kate’s piece on Cole Young’s offense: Mariners’ Cole Young makes early bid for Most Improved Player

Welcome to The Enni Way, a podcast about the Mariners with Sarah Enni. Our guest this week is Jordan Shusterman, senior writer about Major League Baseball at Yahoo Sports; one half of @CespedesBBQ; and the co-host of Baseball Bar-B-Cast with his friend and partner-in-baseball, Jake Mintz.

Jordan on Bluesky and XCespedesBBQ on Bluesky, X, and IG

Welcome to The Enni Way, a podcast about the Seattle Mariners with Sarah Enni. Our first guest is ESPN Senior NFL Analyst and lifelong Mariners fan Mina Kimes.