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The Wheelhouse is a real-life podcast in which Mariners play-by-play man Aaron Goldsmith interviews general manager Jerry Dipoto. A typical podcast lasts for between 30-60 minutes and is characterized by a few themes:
1. Aaron and Jerry banter about things that are going on in Jerry's life, e.g. what happened at the winter meetings, dogs, who chooses the music in his car, etc.
2. Jerry speaks with unabashed optimism about his team even in the face of mountains of evidence to the contrary.
3. Jerry segues into several stories about players he used to play with and the ridiculous things they did.
4. Jerry answers some listener mail.
5. Aaron and Jerry talk about food.

This dynasty report will take the form of transcripts of weekly episodes of the podcast. I'll do my best to capture the essential tone of the podcast, if not the length. The anecdotes will all be purely fictional. Please feel free to write in "listener mail" as the weeks progress.

I'll be playing as Jerry Dipoto, attempting to keep the Sinking Ship Mariner afloat. This will be essentially out of the box 2018 settings although injuries bumped up to regular real-life levels; this is the Mariners, after all. Trading will be set to hard. I'll play out each regular season game and then write the podcasts.