Undercover agent Ichiro Suzuki is on the case — in the Mariners dugout
Ichiro Suzuki, the Carmen Sandiego of the Mariners, was spotted last week in the Seattle dugout serving a Super Mario Bros. inspired lewk. Fooling no one, the disguise raised more questions than it answered.
Was this the first time that this had happened? Was he trolling all of us? And why set up the elaborate (if shoddy) subterfuge in the first place?
“He just loves baseball,” says Mike Pesca, host of Slate’s daily podcast “The Gist”. Pesca joined Bill Radke to discuss UpperLipGate (or Disguise-ghazi: regional differences are at play.)
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Jason Pagano
Interim News Director
Jason Pagano is KUOW's Assistant News Director. He previously worked as a producer on many of KUOW's local shows, including The Conversation, Weekday, The Record, Morning Edition and Week in Review. In 2020, he helped launch KUOW’s daily news podcast, Seattle Now.
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Bill Radke
Host
Bill hosts Week In Review and Words in Review. After starting with KUOW as a University of Washington student in 1985, Bill was KUOW's morning host in the '90s and the creator of past show, Rewind, a news-satire show heard on KUOW and nationwide on NPR. Bill moved away to Southern California to host American Public Media's Weekend America and Marketplace Morning Report and returned to KUOW in 2012.
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