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This week on Roosters Radio we talk exclusively to head coach Trent Robinson to get his thoughts on this Sunday's grand final and how the team has prepared throughout the week.We also chat with Bill Mullins, winger in the Roosters 74/75 grand final winning teams.Bill shares his thoughts on why the roosters will go back to back and how the experience of last years grand final will help the team this Sunday.He also has some great yarns about playing through the 70's with club legends like Arthur Beetson and Jack Gibson.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on Roosters Radio we talk exclusively to head coach Trent Robinson to get his thoughts on this Sunday's grand final and how the team has prepared throughout the week. We also chat with Bill Mullins, winger in the Roosters 74/75 grand final winning teams. Bill shares his thoughts on why the roosters will go back to back and how the experience of last years grand final will help the team this Sunday. He also has some great yarns about playing through the 70's with club legends like Arthur Beetson and Jack Gibson.See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

Back to Back | Trent Robinson and Bill Mullins

We kick off the New Year with our first-ever discussion about one of Major League Baseball’s most enduring enigmas – the ephemeral, one-season Seattle Pilots. However, as we discover in our conversation with this week’s guest Bill Mullins (Becoming Big League: Seattle, The Pilots, and Stadium Politics), the story of the team’s 1969 American League misadventures has a much longer historical arc – one rooted in the decades-long success of the city’s minor league Rainiers prior – and extending years afterward, when a new expansion Mariners franchise took to the Kingdome turf in 1977. In between, the story of the Pilots wends its way through the concentric worlds of pro sports economics (MLB’s blind zeal for expansion in the West Coast’s third-most populous market); municipal politics (Seattle’s quest for “major league” status, from the 1962 World’s Fair to a tortuous pursuit of a modern domed stadium); managerial challenges (an underfunded ownership group with limited resources and overly-optimistic revenue expectations); and logistical realities (a quaint-but-aging minor league Sicks’ Stadium, ill-prepared for the more pronounced demands of big league play and fan comfort). And, oh yes, a surprisingly competitive on-field performance filled with memorable highs (winning both their first-ever game [at the California Angels, 4/8/69], and their home debut [vs. the Chicago White Sox, 4/11/69]); forgettable lows (three home runs by Reggie Jackson in a 5-0 loss to the Oakland A’s, 7/2/69); and a deceivingly last-place finish in a tightly-bunched AL West cellar, only a handful of games behind the Angels, Royals and White Sox. Despite the Pilots’ woes, the legacy of this quixotic franchise remains remarkably endearing to the Seattle fans who got to experience the city’s first taste of big-time major league sports fifty years hence. Be sure to visit our new sponsor Streaker Sports – where, fittingly, you can order a beautiful baby blue classic Seattle Pilots logo T-shirt to commemorate this episode (and the team’s 50th anniversary)!

We kick off the New Year with our first-ever discussion about one of Major League Baseball’s most enduring enigmas – the ephemeral, one-season Seattle Pilots. However, as we discover in our conversation with this week’s guest Bill Mullins (<a href="https://amzn.to/2CRygs9" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Becoming Big League: Seattle, The Pilots, and Stadium Politics</a>), the story of the team’s 1969 American League misadventures has a much longer historical arc – one rooted in the decades-long success of the city’s minor league Rainiers prior – and extending years afterward, when a new expansion Mariners franchise took to the Kingdome turf in 1977. In between, the story of the Pilots wends its way through the concentric worlds of pro sports economics (MLB’s blind zeal for expansion in the West Coast’s third-most populous market); municipal politics (Seattle’s quest for “major league” status, from the 1962 World’s Fair to a tortuous pursuit of a modern domed stadium); managerial challenges (an underfunded ownership group with limited resources and overly-optimistic revenue expectations); and logistical realities (a quaint-but-aging minor league Sicks’ Stadium, ill-prepared for the more pronounced demands of big league play and fan comfort). And, oh yes, a surprisingly competitive on-field performance filled with memorable highs (winning both their first-ever game [at the California Angels, 4/8/69], and their home debut [vs. the Chicago White Sox, 4/11/69]); forgettable lows (three home runs by Reggie Jackson in a 5-0 loss to the Oakland A’s, 7/2/69); and a deceivingly last-place finish in a tightly-bunched AL West cellar, only a handful of games behind the Angels, Royals and White Sox. Despite the Pilots’ woes, the legacy of this quixotic franchise remains remarkably endearing to the Seattle fans who got to experience the city’s first taste of big-time major league sports fifty years hence. Be sure to visit our new sponsor <a href="http://streakersports.com?rfsn=2102156.434901" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Streaker Sports</a> – where, fittingly, you can order a beautiful baby blue classic <a href="https://www.streakersports.com/collections/baseball/products/1969-seattle-pilots-tee?rfsn=2102156.434901" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Seattle Pilots logo T-shirt</a> to commemorate this episode (and the team’s 50th anniversary)!

094: Major League Baseball’s Seattle Pilots – With Bill Mullins