The Fabulous Peltoncast: Seattle Sports and More
Dec 31, 2025 · 1 hr 13 min · 10 segments
As we say farewell to 2025, we look back on a year that featured an unprecedented combination of Mariners and Seahawks success led by a new generation of stars. After counting down the top 10 Seattle…
Tristan CarosinoHostKevin PeltonHost
Some of the stars that really defined the 2025 season who were young at the time, you know, building their profiles, who were excited about.
And I think I even, I went back and listened to a chunk of this, not all of it, because I never want to hear my bold predictions after I make them.
but I was listening to a chunk of it where we were talking about the sports figure of the year and I was like these people might be the sports figure of the year next year and those people or the exact people were in competition for the sports figure of the year next year so which was
go but I do think 2025 in general and especially just the season is what I was thinking about almost like if you look at it The coin in halves of the year, like July 1st through the end has been all rippers for Seattle sports in general, both between the Mariners having their greatest season since 2001 and all of the moments that they had the Seahawks having one of their best games.
Like we're talking about some of the best games these teams have played in decades.
or at the very least in years, have all happened in these last handful of months.
And then even then across the board, like the Huskies were a competitive team, the Storm were competitive, you know, throughout this time period.
Everybody's been pretty competitive, I guess, aside from the Kraken in Seattle sports in 2025, which has made it one of the most engaging years.
UW men's basketball in the 2024-25 season was not even good enough to make the Big Ten tournament, although even they are much more competitive now.
So to your point, after July 1st, I guess, being the differentiator here, whatever date you want to set is the starting point.
But yeah, I mean, if you look at the Mariners and Seahawks specifically, who... or two of the three teams to whom we devote the most time on this podcast.
Before this year, they had only both made the playoffs in the same year once in 50 years of the Seahawks and 49 years of the Seattle Mariners.
2022, which wasn't a particularly notable, you know, the Seahawks made the playoffs, but that is definitely one of their forgotten playoff losses.
Some of the stars that really defined the 2025 season who were young at the time, you know, building their profiles, who were excited about.
And I think I even, I went back and listened to a chunk of this, not all of it, because I never want to hear my bold predictions after I make them.
but I was listening to a chunk of it where we were talking about the sports figure of the year and I was like these people might be the sports figure of the year next year and those people or the exact people were in competition for the sports figure of the year next year so which was
go but I do think 2025 in general and especially just the season is what I was thinking about almost like if you look at it The coin in halves of the year, like July 1st through the end has been all rippers for Seattle sports in general, both between the Mariners having their greatest season since 2001 and all of the moments that they had the Seahawks having one of their best games.
Like we're talking about some of the best games these teams have played in decades.
or at the very least in years, have all happened in these last handful of months.
And then even then across the board, like the Huskies were a competitive team, the Storm were competitive, you know, throughout this time period.
Everybody's been pretty competitive, I guess, aside from the Kraken in Seattle sports in 2025, which has made it one of the most engaging years.
UW men's basketball in the 2024-25 season was not even good enough to make the Big Ten tournament, although even they are much more competitive now.
So to your point, after July 1st, I guess, being the differentiator here, whatever date you want to set is the starting point.
But yeah, I mean, if you look at the Mariners and Seahawks specifically, who... or two of the three teams to whom we devote the most time on this podcast.
Before this year, they had only both made the playoffs in the same year once in 50 years of the Seahawks and 49 years of the Seattle Mariners.
2022, which wasn't a particularly notable, you know, the Seahawks made the playoffs, but that is definitely one of their forgotten playoff losses.
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