Chip Caray has lived an incredible baseball life. The son of Skip Caray and the grandson of Harry Caray, he's in one of the first families of baseball broadcasting. He's served as the voice of the Chicago Cubs on powerhouse network WGN and the Atlanta Braves on TBS. He's called games nationally for FOX. He currently serves as the voice of the St. Louis Cardinals.

But before most of that was a stint with the Seattle Mariners.

That's right, Caray served as one of the voices for the M's from 1993-1995. He was part-time, often flying back-and-forth from Seattle to Orlando to do games, before getting his break with FOX in 1996. He also called Orlando Magic games in the Penny Hardaway-Shaquille O'Neal years.

As the Mariners celebrate their 50th season in 2026, we caught up with Caray on the most recent edition of the 'Refuse to Lose.' We talked about Brendan Donovan's acquisition a lot, but we also talked about his time in Seattle, which included his appreciation of legendary M's broadcast Dave Niehaus, who died in 2010.

"He was one of a kind. When I got the job, they flew me out to Seattle. I got a call from Randy Adamack at 7 o'clock, Orlando time. I was there and Randy told me, 'hey, there's a job opening, we'd like to interview you, we'd like to have you come out'. And I said, 'sure, when?" He said, 'well there's a Delta flight at 10 o'clock'. I said I don't know if I can make that.

So I called my dad. He said, 'did you tell him Yes?' I said, 'I told him I'd call him back.' He said, 'you call him back right now and get on that effing plane no matter what you have to do.'

So I go out, I get on the plane. This is pre TSA, so you get on the plane and fly and land. I go to lunch with Dave...

And I heard through a second party that Dave really, really enjoyed that lunch. And Randy Adamack said, 'what do you think?' And Dave said, I like the kid an awful lot.' And Randy said 'why?' He said, 'because he reminds me of me when I was 26.'

And so now as a 60 year old guy that's been doing this a long time, I can't think of a higher compliment than that. And the kindness that he and Marilyn showed me and continue to show my family is a debt that I'll never, ever be able to repay.

And as I said earlier in our chat, three years I spent in Seattle, it was part time, but it's still a very, very big part of of my love of baseball and my appreciation for the journey that I'm still able to embark upon."

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