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Published On: Jul 02, 2006 11:38 AM
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Published On: Jul 02, 2006 11:38 AM
8-7
Or, the Mariners actually surprise
me.
This will not be as long as it could be. It could
be a treatise on my love of baseball or whatever. Let's keep it
simple.
I love the Mariners. I spend more than $150 a year so I can stay up very late at night and watch them on television. I am just slightly older than they are, so we grew up together, including very awkward times during our childhoods and teenage years, finally getting things together around 1994/5 and finding real success in 2001.
Now, we are in a sort of fine and dandy existence. The Mariners are not blowing the socks off of anyone like they did five years ago, but they aren't the Kansas City Royals either.
However, something has happened in the past month to make the Mariners actually *gasp* become successful. Today, they are one game out of first place and two games above .500; a month ago today, they were six games out of first place (yes the AL West sucks) and eight games below .500.
The Mariners are not rolling over and dying like they had the previous 2-3 years. In the past three games, the Mariners have tallied one-run, comeback wins. First, on Thursday, they beat the Diamondbacks 3-2, scoring two runs in the top of the ninth. As Lookout Landing so perfectly stated, "Tonight, we learned that we should never give up on the Mariners."
And yet, that's exactly what I almost did last night. After opening the game up 2-0, the Mariners (more specifically, the suckfest that is Joel Pineiro) were down 7-2 in the third. I then did my usual thing of pressing pause on TiVo and doing Internet things/watching TiVo'd shows for a half-hour and then returning to the game to fast-forward through commercials and some of the less interesting Colorado at-bats.
But then the M's kept coming back: a homer here, a wild pitch there, and a Sexson (!) clutch single there and the M's are suddenly one run back. OK, you have me: I'm back...I'm sorry I ever doubted.
And Ichiro is there to hit one of his "Oh, fine, I guess I will hit a home run since we really need it instead of my usual slap single to left" home runs (by the way, Ichiro is ahead of the pace he was at when he broke the single season hits record. Yeah. He is scary). JJ Putz (it's pronounced puts, as in "it puts the lotion in the bucket") closes the door once more and the M's win another one.
Really, Lookout Landing does this game more detail and justice than I will/can, but *sigh* let it suffice that I just love baseball and especially right now love these Mariners.
I love the Mariners. I spend more than $150 a year so I can stay up very late at night and watch them on television. I am just slightly older than they are, so we grew up together, including very awkward times during our childhoods and teenage years, finally getting things together around 1994/5 and finding real success in 2001.
Now, we are in a sort of fine and dandy existence. The Mariners are not blowing the socks off of anyone like they did five years ago, but they aren't the Kansas City Royals either.
However, something has happened in the past month to make the Mariners actually *gasp* become successful. Today, they are one game out of first place and two games above .500; a month ago today, they were six games out of first place (yes the AL West sucks) and eight games below .500.
The Mariners are not rolling over and dying like they had the previous 2-3 years. In the past three games, the Mariners have tallied one-run, comeback wins. First, on Thursday, they beat the Diamondbacks 3-2, scoring two runs in the top of the ninth. As Lookout Landing so perfectly stated, "Tonight, we learned that we should never give up on the Mariners."
And yet, that's exactly what I almost did last night. After opening the game up 2-0, the Mariners (more specifically, the suckfest that is Joel Pineiro) were down 7-2 in the third. I then did my usual thing of pressing pause on TiVo and doing Internet things/watching TiVo'd shows for a half-hour and then returning to the game to fast-forward through commercials and some of the less interesting Colorado at-bats.
But then the M's kept coming back: a homer here, a wild pitch there, and a Sexson (!) clutch single there and the M's are suddenly one run back. OK, you have me: I'm back...I'm sorry I ever doubted.
And Ichiro is there to hit one of his "Oh, fine, I guess I will hit a home run since we really need it instead of my usual slap single to left" home runs (by the way, Ichiro is ahead of the pace he was at when he broke the single season hits record. Yeah. He is scary). JJ Putz (it's pronounced puts, as in "it puts the lotion in the bucket") closes the door once more and the M's win another one.
Really, Lookout Landing does this game more detail and justice than I will/can, but *sigh* let it suffice that I just love baseball and especially right now love these Mariners.
Posted: Sun - July 2, 2006 at 11:37 AM |